The grumpy thread

[Bren]

Tony Blair and Peter Mandleson - enough to make you reach for the paracetamol and razors.

 

Cheeky twats - labour mus'nt veer to the left or they will be in the Wildeness they say in the press.

 

Thanks to you cunts they already are - your quest to appease the capitalists of this world and in the process selling the electorate down the river has finished Labour. Pity the electorate did'nt all have surnames like "Bush" or "Murdoch" - you'd have fucking listened then wouldn't you you pair of cunts?

 

FOAD you odious pair of shysters. Sorry for the swearing chaps but their hypocrisy kills me.

[Cavcraft]

My ex landlord who was a bloody great bloke and a good friend - had similar gene pool escapee's wreck one of his apartments and despite court judgements refused to budge from the place. 

 

He decided, out I imagine desperation, to make use of a bunch of travellers who had camped in a field a few hundred yards away. I lived two doors away at the time, and he asked me to pop out for an hour and gave me 20 quid beer money. came back a few hours later - said apartment was empty ....Never asked nor was told what happened and I happy being ignorant ........

 

That's pretty much exactly what I'd do, to be honest. Bollocks to their 'rights' to live there scott free or wreck the place, just turn up with the heavy mob and turf them out.

[EssDeeWon]

Tony Blair and Peter Mandleson - enough to make you reach for the paracetamol and razors.

 

Cheeky twats - labour mus'nt veer to the left or they will be in the Wildeness they say in the press.

 

Thanks to you cunts they already are - your quest to appease the capitalists of this world and in the process selling the electorate down the river has finished Labour. Pity the electorate did'nt all have surnames like "Bush" or "Murdoch" - you'd have fucking listened then wouldn't you you pair of cunts?

 

FOAD you odious pair of shysters. Sorry for the swearing chaps but their hypocrisy kills me.

 

Its amazing to think 3 months ago Labour were just about leading the polls, now they look dried up.

 

Its only Ã‚£3 to become a member of the Labour party, and that gives you the right to vote for their potential new leader Jeremy Corbyn. Guess what loads of Tories are doing this week

[NorfolkNWeigh]

22/07/2015 was not a good day;

06.40 on the way back from Heathrow a stone thrown up by a lorry hits the screen of my 5 Series, crack appears across the top left hand corner- bollocks!

 

11.00 go to Bedford to look at Mini Cooper, 2004, 160,000 miles so not expecting concours- but....

Well maintained,apparently. At least the dipstick was nice and clean, the test drive lasted 200 yds, I stopped and reversed back onto Private* sellers drive when the gearbox whined so loudly that some of the local giffers took to the Anderson shelters. Note to self and daughter,can't afford a Mini,wait another 12 months.

 

19.00- give up a job and forsake going to Harpenden for the first time in 10 years to go to Leicester to look at ' One owner FDSH 206 CC' arrive to be greeted by tyre blacked shit heap with filler and sanding marks under fresh paint down the entire nearside( which is parked tight against a wall,natch) seller suddenly remembers he hasn't owned it from new but bought it 6 weeks ago for his wife,but it's to big/ little etc.Mega pissed off head home.

 

20.03. Cam chain snaps in roadworks near Rugby, wait 45 mins for free recovery to services another 1 1/2 hrs for RAC to take home. Plenty of time to search web for secondhand engine- £1795 cheapest I can find or £2200 supplied and fitted by dodgy sounding place in Essex.

23.00 arrive home open post, £100 parking penalty from Parking Eye- for Southampton dock parking last week- a job that I got £150 for less £30 diesel and £6.99 breakfast= 6 hours of my Sunday for £13.01 wages, oh well at least I made something that day.

[DVee8]

Oh bad day all round

 

What is the next step for the BMW then? What about work?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

The BMW is at a local Independant specialist waiting for him to have a look later today. The good news is,he thinks the engine might be salvageable because it stopped straightaway, fingers crossed.

As for work, it goes quiet in school holidays anyway as most of my work is business travellers but it's a bit of a double whammy when you have a breakdown, no income and big bills !

Luckily some of my work is driving customers in their own cars, at the moment I'm sitting in London in a clients LWB Range Rover and I've left the ex-FathaAngryDicky Rover 600 on the raked gravel outside his £10million gaff. Stay classy!

[Bren]

The BMW is at a local Independant specialist waiting for him to have a look later today. The good news is,he thinks the engine might be salvageable because it stopped straightaway, fingers crossed.

As for work, it goes quiet in school holidays anyway as most of my work is business travellers but it's a bit of a double whammy when you have a breakdown, no income and big bills !

Luckily some of my work is driving customers in their own cars, at the moment I'm sitting in London in a clients LWB Range Rover and I've left the ex-FathaAngryDicky Rover 600 on the raked gravel outside his £10million gaff. Stay classy!

Gutted for you - hope it does'nt break the bank.

[MarvinsMom]

got away from work at 1pm today, and a straight run home without any hold ups.

 

so why a grump?

 

my gaffer says i'm not allowed to fuck off early, not unless i take a 1/2 days holiday, cos apparently it upsets the natural rhythm of the drawing office, or some other such shit.

 

more likely someone has been whinging at my boss (and i can guess which little twat it was too)about me going early in spite of the fact that i live 145 miles away from the office and don't see home during the week.and the traffic later on in a friday afternoon on the M1 is friggin' terrible later in the afternoon.

 

i did the god damn hours needed, and all i want to do is get home, not sit on a jam for 3 fucking hours.

 

i should tell 'em to shove the job up their collective arses and get a job stacking shelves at asda's. at least i'll be at home more.

 

wankers.

[Lacquer Peel]

Its amazing to think 3 months ago Labour were just about leading the polls, now they look dried up.

 

Its only Ã‚£3 to become a member of the Labour party, and that gives you the right to vote for their potential new leader Jeremy Corbyn. Guess what loads of Tories are doing this week

 

Jeremy Corbyn is great, but he's going to be destroyed by the dominant right wing media in this country. All that matters is what shit-for-brains read in the Sun or Daily Mail.

If he is elected leader I hope he turns Labour into an actual opposition party instead of the Tory-lite party they've become.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

The labour party are a crock of shite.

 

I did get one of their awful 2015 Pledge 4 mugs though:

 

[Bobthebeard]

A Mitsubishi Warrior that took up four parking spaces in a crowded Holiday Inn car park yesterday. Total stereotype driver that just got abusive when asked to park it properly by the hotel receptionist. Idiot.

[Lacquer Peel]

Dreadful!!

 

edit: Mitsubishi Warrior and shitty Labour mug.

[Station]

I dream of a car that hasn't got fucking fucked with wiring. I could fucking well throttle the bell end who snipped the multitude of wiring in my Astra. What a prick. It's taken a week every evening to reconnect everything up properly and I'm getting power to nothing still. All the power to the thick red wires and black ones are deader than previous owners car meddling skills, the big useless twat!

[fred]

I dream of a car that hasn't got fucking fucked with wiring. I could fucking well throttle the bell end who snipped the multitude of wiring in my Astra. What a prick. It's taken a week every evening to reconnect everything up properly and I'm getting power to nothing still. All the power to the thick red wires and black ones are deader than previous owners car meddling skills, the big useless twat!

Aye had the same with a Cortina fitted with a Scorpio engine,bought it blind off fleabay, and fuck me fitted the engine fine, decided to cut every fucking wire he didnt know where to fit bloody great Joey Deakin

Spent an age working it out, got a decent amount done, but one day got that pissed off just fucked it off again - me and electrics dont marry well together

[Station]

I've soldered and shrink wrapped about 80 wires - he had snipped a load behind the dashboard. How hard is it to solder deep inside a dark dashboard? Hand burningly impossible that's how.

The 40 pin alarm/immobiliser plug had also been snipped off, there was no need to do this! I spent two nights rewiring this son of a twat up. The Saab Astra was a breeze compared to this, and that was a fucking nightmare.

[twosmoke300]

I feel your pain . I had to solder / heatshrink about 20 wires that go into the bootlid of a e61 Beemer estate . Only thing was I had to do it through a speaker hole in the headlining while lieing like a dying fly in the boot . Googles were no good when doing such fiddly work so it was dodgy as fook

[JohnDeere]

Gutted for you - hope it does'nt break the bank.

Gutted for you - hope it does'nt break the bank.

There was a thing on Watchdog about these Bimmer chains being made of licourice. Known design issue, which means they might cough up towards the repair if you ask in the right way.

[xtriple]

It's so fucking dark and raining so hard that the dogs think it's night time and have gone back to bed... I'm thinking they may have the right idea!

[dollywobbler]

Jeremy Corbyn is great, but he's going to be destroyed by the dominant right wing media in this country. All that matters is what shit-for-brains read in the Sun or Daily Mail.

If he is elected leader I hope he turns Labour into an actual opposition party instead of the Tory-lite party they've become.

 

Aye. If the major reason given by the Labour party against Corbyn is that major donors might be put off, that tells you all you need to know about how democratic democracy is in this country. And where the major parties' interests lie. No, not doing the right thing - just keeping the exceedingly wealthy happy. Given how utterly knackered the Lib Dems are, Labour could do well to steer to the left and away from the Tory-lite idiocy of Blair and co.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

There was a thing on Watchdog about these Bimmer chains being made of licourice. Known design issue, which means they might cough up towards the repair if you ask in the right way.

Unfortunately that's the 2.0 , I bought the 3.0 because they're bulletproof*. Pity I don't need it for its ballistic protection qualities,just its abilities to drive me from A-B ,like, for example, a manky old Rover that's showing almost exactly the same 180,000 on the clock

[twosmoke300]

Was it not noisy before it went ?

[wuvvum]

I have too many cars and not enough space.

 

I have just had a second chance offer on a Vel Satis which I placed a very cheeky bid on a couple of weeks ago. 

 

FFS.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Was it not noisy before it went ?

No, no rattles nothing. It was running 100% normal, with no concerns at all. I fully expected it to last for at least another 100,000, with maybe a turbo along the way. Looking on line,there are a few instances of 3.0's shitting themselves, usually 730's and often at quite low miles.

Off to garage now, they were going to have a proper look this morning.

[Noel Tidybeard]

I must admit to a rye smile,as she is normally a very careful driver and gives me shit for speed or taking a chance.

this needs to filed carefully for future use

[Noel Tidybeard]

got away from work at 1pm today, and a straight run home without any hold ups.

 

so why a grump?

 

my gaffer says i'm not allowed to fuck off early, not unless i take a 1/2 days holiday, cos apparently it upsets the natural rhythm of the drawing office, or some other such shit.

 

more likely someone has been whinging at my boss (robert fucking berry i guess)about me going early in spite of the fact that i live 145 miles away from the office and don't see home during the week.and the traffic later on in a friday afternoon on the M1 is friggin' terrible later in the afternoon.

 

i did the god damn hours needed, and all i want to do is get home, not sit on a jam for 3 fucking hours.

 

i should tell 'em to shove the job up their collective arses and get a job stacking shelves at asda's. at least i'll be at home more.

 

wankers.

book 1/2 day and take the morning off as well

[MarvinsMom]

i've got 3 day of holidays left, so getting closer to xmas i will be having a series of 1/2 days off every other week, and as i'll have the time accrued i have every intention of fucking off home at around 10.30am.

 

the drawing office do this, and i work damn need the same hour, so fuck 'em, fuck 'em with bells on, that is what i'm going to be doing.

 

and i do hope it inconveniences them as i really love* my job.

 

wankers.

[scaryoldcortina]

Ugh, bloody mobile phone contract. I've been trying to leave my current provider for a while now, I was on a 2 year sim only contract which was fine when I had a regular "dumb" phone but weapons grade rubbish for the smartphone I've finally accepted the need for. Main problem being 15p/mb data charge.... after an eighty quid bill I tried to change that to a bundle (still a bit shit at £12.99+vat for 256mb but better than nothing) but they didn't do it, another big bill arrived.

 

I thought well F it. 3 months left, I can live with paying two sets of rental.... Went and got another sim free contract somewhere else for less money and more data (and free texts/minutes) I assumed that I could transfer my number (same since 1998) between the two, after all I transferred it in, why can't I have it back?

 

Turns out mobile numbers aren't like a personal plate. Getting and using a PAC code to move *MY* number off their poxy sim would terminate the contract and incur a £75+vat charge. I also had to give 3 months written notice to cancel or it was going to roll on for an extra year. Gits.

 

anyway, I ended up with two phones. One that takes incoming calls on my main number, and one that I make calls/do internet etc on. PITA but livable. Until last weekend, when the sim messed up - phone has signal, says it's on network but doesn't ring or recieve texts. Between thursday and monday I didn't know... Monday consisted of everyone telling me my phone was broken.

 

I complained. Their "solution" is to send me another sim for the last 3 weeks. I complained again. They still won't budge. The sim hasn't arrived, but a bill for £15+vat has. I still have no phone on my main number.

 

I complained again. I now have a PAC code to migrate my number with, but I can't use it until august 12th without getting the termination charge. I escalated the complaint again, waiting to hear back.

 

 

 

 

tl:dr - if a company called UNICOM call you offering high quality business telecomms, tell them no thanks. Or put the phone next to a car horn or something, I dunno. B'stards.

[skattrd]

tl:dr - if a company called UNICOM call you offering high quality business telecomms, tell them no thanks. Or put the phone next to a car horn or something, I dunno. B'stards.

 

My local garage use Unicom, I advised against them, and so did his wife, but hey ho ... we'll see what happens.

 

I was going to suggest getting a dual sim phone so you can have 2 phone numbers, your old SIM for receiveing and making calls and the other one for data. As there's only 3 weeks left, it's probably not worth it.

[scaryoldcortina]

My local tyre guy has just got a punycom contract - he was on the phone to them while I was there the other day. He went for the SUPER DELUXE sim and phone contract, they sent him an iPhone 4 that won't work with the sim they sent.

[Slappy]

Yeah, losing a front wiper in the middle of a cloudburst wasn't the most fun ever...

 

Fortunately I recently Rain-X'd the screen, so was able to proceed with caution to the nearest 'Frauds, oh well.