The grumpy thread

[whitevanman]

The paint shop bloke gave me base coat instead of two pack. This is fine, but I don't know what the fuck to do with it - I prefer 2pk as cellulose just doesn't harden enough to me. He also offered no advice as he wanted to close the shop. I'd just spent 30 quid on a fucking tin!

paint car with base coat....apply clear coat on top when dry..........

[Mr Lobster]

Ipods. In Cars.Firstly, I like the idea of having iPod connectivity in my car. Seems a nice way to have loads of music.What I do not like was people such as the pork sword swallower in a Focus TDi driving through the roadworls around the M6 / M5 junction who was managing to 'drive' whilst for at the very least ten minutes hold his ipod in his right hand at roughly the level of the steering wheel whilst scrolling through his tracks.I mean FFS, any chance of paying attention to the road?

[Mr Lobster]

Next, fashion and the yoof of today.What the fook is with wearing your pants so they appear to be dropping off your arse.Spent the weekend at a big VW show and saw quite a few youngish lads wearing their jeans so that the top of their jeans was roughly located at the level of their arsehole.WTF!?! YOU LOOK FUCKING STUPID.I mean really, does nobody have fucking mirrors in their houses anymore or someone to point and laugh at them and tell them they look utterly ridiculous.

[Des]

If the most extreme stupidity encountered at a VW show is little twats being all 'gangsta innit' then things aren't looking too bad. It's nice of dickheads to don these idiot uniforms, saves us wasting time taking them seriously.

I think it's something that's always happened, but has increased due to there being more idiots, and unregulated since bullying got eradicated.

[Richard]

What the fook is with wearing your pants so they appear to be dropping off your arse.

I believe it's to emulate the look of somebody who has been arrested and had their belt confiscated before spending the night in the cells.

[Lankytim]

What the fook is with wearing your pants so they appear to be dropping off your arse.

I believe it's to emulate the look of somebody who has been arrested and had their belt confiscated before spending the night in the cells.

True, also the reason they dont have any laces in their trainers. Although I think that particular fashion has now passed.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

The latest addition to the Twat uniform is the Twat Hat. It's actually called a Slouch Beanie and it's that stupid woolly hat where the extra long bit droops off the back like a fucking Smurf hat. It's sort of based on the hats Rastas wear - but Rastas actually have sum-ting to put in there, i.e natty dreads.But, if dumb kids want to look like wankers, it gives me something to laugh at.

[Mr Lobster]

I believe it's to emulate the look of somebody who has been arrested and had their belt confiscated before spending the night in the cells.

What next? Walking around limping and a bit bandy legged to emulate the just dropped the soap in the prison shower and been buggered by big Larry look?In know it makes me sound old, but sometimes I despair. I really fucking do.

[Milford Cubicle]

What the fook is with wearing your pants so they appear to be dropping off your arse.

I believe it's to emulate the look of somebody who has been arrested and had their belt confiscated before spending the night in the cells.

True, also the reason they dont have any laces in their trainers. Although I think that particular fashion has now passed.

[Guest]

Bloody kids, with their stupid back-to-front clothes.

 

[shite_meister]

Just happened to be looking at a link via another forum which took me to a site reviewing a used car garage, the stupidity of one of the customers who bought a car is laughable I mean this for example is from the same customer:

There were a few things wrong with it (but having a mechanic as a step father) he spotted all the faults and looked in all the nooks and crannies.

The front tires are meant to have a certain amount of air pressure (psi). In my car, the front wheel are meant to have 33 psi, and the rear wheels at 29 psi. The actually pressure in my front tires were 14 and 12 psi, and in the rear was 11 and 8 psi!!!!!!!!! If I had gone round a round-about too quickly, the whole thing would have come apart and killed me.Later, I was looking through the forms and I had signed a form which terry gave to me stating that I would be paying back 37.4% interest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I couldn’t believe it. My parents and I were straight on the phone, and they said that it is a legal documents and all that junk. I felt so betrayed. This was my first car and they totally took advantage.

I despair I really do how exactly did you feel betrayed? betrayed by your simple pea-like brain for not having enough intelligence to actually read what you were signing? good I hope you get seriously bum-raped by a bailiff maybe he'll pump some sense into you then maybe just maybe you will learn to actually think.

[Mr Lobster]

An awful lot of people sign finance documents without actually looking at them and only look at how much they are paying every week rather than what % they pay. Then get upset when they work it out sometime later.Their own fault really. Should have looked at that in the first place.

[MrDuke]

I have actually been provoked to the point of blind rage by 1, someone (helpfully) telling me that I've got my laces dragging, closely followed by 2, a passing middle-aged opinionated wanker making a smart-arse comment about "the youth having their laces undone, it's the fashion you know..." - I only just stopped myself pushing their glasses through their eyeballs. I wouldn't have minded, but I had already said goodbye to my twenties, and was a more useful member of society than they would ever be (and probably had ever been)

[Guest]

I like to see people being bummed on HP arrangements because they were in such a hurry to get something. With all this demand for everything to be as easy/convenient as possible it's like an invitation for this sort of person who must have everything RIGHT NOW to have their money taken off them.

 

Suits me, they have to repay their debt to society somehow.

[outlaw118]

My stupid asthmatic POS works van went for it's MoT today; passed, with an advisory on the o/s/f tyre. bah!! Not condemned yet then!! While I was at the depot, I got our works mechanic to investigate a metallic rattling noise from underneath. I predicted an exhaust heat-shield come loose.Nope.It's the innards (baffles?) of the silencer box, just before the cat. A simple job, you might think.Again, no.The exhaust is all in one piece, from where the manifold joins the downpipe, all the way through. Another cunning plan from Citroen to screw a few more quid out of people.I mean, I don't give a fuck, I'm not paying for it directly, but it means I'll be off the road again shortly while it gets sorted, and ultimately the cost comes out of my departments budgets, so when that runs out, that means no more overtime etc.All because certain french people thought it would be funny to build their vans this way.Twats.

[Rusty Pelican]

Didnt Renault do this one piece exhaust thing on something , First time theres any problems you have to replace the whole thing , maybe even cut the thing up to get it out , Megane / Laguna

[Father Ted]

Taking the lad to London in a few weeks arriving at Euston just after 8am and am having a nosebleed trying to work out an itinary that includes big ben (he is clock mad) Trafalgar, the changing of the guard, Harrods & the science museum and back to Euston for 5pm....Is TFL normally this bloody complex? Oyster cards? WTF???

[Mr H Sceptre]

Taking the lad to London in a few weeks arriving at Euston just after 8am and am having a nosebleed trying to work out an itinary that includes big ben (he is clock mad) Trafalgar, the changing of the guard, Harrods & the science museum and back to Euston for 5pm....Is TFL normally this bloody complex? Oyster cards? WTF???

You'll squeeze all that in, no problem. Be aware that the changing of the guard is every other day before May:http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/default.asp?action=article&ID=492

[seth]

Harrods is just a big shop. Take him to the local Spar instead.Science museum has a big clock/watch collection. British museum watch/clock rooms have been totally re-done and re-opened last year. Probably a little less there compared to the Science museum but so much better displayed. Also not too far from Euston. But I guess you want to go and see the Hino Contessa at the Science Museum anyway What you need is Hirst Cabs Southern (Seth) dept.

[Mr H Sceptre]

Yeah, sack off Harrods, its gay.

[meggersdog]

Well Father Ted you better hope it's not like this when you go

[shite_meister]

My stupid asthmatic POS works van went for it's MoT today; passed, with an advisory on the o/s/f tyre. bah!! Not condemned yet then!! While I was at the depot, I got our works mechanic to investigate a metallic rattling noise from underneath. I predicted an exhaust heat-shield come loose.Nope.It's the innards (baffles?) of the silencer box, just before the cat. A simple job, you might think.Again, no.The exhaust is all in one piece, from where the manifold joins the downpipe, all the way through. Another cunning plan from Citroen to screw a few more quid out of people.I mean, I don't give a fuck, I'm not paying for it directly, but it means I'll be off the road again shortly while it gets sorted, and ultimately the cost comes out of my departments budgets, so when that runs out, that means no more overtime etc.All because certain french people thought it would be funny to build their vans this way.Twats.

Often you'll find manufacturers fit a one or two piece system from new but you can buy the individual replacement sections and the grease monkey just chops out the bit he needs to replace. Alot of Fiat commercials are like that.

[barrett]

I just dropped an olive, or something, off the slice of pizza I was eating. And now I cant find it. I really want it too. Probably an olive. might be a bit of tomato. I'd eat it if I could find it and let you know. I think it's an olive.not too grumpy at the moment, thats pretty much the worse thing that has happened all week.

[Mr H Sceptre]

I just dropped an olive, or something, off the slice of pizza I was eating. And now I cant find it. I really want it too. Probably an olive. might be a bit of tomato. I'd eat it if I could find it and let you know. I think it's an olive.not too grumpy at the moment, thats pretty much the worse thing that has happened all week.

Well, it would be helpful if you knew if it was an olive or a bit of tomato, as an olive, in all probability, may have strayed further than a bit of tomato.What topping have you got on your pizza?

[Minimad5]

LONDON !Well no actually it wasn't too bad, but it was spoiled by a certain "companion"Well anyway ... IT'S FECKIN FANTASTIC TO BE BACK !

[whiskeyonesix]

I'm grumpy now...Trying to trace a coolant leak on the Volvo 360 earlier....and due to the ingenious design of the thing, admitted defeat and took it round the corner to the Volvo specialist who admitted they couldn't find the leak either "but bring it back monday, we'll go over it properly - but a new radiator is likely to cost 250 dollars, and since its such a Big Job to change it ( bumper + grille off ) we'll charge you another 500 on top".. 750 Bucks (about 450quid)! SOD THAT!!! I'll have the front off the swine tomorrow and have a go myself, gotta be cheaper then 500 big ones....

[Station]

Warnings on cigarette packets - including a picture of a man with what looks like throat cancer (which has been left beyond the attention of a doctor), and someone's minging teeth. Also a set of lungs - one non-smoker, the other a 1000 cigs a day person who worked in a place where they tested the affects of asbestos and burning rubber on a human being.I reckon there should be warnings on sweets and fast food. If they can put something this patronising on ciggies, it should be the same on eveything else. I hate smoking, having just recently started up again, but not sure what the people who do this are trying to achieve, ie putting the absolute worst case scenario images on ciggies.

[retrogeezer]

fucking norovirus - again.I've just had a week under the weather with a shitty throat infection and get up today only to lose my innards to the toilet bowl - more than once.And it's sunny out, and I want to do stuff...I just know that when I feel better it will be pissing down with rain.

[Captain Mainwaring]

Ford Transit Connects.They really are held together with Sellotape and staples.

[Cavcraft]

Once again fucking Mongdeo owners.How many bastarding times do I have to state 'no absolutely NO Mondeos' and yet I get offered two in the sapce of twelve fucking hours? Best of all they were both fucking V6 ones. I'd rather power sand my teeth clean than have one of those.Are 98% Mondeo owners complete fucking dickheads because I'm really starting to think that way?