The grumpy thread

[wuvvum]

every weekend is either life or trying to sort out one of my many broken cars......

 

Ditto.  Except that I don't have a life.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

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!

[Cavcraft]

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.

 

Years and years ago, we had one of them. It got to the point where someone supposedly shot his front door glass with an air rifle when he was in bed one night at 10.00pm. He managed to get up, get dressed, find the pellet and the hole in his window (in the dark he said) walk out of house, up drive and have a look around. Because (amazingly*) he couldn't see anyone about, he rang the OB and said I'd done it. Got dragged in to the cop shop and even they laughed about it.

It all started after he went apoplectic because a mate parked outside his house when visiting me. Then I'd drive across the road, park outside his house and cycle to work.

[New POD]

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

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

[Saabnut]

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!

 

Do not like! PM sent

[loserone]

Eek!

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Looking at silver lining option.... Instead of turbo nutterness I shall attempt home in supercharged luxury.... Let's get this bad boy back on track (or off them actually as I've spent a horrid amount of time on tracks so far)

[sierraman]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

How about this?

[Noel Tidybeard]

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]

How about this?

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

[EssDeeWon]

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]

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]

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]

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!

 

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[New POD]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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!

[Sir Snipes]

I use VLC for almost everything.

[strangeangel]

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/