The grumpy thread

[daveb47]

Was going to tax Volvo today but wife has thrown away reminder,She thought as it was already taxed that i didnt need it!!

I expired yesterday.

Also logbook is nowhere to be found...She may have put it in one of the boxes in attic or shed ffs??

[sporty-shite]

Sportyshite: You've got a Corsa for sale?

Much better than that!

[chaseracer]

Was going to tax Volvo today...

 

205 tax expired yesterday.  We remembered to renew online at 11.46pm yesterday... 

[steve_earwig]

 

I expired yesterday.

 

Sorry to hear that mate, where do we send the flowers?

 

Umm, can't help you really, you need to don the deerstalker. It took me 2 years to find the log book for my Yamaha, it only appeared once I'd sent off for a new one (it's always the same, whenever I give up looking for something and buy a new one it appears as if by magic*)

[Parky]

Knackered out. Busy week, bit of a cold (nothing major) but today I feel totally bereft of any energy whatsoever. Neck and back are aching, basically just wandering about to get a drink is finishing me off. Loads to do and the only spare day I have to get it done as well, fucksticks!

 

Plus Mrs P has gone out and Parkette and Parky Jnr are making demands for stuff. Bloody hell!

[daveb47]

Was going to tax Volvo today but wife has thrown away reminder,She thought as it was already taxed that i didnt need it!!

I expired yesterday.

Also logbook is nowhere to be found...She may have put it in one of the boxes in attic or shed ffs??

After search of attic & shed it was found in old caravan at bottom of garden,somwhat soggy but Doc no. was readable

Now taxed by direct debit.

[vulgalour]

@Parky: that's how that horrible flu or whatever it was I had got started.  Knocked me on my arse for a week and it was SO BORING.  Get up to do anything and you feel like you've suddenly started smoking 60 Woodbines daily.

[Lankytim]

There are no 2.3 Volvo redblock lumps left in the world. FACT. 740 scrappage imminent.

[Craig the Princess]

What is that strange light in the sky? A white circle with the shadow of a boxy estate car in the middle shining over Scotland?

[Cavcraft]

There are no 2.3 Volvo redblock lumps left in the world. FACT. 740 scrappage imminent.

 

Give these a try:

 

Rednal Garage, Rednal Ind. Est, West Felton, Oswestry

[Partridge]

Just managed to bork my backbox/cat on a speedbump in work's car park, doing about 2mph. Nice.

[fordperv]

There are no 2.3 Volvo redblock lumps left in the world. FACT. 740 scrappage imminent.

Did you try Swedish car parts?

 

What about Huddersfield volvo breakers?

[dugong]

FACE.

[trigger]

How's it healing?

[Lankytim]

Did you try Swedish car parts?

 

What about Huddersfield volvo breakers?

 

I should have added, I don't want to pay more that ££MEGACHEAP££ for it. 

 

They're too old to regularly appear on the oval nowadays, not long back there would always be a pile of redblocks ready to weigh in in the average banger racers yard, take your pick for £20

[dugong]

How's it healing?

Quickly but it's sore as fark.

[Partridge]

Did they not give you meds to numb the pain?

[Noel Tidybeard]

Just tell her it's all a load of bollocks anyway.

that's fighting talk that is!

[vulgalour]

Top Gear go to AUSTRALIA.  Given the flatness of the first episode I thought this might at least have some focus on the car culture over there, especially since there's some good stuff to be seen.  Didn't expect to be bored by a star-in-car feature that lasted about four weeks (thank goodness for fast forward on iPlayer) or to just see a lot of dust, a big hole and some cows as an illustration of Australia.

 

I know, I know, this makes me 'that person.  Normally I don't mind Top Gear, it's light entertainment and it's okay to have on in the background but this episode really irked me because I found myself fast-forwarding through most of it as it was just so unbelievably dull.

 

It made me even grumpier that Air an Rathad isn't available.  A programme with flaws it's true but one that I found more enjoyable as it sits halfway between boring old informative Top Gear and boring new mass market Top Gear.

 

I'd like a car programme that's entertaining, informative, has sections on what's going on with new stuff, old stuff and modified stuff, has a variety of content about all sort of things with wheels and engines and always feels jam packed with good stuff.  Let's hope episode three is an improvement or I manage to find another good car programme online somewhere.

[Noel Tidybeard]

[cort1977]

Forgot to file my UK tax return for the second year running.   A made up GBP100 fine is probably already in the post.   I was 12 hours late on a Sunday but I'm sure the fine is coming as I had one last year when I was only 2 hours late.   (Yes, I am a twat).

 

Last year I managed to grovel my way out of the fine, I have no tax to pay anyway, but I might be out of luck this year.   F*cksticks.

[dave21478]

Forecasters have been predicting the snowpocalypse all weekend.

Woke up to this...

 

 

A few days off work would have been nice!

 

 

 

 

As for Top Gear.. It was pretty dull, but despite only seeing it briefly from 100 yards away I do rather fancy a Holden Maloo.

 

 

Id be the fastest janitor in town!

 

[Cavcraft]

I caught the last ten minutes of a programme last night and it reminded me exactly why I don't watch it any more.

[xtriple]

Just done reg check on a car I pass every day ('cos I is a nosey git!) when walking the mutts. It's an MG (Rover 75 shape) in silver and was quite tidy when it first appeared middle of last year. Since then, it seems to have just sat in the same spot, slowly getting shabbier - one steel wheel on it now, square number plate over the top of the original shaped one at the rear and covered in muck and moss. Oh, and the back box (chavvy big oval thing) is hanging down.

 

Tax and MOT ran out in Sept/Oct last year.

 

Do I dob them in? No point in trying to buy it as the owners have moved on.

 

It really pisses me off when people don't pay, I fucking have to as does everyone else. But that is not what really irks me: parking round here is dreadful and it's just taking up space.

 

Yes, I know, I'm a miserable old fecker and should wind my neck in. But I hurt a lot at the moment and it's making me grumpy!

[EssDeeWon]

Get it reported Xtriple without any further delay.

 

Re Top Gear - Its now a programme for the wider audience and people not interested in cars and has been for 10+ years, its all made up crap with things set up purely for laughs and entertainment, and not set up to tell us about the new Montego or the MK2 Sierra, which was when I last used to watch it.

[Asimo]

Northern Australia was why I watched it but Top Gear bored me into drinking a litre of cider and a bottle of red so I blame the trio for my hangover.

[Richard]

http://sniffpetrol.com/2015/01/23/forum-gets-top-gear-discussion-thread-done/#.VM9Fd4dRCS0

Even discussions about how clichéd and dull TG is got clichéd and dull quite some time ago, that's how much it has overstayed its welcome. It's going to get a proper kicking in the 'I Love the Noughties' programmes of the future.

[xtriple]

I still enjoy TopGear. I feel I must be one of the very few in the uK that does... how nice of the beeb to make a programme purely for me   I like the interaction between the three muppets, the banter and general pisstaking.

 

I don't like it when it's obviously staged.

 

Not sure what I feel about last nights prog in retrospect, enjoyed it at the time - good brain out watching with the occasional bit about cars for added interest. My overriding impression left from it was that Australia is fucking dusty!

 

I do enjoy it much more when it's got more tests on the cars and I like the fact they frequently test stuff that we mere mortals will never get our hands on, when else would the likes of me even get to see exotica?

 

However, Guy Martin was on straight after and that was fooking BRILLIANT! I love that guy, he is so enthusiastic and bloody handy, seems to be able to turn his hand to just about anything. I love the fact he'd rather get in there and get his hands dirty than watch. He also has an interesting personality/way of speaking that grabs your interest and retains it.The only bit of the programme that grated was when they tried to introduce a bit of drama - will he/won't he get himself and the bike on the train? Guy? well, he spent the time catching up on his sleep! I don't think he's designed for a TV director that wants a 'reality TV feel ' with added drama and excitement.

[Cavcraft]

'Report' it to the gypsies for £80, tell them you've lost the log book and keys.

[The Moog]

Bought a thermostat online from ebay because it had the rubber gasket that goes around the edge. In the picture it is clear. Turned up with no gasket. Seller thinks it is a shadow and I am mistaken. He said he has spoke to suppliers and they never supply gaskets. 

 

What do you think? I dont see how a shadow is equal all the way around. 

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/360934525311