The grumpy thread

[Station]

I much prefer DST, but not sure why they put it back in winter?

[Cavcraft]

I disagree, it's fucking ace having lighter mornings and evenings as I find I can get loads more done to the fleet.

[Mr Lobster]

Agreed on the BST thing - loving the extra light in the mornings and evenings, they can leave it like this all year round for me.

[freebird]

Three hours twenty minutes and three changes all to cover a paltry 70 odd miles.

"Let the Train take the strain" as the advert used to say.

Do it again?

Not a fucking chance of that unless I really have to

[Richard]

BST doesn't give you lighter mornings and the lighter evenings are coming anyway. Maybe it's different where you all live, but we have electricity up here to help us get things done after dark.

[Spiny Norman]

I really don't get this BST/GMT bollox anyway. It's not as if they're tilting the earth by fifteen degrees on its axis and giving us an hour's extra daylight.

All it seems to mean up here is that what little sunshine we do get is over and done with by about half three in the afternoon, which is crap. It's still dark when the little kiddywinks go to school anyway (or whatever bollox reason they give nowadays) so I really can't see why they feel the need to fuck about with it every year. It costs me two hours anyway, by the time I've worked out how to change all the electric clocks on the phone, microwave, car etc...

[Spiny Norman]

My real grump is that it's my birthday today and against my better judgement I agreed to go out and do the 'family' thing tonight rather than go out for a few beers with friends I actually wanted to go out with, so I sacked my mates off till the weekend.

 

Half three I get a call giving some cock & bull story about my arsehole brother working late so it's all off (he just won't have wanted to come out, and rather than saying 'no' when he was asked he's just bolloxed it up for everyone else by inventing some lame excuse) so now I'll be sat in twiddling my thumbs instead of being out on the piss with my mates.

 

Families....

[eddyramrod]

Well happy birthday anyway! Come on the 14th and we'll celebrate together (mine's on the Tuesday after...) I'll even get you a bacon butty, can't say fairer than that!

[Guest]

Buy a Canon EOS 300D after a mate of mine in London got royally fucked around with some twerp on eBay [fancy] because he wouldn't collect in person despite it saying it was the only method of 'postage' available. She really needed the money, so I bought it to save 'IM A DISABLED MAN IN SCOTLAND' getting her eBay account frozen despite the fact that he didn't read the listing properly.

 

I expected it to be utterly shit, but it really isn't bad at all. It runs my Nikon D60 depressingly close and I paid way more for the Nikon than I did for this 300D. I wasn't convinced by the Canon \ Nikon divide, but having borrowed a 7D at Uni and shot the Mouldworth film on a 600D, I may have been swayed to the dark side.

It shows its age in data transfer speed, though. The old CF cards are slow as fuck.

 

I wouldn't want it as my go-to DSLR, but instead of hoiking it back on the bay like I was going to do, I'm going to keep it as a back-up.

[Cavcraft]

I've been with plusnet for the past 3yrs and I've no complaints.

The call centre is in Leeds, and when I've had an issue it's been fixed quickly.

 

If you do go for plusnet please put skattrd1 down as referrer as it gets me 50p off my monthly bill /pimp

 

 

Thanks, Chris, I have just gone with them and gave them your user name mate.

[cort16]

The battery I bought for my SD1 just over a year ago is stuffed after sitting in the car for the last 3 months without it moving. I had it on charge all last night and this morning it still didn't have enought to crank it over.

The local factors shafted me on it when I bougjtit as it has the terminals the other way around so was 70+ quid! I've just taxed it so I need to get the battery on it so I can get it in for it's MOT. This could get expensive.

[Cavcraft]

Pm sent, Glenn.

[skattrd]

I've been with plusnet for the past 3yrs and I've no complaints.

The call centre is in Leeds, and when I've had an issue it's been fixed quickly.

 

If you do go for plusnet please put skattrd1 down as referrer as it gets me 50p off my monthly bill /pimp

 

 

Thanks, Chris, I have just gone with them and gave them your user name mate.

 

Muchos gracias Senor Cavette.

I'll get you a beer/brew at Chumley

[M'coli]

The battery I bought for my SD1 just over a year ago is stuffed after sitting in the car for the last 3 months without it moving. I had it on charge all last night and this morning it still didn't have enought to crank it over.

The local factors shafted me on it when I bougjtit as it has the terminals the other way around so was 70+ quid! I've just taxed it so I need to get the battery on it so I can get it in for it's MOT. This could get expensive.

Most batteries are sold with a 3-year warranty these days - check it out.

[andrew e]

That w**ky pet thread. If all the people who owned children/servants/slaves started a thread there'd be an Internet Imassacare*

[Wilko220]

That w**ky pet thread. If all the people who owned children/servants/slaves started a thread there'd be an Internet Imassacare*

 

I could kind of see the point of it if it was pictures of people's pets in or on their interesting old cars - but as it mainly seems to be just random pictures of animals, I'm inclined to agree.

[M'coli]

FFS, you don't haveto open and read the AS pet thread - if it doesn't interest you, bloody well ignore it and stop whinging about it!

[Wilko220]

True.

[RedSparrow]

Someone posts an old photo of a car on facebook.

Mong comments 'love the 57 chevy!!'

It's a Vauxhall Victor.

 

Is it wrong that this wound me up so much?

[trigger]

There's a lot of idiots on facebook, I either just laugh or ignore most of them, or add them as friends and have them reply to everything I post on there and call me Triggles...

[freebird]

There's a lot of idiots on facebook, I either just laugh or ignore most of them, or add them as friends and have them reply to everything I post on there and call me Triggles...

That makes you sound all cute, cuddly wuddly and furry like a soft kitten or summat. You should either be residing on that Pet thread or the end of somebodys bed, all curled up...

Transits. UTTER UTTER SHITE!!!!

There I was, pulling out onto the A10 this morning and....fook all. Not enough power to boil an egg ( limp mode) and traffic bearing down on me. I limped back to a side road at a maximum 30MPH and awaited Mr AA man.

He turns up, I explain the powertrain light is on ( its actually the light thats supposed to go on for PETROL engines, mines diesel ) and he goes on to explain how he has lost cound of the amount Duratorq TDCis that have gone into limp mode. " Fucking useless engines" apparently.

Mine is with a garage awaiting a filter change, which wont cure it, so i will be back there again early next week sometime.

They really dont build fuck all to last now.

[trigger]

That makes you sound all cute, cuddly wuddly and furry like a soft kitten or summat. You should either be residing on that Pet thread or the end of somebodys bed, all curled up... .

 

I must have you as one of my FB friends then, sorry but I still don't know which one you are!

[cort16]

Fuck a duck it looks like I'm going to need some kind of special slide hammer injector thingy to get the injectors out the smart. I was hoping I was just going to unbolt it and it would pop out. I hope it doesn't end up like this.

 

[cobblers]

They can't all be that bad, my VAJ mechanic pal swaps injectors on late 2000s VWs in minutes, they always come out easy (but cost about a grand each). On the other hand, the mechanic up the road from him was telling me how he'd tried to pull an injector out of some renault? with an engine crane and in the end just lifted the entire front end of the car off the floor. He wellied the thing with heat, hammers and swearwords for hours but in the end he gave up and left it dangling in the corner of the workshop. He forgot about it for a few weeks until he got a call from the alarm company in the middle of the night after it finally came out, the car dropped off the crane and rolled across the floor into the fire door.

[cort16]

Thanks cobblers you're filling me with confidence. I think it's getting near the point I might have to take it to someone who knows what they're doing.

[andrew e]

My mate Pete does this for a living effectively, might be worth an email (because he's on the over side of the country) see if he has a northern counterpart?

 

http://www.oscillotech.co.uk/

 

http://www.oscillotech.co.uk/injectorremoval/

[cort16]

To be fair I've not actually attacked it with anything more aggressive than trying to lever it out with a screwdriver. I thought I better consult the manual I've got for it (which turned out to berubbish) before trying to lever it out with a 6ft pry bar or whatever.

[cobblers]

If there are people moaning on the internetwebs about getting them out then they are probably a bastard, that said there's probably 1000 pages on mumsnet moaning about how hard it is to operate a tin opener/the benefits system/plentyoffish as a 19 year old 16 stone mum of 3

 

I'm not sure what it all depends on since some just fly out and others write the engine off, but I reckon if it is stuck , the main issue is that the usual "a bit of heat and some penetrating oil" are going to do absolutely fuck all to remove something that spends it's life swimming in diesel at a 1000000 million PSI anyway.

[Partridge]

If there are people moaning on the internetwebs about getting them out then they are probably a bastard, that said there's probably 1000 pages on mumsnet moaning about how hard it is to operate a tin opener

 

Have you tried those ones with the rotating heads, that look like Phillips razors? They’re a fucking pain in the arse to use! I usually have to resort to stabbing tins with a knife to get them open.

[Rover414]

Missed out on a cheap Xbox 360. I'm sure it probably didn't work, or at least that's what I think now I lost it