The grumpy thread

[MrDuke]

I got given an IPhone 4 yesterday, and I think I'm starting to develop mild feelings of attraction towards it.

[hairnet]

mazumamobile.com

[beko1987]

Fucking meriva is still pressurising somewhere. Blowing oil out of the dipstick now.

 

Any good 'stop fucking leaking you twat' or other bollocks I can chuck in that works?

[messerschmitt owner]

Fucking meriva is still pressurising somewhere. Blowing oil out of the dipstick now.

 

Any good 'stop fucking leaking you twat' or other bollocks I can chuck in that works?

all voxhalls are shite*

[retrogeezer]

I got given an IPhone 4 yesterday, and I think I'm starting to develop mild feelings of attraction towards it.

 

Got given one! I got one for £80 and thought that was a deal!

 

They are a nice bit of kit but android is just as good.

[Pillock]

Driving standards, on the M5 today.

 

At least 7 full-stop traffic jams all of which cleared with nothing to show. So 7 occurrences of people travelling so closely together in the spray that they simply grind the place to a halt as soon as a brake light is flashed.

 

Also, the twat in the DHL truck flitting from lane to lane regardless of who was alongside, clearly losing his temper in the delays. Twat.

[twosmoke300]

M5 ....pah.

I saw some cockend doing 132 on the m4 the other day

[beko1987]

I had this on the M40 coming home from work

 

 

Saw the brake lights and because I couldnt see fuck all I had to join in, just incase they were all stopped.

 

Still didnt stop the vag wankers tailgating each other in the outside lane...

 

I came off 2 junctions early and dicked a load of fuel going the back way, at least I could see! Really was vile. Glad I stayed behind a lorry at 55. Still aquaplaned like a twat at one point, which since the XM is a brick shit house is some going

[Lord Sterling]

Sigh....I've come to the realisation that I just don't like working for companies/people anymore. The pressure at work was so immense today I nearly went and 'lost it'. The system I have to work under doesn't work. I get shit from 13 stressed out regional admins and thier managers who go crying to the higher ups at headquaters which probably makes me look bad. FFS I've only been in this job for 2 months and I'm the only one who does it

[Rusty_Rocket]

I learnt today that the shitty little company I work for have introduced a 'pen colour policy'. Managers use red biros, senior staff have green and the shitmunchers (me) have to use black.

I have been told that I will face a disciplinary if I continue to write in a non-approved colour.

Hence, this evening I bought some nice new red & green pens in Morrisons 

[Craig the Princess]

"Pen Colour Policy"

 

Seriously what type of self-important arsehole thinks this shite up?

[beko1987]

Our invoicing lady used to go ape shit if I signed anything in red.

 

I thought about getting a red pen, but then joined the project designing the system that's all but replaced her job. Ha go and laugh now bitch...

[Pillock]

I've got a nice brown Biro* which would be perfect for writing things surrounded by bullshit like that.

 

*really. Not a euphemism

[Cavcraft]

You lucky bastard. Now, more than ever, is the time to get a green pen and write something highly abusive about one of the senior managers on the bog wall. Use your left hand so they don't recognise the writing, then flush the evidence away.

 

*Edit: I did this when I worked for ATS. They put some corporate bollocks poster up in the messroom, which was promptly covered in abuse, including some of my own choice suggesting the manager was a monkey bum and a twat. This open the floodgates and by the time he'd pulled everyone in for a massive bollocking I was the only one who got away with it because I used my left hand to write so he didn't recognise my scrawl.

 

But by the by, Martin Sanders probably still is a miserable baldy twat.

[vulgalour]

I haven't been able to drive the Princess for AGES*.  Sitting in the red one and making breaking down noises just isn't the same.

[MrDuke]

Got given one! I got one for £80 and thought that was a deal!

 

They are a nice bit of kit but android is just as good.

 

 

Aye, I use an old-ish HTC already, which does the job perfectly well - but I'm toying with switching to the dark side for a bit. I won't be bothering with iTunes though, which should help. Oh, and it was my sister who gave me it, mainly to annoy her husband (long stupid story) so I can't really sell it on to boost the Shite Fund, much as I'm tempted!

[Lankytim]

This site isn't what it's used to be.... My mate who was trying to flog his rust free diesel maestro is now breaking it up because of lack of interest. Shame on you.

[dave21478]

I thought I would be clever and fix the Mazdas poor handbrake this morning. One cable from the lever to a compensator bar and then two cables to the rear wheels. The whole compensator thing was seized up solid and oil was doing nothing so I gave it a tickle with the gas torch.

 

Apparently, the nipples on the end of these cables are made from metal with a very low melting point so they both disappeared in a flash and left me with two buggered, useless cables hanging there.

 

They cost 100 sheets for a new pair. 

[DeeJay]

Can you solder new nipples on, or bodge the metal bit out of a Scotch block on?

[MrDuke]

The chap who in the tractor on a B-road today who had a "lopper" attached to the back. Not only did the horizontal blades protrude several inches (sideways) beyond his o/s rear wheel at a height of around 3.5 feet (which I'm fairly sure is illegal, not to mention bloody dangerous), but he seemed incapable of holding it in a straight line, and everytime he corrected to the left, the blades swung out to the right even further. Several cars coming the other way had to veer onto the verge in panic.

What really, really got my goat was the fact that on both the occasions that I tried to pass him (on long straight sections with excellent visibility) he veered to the right so I couldn't get by. Now, I'd love to believe that this was pure conincidence and he was 'just' an incompetent driver, in which case he really shouldn't be taking large vehicles out on a publc road for the safety of himself and others. However, coupled with the fact that he repeatedly checked his mirrors to see the queue of a dozen cars behind him, and refused to pull in to any of the 20 or 30 amply wide stopping places to let them past, I'm tending to think that he's just a vindictive cunt who's happy to endanger other road users just to amuse himself. Either way, I'm reporting him to plod.

[dave21478]

Can you solder new nipples on, or bodge the metal bit out of a Scotch block on?

 

Spent a wee while faffing with shackles and stuff, but there is a pretty huge force on the cables when the handbrake is pulled so nothing really holds, and certainly nothing that will last long term.

[Angrydicky]

This site isn't what it's used to be.... My mate who was trying to flog his rust free diesel maestro is now breaking it up because of lack of interest. Shame on you.

Where has he tried selling it? I haven't seen it advertised anywhere.

[cms206]

Parking ticket. Bastard.

[chaseracer]

Council, or private?

[Lankytim]

Where has he tried selling it? I haven't seen it advertised anywhere.

 

 

He doesn't like twats so  has steered clear of ebay. He's asked me to ask about for him but i'm not sure what he's done about it. I've asked about it on here several times and given his number out to interested parties, who then fail to ring him up. 

 

He's also got a diesel pug 205 (just like Breadvan's) that is about to get the chop, he hasn't tried selling that to be fair.

 

I think the problem is he's been stung by selling cheap/scrap value cars before, so he's more inclined to just fill them with scrap and frag them.

 

Here's the Maestro when I had it, it looks exactly the same..

 

 

Shrewsbury, £200!

 

Here's the pug,

 

 

Shrewsbury, £200!

 

No tax or rest on either, although there both in good shape. Be quick.

[Angrydicky]

Might be worth sticking it on the Maestro and Montego forum? Looks much, much better condition than mine bodily, and the diesel engine would appeal to a lot of people I reckon.

[Angrydicky]

Housemate is playing shit rap music and smoking constant joints, which fucking stinks. Get some sodding headphones and an appointment at the drug addiction centre, and fuck off.

[Lankytim]

Might be worth sticking it on the Maestro and Montego forum? Looks much, much better condition than mine bodily, and the diesel engine would appeal to a lot of people I reckon.

 

 

CBA if i'm honest. They will probably have seen it over here anyway.

[Mr Livered]

Bloody hell! Two hundred quid for a rust-free diesel Maestro? That's awesome! Surely someone will have it?

 

My excuse is that I'm moving house on Wednesday and the chances of getting a day off for a collection mission up north over the next fortnight or so are non existent. But... just... wow.

[retrogeezer]

Same issue with my Cav, yes it needs a £10 head gasket and a few hours work but is driveable and 10 times better than any other Cav I have seen on the road in the time I have had it.