The grumpy thread

[wuvvum]

I seriously think I am suffering with some form of car key related dementia. 

 

The Galaxy keys were in the top drawer of my desk. They aren't there, but there are two Ford keys in the boot of the i10. I hope it's them and not the keys from my friends scrapped Mondeo.

 

I can't find the main key for the R75 but thankfully there was a spare. Fuck knows where that has gone.

 

This is getting silly now, especially after today's i10 fiasco

I once lost the keys to a Subaru Justy I owned at the time.  Spent ages looking for them, getting more and more pissed off, until eventually I found them by the hedge at the edge of the car park - they'd fallen out of my trouser pocket.  To be sure they were safe I then put them in my coat pocket, and closed the flap.  Half an hour later I went to move the car and the keys weren't there any more.  I never saw them again - had to order a new key from the Subaru dealer and then spend a fun* afternoon upside down in the driver's footwell bypassing the dealer-fit immobiliser.

[Christine]

The second time, I bet you first  looked by the hedge again expecting to find them    ??

[warren t claim]

Or maybe just let people be adults and if they see something that they disagree with then understand that everybody is entitled to have a different opinion?

[The Moog]

Football managers aren't hired to delete threads about selling ugg boots or viagra. Mind you moderators aren't supposed to censor according to their own political or social beliefs.

 

And we dont, whatever you believe. Normally the locks are due to complaints made by other members - although once in a while we will take proactive approach if arguments become personal. I am always happy to talk to people about decisions with as much information as possible. 

 

The open forum has created some really interesting threads and some of the discussion is very eye opening. The threads that cause issues tend to be about politics - and they mostly are ok but end up with some members being incredibly confrontational.

 

 

If we post about cars and other assorted rammel people get on, as that is the glue that binds us together. I cant think of any threads in the main forum that have been locked or removed - that should tell you everything

 

 

Autoshite when it was a free for all and ripping the shit out of people doesn't and cant exist any more. As we found out when threatened with legal challenges, Mods & site owners can be held liable for the postings on forums. The days of posting whatever you want and expecting it to be ok are gone.  Mods job is no longer to just delete the spam. The world has moved on, whether we like it or not. AS now has over 19,000 members

 

If you dont like threads then report them (that includes cars and ladies thread).

If you dont want to do that then ignore them,

Add to ignore those people who annoy you (me included if you think I am a bell end) 

 

If you think that I have personally overstepped the mark then again please PM me and I will always talk about what is going on. 

The open forum has created some really interesting threads and some of the politics discussion is very eye opening. 

[Eddie Honda]

I cant think of any threads in the main forum that have been locked or removed - that should tell you everything

Were there not threads/posts locked/removed during the Great Forum Shitstorm of 2017?

[Guest Hooli]

 AS now has over 19,000 members

 

Any idea how many actually post? I'd be surprised if the number of regular posters even topped a hundred.

[The Moog]

Were there not threads/posts locked/removed during the Great Forum Shitstorm of 2017?

Ahh fair point. I was think post GFSS17, the forum in the new incarnation.

[The Moog]

Any idea how many actually post? I'd be surprised if the number of regular posters even topped a hundred.

The standard internet model is 99/1 - that 1% of users create the content whilst 99% lurk.

[cobblers]

TBH if you look through the member list, a good 90%+ of them have zero posts and are clearly bot generated names, eg:



Plus, If you go through the member list and sort by post count, there's only just over 2000 that have ever posted.

[SiC]

So why not have a rule for politics threads for no direct attacks on other forum members?

 

Also I've noticed Cavcraft has lost his dark green username? Has he got fed up trying to keep us unruly bunch under control?

[Guest Hooli]

If people could act over 5 years old such a rule wouldn't be required.

[Craig the Princess]

If you don't like it set up a forum on Autoshitedoespolitics.com and bang your heads on brick walls there.

 

It's a sensible decision to ban that shit.

[Captain Furious]

Well, I went out to a music gig last night with one of my closest friends, hadn’t seen him in a while and was looking forward to seeing my mates band and having a good catchup. About 30 mins after we got there he got a phone call that his mum had been taken ill and was having trouble breathing so he had to leave. This wasn’t entirely unusual, she has had respiratory problems for a while but seemed to be getting over the worst of it.

 

Text him half an hour later and he said it wasn’t good, an ambulance had been called and she was going to have to be admitted, text him again when I got home and he said she’d passed away. Devastated

[LostnotFound]

Well, I went out to a music gig last night with one of my closest friends, hadn’t seen him in a while and was looking forward to seeing my mates band and having a good catchup. About 30 mins after we got there he got a phone call that his mum had been taken ill and was having trouble breathing so he had to leave. This wasn’t entirely unusual, she has had respiratory problems for a while but seemed to be getting over the worst of it.

 

Text him half an hour later and he said it wasn’t good, an ambulance had been called and she was going to have to be admitted, text him again when I got home and he said she’d passed away. Devastated

 

That is horrible news, thoughts are with her family and friends. 

 

 

 

 

 

I appear to have missed all this toy throwing about the open forum. I love the open forum, cracking stuff from HIFIs to lawnmowers via interesting life experiences of a really diverse membership base. I do think the simple rule of don't be a knobhead should suffice, if you can't walk away from an online argument you really need to look at yourself.

[Lord Sterling]

Wow, seriously? Looks as if Autoshite is going through its "time of the month" again.

 

Seriously chaps, just kick back, take a breather and relax for a small while....

 

There is a lot of sniping going on right now and I notice that even in everyday society, everyone seems to be getting an arse on.

 

I am very sorry and saddened to see Dave_les_numeros go, I'm sure he'll be back in a few weeks/months or even years, but in the grand scheme of things, it was his decision. He may also have some other personal issues going on that may have contributed to his decision, we never know.

 

On the other hand, Warrens thread posed no threat to me whatsoever. I didn't contribute or even open the thread until there some mention about it possibly being the stick that broke Dave_numero's decision to leave. I can understand his decision and what he was saying but personally, I took the posts there differently in a light-hearted 'so what' manner.

 

We are all different, we all have different opinions and different ways of looking at things in life. There are a few members on here I wouldn't honestly give the time of day to. I don't care that they are still here contributing, I don't care for thier opinions, they have shoved onto 'ignore' and that is fine by me, if I want to see what they have written, I click on the 'still see what they wrote' link.

 

There are loads of threads here that don't interest me, if some do and I end up not liking the threads direction, I'll exit it and go somewhere else. If a thread is closed by a moderator, fine, that's thier job and they have made the decision, I'll move on somewhere else.

 

At the end of the day, Autoshite gets shut down for the night on my laptop/tablet and I'll go and bother with real things in my life rather than worrying about who said what/what moderator shut down what thread and which member left and for what reason.

 

This is an online forum, not real life.

 

I'm certain that what I written above will come across as worthless bullshit to some, good reasoning to others and ignored by the rest. Why? Because we are all different people with different ways of looking at things, and that is something we need to remember.

[John F]

 

I do think the simple rule of don't be a knobhead should suffice

 

Seconded.

[HH-R]

Wow, seriously? Looks as if Autoshite is going through its "time of the month" again.

 

Sadly it seems to be Autoshite's bi-weekly time of the month lately.

[Guest dave21479]

Yeah, can we just clear something up here..... i didnt flounce of because of the death penalty thread. Unlike what three or four members here seem to assume, Im not a thin skinned little girl. I said my piece there and had nothing to do with it being closed.

 How about I repost what I last wrote on this thread just to be clear?

no, I am talking about the entire fucking forum and the dross its full of.

 

Its like your favourite pub. You go there a lot, you know the regulars and the regulars know you. Shared interests and common outlooks on life mean easy conversations flow on all manner of topics. Its comfy.

 

But it changes. There is no one event that causes it, and its not a sudden thing - its a slow, creeping and unstoppable change. One day you look around the bar and realise that the people you are interested in listening to, the people you can be bothered conversing with have reduced in number, with the old faces not showing up as often as they used to. Those that are left are slowly drowned out by aggressively arrogant arseholes, smug "better than you" cunts and tedious facebook wankers.

You catch sight of yourself in the mirror behind the optics and see that you have changed too....times change and people move on.

So you down the last of your pint, place your glass in the bar and walk out the door. You might look in from time to time in the future to see if things go back to the way they were, but you dont hold out much hope.

 

This is me finishing my pint.

See ya.

 

 

I am giving up on Autoshite because it just doesnt interest me any more - the ratio of posts I personally find interesting to posts I think are drivel has tipped too far the wrong way for my liking. I have visited this site pretty much every day since I joined, but the last couple of months I only read a small handful of posts about things that interest me and skim the rest to see if any good new content has come up. Those that give a fuck will have noticed my own posting has likely dropped off sharply in that time. Its not just the open forum, its the site generally.

I will still visit to read the things that interest me, but I wont be likely to be contributing further. Call me a vain cunt for this if you like, but it tires me when myself and several others put effort into making interesting threads and see them usually tumble down the board while masterpieces like "hurrdurr what [X] should i [Y]?" keep floating to the top like unflushable turds.

[Guest dave21479]

And i doubt this post will get past moderation, but you never know.....

 

Borniteidentity, you are obviously still.....a year or so on.....STILL mardy because i once implied you were a bellend? Thats some serious dedication to being salty.

I was going to post something terribly rude, but there is no point is there? you will never change, so you just keep on being you and the rest of us will know where we stand.

[Guest Hooli]

Well I'm glad to hear you'll still pop in davenumbers, your shite fixing thread etc was always good read.

[Dippy]

Flippin ebay have started applying best offers on any items i list they dont think are getting many views on a fixed price buy it now. So now i keep getting halfwits offering half price or less and then asking for free postage.

[nigel bickle]

Dave

 

I hear you.

 

Keep a watching brief, the pendulum has always swung back......eventually.

 

Your posts make me smile.

[BorniteIdentity]

Dave

 

Your posts make me smile.

Me too.

[BorniteIdentity]

I was going to DM you, Dave - but in the name of transparency I’ll put it here.

 

I’ve no beef with you. You’ve forgotten more than I’ve ever learned about cars, and I think your set up with cars and Home in France is cool AF. Genuinely, I think you’ve got it sorted.

 

You and the other DaveB47 apologisers did rile me. It should be abundantly clear by now that he was on the take and not really fit for purpose. I’d like to think those of us who wanted change have been vindicated now, but it still seems some saw no problem before.

 

Like JM, Skizzer and a few others, I felt throughly pissed at handing money over each month for it to make no difference at all.

 

Anyway, what’s done is done.

 

If you’d like to send me your PayPal email, I’ll buy you a beer of your choice. I’m sorry if you took offence to anything posted in the past. Genuinely.

[Noel Tidybeard]

Dave

 

I hear you.

 

Keep a watching brief, the pendulum has always swung back......eventually.

 

Your posts make me smile.

 

whs^^

especially the lhdrhd mgf, gates & bridges and who could forget the "how not to drive a tractor" series

[Guest dave21479]

I was going to DM you, Dave - but in the name of transparency I’ll put it here.

 

I’ve no beef with you. You’ve forgotten more than I’ve ever learned about cars, and I think your set up with cars and Home in France is cool AF. Genuinely, I think you’ve got it sorted.

 

You and the other DaveB47 apologisers did rile me. It should be abundantly clear by now that he was on the take and not really fit for purpose. I’d like to think those of us who wanted change have been vindicated now, but it still seems some saw no problem before.

 

Like JM, Skizzer and a few others, I felt throughly pissed at handing money over each month for it to make no difference at all.

 

Anyway, what’s done is done.

 

If you’d like to send me your PayPal email, I’ll buy you a beer of your choice. I’m sorry if you took offence to anything posted in the past. Genuinely.

 

Thats cool, Thanks. Skip the beer money, the sentiment is worth more. 

I was never a daveb apologist though, I donated plenty and fumed at what was [wasnt] done with it, I was more of a "dont keep prodding the man who could flush it all on a whim" kind of person, but thats old news now so lets not bring that back up.

[HH-R]

Hope you do stick around Dave, I have always enjoyed your epic tat fixing adventures! Wasn't having a go on the other page BTW.

[Pillock]

Dave - keep reading, maybe if it swings back the other way you'll have some tales of that time you rebuilt a gearbox using a BMX crank, some bailing twine and a scotch egg. There's some decent engineering in your posts and they're always a pleasure to read.

 

And whilst we're at it, I know I'm borderline non-shiter. I know I contribute more to the techy threads on Open than anything else. Hopefully the current feeling of how all the car threads are dropping off isn't aggravated by people like me - I try not to be a dickhead to anyone, but when my daily driver is newer than most of my shoes (and I have nowhere to put anything else vehicular) I sometimes find it hard to contribute much to the main forum.  

[Craig the Princess]

I do think the simple rule of don't be a knobhead should suffice, if you can't walk away from an online argument you really need to look at yourself.

SAY IT TO MY FACE!!!

[beko1987]

Dave - keep reading, maybe if it swings back the other way you'll have some tales of that time you rebuilt a gearbox using a BMX crank, some bailing twine and a scotch egg. There's some decent engineering in your posts and they're always a pleasure to read.

 

And whilst we're at it, I know I'm borderline non-shiter. I know I contribute more to the techy threads on Open than anything else. Hopefully the current feeling of how all the car threads are dropping off isn't aggravated by people like me - I try not to be a dickhead to anyone, but when my daily driver is newer than most of my shoes (and I have nowhere to put anything else vehicular) I sometimes find it hard to contribute much to the main forum.

Same here, I never have any proper vehicle content, so try not to get in the way too much.