The grumpy thread

[rainagain]

Bugger, noticed last night when I was driving the OH's Tucson there was a whine when in gear, I haven't driven it for a while so thought nothing of it, (every car sounds noisy after driving the S80 ). She used it this morning and said she only noticed the whine yesterday and now it was much louder. I'm hoping the gearbox oil just needs topped up, but I wonder where it's gone? I'm really really hoping it's nothing more serious as we just don't have any spare money right now to sort it.

[AMC Rebel]

Having to use my old laptop as the new one is updating its hated windows 10 shit. It has been updating since ten this morning and is now up to 32% done. Piece of utter shit!

Mine did this - some warning you were planning something that took fookin ages would've been nice Mirosoft bastards.

[chaseracer]

It was probably fine on their test mainframe (which doubtless occupies an entire city block of San Jose...) 

[garbaldy]

Having to use my old laptop as the new one is updating its hated windows 10 shit. It has been updating since ten this morning and is now up to 32% done. Piece of utter shit!

Hello is that Mr triple my name is Andrew Williams, your windows computer has sent us an error message, if you could turn on your computer I will talk you through what to do,

[vulgalour]

Has anyone else noticed a recent trend while out on the roads of Audi cars being driven to a reasonable standard? What will they pull out of the bag next? I noticed a similar thing with shitting Peugeots a few years ago, I assume it's when certain models move on to their second owners who buy them with their own actual cash will have at least a modicum of respect

I thought I was imagining that but yes, I've noticed that too. Particularly noticeable with things like Audis where cockery is usually the first order, it's a pleasant driving surprise when there's one being piloted with a modicum of respect for other road users. The new Ford Focus has replaced the Audi as the twatwagon of choice locally, I find myself in the habit of given them a wide berth because of the number of times the drivers of them appear to have no idea what they're doing.

[xtriple]

Yes indeed, I have just seen an Audi indicate! However, he is not out of the club yet as his road positioning was beyond terrible (over the middle of the road and it looked like the manoeuvre was already half completed) it was white with black windows and 'bangin' tunes' emanating from within .

[Noel Tidybeard]

YOU ARE ALL BEING FOOLED!

aldi drivers still have no notion of consideration but they have new fancy "pulsing" indicators and they are just showing off- trouble is some of them havent realised they're not fitted to all models lol

[jakebullet]

Wednesday is traditionally Kinky girl comes for a visit day. But we decided as we've just been off for the weekend I should stay home and do Ma's painting in a stop her being a moaning old witch sort of way. Ma is informed I will be painting.

 

Ma wakes me up at 10am today just so she can score some points with "you'd have been up by now if you was going with HER". FFS, normally  I'm up at 7:30 am every day because you bang around like an elephant to make sure I don't get "extra" sleep. If you was quiet like you was today on purpose I'd sleep all day then too.

 

So I do painting to a constant background noise of "you can still go with HER if you want". STFU and let me get on with it FFS.

 

TL DR:

Quality time with Ma sucks ass.

[twosmoke300]

MOVE OUT!

[garbaldy]

/\ +1

[chaseracer]

/\/\ x eleventy billion.

 

The time has come either to do something about or stop mentioning it endlessly on here.  The power to change your situation is in YOUR hands alone - unless you're with KG, in which case your hands will be otherwise occupied... 

 

Do it.

[jakebullet]

I can't logically see a way to do it. Kinky has a council flat in Leeds, but then I'd need to rent an industrial unit there which would be £kerching.

 

I can't buy my own house as self employed at a crap level, not mortgage material.

 

The long term plan is KG has right to buy on her flat, and would get max discount (70%? ), so I buy her flat, flog for £££, buy house somewhere else. I've just about got enough to buy it for cash now, but at 1 year in it doesn't feel sensible.

 

Maybe answer is wear ear plugs 24/7 and keep saving. Maybe Ma will calm the fuck down again.

[Rocket88]

Grease the stairs............................

[bub2006]

Fucking dvla incompetence. Keep sending me letters for failure to tax volvo i sold in april. I sent logbook off as well as the rear of the letter they sent last month. Rang them after anither letter to be told i need to write in or else my car will be clamped and ill go to court. Fucking fools.

[twosmoke300]

Woah there jakebullet ! You have enough cash to buy 70% of a flat but still live with your mum ?

[chaseracer]

Bub, did you get a confirmation from DVLA that the Volvo's keeper had changed?  If so, send them a photocopy of that.

[messerschmitt owner]

I can't logically see a way to do it. Kinky has a council flat in Leeds, but then I'd need to rent an industrial unit there which would be £kerching.

 

I can't buy my own house as self employed at a crap level, not mortgage material.

 

The long term plan is KG has right to buy on her flat, and would get max discount (70%? ), so I buy her flat, flog for £££, buy house somewhere else. I've just about got enough to buy it for cash now, but at 1 year in it doesn't feel sensible.

 

Maybe answer is wear ear plugs 24/7 and keep saving. Maybe Ma will calm the fuck down again.

you can't rent? I would if my mum was so annoying. Have you considered that your mum is like this because she thinks you're old enough to be living on your own?

[chaseracer]

Woah there jakebullet ! You have enough cash to buy 70% of a flat but still live with your mum ?

 

Fuxake, JB - time to be looking at shared equity, at the very least.  Take control, man!

[Cavcraft]

needs topped up,

 

Where can you buy this 'topped up'?

[Richard]

That's the correct way to say it, it's the English 'topping up' that's wrong.

[Cavcraft]

It's bloody well not.

[John F]

That's the correct way to say it, it's the English 'topping up' that's wrong.

 

I suppose that's why Shakespeare's Hamlet soliloquy has never been translated into Scottish, then...

[Richard]

I have literally no idea what that is. Hamlet wasn't among the Shakespeare shit we were forced to read at school and there's no way I would read any of it voluntarily.

[strangeangel]

Has anyone else noticed a recent trend while out on the roads of Audi cars being driven to a reasonable standard?

 

Nope.

[Richard]

I noticed it with BMW drivers about 15 years ago. It was as if they all suddenly became aware of how other drivers saw them.

[omegod]

Lazy twat work colleagues and gutless managers who are too scared to get people to shift their lazy arses, I'm fucking fuming and may well blow my top bigstylee tomorrow.  Rant over

[bub2006]

Bub, did you get a confirmation from DVLA that the Volvo's keeper had changed? If so, send them a photocopy of that.

I cant remember to be honest,it was april and ive all on remembering my name!

[Kiltox]

Fucking Amazon.

 

Ordered two "boxes of 12" packs of Loctite threadlock and got sent two single packs

 

Complained, was sent one more single pack because they fucked up again and they cancelled the other one because no more stock

 

Now they're saying because I haven't returned the original fuck up (had it 2 days) they won't do anything, basically accusing me of having them on

[Richard]

I think the Volvo specialist might be ignoring my calls because he doesn't want to fix my car. It's looking increasingly like James Brown time.

[chaseracer]

The blue 850?  NOOOOOOOOOOOO.......!!!!!!