michael1703 Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 The constant MOT tester bashing on here is getting tiresome . Most of us drive old bangers so failures happen - deal with it . We should strive to maintain our cars better than the bare minimum the goverment requires anyway .These guys are doing their job - ie following a test that they didnt make up . They are just there to follow it and do as they are told . Sure you get dickhead testers , much the same as you get dickhead Tesco checkout staff . But testing is a soul destroying horrible job that I wouldnt do again for all the tea in China .I enjoy it,all my customers appreciate that you are looking out for their safety , I get tips /bottles of wine /homemade baking and jam and I've made friendships that will last a lifetime scaryoldcortina 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheggers Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 I know this isn't the place and all that, but it's just been confirmed my wife's sister has incurable cancer. Keeping it off social media for now until we've reached all the family.Thoughts are with you and your family Billy. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Cavcraft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M'coli Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 My thoughts, also, are with you and your family, Billy. Cavcraft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspector Morose Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 Thoughts Billy. If you need to vent, I'm known to be a good ear. Cavcraft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 https://www.nymr.co.uk/news/heartbreak-after-vandals-attack-heritage-railway-carriages-news They've been fucking up carriages at the East Lancs too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 I know this isn't the place and all that, but it's just been confirmed my wife's sister has incurable cancer. Keeping it off social media for now until we've reached all the family. Billy my thoughts are with you. I found out this morning a friend has a tumour of the spine and it is'nt looking good. Cavcraft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 Parked up in Tesco parent and child bit today next to an 06 a3 on 18 inch wheels . Both front tyres completely bald and gone beyond the cords / showing the steel wire on the inside edges ! Landsail rubbish as well ! If I had seen the driver I would have said something - two child seats in the back too !Across the road from me there's a woman with an old Zafira, same, tyres down to cords. Carries a load of kids round in it. Fairly sure I'd get told to 'fuck off' if I told her. It'll be the usual story though, can't afford a pair of budgets but can afford to squander a hundred quid on garden furniture in Argos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chodweaver Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 Sorry to hear that Billy, that's awful news. Sent from my BV6000 using Tapatalk Cavcraft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strangeangel Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 So sorry to hear this, Billy. A good friend of mine recently went for her annual check up, and it transpires that her breast cancer has returned. Cancer fucking sucks. Cavcraft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alcyonecorporation Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 I was going to go on about utterly shit another week has been. After reading the above, I won't. Thoughts and help for Billy. Cavcraft and myglaren 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 As above. MANHUGS for Billeh and Bren. alcyonecorporation and Cavcraft 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 Sorry, but if the people who've bid aren't offering as much as a lump sum straight away, it's fair game as far as I'm concerned. Other people may not be as skint as I am. Other financial situations and dispositions are available. I see your argument, though. Exactly. I won an old E36 2-3 weeks ago.I bid it up to 300 quid, contacted the buyer and offered him 300 quid and would collect it the same day. "It's not really fair on other Ebayers" So 2 days later when I was still the high bidder, I rang him back, did the deal over the phone and picked it up the next morning. If the other bidders wanted it, the opportunity was there. Early bird/worm etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 I know this isn't the place and all that, but it's just been confirmed my wife's sister has incurable cancer. Keeping it off social media for now until we've reached all the family. Shit the bed Sorry to hear that mate. I had an ultrasound on Weds and was called up by the doctors Thursday at just past 8.00 to 'come in for a chat'. All sorts of shit goes through your mind in these scenarios. It's just a couple of kidney stones thank fuck. Cancer is a bastard. It's taking far too many good people, yet Rupert Murdoch will live to 103. eddyramrod, stephen01, Cavcraft and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mally Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 Been there Billy, hard on everyone.People react differently, depends on many things.All you can do is be there for her as and when you can. Cavcraft, 3VOM, The Reverend Bluejeans and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slartibartfast Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 Sorry, Billy. Cavcraft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lankytim Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 Thoughts with you and your family, Billy. alcyonecorporation and Cavcraft 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alcyonecorporation Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 Shit the bed Sorry to hear that mate. I had an ultrasound on Weds and was called up by the doctors Thursday at just past 8.00 to 'come in for a chat'. All sorts of shit goes through your mind in these scenarios. It's just a couple of kidney stones thank fuck. Cancer is a bastard. It's taking far too many good people, yet Rupert Murdoch will live to 103. Had that 'chat' just once in my life so far. It was after I'd binned the Midget and my left eye had swollen shut; as the car had rolled [i think] the windscreen pillar folded in bringing the glass through my scalp, cheek and chin. The right side of my body was scratched to fuck, I'd lost my glasses and could only see out of one eye. I had a scan and the doctor was very quiet. All I was told was, "We'll send a specialist to talk to you." This was shortly after they'd cut my clothes off and I saw the bruises that my jumper had been covering. I was filthy after the car had slithered down a ditch. They took me back upstairs and I sat in a room in Hull Royal Infirmary (not a ward, a separate room) and eventually an eye surgeon/specialist came to see me.He told me that the scans had been inconclusive and that he had to open up my eyelid past the swelling and bruises to see if it my left eye was still in one piece. He prised it open after warning me it would hurt and I gripped the side of the plastic bed rail so hard I cracked it. "Yes, it'll be fine. No loss of sight. You're very lucky." In the interim period sitting in the single room I was convinced I'd crushed my eye and that for the rest of my life I'd be partially blind. Not one of my finest moments. The only bit of luck I had that day was that I wore a seatbelt, I did lock up and go in backwards, and after its somersault the non functioning horn miraculously reconnected itself. That's what caused the bloke coming from the local village to stop: he heard the horn. The car wasn't visible from the road and when I picked the MG up from the dealership, the button didn't peep. D Spares & Tyres and The Reverend Bluejeans 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 Cav - Thoughts with you, Mrs Cav & Cav_family alcyonecorporation 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlabamaShrimp Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 As I've said before I'm shit at sympathy and related stuff so please take it as read that I have similar thoughts to those posted myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
privatewire Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 To add to the above, I'm not great at expressing sympathy, even though I feel it. I lost my dad to cancer 6 years ago yesterday, and my mum the year before that. Cancer is an utter bastard, stay strong for each other Cavcraft. strangeangel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostnotFound Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 that is terrible news Mr Craft, I'm sure you'll be there for your Mrs and the rest of the family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplebargeken Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Sorry to hear that Billy, cancer is a cunt. School was boring, the teachers didn't give a fuck unless you were a school soccer/rugby/cricket player. Mrs Powell at school had great tits but she shagged a 6th former. The Dart Charge wankers tagged my old purple volvo as it was being towed on a trailer then sent me a fine. Wankers. However, thanks to Craig the P's dad it is all sorted. Dart Charge Tossers. Cavcraft and Craig the Princess 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig the Princess Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Glad that got sorted out Ken. purplebargeken 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplebargeken Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 I believe your dad is going to make a formal complaint. I guess a trailered car is pretty hard to miss...... unless you work for Dart Charge. Craig the Princess 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Just went on Parkers to look up some specs. Nope, Parkers require you to disable Adblock, or if you don't want to do that, pay. FRO, I'm off to Honest John. strangeangel and tinribs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moog Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 Just went on Parkers to look up some specs. Nope, Parkers require you to disable Adblock, or if you don't want to do that, pay. FRO, I'm off to Honest John.Surely that is fair enough if they are offering a free service? jumpingjehovahs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 Eh, debatable. I doubt anyone pays to use Parkers! If they just said 'please disable Adblock' like Channel 4 etc I wouldn't mind as much. cpjitservices 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernaut Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 I'm back in Aberdeen after spending a week driving around Alberta. Not a happy bunny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lankytim Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 "seller is not able to respond to your question" Why TF can't an ebay seller respond to my question?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dean36014 Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 Found the source of the water leaks in the new bx. That's going to be fun to repair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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