The grumpy thread

[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?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Yeah that’s right, they fuggin well ought to wait till it’s raining to do all that garden shiz

[Junkman]

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......

Would you please have a word with my wife in this matter?

[Rocket88]

G4S.................the biggest bunch of money grabbing Charlatans on the planet have now been found to have charged HMG for tagging and monitoring people who are dead. You couldn't make it up................

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Sounds like a good use of money to me. I for one definitely think we should be monitoring the deceased just in case they come back to life. 

 

For instance, I'd be horrified if my great grandparents were to turn up at my door unannounced. I don't want them knowing what a fat layabout I am.

[SambaS]

Yeah i just loose my patience with it sometimes but its on it's last legs, already a cat c write off, welded badly in places, rotten in others and generally falling to pieces, it wont take much more going wrong before i cut my losses i think.

 

and i wouldn't sell it because someone would only complain about the welding or the rot or the general state of it and it's not worth the hassle for a couple hundred quid.

 

 

Proper dead because the tank has to be cleaned out and the carb replaced?
Is the ashtray full, too?

[Cavcraft]

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......

 

 

I envy them. Wish I had a lawn and a hedge, I love gardening.

[Junkman]

I envy them. Wish I had a lawn and a hedge, I love gardening.

 

I'd happily lend you my garden. When would you like to come?

[Cavcraft]

We'll sort that out when you come to buy my 400/4.

[Lord Sterling]

I envy them. Wish I had a lawn and a hedge, I love gardening.

You can have mine, I can't stand working on the bloody thing, even though it looks quite Ok. I've given up gardening this Summer, its long, daunting and very tiring, so I get my neighbour, who is setting up a small local gardening/window cleaning service business to do it for me.

[vulgalour]

One of the neighbours hit a nerve with me today and I was more annoyed than I ought to have been.  He was talking about cars, I got the impression he was a Top Gear type of enthusiast rather than someone who actually knew anything, and he said that if he were me he'd have the Golf for special days and he'd just run the Princess into the ground until it was dead.  Thank fuck I'm not him.  He also said he wanted an Escort and even though he was interested in getting a Mk4 rather than the ubiquitous Mk1 chariot of choice for mongs, my brain had turned off and had decided he was hateful.  I think I was more annoyed at me for letting his casual dismissal of the Princess as a worthy car get to me than his dismissal itself.

 

Besides, the Princess is a far better car than the Golf, her brakes work and she idles properly for a start.

[Sigmund Fraud]

I got the impression he was a Top Gear type of enthusiast rather than someone who actually knew anything, and he said that if he were me he'd have the Golf for special days and he'd just run the Princess into the ground until it was dead.

 

Sounds like a true connoisseur*, this chap. I would certainly* trust his advice on all matters automotive.

[Lankytim]

Atleast hes taking an interest!

[Spiny Norman]

If anyone starts telling me how fucking GR8 and reliable VWs are, my anti-bullshit instinct kicks in and I start wondering what to have for dinner.

[trigger]

Maybe he was diverting your attention whilst his mate was undoing your wheel nuts?

[Cavcraft]

I think you need to find someone to make this fella see the error of his ways.

[MrDuke]

Wow. You have my sympathies Wat, that's truly horrible.

 

Without wanting to sound all "yeah, kick his f**kin' head in" - I do believe that the kind of spineless opportunist that pulls that kind of stunt would not cope well with face-to-face confrontation. It may be that even a polite visit to inform him verbally (but non-threateningly) of your feelings would sufficiently put the wind up him and give him pause. I assume we're not talking about a drug-dealing thug here, after all - it sounds like a total chancer who thinks the family will be too upset to take it further.

 

Beyond that, I'm sure some calm, lateral thinking will open up other avenues of 'action' that won't result in your arrest, but may well lead to his imminent repentance, via some small episodes of incontinence. If you can't think of anything sufficiently subtle, then yeah, kick his f**kin' head in.

[Lord Sterling]

I'm sorry to hear that Jon. What kind of f*ckin scum would do that, particularly a 'nieghbour'. As has already been said, this tosser needs to see the error of his ways....

[nigel bickle]

If he's local too me, I'm sure my kids could pop round next time they're home ,from Afghanistan...

[oman5]

Yeah. the kick the fu**in head in thing sounds the best option.

[HillmanImp]

What they said Wat. If they have taken it without permission it sounds like someone needs to go round there and get the money back.

 

Whereabouts darn saaarf?

[autofive]

AAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH

 

trying to list a car for sale on ebay, my listing can not be processed:

 

Please provide the correct information in the highlighted fields.

• Weight - Please enter a valid package weight.

 

 

it s a fecking car, and there are no highlighted fields

 

i ve been going around in circles for 20 minutes, and 'help' as far as beay is concerned involves ringing the USA