The grumpy thread

6,964 · October 4, 2016

If a forum starts to get you down then you have to question if it's right for you any more?

Amen.

Moderating's a thankless task, Trig - and you gave it your all. I'd have lasted about five minutes.

The admin structure is deeply weird on this site anyway. Why can only one mod wield the banhammer?

I've wanted to leave Autoshite on several occasions this year but keep coming back; better the devil you know (even though he looks completely different, isn't the same person and possesses a deeply troubling nasty streak that he never had before). The abuse has gone ad hominem (which has really pissed me off over the past few months).

It'll be something stupid that makes me quit for good. I wonder what it'll be in the end?

6,824 · October 4, 2016

But more importantly, Trigger going blue is a bad day for all of us on here. He pretty much epitomises Autoshite IMHO and will be missed as a moderator.

But seriously (as i can be) Trigger is a part of this place, love this threads (apart from the sad Astra one) and love his choice in motors

22,284 · October 4, 2016

I stopped posting on the wissl (widnes vikings) site because I got a fucktonne of abuse from members. Some of it personal.

My crime? I criticised the head coach.

If the forum gets you down Mike then have a break. People argue on here but I don't ever recall it getting personal. Which is good.

I suspect the real reason Is that the forum has too many rollers and Bentleys......

22,352 · October 4, 2016

I suspect the real reason Is that the forum has too many rollers and Bentleys......

That's ok I'll sell mine, I think we are back down to one then.

28,012 · October 4, 2016

Thanks. Autoshite used to be my little escape from reality, you would be guaranteed a genuinely good laugh from the threads, and the effort people put in making them was something really special which made the place what i was but over the years it's got harder and harder to find these threads and instead they have been replaced with people just bitching and complaining all the time (i appreciate the irony in this post!) and arguing with each other. If a forum starts to get you down then you have to question if it's right for you any more?

I felt the same way about the last forum I really got into, then left after having a falling out with some hypocritical higher-ups. This place is fucking lovely after that place. Once I left and looked at it from an outside perspective, I realised what a nasty piece of work some of them were.

Messrs RantingYoof, FatHarris and Chatsharris will know the place I'm talking about.

137,670 · October 4, 2016

I started typing stuff out then, but I just can't be arsed. If people don't want to use the 'grumpy' thread for whinging then it's time to just start deleting stuff or moving it. As for political or blatantly sexist threads, just have a word with yourself. Please.

5,543 · October 4, 2016

Can't we just all get back to talking about shit like this?

15,418 · October 4, 2016

^^That is Shite not shit.

Well this is for pedants too

23,463 · October 4, 2016

Been a shite day at work on top of a shite week on a shite month/year/decade etc.

I come home and plonk myself down at the PC and check the Triumph Dolly forum. There is a well known, tax free 1850 with a year's ticket for sale for Â£100 so long as the money goes to charity as the owner needs it gone and the car is in Caithness and nobody wants to travel that far to get it as there are sod all Dolly folk in the arse end of Scotchland. Only condition is that it's first come first serve and that the new owner is a TDC member.

Well, I let my membership lapse last year didn't I, to save Â£27. Clever boy... It'll be down south and on eBay for Â£2k in the next couple of months, betcha.

In all honesty I don't think I can be arsed giving much of a shit about this, I'm not sure if I can even be arsed with cars at all right now... I think we'll clock this one up as a classic Cpt.70s "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory" moment and move onto the next disaster post-haste.

9,604 · October 4, 2016

It'll be something stupid that makes me quit for good. I wonder what it'll be in the end?

Me mentioning how awesome Rover 800s are in every post.

They are, though.

15,418 · October 4, 2016

I mustard mitt I came close to flouncing off last week but then I rediscovered the ignore user function and with one click all is right again.

33,133 · October 4, 2016

I'm got a TDC membership if i can help in anyway.

7,140 · October 4, 2016

Good to see trigger is still on here, hopefully it is better to be on here without the mod hassle.

My moan, the woman coughing and sputtering all over the local shop when I popped in earlier, thanks I'm really looking forward to having your full on cold.

7,800 · October 4, 2016

That's a strange one, they will only sell the car cheaply to a paid up member and I'm pretty sure all paid up members will already have a dolly or three,

I think you will be right what the outcome will be.

47,466 · October 4, 2016

Message him offering to pay Â£100 plus the TDC membership fee to charity instead.

20,981 · October 4, 2016

Been a shite day at work on top of a shite week on a shite month/year/decade etc.

I come home and plonk myself down at the PC and check the Triumph Dolly forum. There is a well known, tax free 1850 with a year's ticket for sale for Â£100 so long as the money goes to charity as the owner needs it gone and the car is in Caithness and nobody wants to travel that far to get it as there are sod all Dolly folk in the arse end of Scotchland. Only condition is that it's first come first serve and that the new owner is a TDC member.

Well, I let my membership lapse last year didn't I, to save Â£27. Clever boy... It'll be down south and on eBay for Â£2k in the next couple of months, betcha.

In all honesty I don't think I can be arsed giving much of a shit about this, I'm not sure if I can even be arsed with cars at all right now... I think we'll clock this one up as a classic Cpt.70s "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory" moment and move onto the next disaster post-haste.

Imagine the money you'd save not buying it.

28,546 · October 4, 2016

I mustard mitt I came close to flouncing off last week but then I rediscovered the ignore user function and with one click all is right again.

am I doing it wrong? Ive never used the ignore function, if I see a thread I don't like or have nothing to input on I hit back and move on... I hope I'm not on anyone's ignore list?

7,800 · October 4, 2016

Imagine the money you'd save not buying it.

Yup a hundred pounds can go a long way.

9,604 · October 4, 2016

.... I hope I'm not on anyone's ignore list?

Did anybody hear something? No? I must have imagined it.

23,463 · October 4, 2016

I'm got a TDC membership if i can help in anyway.

Cheers for the offer!

Message him offering to pay Â£100 plus the TDC membership fee to charity instead.

I did consider this!

Imagine the money you'd save not buying it.

This is the course of action I'm taking.

I have a habit of turning roadworthy cars in to un-roadworthy cars. It's only due to multiple people helping me for no cost that the 1850 is getting another shot at survival. I really mustn't buy any more cars until the two I already have are fixed...

There's also the fact it'd cost over Â£100 in petrol and probably Â£250+ in insurance just getting the thing home despite it being (relatively) nearby! That's Â£450 total cost and that's a good amount towards a rebuilt engine for the 1300...

15,418 · October 4, 2016

am I doing it wrong? Ive never used the ignore function, if I see a thread I don't like or have nothing to input on I hit back and move on... I hope I'm not on anyone's ignore list?

My quoting you means that can all see it now - unless I'm blocked too.

Seriously though, one eidjit and I was nearly out of here.

Ignore - problem solved.

5,543 · October 4, 2016

Cpt70's, I've got a nice Toledo for sale here ...

1,345 · October 4, 2016

''Cherished'' 3000 quid cars sat on shiny primewells or landsails fuck off!!

12,054 · October 4, 2016

dont give up on us trigger (that could be a song) would you give up on an old shitter in need of repair or one of those fantastic rattle can jobs, i love those threads

6,964 · October 4, 2016

My quoting you means that can all see it now - unless I'm blocked too.

Seriously though, one eidjit and I was nearly out of here.

Ignore - problem solved.

It is a goodly function.

Sadly, my ignore list is pretty big these days.

''Cherished'' 3000 quid cars sat on shiny primewells or landsails fuck off!!

I've tested Â£25K cars wearing UHP Performers. The dealer was not impressed when I told him to spend a couple of quid on decent tyres.

Also, some oxygen thief decided to use the Xedos as a scratching post tonight.

Fuck's sake.

October 4, 2016

Can't we just all get back to talking about shit like this?

My god what sort of idiot parks like that?

Grumble grumble mutter mutter

6,964 · October 4, 2016

I'm s

Been a shite day at work on top of a shite week on a shite month/year/decade etc.

I come home and plonk myself down at the PC and check the Triumph Dolly forum. There is a well known, tax free 1850 with a year's ticket for sale for Â£100 so long as the money goes to charity as the owner needs it gone and the car is in Caithness and nobody wants to travel that far to get it as there are sod all Dolly folk in the arse end of Scotchland. Only condition is that it's first come first serve and that the new owner is a TDC member.

Well, I let my membership lapse last year didn't I, to save Â£27. Clever boy... It'll be down south and on eBay for Â£2k in the next couple of months, betcha.

In all honesty I don't think I can be arsed giving much of a shit about this, I'm not sure if I can even be arsed with cars at all right now... I think we'll clock this one up as a classic Cpt.70s "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory" moment and move onto the next disaster post-haste.

I'm stupid enough to collect something like that. I'll donate to a charity of his choice.

PM me some details.

6,964 · October 4, 2016

Also, a medical question.

If two of my fingers are stone cold, this is bad, yes?

6,584 · October 4, 2016

Also, a medical question.

If two of my fingers are stone cold, this is bad, yes

Dunno really, I have the same symptoms. White fingers when weather is chilly. Index finger on both hands.

14,473 · October 4, 2016

Also, a medical question.

If two of my fingers are stone cold, this is bad, yes?

Yes lack of circulation, are they still attached to your hand and do you have normal sensation in them?

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