The grumpy thread

[320touring]

I have said it many times before, I want to fly out somewhere, buy a car, drive it back and then flog it. Much more sensible way round.

Major issue is that our 2nd hand cars are cheaper than elsewhere..

[Cavcraft]

I have said it many times before, I want to fly out somewhere, buy a car, drive it back and then flog it. Much more sensible way round.

 

 

https://www.google.co.uk/flights/#search;f=LBA;t=MAN;q=fly+from+leeds+to+manchester;d=2014-10-27;r=2014-10-31

 

(£187!)

 

 

 

Then 31 miles to Chester and 76 back miles home, all the way as you look down on those other road using peasants from the opulent luxury of your new bought Zafira. Smiling. No, smirking. Smirking in the knowledge you have nothing left in life to prove now. You're at the pinnacle of your car buying career, and EVERYBODY around you is looking on with envy. But hey, just let those jellybeans deal with it as you YOLO yourself onto your estate, knowing for sure you will never sleep alone again. Ever.

[rml2345]

I love how it'll only take one stop and four hours to fly from Leeds to Manchester.

[dollywobbler]

An Autoshite Leboincoin 'fly and buy' session sounds a grand plan. If I actually had any money, I'd be more than up for it.

[skattrd]

I have said it many times before, I want to fly out somewhere, buy a car, drive it back and then flog it. Much more sensible way round.

 

Ditto, Malta and something Italian and rhd is on my to do list ... but keep it, unless there was lots of profit in it.

[vulgalour]

If we did a Fly-buy to Malta we could pool resources and drive home in a decommissioned yellow bus of excellence.

[Lankytim]

Does an A frame count as hand luggage?

[purplebargeken]

Yes, always.

[quicksilver]

Facebook is making me grumpy today but not for the usual reasons of mongness. Over the last few weeks I must have sent about a dozen friend requests and had only two or three acceptances and the rest ignored. These aren't just random strangers or vague acquaintances but are all fellow students at my uni who I've met in person and got on well with and in many cases we share 20 or 30 mutual friends, so I was confident they would accept. I look at their profiles and see them becoming friends with loads of my friends but for some reason they just ignore me I even had one accept and then immediately unfriend me. I just can't understand what I'm doing wrong.

[320touring]

I just can't understand what I'm doing wrong.

You're caring..

[Lankytim]

Fuck em.

[AlabamaShrimp]

^^^what he said.

 

Facebook is for needy attention whores who spout nothing but "look at me" shit all day to add meaning to their sad fucking lives

[garethj]

I sold some of the twat accessories I had on the Land Rover, the ebay auction finished today.  All large items so I wrote collection only in the text, and in the piss-awful postage thing when I created the listing.

 

1. Roof rack.  "Hi, can I pick this up tomorrow morning please?"  Result.

2. Tyres. "Hi, if I send you paypal, can you store them until I can collect them in December?"  Hmmm, but as he asked this before (5 minutes before, mind) the end of the auction, not too bad.  And he's paid up.

3. Nudge bar. "Hi, can you post it?"

 

There aren't enough rolleyes smilies in the world

[dave21478]

I sold some of the twat accessories I had on the Land Rover, the ebay auction finished today.  All large items so I wrote collection only in the text, and in the piss-awful postage thing when I created the listing.

 

1. Roof rack.  "Hi, can I pick this up tomorrow morning please?"  Result.

2. Tyres. "Hi, if I send you paypal, can you store them until I can collect them in December?"  Hmmm, but as he asked this before (5 minutes before, mind) the end of the auction, not too bad.  And he's paid up.

3. Nudge bar. "Hi, can you post it?"

 

There aren't enough rolleyes smilies in the world

 

 

Two out of three aint bad at all for mongbay....

[Sloth in a bowl]

Bastard, bastard, bastard. I've done something tonight that I have never done before.

 

I was maneuvering around an unlit carpark and hit a bollard at about 2mph, but that has been enough to put a dent in the sill of the Skoda and scrape the paint on the passenger door.

Too much attention on the front right corner which was very close to a wall and not noticing what was low down and on the left.

 

Arses

[vulgalour]

I walked the dog in the dark, because he was mithering me.  Rather concerned at the new-ish Corsa that pulled out with no lights on at all, couldn't get their attention to tell them so I hope somebody else does.  It's easy done as it's a very well lit street, but very worrying to see someone do it all the same.

[RedSparrow]

Facebook is making me grumpy today but not for the usual reasons of mongness. Over the last few weeks I must have sent about a dozen friend requests and had only two or three acceptances and the rest ignored. These aren't just random strangers or vague acquaintances but are all fellow students at my uni who I've met in person and got on well with and in many cases we share 20 or 30 mutual friends, so I was confident they would accept. I look at their profiles and see them becoming friends with loads of my friends but for some reason they just ignore me I even had one accept and then immediately unfriend me. I just can't understand what I'm doing wrong.

 

Seriously man, it's facebook. It's a load of shite. Please don't make the mistake of thinking it's in any way important to real life.

[Micrashed]

Seriously man, it's facebook. It's a load of shite. Please don't make the mistake of thinking it's in any way important to real life.

^^^

What he said.

I know humans are social animals and we all want to be loved, but really dont set score by how many "friends" you have on Facebook or tw@tter or whatever. Ive got 63 Friends on facebollocks and most of them are not in thsi country any more whch is why I keep in touch via FB. I ignore friend requests from passing acquaintances

mainly becasue 

a) I dont give a shit about their dirty washing or what they had for tea

b ) They dont give a shit about my life either.

 

In other news some fuckwit has tried to steal Eric by shopping through his leg.

I have to ask, was that Wise?

[Lankytim]

I have a photo of me bumming that statue somewhere.

[jakebullet]

1 1/2 years after my dad died. And I'm really sad now. Had to actually buy a bottle of Co2 to carry on welding. £55 for 5 years rent, plus £15 a fill plus vat. It was a lot easier when it cost me half an hour drinking bad tea n listening to bullshit waffle.

[HillmanImp]

I have a photo of me bumming that statue somewhere.

Would be easier in that position.

[Cavcraft]

It never ceases to amaze me how much value people put in FaceAche. No offence or owt, but does it really matter if someone is/isn't your 'friend' on there?  I've sacked people off who I don't really know (or in some cases did really know) and I'm absolutely certain even more again have sacked me off because I'm a knobhead. Lost any sleep over it? I think not.

[rml2345]

Facebook is mainly for writing nonsense on. If they'll still happily chat to you and whatnot I wouldn't worry too much about not getting "Friended" on the internet. 

[Lord Sterling]

Re: "Banger Rallies" I've said it before that I'd had an amusing debate with one of the BEN lads. My daily at the time was a 1989 F-reg Rover 827Si, thier "banger" cars were late 90s Mondeos, Volvos and a Calibra from what I remember, I don't think they even left England but the way it was written was "OMG WE WILL WE MAKE IT TO NORTH YORKISHIRE IN OUR BANGERS! ONLY TIME WILL TELL....

 

We should do one of these "banger rallies" in our daily drivers just show them how it should be really done, we needn't decorate our cars or dump them in another country because it won't start or whatever. Man, I'll even bring the Crappy 827 in it's current condition.

[RedSparrow]

Re: "Banger Rallies" ive said it before bjt I have had an amusing debate with one of the BEN lads. My daily at the time was a 1989 F-reg Rover 827Si, thier "banger" cars were late 90s Mondeos, Volvos and a Calibra from what I rmember, I don't think they even left England but the way it was written was "OMG WE WILL WE MAKE IT TO NORTH YORKISHIRE IN OUR BANGERS, ONLY TIME WILL TELL....

 

We should do one of these "banger rallies" in our daily drivers and show them how it's really done, we needn't decorate our cars or dump them in another country because it won't start or whatever. Man, I'll even bring the Crappy 827 in it's current condition.

 

Too many people trying to be wacky and original by copying Top Gear.

[Caffiend]

Re: Facebook. Agree with rest. Then I'm 44 and beyond the age of really giving a shit. I used to though, so here's another POV: I signed up to FB in 2008 for work reasons (it was the flavour of the month for charities, needed to be able to see what was going on out there), never used it until 2012, when I realised I was missing out on a LOT of BX Club stuff. Needless to say, I didn't just stick to looking at car pages ... I haven't got sucked into games, in fact I've got all apps switched off, I do use it to piss people off by posting political rants and it came in handy earlier in the year to let people know I was still alive when I was housebound (ill). If the entire thing got shut down tomorrow, I genuinely wouldn't give a shit.

 

Anyhoo: I can see that Quicksilver (especially as a student) could feel that he is genuinely missing out by not being part of the gang on FB, so here's something possibly more potentially useful: get better RL friends. Find people who genuinely share your interests, not just who you seem to get on OK with/fancy the pants off. If those RL people are friends and not just friendly acquaintances (really?) - then think about how many times people refer to FB stuff on friends' pages in actual face-to-face conversation. My guess is "Not much" actually? If "lots", then you possibly have reasons for concern.

 

Have a look at your own page. First: is it obvious who you actually are? If you have no photo(s) and/or haven't filled in your profile at all (at least put in Uni and complete the rest with a humorous* pack of lies) then the request will get passed over more often than not. Unlike life, you can edit your Facebook page - if there's lots of weird or depressive shit on your page/oversharing then it'll put people off. Misery might love company, the reverse generally isn't true.

 

Penultimately - patience. If you're in your first year and don't know anyone I know that's tough. If you're shy, then I'm sure you've found every self-help site on the internet. Don't buy any "instant win" stuff though. Friendships take time to build up, there's very few people in life that you hit it off with instantly.

 

Finally - what LankyTim said TBH. Hang out on here instead and congratulate yourself on being a Real Shiter instead of a Shallow Crapster.

[Louise2cv]

Yeah come on guys,just because you might not like FB doesn't mean it shouldn't be important to anyone else.

 

I'm not sure that people's Facebook habits aren't changing. Back when I started I added everyone and most people had hundreds of friends. Now a lot of people I know have less than 100, and I am very picky about accepting friend requests. Maybe you are just seeing that too, people are becoming more guarded about who they share stuff with, probably as time goes on and you get to know people better they will add you.

 

Keep doing all the "real life" stuff and hopefully the Facebook stuff will follow.

[Lacquer Peel]

I walked the dog in the dark, because he was mithering me.  Rather concerned at the new-ish Corsa that pulled out with no lights on at all, couldn't get their attention to tell them so I hope somebody else does.  It's easy done as it's a very well lit street, but very worrying to see someone do it all the same.

 

I see this all the time.

In modern cars, it's people driving along with DRLs only and no tail lights at all at night that terrify me. I know it's nannying, but cars fitted with DRLs and permanently lit instrument panels should have automatic headlights to stop thick owners driving about with no lights.

 

It's scary that people don't get to know their 1-2ton moving weapons a bit more, as far as being oblivious to the car's lighting.

 

BE LESS THICK.

[HH-R]

More often than not I see that with Corsa Ds and Qashquais, and the person just can't drive for shit full stop.

[quicksilver]

Thank you all for offering wise words on a rant that may not seem that important. I think it just got to me as things never used to be this way and as a logical computer scientist they don't make sense. For instance, of the last two requests I sent, the one I doubted would accept did so straightaway and the one who accepted all my friends and I thought was guaranteed has ignored me. The latter is good friends with a girl I know well, we're both local and went to the same school so of everyone in that uni I must be the one person she has most in common with. Since I sent my request she has accepted half a dozen of my friends who she met that same night and we have over 30 mutual friends, so it's not like I'm trying to add random people. My situation is a bit unusual as I have finished my degree but am likely to be staying here long-term - I have already seen my own cohort leave at the end of last year and now another cohort will be leaving come December so I need to make some new friends before all the old ones disappear.

 

I'm currently based in an attic room of the smaller campus where nothing exciting ever seems to happen and everyone else in that room is from the Middle East. They speak to each other in Arabic, their English isn't great and we don't have much in common so making conversation with them is difficult and nobody else ever comes to visit that room so I feel rather isolated. All these people I've met are on the other campus a mile away, I never have any need to go there for work and they never have any need to come up here so facebook is really the only way I can keep in touch with them outside of social events. I know it's not the end of the world but it did make me start to question myself and why I was bothering to be sociable at all.