The grumpy thread

[panhard65]

Nine Miles to the gallon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats pretty much what mine does with just pottering about to the workshop and back. It got up to 16 on a good run I think you would have to drive like a saint to get 20 out of one but where is the fun in that.

[Craig the Princess]

Don't cry and don't want to die Hirst

[cort16]

It's bit early for night clubbing. I'm no expert but I don't think 8pm is the peak time.

[D Spares & Tyres]

You going Cannock on Saturday? If so I can take it. No rot or at least anything major. I replaced van one with a scrapyard one. All that's wrong is the hinges are broke due to no check strap fitted

No sorry just don't have time this weekend!

 

No rush, my left hand one isn't that bad it can wait til the summer!

[cort16]

I like pubs but I've always fucking hated night clubs. They always seem like a good way to ruin a good night.

[fordperv]

I used to love going to clubs, dance like a spaz off my face, to thumping dance music without a care in the world

[MarvinsMom]

I'd wager that the general ambience will not dramatically change, unless they wait for me to get out of earshot then start playing non-shit music at an acceptable volume and everyone stops dancing because it's shite. I'm going home to look at parts numbers for central locking relays.

frankly i hate most pubs too, i've only managed nightclubs having been pretty pissed up before going in.

 

its the noisy music, stupid fuckin' kids who just wanna fight each other and watered shite off of the bar that many pubs sell, i'd rather stop at home.

 

though i did have fun out in York last saturday, but we did start pretty early and had had enough before the pubs started to get bloody busy.

 

Mr Hirst, though knows how to live life to the full.....

[Bren]

Thats pretty much what mine does with just pottering about to the workshop and back. It got up to 16 on a good run I think you would have to drive like a saint to get 20 out of one but where is the fun in that.

In 1990 a vauxhall royale I owned used a gallon in five miles.

[Cheggers]

I love pubs and clubs but they're a nightmare at this time of year. I usually have a health kick in December because the gym's lovely and quiet, while the pubs are packed full of braying wankers who only drink when the tinsel goes up.

 

January it'll be the other way around. Deserted pubs and the gym full of sweaty lardarses who will disappear by Valentine's Day.

[fordperv]

stupid fuckin' kids who just wanna fight each other

You've hit the nail on the head, this is what spoilt it for me in the end, I was sick of idiots trying to cause a fight

[Cavcraft]

There was a truly awful club in town I used to frequent many years back. It was small and grim looking but every time I went to ended up being a laugh somehow. I think I missed 4 Saturday nights there in 3 years and you could have written a book about the place.

This would have been very late 1980's/early 1990's, so it was all sort of 2Unlimited, Usura, Snap  etc and various other cheesy quaver-ish stuff. Probably the highlight of my 'youth' when I think back. The last time I went to a club was probably that God awful 'Heaven N Hell' (?) in Blackpool on my stag weekend.

[xtriple]

Just rung the bloke selling the MX5 auto. What a fucking dreamer/total twat. Doesn't want to sell it and will probably pull it with 12 hours to go - his words. £1250 will possibly buy it he says.

 

Its an MX5 in winter.

 

It's an auto.

 

No other one has made anything like that amount.

 

Bid anyway but don't hold out much hope.

[michael1703]

Tim peake hype

 

The radio had a news item about him every hour about he had got used to weightlessness and had done a somersault.

 

Who gives a fuck? If he'd done it 50-60 years ago I would be vaguely interested

[Bren]

Tim peake hype

The radio had a news item about him every hour about he had got used to weightlessness and had done a somersault.

Who gives a fuck? If he'd done it 50-60 years ago I would be vaguely interested

To be fair he has large conjones for going into space in a russian built rocket.

I would sooner go into space strapped to a fucking Roman candle.

[Cavcraft]

I'm sure he's a smashing bloke and all that, but I wouldn't be overly upset if someone gave Philip Schofield a bit of a shoeing one night.

[Lacquer Peel]

Tim peake hype

 

The radio had a news item about him every hour about he had got used to weightlessness and had done a somersault.

 

Who gives a fuck? If he'd done it 50-60 years ago I would be vaguely interested

Local angle though, it's like your local newspaper when someone from your town climbs a big mountain.

[Richard]

Aberdeen man lost at sea.

[MarvinsMom]

star wars - meh.,,,

 

not seen it and TBH not that bothered too.

 

10-15 years ago i'd have been all over this, but not now.

 

there is too much advert tie in bullshit, and at £10 odd just to get in i can buy the video this time next year for a fraction of that, if i'm bothered.....

[Louise2cv]

Tim Peake.

 

Tax payer funded mission I believe. More of that money we haven't got.

 

I'd rather they were spending on curing horrible diseases or something.

 

But instead we have sent some random dude up to space and to what end? He'll have a once in a lifetime experience and get to go on the One Show. That is our value for money peeps, a bit of a chat on the One Show.

 

I think space exploration is fine. Great. When we've sorted out down here first.

[MarvinsMom]

given the amount of money been squandered on foreign aid, the £1.6M spend sending major tim in space is pocket money.

[chaseracer]

It's like Major Tim was the first Brit in space - but that was Helen Sharman, 25 years ago.  However, that small fact - and she - seems to have been forgotten.

 

There are two possible reasons for this: Dr. Sharman's unconscionable failure to possess a penis and a uniform, or the children in charge of modern media outlets are too young/lazy/stupid to remember her achievements.

 

Hey, I'm 50 and grumpy - deal with it 

[fairkens]

Read somewhere she was privately funded, although not sure what difference it makes

[MarvinsMom]

he is the first up on the ISS, whereas the other one was on MIR.

 

there was also michael foale, though he was british born he had emigrated to the good ole u s of a at some point,

 

there will be others too, but if there arem then i cannot remember their names.

[Lacquer Peel]

Time Peake.

 

Tax payer funded mission I believe. More of that money we have got, but it suits the people in charge to say that we haven't.

 

EFA.

[Louise2cv]

Yep, that's what I was getting at.

 

Money for wars and other Willy waving contests.

 

No money for the disabled, the elderly or anyone down on their luck though. Nope. We must think of the deficit you know.

[Vin]

They were talking to a chap called Nick Patrick on the Today programme the other day. He was one of the Brits that went up to space. He had to become a US citizen to do it though...

[wuvvum]

I appear to have broken the gear linkage on the MGF (whilst definitely not engaging in a traffic light GP with a barried Celica).  It got stuck in 4th gear, which was OK as traffic's light at this time of night so I was able to nurse it home.  Gear lever is moving forwards and backwards freely, but that makes no difference to the gear the car is in.  It won't move from side to side at all.  Except it did briefly, when I got home (I was able to put it in reverse and everything), but now it's given that up again.

 

I'm not really sure how the gear linkages work on these, but being mid-engined I'm sure they're an arse to work on.

[Timewaster]

Yep, that's what I was getting at.

 

Money for wars and other Willy waving contests.

 

No money for the disabled, the elderly or anyone down on their luck though. Nope. We must think of the deficit you know.

To be fair, there are billions available for the disabled, the elderly and anyone down on their luck.

 

Just not enough billions.

[Clanger]

I appear to have broken the gear linkage on the MGF (whilst definitely not engaging in a traffic light GP with a barried Celica).  It got stuck in 4th gear, which was OK as traffic's light at this time of night so I was able to nurse it home.  Gear lever is moving forwards and backwards freely, but that makes no difference to the gear the car is in.  It won't move from side to side at all.  Except it did briefly, when I got home (I was able to put it in reverse and everything), but now it's given that up again.

 

I'm not really sure how the gear linkages work on these, but being mid-engined I'm sure they're an arse to work on.

Wot you want is to have a chat with Taff.  I am pretty sure he had a similar problem that he sorted out, and I am sure he will be along shortly to assist.

 

Try here:

http://autoshite.com/topic/19331-here-we-go-again/?p=873104

http://autoshite.com/topic/19331-here-we-go-again/?p=873232

[beko1987]

We had our department crimbo do tonight. The only bloke I like fucked off at midnight cos he was driving (went to shag some bird,, fair enough). I missed all the shots rounds thank fuck, and stuck to Oxford gold all night as it was least pisswater thing this place did. Was the last person standing at 2.30 when they kicked us out, along with Jim, who is a ledge but sadly retiring next year. Saw him into a taxi to get home, and some drunken twat started taking the pics out of him. Scared him off in ways I'm not sure how (I just called him a cunt I think), and wandered back to mums. Not having 'wandered back to mums from town' for years, I wandered through the industrial area, a d found no interesting skips at all. The weeee incentive thing has a lot to answer for. No pc's, hoovers or anything remotely good to my drunken mind.

 

And I'm up at 9am to wash a fucking car...