The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

If anyone is arsed then I'll start a new one and have it as invitation only.

[Wilko220]

If anyone is arsed then I'll start a new one and have it as invitation only.

 

Personally, I'm not bothered whether we have one or not - what gets on my tits is the fact that we have an utterly shit one carrying the Autoshite name!

[Station]

Do start a new one!

I miss WarrenTClaim's gumtree finds and general photo shite.

[SambaS]

Why wont Google search for exact phrases in quotes anymore.

 

to "all those people in happy relationships" "fuck you" meme

 

..........just doesn't work like it would have once.

[SambaS]

Oh this will do

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

It's half two in the morning and some bastard car alarm is going off in the distance and keeping me awake. 

 

I thought they were supposed to cut out after a few minutes. It's been going on for ages. 

 

edit: it stopped just as I pressed post

 

2:45 edit: GODDAMNIT

[cort16]

Just a general minor grump about the lack of interesting cars in my life at the moment. Having missed out on using the SD1 all last year because of welding the fugger up then sanding it's it's now on about it's 5th issue since April that stops me getting it in for it's MOT and using it. I even hoovered it out FFS.

I'm a bit worried about this latest stuck in gear issue. I've ordered a new gearbox oil filter (thanks to junkman pointing me in the right direction) so I'm hoping a gearbox flush will get it going again else I'm just going to have to park it up and try to find a new box or maybe go for the engine swap I was considering. Both of those aren't going to be quick fixes and in the mean time I'm bound to buy something to replace it sooner or later especially with the Smart up for sale for decent money. If that happens it'll probably just languish, which is a shame given how much time and effort I've put into it. Plus it's mega KOOL.

[daveb47]

Cavette,dont stat a new one as i can do one as an extension to here.

[Spiny Norman]

I don't know that it's such a great idea to start going down the 'Popular People's Front of Judea' / 'People's Front of Judea' / 'Judean People's Front' route  with another Farcebook group. I think the existing one is already diluting the traffic on here as people split their time and attention between the two places.

 

Either block the twats you don't want to have anything to do with (Very easy on FB, I'm up to about six now, with my finger hovering over a seventh) or forget it and support the forum.

 

As a side issue that maybe Dave can answer, I'm assuming that someone here actually 'owns' the forum and the server it lives in, yes? If that's the case, 'we' have ownership and copyright of whatever gets posted on here, which is certainly NOT the case with anything posted on Farcebook.

 

 

[trigger]

forget it and support the forum

 

THIS.

[dollywobbler]

Indeed. I mainly rejoined to see if there was a way to stop getting notifications from that group. Despite leaving, my news feed is still full of "someone you know just posted in Autoshite." I posted a "GR-125" about a bangered Rover 100 and promptly left again. The person who posted the pic didn't get it, which highlights the problem. This place IS Autoshite, that'll do for me.

[Cavcraft]

Cavette,dont stat a new one as i can do one as an extension to here.

 

No problem boss.

[Mr Lobster]

I never been on it to be fair but don't see the point of the FB group at all. Seems to me that interesting* stuff that could be posted here gets posted there instead. Better to keep it here I'd have thought.

[KruJoe]

Yes, people are finally cottoning on now.

I've been trying to say this since the first mention that an AS FB page existed. If you've owt worth posting, post it here, where it belongs. Ta.

[Lord Sterling]

Right, I've tried to Download that Elton John song 'Out of the Blue' my PC is utterly fucked, it just flatly refuses to work correctly without it going into a hissy fit and ruining my files. The song did come out but cuts off at various intervals which when played on this bloody tablet thing just stops completely at these intervals.

 

Does anyone have a copy of this song they can send me please. Meanwhile I shall replace said PC with good working freebie PC I got given last year.

[M'coli]

The advantage of Faceache used to be that you could use it for photo storage, but with the new forum there's 2.93Mb per post of images allowed, and thus I'm able to upload this picture of a nice pair of Bristols - although this is meant to be the grump thread!

[dollywobbler]

Can I be the first to say NICE BRISTOLS!

[vulgalour]

Thankfully, I do not need my jaw to type for it appears to have fallen off at the sight of that pair of Brizzers.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

HOLY HELL What a spot!

[warren t claim]

I've just managed to kill a bunny. It ran into the back wheel of the Kawasaki at 60mph. The surprising thing is I didn't actually feel the impact on the bike, I hope for the rabbit it was just as painless.

[M'coli]

There are 3 Bristols in that picture !

[KruJoe]

[Wilko220]

Right, I've tried to Download that Elton John song 'Out of the Blue' my PC is utterly fucked, it just flatly refuses to work correctly without it going into a hissy fit and ruining my files. The song did come out but cuts off at various intervals which when played on this bloody tablet thing just stops completely at these intervals.

 

Does anyone have a copy of this song they can send me please. Meanwhile I shall replace said PC with good working freebie PC I got given last year.

 

PM me your email address mate

[RedSparrow]

Who was it saying Outlook (hotmail replacement) is crap? - I agree it's just fucked up a load of stuff for me at work beacuse it's refusing to send things.
But iTunes still tops my list of useless flawed software.

[Station]

About four months ago, ITunes ruined a hard drive - I have a lot of mp3's and it just destroyed it.

Last night it ruined another hard drive (brand new 2TB one) - it seems to be a problem with it I haven't experienced with any software before - destroying a hard drive ffs?

Obviously refuse to use it from now on.

[RedSparrow]

You mean it's physically unusable? I know itunes is massively wastefull of resources but I've never heard of that.
Still looking for a decent ipod compatible bit of software to use instead of it. Watanabe suggested sharepod, but I didn't like it.

[cobblers]

Yeah man, itunes is completely unusable toss but there's absolutely no way it could actually destroy a single hard drive let alone two. It doesn't have any deeper access to the hard drive any any other program.

[Station]

Mediamonkey - I used it for years, and it does the IPod thing as well as Itunes. It's good for massive music libraries, and it doesn't destroy your hard drive like Itunes does. It seems to spazz out and corrupts your drive.

[cort16]

I think my brain is totally out of control possibly due to lack of alcohol.  I had a message on my mobile from someone interested in the smart and just as they're reading their number out my finger (for no reason I decided on and before I wrote the number down) came down and press "3" on the phone to delete the message.

 

[chaseracer]

Check the call logs.  If they left a message, their number should be there.