The grumpy thread

[PhilA]

Found a $2 can of turtle wax bug remover in the back of the cupboard

Looks like snow, smells like aniseed

Removes bugs, wax, top layer of paint

[cobblers]

Since we moved house in October, our bins have been taken maybe 7 or 8 times. It's either covid, industrial action, snow or "no reason". I've just about given up bothering. Bottles go in the bottle bank at the pub next door, and I chuck the (tiny) wheelie bin in the back of the pickup every couple of weeks and tip the contents into the biffa bin at work.

 

 

[Supernaut]

  On 19/05/2022 at 13:28, PhilA said:

Found a $2 can of turtle wax bug remover in the back of the cupboard

Looks like snow, smells like aniseed

Removes bugs, wax, top layer of paint

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5 years ago I was on holiday in rural Alberta... in July.

Me and my mates stopped at a Walmart somewhere in buttfuck nowhere to pick up some spray cleaner and lots of paper towels, as the hire cars' wipers just wouldn't shift the increasing amounts of very large insects peppering the front of them.

I noticed a lot of locals running around with the plastic bug deflectors on the front of their vehicles.

[RoverFolkUs]

  On 19/05/2022 at 13:35, cobblers said:

Since we moved house in October, our bins have been taken maybe 7 or 8 times. It's either covid, industrial action, snow or "no reason". I've just about given up bothering. Bottles go in the bottle bank at the pub next door, and I chuck the (tiny) wheelie bin in the back of the pickup every couple of weeks and tip the contents into the biffa bin at work.

 

 

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"Sorry, I haven't been able to pay my council tax due to Covid/industrial action/snow/no reason"

[PhilA]

  On 19/05/2022 at 13:55, Supernaut said:

5 years ago I was on holiday in rural Alberta... in July.

Me and my mates stopped at a Walmart somewhere in buttfuck nowhere to pick up some spray cleaner and lots of paper towels, as the hire cars' wipers just wouldn't shift the increasing amounts of very large insects peppering the front of them.

I noticed a lot of locals running around with the plastic bug deflectors on the front of their vehicles.

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Gas station scrubbing tool. They're remarkably good.

[Ghosty]

Just seen in my FB feed, some dick has painted the A-series Montego.  

[cobblers]

  On 18/05/2022 at 21:45, sheffcortinacentre said:

Don't forget they only do this "recycling" if it makes them a profit!

 

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A friend of mine used to work at a place just off the M18, and their work carpark would often get used by lorries to park overnight. They have two big biffa bins, one for cardboard and the other general waste - generally kept inside but they were really crammed with deliveries one week so they got left outside.

A few weeks later they got an email from the waste company surcharging them £35(ish?) because the cardboard waste was contaminated, and they sent some pictures to prove - a half full cardboard bin had a bag of macds waste and some beer cans on top, presumably a couple of lorry drivers chucked bags of rubbish in the cardboard bin.

He sent them back CCTV videos of every waste collection for 6 months prior, showing every week both bins are collected at the same time and tipped into the same bloody truck!

 

[Remspoor]

  On 19/05/2022 at 17:10, Ghosty said:

Just seen in my FB feed, some dick has painted the A-series Montego.  

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Hubnut Montego?

[Dyslexic Viking]

  On 19/05/2022 at 18:59, Remspoor said:

Hubnut Montego?

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No it was previously on the forum and was sold out of the forum unfortunately.

 

[purplebargeken]

The nhs training dept are adamant that I must drive 2 x 400 miles to participate in two lots of classroom training that are for staff who have face to face patient contact, moving and handling patients and some physical intervention bollocks. I dont have face to face contact with patients, its all done over the phone. It is utterly bonkers.

[Tommyboy12]

  On 19/05/2022 at 20:16, Dyslexic Viking said:

No it was previously on the forum and was sold out of the forum unfortunately.

 

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Not really sure how I feel about it. It's not my car anymore but it's a shame. Its been roller painted too so probably looks shocking

[Dyslexic Viking]

  On 19/05/2022 at 20:51, Tommyboy12 said:

Not really sure how I feel about it. It's not my car anymore but it's a shame. Its been roller painted too so probably looks shocking

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Yes it's a shame the car had a lot of character that is now gone. And it looks bad now and probably worse in reality. What I think about this I will keep to myself. But I was very surprised and disappointed that no one here bought the car so well liked it was. The idea to buy it was in my head when no one here wanted it but it would unfortunately be difficult and expensive since I live in Norway.

[gm]

i thought the whole point of cazoo etc was that you didn’t need to go to the showroom ? so what is the point of this ?

but zooming in - is that a TR7 painted on the wall inside ? 

wtf ? i wonder how many of them they plan on selling 

[MikeR]

Iceland's next Tuesday should be fun  , get in to claim my 10% off !

Bet the Q is out the door ....

[myglaren]

I wonder if that applies to their Food Warehouse?

 

[myglaren]

  On 18/05/2022 at 21:45, sheffcortinacentre said:

Don't forget they only do this "recycling" if it makes them a profit!

Think I'm kidding check up.

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Our council did publish figures of how profitable the recycling was.  Certainly worth doing.

 

I only put a bin out every couple of months.  Live alone and very little waste except I cut a pallet up a bit back and buried it in a bin.  Another time, a pair of tall steps that fell to bits.  Woodworm.

They never seem to look at what the contents are.  Possibly due to the bribe... er, Christmas present they get from me.

[Bren]

  On 19/05/2022 at 17:10, Ghosty said:

Just seen in my FB feed, some dick has painted the A-series Montego.  

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Resale blue. Gopping.

[High Jetter]

  On 19/05/2022 at 20:51, Tommyboy12 said:

Not really sure how I feel about it. It's not my car anymore but it's a shame. Its been roller painted too so probably looks shocking

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Wait, what? When did that happen? Though you married the monty.

[RoverFolkUs]

  On 19/05/2022 at 17:10, Ghosty said:

Just seen in my FB feed, some dick has painted the A-series Montego.  

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There's some recent content of it before it got barried, here:

https://www.tiktok.com/@tom_mini_347

[RoverFolkUs]

  On 19/05/2022 at 21:23, gm said:

i thought the whole point of cazoo etc was that you didn’t need to go to the showroom ? so what is the point of this ?

but zooming in - is that a TR7 painted on the wall inside ? 

wtf ? i wonder how many of them they plan on selling 

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For "click and collect" I believe.. Basically a way of thwarting distance selling regulations because its all of a sudden not a distance sale if the customer picks it up. Crafty

[RoverFolkUs]

  On 19/05/2022 at 21:57, myglaren said:

I wonder if that applies to their Food Warehouse?

 

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I believe so, at least that's what I heard somewhere. 

[MorrisItalSLX]

  On 19/05/2022 at 17:10, Ghosty said:

Just seen in my FB feed, some dick has painted the A-series Montego.  

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Still would.

[PhilA]

Fucksticks. Central air has gone out. 

Sounds and smells like the start/run cap has crapped itself, so hopefully that's it.

Warm night ahead

 

[Remspoor]

  On 19/05/2022 at 20:16, Dyslexic Viking said:

No it was previously on the forum and was sold out of the forum unfortunately.

 

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Hubnut as in colour

[reb]

The DWP are cunts.

That is all.

[chodweaver]

  On 19/05/2022 at 22:14, High Jetter said:

Wait, what? When did that happen? Though you married the monty.

They eloped, but it didn't make it to Gretna Green

[andy18s]

  On 20/05/2022 at 15:39, chodweaver said:

  On 19/05/2022 at 22:14, High Jetter said:

Wait, what? When did that happen? Though you married the monty.

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They eloped, but it didn't make it to Gretna Green

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Stopped at the border by the SVM?

[PhilA]

Even the capacitor is rusty. (It quit, that was the failure). 

I don't like AC motors and stuff. Witchcraft.

[Zelandeth]

  On 20/05/2022 at 17:05, PhilA said:

Even the capacitor is rusty. (It quit, that was the failure). 

I don't like AC motors and stuff. Witchcraft.

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Worth keeping one of them in the tool drawer just in case...I do!

I still don't trust wire nuts for all they're everywhere in the US!

My grump is that my daily appears to have out of the blue started using something like a litre of oil every 200 miles without it apparently going anywhere...And I can't get the camper MOTed until the middle of next month.

[High Jetter]

  On 20/05/2022 at 15:39, chodweaver said:

  On 19/05/2022 at 22:14, High Jetter said:

Wait, what? When did that happen? Though you married the monty.

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They eloped, but it didn't make it to Gretna Green

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Ah yes, forgot he swopped it for some old tat.