The grumpy thread

[pogweasel]

Do they not make jags and whatnot at halewood any more then?

[warren t claim]

Do they not make jags and whatnot at halewood any more then?

Only the Freeloader and various plastic parts for Jags.

[Des]

^Those sills condition are what I strive for.

My grump is repro Lockheed servo, Bought one to replace a gnarly old Girling a little over a year ago, started up the car today and it's running lumpy with a nice intake whistle going on, the servo hose that came with the thing is totally rotted along the whole length. When I bought the thing I was a bit concerned in case it might be Chinese, but it did look well made, nicely finished, apart from the little air filter on the diapragm, it wasn't a filter, it was a plastic sleeve with lots of tiny holes drilled around its periphery, seemingly by hand, needed the car working so I swapped it for a proper fibre filter and kept an eye on it, it's worked fine until today, but I now suspect it is Chinese, albeit top quality Chinese, or in other words, shitty crappy dangerous life threatening junk.

[Lord Sterling]

Your sills look absolutaly fine Station (I really like that Astra aswell, looks really nice) It seems many garages today cannot/choose not to tell the difference between 'surface rust' and real corrosion stuff.

 

Tell someone they have 'rust' and they automatically think 'corrosion' this can often scare them enough into shelling out 'to get the car through'

 

AT my old garage we had a fair few customers come in worrying about rust in exhausts/sills hence failing thier MOTs only to have to tell and show them that its just 'surface rust' which can easily be cleaned up, not the corrosion type stuff.

 

Like many have said here, get this gobshite reported. He's obviously not trained.

[Guest]

Do they not make jags and whatnot at halewood any more then?

Only the Freeloader and various plastic parts for Jags.

That's where IPTOC Clive works.

[Guest]

Realising how over ambitious my 'Bit Ambitious Trip To The South West' is.

 

It was all just so in my mind, conceited with but a thought for the distances involved.

 

I had planned to purchase my wheeled conveyance from just outside Barnstaple after getting down there on the cheap train, heading over to my friends in the Barbican and then rounding the weekend off by nipping down to the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

 

Armed with a grin and a moderately functional copy of the RAC's Routefinder the geography of what I wanted to do was laid bare in best revionist style. Several thoughts occured at this point:

 

1. The distance.

That's several tanks in the Citroen - and that can pull some serious MPG figures from its distended plastic slosh rectum. It might have been slightly more do-able had my friends still lived in Hotwells. A two and a bit hour trip to Bristol was reasonable enough.

Except they now live in the Barbican. I'm welcome to stay, but oh Lord, the distance......

 

2. The Congestion Charge. Swearing occured.

 

3. To get to Goodwood I'd be going back on myself, in a car known for getting 30 MPG if driven gently. I will be in turbo nutter bastard mode, so this would be looking painful for my wallet.

 

4. Excuse me, how much are Goodwood FOS day tickets? That's an elephantine coke habit you have there my Lord.

 

I can't go mental with the splurging anyway because I'm doing the Le Mans Classic the following weekend, and after taxing, insuring and fuelling my new [old] shiter, I won't have enough money for a hotel room, and Barnstaple - Poynton is not a trip I fancy doing in one hit.

 

Goodwood is probably going to get knocked on the head, as is travelling into London. Boris can get fucked if he thinks I'm paying to breathe in his congestion. I think a Travelodge on the M5 will be the thing to do.

 

IF everything else goes to plan. Shitflaps.

[Tayne]

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[seth]

What time of day were you intending to be in London? The C-Charge isn't 24 hour you know. Or even 7 days a week for that matter.

[Cheggers]

My rather strange sounding grump is that I seem to have too much time on my hands...

 

I start a new and rather splendid job on July 5th, and my current employer has decided to send me home for 3 weeks "gardening leave" rather than have me cluttering up the office.

 

So far I've painted the fence, decorated the lounge, serviced the Triumph, been on countless bike rides and watched a lot of football.

 

I feel I have to 'fess up and say I'm missing the routine of getting up and going to work...I know it's an odd thing to moan about, especially given the lovely weather, but I'm becoming increasingly bored and irritable hanging around on my own at home. Mrs_Chegg and the kids are out all day, and all my mates are working. Ho hum, it could be a lot worse

[ashmicro]

Monster CRT Tellys: GRRRR! Just had to move this bugger, as we're getting a new one today:

 

 

65KG of poorly distributed weight. I am WRECKED!

[dollywobbler]

My rather strange sounding grump is that I seem to have too much time on my hands...

 

I start a new and rather splendid job on July 5th, and my current employer has decided to send me home for 3 weeks "gardening leave" rather than have me cluttering up the office.

 

So far I've painted the fence, decorated the lounge, serviced the Triumph, been on countless bike rides and watched a lot of football.

 

I feel I have to 'fess up and say I'm missing the routine of getting up and going to work...I know it's an odd thing to moan about, especially given the lovely weather, but I'm becoming increasingly bored and irritable hanging around on my own at home. Mrs_Chegg and the kids are out all day, and all my mates are working. Ho hum, it could be a lot worse

Honestly. You're getting paid to sit at home and watch ladies tennis?! How can you grump about that?

[seth]

Honestly. You're getting paid to sit at home and watch ladies tennis?! How can you grump about that?

Indeed! Home working does have social disadvantages though.

 

My grump today concerns a 5 year old who, if she doesn't start eating, will end up with a hospital admission

[AnthonyG]

Monster CRT Tellys: GRRRR! Just had to move this bugger, as we're getting a new one today:

 

65KG of poorly distributed weight. I am WRECKED!

You should have chucked a brick through the screen first, then the heaviest part would have broken into nice easy jagged lethal chunks which are easy to carry individually!

[Minimad5]

SH*T ... cannot understand my new and crazy Malaysian friend ..... wish i knew more languages

[Station]

Just shout 'NO SPEAK ENGLEESH?"

Usually works (for bigoted ex-pats living in Spain).

[retrogeezer]

Monster CRT Tellys: GRRRR! Just had to move this bugger, as we're getting a new one today:

 

65KG of poorly distributed weight. I am WRECKED!

That looks like it was a nice TV.....but man, they are huge aren't they.

 

I remember back in 2003 when my 'new' 32inch widescreen CRT arrived, the box took up nearly all of the kitchen floor.

 

Imagine how many more of the flat screen things they can ship here for the same size/weight on a ship.

[Polystratus]

Monster CRT Tellys: GRRRR! Just had to move this bugger, as we're getting a new one today:

 

65KG of poorly distributed weight. I am WRECKED!

Know what you mean - we swapped our Samsung 32' CRT TV last year - all the weight is in the front of CRT as it's quite a thick piece of glass, with that weight I was expecting to find some whacking enormous transformer inside it, all there was a single printed ciruit board and a small flyback transformer (Which I whipped out for some other use).

 

I used to a sack truck and levered the thing onto it, then went outside for the council to collect, had two people stop by and asked if it was ok, I nearly said yes and let someone struggle to take it home and switch it on....

[Station]

It's a shame to see most of these thrown out, you see piles of TVs that were once 500 - 1000 a few years ago in the local tip! It's just the space thing. I saw a little 12" teak surround telly in there the other day and was going to nab if I had space/wouldn't have been hunted down by tip staff.

It's like a mass exodus of telly's to anywhere (no-one wants them), I reckon the small 60's stuff will be worth something, someday.

[ashmicro]

We're not dumping the TV, otherwise I'd have taken it apart. It's going to be picked up (ha!) by the Church Mission for their charity shop. Appropriately, God help whoever tries to lift it.

[Lord Sterling]

Monster CRT Tellys: GRRRR! Just had to move this bugger, as we're getting a new one today:

 

Is it me or something? All I can see is a bit of a room and the rest of the photo wrecked?

[Polystratus]

It's a shame to see most of these thrown out, you see piles of TVs that were once 500 - 1000 a few years ago in the local tip! It's just the space thing. I saw a little 12" teak surround telly in there the other day and was going to nab if I had space/wouldn't have been hunted down by tip staff.

It's like a mass exodus of telly's to anywhere (no-one wants them), I reckon the small 60's stuff will be worth something, someday.

I know someone a few years ago picked up a brand new boxed Panasonic TV from the tip - it was a wedding present and the people who dumped it didn't want it because it wasn't a flat screen TV.

[edit soz wrong photo]

[Mr H Sceptre]

I know someone a few years ago picked up a brand new boxed Panasonic TV from the tip - it was a wedding present and the people who dumped it didn't want it because it wasn't a flat screen TV.

 

Ungrateful bastards

[Polystratus]

I know someone a few years ago picked up a brand new boxed Panasonic TV from the tip - it was a wedding present and the people who dumped it didn't want it because it wasn't a flat screen TV.

 

Ungrateful bastards

Aye, at least someone got a free TV.

[MrDuke]

And depending how many years ago that was, chances are it was better to watch than most flat-screens of the time anyway.

[maxpower]

i have my tv covered for accident/breakage.. so imagine the smile i had when guy on phone says that this policy can be used to cover as many tv's you have in your household... i had bought 50" tv from evil bay for £21.00

brand new in the box..delivery men broke screen and it never got out the box

got it fixed through policy..so i gotta £600 tv on bedroom wall all for £21.00

 

and at 50" it's like having ed china and mike brewer working on their cars in the room

[Station]

People who call you 'bud'. I got called 'bud' at least ten times last night in a 2 minute phone call. Don't call me 'bud' or 'dude', it sounds like you are trying too hard.

[outlaw118]

Absolutely....I've moaned about similar things before, "bruv" and "fella" and "mate", but I'm working in the pub again this weekend, and was called "bud" or "buddy" (as well as all the above) about 10 times last night.

pack it in or I'll glass you. It's that simple.

[Guest]

Just clarify this for me Jon, you won't stump up £20 in London charges to see your mates but will pay at least double that to stay in a travelodge. Next to a motorway.

 

And if you can't drive the 250 miles from Devon to Stockport in one hit then I think its going to take you a very long time to get to Le Mans.

You might wish to leave now.

Sorry, it was quite late when I wrote that.

 

I can do long distances in one hit - I bought my Amazon from a bloke in Brighton and did Lancing - Sale without stopping - at 65 mph in a car I'd driven round the access roads to Shoreham Airport for 10 minutes.

 

The reason why I need a place to stay is because of the hours involved. In theory I won't be getting to Barnstaple before 8 PM, so central London (if there's a parking space) will be rolling under the wheels at 10 ish. Haven't got a raquet.

 

Will I have to pay the Congestion Charge at that time on the Saturday? What about getting out of London to do Goodwood on the Sunday?

The reason I'm whinging about money (and I admit Tayne, the Travelodge makes no sense in this context) is that I will have bought, insured, taxed and fuelled my new car at this point.....

 

Actually fuck it. I might just find a quiet rest spot and kip the night in the bastard. They have massive boots.

 

Oh, and I'm not driving to Le Mans me old china. I'm in the back seat of an arse scraping 1 litre Polo breadvan from the early eighties. How in God's name we're going to keep up with a twin turbo A5 is beyond me.

 

FUCK - you don't have to pay the CC on weekends! Shit the bed! Thanks for telling me Seth!

[Marshall]

Absolutely....I've moaned about similar things before, "bruv" and "fella" and "mate", but I'm working in the pub again this weekend, and was called "bud" or "buddy" (as well as all the above) about 10 times last night.

pack it in or I'll glass you. It's that simple.

Yeah "fella" is the worst one for me.

[Guest]

Absolutely....I've moaned about similar things before, "bruv" and "fella" and "mate", but I'm working in the pub again this weekend, and was called "bud" or "buddy" (as well as all the above) about 10 times last night.

pack it in or I'll glass you. It's that simple.

Yeah "fella" is the worst one for me.

Followed by 'innit'.

 

WHAT'S IT FUCKING IN? AAAAARGHHHHHGHGHGHGHGH!