The grumpy thread

[FredTransit]

BASTARDS! I am now on my third attempted pikey theft, three of em again (this time eastern Europeans I think) took photos this time (Gary was in too, they soon hared off when he came out). I started dialling 999, then though, what's the point? It just seem the way of the world now, somebody see what you have and they think they can just take it. Bout time it was made legal to just thump em, less would do it then I think.....

[Mr H Sceptre]

Bad luck with the attempted thefts there Hirst & Fred. Thieving scummy bastards.

 

Just a couple of minor moans from me from bein g out & about in the Maxi earlier

 

1. Renault - adding some alloys to your Trafic van does not make it sporty, so please do not badge it as a 'Sport'. There is nothing intrinsically sporty about a van (excpt maybe ethose Ford Transit Supervans of the 1980's)

 

2. Chap in Peugeot 206 - please indicate in future, it allows other road users/pedestrians to understand your directional intentions.

 

3. Man in Porsche 911 - please don't laugh sacrastically & shake your head at my car. That is why I calle your car gay.

 

Thats all.

[Spottedlaurel]

Sorry to hear that news Hirst.

[Cavcraft]

Same station, different jockey:

 

Chris Evan chatted to a 'man of the cloth' the other day and asked him if he'd ever stolen anything and then implied he was lying when he said he hadn't.

I'm no church goer, nor particulary religious, but it's cak like this that's slowly turning me off Radio 2.

[Guest]

Sorry to hear that news Hirst.

Cheers. I'm getting all the requests fired off now to obtain a new bit of glass - frustratingly, the hatchback glass is slightly different to the saloon.

 

Suspect I'll need someone from Australia/NZ to get involved, should be loads of 626s/Telstars kicking around their breakers yards. If anyone over those parts wants to be a HERO and help me obtain one, drop me a line! Can send money by Paypal and all that.

[Rusty Pelican]

Sorry to here your news Hirst , dont know where you live but perhaps movings an idea

Any way its now politically incorrect to call them Pikeys , They are represented by the Caravan Using Nomadic Travellers Society

or Cunts for short

[Louise2cv]

Chris Evans is always rude to the "pause for thought" people. I'm not into religion, but his attitude to the speakers makes me cringe. It costs nothing to shut up and respect their five minute chat. They were invited on to the show, leave them to it Evans!

 

It also annoys me that he tells every one of them that they are his (or "our") number one favourite, best ever pause-for-thoughter.

 

Is it really acceptable to call "God" "him upstairs" or "the big fella" when you are talking to an Archbishop? As I say, I don't believe, but I would think it inappropriate.

[trigger]

Hirst there's a 626 like yours in the bushes at the back of East Coast Salvage's yard in Colchester, i've posted photos of it on here before, i can take a trip down there and find out if they will sell a 1/4 glass from it if It's not already damaged if you like?

 

Edit: This one.

 

 

On a seperate note, i managed to spend £7.75 on two stale pieces of cake and a bottle of water and sprite at the Heritage Museum today, that's daylight robbery!

[Station]

I preferred Wogan because I couldn't understand a word he was saying - and wasn't offensive in any way. Have never listened to Chris Evans as he's a childish plonker, always has been, always will be, he just offensive and I'm really weary of this style of presentiing.

 

It's like those documentaries that has loud, generic drum n bass or generic thrash metal playing though it. Why? There's a wood working one which must be great to chill out and watch - unfortunately, the camera work makes you sea sick, the sections are 'bite size', and there's incidental drum n bass playing through.

I MUST be getting old, I can't watch it for a second.

[Rusty Pelican]

Mrs RP bought a remnant carpet el cheapo for the spare bedroom , is it big enough I say , Yep I measured it twice , Started to lay it this afternoon ,WTF is it 6 inches too short then , too late to take it back as ive cut some of it , Her carpet , her measurements , she can live with it

[Station]

Started to lay it this afternoon ,WTF is it 6 inches too short then

Don't worry,mine's only 3 inches. wide.

[RedSparrow]

Shit news Hirst. At least you caught the nobbers in time.

As I mentioned on here, someone tried to nick the Metro under the full blaze of security lights from my dads garage forecourt in a residential street full of nosey neighbours. Luckily they were defeated by a hard as nails BL steering lock.

Sounds like there are some options here for replacement glass, sure you will sort something. Thats whats great about this site.

[Minimad5]

Shit news Hirst. Sure you will sort something. Thats whats great about this site.

Pretty much what RS said.

I think i spotted one in a local yard, i will have a look (No promises thou')

Rear quarter glass ??

[Rusty Pelican]

WTF is it 6 inches too short then

But was it far too wide?

Nope , she wrongly assumed that the room was 13ft long and 11ft wide as its directly above the living room which is 13.1 ft wide exactly , bedroom is in fact 13.8 , she didnt even measure the lenght , just the width , so in reality we needed a 13.8 x 13.1 ( 13.1 being std carpet width ) to get it to fit correctly , rooms only 11ft wide so a bit wastefull anyway , ive bodged it by letting a bit in , stuck together with duck tape and stappled to the floor , ( If autoshite did carpets )

[FredTransit]

Sorry to hear that news Hirst.

Cheers. I'm getting all the requests fired off now to obtain a new bit of glass - frustratingly, the hatchback glass is slightly different to the saloon.

 

Suspect I'll need someone from Australia/NZ to get involved, should be loads of 626s/Telstars kicking around their breakers yards. If anyone over those parts wants to be a HERO and help me obtain one, drop me a line! Can send money by Paypal and all that.

Got a few Oz and Kiwis on my site, want me to put a request on there? Tell me the year make and model and which bit of glass.

[Guest]

Hirst there's a 626 like yours in the bushes at the back of East Coast Salvage's yard in Colchester, i've posted photos of it on here before, i can take a trip down there and find out if they will sell a 1/4 glass from it if It's not already damaged if you like?

If you could do that, there would most certainly be a drink in it for you. Let me know.

 

Just for clarification - it's the passenger side back door, the bit of glass you can't wind up and down. Not the triangle bit between the door and hatch. It has to be from a 5-door hatchback, the back doors are slightly different on the saloon.

 

And if anyone else can get hold of one, again, let me know. It'd be probably better to see if there's any UK ones about before trying to ship a bit of glass around the world, really.

 

I've de-scroted it via a thorough vacuum, interior shampoo, general wipedown and a wash. They were only in it for about 10 seconds tops, but that's enough for me to want to give it a full valet. Feels all lovely and nice again now!

[Lankytim]

I thought it was the actual "hatchback" part that had been smashed. Atleast thats some good news. The hatch quarterlight glass is bonded in isnt it? Should be easy to swap the door glass.

[chaseracer]

Foil yogurt pot lids.

 

Why the FECK can they not come off in one piece?

 

As you were.

[Guest]

I thought it was the actual "hatchback" part that had been smashed. Atleast thats some good news. The hatch quarterlight glass is bonded in isnt it? Should be easy to swap the door glass.

Yeah, it's just the door one. Should be easy enough, it just sits inside a seal.

[trigger]

I'll see what i can do Dan, As you can see though the door you want is up against a hedge so might not be that easily to get to and that's if the Cockney wideboy salesmen let me even have it!.

[brammy777]

Today I went to Padworth breakers and upon arrival I was greeted by both a SA bult VW CITI and a Subaru Sumo! It made me slightly annoyed, but the Sumo is being used as a yard vehicle for the moment, so thats a slight bonus. It didnt make me that grumpy, but its a shame still.

[dollywobbler]

Yoghurt pots of FAIL are irritating, as are the stupidly sharp plastic spoons at work. Gah!

 

But today, I save my vitriol for litter bugs. Why do people think it's ok to just hurl their unwanted wrappers out of the window of a car? Snipers should be employed to teach these people a lesson.

[Albert Ross]

Hirst, that's Fucksticks indeed about the glass mate.

 

The Scorpio.......I got it on the road today, drove about 12 miles, and it's burst a cunting water hose. PO's "mechanic" has tie-wrapped a wad of them together and stressed them in the wrong position. So I have to find the correct hose or bidge this one... on a BH Weekend. Cheers. Then again, it was a cheap car. Goes like fuck though! I haven't even tried "Sports" mode on the transmission yet......

 

Land Rover.... has a leaking heater tap. Do I have a spare? Yup. It's on an engine in my Son-in-Law's garage. He's at a tractor rally till Tuesday...... BOLLOCKS!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Rover T series engines man, no matter how many new gaskets and seals you chuck at them, they simply laugh in your face and find 20 new places to piss oil out of. BASTARDS

[dollywobbler]

Rover T series engines man, no matter how many new gaskets and seals you chuck at them, they simply laugh in your face and find 20 new places to piss oil out of. BASTARDS

I think they must have somehow left some A series ingredients in the engine mix...

[Slaighty]

HORSE BOXES

I hate these things. Found at the front of a huge tailback most summer weekends will be an ageing Ford Cargo / Bedford 7.5 tonner doing 29mph while laying a battleship spec smokescreen due to the 400k mileage.

Invariably driven by a sour faced lass with a big arse or ancient flat cap wearing "countryman".

My father in law has one.

[Cavcraft]

Your father-in-law has a sour faced lass with a big arse? My father-in-law has a daughter like that

 

Oh, the smoke screen is also caused by 80 litres of cherry too.

[j-j]

My sympathies Hirst - reminds me of last year's tyre slashing incident. At least that wasn't directed at my old car on it's own as half the cars in the street got the same.

 

Still, at least this damage was none of your fault. This morning in a fit of ultimate SPAZZINESS, I pranged the CX. Turned too sharply in car park and collided with a low wall. Fukd the nearside rear door. Then got home and reassessed the damage - sat on the little wall next to the car on the drive - not as bad as at first thought so went to remove inner door panel, quickly pop out the dent before the metal 'relaxes' but needed different tools, got them , returned to find the rear seat now had SHITE on it. As did my clothes - argh, only 15 mins till have to go to work, shite, went in, changed clothes , cleaned rear seat, noted that there was SHITE on the wall. Quickly reassembled door and reversed out drive, lots of parked cars on pavement so can't see traffic properly but get a clear spot and move out only to suddenly spot an old giffer right behind me in a new Insignia: Argh! but stop well clear of him - still, the old fugger stops dead with that typical old boy 'appauled/worried/insulted' look. I'm thinking: 'move please' and he starts to go only to stop dead a full car length later to which I'm now shouting (2 mins to get to work) "fukkin mooooove" and he rolls on watching me the whole time in his mirrors while transcending the speed humps at walking pace. End of road and 1 min till work and I will now take much more than that to get there... jeez, why do things all go wrong in clusters...

 

I think they call this a 'cluster fuk'

[trigger]

I was next to a young lad on the M6 this afternoon in traffic in a 05 plate Polo with steaming coming from the bonnet and water pouring out underneath.

 

As we were stopped i shouted across to him that he's losing water and that if he keeps on going he'll cook the head gasket, He replied that's there not much he can do about it then proceeded to follow me up the A14 at 80mph.

 

15 minutes later i see him pulling into a lay-by with smoke pouring from under the bonnet, That's fucked it i thought.

[Rusty Pelican]

Right then , carpets sort of down so now the wallpaper , not a lover of it but Mrs RP wants one feature wall , matching pattern one at that , walls not streight , nors the skirting board or the ceiling , result is three drops from a £20 roll , need another two rolls to finish it , HOW FUCKING MUCH , Oh and the paste doesnt stick too well apart from in my hair