The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

bored sexy milfs etc.the only one who would talk to me turned out to play for the other team.

 

I hope you asked for pictorial proof.

[myglaren]

Years ago (early '70s) I bought a Rollei projector that would take both 6x6 and 35mm slides, cost more than a colour TV.

Bulb went about 15 years ago so it has been in the attic since then.

Visitors (family) coming tomorrow requested that I have the projector ready.

New bulb £22.50 from eBay, came a couple of days ago.

Spent two hours in the attic digging out the projector and slides.

Then an hour cleaning them and the screen.

Bulb works fine, projector mechanics don't.

Spent three hours this evening dismantling , cleaning and lubricating it.  Plugged it in to check the operation and blew the bulb 

Back to the drawing board then

[Disco Fever]

I put some 100w halfords ILLEGAL AS FRIG RALLY BULBS in my golf last night, just for the main beam (H1) and it's made such a difference, I can see stacks more now. £9 a pair on trade, twice that if not. Turns out the ones I removed were Osram fancy ones.

 

My first motor was a Mini (old school as 1987) and that had a halogen conversion. I used 80/100s in that and full beam was astonishing. Dipped was okay - never got flashed. I did keep spare switches though because it could've done with a relay as it tended to melt the them. 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

projector

 

At least the bulb wasn't all that expensive. I spunked a load of money on a broken 720p DLP projector on the promise it just needed a new bulb (over a hundred quid). Thought I'd got a bargain, but naturally about half an hour after ordering the bulb I discover that the bulb wasn't the problem, the projector itself was. Got a chunk of my money back by selling it honestly with the new bulb (which came the next day, lamphouse.co.uk very good service!). 

 

With what was left of the money I bought a functional 800x600 office projector which gives me an 80in screen in 16:9 mode. It's pretty great even though the lowliest AVforums member would piss themselves laughing at my 'home theatre'. 

 

I'd wanted a projector for years, ever since my dad brought one home from work years ago which was so expensive we had to stay a few paces away from it. It was amazing, even though it didn't have any AV inputs so all we could do was look at the Windows NT4 desktop and play massive solitaire on the dining room wall.

[hairnet]

was watching get carter then the sports life chris eubank thing come on - he lasted 0.02 secs before i turned it off

 

hes still a smug twat

 

 

[SambaS]

This nearly sent me back over the edge today.

 

The car was in for a new bottom arm as the lass that left totalled the van one night when the road was flooded.

 

Anyway just LOOK what the lunatics at the garage have done.

 

 

This is the wheels pointing straight. I hit a puddle tonight and was all over the road it's just not on!!!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Is this the same garage who did your ZR cylinder head?

[Micrashed]

Empty car park in Preston.
The MicraShed is the ONLY car parked there. No. 1 son and myself go to the model shop to peruse a car. We come back after all of 10 minutes to find one other car has joined us in the empty car park and parked RIGHT NEXT TO the Micrashed.

WHY???? 

Is it safety in numbers? Do they think if I park next to this heap that any falling meteor will not hit mine but chose to hit the Micrashed? Do they think that sitting next to the Micrashed will make their 02 plate Mondeo look better? Why park RIGHT next to someone else in an otherwise empty car park? Why? Why risk having your door dented by the Micrashed?

I just dont get the mentality really I dont?

[Lord Sterling]

So Mart, is that why I saw you in Birmingham yesterday in the Cherry looking so stressed?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Marty in 'car parked next to mine' shocker - EXCLUSIVE!!! SEE p6,7,8 9, 15 & BACK COVER

[Cavcraft]

Added security? They park next to you so if you see someone breaking into their car you could stop them, or something. Mind you, it's a Mondeo so you'd think they'd want to get it robbed. 

[Negative Creep]

http://cardealermagazine.co.uk/publish/mini-advert-banned-encouraging-dangerous-driving/78433

[hairnet]

aimed at cheshire mogs (east and south obv)

[Spiny Norman]

 

BMW Mini said the poster’s wide format and coloured lines referred to the long distances people could travel in the car

 

That's what I call thinking on your feet....

[fotorabia]

Had to surrender my driver licence due to my epilepsy diagnosis.Only benefit from this is a free Scottish travel pass.

Zero rusty shite to photograph.

Zero income and just lost my one wee job in Oban packing crabs due to being replaced by more business lucrative Orkney fishermen who come down with the produce.

[vulgalour]

Harsh news, Rab  As I understand it, if you're fit free for a certain period you can get your license back.

 

I did know exactly how the rules were on it, but I'm a bit vague now, my memory isn't so great with certain things due to medication I was on a few years ago which was also causing me to have fits and seizures.  I had been misdiagnosed for a few years in the distant past as epileptic, but it turns out I'm prone to fits and blackouts when on certain medications and in certain very high stress situations, like when I broke my finger in a car door.  A later more thorough investigation by the psychiatric team discovered it was actually the medication I was on, not that I had epilepsy, and the anti-epilepsy medication I was on was just compounding issues.

 

At the time, I hadn't passed my test but I asked about how it would affect things anyway and from what I do remember, I had to be fit free for a year and then I'd get my license back.  If then in the next 3 years I had a fit I think I had to submit my license again, but I can't remember the exact details of how/if you get it back.

 

If you haven't already, it would certainly be worth figuring out how the rules work.  The important thing is that your health is taken care of first and foremost.  Having a fit at the wheel really doesn't bear thinking about.

[willswitchengage]

Finally left the AS facebook page after getting fed up of my feed being cluttered with dispassionate photos of 2005 Mondeos and slammed Polos all entitled "my autoshite!!!11"

[fotorabia]

Harsh news, Rab  As I understand it, if you're fit free for a certain period you can get your license back.

 

I did know exactly how the rules were on it, but I'm a bit vague now, my memory isn't so great with certain things due to medication I was on a few years ago which was also causing me to have fits and seizures.  I had been misdiagnosed for a few years in the distant past as epileptic, but it turns out I'm prone to fits and blackouts when on certain medications and in certain very high stress situations, like when I broke my finger in a car door.  A later more thorough investigation by the psychiatric team discovered it was actually the medication I was on, not that I had epilepsy, and the anti-epilepsy medication I was on was just compounding issues.

 

At the time, I hadn't passed my test but I asked about how it would affect things anyway and from what I do remember, I had to be fit free for a year and then I'd get my license back.  If then in the next 3 years I had a fit I think I had to submit my license again, but I can't remember the exact details of how/if you get it back.

 

If you haven't already, it would certainly be worth figuring out how the rules work.  The important thing is that your health is taken care of first and foremost.  Having a fit at the wheel really doesn't bear thinking about.

Yeah buddy..im on tegratol..i had to drop the dosage by half cos it made me feel like shit..GP seems ok with that...i know ive got my health back on at least by diagnosis...but its been a hell of a three years.. feels like its been a car wreck...where the basis keeps moving but bits falling off as i proceed..anyway...you gotta laugh!..living with the old folks is kinda funny...im like Spoilt Bastard from Viz..without the tantrums!

[Lord Sterling]

Bloody Rovers. So, apart from the squeaky suspension (passenger side) there now appears to be a sort of grinding noise when I turn the steering towards right. Possibly when said suspension is under pressure. Yet another thing that might cost me money I can't replace.

 

Also; I need to stop buying off eBay.

[vulgalour]

The AA came to my rescue recently when I needed them.  Staff were courteous, polite and professional, I have absolutely no problems with the service I received and I'm happy to remain a member.

 

I was, therefore, rather pleased when a letter arrived telling me I was eligible for a Silver Membership and that it had extra benefits (which I don't need) and which would kick in at the start of the next year's membership in February.  All I had to do to make this happen was put my moniker on the back of the new membership card provided.

 

But wait, why would they give me extras for free?  I read through the letter a couple of times but it's only when you check the back that it says the Silver Membership costs an extra approx. £5 a month over the Standard Membership and that it automatically charges this extra cost to your direct debit when the new membership year kicks in.

 

So I've sent an electronic letter of complaint.  It's a massively misleading letter and makes you think you've been awarded extras when that's not the case.  I thought companies had stopped doing the opt-out if you want to stay on your basic account thing.  I have no issues being informed I'm eligible, but I take umbrage at being mislead into thinking I'm getting a bonus when in actual fact I'm just being put on a more expensive tariff.

[Rocket88]

Just discovered that someone I really like turns into the spawn of Satan when she's drunk....................

[Cavcraft]

Finally left the AS facebook page after getting fed up of my feed being cluttered with dispassionate photos of 2005 Mondeos and slammed Polos all entitled "my autoshite!!!11"

 

Rejoined it for about 4 days recently, then remembered why I'd left it the first time.

[Cavcraft]

.....spawn of Satan.....she....................

 

 

No further words required.

[saucedoctor]

Just discovered that someone I really like turns into the spawn of Satan when she's drunk....................

"They all do that, sir"

[cobblers]

Christmas presents: if there is something I actually want, I will probably have already bought it myself if it was in the usual <£10 christmas present price bracket. 

 

All my friends and family are about as skint as I am, so I'd rather they not waste their money on shit I don't want just because it's the anniversary of some brainwashed dumbarses imaginary friend being born.

 

For the last ten years I've told everyone I know to absolutely not buy me anything. I don't want a bottle of shit awful christmas ale, or an ill fitting tshirt with a picture of a VW splitscreen on. I know they say it's the thought that counts, but if people actually put any "thought" into it, they wouldn't buy me a fucking thing.

 

On christmas morning I'll probably go round to my mums and there will be a pile of token gifts for me. If I refuse them, I will look like a cunt. If I open them and say "thanks, but you shouldn't have cos I've got you nowt" I will look like a selfish bastard, so as such I am going to end up going to the supermarket to buy some totally wank presents for these people and continue this tiresome wasteful charade once again.

[purplebargeken]

I hear what you are saying^^

 

I actually find christmas irritating. Having to go round the houses of arsehole relatives who you can't stand and be nice to them. Screw that. Mrs PBK knows now not to take me visiting as I don't play well with others. 

 

The only good bit is a couple of extra days off, mince pies which I do adore and a slightly upper scale roast dinner. Parsnips too. 

 

Whilst on the subject, why the feck do adverts always show christmas scenes with snow? On the whole it doesn't happen for most of us (did it last year, I can't remember). 

[HillmanImp]

Was driving behind this MASSIVE CUNT the other day. He was driving through Guiseley and I noticed that he had no lights on. I got out when in traffic and noticed that his front lights were indeed on, his rear lights were just not working. I knocked on his window and said 'Your rear lights are not working mate' and he said 'I know I don't know what the fucks wrong with them' to which I replied 'Well maybe you shouldn't be driving it at night you fucking dickhead'. 

 

 

He put his brake lights on when I was taking this photo as he probably thought I was calling the police or something comical like that. NO MATE I AM JUST OUTING YOU AS A TOTAL DICK ON A LITTLE KNOWN T'INTERWEB LOOKUPPAGE! 

 

TAKE THAT MO'FO.

[Cavcraft]

..and talking of brake lights can I just say what a massive* pleasure* it is to be behind some cockwad on the motorway in a new Mercedes saloon who just drives up everyone's arse end then puts his fucking foot on the brakes. Jesus wept those new fangled headlights are bad enough but the brake lights on some modern cars can probably be seen by the pissing moon.

 

 

Yes, I did back off and let the knobhead get further away.

[skattrd]

Grrrr modern lights - rear fog lights on new Audi's. They are blinding, to the extent I think they are dangerous. When left on in wet conditions it's difficult to see anything apart from those lights.

[brickwall]

The AA came to my rescue recently when I needed them.  Staff were courteous, polite and professional, I have absolutely no problems with the service I received and I'm happy to remain a member.

 

I was, therefore, rather pleased when a letter arrived telling me I was eligible for a Silver Membership and that it had extra benefits (which I don't need) and which would kick in at the start of the next year's membership in February.  All I had to do to make this happen was put my moniker on the back of the new membership card provided.

 

But wait, why would they give me extras for free?  I read through the letter a couple of times but it's only when you check the back that it says the Silver Membership costs an extra approx. £5 a month over the Standard Membership and that it automatically charges this extra cost to your direct debit when the new membership year kicks in.

 

So I've sent an electronic letter of complaint.  It's a massively misleading letter and makes you think you've been awarded extras when that's not the case.  I thought companies had stopped doing the opt-out if you want to stay on your basic account thing.  I have no issues being informed I'm eligible, but I take umbrage at being mislead into thinking I'm getting a bonus when in actual fact I'm just being put on a more expensive tariff.

 

 

Same here. I cancelled and joined Autonational full whack at 64 bucks plus 12 quid cashback.