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  CreepingJesus said:

Near-side front wheelbearings. Almost every car I've owned, it's the first one to start whining away. Must be my driving style, surely? And not just me buying cheap, high mileage rubbish...

 

Take it easy on roundabouts :-)

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Letter from HM Revenue stating I am on tax code BR for the next year. I really hope this is due to my employers not sorting my P45, otherwise I'll be on 20% tax, or to put it another way £15 a week better off than if I was on the dole

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Hateful, odious, arse licking, 'say anything because you think they want you to say it', creeping, snivelling bastards. Instead of coming out with a truly cringeworthy, excrutiatingly embarrassing comment like that why don't you just dive on your new boss, pull his pants down and lick his arse in full view of everyone?

 

You vile, incredibly annoying hateful fucking waste of fresh air. I hope you get fitted up with some trumped up work misdemenour and fired, you fucking twat.

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  Angry Dicky said:
I pulled up outside the post office earlier to post some letters in my A55 Cambridge when an old giffer came ambling over and collared me as I got out. The conversation went something like this:

 

Wrong thread! Made me grin. :D I think "twunt" is the appropriate word.

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  tontops said:
  CreepingJesus said:

Near-side front wheelbearings. Almost every car I've owned, it's the first one to start whining away. Must be my driving style, surely? And not just me buying cheap, high mileage rubbish...

 

Take it easy on roundabouts :-)

 

That's what everyone else says! Maybe I'll go equally quickly the wrong way round roundabouts, in the middle of the night when no-one else is about. "Honest officer, it evens out the wheel bearing wear..." :lol:

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  Team Blitz said:
^^Or backwards the right way, Smoky-stylee! :lol:

 

"Sorry officer, I've just spent the last 15 hours driving a forklift. I got confused..."

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To our mong - brained video journalism lecturer.....

 

Do you want this package or not?

 

Telling me I can't have the lesson off to interview someone who can only do that slot is THE MOST STUPID THING I HAVE EVER HEARD (and I used to work at Vertex), especially when all we do is edit in the sessions anyway. Telling me that I'm 'not committed' and 'incredibly arrogant' makes my blood boil. How I managed to stand there and listen to you dribble on like a mong without telling you to fuck off and die I'll never know.

 

Also, telling me I don't know how to compose a shot. Fuck off. Seriously. Not being funny, not whopping my cock out or anything, but composing a shot is something I know how to do. Honestly. Not won awards for it or anything, really. That's something I can prove, unlike you, of whom I can find no trace of anywhere in the industry past or present. Oh, I'm wrong am I? Fucking well prove it.

 

I'm sick to death of so called 'experts' who can't back up a damn thing they say. If you want me to understand, FUCKING WELL JUSTIFY IT. Experience or not, if you don't, you just sound like a prick, and I'll continue to laugh my arse off at you.

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my fuggin car.......

 

Not had it long and generally drive it very gently........today I gave it some wellie and it just coughed and refused to go past 3000. Had a poke around under bonnet in dinner hour and unplugged tune/economy chip thing. no better. called in a specialist on way home and plugged it in computer. Apparently the 'pre pressure' pump is fooked. Well he actually ended the diagnosis by saying probably........so 50 quid for a probably and then 150 quid part to find out for sure. I'll probably be quite pissed off if he is wrong........

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I was listing an item on ebay and decided to put a reserve on it. For this pleasure they wanted to charge me £16 quid!

When did they start up this latest scam.

So £2.86 for the advert and an extra £16 to set a reserve. I didn't set one in the end as I would have feel liked I'd been tiger bummed.

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Must admit, not sure I'll be using Ebay again. It was useful to get rid of the CX, and I thought it'd be the strongest place to sell the Landy (seeing as the prices aren't based on reality when it comes to Defender-shapes on Ebay) but it is a long way from cheap.

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Hey WAT, why don't you just either go on a different course OR leave altogether?

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  watanabe said:

 

mong - brained video journalism lecturer.....

THE MOST STUPID THING I HAVE EVER HEARD

you dribble on like a mong

fuck off and die

Fuck off. Seriously.

you, of whom I can find no trace of anywhere in the industry past or present

Fucking well prove it.

so called 'experts' who can't back up a damn thing they say.

FUCKING WELL JUSTIFY IT

you just sound like a prick, and I'll continue to laugh my arse off at you.

 

 

I'm 'not committed' and 'incredibly arrogant'

 

Sorry Wat. from that rant, it sounds they may have a point

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Yeah actually Wat, leave if it's that bad. You post almost daily about how 'they are all cunts' etc.

Or possibly consider taking on board what other people are telling you for once in your life - ever wondered why you have rows with most people you meet? I don't even know you but you seem to have a problem with every other member of the human race and a massive persecution complex.

 

(puts on flameproof suit)

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  Station said:
I hate k-series.

After spending three months putting a new engine and doing it properly, I've now spent a further two weeks tracing a hesitation in the throttle under any load (making the car undrivable) when it warms up (10 minutes). I've replaced everything on the engine (throttle body, TPS, CTS, injectors, spark plugs, HT leads, cap, rotor, earthing cable), I've checked the timing and done a compression test (on a brand new HG change). I've come to the conclusion that they're completely shit engines, and the performance isn't any good either. I'm getting nowhere with this, fuck you Rover.

 

Fuel pump and/or filter? Seemed to solve a similar problem on my GTI VVC

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Since my employers still haven't sorted my tax code, I have been paid a grand total of £168 this week

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I met WAT once, and thought he was a GR8 bloke.

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WAT seems like a perfectly decent chap in real life but sounds like a potential fruitcake serial killer character from 'Cracker' over the internet.

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Ok, fair enough. I haven't met the lad, maybe he just shows his HULK side online.

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  Mr_Bo11ox said:
WAT seems like a perfectly decent chap in real life but sounds like a potential fruitcake serial killer character from 'Cracker' over the internet.

 

Internet can be a peculiar place! One day Wat will post in the Grin thread, and we'll all wonder what the f*ck is going on!

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I've met WAT several times and he's really a sound bloke. In fact he's actually quite normal.

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  RedSparrow said:
Yeah actually Wat, leave if it's that bad. You post almost daily about how 'they are all cunts' etc.

Or possibly consider taking on board what other people are telling you for once in your life - ever wondered why you have rows with most people you meet? I don't even know you but you seem to have a problem with every other member of the human race and a massive persecution complex.

 

(puts on flameproof suit)

 

Listen sir, the blowtorches are at home. And I have no gas.

 

Hmm. I see.

 

Perhaps I should elaborate. This module is one out of six others, of which I have had no problems (aside from my USB stick going tonto). Sadly this aforementioned lecturer \ module is a complete idiot. I'm more than capable of taking criticism thanks, I just need to hear it backed up with some knowledge and evidence rather than a load of self contradictory waffle that hath no bottom. If she's the lecturer, and supposedly has this wealth of experience, I would like her to speak of it. So far, she hasn't, in my opinion. She has more or less turned a pretty decent first year experience into a foul one, and I begrudge her a great deal because of it. I don't want to leave, because better is to come. I'll weather this bollocks, and if I have to eff and blind a few times, so be it.

 

I wasn't in a very nice mood when I typed that, primarily because I'd spent most of the day editing down a huge pile of rushes that had taken weeks to organise and had been ruling my life when at University. Shit for brains lecturer takes a cursory glance at it, slates the lot, tells me it's complete garbage and that it was all wrong. The fact that she has taught us the sum total of jack-shit seems to have slipped her mind, and that we're doing the best we can. It's hard to explain if you weren't there.

 

Yes, I use this section of the board to mouth off. Some of it shouldn't be aired, and for that I'm sorry. Better than that than me pasting someone over a few misplaced comments and a term's worth of professional neglect.

 

It actually takes a great deal of abuse to offend me, and her comments did not sit well. I took rather massive umbrage at her calling me 'uncommitted' when I've put hours upon hours into this afterbirth of a module and pretty much organised everything. The other lad turns up and gets driven to and from Uni, by me. I planned the shots, I booked the camera out, I made the arrangements with everyone. Arrogant? No, sorry, not me, just someone who wants his money's worth.

 

1 shit module out of 6 isn't too bad. I should stop letting all this get to me.

 

Apologies.

 

Can we move on?

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  Negative Creep said:
Since my employers still haven't sorted my tax code, I have been paid a grand total of £168 this week

 

That's pish. I R also having trouble with HMRC also at the moment. I am enjoying the challenges this new life presents me. Long story short, I was on the wrong tax code for ages in my last [FT] job. Tax man sends me a demand, they get bolshy and say I have to pay it because I owe them, 'ol persecution complex here says 'you can have a pound a week 'cos I'm skint' and they say they're going away to 'look into it in more detail'.

 

Indeed. Hope you get it sorted.

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On Saturday morning..we had an intruder..id forgotten to chain the front door..luckily our fierce as [not!] Jack Russel gave the obligatory bark...thats what hes hired for..so they scarpered with only my wallet off the kitchen table..no cash but all me cards n ID bummer..typical of this area..we have a family of serial burglars called the Spittles who live around the cnr..withing flobbing distance so im convinced its them and am now going to gob on their shite car everytime i walk past..thats all..im calm now

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I'm missing my old 205 so much it hurts! :cry:

 

It's very unusual for me to mourn the selling of a car over six months ago but summers coming and I'll always associate it with long drives in the Cheshire countryside with the windows down, scuttling from corner to corner and having a hoon at almost legal speeds.

 

I spent many happy hours turning it from a neglected looking heap to something that didn't look totally out of place at Cholmongely.

 

The sad reality is that most of my miles are done on a motorway and it only managed 38mpg on average and that was sitting at 60-65mph, it's bargetastic replacement manages a similar figure at the same speed and is probably even more economical at 80mph+.

 

In short I think a 205 dizzler is needed a.s.a.p.

 

Can someone please give me a totally HONEST opinion of what they are like to drive and own. I have driven one about 12 years ago and although I thought it was a bit slow and unrefined compared to my 1.8 Cav that I owned at the time I think a reappraisal is in order.

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I have met Watt and he's absolutely crackers, probably not as much as me.

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I must say I find the concept of teachers/lecturers a)knowing anything and/or B) being willing to divulge any of it a bit alien. It's a bit like contacting Customer Services and expecting to get some customer service.

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I think Wat is Dr Jekyll to Hirst's Mr Hyde.

 

Or perhaps that should eb the other way round :?

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I was a bit grumpy at the toe rag who cut me up at a junction this morning, but even more so at his cum-stain son in the passenger seat who gave me the finger as I was being cut up.

 

But I've calmed down now; there simply isn't time to berate all the cunts in this world and if there was I'd spend too long on Estate Agents.

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Wat's a right laugh.

 

Warren: check eBaY, I looked the other night and there were two or three 205 dizzlers advertised locally. They're not the most fantastic, awe inspiring drive you'll have (especially in n/a form) and power steering is a real benefit, but they're o.k to live with and (imho) there's nothing you'll really end up despising. They're a fairly pleasant, very 'inoffensive' little car that won't excite you but will do you a good turn and be cheap to run.

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