The grumpy thread

[Bren]

I drive an audi.

 

 

Am I less of a twat because it is petrol and has six cylinders?

[Louise2cv]

I believe I may have made myself sound more bothered than I am.

 

I'm just having my own grumpy moment because I stupidly stayed up til midnight watching absolute shite on telly. Then woke up at half five and my brain went: "YEAH! BOOM! Face the day!".

 

At about half eight the same brain went " umm, about that... I was wrong. Bed?"

 

But the kids were up by then. *sigh*

[Mr_Bo11ox]

 

And anyway:

 

How is "I'm better than you because I drive an Audi" any worse than "I'm better than you because I don't drive an 'Aldi'"???

Totally agree with this, its ridiculous. And calling Audis 'Aldis' wasn't even mildly amusing the first time it was done, never mind the 25653355666th time.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I like Aldi

[scaryoldcortina]

I shopped at Aldi before it was fashionable, so there!

[Lacquer Peel]

Aldi do chocolate crisps, they're amazing.

 

The most trouble I get on the roads is from disinterested drivers in modern small people carriers and those faux off roaders they have now. Trying to go fast or 'out drive' everyone else is self-defeating, give everyone lots of room and go at your own pace.

 

The worst piece of driving I've seen recently was someone all over the road, tail-gaiting and running a red light in an old Audi 80.

[scaryoldcortina]

If it was a 1.6 CL with a pierberg carb he probably had to do that just to keep it running.

[Cheggers]

Console yourself with the fact these twats will be up to their eyeballs in debt.

 

And you aren't.

While I wouldn't ever dream of defending the tossers of the world, I just feel I need to get something off my chest...

 

Just because some of us like nice/ expensive things, like to eat in nice places, live in "fancy" homes and drive modern cars (often with shite for the weekends), that doesn't mean we are necessarily either:

 

1: A tosser - I'm not

 

or

 

2: In debt - I'm not

 

Maybe some of us have different aspirations in life and have had the drive to achieve them rather than sitting on our arses sneering at others.

 

I've personally helped a fair few shiters out financially over the years (and this is the first time I've felt the need to mention it...), so be careful who you call a tosser as it might be me.

[Lord Sterling]

I want a CRT telly for the living room, one of those with the stupid fake wood panelling to go with the rest of my interior decor and so I can watch Fawlty Towers, Man About The House and The Sweeney on a proper tiny, fuzzy screen with shit sound. Probably not a 70s one which will go wrong and set my house on fire but some late 80s Mitsubishi or something.

 

About a decade ago every second hand furniture store was packed with them because old duffers were flogging them in the misunderstanding they needed new kit to "go digital". Are there any left now? Nope. Of course they weigh as much as a small moon and are fragile so posting such a beast is out of the question so online shopping is pretty much out. In fact you rarely see second hand electronics for sale at all now-a-days.

 

In fact, are there any more second hand furniture shops? Not really. There are antique shops, sure, but where are all the shops flogging cheap 40-70 year old furniture that's a bit battered and knackered but still sold and NOT brush painted in pastel colours? Gone.

I have ONE locally, but it's a big place and stock is dwindling, it was packed full circa 2005...

Stick up a wanted ad here, I'm pretty sure there a 70s/80s telly perv here? I remember seeing a collection posted up here sometime back.

[scaryoldcortina]

hey, if you want it I've got an old ferguson kicking around somewhere. It's like this one, but without the legs.

 

[MarvinsMom]

cor, that is proper old skool crt porn.....

 

me mam and dad had something similar when growing up, except theirs was sat on a trolley like thing on caters.

 

i hope it hasn't got remote control nonsense either, you want to try a different channel, one of the 3 on offer, then you have to get up and choose another channel yourself....

[MarvinsMom]

is that a betamax video too?

[scaryoldcortina]

It is - that's a sanyo Beta2000 I think. I have one of those someone can have for nowt as well.

[Pillock]

Yeah, it has to be said that some people do have the money to buy a new, big, pricey car outright.

 

And to be honest, if you get too wound up about it it just comes across as weird. It's never good to have an obsession, especially not obsessing about how much other people spend on stuff. Be happy in yourself. Let other people be happy too. EVERYONE JUST KEEP CALM.

[the judge]

Toploader!!! Yeah baby!!

[Cheggers]

I'm sure I read something the other day about Sony finally "retiring" Betamax tapes?

[MarvinsMom]

me parents too had one of those, a sanyo betamax video.

 

when we finally got said video, i was gutted that it wasn't vhs, a friend had "clash of the titans" on tape, but their machine was a vhs.....

 

and yes the other day there was something on the news about sony finally ending betamax, i'm surprised that they lasted SO MUCH LONGER that vhs, but there again it wa broadcast quality, and whenever i've seen the likes of the local new lot filming then it was always with a betamax camera.

[scaryoldcortina]

Yeah, my parents had the exact same one - maybe that explains where the one I keep finding in the garage came from. I had the same experience as well, but with a pirated copy of "The Empire Strikes Back"

[Lord Sterling]

Scary - you look as if you actually live in the 70s. If you ever fancy a tour of the early 90s, you're welcome to mine!

[Station]

Do you watch things on the old CRT TV's/videos?

They look lovely.

[Clanger]

I'm sure I read something the other day about Sony finally "retiring" Betamax tapes?

I heard that on the radio last week or so - even more amazing was the statistic quoted - they were still selling something like 12 million units a year!

[fordperv]

I miss my old Phillips G11 TV, that was fantastic

[Eddie Honda]

Are there any left now? Nope.

 

When I stayed in a bedsit, there was a bloke who used to work in a second-hand telly shop and he said one of the crap jobs he had was to iron-on some plain black fablon over the old-fashioned fake wood to make it look more contemporary....

 

I suppose if you really want that shite ex-rental look, you could do the reverse and iron on some shit teak-effect fablon.

 

Let's be realistic here with regards to budget vs want. What you really want is a CRT Widescreen, one of those child-killer weighty objects that need four people to move. That way you get a nice CRT picture with a tube in at least the right ratio for what they are broadcasting and they're cheap. If you're watching in the wrong ratio, then I'll have to come up and give you a boot in the baws.

 

Anyway fake teak is rubbish, our 1970s Bush telly was white (bought new from Comet, Abbotsinch in 1976 - had a one button remote!) Can't find a picture of that one. We also had a second-hand Murphy CV2215 in the early 1980s which was white just like this:

 

[anonymous user]

Sorry all my CRT tvs are round not square

 

Proving the world can still be viewed in black and white, despite digital tv.

 

 

Still have the set, but sadly no longer have Bob the dog.

 

Somewhere I have, in a box, an unused frequency modulator thing so that you can plug in digi-box/satellite box and convert from a scart to an RF co-axial output so you can watch modern stuff on an old pre-scart set. I'll dig it out and put it up for grabs if anyone wants it, as I'll never use it.

[Jon]

Very glad to see the Mitsubishi's still going, Hirst. I bought it from Rufforth car boot sale c.1995 when it wasn't full of knock-off new stuff. Advertised at £15 by a very nice man, my Grandad obviously thought that was too much for me, so I got it for £12.50 IIRC.

 

On the Betamax thing, I wonder if it's the long phasing out of the various Digibeta formats that broadcast camera bodies used? can't remember the last time I did a job with a camera running tapes (or even film, sadly) but I think it was still a popular format in studios.

[purplebargeken]

Sodding cold sore! Hateful bastard thing.

[garbaldy]

Here's my Mitsubishi 20-inch with remote control.

 

 

It's not for sale, though.

That brings back memory's as my parents had the same TV on hire from our local electrical shop, at least it didn't have a massive box that you had to put coins in to make it work like the neighbours TV did.

[HH-R]

HOT home cinema there.

 

I keep fancying an old Ferguson TX but they're pretty much extinct now.

 

In fact it's quite surprising how few CRTs there are left considering there were millions of the things ten years ago. All smashed up in YouTube videos probably.

[sheffcortinacentre]

I've my grand parents TX on/off swt its knackered so is on once plugged in, also a couple of B&W portables one the late 70's white case we bought new in mid/late 70's skegness high street when we had or static in nearby chapel-st-leonards ( I know roughly where it is but daren't go look for it as no where to store unless I win lottery then I will & intend to have it restored) but I digress also was given few years back an early video camera with separate shoulder bag type recorder.

 

want a 70's ferguson studio 7 hi-fi.

[BavarianRetro]

Here's my Mitsubishi 20-inch with remote control.

 

 

It's not for sale, though.

Bloody Hell!

 

Evil Edna, as I live and breathe.