The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

Meh, no matter how entertaining or whatever someone is or was, if they really are a rapist/kiddy fiddler then they will hopefully get what they deserve.

 

I once ran round Chester race course with Stuart Hall prior to him filming 'It's A Knockout' but he didn't do anything untoward. I'm am now traumatised by the fact he didn't traumatise me and I think I should try and sue him or something.

[chaseracer]

Probably cos you're no oil painting, Billy...

[Cavcraft]

Oh yes I am.

 

Trouble is it's a 2 stroke oil painting.

[autofive]

@Autofive:  Stockton-on-tees primarily, focusing on the TS17 and TS19 post code areas.

 

@Yewtree comments:  I've actually shut my brain off to this stuff because it's destroying much of what I enjoyed growing up.  Yes, paedophilia is a very bad thing for sensible reasons, but it just seems to be an opportunity to rake various celebrities over the coals to satisfy the media furnace rather than to do any real good or justice.  But since we're no longer seeing anything from Rolf or Savile, does this mean repeats of OFAH will stop now that the barest hint of suspicion has been aimed at David Jason?  I'm guessing not, I'm guessing people will turn a blind eye to that because it's such a national institution.

 

stockton?

 

mmm, i dont know any stockton landlords, but i know some middlesbrough landlords (TS1 mostly)

 

you got a job in the area?

[warren t claim]

If the David Jason rumours are correct then it will make a whole lot of the BBC back catalogue unrepeatable.

[vulgalour]

I can move my job with me as I work from home.  Can't afford car insurance in TS1 and a lot of the houses in TS1 are horrible.

[RedSparrow]

I'm going to post this again. Just because.

 

[Lord Sterling]

I have to go home today. I really don't want to, but we didn't find a house to move into while I was up North so needs must.

I know exactly how you feel 'Galour. I f**king HATE the area that I live in right now. Disrespectful kids who think they are little gangsters/living in a soap opera, disinterested parents who do nothing unless thier little shits start hitting each other, then it turns into scene from 'Jeremy Kyle' with under educated obese shouty people shouting at each other whilst loads of other under-nourished, slack-jawed dole-queue botherers stand around looking.

 

I'm getting out of this very country soon, and I will never come back to live here. If I can't get out, then living in my car will be a very real option.

[autofive]

I can move my job with me as I work from home.  Can't afford car insurance in TS1 and a lot of the houses in TS1 are horrible.

 

 

ah right

 

thornaby & inglebay barwick might seem nice, but there are not. Thornaby is home to many a murderer, rapist and good old fashoined gangs while Ingelby is where Brian 'the taxman' lives.......

 

 

and fairfiled is not much better

 

have you considered Norton? (nearby, better housing stock, less crime)

[vulgalour]

There are pockets of niceness and pockets of shittiness, like anywhere in the UK really.  There are some parts we've seen that we basically just kept driving through, and some parts that were really very pleasant areas with good amenities and a distinct lack of Jeremy Kyle style bollocks.  So it's a bit hit and miss.  Generally if a house is near to £300 pcm you don't want to live there, if it's near to £600pcm you do but our budget is a max of £500pcm, especially since the third person has ducked out.

 

So yeah.  Providing it's better than the hellholes I've had to tolerate in the past, hasn't got students, excessive quantities of tramampomoines, litter, graffiti, and is somewhere I'd feel safe leaving my car outside I'm happy with it.  Mike is more picky, he wants the house to be nice, have a garage and be pleasantly decorated but I know from experience you can't afford to be that picky at this end of the market.

 

Providing I get out before the year ends I'll be happy.  Interestingly* my wheel nuts haven't come loose and my tyre pressures haven't changed while I've been up here... not even once.

[daveb47]

Virgin broadband,goes down every time i download anything,watch you tube or just because,takes ages to come back on.

Very fast but waste of time.

Keep trying to get it sorted but after spending an hour or so waiting for answer i get to speak with unintelligible moron reading from computer screen telling me to check my pc settings then getting lost when i tell them i am running linux..

They say they will pass me to supervisor,but usually give up waiting after an hour.

 

On another subject,several tv  programs i like have recently been infested by some moronic dwarf in corner gesticulating im deafinese.

Cant watch it.

[Richard]

I heard it was David Jason who's next in Yewtrees crosshairs. Maybe followed by ***** ******* who is one of my favourite rock singers.

 

***** *******, whose only remaining bandmate has already been in trouble for that sort of thing?

[RedSparrow]

Hey, it just occured to me that if David Jason did do something terrible to some kids then it would mean the end of Trotterisation of Reliant vehicles.

Every cloud etc.

[Cavcraft]

ah right

 

thornaby & inglebay barwick might seem nice, but there are not. Thornaby is home to many a murderer, rapist and good old fashoined gangs while Ingelby is where Brian 'the taxman' lives.......

 

 

and fairfiled is not much better

 

have you considered Norton? (nearby, better housing stock, less crime)

 

Who does he tax, old ladies or something? He and his mates are about as scary looking as a slightly perplexed field mouse whose best friend has just been evicted by a rogue swarm of bothered looking tree fairies. 

[autofive]

he taxes corsa & push-bike owners

[Cavcraft]

Uh-oh, pretend I never said that.

[chaseracer]

Forgot it was the Citroen Car Club Midlands rally today. Hope Mr D Wobbler takes lots of pics...

[Lankytim]

I had some guy come round today to have a look at the Citroen AX I have for sale, His son is learning how to drive and needed a cheap set of insurance friendly wheels

 

First of all, he turned up an hour and a half late, which is never a good start, but there you go. His son seems like a nice enough fella and was dead keen about the AX, then the aggro with his dad starts.

 

 

The car is perfect, BUT....

 

"It's been towed behind a campervan, that's no good at all", -   Well, much of the mileage has been done with the engine off while it's being towed, anyway it's £200 so what do you want, it's a cheap honest motor.

 

"The exhaust is rusty, another month and it will be hanging off"-      It's not blowing and it's not too rusty, it will last ages! If it had a brand new exhaust on it it would be up for more than £200.

 

"The engine is all oily, it's been thrashed. I'm an expert on these cars and it's going to need a complete rebuild within weeks"-    The engine is lovely and quiet, it's sweet as a nut, the oil is from a rocker gasket.

 

"Oh, look at this, the oil on the dipstick is low, that's really really bad, the engine is on it's last legs"-      This obviously isn't the car for you, I suggest you get a grand together and find a different car to look at, if the engine is that bad i'll just weigh it in.

 

"My mate weighed one of these in last week for £120, it was much better than this too"-         Why didn't you buy that one then?

 

"Will you take £150" -  No, £175

"£160"- No £175

£170"- No, £175

 

By now it's clear that this guy is a massive twat, and he's more trouble than he's worth. Even if we do strike a deal, he's no doubt moan about a dint he didn't notice or the rear axle is about to fall off e.t.c I'm desperate to fook him off into his car and off my drive

 

"175 is alot of money to spend on a car"-     You obviously arent satisfied with this car, so you need to go and spend some more money on a car without faults, like I said before £1000 should do. Goodbye

 

It took all of my self control not to go to the shed, grab a spade and smash the fook out of it infront of him.

 

Instead I shut the bonnet and go back into the house for a sit down. Why do cheap cars attract such fucking twats?

 

 

This thing is getting pressed next week unless someone wants to give me £150 for it soon.

[ruffgeezer]

Tim, where are you? I am getting similarly pissed off with the amount of twats the ax vts has attracted, it's a very clean shell but I think I'd sell it easier as a standard car instead.

 

What engine is it/ miles etc?

[Lankytim]

I'm in Stoke on Trent, 1 litre 3 door 100k on the clock, but as mentioned it's spent much of it's time behind a camper.

 

It's in really good shape overall!

[ruffgeezer]

Gah, why couldn't you have said it's in shit shape? I hate breaking cars that don't deserve it!

What I could do with is a car that old granny cataracts has biffed into the trolley park whilst having her 5th attempt at leaving Tesco's carpark.

[Lankytim]

I can go and smash it up a bit if you like?

[RedSparrow]

It's best not selling to a bloke like that even if he offered you the asking price.
He'd be on the phone within a week trying to get you to pay for any repairs. I think you were very restrained and polite!

[ruffgeezer]

Only if I get to come and lowball on the price once you've done it!

[Lankytim]

LOL, you can lowball me all you like, i'll just keep repeating the number 175 over and over again before locking the car and going inside the house.

 

You may as well use it as a donor for yours, i'm only going to break a few bits off it and weigh it in.

[Cavcraft]

It's a bloody ace car that AX and worth every penny. Bargain basement cars mostly attract the kind of spectacular tit who wants everything for nothing and has watched to much telly. They sit there watching Mike Brewer and countless other similar programmes where offers are made and assume they can just make stupid fucking offers as they have cash or whatever.

 

Happily, these back-to-fronts often get short shrift and rightly so. Your idea of smashing it up in front of someone is a cracker, I really will have to do that one day, then chase the fuckers off with the axe/shovel/BFO hammer that was used to wreck the car.

[Lankytim]

The more I think about it the more I feel I should have just done it, "This car is obviously a danger to human life, thanks for pointing out all its faults and faults it's likely to have in the future" then just smash the windscreen with a lump hammer.

 

The fat shit even saw the XM parked behind the AX and said, "Ahh, a Xantia". From that moment on I could see there was NO DEAL to be had with this fella.

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He was just one of life's know it all, big-I-am, bar room expert tosspots. "Don't worry son, watch me knock this guy down on price"

[RedSparrow]

The guys son was probably embarassed by him.

[autofive]

in that situation i would ignore the father and speak directly to the son

 

"do you want it for 175? yes or no?"

[cobblers]

"watch this lad, I'll show you how to buy a car"