The grumpy thread

[purplebargeken]

Oh fuck. I'm car bored.

[cort16]

I hope it doesn't rain you might dissolve

[doobietoo]

I always use a sniper for things like that. Enter your best bid days before and walk away.

 

I prefer to bid myself.... I put a low bid on to show I am interested then bang my top price on with about 5 secs to go, this is a) after snipe bids which happen at about 8 secs so I am told, has the advantage of avoiding shill bids and means that if I am outbid I have no time to think oh just one more....  Having said that if I see what I think is shill bidding on an item I tend to not bid at all as you know the seller will almost certainly be a front bottom to deal with.... 

[Cheggers]

I hope it doesn't rain you might dissolve

 

Don't worry, at least one of us got it.

 

 

It took a few seconds, mind...

[Jazoli]

I prefer to bid myself.... I put a low bid on to show I am interested then bang my top price on with about 5 secs to go, this is a) after snipe bids which happen at about 8 secs so I am told, has the advantage of avoiding shill bids and means that if I am outbid I have no time to think oh just one more....  Having said that if I see what I think is shill bidding on an item I tend to not bid at all as you know the seller will almost certainly be a front bottom to deal with.... 

 

You can schedule a snipe for 3 seconds before the end, and I wouldn't bother with the first bid either, I bid once usually, by snipe, 3 seconds from the end

[pshome]

I prefer to bid myself.... I put a low bid on to show I am interested then bang my top price on with about 5 secs to go, this is a) after snipe bids which happen at about 8 secs so I am told, has the advantage of avoiding shill bids and means that if I am outbid I have no time to think oh just one more....  Having said that if I see what I think is shill bidding on an item I tend to not bid at all as you know the seller will almost certainly be a front bottom to deal with.... 

my sniper tool bids in the last second...

[DeeJay]

Don't worry, at least one of us got it. It took a few seconds, mind...

I got it, but there's no Groan button.

[Cavcraft]

Do it online - get the document ref no from the green slip, take the first number off and that gives you the doc ref no of the main document. Complete online change and voila you will get a log book.

 

I did this for my MG TF as I wanted to sell it and the cretin I bought it from hadn't posted it off either (I wasn't bothered mind, I was driving it around on his tax - his loss)

 

 

This. Also if I decide I don't like the buyer (no-one on here I can assure you) I do the V5 on line the moment they've driven away (Mon-Sat 9-6, or whatever it is) and cancel the insurance.

Even if they do the trade parts and I'm suspicious, I take a picture of the V5 before they go so I can do it online without them even knowing.

[beko1987]

Whilst wobbling the wheels on my car yesterday I found that the arch liner had become detached again at some point in the past

 

 

I used the handy new access hole to whack a big cable tie around it and the horn assembly the other side. Sent for a quick drive but it didn't fix any of my issues.

[Richard]

The prick next door has been using some kind of power tool, a sander I think, for nearly an hour now. He does noisy DIY nearly every weekend. Prick.

[chaseracer]

Trailer tyre exploded last night, whilst hauling a load.

Didn't have a spare,& couldn't really be arsed, so dragged the damn thing home.

 

Got about three quarters of it back, safely

No sign of the rim, suspension unit or rear quarter of the trailer, mind. Arse.

 

Any chance of letting us know your route, so we can avoid it until some other poor bastard has run over your debris?  Cheers.

[Cheggers]

The prick next door has been using some kind of power tool, a sander I think, for nearly an hour now. He does noisy DIY nearly every weekend. Prick.

 

Hmmm...in what way is that different from "the prick next door fills his garden with crappy old cars"? - I know it's annoying but it's not like it's 7am or anything and we're all allowed our hobbies (thank heavens...)

 

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[Parky]

Fitted a new Venetian blind in our room. Did the kids last week no bother at all.

 

Today. Drilled hole for anchor plug, screw won't tighten. Can't put plug back out so have to punch it through the wall. Big chunk of wall collapses inwards. Arsecakes.

 

Fix that and try drilling again. Metal rsj where I expected a cavity. Get metal drill, all goes well until drill gets through the metal and I slam the drill into the plaster, making a big hole. Double arse cakes.

 

Fix that, self tapper into the rsj. Attached hanger for the blind and screw it up. All good until the screw suddenly stops tightening and falls out - snapped. One end jammed in the rsj so have to drill another hole. Yes, the same thing happens again.

 

Basically it was like an episode of "How to make a total pigs ear out of a job you have done successfully at least a dozen times before".

 

Probably didn't help when Mrs P said "well you aren't a builder, we should get someone in" which didn't elicit a particularly charitable response.

[UmBongo]

I am not an un-generous old bastard but when I agree to sponsor somebody for something - DO THE BLOODY THING FIRST.   couple of blokes at work are doing various runs tomorrow and came and chapped me up for the dosh this morning.   WTF?   

 

I am only sponsoring sky-dives from now on.  Do every bloody metre or you will get fuck all.

 

Oh, and they all drive new cars too.

 

Tell them to do the skydive sans parachute and you won't have to pay them anyway.

[Cavcraft]

I had questioned sky diving for charity until my lad did it. I wasn't far from the plane he went up in and have to say I wouldn't have gone 20 feet down the runway without even taking off in it. As for the actual jump? No thanks.

[HH-R]

It's something I'd love to do, but probably wouldn't have the balls for!

[cobblers]

I read somewhere that these charity skydives cost the NHS double or triple what they actually raise for charity

[DeeJay]

Just watched QI and there were some figures quoted there that - on average - each skydiving to raise money for charity, and most are for the NHS - raises £30 and each £1 raised costs the NHS £13.70 or thereabouts to treat the resultant injuries.

[greengartside]

Oh fuck. I'm car bored.

 

Same here - I think I've scratched my itch with the Fiesta Zetec-S and I want something else now. Not sure exactly what though.

[Tamworthbay]

Oh fuck. I'm car bored.

you need a dolomite

[Lacquer Peel]

I work in a huge open plan office and there's people asking for donations/sponsorship/raffles about twice a week at least. I don't give anyone anything, otherwise I'd be about £30 a month down or accused of favouritism and I can't be bothered. If you want to go for a run, go for a bloody run.

 

There's a good sketch about this in a Souvenir Programme repeat, two minutes in.

I resent stuff like this because it's basically paying for someone's hobby or holiday, or promoting their own vanity.

[Sigmund Fraud]

you need a DAF 

 

EFA 

[kirton]

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.

[kirton]

I worked in the factory when they stopped using the sleeves and went to sealed packages - and wagon wheels are now smaller, but they only found they had to have smaller wagon wheels when they ran the new packing machine brought from the factory in Canada on the production line. OOPS big biscuit, smaller package, result bins full of wagon wheels with the edges chopped off. This must have been about 1972.

We used to make digestive biscuits for Harrods -Golden Harvest - they were something else

[HillmanImp]

If you want to go for a run, go for a bloody run.

We got an email asking to sponsor some people in a different office last week as they were cycling 30k one day. WOW!

 

I try to ride my bike to work 3 or 4 days a week which is a 34k round trip each day dickwads WITHOUT SPONSORSHIP.

 

Unless you are paraplegics or doing it in Sumo outfits (which they aren't), riding that far really isn't that impressive.

[Cavcraft]

'The A Word' programme on BBC1. My missus has been raving about it and it's a hateful mishmash of truly appalling acting and those stupid fucking camera angles that are all over the shop.

[dugong]

Went and collected FREE DIZZLE 25.

 

It got me home without issue.

Enjoyed the trip back.

 

Today, the drive belt cacked itself and snapped clean in two. An L Series has one massive poly V belt driving everything, so I lost the servo and the PAS.

 

An easy job or so I'm told; it went two seconds from the unit. Battery was man enough to drive inside, so lobbed it on charge once parked up. Belt job looks pretty easy and the engine wasn't running long enough to cook or boil its coolant.

 

Hurrah*. I still like it.

[Jazoli]

'The A Word' programme on BBC1. My missus has been raving about it and it's a hateful mishmash of truly appalling acting and those stupid fucking camera angles that are all over the shop.

 

The best thing about it is the scenery, which I see every day but never tire of seeing it, the rest is dire, although I would be the music teachers special friend.

[chaseracer]

^ It also has Foxtrot Alpha to do with autism out in the real world.

[Parky]

^^^ seconded ^^^