The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

Seems my scrap mate has found (legitimately, I might add) two FSIEs, and before I got the chance to buy them he discovered what they were worth.

[trigger]

Over the last couple of years I've spotted a really immaculate Renault 9 about being driven by a young lad, then over time it's gained 'scene' bits like a roof rack, I haven't seen it again for a while until i saw a photo of it again tonight.

 

 

The owner contacted me after i commented on the photo saying i can't believe how much it's changed, he's recently bought it and says the interiors missing out of it too, it looked even worse when he bought it!.

 

 

Now that makes me sad.

[vulgalour]

There was a red 9 online recently, possibly eBay, in red, wearing white r19 turbo alloys that looked really smart.  They do look good sat low too...

 

 

Let's hope the new owner is fortunate enough to find the bits he wants to make it his on without letting it degrade further.  I'm all for running with knocks and scrapes a car has and modifying it from there but I've never understood the mentality of buying a really smart car and making it look knackered, it seems really counter intuitive.  With the exception of the roof rack it doesn't look too dreadful on the stock steels in your picture above, certainly has potential to be interesting rather than just ruined.

 

Fingers crossed the present owner can get it all shipshape at least.

[dave21478]

But.... it's not an informative car show. They did a token amount of telling you how many horsepowers or torques a supercar had when on the BBC, as it was funded from the knowledge/information part of their budget - not comedy or whartever. So it had to deliver some information, but it could be a world away from Old Old Top Gear.

 

It's now on Amazon, so doesn't have the budget limitations, so can be pure entertainment. It doesn't even share a name with Old Old Top Gear, or Old Top Gear, so if you were honestly tuning in (well, opening the app) and believing you'd get a group test involving the latest mid sized hatchbacks from Kia, Hyundai and Mazda (with particular attention to the size of boot, and insurance group ratings) then - I dunno. There's no helping you.

 

Grand Tour is a show which shamelessly spends your Prime subscription on some lovely camerawork in foreign lands, and it happens to include some stuff about fast cars if you're into that stuff. 

 

But..... I always viewed Top Gear as purely entertainment. It was three guys having fun in cars, with some lovely camerawork.

Old old Top Gear can fuck right off. I never enjoyed it and had no interest in comparing boot size or number of radio presets between Astra and Escort, and definitely had no interest in hearing another persons opinion of how it drove round town.

The new version was fun, exciting to watch and aspirational. If I wanted to know which mid-size hatchback has the best roadholding I could go to the dealerships, drive them and find out for myself. However there is no way for me to find out how long you can do donuts in a supercar before the rear tyres blow or whether some musclecar can beat the train to Turin...thats what interested me with Top Gear.....the fun stuff that I will never get to do myself.

The Grand Tour somehow made three hypercars on track boring. It somehow made the M2 on track boring. Its a new show, its finding its feet, maybe it will get better.....I hope so, because I miss that style of television the old series had....entertainment based around cars.

Folk above mentioned online stuff like Roadkill, which I am a big fan of, because its in the same vein as Top Gear was.....A couple of guys doing stupid, fun stuff that I could never do myself. I dont watch it for the facts, I watch it for the burnouts and the inevitable engine hanging out, leaking oil all over a parts store carpark.

[Cavcraft]

I'm glad it's on Amazon, it means it can't even be turned on accidentally one day in my house.

[The Moog]

Folk above mentioned online stuff like Roadkill, which I am a big fan of, because its in the same vein as Top Gear was.....A couple of guys doing stupid, fun stuff that I could never do myself. I dont watch it for the facts, I watch it for the burnouts and the inevitable engine hanging out, leaking oil all over a parts store carpark.

Roadkill was mentioned in relation to Wheeler Dealers dumbing down not Grand Tour. They are different beasts.

[Mr A Lawrence]

Fucking Facebook cunts. As a few of you may know I used to be a bailiff many years ago and I was giving advice to people on a Facebook page for people having debt trouble and the moderator has banned me due to the fact that I used to be "the enemy" despite the fact that the advice I gave was always helpful for those that were in financial trouble.

 

[xtriple]

I watched Grand Tour as well. I liked the begining lots, the hyper cars was fun, the M2 boring and 'the American' a twat who will be canned shortly I think, and the celebs all dying was great! It was, same old, same old really, just slightly different  

 

I thought it was good to see 'proper' Top Gear back and look forward to seeing what stupidity the lads can get up to. There were always dodgy episodes and great ones.

 

Give it time? I will.

[dollywobbler]

I watched the intro, on a pirate copy on YouTube, not going down the Amazon route. It seemed pretty unremarkable to be honest. Shan't bother.

 

In other news, SHIT.

 

Conservatory roof blew off, hurling several wheels and tyres all over the place. Reinforcement fail. Blowing an absolute gale here. Not good.

[Supernaut]

It seems we now have Amazon Prime, I'm still not going to watch it though. Or anything else for that matter.

Watch The Man In The High Castle though. It's bloody good.

[DodgeRover]

Finished my indoor jobs early, guess what the weather has just started doing, looks like being an early day.

[cort16]

I was listening to the 1475th black Friday advert on the radio today and it occurred to me that they've spun a negative term that was invented to describe people people standing on grannies heads in Asda to get £10 off a shit telly into a retail event. It's like the the local indian advertising 10% of Pakora on Botulism Friday to commemorate that time all those people went to an Indian restaurant and ended up in hospital with unstoppable bum gravy.

[Louise2cv]

Yes, and like (the highly commercialised big event version of)Halloween and "poppy day" we are being treated like this Black Friday thing is a long held British tradition.

 

As far as I can remember Black Friday was not "a thing" here 5 or 10 years ago, it's something to do with sales around Thanksgiving in America. Black Friday here used to be what Matt's colleagues called the last Friday before Christmas when everyone had their works do and town was full of merry* people.

 

Black Friday Sales are a horrible notion and it's disappointing how quickly it's been adopted.

[tooSavvy]

I blame FB......

 

'Black' because retail trade goes from 'red ink', in the ledger, to (in profit) ' black ink' at the end of the trading year. *

 

*allegedly

 

 

TS

[jakebullet]

It's only going to get worse. Been in morrisons today and it's black 5 days. How long before it becomes black November?

[Cavcraft]

Black Friday used to be that day just before Christmas where people were rushing home for the break, as the accident figures were usually really high.

 

The stupid 'commercial/Yank inspired' Black Friday is bollocks. If any greedy bastard goes to buy a telly because they're thick enough think they're goi g to get a bargain price for something they don't actually need then they deserve to get hurt in the melee

[cort1977]

There's worse to come, over here they have now got 'Small Business Saturday' and 'Cyber Monday' to add to the pain.

[daveb47]

Well my week is fully booked as following

Shitty saturday

soggy sunday

miserable monday

trash tuesday

wanky wednesday

Terrible thursday

Fuckup friday

 

so no time for anything else.

[Craig the Princess]

I believe this is the third year that Black Friday has imported to make life slightly shitter.

[DVee8]

A mate bought a Fiesta st last black friday and saved a few £££££.

 

Blackeye friday the friday before christmas.

[Parky]

I quite enjoy the news footage of people punching each other to buy a TV that nobody has ever heard of. Especially knowing that when the victor proudly arrives home they find it was fucked in the melee.

 

I had a grump tonight as some dick in a Smart car accelerated into a gap I was indicating into and committed to which nearly forced me into some cones. Wanker. However you can imagine my delight when later on someone else refused to let him in and the balance of the universe was restored. For extra karma points, Mr Smart then accelerated around the car that wouldn't let him in and massively clouted a kerb in the process. I heard the crump from two cars back. Hopefully a fucked alloy and tyre justified the willy waving and the gain of two car lengths in the queue.

[fairkens]

People on mway slip roads who won't hoof it to get in front of a truck but dither and nearly cause a massive accident - not impressed with you right now

 

Chucking it down and the truck had nowhere to go, good job there was a hard shoulder is all I can say, will be a lot more accidents if they keep phasing them out

[DodgeRover]

Can we start a SNAFU day?

Situation Normal All Fucked Up

 

I saw a chart bring presented to high level management with PIFU period marked on it, PIFU = Post Implementation Fuck Up....

[EssDeeWon]

Black Friday grumps.

 

Business is Business right?  Tell the great unwashed that something was once £500 and now its £400 even though its only ever worth £400 in the first place and bingo. The idiots will queue up fight to hand over the dosh.

[scaryoldcortina]

Rolling thunder, Driving rain?

 

Storm Angus is getting on my tits now.

[M'coli]

Rolling thunder, Driving rain?

 

Storm Angus is getting on my tits now.

 

"Do not go gentle into that good night..."

 

I'll miss you and your music, Angus.

[Bren]

Black Friday - twatting somebody for a polaroid telly.

[Louise2cv]

Why is it called Storm Angus? I thought we'd got to G or something already?

[anonymous user]

Probably already going around again

[Lord Sterling]

Went up today for the second time to try and get the Merc ready as it's being picked up this week. Rain just wouldn't stop, chucking it down constantly, despute this I did manage to clear the Merc of all my personal effects.

 

Secondly, I tried to jump start the Merc but ended up frying my jump leads, I really don't know what made them decide to chuck in the towel but suffice to say I will NOT ever be buying anymore jump leads that have a plastic surround on the clamps. Merc was not started so the chap picking it up will have to.

 

'Twas a sad departing