The grumpy thread

[beko1987]

Just had a phone call that probably means I'm rebuilding rear calipers by torchlight tonight after work on the Meriva!

[sierraman]

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

I've looked this up, at 4am whilst doing a feed, Rod Hull fell off the roof adjusting the aerial due to the set giving a poor reception during the football. He went on the roof then slipped, falling off the roof hitting the ground via the Greenhouse located at the side of his house. Apparently adjusting the aerial was something he was known to be incessantly meddling about with, in fact there's footage on a documentary that actually shows him doing this. I can see this happening to me with that godforsaken loose guttering at the back of the house so I'd better get this sorted properly.

[sierraman]

Just had a phone call that probably means I'm rebuilding rear calipers by torchlight tonight after work on the Meriva!

Could be worse. You could be sat in the house in the warmth of an evening, can in hand, watching a series of old Top Gear episodes on YouTube.

[Negative Creep]

Or Tor, which is free.  Until they make that illegal too of course.

 

 

It's not my kind of thing, but seeing as Youtube allows people to post spanking videos I can't see the problem with it

[plasticvandan]

anyone else having problems with myhermes? ive got 4 parcels that were meant to be collected tuesday (3 of which for people on here) and still havent been picked up,usually the woman that picks up is here on the dot at 4.30,but all ive had is an email yesterday saying due to "record volumes" they might not be able to collect it.i refuse to take it to a drop off point as they suggested as ive paid for them to be collected.

[Sheefag]

I've looked this up, at 4am whilst doing a feed, Rod Hull fell off the roof adjusting the aerial due to the set giving a poor reception during the football. He went on the roof then slipped, falling off the roof hitting the ground via the Greenhouse located at the side of his house. Apparently adjusting the aerial was something he was known to be incessantly meddling about with, in fact there's footage on a documentary that actually shows him doing this. I can see this happening to me with that godforsaken loose guttering at the back of the house so I'd better get this sorted properly.

 

And don't take your Emu up there with you.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

.i refuse to take it to a drop off point as they suggested as ive paid for them to be collected.

 

Fair enough, just sit in all day then on the offchance that these sub-minimum-wage-paying shitehawks bother to turn up. That'll show em!

[plasticvandan]

being collected from work so noooo problems there

[nebuchenezer]

Arsebiscuits.

 

The BMW of much trustyness has been injured.

 

My beloved partner of many years has spent the last two of them driving round in my works auris hybrid with automatic everything. I have it this week to bump the mileage up because expenses.

 

Last nigh she departed a place, proceeded down an unlit country road and ran into a black mini that was parked up...........she forgot to turn on the headlights.

 

Deep Sigh! car was returned home, no injuries, damage to be assessed upon my return tomorrow with report to follow. Thankfully she is fully insured yada yada yada with a very small excess.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

She forgot the importance of seeing where she's going, I guess it's something we all take for granted...... er.... I think? I don't know actually.

[Supernaut]

Arsebiscuits.

 

The BMW of much trustyness has been injured.

 

My beloved partner of many years has spent the last two of them driving round in my works auris hybrid with automatic everything. I have it this week to bump the mileage up because expenses.

 

Last nigh she departed a place, proceeded down an unlit country road and ran into a black mini that was parked up...........she forgot to turn on the headlights.

 

Deep Sigh! car was returned home, no injuries, damage to be assessed upon my return tomorrow with report to follow. Thankfully she is fully insured yada yada yada with a very small excess.

 

See? All this new-fangled automatic toss is dumbing down driving!

 

ALL MODERNZ R SHIT.

[The Moog]

Lingering sicky bug can FRO.

 

Got tickets to see Jim Bob tonight and at the moment I feel like death. It comes in odd waves...

[Mr A Lawrence]

See? All this new-fangled automatic toss is dumbing down driving!

 

ALL MODERNZ R SHIT.

The fact that no light was seen shining down the unlit country road points to something else being SHIT.

[jakebullet]

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.

 

Er, clue me in at which point things get illegal? For research purposes of course...

 

a ) Lady watering the English countryside?

b ) Possession of videos of LWTEC?

c ) Making videos of LWTEC?

d ) Sticking them on the interwebs?

e ) Whatever they feel like making up this week.

[sierraman]

Is watching a woman squirt illegal? Whats so terrible about it? It's a sign of a job well done for me.

[Bren]

Lovely job in today . Every single brake pipe on a farmers mazda pick up .

On the plus side I've managed to get every nipple and union out so far

Now this does sound porn related.

[tooSavvy]

I have very very limited knowledge of the laws and rules of HGV driving (and I genuinely admire those that drive them for a living) but surely there's some sort of guidance on foreign* drivers parking like wankers?

I've just had to squeeze past some shoulder shrugging knobweasel who could have stopped all of ten foot further and not had the back of his trailer sticking out whilst he got unloaded.

*Bit Daily Mail that soz, but it does always seem to be French or Eastern European registered trucks that seem to do this.

Darlington, yesterday, Dutch flower lorry stopped just 'fucking totally in the fucking middle of the fucking lane - beached across the mini rbt - whilst flower shop staff run down street'... consideration all round!!

 

* have a Cunt - to maintain balance

 

 

TS

[jakebullet]

anyone else having problems with myhermes? ive got 4 parcels that were meant to be collected tuesday (3 of which for people on here) and still havent been picked up,usually the woman that picks up is here on the dot at 4.30,but all ive had is an email yesterday saying due to "record volumes" they might not be able to collect it.i refuse to take it to a drop off point as they suggested as ive paid for them to be collected.

 

It's the time of year where they hire any idiot with the right number of arms and legs. I've had to start boxing my stuff instead of bubble envelopes 'cos they've taken on a grunt who throws parcels across the street at his van from the parcelshop. Parcelshop staff are having to tell him how he's supposed to do the job, and he just swears at them in a foreign language and then does it wrong.

[Cavcraft]

Thanks for the list/description/mention of various pornographic acts or whatever, doesn't half make great* reading.

 

 

 

 

 

Sadly our sub 10,000 mile Navara diesel is bollocksed on the DPF front. I was made up ours was the only one not to have been troubled with it. It is now, and well and truly.

[Kiltox]

As long as it hasn't broken in half it's fine though right

[beko1987]

Spent 10 minutes defrosting the stupid vauxhall and it was fine on a quick blezz up the bypass, the handbrake mechanism must have defrosted. Doing some reading today it's very common for the cable to get water in, which freezes.

 

I spunked some Wd40 over the cable joins and moving arm to dispel any water, was tempted to spray the pads in it too but she'd have the kids in the car not just her the next time it's driven.

 

I said if it does it again just drive the fucker, it'll heat up enough to melt the ice eventually. Either way I'm glad I didn't just launch into a caliper fettle

[sierraman]

Could you pump a thin grease into the cable sheathing?

[beko1987]

I can't see any visible cracks though, it must be wicking it's way in. But that's a good idea, I have a can of spray grease if I can find an opening big enough for the straw

 

Too cold to care too much tonight, and it was a different sort of frost this morning, thick and icy rather than light and fluffy. If it happens again tomorrow I'll have it apart on Saturday after my mot and have a proper look. It needs new rear calipers and pads early next year anyway

[cobblers]

Fuckin hell fire I've just had our lass screaming at me that we've been "FUCKING CONNED AND TAKEN FOR A PAIR OF MUGS" because the plasterer I got in cost about £150 more than he should have and has left a few scropes down the walls and a bit of a lump on the ceiling.

Apparently it's all my fault because instead of using a bloke who did a good job for us in the kitchen, she said we should have tried to find someone else completely unknown off the internet or something, because they might have been cheaper.

She's just spent 90 minutes arguing with me about it. Instead of getting 90 minutes of earache I could have mixed up a tub of filler and sorted the lot but instead I had to pretend like she wasn't being a complete headcase about it.

Obviously she knows absolutely fuck all about DIY but she's got a mate who's husband has done a few houses up and she says they only usually pay £350 to plaster a room. Presumably those rooms aren't as wonky and fucked or as big as ours was but that's irrelevant.

[Cavcraft]

As long as it hasn't broken in half it's fine though right

 

We probably won't have it that long, it's a couple of years old (I think) and has done less than 10,000 miles. Which is what's killing it. 

[robinmasters]

I've looked this up, at 4am whilst doing a feed, Rod Hull fell off the roof adjusting the aerial due to the set giving a poor reception during the football. He went on the roof then slipped, falling off the roof hitting the ground via the Greenhouse located at the side of his house. Apparently adjusting the aerial was something he was known to be incessantly meddling about with, in fact there's footage on a documentary that actually shows him doing this. I can see this happening to me with that godforsaken loose guttering at the back of the house so I'd better get this sorted properly.

 

Given his profession you'd think he'd have been able to connect a long thin stick to the thing, or maybe some strings, and operate it from a distance. 

[sierraman]

Fuckin hell fire I've just had our lass screaming at me that we've been "FUCKING CONNED AND TAKEN FOR A PAIR OF MUGS" because the plasterer I got in cost about £150 more than he should have and has left a few scropes down the walls and a bit of a lump on the ceiling.

Apparently it's all my fault because instead of using a bloke who did a good job for us in the kitchen, she said we should have tried to find someone else completely unknown off the internet or something, because they might have been cheaper.

She's just spent 90 minutes arguing with me about it. Instead of getting 90 minutes of earache I could have mixed up a tub of filler and sorted the lot but instead I had to pretend like she wasn't being a complete headcase about it.

Obviously she knows absolutely fuck all about DIY but she's got a mate who's husband has done a few houses up and she says they only usually pay £350 to plaster a room. Presumably those rooms aren't as wonky and fucked or as big as ours was but that's irrelevant.

Depends. Did it need relining? Was there a problem with damp? I don't know where you live but you are talking £250-300 to plaster a room but if there's more remedial work to be done then obviously it's more. I'd hardly say you've been conned. £150 does not go far in tradesman hours.

 

If you are generally happy with it and the problems are very minor I.e you could sort it yourself I'd just put it down to experience. Women love this idea of 'project managing' stuff, it just gets the back up of the people you've got working for you.

[beko1987]

We probably won't have it that long, it's a couple of years old (I think) and has done less than 10,000 miles. Which is what's killing it.

This is exactly the argument I put to amy as to why she doesn't want a diesel to Potter 8 miles here 5 miles there and very rarely 20 miles. Wouldn't last 5 minutes.

 

But you have a diesel... " yes but A I do 250 miles a week and B it's old and not saddled with the stuff that makes them shit themselves. Want a zx love? Thought not...

[Kiltox]

We probably won't have it that long, it's a couple of years old (I think) and has done less than 10,000 miles. Which is what's killing it.

That's fucking awful though - I don't expect ANY trouble with such a new vehicle outside of stuff that is blatantly just snagging

[Kiltox]

This is exactly the argument I put to amy as to why she doesn't want a diesel to Potter 8 miles here 5 miles there and very rarely 20 miles. Wouldn't last 5 minutes.

 

But you have a diesel... " yes but A I do 250 miles a week and B it's old and not saddled with the stuff that makes them shit themselves. Want a zx love? Thought not...

STFU and be thankful for your Meriva love