The grumpy thread

[bramz7]

Those bloody wanted posts on car selling pages on Facebook.

 

'Hello I have £2k to spend, what is out there?!?!' 

 

Just scroll down you dumbass. And then all the comments on said post are people offering up £500 bangers for huge markup. Does anyone actually buy anything that is suggested?

[Eddie Honda]

I are puzzled. No mention of this on either my local Lidl's web site, OR the site when I put Doncaster as the store location. Can you say what store you bought from?

Special Buy for it was end of January - while stocks last. You just have to go in to you local(s) and see if they have any left - or wait until the next time it's on. Some stuff flies out the door on the day and other stuff shuffles its way towards the front of the store and into the bargain bin.

 

https://www.offerscheck.co.uk/parkside-bench-pillar-drill/lidl/2017/kw-5/672800

[Cavcraft]

Those bloody wanted posts on car selling pages on Facebook.

 

'Hello I have £2k to spend, what is out there?!?!' 

 

Just scroll down you dumbass. And then all the comments on said post are people offering up £500 bangers for huge markup. Does anyone actually buy anything that is suggested?

 

Right on, brother. I don't think a single thread creator has ever actually bought a car this way (they're probably hoping for a Mk2 Escort Mexico for £35, then try and bid them down) but they are quite good if you're selling a car or after one yourself sometimes.

[Kiltox]

Price of scraps real low at the moment innit Cav, I'll give you £7.26 for that Mexico bruv

[Guest Hooli]

I are puzzled. No mention of this on either my local Lidl's web site, OR the site when I put Doncaster as the store location. Can you say what store you bought from?

Doncaster. They had eight or so left on monday when I last went in.

[anonymous user]

I are puzzled. No mention of this on either my local Lidl's web site, OR the site when I put Doncaster as the store location. Can you say what store you bought from?

They still had some in my local one this morning ( Bridgend)

[daveb47]

Got mine from Aldi,but that was ages ago,

[chaseracer]

Well, shit...

 

[Lacquer Peel]

Dislike.

[chaseracer]

At least I managed to keep the door out of it this time, unlike when I did the same thing to the Blingo... #twatracer

[Tickman]

Well, shit...

 

Not good

[dave21478]

Its blowing an absolute bastard here tonight. Le met office have issued extreme weather warnings for the area.

 

Coming back from town on a narrow country lane I saw hazard lights up ahead. Turned out to be two school buses sitting in the road, progress blocked by a fallen tree. It wasnt massive so me and the two bus drivers tried to shift it by hand, but the broken end had speared into the soft verge and it was stuck. I was in the MGF so none of my hairdressing accessories were any use to the situation. If I had been in the Mazda I have straps and shackles and pry bars and macho stuff like that so could have dragged it, but that wasnt to be.

 

Eventually a farmer turned up with a chainsaw and we had it cleared quick enough.

 

Got home to find some of the house roof tiles have fucked off already and now the garage roof is lifting quite alarmingly with each big gust. Its only sheets of wiggly tin screwed and nailed into the beams, so not too secure.

 

Got to laugh/feel sorry for the guy two doors down who has only just replaced all the windows in his massive greenhouse after the last storm and they have all been blown out again.

[Alexg]

I've just had Clubland TV on for 20 minutes. Toilet. Remember in the 1990's when even terrible dance music was kind of good?

[dave21478]

I think I have said this before on here, but dance music peaked at about 1997 for me.

 

There is a lot of really, really good stuff on the go these days, but its so hard to find it amongst the deluge of mass market dross.

 

I find Pete Tong to be a good indicator....listening to his show right now and shazaming the fuck out of some of the tunes and adding the decent stuff to a spotify playlist if its listed on there, which brings up similar stuff as suggestions.

[Alexg]

More a moan about commercial Clubland dance music. Sort of generic eurotrash that has a bouncy beat and some soppy lyrics but no substance. I wonder how this even has a market. 

[Alexg]

Just stuck Pete Tong on btw, nice one

[DeeJay]

More a moan about commercial Clubland dance music. Sort of generic eurotrash that has a bouncy beat and some soppy lyrics but no substance. I wonder how this even has a market. 

That pretty much sums up the last 40 years of "Dance music".

[Alexg]

[Mr_Bo11ox]

'That new-fangled music, its too loud and you can't hear the words' etc

[Mr A Lawrence]

Enough said......

 

[Vin]

I quite enjoyed 6Music playing 1994 music yesterday.

[Eddie Honda]

RONG FRED Vin! (I quite enjoyed Fat Harry White spreading a little luurrve in the afternoon back on Valentine's Day.)

[trigger]

I don't know what wrong with me at the moment, my shite mojo is all over the place, i really fancy another little project to do up and even agreed to buy Dans Granada but I've had a serious dose of the doubts, i honestly think having my Astra stolen last year has fucked me up a bit, i now feel like everything i own is going to get stolen again and i almost feel like it don't deserve anything nice as it might end up the same way as that Astra.

 

I know this sounds daft but thats the main reason I've back out of this sale, I've sat at work on nights thinking over and over about it and I'm so paranoid it will happen again. That combined with a few bad experiences in recent times of travelling long distances to look at stuff only to find that seller was a lying twat has really left me feeling like i can't be fucked with it all.

 

I'm sure this is just a phase but i need to sort this out as it ruining my one real hobby and passion.

[cort16]

Having a car stolen from your drive is not a nice thing to have happen so it's understandable.

I used to take the king lead out the car every night so even if they got in it they're not going anywhere .

[dave21478]

More a moan about commercial Clubland dance music. Sort of generic eurotrash that has a bouncy beat and some soppy lyrics but no substance. I wonder how this even has a market. 

 

Americans.

They got hold of it, started calling it "EDM" and acting like they invented it ten years ago. Instant deluge of whiny pish as everyone cashed in on the trend.

[taxi paul]

I know what you mean. I feel like getting something small to blast about in now and again. The honda cavcraft"s got looks OK. My lad said I can have his prelude when he gets a newer car. But I just think about the cost of running it and then can't be arsed. It's for that reason I haven't bought anything yet. My jap bus has a family vehicle is unbeatable. But has a driver's car is a bit Meh. I do like a nice saloon and keep looking at honda accords. Whatever I may get has to be auto. I shall keep looking but probably won't get anything. I may have a better idea when I start fostering again and so have some income. I have agrend to do holiday cover for other carers so should start getting grumpy teenagers soon, well in two weeks to be precise.

[dave21478]

Not realy a grump as such, but following last nights extreme wind, I woke up to perfect calm. I opened the shutters and found 5 inches of snow and more falling hard and fast.

 

I should really get to work and check for damage, so chucked a shovel in the Mazda and set off. 

Yeah, no, fuck that. I got a couple of miles and had to turn back as the snow was so deep it was just skidding along on its sump guard with the steering doing not much at all.

 

It was sixteen degrees three days ago.

 

[Cavcraft]

I don't know what wrong with me at the moment, my shite mojo is all over the place, i really fancy another little project to do up and even agreed to buy Dans Granada but I've had a serious dose of the doubts, i honestly think having my Astra stolen last year has fucked me up a bit, i now feel like everything i own is going to get stolen again and i almost feel like it don't deserve anything nice as it might end up the same way as that Astra.

 

I know this sounds daft but thats the main reason I've back out of this sale, I've sat at work on nights thinking over and over about it and I'm so paranoid it will happen again. That combined with a few bad experiences in recent times of travelling long distances to look at stuff only to find that seller was a lying twat has really left me feeling like i can't be fucked with it all.

 

I'm sure this is just a phase but i need to sort this out as it ruining my one real hobby and passion.

 

It's horrible when you have something stolen, plays with your mind. Nowhere near the same a car of course, but the first 'proper' cycle I bought (about 4 years ago now) got stolen and it changed me, as mad as it sounds. I absolutely loved that bike and wanted to keep it forever, had done a couple of thousand miles on it, spent weeks deliberating over various ones and once I'd put a deposit down and it arrived, it was honestly like one of the best days of my life. Since it's been stolen I've had bikes that cost 5 times as much that were almost works of art, but nothing ever has excited me or floated my boat as much since. That's why when I find who took it I'm going to (repeatedly) use a lump hammer to break their hands.

[oldcars]

I think I have said this before on here, but dance music peaked at about 1997 for me.

 

There is a lot of really, really good stuff on the go these days, but its so hard to find it amongst the deluge of mass market dross.

 

I find Pete Tong to be a good indicator....listening to his show right now and shazaming the fuck out of some of the tunes and adding the decent stuff to a spotify playlist if its listed on there, which brings up similar stuff as suggestions.

Will just leave this here.

Best track ever.

[Supernaut]

It's horrible when you have something stolen, plays with your mind. Nowhere near the same a car of course, but the first 'proper' cycle I bought (about 4 years ago now) got stolen and it changed me, as mad as it sounds. I absolutely loved that bike and wanted to keep it forever, had done a couple of thousand miles on it, spent weeks deliberating over various ones and once I'd put a deposit down and it arrived, it was honestly like one of the best days of my life. Since it's been stolen I've had bikes that cost 5 times as much that were almost works of art, but nothing ever has excited me or floated my boat as much since. That's why when I find who took it I'm going to (repeatedly) use a lump hammer to break their hands.

Not on the same scale, but my first car was broken into twice. The first time they broke 2 windows, the second time they bent the front passenger door away from the body. It was a mark 1 Peugeot 306. Both times, they never managed to steal anything. However, on the second break-in, the fucking scrotes smashed up the radio I had in there when they realised I kept the face plate in the house. It was a £40 thing with a USB port for crying out loud, not anything fancy.

 

Now, I feel much more at home in battered old French chod than in anything else. When I own a 'nice' car, I get nervous.