The grumpy thread

[scdan4]

Can't do anything. At all. 

 

Recovering from a fairly major bowel op. Have been sliced straight up the front from my groin to my ribs and all my guts pulled out. (and then put back together again, which was nice)

 

So, can't really eat or drink much (very plain fibre diet), can't lift anything, can't really bend, can't sneeze, cough, twist, push/pull, can't drive.

 

Concentration is shot so can't cope with reading, been watching TED talks as they're generally only about 10 mins, but can't really follow those all the way through. 

 

Pottered round the house/garden, but getting bored of that. Did try leaving the house the other day - went to a friends. Lasted about an hour until I was so wiped out that I fell asleep, so pretty house bound. 

 

The weather has helped a lot - have convinced myself that I'm actually on holiday as I'm sat on the patio. Trouble is I nodded off out there the other day and am now badly sunburnt to add to my woes.

 

 

Just a bit bored really, Fancied a bit of a rant. Looking at another month of it. 

[dome]

Arsehole car buyers who make arrangements to view then disapear into the ether. Cunts the lot of them.

[MarvinsMom]

clutch fixed in the rover, all nice and fine (many pennies spent, and me bum is right sore still) but apparently the wishbone bushes are foo bared, and its out of test in a month or so.

 

I wish I'd just weighed the fucker in.

[dollywobbler]

Football. I mistakenly thought that the women's game might have more to recommend it. Watched the highlights of the England vs Japan game and sure enough, we get a penalty after one of our girls goes all floppy-legged in the penalty area. Just a bloody disgraceful as the men. I wish football did more to stamp out the unsportsmanlike behaviour that's utterly ruined the game. I shall stick to ignoring it entirely.

[vulgalour]

Chuggers are out in force.  I'm ignoring the door.  I should just put Blake's muzzle on and answer the door so he can bark like crazy at them and I can't hear them trying to convince me to give money on the doorstep but I just Cee.  Bee. Ay.

[Richard]

The ones that come to your door are churglars.

[dugong]

I have a distaste for both.

[Lacquer Peel]

Arsehole car buyers who make arrangements to view then disapear into the ether. Cunts the lot of them.

What car are you selling?

[purplebargeken]

Dad answered the door many, many years ago to two Sally Army women. This in itself was not an issue.

 

The issue was he had just been woken up after a night shift and the other issue was that he was stark bollock naked. 

 

Charity door knockers irritate me. If I want to give, I will. I don't need you knocking at my door. 

[Sloth in a bowl]

So I need 4 new M8 bolts of a particular length, shape and strength to reattach the Puma's brake caliper frames to the mounting brackets.

 

I wander into the local Ford dealer and they bring up the part on the computer picture.

 

'M10 bolt' it says

'No, these are M8s they take a 13mm socket' says I

We take a look at the part history, in 5 years of production, Ford used 6 different bolt designs to attach the front brakes!!

 

'The Coventry garage has some of those' pointing to a random part number, 'we'll get them in for tomorrow and see if they match' the man behind the counter says.

 

So tomorrow I'll go back and compare my bolt with the one that Ford have dragged out of the stores from the garage down the road.

Fingers crossed, at least the'll only be 90p each.

[Parky]

Puncture in new tyre

 

Parking ticket

 

Wife angry about both so nice relaxing evening ahead. Not

[twosmoke300]

Sloth , ford did use m10 bolts with 13mm heads on some calipers

[Bren]

Morrisons.

 

Why those revolving doors? We have put man on the moon, yet joe public cannot comprehend how to navigate one of these things. I am tired of some old giffer trying to ram a shopping trolley up my balloon knot in order to squeeze in.

 

Self service checkouts that require an assistant. What's the point?

 

Aldi is for winnerz.

[HH-R]

I fucking hate revolving doors, if anyone touches them they stop for 5 seconds but the same person will touch it 30 times in 5 metres.

[pompei]

Bloody hell, scgan4,that sounds bad.

 

I've been grumbling for the past two months with belly aches but nothing like that.

 

Hope you feel better soon 

[HH-R]

I quite fancy a Mitsubishi Mirage, but it's hard to find out if it's actually bad or just the usual journo fapping over VAG products. What Car etc give it an absolute panning for a cheap interior and thrashy 3 cylinder engine (seemingly forgetting that it's a cheap economy car), the exact same things I found the VW Up! has but that gets 5 stars.

[MarvinsMom]

the chances are that the mitsubishi will be running as good as new and it will be looking like it just drove out of the garage, after 15 years where as the germanic P.O.S will be falling to bits/fucked up/pineappled to hell.

 

for some reason anything with "that" badge on the front will be praised to the heavens while everything else will be slated.

[dugong]

Out of interest, did you think the MG3 \ MG6 reviews were fair?

Most of the ARO cru scream 'unbalanced journalism' if any criticism is made in print.

[cort16]

Those mitsubishis look like generic car design 1b/a41 but they'll probably go forever . It's defo one of those cars that says I don't care about cars I just need an efficient transportation device.

 

I had a 54 plate colt 1.5 pez and it was good. It was really nippy infact but a squeak from the back I couldn't cure that finally drove me insane and I chopped it in for an Audi a4

[HH-R]

Don't know about the MG3, never been in one or much of the competition really. When you're looking for something small and cheap though all the mags constantly compare everything to the Up, and basically say it's bad compared to it, or even acceptable but the Up does it better. When I was in an Up not long ago I was expecting to be blown away, but there were parts of it that were far shitter than my Panda which will have cost a good chunk less to buy new - painted metal inside which looks cheap, plastics were cheap, 3 cylinder had to have the balls thrashed off it to do anything and sounded gruff, cabin vibrated at idle, seats didn't even have adjustable headrests, suspension was clonking worse than my Panda with 50,000 + more miles on the clock. Most of that stuff I've mentioned you'd expect or tolerate in a cheap city car, but it's annoying to read something being criticised for it when the car they rave about suffers from the same.

[Sloth in a bowl]

Sloth , ford did use m10 bolts with 13mm heads on some calipers

 

 

Just measured the bolt, you are right. M10 with 13mm head, you live and learn.

What's bugging me now is that you knew that, but the Ford parts guy didn't.

[MarvinsMom]

that has been my experience with vag's over the years.

 

it is supposed to be this, that and the other. you know, better than sliced bread.

 

my impressions have all been the same. that the cars are frankly cheap and nasty, even if the sticker price on the windscreen says otherwise.

 

i dunno about the MG3.i've not been in one or read anything about it. i don't even think i've seen one in real life! it is a chinese sub £10k car, so what do you expect? its going to be cheap and not necessarily cheerful. it's a chinese sub £10k car!

[Ghosty]

Door to door chuggers:

 

I was heading out to Tesco in the rain, got out the door, turned round to get a hat not noticing a guy in a Barnardo's t-shirt (not much older than myself) trying to talk to me. I head upstairs to get a hat, leaving the front door open, and the wanker starts shouting 'hello' into our house?!

 

I come back down and tell him to get out, it's a bit rude just shouting into strangers' houses isn't it? Seemed a bit flummoxed so I just shut the door in his face. 

When I did get round to going to Tesco he was down the road - starts glaring at me so I give him the 'problem' raised arms and a nice big grin.

 

The bastards wouldn't annoy me half as much if they didn't act like they had a stick up their arse, why can't they act normally??

 

In typical Manchester fashion, next time it happens it's 'fuck off back to Market Street'.

[OwdChina]

I am irrationally annoyed at the latest McDonalds advert.  The inoffensive advert man orders his food by starting with 'Can I get'.  No, you can't fu**ing 'get' your food, you're asking the person working there to do it for you!

 

LOL........I've started saying "I'm gonna go take a shit......and I might leave one there too".

[xtriple]

Cannot understand the love for VAG products in the media and the owners. They all seem overpriced, underspecced and badly made unless you spend an absolute shitload. There are loads of Golfs round here and all of them have problems (I talk to EVERYBODY!) and the guys next door (54 reg) has rust all round the wheelarches at the front.

 

Not for me....

[cort16]

It's marketing ££££ spent, conservative but solid looking design and an interior that feels like it's quality and well put together .

Audi spent bazillions in the us just on marketing. They're essentially selling the same car as they always did but just much more of them thanks to aggressive marketing.

 

This podcast is worth a listen as it's about Lincoln trying to do the same

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/06/08/154604951/377-can-lincoln-be-cool-again

[dugong]

that has been my experience with vag's over the years.

 

it is supposed to be this, that and the other. you know, better than sliced bread.

 

my impressions have all been the same. that the cars are frankly cheap and nasty, even if the sticker price on the windscreen says otherwise.

 

i dunno about the MG3.i've not been in one or read anything about it. i don't even think i've seen one in real life! it is a chinese sub £10k car, so what do you expect? its going to be cheap and not necessarily cheerful. it's a chinese sub £10k car!

They're the best things ever and immune from criticism according to their fan club (said every model and marque specific club ever). Work's MG6 was the most biblically unreliable heap of effluence I've ever encountered - and I said so, online (and to a lesser extent, in print). I was accused of making it all up and copying Clarkson's (unfavourable) review 'word for word.' I'm part of a nationwide conspiracy to keep MG down, or something. You heard it here first, comrades. I'm apparently as anti MG as they come, yet I bought an 'F with my own money.

 

Not every media type is into VAG. Below £20k you're better off with Skodas and Seats. The other two only start making sense if you throw a lot more money on the table to access the bespoke hardware. Caught in the middle is stuff like the Scirocco and Golf R. The former has incredibly unresolved styling (the front end's pointy and the back end's curved, the centre section is completely unremarkable) and the latter's a Golf on massive wheels that somehow costs upwards of £35k. Why would you bother? If I was going to drop a signifant wedge of my hard earned on a car, I'd want something more special than 'a good all-rounder' (which is what the Golf is supposed to be). It isn't, but from the astonished scoffs of Joe Public when you tell them otherwise, VAG's marketing team clearly do an astounding job.

[MarvinsMom]

the thing to remember is that the public is stupid.

 

unbelievably stupid.

 

and they (the great unwashed public) believe what ever the telly tells them

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Zzzzzzz

[dugong]

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