The grumpy thread

[scaryoldcortina]

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very sad news about your mum, warren. we're all here for you if you need any support.

[skattrd]

My "upgrade" to fibre broadband isn't going very well:

 

 

Your speed may fluctuate during the first 15 days is what they keep saying ... My response was fluctuate between what? unusable and worse than basic adsl?

 

I'll give them 7 days to fix it:

 

 

    Ofcoms Broadband Speed Code 2010 (Line Speed)

    “ISPs must state with equal prominence to other written information provided that if the consumer receives an access line speed which is significantly below the estimated access line speed range then the customer will have the ability to leave their contract without penalty if [the ISP is not] able to resolve the problem.â€

 

Their conservative estimate prior to my sign up (which I have in writing) was 27MB

[dave21478]

I washed the latest layer of dust and road-shart off the Metro today to find that some MASSIV FAGGIT has keyed it pretty much all the way round. Left rear, boot, right rear, right door, right wing. Its not particularly hard or deep damage, but has left a visible line in the lacquer.

The fuck was the point of doing that? hardly a car to be jealous of?

[fordperv]

Wtc my deepest condolences

[purplebargeken]

Sorry to hear fella, also been there. 

[Pillock]

I've got [email protected] and I get a metric shittonne of other people's emails.

 

I've got the entire life of a hairdresser who shares my name, including credit card details, address, home address, phone numbers, details of all his flights, car reg.... Oh, and job offers and invoices.

[robinmasters]

My Gmail address is firstname.initial.surname, and I was regularly getting emails for some American who was evidently actively involved in his local singy-clappy church.

 

Initial I politely told them they'd got the email address wrong, which didn't work, so I resorted to angry swears. That didn't work either. What did eventually work (and it did take some time, but was entertaining along the way) was a combination of mild blasphemy and referring to embarrassing incidents in 'my' past. 'Me? Stuff the goddamn thanksgiving turkey? Don't you remember what happened last time? I'm banned from Wal-Mart!' etc etc. 

[Sealtainn]

Sorry to hear your news WTC, thinking of you. We're all here, should you need us.

[Pillock]

Part of the problem is that gmail ignores full stops - so my.name is the same as myname and my.na.me and m.y.n.a.m.e

It means they don't even have to get their email address wrong enough to be identical to yours.

[vulgalour]

Sad times, WTC, condolences from over here too

[sporty-shite]

Sorry to hear about your mum, Mark.

[Lord Sterling]

Condolences WTC, sad times

[Craig the Princess]

Condolences WTC, sorry for your loss. 😞

[DVee8]

Sitting in the passenger seat of my x-trail this morning,thinking to myself what is wrong with the lid/cover as it is on a angle.

 

Open it and the right side drops slightly with something wedged were the hinge is,forcing a small plastic insert out,alowing the 2 plastic parts to flop around.

 

Now there is 4 of us in the house but NO one has done this.Except the force it must have took to force this out when slamming this shut.

 

Can i find the plastic cylinder insert?Can i fuck!

 

So i have locked it,till i can gat to a scrap yard to see if any other Nissan uses the same insert.

 

Mrs V8 wants a new car,no chance if they carn't look after the ones the have.

 

Not first world problems i know.

[vulgalour]

I'm really very ill.  Like, go to the doctor levels of ill.  Actually no, I'm the doctor comes to me levels of ill.  I gather there's a bout of bronchial illness doing the rounds and it looks like I've copped it.  Trouble breathing, talking (calling the doctor to make an appointment impossible because of this) and walking.  Ears keep blocking up, sinuses completely stuffed and a very dry painful cough.

 

So go to the doctors, right?  Sure, but it takes 2 weeks to get an appointment.  Alternatively I book an emergency appointment and sit in the waiting room until there's a slot.  But here's the rub, I can't get myself out of the house let alone the four miles to my GP.  Home visits?  They're a thing of the past unless you're elderly and incredibly frail and even then there's no guarantee.

 

I'm going for option three which is to stay at home, neck plenty of fluids, rest and hope I get better which I very slowly seem to be.  I'm able to type this lengthy entry, for example, so that's something.  I haven't been this ill for years, I'm actually struggling to remember when I was last this ill.  Luckily, Mike is doing a grand job of taking care of me while I'm struggling to take care of myself.

[Cavcraft]

I'm a fat bastard and a 12 mile hike has resulted in excruciating leg cramps.

This is a first world problem because I nearly ditched my 306 this morning when I went to use the clutch.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I am such a cock! Ages ago got told some bloke wanted help painting cars a bit ago so had a friend pass my number on.

 

He rung sounded OK and was a no pressure type when I told him I'm a shit painter and have no kit and aren't sure I want to even get back into that side of cars, said he'd get back to me. That was two weeks ago.

 

He rung back again today. Same no pressure attitude but he's got extra work on doing some trucks on Wednesday if I want to come along and see what's what.

 

Said I still wasn't sure and I'd ring him back tomorrow. Think I'm going to say no to it. Seems strange turning down a job but I've had a big talk with Mrs Shrimp and really I'm not sure I can do it. We have a better relationship when I'm not working and right now things are wrong for us with me being a house wife but still the money would be nice.

 

So anyone in West Yorkshire want a job? tbh I do know someone and think I'm going to pass his number on

[Matt]

Drove my blue Swift for the first time since early January and it wasn't happy. Just barely managed to get it to free itself of the brakes before dragging a locked front wheel about two feet. There's been more rotating noise since it was looked at by the dealer too plus an odd loud click from the rear suspension.  Should have kept the other one or swapped all the good parts to the blue car instead of putting it back on the road. Grump.

[xtriple]

I was ill yesterday, really bad pains last night, felt fookin'  awful. Realised today that I got the day wrong so took the wrong drugs/didn't change my fentanyl patch! That'll do it.... Wanker!

 

Went and got my newly re-built and now re-built again stereo back. Guess what? It worked for about twenty seconds and then died. I now have no muzak of any sort in the car, radio, tape and cd all dead... just a gentle V8 woofle and a dog panting in my ear.

 

I sometimes hate this fucking car. Nothing is ever straight forward with it: no one wants to work on it, and if they do, they do it wrong! Trying to get another stereo that will connect to Bentley' idea of audio wiring is... problematic! Even the cd autochanger is controlled using AI net stuff (not kidding about the name) and no one seems to do it any more. Maybe they do, I've got tired of looking.... Even rang the main dealers for a brand new one.... NLA!

 

So, it appears I have to get someone to re-wire the car to accept a standard stereo, but I still want the autochanger to work....

 

The seat ecu will be back tomorrow and re-fitted on Thursday, so some progress. But, I have had a  bit of a scribble on the back of an envelope and realised why my subconscious was having a nervous breakdown: I have another 2 grands worth of bills coming up with the fucker in the next month! Paint, seat ecu, and the stereo - God alone knows how much that will cost!

 

No wonder there are so many utterly fucked Bentleys and Rolls Royces about, no one can afford the bills! It is, absolutely ridiculous how much parts for it cost and how much 'tax' you have to pay to get people to work on it.

 

Talking to Specialist cars ( I worry for their welfare!) and they are quite busy this week, changing the starter motor on some new Audi (Bentley) shit, engine out job which is 20 hours each way!

[dave21478]

I want to buy a cheap Bentley / Roller and fit Raceland coilovers, rewire it all with a basic kit car loom and sack off all the expensive parts.

[anonymous user]

or buy one from before all the electronics/fancy suspension

[Bren]

WTC my condolences.

[Bren]

Wickes again.

 

Went to buy a bi - fold door - none in store, get one from Macclesfield store but £30 delivery.

 

Fuck right off.

 

Went to local diy and ordered one from there.

 

Looking at the way Wickes store seems to be shrinking I suspect they could be the next chain to be consigned to history.

[seth]

Here, as photographed this afternoon, is the result of about a week and a half's worth of very delicate work involving long periods of maximum concentration and complete neglect of any other work that I might be being asked to get done.

 

 

Here it is as of about 45 minutes ago after the screwdriver slipped while finally assembling it.

 

 

I'll start again then.

[Jerzy Woking]

Sorry to hear that WTB- YOU have my sincere condolences.

[Jerzy Woking]

Radio Two played Donovan "Sunshine Superman" this morning, but the chorus in the song has been edited, probably by someone who thinks someone else could be offended by it.

 

And whilst I'm moaning about Radio Two, can any one tell me why the final verse of Harry Chapins W.O.L.D. is always edited out when they play it? The song loses all meaning without it.

[xtriple]

Here, as photographed this afternoon, is the result of about a week and a half's worth of very delicate work involving long periods of maximum concentration and complete neglect of any other work that I might be being asked to get done.

 

 

Here it is as of about 45 minutes ago after the screwdriver slipped while finally assembling it.

 

 

I'll start again then.

I actually mean 'dislike this' but.... can you not weld/braze it back together? You are obviously not lacking in the skills/talent department!

[D Spares & Tyres]

They only play half of Freebird too.   Would rather hear none of it than half. Pointless. 

[seth]

I actually mean 'dislike this' but.... can you not weld/braze it back together?

 

Welding on this scale is not within my repertoire though it is presumably possible using some high tech micro scientific equipment - the spring where it has fractured is about 1mm tall and approx 0.03mm thick. 

But this piece was to replace a broken one that was a horrible, badly made mish-mash and I'm being paid to make a good one as close to orignal as possible.

This is the smallest one of these components I've made and it had gone really well for the most part.  Oh well, next one will hopefully be even better.  I think the continual fear of breakage and then that truly sickening feeling when it happens is the reason why most wouldn't take this on.