The grumpy thread

[dollywobbler]

Yup. Has brightened up a treat here in mid-Wales. Was utter shite this morning, made worse because I had to get up at half six to do a school run. Foggy, rainy, horrible. However, the landscape isn't going to look so beautifully lush if it doesn't get damp every now and then.

[Skizzer]

I'm about half way between you and them and it's stopped raining here.  You'll be alright.

 

Scratch that, it's just started raining again.

 

But wot DW said.

[Richard]

As long as it doesn't rain next week.

[TRW]

Why the Fuck can I not hire a LWB LDV Maxus in Swansea or the surrounding area this Saturday? No, I don't want a Sprinter or Crafter as I hate the Bastard things.

 

Other quality* vehicles have been offered, will post picture of (temporary) purchase on collection of fine* chariot.

[hairnet]

labyrinthitis apparently

[purplebargeken]

Cycling to Halfauds this afternoon made much more pleasant by chatting to the rather attractive sales asst who I spoke to on Saturday (early to mid 30's) - phwoar.

 

However nearly getting taken out by a cunt in a small post office van who just had to cut in front of me on the small roundabout took the shine off.

 

How I didn't T bone the front wing of the van is beyond me.

 

I seem to have inherited my dear old dad's vocal projection (he - former RSM) and the phrase 'you fucking idiot wanker' rang out. Small birds dropped out of trees, children started crying, kitten howled and nuns ran for cover. He got the idea and quickly drove off.

 

This has been the only 'incident' I have experienced since getting back on the bike a few weeks ago, so perhaps I shouldn't really grump.

[Richard]

labyrinthitis apparently

I get that sometimes, usually when I don't have time for it. It's properly shit but it is often mostly gone the next day. Best to just lie down and wait for it to go.

[hairnet]

I get that sometimes, usually when I don't have time for it. It's properly shit but it is often mostly gone the next day. Best to just lie down and wait for it to go.

wouldnt mind but not been swimming for 20 years - its been two days was ok sunday

 

need to go and get the bike looked at as going holland and germany next week -

 

been watching tour de france and drinking tea only

[Cavcraft]

I'm just clocking in for a minor whinge; I'm currently trying to sell my old A35, it's not made easy by me having a sentimental attachment to it, but it has confirmed that I hate dealing with people. It's a bit of an odd-ball and difficult to put a value on, but I have had a bit of interest in it. I have described it fairly and have already managed to convince a few people that it is not for them.

 

I did get one chap make an offer without seeing it, despite me saying it's best viewed before making an offer. After a bit of to and fro texts, emails and phone (which incuded the time honoured phrase "I won't mess you about") we agreed a deal. He eventually turned up on Saturday, after several cancelled arrangements, it was obvious he was not going to collect the car as he turned up with an already loaded trailer. He barely spoke to me, looking all over the car, before proceeding to tell me what he thought was wrong with it and how it needed a £2k respray, etc. and then reducing his agreed offer by a third. (His agreed offer already being £1k under my original asking price). I remained polite and he left me to "think it over" as he was passing back on the Sunday with an empty trailer. I received a text on Sunday asking if I had thought any more about his offer and telling me that I had seemed stressed on the Saturday (no, I was annoyed, but trying not to show it) and that I was seriously over-valuing the car, but he would still pick it up. As he had said to come back to him if I was interested I did not bother.

 

Today I have received further texts, a message from ebay and finally a phone call from his wife, urging me to take the offer and they would pick it up today. I explained that I was quite disappointed by the offer and was not prepared to sell at that price, the offer was upped by a whole hundred pounds and again I am being urged to "think it over".

 

I really have no idea what the car is worth (ok, what someone is prepared to pay is the usual answer), it probably isn't worth much as I originally thought, but even if I am cutting off my nose to spite my face, this has left a nasty taste in my mouth and I would now not sell to him even if he did go back up to the originally agreed sum. I should be used to this sort of thing by now, but it's really wound me up.

 

 

My 'theory' when it comes to low offers is that whoever cracks first, is the one who wants the deal the most. The fact he's text messages and emails tells me he wants it far more than he's tried to let on, and if the car had been as potentially costly as he's suggested, he'd have made one offer and walked away or he'd have just knobbed it off in the first place.

 

The fact they've been urging you to sell it at their shit offer tells you all you need to know, I'd hazard a guess he either knows it's worth shit loads more or has a buyer lined up for it. Once anyone starts 'advising' you when you're selling something it's a pretty surefire sign they're a knobhead. It's never likely to be a car you're going to sell quickly, but that doesn't mean you have to accept the level of shit he's been using and, imho, you should tell him that he offered you X amount without viewing and if he's not happy then it's not your problem. Everytime he offers you £100 more, just add £100 to the first price he offered to piss him off.

[Bren]

My cousin has been suspended from his jop as a supervisor.

 

His crime? Telling a couple of Eastern Europeans to get back to work - they were skiving.

 

Naturally they played the race card.

 

This country is going to hell in a handcart.

[Bren]

My 'theory' when it comes to low offers is that whoever cracks first, is the one who wants the deal the most. The fact he's text messages and emails tells me he wants it far more than he's tried to let on, and if the car had been as potentially costly as he's suggested, he'd have made one offer and walked away or he'd have just knobbed it off in the first place.

 

The fact they've been urging you to sell it at their shit offer tells you all you need to know, I'd hazard a guess he either knows it's worth shit loads more or has a buyer lined up for it. Once anyone starts 'advising' you when you're selling something it's a pretty surefire sign they're a knobhead. It's never likely to be a car you're going to sell quickly, but that doesn't mean you have to accept the level of shit he's been using and, imho, you should tell him that he offered you X amount without viewing and if he's not happy then it's not your problem. Everytime he offers you £100 more, just add £100 to the first price he offered to piss him off.

Tell the cunt if he has somebody lined up for it then ask him to send them to you, thereby cutting out the middleman.

[purplebargeken]

Arse ^^

[richardmorris]

Coming home from work yesterday the Nissan Navarra ( I think), that had just pulled out of the m3 works area on new road Bagshot, slowed down and the driver's door opened and they chucked out a used nappy in a bag, then a coffee cup and macdonalds bag. Car that was passing me sounded their horn and through the still open driver's door came the raised hand with single digit rampant. The planet would be far better off without people like this. Scum.

[Cavcraft]

I've made a low offer on a really horrible car that I don't even especially want, and certainly don't need, yet I'm gutted they haven't got back to me about it.

[ruffgeezer]

I haven't received your offer though, Cav?

[UmBongo]

Coming home from work yesterday the Nissan Navarra ( I think), that had just pulled out of the m3 works area on new road Bagshot, slowed down and the driver's door opened and they chucked out a used nappy in a bag, then a coffee cup and macdonalds bag. Car that was passing me sounded their horn and through the still open driver's door came the raised hand with single digit rampant. The planet would be far better off without people like this. Scum.

 

These rats should be gassed.

 

The road where I park at work is sometimes deluged with fag ends where some shit has emptied the contents of their ashtray.

[fordperv]

They need to be force fed the rubbish they throw from their cars

[Cavcraft]

I haven't received your offer though, Cav?

 

 

This makes your Streetwise look like a concourse winning D-type Jag, trust me on that.

[ruffgeezer]

I doubt it, the fucking thing has taken the hump with having been fixed and now the alarm won't shut up.

[anonymous user]

It isn't an A35 is it? Cav

[autofive]

nerrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

i havent been here for a couple of years, but i see the grumpy thread still up and running

[fred]

My cousin has been suspended from his jop as a supervisor.

 

His crime? Telling a couple of Eastern Europeans to get back to work - they were skiving.

 

Naturally they played the race card.

 

This country is going to hell in a handcart.

Thats just a bucket of arse biscuits - suspended for that! fuck me sideways

[chaseracer]

My cousin has been suspended from his jop as a supervisor.

 

Is he a member of a trade union?  Call them first thing tomorrow.

 

If not...

 

http://www.acas.org.uk/helpline

 

http://www.acas.org.uk/media/pdf/k/b/Acas_Code_of_Practice_1_on_disciplinary_and_grievance_procedures-accessible-version-Jul-2012.pdf

[andy18s]

Thats just a bucket of arse biscuits - suspended for that! fuck me sideways

I have a friend who works at Kellogs,Wrexham on the "Winders" production line

Most of the workforce are Portgugese with a Brit as a supervisor

2 of them started arguing,super goes over to sort it out and gets a knife shoved in his face !

Guess which 1 got suspended .........

[Matt]

This. This shit right here.

 

 

That's what Ring Automotive thinks an adequate ground cable for a spotlight is. What the fuck am I meant to do with that, attach it to a pair of glasses?

[Station]

I've made a low offer on a really horrible car that I don't even especially want, and certainly don't need, yet I'm gutted they haven't got back to me about it.

It's not an Austin A35 is it?

[MarvinsMom]

It's not an Austin A35 is it?

 

 

no, its an old 205 with a PEZ ENGINE!!

[Lacquer Peel]

This. This shit right here.

 

That's what Ring Automotive thinks an adequate ground cable for a spotlight is. What the fuck am I meant to do with that, attach it to a pair of glasses?

How did you mount it in the end?

[Matt]

How did you mount it in the end?

 

If you mean the lights then it's just a pair 'L' brackets that are held in place with the number plate screws. I need to modify them somehow though as there isn't much lateral support, I can rotate them by hand. The design I posted a thread about a few months ago wouldn't really work with the Swift as the front end has quite a curve to it that I hadn't really noticed before.

 

If you mean the ground wire, I haven't yet. I'm just going to make my own ground strap that will fit over a screw/bolt that manufacturers actually use in cars.

 

(I've mounted them lower than this now)

[cms206]

0521 off Oban to Glasgow this morning for the railways, 0501 sign on time. Leave depot at 0200, arrive Oban at 0415 to have 45mins tacho break before the southbound leg. Phone control at 0501 to book on.

"Whit the fuck are ya doin' up at this time ya lunatic?" says controller Gus.
"At Oban for the 0521 for you cunts" says I.
"Whit fur? Train's runnin', away hame." says he. And the phone went down.

CUNTS.