The grumpy thread

[vulgalour]

Cavcraft: yes.  I only offered it because I knew he wouldn't buy it.

[HillmanImp]

According to a sticker I saw in a car window earlier, there is a club for people who own MK5 Astras. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?

 

Most people who own those seem to also be members of the 'High interest loans' and 'Tracksuit, tatoos and starving children' clubs. Its my currently tied in number one place with the Mk5 Golf as the car to watch out for on the road as it will inevitably pull out in front of me at junctions or over/undertake where there is no room.

[Cavcraft]

Hey, don't knock it. Someone from the Astra Owners Forum tried to sell me the wrong exhaust for my Mk4 at a a Vauxhall show. When I logged on later he readvertised it and said I was a timewaster, so I felt obliged to ask him how it made me a timewaster when it was his fault

 

So, actually do knock it.

[D Spares & Tyres]

I was having lunch on Sunday, in the pub car park the Rover 75 club were holding a meeting. They even had a club tent. Bet that was a fun day

 

There was one of those V8 ones there though who went tearing up the road in it. Sounded lovely

[fordperv]

I would absolutely love a 75 v8

[D Spares & Tyres]

A Mustang wearing grandad`s suit and tie!

[mrbenn]

Sellers on ebay, often with tens of thousands of feedback, sending out broken stuff.

 

Seriously, do you think I'm not going to notice the thing doesn't work/an important part is broken off/its missing its wiring? FFS!

 

Small problem in the grand scheme, but annoying nonetheless.

[Cavcraft]

I think my Rover 'buyer' has disappeared.

[jakebullet]

Printer doom day.

 

My label printer decided to pick up 6 sheets of labels at once and jammed. After removing the sheets it no longer works and just flashes the error light. Deado.

 

Grabbed a spare out of the loft to find the ink has leaked and buggered it up. Dead printer #2.

 

Got another spare out, and that one only needed new carts and a bit of WD40.

 

I'm running out of spare printers now:(

[Negative Creep]

Most people who own those seem to also be members of the 'High interest loans' and 'Tracksuit, tatoos and starving children' clubs. Its my currently tied in number one place with the Mk5 Golf as the car to watch out for on the road as it will inevitably pull out in front of me at junctions or over/undertake where there is no room.

 

 

Must be over 5 years since they were first released so surely only worth about £500 now?

[twosmoke300]

They are but at 49 pounds a month for the rest of your life they can cost much much more

[nacho man]

The Saabs washers stopped working so I investigated as I knew there was fluid in.

 

Big puddle under the car.

 

Coming from the inner wing.

 

 

So I had to take of the friggin wheel arch liner to find it then prod it back up to re connect it.

 

Good one saab.

[twosmoke300]

How many of the stupid 10mm plastic nut studs did you break? 😄

[nacho man]

Just the one but yeah there crap.

 

Dampers by Sachs was a nice touch though.

[richardmorris]

Printer doom day.

 

My label printer decided to pick up 6 sheets of labels at once and jammed. After removing the sheets it no longer works and just flashes the error light. Deado.

 

Grabbed a spare out of the loft to find the ink has leaked and buggered it up. Dead printer #2.

 

Got another spare out, and that one only needed new carts and a bit of WD40.

 

I'm running out of spare printers now:(

I hate printers- last time one died at work I bought two the same. Brother lasers. One died almost instantly and Rymans was useless- it would have cost more to send it to them than it cost. I only bought two as it was cheaper than buying a spare toner, so I held it over my head and hurled it across the lab. Good stress releaver!

[mercrocker]

My last printer went in the bin after my computer told me it wasn't there....Fucking is, I said. Right next to you on the table. 45 minutes later it was curtains. You can't throw anything THAT hard into a 24 inch high dustbin so it wasn't really that much of a stress relief. I went back indoors, sulked a bit and then got the bastard back out of the bin and stamped the living shit out of it on the patio. Took me ages to clear it all up and even now I find a shard of Taiwanese plastic in the lawn mower.

[quicksilver]

Printers were the bane of my life in my previous job. Many was the time I would be interrupted from a programming job by someone needing me to fix a misbehaving printer. I guess it didn't help that the usual company policy was to buy secondhand printers off ebay. The colour laser printer was a real bastard and the only reason it was still in the office was because it was far too heavy for me to pick up and throw out of the window. That thing also had a waste toner bottle that should have been replaced when it filled up every few weeks at huge cost so they decided I should empty it instead, a horrible messy job. Why the actual fuck should a printer waste so much expensive toner it actually has a bottle to collect it?

[fred]

According to a sticker I saw in a car window earlier, there is a club for people who own MK5 Astras. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?

Was this a warning sign, or a Disabled badge?

[fred]

My last printer went in the bin after my computer told me it wasn't there....Fucking is, I said. Right next to you on the table. 45 minutes later it was curtains. You can't throw anything THAT hard into a 24 inch high dustbin so it wasn't really that much of a stress relief. I went back indoors, sulked a bit and then got the bastard back out of the bin and stamped the living shit out of it on the patio. Took me ages to clear it all up and even now I find a shard of Taiwanese plastic in the lawn mower.

I had a Ozzie Osbourne moment with one of mine, Got that fucked off with it, I ripped the wires out and flung it out the bedroom window, only to realise seconds later my Xantia was parked underneath my fucking bedroom window. Fuck me sideways

[MarvinsMom]

had a long shit day at work, and to cap it all, i've been getting whinged at.

 

bored out of my mind, i had been there since 7.30 doing office shit.

 

i have some piccies of the metro on a word document, i have it open to try and remind me why i'm 145 miles from home doing a shitty job that i hate, when there are plenty of things i could do there instead. 

 

so i'm trying to summon up some enthusiasm for the last couple of hours and i get told "don;t do that in work time...etc"

 

oh fuck off, for 4 years i've done this shit, stop in digs all week and get home friday night.... 

 

i so want to tell them to take said job and shove it up their collective arses. 

 

fuck 'em.shit heads.

[beko1987]

I empty the toner collection unit on ours at work. Am the only one who knows how to do it, and it needs doing at least twice a month...

 

I pick someone who has annoyed me, wait for them to go on lunch and empty it into their bin, then place their bin under the desk so they kick it sitting down just enough to fuck a massive cloud everywhere but not fall over...

[Ghosty]

[daveb47]

Flymo type mower started smoking yesterday so left it in front garden.When i looked out of window about 4 am someone had nicked it along with 2 large bags of old magazines that were going to charity shop.

When i got up this morning mower was back,minus its mains lead, and magazine bags had been ripped open and were about half full.

Cheeky bastards.

[Hertz]

 

i have some piccies of the metro on a word document, i have it open to try and remind me why i'm 145 miles from home doing a shitty job that i hate

 

i get told "don;t do that in work time...etc"

 

 

 

Yes but if you had your cock out at the time they have a point!

[HillmanImp]

Flymo type mower started smoking yesterday so left it in front garden.When i looked out of window about 4 am someone had nicked it along with 2 large bags of old magazines that were going to charity shop.

When i got up this morning mower was back,minus its mains lead, and magazine bags had been ripped open and were about half full.

Cheeky bastards.

 

Thats hilarious. They don't think twice about stealing something from someones front garden but wont flytip what they have stolen when they decide they don't want it.

[MarvinsMom]

Yes but if you had your cock out at the time they have a point!

 

if i had been having a play with myself the long day would whistle by....

 

sadly i wasn't!!

 

that must be what i'm doing wrong......

[Cavcraft]

Lady at work was looking at an expensive kitten at the vendor's house. Someone knocked on the door with a dead kitten in their hands demanding their money back 'because we got it home, it got out and got run over'

 

They got the answer any of us would have given, but it says something about the kind of absolute fucking dickheads we have on our midst.

[oldcars]

poor wee thing.

[EssDeeWon]

Lady at work was looking at an expensive kitten at the vendor's house. Someone knocked on the door with a dead kitten in their hands demanding their money back 'because we got it home, it got out and got run over'

 

They got the answer any of us would have given, but it says something about the kind of absolute fucking dickheads we have on our midst.

 

That is unbelievable !! These people will now go round telling everyone what arse oles these vendors are and report them to BBC Rogue Traders. The type of people that park on a double yellow or on private property then kick up a stink when they get a ticket.

[Timewaster]

What was the grounds for their claim?

 

The kitten wasn't car proof?

The vendor hadn't taught it the green cross code?

 

The mind absolutely boggles.