The grumpy thread

[Rocket88]

According to HPI, it was "written off"

[omegod]

I went to the local jetwash earlier, huuuuge queue but I waited in line for ages like a good boy, they have 3 bays and one was filled by a twat with a 3 series who unloads a full on valet kit, snow foam, wheel brushes , chamois and fuck knows how many bottles of jizz. He occupied the bay for nearly an hour , spending £3 max for the occasional rinse and does a full on forensic detail of his car, pissed me right off ! 

I then went to put air in a tyre and watched in wonder as a woman in a qasqui went round each tyre 4 times in a ten minute routine, I thought about asking what she was doing but in the name of equality didn't. I pulled up to the airline when she left to see it was set at 3.3 bar, i.e 48 PSI ......... that's gonna shake her fillings out over the speedbumps !!

[GeorgeB]

6 minutes ago, omegod said:

I went to the local jetwash earlier

They recirculate the water which means that it just gives the car a nice salting at this time of year.

[Rocket88]

9 hours ago, Minimad5 said:

What's wrong with that ?

Better than getting it home and finding out, then feeling peeved as it may have not been mentioned on the thread. Don't forget some folk live from paycheck to paycheck, so can't always afford surprises. 

Not mentioned because there’s nothing on the V5 !

[somewhatfoolish]

1 hour ago, colc said:

Not mentioned because there’s nothing on the V5 !

I'm in the dark about what significance it would be; other than possibly affecting a pay-out but when it's a £500 motor the excess will wipe out most of that anyway.

[Alan_Green]

2 hours ago, colc said:

Not mentioned because there’s nothing on the V5 !

 

But who would care at that price point?

[New POD]

7 hours ago, MikeR said:

I understand why women crash cars now ....

I moved the 50 inch telly back home to  our house  , and in its place I left a 25 inch ..

wife chirps up hours later after seeing the small telly ,   " I thought you were moving the telly "

I have ....

It's a telly. They are all the same....

Also I have blue car. She has white car, you have silver car. Jill has green cars. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

On 3/5/2021 at 8:03 PM, rob88h said:

I'll leave this here so other people can laugh at my expense...

At some point today a local scrap firm came round and leafleted the majority of my cars. I'd find it funny too if I wasn't so disheartened by the experience. They were all parked together as well! Just one leaflet through the letterbox would suffice, and leave me guessing which one you think is shit - not all of them goddamnit! 

A while back, a similar operation put leaflets on every single car in my street. Except one. The CX.

[Heidel_Kakao]

Just been down to the bottom of my garden for the first time in months to find some cunt has broken into my garden shed😪 Nothing stolen as far as I can tell as it was virtually empty so I am more annoyed about the broken door.

Probably a bit premature (I am not even 40 yet) but can anyone recommend a country I can retire to where people respect the notion of private property and don't fuck with other people's shit? Or is the whole world like this nowadays?

[Remspoor]

1 hour ago, Heidel_Kakao said:

Just been down to the bottom of my garden for the first time in months to find some cunt has broken into my garden shed😪 Nothing stolen as far as I can tell as it was virtually empty so I am more annoyed about the broken door.

Probably a bit premature (I am not even 40 yet) but can anyone recommend a country I can retire to where people respect the notion of private property and don't fuck with other people's shit? Or is the whole world like this nowadays?

Not a country... but the Moon may be ideal.

[mitsisigma01]

Any Sky+ brainiacs on here please?.....  Every night I'm having to try and watch something I want to watch at fkin stupidoclock, I can't even record anything on sky+ because the box is permanently at 99% full of shite and she even records stuff through the night so I only get to choose off catchup.... I can feel a sky+ box overload/big hammer moment coming on.... I've already got a 2tb sky box to go in but she doesn't want to lose the shite she has already recorded... 

Is it possible to get a "free" card to allow access to the old box whilst using current active card in new box HHHHEEELLLPPP

[balford]

There's a tool called ExPVR (not free, unfortunately) that you can use to copy recordings off of your old drive onto a new one. You just need to be able to hook both drives up to a Windows PC temporarily to do the transfer.

[mitsisigma01]

👍... But we have no computer just a shite phone☹️

[Floatylight]

Been fitting a new radiator, can I stop the bloody thing leaking can I balls, can never get on with ptfe tape,  tried bodging it up with silicone, see how it goes..

[Wack]

When you know something is going on but there's nothing you can really do about it 

La liga spain's premier league has an app that shows people scores but when you accept the terms it gives them permission to turn the Mike and GPS on 

What they would do is turn it on when a live game was being played and the GPS told them you were in a pub

They'd listen to see if the game was on in the pub then check to see if they'd paid the licence fee , if not they'd fine you 

Fuck me , they have been fined for it 

[TataBobu]

Suzuki is acting up. I can drive it all day, and nothing looks wrong.  As soon as I stop and start the engine again (while hot), oil pressure light comes on and hardly if ever goes out again. I guess it's a pressure switch problem, or a wiring problem. I hate not having proper pressure checking tools to be 100% sure it's just that.

[somewhatfoolish]

53 minutes ago, Wack said:

When you know something is going on but there's nothing you can really do about it 

La liga spain's premier league has an app that shows people scores but when you accept the terms it gives them permission to turn the Mike and GPS on 

What they would do is turn it on when a live game was being played and the GPS told them you were in a pub

They'd listen to see if the game was on in the pub then check to see if they'd paid the licence fee , if not they'd fine you 

Fuck me , they have been fined for it 

How do they tell the difference between live telly and live radio/webcast?

[Wack]

A voice asks you to hold the phone up so they can have a look around

[Pieman]

8 hours ago, Heidel_Kakao said:

Just been down to the bottom of my garden for the first time in months to find some cunt has broken into my garden shed😪 Nothing stolen as far as I can tell as it was virtually empty so I am more annoyed about the broken door.

Probably a bit premature (I am not even 40 yet) but can anyone recommend a country I can retire to where people respect the notion of private property and don't fuck with other people's shit? Or is the whole world like this nowadays?

One of the Maunsell Sea Forts?

(I'd fucking love to live on one of them, just get a boat or chopper to drop me a box of supplies every few days.)

[High Jetter]

11 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Any Sky+ brainiacs on here please?

I do hope you don't wake up one morning to find that the box* has 'gone wrong' and deleted everything! If she's recording stuff and it's at 99%, some of the early stuff is being deleted - does she really need all of it? Another trick is to avoid recording in HD, so taking up less space.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

16 hours ago, Heidel_Kakao said:

.... can anyone recommend a country I can retire to where people respect the notion of private property and don't fuck with other people's shit? ...

I think Japan's still pretty good. Also Switzerland. That's probably about it. 🤷‍♂️

[mitsisigma01]

4 hours ago, High Jetter said:

I do hope you don't wake up one morning to find that the box* has 'gone wrong' and deleted everything! If she's recording stuff and it's at 99%, some of the early stuff is being deleted - does she really need all of it? Another trick is to avoid recording in HD, so taking up less space.

Never record in HD, Always watching something whilst recording something to replace it with.... 

She plays the sky programme listings like she's playing the stock market, shuffling, rescheduling, making reminders on her ipad about when programmes are on more than a week in advance etc etc ... 

I've definitely heard that I can do a reboot* using a lump hammer. 

Ive just looked at the planner, still got the first film recorded on this box unwatched... March 2015 😵😵😵

She has also still got the original sky+ box from prior to 2015 upstairs just in case she wants to watch some of the other programmes and that box is full as well😵😵😵

Sky+is about her limit, never used Netflix or Chromecast  or whatever they are called... 

Help me please ☹️

 

[BorniteIdentity]

Monday's tend to be a bit quieter for me, so I thought I'd have a good browse through my three favourite forums (fora?) and Facebook groups.

Jesus. Fucking Christ.

 

Look, in a bid to make things a bit easier for those who are new to the whole process of selling a car (and I appreciate that - to some of us - it's not something we do too often) I've simplified it into this flowchart. 

Seriously, follow it and you can't go wrong.  I've also labelled it (badly) in pink so as to be fashionable.

Please, for the love of Christ, use it.

You're welcome.

 

[sierraman]

21 hours ago, Heidel_Kakao said:

Just been down to the bottom of my garden for the first time in months to find some cunt has broken into my garden shed😪 Nothing stolen as far as I can tell as it was virtually empty so I am more annoyed about the broken door.

Probably a bit premature (I am not even 40 yet) but can anyone recommend a country I can retire to where people respect the notion of private property and don't fuck with other people's shit? Or is the whole world like this nowadays?

Just reminds me of Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction ‘You just don’t fuck with another mans automobile!’

[sierraman]

45 minutes ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Monday's tend to be a bit quieter for me, so I thought I'd have a good browse through my three favourite forums (fora?) and Facebook groups.

Jesus. Fucking Christ.

 

Look, in a bid to make things a bit easier for those who are new to the whole process of selling a car (and I appreciate that - to some of us - it's not something we do too often) I've simplified it into this flowchart. 

Seriously, follow it and you can't go wrong.  I've also labelled it (badly) in pink so as to be fashionable.

Please, for the love of Christ, use it.

You're welcome.

 

I don’t understand this ‘testing the waters’ thing, we’re talking cars here no? Not floating a company on the NASDAQ. 

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Never record in HD, Always watching something whilst recording something to replace it with.... 

She plays the sky programme listings like she's playing the stock market, shuffling, rescheduling, making reminders on her ipad about when programmes are on more than a week in advance etc etc ... 

I've definitely heard that I can do a reboot* using a lump hammer. 

Ive just looked at the planner, still got the first film recorded on this box unwatched... March 2015 😵😵😵

She has also still got the original sky+ box from prior to 2015 upstairs just in case she wants to watch some of the other programmes and that box is full as well😵😵😵

Sky+is about her limit, never used Netflix or Chromecast  or whatever they are called... 

Help me please ☹️

 

Your in the sky trap. So many recordings to watch you can no longer watch new stuff. 

Was glad when i fucked the lot off. If you don't watch any sky specific channels you can get 2tb freeview/free sat HD recording boxes for the cost of a few months subs

On sky q when you stop paying its all gone too, my TV episode I was in  was on ours and I never got it off before cancelling (meh) 

[Jazoli]

15 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Your in the sky trap. So many recordings to watch you can no longer watch new stuff. 

Was glad when i fucked the lot off. If you don't watch any sky specific channels you can get 2tb freeview/free sat HD recording boxes for the cost of a few months subs

On sky q when you stop paying its all gone too, my TV episode I was in  was on ours and I never got it off before cancelling (meh) 

Yup, I got off that wagon a few years ago and never looked back.

Easiest way is just to reformat the hard drive through the settings, then tell the wife to get off her arse and stop watching the idiot box so much.

[twosmoke300]

1 hour ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Monday's tend to be a bit quieter for me, so I thought I'd have a good browse through my three favourite forums (fora?) and Facebook groups.

Jesus. Fucking Christ.

 

Look, in a bid to make things a bit easier for those who are new to the whole process of selling a car (and I appreciate that - to some of us - it's not something we do too often) I've simplified it into this flowchart. 

Seriously, follow it and you can't go wrong.  I've also labelled it (badly) in pink so as to be fashionable.

Please, for the love of Christ, use it.

You're welcome.

 

Thats brilliant !! 

 

[MikeR]

The clutch master cylinder has stopped leaking since i took the cable tie off the push rod and fitted a star clip and washer , now the off side outer tie rod end is rattling , i will pick up one on Friday if the weather is warmer/not raining/no family kick offs ....

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, Jazoli said:

Easiest way is just to reformat the hard drive through the settings, then tell the wife to get off her arse and stop watching the idiot box so much.

Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough - you haven't met my missus, I presume.