The grumpy thread

[dollywobbler]

millions of Americans can't be wrong.

 

Ha ha haaa ha ha haaaaa. That's funny.

[Louise2cv]

Roadworks portable traffic lights are covered by law aren't they?

[bub2006]

I cycle but only on trails and cycle routes. I will also gladly stay behind a cyclist on a main road if I think there is insufficient room to pass safely. I have no issues with cyclists in general but a few let the side down. Riding 3 to 5 abreast down the a6 from matlock, careless undertaking and jumping lights are what annoys me.

[anonymous user]

I have made a decision I'm not entirely happy with, it's probably for the best as my stress and depression levels are not good at the moment, anyone want to buy a Bentley?

[DodgeRover]

My neck muscles have gone into spasm and I can't move my head independently to my body. Dr has given me diazepam on top of the tramadol and naproxen I'm already taking which has made me feel quite strange in a spacey way, I need to go and see Miss Miyagi to get it fixed but it's too sore to let anybody mess with it. Worse than that I'm self employed so not earning or well enough to do anything at home.....

 

Whinge over, posts for the next few days my possibly be affected

[Cavcraft]

A lot of work still needs to be done educating cyclists I think. Motorists having a go at them, and vice versa doesn't do anyone any favours.

I cringe when I see people who should know better on bikes or in cars vans and trucks do stupid things on the road.

[Cavcraft]

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.

[trigger]

Thanks Billy and sorry to land the job solely to you but frankly I've had enough, I've thought hard about it but I'm not coming on here like i was before because of all the shit being posted, I'm fed up with reading thread after thread of constant fucking moaning, bitching and whining everyday as it's starting to get me down, the final straw being the boobies thread which i locked and the Practical classic magazine thread, it's just bollocks.

 

Billys far better at sorting all the quite frankly pathetic reports we get in from you grown men and i can't be fucked with it anymore.

 

Sorry for going off on one but I'm a bit annoyed about all really.

[Supernaut]

I finally know what it is that slows my laptop down, makes it crash and generally behave like the worthless piece of shit it is... Facebook! Yes, I know one should NEVER admit to going on there but I do as I am a nosey bastard and also quite a few clubs are on there. Every time I try to go on, computer crashes or slows down to a crawl. Strangely, my old laptop (running Vista) is still fine on there.  Also, the Australian Rolls Royce forum (definitely the place to go for advice or how to's ) does the same but all the other sites are fine.

Apply the same thing to a smart phone.

 

My old phone ran like shit while I had the facebook browser app and messenger app (yes, two separate apps!) installed. They were massively under-developed resource hogs.

 

I since uninstalled them, and just use the phone version of Firefox to browse instead. Works perfectly.

[garbaldy]

@ trigger

I know exactly what you mean so ban the fuckin lot of us,

[dollywobbler]

Thanks for your time though Trigg, and welcome back to the world of us regular muggles.

[Cavcraft]

Genuinely hope you stick around, Mike. Soz to sound like a weapons grade arse licker, but your enthusiasm as much as your posts always made AS more interesting.

[trigger]

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?

[dollywobbler]

Aye. Don't let the crap get you down. There has been a LOT of crap and sniping on here over the past few days. I can only put it down to Seasonal Affective Disorder or something.

 

And at least you're moaning in the correct thread!

[beko1987]

 effort people put in making them was something really special which made the place what i was

Some of us still do that...

[Kiltox]

ECP delivered the sump I specifically told them was wrong. Arses

[beko1987]

Tell them louder...

[Kiltox]

Returned it and got the only bloke there that actually knows something about cars / seemingly possesses a brain cell - ordered the right one for tomorrow morning

[Bren]

MCE insurance.

 

Got an email mid September stating my insurance was up for renewal tomorrow. I am insured with them.

 

Got other quotes and rang them today on a premium rate number ( provided in email).

 

Was told by call handler that they had no quote for me and it would take fifteen minutes to get one.

 

Why that long? I got some online in five minutes.

 

I told call handler to forget it and send me my proof of no claims - assuming it does'nt go Pete Tong between now and Midnight.

 

Sick of "playing the game" with bastard insurers.

[dugong]

 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? 

[oldcars]

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 

[Bren]

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......

[anonymous user]

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.

[Supernaut]

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.

[Cavcraft]

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.

[JohnK]

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

 

[Timewaster]

^^That is Shite not shit.

 

Well this is for pedants too

[captain_70s]

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 £27. Clever boy... It'll be down south and on eBay for £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.

 

[RoadworkUK]

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.

[Timewaster]

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.