The grumpy thread

[DodgeRover]

Was it 'UKbarnfinds' by any chance? Everything that's wrong with Facebook can be found on that page.

I'm thinking of posting asking about how to get the 2018 Range Rover that's been abandoned outside on the street for hours now....

 

And can anybody tell me where the "Next" posts come from? What's that all about.

[DodgeRover]

It's not much to write home about.

But it will cost £200 per letter....

[theorganist]

Was it 'UKbarnfinds' by any chance? Everything that's wrong with Facebook can be found on that page.

Yes that is the one, I think you are right. When I asked why there was so much nastiness and I was told "that is what Facebook is for" when I questioned this and asked for evidence of this fact he called me gay, I gave up then, there is a higher level of maturity in the local sperm bank. On top of it all it turns out the guy purchasing the Megane was even planning on purchasing it and was trying to make some kind of point, so that is the last time I try and stick up for someone on there! I think I will be leaving some of these groups. 

[bramz7]

The worst selling group on FB is that pre 1996 retro cars one. Full of idiots with no hobbies other than to be the meatheads they are.

 

Some groups are fine though. Some of the owners clubs are actually really useful tools.

There's a 605 one too. 12 members strong.

[theorganist]

I'm thinking of posting asking about how to get the 2018 Range Rover that's been abandoned outside on the street for hours now....

 

And can anybody tell me where the "Next" posts come from? What's that all about.

 

You will get one or a combination of the following replies.

 

"its sh@t"

"its shite"

"French Crap" (it won't matter that it isn't French they will have to get it in somewhere)

"scrap it"

"it's crap" (my uncles step sisters fourth cousin twice removed sat in one once)

"are you on day release?"

"these were crap when new how they haven't all rusted away by now" (apparently only British built cars rusted in the 70's, so it was my imagination that my neighbours were scrapping rotten Cortina's at 10 years old)

"60 pound a tonne atm m8"

"they were shit when new, worthless now" (taps fingers whilst waiting for someone to post a photo of an Escort)

"race it"

"burn it with fire" (not sure what other methods they think you should use)!

 

I could go on!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

But it will cost £200 per letter....

More like £20. It's the "considering and preparation" that may be billed at £200/hr (plus VAT)....

[theorganist]

The worst selling group on FB is that pre 1996 retro cars one. Full of idiots with no hobbies other than to be the meatheads they are.

 

Some groups are fine though. Some of the owners clubs are actually really useful tools.

There's a 605 one too. 12 members strong.

The Maxi pages are great, generally helpful as were the 309 page and the Renault 5 not too bad although they were mainly interested in the turbo models. The Fiesta mark 3 page was okay especially for getting spares but the amount of really tidy ones being broken up was a shame and again if it wasn't barried in some way they weren't that interested. The Renault 14 page is good although most of it needs translating, no ego's on there at all!

[danthecapriman]

You will get one or a combination of the following replies.

 

"its sh@t"

"its shite"

"French Crap" (it won't matter that it isn't French they will have to get it in somewhere)

"scrap it"

"it's crap" (my uncles step sisters fourth cousin twice removed sat in one once)

"are you on day release?"

"these were crap when new how they haven't all rusted away by now" (apparently only British built cars rusted in the 70's, so it was my imagination that my neighbours were scrapping rotten Cortina's at 10 years old)

"60 pound a tonne atm m8"

"they were shit when new, worthless now" (taps fingers whilst waiting for someone to post a photo of an Escort)

"race it"

"burn it with fire" (not sure what other methods they think you should use)!

 

I could go on!

I’ve had very very similar from a few on here about the cars I like too.

[iainrcz]

I'm on two rcz owners groups.

 

I'm a sucker for a good hairdressing story....

 

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[sierraman]

I was a member of a locally-based BMW group on Facebook until recently.

 

They were precisely what you'd expect. Useless for actually sourcing any meaningful parts, and they all drove barried / stanced 2.0 diesels. I left about 30 seconds after somebody outright called my car a "piece of shit" with no provocation. How very dare I actually enjoy owning and driving a 2.0 straight 6 automatic! I should be striving to own a 328i manual that's been crashed into a wall backwards several times and jigged back into a shape roughly resembling a car.

What you’ve got to realise is these people on these faceache groups fundamentally can’t afford a BMW, that’s why they went with the 320D, because it’s a toss up between bread and milk and a fivers worth of diesel. I can picture them now, sort of goons who ‘improve’ them with those shit ‘because BMW’ stickers or knock off chinese M tech badges All they see is 50mpg and the 325 or whatever doing 28mpg. Most of them ought to have stayed at home or bought an Astra.

 

I’d just ignore them.

[panhard65]

Fucking car sellers. I have been to look at 2 807 Peugeots this weekend both of them were over an hours drive from me. First one yesterday I turn up and it looks ok for the money, fires up straight away and seems to run nicely. So off up the road we go, fucking hell it was dangerously slow and certainly wasn't running at full power, not helped ny the back brake sticking on. "Oh yeah it is a bit slow but I don't worry about it if you use a light throttle it will pick up speed" We get back and the rear brake is smoking "Oh it's never done that before I can fix it if you want to come back" So that wasn't going to happen. Then today I message about another one and tell her I had been messed about by a seller not being honest. "Oh there is nothing wrong with ours" Ok so off we go get there 1 1/2 later to find the car sitting on their drive with the drivers door open in the pissing rain and no sign of anyone. Knock on the door and this bloke comes out and says it's got a flat battery and how it's a new battery etc. The fucking thing had 4 flat tyres no fuel in it and wouldn't even start with a jump pack. I was really pissed off now so just walked away. I don't expect a lot for what I am prepared to pay but at least check the thing is fit for sale before a punter turns up. Twats the pair of them. 

[sierraman]

It’s never done that I swear down... Bullshit. Is that the beaver tail I can hear coming up the road from car take back?

[Cavcraft]

Yes that is the one, I think you are right. When I asked why there was so much nastiness and I was told "that is what Facebook is for" when I questioned this and asked for evidence of this fact he called me gay, I gave up then, there is a higher level of maturity in the local sperm bank. On top of it all it turns out the guy purchasing the Megane was even planning on purchasing it and was trying to make some kind of point, so that is the last time I try and stick up for someone on there! I think I will be leaving some of these groups. 

 

It never ceased to amaze me how a handful of the 'it's in the public eye, I can say what I like' knobheads got very upset when the tables were turned.

[cobblers]

I bought a cheap shed off the internet, I was expecting it to be total dogshit and it really is.

It's amazing really, the walls are so thin that THE WOOD IS BLOODY TRANSLUCENT. You can see through it!

 

Also some complete dickhead decided that a 25mm square bit of softwood is deffo enough to support a roof on an 8 foot span.

FFS, a tanelised 3x2 is about £3, how much can they really have saved?

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

All the arseholes were on the road today.

 

i) At Lakeside (via mega traffic leading to the tunnel, etc.) coming around the roundabout to get to Hell Ikea, in my lane and a car tries to pull out on me.  Gives me a blast of the horn and some choice gestures, including one that made it look like I should have given way because I was out of my lane.  I was simply following my lane and I've driven that roundabout dozens of times.  Fortunately this mouth-breathing simpleton tried to park as close to Ikea as possible - which I'm sure took him longer than me.  I parked at the far end of the car park, got a space straight away and walked right in...

 

ii)  Crossways, Greenhithe.  I'm going straight ahead having come right off the Dartford Bridge and I'm in the correct (middle) lane at the roundabout.  Fortunately I'm rather aware of the fucking enormous HGV who comes up from behind me and tries to cut me up to get into the single lane.  Then another one does it about 8 feet further on - who very nearly smashes into the side of my car, driving like he hasn't even seen me, despite the fact that I was in front of him until he cut me off.  If I'd been three feet further forward, fuck knows how hard the impact would have been...  So two HGVs cut me up on the same awkward bit of road within five seconds of each other.

 

iii) On the A2 just East of Canterbury.  Semi-hidden slip road joining the carriageway and I get a hint of some headlights (bear in mind awful spray, poor visibility) so I check the outer lane, indicate clearly, see a car in the distance (but well within safety with legal driving) and the guy is doing about 110.  There's plenty of time for him to see me indicate, so I pull out carefully to allow the car joining to merge.  For context, I'm doing exactly 70*.  Once again, choice hand signals, and full beam from the bloke behind who is now located right on my backside, having accelerated even more - who clearly doesn't understand that you don't overtake somebody on a dual carriageway when there's a merging lane and secondly, that you don't exactly have the moral high ground in any situation when you're doing 110.  It's not like I pulled out on him suddenly.

 

He also felt the need to pull right in front of me afterwards and spray me with the fishtails.  Thought he might try brake-checking but even he wasn't that stupid.  The funniest part to me is that my car is theoretically much, much faster than what he was driving so who the fuck knows what the noise was like in there for him...

 

Everyday things, I know.  But bad weather on the road brings out all the arseholes.

[Saabnut]

Todays grump? Fleure Telecom

 

I signed up with AOL when dead slow broadband became available here. Good service for many years, had 4 or 5 routers die over 10-15 years but new one always sent straight away..

 

They were taken over by talktalk - almost immediately the router fails, good service, new one arrived in a couple of days, amusingly with the old aol logo on it.

 

About 2-3 years ago, I am informed Fleure telecom have taken over my account, as talktalk cannot be arsed with non fibre users in the middle of nowhere. No changes to service or prices.

 

On  Friday, my broadband stopped working. Not a problem as I also have satellite BB (fixed line about 0.2 - 0.5 Mb so I also have sat BB at 20Mb). It stopped after the thunderstorms and several brief (10-20 secs) power cuts. Tried rebooting several times, but to no avail so today phoned Fleure. They tested from their end and said my router has failed, and a new one will be 40 quid please! After much debate the operator agreed with me that it should be replaced, but their company policy was it had to be at my cost is over 12 months old. Three times I asked to speak to a manager, twice they returned to say the manager was saying the same, the third time they agreed to ring me back.

 

After 20 minutes, they did phone back to say 40 quid please! They agreed my old contract with AOL and TalkTalk included the router, but theirs did not. If I wanted to sign a new contract, they would send one to me. Bastards! I immediately cancelled my agreement (and went online to my bank to cancel the DD) and have now signed up to a new package with BT which gets me a free router and as a bonus will save me about 30 quid a month for 18 months.

 

So, for the sake of 40 quid they have lost a customer of 25 years standing paying 27 quid a month!

[robinmasters]

Two grumps in one. I failed to put two and two together (#1), and realise that normal 'intelligent' battery chargers are the same as car ones, ie. they think completely flat batteries are fucked, so won't charge them (#2).

[cobblers]

put a good battery in parallel with the shit one to give the "smart" charger some voltage to get it going, maybe leave it ten minutes.

[nebuchenezer]

Dave of many French numbers

 

Gutted

[Wack]

Just been to see the latest Mission Improbable , what a load of bollocks , though I am ashamed to say I'm only 18 months older than Tom Cruise, he has the physique of a man in his early 40s and I look like Selwyn Froggitt with more hair

 

[Wack]

I was a member of a locally-based BMW group on Facebook until recently.

 

They were precisely what you'd expect. Useless for actually sourcing any meaningful parts, and they all drove barried / stanced 2.0 diesels. I left about 30 seconds after somebody outright called my car a "piece of shit" with no provocation. How very dare I actually enjoy owning and driving a 2.0 straight 6 automatic! I should be striving to own a 328i manual that's been crashed into a wall backwards several times and jigged back into a shape roughly resembling a car.

 

 

wind them up, ask a question, then open another account, answer it wrong then argue your point until their heads explode

[adw1977]

I bought a cheap shed off the internet, I was expecting it to be total dogshit and it really is.

It's amazing really, the walls are so thin that THE WOOD IS BLOODY TRANSLUCENT. You can see through it!

 

I'm sure it will be fine, as long as you don't attach anything to the walls. Or lean anything against the walls.

Or sneeze in it.

[Timewaster]

A cheap shed should be seen as a starting point.

A few batons, a bit of ply lining, another couple of layers of felt, a bag or two of screws... Could be made into something decent.

 

I found a big shelf bracket screwed into each corner straightens up and strengthens a tired shed without too much effort.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just been to see the latest Mission Improbable , what a load of bollocks , though I am ashamed to say I'm only 18 months older than Tom Cruise, he has the physique of a man in his early 40s and I look like Selwyn Froggitt with more hair

 

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Does that mean you covet Tom Cruise's body?   

[Wack]

One like it , not that particular one but it'll never happen , my hands and mouth are too close together

[Guest Hooli]

Tom thumb's body would be no use to you, he can't reach the pedals or see over the wheel of a full sized car.

[Guest Hooli]

Talking of shit drivers, I'm bloody sure I go past the local 'formation fuckwitting' team practicing most days, there is no other excuse for how utterly incapable of using a road they are.

[Bren]

Had the squits a couple of weeks ago followed by abdominal pain. Now I have pain in my back and behind my sternum - swallowing is painful. I am hardly eating anything. Seeing a GP tomorrow - for the first time in my life I am fearful of seeing a doctor.

[Datsuncog]

Had the squits a couple of weeks ago followed by abdominal pain. Now I have pain in my back and behind my sternum - swallowing is painful. I am hardly eating anything. Seeing a GP tomorrow - for the first time in my life I am fearful of seeing a doctor.

 

Yeep. That doesn't sound fun; you've done the right thing by getting yourself a GP appointment but if the pain gets worse do get yourself off to A&E pronto, rather than wait until tomorrow.

 

Hope all goes well, dude. Keep us in the loop; with last night's bombshell we don't want to be losing anyone else, yeah?

[New POD]

I just typed an essay about shit that's going on before realising that i need to man up and grow a pair and start behaving like the man i would like to be.

that's all i have.