The grumpy thread

[xtriple]

Regards defrosting, I just refrain from venturing out until Mr Sun has done the deed for me

 

In other news (Dog again, skip if I'm boring you) took Pheebs to the vets today to have her cast changed, she never made a squeek the whole way through - what a brave little girl and now with a new cast on. However, it looks like Monday wil be MEGA expensive as she's got to have the op. I saw the x-rays for the first time, bugger me, she's only broken the knobbly bit clean off her elbow so top part of leg is not connected at all! I've broken quite a few things over the years and know how much it hurts, especially when you move it. I'm amazed at how stoic she's being.

 

By the time the ortho surgeon has finished she'll have more metal in her front leg than a lot of the chod on here has in its sills!   

[meggersdog]

Outside my unit there are two MOT parking signs both of which are clearly visable as there is nothing parked infront of them.I'm in the middle of an MOT with a car on the ramp and the roller door is up when some spunkbubble parks his car in my entrance and goes nextdoor.Apparantly shouting "Oi, don't park that there" is being rude and politeness costs nothing.No you twat, leaving your car in the entrance to someone elses business while you fuck off elsewhere is being rude.

It's a good job the Land Rover on the ramp wasn't mine otherwise it would be low box, difflocks in and reversing on top of his bonnet.

[twosmoke300]

Twats

[drum]

I don't like James Corden but Wrong Mans was funny.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I watched 10 mins of it and found it less funny than my recent bladder infection.

[maxpower]

that lard ass probably threatened to do an hour long "comedy set" and they gave it to him to get rid.... him & that ricky gervias 2 of the most unfunny funnymen ever to grace a tv screen

[Lankytim]

I found water from the cold tap gets rid of frost on a windscreen, just get the wipers on quick to wipe it away. Cold water should stop the screen from cracking too.

 

Just remember the pool of now frozen water next to where you park your car the next day, and don't do what I did and fall flat on your arse.

[eddyramrod]

Regards defrosting, I just refrain from venturing out until Mr Sun has done the deed for me

0600: scrape Mercury.

0645: scrape work Transit because the heated screen only works on the passenger's side.

0725: do it again because while I've been loading up it's frozen over again.

Shouldn't complain really, plenty of people with no job at all, etc etc.

 

Why isn't the heated front screen as universal as the steering wheel?  It bloody should be!

[M'coli]

Patents and patent payments, that's why.

[steve_earwig]

Something like Ford, rather than make it a safety feature for everyone, decided to make lots of money off of it instead. Hey, it's no worse than Glevospaxclinebeaver patenting herbal cures so nobody else can sell them.

[jakebullet]

Dozy bastards who have been blowing shit up since 7:30pm. Hint: 1 firework at midnight is just about acceptable. Recreating the Somme all night long is not.

[Pillock]

Apparently Ford only own the patent on a connection method involved in heated screens. There are other ways of doing it and they don't own a patent on heated screens themselves.

[Cavcraft]

NYE 'mainstream' telly features non-entity presenters with non-entity celebrities. It seems our knobhead Order of the British Empire friend is on one of those shows.

 

He'd go to the opening of an envelope, that fucker.

 

Goldeneye it is, then.

[Inspector Morose]

Nah, Donnie Darko is on syfy.

[fairkens]

That's interesting, I had always thought that ford had a patent on the heated front screen full stop. Assumed that was the reason no one else had them. If it's just the connection why aren't they standard fit on everything?

[Cavcraft]

...and who's this fucking robot bastard singing Queen songs on BBC1?

I've seen more personality in my week old scrundapps.

[greengartside]

I'm watching it too - what the fuck is he doing? Charlie Sheen crossed with Morrissey. 9 minutes and it'll all be over.

[DS20]

There is an extension being built to the special circle of Hell I have set aside for people who stop to chat in doorways.  It is for people who stop at the top / bottom of escalators.  I was in John Lewis in Nottingham earlier today, and there was nearly a nasty accident because a dozy old bat...well, it's obvious really.  

[Pillock]

Some Jags and Land Rovers had heated screens but I have a feeling these predate the Ford ownership. Also, some BMWs apparently have them and there's no Ford link there at all.

[DS20]

My Range Rover (built in 1994) has a heated front windscreen - very handy it is, too.  I wish all cars came with them.  None of this waiting-for-the-engine-to-heat-up nonsense, although TBH the Range Rover is about the last car that needs such a thing - the engine is so inefficient that there's roasting hot air available within half a mile's travel.  

[Richard]

My work Transit has only half the heated screen working too, the driver's side. They must be very poorly made.

[Pillock]

They are, the patented Ford busbar connector is wank. At three years old my Focus looked like a frosty barcode and my mum's Fiesta was the same at about four years old. I just waited until I got a stone chip and got a new screen fitted for excess price.

[Richard]

The van was new in March last year so I only got a couple of frosty days to try it out. By the time it was frosty again it was broken.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Sodding back wiper won't work on the Frontera. This would be a big deal but the rear view mirror fell off the other week so it's not that bad.

 

Utter shit at electrical things though so it might never get fixed

[mat_the_cat]

The 1996 Disco has one as well - seconded for it being GR9 but hardly needed on anything powered by a Rover V8! Seriously though, one of the great features and almost worth choosing a car for! Mainly for instant demisting in wet Wales, rather than de-icing TBH.

[daveb47]

Was sound asleep at midnight when the Audi owning retard neghbour with the tribe of kids with stupid named started letting off massive fireworks,for almost an hour.

Why.

Onother thing,just got used to writing 2014 on stuff & they go and change it.

Well fuck em,as far as i am concerned it is the 1st of Roverember 2014.

[STUNO]

Was sound asleep at midnight when the Audi owning retard neghbour with the tribe of kids with stupid named started letting off massive fireworks,for almost an hour.

Why.

Onother thing,just got used to writing 2014 on stuff & they go and change it.

Well fuck em,as far as i am concerned it is the 1st of Roverember 2014.

 

It was new year you grumpy old fart. And I was sound asleep by then too!

[steve_earwig]

Onother thing,just got used to writing 2014 on stuff & they go and change it.

 

I well remember that from writing cheques and timesheets. Not a problem any more as I'm "retired" and if I want a cheque here I'd have to go and buy one individually from the bank- Not that anyone uses them here, nobody trusts banks (with good reason).

 

We had the blitz all around us from about 11:30 and lasting an hour or so. It never used to bother me (when I first came here I could hear automatic weapons fire in amongst the fireworks) but we have an ageing golden retriever who's terrified, so we had all the windows and blinds shut and the telly turned up full in an attempt to mask the noise.

 

Speaking of telly, it looked like the usual bunch of idiots presenting the usual load of bollocks to me. My wife is happy to channel hop amongst the drivel but it drives me up the wall, so I broke out the headphones and watched a couple of Supernaturals followed by Dog Soldiers. But then we found a channel showing back to back CSI's with No CoMmErCiAl breaks! That's bloody amazing for here (ok, I have them all but it's nice to be able to watch something together sometimes)

[Richard]

...and who's this fucking robot bastard singing Queen songs on BBC1?

I've seen more personality in my week old scrundapps.

 

In fairness Queen were always a pretty soulless live band anyway. I'm pretty sure this guy is Autotuned to the max, so he basically is a robot.

 

I should have let my wife watch this last night when I at least had some alcohol. She's watching it now and it's pissing rain outside.

[The Moog]

Been driving round looking at houses for sale. How do they manage to photograph something so small and shit yet make it look big and lovely.

 

On list of 10all of them were nothing like the pictures...