The grumpy thread

[anonymous user]

Chequerplate, why?

[michael1703]

So not content with hawking their wares on the industrial site where I work gentlemen with Irish accents are now flagging motorists down.Just the other day on a country road not far from some roadworks a car coming the other way flags me down.Thinking there might have been an accident at the roadworks I stop."ah,would yer loike to buy a diesel generator" says other motorist.NO."what about a chainsaw" with that I drove off.Today it's a big silver van driving slowly through the villages flashing lights at anyone driving the other way.Ha,even pointed to a side road for me to pull into.I shook my head and drove on.

I get them at work, they're always selling nielsen tools out of brand new double cab pickups.

 

This guy had 1mm cutting discs and flap discs.

I pay about 87p for decent discs so I felt a barter session coming on, I got him down to 40p a disc and then got a load of flap discs thrown in and got the lot for £40, I then broke the bombshell I didn't have any cash, so he took a cheque

[richardmorris]

Did he give you a receipt?

[twosmoke300]

Chequerplate, why?

I'm guessing that is aimed at landrovers with half an acre of the tacky , cover up all the shit , Dakar wannabe shit screwed in place with secondhand odd woodscrews !

Why indeed

[vulgalour]

I've been taking out a full length keying on a C-Max that belongs to Mike's brother.  Proper mates rates and whatnot which I have no issue with and I underestimated the scale of the job.  It needs bits of the sills and arches doing too, but it's all stuff I'm capable of.  The car is due to be collected tomorrow and it was agreed it could come back again as I'd likely not get it all done this week.

 

Anyway, long story short is that I'd actually managed to elimate the keying, which is no mean feat on a metallic grey car as far as I'm concerned, and had put the final coat of lacquer on so I could polish it all and have the most horrible bit of repair all done ready for him tomorrow.  But the lacquer reacted with something and I've spent the whole day undoing much of the previous day's work.  I'm exhausted.  Today I started my regular job at about 10am and I finished at the garage at 9pm and it's not the first time I've done that this week.  I hate when a job goes wrong like that, it harms my sense of professional pride because now I have to hand the car back unfinished when it was going to be handed back perfect.

 

Oh well.  Just one of those things I suppose.  I'll feel better for a sleep I imagine.

[purplebargeken]

Have a good kip mate, sounds like you deserve it.

[anonymous user]

I'm guessing that is aimed at landrovers with half an acre of the tacky , cover up all the shit , Dakar wannabe shit screwed in place with secondhand odd woodscrews !

Why indeed

Correct, I am looking at Land Rovers, I'm finding it very hard to find any that aren't plastered in it, if it's not on the outside it's on the inside, or both.

[twosmoke300]

That's why I was so glad to find the one I bought of brookjm/ essexman .

[Taff]

Fair point, and I'm the first to say that the mainstream media are a shower of irrelevant shits.

 

But I think rape, murder, theft, child abuse etc would generate plenty of outcry if some cunt repeatedly posted photos of himself on Facebook grinning proudly over his beheaded victims, and got away scot free to carry on being smug, ignorant and rich.

He hasn't committed any crimes, mate. He got duff advice from his guides and He's guilty of poor judgement, maybe, but nothing illegal. Certainly being smug & rich aren't against the law.

Selling licenses for culling animals such as this raises a lot of much needed income when done properly & happens often. The alternative was letting the animal die naturally and not raising any income. Either way the animal is just as dead, but when a license is sold, revenue is generated which can be used in the region (although probably not in this case).

I'm in no way condoning what he did but I think the whole over-reaction is amusing.

Certainly no reason for the way some Internet mongs have responded to him, threatening him & his family.

[Skizzer]

I strongly disagree with most of that, but this isn't the place for it.

[fred]

Well spent 3 hours on my knees weeding the back garden, fuck me Ive seized up....and the front driveway is 3 times as big - and is Triffid filled....may get a drill on a stick with a flap wheel and try that tomorrow, my ole knees are just nay up to the job anymore

[beko1987]

Hormonal pregnant women, specifically the one sat on the other sofa in my house.

[robinmasters]

Should be called Operation Stuck.

 

Or Operation Stash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sYQrn018AE

 

I wasn't grumpy, but the unwelcome news that this 'hilarious' person still exists has made me so. 'Internet prankster'? Unemployed, attention-seeking fucking dickhead.

[mercrocker]

Perhaps seeing this prick will turn back Cameron's swarming mass....

[purplebargeken]

Must wear glasses as soon as I wake up:

 

Well spent 3 hours on my knees weeding the back garden

 

I read this as 'Well spent 3 hours on my knees weeing in the back garden'.

 

I thought that you must have a bladder the size of a Xantia and weren't able to pee very far.

 

I blame it on my painkillers

[Bucketeer]

No more Roadkill until September.

[Lankytim]

Why is everyone so down on Discoboy? Just a bit of fun, innit.

[Cavcraft]

Exactly, he's bought a bit of a laugh to what must be a shit place to be.

[Taff]

discoboy? is he  member here?

[beko1987]

Ordered the wrong fucking centre section

 

Bought this

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Citroen-Xsara-ZX-1-9TD-2-0-HDi-EXHAUST-MIDDLE-CENTRE-SILENCER-100-QUALITY-/271755719809?

 

I need this after looking more closely at the car

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CITROEN-ZX-1-9TD-XUD9TE-EST-94-98-Front-Exhaust-/400754058570?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&fits=Model%3AZX%7CCars+Type%3A1.9+TD&hash=item5d4ecda54a

 

now too skint to buy that of course, so may have to ask my mum. Anyone want whatever the fuck I bought wrong? Probably a bit pointless sending it back, after postage I'll only get a tenner refund which makes it a bit fucking pointless

[bub2006]

Thanks white van man for lobbing something out the window of your van on the a38. New windscreen going to cost 120 quid. Police don't give a fuck and the insurance company want silly money. Fucking bell end

[dollywobbler]

No more Roadkill until September.

 

Indeed. And they're moving to paid-for content. It's true. Making videos for free consumption on the internet is a crap way to make money, but still disappointing even though I know exactly why they have done it!

[dollywobbler]

Hormonal pregnant women, specifically the one sat on the other sofa in my house.

 

Surely you are at least partly responsible for this?

[beko1987]

Apparently so

[320touring]

Indeed. And they're moving to paid-for content. It's true. Making videos for free consumption on the internet is a crap way to make money, but still disappointing even though I know exactly why they have done it!

thought they had sponsorship?

[dollywobbler]

thought they had sponsorship?

 

That's a point. They have been crowing all year about their tie up with Dodge. Oh well. We'll have to wait and see what happens.

[purplebargeken]

Roadkill = dead animal found on roadside often used for food. I got confused.

[Ghosty]

No more Roadkill until September.

 

They've just posted a video of the Hellcat Charger doing a burnout, too. Bait, much?

 

And Hot Rod Garage is presented by some random person now too.

[xtriple]

Been a 'bit of a day' for dogs trying to kill themselves.... so far, not mine!  First walk of the day suddenly had a puppy loose fallowing us and randomly running into the road. Caught him (no fucking collar!) and found his owners who were not even remotely bothered. Then, 12 week old puppy out for the very first time on Ilsham green, not on a lead, saw Chester (who for once did nothing wrong - wasn't even close to the pup) and ran away as fast as his little legs would carry him.... straight over the main road! Managed to catch him as well and returned him to his frantic owner. Then, another puppy tied up outside the Co-op got spooked by something and got loose and again, ran straight into the bloody road!

 

He was also fine, healthy and returned to his tearful, frantic and distraught owner - I had to give her a lift home as she was so tearful.

 

Got home and thought the days dramas were over, but no. Jo just turned up with her dog (Flynn - Airdale) who was sat out in the garden but then saw a flaming cat and ran..... you guessed it, straight over the main road at the bottom of my road. He ran straight in front of a bloody great big Tarmac lorry, the bloke driving it must have the reactions of an F1 driver 'cos he missed the idiotic dog by inches - dog just carried on after the cat!

 

I am now locking the front door and calling it a day!

 

 

 

 

Note, not one of the dogs was injured in any way, a fact that I am eternally grateful for.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Just found out that my BMW,which I was expecting to pick up today, needs about £500 of head work and both cams are bent. This on top of £1400 bill I was expecting-BOLLOCKS.

No holiday in Brittany for me next week and time to scour eBay for an M57 head and cams, breakers want £500, but there's the AS alternative; a guy in S.Wales has got an oily head on a bit of cardboard in his eBay ad and wants £100. I think I'm going to take a gamble- if it's fucked I've lost £100 if not saved £400.

Do I feel lucky ?