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I'm making myself grumpy at the moment. I'm in the midst of a week off but I just can't be arsed / motivate myself to do anything. Partly due to having a bandaged hand, partly as the utter arseache of my potential house move which may or may not happen and partly as I have toothache means I just can't be arsed doing anything at all. I want to do stuff and have loads that needs doing but I just can't be arsed.

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I'm making myself grumpy at the moment. I'm in the midst of a week off but I just can't be arsed / motivate myself to do anything. Partly due to having a bandaged hand, partly as the utter arseache of my potential house move which may or may not happen and partly as I have toothache means I just can't be arsed doing anything at all. I want to do stuff and have loads that needs doing but I just can't be arsed.

You need to see Mr B.

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Meh, maybe youre right about the punishment. ATM its not too uncommon to see people dealing drugs on street corners, I think if there was a good chance they would end up away for a number of years they wouldnt do it. OK, the people at the top of the chain who import heroin e.t.c in large quantities probably wouldnt be affected but im sure the local chav who's topping up his incapacity benefit would think twice after a few of his mates get banged up.

 

Drugs bring down whole areas and make normal folks lives a misery. Its probably as important that justice is seen to be done in the eyes of the locals than the actual punishment dished out to the offender.

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Asked to replace an alternator belt on a neighbour's car. Have done many jobs before and it's generally a massive pain in the ass as he's 80-odd and he likes to see what you're doing while you're doing it, asking questions, and just getting in the way. I'm not a misery, I don't mind it, but when someone is asking what you're doing when you're lying in the wet with eyes full of rust and dirt, it gets irritating. Changing the belt yesterday - it's too short. I can't even get it near the alternator pulley by a good two inches. As his car isn't working, I have to take him down to the place, change it, etc and then bring it back and fit it again. Try it again. It's TOO SHORT. Spend the next hour with him asking why I can't put the belt down to the bottom pulley while avoiding the tensioner.

Because there's an engine mount there -you'd have to take the mount out to do that. But why can't the belt go to the bottom pulley instead of on that plastic round thing? Because I'd have to take the engine mount out. etc etc

So he goes off to the place he bought it from and the bloke does a drawing of how it might go on.

He said 'It should go on this way'. It's the same 'You'll have to take the engine mount out'. FFS. At this point I'm no longer advising, just agreeing. It's not the belt that's wrong, it's how it's sat on the pulleys. He offered to pay for my services, but refused to take it as I'm no longer doing jobs for random people because it's always a pain in the arse and then you've got to do it again if it breaks.

 

He was also sticking his head down where I was working so I couldn't see. MOVE YOUR HEAD FFS!

 

If at first you don't succeed, GO TO A GARAGE.

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All this bloody media frenzy about the cumbria killings is doing my fucking head in. Arsehole reporters tring to use the whole thing to make a name for themselves

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I bet the "Crossbow Cannibal" must be gutted. He was ready go down in serial killer history- even creating a media profile with a new snazzy nickname and everything. Then the Cumbrian shooting takes place and its bumped off the front page and into oblivion.

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Timewasting fuckers.

 

Gone out of my way to find a couple of things people were 'desperate' for, got said items then 'Nah, I don't want one now'.

 

Tell you what then shitface next time you're stuck don't even fucking think about contacting me, you cunt. One of the wankers is always in my ear and I've helped him lots of times. Fingers crossed his car breaks dwon again and he wants me to tow it back or whatever.

 

*Not anyone on here I hasten to add.

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Dont worry Billy, im going to get those slotties soon! ;)

 

Tomorrow, possibly, maybe?

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Billy , that earlier post is tragic

Anyway rant for today , Beemer needed new rear drums and shoes , ordered them Monday , one drum and the shoes arrive Tuesday , WTF i did order two , Second drum arrived today , finish work at half four , I d just spent an hour getting one rear drum off , the adjuster if thats what you call it is accessed through a wheel bolt hole using a screwdriver , Just as the drum comes off the heavens open , everything is soaked including me even wearing an emergency plastic poncho , Eventually get it all back together both sides , one slight issue , the self adjusting system doesnt fucking self adjust , more poking in a bolt hole with a screwdriver untill finally i haz brakes

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Just returning from getting new tyres on the car, and nearly went into the side of an Insignia owner coming straight out of a side road. On the bastard phone.

Like stealing, drink driving and raping people, it's now illegal to use the phone while driving because it's dangerous. Hence your startled expression as you were nearly t-boned by a car that isn't mine, because you weren't paying attention, because you were concentrating on the phone against your ear, you IDIOT.

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Dearie me. There's a whole world of health and safety Nazism in this 'ere thread tonight, and it's a bit shit.

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Timewasting fuckers.

 

Gone out of my way to find a couple of things people were 'desperate' for, got said items then 'Nah, I don't want one now'.

 

Hey, fucking hell, it's like posting in the 'Amazon Parts For Sale \Wanted' section of the VOC!

 

I really cannot be ARSED with that forum any more. No one ever has the parts that I need, and everyone's six trillion miles down South and is shocked whenever anything is over 3 p to post out. This is just the Southerners by the way, I've sent loads of bits to members in Scotland and Ireland and they've been sound. Plus the bloke from Alloa always writes me out cheques in copperplate. :D

 

That said, the BKV was far less of a twat-fest than I was expecting. Mainly because the biggest twat on the Amazon section didn't show up. Calling him a twat to his face would have been the cherry on the cake.

 

I still despair every time I try and get parts out of the VOC forum. The register keepers for the 120 and the 1800 are both top bods respectively but are very difficult to get hold of. All the people I like off there I'm in contact with by phone or email anyway, so perhaps I'll just stop logging in there.

 

'Praps I'm just frustrated with my Amazon - i.e. I've spent a fucktonne on it and it's still nowhere near right \ bished mechanically \ a bit scabby round the edges. I think I might SORN it for a while. There are sooooo many things wrong with it mechanically and I just don't have the money. I won't have the money for a while, as it goes.

 

It doesn't help that bloody FATHA_WAT likes to have his twopenn'orth every time I work out what I want to change on it. Things like:

 

'You can't put a 2.1 litre engine in it, it'll fold in half. Do the 1800 up.'

 

'Why do you want to put Koni Classics on it? They're really expensive and unoriginal.'

 

Yeah, because the car is really original now, given that I had to have the complete rear end rebuilt with NOS \ new panels, innit? Should I go and stick the C800 crossplies back on it? Lob the fixed beams back on maybe?

 

How about because the original oil filled ones are complete shit? How can uprated parts be 'worse' than OEM ones? So all the Amazons that have been raced \ rallied on Konis are all death traps then? OK, that's a massive lawsuit waiting in the wings then. :roll:

 

Mind you, we are talking about someone who says my C4 has never gone wrong (it's all in my head apparently, and I have a 'downer' on it) and thinks that Audi Q5s are 'great in the snow.'

 

I suspect we have nothing in common when it comes to cars. Or George Best. Or Avatar.

 

Whinge, whinge. Sorry.

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Haha @ Fatha's comments.

"Fatha, I can't get the grille to stay on properly"

"Just put a couple of wood screws in it"

"Thanks Fatha. But no."

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Dont worry Billy, im going to get those slotties soon! ;)

 

Tomorrow, possibly, maybe?

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

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Poxy youtube, Just spend the last 1 1/2 hours uploading a 1 minute video of my car for ebay and it's crashes at 87% and i have to start again, Wanky site. :twisted:

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I know what you mean about the VOC... I'm finding it hard to judge the "mood" of the place, mind you I think I've got the wrong car :) .........

As an aside there seems to be a hulluva lot of posts about problems on the XC90.... can't be that bad surely?

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The saga of the not at all waterproof "Olympus Waterproof" camera....

 

Bought last September as a Christmas present - used as a normal camera (fine - no real issues here) untill we went away last week when it was used as a waterproof camera to take some underwater pictures and photos in the swimming pool.

Only it leaked, filled with water and stopped working.

So I dried it out and after 4 days got it working properly again.

Anyway - I come home and find my paperwork and then contact Olympus UK about getting it fixed....

Where did you get it from they say

eBay I say

Whats the serial number they say

Blah blah blah

Oh, they say - its not covered by UK warranty - contact your seller.

So I do, who is now telling me that its only covered by a 90 day warranty and his items are now all described as "refurb" whereas this was described as New on the receipt.

 

Annoying - you bet because UK purchased new Olympus cameras are supposed to be covered by a 24 month warranty.

 

Just been to Wilkinsons Cameras and bought me a Pentax W80 instead.

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I would have bought the same thing from Argos and took it back the next day :lol:

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Photobucket fail

+1. I was just about to publish a jaunty picture of me blatantly not giving a fuck at work.

 

A lad who started at the same time as me has just walked out in disgust. Our mutual hatred for the place kept me going to a very large extent. He's gone back to his old job which is for less money but he doesn't care.

 

I'm now late off every break I take. I answer the managers back and make monkey noises at them as befits my status and paygrade. I openly read old issues of Car on my desk, and skive off on back office work as much as possible.

 

The side of me that wants to carry on regardless has lost this battle, and the younger version of me that just wants to be a cheeky cunt, cause as much chaos as possible and argue left right and centre is back in charge.

I hope none of you have bought things with our employer. If it comes to me it ain't getting to you, because I really couldn't care less.

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Ooh ooh ... Jon has been pushed too far

Getting sacked is not a good option mate, i know you hate the place, but you need the money too.

 

However - Do keep farting in the Lift.

 

Ooh and were you on Facebook at work earlier ? :lol:

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I probably wouldn't advise doing the Funky Gibbon to you boss if he isn't white...

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Ooh and were you on Facebook at work earlier ? :lol:

Not exactly. We have an internet kiosk in the canteen which I can get on if needed. We're not allowed the internet because we're essentially scum.

5 years ago, I was an incredibly snappy little fucker and would have done exactly what my colleague did.

 

Colleague (to manager) : 'This is fucking shit, I'm not coming back.'

 

3 months. Come on three months. I have most of July off anyway. Work are paying me to do great big shits in French latrines and watch Porsche 935s fart through Arnage.

 

OOH OOH OOH. AHH AHH AHH (bananas).

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Was walking through Tesco's this evening and spotted this and nearly vomitted, possibly the worst film I could ever imagine without even watching it. Danny Dyer, Vinnie Jones, Football, British Film, love interest, being Bri'ish, shite film. DIE.

 

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I must say I only know Danny Dyer from his GTA Vice City voiceover and various Bravo programs called Danny Dyers Hardest Cocks. (or something like that)

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Tayne, that's very true, but as ane exiled Scot to ane wha's no', jist forget it's on, ken? It's no' got wheels nor an engine so it's no' important...

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