The grumpy thread

[Guest]

I actually quite enjoyed my last family holiday. Instead of spending it with my awful extended family in the miserable hell-hole of Butlins, I spent every day driving around Lincolnshire on my own.

 

 

Just me, the Galant and some lovely MW radio. Bliss!

[pompei]

The Commandant booked a family holiday for October. Standoff time at Pompei Towers as I refused to go. Teenage and toddler tantrums = mega stress NOT relax. And I'm expected to pay?? Upshot is, I'm staying here with the infant, she's going with the older two. Best bloody holiday I'll have had for years with just the two of us, and those three out the country!

[pogweasel]

Urgh, holidays!Absolutely pointless exercise in my opinion. Though I guess it's a motivator for when you go back to work (for a rest!).

[dollywobbler]

No kiddies FTW! My wife and I had a lovely holiday in Northumberland earlier in the year. Could do with another one now mind, though my next holiday will be spent driving the BX around France with a mate, so not the usual fare!

[gearoil]

Okay, not a car or people based rant but...A certain brand of paint.Touch dry in 3-4 hours.... my arse, 22 hours later and its still tacky. Guarenteed 1 coat coverage... no, actually thats a misprint we ment 3. Minimum. FFS.

[pompei]

That one-coat stuff is useless I've found. Translucent and gloopy finish at the same time (though that could be my technique ) Own brand colours dry nowt like they look like on the tin - B&Q serves theirs in a see-through tub - aha, I can tell what colour it'll be ... ha! No chance, dries 3 shades lighter. Might as well dry a different colour for all the good that is. GRRR

[pompei]

Tesco - top tip - whilst it's a great idea to put some of your wine in the chillers, don't put the red in **OK, I know that the Spanish sometimes glug cool rioja, but this is Cleethorpes not Barcelona

[Albert Ross]

I have this exact same problem with my local Tesco Express.........what did they do to remedy the situation? Of course, they left the red where it was, and turned the chiller off! Tossers..........and now the beer section of the chiller has the Bitter in it also, this used to be on a shelf ..................Am I wrong to protest it?

[pogweasel]

GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!Why the f*ck has my battery charger packed up? I put it on the car this morning, just been to take it off, done fuck all, still flat as a pancake. Bastards.

[dollywobbler]

Sure it isn't just a very deaded battery? Have to say, I've got a boost pack now and it's much better. Well, it would be if I hadn't bought a really shit Halford one that has dodgy connections on it, necessitating two people (one to hold cables in exactly the right place, the other to turn the key) to start a car. Must buy a good one.

[gearoil]

Ebay listings in which the seller refers to the vehicle they are selling as 'she' Now as if it doesnt annoy me enough with a regular car, van or whatever, I've just spotted a listing for an old Tamiya* r/c car with this in it...* yes, I'm browsing these while the paint I mentioned earlier sorts itself out.

[pogweasel]

  dollywobbler said:

Sure it isn't just a very deaded battery? Have to say, I've got a boost pack now and it's much better. Well, it would be if I hadn't bought a really shit Halford one that has dodgy connections on it, necessitating two people (one to hold cables in exactly the right place, the other to turn the key) to start a car. Must buy a good one.

Unlikey, as it's brought deader stuff back from the, umm, dead before now. Tried one of those booster packs previous, OK for a one-time start, but then you're on jumps and bumps for the rest of the day. When I removed the charger from the car I noted that it was not showing either a 'charging' nor 'maintaining' light. I'll have to try it on something else and see what happens. Otherwise it's new battery time, again. I ought to buy shares in the battery co....

[Cavcraft]

*Slight aside sorry but if anyone's local to me (near Chester) and wants a battery you're more than welcome to borrow my trade card for Halfords. You get fugging loads off the standard price on batteries.Today's rant?Whining bastards who behave like kids during football matches. There's a lad in our team must be early thirties at least and he's like a fucking spoilt kid. Why the bleedin hell do people play sports if they don't enjoy it?Davina Mcall: piss off you gobby slag. Take your car crash 'entertainment' programme and all the vacuous wankers who have ever appeared in it and jump off a fucking big cliff. But get someone to film it as it'll be the only bastard televsion programme you have anything to do with that will worth viewing.

[retrogeezer]

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*Slight aside sorry but if anyone's local to me (near Chester) and wants a battery you're more than welcome to borrow my trade card for Halfords. You get fugging loads off the standard price on batteries.

I'll remember that if I need anything Billy!

[Father Ted]

  retrogeezer said:

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*Slight aside sorry but if anyone's local to me (near Chester) and wants a battery you're more than welcome to borrow my trade card for Halfords. You get fugging loads off the standard price on batteries.

And if anyone in th Prestonish area wants to borrow mine they can do...

[Guest]

This was a great reason to detonate my Facebook account: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8blPNtqJaeM

 

Just look at all these cool trendy people with their exciting lives, going to the cinema on their own, with their stupid combovers and Rupert the Bear trousers.

 

If this is what life is going to be like in the near future, count me out.

 

"I'm at the motor discount shop!" (picture of miserable man behind counter)

"Wow! Get me a tin of red primer and some tyre shine!"

"No"

[AXrescuer]

A repeat of an earlier rant. Why is eBay full of fucking retard car sellers who don't know how to end listings early and just add the word SOLD to the bottom of the auction description!!!!

[Milford Cubicle]

To be fair to them, the 'end listing early' form is pretty well buried - at least it has been whenever I've looked for it.

[morris_ital_lover]

Probably already mentioned but.. curtain twitchers!!!Do they honestly have nothing better to do than sit there for hours watching you take stuff to new house/friend/relative? Or even just go to a freinds!m0rris

[AXrescuer]

  Milford Cubicle said:

To be fair to them, the 'end listing early' form is pretty well buried - at least it has been whenever I've looked for it.

eBay's help pages written in Swahili too I suppose! :lol:For future reference! http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/end_early.html

[RedSparrow]

  Hirst said:

This was a great reason to detonate my Facebook account: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8blPNtqJaeMJust look at all these cool trendy people with their exciting lives, going to the cinema on their own, with their stupid combovers and Rupert the Bear trousers.If this is what life is going to be like in the near future, count me out."I'm at the motor discount shop!" (picture of miserable man behind counter)"Wow! Get me a tin of red primer and some tyre shine!""No"

I agree. I hate all this shit. At no point in that ad does anyone actually speak a word to eachother. In reality however, that berk would have a gang of kids round him saying 'lend us your phone blud' etc before punching him in the stomach and running off with it. Chavs have some uses.

[Father Ted]

I have taken to bidding on auctions like that and if they email me saying its no longer for sale, reminding them that they have a legal obligation to fulfill their side of the trade... Unless they cancel the fugging auction.

[Richard]

  Hirst said:

This was a great reason to detonate my Facebook account: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8blPNtqJaeM

 

Just look at all these cool trendy people with their exciting lives, going to the cinema on their own, with their stupid combovers and Rupert the Bear trousers.

 

If this is what life is going to be like in the near future, count me out.

 

"I'm at the motor discount shop!" (picture of miserable man behind counter)

"Wow! Get me a tin of red primer and some tyre shine!"

"No"

It's life right now for a lot of people.

 

People bleat about government surveillance then they gladly submit their most intimate details to a huge faceless corporation. In fact they bleat about government surveillance on Facebook.

[Justin Case]

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This is pretty fantastic! Hardly anyone nowdays doesn't sport a Facebook account to share part of his/her life.

Well I don't for a start, and I'm not a Twit either Joking apart isn't a forum like Autoshite a real social network, rather than some Faceless (bad pun intended) site run for profit by some money-grabbing multinational company?

[dollywobbler]

Well, yes, but I'm struggling to convince my family to sign up to autoshite!

[Pete-M]

Facebook is simple. You don't HAVE to advertise where you're going to be on it. It's not compulsory to tell anybody anything. I use facebook and I find it rather amusing. I've also got in touch with some people I've not seen for 20-odd years, and it has generally been a good thing. I don't put all kinds of personal shit on it, it's rare my status is even remotely linked to me or to what I'm doing. More often it's a quote from a book or similar.Pete is going to Sheffield is hardly going to have MI5 scrambling the black helicopters.Facebook can be fun, but if you go at it with the attitude "I don't like this" then you're hardly going to enjoy it.

[dollywobbler]

Well said that man!

[FredTransit]

  Pete-M said:

Facebook can be fun, but if you go at it with the attitude "I don't like this" then you're hardly going to enjoy it.

Exactly. I don't get it so don't enjoy it.

[dollywobbler]

Presenters with the name Jeremy.Clarkson, Vine, Kyle, Beadle et al. Gah!

[Guest]

It's an odd one, Facebook. I wasn't an early adopter by any means, but eventually it raised enough curiousity that I signed up to see what the fuss was all about. Seemed alright! Filled out my profile, stuck the odd update on, did some brief film reviews, put a few photos up (largely of motors), perved at some lasses from my old school. Good stuff.Unfortunately, I later came to the decision that I think the whole thing is just a bit too self-indulgent, like it has broke a boundary and made people think that even the most uninteresting of events is somehow newsworthy. I wasn't exempt from it - most of my status comments were me bleating about work, mentioning what dreary film I'm watching, things of little interest/consequence. Who cares about my boring old life? And why should they?I'm not saying that I didn't get anything out of it, but I've come to hate what it stands for and I think it's a slippery slope. It's not uncommon now to see a group of people sat a table together and all tapping away into their phones, imagine what it'll be like in 5 years - everyone going round permanently staring into their phones, reading the increasingly more frequent/irrelevant details of what everyone else is doing, whilst broadcasting the same out to everyone else. And people who choose not to are social rejects and outcasts. It's happening already! It's happening! We're all doomed.Alternative Daily Mail version: The world's going to hell in a handcart. George Orwell/Best/Foreman/Galloway/at Asda/Bush/Formby would be spinning in his grave. Plus: IMMIGRANTS.