The grumpy thread

[DodgeRover]

It's fucking unbelievable, honestly!

 

In the old van I got stuck on some wet grass with a trailer on the back. I called our linesmen who were just around the corner with their Land Rover for a quick tow just to get off the grass.

When they arrived we needed to find the screw in towing eye for their tow rope... yep, the stupid sods had taken that out too!

Open both doors chuck a strop through at hinge level and yank it like that! Serves the buggers right if you bend something.

[puddlethumper]

Guess it depends on the particular car - the Pug 205 cables they sell are the OE "Dura" branded cables but a Firstline bag for example (well, the BE3 ones are/were anyway)

Its a plug 305. 3 days and its pulled through the bulk head. Someone I know with an estate had 4 do the same in three weeks. They replace them, but with the same crap. whats the effing point?

[DodgeRover]

Synthetic urea I'm sure.

Pig piss imported from the battery farms in the Netherlands I was told.

[danthecapriman]

Open both doors chuck a strop through at hinge level and yank it like that! Serves the buggers right if you bend something.

I prefer to use high strength structural items for towing. Like the door mirrors or wiper arms!

[Cavcraft]

Tried cycling into work today. Christ I'm unfit. Not sure if it was the 'wet January' I did where I drank at least a bottle of wine or 4 cans of beer a day, to drown out the sound of the people doing a 'dry January' smelling their own farts and congratulating themselves for not getting pissed, or if its just age catching up with me.

 

Had to get off and walk twice when I got to hills as my legs turned to jelly. I'm absolutely savaged.

 

Plus, despite taking the canal which is flat, it took me approx 10 minutes longer to ride along it on the way back for some reason. I must have just been absolutely borked from riding in the morning.

 

Going to try again next week but am worrying its all downhill from here now I'm middle aged (health and fitness wise, not cycling, if it was all downhill on the bike all the way MC Escher stylee that would be GR12). 

 

Saying that, I've just finished off a can of lager and I'm feeling a lot better. Maybe I should put some of that in my bottle instead of water to pep me up on the way home.

 

Are you riding to work because you really want to, or because you feel like you should? If it's the latter (which I'd humbly suggest it was, as you mentioned taking 10 minutes longer), you'll struggle I reckon as you aren't enjoying it so are probably just trying to get there/back as soon as possible, which is never a good thing imho. Leave a bit earlier than you think you'd need to, slow down a touch and just enjoy a steady ride without trying to break any records.

[HillmanImp]

I actually want to as I HATE getting the train, plus as my parents always say 'a bike is the only thing we ever bought you that wasn't a total waste on money. Everything else you got bored with after 10 minutes but we were never able to keep you off that bike'.

 

Its a nice ride along the canal too. I see all sorts of wild animals (flock of canada geese in Rodley this morning right over my head) and its quite idylic, although I do put my foot down most of the time, as its a long way and I don't want to spend my whole day travelling.

 

Putting my thinking hat on, it was probably made worse tonight by the fact that as I slept in a bit this morning I didn't set off as early as planned, so couldn't set off home till quarter past five so it was getting really dark by the time I got back, which might explain the extra time. I cycled into a tree branch on the floor near Apperley Bridge and nearly ended up in the canal as the light was that poor.

 

I used to ride in all the time at my last job. This one is probably about 4k further away though and I will probably need to ease myself back into it but I've never been this knackered before. 

 

I did the Dragons back in Coed Y Brenin a few months back and hit the same wall I hit today though. I put that down to alcohol consumption the night before but was surprised to get it again today despite not having kept up with my fitness for a while.

 

Hopefully with some Percy Verance I can built myself back up but its probably a bit of a shock that this the first time my fitness needs to be worked on rather than it being a given I guess.

[Lacquer Peel]

Pig piss imported from the battery farms in the Netherlands I was told.

It'd be difficult to harvest and synthetic urea is mass produced and relatively cheap.

I doubt if there's any pig piss in Adblue but I wouldn't put it past the sadistic livestock industry to find some use for pig piss.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Engineered like no other car in the World.

[HillmanImp]

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Engineered like no other car in the World.

 

He had probably just pulled over onto the side of the road, obstructing traffic to make a fucking phone call.

[cort16]

I think thats norfolkingweighbridges own car. Hope its nothing too serious?

[Lacquer Peel]

I think that's NorfolkNWeigh's own car.

[HillmanImp]

Ah, sorry. After I posted I did think about where the photograph was taken but just assumed you came across it whilst ambling along the side of the road with a can of Special Brew with a DVD player under your arm to take to Cash Converters. I didn't know anyone on here owned such a prestige motor vehicle. 

[Guest Hooli]

Do Cash Converters pay out for Special Brew?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

This thing is pissing me off now.

Two weeks to the day after spending £788.50 on a new transmission ecu, the engine just stopped whilst driving at 60 mph.

RAC revealed airflow codes, a quick call to Merc specialist ( I refuse to say "indie"- too pissedonheads) had them advise RAC guy to disconnect boost pipe, which enabled me to go home with no boost.

Not the end of the world , but I've lost faith in this thing, I'm looking at Jag XFs and Chrysler 300s on Autotrader at the moment. Fuck the Fritzes !

[garbaldy]

Don't worry it wouldn't have broken down as German stuff is ultra reliable you know.

Even the Germans we met hated them and preferred Audi and Opel.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Don't worry it wouldn't have broken down as German stuff is ultra reliable you know.

Even the Germans we met hated them and preferred Audi and Opel.

Funny you should say that , almost every German I speak to drives an Audi.

[garbaldy]

Funny you should say that , almost every German I speak to drives an Audi.

Yup on our fun* filled german adventure they did nowt but slag the broken Merc off.

[Coprolalia]

Continuing the theme of broken Fritz cars, ze Skudder is irritating. It's developing slight cam cover incontinence which is just fine.

This evening I drove to that there London. En route the indicator relay developed an intermittent fault, where at random intervals the bastard thing ticks like a maniac. It can be quiet for 5 mins and just when you're least suspecting... Clickclickclickclickclick. Deranged cricket. Arse!

 

TADTS.

[xtriple]

Picked up a bit of plasterboard from Jewsons the other day and needed to cut it in half to get it in the car, When I asked the warehouse guys if they had a knife I could use they said "Sorry we are not allowed knives, We might cut ourselves" .... So I had to go into the shop and buy one.... I don't think asking if it was not dangerous to sell knives went down too well...

 

It may have been a mate of mine who got this stupid idea implemented: he was cutting a plaster board for a customer, was distracted and sliced right through his hand below the thumb and across the palm, operations and much time off work. Yes, he did (and still does) work for Jewsons.

[twosmoke300]

Continuing the theme of broken Fritz cars, ze Skudder is irritating. It's developing slight cam cover incontinence which is just fine.

This evening I drove to that there London. En route the indicator relay developed an intermittent fault, where at random intervals the bastard thing ticks like a maniac. It can be quiet for 5 mins and just when you're least suspecting... Clickclickclickclickclick. Deranged cricket. Arse!

 

TADTS.

That's usually the indicator stalk switch playing up

[Lankytim]

At our place we're not allowed to do anything remotely dangerous. Even getting in and out of the lorry has a strict procedure that must be adhered to. A guy was recently suspended for climbing onto a trailer to release a trapped strap. Sent home on the spot and may even lose his job over it.

[michael1703]

I've got a cold, I never get ill, it's annoying as I survived January working at 1.6 Celsius for most of it without layers and swimming in the North Sea and now the weathers better I get a bloody cold.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I don't like football and I know very little about it but that thing with Leicester sacking their manager bloke just because the team are doing crap is bollocks.

 

Its the players that kick the ball not him and it was him that got them in the top league in the first place. Why not show some loyalty and support instead of just getting rid of them?

 

If it was like this in rugby league we'd be changing coaches every other week (and we change them enough as it is)

[billyboy406v6]

This thing is pissing me off now.

Two weeks to the day after spending £788.50 on a new transmission ecu, the engine just stopped whilst driving at 60 mph.

RAC revealed airflow codes, a quick call to Merc specialist ( I refuse to say "indie"- too pissedonheads) had them advise RAC guy to disconnect boost pipe, which enabled me to go home with no boost.

Not the end of the world , but I've lost faith in this thing, I'm looking at Jag XFs and Chrysler 300s on Autotrader at the moment. Fuck the Fritzes !

At least the hazard flashers are reliable ?

[wuvvum]

Its the players that kick the ball not him and it was him that got them in the top league in the first place.

Is that not a contradiction right there?  (sorry, I also know fuck all about football and care even less.)

[wuvvum]

NFnW, I think the fates are trying to tell you that now is the time to do what you should have done in the first place.

 

[AlabamaShrimp]

Is that not a contradiction right there? (sorry, I also know fuck all about football and care even less.)

It might be but you know what i mean. Players do good, he's a hero*, same players do same things as before he gets fired.

[EssDeeWon]

I don't like football and I know very little about it but that thing with Leicester sacking their manager bloke just because the team are doing crap is bollocks.

 

Its the players that kick the ball not him and it was him that got them in the top league in the first place. Why not show some loyalty and support instead of just getting rid of them?

 

If it was like this in rugby league we'd be changing coaches every other week (and we change them enough as it is)

 

No doubt more going on behind the scenes but like in almost any industry your only as good as your previous weeks / months performance.

 

Also, football is now about money and owners panic about the thought of relegation, which as it stood Leicester were going down.  They haven't scored a league goal in 2017 !!!

 

Do I feel sorry for any sacked PL football manager? No, they are paid off with millions and will get another job paying £2/3/4 million a year soon.

[Vin]

No doubt more going on behind the scenes but like in almost any industry your only as good as your previous weeks / months performance.

 

Also, football is now about money and owners panic about the thought of relegation, which as it stood Leicester were going down.  They haven't scored a league goal in 2017 !!!

 

Do I feel sorry for any sacked PL football manager? No, they are paid off with millions and will get another job paying £2/3/4 million a year soon.

 

This. It's frustrating when managers are not given enough time, but with the pay offs they get you should never feel sorry for them...

 

I know he's marmite, but the same 'media furore' didn't follow Jose Mourinho's sacking the season after winning the league with Chelsea.

[richardmorris]

I don't like football and I know very little about it but that thing with Leicester sacking their manager bloke just because the team are doing crap is bollocks.

Its the players that kick the ball not him and it was him that got them in the top league in the first place. Why not show some loyalty and support instead of just getting rid of them?

If it was like this in rugby league we'd be changing coaches every other week (and we change them enough as it is)

 

My next door neighbour is upset. She is from Leicester and just had the reg L16 WON put on her new ML panzer command vehicle.