The grumpy thread

[Sigmund Fraud]

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?

 

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Breaking news : Government unveils plans to ban shite old cars, as a recent research paper from the prestigious University Of Bums-on-Seats has showed that shite old cars increase the entropy of the universe. The government is concerned that if shite old cars are not banned NOW, they may soon lead to the END OF THE WORLD.

 

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[rml2345]

^ "O NOES! FINK OF DA KITTENZ!" etc. I know it sounds like a storm in a teacup, I'm just worried about them censoring government criticism or reading our emails or something later on. 

Who do they think they are? News International?

[cort16]

It doesn't matter what they do people will find a way around it, then that way will become standard and then it all become pointless, becomes and trackable. The torrents and P2P came out of people getting done for sharing films and music via ftp sites on single servers so the technology adapts and now they can't really track it effectively anymore.

 

As for reading your e-mails they're already black boxing and buffering all internet traffic coming in and out of the country so if they want to look they will and you'll not even know about it.

 

It won't make any difference but they need to be shown to be doing something and if they can slip in some more ways of reducing your privacy then all the better for them and their grubby little policies.

 

I'm okay anyway I've got a tinfoild hat and y-fronts.

 

[chaseracer]

Did a barter deal with a member on here back in May for an XM sunroof mechanism, which was duly collected. The other side of the agreement has not been honoured, despite gentle reminders, and now no response at all. That'll learn me to be so trusting.

 

Sorry, people - had to get that off my chest. Onward...

 

:-/

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Dish the dirt then!

[dollywobbler]

*fetches popcorn and a comfy chair*

[Wilko220]

Was it a sexual favour?

[dollywobbler]

With those miles, I'd be heading straight to the Rover 75/MG ZT forum. Enthusiasts (and there are many for these cars) will pay good money for a good car. They'll be wanting to know whether the various timing belts have been replaced.

[Cavcraft]

To be fair WOT, that's probably all you could expect from a dealer. They (will say they) have to valet/service/prepare it, be prepared for anything it might need if they warranty it and make a profit.

 

We know on here it's an ace car, but try mentioning 'Rover' followed by 'V6' to the great unwashed and you'll just get sucking through teeth and 'funny' Clarkson-esque rants about how shit they are. Despite the fact these people have never even sat in one, let alone owned or driven one. That's what the dealer is up against and they have to make a profit.

 

I personally would think it was £695 easy, no danger. But I'm not trying to sell it.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Must say, i wouldn't like to try and sell a 75 V6 at any price, I would say theyre almost worthless sadly

[Mr Lobster]

I think anything older and with a decent size petrol lump is about as appealing as a dish of cat sick to a large amount of the uneducated public sadly.

[KruJoe]

uncle's Rover 75

 

Jon, is it auto or Manuel?

I have a mate possibly after one. He's in London though...

[chaseracer]

Dish the dirt then!

Nah, wouldn't want to turn it into a dogfight.

[vulgalour]

Things with six legs and wings keep blundering in and clattering around the lamp in here.  I don't mind the moths, or even the bees, but the crane flies can fuck off and the wasps can go die in a fire.

[Junkman]

If a car is driven less than 50k miles in 14 years, then the petrol consumption makes absolutely sod all of a difference.

What do they have in mind? Buy a new car to save 150 quid worth of petrol a year?

They should trade it in for a 198X Turbo Bentley, because there will be the day such stuff becomes illegal and then they regret every yard they didn't drive a decent motor.

[SambaS]

I need more space for cars, much, much more space. A front for my obsession would be good too, make it look like a business, then I could have a load of space. And so long as I made just enough money to cover then rent and fuel my addiction all would be well. Hey I'd even live on site in a camper or static so I had an extra £600 pcm to play with. AND Who know I might be successful, that would be a bonus. people keep coming to me with cars, cars are my forte... 

[Lord Sterling]

Your thinking along exactly the same lines as me Samba. There are so many cars out there I want to buy and own but space is a real premium these days.

[vulgalour]

Two words:  Autoshite Commune.

 

Result:  A pram surrounded by a lot of toys.

[MrDuke]

Things with six legs and wings keep blundering in and clattering around the lamp in here.  I don't mind the moths, or even the bees, but the crane flies can fuck off and the wasps can go die in a fire.

 

We've been lucky with wasps so far (haven't seen a single one around the garden) but I agree that crane flies are the most utterly abhorrent creatures. They serve no apparent purpose other than to spazz aimlessly around the room like nightmarish winged epileptic spiders on ketamine, and only have sufficient intelligence to identify and aim for my head every few seconds. What the hell are those legs even for, anyway - they can't actually walk on them, and the added drag factor in flight must be ridiculous. They're one of the very few creatures I have no remorse about gratuitously killing with violence - and it does take a surprising amount of effort to kill them, considering how fragile they look.

[Cavcraft]

eBay sellers who don't respond. Doing my effing head in now waiting for a response from one seller

[autofive]

eBay sellers who don't respond. Doing my effing head in now waiting for a response from one seller

 

 

and ebay buyers. Last week I had one make a 'best offer' on an engine i had for sale, I accepted his offer and now he has disappeared off the face of the earth

[skattrd]

The turbo has pretty much stopped working again on the boring

I can occasionally hear it, and do get a bit of boost now and again, so I know it's still there and not completely knackered.

A bit more reading on some VAG forums says it could be sticking vanes in the turbo. Apparently the best way to cure this is fill the turbo up with Mr. Muscle oven cleaner and let it dissolve the crap. If a £3 can of oven cleaner solves my problem then I'll be very surprised/happy.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Sounds like an interesting idea, where do you feed the Mr Muscle in though?

[skattrd]

Apparently you remove the egr connecting pipework and squirt Mr. Muscle through a length of vac hose in to the hot side of the turbo ... details: http://www.scottishvag.net/viewtopic.php?f=101&t=96231

[Wilko220]

End of an era...

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23434089

[Station]

I loved the way you could always predict whether the away team had a higher score by the pitch of his voice:

"Yeovil ... One." "West Bromwich (slowly raises pitch) Albion ... Three".

[Cavcraft]

I've just had the misfortune to listen to a Proclaimers CD I found in a car I bought ages ago.

 

If you've not listened to it before, then just imagine a Scottish version of Status Quo singing lullabys via a drain pipe which they wrote after smoking haggis through a crack pipe on Balamorie High Street. Only a bit worse.

[chaseracer]

I would walk 500 miles to get away from that.

[Station]

Proclaimers are proof for the argument that just because a band sells millions of records doesn't mean they're any good.

[autofive]

i disagree

 

sunshine on leith is an amazing track