The grumpy thread

[cort16]

Good news!

[saucedoctor]

Good. Now buy your wife a proper phone with removable storage. Far easier to recover deleted stuff from, and iPhones are shit anyway.

[Negative Creep]

Insurers saying I've changed car too often so they can't tell me until Monday if they can authorise another one, so my purchase will have to be delayed one day. Since the policy runs out on the 30th anyway it's not the end of the world and I could jsut take out another policy, but does anyone know of a company who are a bit friendlier to those who go through cars quickly?

[anonymous user]

^ Co-op used to be really good, but not been with them for years. Currently with LV who have always been good; apart from the last time when I tried to add the Volvo when they had an attack of, it's too old and we want an extra £800. It did get resolved at a more reasonable £200ish on a separate policy with them when I spoke to a different person.

[Spiny Norman]

 

The government should spend £1bn a year from the money it collects in fuel duty to fix potholes and crumbling roads, the body that represents councils in England and Wales has said.

The Local Government Association says taking 2p from the fuel duty of 57.95p per litre could clear a "backlog".

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28167556#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

 

The fact that A) This doesn't happen as a matter of course already, and B ) according to the news it's unlikely to happen because 'The Treasury don't like ring-fencing taxes', is just mad IMO.

 

Most people are under the impression that 'road tax' goes towards road maintenance and would probably be surprised that this even needs suggesting. 

[Parky]

Good. Now buy your wife a proper phone with removable storage. Far easier to recover deleted stuff from, and iPhones are shit anyway.

I agree entirely. That's why I use Blackberry and nothing but!

[Angrydicky]

Some twat has already taken a big chunk of paint out of the Maestro's drivers door while parked in the car park at work. Cheers for that, bellend.

[Parky]

Some twat has already taken a big chunk of paint out of the Maestro's drivers door while parked in the car park at work. Cheers for that, bellend.

Sympathies. Is it just paint or is it dented too? I cannot understand folk who just whack their doors or shopping trolleys into people's cars, I really don't. Is it carelessness or a general couldn't give a shit attitude?

[vulgalour]

That does suck massively.  If it makes you feel any better, one of the cats knocked an alternator off a shelf in my brother's garage straight onto the door and then the rear arch on the Princess recently which has made a bit of a mess of things.  I think I'd be decidedly more narked about it if I'd just finished doing all the work you've done on the Maestro though.

[Angrydicky]

Fortunately it's just paint, the downside of having no side rubbing strips on the base model I suppose

 

I think it's just the 'couldn't care less' attitude of some people today, no respect for other people's property. It's obviously taken a fair whack from someone's car door. I wonder if they would have done it if it was a new car?

 

Ahh Vulg, an alternator is a heavy old thing, that must have made one hell of a mess of your poor Princess! Sympathies.

[robinmasters]

... iPhones are shit anyway.

 

No they're not, they're the best thing since sliced bread, and exclusively owned by incredibly healthy, creative people, if their adverts are to be believed. I really don't understand who the smug, one-dimensional, self-serving, shiny twunts in their adverts are supposed to appeal to.

[Asimo]

No they're not, they're the best thing since sliced bread, and exclusively owned by incredibly healthy, creative people, if their adverts are to be believed. I really don't understand who the smug, one-dimensional, self-serving, shiny twunts in their adverts are supposed to appeal to.

 

smug, one-dimensional, self-serving, shiny twunts

[Parky]

smug, one-dimensional, self-serving, shiny twunts

Yeah but they can tell the world about their fantastic holidays, FaceTime their perfect attractive loved ones, share jokes with market traders through translation apps, and even keep tabs on calories burned as they swim in blue seas or jog through perfect forests. Life is perfect if you have an iPhone. And that's the truth because Apple wouldn't lie to sell more shit would they? After all they are more like a hip workers co-operative rather than an evil corporation designed to make money. Oh no, their shareholders don't worry about shit like money.....

[philibusmo]

When I had an iPhone it fell in a toilet. That was not in any way as perfect a life experience as I had been expecting from their adverts and I am going to due them for false advertising.

 

I have a WIndows phone now.

 

Well actually I don't, the touchscreen died so its off being mended - as a temporary measure I found my Nokia 3210 which had been sat in a draw for about 10 years - lobbed a sim card in it and it and it works perfectly. The battery is a bit knacked so it only lasts for a day but that's what you get from a perfectly healthy smartphone battery anyway. Also snake is the best phone game ever, the only real annoyance is lack of Autoshite during my lunch break at work and a 160 character limit in texts - predating Twitter by about 10 years.

[dave21478]

Wait, so if I buy an iphone and some tampax, I will have pretty much the perfect life?

[chaseracer]

As long as you take them home in a VW Golf, yes.

[vulgalour]

The perfect world:  A man with a chiselled jaw and orange skin, wearing a suit one size too small, is driving his Audi 2" behind the VW Golf in front which is being driven by a blonde woman wearing roller blades with "WOAAAH BODYFORRRMM-ah!" blasting out of her iPlayer.

 

My world:  A slightly flabby man with orange skin, wearing a suit one size too small and shouting at his bluetooth headset thing, is driving his Audi 1" behind the bumper of my crumbling Austin Princess while The Weather Girls blasts* out of my stereo on Radio 2.  The weather is slightly muggy and overcast, but I don't care because I'm on a mission to the supermarket to buy discount veg oil and Dr Pepper.

 

I think I prefer my world.

[AnthonyG]

 

I think it's just the 'couldn't care less' attitude of some people today, no respect for other people's property. It's obviously taken a fair whack from someone's car door. I wonder if they would have done it if it was a new car?

 

 

Trust me, they couldn't give a shit if it was a 1985 Maestro or a 2013 Jaguar. Ask me how I know. Thankfully, as with your good self, no dent. Can't be arsed getting it done properly, will be touch up pen from now on.  

 

Spending £s on sorting paint scratches/chips only encourages the next dickhead to open his door into it.

 

Tree sap can f**k off as well, but karma got the woody bastards back as their limbs were harshly amputated a couple of weeks ago  .

[jonathan_dyane]

A friend having just resprayed their car days earlier had some dick in a mpv open their door into his damaging the paint while he was sitting in the car. On having an unsatisfactory response to his complaint (I think they denied it outright) he slammed his door into theirs putting a large crease in their door...

[sheffcortinacentre]

did similar once the woman than admitted shed done it "but not that hard" oh that's ok then!

[rml2345]

I had an iPhone at one point and none of the fabulous Apple "lifestyle" stuff happened. No devastatingly attractive women facetimed me or whatever and I couldn't share exciting news from around the world with the greengrocer.

Partly because we haven't got one.

What actually happened, is that it didn't work half as well as Apple suggested it did, and then it died as the battery lasts about 5 minutes less than is useful.

[TimothyClaypole]

Trying to buy something online from a normal company not Ebay but they want £18.00 shipping on 3 pieces of wood 197mm long and 3.3mm thick...  

 

That'll be an "abandoned cart" in website speak I think. 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Every ad for every consumer electronic is a 'lifestyle' ad featuring attractive young people. 

[Pillock]

I need to get over my fear of buying shite. Now I've got my company car on the way, and a lockup, ideal time yeah?

 

Yesterday I chickened out of bidding on a Frontera sport (mint, sold for £390) and a 2.9 Mk3 Scorpio (very tidy, years MOT, sold for £380).

[purplebargeken]

Chicken!!!! Get em bought man.

[Cavcraft]

Two wrongs don't make a right, but park your car so close to mine I have to struggle to get in and I'm going to re-enact this.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc6u5VHIV8c

 

 

*Edit, not the exploding windscreen wipers/climbing through sunroof bits. Just the doors.

[cort16]

Took the inlet manifold off the 320d again to try to figure the running problem and found I hadn't plugged the map sensor in. Plugged it in reassembled, running much better . Got around the corner, put the foot down . Glunk, loads of smoke, dashboard lit up, conked out and won't start. AA turned up, couldn't get diagnostics to work then towed me back to my locked. Doesn't look great does it?

[Bren]

Just nipped out for some wallpaper - i have started stripping the bedroom so I can decorate.

 

I got some from the local B&M , they have a good selection at reasonable prices, however it was full of fat teenage mothers who looked orange, had lots of tattoos and children called Jayden. Their kids would knock stuff onto the floor, I would pick it up because parents were too fat/lazy/ignorant to do it.

 

At times like this i find hard to reconcile the fact that I deal with the public when large swathes of them absolutely piss me off.I know not everybody is like this, but it seems to be on the increase.

 

Remember the final scene in Close Encounters when Richard Dreyfuss walks onto the mothership? When ever I watch this scene I find myself thinking "you lucky bastard."

 

The same when I watch castaway with Oliver Reed. But maybe that's down to Amanda Donohue.

[Mr Livered]

Two wrongs don't make a right, but park your car so close to mine I have to struggle to get in and I'm going to re-enact this.

Happened to me and the kids when we went into town today, in the Volvo. We climbed through the tailgate in the end :S

[richardmorris]

I'm fed up with stupid, ignorant, selfish people parking across the lines in waitrose at sunningdale. A first world problem I know, but life is what you make of it.

 

When I had the C5 I managed to park completely within the lines of my space but 1" from the stupid x5 thing taking up a space and a half. They weren't happy when they got back - -there was a tannoy announcement in store which I ignored, and then when I got back to the car accused me of parking inconsiderately and making them late. I politely asked what was stopping their 18 stone selves getting in the passenger side and driving off and perhaps suggested that she learn to park her behemoth and she started effing and blinding. I got in and drove off. I usually try and park at least a space away from someone else when I'm in a car I care about, but even in an empty car park someone will park next to you. I noticed yesterday another parking ding in the merc's rear panel.

 

I like the idea of slamming the door into another car - my dad always threatened to buy an old banger and knock the doors off cars that were opened into the roads without them looking.