The grumpy thread

[Lord Sterling]

16 hours ago, Ghosty said:

What's the fucking point?

Of what exactly lad?

[Lord Sterling]

10 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Disagree. A/c is at least as useful in the winter as it acts as a dehumidifier and helps stop the windows steaming up.

Even in our slightly warm summer , the large amount of glass in the average car’s cabin acts like a green house, so 20C outside can easily get to well over 30C inside. I think maintaining a comfortable temperature inside is a major safety factor for longer trips. A window open on the motorway gets tiring and if you’re too hot you can get drowsy.  

So you disagree with me wanting air-con or that I said the UK isn't exactly the place for air-con?

My whole argument is for having air-con. I want air-con in my car, but my luck says otherwise. As I said before, we're now almost in the middle of summer and yet this still hasn't been sorted.

[reb]

12 minutes ago, Lord Sterling said:

Of what exactly lad?

I think it's a general "what's the point" about life.

To which I say the point is there is no point, that's what's great.

[reb]

I'm trying to scrap my 850. Local-ish place has offered a decent price... But they won't collect it!

This has put a bit of a damper on things. At least they're not too arsed about the missing V5. All of the online places that will collect seem to want the V5 present, which is an issue as it is long gone and I can't get another because the car is a Cat B

[SunnySouth]

Another train journey, another carriage filled with the delightful medley of other peoples’ fucking noise being pumped out of their “devices”… Braindead video dross on YouTube/TwatTok/FaceAche etc, plus the inevitable moron who needs a videocall on full volume speaker every 20 minutes or so….

When did society decide that forcing everyone else sharing a sealed metal tube with you to listen to your personal choice of dross wasn’t unbelievably fucking rude any more?! Or is society now just unbelievably fucking rude in general?! Why don’t these people use earphones FFS?

Grrrr….

[Eyersey1234]

4 minutes ago, SunnySouth said:

Another train journey, another carriage filled with the delightful medley of other peoples’ fucking noise being pumped out of their “devices”… Braindead video dross on YouTube/TwatTok/FaceAche etc, plus the inevitable moron who needs a videocall on full volume speaker every 20 minutes or so….

When did society decide that forcing everyone else sharing a sealed metal tube with you to listen to your personal choice of dross wasn’t unbelievably fucking rude any more?! Or is society now just unbelievably fucking rude in general?! Why don’t these people use earphones FFS?

Grrrr….

We get it all the time on the coaches, we are always having to tell people about their phones etc being on speaker

[Ghosty]

1 hour ago, reb said:

All of the online places that will collect seem to want the V5 present, which is an issue as it is long gone and I can't get another because the car is a Cat B

Cut it up?

 

[reb]

Just now, Ghosty said:

Cut it up?

 

I will give you £47 if you come and do so.

[motorpunk]

Yappy dogs. YapYapYapFuckingYap. Owners presumably deaf. YapYapYapYap. Inconsiderate arseholes. RSPCA might take an interest as if the damn things are yapping almost constantly they’re perhaps being mistreated. I fucking hate yappy dogs and their arsehole owners. Yap fucking yap. 

[Minimad5]

2 hours ago, reb said:

I'm trying to scrap my 850. Local-ish place has offered a decent price... But they won't collect it!

This has put a bit of a damper on things. At least they're not too arsed about the missing V5. All of the online places that will collect seem to want the V5 present, which is an issue as it is long gone and I can't get another because the car is a Cat B

I'll have a few bits off it before you do, for the V70 (such as cupholder arm rest etc)
Or alternatively - Purchase V70, happy for you to pay in a few installments, then you've got a complete part car for it (And the shead load of spares also you got with the 850) 😎

[andy18s]

Yay....

[horriblemercedes]

1 hour ago, SunnySouth said:

Another train journey, another carriage filled with the delightful medley of other peoples’ fucking noise being pumped out of their “devices”… Braindead video dross on YouTube/TwatTok/FaceAche etc, plus the inevitable moron who needs a videocall on full volume speaker every 20 minutes or so….

When did society decide that forcing everyone else sharing a sealed metal tube with you to listen to your personal choice of dross wasn’t unbelievably fucking rude any more?! Or is society now just unbelievably fucking rude in general?! Why don’t these people use earphones FFS?

Grrrr….

I just don't understand it. I would feel so embarrassed and self-conscious if it was my phone producing the noise

[reb]

4 minutes ago, Minimad5 said:

I'll have a few bits off it before you do, for the V70 (such as cupholder arm rest etc)
Or alternatively - Purchase V70, happy for you to pay in a few installments, then you've got a complete part car for it (And the shead load of spares also you got with the 850) 😎

I may* have something V70 shaped on the way already!

[Minimad5]

1 minute ago, reb said:

I may* have something V70 shaped on the way already!

But is it D5252t ? 

[reb]

Just now, Minimad5 said:

But is it D5252t ? 

Alas no. It's an engine I've had in an 850 before though!

[reb]

Why are modern small engines so shit?

I'm at my mum's cutting the grass, the strimmer will not stay running no matter what I do, and the lawnmower sounds like it's about to give up. Both are fairly new.

Amused to see the mower appears to have a carb made of some sort of ABS like material. 

[Ghosty]

2 minutes ago, motorpunk said:

Yappy dogs. YapYapYapFuckingYap. Owners presumably deaf. YapYapYapYap. Inconsiderate arseholes. RSPCA might take an interest as if the damn things are yapping almost constantly they’re perhaps being mistreated. I fucking hate yappy dogs and their arsehole owners. Yap fucking yap. 

Curtain twitching neighbours that abuse me and my dad and threaten violence simply for working on cars have a very badly trained Jack Russell, it does my head in. Been having issues with hypersensitivity lately due to medication, and the dog sets my anxiety off terribly because it barks at anything that moves, and the unexpected sudden noise makes me panic.

There's another dog walker that passes by that lets her dog shit and piss on people's lawns. She cleans up the shit, but we're having to take preventative measures - I've had to tell her to stop her dog pissing on my cars before and she responded 'don't park it in the street then'.

Recently noticed on a hot day that she'd let it do it again, and also that her dog was significantly dehydrated.

[Dyslexic Viking]

9 minutes ago, reb said:

Why are modern small engines so shit?

I'm at my mum's cutting the grass, the strimmer will not stay running no matter what I do, and the lawnmower sounds like it's about to give up. Both are fairly new.

Amused to see the mower appears to have a carb made of some sort of ABS like material. 

Dad bought a new professional large Husqvarna chainsaw and they cost a bit 5 years later and the engine has failed and it hasn't been used much either as the smaller chainsaw do most of the work. The old Jonsered chainsaw lasted 20 years of hard use before it failed.

Most things today is just shit.

[artdjones]

2 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Dad bought a new professional large Husqvarna chainsaw and they cost a bit 5 years later and the engine has failed and it hasn't been used much either as the smaller chainsaw do most of the work. The old Jonsered chainsaw lasted 20 years of hard use before it failed.

Most things today is just shit.

Try an Echo.

[High Jetter]

37 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Try an Echo.

Not sure a smart speaker would cut it...

[Dyslexic Viking]

41 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Try an Echo.

Thanks and see that have 2 dealers nearby so it's something we can look at.

[Low ontime]

5 hours ago, Ghosty said:

Curtain twitching neighbours that abuse me and my dad and threaten violence simply for working on cars have a very badly trained Jack Russell, it does my head in. Been having issues with hypersensitivity lately due to medication, and the dog sets my anxiety off terribly because it barks at anything that moves, and the unexpected sudden noise makes me panic.

There's another dog walker that passes by that lets her dog shit and piss on people's lawns. She cleans up the shit, but we're having to take preventative measures - I've had to tell her to stop her dog pissing on my cars before and she responded 'don't park it in the street then'.

Recently noticed on a hot day that she'd let it do it again, and also that her dog was significantly dehydrated.

Headphones in ear,  Even if not plugged into anything and ignorance works my end 

as long as it’s not the dead of night what’s the problem, it’s a hobby! 

you could always take the trolley Jack for walks at midnight to give them something to moan about 

 

[Ghosty]

Just now, Low ontime said:

you could always take the trolley Jack for walks at midnight to give them something to moan about

Ignorance isn't really possible with my somewhat neurodiverse head.

I've had two cars flatbedded home in the middle of the night in the past week, though 😆

[IronStar]

It’s been confirmed today that Hotel Jugoslavija, one of the symbols of Belgrade, will be demolished to make way for 44 and 32 floor high glass monstrosities. It’s, obviously, purchased by the company directly linked to the ruling mafia cl…sorry, party. Same guys that are about to demolish another landmark - Belgrade’s Fairgrounds, to extend Aliexpress Dubai - Belgrade Waterfront. The same company is also responsible for bulldozing quite a few other landmark buildings. They’re not the only ones doing it either, fuck the culture, fuck the architectural heritage, there’s money to be made erecting fucking eysore towers.

I can’t take this anymore. This place has lost all the identity, and is actively being made worse every single day. Belgrade is one of the most polluted cities in Europe. The prices are insane, and it’s more expensive to live in than infinitely nicer places. The lithium mine is just around the corner and about to irreversibly fuck up what little we didn’t fuck up already. 
 

Fuck this place, fuck my stupid passport that makes it very complicated to move as we’re not EU member state. I can’t keep living here. I want out. 

[Metal Guru]

22 hours ago, Lord Sterling said:

So you disagree with me wanting air-con or that I said the UK isn't exactly the place for air-con?

My whole argument is for having air-con. I want air-con in my car, but my luck says otherwise. As I said before, we're now almost in the middle of summer and yet this still hasn't been sorted.

Saying U.K. isn’t the place for aIr-con. I was in the same situation last summer. My MOT was due in Sept and I didn’t want to spend money on it if it was going to fail otherwise.

[Slartibartfast]

We've recently moved house. I have (as ever) found myself cleaning the bloody oven at 3am the day of handover of the old place

[Lord Sterling]

1 hour ago, Metal Guru said:

Saying U.K. isn’t the place for aIr-con. I was in the same situation last summer. My MOT was due in Sept and I didn’t want to spend money on it if it was going to fail otherwise.

Personally I feel it is a place that now needs air-con. I said that because I felt others might be coming back with the "just open a window then" or what originally said. 

But as Jazoli said, I needn't justify myself. I want a basic thing, that is for my air-con to actually work but it's fallen into a farce that wasn't needed.

[Lord Sterling]

2 hours ago, IronStar said:

It’s been confirmed today that Hotel Jugoslavia, one of the symbols of Belgrade, will be demolished to make way for 44 and 32 floor high glass monstrosities. It’s, obviously, purchased by the company directly linked to the ruling mafia cl…sorry, party. Same guys that are about to demolish another landmark - Belgrad’s Fairgrounds, to extend Aliexpress Dubai - Belgrade Waterfront. The same company is also responsible for bulldozing quite a few other landmark buildings. They’re not the only ones doing it either, fuck the culture, fuck the architectural heritage, there’s money to be made erecting fucking eysore towers.

I can’t take this anymore. This place has lost all the identity, and is actively being made worse every single day. Belgrade is one of the most polluted cities in Europe. The prices are insane, and it’s more expensive to live in than infinitely nicer places. The lithium mine is just around the corner and about to irreversibly fuck up what little we didn’t fuck up already. 

Fuck this place, fuck my stupid passport that makes it very complicated to move as we’re not EU member state. I can’t keep living here. I want out. 

To be fair, the knocking down of older,  more characterful buildings happens here too. Where there is money to be made, the developers will be there.

Shame about how you feel living there. Do you have other options in terms of where to move to? Personally I'm trying Belgium simply for the fact I have family there, but the stipulation is I can't move there without having a job first which is fair enough.l, it gives me time to tie up loose ends.

[95 quid Peugeot]

On 23/07/2024 at 14:57, wuvvum said:

 

 

I assume that means I'm not going to receive my 10 litres of 20W50 and two cans of engine flush for £14.87 then?  Sigh.

i had ordered the same as above for myself,  received a refund,  for the 20w50 and other things ordered at same time

As I'm not desperate i subsequently ordered two bog standard 20L 5w30 as discounted.....guess what, they haven't arrived, however still in stock at a much higher price.

Seems they tempt you in with a really low discounted price, then fuck you off, hoping you buy at full price.   Or monster cash flow issues

[wuvvum]

To be fair, 10 litres of oil for under 15 quid is ludicrously underpriced these days, without counting the two cans of engine flush they were supposedly throwing in.

I've bought 5l of 20W50 for 18 quid from another supplier - still cheap enough.