The grumpy thread

[RedSparrow]

Bugger, there must be like 3 Chevannes left in the country.

[Junkman]

Your estimate is astonishingly accurate: http://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=chevanne

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Repairable? It's not a burnt out shell...

[trigger]

As quoted by the owner.

 

 

 

Yep got away fine, full bay gone, bonnet and scuttle warped, screen and dash gone, plastics melted onto floor etc . . It'll go in my unit for now as I have another van mid resto and an XE Powered one that's ongoing

 

So I suspect it will end up being a parts donor, he said it's not worth claiming and that it was a poor repair by the last owner with a old fuel pipe that caused it.

[George-Roper]

He said it's not worth claiming.

 

Sadly I saw that on there and he did say it was a traders policy. He would get a trade valuation (Sod all) and a hike in the next premium.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Ah well, if he can get some useful bits off it, that's something.

 

What is the point of selecting "make offer" on your eBay listings if you're going to set it to auto reject every offer below the buy if now price?

 

We live in a world full of pain.

[Micrashed]

http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/local/tax-swoop-shock-at-pub-for-car-dealer-1-5835167

DVLA are all cunts shocker.

[Jon]

http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/local/tax-swoop-shock-at-pub-for-car-dealer-1-5835167

DVLA are all cunts shocker.

 

That looks like a 106 XN to me, so if the dealer did buy it as a px for £1100, he's obviously not a very good one, low mileage status or not. I understand that there's a rule against untaxed cars on publicly accessible private grounds but I'm sure that police aren't able to take any action on trying to remove a car from there, so it wouldn't have been illegal to block in that DVLA lorry (with a roadworthy car). Then the lorry driver would have been left in a Mexican stand-off type scenario whereby he could stay put with an untaxed car or hi-ab the other one instead to get it out the way. It'd be a bit like that really shit bit at the end of the A-Team film involving the cranes and shipping containers.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

My flipping murdering bastard cats managed to get a junior pigeon today with a busted wing, it was a right pitiful sight trying to limp away from them while they laughed and jabbed at it so i took it off the torturing bastards and drowned it in a bucket.

[hennabm]

To the driver of the Focus this morning on the A46 Lincoln bypass at approx 0720hrs.

OK, you wish to drive at 40mph with nothing in front of you and on a bright sunny morning, fair enough:

 

BUT - why oh why when anyone got near you to overtake did you slam on the brakes and start gesticulating madly        ???????????

 

It didn't bother me, you knobjockey, as mine is a company car and the front end isn't mine. Just try your antics next time with a 44tonner please.

 

Oh and by the way, if you are going to play the mouth breathing twunt then don't wear your workshirt with the logo on the top of the arm.......

 

Guess where I'm heading soon - yep B&Q................

[Cavcraft]

My flipping murdering bastard cats managed to get a junior pigeon today with a busted wing, it was a right pitiful sight trying to limp away from them while they laughed and jabbed at it so i took it off the torturing bastards and drowned it in a bucket.

 

 

Our old cat was a bastard for that. He'd climb tress, grab a small bird then keep biting it 'til it couldn't fly again. Once he'd done that he'd sort of keep poking it to make it move then he'd sort of throw it in the air and muck about with it. If you came home and there was a dead bird outside he sort of flick it round the floor then leave it.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I could make a GoCat vol au vent out of a dead bird served on a bed of catnip and my cat wouldn't so much as sniff it. 

 

Small update on my auto renewing bill hassle - although neither of the two different departments I've emailed about it have managed to get back to me, they have sent me two automated emails in to let me know they couldn't get any money off my fictitious credit card. Small victory there. 

[Station]

My house I use through the week for work is extremely quiet and needed some 'life' in the place. Was going to buy some fish or something, but somehow ended up with 6 'lively' gerbils (in a 4 foot fush tank) for some aural company at night and the things are so frigging loud I can't get to sleep!! Digging, squeaking, banging about. JEEZUS!

[Cavcraft]

My house I use through the week for work is extremely quiet and needed some 'life' in the place. Was going to buy some fish or something, but somehow ended up with 6 'lively' gerbils (in a 4 foot fush tank) for some aural company at night and the things are so frigging loud I can't get to sleep!! Digging, squeaking, banging about. JEEZUS!

 

 

See 'cat' further up.

[dollywobbler]

lol!

[vulgalour]

Is nobody else going to question how he went from fish to SIX gerbils?  SIX of the bastards!  What were you thinking?

[autofive]

Is nobody else going to question how he went from fish to SIX gerbils?  SIX of the bastards!  What were you thinking?

 

 

give it a couple of weeks and there will be 36

[Station]

I bought two, but thought what the hell and bought four more, as they seemed lonely/quiet which resulted in a 'I'm the alpha male here' thing. But they calmed down after a bit.

Tbh they require minimal attention and are independent and I've had fish before and they're a pain in the arse (correct water temp/type, constantly dying if something isn't right/has bleach in, cleaning out gallons of water, etc), they were quiet in the morning after I took the 'sleeping container' out - they had dug all the straw bedding out and were fruitlessly burrowing into hard plastic for two hours, leaving ones that wanted to kip to take refuge in the exercise wheel, which meant the one that wanted to use the wheel to exercise was getting pissed off, so let them sleep 'au naturale' in a hole in the sawdust. Ha

[Sigmund Fraud]

Large classic car insurance brokers... I will not name and shame, but the phonecall went like this :

 

-Hello, I would like a quote for my three classics.

-Of course, Sir. I will first spend ten minutes mumbling through endless terms and conditions that will invariably render your insurance invalid should you ever need to claim. Then I will take your details, making sure I ask the exact same questions three times, just in case your personal details or address changed in the five minutes that passed since I last asked you. Then I will ask you how much your current insurer has quoted and return with a premium that is two times as much. And then I will urge you to consider taking up our offer as we are the 'industry leaders' and 'sponsor event X, where coffin-dodging rubber-bumper MGB owners can discuss grille badges and fake-walnut dashboards'.

 

Argh !!! You can't imagine how marvellous it felt to call Peter James afterwards ! I have never used them, and they may well quote me £3000 or something, but at least I spoke to an intelligent, knowledgeable gentleman rather than a brainless, disinterested, call centre droid.

[cms206]

It's Peter James my Montego is insured with, refreshing to get an actual person answer an actual telephone and they've top people to deal with. Just make sure you check your documents, took three attempts to get my 1992 Rover Montego 1.6LX described as such on the policy schedule despite the correct rego being on all the copies.

[Spiny Norman]

give it a couple of weeks and there will be 36

 

If they do start breeding, don't keep the males in the same cage with the young 'uns and their mothers, otherwise they end up as snacks. Male gerbils usually eat their babies so they can start rumpy-pumpy all over again.

[TimothyClaypole]

Station - get some peat moss and half  fill the tank up if it's deep enough.

 

Keeps them busy digging proper burrows then.

 

Empty toilet roll inners are usually a favourite too.

[Des]

 

 

Empty toilet roll inners are usually a favourite too.

I've been waiting for someone to mention cardboard tubes in relation to gerbils.

[Station]

I've done all those things, they love the old toilet tubes. They seem settled now and are quite quiet.

 

Other day I touched the alternator belt on my Nippa and it took my finger on a magical journey around the fantastical world of the alternator pulley (under the belt no less). Instantly went purple, burning pain, etc. how did this not chop the end of my finger off? I have two perfectly horizontal bruises on my finger and nail from the pulley guide edges. F*ck!!

[Cavcraft]

I've been waiting for someone to mention cardboard tubes in relation to gerbils.

 

Are you now waiting for 'A&E' so you have a full house?

[SambaS]

Cabriolet is proper dead. Only fix is petrol tank off and cleaned, and carb. replaced or break the car and scrap what's left. It's unsellable.

[Station]

Are you now waiting for 'A&E' so you have a full house?

 

[STUNO]

I've done all those things, they love the old toilet tubes. They seem settled now and are quite quiet.

 

Other day I touched the alternator belt on my Nippa and it took my finger on a magical journey around the fantastical world of the alternator pulley (under the belt no less). Instantly went purple, burning pain, etc. how did this not chop the end of my finger off? I have two perfectly horizontal bruises on my finger and nail from the pulley guide edges. F*ck!!

You were very lucky the belt was loose

[Spiny Norman]

Garden-ists.

 

Why is it that every time we get more than two consecutive days or decent sunshine, everyone with anything more than a window box decide to give their grass a number 2 haircut every day?

Everywhere you go just now it's a cacophony of lawnmowers, electric shears and these really annoying strimmer things, revving and buzzing away, drowning out the radio, spreading pollen everywhere.

 

Sit the fuck down and chill the fuck out......

[Junkman]

Cabriolet is proper dead. Only fix is petrol tank off and cleaned, and carb. replaced or break the car and scrap what's left. It's unsellable.

Proper dead because the tank has to be cleaned out and the carb replaced?

Is the ashtray full, too?