The grumpy thread

[SiC]

Converting a car to electric is one of my lifes aims. Perhaps I should do it to my MGB

 

FiL sells forklift trucks too. I'm sure I could get a motor cheap off a truck going for scrap.

[cobblers]

Dude... that's a lot of batteries!

 

Reminded me I really need to get a new one for the little UPS...

If you're ever up my way, help yourself! I've got a load of the little batteries in the attic on an ebay £80 APC UPS that will power the whole house for a week. Like I say, I'm spending money to make use of stuff that I'm getting for free. 

[Floatylight]

Why don't you make them available for a donation to the Dave Numbers fundraiser, I'd prob have a couple (if shitely can be sorted)

Fuck, check out my shed:

 

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I can't bear to see work scrap them. £100+ a piece to buy new, perfectly good batteries. So I keep taking them home and spending money on ways to make use of them.

 

I've got a solar powered security light that will continue working for three months after the sun stops.

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[eddyramrod]

I'm another one drowning in "stuff."  I actually have a council lockup just filled with it all!

[purplebargeken]

Have taken the MGF to work the last couple of days, honing and much fun. Drove in along the M25 this morning, handling didn't feel as good as it did yesterday. Hmm. Will have a quick look to see if tyre pressure are ok. Front fine, rear O/S fine, rear N/S fi........., what the fuck????

 

Two wheel studs broken, nuts gone AWOL. held in place by the two remaining wheel nuts. , it's two like this : not on the same side if that makes sense. How the actual fuck?

 

Got to drive to the GP surgery this afternoon. This will be done very sedately.

 

How the actual fuck???!!! Back to the bloody i10, meh.

[MorrisItalSLX]

Fuck, check out my shed: 

 

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I can't bear to see work scrap them. £100+ a piece to buy new, perfectly good batteries. So I keep taking them home and spending money on ways to make use of them.

 

I've got a solar powered security light that will continue working for three months after the sun stops.

 

Give them to Dollywobbler to help him along with the proposed Electric Fox conversion

[NorfolkNWeigh]

12.45am , MrsN gets up to go to bathroom and looks out of the window, spots someone crouching down by the front wheel of the Passat.

She wakes me and , still half asleep , grab a pair of boxers and rush downstairs whilst putting them on..

Recipe for disaster, right?

Yes, I fell about 3/4 of the flight, bending my right knee, whacking my head and doing something to my foot.

Amazingly , this commotion didn't alert the "wheel theif" I was coming for them. I was out of the door and limping like a fat semi naked ninja. Crossed my drive and heading for the Passat 100 feet away, the miscreant turns and looks over his shoulder just as I grab the collar of his shirt and pull him onto the floor with a thud.

My crocked knee gives way and I end up on top of him, still only in my pants, remember. The suspect/victim starts screaming like a girl or, indeed, a posh drunk student...

Suddenly two other lads appear from the bushes near the footpath and MrsN complete with barking dogs is there to back me up brandishing an umbrella(?!)

Lights are coming on and Frank ( retired Copper 2 doors down) is shouting out of his window that he's coming to help.

This is when I realise the hooligans* are shitting themselves and one of them is calling 999 !

 

Turns out , they were on their way home from the pub in the village and after a few pints it seemed a good idea to play hide and seek.

 

They sobered up pretty quickly and everyone went their separate ways.

No harm done, except I've got a painful knee and foot.

 

I look on it as a drill for the next time some little scrote is actually up to no good outside, one lesson I've learnt is that it's probably safer to go out stark bollock naked than put my pants on going down stairs.

 

Oh, and we live in a close with only 6 houses so it's not as if there are often innocent passers by in the middle of the night for me to attack.

[wuvvum]

Actual LOL at that.

[Bucketeer]

It seems that I’m soon to be unemployed.

 

Great, unemployed and unemployable. A winning combination for ones own sanity let alone wealth.

I'm in a very similar boat, although mine is further down the river already moored up in Noworksville. I feel for you Sista.

Do you want to form a support group? We could sit and share a packet of Value chocolate bourbons and remember the good times.

[AMC Rebel]

Pah! posted in the grin thread about how I'd improved* the AMC and all of its stuttering etc had gone after I'd fitted a proper fuel tank and an electric fuel pump.

 

That was then, this is now, a mere two days later and almost all of it's ill behaviour seems to have returned - grrr.

[bramz7]

it's oft said here, but the amount of sub £1000 cars for sale which are absolute heaps, described poorly, with adverts in block capitals is awful. 

I've concluded that most French stuff in this bracket, outside of the 'golden era' (anything made post 2001) is fucked, and the only real cheap stuff is the undesirables, like Fiats and 147s/156s, which are worth zero.

However, I've still come across a few odd sellers, I messaged someone flogging a Stilo 16v Diesel 6 speed (oh la la) asking if the AC works, and they've seemingly taken umbridge to that when I asked them to check, their initial reply was 'they don't know'.

 

Great. All I want is something mildly engrossing with working AC. Please.

[Saabnut]

I hate working on diesels! For 2 days I have been putting off replacing the fuel lines on the Mitsubishi L200. It was an advisory at MOT but my subsequent prodding had produced a drip. Today was the day! Up on ramps and to it, I was soon covered in years worth of shite (ex farm truck) as I removed the old pipes, getting a liberal dose of diesel coverage as well. After an  hour both pipes have been changed, my clothes are in the washing machine and I am in the shower. Took me another half hour to clean the shower afterwards!

 

Went outside, started truck and checked for leaks - none. Great. Then the air reached the filter so it stopped, and now I cannot get the air out so it is blocking my shed. After a further 2 hours I phoned my diesel mechanic mate and he is calling round after work.

 

Bastard thing!

[dozeydustman]

We do exactly the same job, except i may do other tasks on Mondays and you have more hills to deal with.

 

How does someone lose eight 1100s?

 

 

Cowdray estate. 67km². 3 have been found and collected, still 5 unaccounted for. Can't see how they've lost them either - they were all in one compound

[barefoot]

Noisy exhausts.

 

What is going on?

 

Following the demise of the old carburettor and all cars being fitted with fuel injection, there was no more throaty induction roar, exhausts became silent  and the only noise from cars came from Barry'd up motors with twatty stereo's & open windows and drain pipes emerging from beneath their bumpers. Then we had turbo dump kits with a gert big hiss every time anyone upshifted, but now...

There is next to nothing that's even a bit sporty looking that doesn't pop & bang like a mad thing on the overrun.

I followed a BMW M something away from some lights the other day and I swear that it sounded exactly like the Mustang in Bullet - it actually went Kpow, Kpow as the bloke declutched to change up. Even my neighbour has a Mercedes C630 Coupe thing that on some days is totally silent & on others, the autobox appears to blip the throttle as it changes down.

 

Do I need to buy something? Am I missing out?

 

I possibly wouldn't have noticed, but I have a noise sensitive dog and often feel like following some of these cars home & stuffing their tail pipes with potatoes and other seasonal veg.

[sierraman]

My dad complained when he test drove an MGF about the exhaust popping on the overrun. Sometimes I think he just doesn’t get it at all.

[vulgalour]

With a few exceptions - Princess spares, for the most part - if I haven't used something for a year I get rid of it.  I don't go through the hassle of trying to sell things, I first see if anyone else wants the thing and if they don't, if it's good enough it goes to charity shops and if not it goes in the bin.

 

It doesn't always feel right binning stuff but life's too short to be surrounded by shit you're not using.

[stephen01]

Agreed to buy two bikes on Facebook market place-   everything seems to be going okay then a notification saying 'sold' enquired if this was for me as they'd not replied to my last message. for them to come back and say somone else already collected. 

at leats they had the decancy to let me know they had sold and not just block me i suppose. 

[AMC Rebel]

Totally agree about twatty resonators and crap on modern BMWs Mercs etc. But then I am not the target twat buyer

[Mally]

Just read the Gas meter, filled the box in online.

" Sorry we are unable to accept your reading, you have only used 50 units.

The minimum you should have used is 79. please check your reading again".

FFS the suns been shining for 3 months, I haven't used any gas!

[wrenchvolt]

That sucks man, you stick your neck out for people and get let down. Not meaning to be irritating, but you said it yourself

 

 

Now the company has employed a few very decent higher level people and we're on the up and up - looking pretty bright for the future.- but we are night and day from where we were 6 months ago -

 

Sound like you put the scary times mostly behind you, this is another hurdle. Albeit it very challenging, 6 months time you could well be in a stronger position still. 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

That sounds pretty shitty Nyphur.  Not on your team, they're entitled to move on and I can see why they'd be scared of redundancies, even if you've been able to fight their corner in the past (and done a very decent thing too, I might add with regards to the salary) but on the senior management, who are usually too busy sticking pens up each other's arses and trying to light each other's farts...

 

I remember working for one firm and the branch manager said there might have to be redundancies.  My reaction was 'good-o, that looks better on me than walking out of this spiralling death ship.'  That was when I knew I was in the wrong job.

 

My grump today involves putting up shelves and rails using plasterboard fixings.  It's all gone really rather well and looks rather good.  But it's too fucking hot to do anything and what rain we have had has turned to steam within one femtosecond...

[dollywobbler]

To, possibly, mis-quote William Morris: Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful - on that basis I shouldn't be in here myself; however I have just had an epiphany, actually it was tripping over in the cellar while trying to find a set of Allen keys that I thought were down there, but weren't (they were in the wrong sideboard, where I'd already looked)

 

I'm surrounded by stuff, just too much stuff, I can't find anything when I need it, especially tools, so end up buying even more. I even have other people's stuff (it's too good to throw away so I end up looking after it while trying to sell it). I know I can't change overnight but I feel I need a giant closing down sale (or a skip) before I turn into one of those people who has barely enough room to sit on a kitchen chair and ends up crushed by a pile of random junk in their sleep.

 

TL:DR Feeling pissed off with myself because I am disorganised and messy

 

Oh yes. I know this one all too well. Adding the fact we're now sending mugs, T-Shirts and stickers around the world has helped* things no end. The new workbench and shelving I put in the garage in January has pretty much disappeared under christ knows what. Our conservatory looks like a bomb went off in there. A bomb full of useless plastic containers, leaves and occasional bits of plant life. I've at least removed the broken glass now...

 

Yet, instead of doing anything about it, I'm reading about people sticking their fingers together with glue. QUALITY.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Maybe it's time to take up glue sniffing?  That's the next stage, clearly.  Might help with the grumps, too!

[chaseracer]

Musical Offspring is between conservatoires and back from shaking sticks and making loud noises at one-fifth of the global population.  Chaseracer Towers - not generally the tidiest of abodes - currently looks like an explosion in a percussion factory.

[DodgeRover]

Fuck, check out my shed:

 

2018-08-01 18.51.26.jpg

2018-08-01 18.51.28.jpg

 

I can't bear to see work scrap them. £100+ a piece to buy new, perfectly good batteries. So I keep taking them home and spending money on ways to make use of them.

 

I've got a solar powered security light that will continue working for three months after the sun stops.

I'll happily buy some or donate the £s to the works charity? Oddly I was going to message you as I weighed all our dead ones at the weekend and now need some standby ones.

60p a kg at deatons.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Musical Offspring is between conservatoires and back from shaking sticks and making loud noises at one-fifth of the global population.  Chaseracer Towers - not generally the tidiest of abodes - currently looks like an explosion in a percussion factory.

 

 

To be fair, as the owner of three drum kits I can see why that might be the case.  Let alone an orchestral percussionist...

[dozeydustman]

NOT ENOUGH THUNDERSTORM!!!

[BorniteIdentity]

12.45am , MrsN gets up to go to bathroom and looks out of the window, spots someone crouching down by the front wheel of the Passat.

She wakes me and , still half asleep , grab a pair of boxers and rush downstairs whilst putting them on..

Recipe for disaster, right?

Yes, I fell about 3/4 of the flight, bending my right knee, whacking my head and doing something to my foot.

Amazingly , this commotion didn't alert the "wheel theif" I was coming for them. I was out of the door and limping like a fat semi naked ninja. Crossed my drive and heading for the Passat 100 feet away, the miscreant turns and looks over his shoulder just as I grab the collar of his shirt and pull him onto the floor with a thud.

My crocked knee gives way and I end up on top of him, still only in my pants, remember. The suspect/victim starts screaming like a girl or, indeed, a posh drunk student...

Suddenly two other lads appear from the bushes near the footpath and MrsN complete with barking dogs is there to back me up brandishing an umbrella(?!)

Lights are coming on and Frank ( retired Copper 2 doors down) is shouting out of his window that he's coming to help.

This is when I realise the hooligans* are shitting themselves and one of them is calling 999 !

 

Turns out , they were on their way home from the pub in the village and after a few pints it seemed a good idea to play hide and seek.

 

They sobered up pretty quickly and everyone went their separate ways.

No harm done, except I've got a painful knee and foot.

 

I look on it as a drill for the next time some little scrote is actually up to no good outside, one lesson I've learnt is that it's probably safer to go out stark bollock naked than put my pants on going down stairs.

 

Oh, and we live in a close with only 6 houses so it's not as if there are often innocent passers by in the middle of the night for me to attack.

Glad you had a good outcome. Sadly, for an old colleague, it was a devastating outcome. Google Tushar Makwana for details.

 

Y’all need to look out for yourselves yo x

[D Spares & Tyres]

I hate working on diesels! For 2 days I have been putting off replacing the fuel lines on the Mitsubishi L200. It was an advisory at MOT but my subsequent prodding had produced a drip. Today was the day! Up on ramps and to it, I was soon covered in years worth of shite (ex farm truck) as I removed the old pipes, getting a liberal dose of diesel coverage as well. After an  hour both pipes have been changed, my clothes are in the washing machine and I am in the shower. Took me another half hour to clean the shower afterwards!

 

Went outside, started truck and checked for leaks - none. Great. Then the air reached the filter so it stopped, and now I cannot get the air out so it is blocking my shed. After a further 2 hours I phoned my diesel mechanic mate and he is calling round after work.

 

Bastard thing!

Squirt of an aerosol will kick that into life. WD40, deoderant, anything will do. Even used a paint aerosol once although I wouldn't recommend it

[NorfolkNWeigh]

FFS! The bin men have chucked our bottle box in the wagon. We're supposed to use a blue plastic box for glass, but ours went brittle and fell apart in the winter, we requested a replacement but the council don't have any. We've been using an orange plastic crate of similar size since March.

This week a different team emptied our bins and the woman next door saw one of them hoik the crate in with the landfill- cunts! Some twat proving a point, presumably. Spoke to council, still no blue boxes. " Could you store the glass until such time as we get some?" They said.

No, fuck off it'll be going in the black bags.