The grumpy thread

[trigger]

I think that's a Mitsubishi GTO, This was the Celica, He's only just finished building it, I hope it wasn't caused by something being faulty or badly fitted on the car and was just human error.

 

[Timewaster]

Sad news.

 

Lets be careful out there.

[ashmicro]

RIP lad. He seems to have been well liked. Having just bought a new (and very fast) car, that's given me food for thought.

[mattblack]

Listed a dismantled Villers 2-stroke engine on ebay, 99p start... Obv. heavy so stated 'collection only or arrange your own courier'. Just had someone ask if I have a BIN price and can I post it?

[eddyramrod]

Still no sign of my puppies...

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Would you like to see some puppies?

[eddyramrod]

Yes, I would; these two!

 

I'd also like to see the "person" responsible for their absence. I'd especially like to see him hang.

[trigger]

^

 

On different news making me grumpy, My Escort is pissing water in like a sieve, I noticed the other morning the passenger footwell was full of water and it's hardly stopped raining since.

 

I need to do the hose pipe test once it stops raining i think.

[fiatdaft]

hopefully it isn't the battery tray.

[Lankytim]

I bet it is!

[trigger]

It had crossed my mind, It's in the right place, the area around the tray is like new though so unless it got a hole under the battery then i not sure if it is that, There's only one way to find out...

[Cavcraft]

  Team Blitz said:

^^Hand a bog roll tube to a little hamster and have it crawl inside to look?

 

[messerschmitt owner]

  mattblack said:

Listed a dismantled Villers 2-stroke engine on ebay, 99p start... Obv. heavy so stated 'collection only or arrange your own courier'. Just had someone ask if I have a BIN price and can I post it?

what engine is it? I'd be interested if it's an 8E or 9E.

[mattblack]

MK25c off an Allen Scythe AFAIK...

[wuvvum]

Got told today that my job will be moving to Witham at the end of June, along with my entire department. So I have three choices: 1) move to Witham; 2) commute to Witham and back every day; 3) find another job. None of these three are particularly appealing at the moment, but I'm going to have to choose one sooner or later. Ideal would be if I can find another job in Norwich on similar money to what I'm earning now, but decent jobs aren't exactly growing on trees in this part of the world at the moment.

 

Still, I've been there eight years so I'll get enough redundancy to see me through for three months or so should I choose to go down that route. Just not something I really need right now, although I'm in a better situation than some in the department (two single mums with two kids and a mortgage apiece, one 22-year-old lad whose girlfriend has just had a baby...) as I have no dependants and I rent my house, so if I need to move it won't be quite so much of an upheaval as it would for them. Still a royal PITA though, and doubly annoying as not three months ago I got offered a better job with a larger company - turned it down at the time so they're unlikely to offer me a job again...

[Claypole]

No harm in asking them?

 

Nothing ventured etc.

[Richard]

Would you get redundancy?

[Guest]

Wuvvum, I'd just like to chip in - my job moved from my city to some horrid pit town in the middle of nowhere, I think it was only about 15-20 miles each way but it was a bloody awkward and long drawn out route involving me going through the entirety of Wakefield's city centre congestion before I'd even got a third of the way through the journey. I did that for a few years and it absolutely busted my balls, then took a job on secondment back where I live and instantly felt better for it. I'm never working outside where I live ever again.

[Lankytim]

IIRC, if your job moves more than X miles away the employer must offer redundancy as an option, for those who stay on they have to pay a contribution towards travel costs for the first six months or so to allow employees to make other arrangements (move home, find a new job e.t.c.)

[wuvvum]

I think Lankytim's on the money there - they can't force you to move to a completely different part of the country. They haven't used the word "redundancy" yet as technically we're not being made redundant, we're relocating, but they have to offer redundancy as an option, and as I'm on the "old-style" contract my redundancy terms are 3x statutory, which would be worth having. They have said they would pay for our season tickets on the train if we did decide to commute, but as Hirst says, a journey like that is not something I'd particlarly want to have to undertake every day, especially at rush hour. We shall see...

[Station]

Buying a ringer, then having the seller offer to put the ringer through an MOT (car is A1, but the VIN plate is off another car (which wasn't dodgy - the shell was rotten)), getting the car clamped, and then having to wait over 1 week for a response on the MOT results, only to be told someone's died (or the dog's ate it) and I have to wait for an unspecified length of time while my nerves are getting more and more ravaged as I check outside the window for a big yellow tow truck coming to collect my car. I don't want to sell the car, I'll drive it for it's whole length of life for a year, I just want a frigging car to drive!

[wuvvum]

  Claypole said:

No harm in asking them?

 

Nothing ventured etc.

I rang the agency earlier this morning - all the positions have now been filled. It's what I expected really. Maybe it's time for a complete career change...

[Cavcraft]

Car insurance. I see on the news the insurance companies are being forced not to discrimate against young male drivers compared with their female counterparts. Surprise, surprise it would seem instead of lowering insurance costs for the lads they're upping it for the birds.

[Station]

Of course they are! I bet they were rubbing their hands together over that one. Statisically women are safer. If they don't want to discriminate, they should lose the totally inaccurate and out of date postcode thing, or just fuck off and die.

[Claypole]

I bet they (Insurance Companies) reported themselves for discrimination. Cashback.

[chaseracer]

  Claypole said:

I bet they (Insurance Companies) reported themselves for discrimination. Cashback.

Apparently, it was a Belgian consumer group. Good work...

[Negative Creep]

Doesn't bother me, no women in my house. That will teach them for not wanting to go out with me.

[Mr Lobster]

Wuvvum, re the long commute - don't - it very quickly becomes an utter ballache.

 

My last employer decided that they would move me from working in Accrington (15 mins from home) to Liverpool (90 mins from home). I was told that there was bugger all I could do (backed up by ACAS) so ended up spending two years travelling 150 miles a day to work and back. Hated every minute, ruined the job for me and had too much impact on my life. I'd really advise against long commutes.

[Timewaster]

Ref insurers. Surely ALL insurance is discriminatory.

 

You wouldn't believe how cosworthist they are. Not to mention ageist, sexist, postcodeist etc. etc.

 

Should all premiums be the same now for everyone whatever they drive and wherever they live?

[eddyramrod]

Tontops, that's dangerous! We'd all be paying the same as Jim Davidson by your reckoning....