The grumpy thread

[warren t claim]

I've not had a scare, other than turning 40!

 

I just fondly remember a time (up until I was 26) when I could eat and drink whatever I wanted and I was still a whippet.

 

Old age is creeping up on me!

 

I just hope I'm not leaving it a bit late to do something.

[FredTransit]

Warren WTF is your avatar? Has she got really big knees or does she need a really good support bra?

[warren t claim]

I'll have to say big knees. To get past the censors...

[Louise2cv]

I live in North Wales, near a slate mine/works, in a house built by the quarry owners a 100 years ago, down the road from a reclaimation yard and have a small shed to re-roof.

 

Boyf and dad have been out and bought Spanish slate.

 

 

Not massively impressed, I know its only 80 slates and not going to reinvigorate the welsh slate industry, but it's just the principle.

[warren t claim]

Do they still mine slate in North Wales?

[sporty-shite]

Filling the lift with fart did cheer me up though. C U LATER TRAPPED WIND.

Reading about you leaving a bomb for H8TD_MNGR made me roffle a bit too!

[dollywobbler]

Do they still mine slate in North Wales?

They do indeed. Fred Dibnah did a bit on one of his programmes. Obviously not entirely recently...

[Station]

"Fred Dibnah returns from the grave to present ... etc"

[retrogeezer]

Fred Dibnah is a legend...

[Father Ted]

Fred Dibnah is a legend...

+1

Grandad Ted knew Fred and I met him as a child. Smoked like a chimney he did, and had a sort of ingrained dirt. Belting bloke mind you.

[trigger]

Fred was the best, When he died it was the passing of a true legend that i doubt we will ever see again what with all this H&S bollock these days.

 

I went to the Llanberis slate museum in North Wales last year and watched how they used to make roofing slates, Clever stuff the way they split them all by hand, and did you know that powder from the slates is used in things like toothpaste and make up?.

[MrDuke]

I live in North Wales, near a slate mine/works, in a house built by the quarry owners a 100 years ago, down the road from a reclaimation yard and have a small shed to re-roof.

 

Boyf and dad have been out and bought Spanish slate.

 

 

Not massively impressed, I know its only 80 slates and not going to reinvigorate the welsh slate industry, but it's just the principle.

 

I bet if you hunted round the quarry, you'd find at least half the slate you needed just laying around for the taking.

 

I live in an ex-quarryman's cottage with a long-derelict quarry right behind us, and there are literally thousands of properly cut, smoothed & squared-off blocks and slabs just littering the paths - between us and the neighbours, we've got enough stashed behind our back fences to build an entire house. (well, almost )

There are very few roofing slates still in one piece, being as it was deserted in the 60s, but if your local one is still going I'm sure there'd be plenty of usable rejects for grabs.

[MrDuke]

Oh, and I could never stand Fred Dibnah

 

I think it was partly my deep dislike of moody-looking yorkshiremen in flat-caps (probably due to unhappy memories of a hated college lecturer who whined on & on for hours about sand-casting techniques, but considered injection-moulding of plastic too modern to waste time on), and partly that I found his utter obsession with engines just a little unhealthy. I mean, I love car engines, big or small, and many of them literally sound like music to me when gunned, but would I mount a tuned Rover V8 on a plinth, driveshaft spinning in the air, and spunk off over how shiny it was??

I know his eccentricity was part of the appeal for most people, but I always just wanted to give him a slap. Nothing more, no violence, just a nice, hearty slap.

 

Sorry

[Father Ted]

Oh, and I could never stand Fred Dibnah

 

I think it was partly my deep dislike of moody-looking yorkshiremen in flat-caps

Wash your mouth out with carbolic. He was a Lanky lad, not a Yorkie.

[Polystratus]

 

Wash your mouth out with carbolic. He was a Lanky lad, not a Yorkie.

From Bolton - wasn't his house and workshop up for sale a few years ago, and is now a museum ?

[Alexg]

***powered by fairy dust***

 

If I see this on the back of another poorly maintained chaved out Ka, i'm going to ram the gormless trollop into the path of an oncoming Polish lorry

 

 

Add to the list-

 

Pink furry steering wheel covers

Playboy Bunny stickers (why oh why )

Hub cap chrome spinners

Chrome number plate surrounds

Lexus style rear lights

Anything by 'RAGE'

[RedSparrow]

There is some 17yo SLAG round here who drives a bright pink 306 with the pug badging removed and replaced the the lettering B A R B I E across the back. I dont even know her but I have already assumed it was 'done' for her by a moron boyfriend and/or moron dad.

Want to smash. With hammer.

 

See ya tomorra Alex!

[dollywobbler]

Sorry but I really dig the Dibnah. He can't have been that obsessed. I mean, it took him 27 years to rebuild his traction engine! That's a lot of faff.

 

And I'd go mad about a Rover V8 on a plinth if the thing ran and the chap who owned it had built every part himself from scratch in his own workshop.

 

I mean, Jeremy Clarkson is actually quite good at presenting fact shows - documentaries and the like. But Dibnah actually lived it and could actually do something useful as well. I admire great craftsmen, mainly because I'm so hopeless at back street mechanicking myself.

[Cavcraft]

Hey, outside a supermarket yesterday and spotted a Zafira with a 'yummy mummy' sticker.

Hung round to see just how 'yummy' this bint was and (un) surprisingly she wasn't at all.

In actual fact the obese, spotty cake muncher probably had the sack from the house of horrors for being to scary.

Happily though she didn't let her stereotype down and proceeded to swear like billy-oh in front of her 217 twatty looking kids.

[Minimad5]

I remember watching something to do with Fred Dibnah "On steam"

and some of the stuff he could do ..

Todays health and safety would shit many a brick i tell ya'

 

He's a legend

 

Edit :

 

Haha billy, you are a legend for hanging around.

How did you get away with that ? , i would of looked "shifty"

[Des]

Last time I was in Leeds I noticed a little chavmobile with a 'Babe on Board' sign in the rear window, took a look inside as I passed and was taken aback by the presence of an industrial grade munter.

[Lord Sterling]

1. Lost yet another job after not being told that I was actually only 'filling in' for the gaffer who was away.

 

2. On the long and winding road back to the dreaded Job Centre to sign on, car decides to throw a wobbly, turns out to be a split radiator hose. Thankfully got the car back home. When I bought the car I'd noticed a small piece of radiator hose lurking in the boot, I thought nothing of it until today. Turns out the hose had siffered a similar split and that peice had just been lopped off at the end.

 

3. Yes I like Air conditioning. Have I ever owned a car with that option? Yes, Have I ever owned a car with one that actually works. No. In fact, to make matters worse, my current car constantly blows hot air into the cabin, nothing I do will make it cold (Apart from a small moment when I changed my expanision tank)

[gearoil]

Fred Dibnah is a legend...

Lets see the man at work...

 

[Cavcraft]

I remember watching something to do with Fred Dibnah "On steam"

and some of the stuff he could do ..

Todays health and safety would shit many a brick i tell ya'

 

He's a legend

 

Edit :

 

Haha billy, you are a legend for hanging around.

How did you get away with that ? , i would of looked "shifty"

I have one reserved expression for sitting in my car whilst my bird squanders my wages on rubbish, and that's the fixed 'bored as bollocks' look. I also reserve the right to clock fanny while the wife's not looking.

[Pillock]

I was lobbying for a 500% tax on "fairy dust" to stop those cake-inhaling morons leaving the house, if they can't afford fuel they can't go out.

 

Then i realised it was LIES and they run on petrol like every other rusty-silled, odd-wheeltrimmed Ka.

[Father Ted]

Arr - it would be ace to have a back garden like this.

[sporty-shite]

Arr - it would be ace to have a back garden like this.

Aye, complete with working mineshaft. I mean, who would spend years digging a mineshaft in their back garden? Especially without getting planning permission first?

 

Legend.

[MrDuke]

(well, almost the same thing, I guess...)

 

I spent many a happy evening in my youth, introducing this to the inhabitants of local streets, via my Riva's mighty stereo system.

 

Can I get a "HELL, YEAH"?

[Pillock]

No, you can get a "NICK NORTHERN"

 

Great band. Saw 'em live, they just looked confused.

[VWPowered]

my grumble on how life is too short, a family we know over here seem to be suffering alot, 2 years ago the nan died, last year the son and today the mum

 

Enjoy Life....