The grumpy thread

[xtriple]

Just reversed the dollop into an innocent Ford Focus that was parked minding its own business! Very low speed (just rolling) and no damage to either car (thank God) but what a fucking cretin!

 

Twice I've done that now. You'd think I'd learn....

[gordonbennet]

As Eddyramrod.

 

Whenever we find something ultra delicious they stop making it in short order.

Used to get some lovely coconut ice cream from somewhere possibly Safeway, like a giant pack of bounty ice cream (which i haven't seen for a while either) course they stopped it.

 

Still miss Royal Scot biscuits, and real Wagon Wheels that tasted proper in the open sleeve and were despite what they try to say a bloody sight bigger than the ones they make now.

 

We need a shiters supermarket where they sell only what we used to love, made the way we used to love them, and nowt else.

[gordonbennet]

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!

 

Modern shit any idiot can drive, hence any idiot drives 'em, you needed some nous to drive proper motors...lorries have gone exactly the same way, if you dumb the job down you attract dummies, just wish they'd fuck off back to the dole queue or wherever they found them.

[eddyramrod]

We need a shiters supermarket where they sell only what we used to love, made the way we used to love them, and nowt else.

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah we do....  I nominate Toblerone.  Can't remember what the weight is, but it's the size you can (used to?) get in 3- or 4-packs, roughly equivalent to anyone else's standard bar, like Yorkie, say.  And I used to be able to get them in white chocolate, or fruit-and-nut, but not any more.  Come to think of it... Cadbury's Fruit and Nut, as advertised by the immortal Frank Muir?

[jakebullet]

Daddies tomato sauce. In glass bottles. Not those hateful plastic squeezy shit things. I'm just about managing to hang on to this 'cos the little bottles are still made for cafes etc, but the rest have gone.

[andy18s]

Just reversed the dollop into an innocent Ford Focus that was parked minding its own business! Very low speed (just rolling) and no damage to either car (thank God) but what a fucking cretin!

 

Twice I've done that now. You'd think I'd learn....

What you need is a nice small,easily parked soft top.

Just to save the Beast from any more paintwork related incidents......

[fordperv]

Found out earlier that my mate has bumped his mk3 cortina

[xtriple]

It's true, the Mazda with its roof down is a doddle to park, roof up is a bit different! I miss the Mazda I'd go and get it out and swap the dollop over but its 'photoshoot' is coming up very soon so I need it about.

[strangeangel]

It's true, the Mazda with its roof down is a doddle to park, roof up is a bit different!

 

My CJ is a bit like that, moral of the story is get the roof down more often

[Bobthebeard]

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

Only available around Christmas now seemingly... They have a long 'sell by' date so we usually buy a few tubes for nomming during the rest of the year. B and M bargains were selling them off in February for 99p so we bought ten!

[chaseracer]

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

 

They only seem to be available around Christmas.

 

 

EDIT:  Arse!!  Beaten by Bob! 

[xtriple]

My CJ is a bit like that, moral of the story is get the roof down more often

I have hardly ever driven any of my MX5s with the roof up. So long as it isn't actually pissing down, I drop the roof. Me hero!

[anonymous user]

I think my laptop is knackered, it's only eight years old. It has been getting slower and has now been installing updates for the last hour and is still only on 4 of 14. I tried giving it a good shake but that's made no difference. It's probably time to buy a new one but I've just spent that money on an old dentist's drill so it will have to wait. I hate using this phone as my fingers are too big.

[seth]

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.

 

Know exactly what you mean. Sunday marked 20 years since my dad died. Its very close now to me having lived longer without him being around than with and there's been a lot in my life I know he would have enjoyed seeing.  

 

I think missing them and thinking of the ongoing affect loved ones have had on your life allows them to still be around somehow.

[Lacquer Peel]

I think my laptop is knackered, it's only eight years old. It has been getting slower and has now been installing updates for the last hour and is still only on 4 of 14. I tried giving it a good shake but that's made no difference. It's probably time to buy a new one but I've just spent that money on an old dentist's drill so it will have to wait. I hate using this phone as my fingers are too big.

 

Sack Windows off and install Lubuntu, it's good for reinvigorating old laptops.

[cort16]

8 years old is about 257 in laptop years. Windows gets into a right old state  after a while, formatting the disk and re-installing it from scratch will help. While you're at it If you feel brave buy and fit and SSD disc you'll not believe the difference it makes.

[angle]

My parents live on the edge of a village, where the road straightens out and the speed limit goes up from 30 to 40. Many people choose to interpret this as 'floor it' - including me on occasion, so I won't get too self righteous. However, at what point did braking and indicating right become a signal for 'please overtake me'? A house down the road had an upside down C5 estate in the front garden a year or so back after he tried to overtake someone turning into their drive, I almost impaled myself on a maroon Corsa that came from two cars back just before that, and I've just had a lady in a Mini give me the finger because she decided to try to go round me after I put my indicator on and got a blast of the horn for her troubles. Nobs.

[Roverageous]

Roads. The roads are all shite. Driven to Henley and back today and I'm sure my suspension now requires work. The roads are fucking terrible. I used to love driving and now it's just a dodge-the-pothole-and-sunken-manhole-covers stressfest.

[Ghosty]

However, at what point did braking and indicating right become a signal for 'please overtake me'?

 

Left yes, assuming you're on a road in the countryside with nothing going off it, right no, never.

 

I've had people pass me while hand signalling and attempting to turn right into a street on a pushbike FFS, people are dicks.

[gordonbennet]

They carry on driving like arse holes because it doesn't hit them in the pocket, especially with company vehicles or when someone else (mum dad husband wife partner boss) is footing all the bills, always been easy to fritter your way through someone else's money, ask the government they've been borrowing in our name and pissing it up the wall for decades..

[beko1987]

I had a bloody wasp enter my car whilst driving home this afternoon. I take all the moaning about my brakes back, their fucking fine! 55 to a dead stop in a handy place just by breadvans gaff, open all the doors, wasp fuck off, I fuck off.

 

Dont like wasps, or spiders. Was in the shed trying to find a dc07 hose earlier, looked up and a massive one was right above my head. Decided I didnt want or need a dc07 hose suddenly and shut the door. Time to clean the shed out after winter at the weekend I think, with a Premiere Mini 175 in each hand...

[Parky]

Had to have a suspicious freckle removed. No problems there, all done by the GP this afternoon following a small injection to numb the area.

 

The injection is wearing off and it feels like someone is holding a lit cigarette against my skin. Owwwwww!

[purplebargeken]

Do wasps really serve a genuine purpose? Is it fair that wasps can sting you to their bastard hearts content whilst poor fuzzy bees do it once and they are brown bread. Just not fair.

[purplebargeken]

Had to have a suspicious freckle removed

 

I'm so sorry. I read that and just started pissing myself at the phrasing of it. Now my side hurts. Damn.

[anonymous user]

Sack Windows off and install Lubuntu, it's good for reinvigorating old laptops.

 

 

8 years old is about 257 in laptop years. Windows gets into a right old state  after a while, formatting the disk and re-installing it from scratch will help. While you're at it If you feel brave buy and fit and SSD disc you'll not believe the difference it makes.

Thanks for the advice, but it may as well have been written in Swahili; I am totally clueless with computers, they either work or they don't as far as I'm concerned, if I tried to do anything with it I would balls it up completely. I am the person that Tesco refused to sell a smartphone to as the sales-lads thought I was too stupid to work one (I have since got one and can work the bits I need to). I wouldn't know how to reinstall Windows let alone another system, re-formatting sounds serious, does this mean everything would go of the disc? Also the stickers underneath which I think had important things like serial numbers, that I might need, have worn through. I shall struggle on with it for a bit and buy a new one soon, once I've stopped buying crap on ebay.

 

 

This is what I bought instead of a new computer, you've got to admit that it looks much nicer (OK it's totally useless, but that's not the point)

[beko1987]

If the battery runs it for a few hours, or we can get power at SF, buy this

 

http://www.ebuyer.com/712133-sandisk-plus-240gb-sataiii-2-5inch-ssd-sdssda-240g-g25 

 

(presuming it takes SATA, it should do) or A N other SSD, and I'll bring my copy of windows 7 and fully* legit* way of making it activated and legal, and a USB caddy to get everything off your old hard drive, then we can put your old HD on the train tracks or summat afterwards

[anonymous user]

A nice thought, the battery died ages ago so would need power and 

 

(presuming it takes SATA, it should do)

What does that mean, how would I be able to tell? It probably is nearly time for a new one though, as it has several keys missing after the dog jumped on it, it's on its third power pack/charger as two have been eaten by dogs.

 

It seems to be working a bit better after the updates which took a couple of hours, but how long for is anyone's guess.

 

My grump about the computer is now trumped by discovering that the lovely Sheerline pick-up I posted in the tat thread appears to have sold. I had put it on watch and had asked the vendor a question about it and was trying to work out how to get it down here from Argyll and Bute. I should have just hit buy it now and worried about the details (like where to put it, how to pay for it and how to get it home) later.

[beko1987]

Its the connector used to plug the hard drive in. Whats the make and model of the laptop? Google will then tell us! (and tell us if its worth bothering with)

 

Failing that, ebay, find one with an early i3 processor and 3gb ram, ignore what the hd is, buy that, buy the ssd and back to the shitefest plan!

[anonymous user]

As far as I can work out from the remaining labelling it's a Toshiba Satellite, (I realise this may be the equivalent of someone I know who thought that her loan car was a Vauxhall Airbag), It looks like model L450-13? on the bottom.

[hairnet]

someone I know who thought that her loan car was a Vauxhall Airbag), It looks like model L450-13? on the bottom.

massive lol and yes im the same when you start talking ssd and nerd pc stuff

 

you wanna install whaaa?? to make it do whaa???

 

unless i get the BSOD or the BSOU i leave it alone and just hope it turns on in the mornings