The grumpy thread

[Pete-M]

A Costco car park was the very first place I a: copped off and b: did a donut in a RWD car.

Piazza? Peterborough?

 

Congratulations!

[DeeJay]

Just to appease you miserable bastards, I DIDN'T go to Daddyhole today. I went...elsewhere, which is now a secret 'cos you lousy sods will take the pee out of this places name as well!

Up the back passage?

[loserone]

Some eejit drove the PRI-DAH all the way up to Scary's Yard from Newburn with not enough water in and melted the water pump seal.

 

Oh, yeah.  That was me.

 

Still, it'll be something to be proud soon.  Right?

[fordperv]

Just to appease you miserable bastards, I DIDN'T go to Daddyhole today. I went...elsewhere, which is now a secret 'cos you lousy sods will take the pee out of this places name as well!

Come on please share the name

[fordperv]

The saphs speedo needle started bouncing like a 90s raver and traced it to the speedo head, I've changed it for one I bought off ebay and the needle bounces, not as bad as the one I removed but it's still annoying, i oiled the mechanism and it went smooth with no bounce, great I thought left it a few hours and it bounces again grrr

[Tamworthbay]

The saphs speedo needle started bouncing like a 90s raver and traced it to the speedo head, I've changed it for one I bought off ebay and the needle bounces, not as bad as the one I removed but it's still annoying, i oiled the mechanism and it went smooth with no bounce, great I thought left it a few hours and it bounces again grrr

Not sure if it's the same on those but when that happened on my old Orion it was because the gearbox bearings were borked. It had done 160000 miles at that point though.

[anonymous user]

Just to appease you miserable bastards, I DIDN'T go to Daddyhole today. I went...elsewhere, which is now a secret 'cos you lousy sods will take the pee out of this places name as well!

Knob's End?

[Parky]

There is a guy parked outside my house on a quiet residential street in a BMW. Windows open and he is asleep. WTF?

[BavarianRetro]

Sorry. Am I disturbing you? Surely better I have a quick forty winks/power nap here than fall asleep at the wheel? I'll only be 25 mins tops and then I'll be right to drive for a few hours again.

[fordperv]

Not sure if it's the same on those but when that happened on my old Orion it was because the gearbox bearings were borked. It had done 160000 miles at that point though.

Nah not the same on these luckily

[Parky]

Totally get that but it seems like a pretty random place to stop. To drive four miles from the main roads and end up here. He is awake and playing with his phone now. He has also parked in such a way as to obstruct a driveway and the road itself (lots of people "beeping" him as they move past because he has parked in just about the worst place possible down here - I can't park outside my house because of where he is).

 

Probably innocent, probably waiting for his wife or girlfriend to stop yakking to one of her friends in one of the other houses. Probably not an assassin or drug dealer or downloading porn by hijacking my router....

[Parky]

He's gone. Bloke walks up, passes something through the window and immediately walks away. BMW man leaves.

 

Probably nothing dodgy......

[richardmorris]

Drugs. Russian mob. Mi6.

 

Sorry, reading "a very expensive poison" at the moment. Which is gripping if disturbing.

[dave21478]

I have toothache which refuses to go away so I might have to admit defeat and go to the dentist. Its been 23 years since I last went, which is not bad going.

[Parky]

Drugs. Russian mob. Mi6.

Sorry, reading "a very expensive poison" at the moment. Which is gripping if disturbing.

Actually for all I know it could have been a 1970 Land Rover VIN plate destined for a 59 plate Range Rover Sport...

[michael1703]

X men apocalypse

 

I'm not sad enough to ever watch a sci Fi film, but I wouldn't need to with the constant adverts on the radio and trailers and promo on television

 

I've seen and heard snippets of the poxy thing 20times a day

[fordperv]

The saphs speedo needle started bouncing like a 90s raver and traced it to the speedo head, I've changed it for one I bought off ebay and the needle bounces, not as bad as the one I removed but it's still annoying, i oiled the mechanism and it went smooth with no bounce, great I thought left it a few hours and it bounces again grrr

Well I've just got annoyed by the thought of the bloody thing not being right, so stripped it all down taking the speedo from the clocks so I could have a look at the mechanism, i checked and nothing looked wrong and put only the speedo in with the cable in the back, it turns out for some reason the inner cable wasn't locating in the speedo head properly and when the outer clipped over caused it to interfere causing the inner to snag, i wouldnt have noticed if I hadn't have taken it to bits because the clock binnacle almost fills the remaining space, it's very tight to get your hands in to put the cable to the clocks. It's not bouncing now so we shall see

[gm]

measure twice, cut once - you ARSEHOLE !

 

[BavarianRetro]

He's gone. Bloke walks up, passes something through the window and immediately walks away. BMW man leaves.

 

Probably nothing dodgy......

Ahh. It wasn't me. I'm still there.

[jakebullet]

Ma is having a mega flid out and doing my head in. She has an S3 phone, but it has additional software on it to make it blind old bat friendly.

 

This afternoon she's trying to send a text and it says "internet connection problem". giz it here, there you're connected to the house wifi again and it now works.

 

Tonight she appears with phone in hand, and it's really broken now. When you tap the speech recognition button to compose a text it says "sorry unable to understand" immediately. Thought in my mind is some module it uses has got upgraded in the background and broke it. Phone the supplier in the morning and they will tell you how to sort it.

 

Crazy woman would much prefer to go white as a sheet n collapse a bit, then sweat like a 70's tv personality who hasn't has their collar felt yet. She then starts doing pointless things like reading the S3 quick start guide, writing down that it wasn't connected to the internet this afternoon, mumbling about it cost £500 etc. Also I'm the most useless son ever because I can't instantly fix it.

[dave21478]

measure twice, cut once - you ARSEHOLE !

 

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Story of my life. I fuck up like this on a daily basis. Im probably not concentrating hard enough.

 

 

Longer hose tails are easy enough to get, alternatively put an in-line isolation valve on each one which will make up the missing length and simplify future tap changes when the chinese made shit inevitably shits itself in 8 months.

[gm]

I had a bit of spare pipe so managed to sort it out eventually, lucky I don't charge by the hour

[xtriple]

Finally managed to wax the bonnet and boot/bumpers and did, I must say, a truly shit job! But, while doing it, found a fucking great scratch on the bonnet, nowhere that it could be accidental.... ho hum.

 

Also went to the vets to get Phoebe her months supply of drugs and came out £134 lighter!

[AlsoMike]

Neighbour woke me at 1:30am last night playing stampy/shouty/full volume guitar, I went round to nicely ask him to shut up, and may or may not have lost my cool a little... I've not decked him or owt, but despite this being probably the 5th time I've knocked in the last 2 months he doesn't think he's doing anything wrong (see previous post about shouting/screaming/banging/drumming/winding the dog up so its barks incessantly at 12/1/2am). In fact he thinks he's 'trying to be a good neighbour', so now I am fully expecting him to take the piss and be noisy as feck regularly. yeah, he's that sort. Joys.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Have a piss through his letterbox when he's out

[strangeangel]

Neighbour woke me at 1:30am last night playing stampy/shouty/full volume guitar, I went round to nicely ask him to shut up, and may or may not have lost my cool a little... I've not decked him or owt, but despite this being probably the 5th time I've knocked in the last 2 months he doesn't think he's doing anything wrong (see previous post about shouting/screaming/banging/drumming/winding the dog up so its barks incessantly at 12/1/2am). In fact he thinks he's 'trying to be a good neighbour', so now I am fully expecting him to take the piss and be noisy as feck regularly. yeah, he's that sort. Joys.

Keep a diary, make recordings and involve your local council's 'noise police'. Some do take this seriously, Leeds certainly did when I lived there and had problems with a pack of ferals in the next street (yep, that loud) having endless three-day benders in their garden, drunken domestics at 3am etc. They were threatened with court and subsequent eviction if they didn't STFU, which - happily - they did.

 

Failing that, Mr Bo11's advice FTW.

[ruffgeezer]

Piss Frisbees are better.

[Brodders]

Piss Frisbees are better.

What is a "Piss Frisbee"? Just for future reference.

[dugong]

Piazza? Peterborough?

 

Congratulations!

LOL.

 

318is, Trafford Park.

[richbraith]

I have to start work at 2.15pm on a Friday.