The grumpy thread

[vulgalour]

Life's too short.  If it needs to go in the bin then in the bin it must go.  Personally, I hope someone gives you the paltry asking price so you get pennies in your pocket and one less car to fret about.

[alcyonecorporation]

It's not the only car (and other things) I'm getting rid of. 

I'm being squeezed financially through no fault of my own; stuff has to change. 
I can't really go into who, what and why, but some bad stuff occurred. Still is doing. I got away from most of it but the residual shit isn't going away - not even with D Spares and Garage's patented baby wipes. Not even the minty fresh ones. 


 

Be reyt. 

[vulgalour]

Menthol bumwipes are not a thing that should even be considered.  Menthol has no business being anywhere near a bottom.

[Sheefag]

Went to a friend's place for a charity fundraiser bbq. I collapsed and went all clammy skinned, delirious and puking. Taken to a&e by car, one round of blood tests later plus much water & electrolyte drinks, turns out I was suffering with hyponatremia, which is dangerously low salt levels in my blood. I have seriously cut down on salting my food, and eating not much apart from lean meat, fresh veg and fruit for the last 10 months has taken its toll. Being ridiculously hot and drinking mainly water for the last 3 weeks has over diluted my blood.

 

Got to now keep a salt intake diary and speak to my GP about it just in case there is something more serious with me.

 

I prescribe two bags of Pork Scratchings, three times a day after meals.

 

 

[DodgeRover]

Menthol bumwipes are not a thing that should even be considered. Menthol has no business being anywhere near a bottom.

Just for a moment I read that as methanol!!!! I was struck by the fear of what you may be trying to shift.....

[DodgeRover]

Got to now keep a salt intake diary and speak to my GP about it just in case there is something more serious with me.

Oddly I know of someone else diagnosed with this about a month ago for no apparent reason.

 

How have your energy levels, mood and behaviour been? They were all effected (not in a good way) but soon started to come back for the person I know.

[alcyonecorporation]

Applause has sold.

 

Onwards and upwards.

[Tayne]

Clearly it's the heat (not the amount of lager and vodka sunk yesterday) but f*ck me I'm struggling today. As regards those absolute dickheads jumping on ambulances and cars etc, please remember these twats are firmly in the tiny minority, fwiw I hope the get hammered in court and the morons on the ambulance should be refused medical care of any type until they've paid for the damage and a bit on top.

Domestic violence goes up 38% when England lose, that tiny minority’s is a lot bigger than you think.

[nebuchenezer]

FFS no.1, less than a year lold:

 

 

FFS no. 2, the only gust of wind over the weekend:

 

 

   

[alcyonecorporation]

Sorry, I went past your house and farted.

 

Send me the bill and my solicitor'll be in touch. She's called Sally.

[cobblers]

Just for a moment I read that as methanol!!!! I was struck by the fear of what you may be trying to shift.....

I forgot how I ended up with a load of grease on my lower back, but I did. I decided to wipe it off with a rag soaked in thinners. It ended up running down my crack.

It was just as painful as you'd imagine

[sierraman]

Domestic violence goes up 38% when England lose, that tiny minority’s is a lot bigger than you think.

There's something desperately wrong in society when we lose at a game so you have to go smacking the wife/husband about.

[Kiltox]

That’s only half the statistic - it goes up 20 something percent regardless when they play.

[Guest Hooli]

I've been working on-call since 11am & still awaiting an ETA on a new switch to get the last ward up & running. Bloody powercuts blowing things up in places we've not replaced the UPS yet

 

The money will be nice but I had a day of maintenance on my pushbike ready for next weekend planned. I got as far as buying the new inner tubes before my phone rung.

 

 

Just got an ETA on the parts, 2-3am & somehow it's the only switch in the building without 24/7 engineer support and they can't supply the right switch so looks like I'll trying to rewrite a config between yawns later....

 

Found another way of doing it & got home for midnight. What a lovely restful* sunday.

[Supernaut]

I've had a fun morning so far.

 

Today is a university closed day. This means that if you want the day off, you need to take it as annual leave (yeah, I know).

I haven't taken the day off, but most of the rest of my team have. It's just me and the team lead today. Team lead is usually in about 9:30-10 most mornings.

 

 

I arrived at 9, team lead was already in. A remote site up in Inverness was down. It's an NHS site that we have a presence at.

After talking on the phone with a PA on how to get access to the data centre and powercycle the gateway router, we finally got some information out of the NHS trust up there. They only went and made some firewall changes at the weekend without telling us. Still waiting for them to get back to us, the site is still down. FFS.

 

 

 

EDIT: Just after I finished typing that, a power supply in a switch at the other side of town went pop. I'm off in the van then. Double FFS.

[alcyonecorporation]

Getting pelters for selling the Applause to a banger racer.

Politely explaining that money saves a car, not clicking 'like'.

 

Sue me, foamers. I'm out of cash and I need to get back on the wagon.

Has no-one explained to you how this game works?

 

[RBJ mode disengaged]

[sierraman]

Money talks, that's how it is, if the banger racer has cash in his hands it his.

[alcyonecorporation]

Money talks, that's how it is, if the banger racer has cash in his hands it his.

Quite.

[SiC]

Getting pelters for selling the Applause to a banger racer.

Politely explaining that money saves a car, not clicking 'like'.

 

Sue me, foamers. I'm out of cash and I need to get back on the wagon.

Has no-one explained to you how this game works?

 

[RBJ mode disengaged]

https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/how-to-delete-facebook-account-2950145

 

Will likely help wonders for your mental well-being.

[alcyonecorporation]

https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/how-to-delete-facebook-account-2950145

 

Will likely help wonders for your mental well-being.

I hate Facebook - but it's useful for work, as daft as that sounds.

[bramz7]

Getting pelters for selling the Applause to a banger racer.

Politely explaining that money saves a car, not clicking 'like'.

 

Sue me, foamers. I'm out of cash and I need to get back on the wagon.

Has no-one explained to you how this game works?

 

[RBJ mode disengaged]

Oh well shit happens. There's a far nicer Applause in Scotland in preservation anyway.

 

I'd have done what you did.

[alcyonecorporation]

Oh well shit happens. There's a far nicer Applause in Scotland in preservation anyway.

 

I'd have done what you did.

Please elaborate. I need to know MOAR.

 

There's one that appears near my parents' house a fair bit, so I'll keep an eye out.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Was it the white Applause that Vulg's fruitcake brother previously owned?

[Parky]

Can’t save them all John. No point having a crusty car on the drive when there’s no food in the cupboard and red letters on the doormat.

[alcyonecorporation]

Was it the white Applause that Vulg's fruitcake brother previously owned?

That's the one. I'm not getting drawn into the fallout over that; it's awkward enough as it is and I really can't take sides. I mostly kept it off social media to respect his wishes.

He ended up gifting the Daihatsu to Captain Slow who, after using it for tip runs and generally filling it with rubbish, gave it to me after having zero luck trying to sell it. It sat on his drive for most of 2017, apart from the occasional run out (to Japfest 2017, for instance).

 

I'm in the pooh financially at the moment, and had grand plans of tidying it up slightly, fitting some Watanabes to it that I had lying around, and keeping it at the back of my unit as a weird little side project.

Unfortunately, I ended up so super brassic I had to sell the Watanabes and a pile of other stuff just to keep going (for reasons I can't expand on publically, sorry).

 

I decided to give the Applause one more chance at living - because mard old car foamer - so took it to my friendly MoT tester. I couldn't really afford to, bso I went even further into the red (as every DD bounced. I'm still clearing this up a week later).

 

Anyway, it failed on a rusty outer sill near the trailing arm, appallingly badly adjusted brakes and janky emissions thanks to the booming fanny trumpet that was fitted. Why the PO did this when OEM back boxes and cats are readily available is anyone's guess.

 

It *could* have been patched up, but the bashed in door was awful (replacements are unavailable unless I fancied ordering one from Australia), the Honda Civic wheels were even worse and all the bushes were knackered. Also, I had no spare cash to have some shitty bolide repaired.

I really didn't fancy sinking £1000+ into a car worth less than a bucket of cold piss, and my unit landlord was complaining about it taking up space outside. Anyone who wanted it could have had it.

 

That's why banger racers get cars - they turn up and pay cash, like the scrap man.

 

It's an interesting curio but I'm bleeding money and I need to live more than it does. I hawked it around a few FB sites and Daihatsu groups hoping a G200 GSXi Charade owner might have had it for the engine - to deafening silence.

I'm having a hard time keeping the fugging lights on, so when a banger racer offered me £140 and pick up this evening, the feelings of a few hand-wringing old car fisters who were never going to buy it anyway didn't seem that important. You can disagree with me, but them's the hands we're dealt in life.

 

I should have learned from the utter disaster that was selling my diesel 605, tossed the Applause in the frag and taken the bridge money.

 

Hard lines, eh, Applause? Hope you enjoy your new career as an MG3, or something.

[beko1987]

I've just poked at the little crack in my windscreen and it shot across an inch...

 

 

Might finally be time for a new windscreen, get rid of the random spots all over it! Will see if it'll last the month though

[Guest Hooli]

I had a windscreen doing that once, a blob on blutak at the end of the crack stopped it spreading. I'm not sure why either but when I took the blutak off to prove it the crack started growing again.

 

I then wrote the car off to save sourcing a new screen...

[beko1987]

Might try that, or a bit of tape. Tbh I'm happy to get a new screen, it'll be the first in my driving life, will help me see out of it massively and I can write the £75 off as 'one of those things' that's needed, shitter or no shitter, gooner or no gooner.

[Kiltox]

Might try that, or a bit of tape. Tbh I'm happy to get a new screen, it'll be the first in my driving life, will help me see out of it massively and I can write the £75 off as 'one of those things' that's needed, shitter or no shitter, gooner or no gooner.

New windscreens are amazing especially on an old shitter that’s had a really crap one for ages

[SiC]

That's the one. I'm not getting drawn into the fallout over that; it's awkward enough as it is and I really can't take sides. I mostly kept it off social media to respect his wishes.

 

Don't fret man. The car is not like it's going to solve Brexit or help impeach Trump. It's an old, ragged mass produced Jap car of which there is likely tens of them sitting in different Grandads garages right now that are all mint. Especially a small car like that. Even more JDM spec ones floating around the world too not just Japan, but Oz/NZ/etc.

 

I'm all for saving moving metal cans, but it should never be at the determent of someone. At least with most banger racers, it helps increase the part pool on rarer stuff. This wouldn't happen if it went straight to the crusher.