The grumpy thread

[Pete-M]

Drivers on the M53. Do they put smack in the water or something?

 

Ah, it's a well known fact, worldwide, that drivers in Wallasey are the worst in the known universe.

[Guest]

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I've found that a quick illumination of ye olde brakelights cause these muppets to back off fairly rapidly..................

 

Yeah, erm, I brake tested someone in a FTO who tried to move me over once (and actually nudged me at 90 trying to hurry me up when I was moving over). He went apeshit, slowed down, drew level, and tried to put me into the Armco by swerving violently. After that suicidal rush of blood to the head I now wait till there's room and just get the hell out of their way should a situation like this crop up.

[Pete-M]

I now wait till there's room and just get the hell out of their way should a situation like this crop up.

 

Is the correct answer.

 

If someone brake tests me I just position my car so if they do it again they'll self-inflict a Pitt maneuver if they do actually hit the brakes. Sometimes you get stuck behind some sanctimonious wankers on the road who think that doing 60 mph in lane three of a clear, dry motorway is perfectly reasonable behaviour. Very occasionally I admit that I'll creep a bit closer to 'em to see if they've actually noticed a car behind. Not that close, maybe a couple of car lengths behind, but they tend to be the idiots who'll get irate about it.

 

I've noticed that original shape Seat Leon drivers seem to be guilty of brake testing quite a bit. Having driven one, I've come to the conclusion that it's the lack of rearward vision that makes them think people are inches away when they're quite a way behind.

[trigger]

So I've got the Micra for sale on ebay, gumtree and pistonheads at the moment and i keep getting these emails...

 

Subject: inquiry

From: [email protected]

 

Hello,

What is the final price and present condition of your car if you still have it for sale!!

Regards

 

 

It's hard to tell if they are spam or real so i always reply as if they are real... Sadly yet again they aren't.

 

Hello,

Thank you for the response concerning the car i inquired for, I'll offer you £3000 for the car, which i think is a fair price.But before we proceed with this i have some questions to ask you which i need to know before i can purchase the car though i read some details about the car on the website but there are some people who just put false details on the site so that is why i want you to please tell me about the car yourself.So:

*How long have you owned the vehicle?

* Have you owned it from new?

* If not how many previous owners?

* Why are you selling it?

* What is the mileage?

* What features does the vehicle have?

* In your opinion, what sort of condition is the vehicle in?

* Has it been involved in any accident, and if so, which parts were damaged?

These are the things I need to know before I we can proceed and i hope you answer me accordingly.

So I will want you to send more pictures via e-mail if available, both in the interior and exterior, I have a private shipping company that will take good care of the car professionally without any problem.I should have come and take a look at the car before buying it but i am a very busy man due to the kind of work i am into.

The mode of my payment is by bank draft which will clear in your account before I take the possession of the car.

The bank draft will clear in your bank within few days, and after the clearance the shipping company will come for the pick up in your house.

Hope to hear from you again today in order to proceed further with the payment and shipping arrangement as soon as possible.

In my next e-mail I'll let you know the details that is required from you to send the draft to you.

Hope to hear back from you today.

Cheers.

 

Do they think I'm stupid? (No comment), This was from autotrader but I've had them from all the sites so far, I wonder how many people fall for the kind of scam?.

[warren t claim]

Drivers on the M53. Do they put smack in the water or something?

 

Ah, it's a well known fact, worldwide, that drivers in Wallasey are the worst in the known universe.

 

Swims up, sniffs bait, swims away.

[trigger]

I grew up in Colchester, Until the age of 24 I spend all my life there and I'm still back there every week so today I'm very sad to her that a young girl has died due to a 87 year old driver having a heart attack at the wheel of his car.

 

Monday morning two 16 year old girls were walking up Head Street in the town centre on the way to the 6th form college when the 87 Y/O driver fell ill and came off the road and ploughed into them pinning them against the wall of H&M, Last night one of the died.

 

http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/8836 ... ter_crash/

 

It's brings up that debate again, is 87 to old for driving?, I understand many are still fine and fit but if your more prone to heart problems then maybe it's time to hang up your driving glove?.

[dollywobbler]

Stupid British classics. Went to start the Mini's brake overhaul yesterday. Turns out that years of working on Citroens has ill-prepared me and my tool kit for such a job. I can't undo the brake hoses, can't undo the calipers and can't get the hub-nut undone either. This job is about to get a bit more expensive - and we're planning on sell the thing once it's done anyway! Stupid little car is too low for my trolley jack as well - just about managed to get it in by lifting the thing by the wheelarches and kicking the jack underneath.

 

The Land Rover is the same. Can't change the oil pressure switch because while I've got a socket that'll fit, there's not enough room for it, and I don't have spanners the right size. It was only by sheer luck that I somehow had an inch and 1/8th socket to get the enormous sump plug off. At least I can work underneath that without having to jack it up...

 

Need to find some time to do some spanner shopping - though I am flat out this week with work and MiDAS training.

[messerschmitt owner]

You should have driven the mini onto a block of wood - I have to drive my roadster part onto a ramp to get a jack under it.

Have you a high lift jack for the Land Rover - cos you could have used it too!

 

If you haven't a high lift jack for the land rover - buy one!

[Claypole]

Ebay...

 

"Your seller performance is below standard".

 

Bunch of knobs, not enough they rob you for fees and charges at every chance they get but they also expect you to keep within a set of

performance scores based on completely flawed questions/answers from your buyers.

 

If I wanted to give a toss about KIP's I'd get a job at work selling ffs.

[seth]

Stupid British classics...

 

More like stupid bleedin foreigners with their metrification of everything! I blame the French

 

[autofive]

Ebay...

 

"Your seller performance is below standard".

 

Bunch of knobs, not enough they rob you for fees and charges at every chance they get but they also expect you to keep within a set of

performance scores based on completely flawed questions/answers from your buyers.

 

If I wanted to give a toss about KIP's I'd get a job at work selling ffs.

 

you might as well open a new account - your performance figures will NEVER rise while your not selling

[dollywobbler]

You should have driven the mini onto a block of wood - I have to drive my roadster part onto a ramp to get a jack under it.

Have you a high lift jack for the Land Rover - cos you could have used it too!

 

If you haven't a high lift jack for the land rover - buy one!

 

My jack is a high-lift (need one for the 2CV let alone the Landy!) but wouldn't quite fit under the Mini. Wood would have been good, but it was already crammed into the corner of my garage, with the front brakes pretty much seized on.

[Negative Creep]

You should have driven the mini onto a block of wood - I have to drive my roadster part onto a ramp to get a jack under it.

Have you a high lift jack for the Land Rover - cos you could have used it too!

 

If you haven't a high lift jack for the land rover - buy one!

 

My jack is a high-lift (need one for the 2CV let alone the Landy!) but wouldn't quite fit under the Mini. Wood would have been good, but it was already crammed into the corner of my garage, with the front brakes pretty much seized on.

 

 

I have a scissor jack for this very purpose

[seth]

I have a scissor jack for this very purpose

 

Me too. There's always somewhere you can fit a scissor jack to get the car high enough to get a trolley jack in a good position.

[warren t claim]

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Why don't you go and get raped by a tramp with aids and die a lingering death?

 

Kind Regards.

 

Warren T Claim.

[Cavcraft]

Some things never change:

 

{Ring ring}

 

Me: Hello.

 

Bellend: Still got the car?

 

Me: yes.

 

Dicksplash: How much MOT left?

 

Me (sighing to myself): it's all on the advert.

 

Wankshaft: How much tax?

 

Me (sounding pissed off) it's all onthe advert.

 

Gobshite: What's the lowest you'll take for it?

 

Me: You haven't even seen it and I want as much as I can get.

 

Twittytwattyfuckknackery: How much?

 

Me: Make me an offer but bear in mind it weighs about 1.7 tonnes and scrap is about £200 per tonne at the moment plus I've had good offers for a handful of parts off it so I can get £340 minimum.

 

Twobobcockknocker: £300 tops.

 

Me: (repeated the above).

 

Spazzer: Click. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

 

[messerschmitt owner]

 

If you haven't a high lift jack for the land rover - buy one!

 

My jack is a high-lift (need one for the 2CV let alone the Landy!) but wouldn't quite fit under the Mini.

 

O RLLY?

 

One of these?

 

 

Capable of lifting 3.5tons up to 4 feet.

Can also be used to spread, clamp, as an acrow prop, a short-pull winch and, as above, a general purpose recovery tool.

Tayne

 

that's the beast - from two inches to four feet (mine is a four tonner)

[dollywobbler]

Mine's a high-lift trolley jack.

 

Anyway, another grump as I've just cut my finger quite badly while chopping wood. With a driving test tomorrow. Twat! That's all from me tonight as I can't really type...

[messerschmitt owner]

Mine's a high-lift trolley jack.

 

Anyway, another grump as I've just cut my finger quite badly while chopping wood. With a driving test tomorrow. Twat! That's all from me tonight as I can't really type...

a proper Land Rover owner has a hi-lift jack! The trolley jack is no use but a hi-lift jack will be the best £50 you ever spend on lifting equipment.

 

Sorry about the finger - at least it is still attached!

[Angrydicky]

Lost my Cambridge keys.

 

Wank.

[eddyramrod]

Ah, it's a well known fact, worldwide, that drivers in Wallasey are the worst in the known universe.

 

It might have been, until Paphos claimed the title! I think there are about four Cypriots who can actually drive, and I know all of them. The rest still think they're racing donkeys. Oh and every last one has discovered how to turn on his fogs, but can't find the off switch...

 

Angry Dicky, have you tried some of your other Austin keys? From memory, it should be possible to at least open the door with one...

[mattblack]

Lost my Cambridge keys.

 

Wank.

 

Yeah, that should take your mind off losing your keys...

[sporty-shite]

Ebay. Again.

 

Just browsing through my feedback, and the thick bint who bought the pushchair last month, who insisted on using her own courier, and who fed back that she was well happy, has now followed up that the wheels were broken, and that it is too heavy. Hence she is "very annoyed".

 

Now, I posted a link to this pushchair on the Mothercare website, where it is still for sale for £200 (she paid £29). This includes dimensions and WEIGHT. There was nothing wrong with it when it left here, and I packed to well past her suggestion of what was necessary, i.e damn well.

 

To top it off, I've gone through her recent feedback, and she's only gone and bought another on the same. I'm thinking second hand shop owner, or downright thick bint. Either way, I have fired off a particularly stroppy email to the stupid waste of air.

 

That's better.........

[eddyramrod]

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[Guest]

1. Radio work.

 

Why is everything upload related optimised for IE8? I can't even listen to the sodding feed on Chrome.

Hence I have to use IE8 to upload, and it takes the pissmichael every time by demanding to know why it isn't 'the default browser'. Let's have a think - is it because YOU IS TOTAL SHIT? Racist.

 

2. Plug sockets. I do not have enough of them. I'm blaming this on IE8 as well, because tonight I am the arbiter of hatred.

 

3. Work. Do you fucking well want me in tomorrow or not?

 

4. Useless nobhead lecturers. Top quote from our Video Journalism tutor : 'I'm not sure about Video Journalism, I don't think it exists.'

 

Me: 'I've no idea why people think courses like our are a pisstaking waste of money.'

 

Her: 'You've got the wrong attitude.'

 

Me: 'Want me to film it?'

*Gets out netbook and finishes writing up the extended IPTOC interview for my project thing.*

 

5. Netbook and GIMP 2. Just. Fucking. Work. You. Fucking. Arsehole.

 

Conclusion

 

It's all a load of dribbling pus.

[warren t claim]

Mens Health.

 

No, not the magazine but after some intense Net-Doctor reasearch I've discovered I'm suffering from a slightly embarrassing (or not) problem. I knew I should of consulted my doctor nearly 20 years ago about this when it first appeared. I seem to have a somewhat iffy condition. Alas I don't trust my current GP 100% due to him being a bit pally with my ex and her family and he still believes I'm living with her because I didn't want to change my address.

 

I don't have any real problem with getting intimately examined if it cures the problem but I don't want to run the risk of it getting back to my ex. Even though it has the potential to turn nasty I can live with the illness, in fact some men would pay for the symptoms, but I want to be cured and live a normal life.

 

A Rodney Street doctor in Liverpool is likely to charge me £80 for a 20 minute consultation and my problem is probably going to need a few visits.

 

More fucking expense in my life I don't need.

[RedSparrow]

I sympathise Warren. I am having to fork out £500 for a rather 'personal' procedure that the NHS don't bother with, which involves me going to a London private clinic.

The thing that is getting me through the cost/worry is knowing it'll be a weight off my mind when it's done - I should have had it sorted 10 years ago.

I hope all goes well for you and it doesn't get too costly.

[nigel bickle]

There's usually a GP surgery at your local NHS hospital -useful if you dont want your own Doctor/surgery involved.

 

Might be a low cost (ie: free) option?

[pogweasel]

AUTOSHITE IN GALLOPING KNOB-ROT SHOCKER!

[Louise2cv]

THIS THREAD IS GR8 WITHOUT PICS!

 

Seriously though, might this be a great time to find a new GP? You never know when you might need them. If not a GUM clinic to sort this prob out.