The grumpy thread

[New POD]

My annoyance is people with mobile phones in the supermarket. Usually blocking the aisle with the trolley or at least the section they are standing at whilst they make a phone call.

 

I don't have a problem with someone quickly calling someone to see what sort of something they want picked up, but i regularly see people going around phoning for EVERY ITEM.

 

"Hi, i'm in the cheese Aisle, you wanting Cheese? Ok, what type?, ok what size?, right see you soon"

 

30 seconds later

 

"Hi, me again, they've got Yoghurt on special, you want them too?, ok, see you soon"

 

you go to the next aisle and they wander up it, phone out

 

"Hi, yeah, i'm at the oil, what size do you want? what type? Sunflower? yeah ok see you soon"

 

Next aisle, phone out

 

"Hi, I'm at the beans, what size will i get?, ok see you soon".

 

Next aisle

 

"Hi, me again haha, yeah is it plain or milk chocolate digestives? ok, what size?"

 

You'll be finished the shop, at the checkout and usually see them wandering around with their phone to their ear with about 8 things in the trolley in the time you've taken to get 40 because of the time they've spent on the phone checking and double checking every fucking item.

 

Either the person on the other end needs to do the shopping instead, or they need to hand the person a specific list if it bothers them that much. either way, it's irritating and absolutely pathetic to see. Do they not communicate at home or know what they like? ffs.

Go to Asda At switch island m58 m57 junction. There's no signal in store.

How do I know. I went shopping with a list my wife had made but wanted to clarify a few things. Why? She has chronic fatigue and walking kind of kills her. I must have been there over an hour cause I spent nearly 200 quid.

[loserone]

Oh great, rants at the moderation again.

[Jazoli]

Oh great, rants at the moderation again.

 

Its a fair point he makes.

[loserone]

I disagree. There's many ways to skin a cat, but here it seems to be every single way just gets criticism.

[Cavcraft]

It's true: pin stuff, people complain, unpin stuff people complain. I guarantee no matter what even a fair few people complain about will be matched by equal numbers who will complain when that decision is reversed. You can't rest on your laurels, but surely the popularity of this place shows we must (all of us members) be doing something right. Debating over what should/n't be on the main board or sub forums and what should/n't is something that could run forever and never be resolved.  

 

Regarding new peope introducing themselves, we're going to try and make that mandatory. There's a good reason for this, a certain former member hasn't helped anyone and recently we spent an enormous amount of time removing people from the members list who've never posted and were very like spammers anyhow.

[myglaren]

Looks like the bloody alternator is buggered.

Charging fault on infoscreen then everything shutting down and multiple faults showing.

Battery voltage down to 11.3 after it had stood for an hour (son came home from work at 07:00 this morning.

It has been looking a bit unhealthy over the past 36 hours too.

So many to choose from.  Could just be the regulator of course.

[The Moog]

It’s always useful to know that there is more than one side to every story. Whilst people may see things as useless they often have a reason.  Some examples below;

 

• As for the new members thread, half the people that post in it never post on the forum again,

 

Joining a new forum is a daunting and stressful prospect so having a way to break the ice might be useful.

 

We have members or new members who suffer from anxiety or stress so making their life easier would be a good thing. If they don’t post again does it matter?- for some people posting once is a big deal.

 

 

• and we apparently had too many pinned topics (nobody had an issue, this was a mod's opinion

 

• A lot got unpinned when I made a post in news 24 about it,

 

• we somehow ended up with even more pinned threads than before - enough to completely fill my 1080p monitor with the browser on fullscreen. God help anyone that doesn't use fullscreen browsers or has a lower resolution.

 

It sounds like not just the moderation team who has an issue with too many pinned posts. .  

 

• couple of spurious ones like a Shitefest

 

I am not sure Shitefest is spurious topic. It allowed people to have a vote on the date and to book holidays. Sounds a good idea.

 

 

• but isn't actually working as nobody reads it (probably as the title doesn't suggest there's an index), and often it's full of broken links

 

People do read it -  16,271 views

 

Have you let us know about the broken links? That would be a positive thing to do.

 

• and I can't remember the last time I saw shitecycle.

 

Posted Today, 12:41 AM - http://autoshite.com/topic/10525-shitecycle-free-to-a-new-home/page-62 

 

• (what use is 'a small clarification' once you've read it - besides it just says 'you know who you are' and PMing members would surely be more effective???)

Because a small number of members can’t help themselves and still call people horrible names and use slurs against others.  A long term user had to be reminded of it just yesterday. If you have a better way of doing it then please PM us.  We have tried multiple ways and currently it is the only one that seems to help.

 

I know this is GOM thread but if you have an issue then message us for a conversation rather than just say we are doing a shit job.

 

Positive help is always a good thing.

 

With regards to changing the forum layout, I still have the bruises from our attempt at improving things!   It doesn’t seem broke – so we should avoid ‘fixing’ it.

 

It is a car forum for people who like old cars, certain things have always been done that way such as for sale posts mixed in.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Monday bastard mornings!

Flat tyre…… cover off jacking point - it's full of fucking expanding foam!!!! Drove front wheel onto curb - trolley jack now went under the car - tyre swapped and off to work…..

Into office - login not working……. not possible to contact IT support as it's skype - which is only available via logging in! Await colleague - he logs in - I hit 'em up and they reset - not obeying the requirements…. I try reset - it own't - original password doesn't match requirements… and then locks again! USELESS CUNTS!

Back to colleague - through it all again………

 

 

I ran out of fuel only once - coming off the ferry when I picked up a twinturbo supra engine and manual box for a NL friend…. the station was just over the hill - yup - hill…. we hoiked the Pajero, engine and box up a fucker of a hill for only 200m - but it seemed like the world had tilted deliberately to kill us! rolled down to het station - filled up and never let me down again. Learned my lesson big time with that one. My dutch mate remembered it last time I saw him - oh how we laughed!

[bub2006]

Took wife to work. On way home car started making a grumbling sound. Thought I'd investigate it after I'd had an hour in bed. Just been out to it,turned key,cranked over ok then made a metallic sound and now sounds like it has no compression.

You know what? Fuck it. I don't need this shit again. Can't cope with it. So close to Christmas too.

Hope all you guys have a great Christmas and take care.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Bubs, what's going on mate?  It's a hard time of year for sure.  Feel free to message me if you want to.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

FFS.  Was just upstairs at work, loading a van full of musical instruments to take back downstairs.  We have a massive hill on our site and no lift, so every time we do an event, we have to borrow the site van and drive everything up.  Which is a massive ballache.

 

Anyhow.  There was a Fiat Panda parked out of a space, on the end of a row.  The parking spaces were planned so that you can get a van around them with ease - but with the Panda parking where it did, it restricted the turn and made it very tight left-hander.  Well, guess who hit the rear quarter of the Panda with the side of the van?  That's right.

 

Fortunately I'm covered by work's insurance and I was reassured that it would be fine.  We've found whose car it is, etc. but I didn't need this today.

[Cavcraft]

FFS.  Was just upstairs at work, loading a van full of musical instruments to take back downstairs.  We have a massive hill on our site and no lift, so every time we do an event, we have to borrow the site van and drive everything up.  Which is a massive ballache.

 

Anyhow.  There was a Fiat Panda parked out of a space, on the end of a row.  The parking spaces were planned so that you can get a van around them with ease - but with the Panda parking where it did, it restricted the turn and made it very tight left-hander.  Well, guess who hit the rear quarter of the Panda with the side of the van?  That's right.

 

Fortunately I'm covered by work's insurance and I was reassured that it would be fine.  We've found whose car it is, etc. but I didn't need this today.

 

Ahh, that's crap man. I suppose at least it's not your insurance as you said, not massively better but less of a PITA and you won't need to tell your own insurance about it at a guess.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Ahh, that's crap man. I suppose at least it's not your insurance as you said, not massively better but less of a PITA and you won't need to tell your own insurance about it at a guess.

 

 

I won't, no.  It was also on private property.  I'm not the first person it's happened to, either and the Premises Manager (who controls the van use and I get on with well) said it wouldn't be a problem, that it happens and that although we're at fault because I've hit the car, the car had no business being parked where it was.  If nothing else, it might mean that parking gets enforced more rigorously in the future.

 

Still made me sick to my stomach though.  Every time I've had one like this (maybe four or five times), it's always been the same feeling.  Which is right, I suppose.

[sierraman]

Chatting to a Dr once and he had refixed his wife's tooth veneer with superglue when it fell off on holiday. Years later it's the only one that hasn't needed refixing...

My dad did this, it lasted 32 years.

[Guest Hooli]

FFS.  Was just upstairs at work, loading a van full of musical instruments to take back downstairs.  We have a massive hill on our site and no lift, so every time we do an event, we have to borrow the site van and drive everything up.  Which is a massive ballache.

 

Anyhow.  There was a Fiat Panda parked out of a space, on the end of a row.  The parking spaces were planned so that you can get a van around them with ease - but with the Panda parking where it did, it restricted the turn and made it very tight left-hander.  Well, guess who hit the rear quarter of the Panda with the side of the van?  That's right.

 

Fortunately I'm covered by work's insurance and I was reassured that it would be fine.  We've found whose car it is, etc. but I didn't need this today.

 

I bet the idiot car owner can't see what they did wrong either.

[Guest Hooli]

Took wife to work. On way home car started making a grumbling sound. Thought I'd investigate it after I'd had an hour in bed. Just been out to it,turned key,cranked over ok then made a metallic sound and now sounds like it has no compression.

You know what? Fuck it. I don't need this shit again. Can't cope with it. So close to Christmas too.

Hope all you guys have a great Christmas and take care.

 

FFS Bub, can you stop breaking things for 5mins?

[Lord Sterling]

Is it me.........?

 

....you're looking for......

[Tadhg Tiogar]

....your you're looking for......

 

FTFY 

[ruffgeezer]

Fitted a powered dab aerial to the freelander and it is just as shit as a bit of wire with a plug on the end.

[chaseracer]

Fitted a powered dab aerial to the freelander and it is just as shit as a bit of wire with a plug on the end.

 

But how's the new aerial, Tim? 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I bet the idiot car owner can't see what they did wrong either.

Ironically it’s owned by a counsellor that visits a couple of times a week. That was a bit of a relief, tbh.

[barefoot]

Went to see Nile Rogers & Chic again last night.

Not only is Birmingham NIA a total nightmare to get to, it appears there's a dress code at the arena.

I'd just managed to spunk £9 on parking & £6 on a pint, in addition to the ticket price when I was surrounded by four security blokes.

"Does Sir have any foot wear with him before he enters the auditorium?"

Sir produced a pair of filthy muddy, shitty flip flops from a poly bag, dropped them on the floor causing spatter and slipped them on.

"I wouldn't want Sir to be slipping over..."

 

In the words of Jim Morrison, 'Is that any way to behave at a Rock n Roll Concert?'

[fordperv]

Well while I was travelling at 70mph earlier my timing chain tensioner decided to fail, I replaced them with new ones when I did the headgasket

 

The head is fucked

 

The car is currently sat like this

 

Parts to do the job on order but no head yet

[Cavcraft]

I’ve inherited my daughter’s mobile phone and the flaming thing is being rung non-stop by companies trying to offer crap for sale.

[Guest Hooli]

Well while I was travelling at 70mph earlier my timing chain tensioner decided to fail, I replaced them with new ones when I did the headgasket

 

The head is fucked

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The car is currently sat like this

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Parts to do the job on order but no head yet

 

Bugger! I remember being warned they were a weak spot by an independent Ford dealer when those cars where about five years old.

[fordperv]

Yep I'm quite annoyed to be fair I've lost heart with it the worst thing is the car is less than 200 miles away from 200k

[DeeJay]

I’ve inherited my daughter’s mobile phone and the flaming thing is being rung non-stop by companies trying to offer crap for sale.

She's set you up.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Yep I'm quite annoyed to be fair I've lost heart with it the worst thing is the car is less than 200 miles away from 200k

 

 

 

Bring back the Pinto, all is forgiven.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Went to see Nile Rogers & Chic again last night.

Not only is Birmingham NIA a total nightmare to get to, it appears there's a dress code at the arena.

I'd just managed to spunk £9 on parking & £6 on a pint, in addition to the ticket price when I was surrounded by four security blokes.

"Does Sir have any foot wear with him before he enters the auditorium?"

Sir produced a pair of filthy muddy, shitty flip flops from a poly bag, dropped them on the floor causing spatter and slipped them on.

"I wouldn't want Sir to be slipping over..."

 

In the words of Jim Morrison, 'Is that any way to behave at a Rock n Roll Concert?'

 

No need to freak out mate. 

[fordperv]

Bring back the Pinto, all is forgiven.

I considered slinging one in earlier, it would be back up and running by now haha I may have a reconditioned head sorted I'm just waiting on the nod from the chap who has it