The grumpy thread

[beko1987]

Pure class!

[Doctormop]

Never thought much about Patrick Stewart until I saw him on 'who do you think you are' talking about his Father's experiences during the second World War.

Well worth watching if you get the opportunity.

[Lord Sterling]

What is this craze with people tipping buckets of water over their head and filming it? It looks daft. Nothing wrong with donating cash to a worthy cause, but there seems little point in making yourself look like a twat in the process. Apologies to anyone from here who has done it, it does seem to be quite popular at the moment.

 

Obviously, I hate CHAR-I-DEE.

I get the whole charity thing (Fatha_Sterling runs a charity for Syria) but because this thing has blown up and become popular, I can't help thinking that a lot of these "celebs" and probably non-celebs are doing it for publicity/something to chat about on Feacebook rather than giving a toss about the charity itself. I'd be surprised if they actually paid the money.

 

Personally I'd give money straight to the charity rather than pull some stunt.

 

Funny how I'd never heard of this "Ice-Bucket" bullshit until I came back here.

 

...Pictures of cars in Quarry...

Kin 'ell. That Audi in the Quarry seems to have been there for a while, last taxed in 2005.

[Noel Tidybeard]

i wonder how well the "camel-toe challenge" is going

[bub2006]

I must admit i have done it. Someone challenged my wife who then picked me. Donations where made by us to motor neurone disease. I do see it as just a bit of fun but people do seem to want attention and are not donating.

[Louise2cv]

How does anyone know who is or isn't donating? I reckon anyone who moans about these things should donate ££££s to some charity for perspective, tolerance and humour. If you go back a few hundred pages of grumps you will see the same whining about the no make up selfie, loads of people donated loads of money with that one too. I have done neither "challenge" and don't intend to join in, I haven't got any money and I am miserable. Fair play to those people who wanted to join in and make a bit of a difference by having a laugh.

 

I hope that a fair bit of money is raised for the charities involved but apart from that I am not that bothered by it. I have scrolled past a number of videos on Facebook and watched 2.

 

Why get worked up about it?

[dollywobbler]

My point entirely Louise. I'm not doing it, I've giggled at a couple of videos, especially Patrick Stewarts. And Clarkson's for that matter. I'm glad folk have had fun and that it has benefited charities though.

 

The no-make-up one annoyed me because it just reinforced the idea that a girl with no make up is a BAD thing. Which is stupid.

[sporty-shite]

I did it for a giggle, and donated accordingly. If it's dpne properly, the donations continue as more people are nominated. Nobody has to do it, but if you do, it should just be for fun and donations.

 

Unfortunately, it does seem to have been hijacked by attention seekers.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Some good 'ice bucket fails' on YouTube, folk dropping tin buckets on their sister's head, falling through the side of shower cubicles etc.

[trigger]

My favorite one is that cute looking Irish girl who knocks herself out on a hanging basket frame.

[dave21478]

My favorite one is that cute looking Irish girl who knocks herself out on a hanging basket frame.

 

 

Oh man.

Being a bit of a sociopath, I take great delight in watching people hurt themselves on the internet, but that one looked properly painful.

[HillmanImp]

My favorite one is that cute looking Irish girl who knocks herself out on a hanging basket frame.

Thats a hanging basket frame? I did wonder why they had a metal cross in the middle of their garden. Still a bit odd like having it at face height but i appreciated it at that moment.

[trigger]

It either that or a bird food hanger, it's hard to tell but every time I show somebody the video at work they always shout "Ouch" and rub their forehead such is the impact!

[Cavcraft]

The builder in the skip getting a getting soaking via the rubbish chute from the flats roof was class.

 

Not so that scruffy old woman in the mankini.

 

Edit: I've been nominated twice but it's not happening until I can find a massive pair of orange or brown Y fronts.

[Wilko220]

I did wonder why they had a metal cross in the middle of their garden.

That's Northern Ireland for you...

[Danblez]

I currently have two non working cars as I haven't been out in the 924 for a month and the battery is flat and guess who left the lights on on the daily last night?

 

Can I find the battery charger? Its years since I have had to bump start a car! What a dickhead!

[jakebullet]

I have no 'real life' friends so am safe from this you must join our cult of getting wet nonsense. I'll continue to stuff currency into the collecting tin of anyone who appears to be worthwhile who crosses my path.

[Bren]

My wife has just had to have her pet tortoise put to sleep - she has had it for just 18 months and in that time has cost us a fortune.

 

The vet had been boarding the tortoise while we had been away - we got a bill for £495 and a deceased tortoise.

That takes spending near to £1k.

 

To say I am angry is an understatement.

[Wilko220]

Sorry to hear about the tortoise. Sounds like you're going to have to 'shell' out a bit...

[Cheggers]

Sorry to hear about the tortoise, but the thought of the vet "boarding" it while you were away did make me laugh like Sid James.

 

In other news, I was picking pears off the tree in the front garden when one fell from an upper branch and landed square in the middle of my bonce...farrrrrking painful.

 

 

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[Lankytim]

Tell em to keep it!

[Lankytim]

P.S

 

Fuck you MAERSK,

 

Yeah, thats right.

 

Fuck you all the way to hell.

[beko1987]

Much appreciated! I did fuck about with the sensor in the air intake duct, and sprayed it with brake cleaner. Found a tin of switch cleaner, may give it another prod and rinse with switch cleaner.

Well, after some poking about the temp sensor is fine, however it seems that when I removed the egr blank to see what it was like in there it now isn't sealing correctly, and was sucking in air. Confirmed by putting my finger over the edge where it was sucking, which blockednit and made the revs dip.

 

I plan to sort this by removing the egr, applying a smear of exhaust paste on it then bolting it down tight, reckon that would work?

[beko1987]

Well, no need for any paste or sealent, there's a lip moulded on the block, and I'd put the blanking plate back on incorrectly...

 

Rotated it round, it sealed up a treat straight away and the idle went from 1,243.2 to 807.0!

 

One thing ticked off then! And I'm a tit

[michael1703]

Solicitors causing aggro and stress on a house purchase.

 

Fortunately,I have the phone number for the vendor and between us we've sorted out most of the problems the solicitors had caused/hadn't noticed.

[dave21478]

Its been a total bastard of a day.

 

All the electronic gubbins I stripped out of the C2 all went back together a treat as far as I can tell so far - not even any bits left over, which is pretty unusual for me. Hopefully the electric will not shit themselves when I put the battery back in, but I cant test it until I finish the rest of the work to be done,

 

However as soon as I started on the mechanical side it all went to shit.

 

Step 1 - take the front wheels off. Nope. The last folk to have the wheels off would have been the citroen garage when they did the accident repair a few months back. Well, they had done the wheel nuts up Hulk Strength and the locking wheel key just fell to bits. Its some wank aftermarket pish that I dont have a manufacturer name for so no chance of a replacement key. The old "hammer a smaller socket on" trick was no use as they have been designed to just shear the main body off if you try this, leaving a flush face with nothing to fit a socket too so I had to spend ages faffing with the welder to try and get a nut to stuck to them. They are made of pissy steel though that just crumbled a lot, so it took several attempts on each side.

 

Then I had to drop the front subframe - no biggie, just 4 bolts. The back two came out ok but no chance on the fronts....they are screwed up into captive nuts in a box section on the bottom of the inner wing/chassis rail. What shit-for-brained spastic decided that plastic would be a good material to make a wee clip to hold the nut captive? 

Obviously the clips broke and the nuts were just spinning. There is a tiny wee access hole at each nut that is too narrow to get the required 22mm spanner through so I had to hack the hole wider, but the threads on the bolts are too rusted to unscrew. I tried heating the nut with the oxy rig but there is too much plastic and other flammable stuff round about it so couldnt get as much heat in as I would like. I got each one undone by about 10 turns, but there is still a good 3cm of bolt to unscrew and both have now just jammed up. There is not enough room to get in with a grinder, so looks like tomorrow will be spent sweating a lot with a junior hacksaw to cut through the bastard bolts.

 

I then needed to remove the mounting studs from the steering rack. Large diameter steel studs screwed into an alloy casting...obviously they were nicely corroded. So what have citroen decided is adequate for unscrewing them? yeah the end of each stud is machined with a hole to take a T20 torx bit. In case you wondered, T20 is fucking small - like not much larger than a pencil lead kinda small. No fucking way were they coming out, and there is not enough stud sticking out to wind two nuts on against one another, so I had to faff about cutting a standard nut in half and eventually managed to get them undone that way.

 

It conflicts me to say this, but the electronic voodoo was a piece of cake to do, and the basic mechanicals were the hardest part. 

 

 

[RobT]

My noisy neighbours have returned after being away for 5 weeks. I hoped they'd been refused entry back into the UK on the basis of being grade A cunts, but alas no. Cue lots of mong behaviour and kids screaming and stamping around constantly. MUTHAFUCKERS!

 

Time to cheer myself up and buy more shite I reckon.

[michael1703]

I feel your pain with that subframe bolt problem, my dad has a mk2 mondeo v6 on a T and I had to change the clutch but had to drop the subframe,the captive nuts spun and the bolts sheared so I had to cut pockets into the chassis legs to get new nuts in etc.

 

Everything else also went wrong as i had to change the downpipes at the same time and the studs snapped etc

 

Think it was about 30 hours all in

[UmBongo]

My noisy neighbours have returned after being away for 5 weeks. I hoped they'd been refused entry back into the UK on the basis of being grade A cunts, but alas no. Cue lots of mong behaviour and kids screaming and stamping around constantly. MUTHAFUCKERS!

 

Time to cheer myself up and buy more shite I reckon.

 

Vermin like this should be sterilised.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Sd card in my phone has just died. Or course it has got pictures on that weren't backed up. Plugged it in to the pc and nothing. Read there's no way of fixing it.

 

Put it back in the phone to keep it safe and it was read but then said it had been ejected so maybe there is hope