The grumpy thread

[steve_earwig]

what person would'nt want to get away from traffic jams, starbucks, x factor and Keith Lemon?

...real food...oxygen.....

 

Hold on, no traffic jams here (rarely, they think 5 cars is a traffic jam), no Starbucks and I've no idea who Keith Lemon is. You don't need to change planets Bren, just emigrate.

[steve_earwig]

“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.â€Â

 

George Carlin - When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

[cros]

OK another stupid question. Why are some people proud that they know fuck all? Given them a map and ask where is something and they always give the same kind of answer and laugh it off....

And why is it wonderful to know some things and shit if you know others? Its apparently boring if you're aware that you don't usually fill the sump through the dipstick hole.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Chris Rock reference, right?:

It wasn't but he's said it alot better than I ever can. It's the proud to know nothing attitude, having a one track selfish mind. The best example I can think of is Facebook and eBay mongs

[michael1703]

Home early with a backache

 

my workshop is full of shitty vehicles that don't run so I end up pushing them in and out, 6 ton a day isn't good for your body

[Cavcraft]

Winsdcreen wipers can FRO. Almost every time I try and fit new ones I spazz it up some how, how can a minor job be so effing fiddly? The Vectra now doesn't have a back one, neither does the 106, which I took off to put on the Vectra and knackered that up as well.

[mercrocker]

^Thought it was just me.....I have taken to sending Mrs Rocker over the motor factors to get a new 190E blade fitted every year.   Last time she told me even the matey on the counter had trouble.

[andy18s]

Changed the wipers on the mrs' Disco 3 couple of weeks ago

Whoever designed that particular method of holding 2 pieces of plastic together needs a damn good feckin over

[steve_earwig]

I made this a few years ago, one side on a 406 (can't remember which) doesn't lift clear of the screen, so you've gotta do it like this (or break something)

[Mr_Bo11ox]

The flippin internet where I live is a joke. We've got a broadband connection but rarely get above 0.3 kb/sec, you can forget watching any youtube videos or owt unless you've got 15 mins to spend watching a 2-minute clip, it drives me crackers. So today I have ordered a dongle off eBay and a '3' sim card to bypass it all and get 'advanced 3g' internet instead, 15£/month for 10gb, it had better work

[cort16]

To add insult to injury on the trip to Wigan which resulted in me coming back with the same car I left with I've just got a speeding ticket through from the trip.

79 in a 70 on the empty m74 at 10 am on a Sunday . Some really dangerous speeding there well done fucking Shite hawks

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Getting done for 79 on a flipping motorway is harsh

[cort16]

I had my cruise control set at 79! I did see the van but it was in an obvious honey pot location as it was hard to spot until I was already on it .

[dave21478]

The flippin internet where I live is a joke. We've got a broadband connection but rarely get above 0.3 kb/sec, you can forget watching any youtube videos or owt unless you've got 15 mins to spend watching a 2-minute clip, it drives me crackers. So today I have ordered a dongle off eBay and a '3' sim card to bypass it all and get 'advanced 3g' internet instead, 15£/month for 10gb, it had better work

 

Great isnt it? especially when you realise you are still paying the same monthly charges as folk who are getting ten times faster service.

 

Whenever my line craps itself, which is pretty much monthly, the ISP loan me a 3g dongle and its significantly better than the standard line. I am able to watch Youtube above 240p!

And then they fix the line and demand it back

[Cavcraft]

The flippin internet where I live is a joke. We've got a broadband connection but rarely get above 0.3 kb/sec, you can forget watching any youtube videos or owt unless you've got 15 mins to spend watching a 2-minute clip, it drives me crackers. So today I have ordered a dongle off eBay and a '3' sim card to bypass it all and get 'advanced 3g' internet instead, 15£/month for 10gb, it had better work

 

 

I'm with '3' and they're pretty good, though reception can be a bit random in some places. I've got unlimited internet access on my phone and paid a fiver a month extra for unlimited tethering, which rapidly became limited tethering, so I might give that the boot.

[alf892]

Mine is pretty crap and the isp blames it on the wireless but I'm bloody sure it's the line. Have renewed the wireless bits and bobs anyway. No improvement but sense of frustration increased x 10

 

Got one of them smart telly a couple of years ago.....the idea was I could get stuff on YouTube and what ever.

 

No device in the history of devices has ever made me quite so full of rage. I found so good old car stuff and settled down to watch. Nothing much except curly arrow thing......then a bit of picture. Repeat while bold pressure escalates............and breathe.

 

Because I think the rage is bad for me I have stopped trying to use to poxy thing.

 

See...look....it's getting me angry just telling you about it

[twosmoke300]

I've got a 3 dongle for my workshop and it's bloody brilliant . It has 3G where my phone on O2 doesn't and is quick enough for YouTube etc

[cort16]

Can you not get 4G? 3G isn't really fast enough for videos and stuff but 4G is.

[cms206]

Father-in-law's been undergoing tests to work out whats up with him once and for all.

 

Inoperable lung cancer which has already started to spread. 28 days intensive radiotherapy commences on Monday. Arses.

[dugong]

That's horrible news cms - thoughts from the family dugong to yours.

[trigger]

Cancers a cunt. My thoughts are with you Andy and your girlfriend.

[sporty-shite]

Cms, really feel for you. Hope he gets a decent run

[eddyramrod]

Oh that's bad news Andy (as if you didn't know, sorry).  Best of luck to him and you.

[cms206]

Cheers chaps... just been trying to keep everyone from falling apart but it's starting to sink in now

[chaseracer]

Why are some people proud that they know fuck all?

 

 

[Station]

The flippin internet where I live is a joke. We've got a broadband connection but rarely get above 0.3 kb/sec, you can forget watching any youtube videos or owt unless you've got 15 mins to spend watching a 2-minute clip, it drives me crackers. So today I have ordered a dongle off eBay and a '3' sim card to bypass it all and get 'advanced 3g' internet instead, 15£/month for 10gb, it had better work

I've got a 4G wireless modem with SIM card. I get 20gb for £20 a month and it's brilliant, I can take it anywhere and the battery lasts days. It's on EE and the modem was 25 quid.

This was going from shitty Talk Talk charging 20 quid and then 15 quid line rental on top for a consistently abysmal service.

[Lankytim]

I was going to "like" that comment but OBV I don't like it. That's a real shitty situation. Hope things work out. 

 

edit, that was for CMS 206..

[Vin]

Getting done for 79 on a flipping motorway is harsh

 

 

I had my cruise control set at 79! I did see the van but it was in an obvious honey pot location as it was hard to spot until I was already on it .

 

I got done in 2004 for doing 79mph on the M180!!! I was in my Tipo turbdiesel overtaking a wagon at the time....The bit before you cross the River Trent near Scunthorpe...on the bend, once the trees go, you see the van on the police hump...

[RoadworkUK]

I'll join in on the "sorry's" here, CMS.

 

I've been thinking about the Audi which sits in a number of pieces in my Nan's garage, Im thinking "yeah, I'll get Dad to give me a hand with that".

 

One day that won't be able to happen. Christ. Doesn't bear thinking about. Give your Dad a loving shoulder-barge from me.

[purplebargeken]

Ca is totally a cunt. Sorry to hear about that Andy.

All the best to you and yours fella. Damn.