The grumpy thread

[Justin Case]

Then just need to buy an old ferry to shuttle back and forth to the mainland on tat collecting missions and jobs a good 'un.

You rang?http://www.maritimesales.com/GAE10.htmIn fact with the 170 car garage you wouldnt even need the island

[Albert Ross]

Love the polystyrene ceiling tiles! Tres 70s!

[Timewaster]

TV Adverts. TOO LOUD!

[Pete-M]

People who turn the telly up and down all the time because of "The neighbours". Whenever an advert comes on they turn the telly down to virtually inaudible - and then leave it there for the first 10 minutes of whatever it is I'm trying to fucking watch.I tried to watch a film in a mates house last week, good film, but a lot of talking interspersed with the odd explosion and noisy bit. The fucking volume bar on the telly was on for 80% of the film, they wouldn't stop fucking with the volume - little bit more volume, strain to hear the fucking thing, little bit more, still straining to hear, little bit more, LOUD BIT, volume turned back down to virtually fucking zero, little bit more, straining, little bit more, ah that's not bad, ADVERTS, zero fucking sound again.In the end I borrowed the DVD and watched it at home. Mate couldn't work out why I was getting irate trying to watch it in his house. It was all I could do keeping calm enough to not twat him with the fucking telly remote.I can set the telly volume and not touch it for a week, but there are people who just constantly fuck with it. Yes adverts are irritatingly conspicuous, but it's illegal for them to turn up the volume - put a db meter in front of a telly and it'll show the same peak volume for say a music channel playing dance music as it does on the adverts. The same peak will be reached by someone slamming a door on a drama or by some wailing tart on Eastenders or whatever.Leave the fucking volume alone.

[Timewaster]

Arrgh. DVD's! The bloody patronising warning telling you not to steal the film you have already bought!

Can you skip it? Can you fast forward it?

 

 

Can you F....

[Pete-M]

Arrgh. DVD's! The bloody patronising warning telling you not to steal the film you have already bought!Can you skip it? Can you fast forward it?Can you F....

You can snip it when you copy the DVD though. I do a lot of 'back up' copies of DVDs I buy just to get rid of that shite.

[55bloke]

People who turn the telly up and down all the time because of "The neighbours". Whenever an advert comes on they turn the telly down to virtually inaudible - and then leave it there for the first 10 minutes of whatever it is I'm trying to fucking watch.I tried to watch a film in a mates house last week, good film, but a lot of talking interspersed with the odd explosion and noisy bit. The fucking volume bar on the telly was on for 80% of the film, they wouldn't stop fucking with the volume - little bit more volume, strain to hear the fucking thing, little bit more, still straining to hear, little bit more, LOUD BIT, volume turned back down to virtually fucking zero, little bit more, straining, little bit more, ah that's not bad, ADVERTS, zero fucking sound again.In the end I borrowed the DVD and watched it at home. Mate couldn't work out why I was getting irate trying to watch it in his house. It was all I could do keeping calm enough to not twat him with the fucking telly remote.I can set the telly volume and not touch it for a week, but there are people who just constantly fuck with it. Yes adverts are irritatingly conspicuous, but it's illegal for them to turn up the volume - put a db meter in front of a telly and it'll show the same peak volume for say a music channel playing dance music as it does on the adverts. The same peak will be reached by someone slamming a door on a drama or by some wailing tart on Eastenders or whatever.Leave the fucking volume alone.

This really made me chuckle, and I do know what you mean, but.... I totally HATE adverts- especially those whch insist on shouting at me- and I frequently hit the mute button when they come on. Sorry. But, it is my house after all!

[Pete-M]

I frequently hit the mute button when they come on. Sorry. But, it is my house after all!

That's the intelligent way of dealing with 'em if you don't like 'em. Even I do that on occasion.

[Richard]

I always hit the mute button, and frequently the off button, when the adverts come on.

 

I can't bear programmes that have quiet speech interspersed with FUCKING BLARING music. If a sound man can't keep the volume at a reasonably consistent level he should be working in Macdonalds. On litter patrol, not serving. Same goes for cameramen who can't keep the bastarding camera still.

 

I'm not very good at watching TV.

[gallondrunk]

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[trigger]

My mother in law keeps turning the bloody volume up and down on the tele when i'm round there's, gets right on my tit's. I'll be happily watching something, then as soon as a advert comes on down comes the volume and she then forgets to turn it up again when the program restart...On another note anyone seen the trailer on channel 5 at the moment for some segal v's van dame (sp?) season that's starting with the car chase between the early Renault 5 and Renault 9 in France, looks awesome, anyone know what film it is?.

[Milford Cubicle]

IMCDB is your friend

 

 

http://www.imcdb.org/movie_117011-Maximum-Risk.html

[trigger]

That's the one, could be worth a watch, if the films as good as the trailer that got me whooping in excitement then we are in for a treat.Steven Segal handbraking a Renault 5 FTW!

[Milford Cubicle]

I think it's a JC Van Damme vehicle actually.Anyway, opposite-locking an R9. EXCELLENT!

[Mr H Sceptre]

And what is it with documentaries these days that they spend the first 5 minutes after the advert break recapping what they've just shown before said break. Errr, excuse me, but I have got a memory span that is somewhat greater then 3 fucking minutes. Then again, what do you expect from ITV/Channel 4 documentaries.Speaking of which, what the hell has happened to Channel 4? It used to be a good, innovative, forward thinking channel. Now its all Hollyoaks (dont even get me frigging started on that), Big Brother & shit American crime shows. I think the rot started when Max Farnham left Brookside....

[brammy777]

Yes a rant, from an 18 year old, haha, the irony.What is it with magazines these days? I get top gear magazine every month out of habit, and the journalism does my head in. Its either reaally really kissarse, or down right stupid. I dislike the writers they have, id much prefer it just to be the top gear trio writing it all, it would sell better.But i only read it because its the best of a poor bunch, car magazine has got hideously posh and unreadable and evo is just terrible.Is there any good car magazines? Ive been tempted to get classic car ones, but i want one with a good level of shite. My mums a newsagent manager, so any magazine i can get ordered in.

[RedSparrow]

Yes a rant, from an 18 year old, haha, the irony.What is it with magazines these days? I get top gear magazine every month out of habit, and the journalism does my head in. Its either reaally really kissarse, or down right stupid. I dislike the writers they have, id much prefer it just to be the top gear trio writing it all, it would sell better.But i only read it because its the best of a poor bunch, car magazine has got hideously posh and unreadable and evo is just terrible.Is there any good car magazines? Ive been tempted to get classic car ones, but i want one with a good level of shite. My mums a newsagent manager, so any magazine i can get ordered in.

Practical Classics is ok, but I only buy it when there's someting I'm interested in is in it. It's a bit pricey.The only mag I buy regularly these days is Viz.

[Mr H Sceptre]

Yeah Practical Classics, plus, of course, our very own Mr Leyland does do the 'rust in Peace' section every month.....Can anyone remember Popular Classics? It was taken over by Prac Classics a good 15yrs ago I'd say. Now that was class.

[brammy777]

ooooh, okay ill purchase it tomorrow cheers for the help.Also, another thing, why do interesting cars show up when a photo isnt possible?Just today i saw a MINT granda MKII pre facelift estate, it was so clean you could have eaten off the grille.My mum was driving at this point and as soon as it went past she said:'Oh dear, bet you wanted a photo of that'

[trigger]

Popular classics was an fantastic magazine and one of the main reasons i got into old cars, i'd read them over and over as a 14-16 year old and still have a load of them in the garage.I thing the magazine was in It's prime around 1995-96.I now mainly buy practical classics as it one of the best for average cars although some months can be hit and miss, and the price isn't cheap but no magazines are these days.

[Milford Cubicle]

What was Popular Classics like then? I'm too young to remember it.PC can be a bit hit and miss like you say, but it's been quite good recently.Classic and Sports Car is almost always worth a read, it's well-written, often features obscurities and isn't aimed at the lowest common denominator like PC is sometimes (I don't want to read the story of the Mini for the thousandth fucking time!)

[Richard]

It's a long time ago but I remember Popular Classics as being a slightly more Autoshite version of Practical Classics.Agree with Mr H Sceptre on documentaries. Not only do they keep recapping (and not just after the breaks either) they move very slowly and play soporific music. I frequently fall asleep before the end of them. They could easily do them in half the time.Re. Channel 4. I believe it was Mark Thompson that fucked it. He's DG of the BBC now. C4 is still partially funded by public money.

[Mr Lobster]

I used to buy Popular Classics but always prefered Practical Classics tbh. Popular always seemed a bit too much into what might be considered 'traditional' classics - old Austins, MGs, Standards and that sort of thing. Plus it featured Nick Larkin who seemed a bit of a knob so that rather put me off and I can't say I mourned it's passing.I actually prefered 'Your Classic' to both of them. That must have finished about 93/94 I guess but was very similar in style to what PC is now.

[Mash]

I was also a devotee of Popular Classics and still mourn it's demise. I used to subscribe to Practical Classics but nowadays only buy it if it has three or more articles of interest to me Anyway, this morning I have three G.O.M. rants:1. I see Volvo have introduced this automatic braking thingy on that big wanker van of theirs. The advert seems to condone gawping about whilst driving as it's OK, the car will brake for you. Madness, utter madness. Bring back metal dashboards - that'll make you concentrate!2. Film advertising. "Contains moderate threat", "contains mild peril". WTF is mild peril???? In other words don't sue us if you were scared by the two goblins knocking seven bells out of each other in the Lord of The Rings because we forgot to put "contains sustained fantasy action violence and perilous threat" 3. Cables. Fecking things always get tangled up around everything possible. Grrr. And hoses.

[dollywobbler]

I think Classic Car Weekly is really good... Mash-rantsHaving driven 1000 miles in a Citroen C5 in four days, I can only describe the experience as like painting a cardboard box and watching it dry. I was so bored by the time I got back to the office yesterday that I thought for a moment that I had actually died. Fortunately, a healthy dose of 2CV hoon on the way home helped reduce the symptoms somewhat, though I did scare the absolute shit out of a Freelander driver. Sorry, but I thought the gap was perfectly wide enough so there was no point slowing down...

[Albert Ross]

You wouldn't have scared me, I just keep my course. The other day, after having the rant about pillocks (no offence intended) overtaking parked cars into my path etc, I had reason to go to my local Tescos Megastore thingy...On the way, people on one side of the road leading to it (The Main road between Doncaster and Worksop) were having their bins emptied. Traffic was doing it's usual "follow-my-leader" style blind driving. Cue me coming the other way, at the limit of 40 mph, a trail of traffic behind me. The last car to go through safely was a Merc Coupe, quite a nice Almandine W124 to be exact. Then there was a prick in a Black, last model Fester........he just followed on, then he saw me. And froze. Seems the bin wagon was moving forward with hazards and flashing beacons going, I was in "his space" (actually mate, it's my side of the road, therefore it's my space) So he had literally nowhere to go. I carried on my normal course, as there was a car exiting a side road from my left, I couldn't squeeze over at all. The Fester stopped, the bin wagon moved up a hundred yards, all the other traffic went past on the festers left, I carried on.........................HAH! WANKER! I bet he felt oooh, about so big............... (Makes a tiny space with fingers)Oh, and Viz. Why is it not as funny as it used to be?

[dollywobbler]

Vintage cars that aren't. A Morris Minor is NOT a vintage car. A Volkswagen Beetle is NOT a vintage car. If it's not pre-1930ish, it's not chuffing Vintage!!To me, a vintage car has always been one with an upright windscreen, simple bodywork and preferably wood-spoked wheels. Gumdrop is a good example. (remember those books?)

[r.welfare]

Well, I'm currently grumpy about the Pug 308. And not because of that stupid TV ad. I've just driven one 700 miles in the last 2 days, and if it wasn't for the stupid styling (the estate is even more hideously proportioned and detailed, IMHO), the daft indicators (although the switch moves with a click, it still does the stupid three-flash thing that the Vauxhalls do), the tinny stereo and the absence of a panoramic blind-spot eliminator in the driver's door mirror, it's actually a nice car to drive. The 1.6 HDI engine (90bhp in this one I believe) is a peach with plenty enough oomph to move it along, and I've still got over an 1/8th of a tank of fuel left according to the gauge - I'll do a brim-to-brim fag packet calc tomorrow when I fill it up and return it to National, but I reckon ~60mpg for 70-75mph motorway cruising, with the a/c on most of the time. To me, that's pretty bloody impressive. Additionally, the seats were comfortable, and the ride/handling balance pretty good.For sure, I've not driven the latest Focus, Mk6 Golf, Megane or any of the Koreans (I may do in the future, given that NCR tend to come up with something different every time since I started stipulating "NO ZAFIRAS!" on the order form), but it's definitely better than the Fiat Bravo and the Zafiras and Astras I've rented previously (although I actually thought the last Vauxhall they gave me, a boggo Astra 1.4 Life, was a refreshingly honest little machine let down mainly by stupidly short gearing).No doubt the thing would be a crock of spuds as a long-term ownership proposition, but I can't help feeling if Messrs. Pininfarina were retained by PSA their long-term outlook would be much rosier...

[FredTransit]

Vintage cars that aren't. A Morris Minor is NOT a vintage car. A Volkswagen Beetle is NOT a vintage car. If it's not pre-1930ish, it's not chuffing Vintage!!To me, a vintage car has always been one with an upright windscreen, simple bodywork and preferably wood-spoked wheels. Gumdrop is a good example. (remember those books?)

Won't this have to move on as time passes though? you can't just have vintage as being pre 1930s. Classic is often seen as 20 years plus, which next year will be 1990 . Point is, if the term isn't age but year/decade related, what do we call cars from 1990? New?

[dollywobbler]

Vintage cars that aren't. A Morris Minor is NOT a vintage car. A Volkswagen Beetle is NOT a vintage car. If it's not pre-1930ish, it's not chuffing Vintage!!To me, a vintage car has always been one with an upright windscreen, simple bodywork and preferably wood-spoked wheels. Gumdrop is a good example. (remember those books?)

Won't this have to move on as time passes though? you can't just have vintage as being pre 1930s. Classic is often seen as 20 years plus, which next year will be 1990 . Point is, if the term isn't age but year/decade related, what do we call cars from 1990? New?

No, it doesn't change. Veteran is pre-1905 I believe (or something like that) Vintage is also a defined period in time. Classic is a huge area and I do think it needs to change. I reckon Retro from 1980 onwards is ok, so that'd leave classic as 1930-1980. Which is about right I think.