The grumpy thread

[Crusty Sills]

Parcelforce wankers! eBay seller looked after me a treat after I drained the ATF from new car only to find he was away when I ordered new stuff, next day delivery sorted as soon as he was back (Westway lubricants if you need them)

Nothing delivered today so looked at tracking came up with couldn't deliver as couldn't find address!!! No other fucker seems to have that problem!

[clayts450]

Aldi have pressure washers in at the moment for not too much ££.

 

 

My local one doesn't as it's fucking shut for refurbishment.

[Richard]

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[M'coli]

^^^ and 1200kg is 350kg too much for a supermini.

[alcyonecorporation]

Mr Shrimp that feller is not your friend any more. He's realised it but you haven't yet. Sorry mate. It sucks, but it is what it is.

 

I agree. Matey's moved on but doesn't have the stones to tell you. 

[Lankytim]

My Nephew is a bit of a conspiracy theorist and just can't be talked to. At the moment he's trying to convince me that Catholicism isn't a branch of a Christianity and is in fact run by devil worshippers. The whole world has been fooled.

 

He's also full of fun facts on 911, jet fuel can't melt steel beams etc.

 

He's pretty well read and I'm all for hearing the other side in discussions but this guy just takes it to another level.

[cort16]

It's the same as some folk who are mad into UFO and ghost stuff. If you say it's not scientifically possibly they reply well scientists admit themselves they don't understand everything .

Erm I think you're taking that out of context .

 

I used to listen to a pod cast which covered weird stuff like the nazi bell and the coral castle. It was entertaining but their leaps from realitiy to what was clearly completely made up bullshit but being discussed as fact did my head in and I had to stop listening . Science doesn't have all the answers how do we really know the Nazis didn't have an alien powered bell shaped time machine ?

[Squirrel2]

Parcelforce wankers! eBay seller looked after me a treat after I drained the ATF from new car only to find he was away when I ordered new stuff, next day delivery sorted as soon as he was back (Westway lubricants if you need them)

Nothing delivered today so looked at tracking came up with couldn't deliver as couldn't find address!!! No other fucker seems to have that problem!

I've had good service from Westway but you have to buy through their fleabay shop - won't sell direct which is a shame since the prices are obviously higher.

 

Squirrel2

[Guest Hooli]

I am having terrible luck trying to find a new vehicle for work.

I need a 4x4, and currently use a Mazda B2500 pickup....one of those twin cab wanker wagons. Its ideal for what I need but its hanging with rot and mechanical parts are failing at an alarming rate. The scrapyard beckons.

Its out of the question to buy a pickup over here. A basic L200 or Navara from late 90s early 2000s starts at nine fucking grand. I obviously dont mind buying from UK but its a minefield....loads for sale in my budget but descriptions are all vague and since I am willing to sink a few grand into it, its unlike all my previous UK buys where its a few hundred quid and no big deal if it turns out to be a lemon.

I just spotted something ideal...literally exactly what I want with a buy it now. I sent a couple of questions but apparently its sold already. He will contact me if it falls through, but Im not holding my breath.

 

Then there is my poor old Freelander. I like Freelanders - there, I said it out loud. I have a TD4 van which I have owned for about 7 years which is the longest I have ever owned any car by a huge margin. Its been laid up for a while now as the gearbox is noisy. It could soldier on for ages, it could implode tomorrow. A replacement box is too expensive locally....500 euros or more, and rare as fuck. I can get a used one sent fom a breakers in UK for about 300 euros, which is ok, but like all breakers, its just photos of a gearbox on the floor....no idea if the claimed age or mileage is true or not. Then it would need a new slave cylinder as its a concentric in-box bullshit thing, new unicorn-jizz gear oil (I think thats why mine is dying, i just whazzed in normal 80w90 when I changed the clutch. internet says there are some soft metal parts in the box that get attacked by normal oil.) and the hassle of changing it. I reckon I could get it all done for under 500 euros and I do like the car....but its a Land Rover isnt it? Of course something else will break. For example, it has just broken a front spring. Was I catching air over a bridge? was I gripped, locked, sorted, offroading? no I was reversing it up the driveway so I could trim the hedge behind where its been parked up. So a new spring....shocks are tired, so change them....maybe some bushes....Thats another good few hundred again FFS.

 

Everything local in budget is worn out old dogshit with mega mileage, terrible condition and just generally not worth it. Its obvious I need to buy from UK, but what to buy and who from? I will try a wanted add on here, but these tend to not go well in my opinion with folk just throwing up anything relevant from the last few pages of the ebay thread. I could pick something random off ebay myself, thanks.

 

FOAD's Tata!

 

[AlabamaShrimp]

"the BBC is working in a very competitive market" you fucking what?

 

Utter counts pay grining wankers a fucking fortune from money that we are forced to pay or you go to court, bastards.

 

All the news can do if fucking moan that there's not that many woman on the list of who gets what, and then? It's the the real question is why the he'll do they pay the same knob heads that are on everything so much? Anyone can talk bollocks to a camera...

[richardmorris]

"the BBC is working in a very competitive market" you fucking what?

Utter counts pay grining wankers a fucking fortune from money that we are forced to pay or you go to court, bastards.

All the news can do if fucking moan that there's not that many woman on the list of who gets what, and then? It's the the real question is why the he'll do they pay the same knob heads that are on everything so much? Anyone can talk bollocks to a camera...

To be fair, it's only Chris Evans and Garry linekar who stand out as seriously overpaid compared to the rest.

[Cavcraft]

I'd still rather pay for the BBC than watch wankers like ITV Good Morning (or whatever it's called) and all those sodding adverts.

 

Conspiracy theorists, UFO and ghost hunters etc can also do one.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Yeah adverts are stupid (why stop a program to sell you shit) but in your best Yorkshire accent 'how much?' for talking to a camera?

[richardmorris]

Yeah adverts are stupid (why stop a program to sell you shit) but in your best Yorkshire accent 'how much?' for talking to a camera?

 

True, but the world has a very odd idea that paying people to entertain ( tv, footballers etc) is better than paying people to heal the sick, care for the elderly or teach the young, or an number of other more important things.

[Negative Creep]

To be fair, it's only Chris Evans and Garry linekar who stand out as seriously overpaid compared to the rest.

 

 

Also, whilst Lineker may get paid £1.8 million gross, by the time he's paid his taxes he's only taking home £1.8 million.

[bramz7]

Dream car has popped up for sale. Unfortunately way more than I can afford now, and for a few months too.

 

I'm secretly hoping someone on here will be selling an old Italian thing or old French barge (bit disappointed didn't win the Safrane) soonish...

[michael1703]

So, left work at 8,drove at 30 in a 30 and a car pulled out ahead of me in the 30,100 yards later it becomes a 60,i want to do 45ish but car in front is doing 20odd,im closeish and in a low gear as I expect him to speed up but he stays mid 20's and gives me a hand gesture the road has a wider part where I indicate and overtake,I accelerate to 45-50 for the next mile (I'm in a 60 year old car) this twat is on my bumper tailgating me,i stop and get out and he slams his car in reverse and shoots back at speed without looking. I get in car and continue and he is behind me, at the junction I get out again he reverses and tries to run me over, I grab at passenger window and recognise the passenger who is a local farmer that's on a drink drive ban and a pot head, he and driver are pissed, I loudly shout "you're drunk" and run around to confront him where he tries to run me over again. I got his reg and reported it to Suffolk constabulary and they said they would put a "marker" on his registration number. Should be interesting if I see him again

[wuvvum]

Two utter wankers on the commute today.  This morning, old twat in a Mokka refused to give way at a roundabout, then got all angry and shouty when I shook my head at him.  I made a gesture which suggested that his love life might be somewhat solitary, and he did that stopping-dead-in-the-middle-of-the-roundabout thing that people do when they're pretending they're going to come after you.  Why?  Why can't people just admit when they've done something wrong?  Everyone makes mistakes on the road, fuck knows I make enough of them - an apologetic wave of the hand and that is normally the end of it.  What is the point in getting all angry and self-righteous and making yourself look even more of a cunt?

 

Then on the way home, following a 15-plate Leon FR doing just under the speed limit.  Come up behind a tractor & trailer (Massey Ferguson so sloooow), sit there for a while as windy bit of road.  We get to a short straight, Leon pulls out and dawdles past the tractor without a care in the world - bearing in mind there's another 4 cars behind which all want to get past the tractor before the straight runs out.  Leon pulls back in and I floor it to get past him as well, at which point he takes offence and floors it as well.  By the time I managed to get past him we were doing 90 - bearing in mind he'd been doing 56 for all the time I'd been following him up to then - and we were rapidly coming up to a blind bend.  The thing that annoys me about people like that (and it's usually modern VAG drivers - fast SEATs seem to be the worst if anything, don't know if it's because they have a chip on their shoulder that they couldn't quite afford an A3) is that had I been in a modern German motor he wouldn't have batted an eyelid about being overtaken, but somehow being passed by a 15-year-old diesel Rover was an affront to his manhood, and he felt the need to put us both in danger to try and prevent it happening.  Yes, I realise I could have backed off and pulled back in behind him, but I'm far too immature for that.

[clayts450]

Come to realise that a small minority of tossers on the road has turned into a slightly bigger minority of tossers since my return to motoring after an 18 year hiatus.

 

I do a lovely little 6 mile commute in the Streetshite every day - the one in is a breeze because I don't start work until 12.30, so a mixture of 30/40/50/30 roads all the way in, virtually all dual carriageways or dual lane urban roads, roundabouts, traffic lights, hills, moderate traffic - proper urban driving.The Streety loves the 50 bit best as I can give it the beans* on an almost empty dual carriageway for a mile of the way and the little 1.4 engine positively roars.

 

The commute back is absolutely terrifying at 6pm. It's like a bloody high-speed slalom, so much lane swapping, cars turning right from the outside lane causing numpties to dive in to the left hand lane in front of you with nary a flick of the indicator. It's how I imagine driving in central London used to be 18 years ago.

 

I've always been a considerate driver, and still am (much to the pissed-off ness of my fellow motorists), letting cars out, leaving gaps at junctions, letting pedestrians cross when I'm at the front of the lane and the other lane is free (only in a 30 zone of course), totally relaxed driving style on approach to lights and roundies (engine braking not foot pedal wherever poss) and then roaring* past all the twats who couldn't wait five seconds.

 

It's lovely when it's reciprocated - I'm in outside lane turning right (big line of traffic behind as lorry cannot get around me), car also coming out of the junctionI want to get into turning left but I need him gone to get into the road, blokey coming other way in outside lane (inside lane empty) flashes me and the other driver - all looking good.

 

But then the stupid idiot behind him pulls in to the empty inside lane, increases their speed and nearly causes a three way 'incident'. Luckily the two competent drivers were able to adjust accordingly, preventing said collision. Cue me rolling my eyes at the friendly driver, him shrugging his shoulders, both grinning, friendly wave and away we all went, tutting. 

 

I think it's gonna take me a while longer to get used to driving in the year 2017. Mind you I was hoping we'd all be in hover cars by now without needing roads....

[chodweaver]

 

 

The commute back is absolutely terrifying at 6pm. It's like a bloody high-speed slalom, so much lane swapping, cars turning right from the outside lane causing numpties to dive in to the left hand lane in front of you with nary a flick of the indicator. It's how I imagine driving in central London used to be 18 years ago.

 

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I've been very lucky over the last few years to be able to choose what time of day I travel - and I quickly learnt that rush hour* is unpleasant and dangerous. Nothing seems to make driving standards drop like putting a big dollop of tired, possibly hungry people at the same time, on the same roads that they've travelled a hundred times before, with work at one end of them and home at the other. All of a sudden, getting there as quickly as possible, irrespective of the risks attached, is the only goal. It's deadly and corrosive to the soul - I know this from when I used to have to do it.

 

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[somewhatfoolish]

To be fair, it's only Chris Evans and Garry linekar who stand out as seriously overpaid compared to the rest.

Newsreaders are well overpaid; there's any number of 'resting' actors who could read from an autocue without swearing, spoonerising the Prime Minister's name or shitting themselves when the director yells in their ear, and would look presentable enough on TV with a bit of slap. There's a bit of justification for the ones who are genuinely journalists, but even then the numbers are still eyewatering. While I'm moaning they should stop fucking interviewing each other, it's wank; anchor hands over to reporter, who reports to camera, hand over back to anchor. No need for a cosy chat with your colleague who you probably had lunch with anyway.

[Bucketeer]

^^^ Also, in this modern multimedia world we live in, the newsreader in the studio invariably has more information about the event than the reporter at the scene. Why bother?

[Angrydicky]

FFS, I've been offered a 1935 Standard 12 I asked for first refusal on last year, but due to purchasing the Royale, and moving into my own place in a few days time, I'm skint. It's a good price too.

[Richard]

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[Eddie Honda]

Newsreaders are well overpaid; there's any number of 'resting' actors who could read from an autocue without swearing, spoonerising the Prime Minister's name or shitting themselves when the director yells in their ear, and would look presentable enough on TV with a bit of slap. There's a bit of justification for the ones who are genuinely journalists, but even then the numbers are still eyewatering. While I'm moaning they should stop fucking interviewing each other, it's wank; anchor hands over to reporter, who reports to camera, hand over back to anchor. No need for a cosy chat with your colleague who you probably had lunch with anyway.

You are Charlton Brooker AICMFP.

 

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[michael1703]

FFS, I've been offered a 1935 Standard 12 I asked for first refusal on last year, but due to purchasing the Royale, and moving into my own place in a few days time, I'm skint. It's a good price too.

how much?

[Richard]

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[tooSavvy]

Much hilarity* last night as I waited at a small mini-rbt... the sort that are plonked where an old T would have been.

 

matey#1 in big Vx pootles around the OUTSIDE turning right, across my line, whilst matey#2 drives down the crown of the road... and carries straight over!

 

I'm sure both cars could 'smell' the paint of the other..... there wasn't a fag paper in it.

 

Total Walloons 

 

 

TS

[Bianconeri]

The thing that annoys me about people like that (and it's usually modern VAG drivers - fast SEATs seem to be the worst if anything, don't know if it's because they have a chip on their shoulder that they couldn't quite afford an A3)

Skoda drivers are much worse, especially drivers of the big ones - looked what I saved over an Audi! Yes but it's not an Audi and if you sack your "look at me gene" who* wants one anyway?

 

I rarely have to go out at peak times these days but on Monday I caught the tail of the rush hour. Driver of a Superb (stupid name) started to pull out in front of me but had to jam on the anchors and then seemed to blame me for his incompetence. Sat millimetres from my back bumper through about five miles of speed limits getting visibly more and more irate because I STICK TO LIMITS.

 

You'll have a heart attack old chap.......

 

We got to where I turn off right, I moved into the filter lane and he follows. I did wonder if this was going to turn into an altercation but realised he intended to use the right turn filter lane to get past the queue of maybe six cars on the left. Filter arrow came on, I went right, he tried to go straight on and had to slam on the anchors again as a bus came from from his right.

 

I'm pretty sure that set of lights has a camera too.

 

*both Mrs BN and I have spent far too much money on Audis over the years. One was excellent (1999 petrol A6). My A4s were pretty mediocre and my Cabriolet leaked like a seive. Company TT was enertaining but unreliable. We're better now.

[dave21478]

School holidays?

 

Grand. lets triple the prices of ferry and tunnel tickets.

 

 

CUNTS.