The grumpy thread

[Tayne]

On 06/10/2015 at 16:29, Pillock said:

Do a charity loan scheme like the HFH MGF? Then it can do the rounds, raising cash for charity with every punting on, until you have space for it.

 

[anonymous user]

No, it's where he hides Des Lynam

[EssDeeWon]

Taynes Avatar!! LOLZ

 

RONNIE PICKERING!!

[AlabamaShrimp]

Who?

[EssDeeWon]

RONNIE PICKERING !!!!!!!

[andy18s]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1&v=vhxZ8NefEYo

 

[hairnet]

captain_70s, on 04 Oct 2015 - 1:36 PM, said:

My days of classic motoring may be coming to an end. The theory was simple, I'd sell my modern motor and the £200 a month in finance payments would no longer exist so I'd either save that or use it to maintain the oldies...

 

id sell you mums civic we've only serviced and put brakes in and a pair of tyres and had no trouble with in 3 years for 400 quid but she's not quite ready to buy something else yet (getting over an op)

[dave21478]

 

I'm growing increasingly distant from the human race.

 

At first I thought it was just me working in an office full of morons, but apparently your average working stiff legitimately does care about who wins in "Bake Off", a TV programme which sounds like something dredged out of the listings of a high-number satellite channel circa 1998. And they won't shut up debating who's going to be the winner - all day. And then they'll presumably announce the winner and there'll be some sort of moronic inter-office post-match analysis of a show about fucking cakes.

 

Work are really pushing the whole car-sharing thing at the moment on the basis that hey it's boring driving around on your own, go get a car-share partner and ride into work like it's the new millennium and we're all getting along great. I can't think of many things which would upset the course of my day more than having my peaceful commute interrupted by the banal, tepid, circular conversations I've run through thousands and thousands of times in my life already. Commuting is a time for silent contemplation of the day ahead and angry condemnation of the day behind, not for "ohh, it might rain later". Might it? Might it rain? Rain, eh? That rain! I've always wanted to get my weather reports from people who don't know anything more about the weather than the fact that they are subject to it like everyone bloody else. Dickhead.

 

If someone can sort me a job out where I don't have to talk to people ever, I'd be a much happier person. Failing that, one where I get to shoot them in the face until I get bored of shooting them in the face and go home. I'm not saying I'm done with people, but I've exhausted most of their possibilities and they've generally run their course. 

 

 

I have a job where I very rarely have to talk to people (current record is 8 days withough speaking to anone else) and its not great either. Whilst the isolation at work is great in one sense, just me with my thoughts builds up some kind of increased level of contempt for anyone else, making any time I have to actually interact with people even more irritating.

[Cavcraft]

Car sharing could surely only ever turn out to be a frigging nightmare. I want to drive to work in peace and quiet, occasionally muttering or shouting 'wanker' or badly singing along to The Smiths and slowing right down when people tailgate me. Who needs some two bob botty rocket spoiling that for them?

 

 

Anyhow, just put a £200 fucking well used Berlingo on Facebook and someone's asked me how much service history I have for it.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I've sort of got a new job (I say sort of as I've no actual start date) but had to drive to someplace in Lancashire for a first aid course with 2 other new starters.

 

Just before day one the new boss texts says can I take "Toby" as he's having problems with his car and can't get there. OK I say before checking his address he's fucking miles away. Anyway make him go to wakefield I get him from there, he's a boring twat with nothing to say for himself how's got sod all wrong with his car other than he's no money to pay for the insurance. Needless to say it was a bit of a boring trip

 

Today I sorted it with the other new bloke that he gets "Toby" first then come get me. He said even less never starting a conversation. The guy driving wasnt that bad but still.

 

To put it in context with what Hirst said working with people can be fucking shit and they get on your tits but the same can be said of working alone (I used to get mega bored) either way think of the money and ways you can waste it just blanking out the tossers as best you can

[Pillock]

I've got a crayon you can use to knock up a service history.

 

"18,533 miles. Changed oil (for some found at the tip)

24,661 miles. Wiped finger along wiper blades

53,820 miles. Removed sneezes from steering wheel"

[Craig the Princess]

Rock up in a fucked Allegro (can lend you one in a pinch) from experience this stops anyone wanting a lift.

 

Especially if you need a push start.

In the rain.

To a funeral.

[HH-R]

The Great British Bake Off is great!

 

 

 

 

... for curing insomnia.

[captain_70s]

Rock up in a fucked Allegro (can lend you one in a pinch) from experience this stops anyone wanting a lift.

 

Ha!

 

I frequently have to give lifts to car-less bastard co-workers, despite the fact the car has been known to conk out on the way to/from work, the exhaust fell off the manifold resulting in a deafening racket and all the exhaust fumes being directed into the cabin, the fact the whole car reeks of petrol and burning oil, me playing Showaddywaddy at abhorrent volumes, the crumple zone is the front passenger's knees and the fact I tackle straight roads at 48mph but take corners with the tyres squealing...

[beko1987]

I had to drive the Meriva

 

in the dark

in the rain

back from the hospital as they kept SWMBO in.

 

How can a 2004 car be so much more fucking shit than a 281000 mile citroen I don't know. Overtakes have to be planned, there's just nothing. Pulled out infront of a lorry which is normally ok as I can blazz it up to speed and not cause a nuisance but I genuinely fely scared at 5k rpm in 3rd with nothing happening apart from noise from the blowing exhaust.

 

And the rear caliper is deffo slightly seized, at sub 10mph coasting I can hear it rubbing rythmically

And now the front suspension is fixed you can hear the driveshafts or something else occasionally clunking at low speed

 

I drove the ZX back with her overnight bag of extra shit she didnt pack in the other overnight bag she had packed, was much better!

[D Spares & Tyres]

ZX Volcanes are brilliant cars, you are preaching to the converted here ☺

[DeeJay]

I've got a crayon you can use to knock up a service history.

 

"18,533 miles. Changed oil (for some found at the tip)

24,661 miles. Wiped finger along wiper blades

53,820 miles. Removed sneezes from steering wheel"

175,560 miles, reset odometer

[robinmasters]

Who's idea was it to store spare wheels underneath the car?

 

Unless rusty threads are considered an anti-theft measure, it's a terrible place to store something you're likely to need miles from home, in the dark, when it's raining.

[twosmoke300]

As opposed to under the boot floor taking loads of space . Also not handy when you need to get the spare out when the boots full .

[fred]

Spare wheels should be under the front seat - squab removable if piles attack

[Parky]

I used to work with a total bitch and was delighted when she stormed out earlier this year, claiming the business wouldn't listen to her and we all deserved to go down the pan as a result.

 

Today was told that she is coming back - as my fucking boss. Which means that my existing boss will be spending more time with his family. Not that he can't afford it (near retirement anyway) but he and I go back a long way and I enjoy working with him.

 

She has carte Blanche to rebuild the team, and bearing in mind I am a contractor I would say my days were pretty numbered once she gets a few of her industry mates in.

 

Is there any connection between this and the fact I am posting at 3am owing to an inability to sleep? I have done the whole working for micro managing uber bitches in the past and ended up massively depressed and won't be going there again. Just can't understand how she gave us all a right slagging and yet someone thought "you know, we need someone like that" and took her back. Mental.

 

It might all work out ok........but most warning lights are illuminated shall we say

[ruffgeezer]

 

Anyhow, just put a £200 fucking well used Berlingo on Facebook and someone's asked me how much service history I have for it.

You haven't replied to me though, have you ya great sock full of puppy farts.

[Cavcraft]

I have now!

[D Spares & Tyres]

Who's idea was it to store spare wheels underneath the car?

Unless rusty threads are considered an anti-theft measure, it's a terrible place to store something you're likely to need miles from home, in the dark, when it's raining.

My 59 standard has a shelf under the boot floor so it's kept dry nor does it disturb the luggage.

[MarvinsMom]

My 59 standard has a shelf under the boot floor so it's kept dry nor does it disturb the luggage.

doesn't the morris minor have something similar?

 

If i remember correctly, the riley rm (?) had its spare wheel under the boot floor, which also had its own little doo/flap/cover thing which opened so that you didn't even need to open the "proper" boot, I also seem to remember that something had its spare wheel inside one of the front wings under a flap. I want to say Citroen ds, but it wasn't one of those....

[chaseracer]

Bristol.

 

 

The battery's on the other side.

[dugong]

Amazon has its spare upright in a pan. Once, the tab on KYO's inner wing rotted off. The spare fell over.

[michael1703]

I have a job where I very rarely have to talk to people (current record is 8 days withough speaking to anone else) and its not great either. Whilst the isolation at work is great in one sense, just me with my thoughts builds up some kind of increased level of contempt for anyone else, making any time I have to actually interact with people even more irritating.

Is that why farmers are such weirdos?

[The Moog]

I used to work with a total bitch and was delighted when she stormed out earlier this year, claiming the business wouldn't listen to her and we all deserved to go down the pan as a result.

 

Today was told that she is coming back - as my fucking boss. Which means that my existing boss will be spending more time with his family. Not that he can't afford it (near retirement anyway) but he and I go back a long way and I enjoy working with him.

 

She has carte Blanche to rebuild the team, and bearing in mind I am a contractor I would say my days were pretty numbered once she gets a few of her industry mates in.

 

Is there any connection between this and the fact I am posting at 3am owing to an inability to sleep? I have done the whole working for micro managing uber bitches in the past and ended up massively depressed and won't be going there again. Just can't understand how she gave us all a right slagging and yet someone thought "you know, we need someone like that" and took her back. Mental.

 

It might all work out ok........but most warning lights are illuminated shall we say

 

 

I had this. It is now why I work as a lecturer rather than in big business.  A previous boss got promoted and I got her job, but she carried on doing both jobs at the same time! Micro management because she couldnt let go.. 

 

Life is too short to deal with that shit. I would start looking elsewhere.. 

[Cavcraft]

Women bosses? I'm certain they're not all the same at all, but the two I've worked for have been absolute bastards.