The grumpy thread

[horriblemercedes]

4 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Have to say we're probably a minority, we dont turn away the old shit that no-one else can be bothered with. 

An example - series land rover? Bring it on

We do curse the people running around in 25 year old shitters that are long past their useful lifespan and full of broken unobtainium parts though 😂

My stuff is not new but it is well maintained and I hope you wouldn't turn it away! 

 

2001 Toyota Land Cruiser Amazon 4.2 TD manual

2002 Porsche Boxster S manual

2004 Honda Civic Type R

2005 BMW 320d manual

 

 

[RoverFolkUs]

7 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

My stuff is not new but it is well maintained and I hope you wouldn't turn it away! 

 

2001 Toyota Land Cruiser Amazon 4.2 TD manual

2002 Porsche Boxster S manual

2004 Honda Civic Type R

2005 BMW 320d manual

 

 

We're very accustomed to a land cruiser, we look after loads, both old shape and new shape 

I'm a bit of a Porsche virgin. Don't have a single regular customer with one that I know of, had a few come and go for general bits 

Welded up far too many MK7 Civics in recent years 😂

And we've got a BMW fanboy who'd lap up any E90/E60/E46/E39/E36

So no, they'd fit in

[horriblemercedes]

1 hour ago, RoverFolkUs said:

We're very accustomed to a land cruiser, we look after loads, both old shape and new shape 

I'm a bit of a Porsche virgin. Don't have a single regular customer with one that I know of, had a few come and go for general bits 

Welded up far too many MK7 Civics in recent years 😂

And we've got a BMW fanboy who'd lap up any E90/E60/E46/E39/E36

So no, they'd fit in

The Civic took a fair bit of welding, I must say! Gearbox rebuild too. Put a new timing chain and tensioner and clutch on while the engine and gearbox were apart. Honestly, my cars are cars that you'd welcome in your shop, I honestly believe!

[HillmanImp]

Had a bit of stomach pain over the last few days. Went to the doctors yesterday and had a blood test. 

Doctors ring back yesterday evening and say I need to pop to hospital for a scan. 

Drive over to the hospital, sit there for hours, give several more bloods and swabs (including a bum swab, new one on me) then they say I need to stay over. Not good, I've got no phone charger, no clothes toothbrush. I've got a crossword book but I've not done any for 20yrs and its really fucking difficult. 

Anyway, turns out I needed my appendix out. 

It was lopped out at about 10pm this evening and I'm currently lying here waiting for my heart rate to drop a bit so that I can go home. 

Probably need some more pain killers as I can feel (or is it not feel) the ones I had wearing off. 

Few days off work now but this is probably an extreme bunk off TBH. I'd probably have preferred to go in the office rather tyan go through this. 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Hope you recover quickly.  Must have been a bit of a shock - but sounds like they caught it quickly.  Appendicitis is no joke.

[Tickman]

7 hours ago, HillmanImp said:

Few days off work now but this is probably an extreme bunk off TBH. I'd probably have preferred to go in the office rather tyan go through this. 

Shit planning on you bodies part having a FTP on a Friday!

Speedy recovery hopefully.

[High Jetter]

Yes, very good that they picked up on it or you could have been far worse down the line. Hope you bounce back soon.

[HillmanImp]

2 hours ago, Tickman said:

Shit planning on you bodies part having a FTP on a Friday!

Speedy recovery hopefully.

Its odd to think that 100 years ago this would've been it for me when this thing burst, whether it was this time or next time. 

Thankfully were in an age where parts can be replaced relatively easily without writing me off, so I'm like a car built before 2006 really. 

14 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Yes, very good that they picked up on it or you could have been far worse down the line. Hope you bounce back soon.

Yeah, the nurse I saw was good and the hospital insisted i came in despite them being really busy. 

I'm out now anyhow, just waiting for a mate to pick me up as he was coming for my car anyhow, assuming its still there. 

[Tickman]

Good stuff, take it easy after the anesthetic, no important decisions.

Shall we link all the roffles for you here?

[omegod]

You won't shite for a week or at least I don't, anesthetics fuck me up royally. Don't rush back to work 

I've just had the misfortune to drive through Leeds for the first time, what a shithole with the craziest roads 

 

[Datsuncog]

15 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

We do curse the people running around in 25 year old shitters that are long past their useful lifespan and full of broken unobtainium parts though

*Waves cheerily*

[HillmanImp]

3 hours ago, omegod said:

You won't shite for a week or at least I don't, anesthetics fuck me up royally. Don't rush back to work 

I've just had the misfortune to drive through Leeds for the first time, what a shithole with the craziest roads 

 

Been signed off for a fortnight. 

I'm meant to have another operation on the 22nd where I'm also expected to be signed off for a fortnight. 😂

I'm gonna reschedule that one until its warmer as after this operation I'm not able to go mountain biking whilst recovering from that one which was my original plan. 

Yeah, not pooped yet. Peeing was odd at first. 3 seconds on, 3 seconds off, 3 seconds on, 3 seconds off and so on for a couple of minutes. 

Thought it was just the first one but did it for the next two as well. 

Seems okay now though thankfully but was definitely an odd one. 

Regarding Leeds, it was lucky I was at the top of town when you picked the Rover up from me. I drove into town recently and it took me 25 minutes to get 4 streets away from my destination 13 miles away and another 20 minutes to do the rest, most of which was one street but the only road I could actually take. 

[Remspoor]

A mother of a friend died yesterday. The local WhatsApp group notified us.

Went along to the tanatorio (funeral home) at 8.30 last night. There was mother lying in state behind glass. I do not like that, not that I am squeamish.

Funeral today at 4.30. Mother died at around noon yesterday.
My god they are not even cold and into the grave you go.

A very different world is this Spain.

 

[wuvvum]

Indeed.  A family friend died on Boxing Day - his funeral is this Wednesday.

[andy18s]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

A mother of a friend died yesterday. The local WhatsApp group notified us.

Went along to the tanatorio (funeral home) at 8.30 last night. There was mother lying in state behind glass. I do not like that, not that I am squeamish.

Funeral today at 4.30. Mother died at around noon yesterday.
My god they are not even cold and into the grave you go.

A very different world is this Spain.

 

It's 3 days here in Bulgaria,just long enough to sign the multitude of paperwork. 

[artdjones]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

A mother of a friend died yesterday. The local WhatsApp group notified us.

Went along to the tanatorio (funeral home) at 8.30 last night. There was mother lying in state behind glass. I do not like that, not that I am squeamish.

Funeral today at 4.30. Mother died at around noon yesterday.
My god they are not even cold and into the grave you go.

A very different world is this Spain.

 

It was the sensible thing to do in Spain in the days before refrigeration. 

Here in Ireland it's usually 3 days.

[Wack]

FFS

Bad day yesterday

I'd been to the chip shop, shared fish & chips with the wife, took her half in , put mine on a plate and a tray, walking into the living room it slipped off the tray, fell behind the side table and splattered up the wall. 

Fucking great, obviously Mrs Wack though it was hilarious, especially the part where she tipped a whole pot of curry over hers knowing I don't like it so I couldn't nick any of it 

[Wack]

Double post 

Took the new to me 1.0 turbo smart car to the garage this morning, engine was a bit lumpy on tickover and the brakes pull to one side

It's only done 6000 miles in the last 5 years, turned out to be a sticky caliper &  spark plugs 

The tyres look new, it was pissing it down when I went to look at it when I bought it so I only checked the tread 

On the ramp all 4 are fucked, cracked on the sidewalls, £300, bollocks 

[HillmanImp]

15 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Indeed.  A family friend died on Boxing Day - his funeral is this Wednesday.

Its grim as the close family have to go through the grieving process all over again. Sets you back several stages. 

If you're Jewish they do funerals quite quickly don't they. Think other religions are maybe similar as there are strict rules around the funeral process.

Maybe convert to Hinduism when you get older for the benefit of your family. 

[myglaren]

15 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Indeed.  A family friend died on Boxing Day - his funeral is this Wednesday.

My youngest daughter's employers father was killed in a road accident in December.  Funeral in two weeks from now.

Daughter works for a funeral director but the funeral is being done by another company as the father lived 250 miles away.

[Remspoor]

14 hours ago, artdjones said:

in the days before refrigeration.

exactly. But commercially available refrigeration has been around for a long long time. Besides not all of Spain sees high day time temps all year round

[cobblers]

14 hours ago, Wack said:

Double post 

Took the new to me 1.0 turbo smart car to the garage this morning, engine was a bit lumpy on tickover and the brakes pull to one side

It's only done 6000 miles in the last 5 years, turned out to be a sticky caliper &  spark plugs 

The tyres look new, it was pissing it down when I went to look at it when I bought it so I only checked the tread 

On the ramp all 4 are fucked, cracked on the sidewalls, £300, bollocks 

Don't mean to add to your woes but I'm sure those smarts suffer from valve problems which wets the plugs and cause misfires, i'd want to do a compression test before spending £300 on tyres!

 

[cobblers]

17 hours ago, Remspoor said:

A mother of a friend died yesterday. The local WhatsApp group notified us.

Went along to the tanatorio (funeral home) at 8.30 last night. There was mother lying in state behind glass. I do not like that, not that I am squeamish.

Funeral today at 4.30. Mother died at around noon yesterday.
My god they are not even cold and into the grave you go.

A very different world is this Spain.

 

Yup, my wifes friends grandad died in december (carked it in the passenger seat of the car on the way to a hospital for a checkup, she pulled up in the carpark and realised he was brown bread!) And the funeral is not for another fortnight. Seems odd to me.

[Wack]

58 minutes ago, cobblers said:

Don't mean to add to your woes but I'm sure those smarts suffer from valve problems which wets the plugs and cause misfires, i'd want to do a compression test before spending £300 on tyres!

 

This one is a 451 which  has the 1.0 turbo mitsubishi engine, is that the one you're thinking of 

The other one I have is the 450 with the 700cc turbo that usually explodes at 70k 

[cobblers]

Just now, Wack said:

This one is a 451 which  has the 1.0 turbo mitsubishi engine, is that the one you're thinking of 

The other one I have is the 450 with the 700cc turbo that usually explodes at 70k 

Yeah it's the early one I was thinking of, I went to look at three of the 70cc ones a few years ago and all three of them were misfiring...

[Wack]

13 minutes ago, cobblers said:

Yeah it's the early one I was thinking of, I went to look at three of the 70cc ones a few years ago and all three of them were misfiring...

The other one I have has been OK engine wise but its only done 56k 

[MikeR]

The lakes , over rated imho , any way we had a trip to Ambleside yesterday morning for her joy as it was only some 40 mins from the van  , it was ok , got parked up , it got busy as it does as the morning went on , the village idiot was doing wheelies down hill against the flow of traffic , I watched in hope , then after some shopping we headed back for dinner and saw the traffic heading in , it was bumper to bumper ,of course the unattended road works between Ambleside and Windermere , the tractor struggling up the hill with some 600 cars crawling behind it ...

We get home and the local NT car parks are closed off due to being full .. 

Nothing changes .

[richardmorris]

3 minutes ago, MikeR said:

The lakes , over rated imho , any way we had a trip to Ambleside yesterday morning for her joy as it was only some 40 mins from the van  , it was ok , got parked up , it got busy as it does as the morning went on , the village idiot was doing wheelies down hill against the flow of traffic , I watched in hope , then after some shopping we headed back for dinner and saw the traffic heading in , it was bumper to bumper ,of course the unattended road works between Ambleside and Windermere , the tractor struggling up the hill with some 600 cars crawling behind it ...

We get home and the local NT car parks are closed off due to being full .. 

Nothing changes .

I like the lakes, but the out of the way secluded places are best. Ambleside best avoided.  Eg buttermere and crumock water.

[richardmorris]

Since I’m in the grumpy thread….had to send stamps off last month to exchange them for huge modern monstrosities. Did it in three lots so we didn’t loose everything. About £250 all together. Why it wasn’t possible to walk into a post office with them I don’t know.

anyway, two of them came back ok ( eg 117 2nd class in one envelope, and a few hundred 1p, 2 and 5p etc, ) but the 99 large seconds got returned as 99 first class. Paperwork is correct though.  I feel aggrieved that they’ve swindled me out of £10! We also use large seconds a lot.

 

[hairnet]

On 2/4/2023 at 4:18 PM, Datsuncog said:

*Waves cheerily*

proof you can polish a turd cough potato  (kidding)