The grumpy thread

[andy18s]

When my sister was in hospital for nearly six months, with some other long-term stayers, they used to order food to be delivered from the local Chinese, Indian, Pizza place, etc. to supplement the hospital rations.

When I had my pizza/kebeb shop we used to have nightly deliveries to a couple of wards at the local Orthopeadic hospital

[cort16]

Why is there never less rust than you think ?

[ruffgeezer]

Ma Ruff's Badermatic corsa appears to be on it's last legs, misfiring when cold, using water, smoking from the exhaust and running hot.

 

All this on some weird 1400 engine with all the electric fuckery they had in Luton at the time... oh dear.

 

Anyone got a cheap 5 door auto to sell?

[beko1987]

Was watching a Hetty hoover for 99p, emailed the seller asking where they lived, and they put the starting bid up to £9.99

 

it didnt sell surprisingly...

[Cavcraft]

I have a Corsa automatic to part-ex, does anyone have a cheap 3 door manual to sell?

 

Oddly enough....

[steve_earwig]

The Curse of the Tiny Car

 

You know, when you're looking for somewhere to park in crowded car park and you think you can see a space coming up, so you swing your jalopy towards it and...erk! Oh no, it's a Daewoo Prolapse

The hospital we go to is in Zagreb, not actually a huge journey but, due to the poor layout and the suicidal driving of the locals, I'm usually a bit frayed by the time I get there. The car park there is huge, badly laid out and usually packed, with herds of cars trawling around for that illusive free space, hopefully under a the shade of a tree but we'll all settle for parking on broken glass sooner or later. The carpark is on a hill and the parking bays are set out in terraces about 50 meters long off the main drag, parking both sides with no room to turn round. So your driving slowly along, avoiding all the triple parked cars, little kids running around and all the locals in various stages of agony when you see a space at the end of a terrace - charge! You get down there and... Curse of the Tiny Car - there's a Zastava tucked out of sight at the end of the bay. Curses! So, ignoring the urge to ram it off down the hill, you back out, back past the badly parked cars, the little kids playing Srebrenica, old men on crutches, into the main drag and back round you go again. If you're lucky someone will let you out. And then probably dart down the end because they think they can see a space there that you must have just come out of. Haha, surprise!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

My dad's vintage laptop had become so slow as to be unusable and frequently locked up for no reason. I'm a kind helpful son so I reformatted it and re-installed Windows, applied all the updates, etc etc. It runs so much better now.  

 

Plus he has loads more hard drive space because I accidentally deleted all his documents in the process. Sorry Dad

[steve_earwig]

Oops! Bit like my mate here who went to reinstall Windows and accidentally picked the wrong drive, wiping all his documents plus his second book he'd just finished writing.

 

Be a kind, helpful son again and explain to him about making back-ups...

[Lord Sterling]

Driving here in Brussels is shit. Really shit, the roads are constantly packed to the rafters, no one seems to know where they are going and nor are they ever in any particular rush, except for drivers of newish Audi/BMWs who MUST be in faster than you and in front of you, plus there now seems to be a huge amount of never ending road works. I've never felt so fucked off about driving here before, but now this time it's really gone shit. I much prefer walking or using the tube. Funnily enough in England I much prefer driving, despite it being equally as shit on the roads.

[chaseracer]

...erk! Oh no, it's a Daewoo Prolapse

 

 

[Spiny Norman]

Plus he has loads more hard drive space because I accidentally deleted all his documents in the process. Sorry Dad

 

They might be recoverable if you do it quick enough before it has too much of a chance to overwrite it. Formatting a disc doesn't actually erase it altogether and there are some free programs you can download which can 'sniff out' anything still on the HDD that's hidden.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

They might be recoverable if you do it quick enough before it has too much of a chance to overwrite it. Formatting a disc doesn't actually erase it altogether and there are some free programs you can download which can 'sniff out' anything still on the HDD that's hidden.

Fortunately he's not that upset by it, the only mildly important document exists as a hard copy too. I'm really just upset that I screwed up after putting do much effort into it. I double checked that I had everything from his documents, pictures and videos folders but it didn't occur to me that for some reason his office suite was saving documents five folders deep somewhere else.

[anonymous user]

Operation Yewtree said:

 

They might be recoverable if you do it quick enough before it has too much of a chance to overwrite it. Formatting a disc doesn't actually erase it altogether and there are some free programs you can download which can 'sniff out' anything still on the HDD that's hidden.

 

 

[Cavcraft]

I've just been to see a V*ctr* the other side of town. It's a cheap car and I don't expect much. It's just I do expect the seller to be when he said he would be. So I shall not be returning.

[Lankytim]

I bastard HATE it when that happens. I remember trawling half way across the country with a trailer to collect an early Volvo 245 project. The Volvo was on the driver but the seller wasn't in, although I suspect he WAS in but wasn't answering the door/phone. I had half a mind to just load up the Volvo and fuck off with it. 

 

To be fair the Volvo was a misdescribed sack of shit anyway.

[Inspector Morose]

Well, I'm back home after the Metrobus tour around the Fens. Cambridge today. Please park in pedestrian area. How the flying fuck do you get a 30 foot double deck bus with generator trailer into the centre of Cambridge with all those rising bollards that are operated by transponders on the vehicle? There is only one way in and I found it eventually. Not without somehow punching a hole in the side panel. Arse. Thing is, I didn't see what I hit nor heard nor felt it. I'm more pissed off that I have no real idea how I did it and that I didn't notice till later this afternoon.

 

More work to do next week replacing panels.

 

Off now to find beer.

[richardmorris]

Hmm. Beer.

 

Cycled in to work at 6.30am  this morning, cycled home at 6.15pm. Got little kanterbrau out of the fridge and walked into shower fully clothed (left beer on sink), got out of shower and finished beer and got back into shower. 15minutes later sweat still pouring off me so had another shower (and beer).

[chaseracer]

Thanks for sharing that, Rich!

 

 

[Mr Lobster]

I'm not sure why - although I do have a reason in that I need to properly understand it and it is useful for keeping in touch with a couple of people - but I have just registered for a personal FB account. I imagine this will generate more grump than grin tbh but what the hell...

 

Should I risk a look at the much maligned Autoshite fb group or will it cause a migrane?

[Richard]

Should I risk a look at the much maligned Autoshite fb group?

No.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I've just been to see a V*ctr* the other side of town. It's a cheap car and I don't expect much. It's just I do expect the seller to be when he said he would be. So I shall not be returning.

At first I thought you meant a Victor,then I realised, yeah fuck 'im.

[saucedoctor]

 

 

(1) Should I risk a look at the much maligned Autoshite fb group or (2) will it cause a migrane?

 

1. No

2. Yes

[Mr Lobster]

 I think that's decided then.

[chaseracer]

There's an AS FB group...?

 

[Felly Magic]

One of my colleagues is well known for leaving the works vans on fumes when he doesn't have it the next day, and as he's just fucked off for the 4th time since April, I got the van today with the orange light of doom on, and we only use BP for diesel, and as I was delivering nowhere near them today, I ended up having no fucking choice to use some of my half hour lunch break to drive to the other side of fucking town to fuel the bastard van up. This is the 4th fucking time this cunt has done it to my van, and he's done it twice to my other colleague as well. Both of us today had a right go at the gaffer to boot this twat firmly up the arse over it, because we aint fucking happy using our time to sort shit he causes. It doesn't help that these bastard vans love a drink, being straight 6 dizzlers, with badermaticness and freezer/chiller box bodies

[155V6]

One of my colleagues is well known for leaving the works vans on fumes when he doesn't have it the next day, and as he's just fucked off for the 4th time since April, I got the van today with the orange light of doom on, and we only use BP for diesel, and as I was delivering nowhere near them today, I ended up having no fucking choice to use some of my half hour lunch break to drive to the other side of fucking town to fuel the bastard van up. This is the 4th fucking time this cunt has done it to my van, and he's done it twice to my other colleague as well. Both of us today had a right go at the gaffer to boot this twat firmly up the arse over it, because we aint fucking happy using our time to sort shit he causes. It doesn't help that these bastard vans love a drink, being straight 6 dizzlers, with badermaticness and freezer/chiller box bodies

When I worked at Parcelforce,one of my colleagues used my van for some reason.Next morning,he said to me "It's a bit low on fuel,but should get you to the garage"(a couple of miles away).I literally pulled out of the yard,& onto the road & it died.How our boss laughed when he had to come out & rescue me,luckily it started with a tow 

[Cavcraft]

You had no choice to use some of your dinner break? How does that work then? Bollocks to that, you should have stayed put for the full 30 minutes, then sorted it. If things don't get delivered then they don't get delivered, the more you bail this lazy bastard out and the more you bail the boss out, the more it's going to happen.

Your boss must be laughing his knackers off.

[Angrydicky]

One of my colleagues is well known for leaving the works vans on fumes when he doesn't have it the next day, and as he's just fucked off for the 4th time since April, I got the van today with the orange light of doom on, and we only use BP for diesel, and as I was delivering nowhere near them today, I ended up having no fucking choice to use some of my half hour lunch break to drive to the other side of fucking town to fuel the bastard van up. This is the 4th fucking time this cunt has done it to my van, and he's done it twice to my other colleague as well. Both of us today had a right go at the gaffer to boot this twat firmly up the arse over it, because we aint fucking happy using our time to sort shit he causes. It doesn't help that these bastard vans love a drink, being straight 6 dizzlers, with badermaticness and freezer/chiller box bodies

The "green" one by any chance? That bullshit sounds familiar, we have someone who does exactly the same thing, fortunately there is a petrol station on site so its not too bad. He always whinges when other people don't fill the vans up, but never does it himself. Therefore I never do when I know he's got the van on the next shift.

Not sure what's more annoying - that or getting in a cab to find crumbs all over the steering wheel, floor and seat, and the door pocket full of rubbish, like I did yesterday. Dirty bastards. Added to that, work was unbearable yesterday in that heat, I was absolutely exhausted by the end of it.

[UmBongo]

One of my colleagues is well known for leaving the works vans on fumes when he doesn't have it the next day, and as he's just fucked off for the 4th time since April, I got the van today with the orange light of doom on, and we only use BP for diesel, and as I was delivering nowhere near them today, I ended up having no fucking choice to use some of my half hour lunch break to drive to the other side of fucking town to fuel the bastard van up. This is the 4th fucking time this cunt has done it to my van, and he's done it twice to my other colleague as well. Both of us today had a right go at the gaffer to boot this twat firmly up the arse over it, because we aint fucking happy using our time to sort shit he causes. It doesn't help that these bastard vans love a drink, being straight 6 dizzlers, with badermaticness and freezer/chiller box bodies

 

Kill him.

[chaseracer]

I think that's an entirely reasonable and proportionate response, in the circumstances.