The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

I've made a low offer on a really horrible car that I don't even especially want, and certainly don't need, yet I'm gutted they haven't got back to me about it.

[ruffgeezer]

I haven't received your offer though, Cav?

[UmBongo]

Coming home from work yesterday the Nissan Navarra ( I think), that had just pulled out of the m3 works area on new road Bagshot, slowed down and the driver's door opened and they chucked out a used nappy in a bag, then a coffee cup and macdonalds bag. Car that was passing me sounded their horn and through the still open driver's door came the raised hand with single digit rampant. The planet would be far better off without people like this. Scum.

 

These rats should be gassed.

 

The road where I park at work is sometimes deluged with fag ends where some shit has emptied the contents of their ashtray.

[fordperv]

They need to be force fed the rubbish they throw from their cars

[Cavcraft]

I haven't received your offer though, Cav?

 

 

This makes your Streetwise look like a concourse winning D-type Jag, trust me on that.

[ruffgeezer]

I doubt it, the fucking thing has taken the hump with having been fixed and now the alarm won't shut up.

[anonymous user]

It isn't an A35 is it? Cav

[autofive]

nerrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

i havent been here for a couple of years, but i see the grumpy thread still up and running

[fred]

My cousin has been suspended from his jop as a supervisor.

 

His crime? Telling a couple of Eastern Europeans to get back to work - they were skiving.

 

Naturally they played the race card.

 

This country is going to hell in a handcart.

Thats just a bucket of arse biscuits - suspended for that! fuck me sideways

[chaseracer]

My cousin has been suspended from his jop as a supervisor.

 

Is he a member of a trade union?  Call them first thing tomorrow.

 

If not...

 

http://www.acas.org.uk/helpline

 

http://www.acas.org.uk/media/pdf/k/b/Acas_Code_of_Practice_1_on_disciplinary_and_grievance_procedures-accessible-version-Jul-2012.pdf

[andy18s]

Thats just a bucket of arse biscuits - suspended for that! fuck me sideways

I have a friend who works at Kellogs,Wrexham on the "Winders" production line

Most of the workforce are Portgugese with a Brit as a supervisor

2 of them started arguing,super goes over to sort it out and gets a knife shoved in his face !

Guess which 1 got suspended .........

[Matt]

This. This shit right here.

 

 

That's what Ring Automotive thinks an adequate ground cable for a spotlight is. What the fuck am I meant to do with that, attach it to a pair of glasses?

[Station]

I've made a low offer on a really horrible car that I don't even especially want, and certainly don't need, yet I'm gutted they haven't got back to me about it.

It's not an Austin A35 is it?

[MarvinsMom]

It's not an Austin A35 is it?

 

 

no, its an old 205 with a PEZ ENGINE!!

[Lacquer Peel]

This. This shit right here.

 

That's what Ring Automotive thinks an adequate ground cable for a spotlight is. What the fuck am I meant to do with that, attach it to a pair of glasses?

How did you mount it in the end?

[Matt]

How did you mount it in the end?

 

If you mean the lights then it's just a pair 'L' brackets that are held in place with the number plate screws. I need to modify them somehow though as there isn't much lateral support, I can rotate them by hand. The design I posted a thread about a few months ago wouldn't really work with the Swift as the front end has quite a curve to it that I hadn't really noticed before.

 

If you mean the ground wire, I haven't yet. I'm just going to make my own ground strap that will fit over a screw/bolt that manufacturers actually use in cars.

 

(I've mounted them lower than this now)

[cms206]

0521 off Oban to Glasgow this morning for the railways, 0501 sign on time. Leave depot at 0200, arrive Oban at 0415 to have 45mins tacho break before the southbound leg. Phone control at 0501 to book on.

"Whit the fuck are ya doin' up at this time ya lunatic?" says controller Gus.
"At Oban for the 0521 for you cunts" says I.
"Whit fur? Train's runnin', away hame." says he. And the phone went down.

CUNTS.

[purplebargeken]

For the translated into englishness option please click here ****

[dugong]

"I was most upset this morning; I was under the impression I was driving the rail replacement bus to Oban, but a full train service was already in operation. What twats they are."

[cms206]

"I was most upset this morning; I was under the impression I was driving the rail replacement bus to Oban, but a full train service was already in operation. What twats they are."

More or less. The grump was driving empty 110 miles at 2am to start a duty, then having to drive 110 miles empty back 'cos the bellends never told us they got a guard to operate the train yesterday afternoon.

[purplebargeken]

^^ that really qualifies  as a major grump. Fuckwits.

[Alan_Green]

You have my commiserations. I thought I was going to have the day off work* today but it was cancelled at the last minute. I had planned a picnic by the sea with the kids and instead I was called in at 5am with next to no notice!  Major grump.

 

*I'm a train guard in Oban.

[cms206]

You have my commiserations. I thought I was going to have the day off work* today but it was cancelled at the last minute. I had planned a picnic by the sea with the kids and instead I was called in at 5am with next to no notice! Major grump.

 

*I'm a train guard in Oban.

Had I known I'd have ranted IN YOUR FACE.

 

Not aimed at the guard... just control... as usual...

[Alan_Green]

You'll never believe this but my grandfather was a train guard based in Arrochar in the 1940's. True!

[cms206]

You'll never believe this but my grandfather was a train guard based in Arrochar in the 1940's. True!

 

They say it's a small world... if it's any consolation about four years ago I was tracing my family tree - I found out my great, great, great grandfather was a horse-drawn stagecoach driver from Houston, just down the road. At the time I was doing my family tree I did 6-days a week driving the bus which linked Paisley and Bridge of Weir... via Houston. To date it appears we were the only two people in the entire family involved in public transport.

[nebuchenezer]

This came in to the garage under the office today for an MOT:

 

 

So what is the grump?

 

The fact that I don't have £875,000 to buy one? 

 

No,

 

How in the name of F**k did these get to be 26 years old? Have I been in suspended animation for the last 15 years?

 

Grrrr I am officially old

[cort16]

Are you sure it's not just a re bodied vauxhall chevette?

[cms206]

Are you sure it's not just a re bodied vauxhall chevette?

 

Get your eyes tested Cort man, it's a Ferrari F40 not a fucking Piazza!

[nebuchenezer]

Are you sure it's not just a re bodied vauxhall chevette?

 

I'm sure:

 

http://www.joemacari.com/All-Cars-for-Sale/_prod_Ferrari-F40_1196.htm

 

I got the price wrong though

[Matt]

This came in to the garage under the office today for an MOT:

 

 

So what is the grump?

 

The fact that I don't have £875,000 to buy one? 

 

No,

 

How in the name of F**k did these get to be 26 years old? Have I been in suspended animation for the last 15 years?

 

Grrrr I am officially old

 

I really doubt the owner of a genuine F40 would leave it those surroundings... I'm sure 100% of genuine F40's only go to garages that have spotless white tiled floors.