The grumpy thread

[chodweaver]

 

 

its a motorcycle thing that looks like that crap "Bigtrak" toy from the early 1980's.

 

FJ1200?

 

It'd be quick though...

 

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[AlabamaShrimp]

Why are you still hanging round with this clown?

Fucked if I know!

[Guest Hooli]

that reads as Arbarth to me, is that not right?

 

my grump is that a nice, like, really nice Allegro is coming up for sale, but the domestic management says no....

 

i think is VERY UNREASONABLE. 

 

VERY UNREASONABLE INDEED.

 

especially as Kerry keeps harping on about some FJ1200 something thing.

 

its a motorcycle thing that looks like that crap "Bigtrak" toy from the early 1980's.

 

like we need another motorbike (almost as much* as we need another car!), she doesn't bother with the flippin' Hardly Dangerous that is already growing moss in the back garden.....

 

Get both.

[Christine]

Bollocks,  wifes Honda HRV squirting water out of a pinhole in the core, forward squirt luckily , so she saw it coming out of the grill ,when she parked   !! Only went a couple of miles ..thank goodness . She rang me , i went over and re filled it ,left the cap off ,and she drove it home .,while i followed. 

Utter bargain new one , 38 ponds EPC   all fitted now , and no apparent HGF !!    

[stephen01]

Honda, £116 for two track rod ends, (cheap pattern parts do not fit 100% and still knock) new parts dont come with castle nut or lock pin, another 4 quid for those and the nuts off the 'old' track rod are different. to top it off they don't hold these in stock and have to be ordered! 

[chaseracer]

Get both.

 

Now that's the kind of compromise I can really get on board with!

[stephen01]

Fucking Autonet insurance, i had to change my insurance over from the clio, so i just wanted to put the insurance on my Twingo for a while, Autonet wouldnt insure the Twingo as it didnt meet their criteria, i was told that they would be able to insure it via another provider and i'd get a refund, of 25 quid, the current policy was paid in full until the 15th October, The new policy was coming in at more than double I can get the car insured for so I opted to decline the new policy so just go ahead with the cancelation of my Clio policy, I was then told I'd receive zero back as they charge £75 to ​to cancel the policy. a policy I have to cancel because they wont cover the twingo, however will conveniently cover on a different policy. Do I have cause for a complaint? 

[Pillock]

Yes, that stinks. You'll have to go through their internal complaints first but I'd make a point of asking for all the documentation so you can forward it to the Ombudsman if they don't resolve the issue.

[wuvvum]

Some c*nt has keyed all down the driver's side of the Rover of Doom.  I know it was already somewhat "rat look", but that's not the fucking point.

[Cavcraft]

Some c*nt has keyed all down the driver's side of the Rover of Doom.  I know it was already somewhat "rat look", but that's not the fucking point.

 

Bastards.

[Lankytim]

Autonet are absolutely SHITE. Had to drive to their head office and sit in reception before they'd accept my proof of no claims. ( sent the MIL another time!)

 

 

Utter utter flaccid skunk cock.

[alcyonecorporation]

Yeah, today's developments :



Never has finishing the day seemed more appealing. 

[alcyonecorporation]

"It's because I'm a woman, isn't it?"

No, it's because you're fucking shit. You know, like how a bloke can be fucking shit. Like the same way I'd tell a bloke he was fucking shit if he was fucking shit. 

Hope that clears things up, cheers. 

[alcyonecorporation]

Watanabe is back until further notice. 

Fuck you all. 

[Mr A Lawrence]

Nice trip to Ellesmere Port today.

 

Take the MiL to the opticians, wonder round a few shops then dinner in the market cafe.

 

Lovely.

 

Got there at 10am and was just finishing dinner at around 12pm when the missus went in her bag to give me a cash card to pop to the bank to put some money in when I spotted her blue badges in her bag.

 

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

 

We've been parked for 2 hours without them in the car.

 

I hot foot it up to the car to confirm the inevitable.

 

Yep, £70 ticket on the car done 1/2 hour after we parked up.

 

Of course it was my fault for rushing her out of the car when her scooter was getting wet when she was putting lipstick on!!

[panhard65]

Had a bloke turn up with a VW Crafter van. His pad warning light was on so he asked if I could do pads on it. As I had nowt to do today I took it on, big mistake !!. The discs were shagged as well and he said if I could do it for £150 he would have it done. It looked easy enough until it came to getting the discs off. What a fucking nightmare !! I had to get the plasma cutter out as they had rusted on so tight. I won't be doing one of them again in a hurry. I made about 30 quid out of the whole job which was still better than nothing.

 

 

[Kiltox]

Had a bloke turn up with a VW Crafter van. His pad warning light was on so he asked if I could do pads on it. As I had nowt to do today I took it on, big mistake !!. The discs were shagged as well and he said if I could do it for £150 he would have it done. It looked easy enough until it came to getting the discs off. What a fucking nightmare !! I had to get the plasma cutter out as they had rusted on so tight. I won't be doing one of them again in a hurry. I made about 30 quid out of the whole job which was still better than nothing.

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"Oh fuck it I'm quiet so it's easy money" jobs are the worst ever. Every. Single. Time.

[Supernaut]

"Oh fuck it I'm quiet so it's easy money" jobs are the worst ever. Every. Single. Time.

 

The same applies in IT too.

[eddyramrod]

I know this isn't the place and all that, but it's just been confirmed my wife's sister has incurable cancer. Keeping it off social media for now until we've reached all the family. 

Just seen this, Billy.  You have my sympathies.  All I can do is wish all of you the best remaining time you can have.  Which obviously I do.

[eddyramrod]

this is the same for internal and external drives, they can and do just fail without warning. 

 

Best thing to do Eddy is create a dropbox account and store important stuff on that. 

 

https://db.tt/eynShtdb

 

Or use Google Drive

 

If you've only got small files it'll be ideal. 

I've uninstalled it, re-installed it, troubleshot it.... still it doesn't show up when I go to, for example, add a photo to a post.  It appears in the list in Device Manager, but there doesn't appear to be a way to access the contents. 

I thought I was doing the right thing buying an external HD to store my working-files.  Now it seems I was totally wrong because the fucking thing is keeping them prisoner!

Drop box?  Google drive?  I'm chest-deep in a swamp here, it's midnight, raining and foggy, and you're sending me to the shops?

[Cavcraft]

Nice trip to Ellesmere Port today.

 

 

 

 

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/contradiction_in_terms

[doobietoo]

Following the destruction of two pairs of glasses last year due to clumsiness / being a magnet for anything flying or inanimate, in September I purchased some Titanium "unbreakable" specs at great cost...Fuckers snapped last night... I did get a replacement frame under warranty but that is not the point.... fucking Chinese titanium no doubt... 

[alcyonecorporation]

Anyone got some strategies for keeping calm? 

I'm quite horrendously pissed off at the moment and nothing I normally do is lowering my levels of anger. 

[phil_lihp]

Running, or indeed any high-intensity exercise that will tire you out.

[Lacquer Peel]

Lager and a wank.

[twosmoke300]

Make sure it's a high intensity wank tho

[chodweaver]

I've uninstalled it, re-installed it, troubleshot it.... still it doesn't show up when I go to, for example, add a photo to a post. It appears in the list in Device Manager, but there doesn't appear to be a way to access the contents.

I thought I was doing the right thing buying an external HD to store my working-files. Now it seems I was totally wrong because the fucking thing is keeping them prisoner!

Drop box? Google drive? I'm chest-deep in a swamp here, it's midnight, raining and foggy, and you're sending me to the shops?

This is going to sound really stupid but, have you listened closely to the drive when you've first plugged it in? If there's a repeating sequence of whirring and clicking sounds over a period of about 30s before the drive is listed in device manager/my computer, I'm betting the head is stuck over the disk and cannot return to its 'home' position. When this happens, the drive cannot be initialised and read by the PC. You have a choice here - pay someone about 400quid to open it up in a clean room and get the head back to the home position, then to get all your data off it sharpish OR

Do it yourself, carefully, keeping it as clean as you can, according to this guy's video.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Y7BniaRXg

 

I've done this for two unreadable drives and been successful both times - but the important thing is GET ANOTHER DRIVE FIRST, TO COPY YOUR DATA ON TO.

 

(Sorry for the shouting)

 

DON'T do like my brother did and think you'll be able to repeat the process a second time, when you have got a new drive ready.

 

Any questions, shout

 

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[eddyramrod]

I haven't noticed the series of sounds you describe, but then I haven't been listening for them.  I'll try that tomorrow (not on that comp at the moment).  Thank you.

[chodweaver]

I haven't noticed the series of sounds you describe, but then I haven't been listening for them. I'll try that tomorrow (not on that comp at the moment). Thank you.

They're usually not loud - only audible when you're very close to the drive or it is resting on something that resonates with the noises.

 

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[alcyonecorporation]

Lager and a wank.

 

Beer blagged from housemate.