The grumpy thread

[Cheggers]

BBC 6 Music is the only way to go...and I saw the brekky presenter Shaun Keaveney having a curry in London last night (+ bonus grump...not excessively large curry and 2 beers each for 3 of us, £140  )

[privatewire]

I have to switch off Ken Bruce around 11.30, because that's when he has the cuntmeister Vine on to talk about what mince he will have morons phoneing in about that day.

 

I fervently wish the old Ayrshire curse of "I hope your next shite is a hedgehog" upon Vine and all his descendants.

[chaseracer]

Couple of my friends were contemporaries of JV at Durham in the mid/late-80s. By all accounts, he was a dick even then...

[Lankytim]

I like JV. So there.

 

Steve Shite however....

[jakebullet]

Negged on evilbay by some lying foreign twunt and now every bastard in the western hemisphere is trying it on with "where's my item mate?" including twats who bought only yesterday.

[RichardMoss]

  On 04/10/2013 at 10:33, Sigmund Fraud said:

I suppose it's one of those awful Renix units ? Are you sure it's the ECU rather than one of the myriad of sensors ?

It's the Jeep/Chrysler sytem and it is definitely(ish) the ECU because when I bung a handful of ice cubes on it to cool it down it starts up again!  Ice cubes + desert = problematic "Supply and Demand" situation, though.

[ShiteRider]

  On 04/10/2013 at 20:10, jakebullet said:

Negged on evilbay by some lying foreign twunt and now every bastard in the western hemisphere is trying it on with "where's my item mate?" including twats who bought only yesterday.

If it makes you feel any better i bought an 8 ball off you for the ,since departed, black cortina and was made up with it

[sporty-shite]

  On 04/10/2013 at 15:06, Cheggers said:

BBC 6 Music is the only way to go...and I saw the brekky presenter Shaun Keaveney having a curry in London last night (+ bonus grump...not excessively large curry and 2 beers each for 3 of us, £140  )

 

Lass who I used to work with studied music with Keaveney. She's still in touch with him, and reckons he's a top bloke. His show's good, too.

[cort16]

I've started listening to Keaveny in the mornings. He's not that annoying and the music's always interesting.

[hairnet]

omghgf on a fiesta (trig help)

 

skoda in the firing line as replacement

[TimothyClaypole]

New bonus scheme at work.

 

Old one was basically a paltry tenner a week for turning up and not being late or sick (although it was deducted if you took a paid holiday...)

 

Now it's going to be £12 a week but paid monthly - tax molesting for that no doubt. 

 

But you lose 25% for 1 day sick, 50% for 2 days etc.  Make a mistake and the same, late the same etc.

 

I'll be working harder I'm sure for this generous increase... I've half mind to clock in 1 minute late for a week and tell them to shove it.

[chaseracer]

I've completely given up on EvilBay (and PayNOW) because truly they are the spawn of  . Consequently, I have an attic full of car mags and brochures going back to the 60s. 

 

Perhaps I should open a real shop... 

 

<_>

[Angrydicky]

What have you got in the way of Austin/BMC/BL/AR brochures? I have a fairly impressive collection already, but there may be stuff I haven't got...in particular I'm looking for Ambassador and early Maestro brochures.

[trigger]

I've been thinking of selling all my car magazines and moving on to collecting more brochures instead as I'm starting to find them more interesting.

[John F]

  On 03/10/2013 at 20:00, trigger said:

I *think* I have a £150 protected excess but i need to double check, I'll say I done it to protect her insurance, it's just frustrating as it's my nice car which I haven't had that long, mind you she did the same thing in the Alto a few months back too and that was tiny.

 

I'd tell her to get her own bloody car and stop ruining mine.

[M'coli]

Manchester car park, 2 days after the Tory party conference: we're so obviously not in it together...

[Bobthebeard]

  On 05/10/2013 at 19:29, M said:

Manchester car park, 2 days after the Tory party conference: we're so obviously not in it together...

That's politics. They will leave it there until just after the next election and then blame Labour for closing car parks, even though it clearly has 'Conservative Party' written on it.

Apologies for any inconvenience.*

[Lankytim]

I thought I'd sold the AX to a neighbour last week. Shook on a price, which is quite a bit less than it owes me. "I'll collect and pay on Thursday". You can guess the rest. I text him asking if he still wanted it and he replied "Money Saturday"..... Again, he's no show, so I text him again asking when he's coming round "Stuck at work". I get the feeling he doesn't want this car after all.

 

To add piss to shit the guy who didn't show up last weekend text today asking if he could come round to view, to which I didn't reply, as he's wasted enough of my time already.

 

What is it with this car? It's a nice motor and will plod on for years if looked after. Don't people know quality when they see it?

[Lord Sterling]

  On 05/10/2013 at 20:11, Lankytim said:

Don't people know quality when they see it?

Short answer? No. Sadly there are lots of timewasters and dreamers. People these days seem rather incapable of thinking about others.

[Bobthebeard]

  On 05/10/2013 at 20:26, Lord Sterling said:

Short answer? No. Sadly there are lots of timewasters and dreamers. People these days seem rather incapable of thinking about others.

In short, people are usually awful. Unless known to be otherwise... Or on here obviously..

[Lankytim]

I think it's just in such a low category status and price wise it's only capable of attracting the feckless and plain stupid. I may just end up stashing it somewhere and occasionally sitting in it or something. Or just crush it.

[Bobthebeard]

  On 05/10/2013 at 20:29, Lankytim said:

I think it's just in such a low category status and price wise it's only capable of attracting the feckless and plain stupid. I may just end up stashing it somewhere and occasionally sitting in it or something. Or just crush it.

This will be no help whatsoever, but just reminded me that I once bought a Renault 4 van when I was 17. The engine was seized solid but I had dreams of fixing it.

I just sat in it a lot. Never repaired it as I was 17 with no tools, no idea and no driving licence.

Happy days.*

Can't remember what happened to it.

[phil_lihp]

It does seem to be open season for muppets on eBay lately, I've been using it since 2001 and it's only in the last couple of years they've really come out of the woodwork.  Latest one being a fool who bought two old camera lenses from me in seperate auctions and ignored the UK only postage.  Being something of a fool myself, I charged him extra and sent it to France as requested.  One non-existant address, one permanently closed address, 20+ emails back and forth and a chat with the courier over a month later the parcel remains with the couriers and I've given up.  I've told him to call them and deal with it himself.  

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

  On 05/10/2013 at 19:29, M'coli said:

Manchester car park, 2 days after the Tory party conference: we're so obviously not in it together...

 

[pic]

Come the revolution Manchester Central NCP car park will be repurposed as the People's Vegetable Market and it will be decorated with the heads of any Bourgeoisie who could afford to park in it. 

[wuvvum]

Wat, can't you set your eBay settings to block bidders who have a registered address outside of the UK?  I always do that when I sell cars now (unless I've got something particularly unusual that I think might interest overseas buyers) - selling stuff overseas is more trouble than it's worth.

[wuvvum]

Another thing - why is the past participle of the verb "to text" "text" and not "texted"?  I know that "to text" is a made-up verb and therefore the past tense can be whatever the fuck it wants, but it still makes no sense to me.

 

Even more annoying is the creeping replacement (mainly among young people, but sadly I've heard some of my generation doing it too) of "to say" with "to be like".  It's a moronic Americanism which makes no grammatical sense whatsoever and I have no idea why it's become so widely used.

 

I'm tired.  I'm going to bed.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I keep hearing (on the internet, I don't speak to people in real life) Americans using the phrase 'on accident' instead of 'by accident'. "I put my foot through the screen door on accident". I guess as the opposite of 'on purpose' it makes sense but it always sounds dumb and doesn't flow well. 

 

On the whole I don't mind Americanisms when they creep into British English. It's hard to be upset about a handful of words originating from the US when they're using more than half a million which our ancestors made up. 

[purplebargeken]

Felling down, moody and just not my usual self. Nagging feeling it is car related but not sure why. Meh!

[Cavcraft]

And those who still insist on saying 'needs restore' etc.

[chaseracer]

  On 06/10/2013 at 07:19, Cavette said:

And those who still insist on saying 'needs restore' etc.

Unless they're Scottish, where this construction appears to be the accepted dialectic norm...