The grumpy thread

[daveb47]

FTP on Volvo today on a13,throttle cable snapped.

Had a chocolate block connector but didnt have a small screwdriver with us..

Managed to jam a lump of wood under throttle stop so it was revving at 3000 rpm,trundled along a13 and backroads till we got where we were going.

15 mph up hills,50 down.

Borrowed screwdriver and bodged cable which got us home.

Need cable now which are bloody expensive.

Anyone got sh one

[daveb47]

Got sh cable off ebay £12.95 inc postage.

[dollywobbler]

Say what you like about Halloween, but loads of people round here have made a good effort at enjoying themselves. My daughter and her mates have all gone in fancy dress to work (in a pub) and my lad and his mate have just gone out looking like they're zombies at a Hawaiian beach party in 1976!

 

Can't stand the Trick or Treat bit, but that's not an issue here anyway. But as mentioned in the Grin but, I do enjoy the costumes. I was the grim reaper myself last night. 

[Pillock]

Clipped a kerb in Mrs_P's Touran. Pinched the sidewall and it went Pfffffffffffffffffffffft.

 

Thanks to some shitty idea about people knocking off work early on a Sunday, only National were open and now I'm £90.50 lighter.

[jakebullet]

Ebay fuckwits are doing my box in. Had 4 negatives this month. 2 from twats who's item didn't arrive 'cos they left parts out of their address for fun. 1 jizz mopper who gave me a full 25 minutes from where is it to expecting a replacement to drop thru his letter box and 1 spacktard who has way too many !!!! and is trying to use them up.

 

TLDR: Shortage of argos catalogues detected.

[dollywobbler]

What is it with people driving around in thick, albeit patchy, fog with no lights on at all? Mostly in silver or grey cars this morning too. Along with the people just using drls who are a complete menace it turned a nice early morning drive to hydon hill into a stressful experience. I bet these are the same people who will have their fog lights on all next week.

 

I reckon automatic lights are to blame. They struggle in fog and mist and owners' brains have been so confuddled by automaticness that they can't make a bloody judgement for themselves. Automatic lights are completely stupid idea.

[chaseracer]

Don't I know it. Got my first speeding ticket in one of those. I was screaming down the M5 and trying/praying to keep it in lane  at 78 when the Rozzers cruised along side me and pulled my over. They said they didn't believe that they went that fast. The bxstards still gave me a ticket! This was over 10 years ago but I'm still pissed off about it ( I know I was speeding though)!

 

The Plod in the Senator I razzed past at 85 in the Dyane (in my feeble defence, they were hidden by elephant-racing trucks, m'Lud...) must have been having a better day.  They pulled alongside as I slowed for the expected tug, pissed themselves laughing, and with a merry thumbs-up engaged kickdown to show me how to do it properly!

[richardmorris]

This should be in the grin thread, but the fastest I had in my 2cv ( not this current one belonging to my sister which isn't quite as quick- it's all relative!) was 85 on the sat nav. Screaming down a very long and steep section of the autoroute du sol in banzai death or glory mode. Speedo had given up a lot earlier and was hard against the end stop.

 

It was in a convoy of a mehari, and two other 2cvs-boy was that Porsche surprised when we all passed him!!

 

That, along with my time at the 1998 French national is the best experience ever driving a 2cv- both the drive through Paris and the lap of the montlhery banked circuit were unforgettable. (I reached 65mph in third gear on that, before I realised why it wouldn't go any faster,changed up and passed the camera car!).

 

Anyway, cars aren't particularly fast or slow-drivers are.

[richardmorris]

Can't stand the Trick or Treat bit, but that's not an issue here anyway. But as mentioned in the Grin but, I do enjoy the costumes. I was the grim reaper myself last night.

 

Certainly isn't an issue here- am sure Royal protection squad will shoot anyone looking oiky. The neighbour's are ok though and have asked in the past if it was ok to knock later on. No one this year though- half term hols for them all. It's like I'm the omega Man this weekend-fog and all tonight.

[Richard]

I'm staying in Aberdeen all next week for work, that's enough of a grump in itself. I've just looked up the address of the place I'm staying and it's right in the fucking city centre. That'll be a two mile walk from the nearest parking then, no breakfast for me.

[myglaren]

I reckon automatic lights are to blame. They struggle in fog and mist and owners' brains have been so confuddled by automaticness that they can't make a bloody judgement for themselves. Automatic lights are completely stupid idea.

I like the automatic lights but it doesn't take much effort to turn them on manually when conditions dictate.

I do forget to turn them off sometimes though.

[richardmorris]

I like the automatic lights but it doesn't take much effort to turn them on manually when conditions dictate.

I do forget to turn them off sometimes though.

Exactly, it's just that the morons round here seem incapable of doing even the simplest task themselves. Of course one of the fuckwits I passed on the a3 this morning was busy holding his phone to his ear so was obviously incapable of turning his lights on in his Nissan pijaro thing.

[Partridge]

Who else has spent today cleaning egg of their cars?

[AlabamaShrimp]

Who else has spent today cleaning egg of their cars?

Better than cock piss Partridge

[Tayne]

On 01/11/2015 at 18:00, Richard said:

I'm staying in Aberdeen all next week for work, /quote]

 

[cobblers]

Friday I trod on my glasses and bust an arm off them. They were only about a month old to start with. I tried fixing it by drilling a little 1mm hole and putting a pin through but my drill bit was so shit it actually unwound, so I just super glued them, obviously that wasn't gonna last so today I took them back to specsavers and the woman in there did me a mega favour and just swapped my lenses into a new frame for nowt.

7 hours later I have just trod on the bastards again. For fucks sake.

[myglaren]

Despite their reputation Specsavers seem pretty good at things like this.

I am a fully qualified specs smasher 

[cobblers]

I've bust the opposite arm to the last time, so I'm thinking of ringing up and asking if I can buy the remaining good arm off my old specs. But I didn't get the name of the lass that sorted them out for me and I really don't want to get her in the shit because if anyone else sees the glasses she replaced under warranty with half drilled holes and and superglue on them she'll get shot with shit.

[michael1703]

Outlook

 

I've got a couple of hotmail accounts and my work one has changed to outlook

 

It's shit, I hate the layout, it's crap on iPad and if I view a JPEG, when I click back or close it, I end up on the home page

[MrDuke]

I couldn't give a toss about people dressing up for the annual Satanic event, especially if they're off to a pub/club of an evening - some of them do put an impressive amount of effort in. I do think they need to show some common sense during the day, though. In Tesco yesterday, one of the staff had an incredibly realistic 'throat-slash' done with properly thick and gooey make-up, along with 'blood' streaming from her eyes and nose, and a naturally-miserable, unsmiling expression. Down the High St after dark, fair enough, but not all kids have been raised on a diet of horror films, and seeing that kind of stuff can be pretty upsetting. Or am I just being a sad old fart?

[DeeJay]

Friday I trod on my glasses and bust an arm off them. They were only about a month old to start with. I tried fixing it by drilling a little 1mm hole and putting a pin through but my drill bit was so shit it actually unwound, so I just super glued them, obviously that wasn't gonna last so today I took them back to specsavers and the woman in there did me a mega favour and just swapped my lenses into a new frame for nowt.

7 hours later I have just trod on the bastards again. For fucks sake.

Erm, you're supposed to wear them on your nose

[Des]

I popped out to the Tesco local for some milk earlier, really thick fog and the local morons are at it with the fireworks. As is the norm I forgot to take a bag with me, now this 5p charge for bags, well Tesco, in line with a few other retailers I've noticed, are charging 10p for a quite decent strong bag, seems more acceptable than 5p for a flimsy one that has a previously established zero worth. OK, all this plastic baggery is bad for the environment so something clearly had to be done, nuns and kittens doncha know..Once home I'd placed my milk in the fridge and stuffed my latest acquisition single use bag for life under the sink I pondered how much I had done for mother earth, so I pulled all five heavy duty bags bought this week, weighed them, then a comparison measure of five legacy bags that were scored for free, divided the results by a fifth, so as to get an accurate and average result, and can conclude that each shopping trip for random requisites such as milk, spuds or mushrooms will result in a quantity of landfill bound plastic which did weigh in at a modest 6 grams, has now soared to 37 grams. This means each bag needs to be re-used 5 times to break even, not really going to happen, fucking greenwash huh? I can only assume I'm to take this nonsense a bit further and re-purpose those nice tough bags in suffocating endangered species and collecting VW exhaust gas for posting to the rainforest.

[Clanger]

I am a member of another car related forum, it's coloured red and devoted to a single marque - I know that there are one or two shiters that are also members there - I am looking at you Herr Von TEH Junkman, and Mr. Conrad D. Conelrad.

 

My gripe is this... said forum has a rule that you cannot post any negative feedback about vendors - you can post positive feedback of the most sycophantic, ball gagging, brown nosing variety, but you cannot dare say a negative word.  WTF is that all about? 

 

It's not like they limit it to disallowing uncalled for personal attacks regarding the parental marital status of said vendors - you can't even make an honest, objective statement about a bad experience you have had at the hands of the vendors.  That's total bollocks.  I know that there are others out there that, like me, have to incur significant costs getting parts shipped from the youkay, but we are unable to know ahead of time who we can trust, and who has a rep for being dodgy as fuck.  I know that some folks have been screwed like this, but if they dare to post their experiences they get scolded by the cockwomble "we only say nice things here" brigade and the posts deleted.  Bastards.

[robinmasters]

Halloween? Missed it. Weekend in Legoland. Thanks wife.

 

If Halloween bothers you, go out-that way you avoid all the grotty bastards with their badly behaved little shits banging on your door begging for sweets, and can spend the evening in a pub, ogling slutty birds dressed as witches. Win win.

 

My grump is that I had to drive back along the M25. Not one person (apart from myself, obviously) was using the right lights. Our was foggy, but not enough for food lights. No lights, fog lights AND headlights, side lights only, blown bulbs, badly aligned projectors, the list goes on. Before I got on the motorway, it seems that every cyclist in Surrey had shit lights, or no lights. In the fog.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I am a member of another car related forum, it's coloured red and devoted to a single marque - I know that there are one or two shiters that are also members there - I am looking at you Herr Von TEH Junkman, and Mr. Conrad D. Conelrad.

 

My gripe is this... said forum has a rule that you cannot post any negative feedback about vendors - you can post positive feedback of the most sycophantic, ball gagging, brown nosing variety, but you cannot dare say a negative word.  WTF is that all about? 

 

It's not like they limit it to disallowing uncalled for personal attacks regarding the parental marital status of said vendors - you can't even make an honest, objective statement about a bad experience you have had at the hands of the vendors.  That's total bollocks.  I know that there are others out there that, like me, have to incur significant costs getting parts shipped from the youkay, but we are unable to know ahead of time who we can trust, and who has a rep for being dodgy as fuck.  I know that some folks have been screwed like this, but if they dare to post their experiences they get scolded by the cockwomble "we only say nice things here" brigade and the posts deleted.  Bastards.

 

I'm told that all the real kicking off over vendors happens on Facebook.

[Clanger]

^^ That would involve going on Facebook... shudder...

 

I just think that an opportunity to air a legitimate gripe should be allowed - the decent sellers that care about their reviews would then have a chance to respond or take corrective action.  Plus, people like me, and those in the far flung corners of the globe don't spend a fortune on postage only to find we've been fucked over.  If we can sing the praises of the suppliers, why not a little balance? 

 

I can't help but notice that the forum in question seems to have suffered a decline in contribution and quality - there are some great people there, and some great advice to be had, but sadly there are some real rivet counters...  I find life here at AS a little more interesting*

[purplebargeken]

There were many slutty and good looking girly witches and zombies in the tube stations on Saturday night, This included an absolutely gorgeous girl dressed all in black with the plastic knife through her head. Phwoar! Well, not the knife bit obv.

 

It made travelling by tube rather pleasant for a change

 

Sorry, this is not actually a grump. Hang on........

 

Fuck you sore throat.

 

There you go

[dollywobbler]

I popped out to the Tesco local for some milk earlier, really thick fog and the local morons are at it with the fireworks. As is the norm I forgot to take a bag with me, now this 5p charge for bags, well Tesco, in line with a few other retailers I've noticed, are charging 10p for a quite decent strong bag, seems more acceptable than 5p for a flimsy one that has a previously established zero worth. OK, all this plastic baggery is bad for the environment so something clearly had to be done, nuns and kittens doncha know..Once home I'd placed my milk in the fridge and stuffed my latest acquisition single use bag for life under the sink I pondered how much I had done for mother earth, so I pulled all five heavy duty bags bought this week, weighed them, then a comparison measure of five legacy bags that were scored for free, divided the results by a fifth, so as to get an accurate and average result, and can conclude that each shopping trip for random requisites such as milk, spuds or mushrooms will result in a quantity of landfill bound plastic which did weigh in at a modest 6 grams, has now soared to 37 grams. This means each bag needs to be re-used 5 times to break even, not really going to happen, fucking greenwash huh? I can only assume I'm to take this nonsense a bit further and re-purpose those nice tough bags in suffocating endangered species and collecting VW exhaust gas for posting to the rainforest.

Seriously, how hard is it to reuse a carrier bag? We've been charged for them in Wales for years now. We reuse the bags until they fall apart. There's a reported 70% drop in the number of bags. Throwing away a perfectly good carrier bag after just one use is lunacy. Effectively, the UK is being encouraged into an Autoshite mindset. Now if we could do the same thing with cars, that'd be great. Though I guess the lobbying power of car makers is higher than bag makers.

[Pillock]

I've got bags of the same type that Tesco are charging 10p for, that I've used for the shopping every week for two years.

[nebuchenezer]

What is it with people driving around in thick, albeit patchy, fog with no lights on at all? Mostly in silver or grey cars this morning too. Along with the people just using drls who are a complete menace it turned a nice early morning drive to hydon hill into a stressful experience. I bet these are the same people who will have their fog lights on all next week.

Because modern.

 

my red hybrid work thing has auto headlights - very good they are to - but not in thick fog as it is to light for lights to come on.

 

Trying to figure out how to manually switch on lights and therefore be allowed to switch on fog lights was a completely unecessarily complex challenge.