The grumpy thread

[Albert Ross]

I'm indifferent.

[messerschmitt owner]

two things you should never discuss on an internet forum!

 

religion and politics - now feck off with this nonsense and be grumpy about cars again!

[Albert Ross]

Apparently these threads just change tack when someone mentions Hitler.

[Formula Autos]

Your female PM was sensational.

 

Some may well disagree.

[Guest]

Thatcher was great, look at the Grimethorpe's "economic miracle" for instance - when the people there were put out of work by the pit closure, the private sector instantly stepped in to fill the gap, not to mention all these entrepreneurs and startup businesses. It is now the most prosperous place in the world.

 

P.S. They didn't, it isn't.

[CreepingJesus]

Milk Snatcher's a blue-blood zombie. She feeds off looming behind every successive new Tory leader, and causing lazy journos to ask the obvious question. A silver bullet might do it.

 

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...

[wuvvum]

She feeds off looming behind every successive new Tory leader, and causing lazy journos to ask the obvious question.

 

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7952788256797322805#

 

[morris_ital_lover]

Fucking two faced twats... one of the people I deal with at uni said that a charge for a failed direct debit would be waivered since it was the banks fault. Fast forward one month and she sends me an angry email saying I haven't paid it.

 

m0rris

[CreepingJesus]

She feeds off looming behind every successive new Tory leader, and causing lazy journos to ask the obvious question.

 

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7952788256797322805#

 

 

Naughty! Not a fan of Wossy, but that was pretty good. At least in the first 10 mins I've watched. I'd believe Call-Me-Dave didn't knock one out to the thought of Maggie; but I wonder about some of the old guard. Some of them got caught out, with their little peccadilloes and proclivities...having a quick lamb shank over 'herself' would be nothing to those Rt. Hon. Dirty Bastards.

[Station]

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.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Milk Snatcher

My beef with Thatcher is that she made us pay for school milk instead of just discontinuing it. For twenty years I didn't drink milk. All because when I was five I was forced to bring 20p to school to drink repulsive lukewarm milk with lumpy bits of cream congealing around the top of the filthy little bottle. It wasn't until last year that I drank some properly chilled milk, and although it tasted nice enough I'm still not keen on it.

[Angrydicky]

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:

 

"Nice car, getting very rare now aren't they. I had one when I was 18. Poor man's Rolls Royce in their day"

 

"Yeah, not many about these days. I use it every day".

 

"You should do it up, it would be worth serious money if it was in nice nick".

 

"Nah, I use it in all weathers and through the winter, so it would just deteriorate".

 

"Haven't you got a garage for it?"

 

"No"

 

"Well you're done for then"

 

"eh"

 

"Yeah, I would have bought that before, but not now".

 

And he walked off, smirking to himself. I was speechless

[Timewaster]

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

[Negative Creep]

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

[Cavcraft]

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.

[seth]

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. I think "twunt" is the appropriate word.

[CreepingJesus]

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..."

[CreepingJesus]

^^Or backwards the right way, Smoky-stylee!

 

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

[Guest]

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.

[alf892]

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........

[cort16]

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.

[dollywobbler]

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.

[Lankytim]

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

[Timewaster]

 

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

[RedSparrow]

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)

[Alexg]

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

[Negative Creep]

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

[Lankytim]

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

[Mr_Bo11ox]

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

[RedSparrow]

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