The grumpy thread

[Supernaut]

I fully understand that part, as I've seen it elsewhere before. Sorry for getting ranty.

 

It's usually a limit of say, 20-50 posts on a much more active forum too. It just seemed a huge task to get 200+ posts on a forum where there was nothing to post on in the first place.

[tooSavvy]

My MTBF (mean time between flouncing) has increased since I found better online places (like here) to hang around, but I know what you mean.

Absolute rofl on misappropriation of MTBF m8 ha!

 

For me it's MTB fucking swearing - but never over anyone here

 

 

TS

[Captain Furious]

A lot of traditional forums seem to have died off and given way to equivalent facebook groups, with all the problems associated with that.

 

I kinda like it here, but I'm not as addicted to the interwebs as I used to be, so I can take it or leave it in fits and starts.

[tooSavvy]

No one is surprised then to discover I heroically populated the Savvy section of POC-UK....

 

.... with useful 'buy this instead (notRHShite/stealer only) for 3quid at the scrappy' tips.

 

Mind you... you can score a whole Savvy for 3quid now

 

 

 

TS

[alcyonecorporation]

The thought crossed my mind of weighing in the Xantia when I couldn't shift it.

 

Then I realised that it's still good at functioning as a car. Unlike an old Volvo with HGF. Not having a pop, just agreeing that weighing in out of frustration popped up in my mind too.

 

 

 I hate hate hate one-make forums.

Hilariously, my buggered 960 sold for the full asking price to filthyjohn, who's currently turning it into a T6 engined sleeper.

 

My rant is with my diesel 605, which I've been trying to sell as a project since Christmas. Eight people have tried to buy it via fora, social media groups and eBay; plenty of others have tried to scam, guilt trip or straight up demand it off me for free.

[AlabamaShrimp]

"guilt trip and demand for free"? How can someone me one make you guilty about a car or expect it for free?

[Des]

Oh they'll try, my God how they will fucking well try.

[panhard65]

"guilt trip and demand for free"? How can someone me one make you guilty about a car or expect it for free?

It happens all to reguarly on owners club and other forums. Just because the car is rare but has little value you get people saying that it must be saved and if you give it to them they will save it. I just say bollocks to them now and will break for parts or just weigh it in. You can't save every car and it is usually the ones that try to just end up hoarding them until they are too rotten to restore. Better these old cars get broken up or banger raced than just sit around returning to nature.

[alcyonecorporation]

"guilt trip and demand for free"? How can someone me one make you guilty about a car or expect it for free?

See below: An actual Ebay message thread. See how many times you can play 'grasping arsehole bingo' with this bloke.

 

hi there

 

I know it's not really what you want to hear but it you need this gone I will collect it for free.

 

if you were closer I could justify some money toward it.

 

I have a couple of lovely old peugeots and would love this one but I just can't justify the expenses at the moment

HOUSE! Following my less-than-pleasant response, he came back with:

 

oh how wrong you are. I am an enthusiast of older peugeots. I expected a no thanks however last year I was given a 205 because I wanted to restore it instead of breaking it for parts

 

don't assume everyone is a scrap metal collecting penny pincher (alcyonecorporation notes: HYPOCRISY OVERLOAD).

 

if this was in a couple months time I would jump at the chance of bidding on your last auction and you and I would have seen each other in a much different light. however at this moment in time my purchasing manager has been embezzling mo ey from my company so finances won't allow my hobby of classic car tinkering tubing and restoration

 

if you don't ask you don't get. if like me and the gentlemen who gave me his 205 we would rather see our faithful old motors under a new lease of life

 

I'm sorry for the unfortunate timing

Astounded, I responded with:

 

You can give me all the sad sob story preamble bollocks you want, you're taking the piss.

 

If you were an enthusiast you'd bid fairly and trailer the car away, not message me like a grasping pikey expecting something for nothing.

 

I must try this argument of yours the next time I go to Tesco to do some shopping. Maybe I'll try the branch in Aberdeen - I mean, they're fucking miles away, and I'm hungry! I'm an enthusiast of fine food, but my psychosomatic hedge fund manager has taken all my money so I feel I should get the entire shopping basket full of food for free!

 

Thanks for wasting my time.

 

Apology not accepted. Try harder.

Repeat ad nauseum from other interested* parties and throw several idiotic questions in for good measure. Best one: 'Does it drive'?

A: No, because the alternator's fucked (you know, as stated in the listing?)

 

Several helpful* threads appear on Autoshite regarding me and the car during my break from the forum.

 

Winning bidder fails to read the collection conditions and wants to collect the car on Christmas Eve when I'm up north.

 

I lose my shit big time and turn more or less everything off, and break my phone trying to deal with someone who rings up about it (and who makes similar noises to entitled cumfart above).

 

Friend relists car on my behalf after I threaten to smash it up with a sledgehammer and post collector boy the remains piece by piece. Someone local bids the car up, promises to collect in a week, misses the deadline and then ignores all subsequent attempts to get in touch.

Friend tries forums, gets patronised back to the stone age and one hi-fucking-larious comedian* offers a knackered lawnmower in exchange.

Getting the picture, learned m9s? Can you see why I've had enough? Good.

 

There were a couple of astonishingly stupid discussions about my Cosmics and 960 Estate on the VOC Forum too. I won't be going there again.

I was also added to, and quickly left, two 700/900 Facebook groups after I received a torrent of abuse from two members who kept posting questions to the separate comment section Facebook hives off each image; they got very, very nasty because I wasn't answering their questions about the car forthwith.

 

Had they read the opening post instead of gobbing off, I'd have still told them to get in the sea.

 

I'm not picking my words out of my arse when I say I'm utterly sick of old car fora/social media groups.

[strangeangel]

People always slag of gumtree for being full of time wasters but i find all forums are just as bad, (yes this one included)

 

Sold 1 (about to be 2) vehicles on here, and bought three - all without drama or incident. I can't see that happening on Scumtree anytime soon.

[strangeangel]

Getting the picture, learned m9s? Can you see why I've had enough? Good.

 

Frag car, send video to bloke who tried to blag it for free, feel better.

[panhard65]

See above.

 

See below: An actual Ebay message thread. See how many times you can play 'grasping arsehole bingo' with this bloke.

 

 

HOUSE! Following my less-than-pleasant response, he came back with:

 

 

Utterly pissed off, I responded with:

 

 

Repeat ad nauseum from other interested* parties and throw several idiotic questions in for good measure. Best one: 'Does it drive'?

 

Several helpful* threads appear on Autoshite regarding me and the car during my break from the forum.

 

Winning bidder fails to read the collection conditions and wants to collect the car on Christmas Eve when I'm up north.

 

I lose my shit big time and turn more or less everything off, and break my phone trying to deal with someone who rings up about it (and who makes similar noises to entitled cumfart above).

 

Friend relists car on my behalf after I threaten to smash it up with a sledgehammer and post collector boy the remains piece by piece. Someone local bids the car up, promises to collect in a week, misses the deadline and then ignores all subsequent attempts to get in touch.

 

Friend tries forums, gets patronised back to the stone age and one hi-fucking-larious comedian* offers a knackered lawnmower in exchange.

 

Getting the picture, learned m9s? Can you see why I've had enough? Good.

Too right to weigh the fucker in now. I am amazed you stuck with it so long I would of put an axe through the roof and weighed it in way before it got this far. (I did actually do this with 2 Matra Bageeras about 10 years ago.)

[AlabamaShrimp]

I don't really know how to answer the above than, what a bunch of twats.

 

I'm sure we can all be unhelpful as a joke but why the fuck would you say some shit like that trying to get a car for free no matter what it was? As for people making comments on Facebook is exactly why I don't use it.

 

At the end of the day, rare or not it's yours and you'll do what you want with it.

[strangeangel]

why the fuck would you say some shit like that trying to get a car for free no matter what it was?

 

Because it's already worked for him?

 

I expected a no thanks however last year I was given a 205 because I wanted to restore it instead of breaking it for parts

 

I suppose you can't blame him for trying, but having been told to do one he could have at least had the good grace to do precisely that.

[alcyonecorporation]

I don't really know how to answer the above than, what a bunch of twats.

 

I'm sure we can all be unhelpful as a joke but why the fuck would you say some shit like that trying to get a car for free no matter what it was? As for people making comments on Facebook is exactly why I don't use it.

 

At the end of the day, rare or not it's yours and you'll do what you want with it.

It seems to be a thing now to say: "Well, I think you should give it to me" without any shame or remorse.  

 

I wasn't brought up like that and I would never, ever ask a complete stranger in that manner. It's just disrespectful.

You take hand-outs as a last resort of if you're on your arse, or with gratitude from friends and family.

 

And yet - the media likes to portray Millennials (a 1983 birth just about puts me in that generational bracket, cheers) as the grasping, parasitic ones. Grips my shit.  

No one my age (who I've encountered at least) carries such a fucked up sense of entitlement about their person. 

 

The fact that this chode had the front to ask, reply and then come back offended as if I was the mad, unreasonable party was what I struggled to parse at the time.

He clearly had money (or still had it and was tight) too, which pissed me off even further. 

[Pillock]

Right, time for a weekly dump. Not a poo, I do that about four times a day. A grump dump. Hey, that sounds like it needs capital letters. Grump Dump[TM].

 

So Monday, my lad is coming home from school on his scooter when two lads grab it and tell him to hand it over. He tells them to fuck off and yanks the scooter back, walks away. Very proud of him for that, he does have temper issues so to walk away is good. Also for the language, they deserved that. They chase after him and smack him round his  face for the trouble. These lads weren't in school, they were smartly dressed in shirts and shiny shoes (about 12 years old, the pair of them) and all greased over hair. The descriptions struck me as the type of lad that doesn't go to school, but has an alternative education. 

 

So he comes home, really quite upset, and I lob him back in the car and go looking. Took about 2 minutes to find the little shits, sadly they legged it down an alleyway but hopefully it scared the shit out of them that I went looking. I say sadly, obvs I can't do anything to them - the last thing I need is someone calling the cops because I've thumped a twelve year old, even though it sounds like what he needs is several good thumpings.

 

Turns out in the ten minutes it took him to come home, and us to go out and find them, they'd been up to the shop, tried to take some money off another schoolchild and then smacked them with a belt buckle. Fucking fuming that they think it's fine to go around acting like that - and nothing can be done since even if someone gave the police a name, there's no chance they'll go onto a caravan site to talk to two teenagers about a couple of assults.

 

So there's that. And then I've got an issue with the paint on my company car, but when I spoke to the lease firm they just didn't want to know. No offer to get it looked at, because it's not affecting the use of the car. When I asked them to make a formal note of their refusal, they couldn't.... but wouldn't say that I definitely wouldn't be charged for what looks like, but isn't, two massive stone chips and a load of milky lacquer. But they don't want to get the dealer to sort it under the warranty. Twats. Also apparently I don't get asked about stuff like that, they just charge my employer who takes it out of my wages with no way of arguing it.

 

What else? Oh yeah, I got paid a bonus at work (yay) but my NI and PAYE have also ballooned for zero reason so they've swallowed about £400 of it.

 

I just typed something else out involving the CSA scheme changing, but I'm fairly easy to find online and I'm sure a google search would cause no end of trouble, Needless to say, the new scheme reinforces the fact that non-resident parents are scumbags who must be punished, and resident parents are angels who do no wrong. 

[tooSavvy]

I don't really know how to answer the above than, what a bunch of twats.

At the end of the day, rare or not it's yours and you'll do what you want with it.

Does this mean I'm forgiven/excused putting 15" Polaris on ToMM© ?

 

TS

[alcyonecorporation]

Does this mean I'm forgiven/excused putting 15" Polaris on ToMM© ?

 

TS

 

 

I didn't like its Neo Geo emulator. Sorry. 

[tooSavvy]

^^... expand?

 

TS

[alcyonecorporation]

^^... expand?

 

TS

Conflate? 

 

Tommo licensed a version of Final Burn Alpha and released a really expensive Neo Geo handheld device four of five years ago. It was a bit crap. 

 

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[tooSavvy]

"I'll take the next one"

 

[/ghostbusters]

 

 

TS

[DodgeRover]

Get that 605 fragged or on oval chat, not worth the hastle you've had trying to save it

[dave21478]

Regular readers may remember several weeks ago the debacle with EDF repair guys fucking something up and throwing several hundred volts into the farms wiring? Well, I havent updated about it because there has been fucking nothing to update, apart from all the promises on the day vanished into thin air and now its a case of claiming on the farm insurance and them reclaiming from EDF. 

Well, today reps from both insurance companies were supposed to turn up to inspect the sad pile of fried electronics lying there. Three and a half hours late, one of them turned up. No sign of the EDF guy at all. He took a disinterested look at everything there, never noted any model numbers or anything and within a couple of minutes was finished and just fucked off, pausing in the garden to not very covertly snap some photos of Kevin the Peacock. Why not just ask if you could - or just take the pics anyway....not exactly going to say no are we? but he went all Japanese voyeur with his phone cupped in his hands, pretending to do something else. Dunno why, but that really bugs me.

Anyway, as for the electrical gear....its probably going to drag on for months, possibly years if past experience is anything to go by.

 

 

 

Sale of the Escort is....well, Dugong Corporation has covered the salient point perfectly well in his last few posts. tl:dr - fucking endless numbers of retards who want full service history, guaranteed mileage, manufacturer backed warranty and a blowjob all for 300 euros, oh and could I deliver it to Paris while I am at it?

So thats gonna get scrapped, except I need it for a while till I fix the MGFs emissions, which has highlighted just how hopelessly out of my depth with this sort of thing I really am.

Give me a rotten shell to rebuild - no problem...... give me seized suspension bolts to deal with - piece of piss....Emissions too high? havent a fucking clue. Some staring, some prodding, some fannying on the internet and some more staring at it while daydreaming of life alone in a cabin somewhere hundreds of miles from other human beings and I have decided to replace the lambda sensor because....well, I dunno...seems like the logical thing to do, I suppose. It wont come out though, so I will likely have to take the manifold off, but at least I am good at that sort of thing.

[richardmorris]

Nor the superhadron collider spares?

[rainagain]

Re the talk of minimum post counts. I used to be a member of a couple of watch forums. 99% of the threads on these consist of:

 

OP: Look at my new watch

Everyone else: That's lovely/great/amazing,etc

 

I like looking at the watches but I didn't see much point in joining in these threads so my post count was low. I went to view the for sale forum in one and found there was now a minimum post count just to buy never mind sell.

 

So over two nights I spent time posting in the off topics threads building my post count up. I made sure my replies were actually useful.

 

I then got a message off an uber watch nerd saying did I know they were all talking about me in the super special thread that you needed a shit ton of posts to access. He was then went on to say that's why everyone is viewing your profile, like this was going to bother me.

 

I bought a watch from the for sale thread and I've never been back. I cant be bothered with stuff like that.

[alcyonecorporation]

Nor the superhadron collider spares?

 

 

No, the throstle sprockets. You should give them to me for free. I'm a true enthusiast and I'll restore them. 

 

[richardmorris]

I'm grumpy because at work we've had to discontinue legal action to get two very large invoices from 2015 paid as the costs are about to exceed the invoice amount. Scumbags win - they have a million pound overdraft and no assets so nothing to lose by ringing up huge legal fees.

Our Lawyer was quite pleasant and helpful (at £200 an hour!) the one time I talked to him ( we have used STA via the FSB) but basically said that the legal fees will exceed the invoice amount pretty much instantly and if we don't win then we're probably looking at two sets of legal costs plus the loss of the income in the first place. I am not about to gamble £60k plus on a £14k debt. Who is?? Off to open a bottle!

[AlabamaShrimp]

Does this mean I'm forgiven/excused putting 15" Polaris on ToMM© ?

 

TS

I assume they're wheels and honestly, no matter my personal opinion on a car and what someone's done to it, weather I agree or not, in the long run what the fuck has it got to do with me? I mean it's there's and if they want to set it on fire while dancing round singing songs to the pixie God then that's their choice a d everyone else can just fuck right off.

[alcyonecorporation]

I assume they're wheels and honestly, no matter my personal opinion on a car and what someone's done to it, weather I agree or not, in the long run what the fuck has it got to do with me? I mean it's there's and if they want to set it on fire while dancing round singing songs to the pixie God then that's their choice a d everyone else can just fuck right off.

 

Does this include the people who tell you to fit a Zetec to your car?

[omegod]

Travelling down a not very busy dual carriageway today and see's blue lights some way back, I pulls to the left to leave an entirely clear lane only for the stupid fiesta bint in front  does an emergency stop and sticks her hazards on causing me to swerve round her, cop car passes unhindered, the death stare off the stupid cow at the next lights were hilarious! Why do people go to pieces ?