The grumpy thread

[vulgalour]

Spending until 5am helping with a house move is not my idea of fun.  Wouldn't have taken so long if the procrastination meant we started the move before 7:30pm or if some actual packing had been done.  Ended up with me in the Princess, and brother and his best mate in the Beemer with a trailer on the back, all three of us packing, loading and unloading.  I'm just glad it was only about a 4 mile move, but it's the worst house move I've ever been involved with and I've done a few.

[KruJoe]

Oof that's a tough gig. And I thought I'd pushed it a bit far last night when I was up 'til 3am rescuing lost pages.

I hope old Chompy_Snake made it worth your while...

[daveb47]

opening door toEstima this morning and getting hit in face by about 200 flies,the aftermath of wife putting stinking garden rubbish in there a few weeks ago.

Supposed to have been "cleaned" but obviously some maggots got missed.

[purplebargeken]

 

opening door toEstima this morning and getting hit in face by about 200 flies,the aftermath of wife putting stinking garden rubbish in there a few weeks ago.

Supposed to have been "cleaned" but obviously some maggots got missed.

 

 

Petrol/match interface, problem solved. Obtain moped from moi, fix, ride, enjoy. No tip duty and no maggots. Simples. 

[Spiny Norman]

Not terribly serious but my car now has a ground clearance of about 2 inches at the front on account of the front undertray/sound deadening panel catching on a high kerb I'd parked against and pulling itself free at one side.

Makes all sorts of nice crunching/grinding noises on anything but a billiard table-smooth road surface. Which is all of them.

 

Flaps.

[jakebullet]

That tv prog where the hairy bikers try to pretend they're Fred Dibnah. I wouldn't trust those two mongs to open a tin of beans that was already open.

[autofive]

That tv prog where the hairy bikers try to pretend they're Fred Dibnah. I wouldn't trust those two mongs to open a tin of beans that was already open.

 

i tried to watch that on i player, but i couldnt. It was cringeworthy. The pair of them making out that they come from engineering backgrounds when they plainly college boys with fake accents.

 

at least they have sussed the end is nigh for foodie programmes

[Lord Sterling]

Mouthy local little twats outside my house just because I asked them to move on, a small reminder that I am indeed back in England

[purplebargeken]

 

 

Mouthy local little twats outside my house just because I asked them to move on, a small reminder that I am indeed back in England

 

It really is a crying shame that we are not allowed to off certain individuals. It would make life so much more pleasant round where I live, plus it would free up some parking places. A win/win situation really.

[purplebargeken]

A huge thanks to the fuckwit 2 houses away who delivers parcels for a living. Thank you for slamming the door to your fucked Pug 206 every single time you lob a parcel from your equally fucked VW Twhatever at stupid o'clock in the morning, thus waking everyone up within a 10 house radius.

 

We WILL have words. Fix your fucking car door!

 

See previous post for a possible happy ending.

[Junkman]

VW Twatever

 

EFA

[purplebargeken]

I was trying to be polite but have realised the error of my ways. Fuck it. 

 

[purplebargeken]

And another thing. I had to drive to fucking Norwich from North London today as the tenants in the flat seemingly cannot differentiate between a 'severe damp problem' and frigging mildew caused by condenfuckingsation.  A 210 mile overall journey that saw me in Norwich for 23 minutes or so. Then they wouldn't believe it was condensation so hopefully they will believe the independent bloke going in at the end of the week.

 

Close the bathroom and kitchen doors, open the windows and don't pile all of your shite up against the walls. No the 50p sized patch of 'alleged severe damp' stain on your lumpy, knackered and disgusting 4 year old futon mattress has not ruined it. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[purplebargeken]

Just spotted the reason why my journey back from Norwich was delayed by the OMGtraffickaos...... a burning Lamborghini something or other. Why, oh why didn't I bring the marshmallows. Why would you buy a car that is known to have a nasty habit of burning itself to a crisp. More money than brain cells methinks. 

[purplebargeken]

Fuck, I am a posting tyrannosaur tonight!!!!!

[Craig the Princess]

MoT failure on the Rover Coupe, brakes and suspension mainly but a pain in the arse to sort.

 

On the plus side no-one stole it when I left the keys in the ignition all day when parked in the village with the passenger side door unlocked

[cort16]

I've had a right pisshole of a time getting back on here. Lets hope the ship has steadied as all this up and down is making me feel sick.

[Danblez]

I've had a right pisshole of a time getting back on here. Lets hope the ship has steadied as all this up and down is making me feel sick.

 

Me too, its been a difficult 18 hours.......

[Cavcraft]

I've had a shit week this week, but there was one little thing to keep me going, which was a new motor on the horizon. Collection trip was prebooked, tickets in hand, all ready to go for early next week.

 

Then, on top of myriad other problems I'm having at the moment I had a 'phone call from home: The DVLA have been round. So that's £100 fine and I've had to tax the car today therefore losing 3 weeks of tax. Yeah, my fault and all that but it pisses me off they came onto where it is to clamp it as it's not on a highway, or even the road technically. Obv. I got the grand daughter of Eva Braun on the 'phone and the silly fucking cow was in 'full bastard' mode.

 

Oh, the result of this means I can't get the motor I was after as I'm pretty much on my arse now.

[RedSparrow]

Is that not on private property?

[Cavcraft]

Council property which, according to the silly bint at DVLA, is the same as the highway. 

[autofive]

accessible to the public = the road, or so the dvla thinks

[Cavcraft]

I hope the stupid snotty tart I was on the 'phone to is one of those losing her job when the local offices shut. I hope even further that the day she leaves, she slips over in dog shit in pouring rain and drowns in a pool of her own self importance. Or fanny batter.

[dollywobbler]

Yup. They like playing that trick. Really annoys me. If you're not driving a car, you should be able to rescind the tax. Even if it's on a private (business) car park, the DVLA will still clamp you. Once more, it's a great* idea that ends up punishing innocents while still being ignored by those who have no intention of paying (they just find new ways to get around it).

[purplebargeken]

That is not a pretty sight. Not what you needed mate.

[Cavcraft]

Definitely not. I'm sat here looking at 'that' train ticket too, which isn't helping my frame of mind right now. 

 

I asked what my options were and have to confess I came to within an nth of telling them to take the car, as that would have meant no charges. I was then going to take the cat and battery off, stove every panel and window in, loosen/remove all the wheel nuts and paint DVLA WANKERS down both sides.  

Obviously just to help* matters further I checked the MOT which I though expired late October but it's actually next month so I expect I'll have to retest it before it'll sell. It shouldn't want much (if anything) but it's another expense all the same.

 

Obv. it is my fault for not taxing it and checking the 'laws' on where you can/can't keep untaxed motors so it's my fault really and I'm just moaning again. 

[vulgalour]

I think you're entitled to moan all you like, that's a shit turn of events.

[jakebullet]

Couldn't you have introduced mr. clamp to mr. angle grinder?

 

Nah dvla, must have been a mistake. No clamp on my car ,my car is stored at a secure off road location.

[autofive]

and the photographs they took? how do you explain them?

[cort16]

Has someone clyped you into do you recon? I thought they normally just sent abuse by post unless some reports it. It happened to my mate and the took it off to the pound and tried to charge him a fortune in storage (it was a week before he noticed it was gone). He just told them to keep it and shove it up their arse.