The grumpy thread

[dave21478]

Its just that Scots have a realistic view of their chances and a philosophical view of losing. - and I say that as a Scot myself.

 

An awful lot of England fans are convinced every time that this will be their year, 1966 blah blah stick it to the Germans etc, and they are devastated when they inevitably fail.

[tooSavvy]

^^^^ well, they don't come on auto$hite to moan.... TF 

 

 

TS

[messerschmitt owner]

brakes failed on the Dispatch shite today. Was I going downhill? On a long twisty drop of some 600ft from top to bottom? You bet! WHo needs that shitey roller coaster at Alton Towers? WHo needs a new pair of keks?

 

Watched as the fluid pissed out at the side of me as I looked down onto the road. Still some pedal if I pumped and pumped and judicious use of handbrake and gears saw me OK and into a labyby next to a garage.

 

The loss of all braking isn't my grump, the following is!

 

Wandered into the garage - old duffer sitting at a computer while the phone rings off the hook, takes a look at me and tells me to go to see the mechanics, without me getting a chance to even say a word. He still doesn't answer the phone.

 

Go to speak to the mechanics who just look blankly at me as I ask if there's a chance they can look at a car with a fucked brake pipe/hose! I walk out and go phone the recovery company to recover me to my local, friendly garage. So, Wha**on Garage near Brookthorpe - fuck off and die! Now I know why your owner got done for drug dealing cos you obviously can't be arsed to do any mechanicking!

 

Mind you, while I waited right outside their garage, with brake fluid pissing all over the road, I spotted a green S2 XM, a Brighton & Hove opentop bus, Moggie convertible and a Skoda Estelle.

[Cavcraft]

Its just that Scots have a realistic view of their chances and a philosophical view of losing. - and I say that as a Scot myself.

 

An awful lot of England fans are convinced every time that this will be their year, 1966 blah blah stick it to the Germans etc, and they are devastated when they inevitably fail.

 

 

That's where you're wrong, an awful lot of the media want England to win it. An awful lot of the media keep mentioning 1966. An awful lot of the media love it when England inevitably shit out because an awful lot of the media then turn on the manager and the team.

An awful lot of England fans are realists, an awful lot of England fans know we don't really stand a chance and an awful lot of England fans HOPE that we can perform a miracle. 

 

It's just as shame an awful lot of people from other countries believe all the fucking bollocks in the media and then believe that most England fans are the same as said media, because trust me, we're not.  

[dave21478]

I will fetch my orthopaedic shoes, so I can stand corrected. Sorry, I dont really do football, I just go by what the tellybox tells me.

[Mr Livered]

England have been eliminated from the world cup? Does that mean it's over and people will stop talking about football now, or is there more to come?

[CortinaDave]

I'm not into football really, but I've been enjoying this world cup. Some properly great matches.

 

The thing with England is the constant going on about 1966. We got about 30 seconds into their first match before it was brought up. Its so long ago that the constant referrals to it are just embarrassing.

 

The media is to blame rather than the team themselves though.

 

At least us scots have accepted that we're cack at football on the world stage.

[sheffcortinacentre]

is there some soccer tournament going on?????????????

[dollywobbler]

I was down the pub earlier. Scots did well in the Rugby. Then the footy came one. What a comparison. Well, there is no comparison. One is a sport, the other is like watching fairies bitch fighting.

[Spiny Norman]

I quite like watching football, and as a Scot I'll say this. At least England usually GET to the World Cup.
Scottish rugby fans get far better bang for their buck than do their round ball supporting friends.

However, it is not a man's sport.

[vulgalour]

I don't get footballers, it seems when they bang their knee it's exploded or something.  I'm less fit than them, on a much smaller wage but when I bust the ligament in my knee I carried on with a limp and insisted on finishing my day on the bin wagon while wearing steel toecap boots that didn't fit properly and putting up with an annoying sexist and homophobic co-worker.  Did I roll around on the floor wailing in agony?  Did I fuck.  Man up you overpaid, over trained, fancy pansy man children.

[oman5]

Charity bags.

 

EVERY BLOODY DAY I get at least two of these shoved through my door, mostly from charities I've never heard of. Went away on holiday for a fortnight a few weeks ago and had to wade through the sea of them in my hall when I got back.

 

A good idea which is now way oversubscribed and just wasteful.

I tend to keep hold of them, unopened until there is a nice big pile of them.  then put all the unopened charity bags inside one opened charity bag and leave it outside for them to collect. 

[tooSavvy]

I tend to keep hold of them, unopened until there is a nice big pile of them.  then put all the unopened charity bags kitchen shizzle inside one opened charity bag and leave it outside, in our bin, for them binmen to collect. 

YKIMS...

 

TS

[Angrydicky]

Bloke next to me in the petrol station this morning. I was driving the Somerset.

 

"Is the Austin for sale?"

"No, it's my pride and joy".

"You should restore it, make it nice".

"I don't want to, it's 61 years old and unrestored".

"But a coat of paint won't harm it, it'll be worth loads when it's done".

"Nope, it's called character, and I like it that way".

 

Besides, if it was mint it would soon deteriorate given the use it gets. I really don't understand this obsession some people have with making old cars better than new. I like my old cars to actually show their age, much more interesting than yet another gleaming show wagon, full of replica parts that makes only a handful of journeys per year. My Somerset takes on the M25 on a regular basis!

[dollywobbler]

I'm entirely with you. I get thoroughly bored with seeing shiny classics. Too many restorations remove the entire back story to a car's life, which is why I'm never going to fully restore the 2CV again. To quote Ebay MONGS, it is what it is. Can be tricky to maintain the unrestored look. If you're not careful, you end up with accidental OMG RATLUK.

[HMC]

On the whole people seem dazzled by shiny paint than rather than patina. Im dazzled by patina which probably makes me strange. Every little blemish on a car does tell a story, even if, in the case of my 960, it's a story of mis judged parking manoeuvres by the eccentric last owner!

[chaseracer]

The Blingo is rounded off on three corners and came out even against a Brutalist car park in central Birmingham.  The 300E, on steels now, could be mistaken for the Beirut taxi which carried John McCarthy away.  The 205 still looks like it was left under a tree for seven months before I bought it (which it was).  After 24 years with me - about half on the road, half off - the Dyane barely has a straight panel on it.

 

This is all good.

[Cavcraft]

The outside lane of the motorways being used as a personal road for lazy wankers.

 

Late-ish model Ford Galaxys (or S Max or whatever theyre called) seem to be the weapon of choice for wankers now, incredible how probably 85%+ now are driven by twats.

 

The M6 being the usual roadwork, average speed camera shit hole AND those stupid fucking joins in the road every pissing 20 foot or so in one section.

[wuvvum]

Just got back from my hols and my faithful old desktop has finally died.  Looks like it's the PSU that has packed up - really not worth buying a new one.  So I've fired up the laptop - it's actually quite a lot faster than the desktop but it's a PITA to use, with a crappy little keyboard (it won't recognise an external keyboard for some reason), and it's running Windows Vista which is shit.  I'm going to have to bite the bullet and buy a new desktop I reckon.

 

Had a drive in my parents' new-shape C4 while I was in France, and was most disappointed.  Gone is the transparent digital display on top of the dash, and the fixed steering wheel hub - I could almost have been sat in a 308.  Except that all the electrics worked.

[xtriple]

Been watcjing a variety of interesting (to me) old crap on various sites. One bloke has got quite a tasty old RR silver Spirit that I like the look of. However, every time he relists the fooking thing, he puts the price up by £500! Started at £10350 now £11350!

 

I really want to shout and scream and call him names and stuff.....

[Station]

HGV's using the entire stretch of the A41 because they fancy a change from the M6. It's OK, but please don't dawdle along at 40, and take up the entire lane when someone want to overtake (some actually do move over automatically on a straight road). Was stuck behind an old 70's Foden carrying and even older mid century Foden on it's trailer doing about 30 for roughly 20 miles.

 

Also, people who claim their car will run rings around other cars, and also claim their car has 'shocked' a few Porsche drivers at the lights. This is plainly bollocks and it has never happened, especially as you were driving a 1.3 Renault at the time.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Had a drive in my parents' new-shape C4 while I was in France, and was most disappointed.  Gone is the transparent digital display on top of the dash, and the fixed steering wheel hub - I could almost have been sat in a 308.  Except that all the electrics worked.

 

Sad. I loved the original C4 dash. New one is fussy and unoriginal. Can you still put air freshener pods in the new one's air vents?

[drum]

Welding the underside of a car on axle stands while lying on your back or side. I had to ditch the helmet as it was getting in the way so ears full of splatter and sore eyes. Deep joy.

[Parky]

The outside lane of the motorways being used as a personal road for lazy wankers.

Late-ish model Ford Galaxys (or S Max or whatever theyre called) seem to be the weapon of choice for wankers now, incredible how probably 85%+ now are driven by twats.

The M6 being the usual roadwork, average speed camera shit hole AND those stupid fucking joins in the road every pissing 20 foot or so in one section.

I hear you on the Galaxy's - virtually every near accident I have seen has involved a black Galaxy operated by Addison Lee. I even make a point of keeping away from them as they WILL do something unexpected and stupid.

[dollywobbler]

If the A41 is single-carriageway, 40mph is as fast as trucks are legally able to go. I'm in two minds about that fact. In theory, it makes them easier to overtake, but if they could do 50, I'd perhaps be less inclined to overtake anyway.

[purplebargeken]

Add black or white Toyota Prius to the list of taxi-orientated accidents waiting to happen (well round my neck of the woods anyway).

[Richard]

They might be able to soon. The A9 had an unwritten 50mph limit for lorries until recently. It's about to be reinstated and made official, backed up with average speed cameras. I would think that will lead to pressure to increase the HGV limit elsewhere.

[Wilko220]

I don't know about around the country, but darn sarf most of the Galaxies seem to be Addison Lee or similar minicabs.

[Gerald]

Commun-i-al - Communal.

Nu-killer - Nuclear.

 

Retards.

 

That is all.

[Guest bangerfan101]

The ammount of cyclist i've had to pass going up thru glossop / chappel-en-le-thrith today

 

this tour de france shite is yet another reason i hate the french