The grumpy thread

[whitevanman]

/\ A wank way of saying our cars are now shit.....so we are trying to fool you into thinking they are going somewhere........though as they are shit thats almost certainly nowhere.....

[55bloke]

"Kinetic design" is right up there with the best of those clever sounding, but meaningless bloody advertising slogans!! There's another Ford ad which goes on about not following the crowd, starting with a clean sheet and coming up with something original, but which then shows the car in question (can't even remember which one it is!!) and it looks exactly like all the others in it's class! Ad people just seem to come up with these wonderful bloody campaigns without actually looking at what it is they're advertising!!!

[AnthonyG]

Cheap fags are 'orrible.In Germany LIDL sell cheap fags in bargain bins by the checkout. There is a brand called f6, an old DDR brand that somehow is still going. I'd imagine sucking on a Trabants exhaust pipe would be more pleasant.

Are 'Cabinets' (or something spelt very similar) still going? - These were East German fags beloved of a Scottish lunatic student housemate. They were f**king foul, but they were free!Always remember 'Sky' sold from Spar in the early 90s, you could tell they were high quality because they were cheaper than the Spar branded ones!One of these shit brands 'Belmont' or 'Richmond' is now the UK's top selling brand - 20 years ago it was B&H Gold FFS. I remeber looking down on Royals, thinking they were only smoked by dope addicts - now they are mid range.Mind you, last time I looked, 20 decent fags were a shade under £6. I'm glad I gave up in 2000.

[brammy777]

We sell Malboro lights more than anything, followed by Mayfair and Royals.Dunhill international are obviously popular round here, sold 200 to one person yesterday.Richmond are the best selling menthols, followed by silk cut.Cafe Creme is pretty good selling, as is the single hamlet cigars. Baccy wise, its amber leaf.Windsor Blue are bloody horrible, as are silk cut and Malboro Silver.

[FredTransit]

Someone on my flickr contact list has uploaded one of my pictures?

Mine:

'Theirs'

Okay it wont let me copy the direct link so its http://www.flickr.com/photos/philippos/4206070462/

 

Alright so theyve edited and cropped it, but they could have asked first.... ahah.

Did you complain? Cos

 

The photo you were looking for has been deleted.

 

You might like to ask philipj.simpson about it!

 

Here's a link back to your home page.

[brammy777]

I didnt complain, but right after i posted it on this thread, they deleted and re uploaded it so................

[AnthonyG]

Dunhill international are obviously popular round here, sold 200 to one person yesterday.

Why, are they made round there or something? (I don't know much about Basingstoke)Can you still buy 'Sweet Afton'? - me and a mate went through a phase of of trying out all these old non filter brands in 1992 after watching 'The Krays', we would light up a Piccadilly or similar and sit at the bar of a crap Hereford nightclub, pretending we were the 'management'. If we had known about the Sweeney connection back then we probably would have had Piccadilly all the time. RESPECT.I do remember Capstan Navy Cut were absolutely foul. We didn't even try Woodbines given their reputation. Senior Service were slightly better, I think they are still going - but even in in the early 90s you couldn't get Player No6.

[brammy777]

Not so much Basingstoke, more so Odiham, because alot of well off people buy dunhill international.Senior Service are still going, but we dont sell many.Sweet Afton arent made anymore I think, well we dont have them, but some shops which seem to sell things you NEVER find anywhere else might.

[Pete-M]

Embassy No1 - accept no substitutes.

 

Czechs tend to smoke these;

 

[Richard]

I didnt complain, but right after i posted it on this thread, they deleted and re uploaded it so................

You can tell where your views came from on Flickr so he probably saw your comments. I'd have thought the thing to do next would be to either remove it or ask permission, but evidently not.I've never smoked but I don't understand what filter tips are for. Surely the point of smoking is to breathe in smoke? Why filter it?

[Tayne]

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[ChinaTom]

anyone remember these from holidays in the Med?

 

 

Creator of the best morning hack ever. Phlegmulicious

[FredTransit]

Someone on my flickr contact list has uploaded one of my pictures?

At the bottom of the flickr page is a "report abuse" button, its just above the language options.Click it, chose the relevant option and detail what has happened. Put the link to your picture in(I assume yours has exif info?) and watch flickr sort him out.

Thanks for this, I have had another agent pissing me off by using one of my pictures implying they set up the shot with their vehicles, none of which is true. I even posted a comment and did my own flikr account to try to prove otherwise, but didn't know how to complain. I do now....

[Tayne]

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[RedSparrow]

Cheap fags are 'orrible.In Germany LIDL sell cheap fags in bargain bins by the checkout. There is a brand called f6, an old DDR brand that somehow is still going. I'd imagine sucking on a Trabants exhaust pipe would be more pleasant.

Are 'Cabinets' (or something spelt very similar) still going? - These were East German fags beloved of a Scottish lunatic student housemate. They were f**king foul, but they were free!

A quick German wikipedia search shows they sadly ended production in the 1990s. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_%28Zigarettenmarke%29

[Guest]

Few things today.The weather. WHERE IN GOD'S NAME ARE THE FUCKING GRITTERS? Ringway Road was like a bloody skating rink. I had to travel down it at 25 mph else the car ran away with me. The exit at J6 from the airport was bloody scary as well. Even with very gentle inputs it wasn't pleasant.Our car park is a right sod to get up to as well. To get on our deck you have to go up a slope - fine in normal weather, not so good in the snow because you can't get a run up. You get to it by a tightly coiled 'C' shaped bend, and the ramp connects to the top edge of the C. Very gentle revs in second is the key for this one, but it took me a couple of goes to get up this morning.Watching a senior manager's Z4 fail spectacularly was quite funny. I really regret having summer spec GSD 3 F1 Eagles fitted to the Citroen now. They're great in the wet and slush but are hopeless at soft packed snow. ABS gets very easily flummoxed as well, and I'm hardly jumping on.My next beef is with the Royal Mail. My Ebbro AZ 1 is listed as 'delivered' according to the Track & Trace data.Go on then, where the fuck is it? That was my bastarding birthday present to myself............aaaaargh.

[j-j]

The weather. WHERE IN GOD'S NAME ARE THE FUCKING GRITTERS? Ringway Road was like a bloody skating

+1 for here too and no fugger knows how to drive like this! no problem to the CX on 185 and 175(rear) boots (that are in fact van part worns after little shits slashed my vredesteins back in May )Sorry to hear your B-day prez to yourself is missing in action..I don't actually think Amazon's latest order for xmas Wed 23rd is gonna hold out! So fuk presents

[barrett]

Czechs tend to smoke these;

 

Ha! I've smoked a few packs of those before! Not the nicest things in the world, but at something like 75p a pack i didn't complain.

 

these are one of the worst i've tasted, but a must for looking cool at the local socialist cafe:

(can't find a pic of the old-style packet which looked a lot nicer)

[Station]

Few things today.The weather. WHERE IN GOD'S NAME ARE THE FUCKING GRITTERS? Ringway Road was like a bloody skating rink. I had to travel down it at 25 mph else the car ran away with me. The exit at J6 from the airport was bloody scary as well. Even with very gentle inputs it wasn't pleasant.

I didn't know without gritting treatment on a motorway, snow turns into 1 inch thick chunks of diamond hard rock/ice after a number of vehicles have driven over it! Imagine 3 miles of rumble strips made out of ice! It was a white knuckle ride today, not enjoyable at all.Also waiting on Royal Mail to be delivered from a coupla miles away in Birkenhead. It's also my girlfriend's xmas pressie, and I'm getting a bit worried now!

[Cavcraft]

Working outside freezing my tits off and only having a shitty portacabin with no heating, that was kind of annoying yesterday.

[Richard]

Someone on my flickr contact list has uploaded one of my pictures?Mine:'Theirs'Okay it wont let me copy the direct link so its http://www.flickr.com/photos/philippos/4206070462/Alright so theyve edited and cropped it, but they could have asked first.... ahah.

He's now got it on twice. Bizarre.

[RedSparrow]

Half the problem with cold/icy weather is the scaremongering provided by the media. Just watching sky news with reports of CHAOS ON THE ROADS and CANCELLED FLIGHTS etc. Its winter. It happens every year. The only question is how come the rest of Europe have learnt to deal with it and this ridiculous country hasn't?

[AnthonyG]

anyone remember these from holidays in the Med?

 

 

Creator of the best morning hack ever. Phlegmulicious

I take it these are Spanish - I see a lot of the empty boxes around Brum - must be people bringing them back from holidays.

 

Gauloise Blondes were the best value duty free fag in the 1990s.

 

I once bought a load of Mild Seven because they were silly cheap at Gatwick and I had seen Japanese gangsters smoke them in 'Black Rain' - I certainly didn't share the Japanese interpretation of 'Mild'!

[The Liberator]

Can you still buy 'Sweet Afton'? - me and a mate went through a phase of of trying out all these old non filter brands in 1992 after watching 'The Krays', we would light up a Piccadilly or similar and sit at the bar of a crap Hereford nightclub, pretending we were the 'management'.

 

If we had known about the Sweeney connection back then we probably would have had Piccadilly all the time. RESPECT.

 

I do remember Capstan Navy Cut were absolutely foul. We didn't even try Woodbines given their reputation. Senior Service were slightly better, I think they are still going - but even in in the early 90s you couldn't get Player No6.

 

I tried these once, mainly because the packet was so attractive, but also because I was trying out cigarettes I thought were cooler than Marlboro Light, B&H and Embassy No1 that contemporaries smoked. After one drag I'm sure I could feel individual alveoli in my lungs contracting and dying. I threw the rest of the packet away. Also might have tried unfiltered Piccadilly, with similar results. After that, I stuck to filtered cigarettes only, that way I couldn't actually feel myself dying.

 

I've also had the misfortune to try Ducados, the taste of just one has stayed with me for over 20 years.

 

Breaking news for Sweeney-phile smoking Autoshiters! Piccadilly Filter would appear to be still available here http://www.mysmokingshop.co.uk/index2.php?mod=category&man=154&cat=79, albeit at an un-Autoshiter friendly price.

[Rusty Pelican]

Piccadilly fags were the ONLY tailor made ones i could ever smoke , really smooth , havnt had one for yonks though

[ChinaTom]

I have remembered the ultimate cig - bought a pack of these on the Chinese / Kazakh border thinking they would be better than nothing having run out of ML.

 

 

Weird things these - the darker area that you might think is the filter is in fact the tobacco (although it smells of kerosene), and the long white part is a hollow tube of cardboard. They are ludicrously dangerous though as the final bit of burning tobacco will end up embedded in your trachia. Never did work that out.

[Rusty Pelican]

I have remembered the ultimate cig - bought a pack of these on the Chinese / Kazakh border thinking they would be better than nothing having run out of ML.

 

 

Weird things these - the darker area that you might think is the filter is in fact the tobacco (although it smells of kerosene), and the long white part is a hollow tube of cardboard. They are ludicrously dangerous though as the final bit of burning tobacco will end up embedded in your trachia. Never did work that out.

Ive had these , baccy seems to burn down really slow , tastes discusting , sucking on a soggy cardboard tube aint nice either

[Father Ted]

Peolpe who insist on going present / food shopping right at the last moment meaning that the shops are packed to the rafters with people buying enough food to feed a small Peoples Republic State.WHY??? You have 364 days to shop - why try and cram it all in on the 24th? Personally I do the bulk of my gift shopping in the January sales.

[chester drawers]

Sitting in a queue looking at 3 separate multi-car pile ups spread across both sides of the dual carriageway. All within the space of 800yards on a well gritted road.Normally that’d be mildly inconvenient. With a knackered blower motor in the freezing cold it’s a complete bastard. On the up side repairing my car’s only going to cost 15 quid

[retrogeezer]

It's because they all think 'use by' dates are the be all and end all of food products. They forget that it's not that long ago it was unusual to have a fridge or freezer! Stuff seemed to last longer even though preservatives weren't used so much.