The grumpy thread

[chaseracer]

Are they decent?  That's 85quid each, and an awayday to the People's Republic of South Yorkshire.  Sounds all right to me.

 

There are shiters who travel from Scotland to the Midlands for a day out.  And vice versa...

[bub2006]

Bren are you going shitefest??

[bub2006]

If so send me details and I'll fetch them and transport them down. I only live 35 mile from Sheffield.

[strangeangel]

If so send me details and I'll fetch them and transport them down. I only live 35 mile from Sheffield.

 

I'm even nearer than bub and also going to SF... let us know.

[bub2006]

Autoshite always comes through.

[Cavcraft]

You can't take these flip-flopped, beer gutted, George cargo shorts and 'humorous' tshirt wearing, Stella guzzling muthafuckaz anywhere can you? Such a disappointment and embarrassment (the fans not the team). Fuck off and die.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36504410

The trouble is people don't always see the bigger picture when the gutter press (ie all of them) are involved. England fans get pissed, have a laugh and are generally good natured. Other people (including in the past the press themselves) then instigate trouble with the English fans, it all goes off and the English get the blame for the lot. I'm not saying everyone is an angel, but if people are having a few pints with their mates and they get bombarded with bricks and bottles and attacked by people with weapons, most of them are going to react.

[Mr Lobster]

 

That's the rub for me.  I probably could make more money if I just catered to the boring shit like Ford Escorts and Muhguhbuhs and Campervans and Minis but then I'd have to put up with the knuckledraggers and flatcaps that go along with that and I think I'd rather scoop my own eyes out with blunt sporks.  I went into this to get away from all that mind-numbing normality and do something interesting and rewarding with my life but I know that's not the most commercially sensible approach.

 

 

As others have said, the VW scene is very popular and I reckon you could do quite well with a stand at a VW show - we do a fair number and do pretty happily out of them.

 

Don't just do Beetles and Campers though - if you can turn up to a show and have a selection of stuff - T25s, T5, Golfs, Polos etc etc etc then you could earn decent money and also look on it as an opportunity to take commissions for one offs etc.

 

However, one word of warning on doing generic car images - VW in particular (although the same applies to most marques to a greater or lesser extent) are very protective and litigious over who sells what with their cars on. There was an instance about three years back where a couple of VWs legal people went around a show handing out legal letters to anyone selling unlicensed products.  Its not likely to be an issue for you in reality but is worth bearing in mind all the same.

[Mr Lobster]

I am considering buying a commercial unit to keep all my shite in and work on it but I can't find any websites that seem to sell this sort of stuff to see if its doable as I have literally NO idea how much stuff like this costs.

 

I am looking or an industrial unit or workshop with room for storage but every website I visit is just trying to sell me a fucking business. Where can you view shizzle like this and see how much they go for?

 

http://www.movehut.co.uk/ any good?

 

We've been half looking at new units, saw some nice new build units just outside Preston (so not ideal for you or even me really) but at £70k seemed a decent buy both for business and longer term investment purposes.

[quicksilver]

The Queen's Birthday Honours. Ant and Dec have got OBEs for services to broadcasting and entertainment. Ant and fucking Dec!

[cobblers]

Helped my best mate move house yesterday. The house he's moved into has been unoccupied for months cos the woman moved in with her feller. They'd know the moving date for weeks and had been on and on at my mate to try and hurry stuff along.

 

So by about lunchtime funds clear etc and we're expecting to pick the keys up and get moved in, but this useless cow who owned the house was still moving her stuff out at 4:30PM.

 

As we're moving stuff in she's got fucking electricians turning up to take down wanky £30 Argos chandeliers and people off gumtree coming at 6pm to collect furniture that she can't be arsed to shift herself. 

 

By 11PM we gave up and he's still got the van parked outside full of his furniture.

[dollywobbler]

To be fair, whenever we've moved house, it has been a complete fiasco - completely down to us and our remarkable failure to plan ahead. Like when we moved here, and realised that 70% of our stuff had not been packed. Fortunately, we hadn't actually sold the house when we left, so there was no pressure to get out immediately. Which is good, because it took us about another week...

[oldcars]

The Queen's Birthday Honours. Ant and Dec have got OBEs for services to broadcasting and entertainment. Ant and fucking Dec!

I agree with that. They give me great entertainment. When their on tv the wife watches it, i go and fix the car or wash it. Good for me

[STUNO]

Just doing the house move thing myself, hopefully for the last time ever ! Settlement day was Friday. On Thursday the selling agent and I went to the new house and checked it over. If the house is not cleared out and all the buyers agreed requirements met the sale is not completed until done. In simple language the seller does not get paid. That was reported as done to the Lawyer at about 3pm and keys were delivered at 10 am on Friday. Now the work starts...

[billyboy406v6]

Went to the library yesterday and as the librarian scanned my new books out she pointed out that my status had changed ! She explained that because I turned 60 last week I get a reduction in any fines I may incur ! Comes in really useful. NOT !

[EssDeeWon]

People driving around using mobile phones.

 

People coming over on to MY side of the road when there is an obstruction on THEIR side, they breeze through while I am forced to brake and avoid them and the curb. 

 

I can only put it down to so many company car drivers who simply don't give a toss about the ramifications of having an accident.

[AMC Rebel]

I would like to kill the bastard that packed these -

 

 

 

Identical boxes, far from identical contents - Cock!

[Timewaster]

I'm never helping anyone move house again.

It is always a balls up.

 

The last time was a panic phone call from a guy who's mates had all given up and fucked off home after 10 hours of graft in the rain and having only moved half the crap.

 

First job was trying to move a piss wet leather sofa that had been abandoned on the pavement and no one could get a grip on it to shift it.

 

I think it was about 4am by the time the house was clear.

 

The time before sounds like cobblers experiences.

Except when we got to the mates house to empty it, he was still a bed and hadn't packed a single thing.

 

In contrast,when I moved last there were 9 of us at one point and I ran out of things for them to carry.

Cost a fortune in the pub that night.

[holbeck]

^^^ Whenever you post something Nyphur, I hear the words in the voice of your avatar.

[myglaren]

Just been round to the house my daughter & son in law rent out.

 

 

Bloke let his van run into the wall.

5 police cars and numerous police there waiting for a structural engineer to assess the damage.

Family was out on the street until the place was declared safe, or otherwise.

Was intending servicing the C, rain put paid to that idea, just as well as I wouldn't have been able to go round.  They live forty miles away now, I'm only a couple of miles away.

A few years ago my youngest son was renting that house and the same happened with my C5 estate - killed it  No damage to the wall on that occasion, fortunately hit further over where it is stronger and didn't roll as far, lighter vehicle too.

That parking area is very steep and he hadn't engaged the handbrake fully.

 

Was just about to watch "Winter's Bone", bought around Christmas time.

Except it is in French, with French subtitles

[trigger]

What is it with football that brings all the prats out onto the streets?

[Tamworthbay]

It's the same tribal idiocy I keep seeing more and more of, I hate foreigners/ scots/ northerners/ people from the next town/ people from the next area/ people from the next street/ people from the next house mentality.

[dave21478]

Parents of small children - I am sure you think its super cute and hilarious to let your 3 year old answer the telephone but I really, really cant be fucked with enduring silence, giggling and the occasional "hewwo" shrieked at ear splitting volume down the phone. If I am phoning you its to ask you about something you have advertised for sale, not to play audio peek-a-boo with your offspring.

[taxi paul]

My daughter just rang to say a woman had revered into the front of her at ASDA . Lady gets out apologising and offers to pay for the damage. What's the bets when I get the car to body shop and get a price . The Lady* doesn't remember or is now convinced my daughter drove into her. I am sick of telling the kids to buy a dash cam and put it in the car. So she crap like this happens you can get it sorted without hassle. My mate was driving his 6 months old £15,000 car last week when a lady came round a parked car and my mate when onto the pavement and further onto a grass verge and the Muppet still managed to drive into the side of him. £5,000 bill and the insurance are saying 50/50 cos she Said that he drove into her and in the absence of any proof he's fooked. I remember him telling me that my dashcam was a waste of money !

[dave21478]

Parents of small children - I am sure you think its super cute and hilarious to let your 3 year old answer the telephone but I really, really cant be fucked with enduring silence, giggling and the occasional "hewwo" shrieked at ear splitting volume down the phone. If I am phoning you its to ask you about something you have advertised for sale, not to play audio peek-a-boo with your offspring.

 

In fact, that reminds me of my customer service days when I wished for an invention that would send an electric shock down the phone line at the push of a button....not enough to cause real harm to the person on the other end, just the equivelant of a remotely sent slap in the face.

[Timewaster]

^^ If I had been cleverer I would have made a fortune inventing a device that keeps the phone line open for an extra 10 seconds after they other person hangs up so you get to hear the real end of the conversation.

 

"Thank you for calling ACME is there anything else I can help you with today Sir?"

 

"no that's it thanks"

 

"you're very welcome Sir, enjoy your evening. Thank you Good bye........

 

TWAT!

Fuckin customers want the moon on a stick. Tossers. "

 

"Good evening ACME my name is Giles how may I help?"....

[Tamworthbay]

Trooping the colour and that tarts 90th, I wonder who is paying? Someone who has never worked a day in their life but somehow has millions or the poor old taxpayer again, yup you guessed it...........

[Wilko220]

I think the soldiers would be getting their wages anyway.

[strangeangel]

It's the same tribal idiocy I keep seeing more and more of, I hate foreigners/ scots/ northerners/ people from the next town/ people from the next area/ people from the next street/ people from the next house mentality.

 

It's only Eng-er-land fans who want to fight everybody though. The rest of us get on just fine.

[gordonbennet]

People driving around using mobile phones.

 

People coming over on to MY side of the road when there is an obstruction on THEIR side, they breeze through while I am forced to brake and avoid them and the curb. 

 

I can only put it down to so many company car drivers who simply don't give a toss about the ramifications of having an accident.

 

People don't buy cars any more they buy image, or they want the best image per BLT PMT or whatever it is thats a tax on the company car perk.

 

So the car has to be the right one with the right badge and it has to be fuckin humungus to impress the office/other twats/neighbours/fiends/gold club, and if one has recently had one small child it must be something the size of a Humvee.

Trouble is most of these groups can't actually competently drive anything bigger than a Micra unless they're sitting in the outside lane of a motorway.

 

Hence the trouble you and the rest of us are having.

 

Fuckin beats me how i can negotiate most normal roundabouts with lane control in me artic tanker and stay in lane, yet there doesn't appear to be a single Aldi that can keep in its own lane on the same junction, presumably 30cwt Aldi will bash 44 tonner out the way.

[Tamworthbay]

It's only Eng-er-land fans who want to fight everybody though. The rest of us get on just fine.

I saw the Netherlnds play Germany when I lived over there, the Dutch have very good reason to hate the Germans if they chose to and whilst there is a lot of rivalry it was a very friendly atmosphere in the main square in Rotterdam after the game. I really don't understand the different is to be hated mentality of some English people that follow the football. You don't get it with rugby or cricket or almost any other sport in fact.