The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

Have those ghastly Audi 4x4 cars (Q7?) become the new wanker chariot of choice overnight ? Of the last there I've seen,I had one trying to undertake me and several other cars on the M53, one on his phone weaving all over the road and the last one trying to force me into the kerb.

[Cavcraft]

PVDan, have you got a reserve set on your listing? If so it could be chancers bidding to see what it is then retracting, an age old trick.

[plasticvandan]

That's the mad thing,there's no reserve.I've ended it (bastard eBay £20 fee!) And put it on a buy it now with offer now.

[richardmorris]

Have those ghastly Audi 4x4 cars (Q7?) become the new wanker chariot of choice overnight ?

Yes. Next question.

You're lucky you're in Cheshire - try living in Surrey, the damn things are everywhere.

[myglaren]

Yes. Next question.

You're lucky you're in Cheshire - try living in Surrey, the damn things are everywhere.

My daughter in law wanted one as her company car.

Luckily she isn't allowed to drive in the UK any more.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

result

[xtriple]

For the second time in my short ownership of my new Honda, some bugger has hit it while it was parked! This time it looks like a towball has gone into my rear bumper- perfect egg sized/shaped dent in the back. Just had the one at the front sorted as well (someone scuffed the bumper first week I had it).

 

Is there some way that I can have the bloody thing hover seven feet off the ground whenever I park it?

 

What gets on my tits the most is that no one EVER admits what they have done or apologises... both my dogs (who were in it at the time) have whiplash and I want to claim!

[Station]

My trade insurance was £1,200 a few years ago. Last year boosted to 1,350!

This year: 1,800!!! I've never made a claim in my life, have nine years no claims, live in a nice area, and I'm a Graphic Artist.

What the, I don't even.

[Cavcraft]

Mine went to £795. just because I said I wanted protected no claims. Had a chat with them and they found somewhere who didn't offer that, and the upshot was I got it for £445.

Trade Policy companies are getting really twitchy now, I think they're flapping about 'real' traders and those that like to just have a few cars of their own, can only assume people have done what people do and made stupid/spurious claims on their policies. 

[cort16]

When I said I was cancelling mine they dropped it to 380. As you say billy they're twitchy as fuck about you trading and I was worried if something happened they'd go out of their way to prove you're not operating inside the terms of the policy , wouldn't pay up and I'd get done for having no insurance .

This really put the shites up me when the coppers started pulling pizza delivery drivers and doing them for no insurance for not declaring work use on their policies .

 

I've also noticed my bank balance has gone up since I've stopped buying random shite just because I could.

[Ratdat]

I had a traders policy for about 16 years but gave it up about 4 years ago after they started getting silly with the restrictions. Basically they decided they would no longer cover me SD&P on anything over 23 years old, modified or imported which pretty much covered everything I had. This, despite the 'business' stated on the policy being classic car based. Oh well...their loss. My FJ multi car policy now provides way better cover for less money.

[cort16]

Bus wanker. Waiting on the bus to Inverness it's already late and not left yet. . Have to get to Inverness, get new car, drive home and meet avantimes new owner who is simultaneous driving up from Birmingham . What could go wrong right?

[Louise2cv]

Angrydicky, did you get the Somerset sorted?

[skattrd]

Bus wanker. Waiting on the bus to Inverness it's already late and not left yet. . Have to get to Inverness, get new car, drive home and meet avantimes new owner who is simultaneous driving up from Birmingham . What could go wrong right?

 

What car are you getting in Inverness?

[Lacquer Peel]

Bus wanker. Waiting on the bus to Inverness it's already late and not left yet. . Have to get to Inverness, get new car, drive home and meet avantimes new owner who is simultaneous driving up from Birmingham . What could go wrong right?

 

Probably a bit* late, but if you need a hand with logistics, I'm not far from Inverness.

[Asimo]

Another handbrake issue, seized caliper on the Civic that we gave to smallest child. Grrrrrr, thought we had got out of that one before I had to do 'owt to it.

 

Working on handbrakes is the least pleasing car maintenance there is I reckon.

 

What's wrong with a chock?

[forddeliveryboy]

Weekend Woman's Hour has just started, so I'm taking the dogs and meself for a walk. This programme should have died at least 20 years ago.

[Lankytim]

Womans hour is the most sexist thing of eVar.

 

Men? All wife beating drunk cheating sexist scum according to them.

[Lord Sterling]

It's the weekend. The weather has decided that despite being windy and rakny this morning, the sunny weather has fought and it's way through to shine agajn. This is problem because it brings out the wanker chavs on my road, who in turn bring out thier noisey quad and motocross bikes and blast them up and down the street. This then brings out the stupid waste of space chavette girlies.

 

Hurry up Winter.

[EssDeeWon]

It's the weekend. The weather has decided that despite being windy and rakny this morning, the sunny weather has fought and it's way through to shine agajn. This is problem because it brings out the wanker chavs on my road, who in turn bring out thier noisey quad and motocross bikes and blast them up and down the street. This then brings out the stupid waste of space chavette girlies.

 

Hurry up Winter.

 

I fcckkinng hate those noisy raspy little scooters, for a 100cc motor or whatever they are, they must give out more decibels than a jumbo jet (it seems)

[dave21478]

Man, there isnt much worse than a quiet afternoon shattered by some fud on a scooter or wee motorbike....50cc or so, and an exhaust loud enough to make you wince from 50 meters away. They accelerate like a kicked cat from 0 to about 20mph, although the bikes seem to need about 18 gearchanges to get there, but then the low gearing works against them and they have to wring the fuck out of the motor, with it screaming its balls off to get it up to 30mph and then it need a silly "tuck down behind the fairings for less drag" pose to get another 2 or 3 mph out of its top speed.

Fuck those guys.

[cort16]

What car are you getting in Inverness?

I'm too embarrassed to say. It's new, Japanese and has a face like a fruit bat standing on a bit if Lego.

 

Cheers lp I was getting picked up at the station . The bus was okay actually as it went direct from glasgow to Inverness.

[Asimo]

Yep, Woman's hour is the pits.

Known as the wingeing bitches show around here, nearly as bad as yoonyawz.

[cort16]

Avantime has gone. I will actually miss that car.

[Sigmund Fraud]

I'm too embarrassed to say. It's new, Japanese and has a face like a fruit bat standing on a bit if Lego.

 

Aygo ? Oh, wait, you said Japanese...

[Lankytim]

I was listening to Womens hour and they were banging on about how great it was that 95% of new vets are women but in the next article was moaning to fuck about how most coded welders are men (or some similar profession) and how the government should somehow force employers to recruit 75% females.

 

They do my frigging head in.

[M'coli]

What they seem to forget is that you can't force a demographic of the population to apply for a particular job, never mind do it.

 

They always seem to have women on the show that make up at least 90% of the twats that do overly-paid non-jobs or are self-employed media-types, and never, ever, ever, have guests who are engineers or scientists - probably because these women are far too busy actually getting on with their careers and working for a living. More power to their elbows, and more publicity to them on Women's Hour, please, Jenni Murray and Jane Garvey.

[Pillock]

Feminists are fine.

Man-haters are really irritating.

 

I love equality but as soon as you mention men getting long paternity leave, suddenly that's not fair. I'd love women to always earn as much as men but they need to do exactly the same job, even when it comes to manual labour. And yes, if 95% of applicants for a job are male, then nobody should be forced to employ females.

 

(Unless they're fit)

[The Moog]

£15 to put an ad on gumtree now. What a joke!

[jakebullet]

Stoptober. Whichever twat thought that up needs a knee to the balls.

 

People are all no booze, no fags, eat lentils. As I have no vices to give up, I had to think hard to find something miserable to do. I know, I can work on the series land rover for a month.

 

It's a hateful bastard shit thing. I'm cut n burned to fuck, there's only half a bulkhead left and I've managed to find yet another hole in the chassis by looking at it too hard. Some previous owner had oxy acetylene gear, and a large quantity of empty bean tins. There are wanky rotted out thin plates everywhere, that are surrounded by huge welds that have distorted the hell out of everything.

 

And I found the last tax disc. 2003. Eleven years blocking my garage. Eleven years of it just needs a bit of work. Arse.