The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

I might get one of these and point it at my speedo, film my glacial expressions as I'm wind assisting the 306 along in 5th gear behind another sodding lorry

[Lord Sterling]

Oh, another grump. This hasn't been taxed for a month or two:

 

 

When I passed by the house I noticed a newer Honda Jazz/Suzuki type car in the driveway. I wonder where the Blue Rover 213 has gone

[Station]

I sympathise.  Get a really good mouthwash like Corsodyl and use it every half hour until things improve.  It doesn't taste very good but the decent medicated mouthwashes don't- the sweet tasting (much cheaper..) ones do sod all IMO.

 

 +59.7 for Peroxyl. It's in Tescos. It seriously sorts out tooth irritations within a day. You should also use those interdental brush things every other day.

I remember having a really bad pain in my tooth last year and was driving home in agony glugging that Peroxyl - my teeth are sensitive to cold and the coldness throb was better than the pain. I was spitting it out of the window as I drove home, covering the side of the car. It cleared up the next day.

[cobblers]

Gumtree morons. I'm selling a stella fridge for £35. Honestly I'm not really arsed for earning money out of it, I paid a oner when I moved into uni ten years ago and it's never been turned off since. £35 is the least I would like to earn from having to actually having to deal with someone in person. I would happily give it away to someone I know, but no fucker wants it and I can't bring myself to tip it.

 

 

Q:"what's your best price?"

A: "Best for me would be about £500 but I'm a realist so I would accept £35"

 

 

Q: "Would you take £10"

A: "Yes if someone left it lying around unattended"

Q: "can I colect tomorrow?"

A: "yes, bring £45"

 

I've still got it in the garage.

[Mr Lobster]

^ I've got one of them stella fridges next to my toolbox. Sometimes, when I'm trying to sort something particularly seized / broken / rusty / French, I find the contents of the aforementioned fridge to be a whole load more useful than the contents of the toolbox.

[inconsistant]

Oh, another grump. This hasn't been taxed for a month or two:

 

 

When I passed by the house I noticed a newer Honda Jazz/Suzuki type car in the driveway. I wonder where the Blue Rover 213 has gone

 

People with garage doors like this always look after their cars properly. They have well groomed lawns and lots of spare time, and are fanatical about detail. They do preventative maintenance. They will have extensive paperwork relating to any car they own. They will never fit budget brand tyres. You should aways buy your cars from this type of people, you can't go wrong. They also make tedious friends. 

[Lord Sterling]

Earlier this year, I actually saw the bloke who owned this car. He was quite an old bloke, usual brown patterned trouser wearing type with thin white hair and slow ways. I was in a rush at the time but I did stop and comment to him that his car was very nice. I should have passed my number and told him that if he ever wanted to sell, I'd find it a good home, but I didn't think he'd ever sell. I hope its gone to a good home whever it is.

[Mr Livered]

By "good home" would you include "washing machine factory"?

[Angrydicky]

Hopefully the Rover has just been stashed away in the garage. Looking at the condition of it, and knowing how they rot, I would think it had been regularly garaged anyway.

[Cavcraft]

Im stuck somewhere for probably an hour and theyve got Radio 1 on.

The voices may have changed since i last listened to it, but the olympic standards of gobshitery have not.

[Cavcraft]

Now they're playing a record that seems to consist of several bellends (who almost certainly wear luminous coloured baseball hats sideways) twatting on into a biscuit tin in an alley way as a girl with a really good voice is talked over.

Music is dead, viva la gobshite

[Danblez]

Surely not even the young uns can think R1 is any good these days?! It is monumentally shit.

[oman5]

​apocalyptically  shit.  although to be fair I gave up on it around 1993. I was 19 and despite being their target audience I thought it was appalling. They bought in that fat I-love-myself wanker Danny Baker who was just tragic. Emma Freud who tried to introduce intelligent high brow banter to the morning show..Just what brickies and truck drivers want to listen to, I'm sure. so why they lost half their audience overnight is anyone's guess. Radio 2 on the other hand has never been more popular. I must be old, on the odd occasion I accidentally find radio 1 it's just noise.

[dollywobbler]

Radio 1 = shit. Obviously. Radio 2 = increasingly shit. Depressingly. 

[Skizzer]

Gumtree morons. I'm selling a stella fridge for £35. Honestly I'm not really arsed for earning money out of it, I paid a oner when I moved into uni ten years ago and it's never been turned off since. £35 is the least I would like to earn from having to actually having to deal with someone in person. I would happily give it away to someone I know, but no fucker wants it and I can't bring myself to tip it.

 

 

If you're not that fussed about the money, Freecycle (or I suppose a charity shop) may be your friend here.  I usually ask myself how much I'd pay to make all the world's morons go away and then compare this with the likely value of whatever I'm getting rid of.  Mrs Skizzer deals with the freecycle admin but hasn't had met a mongtard yet.

[Station]

Radio 1 sacked the incredibly shit Chris Moyles as they were starting to appeal to a 'newer' audience of 12 year old girls. If you listen to Radio 1 intentionally, you are a twat.

[Station]

If you're not that fussed about the money, Freecycle (or I suppose a charity shop) may be your friend here.  I usually ask myself how much I'd pay to make all the world's morons go away and then compare this with the likely value of whatever I'm getting rid of.  Mrs Skizzer deals with the freecycle admin but hasn't had met a mongtard yet.

 

Unfortunately, Freecycle is populated by people who sell them on again, and people who own second hand shops.

[Angrydicky]

The only thing worse than Radio 1 is Heart. When I was driving for a well known supermarket on a more permanent basis, whenever I got in a van the radio was usually set to Heart, or f*****g Southend Radio. Southend radio, for anyone who doesn't know, is just a clone of Heart with possibly even-more-annoying presenters. There's only so much Lady Gaga or Olly Murs a man can take.

 

I made a point of always leaving the radio set to Classic FM for the next driver.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Periodically I fit a radio to my car, get pissed off by radio for a couple of months and then sell the radio.

[dugong]

I agree, which is worrying given my background. 

[Junkman]

In my cars there is usually a rectangular hole puking wires where the radio belongs, or there is actually an antique radio and I don't know whether it works or not, because I have never switched it on.

During my 30 year 300+ cars driving career, I have not once fitted a radio and have absolutely not the foggiest how to connect one anyway.

 

Car radios keep me from listening to the automotive symphony and daydreaming, which is totally unacceptable.

[dollywobbler]

I spent ages wiring some *brilliant speakers into the Discovery for Shitefest '13, which it never even made it to. I drove up in the Golf instead and don't think I turned the radio on once. In fact, I'm not sure I've turned the Disco's stereo on since the upgrade. It's the Shiter's way that you don't listen to the stereo because you might miss the important sound of something falling off.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I fitted a stereo into my Disco last winter when it looked like OMGSNKAOS would mean Mrs. N would have to use it for work- this was the only winter preparation it received. She used it once,moaned about the damp,the cold,the mould,the noise,the wandering on the motorway etc etc . When I pointed out the nice radio she hit me.

 

I listen to the radio all day 04.00-0600 Radio2 06.00-09.30Absolute or 3 Counties, 09.30-13.30 Radio 2, 13.30-16.00Radio 4, 16.00-17.00 Radio 1, 17.00-18.30 Radio2, 18.30 onwards Radio 4.

[dugong]

 

 It's the Shiter's way that you don't listen to the stereo because you might miss the important sound of something falling off.

 

 

Nae. 

I've had semi-decent systems in a couple of my cars. If I ever get the Amazon back (it's dragging on a bit) I'll get the Blaupunkt overhauled and a line input installed. Not all modern radio is terrible. There are streaming internet sites catering to pretty much every musical \ spoken word whim you could want. I got myself a Cambridge Audio Sonata MP30 last year and never looked back. Smart Phones are really rather useful if you get rid of the applications you don't want and install the ones you do. High-bitrate MP3s are perfectly serviceable for in-car listening and decent speakers need not cost the earth. I'll type it again : TuneIn and KEXP. Look hard enough and you will find something you like. 

The way some people go on in here I'm surprised they dragged their heads out of the sand long enough to embrace the Internet. 

[Lord Sterling]

I used to listen to Classic FM on the radio, but now my dial is more or less firmly fixed on Radio 4 or very occasionally, BBC WM. Mind, I hardly ever switch my radio on anyway.

 

At various work places I've had the misfortune to be in, there is always a bloody radio, and the dial always seems to find its way to either Radio 1, Heart FM or possibly the worst, repetitive station ever, 'Free Radio'.

[Sigmund Fraud]

Car radios keep me from listening to the automotive symphony and daydreaming, which is totally unacceptable.

 

Agreed. Unfortunately, I spend two hours a day in a soul-crushing 1990s diesel, and music is far better for daydreaming than Dr.Rudolf's automotive cacophony.

 

It's CDs and not the radio that I listen to, though, as I have a rather eclectic taste in music and poor tolerance of rambling, trendy idiots.

[Sigmund Fraud]

It's the Shiter's way that you don't listen to the stereo because you might miss the important sound of something falling off.

 

I disagree... A true shitter keeps the stereo on '11/10', so it drowns out the blowing exhaust / knocking big ends / gearbox whine

[The Moog]

To be fair, I got a lot of new furniture from there. With that and British Heart Foundation shops kitted whole house out for a lot less than one DFS sofa.

[dollywobbler]

I disagree... A true shitter keeps the stereo on '11/10', so it drowns out the blowing exhaust / knocking big ends / gearbox whine

 

Add wind and road noise. My hearing is permanently damaged from adding a really loud stereo into the mix in the 2CV. It hasn't had one for years and I now wear ear plugs.

[plasticvandan]

I used to listen to Classic FM on the radio, but now my dial is more or less firmly fixed on Radio 4 or very occasionally, BBC WM. Mind, I hardly ever switch my radio on anyway.

 

At various work places I've had the misfortune to be in, there is always a bloody radio, and the dial always seems to find its way to either Radio 1, Heart FM or possibly the worst, repetitive station ever, 'Free Radio'.

Free radio agghhhhh still playing the same manufactured crap on repeat that they were 5 years ago,im lucky in that i am the only one in the warehouse at work so have absolute 80s or planet rock on