The grumpy thread

[cobblers]

THAT Metro on RR. It's now been lowered 'properly' by a man who let lots of fluid out of the suspension system. Yup, that sounds a proper job! SHEESH!

Oh your kidding? I used to do this to my mates scabby old metro gta when he left it parked up at the end of the works carpark. after a few times he just left it on the bumpstops and put up with it.

 

EDIT: Shit, your right. "let down using the proper equipment"

 

A fucking biro lid seemed to work fine!

[CIH]

Let's just hope he doesn't have a change of heart and "rat" it like his Golf.....

[Station]

THAT Metro on RR. It's now been lowered 'properly' by a man who let lots of fluid out of the suspension system. Yup, that sounds a proper job! SHEESH!

"It doesn't work like that," I should say to him if I wanted to get banned. You lower the suspension by letting gas out and it'll fail the MOT as it sits on or hits the bump stop (on a bump). I know 'it's a Metro', but the hydragas is nice in good condition, but when it's degassed, it's really kack.

Why do people want to do this when it's just a nice little run about.

Everytime I hear the word 'slammed', I want to slam my pen15 and testes in a school desk lid to distract myself from the irritating pain in my ears/eyes. How old are you, 10?

[trigger]

The way he's going I reckon that Metro will be ratting itself soon!

[barrett]

Is anyone surprised that this is being fucked with, after seeing his old car?

[CIH]

I absolutly fucking hate "slammed" mk3s....they're bastards to work on as they're rusty as a twat underneath (proper grotty rust, not that pretend bollocks) and you can't get at fuck all cos they're about 1mm above the ground.

[Cavcraft]

Is anyone surprised that this is being fucked with, after seeing his old car?

Jesus wept, what a God awful heap of shit that is.

[gearoil]

 

 

Cock.

[greengartside]

^^ What happened to that Golf? Owner fucked it over in a school playground and drove off into the Nitromors factory? TOTAL WANK-BANDIT

[Angrydicky]

LOL at that Golf.

 

I'm grumpy about the squabbling that has been going on this evening over some spambot - please stop for fucks sake!

[eddyramrod]

LOL at that Golf.

 

I'm grumpy about the squabbling that has been going on this evening over some spambot - please stop for fucks sake!

I couldn't be more with you, on both counts!

[Angrydicky]

LOL at that Golf.

 

I'm grumpy about the squabbling that has been going on this evening over some spambot - please stop for fucks sake!

I couldn't be more with you, on both counts!

it seems to have stopped now, thankfully.

 

Have a Tagora to celebrate:

 

 

[CIH]

Oh FFS they're getting all high and mighty over there because someone suggested a Reliant Robin is probably a shit car.

 

"they" being ths usual self appointed mod-plod

[eddyramrod]

CIH, that's like Angry Dicky, in Essex, getting wound up about something I said about Cyprus. Let it go, it's not worth the bother.

[wuvvum]

Whenever I see a car like this parked up I get this urge to draw an enormous cock and balls on the bonnet with Kurust.

[Des]

Whenever I see a car like this parked up I get this urge to draw an enormous cock and balls on the bonnet with Kurust.

And perhaps several sploodge droplets trailing a downward arc from the business end.

Far be it from me to question your artistic ability, but I feel it would pose something of a challenge to render an impression of a cock equaling that of the mong driving that fucking desperate plea for help.

[autofive]

that gorf is horrible

 

i wonder how long they stay on the road after the dropped, rusty look ruins them

 

1 year?

2?

[Baz]

Those bloody stupid L.E.D. (Or whatever they are) "String of pearls" sidelights (Or whatever they are) on the front bumper of the Citroen DS3....Do they not switch off? They're ALWAYS on....Grrrr!!!

 

Likewise with Audis....But then Audis and their drivers just irritate me on a whole different level!

[myglaren]

Uggly and annoying.

The BMW variant is far more restrained, an ideal balance I'd say.

[Parky]

I'm hacked off as I have just got back from hols to find no Freeview Gromit. Either upstairs or down. Checked the aerial which all seemed OK, but did find a minor cable problem with the downstairs set. However that shouldnt prevent the freeview working.

 

Anyhoos, I does a Google search and it looks like Toshiba did some sort of software download recently which worked a treat on all TV's except my particular model. The solution is to send it off to Tosh with a cheque for £55 and at some point in the future I might get my set back (probably with additional glue marks/screen scratches that "were already there sir".

 

So this week Toshiba can go f*ck themselves with a hedgehog......

[trigger]

Not really a grump, but just walked into the living room to see some shite game show on with that Welsh knobber Steve Jones where the contestants are strapped into 4 cars before getting dunked into a swimming pool.

 

The cars were a Argentinian Coupe version of the Mk 5 Cortina, A Opel Kadett, a Chrysler Alpine and a Peugeot 504, It was like a Autoshite line up!

[Mike D]

I noticed that trigger, GR8 4 Dunkin!

[Lankytim]

Although I really dont get rat look im all for it if it means people can have some sort or automotive based fun. No great loss ratting an old Golf or astra but whats with all the stuff on the roofrack? Why is there a childs scooter up there? Why does he need an old bike wheel or a (probably) stolen road works flashing light? Its absolutley pointless. Ive seen all sorts of shit on these rat cars, road works signs, old beer crates, why?? Who decided it looked cool?

[Rover414]

TalkTalk. Not the service of them which is admittedly terrible but they do sort things out for you, usually takes about 2 weeks. No instead it's this new feature they have whereby if I type something in the Firefox address bar (for example "wiki Rover") instead of just taking me to the wikipedia page on Rover, it takes me to a TalkTalk error page which gives me search results from Yahoo, 5 results it gives and not one of them is Rovers bloody wikipedia page. So they offer you an opt out service, which doesn't work. Once you opt out it and try it again it just takes you back to the same error pages. What a chore.

[myglaren]

In the address bar type"about:config", pass the warning and look down the list for:

 

browser.search.selectedEngine;Google

If it isn't Google, or your preferred engine and has been changed to some TalkTalk nonsense, edit it back to Google or another suitable engine.

[Lord Sterling]

My computer got attacked with some sort of really annoying trojan horse, It was so bad I thought it was a serious Virus attack.

 

Great I thought, added to the fact I've no work, a fucked car, and now a fucked computer. Great stuff.

 

My sister was on faecebook when she told me about some anti-virus that kept on popping up. I thought it was my own Anti Virus as it sometimes does that, but I didnt recognise this Anti Virus (Called 'Security Suite') couldnt get rid of it and all my programes wouldnt open, not even the internet.

 

So I started the computer up in 'safe mode' tried a restore which didnt work, so I was convinced it was an attack. I started clearing all my stuff off it so it could be taken to be reinstalled, whilst doing so I thought I'd have a poke around the files to see if I could get to the core of this problem.

 

I came across some files that had been created recently that I didnt recognise and deleted them. Seems to have stopped the problem so far and I'm back on the 'net. But I will be looking to get windows reinstalled as it long overdue and many of the files are pretty long in the tooth now.

[Parky]

Had something similar Lord S - wiped PC and installed Windows 7 which helped a lot. Except my sound card and printer wont work with Windows 7 so theres a little more expense right there. Total PITA and its only when it happens you realise how reliant we are on our computers these days.

[retrogeezer]

There is a fix for that security suite virus here:

 

http://www.myantispyware.com/2010/03/17 ... ent-331756

 

I had a it a few months back myself.

[ChinaTom]

Big dog's swinging dick.

 

Massive weekend fail.

 

Old friend got in touch on Friday and we arranged to meet up this weekend in Guangzhou for a good catch-up. "I have a case of Dry Blackthorn in the hold luggage" he says. Brilliant.

 

Booked a suite in a hotel (one of those stupidly expensive 2 bedrooms and a lounge jobbies) and dashed off to the airport Saturday morning to get a flight - several flights a day, just pick up a cheap plane-filler ticket and 2 hours later I'd be in the hotel roughly the same time as my mate. I'm all excited and uncharactistically upbeat about things.

 

Saturday is first time flyer tourist day - airport resembled one of those old fashioned computer games where human shaped pixels drift around the screen turning randomly either at precisely 90 degrees or often walking back to where they just came from; and only 3 tickets left to Guangzhou on the 17:30 flight - all first class. 5 hour wait for a very expensive ticket - took it, at least I'd have a lounge to wait in. Lounge staffed by disinterested airport staff - one asleep on a sofa, the other watching the Chinese equivalent of CBeebies at extra loud volume on a 46 inch flatscreen with coathanger aeriel reception. Equal volumes of static and "heebee beebee BO! heebee beebee BO!" Already grumpy by now.

 

Get on plane, play with the buttons on the seat, only one of them works; and then an old colleague makes himself known to me from halfway down the plane. I used to consult for this chap, and held a party in my soul when my contract ended. At least I'm in first class and I have a really good excuse not to talk to him. He upgrades himself (you can pay the extra on the plane and upgrade if you want) - cue 60 minutes of chest thumping alpha male "I'm fuckin' great, me!" boredom, made worse by him drinking a whole bottle of Dynasty wine in the 50 minutes we were airborne. Head-ache now. Taxi to Hotel, get a text from old friend saying he was still in Manila as his flight was delayed.

 

Arrive at hotel, migraine like head-ache, get to room, crash. Text wakes me up - "sorry mate, flight cancelled, going via KL instead - can you get there tonight?". No - absolutely not.

 

Oh well, chill out for a day with some decent (relatively speaking - only Chinese channels in my house) foreign TV and see some other mates in a nearby bar. 20:00 Announcement made that China is entering a 24 hour period of mourning for the landslide victims in ZhouQu and all entertainment venues will be closing at 22:00. 21:00 all agree not to bother going out and I don't like them enough to invite them to the hotel in order to pay room service beer bills. Settle on sofa to see some NatGeo (sad, but I love it) and this is what I see:

 

 

I'm a grand down at least now, I haven't actually met a single person other than reception staff and the chambermaids; I managed to watch less than one news cycle on BBC World before the black-screen appeared, I've done nothing accept fill time by working on my laptop; it's pissing down with rain, I'm about to venture into the executive lounge to pay a monster hotel bill, and then look forward to the Sunday evening airport scrum. I really should have stayed at home.

 

Still, a grubby Magentis awaits.

[greengartside]

Regrettably putting the Mk3 Escort Cabriolet up for sale today

 

Don't wanna do it but times are hard and pops needs the money to pay off bills and that shit. I will be posting up here as I know a few of you are into this kinda shizzle.

 

A sad, sad, sad day