The grumpy thread

[andrew e]

Going to work shortly for a 12 hour shift. Everyone else hitting the boozer! Bugger!

[eddyramrod]

Going to work shortly for a 12 hour shift. Everyone else hitting the boozer! Bugger!

Not entirely... I'm about to take the dog out and stop at the chippy

[hairnet]

getting the bike out and going to warrington for a gig

 

then chinese on way home

 

the car thing and that ds3? for 4k id just buy a car and fuck the repayments - far too much money for a car worth about 4k when yer finished

 

just bought a bike and at 200 a week in their hand since just after new year theres two payments left

 

the old fashioned way and i dont have it till it paid for - at my request

 

it can still be done

[Tamworthbay]

Heathrow is shit, after travelling thousands of miles on various forms of transport without the tiniest hitch I hit terminal two. Utterly shite in every way. Sod building a new runway, just bulldoze the damn thing and start again.

[fordperv]

Waiting to finish a 12.5 hour shift I've still got nearly 2 hours, i hate being the only competent member of staff

[FakeConcern]

I hate it when my post is the last one on a page, so no one looks at it!

[Jazoli]

I can't help myself but I keep going back to pistonheads for a read and it ends up pissing me off after 5 minutes, why is the place littered with so many fucking cunts? I've been a regular on there for over 12 years and the cunt/quality ratio has swung massively toward the cunt end of the spectrum, I'm tempted to get myself banned from the place.

[fordperv]

If you do, please put a link up for us to have a laugh at

[OwdChina]

 I'm tempted to get myself banned from the place.

Go for it.........with a massive rant about how the place has become full of cunts, don't hold back, and don't forget to mention cunt and cunts............a lot.

[HH-R]

Just say you changed your 3-Series' wheels for some 15" steels running part worn Jinyus, INSTABAN.

[Parky]

Or claim you are only an averagely built company director, they'll bully you out

[beko1987]

God I hate London. The london eye was meh, bowling was good, and where ai got most pissed. The food, some poncy mewt bar, where the food looked goog but tasted of nothing.

 

And now we are crawling back through london to home, and Im quite sober but not sober enough to drive so have to sleep at my mums. Brill.

 

Oldest car Ive seen all day is a t plate fiesta too, sitting in this traffic I must be surrounded by £10k per month worth of cars, just to keep it on topic as we seem to have been on all night with the latest influx of new people

[purplebargeken]

I hate London too. I have to bloody live there.

[andrew e]

I love London. You just need to visit the good bits! On Wednesday I was 20 minutes walk from Beko at the Imperial war museum, cost ZILCH and bloody good, especially the top floor VC & GC medals room.

 

http://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-london

[andrew e]

However, Channel 4 GP coverage is 5 minutes in and there's a bloody advert. Wankers.

[skattrd]

However, Channel 4 GP coverage is 5 minutes in and there's a bloody advert. Wankers.

 

I was just thinking the same thing .. and I'm not a fan of that welsh bloke.

[andrew e]

Neither is DC by the look of things!

[AlabamaShrimp]

I love London. You just need to visit the good bits! On Wednesday I was 20 minutes walk from Beko at the Imperial war museum, cost ZILCH and bloody good, especially the top floor VC & GC medals room.

 

http://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-london

Is this a joke?

 

The bit on the top floor is the only thing worth seeing the rest is just a mess. It's like an art gallery with sod all information and really random placement. I felt like it was a total waste of time when we went recently and I'd really been looking forward to it.

[chaseracer]

Is this a joke?

 

No.  It's an opinion...

[andrew e]

No I really enjoyed the set up, I'd steer clear of Portsmouth too if I were you - that's set up in a similar way. The only museum I'm not keen is the British museum, now that is dry and boring.

 

http://www.historicdockyard.co.uk/index.php

[Cavcraft]

Love London, always found it an almost magical place to visit.  Probably because my family are all from/near to there, it's like a draw to me and I always enjoyed my visits to the place. 

[Parky]

I commute to it every fucking day. In a nutshell the City is a bit shit, Canary Wharf is up itself but the West End is nice provided you don't mind mingling with people who cannot understand the concept of "having a mortgage" or "not having a ski lodge in Val D'Isere"

 

Museums, Bridges, Galleries, History, Statues and the odd celebrity wandering about (had a chat with Richard E Grant the other day), the place is generally pretty cool if you have money

[robinmasters]

I've had a door lock problem (I suspect both mechanical and electrical) which means I have to slam the door 5-10 times before it catches, the central locking often pops open again when you lock it, and it rarely locks all the doors at once.

 

It's taken until today for me to look at it when the door actually started to open whilst in motion. Half the reason I run chod is that I like tinkering with it, but I'm leaving things until they become dangerous before fixing them.

[strangeangel]

However, Channel 4 GP coverage is 5 minutes in and there's a bloody advert. Wankers.

 

You watch something less interesting than drying paint and complain about an advert??

[sporty-shite]

Daily shite tinkering in general, Alfa147 lower front suspension arms in particular.

 

Mrs S's 147 has an annoying clunk. Have a quick look, and there's play in the bottom balljoint. No problem. I'll get a pair of bottom arms, and do both sides. It can't be that ad a job, and it should freshen it up a bit.

 

The worst, most awkward, shitty job I've ever done. After all yesterday afternoon, and most of today, I've managed to get it back together, but I can't, for the life of me, get one last bolt to line up. So I've had to leave it out, and I'll have to arrange for my tame MOT tester to sort it. This has really pissed me off. She's been top work in my car today, which is no problem, but it's a good job she's off tomorrow, because I can't do a thing during the week whilst I'm on this placement.

 

Reading all the stuff further up the thread, I now realise exactly why someone might want to pay £100/month to have this sort of stuff covered. It felt worse because it's her daily, so the pressure of time was getting to me.

 

But then again, I know I'll be arsing about with something else this weekend. Maybe the concept of a "spare car" would be something to explore. This might actually, end well. 

[jakebullet]

Got carded the other day for meter reading. Man never came back. Now we've got a 'thank you for your meter reading' email, with a bill of £800 attached.

 

Numbers are nothing like ours, so half hour on phone trying to convince them meter man has played think of a number. New bill £120.

[Eddie Honda]

and the odd celebrity wandering about (had a chat with Richard E Grant the other day

I take it you bit your tongue instead of berating him about those Argos ads.

[Eddie Honda]

Pissing axle on today's trailer is fucked with a full load and 170 miles from base. Cock.

[Bren]

Just requested another couse of steroid from the doctor - if what I have is asthma I cannot control it with an inhaler which is worrying - only prednisilone tablets work but they have serious long term side effects.

[Lankytim]

I'm suffering from really low mojo. I feel like binning off all the old cars I have, the Allegro, the Minor and all the spares and just finishing with old cars. I don't get time to work on them so I have to pay others to do it which means I never have any money for family or household stuff. I can feel the urge to weigh the whole lot in soon.