The grumpy thread

[meshking]

I'm not a massive fan F1, I watch it if it's on BBC, but I'm slightly miffed that I missed Lewis Hamilton. My office looks out onto Mercedes Benz world in brooklands, and it get a great view of the track. Yesterday slightly out of the norm there were a load of carts blatting about on the track, followed by the occasional laps of some single seaters. Nothing fancy, certainly no recent f1 machinery and I think they were mainly repros. Just seen a picture on twitter that Hamilton was there yesterday.

Can't think why I wasn't invited to the launch of the c63 amg black.

[Bobthebeard]

I might have caused anger on there a while ago by eating fiah and chips whilst sitting in a recovery truck loaded with a crusty Porsche and parked across a couple of spaces. I'm sure someone in a Q7 tried to give me a dirty look!

Haha!

Noooooo. It is the queueing up, 'blocking two roads whilst waiting for a parking space when ten parking spaces are free at the other end of the car park' thingy that was meant.

[Sloth in a bowl]

Why are a high proportion of very modern Audis driven by angry people?

 

Is it something to do with it being a fairly plain looking car and drivers need to do something to make others look? Or is it that 'gaping mouth' chrome grille?

 

 

A cocktail of adrenaline, coffee, energy drinks, peer group pressure, imaginary deadlines, massive amount of debt, being a shouty sort of person generally, supports Manchester United, wears long shorts in winter, has a massive trampoline in the tiny rear garden of the neo Georgian detached ( that he cannot really afford ) on a new estate, has two Labradoodles and a tiny fluffy dog, walks about in the drive shouting into mobile phone for half an hour, has young children with trendy names who 'do my head in'....... Etc.

I could go on.... But my ex next door neighbour knows who he is. Angry man in A5.

Lol.

 

It's far simpler than that. The stupid rock hard suspension and rubber band tyres mean that they are in agony from the moment they get in the car till the moment they get out again.

This means that any delay to reaching the end of the journey is instantly met with a torrent of abuse.

Basically by getting in their way you are torturing the poor sods into an early grave.

 

Well that, and the fact that they bought an Audi on tick which means they are a massive bellend.

[rml2345]

There must be a genuinely debilitating neurological condition that's brought about by driving a modern Audi. One tailgated me through Edinburgh city centre at the weekend before undertaking, swerving infront of me and braking hard for the red light he nearly ran, narrowly avoiding a laden 940 careering through the side of his car.

I wasn't amused, particularly as I had my brother and his young family with me at the time.

Why do they do it?

[Honey Badger]

Missed out on a Spares/Repair Honda Accord coupe due to Ebay sniper failure, 

 

65000 miles with a rough idle fault and 6 months MOT.

 

Sold for £172.

 

Arse

 

 

^^Drop the seller an email the buyer may drop out.

 

Seller has dropped out, so it might be available if I can go and pick it up this weekend in Oxford, oh and he can't possibly Tax it for me and I can only pick it up after 6 at night or after 2 on a Saturday.

 

Cheers mate, don't really feel like driving an untaxed car up the A43 past Silverstone on the weekend of the British GP.

[meshking]

You should see what happens when I'm in the 2cv. Even when exceeding the speed limit they *have* to get past. That's not solely audis though, pretty much everyone.

[Cavcraft]

why not? Take your insurance, the money for the tax and fill the green slip in. If you get pulled tell them you'll happily tax it at the nearest main P.O.

[Pillock]

 

 

The local kids are pissing me right off.

 

No adults in their household speak English, the eldest son speaks pretty good English but the annoying younger boys either speak very poor English or pretend they don't understand when I tell them off. I really need to speak to a grown up in their house to tell them to fuck off and leave me alone when I'm working.

 

The whole situation is MEGA ANNOYING.

A picture speaks a thousand words.

Holding a running chainsaw whilst you bollock them speaks substantially more than the picture.

 

Or just call the police every time they mess with your stuff. They have to do something even if it's only a PSCO calling in but the more you make an issue of it, the more likely they are to give the family a knock. And nobody really wants the cops knocking regularly.

[Honey Badger]

why not? Take your insurance, the money for the tax and fill the green slip in. If you get pulled tell them you'll happily tax it at the nearest main P.O.

 

Aye I'm thinking this is the way to go, avoid the A43 and go back home through Bicester and Buckingham and skirt sunny MK.

 

Cheap tat, sunny day and a bit of a backroad blat, sounds good to me, just got to hear back from the seller now.

[fordperv]

Earlier I put a jerry can of fuel in my mk1 Sierra and noticed that the tailgate was sitting high at the roof gap, opened the tailgate to find the hinge was no longer attached to the tailgate anymore even though there was no rot, so it's managed to break between last night when I closed it and today when I opened it, it is all fixed now as I gave it a tickle with the sparkly mig stick in between the rain, i couldn't of done it without the help of mrs fordperv who lent a pair of helping hands removing and refitting, I'm beginning to think this car doesn't want to come back on road

[Bren]

My busa's rear tyre is not holding air - over a few weeks it goes right down.

 

Could be puncture or valve - either way, prob means a new tyre. Arses.

[andy18s]

My busa's rear tyre is not holding air - over a few weeks it goes right down.

 

Could be puncture or valve - either way, prob means a new tyre. Arses.

 

Just done the rear on my RF900 after the tread thief paid me a visit 1 night......

 

[brickwall]

blimey!!

[fordperv]

Just done the rear on my RF900 after the tread thief paid me a visit 1 night......

 

Your lucky the po po didn't have you over that one

[overrun]

The shit-heap 2007 VeXtra taxi that I rent has decided to obliterate its wiper linkage, so no earning for me. this weekend.

[Parky]

Just accidentally wiped all the data from my wife's iPhone by clicking wrong option on iTunes.

 

Had I backed it up first? Had I fuck. Two years worth of irreplaceable photos and messages lost, never to be seen again. Needless to say Mrs P is now in tears and pretty inconsolable.

 

As Richie Rich once said in Mr Jolly lives next door, "never ever bloody anything ever"

[Pillock]

Not even an iCloud backup? I thought it did those pretty much without asking.

[Richard]

Can't you use one of those data recovery programmes on it?

[rml2345]

^That. I accidentally wiped an SD card full of photos and one of those programs mmanaged to get them.

[cort16]

It looks doable

 

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3699222?tstart=0

[saucedoctor]

This worked on a 4S I had to recover for a client:

 

http://www.wondershare.net/ad/dr-fone/index.html?gclid=CJyik_PTrL8CFeyWtAodcB8AlA

 

BitTorrent is your friend for the full version.

[mrbenn]

As above, would be very surprised if all your wife's stuff is irretrievably gone.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Just ring up GCHQ, they can get a copy of it all off the yanks

[Negative Creep]

Trying to figure out the logistics of collecting my car on Monday before work. This is the sort of thing where I really wish I had someone around to ask for a lift

[vulgalour]

I have just discovered that the numberplate W3DGE is fitted to a Range Rover Sport.

It should be fitted to my Princess.

[saucedoctor]

Just ring up GCHQ, they can get a copy of it all off the yanks

Don't be soft. Yanks are too stupid to use computers. Ask Gary McKinnon.

[rml2345]

I have just discovered that the numberplate W3DGE is fitted to a Range Rover Sport.

 

It should be fitted to my Princess.

You can't have WED6E either as someone has it on a BMW 330Cl.

[maxpower]

my new chariot has FD11OKZ..... would have liked BO11OKZ..... think Mr B would have liked that

[Cavcraft]

Pull your pants up and buy WED 61E instead.

[Parky]

This worked on a 4S I had to recover for a client:

http://www.wondershare.net/ad/dr-fone/index.html?gclid=CJyik_PTrL8CFeyWtAodcB8AlA

BitTorrent is your friend for the full version.

IT........FRICKING.......WORKED!

 

Not sure how to get it all back on the phone but the photos and other stuff have been saved onto the main PC which is 99percent of the battle. I bought the full version for 40 quid but that's a small price to pay for cheering Mrs P up. Thanks so much for the suggestions, this site IS still what it used to be!!

 

Perhaps this should be in the grin thread?