The grumpy thread

12,190 · October 26, 2018

Car alarms can fuck right off.

19,983 · October 26, 2018

Huskies cannot help you with your job application but if you take one with you to the interview they will hire you on the spot unless they're a terrible employer that hates fluffy dogs, in which case you didn't want to work for them anyway. This is definitely true.

That explains how Cavcraft has gainful employment.... All down to Barbara cartland dog.

October 26, 2018

Much kinder in spirit than my idea of reporting to the local dog warden / rspca

A bloody husky? In a flat? That's got to be a handful.

Don't they need about 3 hours walking a day or something?

ideal* flat dwellers then as they are fluffy & cute. Poor dog

13,247 · October 26, 2018

plus Kerry has decided that she needs another motorcycle that she won't use, its in Devon about as far south as you can go before falling into the Atlantic ocean, and we gotta go and get it next weekend. cos she has got the seller to knock money off of the bike, and they aren't open on a Saturday.....

this is it, it is apparently the perfect one what she has always wanted, the right model, the right colour ect.
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You have to get it at weekend because they aren't open on Saturday?

They knocked money off because its Winter now, but if the price is right and she needs it why not.

I never used mine much, but I started them up a lot to listen.

131,217 · October 26, 2018

WINTER.

I know, we have had it good up to now. I know, I am southern softy in the part of Britain least likely to suffer.

Gritters at the ready, apparently. Well, they will be out as soon as the first robin shows up. I have had a bloody good summer admittedly but I fucking hate Winter. First needle through my heart comes when the fucking stupid clocks go back. Worse than jet-lag that....fucks me up for about a fortnight.

Then all the plants we have tended all summer will die leaving the garden looking like a deserted cemetery.

I have just looked at the wall calendar for November, too. Not a fucking gig in sight, no parties, no piss-ups. Have to do something about that - at the moment all that are on there are my work shifts. And I have just had a month off. Start back 2nd Nov. in time for the Xmas rush and all the shit that goes with that. No works piss-ups any more - not allowed.

No-vember - bloody appropriate that....

No fun
No sun
No gigs
No camping out
No getting in one of the Morrises just for the hell of it.
No leaves
No birds
No butterflies
No money (OK that isn't necessarily November's fault)
No sitting in the garden after work
No wonder people get fucking depressed.

Alright it's not quite November, but on the cycle to work Weds morning (5.45am) I heard a little owl. Made my day that did, and compensated for the lack of cats I usually see down the lanes.

18,091 · October 26, 2018

You have to get it at weekend because they aren't open on Saturday?

They knocked money off because its Winter now, but if the price is right and she needs it why not.
I never used mine much, but I started them up a lot to listen.

we need to get it on the friday cos, well, cos we have got a van booked and the dealer place seller fella wants it done on a weekday, sice Kerry will be giving them much moneis in cash they maybe wanna get it in the bank and not having it laid about for several days?

see we got too many vehicles (of which i am the worse, a serial offender) so we are getting another one, which won't get used.

and yes, currently the motorcycle gets started occasionally, and has i belive been ridden a whole 50, no, i think 100 miles this year.

24,052 · October 26, 2018

Received an email yesterday morning from The Classic Motoring Review:

Poor subscription levels herald the closure of The Classic Motoring Review

Regrettably, after just five issues of Britain’s most distinctive classic car periodical, this email marks the end of the road for TCMR. Subscription Renewals following the publication of our Summer issue – the first for which they were due – proved less than 50%, whereas 80-90% is an industry benchmark. Moreover of the subscribers invited to renew their subscriptions with our latest, the Autumn issue, the rate so far is less than 10%. And deliberately lacking advertising or other forms of income, without newcomers taking out subscriptions in numbers sufficient to make the magazine viable, I’ve come to the sorry decision to close it before embarking on the production of issue #6, or financing marketing activities that from past experience just don’t work well enough.

It is indeed ironic that virtually all the feedback I’ve had from readers and indeed our esteemed contributors has been gratifyingly positive, and I’m very proud of what’s been achieved. But for what it’s worth, I can only surmise that the reasons for its failure to attract and keep enough readers are one or a combination of the following:
Classic car enthusiasts are keener to see relatively short articles illustrated with photographs than they are with long ones accompanied by line drawings.
In these economically uncertain and even challenging times, the cost of a subscription is a deterrent to what is admittedly a personal indulgence.
Editorially, the mix of subjects just doesn’t work for enough readers.
For those readers whose subscriptions still have one or more issues to run, we will of course refund the relevant proportion of the payments they have made, either by cheque or direct into their PayPal or debit card account as appropriate to the method originally used. Being a one-man-band, this will take me a week or two.
For those who may want to complete their collection of TCMR, we will however continue to sell back issues from our website shop for the next couple of months.

www.classicmotoringreview.uk
So whilst I go about the forlorn business of undoing a business, can I thank all of you who did stick with The Classic Motoring Review thus far and hope that you continue ‘reading the road’ in whatever manner suits and satisfies you in the future.
Best regards – Mark Williams: Editor/Publisher

Ballsacks; I'd been really enjoying a decent-quality, long-read motoring journal through the post every quarter.

http://autoshite.com/topic/30704-shitescan-preservation-of-fading-old-newsprint-is-our-concern/?p=1480834

Meh. Proper grumpy about that.

That’s a shame. Mark has sent me a couple of complimentary copies for Citroen review for the CCC. The latest is in the toilets at work for reading in a quiet moment! Nice reprint of an old LJKS rant and compare and contrast the Alfa sud flat four with Citroen’s GS answer to the same question.

2,917 · October 26, 2018

Exes.

My 'crime'?

Her eldest son, my stepson, who is 22 years old, asked my girlfriend who I've been with for nearly 3 years, if she would countersign his passport photo. She said yes, it was arranged, and it was decided I'd give the signed stuff to his mum to give back.

And that's it. When she was told about the arrangement, she sent abusive messages, saying we had 'overstepped the mark', and that my girlfriend has disrespected her.

My punishment?

I've been stopped from having my little boy this weekend, and for the foreseeable. Apparently an apology from me could have solved this?

Still not quite sure what any of this has to do with me, or why she is so offended.

Oh, and I made a wasted trip from Southend to Harwich to collect my little boy, only to find out she had told him that he wasn't seeing me this weekend and had gone out.

14,581 · October 26, 2018

Oh FFS. I've been on the pop all afternoon after work as 40 next Tuesday.

I've now got a hangover and the post-drink blues.

16,954 · October 26, 2018

Mark Goodier, what an utter boring bastard.

If you told me his temp show on Radio 2 was a replay from 1986 I'd believe you.

20,926 · October 26, 2018

Mrs V8 received a email yesterday from someone claiming they had hacked her email account,quoting her password.

Demanding 800 bitcoins.
Also stating do not contact the police.
oh passwords changed.

I got that too. Although they claimed they'd filmed me wanking to porn and wanted paid in USD...

Although the password they quoted is one that hasn't been used for years.

14,581 · October 26, 2018

Mark Goodier, what an utter boring bastard.

If you told me his temp show on Radio 2 was a replay from 1986 I'd believe you.

Can't even do popmaster correctly

15,089 · October 26, 2018

...you're weird.......

I have never pretended to be normal.

...winter is shit.

Not for me it isn't.

27,249 · October 26, 2018

A house on the other side of the estate i live on,that i have to pass has got its christmas decorations up already complete with outside flashing lights a santa's sledge and snowman.

It's October..

i also followed a snowplow on the way home gritting.

18,117 · October 26, 2018

A house on the other side of the estate i live on,that i have to pass has got its christmas decorations up already complete with outside flashing lights a santa's sledge and snowman.
It's October..

i also followed a snowplow on the way home gritting.

Cut the electrical cables. Decorations before December are unacceptable.

53,452 · October 27, 2018

...they claimed they'd filmed me wanking to porn and wanted paid in USD...

... how does that even work as a threat? I mean really, these days, who actually cares?

7,007 · October 27, 2018

Exactly, everyone who knows me already knows I am a wanker.

I suppose it's easy to send thousands of emails and would only take one non tech-savvy vicar or something to make it worthwhile.

62,897 · October 27, 2018

... how does that even work as a threat? I mean really, these days, who actually cares?

I think the idea is they threaten to send the clip of you having a J Arthur to everyone on your email contact list. Possibly more of a threat in some cultures than in others.

13,037 · October 27, 2018

Exes.

My 'crime'?

Her eldest son, my stepson, who is 22 years old, asked my girlfriend who I've been with for nearly 3 years, if she would countersign his passport photo. She said yes, it was arranged, and it was decided I'd give the signed stuff to his mum to give back.
And that's it. When she was told about the arrangement, she sent abusive messages, saying we had 'overstepped the mark', and that my girlfriend has disrespected her.

My punishment?

I've been stopped from having my little boy this weekend, and for the foreseeable. Apparently an apology from me could have solved this?

Still not quite sure what any of this has to do with me, or why she is so offended.

Oh, and I made a wasted trip from Southend to Harwich to collect my little boy, only to find out she had told him that he wasn't seeing me this weekend and had gone out.

I had all this shit for three years. I only solved it by court action. She legally can't stop you seeing your son. You have equal parental rights. My ex used to take my daughter out of school early to stop me picking her up. The school, social services etc. told me there was nothing they could do. Legal action is what the insisted I do. Life has been great ever since although I'm about 5k out of pocket.

17,851 · October 27, 2018

Can a Husky find me a job?

Huskies can do anything. If huskies ran this place:

Supernaut would win The Apprentice

Cav would host Wheeler Dealers and give up the comedy

Eddy & Xtriple would represent England at triathlon

Ghosty would already be getting friends & family discount at KFC

We'd all lock up our women if we knew Dan was out on the pull

Hairnet would make sense

Alyconecorporation would smile

Junkman would paint it

Mercrocker would hibernate

and I'd learn to sleep in at the weekend.

12,190 · October 27, 2018

If I had a husky I wouldn't want to sleep in at the weekend.

131,217 · October 27, 2018

Don't really know what you're moaning about, tbh. My brother is homosexual AND agoraphobic. He still refuses to come out.

6,824 · October 27, 2018

First salt of the season on the roads. It gets earlier and earlier. I need to move. This place gets me down.

9,318 · October 27, 2018

Fucking snowing on the outskirts of York !

2,917 · October 27, 2018

I had all this shit for three years. I only solved it by court action. She legally can't stop you seeing your son. You have equal parental rights. My ex used to take my daughter out of school early to stop me picking her up. The school, social services etc. told me there was nothing they could do. Legal action is what the insisted I do. Life has been great ever since although I'm about 5k out of pocket.

There's already a court order in place, which she is in breach of now.

But I still have to pay to take her back to court for them to give her a slap on the wrist.

She did it to her ex before me (the older kid's dad), so much that he gave up, and she has had another kid since me, and she is doing the same to him...

Mad cow. :'(

13,037 · October 27, 2018

Snakes with tits. The lot of them

6,824 · October 27, 2018

Fucking snowing on the outskirts of York !

It's going to be a long winter. Wish i had worked a bit harder and could be in Spain by now.

9,798 · October 27, 2018

Managed to set myself on fire yesterday angle grinding...............much singeing of flesh..........just ordered blacksmith's apron of that there internet.......

12,815 · October 27, 2018

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Managed to set myself on fire yesterday angle grinding...............much singeing of flesh..........just ordered blacksmith's apron of that there internet.......

You as well? Nothing like grinding the inner race from a diff pinion to discover your overalls are on fire.

12,815 · October 27, 2018

Oh FFS. I've been on the pop all afternoon after work as 40 next Tuesday.

I've now got a hangover and the post-drink blues.

It's a cunt isn't it? Five pints of Moretti and I'm feeling a bit fragile. That's stuff's some dangerous shit.

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