The grumpy thread

[CIH]

That GS seller is a right fanny. 'I AM A PILOT DONT YOU KNOW, AND I KNOW ALL ABOUT CITROENS'. He's loving telling everyone how he's going to break up his 2-owner GS for a hare-brained project to be thought about at some non-specific time in the future. I wonder if he has the faintest idea how he will convert the cylinder heads to twin-plug ignition and get it past the certification people before he can fly it. 'I WILL BE SELLING THE SHELL WITHOUT HEADLIGHTS' well thats fuggin handy isnt it, what are you keeping the headlights for, are they going on your plane as well?

 

I would suggest avoiding him altogether and looking across the channel.

 

*Note the headlights are shown for demonstration are not part of this auction, they are in a different auction

 

that winds me up no end, too.

[mattblack]

Are they US-spec headlights? Never seen a GS with quad round lamps before.

 

My grump: Ground elder. Or to be more presice, the Ground elder that spreads from next door's garden into ours.

[pompei]

Just seen part of that Big Fat Gypsy Wedding malarkey. I've not seen any of the previous shows but I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

[revolting peasant]

[trigger]

Bellends, Wasn't someone on here interested in it though.

[shite_meister]

Was just pissing about on Facebook as I'm fairly new to it, started searching for an old mate from the Midlands who I'd lost contact with (as I'm a bit slack in that dept) only to find out he killed himself 18 months ago, really puts things in to perspective.

[trigger]

Shit, sorry to hear that mate, that's really sad news.

[shite_meister]

Cheers man, bit like you and your buyer for your car last week, its things like that that really wake you up and think about thing hey.

 

The thing was that he was a really good mate, the one I'd known the longest since primary school days and having moved about so much it was quite something to have still kept in contact only like a twat I lost his contact details about seven years ago and moved about a bit and as I don't have much family he couldn't have traced me.

 

He'd commited suicide by jumping off a bridge on a motorway, obviously not fair on the people who hit him but I feel shit for not taking time out to try and trace him a couple of years ago. Lesson learnt I think, if you're thinking about contacting someone/making amends then do it or it might be too late.

[trigger]

Funny enough me and Spottedlaurel was talking about the same thing this evening, Last weekends events shocked me to the core, It really does make you think.

 

I was talking to someone i knew the other day who was saying how they aren't speaking the their parents at the moment, i told them to stop being a twat as they would feel awful if something happened to them whilst they had a rift between them.

[Station]

PC has broken, so feeling a bit bored this evening. Spotted an old Nikon digital camera that wore it's lens cogs out so decided to have a go at fixing it.

 

After removing the 200th microscopic screw, I started to regret doing so. Arranged screws into the same shape as they go in on the camera.

 

 

Couldn't make sense of screw arrangements, so referred to the online assembly manual.

 

 

One of the plastic cogs on the automatic lens motor (there are five in there!) had stripped a tooth, so used some 'QUIKSTEEL', having never used it before, moulded a winnet sized piece and shaped it into a tooth shape. Pleased to find it was set rock hard 5 minutes later, and it even worked and span the lens in and out! Result! I then reassembled, and broke the end off a ribbon cable, which means I'll have to fork out a few more quids for an ebay part. Borrocks!

 

Was left with approximately six screws after everything back together again. :(

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

You did better than I did with my Fuji Z20 earlier in the thread!

 

Talking of tiny screws, the screen on my laptop has gone black three times in the last two days, revived by a quick jiggle. It's the backlight, I can see things on the screen. Dear computer, please don't break, I probably can't afford to fix you and I definitely can't afford to replace you.

[Angrydicky]

 

"Did you like me posting that [i miss you] message on your facebook wall?"

"Yes it was really nice of you"

"No it's ok I know you don't mean it, I won't do it anymore"

 

 

"I'll see you very soon"

"So you don't want to come and see me tomorrow?"

 

and so forth

 

Sorry to drag this up again, just been thinking about what NC said. Is there a type of girl who doesn't need texting and facebooking every 5 minutes to prevent her going into a sulk? If there is I'd love to meet her, maybe I attract the insecure ones for some reason. I CBA with all this constant messaging, which is why I'm single I suppose.

[dollywobbler]

I've never had to endure a relationship like that Dicky, so they are out there. In fact, we're rubbish at keeping in touch with each other when we're not together. Other people find us very odd!

[cort16]

My and one of my mates went halfers on this e46 BMW from the Auctions to fix up and sell. There was a grinding from the rear passenger side when we picked it up I intially thought was a wheel bearing but when I took the disc off the back plate had rusted out and the hand brake mechanism had collapsed. I pissed about for hours fitting a new back plate, rebuilding the hand brake mechanism, fixed some other bits and sorted some body work and had it repainted. After doing all the spannering my mates part of the job was to take it for it's mot and sell it. Well is the cocking thing not still making that grinding noise. Aaargh!. My mate's friendly with a guy who runs a garage so I've just told him to stick in there, get it sorted and move on. What a pisser. Paint looks good though.

[chaseracer]

I've never had to endure a relationship like that Dicky, so they are out there. In fact, we're rubbish at keeping in touch with each other when we're not together. Other people find us very odd!

But strangely likeable, the both of you!

[retrogeezer]

You did better than I did with my Fuji Z20 earlier in the thread!

 

Talking of tiny screws, the screen on my laptop has gone black three times in the last two days, revived by a quick jiggle. It's the backlight, I can see things on the screen. Dear computer, please don't break, I probably can't afford to fix you and I definitely can't afford to replace you.

 

 

did your refurb turn up o.k?? I saw this model in Asda yesterday....£85!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

You did better than I did with my Fuji Z20 earlier in the thread!

 

Talking of tiny screws, the screen on my laptop has gone black three times in the last two days, revived by a quick jiggle. It's the backlight, I can see things on the screen. Dear computer, please don't break, I probably can't afford to fix you and I definitely can't afford to replace you.

 

 

did your refurb turn up o.k?? I saw this model in Asda yesterday....£85!

 

Yep, it came two days after I ordered it. If it didn't say 'your refurbished camera' on the box, you'd swear it was brand new. A great deal, thanks again for the tip off (and the discount code).

[shite_meister]

Landlady, the cougar is currently getting 'nailed' loudly, this is not only putting me off my stroke sometimes but the noise of the bed springs is grating, its like the springs are pleading for a break. Luckily for me he chap is a fast worker, the only problem is he's keen. Think I might leave a rusty can of 3-In-1 on the side-table as a hint, mind you she might get the wrong idea and I'll be roped into some three-way gang-bang cougar-fuck-fest, either way it can only be a win surely.

 

Ah jesus guys give it (and me) a break, you're at it like two teenagers.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Just tried to watch a video on Youtube and a (skippable) ad came on first. I was just going to sit through it until I noticed it was a fifteen minute advert for the rapture paid for by some or other religious organisation. Fifteen minutes! The clip was only a couple of minutes long. Who's going to sit and watch a fifteen minute advert for going to hell? Think of the good a church could do with that money instead of pissing it away on an advert no sane person would sit through.

[CIH]

Just tried to watch a video on Youtube and a (skippable) ad came on first. I was just going to sit through it until I noticed it was a fifteen minute advert for the rapture paid for by some or other religious organisation. Fifteen minutes! The clip was only a couple of minutes long. Who's going to sit and watch a fifteen minute advert for going to hell? Think of the good a church could do with that money instead of pissing it away on an advert no sane person would sit through.

 

I really hate ads on clips. I even had an ad on a feckin' DVD I bought FFS. "Skyline" - a lowish budget sci-f pisch, if anyone is wondering.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Disney make the worst DVDs. Some of them have the hilariously daft 'fast play' feature - after all the copyright BS you get a menu with two options - main menu or fast play. If you press 'fast play' you must first endure an eternity of adverts before the film starts. You can't skip them, you can only fast forward. Ironic since if you chose 'main menu' then 'play movie' there are no adverts and it is much, much faster.

 

But they're still not as bad as the again unskippable "YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR" horror on FOX DVDs. No, I wouldn't steal a car. But I would download a film, specifically because I wouldn't have to sit through this damn advert.

 

edit: ahahaha

Disney's FastPlay is a new technology that puts you in control of your viewing preferences.

You can watch the feature presentation just like you would in theaters. After the trailers and feature, stay tuned for an exciting selection of Bonus Features.

[dollywobbler]

As Dara O'Brieauuooon says, you're better off getting a pirate copy because at least then you don't get the 'you wouldn't steal a car' bullshit!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I do like the bit where it says "YOU WOUDLN'T STEAL A TV" and shows two people manhandling a black box CRT out of a window. I certainly wouldn't steal that TV, no.

[Richard]

Disney VHS videos used to have 20 minutes of adverts at each end.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I hears a comedian on the radio going on about that 'You wouldnt steal a handbag' carry on, he said 'yeah but what if I invented a machine that could replicate the handbag and its contents' its a reasonable argument.

[ashmicro]

Rip it to yer hard drive, and cut out the offending bollocks

[eddyramrod]

Funny enough me and Spottedlaurel was talking about the same thing this evening, Last weekends events shocked me to the core, It really does make you think.

 

I was talking to someone i knew the other day who was saying how they aren't speaking the their parents at the moment, i told them to stop being a twat as they would feel awful if something happened to them whilst they had a rift between them.

 

It's right. My sister and I fell out many years ago (things were never smooth) and have exchanged few civil words since. When I emailed her to say I was leaving the country, and did she want any of the stuff I had left from sorting out our parents' house, I had to trawl through three whole years of other emails before I found the last time we were in touch. There's only us, no other kids, so I think it's sad. In a related matter, I phoned an old mate from art college last autumn, to wish him Happy Silver Anniversary, being quite impressed that I have friends who've been married that long. Spoke to his wife, who told me they're getting divorced, he's moved back to Liverpool and is an alcoholic. What timing! Again, all because I hadn't spoken to him in a couple of years.

 

So don't lose people. Life will do that anyway, you don't need to help it.

[eddyramrod]

And immediately after my last posting, my computer did what it often does, and randomly shut down for a restart. It's taken me 8 minutes to sit watching it go through all its startup, and re-log in to msn and here. Bo-lerks. Fucking technology. Why can't things just fucking work????

[warren t claim]

I still miss Simon Bates talking about "Sexual swear words" at the beginning of a rental VHS from Blockbuster.

[Guest]

I still miss Simon Bates talking about "Sexual swear words" at the beginning of a rental VHS from Blockbuster.

 

'Some sexy scenes, or very brief nudity.'