The grumpy thread

[Pillock]

All the pound shops sell mices (meece?) I think. If you were nearer, there's one in my car glovebox you could have. I don't know why it's there, it was there when they delivered the car, and I don't think even BMW are daft enough to use mouse input for car control.

 

Are you sure Currys only sell ££££ wireless ones? I just used to rob one of these - http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing-accessories/computer-accessories/mice-and-keyboards/mice/advent-m112-optical-mouse-black-grey-13212947-pdt.html when I worked there and forgot my mouse. Five quid. They've also got Goji own brand ones for £7, and a Logitech wired one for less than a tenner.

 

I suspect you were looking in the gaming section instead of the boring office supplies section. All those are ranged in all stores, even the last few remaining high street ones.

[DeeJay]

Technology fail. The left button on my mouse has started sending 2 clicks for each press. No problem, I've got a brand new poundland finest* mouse for emergencies. Except said new mouse the buttons don't work at all. Been to curries and it's all wireless nonsense at £££.

 

NB: Problem not solvable by moving out.

After all the flak J.B's taken, the NB. made me laugh.

[dave21478]

I know that starting a Top Gear thread never ends well and probably merits a punch in the bollocks, but here goes anyway....

 

The Grand Tour - Its a load of arse, and I say that as a fan of Top Gear right up till the end.

 

I downloaded "signed up to amazon" and watched it this morning. The opening scenes were very nice, and thats about it. 3 examples of million pound hypercars going sideways round a track till you get bored of watching it....the "studio" sections were teeth-grindingly cringeworthy, part two of hypercars going sideways till you are bored of it, a review of the bmw M2, which is apparently good....no hint of how or why its good, its just good.....it was driven sideways round a track till you got bored of seeing it. More toe-curlingly embarrasing studio sections, and thats it. It was over an hour long and had maybe 10 minutes of actual content.

The studio stuff....I dunno....is it dumbed right down for the 'muricans or is it just really bad? The three of them look haggard and worn out.....maybe it will get better? fucked if I would pay money to see if it does improve or not though.

 

1/10. deleted the torrent cancelled my subscription.

[Lacquer Peel]

People who don't understand vehicles at my work.

 

I told them that one of the vans needed new tyres immediately, the rears were close to the wear indicators, not ideal now it's getting cold and the roads are greasy, we drive on a lot of unclassified and B roads.

Turned up today and it was still wearing its racing slicks, one of them was illegal. The tyre place they use isn't open on a Sunday so I swapped it for the spare which is barely legal.

No respect for the drivers or driving.

The Sprinter's traction control is effective but a bald tyre and icy roads would overcome it.

[Tamworthbay]

I know that starting a Top Gear thread never ends well and probably merits a punch in the bollocks, but here goes anyway....

 

The Grand Tour - Its a load of arse, and I say that as a fan of Top Gear right up till the end.

 

I downloaded "signed up to amazon" and watched it this morning. The opening scenes were very nice, and thats about it. 3 examples of million pound hypercars going sideways round a track till you get bored of watching it....the "studio" sections were teeth-grindingly cringeworthy, part two of hypercars going sideways till you are bored of it, a review of the bmw M2, which is apparently good....no hint of how or why its good, its just good.....it was driven sideways round a track till you got bored of seeing it. More toe-curlingly embarrasing studio sections, and thats it. It was over an hour long and had maybe 10 minutes of actual content.

The studio stuff....I dunno....is it dumbed right down for the 'muricans or is it just really bad? The three of them look haggard and worn out.....maybe it will get better? fucked if I would pay money to see if it does improve or not though.

 

1/10. deleted the torrent cancelled my subscription.

Clarkson said that first episode was a blinder and the others were ok, from what you've said it doesn't sound like the rest will be much good then.........

[Richard]

I think Clarkson is going to succumb to 2016. He doesn't seem well at all.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

I think Clarkson is going to succumb to 2016. He doesn't seem well at all.

Can't be as unwell as Phil Collins, mind. He was a proper pickled mess, with Cher levels of auto tune on his voice on Wossy a few weeks back.

[r.welfare]

I thought May and Clarkson didn't look particularly well, but that might be because I was watching them in HD for the first time.  May didn't really seem his usual self at all.

 

My boss reckoned that May and Hammond looked decidedly unwell on the One Show recently.  Mind you, high stress + months on the road + smoking will probably do that to you.

 

I thought it was all a bit of an anticlimax but once they start doing challenges again (the 4x4 MGB looked quite funny; I think I saw a video a few months ago of them in a jacked-up R107 SL which I assume also features) I might warm to it.  I'll try and use the £59 in free delivery savings for the next 12 months instead.

[chaseracer]

2016: the year that just keeps on giving taking away.

 

Having lost three family members and a close family friend in the space of three weeks in March, another friend (younger than me) has recently keeled over in his garden from a massive heart attack in front of his wife & children, while yet another (a bit older than me) has just learned he has terminal lung cancer and is unlikely to see Christmas.

 

As a wise old Welsh sheep farmer once said to a friend of my dad's: "they're being taken from our fold now..."

[strangeangel]

See, Facebook is entirely composed of your friends updates. If you're complaining that it's full of shit, just remove people from your friends list until it isn't.

 

Sent from my VIE-L09 using Tapatalk

 

There's something about Facebook that makes otherwise sane people post inane, unfunny drivel shit nonsense though. I did what you suggest, and then there was just me. So I deleted my account.

 

Sent from a shit HP laptop

[Captain Furious]

Glad I'm not the only one that thought the Grand Tour was shockingly bad, and I also say this as possibly the biggest TG fan ever.

 

I am slightly bewildered by the rave reviews everywhere, including my friends. Starting to wonder if I was even watching the same show. The car bits were 'ok' at best, the studio parts were nothing short of awful, I mean, not Chris Evans awful, but not good!

[cort16]

I liked it but the studio bits were pretty grim.

[The Moog]

I skipped through lots of GT. The car segments really were meh. The supercars were fast and expensive without learning more.

 

You could see the jokes coming a mile away.

 

In some ways being allowed to play in the sweet shop has taken some if the edge off. They always used to push the limits to get round the BBC.

 

I think it is because it is globally focused. See also wheeler dealers with Bronco - gone from tinkering to car transformation in an hour.

 

That's where roadkill, mighty car mods plus project Binky win. They have the level of detail that I like.

 

Will watch all GT as it is free but wouldn't pay for it specifically

[Richard]

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

[Kiltox]

I found it rather tedious - hopefully it will improve as the series goes on

[Pillock]

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. 

[richardmorris]

The mclaren p1oov is housed 50fteet from my lab.

I've not seen the GT episode, but although I've watched every single episode of top gear from the Woolard era on I think TG of late was getting rather tiresome and stale. I've no idea how to make it better, but some youth and female input would help. Chris Evans was dire, but Matt Le blanc ok,

[sporty-shite]

Put an ad on a local FB group, you'll get some one who'll do it for almost nowt

This. I got the free-oh-six moved a similar distance for £30. Either that or get someone to drag you on a rope.

[strangeangel]

Would it be better if you watched it with the sound turned down and listened to some of your favourite music?

 

Why don't you try it and let us know? Oh wait, no, don't bother. I don't care.

[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.