The grumpy thread

[MrDuke]

Shoot his football with an air rifle. Or shoot him, whichever's easier.

[Cavcraft]

Get a 1970's school recorder and play Sur le Pont d'Avignon. It put me off the French, so it might just work in reverse.

 

If that doesn't work, shoot him in the balls with a footface.

[vulgalour]

Ask him politely to stop.  If he doesn't go to his house and kick a football against his house endlessly to see how he likes it.  If I thought I was allowed to post my german shepherd to you who LOVES destroying footballs I would, he's a great solution to your problem.

[chaseracer]

Aye - Think my garage does a  HG once a week on these - although its 1/2 a mile from Paul Deppers - MG sales!

 

On the A5, near the Turf!

 

[xtriple]

Well, further to my earlier 'grump' I spent all last night 'talking to God' on the big white telephone.

 

Not a fun way to spend an early morning and I now feel like death. To make this a proper grump, it's absolutely glorious out there with not a cloud in the sky and all I want to do is curl up and die.

 

It should be a natural law that you are only ill on rainy/miserable/cold days!

[chaseracer]

^ #notlike

 

[Station]

I reckon a connector's gone or the rad's clogged up and pushed the coolant backwards hard enough to pop the hose.

 

It did a full weekend of work perfectly - Rockingham on Saturday, Brooklands on Sunday and a Triumph specialist today with no issues at all. The gauge stayed one notch below half way and I made a point of religiously checking the oil and coolant every run, letting it warm before putting any revs on the engine.

 

I fancied the classic car night at the Ace this evening, so brimmed the tank and went down. As I approached the Buckden roundabout on the A1, the temperature gauge shot up from its normal place one notch below the halfway point. I swore, knocked it into neutral and coasted on to the forecourt.

 

 

This steam wisped out with the engine off and the car stationary. I couldn't really see where it was coming from but when I shoved the car forward to get it out of the entrance there was a large puddle of OAT on the ground.

 

 

Recovery was excellent and came quickly - just as I'd found a lovely pub and begun munching on a conciliatory burger.

 

 

I suspect this could be the culprit - a failed pipe that burst and shocked the engine. Incidentally, the towing eyes at the front are smashed flat - was that something to do with the damage on the front bumper? I'd love to meet the fast fit clown who shat up the outer sill with a trolley jack, too.

 

If it didn't overheat on the gauge, I think it will be a burst hose also. There are a few pipes that aren't clipped on that blow off when it gets hot (and spray water everywhere).

[dugong]

Sorry to hear of your troubles xtriple. Crack on and you shall prevail. 

[dugong]

If it didn't overheat on the gauge, I think it will be a burst hose also. There are a few pipes that aren't clipped on that blow off when it gets hot (and spray water everywhere).

It overheated on the gauge and went to the top. The second that happened I coasted in.

[wuvvum]

 

Recovery was excellent and came quickly - just as I'd found a lovely pub and begun munching on a conciliatory burger.

 

I'm getting déjà vu here.

[dugong]

Old car mojo is waning. Signal to noise ratio too low.

[EssDeeWon]

Yes, Timpson's. £40 and an hour and you're good.

 

Thanks Ghosty

[rml2345]

Santander are still shit

Good to know their campaign on improving customer service was a success. They were an utterly embarrassing company to work for because of the endless idiotic problems they created for customers.

[Station]

It could be a dread airlock, which these tend to get. Which may be a symptom of them overheating.

[bub2006]

Well after being alive and talking Monday and only having mobility issues my grandfather has just took his last breath aged 83. 3 days from his birthday. Spent all the past two days at hospital and not slept but I was with him till the end.

[saucedoctor]

Sad news mate. My condolences.

[oldcars]

Sad news indeed. I was close to both my grandfathers. Take care.

[nigel bickle]

Always sad, but 83 is a reasonable innings, and he didn't linger.

 

When my time comes I'd like to hope it's all over in 3 days.

 

Condolences mate, ' it's never easy

[bub2006]

Thamks folks. He didn't to bad to say he smoked since 12 and drank regular in younger life. And anyone who knows Kevin bloody Wilson song,with all the fucking and fighting he done In his life he should have been hung years ago Rings so true with him!

[tooSavvy]

When my time comes I'd like to hope it's all over in 3 days.

I vote Oliver Reed - 3minutes, heart attack at home during a meal.

 

Very sad news for OP.

 

 

TS

[dugong]

Bub, this will read insincere but it's probably for the best. Hope your family can come to peace with it all.

[Cavcraft]

Sorry to hear your news, Bub.

 

 

In far less important grumpiness, Mr 50 bleeding emails an hour isn't coming for my £20 cycle now because it's too far from Liverpool. This, once again, is why I don't give my number out on Gumtree, as it would have been a few quid in text messages to people like this. 

[MarvinsMom]

very sad to hear of your loss bub.

[bub2006]

Bub, this will read insincere but it's probably for the best. Hope your family can come to peace with it all.

I actually agree with you mate. He would not have wanted to be in the condition he was in to be fair. Thamks folks.

[fordperv]

Ask him politely to stop. If he doesn't go to his house and kick his head endlessly to see how he likes it.

I fixed that for you

[M'coli]

Aye, sorry to hear your news, Bub2006.  83 is a good age, and it sounds like despite his mobility he sounds like still had his faculties until very near the very end.

 

When my time comes I'd like to hope it's all over in 3 days.

If I reach 83, I may well feel the same, but would prefer to pop my clogs at that age in a state post-coital bliss.  If it was with a curvy, voluptuous young lady a quarter or so of my age would be a bonus.

[michael1703]

Without being "that guy" who complains about this sort of thing and ends up making enemies in a tiny wee village where the people are renowned for holding grudges.....how can I get the kid who has decided to spend his days kicking a football against the gable end of my neighbours house to piss off? With a bit of luck he will punt it through my kitchen window and I can justifiably go mental, but until then its doing my nut in.

Paint it/tar it/wet it/spray it with mud.

 

He probably wants to keep his ball clean

[richardmorris]

Sorry for your loss. My own grandmother has been in hospital now for four weeks with pneumonia and a heart attack. She's 94 and it's only sheer bloody mindedness that's keeping her going, because God knows nothing else is functioning.

[Lacquer Peel]

I live near to a trunk road, a railway station, 7 miles from a major domestic airport, but English couriers treat me as if I live on a remote island because Inverness postcode. Even my work address, near the centre of a small city of 50,000 or more is treated the same as Rockall or the Arctic Circle.

 

I can order tyres and dog food, as examples, from fugging Germany and France and the delivery is a third of the price it would be if I was buying it from another part of the UK. What the fuck? INDEPENDENCE NOW.

[wuvvum]

My computer appears to have contracted a particularly nasty virus. It's encrypted all my documents and installed text files telling me to go to a random website and pay for a decryption key. It also appears to block Task Manager and other system tools from being started. Fortunately all my really important files are on external hard drives which the thing doesn't seem to have managed to fuck up, but it's still highly annoying like. I've done a system restore which appears thus far to have nuked the virus (touch wood), but it hasn't got my files back. Laptop won't connect to the Internet so I'm stuck using the phone at the moment, which is a pita. Still, worse things happen at sea etc. Lass at work had her house burn down last week, and it wasn't insured. Which kind of puts things into perspective a bit.