The grumpy thread

[Remspoor]

19 hours ago, loserone said:

Soz hew, got em all ere

Reggie of what date that is quite old (classic now)? A small blue town car, and a Dacia. These are not suitable for me.

[loserone]

2022, 1999, 2022. Too new or too old for you.

 

That small town car does 130 miles most days on just electricity 

[vulgalour]

I still hate working on exhausts.  Especially so when it's cold and windy and I'm laying on the drive.

[Heidel_Kakao]

1 hour ago, vulgalour said:

I still hate working on exhausts.  Especially so when it's cold and windy and I'm laying on the drive.

Exhausts are about the only thing I pay someone else to do for the exact same reasons.

[Remspoor]

3 hours ago, loserone said:

2022, 1999, 2022. Too new or too old for you.

 

That small town car does 130 miles most days on just electricity 

Elctic cars are a no no here. The power supply is not up to much and the electricity company will not upgrade without a load of dosh.  That sort of thing is no good for my yearly dashes across Europe.

Need a decent engine for the mountains. Dacia is, what a one litre, or there abouts?

[loserone]

8 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Dacia is, what a one litre, or there abouts?

It's the 1.5 dci which with the 4x4 has done a pretty good job of lugging a family of five through all weathers around hills and mountains, sometimes with a trailer filled with wine and stacked with bikes.

[Remspoor]

Some cities are banning Diesels. I need a petrol Euro 5 .

 

[loserone]

I wasn't offering you one of my cars 😂

[somewhatfoolish]

18 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Elctic cars are a no no here. The power supply is not up to much and the electricity company will not upgrade without a load of dosh.

Solar panels are cheap.

[Dyslexic Viking]

28 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Some cities are banning Diesels. I need a petrol Euro 5 .

 

If I were looking for something with a reasonably large petrol engine and that could cross the continent with ease, I would look for an Avensis.

Yes, it's boring, but find a good one and one has a reliable  good car for years to come. Alternatively Auris or Corolla but are smaller cars with smaller engines.

[scaryoldcortina]

1 hour ago, Heidel_Kakao said:

Exhausts are about the only thing I pay someone else to do for the exact same reasons.

being paid to do exhausts is one of the reasons I have two electric cars 😂

[hairnet]

22 hours ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

Volkswagen shitehawk

 

[Remspoor]

3 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Solar panels are cheap.

Still cost a lot of dosh. Trees give us shade from the summer sun.

[Remspoor]

3 hours ago, loserone said:

I wasn't offering you one of my cars 😂

I thought you was as you answered  my grump with an illustration of what I could get. You are just a tease.

[loserone]

22 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

I thought you was as you answered  my grump with an illustration of what I could get. You are just a tease.

You said there weren't any colourful cars anymore, I just pointed out that it's still possible to buy them

[Burnside]

Fucking gritter just gone past here dropping salt, when the bloody forecast is saying 4 degree weather overnight minimum. 

Obviously West Midland's Council want to help ensure they ruin my car and the roads, more than they have already.  Cunts.

[Pieman]

The paint on most of my Focus is already fucked, so I don't really care.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Burnside said:

Fucking gritter just gone past here dropping salt, when the bloody forecast is saying 4 degree weather overnight minimum. 

Obviously West Midland's Council want to help ensure they ruin my car and the roads, more than they have already.  Cunts.

Must have been nicked, they go round about 5pm round here.

[EyesWeldedShut]

It's a beautiful, sunny, calm morning here. At last! Do some car tinkering after I have sorted out life admin shite and (literally) a load of horse shite.
Let's check the weather forecast.
Great. 
Happy Days.

[Datsuncog]

Had a couple of last-minute things to fetch from the supermarket this morning.

Up and out early to beat dem ol' queues.

Got down to Sainsburys, parked up, got out, patted my coat pocket - ah shit, I'd only gone and left my phone at home, by the front door. The device that contains the all-important shopping list.

Drove home, lifted it from the console, drove back down again. Waste of half an hour.

Busier now. Much busier. People hoofing multiple 15p bags of carrots into their trolleys like their lives depended on it.

Procured a couple of things, but they didn't quite have everything I was after, irritatingly.

Against my better judgement, I headed over to Tesco. Even busier.

Battling through the aisles, I managed to find what I needed - at a stupidly inflated shelf price, but their 'Clubcard Price' knocked about 33% off and brought it back into the realms of affordability.

Got over to the till, and while standing in the queue I realised I'd given my Clubcard to MrsDC the other night to use with a voucher, and she didn't give it back (those annoying Clubcard keyring fob things are long since broken and lost).

Dithered, agonised, then decided that no, I wasn't prepared to pay £12 over the odds for a bottle of specialty rum, so put it back again and left, risking life and limb to navigate the rammed carpark with people driving like they were on a drunken dodgem rampage.

Got home in a sulk, and then remembered that I'd loaded all my supermarket cards onto Google Wallet about a month ago, precisely to avoid this sort of problem arising.

So I could have availed of the so-called 'discount' after all.

Well bollocks to that, I'm absolutely not going out to the shops again. We'll probably survive for the next week or so with what's in the cupboard!

[bunglebus]

Get the app!

[bunglebus]

Not so much grumpy as slightly sad today. Last month we found an old chap who'd fallen over and banged his head quite badly, lots of blood although it didn't look too deep. We took him up to A+E as it was very cold and there was a four hour wait for an ambulance, he'd walked into town from near where we live, probably a good 40 mins each way. They sorted him out and were going to keep him overnight, but decided to kick him out that evening, so we went back and got him, dropped him at home. By the sound of it he didn't have any immediate family, and certainly none local.

A week or so later we dropped a note through the door with our contact details as it was playing on our minds a bit that he was alone. Didn't hear from him.

Today we went to drop a Christmas card off, and a guy answered the door who turned out to be his nephew. Apparently a few weeks ago a neighbour became concerned about him, looked through the letterbox - and he was dead at the bottom of the stairs, having suffered a heart attack. RIP John 😐

[Datsuncog]

43 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Get the app!

Heh, I've got the app, but it's... complicated.

I've been fighting with the Tesco app for the best part of a year, there's some login problem about the card and the linked account (acquired about 20 years ago) which customer services can't resolve... for some reason they can keep sending us paper stuff, but can't verify the exact same details on the app and keeps saying they're invalid.

I'll try to get it resolved while I'm off for a while in January!

[scaryoldcortina]

I'm still at work and have done no shopping at all. We're even out of bread and milk.

[myglaren]

Plenty of time tomorrow.

I have found that shopping on Christmas Eve is far less traumatic, the shops are practically empty, more staff than customers and often lots of stuff marked down.

[RoverFolkUs]

1 hour ago, myglaren said:

Plenty of time tomorrow.

I have found that shopping on Christmas Eve is far less traumatic, the shops are practically empty, more staff than customers and often lots of stuff marked down.

This must be satire as on the one occasion I went to Tesco on Christmas eve I left with battle scars... Never ever again 😂

[Markeh]

I had to go to Poundland earlier for some more wrapping paper and a gift bag (I may not be a last minute shopper but I'm definitely a last minute wrapper!), and blimey, you wouldn't even know it's Christmas, they've virtually packed all the Christmas stuff away!

Fortunately they had a bag and wrapping paper that suited.

[myglaren]

23 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

This must be satire as on the one occasion I went to Tesco on Christmas eve I left with battle scars... Never ever again 😂

Not at all.  First time I had to go into Newcastle to collect some T-shirts I had made for my daughter.  Left the car in Asda Gosforth and took the metro.  Practically deserted.  Then to Fenwicks, hardly a soul in there,  Same with Debenhams.

Back to Gosforth, got most things in Asda then went to another Asda in Longbenton for some more odds and ends.

All done easily in the afternoon with no rushing around.

Have found much the same but most of my shopping done in Washington, Birtley, Stanley or Consett.

[maxxo]

i went to Asda today and it was absolute carnage

packed, huge queues and barely space to breathe

i suppose that's what happens when you're the largest supermarket in around 5-10 miles or so

the next closest big one is either Morrisons at Dalton Park in Murton or Morrisons/asda/tesco in Hartlepool

[High Jetter]

We have Sainsb, Morrisons, Waitrose, Tesco, aldi all within about .5 mile. Sainsb busy yesterday, found a checkout with no queue, for some reason. Morrisons was quieter. Trolley helps with comparing pricing.