The grumpy thread

[DSdriver]

Flickr coupons have just attached themselves to my flickr page and are stopping me from clicking on my pics. I have downloaded adblocker plus and run malwearbytes but the fucker is still there. Any clues on how to get shot of it apart from the probable conclusion of me closing my account?

[twosmoke300]

Further to alfs post ref the mot failure. It may have failed because those bits are fucked! As an ex tester it does bug me to hear people slagging them off before they have even checked it. The reason for the rear rear business is cos that's how the system makes you enter it. I agree there are some bad testers out there but most would rather pass a car cos it's less grief.

[vulgalour]

Now my petrol tank is leaking.  I wouldn't be massively grumpy about this but for the fact that the breaker I took stuff off had a brand new tank on it.

[HillmanImp]

I remember welding up the hole in the petrol tank on the GT6. I had drained it, washed it out and left it for days but was still expecting to blow up as soon as I created the arc. Thakfully I didn't and lived to tell the tale.

[vulgalour]

I'll drop it when I drop the axle and sort them both at the same time.  The recent issues have all arisen since the car hasn't been in use so I'm blaming it on that.  Man logic.

[wuvvum]

I use the garage in the village for all my car MoTs now.  They're fair, without being unduly harsh or lax.  They know that they're not going to get any of the repair work, so there's no reason for them to make up faults (not that I think they would anyway).  Also, if the car only fails on one or two very minor things, they tell me to take it home, fix the faults and bring it back and the tester has a quick look and then prints me out a certificate.

 

The garage in the next village up is probably more lenient, but it has the drawback that I can't walk home while the car's being tested, and also they charge more - £45 instead of £35.

 

I don't post on Pistonheads much, but they almost caused me a load of hassle when my SVX appeared on there as Shed of the Week, and the chap who'd just bought it off eBay (for more than it was advertised for in the C&C advert that SOTW linked to) spotted it and wasn't too impressed.  Not my fault though - he bid what he wanted to bid and that was that.

[cort16]

I wouldn't have minded the MOT guy failing my Jag but did he have to drown all those kittens and andrex puppies i had in the boot??

 

The last time the same place failed me on wheel bearings it was rough discs, which sorted by grinding down the edges. They just spin the wheel and if sounds rough out it down as wheel bearing as something's not right. I need to try to shoe horn it into my lockup for a look.

[Doctormop]

Found a letter advising me that my car doesnt have a parking permit flapping under my wiper at lunchtime. So I wrote an email to the security bloke asking if they had any other option than sticking it to the glass, as they melt into it through experience. He replied saying I should just leave it on the cardboard backing, and leave it on the dash.

 

He obviously missed the point I made about things sliding or blowing off my dash due to its design. Decided to file his email under C for cunts and carry on not having a parking permit. 

 

The letter (standard things that gets wheeled out twice a year, its been photocopied so many times its fading itself) threatens clamping with a release fee. We are on private land, should I feel safe telling them to fuck off and do one?

 

Oh, and Pistonheads, fuck them. Replied to a thread about missing wheel bolts, regailing my story about the xm missing one for most of its life and having been fine and someone took offence to it. Although I await him being torn apart for being a prick, I'm not going to post on there anymore, jumped up pricks.

 

Could we have a shed of the week feature on here? But rather than it being a grand, make it £450 or something fun? (yes I know about the tat thread etc)

I have my permit attached by high tech elastic band around the passenger sun visor and just put the visor down when I park up, saves getting all kinds of sticky stuff all over the screen.

Private companies can not clamp vehicles as of last November, only the DVLA can immobilise your car on public or private land, you are 100% safe telling them to get stuffed and read up on the Protection of Freedom Acts 2012;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19782680

[Cavcraft]

I used a local place for an MOT about 18 months back and they were great. They must have been trying that 'be nice the first time, rob them blind the next' though as the next test they went to town big time. I'll never go back there again now, not if they were the last fucking garage in the county. They used to get a fairly regular trade off me fwiw and the a decent chunk of that was backhanders.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

With that sort of offer, why even offer money? Might as well just email and ask if you can have the item for free. 

[mattblack]

I remember having a MASSIVE row with one of their mechanics

I find that hard to believe.

[jmsguzzi]

Anybody watching "I Want That Car" on ITV4. Some dull as ditchwater sales accountant asking an Auto Express wanker to find him a classic car. He's came back with a Mini, an MGB and a Porsche 911.

[phil_lihp]

Saw 2 minutes of it, heard that the MG's tax disc said NIL because 'cars made before 1974 get free tax' and turned the TV off.  Also unplugged the TV just in case.

[Station]

I'm currently trying out an e-cigarette. I'm under a bit of stress at the moment with work (getting in at 7.30, leaving at 6.30) and whatnot, and I don't think it's a good idea to give up. I've smoked pretty much for 13 years, and think it's about time to stop. The e-ciggie is good, but it has nothing on the rollies I smoke. I'm committed to giving up, but I think I should just leave it a few weeks until I can have some time off and get away from work for a bit - work isn't even that busy, that'll be here in about February next year.

Should I feel bad about going back on the rollies again?

[Cavcraft]

I'm currently trying out an e-cigarette. I'm under a bit of stress at the moment with work (getting in at 7.30, leaving at 6.30) and whatnot, and I don't think it's a good idea to give up. I've smoked pretty much for 13 years, and think it's about time to stop. The e-ciggie is good, but it has nothing on the rollies I smoke. I'm committed to giving up, but I think I should just leave it a few weeks until I can have some time off and get away from work for a bit - work isn't even that busy, that'll be here in about February next year.

Should I feel bad about going back on the rollies again?

 

Use both. If you smoke when you drive then deliberately don't make any rollies before you leave so you have to use the e-bifter instead.

 

Don't forget though, 'tomorrow never comes' when you're giving up smoking. I should know because odd times I tried in the past I'd always find an another excuse when the time came, and you'll soon find a reason to continue yourself. Jack 'em in now and strike whilst the iron is hot. Personally speaking I'd get the patches as well, they helped me more than anything.

[beko1987]

I have my permit attached by high tech elastic band around the passenger sun visor and just put the visor down when I park up, saves getting all kinds of sticky stuff all over the screen.

Private companies can not clamp vehicles as of last November, only the DVLA can immobilise your car on public or private land, you are 100% safe telling them to get stuffed and read up on the Protection of Freedom Acts 2012;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19782680

Thats the link I read too! And yes, I have taken now to telling them to FRO with the permit, and simply sinking the XM down when I park to avoid such clamping fun. May start parking right next to the directors spaces and see what happens too!

 

RE Sticky Stuff it left none of that on the Puma, but left the bit that stuck to the glass as part of it, etched in through 2 years of sun and ice. Bloke who fed it into the crusher (I see him in the pub alot) said he'd never seen anything like it either, would not pick off.

 

Or, I'll stick it to a front hubcap and watch the security matey (who hates the chore of putting the flyers out anyway tbh) try and read it!

[Richard]

Work is pissing me off. Right now is the last free time I'll get until Sunday. I'm going to set off in a minute and be on the go until about 9pm with no breaks other than the ferry time. Tomorrow I've to be onsite at 7am, which means no breakfast, and I'm likely to be working until 10pm, again with no breaks (unless I want to work even later). In theory I shouldn't have much to do on Saturday but it won't work like that, and I know I'll be racing to catch the 3:30 ferry home, and I won't be in the house until 10pm. I am on holiday next week and was supposed to break off at 3:30pm tomorrow.

 

Is it possible to get a job where you turn up, do what you signed up to do, and go home when you're supposed to?

[beko1987]

Use both. If you smoke when you drive then deliberately don't make any rollies before you leave so you have to use the e-bifter instead.

 

Don't forget though, 'tomorrow never comes' when you're giving up smoking. I should know because odd times I tried in the past I'd always find an another excuse when the time came, and you'll soon find a reason to continue yourself. Jack 'em in now and strike whilst the iron is hot. Personally speaking I'd get the patches as well, they helped me more than anything.

 

I quit for about a year with an e-cig, it did work well.

 

Then I started rollies again, no idea where the e-cig is now, and the battery was pretty much shit when I gave up e-cigging!

[Richard]

Use both. If you smoke when you drive then deliberately don't make any rollies before you leave so you have to use the e-bifter instead.

 

Don't forget though, 'tomorrow never comes' when you're giving up smoking. I should know because odd times I tried in the past I'd always find an another excuse when the time came, and you'll soon find a reason to continue yourself. Jack 'em in now and strike whilst the iron is hot. Personally speaking I'd get the patches as well, they helped me more than anything.

 

Can't you roll while driving? My neighbour used to do it all the time and he only had one arm. Sometimes he would decide to fiddle with the stereo mid-roll, which was a bit alarming as it was the right arm he still had.

[Cavcraft]

Is it possible to get a job where you turn up, do absolutely fuck all, and go home when you're not supposed to?

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/driver-and-vehicle-licensing-agency/about/recruitment

 

Quality Control at Iveco?

 

Internet Connection Manager at Tiscali?

 

Train Information assistant at any railway station in Britain, but especially London?

[Richard]

I've considered railway work because it does at least pay reasonably well.

 

I don't mind working hard or putting in the hours when it's needed but it's got to the stage where every single week has at least one day's free time wiped out and now they are after my weekends and holidays too.

[Station]

Use both. If you smoke when you drive then deliberately don't make any rollies before you leave so you have to use the e-bifter instead.

 

Driving? I've mastered the 'roll while driving' thing years ago! Not something I'm proud of, but it does make me smoke less. I actually can't imagine inhaling smoke now, but I'm waiting for that moment when I get so worked up when I'm doing a job on a car that I go out and start smoking again, this has got me everytime. And there's no avoiding it, as I own a Vauxhall.

[Cavcraft]

Why do some people who are clearly anti--religion go on and on and on about people who are religious 'shoving their religious beliefs on others' yet are far worse themselves?

I'm not levelling that at anyone on here I hasten to add, but some no -believers are actually just really offensive gobshites. I have to wonder if its because they know the deeply religious are unlikely to have a go back.

I'm neither religious nor non-religious by the way.

[RedSparrow]

Why do some people who are clearly anti--religion go on and on and on about people who are religious 'shoving their religious beliefs on others' yet are far worse themselves?

I'm not levelling that at anyone on here I hasten to add, but some no -believers are actually just really offensive gobshites. I have to wonder if its because they know the deeply religious are unlikely to have a go back.

I'm neither religious nor non-religious by the way.

 

Good point. Atheists are far more vocal and obnixious than religious people about their beleifs, or lack of.

Religion is important to some people, leave them alone if they are leaving you alone.

[Junkman]

Not sure whether I can completely agree. Yes, atheists are more vocal and obnoxious in voicing their beliefs, but the religious bunch has more killed people and molested boys under its belt.

I just wonder ever so slightly what is worse.

[Cavcraft]

Absolutely it has but that pretty much implies anyone who is religious has blood on their hands. Also I'd be willing to bet 99.99% of religious leaders don't want any war in their name. It's the fruitcakes and those who misinterpret writings that use it for their own means or gains.

[Junkman]

I think I would be able lead a perfectly happy and fulfilled life without either, but for some odd reason I find the atheist types generally more harmless.

They also don't ring my door bell at 9am on a Saturday.

[Mr Livered]

I agree that the Dawkins factor (ie, fundamentalist atheists) are a pain in the arse comparable to God-botherers.

[Spiny Norman]

Anyone who believes passionately about anything tends to be PITA, and religious types are the worst of the lot because they kill people for not believing passionately enough about their chosen imaginary best friend, or believing in the wrong way, or in the wrong IBF.

 

 

Religion is like a penis. It's fine to have one and it's fine to be proud of it, but keep it to yourself and don't whip it out in public and start waving it around, and don't shove it down my kid's throat.

 

It IS brilliant for starting argument on the internet though....

[Mr Livered]

Reasons to be glad you weren't born an American, number 454853:

 

Regigious fundamentalism.