The grumpy thread

[Jazoli]

I'd like something really nerdy and prescriptive, watching someone replace an axle on a 306 or something. I appreciate though 99% of the viewing public would prefer mike brewer popping out every four minutes chatting shit.

 

That's what youtube is there for, plenty of that sort of stuff

[alcyonecorporation]

Bub your lad can have it, mate.

 

However, I won't be back in peebo until next week.

Er........did this work out in the end?

 

I DEMAND CLOSURE (please).

[Datsuncog]

Well looks like my haterid of asking people to subscribe to my YouTube channel has bitten me in the arse... If people want to subscribe they will, I won't make them...

 

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That's a bit of the old motivation gone... Might have to bite the bullet in the next video and give it a go... Just 80something to go

 

Subscribed.

 

I may just end up annoying you about the permanently clogged exit filters on my Vax Pet+ cordless, mind...

[alcyonecorporation]

Subscribed.

 

I may just end up annoying you about the permanently clogged exit filters on my Vax Pet+ cordless, mind...

 

I LIKE VACS

[dozeydustman]

My biggest gripe is noisy easters. Slup Slup Slup Slup.......

[Bren]

Stopped watching car programmes.

 

Want to see something different - restoration of a rover 75 with steel seal or restoration of a 51 plate fiesta using washing machine bodies and gun gum.

[Parky]

The question must be put: "What would William Woollard say...?"

 

 

"And next week, I'll be looking at Renaults new contender to the Astra and Escort, the 19. Chris Goffey road tests Fords new small van, and Tony Mason will wander about a Welsh rally stage in a flat cap after overdosing on Prozac. Until next week...."

[beko1987]

Thanks guys! Between you and the vacuum community I'm halfway there!

 

Youtube.com/beko1987

 

I don't mind if you turn notifications off, I won't ask or care again until they change the goalposts again, it's the content that will get people subscribing, and I create very niche content!

[NorthernMonkey]

World of vacuum knowledge here we come!

[Guest Hooli]

I can haz subscribings.

[Tickman]

I've subscribed too, not far off the threshold.

[privatewire]

Subscribed, it'll be worth it to see the mystified look on my missus' face when she "catches" me watching it.

[DVee8]

I got in from work at 8am this morning,parked the car on the drive,now our drive is on a slope.

Getting out of the car the drive is shear black ice.

Off to bed.

On getting up at 2,Mrs V8 asks if i'm awake as i need to talk to you.

Yep i'm ok.

Right your car is embedded in the corner of the garage wall.It has slid down the drive on the ice and hit the corned of the brick work.

As the drive was still ice I didn't move it,I just left it for you getting up.

Oh fucking great,on moving the car their is a V shaped indentation and grazed plastic.Its not to bad and can wait till the weather get better to repair.

But I know its there..

[Guest Hooli]

I got in from work at 8am this morning,parked the car on the drive,now our drive is on a slope.

Getting out of the car the drive is shear black ice.

Off to bed.

On getting up at 2,Mrs V8 asks if i'm awake as i need to talk to you.

Yep i'm ok.

Right you car is embedded in the corner of the garage wall.It has slid down the drive on the ice and hit the corned of the brick work.

As the drive was still ice I didn't move it,I just left it for you getting up.

Oh fucking great,on moving the car their is a V shaped indentation and grazed plastic.Its not to bad and can wait till the weather get better to repair.

But I know its there..

 

Bugger.

[The Moog]

Are going to see crossover episodes where Beko Hoover's an invacar and Dollywobbler rides a Dyson round a car park?

 

 

Subscribed just in case.

[captain_70s]

I'm done with winter now.

 

Tired of not being able to get anything done with the Triumph, I'm working early shift this week so I COULD work on the car in the evenings except it gets dark at 4pm and is covered in snow... At this point I should probably farm the work out to the garage but I'm suffering from a bad case of being a tight git. Although the car is currently parked on a packed street with no MOT or tax and I'm dreading the point where I come home from work to find the council has towed it... Also work managed to fail to process my holiday form for the mandatory Christmas holiday so I missed out on 2 week's worth of pay, I'm having this drip fed each week as if I had it dumped on one pay-cheque my tax would be eye watering...

 

I'm also 100% certain I could pull the 1300's rear wheel arches off by hand with very little effort, it's actually incredibly tempting, just I know what I'm dealing with. Due to previous bodgery. I need a set of panels like this:

 

 

These are now NLA and the newer panels made by the TDC don't cover as much area, just replacing the lip which usually rusts out first. Due to my car having the old style panel bodged on (most likely riveted on top of the original) in the past my car is rotting badly much higher up the panel and would require a lot of fabrication as well as the TDC sections... Naturally Doly rear arches are a weird shape with a distinct swage line so I can't bodge on arches from another more common car...

 

Don't like winter, winter can fuck off now.

[chaseracer]

Er........did this work out in the end?

 

I DEMAND CLOSURE (please).

 

Well, it made it to the post-industrial badlands of Derbyshire.  More than that I cannot tell... 

[fordperv]

Thanks guys! Between you and the vacuum community I'm halfway there!

 

Youtube.com/beko1987

 

I don't mind if you turn notifications off, I won't ask or care again until they change the goalposts again, it's the content that will get people subscribing, and I create very niche content!

Subscribed, who knows I might just learn something

[angle]

Fuck's sake, Parcelforce are rapidly climbing my shit list. I sent my sister her Christmas present by their 'Express 48' service a week before Christmas - £12.98 for a jumper and a book. It promptly took 10 days to arrive. 

 

So, onto their website to fill out a claim. 404 error. So, phone then.

 

'Hi, I'd like to make a claim'

'You can't do that over the phone'

'It says on your website you can'

'Well, you can't'

'So what am I meant to do?'

'You can use the website'

'I can't, its down'

'No its not'

'It really is'

'Well, you can get a form from the post office' - and hangs up.

 

Off to the post office - 'sorry, no idea what form that is'. Phone again, have an identical conversation. She says she'll email a form and then hangs up again. She doesn't.

 

I leave it a week, and use the website which is now working. They take a week to tell me they need a scanned copy of my receipt to process the claim, despite that being mentioned nowhere else. Find it in my coat pocket, wait another week. And today I get a confirmation saying they'll send me a check for... £2.70. Which is not 25% of £12.98, despite that being the amount I'm meant to get back. 

 

Can you post Argos catalogues to the post office?

[adw1977]

And today I get a confirmation saying they'll send me a check for... £2.70. Which is not 25% of £12.98, despite that being the amount I'm meant to get back.

 

 

Looks like 25% of the cost ex. VAT.

[Wack]

Relatives like in Yorkshite and run a private bus service. bit of a nightmare yesterday afternoon herding them all back home again. roads blocked, trucks jack knifed 

 

and one school trip that the school insisted should go ahead despite severe weather warnings was struggling to repatriate the ickle trasures

Was that the one where they got rid of them for the day so they could all sit in the staff room

[dave21478]

Some of Bekos more specialised vacuum cleaner videos cant be found on youtube.

 

https://xhamster.com/videos/vacuum-cleaner-fucking-3242017

 

^^ that is EXTREMELY not safe for work or those of delicate sensibilities.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Was that the one where they got rid of them for the day so they could all sit in the staff room

Slow clap.

[Pillock]

Subscribed. 

 

I bloody love YouTube, I do. I don't think I ever really saw the point of it, it was just a load of weirdos doing videos on weird stuff.

*points at Beko*

But now I realise, it's weirdos doing videos on weird stuff that they love, and actually I really like watching someone get enthusiastic about stuff.

 

So today, I watched a little bit more of Bad Attitude (a 90s TV show on computer gaming that someone has ripped 50-odd episodes from VHS) but then went over to user-generated content. Techmoan, EEVBlog and Lazy Game Reviews are my current favourites, just lob it on whilst I'm working. LGR today was unboxing £17,000 worth of 486 PC from the early 90s and setting up a touchscreen monitor.

I don't think I'd watch stuff on cooking, or fitness or stuff, but anything remotely techy - as long as it's teaching me something, then fine.

[beko1987]

I watched that lgr video last night! You seen 8bitguy?

 

I like YouTube alot now. Tbh when I finally leave Amy I won't bother with telly. Torrents or YouTube will do me!

 

And yes, the youtube is full of blokes like me doing what we enjoy, and hoping a very tiny amount of people will watch it and enjoy it! I often get random people comment on a video thanking me for helping them out, gives a warm, fuzzy feeling!

 

This youtube thing must be big* news top, was on radio 1 earlier, a guy spoke complete sense when he said it will de-motovate alot of small content creators. It did me this morning!

[AlabamaShrimp]

I am now subscriber 970! YouTube are twats though as the videos are full of adverts...

[beko1987]

I am now subscriber 970! YouTube are twats though as the videos are full of adverts...

No, that's my fault for putting them there... Which is the point of all of these! Just hit skip after 5 seconds like everyone else does! I'll still get my 0.00001 dollarpounds!

[AlabamaShrimp]

It's OK if you put them there it's shit if they're still there and you don't get the money.

[beko1987]

Yep, don't want that!

 

Just remembered I've got about 30 Gmail accounts from testing at work... Feels a bit cheating though... Will wait until the final week before cracking if I need to

[Kiltox]

Mate - don’t try to cheat, they’ll catch you.

 

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