The grumpy thread

[Wack]

Seen a few where the uj has failed and the prop makes a right mess of the underside whilst flailing around

 

 

mate of mine was a crane engineer in the 80s, he attended a breakdown on the M6 where a UJ had failed on a really big crane, it'd spun round ripping off hydraulic pipes and wires, driver almost got it to the hard shoulder before it locked up but it was sticking out a couple of foot into lane one causing traffic chaos , nearest recovery truck big enough was a couple of hours away , after an hour this young copper in a new range rover drives up ,says" right it's been long enough , I'm going to move it".

 

The driver says you're just the man we've been waiting for, copper puts the chain on pulls off and nothing, doesn't move at all so he gives it more power aaaannnddd nothing , he gets out, doesnt'e even look at them, unhitches and drives off, is laughing at a copper an offence

[Guest Hooli]

Another interview yesterday.

 

Another job I didn't get.

 

I must be fucking useless at interviews as I've been trying to escape this place I fucking hate for two years now and the only job I've been offered I couldn't afford to take.

[Datsuncog]

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.

 

 

[DVee8]

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.

[Kiltox]

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.

Variation on this https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/07/sextortion-scam-uses-recipients-hacked-passwords/

 

Password has come from a data breach somewhere.

[panhard65]

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 actually looks like a decent read but at £10.50 is it worthwhile ?  At the moment I get classic and sportscar as it takes a while to read all the articles, roughly how many pages per issue do they have before I go buying a load of back issues

[alcyonecorporation]

Oh, and to add to the raging fail experienced yesterday, I've worked out why the Piazza is running like shite.

 

To be fair, the IPTOC sussed it, I just filmed the symptoms.

 

The head's cracked.

[Datsuncog]

That actually looks like a decent read but at £10.50 is it worthwhile ?  At the moment I get classic and sportscar as it takes a while to read all the articles, roughly how many pages per issue do they have before I go buying a load of back issues

 

It absolutely is a decent read (IMHO) - 120 pages with no ads, just content. Usually about 12-15 articles in each edition, and quite eclectic - everything from obscure pre-war motoring book extracts, to CAR articles from the 80s, to new writing on engineering oddities and motorsport, plus the day-to-day reality of running old heaps like Lancia Gammas and Triumph Heralds, from writers like James Ruppert, Colin Goodwin and Rod Ker.

 

I've derived far more pleasure from the four editions I've read in the past year than every other motoring mag I've bought in the past decade put together (though that may be a reflection on my weird tastes, in fairness), so once I got past the initial sticker-shock, I reckon it was absolutely worth the money.

 

EDIT: selected extracts from all issues to date can be perused at the below link:

 

http://www.classicmotoringreview.uk/previous-issue/

[xtriple]

Grump about the woman upstairs (just for a change from Ron). She got a tiny Husky pup about 9 months ago, he is lovely but now a rather bloody huge Husky. I don't have a problem with the dog (though Chester HATES Huskies for reasons known only to him - and he ain't telling) but I do have a problem with the fact the woman leaves the poor sod from early in the morning until very late at night with a mid-afternoon break. He howls or cries all day long. He is doing it now and it's an awful noise, I hate to hear a dog cry, it is a horrible sound.

 

He wakes me up every morning at 7:00, and is constantly howling/crying until about 3:00 in the afternoon, then starts again when she goes out at 5:00.

 

I would really like her to sort the poor dog out so it's not alone and unhappy, but I know that if I make any comment about this, it will turn into a war (she's a very aggressive lady ) which I really don't want, nor do I want to report her to anyone, not my way. But, I have to do SOMETHING as the dog is suffering/bored/needs a wee/

[Datsuncog]

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.

 

Oh yeah, I got that one too.

 

Fortunately, I also received this one a few minutes later:

 

Hello

I hope this email find you in good condition, i am Ms. Christy Walton.

I have a donation for you Worth $5 Billions, contact me for more details.

Email: [email protected]

Thanks,

Ms. Christy Walton.

 

So it looks like I'm golden, as 800 Bitcoin is nothing compared to the riches I'm definitely* guaranteed to receive from the Wal-Mart fortune. For some reason.

[Kiltox]

www.haveibeenpwned.com

 

Stick your email in there.

[John F]

Datsuncog, on 26 Oct 2018 - 10:10 AM, said:

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.

 

Any British magazine that feels the need to add that stupid yank '#' symbol before a number - presumably to tell us all that the number is in fact... gasp!... a number - can get in the fucking sea as far as I'm concerned.

[Angrydicky]

Oh, and to add to the raging fail experienced yesterday, I've worked out why the Piazza is running like shite.

 

To be fair, the IPTOC sussed it, I just filmed the symptoms.

 

The head's cracked.

 

Same story with my Royale. I can't afford the repairs so will probably have to sell it as a project with no cylinder head or MoT. 

 

Sympathies.

[andy18s]

Grump about the woman upstairs (just for a change from Ron). She got a tiny Husky pup about 9 months ago, he is lovely but now a rather bloody huge Husky. I don't have a problem with the dog (though Chester HATES Huskies for reasons known only to him - and he ain't telling) but I do have a problem with the fact the woman leaves the poor sod from early in the morning until very late at night with a mid-afternoon break. He howls or cries all day long. He is doing it now and it's an awful noise, I hate to hear a dog cry, it is a horrible sound.

 

He wakes me up every morning at 7:00, and is constantly howling/crying until about 3:00 in the afternoon, then starts again when she goes out at 5:00.

 

I would really like her to sort the poor dog out so it's not alone and unhappy, but I know that if I make any comment about this, it will turn into a war (she's a very aggressive lady ) which I really don't want, nor do I want to report her to anyone, not my way. But, I have to do SOMETHING as the dog is suffering/bored/needs a wee/

Not a breed to be left alone most of the day as it will soon get bored and destructive/playfull

Which is probably why it's in a crate

Have a word with your vet of there are any local dog walkers that the owner could leave it with during the day

[Guest Hooli]

That actually looks like a decent read but at £10.50 is it worthwhile ?  At the moment I get classic and sportscar as it takes a while to read all the articles, roughly how many pages per issue do they have before I go buying a load of back issues

 

How fecking much????

 

I expect someone to come round & chat to me personally about the subject at that price. Magazines should be about £2.50 tops.

[alcyonecorporation]

Same story with my Royale. I can't afford the repairs so will probably have to sell it as a project with no cylinder head or MoT. 

 

Sympathies.

Like as in 'solidarity' not 'LOL ur car's fukked'

 

The IPTOC is mighty - and will tackle it.

But not until next year.

[alcyonecorporation]

SVX has prompted a [very] unexpected bill, and I'm rather pissed off about it.

 

Am very tempted to sound off about it, but it won't do me any good.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Received an email yesterday morning from The Classic Motoring Review:

 

....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.

To be fair, they were doing well to have lasted five issues, especially with very high production values that they clearly had. Production values that the motoring lumpenproletariat do not have.

 

Rem

[wuvvum]

SVX has prompted a [very] unexpected bill, and I'm rather pissed off about it.

TADT,S.

[wuvvum]

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.

LOL, 800 bitcoins is currently worth about 4 million quid.  Either these people think they've hacked Richard Branson's personal email account or they're clueless fuckwits.

[mercrocker]

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.

[alcyonecorporation]

Sigh...

Other unhelpful statements are available. I'm not in a nice mood. Apologies.

[New POD]

Grump about the woman upstairs (just for a change from Ron). She got a tiny Husky pup about 9 months ago, he is lovely but now a rather bloody huge Husky. I don't have a problem with the dog (though Chester HATES Huskies for reasons known only to him - and he ain't telling) but I do have a problem with the fact the woman leaves the poor sod from early in the morning until very late at night with a mid-afternoon break. He howls or cries all day long. He is doing it now and it's an awful noise, I hate to hear a dog cry, it is a horrible sound.

 

He wakes me up every morning at 7:00, and is constantly howling/crying until about 3:00 in the afternoon, then starts again when she goes out at 5:00.

 

I would really like her to sort the poor dog out so it's not alone and unhappy, but I know that if I make any comment about this, it will turn into a war (she's a very aggressive lady ) which I really don't want, nor do I want to report her to anyone, not my way. But, I have to do SOMETHING as the dog is suffering/bored/needs a wee/

Are you in some of the day ?

 

Offer to take it for a lunchtime walk for money.

[xtriple]

Are you in some of the day ?

 

Offer to take it for a lunchtime walk for money.

I would but unsure how Chester would respond to a Husky - he does not like the ones he's met when out and about and Huskies are the one dog breed I have to be careful with him, he jumps up and down trying to grab throats! Also, I already struggle with the walks I do with him, I fear another dog would have me on my arse faster than ice and smooth shoes.

[alcyonecorporation]

I would but unsure how Chester would respond to a Husky - he does not like the ones he's met when out and about and Huskies are the one dog breed I have to be careful with him, he jumps up and down trying to grab throats! Also, I already struggle with the walks I do with him, I fear another dog would have me on my arse faster than ice and smooth shoes.

Do you know any dog walkers? Find a non-muppet local and introduce them.

 

Can a Husky fix a cracked Piazza cylinder head?

[Supernaut]

Can a Husky find me a job?

[MarvinsMom]

the new job, i have decided, sucks. big time.

 

that is all.

 

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.

 

oh, and now they are it seems wanting me to do nights next week. after saying i would be working days that week.

 

FFS..........

 

at least it seems i have been paid what i was due by the previous dickheads that i worked for employer.

 

and the existing, very rearly used motor bike? well it has gone from a garden orniment, to an orminent in the lock-up instead, and i dunno if Kerry intends to move it on (i doubt it)

[Tadhg Tiogar]

WINTER. ....

Can I just say that winter is my favourite time of the year?

 

Because it is. I really like it when it's cold.

[MarvinsMom]

Can I just say that winter is my favourite time of the year?

 

Because it is. I really like it when it's cold.

you're wierd.......

 

winter? HATE IT.

 

cold, dark, did i say cold?

 

cannot do anything, really go anywhere or do anything fun, 

 

winter is shit.

[Supernaut]

Can a Husky find me a job?

Actually, can a Husky write about 'managing a quality service' using the STAR method for my application for the Forestry Commission? This is doing my head in.