The grumpy thread

[eddyramrod]

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

[Tayne]

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.

 

Sky news were claiming a 25% rise for women and a 10% drop for men.

 

Its a myth that women are safer, women have more accidents than men.

Women tend to do stupid low cost things like reversing into the gate posts at the end of their own drive way on a frequent basis whereas men go out and have proper accidents.

[RedSparrow]

Yep. The area you live in effecting insurance premiums really pisses me off. It means poorer people end up paying a lot more for car insurance than the rich. Fair?

[Cavcraft]

Some of my fairly near neighbours on here might want to avert their gaze for a minute:

 

We had the same 'postcode lottery' when they decided Ellesmere Port (and other areas) should have a 'CH' instead of 'L' postcode. Now before anyone gets excited I'm not suggesting all scousers/plastic scousers/Portites/whatever are thieves, but our insurance certainly went up after the postcode change.

[eddyramrod]

Women tend to do stupid low cost things like reversing into the gate posts at the end of their own drive way on a frequent basis whereas men go out and have proper accidents.

 

My wife did exactly that with both her expensive cars, the PT Cruiser and the brand-new Suzuki that succeeded it. Some of us, however, go to work and get rear-ended on the roundabout, writing off the cheap old shite car and taking nearly six months to wrestle the pain level down enough to return to work (then have more time off because of ongoing pain and eventually leave for something less physical).

 

However, she did also have "proper" accidents in her preceding Proton and Hyundai, and is still suffering with the knee damage from the Hyundai 7 years later. Neither was her fault in any way.

 

All her cars mentioned in this reply were actually rather good, so maybe I simply haven't been paying enough for my old bins all this time. Might explain why I've had so much shite...

[dollywobbler]

Role reversal for us. My wife rolls a Minor into a ditch, upside down and backwards - the other day I drove the BX into a fence.

[CIH]

Inever understood the whole women safer than men thing. Aren't there simply more men driving than women ?

[Rover414]

Some of my fairly near neighbours on here might want to avert their gaze for a minute:

 

We had the same 'postcode lottery' when they decided Ellesmere Port (and other areas) should have a 'CH' instead of 'L' postcode. Now before anyone gets excited I'm not suggesting all scousers/plastic scousers/Portites/whatever are thieves, but our insurance certainly went up after the postcode change.

 

Mentioning that reminds me of whats going on around here, Tesco are building a new superstore in L8 area (where it is isn't a bad area, I live there and little goes on) but Tesco insurance will not insure cars from L8 postcode. Madness.

[Rusty Pelican]

Just paid £130.9 per litre of petrol , my Beemer does 24.7 MPG around town so not good

[seth]

Role reversal for us. My wife rolls a Minor into a ditch, upside down and backwards - the other day I drove the BX into a fence.

 

How long is your wifes hair? Perhaps gender has nothing to do with accident statistics at all and the likelihood of accidents is actually affected by having more or less hair.

[Lankytim]

Just paid £130.9 per litre of petrol , my Beemer does 24.7 MPG around town so not good

 

Frigging helll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Timewaster]

Just paid £130.9 per litre of petrol , my Beemer does 24.7 MPG around town so not good

 

Frigging helll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I drive past a garage every day that is charging 140.9pfor diesel!

 

(Too bloody right I drive past)

[Tayne]

Role reversal for us. My wife rolls a Minor into a ditch, upside down and backwards - the other day I drove the BX into a fence.

 

How long is your wifes hair? Perhaps gender has nothing to do with accident statistics at all and the likelihood of accidents is actually affected by having more or less hair.

 

Tely Savalis and Duncan Goodhew both have full no claims.

 

Matt Lucas has full no claims but David Walliams has had several accidents (he's a LAAYYYYDEEEE!)

[Lord Sterling]

So, with the twat in the BMW, mong in the Mondeo and cunt in the Punto incidents behind me, I try going out in the Micra today.

 

Today though, I got some bloody woman in BINI trying to trying to crash into my car and run me off the road! What for I dont know? Reminds me how much I'm starting to hate driving

 

Nearly pulled up to confront the bloody slag, which she was well willing to do, but me being a bloke and her being a woman, I could envisage made-up assault or attempted this and that type charges being brought against me, so I swallowed my pride and carried on

 

I fucking hate driving around here.

[dollywobbler]

Role reversal for us. My wife rolls a Minor into a ditch, upside down and backwards - the other day I drove the BX into a fence.

 

How long is your wifes hair? Perhaps gender has nothing to do with accident statistics at all and the likelihood of accidents is actually affected by having more or less hair.

 

My god. I think you've sussed it Seth. My hair is actually longer than my wife's. Don't tell the insurance companies!

 

As for fuel costs - I paid 132.9 to fill the 2CV up on Sunday. £28!! I then had to fill it up again later that day (a more acceptable £22 in England, though the tank wasn't as empty). The first £30 fill-up for the 2CV will make me cry.

 

A good job I'm getting rid of that thirsty Land Rover then. Only an idiot would go straight out and buy another fuel guzzler! Oh shit.

[Richard]

I managed to get £102 in the van yesterday.

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

http://www.petrolprices.com/search.html?search=Aviemore

 

Glad I'm not driving at the moment, and have a stockpile of veg oil.

[fotorabia]

Im now completely sick about hearing of the f-ing earthquake..each time i went to Christchurch..i was either robbed..threatened or had blatant racist attitudes..its home to all the White Power gangs of NZ..nrly all the murderous necrophiliacs come from that town..prostitutes routinely murdered..worst story was skinheads threatening a young Samoan guy who panicked in his getaway car and killed two teenage girls..the skinheads actually gave evidence in court/.ok..250 people dead..thats sad..but Haiti it was 250000..and they dont even have an economy..not like stinkin rich NZ..theres no let up from the media..missing student from Czechoslovakia..waddafuk..that whole country is missing u dumbhead Kiwi hack..

[trigger]

Just spotted this post on a vauxhall forum, it sums one of the biggest problems with Top Gear for me (which i do enjoy i must add).

 

My wife and I and my best mate and his Mrs (possibly my bro and his mrs) are planning a "Top Gear" style holiday! Half of those going will be squaddies so it will be REALLY funny lol

 

The plan is (so far), to pick an airport in europe and book a flight from there to the UK. Then buy 3 cheap (and we are looking for very cheap £0-£300ish) cars, with Tax, MOT and road legal just to cover the trip. Then do the whole Top Gear thing where we drive from the UK to our airport of choice messing about (bumping into each other, opening doors into each other, super glueing the radio on full blast etc etc and other funny but anoying things) lol

 

We will sight see on the way. Any cities/ places of interest will be visited and messed about in! Ive already thought ahead and looking for a Bedford Rascal Van (so I have somewhere to sleep) but anything will do really!

 

Anyway, we will video the whole trip and make an episode of "squaddie top gear" to put onto You Tube!

[cobblers]

Just spotted this post on a vauxhall forum, it sums one of the biggest problems with Top Gear for me (which i do enjoy i must add).

 

My wife and I and my best mate and his Mrs (possibly my bro and his mrs) are planning a "Top Gear" style holiday! Half of those going will be squaddies so it will be REALLY funny lol

 

The plan is (so far), to pick an airport in europe and book a flight from there to the UK. Then buy 3 cheap (and we are looking for very cheap £0-£300ish) cars, with Tax, MOT and road legal just to cover the trip. Then do the whole Top Gear thing where we drive from the UK to our airport of choice messing about (bumping into each other, opening doors into each other, super glueing the radio on full blast etc etc and other funny but anoying things) lol

 

We will sight see on the way. Any cities/ places of interest will be visited and messed about in! Ive already thought ahead and looking for a Bedford Rascal Van (so I have somewhere to sleep) but anything will do really!

 

Anyway, we will video the whole trip and make an episode of "squaddie top gear" to put onto You Tube!

 

I hope to some kind of imaginary god that this is a windup. and other funny but annoying things like burning peoples vans down while they are sleeping in it, and casual racism

[fotorabia]

Id suggest Afghanistan..in uniform..with the cars painted in camo..see how long they last

[RedSparrow]

Wow those guys sound crazy, wacky and fun!

 

Oh no wait, I mean they sound like stupid pricks. I hope they end up in a Albanian prison due to their 'messing about'.

[autofive]

squaddie top gear

 

TRANSLATION: pisshead racist fuckwitts gangraping while driving vauxhalls

[Guest]

I reckon the most likely outcome is that they'll forget about it and not bother.

 

One good point about Top Gear is that it allows the dim to underestimate how easy it is for a car to break down on long journeys, combined with the fanciful idea that everything that goes wrong can be fixed with whatever is at hand. I wonder how many student sorts have spent hours making their car look like a pirate ship or whatever, only for it to boil up beyond repair as soon as it goes on the motorway. I love the idea of a load of morons in fancy dress being told by an AA man that the engine is basically beyond repair, but being that they got all the way to Rotherham, their "local tow only" cover doesn't extend to getting the car back home to Barnsley.

[Station]

Do you have the link for that Vauxhall site? I could do with a laugh.

 

My car got clamped today again (I'm taking it up to a garage for storage today - give me a chance you fuckers!). I awoke early as usual, so they must be out clamping well before 7am. It was once again plastered viz die propaganda:

 

 

Sheisse! So, after accepting the challenge, I removed der propaganda from the car (retaining to possibly stick back on some uberDVLAwagenstein's windscreen), and then routinely removing die klampz off , I whisked the car away from this parking area, which I believe is now going to be continually targetted on a very personal level, only ever to return with a tax disc in the window.

 

I also though the DVLA had taken to putting advertising for some Hollywood film about a futuristic, neo-fascist regime, but was surprised to find this hateful piece of shit actual official DVLA wording on the little leaflet:

 

 

 

No escape? Make better clamps that don't take 10 minutes to remove, you fucking parasites.

 

PS Suck my cock DVLA.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Go Station!!! I take my hat off to you! What are you doing with all these clamps? It would be great if you could weigh them in for enough to buy yourself a curry and a few beers.

[Negative Creep]

Quality! If you keep the clamps or just leave them outside for the pikeys to take could that not be theft though? Also how did you get the clamp off?

[HereHareHere]

Yeah, I want to know how you got the clamp off. I've not enjoyed much success with my method of kicking them while crying tears of blood.

 

A word of warning though: a bloke I once knew managed to hacksaw/grind a clamp off his car (yes - it was a Beetle), and proudly put it up on the wall of his flat as a trophy. Sadly he hadn't realised that the clampers note down the particulars of every car they clamp (obvious really), and after a couple of weeks the police turned up at his door. The clamp was staring them in the face when he opened it, and he ended up getting done for theft and criminal damage, as well as the original vehicle-based infraction.

[autofive]

just a side note:

 

to be charged with theft you must have "permanently deprived' the owner of their property

 

i.e. if you are just looking after it, until the owner returns - no theft has taken place

[trigger]

Do you have the link for that Vauxhall site? I could do with a laugh.

 

Here you go, you need to be logged in to read it though,

 

http://www.vodc.co.uk/showthread.php?t=16936