The grumpy thread

[Bren]

Its getting colder - my vectra is getting harder to start.

 

Either glow plugs or starter - either way expensive.

 

A can of petrol and some bryant & may will warm things up.

[fordperv]

A bastard spark managed to get into my welding mask and into my eye when I was grinding thought I was lucky as closed my eye instantly but the telltale black spot on my eye so 3 hours of my day wasted in a&e, it's only been a couple of months I did it last

[Bren]

oil filter change on the bike

 

cant use strap zorst is in the way

 

cant use chain ya cant get in from side as the frame is in the way

 

have to go buy a cup wrench - but its an odd size

 

fecks sake

 

cant use screwdriver bodge as frame too

My old gsxr 750 wa the same - aftermarket headers meant oil filter could not be accessed.

 

Exhaust off - radiator has to come off first - drain coolant first.

 

Just to change the oil and filter.

[JohnDeere]

Dark and wet this evening, narrow country roads.  Motorbike coming towards me.  Getting nearer.  Ah, no it's not a motorbike, it's a Fiesta driven by a f***wit who thinks that it's OK to have the entire offside in pitch black.  Yes, so changing a bulb in the current Fiesta involves removing the entire headlight (really) but there's still no excuse.

[wuvvum]

I'm not one for poncey food normally, but I tried a Lindt milk chocolate bar with salt in it and I found it quite delicious.

[TimothyClaypole]

Ritz crackers - now with less salt.. half the reason I ate them. 

[Richard]

Yes, so changing a bulb in the current Fiesta involves removing the entire headlight (really) but there's still no excuse.

 

That's the case in most cars from the mid-90s on.

[HH-R]

Saw a few people with no lights on at all this morning (dark and raining). All Qashqais and Corsa Ds, so I wasn't really surprised.

[vulgalour]

I have been irrationally annoyed and short-tempered all day.  Even I'm getting pissed off with me so I dread to think what it's like for anyone else that encounters me.  Grief really does fuck with your brain, but I appear not to be going through the traditional five-stage pattern.

 

Maybe tomorrow I'll just burst into tears repeatedly for no reason, at least that's preferable to raging at the tiniest things.

[Pillock]

It might be headlight out, but on the Focus at least it's one screw (not crazy specialist tool, a big screw that can be done with flat, philips OR torx) and pull the lamp.

 

Open bonnet, remove screw, pull lamp assembly, remove rubber dust cap, unclip bulb, put it all back together. In my eyes, its easier than fumbling down behind the light where you can't see.

 

If that's too difficult, they don't deserve the right to drive the same as "oh I didn't know how to work the airline" or "I don't know where to put screen wash" so they drive round risking others.

[rml2345]

^ That. I had to rescue a young lass driving a Corsa on Friday (leaking radiator top hose. Bodged and told to replace ASAFP) who didn't know how to open the bonnet. "Oh, my boyfriend does all that" is not an acceptable excuse IMHO as every driver should know how to do at least the most basic vehicle checks to ensure roadworthiness.

[Craig the Princess]

That is in the driving test now. That said my brother passed his test and filled his brake master cylinder with water.

[Pillock]

Water cooled brakes. Handy.

[EssDeeWon]

That is in the driving test now. That said my brother passed his test and filled his brake master cylinder with water.

 

Yes I think it is in the test, but learners are only shown how to open the bonnet of the car they are learning in, once they get there own POS to drive around in the vast majority dont have a clue where anything is.

[Craig the Princess]

True. Maybe it should be part of the MoT to check oil, tyre pressure and put on the spare wheel. Would be a proper pain in the arse however.

[vulgalour]

Even though I knew where everything needed to go in the Fiesta I learned in, I had to be told how to operate the electric mirrors when I put the window down and went to wiggle them into place.  I must have been a very confusing student because I knew how to drive and how to operate a car, but didn't know how what steering wheel radio controls were.

[Bren]

True. Maybe it should be part of the MoT to check oil, tyre pressure and put on the spare wheel. Would be a proper pain in the arse however.

Filthy brake fluid reservoirs should be a fail.

[daveb47]

When I was ready to check out and pay for my groceries at Tesco the cashier said, "Strip down, facing me.."
I was really fed up with this security rubbish, but I did just as she had instructed.
After the shrieking and hysterical remarks finally subsided, and security had dragged me away, I found out that she was referring to how I should position my credit card!

Nonetheless, I've been asked to shop elsewhere in the future.

They need to make their instructions a little clearer for seniors.
Man, I hate this getting older stuff....

[Bren]

Somebody else asked how big my vivarium is on gumtree.

 

The next person that asks will be getting a vivarium shaped suppository.

[Bren]

^ That. I had to rescue a young lass driving a Corsa on Friday (leaking radiator top hose. Bodged and told to replace ASAFP) who didn't know how to open the bonnet. "Oh, my boyfriend does all that" is not an acceptable excuse IMHO as every driver should know how to do at least the most basic vehicle checks to ensure roadworthiness.

Then they have the brass neck to complain at the cost of recovery and repair.

 

It is everybody's fault that somebody is thick as pigshit.

[Asimo]

Fucking idiots texting whilst driving towards me!

[Cavcraft]

IM JUST CUMIN THREW HERE4DSHIR AN SUM NOB IS FL4SHNG HIS LITS AT ME

[Caffiend]

True. Maybe it should be part of the MoT to check oil, tyre pressure and put on the spare wheel. Would be a proper pain in the arse however.

Yes. It would.

 

(I'm not levitating. I'm also 5ft9 and weigh about 13 stone. Fucking air guns ...)

[hairnet]

^^ moar pics

[dugong]

I spy the ceefax tiger that stranded me in mid Wales reflected off your vzzbks.

[Angrydicky]

Still no sodding internet in my rented house, it was supposed to be installed on Saturday between 12 and 6. Waited all day and the Sky engineer never turned up. Complained to the letting agent and they responded by saying they had referred the matter back to the landlord, who is supposedly organising it. Heard nothing more since, and I'm fed up of using my phone or university computers to get internetz. Bah.

[320touring]

Still no sodding internet in my rented house, it was supposed to be installed on Saturday between 12 and 6. Waited all day and the Sky engineer never turned up. Complained to the letting agent and they responded by saying they had referred the matter back to the landlord, who is supposedly organising it. Heard nothing more since, and I'm fed up of using my phone or university computers to get spluff material. Bah.

Efa

[Craig the Princess]

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Yes. It would.

 

(I'm not levitating. I'm also 5ft9 and weigh about 13 stone. Fucking air guns ...)

 

 

I was more thinking of having to be present for an MoT. The airgun thing really pisses me off, having to undo them at a garage would be 11 billionty times better than a wet hard shoulder on the M1.

[richardmorris]

Still no sodding internet in my rented house, it was supposed to be installed on Saturday between 12 and 6. Waited all day and the Sky engineer never turned up. Complained to the letting agent and they responded by saying they had referred the matter back to the landlord, who is supposedly organising it. Heard nothing more since, and I'm fed up of using my phone or university computers to get internetz. Bah.

 

 

Yoof today - when I was in University no-one had mobiles and to use a computer you went to the computer centre and hoped a terminal was free. This wasn't in the dark ages either - 1990.

[EssDeeWon]

Still no sodding internet in my rented house, it was supposed to be installed on Saturday between 12 and 6. Waited all day and the Sky engineer never turned up. Complained to the letting agent and they responded by saying they had referred the matter back to the landlord, who is supposedly organising it. Heard nothing more since, and I'm fed up of using my phone or university computers to get internetz. Bah.

 

Just call the letting agent every day until its sorted, they pizz me off. Soon as they have your deposit and month up front they will never put themselves out for you.

 

Call em daily and let them take some strain, they will soon get pissed off and start passing that onto the landlord, who in turn needs to give sky a rocket up their arse's and to get this organised.