The grumpy thread

[vulgalour]

If it helps, you can laugh at my idiocy because the cigarette lighters in the Princess are actually fine, it's the fuse (2 amp, glass) in the plug for the dashcam that's popped for some reason and I didn't have the brain to test something else to find that out until just now.  Also did myself a scare when pushing the button on the cigarette lighter for the first time and had it produce lots of smoke.  Apparently that's a thing new ones do on first test and is nothing to worry about.  At least it was coming from the bit you pull out and not any wiring.

 

SMH: shout if you need help and folks will help.  Cancer can definitely FRO.  If it gets too much, don't be afraid to have a good old venty mcrantington about it in whatever way feels most comfortable for you.

[iainrcz]

My mum has had cancer about 3 times.

Breast cancer for which she had a fuck tonne of chemo and partial mastectomys, and mutliple myeloma which is still on going.

 

My aunt had to have a double mastectomy due to cancer, my great aunt died from breast cancer and my friend's mum died of it too. My partner's mum had a double mastectomy.

 

It can indeed go fuck off and die in as painful way as is fucking possible.

The absolute shitting arsehole.

 

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[Noel Tidybeard]

If it helps, you can laugh at my idiocy because the cigarette lighters in the Princess are actually fine, it's the fuse (2 amp, glass) in the plug for the dashcam that's popped for some reason and I didn't have the brain to test something else to find that out until just now.  Also did myself a scare when pushing the button on the cigarette lighter for the first time and had it produce lots of smoke.  Apparently that's a thing new ones do on first test and is nothing to worry about.  At least it was coming from the bit you pull out and not any wiring.

 

 

its a throwback to Lucas days- when you bought jenuwine oem replacement parts they were coated in a special oil which when it reached a voltage of 11.78947874 it vapourises into loom smoke to top up your car

 

i know this cos my there was a big cylinder down the centre drive at shaftmoor lane where they had smoke delivered to every 3.75 weeks

[Noel Tidybeard]

cancer can be beaten- mate some years ago got told he had non hodgkin's lymphoma his attitude was laugh in its face- he shouldn't still be here 19 years later but he is!

[Alfamale]

On the 17th August last year AlfaFemale was diagnosed with breast cancer. We’ve been through Chemo, a Mastectomy and Radiotherapy but nearly a year down the line she’s back to living a normally life and is as clear of cancer as any of us are.

 

Survival rates are getting better all the time as treatments are developed. I appreciate these are dark days but there is always hope. My best wishes to you all.

[BavarianRetro]

If it helps, you can laugh at my idiocy because the cigarette lighters in the Princess are actually fine, it's the fuse (2 amp, glass) in the plug for the dashcam that's popped for some reason and I didn't have the brain to test something else to find that out until just now. ....

Yesterday, I stripped my inverter right down to the component boards because I'd stupidly connected it with reverse polarity and it died. I presumed that a capacitor or internal fuse had blown.

 

I should have checked the glass fuse in the cigarette lighter plug first!

[New POD]

I keep starting to write this and discarding it. I think it's time to do it though: I'm away on holiday, relaxing, and finally unbuttoned enough that I keep welling up.

 

My sister in law is only 28 years old. She had cancer as a teenager which cost her a leg. She fought right back and earned her place on the Paralympic cycling team, with a real shot at competing in the next round.

 

The cancer has come back. It's in her spine and her lungs.

 

She has maybe two years left.

 

The first thing she did on getting the news was to marry her boyfriend, who is a really brilliant chap.

 

My wife is on a bit of a spiral... She's thinner and paler every day. I want to help her but there simply isn't anything that anyone could do to make this better.

 

This is just the worst.

That's shit. My wife finds out about her tests on Monday. I am expecting the weekend to be tense.

I suspect that If it is bad news on Mon day it won't be as bad as your news because most people survive breast cancer.

 

Did i say that's shit.

[eddyramrod]

I think his bed side manners need some work.

Her.

 

Chauffer time?

Nice thought!  Can't afford one, but still... think he/she would go to work for me too?

[New POD]

What an absolute cunt, every video is just as bad as the last one.

 

How is this legal?

 

https://youtu.be/HY5AloPiu1E

I'd love to see thier insurance certificate for product liability and professional indemnity. And rip it up.

[Datsuncog]

It's not the worst-designed Transit ever, it's the worst-designed anything ever. I can't wait to see how they down their game for the next model.

TOP SECRET - FORD EXECUTIVES ONLY

 

Transit 2020 Refresh: Agreed Features Shortlist

 

- Seats trimmed with raw, bloodied untanned pigskin (leave heads on)

- Gearstick fabricated from Cheestrings soaked in meths

- Glove box pre-filled with wet turnip peelings

- Reversing sensors to play back the sound of an elderly man weeping helplessly, becoming more distressed the closer the vehicle moves to the obstruction

- Haunted wingmirrors

- Peters & Lee cassette permanently wedged in radio head unit, running at three-quarters speed. Volume can only go up, not down. Off switch delete.

- Automatic engine cut-out at more than 3,000rpm

- Automatic engine cut-out at less than 2,950rpm

- Concealed angle grinder under seat, to activate and slice into driver's leg every ninth time brake pedal deployed

- Operators manual just a mouldy sack filled with old TV guides, takeaway menus and religious tracts, plus a dessicated mouse

- Existential dread

[Cavcraft]

TOP SECRET - FORD EXECUTIVES ONLY

 

Transit 2020 Refresh: Agreed Features Shortlist

 

- Seats trimmed with raw, bloodied untanned pigskin (leave heads on)

- Gearstick fabricated from Cheestrings soaked in meths

- Glove box pre-filled with wet turnip peelings

- Reversing sensors to play back the sound of an elderly man weeping helplessly, becoming more distressed the closer the vehicle moves to the obstruction

- Haunted wingmirrors

- Peters & Lee cassette permanently wedged in radio head unit, running at three-quarters speed. Volume can only go up, not down. Off switch delete.

- Automatic engine cut-out at more than 3,000rpm

- Automatic engine cut-out at less than 2,950rpm

- Concealed angle grinder under seat, to activate and slice into driver's leg every ninth time brake pedal deployed

- Operators manual just a sack of old TV guides, takeaway menus and religious tracts

- Existential dread

 

So, basically just an Iveco with a Transit badge?

[anonymous user]

To be fair, at least with an Iveco you knew it was a snake before you let it in

[davehedgehog31]

Why can NOBODY send you the right fucking part nowadays.

 

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[Shirley Knott]

Why can NOBODY send you the right fucking part nowadays.

 

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ECP?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I was going to whinge about the ML having been in for an inlet manifold actuator thing that cost £200 odd and a lot more in labour only to just get a call saying; " Was it charging before, because it's not now!" WTF?

 

So, either a £300 battery or a £200 alternator , both of which were perfectly ok this time last week.

 

But after reading the last couple of pages- fuck it , if that's all I've got to worry about , maybe I should post in the ' Grin' thread.

[Guest Hooli]

Sounds more like they've disturbed something or not put a multiplug back etc.

[MikeR]

A good news day , every one in the family has just let out one big breath ...........

[Pillock]

Careful, you'll pop the windows out.

 

Apart from that, hooray

[davehedgehog31]

ECP?

 

Surprisingly not, Fleabay this time. Sent the chap a polite message asking if he could send the correct item and got this.

 

 

 

I take it your car got the rover k series engine not the Honda engine is the gearbox on the drivers side or passenger side if the gearbox is on the passenger side you have purchased the wrong ones

 

No pal, it has the engine in your listing, you've sent the wrong thing. 

[Parky]

Was very close to bidding on a little Picanto which was silly cheap. It had problems but nothing I couldn’t work through. It was a little too far away though and I worked out the train ticket would probably cost more than the car so I left it. It only went for about £110 as I recall.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BREAKING-FOR-SPARES-PARTS-KIA-PICANTO-ZAPP-MK1-1-0-PETROL-RED/153120943496?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D53472%26meid%3D2122a2d9b1b9427fafb8eba121e0e3a2%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D173442136476%26itm%3D153120943496&_trksid=p2481888.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A1e653f12-9711-11e8-8972-74dbd1801eb8%7Cparentrq%3Aff90ddef1640a9e4ab29c2aeffed0cbb%7Ciid%3A1

 

Sadly the buyer is parting it out. Shame, it only needed a small amount of work to live on but if there’s profit in it for the buyer, that’s fair enough. I felt sorry for it though!

 

Old ad pic and the new ad pic

[Zelandeth]

Yay! The ball of burning death in the sky has gone into hiding... it's dull and overcast.

 

...yet it's still 31.4C.

 

What the fluffing hell is this nonsense, weather?!?

 

Actually thought I might be able to be useful this afternoon...nope!

[Cavcraft]

PaddyPower each way (2 horse) accumulator. First one wins, cash out is £58. Second horse gets placed (3rd) and I end up winning £19.95. WTF? Bastards. 

[NorthernMonkey]

PaddyPower each way (2 horse) accumulator. First one wins, cash out is £58. Second horse gets placed (3rd) and I end up winning £19.95. WTF? Bastards.

On a two horse e/w accumulator (or double as it’s more commonly known) the place element and the win element are classed as two separate bets, therefore if the 2nd horse is only placed, then only the place element of the 1st horses result is carried onto it.

 

Effectively, you lost the winnings from the first place of horse number one as that automatically went on to horse number two as a straight win bet.

 

However, the place winnings from horse number one (which would be a quarter or a fitfth of the win money depending on the number of runners) then went on to the second horse as a place only bet which is the element of the bet that paid out £19.95 as the second horse was only placed...

[Noel Tidybeard]

On a two horse e/w accumulator (or double as it’s more commonly known) the place element and the win element are classed as two separate bets, therefore if the 2nd horse is only placed, then only the place element of the 1st horses result is carried onto it.

 

Effectively, you lost the winnings from the first place of horse number one as that automatically went on to horse number two as a straight win bet.

 

However, the place winnings from horse number one (which would be a quarter or a fitfth of the win money depending on the number of runners) then went on to the second horse as a place only bet which is the element of the bet that paid out £19.95 as the second horse was only placed...

 

 

heads we win- tails you lose

[omegod]

Wasn't there supposed to be an epic collection going on today at about 9.29 ???? 

[Cavcraft]

Thanks, Mr Leeds, have to confess all that sort of shit is way over my head.

[Richard]

Wasn't there supposed to be an epic collection going on today at about 9.29 ???? 

 

[vulgalour]

Princess problems persist.  Cigarette lighter issue was I'd plugged the dash one in the wrong way around, which had popped the 2 amp glass fuse in the dashcam plug.  Trying to find a 2amp glass fuse in an actual shop proved impossible, fortunately Mike was at scaryoldcortina's getting an MoT and managed to grab a couple from Andy, because he's a top bloke.  Plugs corrected, new fuse fitted, job jobbed.

 

Now for the fuel guage.  There's no power getting from the sender to the gauge and it seems likely the section of wire from the loom to the plug is the culprit, potentially a break somewhere.  Guage and sender have been working fine, but power isn't getting into the last bit of wiring.  We're going to try the spare sender plug I think I have in my box that contains a couple of partial looms just in case it's a weird problem with the plug.  Wiggling the plug/wiring was making things work before, but now not at all.

 

I hate electrical problems.  Why do I have a Princess?

[NorthernMonkey]

Thanks, Mr Leeds, have to confess all that sort of shit is way over my head.

To be honest, it’s all becoming a bit of a dying art now, backing the nags. Today’s LBOs are just a front for fixed odds terminals, although that’s all going to be changing shortly.

 

I come from a family of bookmakers and was managing four offices and a credit room before I was legally old enough to actually enter one (allegedly*) but it’s changed completely now and not necessarily for the better.

[SiC]

Princess problems persist. Cigarette lighter issue was I'd plugged the dash one in the wrong way around, which had popped the 2 amp glass fuse in the dashcam plug. Trying to find a 2amp glass fuse in an actual shop proved impossible, fortunately Mike was at scaryoldcortina's getting an MoT and managed to grab a couple from Andy, because he's a top bloke. Plugs corrected, new fuse fitted, job jobbed.

 

Now for the fuel guage. There's no power getting from the sender to the gauge and it seems likely the section of wire from the loom to the plug is the culprit, potentially a break somewhere. Guage and sender have been working fine, but power isn't getting into the last bit of wiring. We're going to try the spare sender plug I think I have in my box that contains a couple of partial looms just in case it's a weird problem with the plug. Wiggling the plug/wiring was making things work before, but now not at all.

 

I hate electrical problems. Why do I have a Princess?

Yes it's annoying things don't work, but can't you just carry a can of petrol and matches use the odometer?