The grumpy thread

[Guest]

Not really, by freeze it means Mr Freeze. It's up to him.

 

 

"Stay cool!"

[Mash]

Fuck me, that just illustrates perfectly all that is wrong with Britain today Apparently it took everyone up to 3 hours to get home across Hull on Friday because there was a failry heavy snowfall during the day. I missed it as I was on my way back from somewhere they don't gripe about it so much but I'm still struggling to fathom out how it took THREE HOURS. I mean it's not as if they closed three quarters of the roads and made everyone go the same way. What were they playing at?? When I got back at 10pm I honestly couldn't see any evidence of it, we'd had about an inch or so on top of the dregs of the beginning of the week and it's as flat as Holland here.Also just thinking about the global warming thing in earlier threads. When you think about it we've been on fairly regular cycles with these cold winters for a while now: 1947, 1963, 1982. Is this not just one of those which we're a little bit overdue for?

[Guest]

I wouldn't worry that much Mash, he's only really bothering Gotham City at this stage.

[Minimad5]

GLOBAL WARMING IS NOT REAL !Did ford anglia's and Nissan Bluebirds contribute to the whole melting of the ice age ?NOOOOCuz obviously things warm up and so onI'm not being very Mr Science man here but, the talk of Global Warming kinda pee's me offThe fellow man was not about to melt the ice back when the ice age was all the styleSo what ever made that melt, is maybe playing a part to todayDont blame the easiest thing and say "OOH ITS CARS AND PEOPLE"There is such thing as Natural Green House Gases too.... i'm gonna shut up On the other hand :-I LIKE AUTOSHITE

[Mash]

Maybe they mean these instead, must be quite a few E numbers in them:

 

[barrett]

browsing IMCBD (see the 'antidote' thread) and seen this fairly harrowing scrapyard, circa 1973

 

WILL SWOP 4 1 MILLION PUNDS, honda S800, vitesse...

DB Panhard!!!!

 

I know it's sad but i find this sort of thing quite upsetting.....

[brammy777]

So Im going to the Autosport show this coming thursday, and I have to be in college earlier than normal to get the coach, 7am to be precise.Fuck. Im not a morning person, and my buses wont even be running that early! Grumpy Sam followed by 3 hours on a claustrophia inducing coach. YAY. Did anyone go last year and witness the 'Banger Racing' in the main arena?They didnt touch!

[Minimad5]

Brammy - Shouldnt you be in bed you have college tomorrow ?

[brammy777]

Went into the Asda to get something to eat, was greeted by the Sunday Express.

 

 

Calm down!

Woah hold on, an express without diana on the front? Jesus. I didnt have a problem with her at all, and I can see why aload of people held her in high esteem, but 10+ years later, the Express would always use her.

This and the Daily Mail piss me off a treat, along with those woman mags with those 'A CROCODILE CAME INTO OUR HOUSE AND ATE MY FAMILY' stories spread across the front. Yeh okay, I did once browse through one to see what actually happened, and its never as bad as the front makes it out to be.

And the Daily mail is just ultimate scaremongering. Advice for us all? If a paper says 60,000 will die, it wont be anywhere near it.

 

And Minimad, yeh I should be! Im just unaturally nocturnal. Not cool.

[Pete-M]

Oh I dunno. I enjoy the Mail on Sunday as it makes a refreshing change to read something slightly less biased than the Daily Fucking Mirror.We have the Mirror delivered here even though I utterly despise it as "I like the Crosswords". I cannot abide it, but it's slightly more tolerable than The SuN (which I'm sure you all know is not read by Scousers). [1]The Mirror is all "Cameron is Eton educated and a bit of a toff, so vote Labour", and any opportunity for a cheap pop at the Tories, but without actually giving a single reason to vote for the (history graduate) one-eyed Scottish idiot instead.At least in the MoS they tend to find bitter NuLabor ex-flunkies with a story to tell, as opposed to the Mirror approach of "Cameron rides a bike, Boris has floppy hair, Thatcher the Milk Snatcher" school of shite journalism. [1] If you ever wish to be ripped from limb to limb and have a burning wedge of tabloid paper shoved up your arse, read The Sun in an Anfield ale house.

[Cavcraft]

They still hate The Sun there? Wasn't it to do with Hillsborough and their report on it?Gave up on The Mirror a long while back as found it pretty much unreadable.Daily Star on a Saturday for the giant crossword, occasionally The Sun in the week and loacl paper on a Thursday for me.There's a daily 'local' paper which usually has 1/3rd of an inch of actual local news and the rest is dedicated to smackhead crimes and freezing weather across the border in Wales. Not fit to wipe my not inconsiderable arse on.

[RedSparrow]

browsing IMCBD (see the 'antidote' thread) and seen this fairly harrowing scrapyard, circa 1973

 

WILL SWOP 4 1 MILLION PUNDS, honda S800, vitesse...

DB Panhard!!!!

 

I know it's sad but i find this sort of thing quite upsetting.....

If you can find it, have a look at the 'amazing journey' bit from the Who film Tommy...

[Whoop Whoop Pull Up]

This and the Daily Mail piss me off a treat [...]

Yeah, me too - I'm waiting for the day the Express goes with FALLING HOUSE PRICES GIVE YOU CANCER, SAID DIANA

[The Liberator]

Yeah, me too - I'm waiting for the day the Express goes with FALLING HOUSE PRICES GIVE YOU CANCER, SAID DIANA

To save having to buy/look at the Daily Mail, I use this:

 

http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/

[pompei]

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ LOL

[Mr Lobster]

Oh I dunno. I enjoy the Mail on Sunday as it makes a refreshing change to read something slightly less biased than the Daily Fucking Mirror.The Mirror is all "Cameron is Eton educated and a bit of a toff, so vote Labour", and any opportunity for a cheap pop at the Tories, but without actually giving a single reason to vote for the (history graduate) one-eyed Scottish idiot instead..

Agreed. I can't do with the Mirror largely for this reason. It's not about the politics, its more about that they can't be arsed to do any actual journalism and just continually have a go at the Tories as though that is the only reason for their existance which would be allowable if they put any effort at all into the articles, but they don't.Daily Mail? This sums it up nicely http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/heal ... 001062355/

[rocco1504]

To save having to buy/look at the Daily Mail, I use this:

 

http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/

 

Loved this link on that site.

 

http://twitter.com/Qwghlm/statuses/7624734519

[Guest]

A colleague has cut a picture out of an old calendar and placed it on the back wall noticeboard, which happens to be directly above my head. It's a (somewhat airbrushed) picture of popular beat combo "Girls Aloud". People who walk in and don't really know me could assume that I did it and think I'm the sort of bloke who puts up pictures of mediocre pop bands at work, which irks me a bit.I could try to counteract it with a picture of Kate Bush in a tight rollneck, but that would break my current stance of not decorating my work area. I like to feel like I'm an agency temp on a spare desk.What a difficult situation!

[Mr H Sceptre]

A colleague has cut a picture out of an old calendar and placed it on the back wall noticeboard, which happens to be directly above my head. It's a (somewhat airbrushed) picture of popular beat combo "Girls Aloud". People who walk in and don't really know me could assume that I did it and think I'm the sort of bloke who puts up pictures of mediocre pop bands at work, which irks me a bit.I could try to counteract it with a picture of Kate Bush in a tight rollneck, but that would break my current stance of not decorating my work area. I like to feel like I'm an agency temp on a spare desk.What a difficult situation!

Not difficult.Make your own 2010 Autoshite calender.

[Tayne]

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[Mr_Bo11ox]

That autotrader site sucks 20 tons of grizzly bear cock EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK, I just assume there is nowt good on there and give it a wide berth. Its easier to drive around the country actually looking in all the dealers and car yards than it is to do a search on there.

[Rod/b]

Someone over on MacDroitwich has just got a job as a tester on the new AT website....

[Guest]

That sounds relatively hassle-free, my experience is more like this.Go to the Autotrader website.Website locks up.Ctrl+Alt+Del, End Task.Go to the Autotrader website.Set to "National", put in "Hyundai".Model box freezes up whilst saying "Any" and won't change.Website locks up.Ctrl+Alt+Del, End Task.Go to the Autotrader website.Set to "National", put in "Hyundai", put in "XG30".Long wait.Brings up a haphazard list of XG30s, click into one.Click onto one of the pictures to enlarge.Website locks up.Ctrl+Alt+Del, End Task.Frozen window remains open for 10 minutes.Picture then appears along with confirmation that I want to End Task.Older computers seem to suffer a lot more with this. Nice work lads!

[M'coli]

This is a link to the old interface, bookmark it to keep it:

http://search.autotrader.co.uk/www/cars ... orm.action

[Rod/b]

Superb! Thanks M'Coli

[Lankytim]

The Autoglass advert on the radio.Enough. Make it stop.

It's made me hate Brummies. And I am one!!If dat chip cawses a crack, yu'll be devastaaateeed. FUCK OFF! I like the chip!! Autoglass Repair? Autoglass disgrace.

Im a Brumme who also hates Brummies, hence I moved to Stoke where everyone thinks im a "yam yam". Where in Brum do you originate?Mrs Lankytim has the hots for Gavin from the AG ad, just because of his Brummie twang. I suspect she wants him to inject his special resin into her crack or something

[Mr_Bo11ox]

That will stop it expanding on cold days at least

[Timewaster]

Has anyone, in the combined motoring experience of Autoshite EVER seen a car heater crack the windscreen?Even with the best heater in the world on the coldest day on record?The Autoglarse campaign is starting to look like scaremongering the stupid into getting their insurance to pay an inflated price for a pointless repair.And it's getting worse with every ad.....

[dollywobbler]

Actually, I think someone on this very forum was telling us how Vectras are good at cracking their windscreens...Tim - I'm from the south side of Brum, though I also grew up in the marvellously titled Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell in my formative years.

[Mr Lobster]

Has anyone, in the combined motoring experience of Autoshite EVER seen a car heater crack the windscreen?

Think Pete M has.I've seen Focus' with the heated front screen crack - windscreen had a tiny chip and as soon as heated screen is on it cracks.