The grumpy thread

[warren t claim]

  seth said:

  trigger said:

thick as shit lorry drivers, Grr... I go up and down, you go back and forwards, how hard can it be?!

 

They're probably too busy murdering a prostitute in the cab .

 

Seaforth container port check our cabs before we can enter so we usually have to dump our murdered toms in Canada dock before we get to security.

[Station]

I remember the road that approached the docks at Bootle was so beyond fucked it had huge dips and craters in it. I took my mates to Southport to a party in my Rover 213, and looking in the rear view mirror at them repeatedly rebounding off the seat into the car roof is still vivid in my mind! I think it's repaired now, or it might be somewhere else, I can't seem to find it.

[boobydoo]

Why can't leaves drop off a tree at the same time?

Spent ages this morning raking and sweeping up leaves off the drive and front and rear lawns..

 

..been out and about since (including going to pick up the re-furbed original steel wheels for the 2Litre...£15 a wheel ..not bad, eh!!)

 

...and get back to find theres just as many leaves on the blinkin' grass as there was this morning.

[Angrydicky]

These:

 

 

We have a fleet of refrigerated Volkswagens of the same shape as the above at work. Not only are they possibly the ugliest vans I have ever seen, they are horrible to drive in comparison to the Merc Sprinter equivalent, despite being much newer and having half the mileage. The autoboxes throw you back in your seat as they change gear and just seem so much jerkier and more unrefined.

 

Anyone else driven one?

[Guest]

  Angry Dicky said:

These:

 

 

We have a fleet of refrigerated Volkswagens of the same shape as the above at work. Not only are they possibly the ugliest vans I have ever seen, they are horrible to drive in comparison to the Merc Sprinter equivalent, despite being much newer and having half the mileage. The autoboxes throw you back in your seat as they change gear and just seem so much jerkier and more unrefined.

 

Anyone else driven one?

 

My mate Pringles Mike has. Into a wall.

[Guest]

This isn't really a grumpy old man thing, it's not really anything, it just exists. I stumbled on it ages ago, but remembered it today and felt it needs some exposure.

 

Basically, if anyone feels their life is incomplete because they've never seen an episode of Blockbusters re-enacted by a bloke pretending to be characters from Thomas the Tank Engine, these Youtube links should sort you out. You'll be on the edge of your seat!

 

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLoWHkGj2pk

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6LaP_wGmsU

Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or3ikw6KUOI

 

Yes, it includes The Gold Run. No, it isn't funny - I'm genuinely unsure if it is meant to be. "Enjoy".

[warren t claim]

Aren't VW vans and Merc Sprinters the same van these days?

[Lankytim]

Local garage stripped a set of four Focus alloys so I could stick the tyres on the front of the Audi tomorrow, no probs! I also asked them to take the tyre from the Audi's steel spare and stick it on a nice porka alloy rim for me. Came back with a huge hole in the tyre wall.

 

"err, the spare already had a hole in it, didn't it?"

 

"No."

 

Well, they never charged me for it! Lucky I have a big pile of tyres so they can rip a few more before I run out.

[ashmicro]

  Cavette said:

Apparantly Margaret 'Bastard' Thatcher is not well enough to attend her own birthday party. Unfortunately it's only flu, and not some excrutiatingly painful, long drawn out thing that will leave the horrible fucking bitch in pain for the rest of her miserable twatting days.

 

 

I'd give the "Old Bastard" forgiveness for practically anything. She had the bollocks, when no-one else had (although to be fair Kinnock had too, but couldn't say what he felt for fear of making Labour unelectable until 2020. See "Taxis, Liverpool, redundancy notices. That might be happening again, actually, with the football team, come midnight)

[autofive]

she had the bollocks to steal my fucking milk

 

and to put thousands of miners, dockers and building workings out of a job

 

that bitch should have told her husband and other tory party members of mi6's bomb threat warning before getting in the bath to save her own miserable slimy skin

[ashmicro]

  autofive said:

she had the bollocks to steal my fucking milk

 

and to put thousands of miners, dockers and building workings out of a job

 

that bitch should have told her husband and other tory party members of mi6's bomb threat warning before getting in the bath to save her own miserable slimy skin

 

 

Took my milk too. I lived.

 

Put my father out of work too. Guess what? He lived too. And retrained.

 

"Bomb threat warning"? Tell ME that when 99 windows in my fucking office came in around us while we were still IN there.

 

Or my pal's Dad who was murdered by terrorists for wearing the Queen's uniform

 

Maggie had the stones to take them on too. Liarbour would have let them kill us all.

[whitevanman]

this ain't gonna end well is it......................?

[scaryoldcortina]

  whitevanman said:

this ain't gonna end well is it......................?

 

Nope.... pass the popcorn.

[Lankytim]

Yeah, Thatcher had balls and I do admire her on that score. Imagine if the Argies invaded the Falklands now? I'd imgine not alot would happen!

 

I have to add that she didn't take my milk, or put my dad out of work. If she had i'd probably have a much different view of her.

[whitevanman]

well she took my job...............but I think I survived

 

now then........................SOC pass the popcorn dude

[ashmicro]

  whitevanman said:

this ain't gonna end well is it......................?

 

 

Fuck it. Don't care. Although, if the honourable members would note that I said about a fortnight ago a religion/politics thread was a bad idea?

 

Didn't go well for us on this side of the Irish Sea in it's extrapolated and drawn-out form.

 

Can't we go back to calling the BBC bastards instead? It's FUN.

[whitevanman]

  ashmicro said:

I said about a fortnight ago a religion/politics thread was a bad idea?

 

Didn't go well for us on this side of the Irish Sea in it's extrapolated and drawn-out form.

 

You did, and I remember what it was like over there then

[ashmicro]

  Lankytim said:

Imagine if the Argies invaded the Falklands now? .

 

Apologies for editing your quote. The Falklands was the beginning of the end for the Warsaw Pact. The Reds were watching with much interest, when an economically knackered nation sent its forces to the other side of the world, to kick 7 bells out of another nation in that region. Ground support aircraft (RAF/RN Harrier) v Front line fightrt (Argie Air Force). Decisive victory for the UK, although at great cost in British lives.

 

The Reds shit themselves when they saw what a NATO nation with no arse in its trousers could do. Imagine how scared they were of the Yanks?

[M'coli]

She did manage to squander the largest windfall from a natural resource (oil) experienced by this country for generations.

 

A sneering, condescending, spiteful over-ambitious piece of work.

 

Critisise New Labour all you like, but the roots of the self-centred society that the UK now suffers from, and many of our future infrastructure problems, are from the 1980s.

[M'coli]

  ashmicro said:

Didn't go well for us on this side of the Irish Sea in its extrapolated and drawn-out form.

Edited for pedantry.

[ashmicro]

To be fair, I'm in the energy sector (at least sometimes) and I'm told by a bloke who should know that there's more oil left in the North Sea than what we've already had out of it. Problem being, it's a bit far out.

 

Anyway, nuclear power FTW.

[brammy777]

Sorry to change the subject here, but I really want to go to the NEC Classic car show next month, the one issue being travel! I can afford the ticket no problem, but it requires me to catch a train from Basingstoke to (I presume) Birmingham International, and Im not really sure if its worth the near two hour journey each way. I havent been to a show since the end of July now, so I am overdue this. Should I go? Is it walking distance from the NEC to the train station? I should probably find someone to go with....

[Vin]

I love Maggie. Apparently there is no such thing as 'Society' and we lost a lot of lives lost for some sheep and penguins........

[Albert Ross]

And Oil................

[Vin]

Granted, oil exploration is big in the Falklands at the moment, and fishing rights were the recent big thing, but in 1982, it was only sheep and penguins......

[Mr_Bo11ox]

fucking hell man. 'Maggie stole my milk' 'no she didnt' 'yes she did' 'well she showed the argies a thing or two' 'gordon brown, what a nob end eh?' 'Some lad on another forum about somthing completely different said XYZ, what a wanker' 'Retro-rides is full of clueless hipster tossers' 'yes it is' 'no it isnt'

 

Am I just becoming increasingly grumpy as I enter the second half of my 30's, or is this forum the fucking pits nowadays. discuss. Actually dont bother. Has anyone actually bought, sold, seen or worked on any interesting old cars lately? I know its a fucking fringe topic, but just out of interest, you know, let us know if you have done.

[Albert Ross]

I work on interesting crap all the time... just nobody seems to want to hear it..............

[brammy777]

There has been a concerning lack of shite on the forum lately, sorry. I cant actually post anything about working on a car at the moment, hence why I updated the spotted thread, but it spurned little interest. I dont normally speak up about this, but its got a little bit OTT now? I really dont care if you dont like him/her, if I wanted internet arguments Id be more nosey on facebook.

[Des]

Vehicle related grump then, been meaning to do something about the security of my van, any old key opens it so I'm thinking of getting a couple of central locking motors and a remote keyring / module thing to operate it, and then blank off the doorlocks. Anyhows, I approached it today to remove the side window, the sliding glass section rattles and leaks, needs coming apart and the runner felts replacing, pulled the fillet out of the mounting rubber, grabbed the frame, pulled the thing out and was happy to note that the aperture had been treated to a sploodge of red oxide when it was cut a quarter of a century ago, probably by a chap in a pink shirt and suit jacket with the sleeves scrunched up. Then I was pissed off when I realised I'd just removed the closed window from outside, with my bare hands, in less than a minute, not much point locking the heap at all really.

 

The only purpose of the Falklands war was to get the sun reading bottom feeding knuckle dragging masses riled up with national pride / pack mentality, and gain election victory.

[Pete-M]

  Mr_Bo11ox said:

Has anyone actually bought, sold, seen or worked on any interesting old cars lately? I know its a fucking fringe topic, but just out of interest, you know, let us know if you have done.

 

I spotted a driveway in Dudley this afternoon that had a very scruffy Metro, an Imp that looked like it hadn't moved for a good few years and I think the other thing was a Chevette (or possibly a Viva). Should have taken a photo.

 

No doubt Wat and MM5 will spot it over the weekend.