The grumpy thread

[Junkman]

 

 

It's fucked.

 

 

So. Following this, I gave my car to the P6 Sanatorium near Leek.

The following is the result of their investigations:

 

001 - adjusted

002 - adjusted

003 - it's unsafe - the car should have failed the MoT

004 - bollox

005 - bollox

006 - bollox

007 - bollox

008 - there is a rust hole in the centre box - the car should have failed the MoT

009 - bollox

010 - bollox

011 - bollox

 

Apart from this:

 

The O/S diff oil seal failed and allows oil to contaminate the brake disc - the car should have failed the MoT

 

Conclusion:

 

The pointless British MoT is full of shit and allows one to use a car that is not nearways roadworthy.

Instead, they bombard one with trivial advisories that have no substance whatsoever.

 

The sooner this stupid annual ritual is relegated to where it really belongs, the better.

[dugong]

Finally had to get some decent tyres? Thank fuck for that.

[Negative Creep]

They do say that if alcohol was invented today it would be a class A drug. Having seen the effects of alcoholism on people, I'm inclined to agree

[jakebullet]

Think I've got the winner in world biggest ebay mong contest.

 

Q: Will the nissan micra mk1 pool ball gear knob fit his honda crux, and will I post 3 to Australia for the price of 1?

A: no, and no.

 

Genius then goes and buys 2 spare pool balls from me. (for playing pool with)

 

Q: I want them to fit my crux!

A: That's nice. Have you got a drill?

 

Send me ones with holes in instead to find my crux.

No. I don't know the thread and you don't get drilled ones for 99p.

 

Send me ones with standard sized holes.

There are no holes in them. There is no standard size.

 

Any way to find the hole size?

Pay a mechanic to measure it for you.

 

I'll leave it m8. Refund me.

[DeeJay]

TOP TIP MATE! thanks for this, I've finally had some joy.

 

Two blokes came round today to quote for the job. Both seemed eager for the work and I was happy enough that both of them were on the same page as me with regards to how decent I actually want it to look etc etc.

One quoted £450, the other £380. Both are happy to do the job next weekend.

The one that quoted £380 gave me a better vibe cos he seemed to spot all the major issues straight away like one wall being absolutely pissed para that I need to fit the units on so he'd board that one to get it straight and just skim the rest, whereas the other bloke didn't even notice it until I pointed it out.

Make sure you get a written quote.

[oldcars]

Think I've got the winner in world biggest ebay mong contest.

 

Q: Will the nissan micra mk1 pool ball gear knob fit his honda crux, and will I post 3 to Australia for the price of 1?

A: no, and no.

 

Genius then goes and buys 2 spare pool balls from me. (for playing pool with)

 

Q: I want them to fit my crux!

A: That's nice. Have you got a drill?

 

Send me ones with holes in instead to find my crux.

No. I don't know the thread and you don't get drilled ones for 99p.

 

Send me ones with standard sized holes.

There are no holes in them. There is no standard size.

 

Any way to find the hole size?

Pay a mechanic to measure it for you.

 

I'll leave it m8. Refund me.

Dont know how you can sell stuff on there, i can no longer deal with this type of person. I have hung my etree hat and now just bucket stuff i don't want or charity shop it.

[Junkman]

Finally had to get some decent tyres? Thank fuck for that.

 

It's still miles better than what other people deem appropriate for nob vans, I have you know.

[Aston Martin]

Strippers cars for cash. What a load of shite

[chaseracer]

Re. the discussion on the previous page...

 

[jakebullet]

Dont know how you can sell stuff on there, i can no longer deal with this type of person. I have hung my etree hat and now just bucket stuff i don't want or charity shop it.

 

I had a similar one the other day, but the answer was yes it will fit. Twat asked 5 different ways will it fit? And I keep saying yes it will fit. He then says Cheers m8, and doesn't buy one.

[xtriple]

Okay, I'm ready for the flaming....

 

Just had loads of paintwork done on the dollop. Colour match is perfect and most of the work looks great and overall, the car looks fantastic.

 

It wasn't cheap....

 

Anyway, last week, while washing and polishing her, spotted a couple or three problems that I hadn't seen before (due to inability to bend etc), nothing too serious and not a problem. But it's becoming one. Of course.

 

Went back and saw the painter who said it would take 30 minutes to do, but he didn't want to do it there and then, next week.... But now he won't answer my phone calls. I knew he was going to piss me around. There was no apology, no effort to get it resolved, I was (am) just a pain in the arse customer that is being 'fussy'.

 

I was not aggressive or demanding in any way, didn't expect him to drop everything, but really did expect some eagerness to correct what are his mistakes. No.

 

One of the problems I have already fixed myself (the worst one!) and I have been round the car and corrected all the blemishes/overspray on badges etc myself, but these last two (runs!) are beyond me at the moment. Not BIG runs, but runs all the same. If I had power in the garage I would do it and 'may' bring all the stuff home and do it, but why should I? If I did it myself it would put me out of action physically for a couple or three days.

 

It is impossible to find anyone to do decent work that they take a pride in. No matter how much you pay (so it seems) unless you go to the very top end where the paint I have just had done would have cost me twenty grand! Yes, I did ask.....

 

Coupled to this his attitude to breaking the speedo (none concern) and all the wheelspin he displayed getting it outside and parked.

 

So, do I pursue this guy and get him to do it properly (just sanding and polishing) or find someone else to do it/do it myself?

[BavarianRetro]

You're obviously not a skinflint - cheapest job possible type of chap and not inexperienced.

 

But, do you mind my asking what you mean by "not cheap"?

[Cheggers]

Drinking on a plane is the only type of drinking I have ever done.

 

I hate alcohol, but I helps me zone out so I don't have to listen to the usual humble brag sitting next to me.

I brag on planes to annoy the usual pisshead sitting next to me

[Parky]

I don't drink, mainly for reasons like Louise in that after our first came along I stayed home a lot to help and didn't go out. I used to drink a fair bit, being a city boy in the 90's meant "yay, it's the second Tuesday in March, let's get pissed!". And we did....

 

When I went out for a few beers months (maybe over a year) after Parkette arrived I sank one pint and moved to number two. I literally couldn't drink more than a third of it, it was as if I was completely full. I then got terrible indigestion off it and could barely sleep.

 

This went on for weeks until I said sod it, I'm done with it. Not a medical or religious reason, just can't stomach alcohol any more

[cort16]

I flippin love a good drink . However, recently I've been really tired and generally felt a bit shite so jacked in the booze for a couple of weeks and have been disappointed to find I feel better and less tired.

I guess I'll need to save it for special occasions now (Saturday's ). I also have a 2 year old who enjoys standing on my head and poking me in the eye which isn't fun with a hangover .

[Timewaster]

I've found that since the kids came along and I've gone from being in the pub 4 nights a week to four nights a year, I cannot drink draught beers of any sort without bloating and burping for the next 24 hours.

 

But bottled beer is fine.

 

Weird.

 

Cort16 is spot on though, a mild hangover plus a toddler or 2 = hangover X 1000

[stripped fred]

Feeling rather low so please bear with me while I get this off my chest. My sister (28 and two years younger than me) is talking about buying her own house and setting up home with her boyfriend and it's made me realise just how far behind the majority of people of my age I am. Thanks to a series of mental and physical health issues my confidence and independence are crippingly low and I feel like I've been left behind and lost a decade of my life - at 30 I feel far less mature and worldly-wise than the 18-20 year olds I meet at the university. Most of my school friends are now in stable relationships, some married with kids, but I feel I haven't progressed at all since I left school over a decade ago. I'm 30, still living with my parents, I have few close friends, I've never had even a casual girlfriend (not for want of trying), I can't drive for medical reasons and live in a town with poor public transport, and I don't have the confidence to do things alone but don't have anyone to do them with. I'm quite well off for someone of my age but money can't buy me happiness and quite frankly I'm sick of everything and I feel like no matter what I try my life just isn't going anywhere. Basically I have my work, my model collection, and that's about it.

 

Sorry for being so depressing but I really needed to let it out and I know the good folks of Autoshite will understand what I'm gooing through.

30 is no age, you hopefully have many happy years ahead of you. Try not to compare yourself to others as although they may all seem happy all the time I can guarantee you they are not. Life is ups and downs for everyone. Work on your strengths and what you are good at. Don't try to be like the herd as others have said.

 

I would suggest you go to your GP and ask to be referred for some Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) or learn the technique yourself. This is a way of challenging negative thoughts and i think it may be these negative thought processes that are making you unhappy. It may also be that you are depressed and antidepressants may help. They did for me.

 

I'm sure you have a lot to offer and there will be someone out there for you but you need to try and not be so hard on yourself. Socialising is also good, don't isolate yourself. Try and vary your interests too.

 

Happiness comes from within not from others. I used to be like you and I managed to turn it round and I'm sure you will too. Sermon over. Good luck!

[puddlethumper]

If you are looking for a tradesman best to get a recommendation. I do 3 trades, carpentry ( everything apart from antique furniture restoration ) tiling and all aspects of decorating. I can't get trade at B& effing Q coz I work purely on word of mouth and therefore don't have the usual business cards, headed notepaper and all that sort of shit. I get all my work by word of mouth and  have never advertised, but  being good at my job, turning up on time,and keeping the client happy, etc,. I'm taking home, ( after the usual crap taken off ) £700 a week. Six years ago when I came back from twenty years in Portugal, ( seventeen happy, three crappy coz of the wankers ) ( bankers, wankers, wots the diff ) I arrived back with my trusty 305 van, ( getting shite at that point ) the tools of my trades and a credit card that was running out fast. Had to give peoples ears a bit of an ache about what I could do. Started on £7 an hour and I've given myself a healthy rise every 6mths. Well, I can do that coz I'm the 'kin boss an wot I say 'kin well goes ! !  Booked up now for at least three, poss four, months. People willing to wait a couple of months. Got a couple of kitchens to do, ( fitting, tiling, dec ) booked in June and July coz they don't mind the wait. Haaapeee Daaayzzz ! ! Conclusion. I'm an olds cool guy and all the other guys I know who are good are the same, and they don't advertise either. Mind you they are all over 50, me included. I wonder whats going to happen when us new forties, ( I've heard that sixty is somewhere near there these days ) decide to give it up ? I've worked in Portugal, ( obviously ) Spain, Germany, Italy, Holland, Belgium and Brazil on word of mouth. O.K. I've yacked enough ! If it aint boring let me know. Brazil ? Thats a place, crikey !

[purplebargeken]

Haven't been pissed in years (since 1990). 3day recovery put paid to getting drunk ever again. Had quite a high tolerance level for alcohol. Not a good thing really.

 

Now I will have  one or two drinks a week, usually a bottle of beer, cider or Ginger Beer. I enjoy that but couldn't go any further. No sense in it.

 

Dad was an alcoholic and I vowed never to emulate that. 

[binhoker668]

Last minute speed camera = another 2 weeks of fear and stress waiting for "The Letter".  Only just got 3 points the other month too.  Why now!  Clean licence for years! 

Proper arse.

[STUNO]

Emigrate ! No points for camera fines here. The car owner is responsible for payment.

[binhoker668]

Damn I'd love to...

[sporty-shite]

Four years to the day since my sister died. I know I'm not the only one that has lost someone close, and it might seem selfish to bleat about it, but she was taken at 44 years old, which is younger than I am now, and never does a day go by where I don't miss her. 

 

Sorry for the downer, just feeling it a bit more today.

[cms206]

Dropped wife off at the dentist. She was half way out the car and the Insignia in front (DS63 XEU in some horrific beigy gold colour) reversed into the front of the 406. I know AVAS and ANCAC but he even had parking sensors ffs.

[mercrocker]

People who drive modern shit just don't fucking care.   Sorry for the ungentleman-ly generalisation but going on yesterday's experience that is my current opinion.  

 

Three miles I drive to work.  Three bloody miles - not even up the end of my road and a Korean thing (the identity of which, beyond Kia, I neither know nor care) lunged out of its parking bay with no warning (against the traffic flow as well).   Two junctions later a bilious looking new Freeloader drifted out of its side turn - I nearly did hit that.   Finally a phone-wielding twat-bitch in a high rise Bini took almost every possible wrong lane on the four exit roundabout outside work.    

 

I know the Minor is small, but its noisy enough.   Fucking LOOK!

[trigger]

Thoughts are with you Sporty.

[xtriple]

Just had to retract yesterdays grump about the painter. This has made me grumpy

 

 

 

 

 

In the 'grin' thread.

[eddyramrod]

Asda.  Or in fact, Wall's.  When I discovered their Carte d'Or range (in Cyprus) I dived straight in with the Crema di Mascarpone, which was fucking gorgeous.  Why you would ever want another flavour I cannot imagine.  And I'm a writer, imagining is my job (well ok, sideline...).  Over the last year or two it's been increasingly hard to find, and I've been substituting a new flavour in the range, Blueberry.  Which is also lovely.

Went in Asda this morning, no CdM as expected, but worse still.... no Blueberry!  I collared a member of staff who said my first choice had been deleted, I wouldn't find it anywhere now... and now the Blueberry's been deleted too!  But, she did remember seeing one pack of it in the back freezer, although it had been taken off stock, so she went and got it for me and let me take a tub before she put the rest in an offer-display.

FFS Wall's... you make two flavours of a luxury, premium-priced ice cream that I deliberately buy for preference, flavours I would buy regularly until the end of time.... then delete them.   What am I supposed to do, buy your Eton Mess instead?

 

I shouldn't really include Asda in this, it's not aimed at them, it's aimed at Wall's.  The Asda lass was totally sympathetic.

 

 

See also, Walker's Cheddar Cheese and Bacon crisps.  I've seen them in six-packs (but not for a while) but in Asda the only way they show up is in multi-flavour multipacks, which I don't want to buy.  Well done Walker's.  I bought Seabrook's and McCoys in flavours you do make, just for spite (also they were cheaper).

[mercrocker]

And what the hell has happened to cheesy footballs?   Really wanted some the other day.

[dean36014]

Just before I went to bed this morning got a phonecall to say a good friend had passed away in hospital. Years of alcohol abuse had finally took its toll, and he spent the last two weeks of his life in hospital suffering organ failure. RIP Danny, probably propped up at the bar with Lemmy already.