The grumpy thread

[Popsicle]

37 minutes ago, cobblers said:

On the way home from work at 7:25 PM, I'm driving a different van (in the syncro this time). Same temporary lights but going in the other direction, the SAME FUCKING BLOKE comes hurtling past all the stationary traffic with no front light on and just one of those rear lights that blinks every few seconds. Fingers crossed I won't be the poor fucker who ends up wiping him out. 

Chuck the stereo out the window at the cunt.

[RoverFolkUs]

Pease pottage services

183.9 petrol

189.9 diesel

FFS

[RoverFolkUs]

12 hours ago, Jerzy Woking said:

BBC News - Tyre Extinguishers: Hundreds of SUVs have tyres deflated by activists
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-60660711

Another bunch of self entitled arseholes who see no further than the end of their noses.

This will now create more congestion and pollution as breakdown and garage services flood the area to inflate all these tyres. How many people have been late for work, medical and legal appointments, etc? Are the SUV's guzzling any more fuel than other cars in the area? Plus I would think many hybrids suffered their actions too.

Shame none of them were caught in their act and given a good kicking.

http://tyreextinguishers.com/

If I catch someone deflating my tyres I will deflate their sense of self importance very quickly. Wouldn't just be a smile and wave. Castard bunts .... !!

I can't help but think it's one big wind up though...? Like the "say no to smoke detectors" website that some hilarious* twat setup a little while back? 

[beko1987]

8 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

If I catch someone deflating my tyres I will deflate their sense of self importance very quickly. Wouldn't just be a smile and wave. Castard bunts .... !!

I can't help but think it's one big wind up though...? Like the "say no to smoke detectors" website that some hilarious* twat setup a little while back? 

I agree. I don't drive an suv but I'd be fuming even if I saw it happen. 

Writing good tyres off can't be good for the environment either 😂

[artdjones]

I was cleaning the windows at a filling station yesterday when I noticed a friend filling up three 25 litre drums with kerosene from the heating oil pump. I wandered over to say hello, and he complained about the price. €1.57.9 per litre. And the bulk price is €1.40. Literally 4 days ago the bulk price was 94c. 

[HillmanImp]

Some see you next Tuesday has keyed the Elgrand. 

3 panels. I've not owned it long enough to piss anyone off in it. 

Apparently some kid nearby has been caught doing someone elses. However, I've no evidence it was him and will have to suck it up. Presume it was a bit ago when it was parked on the road as they'd struggle to do it on that side on the drive. 

Been and got a quote to tidy this and all the other scuffs and scrapes and have been quoted £1500 for a full bottom half respray. Bummer. 

I'd probably not have bothered before but with this I may as well. 

[Datsuncog]

13 minutes ago, artdjones said:

I was cleaning the windows at a filling station yesterday when I noticed a friend filling up three 25 litre drums with kerosene from the heating oil pump. I wandered over to say hello, and he complained about the price. €1.57.9 per litre. And the bulk price is €1.40. Literally 4 days ago the bulk price was 94c. 

There's a place down the road that sells heating oil - they've an illuminated sign out the front, just like a petrol station, listing their current prices for 300 litres, 500 litres and 900 litres of kerosene.

This was the sign in May last year (courtesy of Google Streetview).

Back in January I paid £189 for a 300 litre top-up.

Last night, when I drove past, I noticed it's now showing £442 for the same amount. 

500 litres is showing as £682.

And the space for the 900 litre price was curiously blank.

Then I realised that their sign only has three digits in it.

Yup, it's £1,166 now for a 900 litre fill. A 224% rise in ten months.

They're gonna need a bigger sign... and I'm gonna need a bigger coat.

[artdjones]

10 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

There's a place down the road that sells heating oil - they've an illuminated sign out the front, just like a petrol station, listing their current prices for 300 litres, 500 litres and 900 litres of kerosene.

This was the sign in May last year (courtesy of Google Streetview).

Back in January I paid £189 for a 300 litre top-up.

Last night, when I drove past, I noticed it's now showing £442 for the same amount. 

500 litres is showing as £682.

And the space for the 900 litre price was curiously blank.

Then I realised that their sign only has three digits in it.

Yup, it's £1,166 now for a 900 litre fill. A 224% rise in ten months.

They're gonna need a bigger sign... and I'm gonna need a bigger coat.

They are limiting people to 500l in a lot of places in the Republic. One guy on Journal.ie claimed that a Limerick supplier tried to charge him €1000 for 500l. 

[RoverFolkUs]

1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

I agree. I don't drive an suv but I'd be fuming even if I saw it happen. 

Writing good tyres off can't be good for the environment either 😂

Exactly! What if someone doesn't notice or it happens to deflate very slowly, then the tyre blows out at 60mph and kills someone. 

I'd love to put metal valve caps on wired upto 200v to eject the fuckers from touching my car 😂

[Jerzy Woking]

42 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Exactly! What if someone doesn't notice or it happens to deflate very slowly, then the tyre blows out at 60mph and kills someone. 

I'd love to put metal valve caps on wired upto 200v to eject the fuckers from touching my car 😂

They suggest unscrewing the the valve cap, putting a lentil on the valve, then screw the cap back on, to slowly deflate the tyre. Which could cause the scenario you state. 

They "did" Bristol too. I bed they did go to St Pauls and let down the tyres on the Range Rovers with big wheels and blacked out windows that park around there.....

[artdjones]

29 minutes ago, Jerzy Woking said:

They suggest unscrewing the the valve cap, putting a lentil on the valve, then screw the cap back on, to slowly deflate the tyre. Which could cause the scenario you state. 

They "did" Bristol too. I bed they did go to St Pauls and let down the tyres on the Range Rovers with big wheels and blacked out windows that park around there.....

A lentil? Come on, they're just stereotyping themselves now.

[andyberg]

🤬 my boss has just said he has paid £1.70 a litre (trade so minus VAT) for 10000 litres of diesel to be delivered to work next week. That could mean us paying just over £2 at the pumps from next week, or over £9 a gallon 🤬

[RoverFolkUs]

13 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Pease pottage services

183.9 petrol

189.9 diesel

FFS

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/19979841.shocking-fuel-prices-seen-pease-pottage-amid-record-rise/

Proof is in the pudding here ....

I know services are always expensive but it's just extortionate. It'll be £2 in the coming days I bet...

[RoverFolkUs]

1 hour ago, artdjones said:

A lentil? Come on, they're just stereotyping themselves now.

We share oxygen with the same person that wrote this....

https://newsinfection.com/2021/08/smoke-detectors.html

[horriblemercedes]

3 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

We share oxygen with the same person that wrote this....

https://newsinfection.com/2021/08/smoke-detectors.html

You know that's taking the piss, right?

[cobblers]

32 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

We share oxygen with the same person that wrote this....

https://newsinfection.com/2021/08/smoke-detectors.html

With all due respect, if someone read that and didn't realise it was the most obvious piece of satire, then now I understand why nigerians still send so many emails out

[Zelandeth]

Shopping for a new office chair.  My back isn't the best so actually wanting something halfway decent.  Holy hell they are expensive.  I've always had secondhand ones (best of which was bought for £10 from my old work when we were moving offices), or built my own.  Never bought a new one before...well other than in my student days, but that was a £20 Argos job that fell to bits after about 12 months.

[RoverFolkUs]

1 hour ago, horriblemercedes said:

You know that's taking the piss, right?

Yes, it was published last summer in response to another "activism" group (Think it was insulate Britain) to take the piss out of them 

41 minutes ago, cobblers said:

With all due respect, if someone read that and didn't realise it was the most obvious piece of satire, then now I understand why nigerians still send so many emails out

If somebody published a similar page about saying no to Covid vaccines, we know that there are many people that would believe everything it says and subsequently spout and spread nonsense about it on various grounds of incorrect stats in the article they read...

I have no doubt that there are people who would believe every word of that and remove all smoke detectors from their home. In the same context as the tyre deflation nonsense, people join in for unbeknownst reasons other than being a complete asshole

[RoverFolkUs]

44 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Shopping for a new office chair.  My back isn't the best so actually wanting something halfway decent.  Holy hell they are expensive.  I've always had secondhand ones (best of which was bought for £10 from my old work when we were moving offices), or built my own.  Never bought a new one before...well other than in my student days, but that was a £20 Argos job that fell to bits after about 12 months.

Lidl are doing one for £65 at the moment, no idea if it's any good but it looked somewhat ok compared to current offerings by Argos in a similar price range 

[Jerzy Woking]

4 hours ago, artdjones said:

A lentil? Come on, they're just stereotyping themselves now.

From their website, the instructions on how to deflate a tyre:

1. Unscrew the cap on the tire valve. This is usually very easy to find on the wheel. Usually, you turn the cap to the left to unscrew it, right to tighten it. Remember: righty-tighty, lefty-loosey. 
2. To get the air out of the tyre, there must be something pushing down on the pin located in the center of the valve. Drop a small bean (we like green lentils, but you can experiment with couscous, bits of gravel, etc) inside the valve cap. Replace the cap, screwing it on with a few turns until you hear air hissing out. Even if it’s only hissing out a little bit, that’s enough - it will deflate slowly. The whole process should take about 10 seconds.

Wonder if they should have a paragraph on first aid, incase any of them get beaten to a pulp when committing their criminal damage?

[cort1977]

Not that I agree with them, but would this actually count as criminal damage?  The tyre can be inflated again without permanent damage.  Maybe they are smarter than we think.

[Mrcento]

Civic has shat itself again. Once again battery randomly draining overnight for no apparent reason (after it did this before around July and has been fine ever since) and even following the correct jump procedure, has managed to desync the immobiliser system so needs recoded (which i can do myself, so not the end of the world)

Just a total ballache of a car.

[RoverFolkUs]

24 minutes ago, cort1977 said:

Not that I agree with them, but would this actually count as criminal damage?  The tyre can be inflated again without permanent damage.  Maybe they are smarter than we think.

'interfering with a motor vehicle' is an offence and I'm sure tampering with the tyre valves would be classed as a sufficient extent of interference 👍

[RoverFolkUs]

13 minutes ago, Mrcento said:

Civic has shat itself again. Once again battery randomly draining overnight for no apparent reason (after it did this before around July and has been fine ever since) and even following the correct jump procedure, has managed to desync the immobiliser system so needs recoded (which i can do myself, so not the end of the world)

Just a total ballache of a car.

What year Civic? I can't remember exactly off the top of my head but there's a certain module on the spaceship Civic that's prone to staying 'awake' and draining the battery 

[Mrcento]

Just now, RoverFolkUs said:

What year Civic? I can't remember exactly off the top of my head but there's a certain module on the spaceship Civic that's prone to staying 'awake' and draining the battery 

2006. I think it is something like that happening. It's either that or damp getting to the fusebox causing some sort of short (which is probably waking the car up or something stupid like that).

It's also the year that if you keep the keys in the ignition when you jump start, it scrambles the immobiliser.

I made 100% sure not to do that, and it still did it. PITA.

Just a total inconvenience, it has other issues (manifold etc) meaning it's getting replaced. This has just kinda accelerated the idea of getting rid 😂

[RoverFolkUs]

5 minutes ago, Mrcento said:

2006. I think it is something like that happening. It's either that or damp getting to the fusebox causing some sort of short (which is probably waking the car up or something stupid like that).

It's also the year that if you keep the keys in the ignition when you jump start, it scrambles the immobiliser.

I made 100% sure not to do that, and it still did it. PITA.

Just a total inconvenience, it has other issues (manifold etc) meaning it's getting replaced. This has just kinda accelerated the idea of getting rid 😂

2006 that'll be a spaceship then. Some parts for them are ridiculously hard to find and expensive for what they are.

If it's a petrol don't forget the cat might be worth some dosh

[Mrcento]

3 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

2006 that'll be a spaceship then. Some parts for them are ridiculously hard to find and expensive for what they are.

If it's a petrol don't forget the cat might be worth some dosh

Yup, that's one of my biggest hates of it. Almost everything outside of brakes is Honda dealer only. At silly prices.

Last MOT i needed to fix a headlight levelling sensor.

I priced it up, it was close to 3x more expensive from Honda than the equivalent one from Bugatti for a veyron.

I ended up repairing the sensors mechanism and making new bracketery for £6.

[jamescarruthers]

The only Autogas (LPG) supplier in Cambridge, CamGas, (3 miles from my house and en route to town) has decided that they aren’t going to refill their vehicle tank as they need to prioritise people’s heating tanks for now. A little bit of me thinks this is fair enough but also am a bit pissed off at this decision.  

The next nearest is 13 miles from home and in a direction I never ever travel, Morrisons in Cambourne.

I suppose I’m lucky as I don’t drive to work but petrol C6 funding on its proper fuel is rather costly. 

Trying to see the bigger picture and accept it but struggling to accept the gas company wilfully not filling it up, rather than actually having run out. Huge sympathies to the people actually properly struggling in Ukraine but the increase isn’t all to do with Russia, the energy market went mad before that. 
 

Oh and the heating oil has gone up to four times the price it was in the (admittedly cheap!) pandemic times. Still double what it should roughly be. Had to order 1000L a few weeks ago, due tomorrow. Have heard from friends that it has gone up another 30p/L since I ordered.

[RoverFolkUs]

35 minutes ago, Mrcento said:

Yup, that's one of my biggest hates of it. Almost everything outside of brakes is Honda dealer only. At silly prices.

Last MOT i needed to fix a headlight levelling sensor.

I priced it up, it was close to 3x more expensive from Honda than the equivalent one from Bugatti for a veyron.

I ended up repairing the sensors mechanism and making new bracketery for £6.

Annoying price wise, but that's prime autoshiting by "making" a new one

[Dyslexic Viking]

I've spent most of the day replacing brakes on the Vivaro and I'm completely broken and worn out. Wondering how long there are until I can no longer work on cars without a lift.