The grumpy thread

[sierraman]

  On 05/04/2019 at 20:41, mercrocker said:

Fucking hell Mr Craft, I share your pain at that one. Not only a waste of a weekend it's a waste of the preceding 5 days too.

Bad times. You’ve effectively worked for absolutely nothing.

[wuvvum]

  On 06/04/2019 at 01:31, Exiled_Tat_Gatherer said:

Stuck by the road near Lanark..... Its not charging..... FUCK

Don't have time for this shit.

Will see about dumping it at a local garage first thing and go get the XJR maybe. Got a ferry to catch!

 

Bugger!  Which car is that?  I've lost track...

[Rocket88]

  On 05/04/2019 at 12:55, NorfolkNWeigh said:

Booked a rental for the weekend because the Passat Has gone limp again- it'll wind itself up to 80/90 eventually but slip roads are a bit hair raising and I've got a couple of trips to Southampton one to B'ham and a couple to London over the weekend so £120 for " Isignia or similar" isn't too bad and at least I won't get stressed on the A34 hills.

Enterprise picked me up and took me to the office, where they tried to give me A FUCKIING QASHQAI !

On what planet is this similar to an Insignia ? If I'd wanted an OAPNationalTrustMotorbility wagon, I'd have ticked that box and saved £3 a day. I specifically asked on the phone for a normal saloon or estate.

Just about to fill the Passat up- who needs to speed everywhere anyway and I've saved £120.

 

 

 

I was unlucky enough to be lumbered with one of these last year when my Fabia snuffed it..........to make matters worse, it was the CVT model.....what a hateful pile of slothful, thirsty, uncomfortable detritus........

[rantingYoof]

  On 05/04/2019 at 12:06, EssDeeWon said:

Fckin nosey old curtain twitchers rant.

 

I moved to a new house late last year in a nice area, the house itself is down a private cul-de-sac with limited parking, the landlord has both his car and van on the drive so I have to leave the car on the public side road at the end of the cul-de-sac.  This is a quiet dead end road with mostly bungalows and old/older people, its a very quiet area and the road is 80% empty as they all have driveways.  Before christmas I had an old boy moan about the car being parked outside his house even though he has a drive and doesn't park on the road, he later apologised one day and went on to pay compliments to the Rover so I tend to stick to this place now, I also had some clever dick leaving one of the wiper arms up and I think it was some bloke across the road so a polite but stern note went in the side window advising this person the car is taxed, Mot'd so politely keep your grubby hands off my car, and that stopped...

 

This week I moved the car to a different space outside a different house with two elderly people  (seen them a couple of times) with an old transit camper on their drive but have no car and there is never a car outside this house.  Last night I came home to a note on the car saying not to park here if I don't live down this road.  I had been to the pub (walked home) and was close to reversing the car through their front wall after being pee'd off with all this bollox, instead thought better and stayed on the right side of the law, posted the notices in the side windows confirming the cars current tax and mot and left it.   The only reason I moved it there for a few days was because the neighbour further down where I usually park was having loads of work done and I didn't want the car in their way, what with lorries and trucks delivering soil / stones etc...

 

This kind of petty 'we own the road outside our house' attitude has pi$$ed me off this time, nosey old curtain twitchers that NEVER EVEN PARK ON THE ROAD ffs, because they have driveways.   

 

Another neighbour I noticed was quickly moving one of his cars off the drive to park outside his house after I moved my car before only to then to put his car back on the drive again, just so I couldn't come back and park there. Pathetic really..  

 

To confirm this is a wide straight side road, a public road with no parking restrictions, not parked over or near anyone's driveway entrance.

 

This reminds me of a conversation I had to have with someone who rang in to the Council's Duty Officer service...

 

'Good morning, I'd like to report a van parked near my house, on the side of the village green. It's a dark grey/black van. It's been there four hours.'

 

'Um, okay, is it taxed, insured, MOTed? If not then this isn't a matter for the planning department.'

 

'Why would I need to check its tax or insurance? I'm telling you it's parked NEXT TO THE VILLAGE GREEN!'

 

'....okay. What do you want the Council to do about it?'

 

'You need to come and get it moved! It's an eyesore that's detracting from character of the village!'

 

'I'm afraid you do not need planning permission to park a van by the side of a road.'

 

The conversation went in circles a bit before they hung up, huffing and puffing.

 

It wasn't April Fool's Day but I do hope someone was having a larf at my expense. I'd rather that be the case than someone genuinely has that little going on in their life...

[PhilA]

Where do you think inspiration for TV shows such as Keeping Up Appearances come from? It's not all from the imagination of the writers.

 

That nonsense annoys me also. Similar happens here, particularly as the older generation seem to think they own everything on their lot, including and up to the center of the street.

 

No dude. You might have owned this when it was all fields but the moment you built the road and sold up and divided the land, the road became property of the parish. I don't see you repairing the asphalt or drains on it now, do I?

 

No, some people are so full of self importance that they have no time for anything else in their lives, particularly myopic.

 

Phil

[HMC]

  On 05/04/2019 at 19:44, EssDeeWon said:

Good idea.  I was thinking a new Aldi Q3 or a Nissan Cashkay.

How about this?

[Noel Tidybeard]

  On 06/04/2019 at 04:07, New POD said:

Did he say the landlord wasn't living there. I saw that and assumed he was a lodger with no rights.

 

 

good point- maybe have to try first come, first parked

[dollywobbler]

  On 06/04/2019 at 11:43, HMC said:

How about this?

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Passed that on the M4 at Christmas. It's nicely done to be fair.

[EssDeeWon]

  On 05/04/2019 at 22:24, Noel Tidybeard said:

why is the landlord parking car & van on drive where he don't live?

 

He does live here, I'm only lodging here for a year or so while I try to buy my own place.

[EssDeeWon]

  On 06/04/2019 at 11:31, PhilA said:

Where do you think inspiration for TV shows such as Keeping Up Appearances come from? It's not all from the imagination of the writers.

 

That nonsense annoys me also. Similar happens here, particularly as the older generation seem to think they own everything on their lot, including and up to the center of the street.

 

No dude. You might have owned this when it was all fields but the moment you built the road and sold up and divided the land, the road became property of the parish. I don't see you repairing the asphalt or drains on it now, do I?

 

No, some people are so full of self importance that they have no time for anything else in their lives, particularly myopic.

 

Phil

 

Exactly this.

 

The road is a proper Hyacinth Bucket type road with bungalows.  On the plus side it makes for a nice quiet area but you can't walk past number 10 and fart without number 8 and 12 finding out about it. I guess some of these pensioners spend all day at home and generally speaking I have a lot of time for the elderly but at no point am I being told to move my car that is legally parked.

[Aston Martin]

I'm no doctor of horses, but they always die after falling over the hurdles... So, remove the fucking hurdles?

[clayts450]

  On 05/04/2019 at 20:47, clayts450 said:

FFS - not mine, but why the actual fuck would you steal a Streetwise - bastards. Stolen from Leicester yesterday evening. Owner is gutted - posted on Rover 25/200/Streetwise Facefart group

 

 

 

 

Arseholes.

[Cavcraft]

  On 06/04/2019 at 18:54, Aston Martin said:

I'm no doctor of horses, but they always die after falling over the hurdles... So, remove the fucking hurdles?

 

Amen.

[iainrcz]

Halfwit at work who just cannot do his job without a fucking drama has cocked the machine up.

 

So obviously we have no engineer on site, only an on call one.

 

Who won't answer his phone at 3am.

 

No doubt it'll all be my fucking fault!

 

Sent from my VFD 710 using Tapatalk

[New POD]

  On 05/04/2019 at 16:09, barefoot said:

There was a bloke kept putting his bagged turds in my wheelie bin, it amused me a little, but one evening I happened to see him do it from the bedroom window. The next day I wrote out a bit of a sign which read, 'BLOKE WITH BLACK TOY POODLE - TAKE YOUR SHIT HOME'. I taped it to the bin & it stayed there until the weather took it off. I never had another bag of his shit in the bin again.

What's the problem with putting a sealed bag of dog shite in a wheely bin.

 

I mean if he was putting it in the recycling bin, that would be wrong.

 

Mind you some people are precious.

[New POD]

  On 05/04/2019 at 16:22, Conan said:

I always find it annoying when somebody is perpetuating a very obviously false facts about very well known and easily researched information. Yet people are believing them to be true because they didn't know any better.

 

There's a Youtube video on a certain gaming channel about a particular model of car. Lotus Carlton, to be specific. And this one guy is saying that the car has seen police duty back in the day, as an estate variant too, along with the RS500 Cosworth Sierra.

 

I replied to him that this is all bullshit.

 

This guy replied back a wall of text saying how he know people who have them and plenty of pictures of those cars are available and very easy to find.

 

I found jack fucking shit.

 

Because they don't fucking exist.

 

I don't have enough energy to reply to this guy. In fact, what did I expect from wandering into Youtube comment section anyway? I am grumpy about this because I can't avoid it. I love seeing the train-wreck that is the YT comment section too much.

I've never read any of the comments on YouTube. CBA

[New POD]

  On 05/04/2019 at 21:05, snagglepuss said:

Sadly this shoots up once passed test.

Indeed. But they want to discourage fronting, so whilst price will go up it might only be 3 times more.

[GrumpyCat]

eBay have increased fees for motors listings...

 

https://tamebay.com/2019/02/ebay-motors-fees-for-private-sellers-from-1-april-2019.html

[New POD]

  On 07/04/2019 at 05:26, GrumpyCat said:

eBay have increased fees for motors listings...

 

https://tamebay.com/2019/02/ebay-motors-fees-for-private-sellers-from-1-april-2019.html

EBay own gumtree?

 

That's still free? But still has a shit search function ?

[somewhatfoolish]

  On 04/04/2019 at 12:27, Supernaut said:

Audacity is good, too.

 

For converting files, at least. Not downloading from YouTube.

To follow on from this does anyone have a preferred free method of converting WAV files to some kind of video so they can be facetubified? Googling just produces a tyranny of choice. I've digitised some cassette contents and have deluded myself into thinking there might be other idiots who would wish to listen to it, complete with wow, hiss and flutter as I have no ability/patience to get rid.

[strangeangel]

  On 07/04/2019 at 03:17, New POD said:

I've never read any of the comments on YouTube. CBA

 

I have Ghostery set to block all comments sections along with the ads and the rest of the guff. Far less time wasted that way!

[Snipes]

I use VLC for almost everything.

[strangeangel]

  On 07/04/2019 at 09:44, somewhatfoolish said:

To follow on from this does anyone have a preferred free method of converting WAV files to some kind of video so they can be facetubified? Googling just produces a tyranny of choice. I've digitised some cassette contents and have deluded myself into thinking there might be other idiots who would wish to listen to it, complete with wow, hiss and flutter as I have no ability/patience to get rid.

 

This any good? https://onlineconvertfree.com/convert-format/wav-to-mp4/

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I just put a photo into my movie editor (iMovie) and stick the sound file I want on it.  Maybe the YouTube video editor has some way you can do that?

 

Also, Audacity is brilliant.  I use it at work all the time for batch file conversion from WAV to MP3.  Just make sure you have the LAME library installed.

[barmatt]

Really hacked off with this Clio, never had a motor I couldn't fix myself or with help from forums etc, but this bugger has me stumped.

 

I don't think too many people look in the Ask a shiter section so in desperation I'm putting a link on here.

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/35064-ongoing-clio-problems-now-with-video-of-awful-running/

 

Petrol and matches are my current favourite solution but I'm happy to listen to anything a little less extreme.

[EssDeeWon]

  On 06/04/2019 at 23:14, clayts450 said:

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Arseholes.

 

DO NOT LIKE THIS!

 

I recently bought a steering lock for my Rover just incase some chancer fancies doing this to a worthless old car.  I really do feel sorry for that Rover owner having their car stolen and burnt out, I can imagine the insurance offering to pay out about a tenner too after excess.

[Uncle Jimmy]

  On 10/03/2019 at 12:35, wuvvum said:

Got all excited when I spotted a NOS Volvo 164 front caliper on eBay for 69 quid.  Opened the listing and of course it's for cars with solid discs, and mine are ventilated.  FFS.

The early 164s wore Lockheed brakes, most of the 164s had the ATE ventilated set up.

[DoctorRetro]

The Rover has an alarm. A fucking loud one. And a fucking temperamental one. Resets itself if the doors have been closed for a period of time, like while jetwashing car.

[Cavcraft]

45 'phone calls to get through to the doctor's surgery.

To get my own back I've driven there in a BFO Mercedes. That'll learn them.

[Supernaut]

New levels of pettiness have been achieved in my office.

 

This place is all hot desks. You take your laptop home with you, and you come in and dump it on a docking station.

Apparently the supervisor desks aren't hot desks though. I sat down at one of these desks (the only difference is their position on the end of a row of desks) because I know my laptop behaves itself there.

 

Just as I get everything opened up and ready to go, said supervisor pings me on Skype - he's working from home today - telling me not to sit at that desk.

I have a pretty good idea who grassed me due to their sarcy comment just after I sat down. They're in this supervisor's pocket.

 

 

 

All I can say is... fucking really?!

 

So I deliberately went to a quiet corner at the complete other end of the office and spent about 15 minutes rebuilding the desk to work with my laptop. Now I can piss about on the internet work in peace.

 

I have enough saved up to walk, but I won't just yet. I have an informal interview tomorrow evening for a job that isn't IT or technology related at all. Wildlife management with full training provided.