The grumpy thread

[twosmoke300]

Isn't that jam ?

[panhard65]

now, i'm not afraid to try something new, and i can understand pie sandwich, pot noodle sandwich, even a flippin' crisp sandwich, but this....

 

 

CHEESE WITH HAM???

 

WTF????

 

HOW FUCKIN' FOUL!!

 

or is it just me?

Nowt wrong with cheese and ham. Cheese and jam however is a whole new level of wrong

[MarvinsMom]

yes, yes it is.

 

raspberry jam, with cheese.

 

so its not just me who finds this tasty* sandwich filling vomit inducing?

[dave21478]

The filthy shitters are often the people you would least expect.

When I was a retail drone, our store didnt have customer bogs but policy was if they didnt look too minky to let anybody who asked use the staff toilet.

One time a well to do looking middle aged woman asked about the toilets. She was well dressed, well spoken....seemed normal.

She shat in the sink and left the hot tap running on it to spread her steamy poo vapour all over the building.

[cort16]

when mrs c worked in a big retail shop they had a guy who must have shat himself and they saw him shaking the Jobbie out the bottom of his trouser leg and casually walking away.

[Guest Hooli]

Cheese n jam is great, has to be proper mature chedder & strawberry jam though.

 

Cheese n apple is better though, with Wensleydale.

[Slowsilver]

Rust.

 

A spot of the dreaded stuff has appeared on the Bentley, bottom of the passenger side wing. Quite a BIG spot to be honest. I am gutted, which is sad and pathetic as I am a grown man and it is, in the grand scheme of things, a very minor thing, but I am indeed. distraught.

 

Do I get it fixed now or wait and see if it gets any worse? It obviously ain't going to get any better! I'm not sure that keeping cars in the damp garage is good for them, but I did get the Mazda fixed, so 1 up, 1 down!

 

 

I would get it fixed now, or at least scrape it back and apply some rust treatment to stop it getting any worse until you can get it fixed properly. Any rust visible through paint is like an iceberg, there is always much more underneath. The longer you leave it the worse it will get as the moisture is trapped under the paint and it will continue to fester away unseen. As far as I am aware no amount of wishful thinking or burying your head in the sand will cause it to get better if you leave it, although we can live in hope that it might happen one day. I am constantly amazed at the number of cars where obvious rust which could have been treated quite simply when it first appeared has been left until holes appear.

[chaseracer]

Nowt wrong with cheese and ham. Cheese and jam however is a whole new level of wrong

 

Decent ham and proper marmalade is nice.  Try it.

[chaseracer]

I am constantly amazed at the number of cars where obvious rust which could have been treated quite simply when it first appeared has been left until holes appear.

 

At least you can assess the extent of the damage more easily.  Silver lining, and all that.

 

No?

 

You're probably right... 

[Ghosty]

You would get a lot of Hermes parcels in the back of the Volvo....

 

The local guy had a 54 plate Mk2 Punto for the longest while. 

He's now upgraded* to an 02 Megane Scenic

[scaryoldcortina]

Cheese n jam is great, has to be proper mature chedder & strawberry jam though.

 

Cheese n apple is better though, with Wensleydale.

 

Completely agree, a tart jam and a ripe cheese is a total delight.

 

Can't stand the bloody wensleydale/cranberry rubbish you get at christmas however.

[cort1977]

Xtriple, might it be time to look for a better, dryer place to store the beast?

[Cheggers]

Decent ham and proper marmalade is nice. Try it.

Ditto bacon & marmalade

 

 

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[strangeangel]

Won an engine on the bay after having bunged on a bid of the opening price fairly early on. About ten minutes before the end of the listing someone outbid me, only to withdraw the bid a minute later when, presumably, the seller and his mate realised they couldn't shill me. Why can't these people just play with a straight bat FFS?

 

Oh well, I've a feeling all his UR BIDDING ON A WHEEL NUT listings might accidentally get reported by someone in a week or so.

[rainagain]

After having to endure our new neighbours hammering everyday for three weeks installing laminate flooring throughout their entire house, I was treated to the full joys of it last night as I heard them stomping about to quarter past one in the morning. We never once heard our previous neighbours. Knackered and pissed off this morning.

[M'coli]

Re: cheese & jam - it's a lot less offensive to the tastebuds that cheese and grapes, which is apparently "the best thing ever", according to the Michelin star'd chef I worked with decades ago, and that I was a "philistine" because I didn't like it.

A strong cheddar and a sharp, tangy jam (Mum's blackcurrant jam was my favourite) are amazing together, especially when in a digestive biscuit sandwich.

[Snipes]

Cheese and grapes are great. I love a cheese board!

[Vin]

See, when it come to cheese and jam sandwiches, for me it has to be Cheshire cheese and Blackcurrant jam. Perfect combination.

[Pillock]

Laminate flooring is toss.

It's noisy for the neighbours, REALLY noisy. I used to live in a flat where the woman above used to clack clack around in her heels all night. According to the noises, she didn't even take them off for bedroom activities.

It's also cold, just as hard to keep clean (still needs vacuuming otherwise the dust and fluff looks even worse than on carpet) and usually, because it's done to a budget, looks like the cheapest option going.

 

I laid some sticky backed wood-effect planks in our kitchen, much much nicer and 10% of the cost and effort.

[chaseracer]

Xtriple, might it be time to look for a better, dryer place to store the beast?

 

"Outside", by the sound of it.  At least it would get a chance to dry off from time to time, poor old Dollop!

[tooSavvy]

I was watching bogit n leggit*, Utube car service vid, and next to the ramp was a Sierra whaletale in a CarCoon bag!!

 

TS

EDIT ... that's the name! Doing the Carina II

 

https://youtu.be/LpngA2H65x0

[Eddie Honda]

Laminate flooring is toss.

 

Finlay's?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epg3geyp6TU&t=6m6s

[Louise2cv]

What time is it, though? Really?

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Laminate flooring is toss.

It's noisy for the neighbours, REALLY noisy. I used to live in a flat where the woman above used to clack clack around in her heels all night. According to the noises, she didn't even take them off for bedroom activities.

It's also cold, just as hard to keep clean (still needs vacuuming otherwise the dust and fluff looks even worse than on carpet) and usually, because it's done to a budget, looks like the cheapest option going.

I laid some sticky backed wood-effect planks in our kitchen, much much nicer and 10% of the cost and effort.

Our house is detached. We have laminate flooring. We have a greyhound and ginger tom. We would NEVER go back to carpet downstairs.

Balance is resumed.

[Timewaster]

Laminate plus pets = clickety clack day and night.

 

Is it possible to put socks on a cat?

[NorthernMonkey]

Laminate plus pets = clickety clack day and night.

 

Is it possible to put socks on a cat?

Yep. Just stock up on bandages and germolene first.

[alf892]

Went Grimsby yesterday to collect a Morris 10/4 that a mate bought on eBay.........

 

Long story short......we did not come home with this 'well engineered and very solid' vehicle.....mainly because it was neither well engineered nor solid.

 

It had a 1622 b series fitted in the late seventies.

 

Fitted was overstating it a bit......it has hung in the engine bay and then bolted/welded in where it nearly touched.

 

It was in pissed......back of gearbox was out of true by at least 1.5" inches

The handbrake cable sat against the prop shaft

One rear hub seal was proper leaking.....the other just seeping

The front u bolts on one side were bade from 8mm threaded bar

All door bottoms rusty and full of the filler.....apart from one which had no filler...just a hole.

Gear box rear crossmember could not go properly in place because the gearbox (on the b series) was a bit bigger than original so was fitted with longer bolts and about an inch of washers.

And that was just a quicker look over........

 

Before having a look at it we chatted with the seller who professed to be in the building trade. When stating our reasons for not buying his wife let slip he was a mechanic.

A clueless twat I'd say. When discussing the way old cars drive he reckoned the Morris wandered a bit because it had rack and pinion steering.

 

TLDR. Junkman is right about Lincolnshire. As the name implies Grimsby is Grim

[Parky]

Laminate flooring enables spooked cats to run into the house and execute immaculate four paw drifts as they try and drag themselves up the stairs under power.

 

Any inconvenience caused by laminated flooring is more than justified when this situation occurs

[Guest Hooli]

Laminate flooring enables spooked cats to run into the house and execute immaculate four paw drifts as they try and drag themselves up the stairs under power.

 

Any inconvenience caused by laminated flooring is more than justified when this situation occurs

 

I used to have a Jack Russell who'd perfected the four paw drift too. He's enter the kitchen at full speed & approx 75degrees out of line with his direction of travel. Well he did after the first time he run in as normal & bounced off the cupboard, he was a quick learner was Gromit.

[xtriple]

We had laminate flooring in the kitchen and our bedroom. We had a jolly good reason though: when we first moved in everywhere was carpeted including the huge kitchen which was fine, but, we had a very old lady dog (Sheba, huge black bear rather than a dog), she was 16 when we moved in and unfortunately, she used to leak like an icontinant MG. She'd lay down and sleep and when she got up, there would be a big damp patch and all her side was wet...

 

Cleaning her up was no problem but after having the kitchen carpet cleaned three times in a month, it was time for laminate. She only ever did it in the kitchen and bedroom (when she was deeply asleep) and that solved the problem. She lasted another two years so I was glad we had it done. She was a great old dog.

 

Re comments on the dollop: I am seriously thinking about selling her and the other two. I am struggling with my health no end and it ain't going to get no better, doing even the most basic tasks on the cars now is causing me days of pain and misery, even just washing them!  As we have all found, we pour money and time into these damn cars and due to entropy, they do not just stay fixed and perfect. I am seriously considering just getting shot of them all and getting something modern I can ignore.

 

Don't know what to do really. The garage is damp, and I am inclined to use the car rather than let her rot away but last year, under the covers both cars lasted really well, so maybe it was just the wet but very warm weather that caused the problem? Other problem of course is: a Big green rare dollop is not going to be an easy sale unless I give it away and I am not doing that! Seeing as I have spent over 20 grand on maintenance (!) I would want top dollar for her! Who is going to buy her?

 

They are not BIG sellers at the best of times and to be honest, not sure I want to deal with Bentley owners, they all seem to be utter knobs! Perhaps I should just sell the other two? The Mazda is so impractical, but I love it and it took ages to find a decent one with an auto box and the KIA is the only practical car I own but is thoroughly hateful and I ignore it as much as is possible.

 

What to do....