The grumpy thread

[Spiny Norman]

The impending birth of any sprog Royal or otherwise fills me with no interest whatsoever, but it can be quite amusing trying to spot the government slip all sorts of controversial or unpopular shit past a besotted electorate while every second of the 24/7 news media is busy interviewing anyone who once met Kate wosserface in Greggs 5 years ago.

[oman5]

Time for a mega rant from me….

 

Noisy neighbours.  We live on the ground floor and every day we have to put up with excessive noise from the cretins that live two floors up – namely their little shits running around shouting and screaming, with the Dad also being a pain in the ass shouting his head off stoking the kids up into a frenzy.  The mother never leaves the flat so when he’s off working doing shifts in his cab the kids just go mental and she never seems to give them any sort of discipline, or take them out to burn off a bit of energy.  They can go a whole weekend never leaving the flat which is not only bad for the kids, but bad for my sanity!  You can never relax as they might kick off at any moment, and they are often up late even on a school night (by late I mean 10pm).

 

I’ve been up several times to have a word, as have the poor sods who live directly beneath them – they have kids too but I hardly ever hear theirs, which just goes to show how noisy the feral fuckers are on the top floor.  All you get met with is indifference, or they just don’t open the door, which makes you feel even more annoyed/frustrated.  Kids makes noise, yes, but this is beyond acceptable.  Other people moan too, and they live in the block adjacent to ours which isn’t even connected so it’s not just me.

 

What to do though?  Legally the council can’t do anything, I’ve asked the managing agents of the flats but they can’t get involved, or as I see it they can’t be arsed doing any more work than they need to.  The only resolutions are to either move out or bludgeon them to death, and although the last option appeals (both me and the missus really are at our wits end) I’m gonna start saving in order to buy a plot of land in the middle of nowhere and live like a hermit.  I’m consumed with hate for these people which isn’t good for the old ticker, and being at work these days is actually preferable to being at home, which shows how desperate things get.

 

On the plus side, I find tinkering with shite offers me some kind of therapy and escape from all that shit, and evening drives in either the Sierra or the Vitesse recently has proved a sanctuary, although a 19mpg average in the Rover doesn’t make that a long-term solution!

You have my sympathy, only this year I managed to escape from the fucking pikey scumbag neighbours I had in Merthyr.  mouth breathing fucktards

[M'coli]

The turbodiesel Pug 205 I have is making me lose the will to live.  I've finally got round to trying to replace the head gasket, and I'm fed up with the bastard.  Why do the French have to make such a balls-up of the cooling system pipe routing in the first place, and then use the worst and sharpest jubilee rip-offs to hold them on?  I've got a 1/4" deep gash in my right thumb just above the knuckle joint where I hit one whilst undoing the turbo oil feed pipe.

Next is the fact that it's the dirtiest engine I've ever worked on.  Then, finally, I've got the head loose and the gasket's out, but can I get the head out of the car? NO!  It's still attached to something, but can I get at the twat to remove it?

If I get it back together and it works, it's getting sold.  I didn't like it before I started this, and it's not made liking it any easier.
If I get it back together and it still doesn't work properly, it's still getting sold.

[SambaS]

From experience you have only 2 options:

 

Kill them all, or move.

 

All legislation seem to work in favour of people who want to make noise.. for instance because my noisy neighbours moved away for 7 months, committed benefit fraud by having the benefit agency believe they still lived there, and came back last week to make noise again..... the whole polava I went through at the end of last year doesn't matter one jot. Doesn't count and is irrelevant.

 

*sigh*

 

Time for a mega rant from me….

 

Noisy neighbours.  We live on the ground floor and every day we have to put up with excessive noise from the cretins that live two floors up – namely their little shits running around shouting and screaming, with the Dad also being a pain in the ass shouting his head off stoking the kids up into a frenzy.  The mother never leaves the flat so when he’s off working doing shifts in his cab the kids just go mental and she never seems to give them any sort of discipline, or take them out to burn off a bit of energy.  They can go a whole weekend never leaving the flat which is not only bad for the kids, but bad for my sanity!  You can never relax as they might kick off at any moment, and they are often up late even on a school night (by late I mean 10pm).

 

I’ve been up several times to have a word, as have the poor sods who live directly beneath them – they have kids too but I hardly ever hear theirs, which just goes to show how noisy the feral fuckers are on the top floor.  All you get met with is indifference, or they just don’t open the door, which makes you feel even more annoyed/frustrated.  Kids makes noise, yes, but this is beyond acceptable.  Other people moan too, and they live in the block adjacent to ours which isn’t even connected so it’s not just me.

 

What to do though?  Legally the council can’t do anything, I’ve asked the managing agents of the flats but they can’t get involved, or as I see it they can’t be arsed doing any more work than they need to.  The only resolutions are to either move out or bludgeon them to death, and although the last option appeals (both me and the missus really are at our wits end) I’m gonna start saving in order to buy a plot of land in the middle of nowhere and live like a hermit.  I’m consumed with hate for these people which isn’t good for the old ticker, and being at work these days is actually preferable to being at home, which shows how desperate things get.

 

On the plus side, I find tinkering with shite offers me some kind of therapy and escape from all that shit, and evening drives in either the Sierra or the Vitesse recently has proved a sanctuary, although a 19mpg average in the Rover doesn’t make that a long-term solution!

[SambaS]

Next time I get the hammer out I wont knock on his door with it. I will knock on his Cerebral Cortex.

[Cavcraft]

Next time I get the hammer out I wont knock on his door with it. I will knock on his Cerebral Cortex.

 

I didn't even know he had a TVR.

[philibusmo]

 

Oh good, there has been a royal baby born in a hospital.

 

That's right BBC News, get the helicopter out. You'll get a great view of it from up there.

 

[Mr Lobster]

Not really bothered one way or the other about the royal baby tbh, has no impact on me.

 

But the BBC coverage - FFS stop talking such utter shit -

 

"the delivery suite is fully equipped and has internet access"

 

What the actual fuck. If I'd offered Mrs_L the laptop and asked if she wanted to do a bit of surfing whilst she was pushing either of my kids out I reckon I would have encountered a rage never seen before and I'd probably have had something done to me a bit like giving birth to a laptop but in reverse.

[Spiny Norman]

...and while no-one's been paying attention they're sneaking this one in under the radar ..  

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23401076

[dollywobbler]

Yup - all while cutting the budget on the few poor b*stards who spend their working lives trying to catch the people responsible for the sickest levels of child depravity. That's it Cameron - blame the ISPs for your failings. 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

...and while no-one's been paying attention they're sneaking this one in under the radar ..

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23401076

 

There's a positive side to this - about ten minutes after it's implemented, Britain will have the most computer literate teenagers on the planet. Boys who otherwise wouldn't know how to use the scroll wheel will be able to configure a VPN with their eyes closed. 

[trigger]

As this seems to be doing the rounds already...

 

[Spiny Norman]

  Stolen.

[RobT]

From experience you have only 2 options:

 

Kill them all, or move.

 

 

 

*sigh*

 

A mate at work knows some Polish lads who'd probably do the job at the right price, so a contract killing is a possibility.  But in reality next year will be earliest we can move so I'll just have to deal with it until then.  There are good and bad days and we've had a run of bad ones recently, no doubt made worse by the weather making people more mongish than normal.

[warren t claim]

R.I.P actor Dennis Farina.

 

Feel free to add your own banger racing joke.

[autofive]

 

R.I.P actor Dennis Farina.

 

Feel free to add your own banger racing joke.

 

 

Avi is dead?

 

[Rover414]

 

A favourite scene of mine. Such a shame!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I flipping love GET SHORTY, one of my favourite films of all time

[MrDuke]

Yup - all while cutting the budget on the few poor b*stards who spend their working lives trying to catch the people responsible for the sickest levels of child depravity. That's it Cameron - blame the ISPs for your failings. 

 

Also, I suspect the most depraved stuff is already only accessible via Darknet, so I'm not sure quite what he thinks this will achieve.

[Pillock]

There's a positive side to this - about ten minutes after it's implemented, Britain will have the most computer literate teenagers on the planet. Boys who otherwise wouldn't know how to use the scroll wheel will be able to configure a VPN with their eyes closed. 

 

Kids that already know that "Videos streamed online in the UK will be subject to the same restrictions as those sold in shops" means NOTHING since the internet doesn't have borders. And no ISP has equipment fast enough to examine videos frame-by-frame as they're being streamed across the world for overly naughty stuff.

 

There's clearly stuff that needs to be enforced, and there's clearly stuff between grown people that's hurting nobody. I'd imagine most of the houses with kids in will have the filter turned off because dad has complained it makes the internet slow, or something.

[barrett]

All my cars are broken, and I left my tools in the Standard which has been dumped about 20 miles away in a pub car park. I need those to try and fix the Herald tomorrow so I can go to work on Thursday and recover the Standard. But I don't have any way of getting there because the Herald is broken. ARGH!

[autofive]

I dont think its about controlling porn, porn is the excuse to curb our freedoms and. of course, if anyone starts to argue against it then the government will demonise them.

 

 

 

my grump today - a bed bound woman who lives opposite has just been removed from her house by the fire brigade, theres is an ambulance, CID cars there and all the windows are open. Its not looking good for her right now.

[meggersdog]

.  Then, finally, I've got the head loose and the gasket's out, but can I get the head out of the car? NO!  It's still attached to something, but can I get at the twat to remove it?

 

 

It will be the exhaust flange on the turbo catching on the bulkhead.The easiest option is to remove the engine and 'box before attempting to remove the head.As you've got this far take the radiator out so as not to damage it then balance the engine and gearbox on a couple of jacks.Then remove all the mountings and drag the engine forward about three inches in the engine bay.Don't go too far forward as there is a bottom hose connected to a steel pipe bolted to the inner wing and one or the other might get damaged.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Kids that already know that "Videos streamed online in the UK will be subject to the same restrictions as those sold in shops" means NOTHING since the internet doesn't have borders. And no ISP has equipment fast enough to examine videos frame-by-frame as they're being streamed across the world for overly naughty stuff.

 

There's clearly stuff that needs to be enforced, and there's clearly stuff between grown people that's hurting nobody. I'd imagine most of the houses with kids in will have the filter turned off because dad has complained it makes the internet slow, or something.

 

I did laugh at the streaming video line. I'll remember to take my proof of age next time I pick up a streaming video from WHSmiths. 

 

This porn filter, if it ever exists, will be a success the same way drug prohibition has been a success. Once you've taken away the easy legal porn, kids are going to have to go looking for it in darker corners of the web. The more effective the filter is, the more likely they are to get their porn from P2P networks and other far, far, shadier places than the tube sites. 

[Sigmund Fraud]

My 'list of stuff to do' on my old shitters is getting longer and longer... 

 

The 760 should have been ready for a retest, but the front suspension keeps defeating me, and I need to obtain an EBFH because my BFH is clearly not sufficient for the forces involved in the assembly of Swedish tanks.

 

I took the 740 for a 350 mile blast on Sunday, and it rewarded me by losing half of its coolant and developing a horrid grinding noise from the front brakes. It's due its test in two weeks, so it needs sorting ASAP.

 

And then there's the 'hairdresser special' which is due its test a week after the 740 and needs a service and a rear brake rebuild. There is the daily, which is conveniently* due its 6K mile service. And SWMBO has gently* reminded me that I had promised to fix various bits on her car which has yet to happen.

 

And, of course,  there's still a dead Allegro on my drive, which I need to fix as nobody else wants to.

 

 

Bloody hell... Sometimes I really think I should have taken up stamp collecting instead 

[Wilko220]

The best stamp collection in the world wouldn't win you the totty like that Allegro.

[M'coli]

It will be the exhaust flange on the turbo catching on the bulkhead.The easiest option is to remove the engine and 'box before attempting to remove the head.As you've got this far take the radiator out so as not to damage it then balance the engine and gearbox on a couple of jacks.Then remove all the mountings and drag the engine forward about three inches in the engine bay.Don't go too far forward as there is a bottom hose connected to a steel pipe bolted to the inner wing and one or the other might get damaged.

There isn't a steel pipe connected to the inner wing, but I did remove a collection of holes surrounded by iron hydroxide from the location you mention...it's quite possibly this that has allowed the head gasket to fail (gently).

 

The easiest option isn't easy when you've no way of removing the engine and box, and it would be sitting in the driveway for the scrap metal thieves to view...

 

It does sound like an utter twat of a job anyhow, perhaps I should just drain the fuel from it and weigh it in...

[meggersdog]

It's not a nice job and by the time you've unbolted enough to move the engine forward it's almost ready to come out barring removing the driveshafts (hence saying "easiest option").If you've just got the one trolley jack it might be possible to balance the engine and 'box on a sturdy fencepost,the engine mount should be off so once the main gearbox mount under the battery tray and the rear mounting is undone steadily lower the whole lot.Once clear of the battery tray it will come forward enough.

[rml2345]

...and while no-one's been paying attention they're sneaking this one in under the radar ..

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23401076

It sounds like a good, moral reason but that's the thin end of the wedge.

If they're restricting porn today, what will they restrict tomorrow?

[Cavcraft]

Hey Mr Coal Eye, is the 205 legit at the moment? If so and you can drive it here you can use our engine hoist if you want.