The grumpy thread

[alcyonecorporation]

  On 20/08/2018 at 21:35, SiC said:

I suspect the Samsung engineers chose the song they did due to be clear of copyright law around the world.

Look, it's lovely, I just wanted the Ariston theme tune and bad guy from Bugs to chase modern life round in stop motion.

[Guest Hooli]

Well I wanted to the meet the men with huge foreheads in the Zanussi adverts to see if they were really that clever. We all have disappointments in life

[Tamworthbay]

  On 20/08/2018 at 21:35, Hooli said:

But can you balance them on a cat's head & take a photo for this thread?

I will try the next time I am in and report back, but with our band having played there in the past I can say that finding pussy you would touch could be tricky.

[bramz7]

25 mins ago I had a really tidy 605.

 

24 mins ago I had a 605 with a dented rear door and a scuff running about 40 cm down it.

 

See, there's a huge pillar at work that you have to do a nigh on 180 degree turn around, and some prick keeps parking a van in the place you swing out in to get round it. Obviously my bad driving is to blame.

 

Gutted.

 

I suspect some body shop owner somewhere near to Basingstoke will be getting some of my money soon.

[alcyonecorporation]

For the first time I'm regretting peen hammering the panels on the 605 before it went.

 

Sorry to hear this.

[bramz7]

It's okay, at least I only damaged one door and didn't smash a window.

 

I could buy back my old one...

[Ohdearme]

Tell the wife the shell of the donor Alfa is being collected for £50 tomorrow, she frowns to indicate displeasure it is being disposed of so cheaply (I just want it gone) As it’s a bit low I suggest I’ll spend the evening stripping anything not welded in off it. “Ok but can you just go pick up this thing for the kids I’ve just bought on Facebook group for £40. It’s in a random place an hours round trip away from home too...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 20/08/2018 at 22:19, Ohdearme said:

Tell the wife the shell of the donor Alfa is being collected for £50 tomorrow, she frowns to indicate displeasure it is being disposed of so cheaply (I just want it gone) As it’s a bit low I suggest I’ll spend the evening stripping anything not welded in off it. “Ok but can you just go pick up this thing for the kids I’ve just bought on Facebook group for £40. It’s in a random place an hours round trip away from home too...

 

Easy come, easy go....

[Pieman]

Solution: remain single.

[Kiltox]

  On 20/08/2018 at 21:31, SiC said:

Lalalala. Let's have a video of my washing machine play a song.

 

[Video]

Ffs - my LG washer plays a jingle when it’s done but it’s nowhere near as long / annoying as that

[D Spares & Tyres]

  On 20/08/2018 at 20:05, Cheggers said:

I would put you on ignore but I've met you in real life a couple of times and you're OK, it's just the "mardy twat" persona you seem to revel in on here that gets wearing.

+1

 

He's ok in real life ☺

[Datsuncog]

  On 20/08/2018 at 22:07, bramz7 said:

25 mins ago I had a really tidy 605.

 

24 mins ago I had a 605 with a dented rear door and a scuff running about 40 cm down it.

 

See, there's a huge pillar at work that you have to do a nigh on 180 degree turn around, and some prick keeps parking a van in the place you swing out in to get round it. Obviously my bad driving is to blame.

 

Gutted.

 

I suspect some body shop owner somewhere near to Basingstoke will be getting some of my money soon.

Ah bollocks, that's a real pisser... did something very similar myself once in an otherwise clean Escort. And yes, it was a fucking van parked where it shouldn't have been that caused that one, too.

 

Gutted for you. T-Cut can only do so much...

 

[bramz7]

i am tempted to leave an arsey note under the vans wiper but considering its at my work, and probably belongs to a Network Rail contractor, I will leave it. 

 

I got home and sat in the R11 and drove it briefly to feel better. Kind of worked.

[Snipes]

  On 19/08/2018 at 16:52, MarvinsMom said:

i would never, ever use Kwikfit, unless desparate

 

was in there a few years ago when driving a company car, cos that was the only place that the lease lot had a contract with.

 

and every poor sod that came through the door "needed" either 2 or 4 tyres as a minimum. one poor woman came in with a flat and was in tears cos the fitter bloke was insistant that the car simply must have 4 new tyres.

 

now ok, i didn't go and look myself, and ome people don't bother with their cars, so prehaps it did have 4 bald tyres,

 

or, maybe they were taking advantage of a woman on her own to stick her for 4 new tyres no matter what.....

 

funny they didn't try that with me, cos unless the tyres were like slick, the feckin' lease company didn't want to know, and certainly would'nt pay for any new tyres.

They will have done an inspection, filled out a report then phoned it to whoever manages the car. Not really in their hands.

 

I use to work at KF about 10 years ago and the pressure to sell wasn't that bad. If you could find a good one, with decent staff busy enough to not be greedy and/or desperate then it should be alright.

 

My local one did manage to change the wrong tyre on my g/f's car and sent her out with a tyre on 2mm tread, the day before she was due to drive 200 miles..... though....

[New POD]

  On 20/08/2018 at 21:27, alcyonecorporation said:

Forums are a terrible judge of character.

Or perhaps your true self comes out.

 

The complexity of my personality could be judged by reading 100 random posts of mine.

[Richard]

  On 20/08/2018 at 21:31, SiC said:

Lalalala. Let's have a video of my washing machine play a song.

 

[Video]

 

That's got a bit of a "numbers station" sound to it.

[alcyonecorporation]

  On 21/08/2018 at 05:20, New POD said:

Or perhaps your true self comes out.

 

The complexity of my personality could be judged by reading 100 random posts of mine.

Trying to please everyone all of the time means nobody wins.

[Kiltox]

  On 21/08/2018 at 06:05, Richard said:

That's got a bit of a "numbers station" sound to it.

Bit of a “needs an axe through it ‘numbers laptop’ style” you mean

[Pillock]

I like my washing machine.

I get utterly creeped out by numbers stations.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

  On 21/08/2018 at 09:12, Pillock said:

I like my washing machine.

I get utterly creeped out by numbers stations.

I bought an archive of numbers station recordings for the express purpose of putting them in music I’m writing. It’s great fun.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 21/08/2018 at 08:20, alcyonecorporation said:

Trying to please everyone all of the time means nobody wins.

 

Surely the solution is simply to upset everyone?

[alcyonecorporation]

Shouldn't be too hard.

[bramz7]

164 buyer yesterday-  'I will call you later today.' No call.

 

Hopeful bidder on the Oldsmobile 'Can I collect after the date you put in the advert?' 'Does it have MOT?'

 

 

AGH.

 

And I had a split second this morning where i forgot I damaged the 605 yesterday. 

[sierraman]

  On 20/08/2018 at 14:20, Bobthebeard said:

Spent most of yesterday with the MX-5 up on ramps wire brushing the surface rust off everything and then coating almost everything with Dynax UB. All went well and the underside now looks cared for and a nice waxy blackish brown instead of just orange rust. No actual rot was apparent although I initially feared the worst. A horrible job though.

Grumpy because I felt very peculiar whilst clearing up the tools/drive/ramps etc. Really exhausted and wierd thumping sensation in my chest.

My heartbeat was all over the place, fast, then slow with missed beats, talk about scary! Never happened before. It took around three hours to return to normal and was frightening.

Anyway, just out of interest I looked up the H and S data on Dynax UB....... Should have been more careful and worn a mask I guess. Too much exposure to fumes. One side effect being cardiac arrhythmia apparently. Be careful folks! image.png

That’s ironic, I did the same yesterday albeit with Waxoyl, I felt a bit odd and had a headache after that.

[somewhatfoolish]

Probably the solvents; both give off VOCs and too much of that will give you a sore head and potentially other things.

[New POD]

I advertised a pair of mx5 seats.

They sold. Paypal are holding on to the money until they are despatched.

 

I quote the advert Due to size and shape I am not able to Post them. Collection from North Merseyside at weekends or Wolverhampton during the week.

If you ask very nicely before you bid and you are somewhere between the two places I could possibly deliver if not too far from M6 or A41

 

 

Guess what the last message is that i have from the buyer????

[New POD]

Mark, as I am based in north wales and do not get across to Liverpool, the best prior would to cancel the whole thing and you resist them to include availability for collection. Regards Ian

[fordperv]

  On 20/08/2018 at 21:27, alcyonecorporation said:

Forums are a terrible judge of character.

I don't know the ins and outs of this situation but this is a true statement, on a one car model forum I won't name but it's for rwd fords with a long bonnet that the engine sizes ranged from 1.3 to 3.0 from the factory, a week back I had an individual giving me abuse because I was standing up for a chap who was asking about a brake upgrade for said vehicles solid discs and he shot him straight down saying it didn't need uprated brakes as it wasn't fast enough, I explained you can get brake fade very easily as I have experienced it myself on a spirited drive on a country road, the individual then got on his high horse holier trying the than thou and started to give me shit bringing into question my intelligence etc also he got the winning number in keyboard warrior bingo by threatening fisticuffs, I laughed at this because this guy doesn't know me from Adam

[barefoot]

 

 

BBC website - twats.

[Kiltox]

Conveyancers need to get in the fucking sea.

 

I received my mortgage offer last Monday and they still claim not to have it plus aparrently can’t chase up searches which are also long overdue.

 

Useless fucking cunts.