The grumpy thread

[warren t claim]

Enployment agencies.

 

Theiving twats! I'm very sorry their client I was placed at is being slow to pay but my contract is with the agency, NOT the client! FUCKING PAY ME NOW OR IT'S CCJ!!!!!!!

[Pete-M]

  warren t claim said:

Cars with single windscreen wipers.

 

I really don't know why I dislike this feature. It's just about acceptable on a Fiat Panda but I do wish my Merc came with a two. It just doesn't seem right on a large car.

My Jag suffers from single wiper syndrome, and it's not a dancing one like on yours. Seems to work, but it's a 150+ mph car that cost the thick end of £50k new. It should have more than one friggin' wiper.

 

I was on the M6 earlier today and clocking cars as they approached from behind in the mirror. X-types look weedy as fuck compared to the XJ, but the XJ wiper really does look a bit pants. Doesn't even hide like a proper wiper should. On a P5 Rover the wipers are lifted off the screen when they're not in use and they sit on a little chrome plinth out of the way of the screen... on the XJ there's this stupid bloody wiper just sitting there out in the open...

 

Then there's the issues that single wiperage seems to bring with it. Every single wipered Merc I've had has suffered from a slow wiper motor. They're ok when they're new, but I don't buy 'em new. I buy 'em when they're £1500. It's possible to lube 'em up if you're not too late, but it takes bloody forever to do. XJs just tend to burn out the wiring instead if the load gets too big. The last W124 I had the wiper used to almost stop in the middle of the screen if it was cold out, or snowing. Loads of use that was.

 

Yet Citroen got single wiperage spot on with the AX. What's goin' on? I demand to know!!

[warren t claim]

Joyriding mongs.

 

7 years ago I owned a tidy Carlton that I sold on to the "sewer motor trade" expecting never to hear from it again. A few weeks later my mobile rings, the screen just says CALL which I thought was unusual so I answered it. It was the local traffic plod. "Hello Mr Claim. Can we come and have a word with you please?" was the question. "Why? Do I need my solicitor?" I replied. "It's about you Carlton, reg no G***YRX" I expect it's nothing more serious than a couple of drive-offs at the local petrol station so I agree to meet him in a car park as I didn't want to piss off my new neighbours.

 

As it happens the car was involved in a prolonged high speed persuit in the Wallasey area that only ended when the Carlton was punted up the arse by a plod T5 resulting in a local "face" being thrown out of the back window and killed. Due to this little scrote being killed by the actions of a Merseyplod officer the local scum were keen to express their displeasure. A weekend of rioting followed.

 

Somehow I still feel guily that I didn't scrap the car instead of selling it on. All this aggro could of been avoided if I had just weighed it in.

 

To this day the police have never traced the driver who did a runner from the scene. I tried to help them as best I could but instead of letting me ask a few discreet questions as to who ended up buying the Carlton they decided to jump in with their size tens causing the local low life motor trade to clam up.

 

What has made me post this is that everytime I pass the Seacombe Netto where the incident happened there is still an enormous floral tribute on the lamp post. The lad who was killed was a complete twat who had only been released from prison the month before (for assault) and now he is considered somekind of martyr figure locally.

 

Sorry about the long post but I needed to get this out of my system.

[Negative Creep]

Doubtless he was a promising footballer who was really good to his Mum

[Tayne]

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[retrogeezer]

yeh, what he said.

 

If he hadn't been killed then he would probably be dead by now from more joyriding and may have killed other innocents.

[Rover414]

According to the neighbours were the 414 is stored, I'm trespassing and "look dodgy" taking some photos of it. Even though I'd just come out of the house where it is stored about 2 minutes earlier

 

I hate those webuyanycar indents on Dave too, I hate most adverts on the telly though especially that stupid Rowntrees Randoms.

[Lord Sterling]

  warren t claim said:

Somehow I still feel guily that I didn't scrap the car instead of selling it on. All this aggro could of been avoided if I had just weighed it in

Dont feel guilty. Even if you had weighed the car in, the joyrider wouldnt have found another car just to meet the same fate.

[Alexg]

  warren t claim said:

Somehow I still feel guily that I didn't scrap the car instead of selling it on. All this aggro could of been avoided if I had just weighed it in

I have no sympathy for carear criminals who meet their maker through their own stupid actions. This little scrote had it coming, if not in your car, in someone elses. Try and take comfort from the fact that many other innocent people will no longer have their car taken by this lowlife. I'd even go further, the longer these wankers keep stealing other peoples cars and driving like morons the more likely that some innocent bystander, maybe a mum with a child, gets knocked down and killed. Good riddance to him.

 

But despite the benefits you shouldn't feel guilty, none of it is your fault

[Guest]

My mate's dad some years back sold an old Honda Civic with the "Hondamatic" box, which was subsequently used in a ram-raid. Wonder how many times they had to bounce it off the window before they went through.

[warren t claim]

The probem is that chances are the car wasn't stolen. This is an era when scrap was at an all time low price. Remember the Top Gear Volvo 760 bought for £1? I sold it on sort of half expecting that it'll probably never be insured or MOT'd again. This is how the "sewer motor trade" worked. As long as it had a valid tax disc and didn't look too shabby it was worth money.

[scaryoldcortina]

Yeah, not your fault. Similar thing happened here about 4 years ago - local thieving joyrider used his 18th birthday money to buy a pug 306 from a local car sale pitch, about half ten that night he hit the telegraph pole opposite the chippy with it and killed himself and his passenger instantly. The police traced the car, asked the trader why he sold it to a lad he knew had no licence, answer was "if I refused, I'd have no windows or tyres this morning", nuff said. And yeah, the pole has flowers and a badly spelt tribute sign (still).

 

Quick tip for stopping smoking, make sure you know where you put the nicotine patches. I can't find the bloody things!

[warren t claim]

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/sho ... hp?t=51126

 

Urbex around the scrappage storage facility.

[Lankytim]

I had an avenger for sale a while ago, £50. Some 16yr old pikey kids wanted to buy it but I said no, as I didnt want plod to come round and tell me it was parked through Curries front window or something.

 

As for that muppet who died. Well he should wear a fucking seatbelt then, should'nt he.

[Station]

  warren t claim said:

As it happens the car was involved in a prolonged high speed persuit in the Wallasey area that only ended when the Carlton was punted up the arse by a plod T5 resulting in a local "face" being thrown out of the back window and killed. Due to this little scrote being killed by the actions of a Merseyplod officer the local scum were keen to express their displeasure. A weekend of rioting followed.

I remember when that happened! Crazy it was your old Carlton. What a waste of car!

 

  Alexg said:

Good riddance to him.

I agree.

[Louise2cv]

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-co ... e-11068063

 

WTF?

 

Most of the news makes me grumpy, but what a cow.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

  Louise2cv said:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-co ... e-11068063

 

WTF?

I must say, I had a bit of a chuckle at that, not at the cat, but the fact that the woman had done something so awful right in front of a CCTV camera and is now shown on BBC lunchtime news abusing the cat in front of millions of folk's disbelieving eyes. Unlucky!

 

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The grey-haired suspect was tracked down after she was caught on CCTV by the cat's owners, Daryll and Stephanie Mann, at their Coventry home.

 

Sky's Lisa Dowd said the woman was offered police protection because of the "level of vitriol against her".

 

She said residents in Coventry were extremely angry, and death threats had been made against the woman on the internet.

 

LOL!

[barrett]

Don't worry Louise, if the reaction on the internet is anything to go by that stupid bitch is going to have her life ruined by rabid cat-fanciers the world over....

[brammy777]

Ive just been looking through some old pictures of mine on flickr and doing a DVLA check on some of the cars Ive seen. These ones:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38389354@N07/sets/72157624791545286/

have all been scrapped since I took the photos. Interestingly, the only other Prarie Ive had the chance to photo has since been exported too. A couple of others have also not been licensed since earlier this year, which I guess means they are also dead.

Annoying, but not as many as I thought it would be.

The blue Escort and Maestro were probably on their final days when I spotted them, the Maestro was possibly on its last day! Quite a high amount of Novas Ive seen have been scrapped it seems. Of course, my London spots survive the best, everything lasts much longer.

[Station]

First time selling on ebay.

I've so far sold something that I bought from Mitsubishi for 150 quid two years ago (and was never used) for £5, a complete inlet manifold for a C20XE that I bought second hand for £1, and various others ... for £1. I've seen completed listings from the past and these have all garnered good prices. Fuck this, bearing in mind I'm only listing these things to make money, I've so far earned myself a massive £8.50 from shitbay. A lesson learned.

[Rusty Pelican]

Anyone have any idea how to evict the spiders that live in my door mirrors , every morning I have to remove the web ( not tinterweb type ) it makes across my door windows , Ive also got one on the front grill and one somewhere near the rear numberplate

I love nature but its getting annoying now

[scaryoldcortina]

Compressed air (for the spiders) I use the garage air line to evict them.

 

Station, you will feel loads better when the ebay invoice for this month arrives and your "profit" vanishes again.

[Tayne]

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[chaseracer]

  Rusty Pelican said:

Anyone have any idea how to evict the spiders that live in my door mirrors...

The one that lives in the Blingo's mirror went to Berlin and back with us recently. Tenacious little bugger

[chaseracer]

  Tayne said:

Buses. Supposedly the environmentally friendly way, but not when they're driven along chucking out a haze of black smoke, and I do mean clouds and clouds of the stuff.

Usually carrying three people. Including the driver.

 

[loserone]

  Tayne said:

PetrolPrices.com - Lying cunts.

+1.

I signed up early on, and appear to have to sign up /again/ just to unsubscribe. Thankfully,I can just block the incoming address - but i didn't get around to it until my phone went off at 2AM to give me the wrong prices for somewhere I don't live...

[myglaren]

  Tayne said:

PetrolPrices.com - Lying cunts.

 

qué ?

[Louise2cv]

  chaseracer said:

  Rusty Pelican said:

Anyone have any idea how to evict the spiders that live in my door mirrors...

The one that lives in the Blingo's mirror went to Berlin and back with us recently. Tenacious little bugger

It's not the spiders that get me...

 

It's those tiny flies that sit on the windscreen at 60mph and casually stroke their eyebrows without even flinching.

[Tayne]

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[greengartside]

Sorry to wander off the car theme but personally I'm slowly realising more and more every day that I may be suffering from depression

 

I just feel sad most of the time, and the littlest thing anyone says or does can set me off and it's just one big downward spiral at the moment. I have realised I have a problem and I want to take my life back so I am going to phone the doctors tomorrow and try and sort all this mess out. It's probably a combination of things over months or years that's finally blown up in my head and messed all my chemicals up

 

Has anyone got it on here and if so, what are you doing to cope with it? I'm just a mess