The grumpy thread

[chaseracer]

Odd how my brain can just wipe everything clean. Is this something that happens with middle age?

 

Yes.

[Jazoli]

From the eBay Tat thread. This has actually made me cross with the state of humanity.

 

http://www.ebay.co.u...3456:image.jpg]

 

twatlook.jpg

 

"...FOUND THIS CAR WITH THE RAT LOOK AND HAVE GIVE IT A COAT OF CLEAR LACQUER TO PRESERVE THE LOOK"

 

Lying cunts. You've been given an immaculate low mileage Golf and immediately set upon it in a frenzy of scene-whore, attention-craving, imagination-deprived buffoonery, to the very extent of unscrewing the front number plate and reattaching it on the piss using the same bolt. And then rotating the badge in the grille through 150 degrees.

 

I know that when I was at school it was fashionable to behave badly and resist education, but I find it upsetting that we've reached a point where actual stupidity is celebrated.

Scene twats are the biggest fucktards ever, I cannot believe how fucking retarded they are, a neighbours son bought a nice shiny Polo a few weeks back, its now ruined, bounces down the road, has wanky Christmas lights for headlights and looks utter shit, to top it all off he always wears a stupid fucking beanie hat and drives sporting the 'cripple hook' driving position, wanker......

[purplebargeken]

Oh marvellous, extra personality disordered tonight then are we eh? Yay!

[HH-R]

Damn, three quarters of my bonnet is always going rusty too!

 

... said no one, ever.

[Frogchod]

Mega Grumpy.

Took trusty Jumpy for CT (frog MOT) last week, CT  tester used wrong key in the ignition.  20 minuits later starter motor goes up in smoke taking half the lights and winndscreen wipers with it.

Bump started to get home with no rear lights or wipers. In the rain. In the dark.

Had to use the Visa for work for a few days

Went to scrap yard for "new" starter motor and had wallet stolen, Gendamerie not interested.

Now spent eleventy million hours on phone and online cancelling cards, replacing driving licence, carte vital etc.

New UK bank cards arrived next day, still waiting on the frog cards.

Cash (chod buying) stash is running low...

Grrrrrr

[Chas4545]

Memory.... I cannot remember where I put my tea, I cannot remember where my keys are, I cannot remember the name of the wonderful barmaid at my local, I cannot remember loads of stuff, I cannot find my favourite 10mm spanner

 

So why is it I cannot forget  the shit in my life?

 

Happy days

[Craig the Princess]

That Golf is awful, funny thing is without those improvements* it might actually be worth something as it is rare to see one with a five figure mileage.

 

Verdict : Frag feed

[purplebargeken]

I would quite like to hurt the tosser who 'scened' the Golf, thereby ruining what was obviously quite a tidy car.

[MrDuke]

WGAF? It's not as though the floor won't crumble away to nothing on its own, regardless of any other 'mods'. And nice, un-messed-with Golfs are still a long, long way from pleasant.

[Pillock]

 

 

As some of you may be aware, I work for one of the large retailers involved in the Black Friday promotion.

Out of interest, which one?

I'm wondering if you're a friend or foe

[Negative Creep]

I would quite like to hurt the tosser who 'scened' the Golf, thereby ruining what was obviously quite a tidy car.

 

 

At least it was only a povvo spec mk.3

[Des]

WGAF? It's not as though the floor won't crumble away to nothing on its own, regardless of any other 'mods'. And nice, un-messed-with Golfs are still a long, long way from pleasant.

 

Good point. The ratlook thing is sickening, the perpetrators are devoid of any skill, ability, imagination, and can only destroy but they do expedite the journey to the bridge of a lot of ghastly German wank.

[jakebullet]

Oh dear, I quite like F&F, purely for the LOLS mind.

 

[mercrocker]

 

Good point. The ratlook thing is sickening, the perpetrators are devoid of any skill, ability, imagination, and can only destroy but they do expedite the journey to the bridge of a lot of ghastly German wank.

 

Fair comment, but that does not stop me worrying that the baggy trousered shit-for-brainstorming is going to spread to things that I may care more deeply about.   I have seen the "L@@K, DUDE" already on a couple of proper nice cars and if they run out of granny-ran Gollufs and Polyps to play with who knows where it might end... 

[MrDuke]

The same could have been said of the Max Power generation, who seemed determined to bolt massive amounts of fibreglass to anything that they could afford, blended in with more than enough wob to ensure that the shell would become a giant sponge every time it rained - along with the 19" alloys and lo-pros, which probably buggered up the suspension just as much as the current chop & poke approach does. Oddly enough though, there are still plenty of '90s boggo hatchbacks floating around.

 

I wonder if back in the 50s, old farts like us were getting in a right strop about all the wankers ruining perfectly good, low-mileage '30s Ford coupes, with their pointless V8 installs and stupid small front wheels... and painting them in primer FFS!!!!

 

People will always screw around with cars, get used to it. Some will ruin them in the name of fashion and hasten their journey to the Bridge, some will actually learn to respect them and become enthusiasts, and others will modify them safely & sensibly and still enrage the purists. Ultimately, there will always be plenty of shite around regardless - and they are only lumps of metal, after all.

[derskine]

I hate when people with both rear light bulbs blown decide to substitute a fog light for them.

[oman5]

Out of interest, which one?

I'm wondering if you're a friend or foe

Can't say. They really do check online for any reference to them.

[Cavcraft]

You watch the price of Novas now, the old school knobhead Kingdom bodykit/snow plough boys are reliving their youth and snapping them up, though thankfully now realising less is more. Any hot (or even lukewarm) hatchback is game on for this, and I honestly think even Saxos will see an upturn in price at some point.

[fordperv]

Especially the phase 1 Saxo vts I always admired these but then the chav chariot image spoilt it for me

[dave21478]

Yep - phase 1 saxo is my serious tip for a future investment.

 

There are only 5 or 6 phase 1 VTR / VTS models on ebay and only another 30 or so of the horribly ugly phase 2 with the big teardrop shaped headlights. Probably about a third of them are stripped out track sheds.

 

They were EVERYWHERE when they were new due to exceptional deals from Citroen on finance and free insurance but now they are as rare, possibly even rarer, than the 205 GTi.

 

Buy a tidy one and cherish it. I doubt if they will reach mkI escort levels of sillyness, but you will definitely not lose money on one.

 

 

 

Another from my "why the fuck did I sell that?" files.....

 

 

I made an ok profit on that one when I sold it 3 or 4 years back, but looking at prices now - if I still had it I would be close to doubling my money again.

 

 

[mrbenn]

Just been to the local out of town supermarket to pick up a couple of things. About 15 feet away from my car on the way out I see, and hear, the woman at the next car open her rear door into my car with a loud whack.

 

As I approach the door is still touching my car. I tell her I heard the bang, she sort of apologises, I look at the damage which is a dent and scratch. I appreciate these things happen. A good natured apology would have done me just fine.

 

I decide not to bother to ask her to pay for the damage as, for some reason, she seemed to be bristling with anger already. She now decides that I have ruined her day and been unpleasant to her! If looks could have killed I would have dropped dead. I offered her my apologies if I had upset her (I hadn't raised my voice, sworn, got angry or upset but sensed this was not going well) but that did little to placate her. Luckily her friend calmed her down a bit while I was stood there, open mouthed and with a damaged car.

 

What the hell is wrong with people. I don't like people. Not one bit

[Bobthebeard]

Just been to the local out of town supermarket to pick up a couple of things. About 15 feet away from my car on the way out I see, and hear, the woman at the next car open her rear door into my car with a loud whack.

 

As I approach the door is still touching my car. I tell her I heard the bang, she sort of apologises, I look at the damage which is a dent and scratch. I appreciate these things happen. A good natured apology would have done me just fine.

 

I decide not to bother to ask her to pay for the damage as, for some reason, she seemed to be bristling with anger already. She now decides that I have ruined her day and been unpleasant to her! If looks could have killed I would have dropped dead. I offered her my apologies if I had upset her (I hadn't raised my voice, sworn, got angry or upset but sensed this was not going well) but that did little to placate her. Luckily her friend calmed her down a bit while I was stood there, open mouthed and with a damaged car.

 

What the hell is wrong with people. I don't like people. Not one bit

 

People is what is wrong with people.... Re Black Friday....

[Cavcraft]

The solution there is very simple: the moment she walks off just open your door full swing into her car. I've genuinely done this loads of times, one of the many good points of having shit cars.

[Cavcraft]

Also my neighbour is selling a Saxo VT something, I think it's about 2000 or 2001. It's in an absolutely gopping gold colour.

[Angrydicky]

I think I've grumped about this before. I rent a garage through a housing association. It's located in a block behind a block of flats that doesn't have an official car park. Fortunately not many of the residents seem to have cars, and those who do are usually quite courteous about where they park them. Either on the road outside or at the very end of the forecourt where they don't cause a problem. Parking is not actually permitted in front of the garages, it says so on the letting agreement.

Except the inconsiderate twat with the Citroen Berlingo. The last three or four times I've gone down there to get the Maestro out or put it away he's been parked slap bang in the middle of the garage forecourt, right opposite my garage. This makes getting a car in or out extremely difficult, it means reversing in at a sharp angle, shunting backwards and forwards and turning the wheels on the spot etc (no power steering). It really is incredibly inconsiderate, all he has to do is park up against the fence and it wouldn't be a problem, but no, he has to dump it right in the middle.

While walking back from dropping the car off I saw a traffic warden putting a ticket on a car so mentioned it to him. Apparently it's outside their jurisdiction as it's not the public road, and I need to complain to the housing association about it.

Now I'm a reasonable guy as anyone who knows me will hopefully agree with, I don't like to make a fuss unless absolutely necessary, but I'm so fed up with this car parking there I have to do something. Trouble is the garage is quite a way from where I live, and I don't know the owner of the car so he might be one of these unreasonable types who thinks he owns the place and I wouldn't be happy if my garage/car got damaged in retaliation for complaining to the housing association about him. I'm thinking about asking the HA if I can swap my garage for one closer to me anyway, there's a newly refurbished block right behind my house, with a nice wide forecourt and because it isn't behind a block of flats, there's no cars parked there.

My garage is the one with the white door nearest the camera, sorry for the shit picture, but it gives some idea of the issue. As you can see, he could quite easily park at the end, or close to the fence.

 

[Cavcraft]

Night time, tow bar equipped vehicle, reverse gear. Job jobbed.

[castros_bro]

Send details of your problem to posting # 38003 and ask him (her) to kick in the door of their problem and leave a note on the screen saying it was caused by your problem.  Breathe out...and relax...

 

I think I've grumped about this before. I rent a garage through a housing association. It's located in a block behind a block of flats that doesn't have an official car park. Fortunately not many of the residents seem to have cars, and those who do are usually quite courteous about where they park them. Either on the road outside or at the very end of the forecourt where they don't cause a problem. Parking is not actually permitted in front of the garages, it says so on the letting agreement.

Except the inconsiderate twat with the Citroen Berlingo. The last three or four times I've gone down there to get the Maestro out or put it away he's been parked slap bang in the middle of the garage forecourt, right opposite my garage. This makes getting a car in or out extremely difficult, it means reversing in at a sharp angle, shunting backwards and forwards and turning the wheels on the spot etc (no power steering). It really is incredibly inconsiderate, all he has to do is park up against the fence and it wouldn't be a problem, but no, he has to dump it right in the middle.

While walking back from dropping the car off I saw a traffic warden putting a ticket on a car so mentioned it to him. Apparently it's outside their jurisdiction as it's not the public road, and I need to complain to the housing association about it.

Now I'm a reasonable guy as anyone who knows me will hopefully agree with, I don't like to make a fuss unless absolutely necessary, but I'm so fed up with this car parking there I have to do something. Trouble is the garage is quite a way from where I live, and I don't know the owner of the car so he might be one of these unreasonable types who thinks he owns the place and I wouldn't be happy if my garage/car got damaged in retaliation for complaining to the housing association about him. I'm thinking about asking the HA if I can swap my garage for one closer to me anyway, there's a newly refurbished block right behind my house, with a nice wide forecourt and because it isn't behind a block of flats, there's no cars parked there.

My garage is the one with the white door nearest the camera, sorry for the shit picture, but it gives some idea of the issue. As you can see, he could quite easily park at the end, or close to the fence.

 

[vulgalour]

Would be a shame if all the air escaped from his tyres or something.

 

 

In entirely unrelated news, you can get convincing* fake parking fine stickers on the internet.

[DVee8]

Saxo vts on the Autotrader

 

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201411209121270/sort/default/page/1/keywords/vts/postcode/dh23hx/usedcars/onesearchad/used%2Cnearlynew%2Cnew/make/citroen/model/saxo/radius/1501?logcode=p

[RobT]

What a grade A nobster that Berlingo driver is, can't even be arsed tucking it against the fence.  I'd suggest putting a polite note under their wiper first off as I do this when my garage gets blocked where I live (drives me insane).  Most people get the idea and it's not like there isn't a road they can also park on.

 

Failing that, the 220 has a towbar so glad to help Dicky if you prefer Cavcraft's suggestion!