The grumpy thread

[jakebullet]

I've somehow lost my airline. Now in dilemma of do I buy another one, or spend 50p to blow my tyres up at petrol station. Appols for minor grump that doesn't involve sexual injury.

[twosmoke300]

Sure we could rustle up a blowjob joke somehow 😄

[Pillock]

 

 

I've somehow lost my airline.

What, like Easyjet?

[twosmoke300]

Different angle ! Nice !

[Cavcraft]

Surely success depends on the individual's view of that word?

If it's fancy 'wanted' not 'needed' material things it probably says more about you than you realise. And not in a good way.

 

That said, when I'm hanging my Armani suit in the back of my Lotus Carlton, you lot can FRO!

[purplebargeken]

That does look nasty. Better some compression bandages than a bone saw mate. Hope it improves soon for you mate. Damn. 

[scaryoldcortina]

FTP²

 

After a long day fixing cars, the LT decided to have a flat battery when I went to put it away. Changed the battery, pulled it in and locked up, went to ASDA in the scorpio for beer essential teatime related shopping.

 

When I got back in the car, it wouldn't start. This is wierd, it's never done that. Leak water, yeah. Lock me out, sometimes. Fail to start? Never. Multimeter is in the house too, and all my diagnostic kit is at work. I'm in a supermarket car park and very tired.

 

OK. Immobilizer (PATS) light goes out. Good. Can't hear the fuel pump. Check inertia switch, not tripped. Check for fuel pressure, checked. Fuel is there. Pull a lead, check for spark, none. Shit. Pull coil multiplug and reinsert. No change. There isn't much that can stop the car sparking at all but I have no tools to test it with, and you can't reach the crank sensor on these to clean it without some significant dismantling.

 

Give up and call AA. Listen to "safety advice" then tell operator where I am, and that the car won't start. Get asked if it's a flat battery.... grr. It will take up to an hour and a half for a patrol to attend because they are very busy tonight (I think they ALWAYS say this...) so I settle down to listen to radio 2 and wait.

 

An hour and fifteen minutes later, the AA text me to say that "so they can help me quickly" CF Motoring Services will be attending, in maybe an hour. FFS.

 

Open bonnet, pull coil plug again and look at it. Blow on plug. Replug plug, try engine. It started.

 

I came home first, and rang the AA afterwards to say don't bother.

 

I'm not under any illusion that the car is fixed, I still need to find out why it did that and stop it happening again, but for tonight I'm assuming that blowing on the plug worked, and therefore the wiring was made by Nintendo.

[purplebargeken]

It is possessed and no longer likes you. 4 and 16 please. 

[dollywobbler]

This bloody forum. It really is going to die because it's gone to shit. It must have gone to shit, because people keep posting about how it has gone to shit. Which makes it look like it has gone to shit. Perhaps it wouldn't look so shit if people didn't keep posting rants about how shit they think it is. If you don't like a post, just sodding ignore it!

[mrbenn]

I'm not under any illusion that the car is fixed, I still need to find out why it did that and stop it happening again, but for tonight I'm assuming that blowing on the plug worked, and therefore the wiring was made by Nintendo.

Ours did this when the crank sensor wiring was breaking down (due to a leak from the water pipe between the heads). Failed to start a couple of times, started after sitting a while each time, then didn't run again till the loom had been repaired.

 

My annoyance: guy over the road has taken to parking outside our house. Fine, it's a free country, I don't own the road. But he keeps blocking me in. Heaven forbid he should actually park on his own sodding drive (which I am sorely tempted to do).

 

Reason for the grump is how irritated it seems to have made me, with all the horrid shit going in the world at the moment

[purplebargeken]

Set fire to his car. That will ensure he never parks near you again. Ever.

[Minimad5]

DSA - Mod2 test has been booked for quite some time now, so they ring up last thing on Monday to say CANCELLED SUCKA, so instead i have another lesson on tuesday -no big deal.

So tomorrow is my next appointment, no phone call or email but a bloody soggy letter stuck to the test door "Strike action etc etc"

This could be quite annoying !

[hairnet]

DSA - Mod2 test has been booked for quite some time now, so they ring up last thing on Monday to say CANCELLED SUCKA, so instead i have another lesson on tuesday -no big deal.

So tomorrow is my next appointment, no phone call or email but a bloody soggy letter stuck to the test door "Strike action etc etc"

This could be quite annoying !

saw that today - came outta first bolton bus garage and 100 yards further down were 10 hi viz unfurling a banner saying driving examiners protest..........hmmmm

[Minimad5]

Having used all my holiday entitlements at work in order to take it, it's a tad annoying.

But they obviously have some sort of matter that they wish to sort, BUT in small scribbles, it explained that not all examiners are part of the union, so got a VERY slim chance of one or two tests happening.

[Inspector Morose]

This bloody forum. It really is going to die because it's gone to shit. It must have gone to shit, because people keep posting about how it has gone to shit. Which makes it look like it has gone to shit. Perhaps it wouldn't look so shit if people didn't keep posting rants about how shit they think it is. If you don't like a post, just sodding ignore it!

Yup, I always find its better to ignore the danger signals. Especially if they're coming from different people, many long time forum people.

[michael1703]

Being Too tired to write my grump

[panhard65]

Had a bloke come in yesterday looking for a bit of work and as he is  a pretty decent welder I offered him a little job on an Almera as a start to see how he gets on. If he did a decent job at a sensible price I said he could do the Maserati as well. Offered him use of my mig and ramp but has he turned up ? has he buggery, I don't know why I bother trying to help people any more.

[fordperv]

Scared him off with the thought of the maserati, we all know how they rot

[Cavcraft]

This bloody forum. It really is going to die because it's gone to shit. It must have gone to shit, because people keep posting about how it has gone to shit. Which makes it look like it has gone to shit. Perhaps it wouldn't look so shit if people didn't keep posting rants about how shit they think it is. If you don't like a post, just sodding ignore it!

I do fully agree with that, its just that people are saying there's a lot of shit threads so it's hard to wade through them to find decent ones.

[Bren]

My toilet is slow to empty - blocked between house and manhole cover.

 

Are my rods long enough? Are they fook. I might invest in another set to extend the ones I have - cheaper than getting some body to blast it clear.

[anonymous user]

Bren, is it just you on the line and is the blockage outside your boundary? If there are other houses on the line, or the blockage is outside your boundary the Water Authoriry will clear it.

[Bren]

The chamber at the back of the garage is empty - the blockage must be between the bathroom and the chamber. It's within my boundary so my problem.

 

Our neighbours have also had problems with their drains - they are too small and seem to get blocked regularly.

[alf892]

4 inch pipes but 6 inch arseholes?

 

Happens at work all the time...........but some of the arseholes there are really fuggin huge...........

[Bobthebeard]

My toilet is slow to empty - blocked between house and manhole cover.

Are my rods long enough? Are they fook. I might invest in another set to extend the ones I have - cheaper than getting some body to blast it clear.

Similar problems at Beard Towers until recently. I had (unwisely) tipped the results of my garden pond cleaning down an outside drain and bunged the main drain up. Rods were too short so sacrificed an old hosepipe instead. Just kept unwinding it off the reel and jiggled it down the pipe via a manhole. Kept shoving/jiggling it until the drain ran clear. Blocked again a day or two later so repeated. Been ok for a few months now so binned the smelly hosepipe.

[UltraWomble]

It is flipping sore

 

Went to hospital, had all the black necrotic bits pulled off, the wound scrubbed pink of all the green pus and then dressed in Aquacel Ag and lots of bandages.

Consultant was happy enough its not vascular though and seems to think about a month -6 weeks to granulate over.

Longer than that he says they can graft it.

[anonymous user]

It is flipping sore

 

 

Went to hospital, had all the black necrotic bits pulled off, the wound scrubbed pink of all the green pus

I don't fancy my tea at all now, would you be so kind as to not post the gammy leg updates anywhere near a mealtime.

PS hope it gets better soon

[purplebargeken]

That is positive news mate, neat bandage work too.

 

Ok, grump.

 

I went down to my steam engine mates place this morning to have a good natter and talk shite about cars and things. He told me that a mutual friend had stuffed his lovely JRG Merc 190 2.6 auto through the front of a house. Seems like he put the car into drive instead of reverse and panicked when the car surged forwards and pressed the accelerator instead and rocketed across the road and straight into an empty house. His lovely car is wrecked, mate is fine and dandy but obv a little shocked - poor old sod. House is a rental property and was not occupied which was positive. Plod decided not to go through the large hole but instead got the old door opener and played Police Interceptors and stove the front door in. Other mate was on the scene and advised them not to do so. They ignored and nearly came to grief when the window above the door fell out and hit them. He gave them a right bollocking for acting so stupidly in the first instance. Young plods that might now know a bit better if there is a next time. Sadly common sense is no longer that common.

 

Now matey is car-less he will hopefully borrow the Mondy until he can get himself sorted.  Bricks and stuff can be sorted, thankfully no-one got hurt.

[Eddie Honda]

Time for the mutual friend to hand back his licence then, for the sake of all the other road users.

[purplebargeken]

Difficult call, but I hear what you are saying.

[fred]

Young folk are so fecking gullible  its getting silly now -

 

''Dumb'' Niece Annie (again) emailed me some odd FB thing which I cant read as Im not in there . So had to ask WTF she was ranting about - this -

 

 ''Sign this petition - to stop Muslims turning Big Ben into a Mosque ''   REALLY???  *smacks head up the fucking door frame* 

 

''Dont worry Annie, the bloody parking charges around there will keep them from buying Big Ben'' Fucking kids bah - No wonder Muslims are pissed off -  

 

Sorry Muslim sorts I feel your pain