The grumpy thread

[dollywobbler]

You know what really winds me up? When you're turning into your driveway or a side road, and the person behind is so impatient they have to drive around you instead of braking for say, six seconds. I don't know why but it pisses me off big time.

 

Sorry but I do this all of the time. Momentum is precious when you drive old snotters! What really annoys me is when folk pull out in front of you, and THEN turn off almost immediately.

[Ghosty]

I was talking to an insurance broker friend recently and he reckoned the new 'openness' of the DVLA records SHOULD see premiums reduced as the insurers will no longer have to apply a premium for the risk that someone is being dishonest when giving their endorsements history.

 

More info and a much better explanation here: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-2536413/Car-insurance-costs-fall-DVLA-moves-driving-licence-records-online.html

 I doubt it'll help people under 25 (and it's nearly 7 years until I am).

[chaseracer]

Sorry but I do this all of the time. Momentum is precious when you drive old snotters! What really annoys me is when folk pull out in front of you, and THEN turn off almost immediately.

That drives me seriously mucking fental.

[michael1703]

Was working on a car last tuesday and caught my left hand with the grinder brush cup, it smarted a bit and carried on and over the week it has scabbed up ok, but one bit was bugging me,this morning it was swollen and had some puss in it, I seem to have had a spiral wire sent into my hand at a few thousand rpm, I can see the top of it,but can't pull it out

 

Going to try my surgeries nurse,but might be A+E

 

One of these bastards did it

 

[Micrashed]

Technology.

Fupping marvelous isnt it.

 

Bought a new telly because the old one was shagged. Same screen size but looks so much smaller. Luzzed £300 on a new telly.

Speakers no where to be seen and sounds shite.

 

Luzzed another  Ã‚£250 on a dedicated speaker box for the telly bloody thing wont work with the HDMI lead so now I have to go and but a bloody optical lead for it.

 

And this is progress is it?

 

Fuxake.

[drum]

I refuse to read any paragraph of more than 6 lines. Especially if I wrote it.

[Angrydicky]

Still using a circa 1985 Sony Triniton in delightful beige here. No modern shite TV's for me.

[MrDuke]

Aye, I can see the appeal of flatties as they save a lot of space, but that's irrelevant to me as the TV's in the corner of the room. Currently rocking a 36" Phillips from 1990-something, awesome picture and sound, from Freecycle. If I wanted the same features and adjustability on a flat-screen I'd be royally bum-raped.

[twosmoke300]

Those knotted wire wheels are lethal ! I refuse to use them. They go where they feel like it.

Problem is the non knotted ones don't last as long and loose bristles which turn up as wire pubes in your pants all day.

[purplebargeken]

I have become quite adept at removing grinder-based knotted wire wheel strands from various limbs. They do go in a long way don't they. I wear safety goggles as I am squeamish about eyes, especially my own. Safety last!

[hairnet]

Aye, I can see the appeal of flatties as they save a lot of space, but that's irrelevant to me as the TV's in the corner of the room. Currently rocking a 36" Phillips from 1990-something, awesome picture and sound, from Freecycle. If I wanted the same features and adjustability on a flat-screen I'd be royally bum-raped.

apart from this semi posh monitor 19 inch and speakers built in luxury 150 quid cheapo pc from tesco

 

14 inch tv from currys 15 years ago and 20 quid freeview box

 

downstairs 200 quid lg 32 inch flattie only cos the previous daewoo 26 inch crt died after9 years and that was a castoff from the sister

 

dont see the point of 40 inch

[Spiny Norman]

Just off the phone to my mate and got told that one mutual friend has had a stroke, and that another one's sister has died of meningitis, all within the last couple of weeks.

We're talking about previously fit & healthy women in their late 30s here.... What the fuck?

 

Feeling very thankful for my lot in life right now.

[overrun]

Those knotted wire wheels are lethal ! I refuse to use them. They go where they feel like it.

Problem is the non knotted ones don't last as long and loose bristles which turn up as wire pubes in your pants all day.

Never wear shorts when using them.

 

I have stripped underseal from three shells, now and the job doesn't get any better.

Those non-knotted ones are ridiculous. As soon as the grinder is up to speed, it sheds them for fun.

 

Toolstation all the way for knot wheels.

[dugong]

Amazon project remains a multi-faceted, tentacular omnishambles. Nuanced, redolent of a palimpsest, it threatens never to be finished. 

The mechanic doing the bushes, brake lines and engine went to ground three months ago and has just popped back up again. He has still not said how much I owe him, and bailed on a meeting this morning after I drove to Crewe and back despite promising he wouldn't. 
He now claims he'll be there tomorrow. If he isn't I'm not paying him. The bloke who did the engine bits works like a madman. With a few quid dropped in his direction it would be on the road by the end of the week. Bear in mind it's been in Crewe since early March 2013. 

This bloke has caused ructions. He's messed everyone else around - the others have been nothing short of superb. By that I mean the bodyshop, the engine builder and the fabricator. 

The bodyshop ran out of space last week so have started leaving it outside. Somehow paint got chipped off one of the new floorpans and has flashed over. I am not happy about it staying outside. At all. At least it has 10 litres on Waxoyl on it now. The maft was intense. 
I'm very tempted to book a flatbed, take what I have to Wales and book MM5 out for the next month. The bumpers can't go on because Harrington's idea of a mounting bracket is rather different to that of Volvo's:



See? It's nothing like. They can be altered but it's a bit of a saga. The rear bumper fits after the mounting brackets were heated up and bent into shape. The bumpers themselves are well-finished overall but vary wildly in detail terms. Some of the mounting points look like they've been hacked out with a chisel while others are superbly crafted. The cost of getting these right still comes in at a damn sight less than stripping and rechroming the originals. The cheapest quote I got for the latter was a low four figure sum. 

The pot of inheritance money I got to sort everything out is now very low. I've had to dip into it innumerable times to pay bills which is why the warp factor B20 remains a figment of my imagination. 

Currently the whole thing feels like it's snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. We'll see what happens tomorrow, eh? 
 

#firstworldproblems

[Inspector Morose]

^^^ and use proper thick glass type goggles. The strands go straight through the cheaper plastic ones. I know the eye hospitals location very well. Even with one working eye.

[Angrydicky]

Sorry to hear of your problems Dugong, but the Amazon is looking spectacular.

[dugong]

Sorry to hear of your problems Dugong, but the Amazon is looking spectacular.

 

Cheers, I wouldn't have gone all out on the paint job but I had enough money left and went for it. 

 

 

In other news, I think something electrical on this thing is about to go bang. The dashboard lighting went nuclear-vivid this evening before the regulator reigned it in. The dashboard auxiliary buttons have frozen solid and the exhaust down pipe is farting out of every clamp it can. 

 

 

A contact is sending me this in exchange for a favour owed, so if the electrics don't melt a piston soon will. It's an orange Richmod, a remapped ECU that should bump the horsepower up to 160 provided the rest of the car can hold together. 

 

I managed to stop the sunroof leaking - which is nice.

Perhaps I can channel the drain tube into a radical new cooling system, or something. 

[TimothyClaypole]

Got dragged into a meeting for being off work yesterday.

 

My car's knackered which I told them 2 weeks ago so they knew in advance.

 

I go with a "mate" and we take turns every week to share the costs.

 

Yesterday his Picarso came up with a top up water message about 30 seconds from home.  

 

Any normal person would have gone home chucked some water in it and gone to work, he decided it was a major crisis and refused to go leaving me stuck at home.

 

 

So apparently it was my fault for not going when it would take half a dozen buses and trains and probably 4 hours to get their without a car while all he got was a "let us know how you get on with it".

 

"Can you not buy another car?" 

 

I've been waiting for some shit like this so let rip with maybe if I'd had a review/pay rise in the last two years I could have afforded one... the manager asked if I had a review etc. 8 months ago, I said no so she just walked off and did nothing about it.   

 

And to top it all off I dragged his lazy ass there for 3 months in the van I had at the time the other year while his car was sat with a knackered flywheel.  

[anonymous user]

^ I hope you get things sorted transport wise soon; next time I would advise that you tell them that one of your children/parents is ill rather than car off the road, go for the sympathy vote. (either that or take a sleeping bag into work and tell them if it's that important you will live there)

[Lord Sterling]

Fucking brilliant. Just what I dont need. Insurance renewal on the Sterling has come in. £295 for the same cover, its gone up! What the hell? Plus I need to pay my mate for storage. £100 here, £100 there £100 every bloody where. I can't wait to leave England, its bleeding me dry.

[The Moog]

Today in tesco some idiot has reversed into the corner of the xsara. only had it a month. They have managed to dent it right on the corner and broken the paint. Bugger

[chaseracer]

Bugger indeed

 

CCTV?

[Inspector Morose]

Yet another rejection letter.

[dugong]

Yet another rejection letter.

Sorry to hear that sir. 

[Inspector Morose]

Thanks. I think I'm just unemployable.

 

Or just a twat.

 

Or a right bastard in a previous life.

 

Or all of the above.

[The Moog]

I tend not to even get replies... normally a if you don't hear in the next 6 months you haven't got the role.

[dugong]

Thanks. I think I'm just unemployable.

 

Or just a twat.

 

Or a right bastard in a previous life.

 

Or all of the above.

 

Nonsense. 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

It can't be because you're a twat, because i have got a job.

[chaseracer]

Thanks. I think I'm just unemployable.

 

Or just a twat.

 

Or a right bastard in a previous life.

 

Or all of the above.

 

No.

 

Yes, but... 

 

Possibly, but it would have been fun.

 

Nah!

[Cavcraft]

I used to get loads of rejection letters, then I started telling lies on my CV.