The grumpy thread

[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.......!!!!!!

[Tamworthbay]

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

They are a law unto themselves, they really don't give a shit.

[Kiltox]

I spend a couple of hundred a month with them every month - just cancelled my Prime auto renewal and will be shopping elsewhere

[jakebullet]

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

 

No. Kinky would get 70% off the price. If the one currently for sale on zoopla is an accurate price I'd need 40K, which happens to be what's sat in my ISA.

 

N yeah, pathetic to be living at home at my age.

[michael1703]

 

 

[DodgeRover]

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.

Bugger that life too short rent yourself a nice industrial unit and put a decent sized caravan inside it so you have somewhere to use as an office if anybody asks. Blackout or camouflage netting hung just behind the doors so nobody can see in is always useful

[cobblers]

I remember about 15 years ago, when I was about 17-18 I would just drive all over the place for no reason at all. 

Some of my fondest memories ever are driving through Wombwell in the pouring rain in a mk2 fiesta 1.4s at 1am on a Tuesday night, with only a subwoofer in the boot still working. The amp in the (tape) head unit overheated - it was over the heater blowers which I needed to keep on full bore because the car was soaking wet because the floor was rotten and spray off the wheels pumped water into the car.

I'd listened to that same helter skelter happy hardcore c90 cassette so many times that just the bassline was more than enough and I mentally filled in the gaps.

Parked up outside a disused petrol station off the A38 (again 1am) waiting for the engine to cool down a bit so that I could take the airbox lid off with my key as a screwdriver and rev the bollocks off it with one hand while sticking my other hand over the carb inlet to try and clear the shit out because the first choke of the carb didn't work anymore. Then doing 100MPH all the way down the M1 back home because it only worked flat out (and I was an idiot)

Deciding at 10pm to go for a weekend away - To sleep in the garden of my mates dads static caravan 150 miles away in Caernarfon. We got there in under two hours, but I ended up sleeping in the back of a Renault 5 because we couldn't get onto the campsite without a key.

 

Nowadays I've got the resources to do all of that without a worry in the world. I could jump in my car now, stick absolutely any music on with my flipping bluetooth spotify system and drive wherever I want. I can afford the petrol, the car is brand fuckin new so it's not going to let me down.

But I don't.  Maybe because I'm old and I have a bird and I just don't feel like "driving" is an acceptable pastime. Maybe because the roads aren't the same and driving isn't as enjoyable? But maybe I've just become a completely sad risk averse bastard who'd rather spend half a day sanding the side of a car til it was super mint than driving the car somewhere interesting.

 

As much as I take the piss out of the lad at work who's got a Harley Davidson (because it's horrible), he's done about 7K miles in a year just razzing it round in an evening for his own good.

 

We're absolutely in the last decade of being able to go out and drive a car "properly" and get away with it and I reckon I've got to buck up my ideas and make the most of it.

[cort16]

I went out for a drive down the coast in my panda a few weeks ago for no other reason than I wanted to see the sun set over Arran and it was fucking brilliant .

[reb]

1:30am, start 10 mile drive home. Leaving town, high beams on, nothing. Think I'm being stupid and using the wrong stalk, stop and switch to sidelights, pull stalk and headlights flash. Back to headlight, try again, sod all.

This is exactly the sort of thing I need right now. Why can't anything ever break catastrophically rather than just one niggly little thing?

[Jon]

Yo cobblers, be thankful that you're at least aware that you're in a bit of a fun rut and have been for a while - it creeps up so easily with age and then you feel all shit because you're old before your time and the vicious circle continues until you rebel in 20 years time and suddenly a Harley or a red MGB with wires seems like a grand adventure. We do become more risk averse as we age though - I hesitated climbing a tree aged 21 and went far lower than I would have 10 years previously, as I contemplated all the bad things that'd happen if I fell out. That was 14 years ago - I'd probably not even hang from a low lying branch now, unless it was mega sturdy. 

 

There's an element of 'grass is greener' in all of us, wistfully reminiscing back to simpler times of our youth, with few responsibilities. Yet at that same time, we'd have given anything to have our own space, more than one car, a garage etc. - basically the trappings of adulthood that we'd see others owning but not utilising. I'm currently getting the last few jobs sorted on our 205 GTI 1.9, since it's been sitting about pending a few easy jobs and a few 'want list' items - I guess it's done perhaps 100 miles in the past year, all the while I've been idly milling about in a base model 10 year old Mondeo with 313000km on the clock - where did it all go wrong and when did I cross that boundary?

 

Like you, I'm aware of this though, so I'm going to try and be a lot more thankful for what I've got (barring not owning a Series 1 Land Rover yet) and make good use of it. If it all sounds a bit too hard for you though, just start hanging out with much older people; that way, you'll feel like the pinnacle of energy, positivity and enthusiasm in comparison and maybe they'll lend you their MGB - if it isn't raining. Or a bit cloudy.

[320touring]

1:30am, start 10 mile drive home. Leaving town, high beams on, nothing. Think I'm being stupid and using the wrong stalk, stop and switch to sidelights, pull stalk and headlights flash. Back to headlight, try again, sod all.

This is exactly the sort of thing I need right now. Why can't anything ever break catastrophically rather than just one niggly little thing?

Thats rubbish:( Although it is an ideal opportunity to practice the single lane 'nae lights' method of xhecking for oncoming cars whilst hooning:)

[reb]

Thats rubbish:( Although it is an ideal opportunity to practice the single lane 'nae lights' method of xhecking for oncoming cars whilst hooning:)

It feels like the switch is either completely gubbed or has detached itself from the stalk, no click at all.

It wouldn't bother me if I didn't have people flashing at me as if I've left my highs on coming round a corner.

My late night journey home is almost always on the main road, all I have to contend with there is taxis in even more of a hurry than me