The grumpy thread

[Lord Sterling]

Is it not possible to move to a different part of London?

[purplebargeken]

I hate all of London equally. I am an equal equality London hater.

 

I like bits of Essex but Mrs. PBK is worried about potential haters of non-whites, cos all Essex people are obviously all brain dead racist bastards*.

 

Plus London property is overpriced shite.

[purplebargeken]

Not really sure where we will end up to be brutally honest. She won't move anywhere north of the Watford Gap, nor will any potential flood plain do. She now hates Norfolk due to the wankers in Norwich council. Sigh, I quite like the idea of Norfolk too..

 

I fancy a remote island with a quadruple garage, 4 post lift and fully kitted out garagey bits. Plus some OS parking. Oh, plus easy ferry access to deliver all of my vehicular stable. I will then mine the surrounding waters, allowing access to fellow AS'rs and food/water.. 

[Inspector Morose]

Arse. Project No. 654 scuppered. Spare dash hasn't got a temp gauge either. Plan B needed. Just rummaged through spares stash to find a complete ignition switch. Shame key isn't there. Sigh. This weekend hasn't been one I can call good. Yesterday I managed to knock myself out with one of those fuck off big sliding fence post hammers putting in speaker poles for an agricultural show (48 speakers over 10 acres, including two speaker towers plus wiring).

 

I quite like Norfolk.

[Craig the Princess]

She now hates Norfolk due to the wankers in Norwich council. Sigh, I quite like the idea of Norfolk too..

 

I'm convinced Norfolk is the Shitters paradise, Kings Lynn and West Norfolk Council have been no problem either. Wasn't so keen on Norwich, too many people.

[ruffgeezer]

Ken, try Lincolnshire, once you get past the island mentality, it's not a bad place at all, well except for Grimsby that is!

 

I've a friend selling up a small holding here,  5 bedroom house, masses of outbuildings, including a hydraulic lift and nearly an acre plot for a mere £430k, you'd be lucky to get a flat above a knocking shop for that in Londonshire these days.

[purplebargeken]

I like Lincolnshire too but it be too far up north for Mrs. PBK. I miss Norfolk.

 

Prices here seem to be around £300,000 nowadays.

[Skizzer]

Move to Wales. There's a bridge rather than a ferry, but we do put up a £6.40 toll to discourage Panhard from coming over and buying up all our quality chod

 

No need to bring mines, we had lots of our own. They've all closed now, though.

[Parky]

Kids playing knock down ginger. Done me twice now. One things for sure, they are fucking fast runners!

[Parky]

I hate all of London equally. I am an equal equality London hater.

 

I like bits of Essex but Mrs. PBK is worried about potential haters of non-whites, cos all Essex people are obviously all brain dead racist bastards*.

 

Plus London property is overpriced shite.

Tell me about it. Friends bought a house in Forest Hill 2 years ago which has more than doubled in value for no reason whatsoever. London property is a mystery to me, if you know what you are doing you could be a millionaire in five years for no money down and no effort.

 

The people that managed to do that are the ones currently telling us to buy buy buy!!! After all they need to sell up so they don't get caught in the next crash.

[mat_the_cat]

Yesterday I managed to knock myself out with one of those fuck off big sliding fence post hammer

 

I did similar a while back

 

[DeeJay]

Matt did you do that while filming Star Trek 

[mat_the_cat]

Sorry, you've lost me there? Maybe I'm just being stupid as a result of too many blows to the head...

[dollywobbler]

Arse. Project No. 654 scuppered. Spare dash hasn't got a temp gauge either. Plan B needed. Just rummaged through spares stash to find a complete ignition switch. Shame key isn't there. Sigh. This weekend hasn't been one I can call good. Yesterday I managed to knock myself out with one of those fuck off big sliding fence post hammers putting in speaker poles for an agricultural show (48 speakers over 10 acres, including two speaker towers plus wiring).

 

I quite like Norfolk.

 

Temp gauges were only fitted to really posh BXs. The sporty ones I think. Which even got oil temperature gauges! I'll check my box of bits for the key. Or maybe I'm thinking of another ignition switch. My garage is a mess.

[Richard]

Sorry, you've lost me there? Maybe I'm just being stupid as a result of too many blows to the head...

 

I think your T shirt looks a bit like a Star Trek uniform.

[HH-R]

Why can't the BBC do a car programme without smashing shit up?

 

Thought it was going well for a programme with May on it.

[Inspector Morose]

Dolly, thanks if you can find one! I do have a plan B to the temp idea now. There's a little digital temp gauge you can buy of 't bay that would fit into a blank space on the dash. Before you decry me for cutting a hole into the rare light greyness of it, my plan is to fit it into one of the spare dark grey trim pieces and keep the original somewhere safe* for returning back to how Citroen intended.

 

Mat, bloody hurts doesn't it? No blood for me just an eight hour migraine attack and blurred vision out of my left eye. I might have done something to myself this time...

[Honey Badger]

Why can't the BBC do a car programme without smashing shit up?

 

Thought it was going well for a programme with May on it.

Aye agreed, I don't even like Ladas, due to the old man having one when I got my license, but there was no bloody need to smash a perfectly good car like that.

 

Shame as the rest of the programme was ok.

[Lord Sterling]

I like bits of Essex but Mrs. PBK is worried about potential haters of non-whites, cos all Essex people are obviously all brain dead racist bastards*.

I hear what your saying Ken. It's for similar reasons why I am considering living out of Birmingham if I need to stay in England with Lady_Sterling for any length of time. Ma_Sterling is trying to convince me to stay at hers. I'd rather not.

 

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This looks like one of those photos of a frontman of a mid 90s Manc band you used to see in some of these Music mags in the 90s.

[sheffcortinacentre]

looked like a different one to me plus eng/box was missing & rusty/grubby front wheels.

[jakebullet]

My current main gig is selling dice valve caps on evil bay. Thousands of the little bastards every month. For extra cash I also sell just dice for the D&D crowd.

 

Got some genius wanting to buy just dice for much cheapness, best price etc. Checking his feedback he's just bought a shitload of valve caps. Sure thing chum, I'll do you the dice at 2p profit and you can then undercut me on valve caps. Sounds like a winning* plan for me.

[STUNO]

Tell me about it. Friends bought a house in Forest Hill 2 years ago which has more than doubled in value for no reason whatsoever. London property is a mystery to me, if you know what you are doing you could be a millionaire in five years for no money down and no effort.

 

The people that managed to do that are the ones currently telling us to buy buy buy!!! After all they need to sell up so they don't get caught in the next crash.

 

 

NO. that should have read ----- doubled in cost----- no actual value needs to be added !

[purplebargeken]

After discussion with Mrs PBK - Norfolk is ok again and so is East Sussex. Where the fuck is East Sussex?

[chaseracer]

Where the fuck is East Sussex?

 

It includes Brighton and therefore is a southern suburb of THAT LONDON.

[inconsistant]

Tell me about it. Friends bought a house in Forest Hill 2 years ago which has more than doubled in value for no reason whatsoever..

1 word: East London Line Extension

[EssDeeWon]

Got talking to a chap round the corner from me this evening about his gorgeous looking Rover 75 Connie 2.5 V6....It really does look sweet.

 

Turns out its only done 35k from new, I asked if he might be selling it soon and he said yes he has been thinking about selling it recently  ......Then his daughter came outside and piped up "Oh my husband will be having that when dads finished with it"

 

FFS shut up and go back inside ya silly cow, who asked you?

 

It was lovely though, cant imagine there are many better early 75 Connies still around.

[gordonbennet]

Ignore the daughter, in similar circs i wouldn't let my daughters beau within a country mile of any of my old cars, just as likely the feller you was chatting up feels exactly the same.

[vulgalour]

Not long ago heard on the wireless that Robin Williams has committed suicide at his home.  Quite shocking to hear, I've enjoyed many of his films and not just the comedy stuff.  It feels like losing the sort of relative that would visit sporadically and always make the world that bit brighter by their presence, the sort of relative you never thought would just stop visiting one day.

[garethj]

Just rummaged through spares stash to find a complete ignition switch. Shame key isn't there. Sigh.

 

On the ex-DollyWobbler BX I had to replace the ignition switch, GSF came up with a replacement but it was farkin expensive.  And because it's a "universal fit" the wiring didn't match up between the car's connector and the switch's plug.

 

Turn the key to the first notch and the starter turned, onto the second notch for radio and the third notch (against the spring) for the ignition on.  How I laughed as I sat there with a wiring diagram, multimeter and my hopes and dreams cascading into a dark, echoing void of oblivion.

[jakebullet]

There's a delightfully scruffy renault 5 always parked outside a block of flats near my gaff. Went past today and it's been hit hard up the arse probably by some drunk who's fucked off. I feel right gutted about it.