The grumpy thread

[BavarianRetro]

Verbatim texts in response to an advert recently which clearly stated a price to sell quickly (£800) rather than break and gave values for the parts to show that someone could buy it and break it for profit:-

 

"Best price m8?"

 

 

"Thanks for your enquiry. As advertised. I'm not going to fall out with anyone for £25, but it really needs to be the advertised price. It has a good value as a breaker and we're running a business, and will easily get 50% more than the asking price quickly breaking it"

 

"£500 cash later tonight"

 

"Thanks for your offer, but no thanks. As I said earlier it really has to be very close to the asking price. "

 

"Fuck you then."

 

Charming.

 

Sold the next day to a chap who had phoned, arranged delivery, took delivery and paid in the space of two calls and two hours.

[Cavcraft]

Once again that's why I don't put my 'phone number on adverts, you just end up wasting credit on penniless knob warblers.

[bub2006]

We haven't had a good raffle in a while

I need to sell xsara if enough folk may be interested?!

[Angrydicky]

Had my gamertag, "Dickland" banned by Xbox Live because, presumably, they consider it to be profanity or of a sexual nature.

 

I'd like to change it to something else from the awful default one they've given me, but am being charged £6.50 for the privilege. It really annoys me that they charge you for them banning something inoffensive. I was hoping to whinge at them and get it changed for free, but looking at the Xbox forums there's lots of people who have had their tags forcibly changed, asking if they can change it for free, and the "Enforcement Team" just say "That'll be $9.99 please".

 

Fuck sake, I pay £40 a year for this account. Wouldn't mind so much if they did something about the hackers online, but there's so many people running around invisible on COD MW3 I guess they just don't care. 

[M'coli]

I don't have much idea what Angrydicky is on about, but feel that he needs to change his username here to AngryDickland.

[vulgalour]

I think someone has hacked Angrydicky's account.  I can't marry up COD and Austins unless it's someone getting very excited about battered fish at a British holiday resort.

[vulgalour]

I've just learned that 'Snappy', one of the best examples of the Princess out there, met the back of an Audi A4 this weekend.  It's made a mess.  http://leylandprincess.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=917

 

I'm glad the plan is to repair and return to the road, parts are going to be a nightmare as it's bust just about every difficult part to find.  At the least he'll need a wing, bonnet, front valance, headlight brackets, radiator, bumper, sidelight-indicator units and front black plastics, if the damage goes deeper it could be terminal in spite of best intentions.

 

I live in hope, he's part of the team that took on the ex-Glover shed of a Princess which is well on its way to returning to the road now.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Bugger that link doesn't work you have to be registered. I want to to sulk at a damaged Princess.

[chaseracer]

^^ Not that lovely yellow one with the alloys?  Feck 

[vulgalour]

balls... I didn't want to just repost his pictures here... I thought that part of the forum was open.  He's on Faceache but I don't have the details so that doesn't really help does it?

 

@chaseracer:  yep, that one.

[Inspector Morose]

The ST? Aw shit, that was beautiful - well, as far as wedges go.

 

I Do hope it has a recovery, preferably a speedy one.

[EssDeeWon]

A broken Priness   Hope it gets repaired and returned to glory, these are an endangered species

 

Like this one at 35mins

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cul8HCCLYzw

[M'coli]

I think someone has hacked Angrydicky's account.  I can't marry up COD and Austins unless it's someone getting very excited about battered fish at a British holiday resort.

I was given a COD each for the Austin Metro, the 205 and the Cavalier, and despite being £60/tonne better off, I'm still grumpy. :cry:

[dugong]

Fuck this weather. Came very close to having a full blown asthma attack when I got in (which I haven't had since I was eight).

Luckily I found my blue inhaler which kicked it arse into next week.

[Jon]

The raffles seem to be a Northern thing - need someone in this area of the country to have one

 

You mean you wouldn't be willing to travel too far for a £5 car?!

[nebuchenezer]

I have just worked out that I have no spare cash at all this month coming, not a bleedin bean

 

Fuckstixs

[Taff]

Verbatim texts in response to an advert recently which clearly stated a price to sell quickly (£800) rather than break and gave values for the parts to show that someone could buy it and break it for profit:-

 

"Best price m8?"

 

 

"Thanks for your enquiry. As advertised. I'm not going to fall out with anyone for £25, but it really needs to be the advertised price. It has a good value as a breaker and we're running a business, and will easily get 50% more than the asking price quickly breaking it"

 

"£500 cash later tonight"

 

"Thanks for your offer, but no thanks. As I said earlier it really has to be very close to the asking price. "

 

"Fuck you then."

 

Charming.

 

Sold the next day to a chap who had phoned, arranged delivery, took delivery and paid in the space of two calls and two hours.

 

post his number up...

 

Bugger that link doesn't work you have to be registered. I want to to sulk at a damaged Princess.

 

I wanted a gloat

[Sloth in a bowl]

I have just worked out that I have no spare cash at all this month coming, not a bleedin bean

 

Fuckstixs

This gives you the 'opportunity' to get inventive with any junk that you have lying around that you have not used recently. Necessity can be the mother of great invention.

[bub2006]

Parked the vectra in morrisons this morning. Came back to find a brand new corsa parked next to it. In 17 years have cars really swollen that much? Vectra was longer but the corsa looked just as wide and taller. I reckon a new astra would be about the same size as a vectra b.

[nebuchenezer]

This gives you the 'opportunity' to get inventive with any junk that you have lying around that you have not used recently. Necessity can be the mother of great invention.

More like flog some scrap to the dedicated loser fest known as the bay of E - needs must etc.....

[BavarianRetro]

post his number up...

I actually deleted it, specifically so that I wouldn't be tempted to send him abusive texts, nor sign him up for some dubious 'dating' site, nor ring him at increasingly unsocial times feigning a foreign accent and abuse him, all from an untraceable pay as you go phone that I had bought for £10 purely for that purpose.

 

The thought never entered my head.

[Noel Tidybeard]

oh lordy i managed to find a pic of snappy

 

https://www.facebook.com/131378263625471/photos/p.818015088295115/818015088295115/?type=1

[beko1987]

UPS smashed up a vacuum cleaner I posted. Despite me using a tenners worth of bubble wrap on it until it looked like a giant weeble, they broke it. 8 days later, Interparcel (the agent I booked it through) tell me that because I didnt use a box, it's covered under their terms and condition that I certainly* read, despite me senging tens of cleaners like this before.

 

Fucking bastards. Expecting a package of scrap back at mums soon

[Bobthebeard]

A tenners worth of bubble wrap? It must have been massive! UPS probably saw it as a challenge.

[fordperv]

my god that princess looks a mess, i am sad looking at the picture what a shame

[myglaren]

Just looked on Teletext nothing available for the dates we've got.Fucksticks!!

There is still Teletext?

[Bren]

Got another fuel sender for the SD1.

 

It was used and looked like part of the plumbing from the bismarck it was so rusty.

 

And it did'nt work either.

 

Arse biscuits.

[Sealtainn]

I despair at the human races inability to park a car within the lines provided without hitting something.

Sat in Tesco car park while Mrs Seal nipped in for a couple of items and in the time I was there I witnessed 16 cars reverse park into spaces and my conclusions are as follows:

13 cars reversed until they hit their rear wheels on the kerb and then rolled forward to complete their "manoeuvre"

(of those 4 of them couldn't manage to stay within the lines - I bet they were shit at colouring-in as children too)

1 managed to hit a post and so that left only 2 people who managed to park within their designated space without hitting any of the surrounding scenery

[EssDeeWon]

I despair at the human races inability to park a car within the lines provided without hitting something.

Sat in Tesco car park while Mrs Seal nipped in for a couple of items and in the time I was there I witnessed 16 cars reverse park into spaces and my conclusions are as follows:

13 cars reversed until they hit their rear wheels on the kerb and then rolled forward to complete their "manoeuvre"

(of those 4 of them couldn't manage to stay within the lines - I bet they were shit at colouring-in as children too)

1 managed to hit a post and so that left only 2 people who managed to park within their designated space without hitting any of the surrounding scenery

 

And that is exactly why I avoid these small Tesco Metro/Sainsburys Local car parks with a high turn over of cars coming and going every couple of minutes. They are a recipe for disaster. 10 parking pays squeezed into a space only big enough for 8, no room for error and full of large MPV Mum-Mobiles. The Sainsbury's Local near me is fairly new but all the surrounding bollards are bent/damaged.

 

And I bet not one single fucker stopped and left their contact details, or offered to repair said bollard. Think they would be any different if they bumped into your car?

[Richard]

The standard of parking in Lerwick Tesco does seem bad even by Tesco standards. Odd, because the general standard of driving is pretty good on Shetland.