The grumpy thread

[vulgalour]

meh.

[Inspector Morose]

Apathy? Meh.

 

I managed to get my not inconsiderable arse into gear this afternoon and have a play with the XM seat to try and fit it to the BX (big comfy seats fit my wide arse nicely). Runners are 1/2 inch too far apart but I can't narrow the seat base frame without much head scratching and fabrication to make it just not worth the hassle. Arse.

Suppose I'll keep on the lookout for a tidier interior.

 

It's still raining and I'm wet.

 

Heaven knows I'm miserable now.

[chaseracer]

Bollocks.

 

Does this mean you don't want the other seat?

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

Is it me, or do headlamp bulbs only seem to blow when it's absolutely pissing down ? I don't remember a single time when I had to change one and it wasn't in torrential rain. ARGH !

[Inspector Morose]

Chaceracer, I haven't even got room anywhere for the first one! It's living in the back of the BX for now to keep it safe and dry.

 

What do you want me to do with it? (At this moment in time I can think of one but that's not fair or probably legal)

 

Off to look for a paraffin stove to make me feel better.

[chaseracer]

What do you want me to do with it?

 

I'll have it back, mate - there's a possibility a friend in Northants may have the full interior.

[jakebullet]

Had an ebay buyer ask where his crap is. Checked the tracking "Delivered to secure location 3/10/14". Hmmmm.

 

Hermes, where is this secure location please?

RED WHEELIE BIN.

 

Hermes, would you like to pay me compo for the item that is now in landfill?

[purplebargeken]

Oh to go back to bed, pull the duvet up over my head and not surface for a day or two. Bliss. Pain is shit, weather is well, weather.

[fairkens]

Hotel rooms ffs whoever it is that designs them to retain so much heat should be drafted in to solve the world energy crisis

 

Got to the room at 6.30 last night, hotter than the sun- opened windows and turned radiator off, left that way overnight and it's still too warm this morning!

[daveb47]

Just discovered that ovlov headlining is still getting damp in spite of my previous drain tube clearing session.

So i have ordered a large bottle of

"Captain Tolleys creeping crack cure"

See if that works

 

[Cavcraft]

"Captain Tolleys creeping crack cure"

 

It sounds like the sort of thing they sell in chemist shops to ladies of the night and smack heads.

[Bren]

After two years the headlights on my vectra are starting to annoy me - they are really poor.

 

Many owners invest in HID kit as an upgrade - I will do the same.

 

I have already had to have the EGR blanked off / deleted due to running problems.

 

All these mods are not acceptable on a modern car.

 

Pull your finger out vauxhall.

[Bren]

It sounds like the sort of thing they sell in chemist shops to ladies of the night and smack heads.

Apparently it's for caravans.

 

Sd1 owners usually have some in the glovbox.

[vulgalour]

Bren, the good people at Vauxhall are merely upholding the traditions and values of the company, you should expect nothing less really.

 

After his recent stomach upset which now, thankfully, appears to have cleared up I'm left with a very, very smelly dog.  He gets smelly when he's unwell and you can bathe him, shut him outside, spray him with flowery fresh air stuff and none of it works until he's properly well again.  Smelly, smelly dog, sitting next to me while I work because he wants the company.  Can't be too cross at him though, in people years he'd be 91.

[hairnet]

AlabamaShrimp, on 12 Oct 2014 - 8:15 PM, said:

 Why don't we see brand new stuff pineappled?

Funny you should say that, I saw a lowered and stickerbombed 14 plate Polo the other week.

see worthersee  every year

 

3-4 years ago i wanted to go - as there was lots of classic tat - the more i see pics of it and the modern stuff the more i dont

[cort16]

Wow my new car has a really tiny fuel tank. £45 to fill it with diesel.

[CortinaDave]

Arrived home after being away for the weekend to find the new keyboard I'd ordered for my laptop hanging half in and half out my letterbox courtesy of the postie - absolutely soaked and so knackered - worse - it had been acting as a flume for the rain through the letterbox all weekend straight onto a plug socket in my hall which has tripped the electric and as a result the freezer has defrosted itself all over the kitchen.

 

GR9.

[Station]

Smash the old one over the postman's head next time he comes.

[M'coli]

That's shockingly shit, a result of Royal Mail's first time delivery policy - complain like fuck about it.

[myglaren]

Arrived home after being away for the weekend to find the new keyboard I'd ordered for my laptop hanging half in and half out my letterbox courtesy of the postie - absolutely soaked and so knackered - worse - it had been acting as a flume for the rain through the letterbox all weekend straight onto a plug socket in my hall which has tripped the electric and as a result the freezer has defrosted itself all over the kitchen.

 

GR9.

Contact Royal Mail

A Yellow Pages delivered to my brother's house cracked a panel in his new (£1,000) door.

They paid up almost immediately.

 

PS

The door was from the factory where I work - they are crap.

[dollywobbler]

 

Just discovered that ovlov headlining is still getting damp in spite of my previous drain tube clearing session.

So i have ordered a large bottle of

"Captain Tolleys creeping crack cure"

See if that works

 

 

 

Be very careful with it. Great stuff, but it will stain paintwork. Wipe any excess off immediately.

[cobblers]

Fuckin ell, having a yellow pages delivered was upsetting enough until I realised they were great for mixing body filler on. Just tear the page out once you are done.

[DVee8]

Oh fuck

Bookable holidays have gone bust.We go to Lanzarote next Thursday.

[rml2345]

^Bugger. Hopefully you'll be alright. Are they ATOL protected?

[dugong]

My Amazon defeated Tiger Seal (recommended by the STOE*) and Captain Tolley's.

This is because the windscreen surround looked like sepia emmental.
 

Oh fuck
Bookable holidays have gone bust.We go to Lanzarote next Thursday.

Not good. Hope you get it sorted.

Speaking of crap holidays, PARENTS_DUGONG got robbed on their first evening in Prague. The Czechs have a 'tourist police station' for such things.

*Scouse Team of Excellence. Branches in Birkenhead, Wallasey and West Derby.

[DVee8]

Speaking of crap holidays, PARENTS_DUGONG got robbed on their first evening in Prague. The Czechs have a 'tourist police station' for such things.

A lad that works for me got robbed in Prague earlier this year,he got separated from his mates,jumped bundled in to a car boot driven to a building tied to a chair threatened then taken to a cash point and made to remove as much cash as possible,they got around £300.He is still having nightmares,sleepless nights.

[jakebullet]

Ebay twats. Think I'm getting a form letter, as I've 3 X "I bought 4 valve caps but only got 2, give me eleventy million pounds compo" today.

 

I pick everything on my picking list into a box. It then goes into the appropriate envelopes. There's nothing left over in the box. But of course you can't prove they're a lying sack of shit.

 

There's also the twunt who thinks it's infinate free refills. Buys 13th September. Claims not arrived 19th September. Send him another one. Today claims he's totally forgotten and neither has arrived. I'm going to help his memory by sending him a nice heavy brick minus stamps.

[DVee8]

We still have flights,it looks like we don't have a hotel but we are going back to the same place we have been before so should be ok,our friends on the other hand have had to pay another £360 for the hotel they have all ready payed for.

[The Moog]

Mother Moog was looking for a new cooker. I have seen good things about AO and so suggested there.

 

Happily she ordered one yesterday. Today she got high pressure salesman trying to get her to take out a warranty.

 

He wouldn't take no for an answer and said he would phone back. I phoned up to complain and whilst they said sorry they were trying to justify it.

 

Managed to get them to send an apology email, but certainly left a bitter taste.

 

When one of your customers says no why cant they just take it.

[Cavcraft]

When one of your customers says no why cant they just take it.

 

You didn't leave Cavcraft empty handed, did you?