The grumpy thread

[clayts450]

Have to confess I struggle driving in the dark when it's raining - better with the specs off in such cases. Doesn't help that the dirt track/compost heap/local flytip masquerading as a car park I dump the Streetshite in every day coats every vehicle therein with a fine film of shite as soon as there's a whiff of a breeze. Cue smeary windscreen in wet weather.

 

Which then reminds me as I dutifully use the screenwasher that I need to get the whole washer bottle out from behind the wheel arch and thoroughly disinfect the Legionnaires disease riddled piece of fart-smelling shite

[HillmanImp]

Got an offer on my old house......£15k under the asking price the cheeky fooks. What is this friggin ebay?

 

WYL U SWAP 320,000 GLD PLAYTED XBOXS, KAN XCHANGE CONTRAKTS 2NITE M8. 

[richardmorris]

The windscreen is clear, and the headlights are not great, but better than the xm's dipped beams, I struggled with those too I remember!

Maybe glasses... Never done opticians before though, how does it work? Do I have to take the eye doctor out for a midnight drive?

No just go. Boots or specsavsrs seem to have free tests on offer with nectar card. My last was years ago, when I was getting headaches at uni. but vision was perfect then and I've not been since. I'm the only one in the family not needing glasses.

BUT! My grandmother had glaucoma and so my dad has free tests every six months. If he develops it, then I also need six monthly checks which will be free.

 

 

 

Oh and if you think xm headlamps are bad you should try the X/9, famished glow worms probably put out more light! Happily I haven't used the lights for three years now

I've put halogens in the 2cv which does at least mean you can warm your hands on the switch!

[Kiltox]

Have to confess I struggle driving in the dark when it's raining - better with the specs off in such cases. Doesn't help that the dirt track/compost heap/local flytip masquerading as a car park I dump the Streetshite in every day coats every vehicle therein with a fine film of shite as soon as there's a whiff of a breeze. Cue smeary windscreen in wet weather.

 

Which then reminds me as I dutifully use the screenwasher that I need to get the whole washer bottle out from behind the wheel arch and thoroughly disinfect the Legionnaires disease riddled piece of fart-smelling shite

Screenwash doesn’t sit in my car long enough to get like that - I must use 5L every 1000 miles minimum

 

People take the piss about it, surprised I don’t burn out washer pumps

[richardmorris]

Screenwash doesn’t sit in my car long enough to get like that - I must use 5L every 1000 miles minimum

People take the piss about it, surprised I don’t burn out washer pumps

I don't like using the washers- it makes the car dirty! Having said that Lidls conc. screemwash is brilliant. The £5.99 ish for five litre stuff not the ready to use bottles. Is liq to -15 and will defrost windscreens.

[clayts450]

Tesco still offer free eye tests I believe if you have one of their aircraft hangars near you ?

[DodgeRover]

Really struggling to drive in the dark lately. Been out tonight, and I've got no (well, not none, but I notice awareness of where I am on the road, oncoming cars cause me to loose vision and (if there's no one behind me) brake.. Wtf happened?

 

I used to love driving in the dark, now I hate it. Ah well, it's not like I'll have to do it much over the next 7 mo... Ah shit

 

Still got to get home too! Hopefully I'll get behind some slow driver so I can follow them

Give the headlights a good polish, it's made a massive difference on ours.

[beko1987]

Have to confess I struggle driving in the dark when it's raining - better with the specs off in such cases. Doesn't help that the dirt track/compost heap/local flytip masquerading as a car park I dump the Streetshite in every day coats every vehicle therein with a fine film of shite as soon as there's a whiff of a breeze. Cue smeary windscreen in wet weather.

 

Which then reminds me as I dutifully use the screenwasher that I need to get the whole washer bottle out from behind the wheel arch and thoroughly disinfect the Legionnaires disease riddled piece of fart-smelling shite

The gooners screenwash fucking stinks too. It did it a while ago, so I put 4 Milton tablets and water in, and sloshed it about for 100 miles, and it went for a while. Maybe I should stop using asda screenwash

[fraser.innes.3]

The windscreen is clear, and the headlights are not great, but better than the xm's dipped beams, I struggled with those too I remember!

 

Maybe glasses... Never done opticians before though, how does it work? Do I have to take the eye doctor out for a midnight drive?

Tesco eye tests are free.

 

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[DodgeRover]

Got an offer on my old house......£15k under the asking price the cheeky fooks. What is this friggin ebay?

 

WYL U SWAP 320,000 GLD PLAYTED XBOXS, KAN XCHANGE CONTRAKTS 2NITE M8.

I can beat that - we've had an offer 35k under the offers over price, bloody agents were on the phone to us constantly trying to badger us into accepting. Changing agent soon as they've pissed us off.

[gordonbennet]

I bought some Holts (probably Simoniz now) Mixra off the bay, first used it a lifetime ago, its an aerosol foam which you spray at your minging greasy windscreen give it a few seconds then just use your wipers....crystal clear screen.

Bloody handy to keep a can in the glove box, you could give the screen a blast whilst sitting at the traffic lights.

[Bren]

I bought some Holts (probably Simoniz now) Mixra off the bay, first used it a lifetime ago, its an aerosol foam which you spray at your minging greasy windscreen give it a few seconds then just use your wipers....crystal clear screen.

Bloody handy to keep a can in the glove box, you could give the screen a blast whilst sitting at the traffic lights.

I did'nt know you could still buy mixra.

 

Crap headlights seem to be the norm nowadays. I should go for an eye test - I have been on prednisilone for two years - one of the side effects is cataracts.

[Kiltox]

The gooners screenwash fucking stinks too. It did it a while ago, so I put 4 Milton tablets and water in, and sloshed it about for 100 miles, and it went for a while. Maybe I should stop using asda screenwash

Sorry, ran out of screen wash and was caught short one day at the same time....

 

Nah just kidding but it only got the cheapest of shite ever.

[gordonbennet]

I don't think its crap headlights so much as the friggin light wars.

 

My Mrs seldom drives anywhere outside the town in the dark now, on Friday night we shot over to Northampton late evening, she couldn't bloody believe the amount of light and especially how stupidly bright some headlights and brake lights are on new cars, and don't me started on these bloody DRL's.

 

Still reckon you get a better bit of light on the road from a 7" sealed beam than all these fancy new lights with their sharply cut of beams, bright as fuck in the beam pattern, 1" away from the beam cut off total bloody darkness.

 

Summat else i've noticed, they've almost finished resurfacing the M1 between jcts 16 and 19 for the smart* motorway improvements, the new tarmac is the blackest i've ever seen, it seems to draw your headlights into the surface, might as well be in bloody sidelights...can't wait till thats fully open unlit in sections with no hard shoulder...WCPGW.

[Kiltox]

I can beat that - we've had an offer 35k under the offers over price, bloody agents were on the phone to us constantly trying to badger us into accepting. Changing agent soon as they've pissed us off.

Fuck sake I felt bad offering £750 under! Granted it was a £22,750 flat and my offer was accepted

[Parky]

Just wrote a massive grump about interviewing, namely the four I have over the next four days where I need to be (in order of interview)

 

(1) Posher than I am

(2) Aggressive and hungry - basically make Gordon Gekko look like the Pope

(3) Punchy, clever and good humoured - "think technical Bob Monkhouse, can you do that Parky?"

(4) Really really nice and British as Americans like that. But also aggressive. And Technical

 

I didn't send it though because it annoyed me reading it, and my cat came in with cold paws and sat on me for a bit of a warm. That cheered me up a little. But I am still annoyed that despite having to adopt four completely alien and different personalities for these various meetings, apparently I am not allowed to submit any of them for a BAFTA what with not being an actor. FFS

[beko1987]

Sorry, ran out of screen wash and was caught short one day at the same time....

 

Nah just kidding but it only got the cheapest of shite ever.

It's had about 20 tanks through it so far, and I only give it the cheapest shit ever...

 

Ah well, it's only a smell!

[FakeConcern]

Dartford Crossing is making me Cross.

 

I went there and back yesterday, so have until midnight tonight to pay 2 crossings. 

Last night I set up an automatic payment account as it seemed easier.

Today I went over the bridge, but came back around the opposite side of the M25 as it was quicker (I was M1 to M20, so almost halfway around) so I've got another one tot pay by midnight tomorrow.

 

So now I seemed to have properly screwed it. I don't know if the payment account I set up AFTER I did the first two crossings will have covered those, or whether I still need to pay for those as a one-off. The website can't actually tell me if they've been paid or not, as crossings don't appear for 48 hours - yet they'll fine you a maximum of 47 hours and 59 minutes after you cross (assuming you cross at 12.00am and have until 23.59 the followin g day to pay).

It says it can take up to 48 hours, but on mine it always updates within 12 hours often quicker than that so keep checking it.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Just wrote a massive grump about interviewing, namely the four I have over the next four days where I need to be (in order of interview)

 

(1) Posher than I am

(2) Aggressive and hungry - basically make Gordon Gekko look like the Pope

(3) Punchy, clever and good humoured - "think technical Bob Monkhouse, can you do that Parky?"

(4) Really really nice and British as Americans like that. But also aggressive. And Technical

 

I didn't send it though because it annoyed me reading it, and my cat came in with cold paws and sat on me for a bit of a warm. That cheered me up a little. But I am still annoyed that despite having to adopt four completely alien and different personalities for these various meetings, apparently I am not allowed to submit any of them for a BAFTA what with not being an actor. FFS

Are you sure you're not Steven Toast?

[cort1977]

Fuck sake I felt bad offering £750 under! Granted it was a £22,750 flat and my offer was accepted

Offering under the asking price is just business surely, it's not personal. I had one eventual buyer make about five slowly increasing offers before they got to where I accepted.

[Cheggers]

Controversial and probably going to earn me a flaming, but here goes.

 

While I'm not advocating every post should be perfectly written and devoid of character, lately there have been a number of contributions that look more like the result of a laptop falling down the stairs than an attempt to make sense.

 

We're very quick to poke fun at "Gumtree mongs" using text speak and imaginative spellings, but some stuff on here is on a whole new level.

 

I can cope with using witty* names for Facebook & Audi etc (I've already got that one off my chest), but some posts are so full of slang, abbreviations, colloquialisms and made up words they need a good few reads just to get the gist.

 

 

 

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[BavarianRetro]

I have mentioned *teh* same thing in the past.

[Cheggers]

Fuck sake I felt bad offering £750 under! Granted it was a £22,750 flat and my offer was accepted

At 3% under the asking price you weren’t exactly lowballing them

 

 

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[tooSavvy]

Controversial and probably going to earn me a flaming, but here goes.

While I'm not advocating every post should be perfectly written and devoid of character, lately there have been a number of contributions that look more like the result of a laptop falling down the stairs than an attempt to make sense.

We're very quick to poke fun at "Gumtree mongs" using text speak and imaginative spellings, but some stuff on here is on a whole new level.

I can cope with using witty* names for Facebook & Audi etc (I've already got that one off my chest), but some posts are so full of slang, abbreviations, colloquialisms and made up words they need a good few reads just to get the gist.

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I resemble that compliant

 

TS

[dollywobbler]

Regarding night driving, I think it's an adjustment thing. I always struggle in the Autumn, as I've got so used to simply not driving in the dark. Always takes a few weeks to adjust back. Doesn't help that I really don't do much driving in the dark these days, due to working at home.

[Cheggers]

I resemble that compliant

 

TS

I’m really curious about the way you communicate on here.

 

Despite your ‘individual’ use of language you’re clearly a bright and amusing guy, which leads me to believe ‘Savvyspeak’ is purely an affectation for either your own amusement or some form of “look at me, I’m sooooo wacky” (even your use of compliant rather than complaint above is more likely witty than a genuine error).

 

What’s the gig, Savvy-san?

 

 

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[tooSavvy]

I like my cars

 

I like the Auotoshite mojo

 

I'm probably on some peoples posting 'blacklist'

 

I have no beef with anyone on here

 

I like my ToMM© = I owe MrStation.

 

 

...... "May the SavvySpeak translator be with you - for I will be, and for some time".....

 

 

Anyone want to make anything of it.... eh?

 

 

 

TS

[3VOM]

Dartford Crossing is making me Cross.

 

I went there and back yesterday, so have until midnight tonight to pay 2 crossings. 

Last night I set up an automatic payment account as it seemed easier.

Today I went over the bridge, but came back around the opposite side of the M25 as it was quicker (I was M1 to M20, so almost halfway around) so I've got another one tot pay by midnight tomorrow.

 

So now I seemed to have properly screwed it. I don't know if the payment account I set up AFTER I did the first two crossings will have covered those, or whether I still need to pay for those as a one-off. The website can't actually tell me if they've been paid or not, as crossings don't appear for 48 hours - yet they'll fine you a maximum of 47 hours and 59 minutes after you cross (assuming you cross at 12.00am and have until 23.59 the followin g day to pay).

I would check carefully because I don't think that the automatic payment covers the crossings prior to setting it up.

[Parky]

Are you sure you're not Steven Toast?

Actually that's a great comment. I am going to do today's interview in the style of Steven Toast.

 

"Sales? To pension funds? You can fuck that sky high!"

[chaseracer]

Night driving: a cheap pair of yellow-tinted cycling spectacles from Decathlon have transformed this for me.