The grumpy thread

[cms206]

CMS, my anti-break-in tactic is to leave the damned car UNLOCKED at all times!! If there's nothing in the glovebox of value, nothing in the boot of value, and nothing in the interior of value, and you don't have some ridiculous ICE system, then there's no incentive for anybody to break a window, jimmy a door locks, or fook up the bodywork. 100% success with this technique in 30 years of hood parking. What the hell are you trying to protect? A "Captain and Tennille" 8-track tape collection?

 

 

A great idea in theory Norm, but it hasn't stopped the thieving bastards trying to steal my mate's '93 Peugeot 205 no less than six times in the last three months. Despite it being left unlocked at all times with a steering lock on and no stereo, they've even went as far as to burst the door lock off BEFORE checking if it had even been locked in the first place. We are dealing with an underclass of fucking morons.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Fortunately I live in a nice area:

 

Friday: leave wallet overnight in plain view in car which can be unlocked with a paperclip.

 

Today: neighbour rings bell, did I know car window was wound down? Passenger side window wide open all night. Old mobile phone not stolen from glovebox.

 

No need to break into my car, at this rate I'll leave my wallet on the roof overnight soon.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

CMS, my anti-break-in tactic is to leave the damned car UNLOCKED at all times!! If there's nothing in the glovebox of value, nothing in the boot of value, and nothing in the interior of value, and you don't have some ridiculous ICE system, then there's no incentive for anybody to break a window, jimmy a door locks, or fook up the bodywork. 100% success with this technique in 30 years of hood parking. What the hell are you trying to protect? A "Captain and Tennille" 8-track tape collection?

 

 

A great idea in theory Norm, but it hasn't stopped the thieving bastards trying to steal my mate's '93 Peugeot 205 no less than six times in the last three months. Despite it being left unlocked at all times with a steering lock on and no stereo, they've even went as far as to burst the door lock off BEFORE checking if it had even been locked in the first place. We are dealing with an underclass of fucking morons.

 

Too true. I've had half a bottle of cheap aftershave stolen from my old Granada!

 

Good job they were too thick to search in the seat pockets where I'd left the (modern, if not uber-expensive) stereo facia.

[whitevanman]

Having just read that RR thread....I am deeply saddend, some people don't get that opinions are what makes a forum, a negative comment has as much validity and value as a positive one.......but an empty comment positive or negative is a waste of bandwith

[Guest]

Having just read that RR thread....I am deeply saddend, some people don't get that opinions are what makes a forum, a negative comment has as much validity and value as a positive one.......but an empty comment positive or negative is a waste of bandwith

 

Which thread is this?

 

I sent a PM to one of the mods more or less stating this, and didn't receive a reply.

[warren t claim]

It's the McDonalds star type badges that contributors on RR get that I find a bit worrying.

[whitevanman]

The thread about the Brown Audi mentioned a few pages back......sorry but I don't get much time to be on here so I mostly catch up on a Monday from work

[Negative Creep]

Seeing one of these on a VW Trasporter

 

 

 

Twat

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Seeing one of these on a VW Trasporter

 

 

 

Twat

 

You'd think that would be a quick route to having your tyres slashed or similar wouldnt you.

[Station]

There was a Beetle in Thailand with loads of swastikas over it! They obviously had no idea, and I didn't care either to be honest.

[supermellowman]

There was a Beetle in Thailand with loads of swastikas over it! They obviously had no idea, and I didn't care either to be honest.

 

In fairness, it's a religious symbol in some eastern religions - eg Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. Unless, of course, the choice of car and all that it represents indicates that it really was being driven by a fascist.

[Amazo]

^^The ironic fact is, on RR you can't even say something POSITIVE without possibility of being banned!!!

The Rat BMW is a creature I dearly love. The "builder" used tie wraps, cracked window glass, spilt paint, crude graphics, instigated rust, and assymetrically missing components. I LOVE that in a BMW!

However, whenever I earnestly offered up my praise, I was condemned for being NEGATIVE. LOL! WTF?

You are aware of the concept of irony in the colonies?

Anyway, for the benefit of anyone who hasn't seen said luverly ve-hicle here's a pic:

 

 

Then it caught fire under #ahem# 'odd' circumstances; he just happens to have a camera to hand. Hmm...

 

 

Much better?

 

 

The hi-larious thing was all of the Stanceworks 'marks' (the opposite of a 'hater', don't you know) coming out of the woodwork blubbing as if their deity had popped their clogs. I'm getting the worrying feeling that Mike Burrows is the new David Koresh. If anyone sees any Bradley tanks near his garage, worry...

[Guest]

Two words regarding the convenient arson of Burroughs' E28 - insurance job.

 

Regarding Norm's banhammernation, his posts praising Rusty Slammington didn't come across as forced or sarcastic to me. Then again, it's nigh on impossible to gauge tone on a forum.

 

Perhaps the mods had the decorators in that week.

 

I think it's a shame RR is becoming more insular. It saddens me to see it pull ever farther away from the excellent site I stumbled upon in April 2007. A lot of the criticism directed at it and the mods recently has been validated by their reactions. I really wish people would stop creating threads consisting solely of images from Stanceworks and Stance:Nation. That is not original content and it only gives the detractors ammunition, as much as the faithful want to argue.

 

For all of its [many] faults RR is still a leading light in the old car world. I liken it to the Velvet Underground. You may not stay but enough people have been influenced by it to start their own forums and meets. There's an enormous disparity between the enormous traffic the site sees and the small core of friends and admin still at the centre of things. God knows it's hard enough to please everyone all of the time, and for every 10 happy visitors you'll always have one miserable shit determined to find fault no matter what.

[dollywobbler]

That BMW looks ruined (before the fire). Is it just me?

[Station]

 

I wonder what's caught his eye in the corner there?

[Negative Creep]

I do wonder what reaction I'd get if I posted that sticker on RR. Although in fairness, that's the first one I've ever seen so I guess the Dub lot dont approve either

[Amazo]

Two words regarding the convenient arson of Burroughs' E28 - insurance job.

Regarding Norm's banhammernation, his posts praising Rusty Slammington didn't come across as forced or sarcastic to me. Then again, it's nigh on impossible to gauge tone on a forum.

'Tis true, but he doesn't like BMWs. At all. Once you know that, the rest falls into place.

[messerschmitt owner]

The Dubbers forget (or really are too high on screef or themselves to care) that English POWs were forcibly made to work at VW against the Geneva Convention, and many killed during the inevitable air raids. VW scrupulously avoids this little item of history in its goddam museum. Of course Itchybushi, Toyota, Mercedes, and a raft of others in and out of the motor industry also leave similar crimes out of their museums and historic websites.

As far as I am aware, the squaddies could be made to work - it was the officers that weren't. It's always been a hard life at the pointy end.

[Cavcraft]

To be fair Normski it would appear that it's the other way round, i.e some (and I mean a tiny handful) of members are up the moderators arses.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Anyway, for the benefit of anyone who hasn't seen said luverly ve-hicle here's a pic:

 

 

Jesus wept! I had seen that before, and thought it was some kind of 'urban art' or photoshop effort...

[messerschmitt owner]

The Dubbers forget (or really are too high on screef or themselves to care) that English POWs were forcibly made to work at VW against the Geneva Convention, and many killed during the inevitable air raids. VW scrupulously avoids this little item of history in its goddam museum. Of course Itchybushi, Toyota, Mercedes, and a raft of others in and out of the motor industry also leave similar crimes out of their museums and historic websites.

As far as I am aware, the squaddies could be made to work - it was the officers that weren't. It's always been a hard life at the pointy end.

 

No, dude. From the 1929 Geneva Convention: Articles 27 to 34 cover labour by prisoners of war. The work must not be war-related and must be safe work.

 

Being bombed isn't safe. Building war materiel is war-related.

yeah, that's a small distinction though - they were making Volkswagens - they may be the devil's work but getting to f*ck them up as they left the factory was no bad thing.

 

And let's face it, we did enjoy a good bombing and a firestorming over here.

 

When we put Dresden and Hamburg up it was easier for your lot to see where you were going in the daytime and us at night - no need for carrots then.

[messerschmitt owner]

After war broke out, the factory started making Kubel-s and Schwimm-s, and various bits and bobs for other weaponry.

they're still Volkswagen Beetles under the skin!

 

Granted, a little cooler, but still VWs.

[messerschmitt owner]

^^Maybe, but for people toting MG-42's and STG44's instead of Liebfraumilch und Muenster cheese!!!!

one thing about German war machinery - they made them too complicated. Your lot made sh*t but they did it cheaply and easily and it was easy to fix and keep going.

 

If the odd Sherman brewed then you'd made another ten in the meantime. You couldn't do that with a Tigger tank, even if it was better!

[messerschmitt owner]

As I recall from me histories, many was the Tommy-Rat who was damned glad to have a Sherman in North Africa, where it fielded the biggest gun of any tank used in significant numbers in theatre. Your lot left most of its shit on the beach in Dunkirk... er, rather hurriedly.

we had a premature evacuation, your lot came too late again!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

[trigger]

[Mr_Bo11ox]

[Amazo]

#1.) It's not the BMWs, the machines, it's the obnoxious twats who usually drive them to self-impress that are the problem.

Erm, I own two, making six in total that I've owned. Couldn't give a rodent's rump about who thinks what about it.

#2.) Trying to crawl up inside somebody else's head on a mission to determine whether they are being ironic or sarcastic, or to "gauge tone", is a fool's mission, and bespeaks the entire problem with the Odderators on RR. They are up inside their own members. Their forum members. Their members of the month, and other members.

So you like Beemers after all? Good man, much better that those Transit powered, cart-sprung Cortina hack jobs with the funny side windows.

 

 

A BMW in front of a Capri, as Herr God intended.

[autofive]

#1.) It's not the BMWs, the machines, it's the obnoxious twats who usually drive them to self-impress that are the problem.

Erm, I own two, making six in total that I've owned. Couldn't give a rodent's rump about who thinks what about it.

#2.) Trying to crawl up inside somebody else's head on a mission to determine whether they are being ironic or sarcastic, or to "gauge tone", is a fool's mission, and bespeaks the entire problem with the Odderators on RR. They are up inside their own members. Their forum members. Their members of the month, and other members.

So you like Beemers after all? Good man, much better that those Transit powered, cart-sprung Cortina hack jobs with the funny side windows.

 

A BMW in front of a Capri, as Herr God intended.

 

my mate has a 525 bimmer and he loves it - but its been off the road for three years - IMO they are overrated, overcomplicated, fuel guzzling and very heavy cars that (when less than three years old) are driven by arrogant roadhogs

[Cavcraft]