The grumpy thread

[Rusty Pelican]

Phoned my insurace company to cancel the insurance on the Ashtray and fire up a new one on the Beemer.3/4 OF AN HOUR ON THE PHONE Can i cancel the Astras insurance and start another one with a new carPlease hold whilst we check your details Endless legal waffle about what you say as being trufull Please hold whilst i cancel it for you Whats the new cars make etcPlease hold whilst we check the cars details Do you have any convictions , loss of limbs etcNo , you got all my details , nothings changed except the cars Have to go though it all again anywayYou want the beemer on Classic insurancePlease hold whilst we transfer you to that departmentAll the legal stuff / health stuff again All the driving convictions again Is the car modded in any way , where do you keep it , are you going to race it , blah , blah , blah Please hold whilst we get a quote for you Quote given , its OKPlease hold whilst we set this up for youPlease hold whilst the payment goes though More legal shit about giving the wrong info Whens your house insurance due By this time id lost the will to live , was bursting for a piss , my tea was cold and my arm ached from holding the phoneFFS , What a load of bollocks , bollocks on a peak rate call as they only open 9 to 5 Monday to Friday Piss is well and truely boiled

[Station]

A constant pissy stream of talent free black lads rapping about having loads of money while killing people over a tune I could knock up in 15 minutes.

[chester drawers]

^ Steven Wells reviews N-Dubz latest offerings from beyond the grave

[CortinaDave]

Not being able to get anything done because mother nature has forgotten its supposed to be spring and given us January weather. Been stinking gale force winds and rain all day, Just been out to the garage to get milk and now we have a blizzard. FFS!

 

[Guest]

Is it becoming this bad in the UK too?But there are more people living in the UK, so there are more people like the ones on OJC.com. In Austria, you would have an OJC.at-forum with 4 members, I guess.

Lukas, this type of German car prejudice is everywhere in the UK. In car terms, in my office, you've only made it if you've got a an Audi. One of our directors has a Lancia Aurelia B20 Coupe* and when he turned up one day in it no one paid it a blind bit of notice because Lee on Claims had just appeared in his 1.6S Audi A3 on tick. When I suggested that perhaps the Aurelia had somewhat more of a pedigree than a shagged Golf in a frock, people looked at me like I'd crapped in the photocopier.Their reason? ''S old and Italian innit? Piece of shit. Who's ever heard of Lancia anyway?'The same office drones are stunned when I tell them that VW never end up much better than Ford in the reliability surveys JD Power et al do every year (so average) and that Golfs and the like are massively overpriced for what they are and nothing special.The myth that VWs are a cut above was started with the Mk 2, and Golfs have steadily got worse ever since. A colleague has a P reg Mk 3 which has galloping rot on all of the panels 'because it was left outside' and eats fuel pumps for fun. I will be genuinely intrigued when I finally try this Mk 5 Golf out, because there must be something in it - why else do they command such mental money?Oh wait, it's just effective advertising, and because they're a 'quality car'.The song remains the same.*The director with the Aurelia is actually a top bloke, and was asking people who the Amazon belonged to as I had it in that day. We got on quite well, although I haven't quite mustered up the guts to invite him to the Q Park yet........

[Guest]

On another note, pray silence for the utter mong in the Fiat Stilo who felt it his duty to stand on his horn because I didn't move away from a local [blind] junction at 2,000 mph. This particular junction is on a hill, and joins a higher priority road. Because of how tight it is, you have to do an over the shoulder 'lifesaver' jobbie, to avoid causing chaos on the road out of Hale. As opposed to just driving a large SUV whereby you move out regardless of what's coming on the main road, because you have electronic 4 wheel drive and total spec jizz proof leather seats. Or something.I digress. I was reluctant to so [to move off], YOU FUCKING CUMBURP, because of the massive shit off coach 0.5 metres away at that point in time, which I spotted heading in our direction. I may dislike my car but I have no desire to hoof it into the 301 from Bournemouth. Is that alright? Do you like driving down Altrincham Road at 15mph? I had my cruise control on. It won't hold any slower a speed than that, which is a shame. Doesn't bother me, I can finish off my conversation with Paul H and he does like a good chat.Fiat man seemed surprised that I gave him the wanker gesture as I peeled off for the main road. He beeped his horn again as I pulled off. Yes, well done mate, we've had that pathetic little peep before. If you felt like being the epic straight line hero you obviously are, being that you were tailgating me before I decided to slow down, why didn't you go round me? Oh right, yeah, you had a point to make. Indeed.Why couldn't you just have been swallowed?

[Rocket88]

Not being able to get anything done because mother nature has forgotten its supposed to be spring and given us January weather. Been stinking gale force winds and rain all day, Just been out to the garage to get milk and now we have a blizzard. FFS!

 

Brilliant photo, v.atmospheric!

[55bloke]

A constant pissy stream of talent free black lads rapping about having loads of money while killing people over a tune I could knock up in 15 minutes.

Oh YES!!! I thought it was just me being grumpy!! What a load of utter shite!! I can NOT understand why every one thinks Dizzee Rascal is so bloody brilliant, and to hear Jay Zee declaring himself to be "the new Sinatra" on that awful New York State Of Mind thing makes me choke on my coffee everytime! (Incidentally, imho, the Alecia keys version is pure gold, and just shows what real talent is!)

[whitevanman]

Snow......FUCK OFFlack of money.....FUCK OFFANYBODY that gets in my way when shopping/walking/ living.....FUCK OFF, there are other people you can walk slowly in front of who probably are too dense and stupid to be bothered by it....just not me..

[VWPowered]

impatience has got the better of me today, i want my car back now

[Angrydicky]

Not being able to get anything done because mother nature has forgotten its supposed to be spring and given us January weather. Been stinking gale force winds and rain all day, Just been out to the garage to get milk and now we have a blizzard. FFS!

 

What's the other shite in the background, looks like an early Honda Civic or something like that

[mk1_4dr]

Is it not a CarinaE hatch?

[CortinaDave]

Aye it's a Carina E... nothing exciting sadly!

[maxpower]

wtf is it with radio stations? do they only have one copy of "now thats what i call music" vol 10billion sat thru 4 different dj's and everyone of them plays the same shite!and dj baseman(capital fm) stfu!!! you rabble on about a load of shite..bad enough we have to hear the same fuckin songs time after time day after day all fuckin week long without you talking drivel UPDATE: radio has been binned

[FredTransit]

Try Absolute, used to be Virgin. None of the shite they play on Capital.

[Milford Cubicle]

My dentist plays the local radio station, I had two fillings done and they were less painful and uncomfortable than listening to trendy hackneyed music and the drivel about manbags and man flu the presenters were coming out with.I'm sure they'd switch it over to BBC Radio 3 or 4 if I asked nicely.

[whitevanman]

wtf is it with radio stations? do they only have one copy of "now thats what i call music" vol 10billion sat thru 4 different dj's and everyone of them plays the same shite!and dj baseman(capital fm) stfu!!! you rabble on about a load of shite..bad enough we have to hear the same fuckin songs time after time day after day all fuckin week long without you talking drivel UPDATE: radio has been binned

I'll leave it to CortinaDave to explain why that happens

[trigger]

I can't stand our local Heart station what with the crap they talking and mostly the advert, Fuckin gocompaire.com Grrr...

[55bloke]

Try Absolute, used to be Virgin. None of the shite they play on Capital.

I second that. They have an excellent policy of not repeating any tracks between 10:00 and 17:00.

[CortinaDave]

I can't be arsed explaining it again, this subject comes up on this thread almost as often as scrappage rants!

[whitevanman]

I can't be arsed explaining it again, this subject comes up on this thread almost as often as scrappage rants!

[Milford Cubicle]

Don't turn into the fiatdaft of local radio stations.

[Richard]

Try Absolute, used to be Virgin. None of the shite they play on Capital.

Fucking what? The DAB radio in my van came with Virgin/Absolute as one of the presets and it was unlistenable. The only reason they don't repeat the same records is because there isn't time between the adverts and the sub-Steve Wright "banter".

[CortinaDave]

I know, but its like bloody groundhog day!

 

heres the link back for the explaination of why local radio plays what it plays from one of the (many) times it has come up before

 

http://autoshite.commlm/forum/viewtopic.ph ... start=2400

[Milford Cubicle]

Aye I remember you posting that, it's a shame you have to appeal to idiot zombie pig people to survive.

[meggersdog]

Ebay tossers (again)Two weeks ago I list an old 3 series for spares or repair.It's got 17" M3 alloys and other assorted bolt on M3 bits but only two weeks tax and test.Listed it with all it's faults (quite a few) buy it now 325 clams.Sold within minutes I send the buyer an invoice and he's straight on the phone "when can I collect" whenever you like came the reply.So HE arranges a time,Sunday afternoon, then disappears into cyberspace.Late Sunday afternoon I phone him back.Oh no answer so I phone again an hour later.Oh no answer again.Right then let's phone the number on his buyer details."who ? never heard of him.Ebay eh,well you the fourth person this month" Hmm so false details then.After sticking this tosser in my blocked bidder list I inform ebay.A reply of "we'll look into it" followed by a satisfaction survey.First proper question is.:would you recommend ebay to others ? No I fooking wouldn't.This sends the survey into a spazz attack...OMG why not please explain...Well ebay your feedback system sucks.I spend over 150 quid a month in listing fees but am not allowed to leave accurate feedback to warn other sellers of tossers like this.So I relist the car named and shamed then fook me the same thing happens.Well the wheels are coming off and it's over the bridge next week

[Roc 24v]

Try Absolute, used to be Virgin. None of the shite they play on Capital.

Better still Absolute 80's, hardly any chat, just classic tunes.Only DAB in London, but on net, iPhone, etc, elsewhere.

[seth]

One of our directors has a Lancia Aurelia B20 Coupe*

Top choice of car. If he wants to swap it for a Borgward project worth probably 1/50th of his car I'm all ears.

[RedSparrow]

FAO: Mr Bo11ox,Some pedantry (not grumpy):It was CHIVES not cress.

[FredTransit]

Try Absolute, used to be Virgin. None of the shite they play on Capital.

Better still Absolute 80's, hardly any chat, just classic tunes.Only DAB in London, but on net, iPhone, etc, elsewhere.

Yeah listened to that on the web, but can't get it in the van. I will be stuffed when regular analogue radio goes off.