The grumpy thread

[Slappy]

It became the hipster meat of choice once everyone at festivals started getting bored of hog roast.

 

Plus it's bloody cheap to make as it tends to be quite a fatty shoulder joint, so lots of £££ for the retailer.

[richardmorris]

Woman in a rover zr 25 ( is that the little one?) tried to overtake the 2cv yesterday at the lights and pulled across in front and then proceeded to do 40 mph in the 60 limit. And then got most put out when I overtook.

 

Then on the way to burnham carnival the lights on the a4- first in the queue at the lights waiting for the filter arrow to turn right, and they didn't. Just went from general green to Amber and red, no green filter. So the car behind blasts their horn. Well it's not my fault dear, I didn't know it wasn't going to change did I?

[Pillock]

Pulled pork can be any old lump of crap meat, because it's cooked for hours and then torn apart it doesn't matter if it's arsehole, nipples or forehead. All looks the same once it's pulled.

 

Quite like the taste actually, and I'm all up for zero waste.

[Slappy]

Sunday driving did my head in today...

 

1st up was a female driver who flew out of what is quite a blind, due to giant Rhododendron or something roundabout junction in Chichester right into my path. Anchors on, horn lent on.

 

Next was a dozy Pickarsehole driver who finally confirmed to me that if you drive the wrong way into a car park, you WILL burst your tyres on those 1 way spike things (actually, that's more of a grin )

 

And finally, the dozy mare who opened her door into my drivers door whilst I was sat there and didn't even acknowledge what she'd done. Scampered off whilst I simmered down and counted to 10. Opening mine into hers didn't happen, because I like my car

[purplebargeken]

I'm bored and very tired, almost fell asleep many times today. Bleh!

[M'coli]

Sunday driving did my head in today...

 

1st up was a female driver who flew out of what is quite a blind, due to giant Rhododendron or something roundabout junction in Chichester right into my path. Anchors on, horn lent on.

 

Next was a dozy Pickarsehole driver who finally confirmed to me that if you drive the wrong way into a car park, you WILL burst your tyres on those 1 way spike things (actually, that's more of a grin )

 

And finally, the dozy mare who opened her door into my drivers door whilst I was sat there and didn't even acknowledge what she'd done. Scampered off whilst I simmered down and counted to 10. Opening mine into hers didn't happen, because I like my car

Pint of milk over the windscreen and draining into the scuttle area should sort that last one...

[dollywobbler]

Forget the modern cartoon, there's a porn version with Bobbi Starr as Velma...

I misread that as Freddie Starr. My brain is scarred for life.

[fred]

Hurrsah the fucking tennis has finished

Just got the fucking cricket now  ................ Cock

[oldcars]

Missed out on some bullet door mirrors for the Rover on Ebay today, so Ebay are sending me alternatives to bid on. That's a good idea I thought....

 

Except I don't own a 2009 Land Rover Discovery, or need new mirrors for a 2009 Discovery !!!

 

Fuckin Tits!

I know what you mean. Few years back i ordered wipers for the Shuma. Now i get bombarded with emails saying you might like wipers for a Ce'ed, Rio, Magentis, Sedonky or whatever.

[Bren]

Masking tape.

 

What is the bastard point? It does'nt mask anything - the paint just bleeds through.

 

Then again decorating professionals dont go to b&m or Wilko's for their stuff.

[fordperv]

Fucking insurance brokers, as you all know I had a small bump last month, to cut a long story short, Lancaster insurance hadn't added a previous claim to this policy even though it had been disclosed, weirdly it is on my other policy with them, I get told Friday that I would have to pay their administration cost to which it was queried that why should it be paid when it was actually their fault, today they tell me that the cash is for the extra the policy would have cost to set up, the slimy bastards try to fuck you every which way, it's not the amount that's annoyed me it's the fact that companies like this think it's ok to do this shit to customers, oh well that's 3 policies they won't get at renewal time, cunts

[darkfour]

Tenuous motoring grump, was out working in the garage yesterday evening and got bitten by a mosquito. Nothing unusual there except that I appear to have had an allergic reaction to it and my hand has swollen up and it itches like an itchy thing.

 

[The Moog]

My brothers mates 205 I was supposed to be having has expired on m25 last night

They had comedy moments trying to recover it but tow rope snapped. Went to buy another go find old bill there and got told off. Managed to get the car off motorway but have dumped it with view to scrapping it.

 

Too far away to save it. Bumhats

[purplebargeken]

Just got in to see female old bill radioing from across the road. Old girl lives there, husband and daughter died a few years ago, family visit pretty regularly. Nice old girl.

 

Seems like some twat around midday flashed an 'ID' card at her and gained access. He then stole money, gold and some other bits. Fucking scum sucking bastard. 

 

No hope of the council CCTV being pointed in the right direction as there were no parking infringements happening. 

 

Evil bastard. If he buys any drugs I hope they kill him.

[anonymous user]

I'm just clocking in for a minor whinge; I'm currently trying to sell my old A35, it's not made easy by me having a sentimental attachment to it, but it has confirmed that I hate dealing with people. It's a bit of an odd-ball and difficult to put a value on, but I have had a bit of interest in it. I have described it fairly and have already managed to convince a few people that it is not for them.

 

I did get one chap make an offer without seeing it, despite me saying it's best viewed before making an offer. After a bit of to and fro texts, emails and phone (which incuded the time honoured phrase "I won't mess you about") we agreed a deal. He eventually turned up on Saturday, after several cancelled arrangements, it was obvious he was not going to collect the car as he turned up with an already loaded trailer. He barely spoke to me, looking all over the car, before proceeding to tell me what he thought was wrong with it and how it needed a £2k respray, etc. and then reducing his agreed offer by a third. (His agreed offer already being £1k under my original asking price). I remained polite and he left me to "think it over" as he was passing back on the Sunday with an empty trailer. I received a text on Sunday asking if I had thought any more about his offer and telling me that I had seemed stressed on the Saturday (no, I was annoyed, but trying not to show it) and that I was seriously over-valuing the car, but he would still pick it up. As he had said to come back to him if I was interested I did not bother.

 

Today I have received further texts, a message from ebay and finally a phone call from his wife, urging me to take the offer and they would pick it up today. I explained that I was quite disappointed by the offer and was not prepared to sell at that price, the offer was upped by a whole hundred pounds and again I am being urged to "think it over".

 

I really have no idea what the car is worth (ok, what someone is prepared to pay is the usual answer), it probably isn't worth much as I originally thought, but even if I am cutting off my nose to spite my face, this has left a nasty taste in my mouth and I would now not sell to him even if he did go back up to the originally agreed sum. I should be used to this sort of thing by now, but it's really wound me up.

 

Oh and the cheese is stinking the fridge out, but it's ok Ted the spaniel has rolled in fox poo and, despite a shower, that smell is cancelling out the smell of the cheese.

 

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

The guy is a clearly a small time dealer/chancer combo, and an amateurish one at that. Sack him off.

[MarvinsMom]

yep, that guy sounds like a bell end, tell him to get stuffed.

[mercrocker]

I hate the tax man but that cunt wants shopping to the tax man.

[Pillock]

He got his wife to phone you?

[jakebullet]

Stitched up on evilbay again.

 

Really nice man* buys 20 dice. He wants 3 of this n 3 of that etc. today he claims I've got it wrong, and I can't count to 3 and he wants another red one posting free. Send me a photo tosspot.

 

 

Claim is I've sent him 4 orange and 2 red. Is it only me who sees bottom one of his 4 orange is a totally different size to the 3 I did send him?

 

Of course ebay, so you cannot win even if you go to trouble of taking photos of your own when you pack them.

[chaseracer]

He got his wife to phone you?

 

[anonymous user]

I admit I may be over-reacting a bit, I'm very good at getting the wrong end of the stick (see aspergers), it's just if I agree a deal, I agree a deal. The only time I have ever walked away from a deal (a blind ebay bid) was on a Riley RM Woody where the seller had neglected to mention that one side was missing, and even then I paid his relist fee for ebay. He is a dealer and I accept that he needs to make a profit, but that does not necessarily mean I have to sell it to him at a price of his choosing.

 

I have sent him a response assuring him that there are no hard feelings, but that we are to far apart on opinions as to the value to have a deal. I may well end up selling it for less, but that is for me to decide.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I admit I may be over-reacting a bit, I'm very good at getting the wrong end of the stick (see aspergers), it's just if I agree a deal, I agree a deal. The only time I have ever walked away from a deal (a blind ebay bid) was on a Riley RM Woody where the seller had neglected to mention that one side was missing, and even then I paid his relist fee for ebay. He is a dealer and I accept that he needs to make a profit, but that does not necessarily mean I have to sell it to him at a price of his choosing.

 

I have sent him a response assuring him that there are no hard feelings, but that we are to far apart on opinions as to the value to have a deal. I may well end up selling it for less, but that is for me to decide.

You're not over reacting he sounds like a twat and I wouldn't sell it to him either. But then I also wouldn't have text him back or anything

[chaseracer]

^ This.  And I wouldn't have paid his relist fee, either.  But I think AU is a much nicer person than me... 

[vulgalour]

I think the Xantia wants glowplugs.  When running on diesel and in the summer you shouldn't really need the glowplugs at all, but now it's doing that thing the BX did where I often have to turn the glowplugs on twice on the first start of the day.  I know TheMoog replaced three of the four glow plugs sometime before April last year, I'm going to just bite the bullet and do all four of the bastarding things with new ones.  I hate doing glow plugs on Citroens.

[Lacquer Peel]

You did the clutch, glowplugs are a piece of piss in comparison. Just replace the one The Moog didn't replace.

IDI diesels need a glow even in mid summer, but two glows sounds excessive.

[Slappy]

Weather turned shit

 

Boss told me that promotion isn't likely to happen because, and I'm paraphrasing here, Management couldn't co-ordinate a jovial get together quaffing inebriating beverages at a facility which manufactures the aforementioned intoxicating liquors, and it's best for me to get out whilst I still can. Easier said than done however...

 

And to top it off my team captain for the co-ed sport that I play has informed us that due to a bank error not in our favour, we can't play an upcoming tournament where we normally would, but we can play in the division below, which just happens to have the team with my slightly psycho ex in...

Had finally got into a really good place after a shit year (thanks in considerable part to the ex), and now, just deflating...

 

You guys are ORSUM though

[EssDeeWon]

Weather turned shit

 

Boss told me that promotion isn't likely to happen because, and I'm paraphrasing here, Management couldn't co-ordinate a jovial get together quaffing inebriating beverages at a facility which manufactures the aforementioned intoxicating liquors, and it's best for me to get out whilst I still can. Easier said than done however...

 

And to top it off my team captain for the co-ed sport that I play has informed us that due to a bank error not in our favour, we can't play an upcoming tournament where we normally would, but we can play in the division below, which just happens to have the team with my slightly psycho ex in...

 

Had finally got into a really good place after a shit year (thanks in considerable part to the ex), and now, just deflating...

 

You guys are ORSUM though

 

How long you been there for Slappy? Don't let them force you out of a job just because it makes life easier for them.

 

And what do they mean by 'Get out whilst you can' like they are doing you a favour with that shit peice of advice.

 

Look around externally but try and stick around for as long as possible.

[the judge]

I'm just clocking in for a minor whinge; I'm currently trying to sell my old A35, it's not made easy by me having a sentimental attachment to it, but it has confirmed that I hate dealing with people. It's a bit of an odd-ball and difficult to put a value on, but I have had a bit of interest in it. I have described it fairly and have already managed to convince a few people that it is not for them.

 

I did get one chap make an offer without seeing it, despite me saying it's best viewed before making an offer. After a bit of to and fro texts, emails and phone (which incuded the time honoured phrase "I won't mess you about") we agreed a deal. He eventually turned up on Saturday, after several cancelled arrangements, it was obvious he was not going to collect the car as he turned up with an already loaded trailer. He barely spoke to me, looking all over the car, before proceeding to tell me what he thought was wrong with it and how it needed a £2k respray, etc. and then reducing his agreed offer by a third. (His agreed offer already being £1k under my original asking price). I remained polite and he left me to "think it over" as he was passing back on the Sunday with an empty trailer. I received a text on Sunday asking if I had thought any more about his offer and telling me that I had seemed stressed on the Saturday (no, I was annoyed, but trying not to show it) and that I was seriously over-valuing the car, but he would still pick it up. As he had said to come back to him if I was interested I did not bother.

 

Today I have received further texts, a message from ebay and finally a phone call from his wife, urging me to take the offer and they would pick it up today. I explained that I was quite disappointed by the offer and was not prepared to sell at that price, the offer was upped by a whole hundred pounds and again I am being urged to "think it over".

 

I really have no idea what the car is worth (ok, what someone is prepared to pay

 

 

This. If you are getting messages etc and questions,you can't be far off its correct value. Stick to your guns,there is an arse for every seat

[dugong]

AU -

 

I get a bit iffy with folk and find them hard to read, too.

 

Reading between the lines, I reckon matey has lined a buyer up for the car and is now leaning on you hard so he doesn't lose face. He clearly thinks you have some kind of emotional vulnerability so he's playing on it, trying to make you feel awkward so he ends up getting what he wants ('if I pile on the pressure, I'll get the car because it gets rid of me'.)

 

You don't have to 'appreciate' his profit margins, either. Fuck him. He just wants the money, like all of us do. He's a dealer, he's out to make coin - and so are you.

 

TBH, I reckon you dealt with it brilliantly. I'd have clammed up far sooner and set the phone to 'ignore', but you did great given the circumstances.