The grumpy thread

[AnnoyingPentium]

2 minutes ago, grogee said:

That is solid gold useful info, thanks. The chances of me having either in the future are pretty close to zero. 

VCRs are cool though

My Grampa had one in his garage from the Vectra he had at the turn of the millennium. The VCR is mine and is up the loft since I bought a better one, so lives as a spare.

[myglaren]

17 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

I have a Sony twin deck (TC-WR445) you could have for a couple of quid for postage. Think it needs new belts but it's a simple enough system that Stevie Wonder could replace them, IIRC.

Anyway, I shall leave it at that since I don't want to stray away from the topic even further lol.

A very generous offer, thank you.

I may take you up on it but will have a tinker with the Aiwa and see if it can be revived.

[AnnoyingPentium]

1 minute ago, myglaren said:

A very generous offer, thank you.

I may take you up on it but will have a tinker with the Aiwa and see if it can be revived.

Aye, have a nosey first as I could be wrong in saying it's one of the one's with the devil's mechanism.

[cobblers]

Been trying to get some premises to move my business into for 18 months now. We don't advertise and I'm turning work away, because I don't have room to do it or take more staff on to help, and I'm working myself to death just to try and keep the current customers happy,

Already been fucked around by one landlord and strung along for 15 months - we should have been in a year ago, but they haven't even started building it!!!!!, so I started looking elsewhere.

Found a place closer to home, very expensive, smaller. but it was freshly built and would be ready to move into in a few weeks,

3 weeks ago I went down to have a final meeting with landlord, letting agent, owner etc and they all seemed happy with stuff. Got an email off them  saying they were drawing heads of terms up to sign, etc. Then nothing. I called them and the guy was "out of the office" and never got a call back. Didn't think a lot of it because they're useless and never call back anyway.

I drove past the place today to see how they were getting on with installing the mezzanine. Looked through the window and by the looks of it, someone else has moved in because there's a load of boxes and someone elses stuff in there!

FFS man, I'm getting sick to death of this!

 

[wuvvum]

I've just spent the last hour retrieving the Volvo's car cover from the top of an 8' high, 5' wide bramble hedge, whence the wind had picked it up and blown it.  Which I could have done without.  The cover has blown off a couple of times before but usually the strap at the back catches it and it just flops around on the floor behind the car.  Not this time though - the wind must have been either unusually strong or from a different direction than normal.  I'm going to have to invest in some additional straps I think.  And probably a new cover as this one is now probably going to be full of holes.

[MikeR]

travel insurance .....

normal person ..circa 30 quid

me ... lets times that by 10 .....

fro

[iainrcz]

Turns out landing flat on your arse hurts.

[New POD]

6 hours ago, MikeR said:

travel insurance .....

normal person ..circa 30 quid

me ... lets times that by 10 .....

fro

Where are you going? 

[hairnet]

bootle

[AnnoyingPentium]

Forty One whole fucking quids to brim the Fabia... £1.39 p/litre at Asda in Ayr. Might have to start going to the cheap one in Cumnock again, it was only £1.32 p/litre.

[reb]

37 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Forty One whole fucking quids to brim the Fabia... £1.39 p/litre at Asda in Ayr. Might have to start going to the cheap one in Cumnock again, it was only £1.32 p/litre.

I was £94.50 to fill the Volvo the other day, scarily close to maxing out the pay at pump.

[Spurious]

2 minutes ago, reb said:

I was £94.50 to fill the Volvo the other day, scarily close to maxing out the pay at pump.

£124 to fill a pretty empty Fiat Ducato. Luckily it's not mine to fill. The Trust must be spending a fortune on fuel these days. 

[AnnoyingPentium]

3 minutes ago, reb said:

I was £94.50 to fill the Volvo the other day, scarily close to maxing out the pay at pump.

[cobblers]

2 minutes ago, Spurious said:

£124 to fill a pretty empty Fiat Ducato. Luckily it's not mine to fill. The Trust must be spending a fortune on fuel these days. 

yup, my Peugeot boxer, yesterday. The light wasn't even on yet!

😭

[angle]

Gah, someone's had the cat off my sister in laws Civic. Doubt it's worth saving at 20 years old and very scruffy, but jesus there's nothing worthwhile around for under a grand is there?

[horriblemercedes]

3 minutes ago, angle said:

Gah, someone's had the cat off my sister in laws Civic. Doubt it's worth saving at 20 years old and very scruffy, but jesus there's nothing worthwhile around for under a grand is there?

That's a real pain, but it's probably not too bad just to put a cheap aftermarket one on. Something like this would keep it legal: 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-INCH-SPORTS-CAT-CATALYTIC-CONVERTER-HI-FLOW-100-CELL-UNIVERSAL-STAINLESS-/174108557807?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0

[reb]

2 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

In fairness I'd run it more than 50 miles with the light on, which would have added a gallon or two to the total.

[Fumbler]

2 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Forty One whole fucking quids to brim the Fabia... £1.39 p/litre at Asda in Ayr. Might have to start going to the cheap one in Cumnock again, it was only £1.32 p/litre.

£1.39? One pound thirty nine pence? I wish it was that cheap here. Best I've found was £1.45.

[AnnoyingPentium]

2 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

£1.39? One pound thirty nine pence? I wish it was that cheap here. Best I've found was £1.45.

Road trip?

[Spurious]

2 hours ago, cobblers said:

yup, my Peugeot boxer, yesterday. The light wasn't even on yet!

😭

Oh no.

 

They need to really do something about fuel in the short term. Oil's creeping up again and it'll be hitting us in the pumps again.  They need to cut the duty on it.

[Fumbler]

1 minute ago, Spurious said:

 They need to cut the duty on it.

Cut the duty? I reckon hell freezing over is more likely to be honest; this is a nice little money spinner for the government. Though I do wonder how much public pressure would be required to lower fuel duty?

[carburettor]

8 minutes ago, Spurious said:

Oh no.

 

They need to really do something about fuel in the short term. Oil's creeping up again and it'll be hitting us in the pumps again.  They need to cut the duty on it.

Absolutely no chance of that as far as I’m concerned though, with this govt. or the next.

[Spurious]

1 minute ago, Fumbler said:

Cut the duty? I reckon hell freezing over is more likely to be honest; this is a nice little money spinner for the government. Though I do wonder how much public pressure would be required to lower fuel duty?

Pressure on local MPs.  Lot of these "red wall" tory seats are getting a bit shifty as they'll probably get a P45 the next election.  They're already telling Boris they'll send letters into Graham Brady so it's not impossible I would think. They're facing pressure on this NI increase too.

Cost of living has seen a massive jump in the last year.

I dunno, wishful thinking perhaps.

[carburettor]

6 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

Cut the duty? I reckon hell freezing over is more likely to be honest; this is a nice little money spinner for the government. Though I do wonder how much public pressure would be required to lower fuel duty?

Demonstrating, the yellow jerseys as in France? Yes it would be great but that is what needs to happen, however there are far too many middle class Daily Fail readers who will moan like fuck on Twitter and assume they are fighting the cause, whilst actually doing nothing really.

[Fumbler]

3 minutes ago, carburettor said:

Demonstrating, the yellow jerseys as in France? Yes it would be great but that is what needs to happen, however there are far too many middle class Daily Fail readers who will moan like fuck on Twitter and assume they are fighting the cause, whilst actually doing nothing really.

Er right. I don't think I'll be seeing any demonstrations (let alone any yellow jacket action) demanding to cut fuel duty any time soon. Besides, anyone could very easily spin the rising fuel costs as an incentive to buy an electric car.

[Dyslexic Viking]

Here, the petrol price is almost 20 kr (1.66 pounds) per liter..

[sheffcortinacentre]

The cash cow motorist has got to take up the slack as usual & as said to much trouble while the rest are I'm alright jack.

[artdjones]

19 hours ago, iainrcz said:

Turns out landing flat on your arse hurts.

Especially if you do it from 10ft up as I once found out.

[BorniteIdentity]

14 hours ago, Spurious said:

Oh no.

 

They need to really do something about fuel in the short term. Oil's creeping up again and it'll be hitting us in the pumps again.  They need to cut the duty on it.

Effectively, they have. It’s been frozen since 2011 so - in real terms - you’re making a good saving. £100 then is about £129 in today’s money; God only knows what fuel duty would be if it had kept up with inflation etc. 

There’s no way they’ll delete the VAT either: if they wont do it on heating fuel, there’s no chance on road fuel. 

[iainrcz]

11 hours ago, artdjones said:

Especially if you do it from 10ft up as I once found out.

Oof, thankfully I was only stood up. Took the wind out of my sails a bit.