The grumpy thread

[richardthestag]

 

got close to falling for this one*, actually got to click on the bastard link, yeah i know but a subliminal glance at the url on my phone got the pass, not suggesting you do!

 

Asks for address dob and debit card details etc

 

cunts can rot in hell

 

*just sold a car and cancelled the dd for rfl, suspected that they were trying to get more from me, the link suggested a £42 refund, yeah right fuck off

[Guest Hooli]

Now that's one I've not seen before.

[Sheefag]

I've only started sending it out today.

[richardmorris]

Having just been paid my annual bonus I thought I'd check up on the 1953 Citroen TA 11BN for sale locally. First checked with my traction mechanic friend ( whom incidentally in a previous career designed the Nescafé logo) if he was free tomorrow. Yes, no problem. So check back on the website to get the sellers number - and find it's no longer available. Sold! Ho and indeed hum.

[fordperv]

Friends.

 

Especially those useless ones that say they'll ring you in the morning/2:00 in the afternoon and then don't because they are busy. So am I and spending the effing day waiting for you was not in the calendar! Mate has been borrowing the KIA pretty much on and off for the last month and today was the day it was coming back. he finally turned up 2 hours later than he said, the car is filthy inside and out and there's no fuel in it at all - light flashing the works.

 

People wonder why I am always getting rid of friends, simple really: I'm too old to put up with people who take the piss.

This pees me off greatly as I'm one of those people who is greatful for people's generosity, the last car I borrowed for 2 weeks which was a mates spare car it went back polished, inside gleaming, fuelled, I even took a look at the brakes while it was with me as the rears were sticking a little with the lack of use, oh and he wasn't in when I was dropping it off so I picked up some beers on the way and left them on the drivers seat as a thanks to him

[NorthernMonkey]

Had a major falling out with an accountant last year over taxes. He was seriously against them. At all. Considered them something to be avoided at all costs. What a narrow-minded pillock.

Absolutely. What a twat.

 

 

Just out of curiosity, what's his number?

 

 

Purely so I can tell him what I think of him, you understand.....

[purplebargeken]

Am tired, my back hurts like a bastard, my leg gives way and my left wrist is making those very familiar arthritis-like pains that I know so well from other bits of body. My mojo is waning again and I am sick of it.

[Guest Hooli]

This pees me off greatly as I'm one of those people who is greatful for people's generosity, the last car I borrowed for 2 weeks which was a mates spare car it went back polished, inside gleaming, fuelled, I even took a look at the brakes while it was with me as the rears were sticking a little with the lack of use, oh and he wasn't in when I was dropping it off so I picked up some beers on the way and left them on the drivers seat as a thanks to him

 

Years ago I borrowed a Skoda 120 (I think) off a mate for a couple of weeks. It got a carb rebuild while it was with me & some electrics sorting out as it stopped in the middle of nowhere for no good reason.

I also got complemented by the mate I'd borrowed it off for how well I could drive it sideways in the wet when she was a few cars back in a queue

[bramz7]

Was arranging to buy a car through Facebook. Send seller a prospective collection date. Got blocked instead of a reply.

 

He can FRO then.

[bub2006]

Received a phone call at 1130 this morning from the real bubs mum. Can i get to derby asap there has been an accident. Her,her sister ,rhys and her other two children were driving from derby,stopped at an island but the lorry behind didnt. Knocked the car forward,boot is non existant,car creased up. Luckily no major injuries. Driver of lorry not paying attention.fucking joyous. Took them all to hospital

[DodgeRover]

Hope they aren't too badly shaken up

[bub2006]

One of kids is petrified to get in a car,i bought them back from hospital and he was shaking everytime someone came behind me,my son is just bruised and shook up,youngest got away fine. Rhys mum has severe whiplash,bruising and cuts,her sister has broken nose,fractured cheekbone.

[Guest Hooli]

Ouch.

[bub2006]

I panicked tbh. When she rang saying can i get to derby asap while sounding shook up as a lorry smashed into car.

[Guest Hooli]

Not surprised, that's news no one wants to hear.

[Cheggers]

Changing the headlamp bulb on an Astra H, what a faff.

 

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[twosmoke300]

Astra H ? You ain't seen nothing yet !

They are an easy one

[beko1987]

Got fucking badgered all last week to take amys mums old sofa to the tip (the nice leather one we gave her and her stupid fucking dog tore to shreds within 2 months). Agreed to do it today. I wanted to do it this morning but Amy wanted to go out, so I CHECK THE WEBSITE and the tip closes at 6. Fine, I'll do it later.

 

3.45, me and a mate take the car seats out of the Zafira, drop the seats and go over to mother in laws, me shitting myself as I went to overtake a car and got fucking nothing forward propulsion wise from the stupid thing, so dropped back, pulled in and looked like a twat.

 

Got this fucking sofa out of the garden and into the car with a load of other fucking shit, and off we go to the tip, which is up a big hill, which needed 1st,and no amount of throttle application made it go up any faster, just dicked a load of fuel.

 

Got to the fucking tip, past shitty temporary traffic lights at 4.20. Ace, fucking loads of time... Fucking closed, big 9am to 4pm sign on it. Wtf. Checked the website, 6pm... Then it dawned on my mate that it's the 1st of October... Cunt, they've not updated the website for the winter times...

 

So back down the fucking hill, reverse fly tipped it all down behind her mums shed until next weekend as I'll be bollocksed if it's coming into my garden all week and killing my grass, back home, rebuild the stupid bastard thing, then get told off for using loads of fuel...

 

Grrrrrrrrrrr

 

Fucking indicator relay not working/clicking is annoying too, made myself look even more of a twat when aborting my overtake as I indicated back in, then went to cancel it due to stupid wanky soft touch stalks, but ended up indicating right again for 3 miles before peering under the wheel and seeing the telltale... Hendry, where is the flasher relay on a Zafira B and what other vauxhall shit shares it so I can get a cheap one?

 

Beer time when the stupid boy goes to bastard sleep

[Ghosty]

Doesn't affect me, but out of the blue it's been announced Monarch Airlines have ceased trading effective immediately.

 

That's a lot of people fucked over, travellers and workers alike, and right on the wake of the whole Ryanair holiday thing.

Wonder where the planes will go. (I'm vaguely interested as Old Man's trade is compliance testing of aircraft interiors).

[Kiltox]

Jet2 like buying up stuff like that and I'm sure Ryanair need some pilots

 

Monarch have been in trouble for a while - didn't they get massively bailed out a couple of years ago?

[Ghosty]

I think it's been a slow fall from grace since the Arab Spring and Turkish unrest took a load of holiday traffic away.

[Parky]

Jet2 need pilots and are hoovering up Ryanair's cast offs apparently. Not sure they will necessarily want the planes. It is possible Monarch don't actually own them, instead hold them on a leased basis but I would have to do a bit of rummaging around to know for sure. Either way it's always sad to see a long established company go down. I did wonder if it would be a good way for someone like Norwegian to bolster up their routes but apparently they weren't interested.

 

Monarch nearly got taken down by their pension fund liabilities a few years ago so money hasn't been available to invest in the business for a while. It looked as if they were turning a corner but obviously time ran out. Damn shame.

[BavarianRetro]

I saw someone speculating that BA would be interested in planes,pilots, routes?

[Sheefag]

Ryanair and Jet2 are predominantly Boeing fleets whilst Monarch was Airbus so no jumps sideways for flightdeck crew I'm afraid. Lots and lots of Pilot opportunities in the far east currently, however.

[Kiltox]

EZY are probably the biggest UK Airbus fleet operator I would think?

[Sheefag]

Indeed, by a very long way.

[chaseracer]

That's me driving* to Gib next time then, because I can't afford to fly BA and I'm fecked if I'm ever using Sleazyjet again.

 

 

* I know, I know: makes NO sense at all, but I love Euro road trips and I've always wanted to do this one (then hop over to Morocco)!

[oldcars]

Doesn't affect me, but out of the blue it's been announced Monarch Airlines have ceased trading effective immediately.

 

That's a lot of people fucked over, travellers and workers alike, and right on the wake of the whole Ryanair holiday thing.

Wonder where the planes will go. (I'm vaguely interested as Old Man's trade is compliance testing of aircraft interiors).

Liquidator will sell the planes off. Couple of ex Flyglobespan ones are now owned by Ryanair and Jet2.

[chodweaver]

Shame. I liked using Monarch.

 

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[DodgeRover]

I saw someone speculating that BA would be interested in planes,pilots, routes?

BA flogged off/ got rid of their GO brand budget airline not that long ago saying they didn't want to be at the budget end of the market, can't see that they would want to take on another