The grumpy thread

[Pillock]

 

 

But if anyone was caught in the traffic jam when the A4146 was closed for the whole of rush hour or saw the Police helicopter spotting the direction of the bush fire, then there might be a clue.

Eck, was it your car that went up?

https://www.mix96.co.uk/news/local/2623667/a4146-closed-after-car-fire-near-stoke-hammond/

[alcyonecorporation]

Many, many issues. 

*invites Chaseracer to the beige phone of vexation*

[Frogchod]

Does it cost a packet to visit the Drs in France? If not probably worth going and describing your symptoms?

Otherwise amphetamines for breakfast?

25 euro. If you're in the system, you get 70% back. Some medical insurance policies will make it up to 100%

[Frogchod]

I havent been to a doctors since 1993 and I dont intend to change that.

 

Oh, no, I went to a docs with suspected broken ribs about 8 years ago and was told to take some pain killers and it will get better. Since this is my own diagnosis for pretty much everything, I now consider myself as qualified as a proper doctor.

To fair that is the treatment for busted ribs.

[New POD]

Grumpy. me? I should not share my angst because it involves others but let's just say my wife feels overwhelmed by stuff she's committed to because she cares too much and then she gets a letter from the hospital requiring her to go for more tests. This she has to rearrange for a later date because she is taking someone else to the hospital for something equally serious. So instead of a 1 week wait for more tests she has to wait for 3 weeks.

She phoned me just as I was leaving work yesterday and luckily the M6 was running okay and it took less than 2 hours to Get home and the gear box was behaving. And I am working in Bradford today so it only took 1 hour and 10 mins to get here.

Now is not the time to buy an Audi Tt off Billy is it?

[chaseracer]

Many, many issues. 

 

*invites Chaseracer to the beige phone of vexation*

 

Message me.  Our friendly team* is ready to help.

[Wack]

The Japanese really are weird, I buy and sell shite, saw a musical instrument made by kawai so looked it up on ebay and this came up

 

Who gets turned on by a 1/5 scale cartoon doll with massive tits

 

[Jazoli]

Some do, it's huge business in Japan, I think they like the dolls/manga stuff as all Japanese women seem to have pixellated genitals.

[angle]

Yeah, kawaii is the Japanese for 'cute' which means different things to different people - baby cats or perving over schoolgirls...

[OwdChina]

I am I England at the moment and just discovered that Manchester airport is about to start charging 3quid to drop passengers off (5mins) and 4 quid for 10mins. WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING TO THIS COUNTRY??????

[dome]

I really don't like Monday .

 

Took the e46 330d for MOT, failed on handbrake, fair enough, I'll try and adjust it following advice from YouTube experts*.

Too much hassle finding trolley Jack etc , so get tame mobile mechanic to do it- tomorrow.

 

Just pray you have some brake backing plates left.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

 

Noticed what I thought was steam coming up from near side of bonnet, then smelt smoke coming from under the dash.

At this point I'm doing 70* on a busy dual carraigeway, luckily, or so I thought at the time, I was able to pull into a gateway.

By now flames were bubbling around the bottom of the screen, for some reason I popped the bonnet! Then jumped out grabbing phone,wallet etc. Opened the boot and grabbed my shopping.

A bloke in a HiLux stopped and we tried to use his ancient work extinguishers on the car and grass...

 

A Police helicopter started circling , the Fire Service arrived after about 15 mins , by which time the Volvo was gutted and the verge,trees and bushes for a 100 yds or so were well alight.

4 appliances and a 2 white hatted Herbert's who arrived in a Qashqai dealt with the fire, 3 Police Astras and the Chopper attended, the helicopter crew advising which way the fire was spreading.

All over after about 45 mins and a Copper even gave me a lift home.

 

The Fire People reckon it was the fuse box , but I can't help thinking it was something to do with the turbo, as that's right at the back. Apparentlly the 30c heat must be a contributing factor because they're seeing many more car fires than usual. I can't see how though, cars don't just burst into flames in hot countries, do they?

[sierraman]

I once had a Transit catch fire, something to do with the wiring loom had got hot and burnt back to the fuse box. By the point it had burnt out the wiring loom it was scrap despite only being about 4 years old at the time

[sierraman]

My friend had the ‘sticker from the council’ on a 2007 Ford Focus just last month!!1! It hadn’t moved for about a fortnight - all taxed, insured and MOT etc.

 

Baffling.

He'd run out of tickets on our road.

[oldcars]

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Noticed what I thought was steam coming up from near side of bonnet, then smelt smoke coming from under the dash.

At this point I'm doing 70* on a busy dual carraigeway, luckily, or so I thought at the time, I was able to pull into a gateway.

By now flames were bubbling around the bottom of the screen, for some reason I popped the bonnet! Then jumped out grabbing phone,wallet etc. Opened the boot and grabbed my shopping.

A bloke in a HiLux stopped and we tried to use his ancient work extinguishers on the car and grass...

 

A Police helicopter started circling , the Fire Service arrived after about 15 mins , by which time the Volvo was gutted and the verge,trees and bushes for a 100 yds or so were well alight.

4 appliances and a 2 white hatted Herbert's who arrived in a Qashqai dealt with the fire, 3 Police Astras and the Chopper attended, the helicopter crew advising which way the fire was spreading.

All over after about 45 mins and a Copper even gave me a lift home.

 

The Fire People reckon it was the fuse box , but I can't help thinking it was something to do with the turbo, as that's right at the back. Apparentlly the 30c heat must be a contributing factor because they're seeing many more car fires than usual. I can't see how though, cars don't just burst into flames in hot countries, do they?

glad you are ok. Scary stuff indeed.

[New POD]

I am I England at the moment and just discovered that Manchester airport is about to start charging 3quid to drop passengers off (5mins) and 4 quid for 10mins. WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING TO THIS COUNTRY??????

We lack the back bone to say "That's not happening"

Nobody protests.

Taxi drivers should be blockading the roads around Manchester airport and setting fire to things.

Holiday makers should be refusing to fly out of Manchester.

Business travellers should take the ferry to Ireland and fly from Dublin.

but we just suck it up.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Just pray you have some brake backing plates left.

 

Funny you should say that, my second call today after the one to my insurance company who said I'll have to wait a week for an engineer to look at the Volvo to decide if it's repairable!!!!! Was from my mobile mechanic who had discovered he can only get backing plates from BMW at £50 odd each.

He's going to bodge the handbrake enough for MOT- it's an auto so it only needs to work once, the fact it's got a water leak combined with really needing all discs replacing means this could well end up on eBay , before very long.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I am I England at the moment and just discovered that Manchester airport is about to start charging 3quid to drop passengers off (5mins) and 4 quid for 10mins. WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING TO THIS COUNTRY??????

Luton, Stansted and Birmingham have been doing this for years.

A couple of Saturday's ago, I had 4 Lutons and a Stansted £15 just in drop offs, I should add it on the fare, but it seems a bit petty. Luckily most of my work is to proper airports and, as yet, neither Heathrow or Gatwick have jumped on this bandwagon.

[Lacquer Peel]

MONETISE EVERYTHING

[sierraman]

I'm genuinely surprised Ryanair doesn't charge to use the toilet.

[Guest Hooli]

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Noticed what I thought was steam coming up from near side of bonnet, then smelt smoke coming from under the dash.

At this point I'm doing 70* on a busy dual carraigeway, luckily, or so I thought at the time, I was able to pull into a gateway.

By now flames were bubbling around the bottom of the screen, for some reason I popped the bonnet! Then jumped out grabbing phone,wallet etc. Opened the boot and grabbed my shopping.

A bloke in a HiLux stopped and we tried to use his ancient work extinguishers on the car and grass...

 

A Police helicopter started circling , the Fire Service arrived after about 15 mins , by which time the Volvo was gutted and the verge,trees and bushes for a 100 yds or so were well alight.

4 appliances and a 2 white hatted Herbert's who arrived in a Qashqai dealt with the fire, 3 Police Astras and the Chopper attended, the helicopter crew advising which way the fire was spreading.

All over after about 45 mins and a Copper even gave me a lift home.

 

The Fire People reckon it was the fuse box , but I can't help thinking it was something to do with the turbo, as that's right at the back. Apparentlly the 30c heat must be a contributing factor because they're seeing many more car fires than usual. I can't see how though, cars don't just burst into flames in hot countries, do they?

 

Feck!

[DodgeRover]

I'm genuinely surprised Ryanair doesn't charge to use the toilet.

How many people would leave a bottle of piss on the plane for them though if they did?

[sierraman]

£1 for the bottle then

[Kiltox]

image.jpeg

 

Noticed what I thought was steam coming up from near side of bonnet, then smelt smoke coming from under the dash.

At this point I'm doing 70* on a busy dual carraigeway, luckily, or so I thought at the time, I was able to pull into a gateway.

By now flames were bubbling around the bottom of the screen, for some reason I popped the bonnet! Then jumped out grabbing phone,wallet etc. Opened the boot and grabbed my shopping.

A bloke in a HiLux stopped and we tried to use his ancient work extinguishers on the car and grass...

 

A Police helicopter started circling , the Fire Service arrived after about 15 mins , by which time the Volvo was gutted and the verge,trees and bushes for a 100 yds or so were well alight.

4 appliances and a 2 white hatted Herbert's who arrived in a Qashqai dealt with the fire, 3 Police Astras and the Chopper attended, the helicopter crew advising which way the fire was spreading.

All over after about 45 mins and a Copper even gave me a lift home.

 

The Fire People reckon it was the fuse box , but I can't help thinking it was something to do with the turbo, as that's right at the back. Apparentlly the 30c heat must be a contributing factor because they're seeing many more car fires than usual. I can't see how though, cars don't just burst into flames in hot countries, do they?

 

HOLY FUCKING FUCK

 

That car has been nothing but trouble for you - that's absolutely gutting.

 

Glad you're OK!

[Zelandeth]

The Fire People reckon it was the fuse box , but I can't help thinking it was something to do with the turbo, as that's right at the back. Apparentlly the 30c heat must be a contributing factor because they're seeing many more car fires than usual. I can't see how though, cars don't just burst into flames in hot countries, do they?

 

Ouch...

 

The worst thing for me in a situation like that I think is the not knowing exactly what had happened.  I'd never be able to trust a similar car again.

 

Hopefully it's a smoother process to get everything sorted out than one of our old neighbours who suffered a car fire a few years back (clapped out old Hilux - we reckon fuel leak as it had a history in that department).  Insurance almost immediately paid out the few quid they valued the car at, then closed the case.  This was fine and good until the bill came through from the Local Authority for the emergency service attendance and repairs to the road.  Insurance weren't interested because the "case had been closed."  They did get it sorted out, but it took well over six months.

[Zelandeth]

I'm genuinely surprised Ryanair doesn't charge to use the toilet.

 

I'm sure I remember hearing that they did indeed try that a few years ago, but scrapped the idea after their crews nearly got lynched by the passengers.

[sierraman]

Ouch...

 

The worst thing for me in a situation like that I think is the not knowing exactly what had happened. I'd never be able to trust a similar car again.

 

Hopefully it's a smoother process to get everything sorted out than one of our old neighbours who suffered a car fire a few years back (clapped out old Hilux - we reckon fuel leak as it had a history in that department). Insurance almost immediately paid out the few quid they valued the car at, then closed the case. This was fine and good until the bill came through from the Local Authority for the emergency service attendance and repairs to the road. Insurance weren't interested because the "case had been closed." They did get it sorted out, but it took well over six months.

Funnily enough my grandfather once got a bill through from the council for writing off a lamppost. It was quite a substantial amount they wanted to charge him as well.

[Captain Furious]

Crikey, that fire looks intense.  Glad you got out OK.

 

And glad you got a photo to satisfy my inner rubber necker.

[Guest Hooli]

Funnily enough my grandfather once got a bill through from the council for writing off a lamppost. It was quite a substantial amount they wanted to charge him as well.

 

 

Last time I destroyed a lamppost I run away before the cuntcil could do such a thing as they take quite enough in cuntcil tax for nothing already.

[clayts450]

Hell's teeth that fire is huge. Glad you got out okay.