The grumpy thread

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I think it's a Volvo 850 thing.

When I bought one (K plate 2.0 litre manual SE saloon) for Mrs N in about 1999, my oldest who was 11 at the time, actually cried when she saw it.

I'd gone to look at an e34 525 and she'd told her friends at school that her mum was getting a BMW ,apparently .

Ironically since a couple of weeks ago she's driving an e34 520i and loves the fact it costs less than her mates pay each month for Binis

[dave21478]

Just back from Bulgaria, a third world country in some peoples eyes.

It's like the UK was back in the late 70s/early 80's when people actually gave a shit about neighbours and fellow village dwellers

Shit,some still use donkeys and carts to get around (makes for interesting motorway traffic)

So how come I can get through their immigration/passport control and be out the terminal in less than 15mins,and Luton bastard airport leaves us cooking in a plane for half an hour with the doors shut...then another 90mins getting through passport control.........'cos their fancy wanky E-passport scanner thing has gone tits up and fecked Everything with it.......

And don't ask about the outward flight

Never used Luton before and will never use it again

Absolute shit hole......

 

Fuck Luton airport.

 

I ate a burger there once while waiting 5 hours for a connecting flight and I got the shits so bad I nearly died.

[Richard]

[Brodders]

I think it's a Volvo 850 thing.

When I bought one (K plate 2.0 litre manual SE saloon) for Mrs N in about 1999, my oldest who was 11 at the time, actually cried when she saw it.

I'd gone to look at an e34 525 and she'd told her friends at school that her mum was getting a BMW ,apparently .

I did the same, I told my friends that my dad was probably going to get a diesel 3 series for his next car, but then he went out and bought an Omega 3.2.

 

However, that was what I wanted to happen, so I didn't cry.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Luton Airport is absolutely shit. I've actually stopped taking jobs for Luton even though, in theory, they should my most profitable . It's only 22 miles from me and I charge £45, compared to £75 for the 60 miles to Heathrow. The problem is that with traffic getting into and out of the pick up area and the 60 minutes minimum it takes to clear immigration it's just not worth it, ( especially if I can sub it out and make a fiver!)

[DeeJay]

Compilation of 70's adverts, 5. 32mins in BL advert. Mini and TR7 sharing same number plate?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBPPKxaCSbg

 

(Not really a grump just linked from Richards vid).

[Eddie Honda]

^^^^ I see Alex "Taggart" Norton @12:55

[AlabamaShrimp]

^^^was there a murder?

[dave21478]

Today, in episode 74 of "Dave moans about the weather" ....... muthafukkin heatwave. Literally too hot to go outside.

 

 

 

[Lord Sterling]

Compilation of 70's adverts, 5. 32mins in BL advert. Mini and TR7 sharing same number plate?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBPPKxaCSbg

 

(Not really a grump just linked from Richards vid).

The Mini is LOK596P and the TR7 is LOK569P, I thought the same at first.

 

Both cars would be covered with Supercover aswell.

 

Leyland Cars

Great cars and a great deal more...

[michael1703]

I get moaned at for spending money on cars but it's not like I'm buying anything outrageous, just stuff that keeps them going.

 

My wife owns an ex pbk VW beetle, she never gives me any time to do any work on it, I bought a thermostat and housing in January when she complained about the heating but it's never available long enough to fit it.

 

So yesterday she rang me up from Manchester,she'd driven up to visit her sister and told me the cars running on 2 cylinders, she'll ring AA on Sunday morning, I told her to go to a small independent garage and get the codes read, she replied with OMG SPENDING MONEY,WE NEED SPENDING MONEY FOR THE HOLIDAY Etc etc.

 

I said find a garage like me that will read the codes and not want anything for it, she found such a garage, he spent half hour on it and took two plugs out to find they were black and advised her to "get the car serviced"

 

What a muppet

[EssDeeWon]

Managed to wack the underside of the Rover on some uneven road last night. I didn't see the huge canyon in the road until it was too late and I heard this 'THUD' but it seems to have taken it ok.  Certainly the sump is fairly raised on these cars so it must have caught part of the subframe (is that even the name for it)  which is the lowest point at the front from what I can see.  Still not pleased though!!!

[Eddie Honda]

but it's never available long enough to fit it.

I have the same issue. I've a inlet gasket sitting in the car since well before Christmas (valve clearances to check/adjust) and a towbar in the shed since New Year and both haven't been done.

 

The only time it is available long enough is when it's pissing down outside.

[cort16]

I'm attempting to build some decking out the back of the house but am constantly being scuppered by the shite weather.

Today I looked outside, it looked okay. I got the extension reel out and all the saws. I got my measuring tape out for the first cut and... starts pishing down. Fucking bollocks.

[Richard]

Same here, just got started on a job on the car and it started pissing down. I'm sure it never used to be like that, not all the time anyway.

 

 

The grass will be waist high by the time I manage to cut it.

[cort16]

I actually had to strim the front garden yesterday. The grass is too wet to cut but some of the weeds where about 2 ft tall.

[MarvinsMom]

been to the LNER shed bash event at Locomotion in Shildon.

 

Flying Scotsman, Union of South Africa, Joem, Green Arrow and Deltic KOYLI..... whats not to like?

 

well no parking at the museum, except for blue badge holders, we were lucky as we went with the FiL who isn't too great on his feet and has a blue badge. the other plebs are all shunted off to Hardwick Park in Sedgefield, and then gauged for £10 to park their car, and stung again at £3 each to get a bus to Shildon..... (so we were told by one of the traders at Locomotion who we are friendly with)

 

fuckin' Durham council, way to go at shamelessly rapin' money out of folks.

 

bastards.

[richardmorris]

M3. For the third time this week the m3 had been fucked up. I don't even have to use it, but alll the traffic that does then hits the local roads and they come to a complete grinding halt.

[Eddie Honda]

Spent the afternoon doing some satellite box retuning - finally compelled to do so because of disappearance of CBeebies due to BBC Red Button Olympics sprawl.

[beko1987]

How would I go about finding who was a manager of a shop back in the mid 80s? The shops still going...

[Tamworthbay]

How would I go about finding who was a manager of a shop back in the mid 80s? The shops still going...

ask them?

[beko1987]

I asked them on facebook and they would not divulge. Sadly its a sad matter that I have to ask the guy about (and one that I'll probably end up smashing his face in for if he's not dead), so possibly best that I can't, I just want to vent really...

[Tamworthbay]

What's he done if it's not rude to ask.......

[Sheefag]

I've got a feeling it may be best not to.

[MarvinsMom]

I've got a feeling it may be best not to.

why not try The Jeremy Kyle Show?

[beko1987]

He is apparently the reason my mums a bit fucked up in the head. The therapy is bringing it out if her, but there's still more she hasn't told me apparently. Id imagine he's dead now, but I'd like to meet him... My dad's got some explaining to do as well if I ever pluck up the courage to ask him, but don't want to yet anyway as mum did ask me not to say anything to anyone, which is mainly why I'm venting on here!

 

Just polished a dyson though, so feeling a bit calmer now!

[M'coli]

It sounds like your mum doesn't want to be judged as to what went on, but she's not the one at fault.

 

There has to be a way of asking your dad that is so ambiguous that it doesn't break any promises you've made - I'd try to find out how you manage to do that.

 

Ask around, as to who worked there in the 80s, then ask them who the manager was.

[Noel Tidybeard]

get the whole story before going off half cocked perhaps?

[Sheefag]

Just polished a dyson though, so feeling a bit calmer now!

 

A vacuum euphemism eh?

[robinmasters]

Women's hormones.