The grumpy thread

[John F]

I've just agreed to sell my Disco 300 TDi

 

Very mixed emotions... I don't need it, and can't justify repairing it again for its MOT in a week's time, and it's going to a good home, but...I'm also gutted. I love that car.

 

Sigh...

[New POD]

POD - why anti payment card? I love them.

 

They’ll not break in to fit prepayment meters when a feckless tenant fails to pay the bill if you already have them

Because the tenant can't get the best price available to Online direct debit customers, effectively penalizing the poor.

My politics don't like it.

 

IRONIC....,??

[New POD]

Usually front and rear toe steering arms are usually seized solid, too.

They were pleased to be dealing with new arms.

[Sir Snipes]

They were pleased to be dealing with new arms.

Yes I'd bet they were. Did you grease them up when you assembled them? If not they'll have welded themselves together within a year.

[ruffgeezer]

I sold the X type last week as I didnt fancy welding up the sills for MOT, it's replacement, a Citroen C8 HDi auto is stuck in limp mode. I was hoping to get it fixed before I started using it but I've reached a dead end with it. Experts can't give me a definitive answer on whether it's fixable so the only option left is to donate it to the RAF and let them blow the fucking POS to bits.

 

On the bright side i;ve got some cash from the X to buy something else. Needs to be diesel and capable of A framing.

 

We've a Focus Estate in prep at the moment and a berlingo hdi to go soon too...

[Dick Cheeseburger]

EBay and PayPal.

Is it strictly legal that a company can force you to use a payment method owned by them, and which will add more £££ to their coffers for each transaction made?

[artdjones]

I don't think they own PayPal any more.

[Pillock]

It's morally awful, but I can't see it's illegal. They would simply say you could use a different auction site. Their site, their rules etc.

[DodgeRover]

EBay and PayPal.

Is it strictly legal that a company can force you to use a payment method owned by them, and which will add more £££ to their coffers for each transaction made?

Other payment methods used to be available, but they went out of their way to make it hard to use other services that did the same as PayPal - like Nochex for example or world pay?

[Zelandeth]

Bah...found out an hour or so that there's a car show on about a mile away.  Can't go though as we're still waiting on a phone call as to whether they're going to send my other half straight home when he arrives back in the UK (unlikely) or straight into a hospital for observation for at least 24 hours (very likely).

 

Just a continuation of this whole episode where getting the slightest bit of info as to what's going on has been like pulling teeth.  Your own teeth, using nothing other than a rusty pair of pliers.

 

You'd kinda expect the doctor who's accompanying him on the flight to have a pretty decent idea of the plan before they even went to the airport.  Apparently not.

[adw1977]

Bah...found out an hour or so that there's a car show on about a mile away. Can't go though as we're still waiting on a phone call as to whether they're going to send my other half straight home when he arrives back in the UK (unlikely) or straight into a hospital for observation for at least 24 hours (very likely).

 

Just a continuation of this whole episode where getting the slightest bit of info as to what's going on has been like pulling teeth. Your own teeth, using nothing other than a rusty pair of pliers.

 

You'd kinda expect the doctor who's accompanying him on the flight to have a pretty decent idea of the plan before they even went to the airport. Apparently not.

Sounds stressful. At least you will have him back in the country soon!

[Cavcraft]

I believe some people have resorted in the past to spreading nails and tacks on the road surface by way of protest, as well as changing direction signs and route markers....

 

Well those people are wankers then, as they're not targeting the organisers as such, just people who want to go for a ride and they're potentially causing people to come off. How sad and pathetic their own lives must be to do something like that.

[Steve79]

Elderly british coach trippers on the Calais to Dover ferry. You can all get in the feckin sea! Barging in front of the wife carrying our 11mth old in a sling so they can be first up to the lounge off the car deck.

 

Not one of them offered to let her go in front and then they tried to barge her on the stairs. Gave the old farts a bollocking about being rude.

 

Go and choke on your werthers originals you twats!

[DodgeRover]

Talking about lack of manners I was in London and the lady behind me was trying to get a buggy down the stairs whilst carrying a little one, she looked utterly stunned when I asked if I could carry the front of the buggy for her.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Elderly british coach trippers on the Calais to Dover ferry. You can all get in the feckin sea! Barging in front of the wife carrying our 11mth old in a sling so they can be first up to the lounge off the car deck.

Not one of them offered to let her go in front and then they tried to barge her on the stairs. Gave the old farts a bollocking about being rude.

Go and choke on your werthers originals you twats!

It's ironic isn't it? Most of the young people I know have decent manners, and are basically considerate to others. There are plenty of senior citizens around here who could learn a thing or two from the young 'uns.

[Guest Hooli]

It's ironic isn't it? Most of the young people I know have decent manners, and are basically considerate to others. There are plenty of senior citizens around here who could learn a thing or two from the young 'uns.

 

I recall a comedy sketch that basicly consisted of old gits pushing in to queues etc saying 'I can't wait, I might die before I get there'. Damned if I can think who it was though.

[Alfamale]

Had to go to Manchester today. That itself is not the grump. The grump is how can Sheffield and Manchester, two of the largest cities in England and former industrial giants be linked by, at best, a single carriageway road.

 

Nearly two hours for a trip that is about 40 miles as the crow flies.

 

There are many reasons I know, the principal one being the geography but I cant help thinking that if the bloody Peak District National Park nobbers didn’t object every time someone wanted to widen their garden path we could have had a decent connection by now.

[Tamworthbay]

Elderly british coach trippers on the Calais to Dover ferry. You can all get in the feckin sea! Barging in front of the wife carrying our 11mth old in a sling so they can be first up to the lounge off the car deck.

Not one of them offered to let her go in front and then they tried to barge her on the stairs. Gave the old farts a bollocking about being rude.

Go and choke on your werthers originals you twats!

This seems more and more common, in our local Morrison’s a woman with a very young baby was trying to reverse into a parent and child space when this oldish dodger in a Brand new Tiguan dived into the space. When he got out I pointed to the woman in he car and said she was trying to get in there and that they were for parent and toddler. Cheeky twat then said ‘don’t start on me I fought in the war for this country’, I replied good for you mate, what regiment what front? He looked a bit sheepish and started to walk off, he was 70 at the oldest so unless he served in the ‘glint in the milkman’s eye division’ he sure wasnt in ww2 or Korea. And even if he had been a Victoria cross winner it would still have been rude to dive into a space like that when he was fit as fiddle. The woman then had to struggle to get her babe in arms out of her car in a normal space. Sadly age is no restriction on being a dickhead.

[clayts450]

Had some bonnet release woes with the Cruiser - had a bodge fix but now it's broken completely, as the cable decided to snap this afternoon. And the bonnet is closed. Luckily it is easy to get it open from the outside with a screwdriver, but this is a pain in the arse so close to MoT time...nothing is ever simple.

[Cavcraft]

Oh, hooray. Another cocky bell end with a mobile phone who 'knows his rights' on Facebook. What makes these dickheads think they're some sort of super-duper anti-enforcement brigade? Oh, I know I'll shove my Samsung in the face of some litter picker/council worker/copper/train guard/etc who's spoken to me because I've done something wrong and act like a complete wanker, just so I can act the big man and put it on social media where 250 illiterate morons will big me up.

 

I honestly wish these people would just piss right off.

[Pillock]

Dickhead car enthusiasts.

 

Firstly, doing the work run this morning, there's a nice 50 limit road with no real turnings or hazards so you just sort of cruise along it for a few miles.

 

Unless some idiot decides to go for a drive in his rusty, lowered, shitty split screen camper with a pile of fucking rubbish on the roof. At one point we hit 35mph but then we got to a slight incline so it dropped again.

 

Mind you, also on the radar today are the four dozy bellends faced with this 29mph rolling roadblock who couldn't/wouldn't overtake. Clue: if I can get round all five vehicles, fully loaded with 115bhp propelling me and still not see anything coming towards me, then you're just not trying. They're probably still sat behind it 7 hours later waiting for a written invitation to overtake.

 

Then, something called the "Carnage Rally". I don't know what this is but the main entry requirement appears to be a complete lack of road manners. It's not like we're talking exotic supercars.... I was following three MGFs, a Fiesta, a Kia Ceed that was probably borrowed off his mum and a Yaris, all stickered up. But every set of lights they'd pull up alongside each other for some "laddish bants" and then pull away when they felt like it, or start swerving around in their lane because it was funny. One of the MGs held a load of traffic up so their mate could rejoin the convoy. They all pulled into a pub, despite the carpark being full, so blocking the A6 on a busy junction whilst some bloke took photos of their epic road trip. Fuck off.

[meggersdog]

Old people

Noticed this yesterday.Been at the LRO show all day and as we entered the fancy hall at Peterborough Arena (the showground) one of the stall holders is struggling with a too small 4 wheeled trolley with two large wheels and tyres. Me and my mate walked either side and steadied the trolley through the hall and up to the gates.All the while the stall holder is thanking us for our help.So, late in the day there is only one gate open and the other two are fenced off. As we approach some old fart on a mission barges past me,the trolley and the fence.If he had taken a few seconds to assess the situation he could quite easily moved across to his right (like everybody else did).But no, I'm going this way you will have to move.

[beko1987]

Had to go to Manchester today. That itself is not the grump. The grump is how can Sheffield and Manchester, two of the largest cities in England and former industrial giants be linked by, at best, a single carriageway road.

 

Nearly two hours for a trip that is about 40 miles as the crow flies.

 

There are many reasons I know, the principal one being the geography but I cant help thinking that if the bloody Peak District National Park nobbers didn’t object every time someone wanted to widen their garden path we could have had a decent connection by now.

I have the same grump about aylesbury! Full of people who don't work there because there's nothing bar shop jobs, so have to commute. A good 10 miles of single carriageway to get out in all directions, then back again in the evening. I can get there and back in half an hour on a clear run and lots of speed, during the rush hour, hour each way!

[nebuchenezer]

Went to Ashford outlet centre today via country roads. I have never in my life seen such poor driving. Is it really so difficult to drive in such a way as not to put others at risk or have people just morphed into cunts overnight?

 

I remember now why I dislike driving at the weekend.

[Guest Hooli]

 or have people just morphed into cunts overnight?

 

 

Most have been from birth, unfortunately they are the same ones that tend to breed the most.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Other payment methods used to be available, but they went out of their way to make it hard to use other services that did the same as PayPal - like Nochex for example or world pay?

They certainly made it as hard as possible to use other payment methods.

I thought you HAD to offer PayPal as a payment option?

[DVee8]

I recall a comedy sketch that basicly consisted of old gits pushing in to queues etc saying 'I can't wait, I might die before I get there'. Damned if I can think who it was though.

Was it the fast show?

[Guest Hooli]

Maybe, it seems like them. But I really can't remember.

[myglaren]

They certainly made it as hard as possible to use other payment methods.

I thought you HAD to offer PayPal as a payment option?

I am in the market for some roof bars and one seller mentioned that PayPal was preferred but that they would accept cheques and postal orders but not bank transfers.

[Tamworthbay]

They certainly made it as hard as possible to use other payment methods.

I thought you HAD to offer PayPal as a payment option?

Yup they do, but I always clearly state cash only for collection on the rare times I sell stuff on there now. Still in dispute with them after they stopped an auction just because I sent my number to a guy who wanted to view the item but still charged me the fees. Tossers.