The grumpy thread

[cms206]

Just heard my mate's K-reg 205 has been broken into for a second time... for a 17 year old 1.1 Zest in varying shades of blue with 110k on the clock, it surely can't be THAT desirable?!

 

Thankfully the big fella keeps it immobilised when it's not used... 20st of angry Colin I suspect would not be a sight an angry thief would like to see...

[Polystratus]

must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car,

Don't forget - must put fuel in car

[maxpower]

must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car, must put fuel in car,

Don't forget - must put fuel in car

and don't do a gary neville and put wrong fuel in the car

[autofive]

I'm getting mildly annoyed with some transporter geeza on Shiply, he is supposed to be shifting a car for me, its a £400 touch so not fly shit. I have paid a £40 deposit, but over a week has gone by since I paid it and I have not even been able to speak to him yet never mind fix a time/date. After 3 or 4 days I had an email saying 'Cheers for that, i'll be in touch shortly' but apart from that, absolutley jack. I have called and texted him but never got a response, and no reply to emails either. I'm going to give him another day or two, then see about getting the deposit back and fooking him off. What a ridiculous waste of everyones fuggin time.

thats my experience of shipley - a load of chancers, work subcontracted left-right-and-centre until a 9-car-transporter tries to squeeze down your street 3 weeks later, then demands for more money than previously agreed

[Mr H Sceptre]

I've been saddled with dog sitting my parents dog this week... Went to Rother Valley Country park this morning for a wander, £3 to get in... robbing bastards it's a park not Alton Towers ffs.

£3 to get into Rother Valley?!?! Blimey. I used to sail my Laser Dinghy there in the late 80's & it was free go get in, mainly as there was nothing there apart from a lake.

[254575]

The state Brooklands track is in

i think its not to bad personally, I can see it now looking out of my office window

 

the selling off of the old runway gets me, they used to open it up to light aircraft for museum events..but they sold it all to mercedez benz for them to build their complex, and the other half had a go kart trak build on it, and is now a skate park!

 

ffs, the reason the runway was there in the first place was to bomb german industries! who says i dont get irony.

[eddyramrod]

[that said if anyone local to me is interested in some fairly menial & poorly paid work, do write in to the usual address...]

Are you in Cyprus? I'm looking for a job, and poorly-paid menial has been my entire life!

[eddyramrod]

Ooooh boy have I got a Grump! As mentioned in the road-naming thread...

 

Some years ago (2002-4) I delivered timber to building sites, mostly new estates. I was driving an ERF EC-series six-leg flat. This is about the same size as your average fire engine. One estate leaps to mind as a shining example, but most were guilty to some degree: there isn't enough road! They build a beautiful new five-bedroom house, in a plot designed for a rabbit hutch (ignoring the fact that at least two of these bedrooms are no bigger than phone boxes anyway) and supply it with a single garage and a one-parking-space driveway, that space being designed for a 1977 Fiesta. Who is going to buy this house? A family with at least two Mercedes MLs, not to mention the SL and a couple of BMW 3-series for the kids. So ok, they have to park on the road. Even without their wheels up on the high narrow kerb, there might be room for them to squeeze past each other, possibly. Add in the layout of the estate, with no straight longer than the frontage of one house, and rightangle bends, and I'm sure you are beginning to get the picture. Now they complete the houses at the front of the development first, and start selling them off, while they finish the rest of the site. The site is of course accessible ONLY by the road that residents will use. You can imagine the looks I got, trying to squeeze my ERF down these little domestic roads, up on the kerbs half the time, trying not to kill kids in prams or run over anyone's flowerbeds. Do not buy a house on one of these estates! If there's a fire, you will die. I struggled to get down, how is a fire engine supposed to make it?

 

Wait till I start on school design! Architects, be afraid, be very afraid...

[CIH]

FFS. As some of you know I had a likkle accident in the porker. Blah blah silly mistake whatever but that was back in May and only now have the insurance come up with an offer, almost 3 MONTHS later! AND! They're trying to knock me down £100 off what they're own assesor and I agreed.

 

We got a letter today saying the car has to be shifted at the end of the week so I've a sudden need to get rid of this bastard car now.

 

Damn I'm pissed off.

[peter9000uk]

The state Brooklands track is in

i think its not to bad personally, I can see it now looking out of my office window

 

the selling off of the old runway gets me, they used to open it up to light aircraft for museum events..but they sold it all to mercedez benz for them to build their complex, and the other half had a go kart trak build on it, and is now a skate park!

 

ffs, the reason the runway was there in the first place was to bomb german industries! who says i dont get irony.

You must work on the same estate as me then!

 

PS 2nd Tues of every month there is a car meet at the museum

[Pillock]

] If there's a fire, you will die. I struggled to get down, how is a fire engine supposed to make it?

 

I think the fire brigade view a little bit of "paint exchange" as par for the course. But I know what you mean, it seems the newer the estate, the bigger the cars but the less space to park. Meanwhile look at any ex-council estate where the roads are twice as wide and you can run a mini-breakers yard on the front garden.

[AlsoMike]

] If there's a fire, you will die. I struggled to get down, how is a fire engine supposed to make it?

 

I think the fire brigade view a little bit of "paint exchange" as par for the course. But I know what you mean, it seems the newer the estate, the bigger the cars but the less space to park. Meanwhile look at any ex-council estate where the roads are twice as wide and you can run a mini-breakers yard on the front garden.

This is all apparently to discourage the use of the motor vehicle, for example: a friend of mine used to live on a newly built development on the edge of town, a mix of "townhouses" and apartment buildings. One parking space for some of the residents, none for others, as the development was supposed to get it's own bus routes. Obviously these never materialised and the tiny roads all over the estate were consequently constantly blocked by hundreds of parked cars. Nice idea, trying to get people out of their cars like that, but it'll never work.

[greengartside]

Not quite a grump but not sure if anyone read the Scum's article about Geoffrey Hughes a.k.a Onslow from Keeping Up Appearances - he's got cancer and it's not looking good for him. Hope he pulls through, quite like the guy

[Gompo]

Cancer is a bastard isn't it?

 

Uncle died from it on Monday, and my Auntie has been diagnosed with Cancer of throat and liver in past couple of weeks too. 2 funerals in a month (first one not cancer, but a mate in a slightly strange accident) and probably another before X-mas. My Mum, like many, still thinks there's a 'god' though.

[greengartside]

Christ Gompo, sorry to hear about that mate. My dad has Crohn's Disease which is a form of cancer of the bowel, he's had it absolutely years now and he's still around and leading a good lifestyle.

 

Every day is a gift and not a given right.

[eddyramrod]

Meanwhile look at any ex-council estate where the roads are twice as wide and you can run a mini-breakers yard on the front garden.

Exactly! My last house in England was ex-council, built 1949. I had the front garden paved, in order to house: 1980s 16ft caravan; hand-built 6x4 trailer; 1983 Plymouth Gran Fury ex-LAPD project; 1980 Buick; 1990 Chrysler convertible; 1987 Volvo 740 estate; 2006 Suzuki Ignis (Mrs Ramrod's). And this was on the outside of a bend, where you expect less space on the front! If, as often happened, I parked the Volvo out on the road, everyone could get past. Oh, and yards away at the end of the road, there was a bus route too.

[Pillock]

Cancer is a bastard isn't it?

 

Uncle died from it on Monday, and my Auntie has been diagnosed with Cancer of throat and liver in past couple of weeks too. 2 funerals in a month (first one not cancer, but a mate in a slightly strange accident) and probably another before X-mas. My Mum, like many, still thinks there's a 'god' though.

Harsh, really sad news

 

One of my colleagues has had a few health issues, some quite serious but he struggled through and made it back to work for quite a while. Fell ill again, went to the doctors last week and was told he had 5 days to live thanks to some quiet agressive undiagnosed cancer.

 

He made it to the sixth day, bless him. Nice knowing you, Basil.

[eddyramrod]

Cancer is a bastard isn't it?

Harsh, really sad news

Six years ago today it got my mother, so I'm right with you guys. It was her 83rd birthday the day before.

[pompei]

How would you deal with being told you've got 5 days to live?

[M'coli]

7 years ago my father died of non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. 2 years previously he'd survived a melanoma, but really oddly, in 1988, he was treated successfully for Hodgkin's disease.

[Lankytim]

I guess something unpleasant gets us all in the end..

[M'coli]

Quite. We forget that just a generation ago, people were dying of industrial diseases that they wouldn't die from today even if the country still had said industry - because of the increase in Health and Safety regulations to STOP PEOPLE FROM DYING AT WORK, not as a reason for little tin-pot generals to be utter control-freak cunts.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if some of the chemicals my old man came into contact with in the shipyards and elsewhere (his own shed, FFS!) were responsible for helping the lymphomas on their way. When he was in the Beatson in Glasgow, they found he had some asbestosis. Now this could have been from working in the shipyards, or it could have been from the stuff he brought home from them - when I cleared out his shed, I found asbestos fabric, with fibres floating off all over the place! And to think I used to spend a lot of time in there fixing up my bike as a kid.

 

Then there's the death/disease toll prior to mass vacination and antibiotics...

[AnthonyG]

God I hate Lisa Tarbuck.

 

When is Mark Goodyear coming back from his holidays?

[trigger]

^ x1000000 She is shit as a DJ, It reminds me why i never used to listen to Radio 2.

 

Also Chris Tarrant (I've ranted about this before) but he's also shit, Always talking about himself, never giving guests any chance to speak and generally just being a are, mind you he does seem to play some decent music.

[Negative Creep]

Further to my last post really, my road trip is a load of bollocks in a van that doesn't work. Since I'm travelling with a couple I'm basically just tagging along with no idea what I'm actually doing. Only alternative is to head off by myself which I don't want to do either. Need to find a job at the other end, the prospect of which is already filling me with dread. Always have to think about money as well, since if that runs out I have to go back to the UK. Sigh.

[Cheggers]

May God strike me down if I ever even consider buying another modern Peugeot

 

Mrs Cheggs 307 needed a new PAS pump...@ £400!! AND, the new pump needs to be synchronised with the electronic control unit, which can only be done ata Peugeot main stealer. What the flying fuck is that all about!!

 

Not chuffed

[Rocket88]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That's called progress. Stuff doesn't rust anymore, so manufacturers have to find some way of making vehicles obsolete. Making sure hideously expensive components snuff it after about 5 years usually does the job. I refuse to buy anything younger than 10 years old purely for this very reason....................what's the point of buying a new Meganutter turbobastard tdi just because it does 4 mpg better than the old one, when all the money saved on fuel is instantly wiped out when a fairly minor component fails. I'm too lazy to do the sums, but if you reckon on £75 for a dealer re-code of some of this stuff [as well as the cost of the part] it's a total no brainer.

[Mike D]

Fuggin plumbing!

 

Found the kitchen ceiling soggy this morning, and the microwave beneath it all wet. GR8!

 

So i went and tore the bath and floor in the bathroom to bits, freaking nora man, it's a right lash up. I'm not a plumber and i'm 100% I will do a better job, cowboy bastards, off to get some fittings then....

[Justin Case]

May God strike me down if I ever even consider buying another modern Peugeot

 

Mrs Cheggs 307 needed a new PAS pump...@ £400!! AND, the new pump needs to be synchronised with the electronic control unit, which can only be done ata Peugeot main stealer. What the flying fuck is that all about!!

 

Not chuffed

Obviously a rip-off by manufacturers. My computer needed a new monitor recently. I just went out and bought one, plugged it into the power supply and the big silver box (you can see what a techie I am ) and it set itself up and worked straight away. A Peugeot (or any other makes) ECU should recognise whatever is hooked onto it, after all they're Peugoet bits in any case, so why can't it do the same as a computer which is far more complex? Perhaps the motoring press should be investigating this racket instead of hanging around factory gates trying to get a scoop picture of the latest Megabore Mk 2

[ChinaTom]

Unusual for me to feel grumpy enough to post something here.

 

Insomnia struck last night - no sleep. Meeting at 15:00 with a bunch of people whose working hours are 09:30 till 11:00, then 15:00 to 17:30. WHAT THE F*CK CAN GET DONE WITH 90 MINUTE MORNINGS? Anyway, driver didn't turn up so I had to do Nanning outer ring road on my scooter in 35 degree heat. 22 miles = VERY sunburnt arms. Arrived late, bathed in a nice oily mixture of sweat and dust.

 

Wife informs me this afternoon that she has pulled the plug on the flat sale at the last minute as she doesn't like the people Massive argument. Called her a f*cking idiot and now she's all upset. So am I - when someone offers full asking price in cash, I don't care who the hell they are.

 

The only decent thing that's happened today is me realizing that Jenna Fischer will be to me what Felicity Kendall is for my old man.

 

Everything else today has had a massive cock drawn all over it.