The grumpy thread

[MrDuke]

I was lucky in that, after I was fobbed off as a low-priority job, Mrs_Duke contacted the MH team and demanded that I be re-assessed in her presence. She then gave them the blunt truth about how bad I was, which sounded (and in fact was) a lot more serious than I was able to convey, and I was duly placed on the right lists. Obviously, that only works if you have someone very close to you, who you trust totally, and who is willing to be a bit of a rottweiler on your behalf. It's unfortunate that people who have difficulty in communicating their (fairly complex) problems are often turned back at the first gate.

[Lord Sterling]

  On 24/04/2015 at 18:31, Angrydicky said:

Here you go. Try these chaps:

 

E.P. Services

Unit 1 Central Trading Estate

Cable Street Wolverhampton

West Midlands WV2 2RJ

01902 452914

http://www.ep-services.co.uk/

 

They are one of the few places left who can refurbish Austin A30 waterpumps (rare as hens teeth) which involves fitting new seals and bearing. Heard lots of good things about them. Definitely worth a call.

  On 24/04/2015 at 19:04, chaseracer said:

There's a Merc specialist on Cable St too, at the Bilston Rd end.

Cheers chaps! Apparently Mercedes have actually found the right waterpump, so that was an hour wasted trying to find part numbers and cleaning off caked-on oil off the pump, in the end I couldn't find a part number anyway. However, hopefully on Tuesday my car will actually have a waterpump. I will keep the old one and have it refurbed later on.

 

Today I actually biked it the 6 miles to Mahmouds garage. I feel like a hero! Even though I'm sure there others here who could do 30 miles non-stop without breaking sweat. The bike used was a child/teen sized bike so smaller than adult size and bloody uncomfortable, though it was great to actually make some pace for free!

[Bear]

LordSterling, earlier today:

 

(I was right at that house 2 months ago!).

[HMC]

The Goonies?

[Noel Tidybeard]

  On 24/04/2015 at 20:38, Lord Sterling said:

Cheers chaps! Apparently Mercedes have actually found the right waterpump, so that was an hour wasted trying to find part numbers and cleaning off caked-on oil off the pump, in the end I couldn't find a part number anyway. However, hopefully on Tuesday my car will actually have a waterpump. I will keep the old one and have it refurbed later on.

 

Today I actually biked it the 6 miles to Mahmouds garage. I feel like a hero! Even though I'm sure there others here who could do 30 miles non-stop without breaking sweat. The bike used was a child/teen sized bike so smaller than adult size and bloody uncomfortable, though it was great to actually make some pace for free!

you need to put pitchers up when you get it so we can compare it with pix on ecp etc and ridicule you if they actually match!

[xtriple]

Just bought an 'E cig' today, refillable jobby for £20. Seeing as, according to my maths, I'm spending £375 per calender month on fags, it seemed like a wise move.

 

Of course, I'd forgotten that I'd asked the bloke in the corner shop (see yesterdays Grin) to get me some fags in (he doesn't stock fags too pricey!). So I now have 200 Chesterfield 'greens' and an 'e cig'!

[oldcars]

  On 24/04/2015 at 18:52, Cavcraft said:

I quite like him

 

 

On the plus side there is MILF galore here and more than one tit in his 40s dressing like a 17 year old.

Is he wearing fred perry or g star?

[purplebargeken]

Homicidal trumps suicidal in MH nowadays. Jumping off a bridge? Oh, how terribly quaint. Threaten to ax murder? Step this way please. 

[EssDeeWon]

Hungover !!! That's all.

[doobietoo]

According to the Delivery company the Megashed should be arriving today ..... this should be in the Grin section but has been relegated here as the text actually said between 11.07 and 15.07. Grrrrrrrrr what is the world etc.........

[chaseracer]

Bulgaria was great.  Shite Report: Sofia follows as soon as I've shaken off this eastern European lurgy.

 

I've got to empty the lockup this weekend too.

 

 

[Inspector Morose]

I seem to have found new places that can ache as I get older. I had to bring the leyland Titan back from inspection. I didn't want to, not because a) vacuum brakes crash box or c) it's old slow and very noisy at anything above 25mph but it was because I had to climb in and out of the cab four times to get back into the yard (two sets of gates to open, drive through and then close behind me)

[vulgalour]

Leyland Titan is a magnificent name for a conveyance.

[Inspector Morose]

It replacement, the Atlantean, was so named as it was the king of all the Titans!

[EssDeeWon]

Was following a white MK6 Golf this morning, but that's not the only grump...

 

Mr Very Important in his white goods VAG shit felt it necessary to hold down his horn while an old boy lines up a parking space for his Mondeo estate, followed by Mr Very Important in his white goods VAG shit swerving round the Mondeo and belting off well in excess of the 30mph speed limit.

 

So well done Mr Very Important, you managed to shave a few seconds off your busy Saturday by acting like a complete pleb.

[anonymous user]

  On 25/04/2015 at 09:40, vulgalour said:

Leyland Titan is a magnificent name for a conveyance.

or a condom

[HillmanImp]

Fucking welder is giving my gyp. Whenever I do metalwork on a car I seem to spend 5% of the time welding and cutting and 93% of the time repairing the welder. The other 2% is spent swearing.

 

Its doing this all the time now which has ended play for the day.

 

 

The wire is getting stuck backing it up causing OMG WIAR KAOS. It looks like it is just before the swan-neck but after the end of the normal liner (which I have already replaced thinking it was that). Looking now, it seems that the wire is sticking out of the normal liner by about a cm when I take it off, so it looks like I need to get a swan neck liner from somewhere. 

 

Will go to see the miserable fat cunt at Machine Mart tomorrow. 

 

I was making good progress too.

 

 

 

[twosmoke300]

Have you tried a bigger wire reel ? Looks quite a sharp angle into the guide using that little one

[HillmanImp]

  On 26/04/2015 at 13:48, twosmoke300 said:

Have you tried a bigger wire reel ? Looks quite a sharp angle into the guide using that little one

 

Its at the top its getting stuck, its running through there fine. If the spool was too big it would probably struggle to pull it would it not?

 

Went and got a spring but its the wrong bloody one. They only had them for blue handled welders but mine is red handled. Bought it anyhow and am about to head out and see if I can fudge it together. As far as I can see its just the length of the spring so will cut it down and hope for the best. 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

  On 24/04/2015 at 16:05, Cavcraft said:

Manchester Piccadilly station parking:

 

Up to 3 hours – £35.

 

 

Thirty. Five. Quid. 

 

I had a chat with one of the parking attendants at Piccadilly while parking in that derelict bin-strewn bit down the side of the station. He showed me the colour swatch card they have to hold up to the cars they're ticketing, something they have to use because apparently people were challenging tickets because their 'Snowdrift mist silver' car was listed as "white". 

[fordperv]

Found out tonight that a lovely bloke we know who's the same age as me has had a nasty accident whilst on holiday and has unfortunately passed away, fuck you world you take the good people who do no harm to anyone but let the no hope scumbags roam without a care

 

R.I.P fella

[purplebargeken]

Due back in work today after a week off. I am dreading going back. I think my hassle limit was reached already. Damn.

[hairnet]

irish motorway (read glorified dual cariageway) users

 

the right hand lane is for overtaking not sitting doing what the inside lane is doing

 

good job im on the bike

 

pole position style filtering

 

worse than here

[vulgalour]

Agreed on the grump there fordperv, it's rare I get to say "Well I'm glad the bastard's dead" because too often the bastard is still alive for no good reason.

 

 

I'm super grumpy at the moment because I hurt my back again in my sleep... again.  Today just walking hurts, I can't leave the house, I can barely work and if I try and ignore it and carry on regardless I can't breathe.  Still, could be worse, if I were a car I'd be scrapped or turned into a hideously malformed kit and forced to carry on.

[Bren]

Just tried to get to Wrexham to pick up a roll cab I won on ebay.

 

Got as far as the western point expressway and turned back - utter gridlock. An hour round trip from Penketh to Runcorn.

 

You would not believe the issues this new bridge is causing.

[Bren]

  On 26/04/2015 at 21:55, fordperv said:

Found out tonight that a lovely bloke we know who's the same age as me has had a nasty accident whilst on holiday and has unfortunately passed away, fuck you world you take the good people who do no harm to anyone but let the no hope scumbags roam without a care

R.I.P fella

I sometimes wonder if life is a test - if you pass it early you move on.

 

If you fuck it up your'e here for a while.

[M'coli]

  On 26/04/2015 at 13:48, twosmoke300 said:

Have you tried a bigger wire reel ? Looks quite a sharp angle into the guide using that little one

 

 

  On 26/04/2015 at 17:14, HillmanImp said:

Its at the top its getting stuck, its running through there fine. If the spool was too big it would probably struggle to pull it would it not?

 

Went and got a spring but its the wrong bloody one. They only had them for blue handled welders but mine is red handled. Bought it anyhow and am about to head out and see if I can fudge it together. As far as I can see its just the length of the spring so will cut it down and hope for the best.

I found wire from a wee spool did that all the time, but I've not had many problems with the big spools.

[dave21478]

Hold onto your butts - this is going to be a long one.

 

1 - My hands hurt. A dull ache and stiffness. I used to get this at night after doing hard physical stuff all day but now its pretty much constant.

 

2 - Why is everyone in such a hurry? I have places to get to and things to do as much as anyone else but I dont rush around like a nobber taking risks with other peoples lives while doing so. I dont know if things are actually changing or if I am just noticing it more but motoring is getting so much more agressive here. Speeding, tailgating, overtaking into oncoming traffic and general cuntishness are daily occurences.

 

3 - Firefox doesnt underline my spelling mistakes any more. In the "options" menu, its set to be on, but its not working.

 

4 - In fact, this laptop has turned to shit over the past few weeks. Its a modern-ish thing running windows 8, but it now freezes up and lags for ages if I have the audacity to ask it to do two things at once. My piss internet connection doesnt help....fed up of watching youtube at a max of 240p.

 

5 - Apparently the farmer dude on the land next to one of my clients topped himself last week. Barely knew the guy, so meh....whatevez, but then I found out he was with his family and popped out to the barn to "check something" and never came back. His kids went to fetch him in for dinner and found him swinging from the rafters. Nice one, man.....your life may have gone wrong but no need to fuck your kids up into the bargain.

 

6 - Despite my best efforts teaching him how to fix things and how to drive and stuff like that, my nephew / godson is turning into a zombie only interested in his bloody Nintendo.

 

7 - Driving up a new section of motorway today I had never been on before. Suddenly there was a fairly sharp corner which was massively off-camber - This road has only been open a couple of weeks and the armco was already mullered due to people sliding off and quite possibly lorries tipping over. What genius surveyed that and decided that was ok?

 

8 - Apparently paper counterparts to the driving licence will be abolished in June, and since the photocard doesnt show points, you now have to log onto a website to see them...

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32481382

...what plum thought that would be a good idea?

 

9 - And vaguely linked to the above, am I the only one left who hasnt got a smart phone? Am I the only one who doesnt WANT a smart phone? I called up a company to do a transaction and was told I needed to download their app to do this. No. FUCKING NO, I do not "need" to download a fucking app to place an order especially when I am on the fucking phone specfically to place that order by talking to you. "We dont do that anymore." Well, i guess I will find a different company that will.

 

10 - Do a friend a favour and get nothing in return....thats not normal. A guy I know is a roofer and a client of mine want a roofing job done thats too big for me so I got my pal in to do a quote. Has he bothered his arse? no, no he hasnt. Now I am the one left looking like a dick because I talked this guy up to my client.

 

11 - Fuck it, I am bored now. Going to stop.

[cms206]

Weekly fluids check of the Council Estate has recently been upped to take account of the amount of oil it's sending out the filler cap. Car was parked at 7.30am, checked oil at 5... half way up the dipstick. It was bang on the max when I cleared out the PCV system. No water in the oil, no oil in the water, no mayo and the water is bang on.

 

Oil and filter change tomorrow night after work then... arses!

[phil_lihp]

Get some Wynns Super Charge in it at the same time!