The grumpy thread

[Tamworthbay]

You're right, shouldn't take grumps on this thread too seriously.   I am British, just been living over here for a few years, maybe my powers of being grumpily pedantic are fading...

That's the spirit, start moaning about something for no good reason, preferably a minority of some sort and you will feel all British again!

[EssDeeWon]

Sold an iPad on ebay, sold straight away for a decent price but I stated collection only and cash because I am not dealing with those McRobbers Paypal after holding onto my money last time.  Bidder has good feedback but its like dealing with a 5 year old. They live the best part of a 2 hour drive away so I offered collection in central london.  Great said 5 year old person, but not heard anything since despite giving them my phone number.  Problem is I now have ebay fee's pending for 28 sovs otherwise I'd tell them to do one.

 

Hate dealing with stupid people with no communication skills.

[Kiltox]

Fuck cars.

 

Rover has a dead battery so my attempt to move it inside out of the weather failed miserably

 

C3 that is booked in for a test tomorrow so I can sell the hateful thing has shit it's gear linkage so I can't select reverse

 

Toyota I'm going to take for a test instead hasn't a hope in hell of passing and has decided it doesn't have a working heater so demisting it in sub zero temperatures is pretty much impossible

 

Fucksake

[Richard]

C3 gear linkage will be an outer cable come adrift at the gearbox end, you might be able to stick it back in if it's not too mangled. Before I replaced the C5's cable I had an elaborate system of jubilee clips holding it in place, hanging from the exhaust manifold IIRC.

[Kiltox]

I'll try and get it inside so I can have a look - might be a bit difficult sans reverse mind

[robinmasters]

This bloody advert.

 

 

What exactly is she supposed to be fixing, at the roadside, without getting oily, with only a ~2“ combination spanner?

[Guest Hooli]

I've been woken up between 2-3am for the last 4 nights by whatever now lives in the walls of my house. I heard it run across the floor of the spare room above my bedroom last night and estimate it to be the size of a cat or small dog. Probably rats.

 

There are deffo mice because I woke up on Sunday night to hear something rustling around under the bedside cabinet, looked under with a torch to find a mouse which panicked and ran straight into a trap, it's the only one I've managed to catch in nearly two years of living here...

 

You don't normally get rats and mice. Rats will eat the mice ya see....

 

I had rats in the walls once, walking up to the noise of them in the bin at the bottom of my bed wasn't a nice way to spend most nights.

[Pillock]

If vegans are going to refuse to touch five pound notes because of Tallow, then to my knowledge they also need to steer clear of bike and car tyres, bank cards, and bin liners. So they need to walk to the bank to draw all their money out over the counter in coins, and eat their own rubbish.

 

Pretty sure it's a waste product, but there's already a petition started which presumably means the BoE will have to buckle to some ignorant gobshites, and the animal processors will start chucking waste tallow into landfill.

 

Fuck vegans. Sorry if anyone on here is vegan - and actually, if you are then well done because you apparently manage to be the best kind of vegan; one that just gets on with it and has changed their lifestyle in the way they wanted. Honestly, I salute you, I'm not taking the piss. You're brilliant, because I have no idea who you are.

So actually, fuck vegans who wish to press their lifestyle onto others. The ones that stand in the city centre holding placards with pictures of cruelty on (clue: just because you got it printed onto some cardboard doesn't make it true), who try and stop you for a conversation and then heckle you if you don't play ball, who spend all night on Twitter searching for people tweeting McDonalds/KFC/Lidl or whoever the target is this week and bombard them with crap. 

[Pillock]

Aaawwwww man now you've got me started. Next up: fuck internet censorship and tracking. Just found out we're well on the way to blocking "unconventional" porn sites. Not going to go into what that does and doesn't cover, but it's nothing illegal - just not straightforward stuff. 

So what does this mean? Well, firstly sites will have to apply to be reviewed by the BBFC, a board of old people deciding what law-abiding people can and can't watch in their own homes. 

Secondly, welcome to China. First, blocking "unconventional" porn. Next, blocking anything else that might be edgy. How long before the government-run web blockers selectively filter political news? How long before, I dunno, Google.com is blocked so you have to use Google.co.uk and all the celebrities that have had searches removed don't show up? Or Netflix bung the government some cash to prevent access to their foreign servers that quite frankly are 100x better than the UK film selection.

 

The list of people who will be allowed access to the sites you visit is long and varied too. FFS, the Department for Work and Pensions will have access, so prepare to have your benefits stopped if you've been on a travel website to book a holiday. I can't even begin to imagine why the Food Standards Agency has access to your browsing history, but they will.

 

Lastly, it just shows that the government's ideas about how the internet works is massively skewed, and that simply signing up for a £30pa VPN gets around all that - something that people into their donkey porn, or home made rocket launchers, are already doing.

[DodgeRover]

Aaawwwww man now you've got me started. Next up: fuck internet censorship and tracking. Just found out we're well on the way to blocking "unconventional" porn sites. Not going to go into what that does and doesn't cover, but it's nothing illegal - just not straightforward stuff. 

So what does this mean? Well, firstly sites will have to apply to be reviewed by the BBFC, a board of old people deciding what law-abiding people can and can't watch in their own homes. 

Secondly, welcome to China. First, blocking "unconventional" porn. Next, blocking anything else that might be edgy. How long before the government-run web blockers selectively filter political news? How long before, I dunno, Google.com is blocked so you have to use Google.co.uk and all the celebrities that have had searches removed don't show up? Or Netflix bung the government some cash to prevent access to their foreign servers that quite frankly are 100x better than the UK film selection.

 

The list of people who will be allowed access to the sites you visit is long and varied too. FFS, the Department for Work and Pensions will have access, so prepare to have your benefits stopped if you've been on a travel website to book a holiday. I can't even begin to imagine why the Food Standards Agency has access to your browsing history, but they will.

 

Lastly, it just shows that the government's ideas about how the internet works is massively skewed, and that simply signing up for a £30pa VPN gets around all that - something that people into their donkey porn, or home made rocket launchers, are already doing.

 

I have a feeling that a certain former Prime Ministers intimate moment with a pigs head might fall under the unconventional, after all the pig didn't give consent, could there be a tape of the alleged incident about to be made public hence the need to cover it up?

[M'coli]

Unconventional porn includes micturation (pissing) and female ejaculation, but from what I can gather, 2 men in the wrong 'un is fine...

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Good to know

[Pillock]

Two *whole* men?

[cort1977]

Aaawwwww man now you've got me started. Next up: fuck internet censorship and tracking. Just found out we're well on the way to blocking "unconventional" porn sites. Not going to go into what that does and doesn't cover, but it's nothing illegal - just not straightforward stuff. 

So what does this mean? Well, firstly sites will have to apply to be reviewed by the BBFC, a board of old people deciding what law-abiding people can and can't watch in their own homes. 

Secondly, welcome to China. First, blocking "unconventional" porn. Next, blocking anything else that might be edgy. How long before the government-run web blockers selectively filter political news? How long before, I dunno, Google.com is blocked so you have to use Google.co.uk and all the celebrities that have had searches removed don't show up? Or Netflix bung the government some cash to prevent access to their foreign servers that quite frankly are 100x better than the UK film selection.

 

The list of people who will be allowed access to the sites you visit is long and varied too. FFS, the Department for Work and Pensions will have access, so prepare to have your benefits stopped if you've been on a travel website to book a holiday. I can't even begin to imagine why the Food Standards Agency has access to your browsing history, but they will.

 

Lastly, it just shows that the government's ideas about how the internet works is massively skewed, and that simply signing up for a £30pa VPN gets around all that - something that people into their donkey porn, or home made rocket launchers, are already doing.

Not just skewed but just wrong, you're totally right but I am comforted by the thought that efforts at censorship and prohibition usually fail.   It may have the benefit of making unconventional enthusiasts more tech-literate setting up their VPNs and Tor software.

[tinribs]

Unconventional porn includes micturation (pissing) and female ejaculation, but from what I can gather, 2 men in the wrong 'un is fine...

Face-sitting is also a no-no, so I read elsewhere.

 

So the usual Jap bukkake spunkfest is fine, but a girl squirting from a strong orgasm isn't.

 

Equal rights and all that shite. Yay.

[Cavcraft]

I get the opposite problem up here at night, cyclists here seem to use as ww2 searchlights on their bike and 1 million watt led head torches.I'm sure the rear lights they have are surplus stock from Edinburgh airport.

 

That'll be me. I'd rather see and be seen, than either getting knocked off or fall into a BFO pot hole. If car drivers can have blinding xenons and go round with their fucking fog lights on in normal weather conditions, why can't I be allowed to see where I'm going? 

Incidentally (not necessarily aimed at you) but if you drive dangerously close to a cyclist some of us might put our 2,000,000 watt front lights onto the strobe setting and aim that at your rear view mirror.

 

Why are they not subject to insurance either? If one runs into your car he can play the poverty card and get away with it. I don't think a premium of say £150 year would be unreasonable to charge.

 

These head cams they have on as well, going off like they are the ambassadors of the bloody road, meting out 'justice' on their boring YouTube videos of their blinkered approach to common courtesy. I always enjoy the ones where they get a pasting off somebody.

 

That's fair enough, but as your car is going to do 100 times the damage to my bike if you hit me then I don't think an insurance premium of £15,000 would be unreasonable to charge.

[Eddie Honda]

 

 

Ffs. Have you told her its 3 points plus a fine (£150?) PER tyre? FPN is £200 + 3 points. (On 16 Aug 2013 it went up from £120)

I thought the fine was £1000 per tyre? Naw, Level 4 fine per offence: up to £2500 + 3 points (A Level 4 fine has been two-and-a-half bags since 1 Oct 1992. It was a grand before then)

 

That's an "up to" amount. Depends how gobby she gets with the police beak (but financial circumstances are taken into account).

 

Ah come on lads, keep up now!

[dave21478]

The unconventional porn blocking is one thing.....apparently 3 fingers up a minge is fine, but 4 is unacceptable....its the spying and logging thats the real bad news.

Tinfoil hat wearers would suggest that they have simply made official what they have been doing anyway, and they are probably not wrong, but its an exceedingly dangerous, slipperly slope to allow benefits agencies, health providers etc access to peoples browsing history, apparently without need for any kind of warrant or even good reason....just free, unlimited access. There is literally no good reason for this.

 

It doesnt apply to politicians though - they dont get their internet history logged or snooped. Talk about "them and us"".....

 

Of all the shit that has gone down over recent years, its THIS that should have the entire nation protesting in the streets and kicking down the gates of parliament, but as usual its some grumbling on forums and a .gov petition to stop the charter.....signing that is basically painting a target on your head ffs.

[Cheggers]

 

 

.....apparently 3 fingers up a minge is fine, but 4 is unacceptable

 

KitKat porn is never acceptable.

 

 

 

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[Cheggers]

The problem with the whole "cyclists" discussion is often the use of language.

 

If someone sees a driver doing something daft it's usually "that guy's a twat"

 

If the same person (my brother, for example) sees a cyclist doing something daft it's usually "cyclists are twats"

 

For some reason we're able to view drivers as individuals, with individual flaws but cyclists only as a group, all with the bad attributes of the worst examples.

 

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[sierraman]

I remember years ago watching a bloke have his entire arm up a birds arse. I believe they still do re runs of Rod Hull and Emu on U.K. Gold.

 

I think the big problem these days isn't some bloke sat at home bashing one out over a pair of lesbians sat in a taxi, it's Facebook which seemingly provides an anonymous platform for paedophiles to approach young people.

[Sheefag]

What was Rod Hull thinking, taking that fucking Emu onto the roof to fix the telly aerial?

[sierraman]

It had him over the edge probably. Fucking thing.

[Sheefag]

One wonders if an 'Emu Wank' would fall foul of the new filters.

[Lankytim]

Diesel PT cruisers are suppose to use a gel battery hidden under the passenger seat, except a previous owner of mine has bodged in a lead acid item and there's that weird corroded fur all over the place from spilt acid, plus the carpet has melted.

 

Anyone know of a place I can get a cheap gel battery from? They seem to range from £150 to £300!

[Des]

It's porn today but what will get restricted tomorrow? Going to be quiet round here when everyone who's mentioned moderns r shit gets rounded up.

[AMC Rebel]

People, well vegans and vegetarians anyway, who are "outraged" as there are traces of animal products in the new fiver. Is this really all you've got to worry about in life? FFS.

 

Tell you what Veronica Vegan of Islington, if you don't like the bloody things send them to me and I'll give them a good home in my free range money sanctuary.

 

 

No vegan complaint can ever eclipse PandaSelecta with his SAAB 900, 'for sale as my vegan friends will not travel in it due to having leather seats'

 

 

I remember that! That lad was a massive source of LOLS.

 

I think there is more to worry about on the hands of the last person to touch the note than some possible sheep fat used in its manufacture.

 

 

The Vegan bloke I used to work with at the garage used to moan at me when I used the soap.  I was washing my hands to make us a brew after I'd finished cleaning the bogs FFS.

[Guest Hooli]

Well vegan food is shit.

[nigel bickle]

Panda selecta! What a hoot that man is!

 

He recently bought an early Fiat 124 - which seems to have rust issues! Who'd have thought it, of a 60s Fiat?

 

Anyway, I have the panels he needs, so I offered them - fairly cheap.

Nope, surface rust on original panels is no good, thanks so he headed off elsewhere.

 

C'ept there isn't an elsewhere, so back he came. I offered to help by sanding any area he chose, to show original unpitted metal, then re prime. He wanted all of both panels done..at a lower price.

 

I really can't be bothered. If someone had the original panels I need, I'd certainly not try to keep pissing him off. Especially as I became aware of the plethora of useful bits available.

 

Nope, so he's bleating on RR, and when he can't get the stuff it'll doubtless go back up for sale, with a dubious description

 

So, the long term question is - do I want another Fiat 124? Nah! Just can't be arsed.

But if anyone else here needs wings, sills, inner wings etc- you know who has some!

[Cheggers]

Well vegan food is shit.

Unlikely, given the animal involvement

 

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