The grumpy thread

[MarvinsMom]

don't you go getting ikkie skin flakes all over the insides of that bentley!!

[Angrydicky]

I'm home from work, it is pissing it down, some twat parked in front of the garage again and the house smells of hamster.  This is odd as we don't possess any hamsters.

I posted here grumping about some twat with a Berlingo who kept parking opposite my garage, usually about 3 feet from the fence making it extremely difficult to get the car in or out. Someone said to leave a polite note on his windscreen, so I did just that and it hasn't been parked there since. Yeah I know it should just go without saying that you don't block someone's garage, but it seems some people need a bit of help to understand that.

[Ghosty]

[chaseracer]

I posted here grumping about some twat with a Berlingo who kept parking opposite my garage, usually about 3 feet from the fence making it extremely difficult to get the car in or out. Someone said to leave a massive steaming dump on the bonnet, so I did just that and it hasn't been parked there since. Yeah I know it should just go without saying that you don't block someone's garage, but it seems some people need a bit of help to understand that.

 

MTFU, goddammit!  This is AS - we have standards to live down to!

 

[purplebargeken]

The ability to be able to read a note written in English would be an advantage. Round here I might need to try Somali, Romanian or Turkish.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Romanian's not too bad, latin based and all that

[EssDeeWon]

Left a note on a Freelander last week, it belonged to a chap over the road but he kept thinking it was perfectly OK to park on the end of our shared drive / residents car park. The problem was it made pulling into the drive very tight. Not seen it since......

 

Don't people give a shit anymore? I could never just leave my car on someone else's property for days or nights on end.

 

I guess it all comes back to the modern day 'Im alright jack' attitude.

[michael1703]

[chaseracer]

^ Is that Skizzer's Audi...?

 

[Lord Sterling]

Shit sakes man. I appeal and win one parking fine and another earlier fine comes to light.

 

Reason I didn't know is because there wasn't a ticket on the screen.

 

I can't win.

[twosmoke300]

Stop parking where you shouldn't ? 😄

[Parky]

Lovely Spitfire doc on Channel 4 (so far so good)

 

Presented by Dermot O'Leary...........

 

Oh dear. You'd have thought they could have rolled out someone a little more "knowledgeable" wouldn't you. Couldn't hear the Merlins because he was twitting on and on. At least Mrs P was quick enough to record 14 seconds of footage as three passed over out house earlier.

 

Next week - The decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire - with Ant and Dec

[mercrocker]

Its all been going downhill since Raymond Baxter passed away....

[Richard]

Panorama with Jeremy fucking Vine.

[mercrocker]

Exactly....

[MarvinsMom]

New Astra revealed at the Frankfurt Car Show today:

 

 

Wait a minute!

 

 

 

 

 

 

They all look the same!

 

i've found the design inspiration for these automotive works of art*

 

[garbaldy]

/\ 0 out of 10 for that effort as the colours all wrong.

[HH-R]

I dont think they look alike really. Think GM have taken a backward step with the Ashtray as the last one was pretty good looking even in 5 door form, and little touches like the rear lights were nice.

 

Just to show I haven't had a personality transplant or my account hacked, the interior of the one I was in was a massive let down and button overload/usual GM cheap feeling and looking so WOULDN'T.

[chaseracer]

Shit sakes man. I appeal and win one parking fine and another earlier fine comes to light.

 

Reason I didn't know is because there wasn't a ticket on the screen.

 

I can't win.

 

Don't take their word for it.  Demand to see the evidence, photographic or otherwise.

 

Remind them that they serve us, not the other way round...

[Pillock]

Those cars do look different, don't make me dig out pictures of endless three box 70s saloons to show how similar they were! Until they start putting doors on the roof, three wheels on one side and the headlamps in the glovebox they're going to have a resemblance. 

 

New Astra just looks like a facelift. The doors, side aspect, windscreen all look the same as my 2014 car. Which is actually quite good looking, for a modern. Doesn't give me a lob on like a Maestro Turbo would, but it's not offensive like a Ssanyong Rhododendron. 

 

Edit: Interior is much better. I don't mind mine, but the satnav is awful and the stereo is far too buttony for what it actually does. It has, for example, both a rotary controller and a directional joystick, but you need to use both. There's a grid menu that only uses the spinny wheel, not the up-down-left-right FFS. That interior looks nicer. I wonder if someone was to drive into mine now, by the time the lease company replace it it'll be a new one.

 

Edit 2: It says it's 49mm shorter, so IS a new car. They presumably have found the zoom- button on the photocopier.

[J-Rod]

as long as you didnt wipe it on the rim

 

chortle

 

 

Commiserations J-Rod.  A man's coffee cup is not easily replaced....

 

How old are you lot, 12?! I was on about coffee.

 

(I've got another cup for other forms of enthusiasm. And two girls.)

 

It had a good handle, too. Pah. 

[scaryoldcortina]

I feel your pain.

 

 

This was my mug. Over five years use, and not even a chip in the rim until the other day when this happened...

 

 

I found it in the sink like that, and everyone else in the house denies responsibility so I don't even know how!

OK, it is a little bit funny, but still sad for my mug.

[J-Rod]

Time for it to become a pen holder. It's what happens when coffee mugs grow old and die... 

[EssDeeWon]

The National Lottery - Now becoming harder than ever!!

 

I just saw a link saying 'Exciting New Changes' so I had a look...

 

1x £1m raffle each draw, but now only 20 winners of £20,000 per week (was 50) And they used to roll over the raffle draw so sometimes there were 100 or 150 raffle prizes but that suddenly stopped without any announcement.

 

Then in the small print - 'An extra 10 balls are being lobbed in' just to make the already ridiculous odds even more ridiculous.

 

Its all geared at high odds and high end prizes. What about giving Joe and Josephine Bloggs a better chance of winning a tidy Ã‚£20k or even a £100k? 

[J-Rod]

 

 

Its all geared at high odds and high end prizes. What about giving Joe and Josephine Bloggs a better chance of winning a tidy Ã‚£20k or even a £100k? 

 

Because The Plebs might spend it all on fags, booze and down Greggs (and probably stop buying lottery tickets, at least for the short-term). 

 

Keeps 'em dreaming (and therefore, quiet) see? 

[garbaldy]

The good news is it makes the roffle tickets cheeper here.

[Station]

This man's voice at the start of this advert:

 

 

Why is it so high pitched? I'd imagine his long suffering wife wants to smash him over the head with a frying pan every time he asks for more kippers in the morning. He'd make that weak 'aaaaaaaa' noise like he does in the advert as well.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Theres a vast amout of bilge on here ATM, I would say 40-50% of all threads turn into the usual standard-issue AS moaning about modern cars/driving standards/social sterotypes/all modern life is rubbish etc. There are loads of vocal shiters who pop up over and over in these moans yet never bother their ass to tell us about their own shite and whats going on with it. Looking at the front page I can see about half a dozen threads that are likely to have any interesting content, the rest are dull-as-ditchwater mindless waffle about fuck all.

[scaryoldcortina]

Fair enough mr B, but you seem to do a lot of complaining about the complainers while not starting any threads about your cars...

 

I've started two recently, both of them plummeted off the page after the initial burst of interest and the last update got no replies so I CBA either. I'm basically here to waste time.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I've got several car (and trailer) threads on here