The grumpy thread

[Station]

Just thought about films I've been to see in my life:

 

Temple of Doom 1986

Last Crusade 1989

Batman 2 1993

Mars Attacks 1997

Terminator Salvation 2011

 

Do they still have intermission with that BA BAAA BA BAAA B B B BAAA music? Haha

[chaseracer]

If AS did kino ads...

 

http://cinematreasures.org/video/old-cinema-intermission-ads-from-the-70s-80s

[anonymous user]

Do they still have intermission with that BA BAAA BA BAAA B B B BAAA music? Haha

I have not been to a cinema for years, but that tune is called Asteroid, accompanying the Pearl and Dean adverts, which showed things like a photograph of an (empty) Indian Restaurant, only 300 yards from the cinema.

[chaseracer]

...the Pearl and Dean adverts, which showed things like a photograph of an (empty) Indian Restaurant, only 300 yards from the cinema.

 

Plus, in 1980s Malvern, "gentlemen's outfitters" FL Cox & Son, the catastrophically unfashionable apparel modelled by people I went to school with who had a Saturday job there.  The piss was mightily ripped if they happened to be present...

 

 

 

 

EDIT: Holy shit, it's still there... http://www.coxofmalvern.co.uk/

[cobblers]

Actually paying to watch films is a fucking mugs game, it's ridiculous really because I'd rather not just steal it off the internet but when the options are:

Going to watch it at the Cinema, driving 8 miles, parking the car on a well ropey carpark then paying £7 to watch half an hour of adverts and have the film spoiled by cunts making a row all over the place

Buy the film on DVD for £20 off the internet, wait a couple of days for it to arrive, dig the DVD player out of the cupboard then watch a load of adverts before I can actually see the film in medium ish definition. I don't have a blue ray player so no hope of proper HD stuff

 

Or just download the blue ray rip for nowt off the internet in about half an hour then watch it in 100% mega top quality in my own living room.

[michael1703]

And then the missus has ammunition to trot out the line

 

"We never go out"

 

We're out all the time but she makes out she is chained to a sink

[fred]

Aye the Pearl and Dean music is still there - last time I went was to watch Titanic - bloody thing sunk in the end, just like I thought it would, thought Hollywood would have made Lenny Cappo di monte do a heroic thing and save the ship, but the useless bugger died

[Alan_Green]

Can't wait for the release of Titanic 2.

[wuvvum]

^ I actually saw that on the telly.  It was thunderously shit.

[Alan_Green]

Titanic 2 exists? Impossible. Next you'll be telling me cats don't taste of chicken.

[Jerzy Woking]

My nan and grandads names were Pearl and Dean. We used to call them Granma and Granpa pa pa pa papa pa pa pa papa pa pa.

[Inspector Morose]

You are Milton Jones AICMFP

[jakebullet]

I miss proper cinema. Where the poor old lady would flog you a warm carton of orange juice, n you never got to have a cornetto that was fucking massive compared to the normal ones in shops.

[M'coli]

We're a bit spoiled, we've got a proper small-town picture house that we can walk (or drive) to, pay about £6 then another £2 for a bag of sweets, just enough adverts and then whatever they're showing that night.

[dave21478]

The nearest cinema to me is about the size of my living room and has two rows of double seats that look suspiciously like they have been removed from an old coach.

[dave21478]

I bought a 1/4" drive socket set to keep in the car. Guaranteed for life, apparently.

The ratchet broke first time I used it. No excessive force, just a "plink" noise and it freewheels. I took it back to the shop.

Ratchets are not part of the guarantee. Why? Because FUCK YOU, thats why.

"But I only..."

"No."

I buy a single replacement ratchet. Same brand, same model.

IT DOESNT FIT IN THE MOTHERFUCKING PLASTIC CASE. The handle is about half an inch too long.

I take it all back to the shop.

"eh, shame. Not changing it though."

 

 

No, its not the end of the world, but the smallest things are getting right on my nips these days.

[stillOrange]

That Halfords?

[purplebargeken]

Cut 1/2" of bastard too long ratchet, it'll fit then and will void what laughingly passes for a warranty anyway just 'cos does. 

[robinmasters]

I've had it to here (yes, here) with charity rallies. Now, I accept they've often for a good cause, and that not every single person who participates is a massive bell-end. But most of them are.

 

Most of them are selfie-taking morons who post on Pistonheads and spam every Top Gear post on Facebook with 'bring back Clarkson' repeated thousand of times, who spoil what often start out as fairly well looked after older cars 'for a laugh'.

[gordonbennet]

 Cinema, bah.

 

Bent over and dry shafted for any find of refreshment, which up to a point i don't mind cos you're not forced at gunpoint to buy, but what i do mind is being sandwiched between two stinking arseholes either side of us, one side the twat must have smoked a pack of twenty woodies five minutes before he arrived, the bastard reeked...the twat the other side stank of booze and i mean like he'd bathed in beer, oh wonderful.

 

That was the last visit, never again as long as we live, they can stick their cinema right up their collective arses.

 

We've got a full seperates surround system with the mother of all subs, and a big fuck off telly, so we cuddle up on the sofa and enjoy just what we want when we want, no immediate neighbours to upset with the sound either.

[quicksilver]

Remember the Sunday Brunch Scrambles at Bicester Heritage I featured on here over the winter? Entry used to be free both for exhibitors and public but they've got greedy. The last one in the summer was £5 per car and I've just had an email advertising the next one (on 20th September if anyone is interested). They've changed their pricing structure again: it's now £5 per person for public plus a 10% booking fee, and even exhibitors have to pay, albeit half price. Booking fees are always a con and I think they should be illegal, but charging exhibitors to display their cars really isn't on - they should get in free as with no cars there is no show. Shame as it used to be a good event but is now too expensive, especially as most of the shows I've been to recently have been free for everyone.

[Pillock]

Actually, the cinema was just for a kids treat for birthdays. I usually use Netflix, which doesn't give me the bad taste that torrents do bit costs just £7 a month for as many films as I can watch, and the kids can watch. Which they do. For 6 hours per day. Not bad value really!

[michael1703]

Shit like this makes me grumpy

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zimbabwe/11767119/Cecil-the-lions-killer-revealed-as-American-dentist.html

[fairkens]

He wants shooting with a crossbow as well - prick

[HH-R]

I've had it to here (yes, here) with charity rallies. Now, I accept they've often for a good cause, and that not every single person who participates is a massive bell-end. But most of them are.

 

Most of them are selfie-taking morons who post on Pistonheads and spam every Top Gear post on Facebook with 'bring back Clarkson' repeated thousand of times, who spoil what often start out as fairly well looked after older cars 'for a laugh'.

On the radio last week there was a, taxi driver who was going to drive 1000 miles in a cheap car for some rally or something. I bet most of us do that every few weeks with our daily commute!

[beko1987]

Its the stupid rules as well. The mongol cars cant be over 10 years old, certsin engine, value etc. Sub £500 sub 10 year old sub 1.2 or whatever it is cars capable of doing a rally are probably quite scarce.

 

I know gnomeotoole only got to do it in a transit connect asnit was donated and would have a hogh auction value the other end, and I think hoops were jumped to get that far!

 

Id take the zx on a 2000 mile jolly tomorrow if the exhaust didnt blow so much, tbh id probably still do it. Would need some fuel money though...

[bub2006]

Makes me smile when you see these rallies what say car must be under 500 quid and will it make it the 2000 mile journey. The vectra cost me 325,spent nothing on it and done 4k in a month of ownership.

[chaseracer]

Fecked GSA.  Now THAT was a challenge...

[mercrocker]

Remember the Sunday Brunch Scrambles at Bicester Heritage I featured on here over the winter? Entry used to be free both for exhibitors and public but they've got greedy. The last one in the summer was £5 per car and I've just had an email advertising the next one (on 20th September if anyone is interested). They've changed their pricing structure again: it's now £5 per person for public plus a 10% booking fee, and even exhibitors have to pay, albeit half price. Booking fees are always a con and I think they should be illegal, but charging exhibitors to display their cars really isn't on - they should get in free as with no cars there is no show. Shame as it used to be a good event but is now too expensive, especially as most of the shows I've been to recently have been free for everyone.

Thanks for the tip. They can shove that up their arse, then. Fucking Breakfast and Brunch bollocks. I will just take the old shite to the Polish blokes caravan on the bypass. He's got a Mk3 Granny so I can look at that.

[chaseracer]

Thanks for the tip. They can shove that up their arse, then. Fucking Breakfast and Brunch bollocks. I will just take the old shite to the Polish blokes caravan on the bypass. He's got a Mk3 Granny so I can look at that.

 

Aye - with you here.  Spontaneous shite meets at transport caffs and layby chuck wagons FTW.