The grumpy thread

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Fujitsu-Siemens V5505.

[outlaw118]

Off topic, so if your offended, look away now!

 

Bloody foxes! Not the brazilian built VW, but the little furry vermin who keep using my garden and driveway as a lavatory.

 

Been finding little piles of shit everywhere, and down the bottom of the garden, where I keep "stuff" stinks of piss.

This morning, went out the front door, and the cheeky bastards have curled a massive one out on my front doormat, which, had my feet been two sizes bigger, I would have stepped in.

 

I've had enough now, so, how do I get rid? Barring firearms, i'll try almost anything.

Nobody round here has a horsey-horseless for me to borrow to attempt to mow them down.

 

All ideas appreciated.

[Cavcraft]

Ask your local hunting hunting lot if they've stopped breeding them now?

 

There must be a humane way to get rid of them, I hope so anyhow.

[Volksy]

 

May be slightly worse than shit if stood in by mistake.

[outlaw118]

@ Sir Cavette of Luton: Humane would be better, but much as I'm an animal lover, anything would do. They frighten Tigger, so I'm more concerned about him than foxy-woxy.

 

@Volksy : Hmm, trouble is my cat is sooooo stupid, he'd get stuck in one. And Tesco Pet Insurance would take a dim view of this I should think. And, that sort of thing would be used on me by Mrs O

[Cavcraft]

@ Sir Cavette of Luton: Humane would be better, but much as I'm an animal lover, anything would do. They frighten Trigger, so I'm more concerned about him than foxy-woxy.

 

 

You'd think a big hairy docker wouldn't be scared of something like that.

[outlaw118]

Trigger is a closet homosexual cross-dresser who dresses up at weekends and calls himself Cindy.* Why do you think he "works" at the docks?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*This may not be true. But hey, why let facts get in the way of a good joke?

[messerschmitt owner]

solution to fox problem

 

find a kid to babysit

bring it home

tie it to stake

let fox take bite

go to papers

expect pest control next day

[Amazo]

The last Crown Victoria ever to be made rolled down the line at the St. Thomas Ontario Assembly Plant today, with the plant closing and the loss of 1,700 jobs.

 

The last separate chassis, front engine, rear wheel drive passenger car has just left the building.

Farewell Crown Vic. (1955-1956; 1979-2011)

 

[Volksy]

I really want a crown vic. Seem to go for a lot over here.

[cort16]

I'd like a Crown Vic too. In black on steels please.

[Cavcraft]

There's one up the road from me. The owner seems to occasionally have random Yank junk outside his house. Will try and get a picture at some point.

[Amazo]

I'd like a Crown Vic too. In black on steels please.

+1

 

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Don't be so sure that this is the end of the Crown Vic. China desperately needs this kind of bargeshite- the 'deluxe' taxis are Audi 100s and police rely on VW Santanas and ZXs, with upper-middle civil servants driving Passats. I wouldn't be surprised to see the lines being shipped there.

 

In other news, despite the purchase of a set of decent screwdrivers from Maplin that convinced the stubborn screws to get out, the mission of sorting the laptop has been a failure. In a forest of screws, multiplugs and other clever, robust engineering, in other words a design that has clearly been meant to be taken apart and reassembled, the power jack is about the only component that's been soldered onto the main circuit board. Even if I could get access to a soldering iron, I wouldn't trust myself with one. FUCKSTICKS.

[Pete-M]

Just discovered that the numptoid workshy cunt of a Labour council in Liverpool has racked up just under a million quid in taxi fares in six months.

 

But they've left the brand new library the previous council built empty because they "Don't have the money to move the books".

 

Fucking arseholes. Their 'leader' has doubled his salary since getting in, but they've decided not to clean pavements or fix things "Because the government isn't giving them enough money".

 

Usual scumbag Labour in opposition tricks. Don't tidy up, make the place look shit, get people depressed and at the same time screw us all for every penny possible. Million quid in cab fares and double the wages for the boss. These cunts are as bad as Degsy Hatton's lot taking dropsies from every out of town builder possible to build "Social housing" which instantly became under the control of "housing trusts" and impossible for anyone not on big wages to afford.

 

This pisses me off.

[Pete-M]

^^When we eject Idi O'Bumpass from the White House, why not hire him and his fat-bottomed wife who makes the rockin' world go round? He could run Liverpool, yeah?

 

Does he spend loads of money on perks and shite for the government and fuck all on what the government is for whilst crying "We're skint, and it's not our fault!!!" from the window of a limousine at anyone who'll listen?

 

If so, I suspect he has a thrilling and prosperous future as a Labour politician in the UK.

[AnthonyG]

Are you a Rick Perry, Milt (or Mitch?) Romney or Michelle Bachman man Norm? - Romney's dad used to run a car company, but it was Rambler!

[Cavcraft]

^^When we eject Idi O'Bumpass from the White House, why not hire him and his fat-bottomed wife who makes the rockin' world go round? He could run Liverpool, yeah?

 

Does he go round lobbing as many people as possible out of work to save money, but not actually consider the long term implications of this, and singulary fails to understand why people get very annoyed about it?

If so I expect there'll be a job as a Conservative politician for him.

[chaseracer]

I'd like a Crown Vic too. In black on steels please.

+1

 

That's causing a considerable degree of trouser tentage...

[Angrydicky]

That's causing a considerable degree of trouser tentage...

 

It's nice, shame the suspension's collapsed though.

[155V6]

Just got back from Morrisons where I saw a display of advent calendars & selection boxes

[autofive]

Are you a Rick Perry, Milt (or Mitch?) Romney or Michelle Bachman man Norm? - Romney's dad used to run a car company, but it was Rambler!

 

The best person to run America is me.

 

 

I'd buy that for a dollar

[Pete-M]

^^When we eject Idi O'Bumpass from the White House, why not hire him and his fat-bottomed wife who makes the rockin' world go round? He could run Liverpool, yeah?

 

Does he go round lobbing as many people as possible out of work to save money, but not actually consider the long term implications of this, and singulary fails to understand why people get very annoyed about it?

If so I expect there'll be a job as a Conservative politician for him.

 

Have a rattle through this and tell me that giving the council chief executive £197k a year makes sense. It's a joke. They're wasting money left, right and centre on shit that doesn't matter and spending nothing on the stuff that does. Block paving on Jamaica Street - yet they've flogged the skateboard park to the Co-Op. New school (45 million quid, no less) near me with a motorised science lab that powers down from the gymnasium roof (to replace an old Victorian bit of architecture that was properly renovated not that long ago). £200k on a buffet in Shanghai. A million quid on cab rides in six months... but they can't sweep streets because they're "skint".

 

Seriously fucked up priorities. Yet I imagine there'll be a happy block paver, a happy builder and a taxi company owner who're laughing their way to the bank - after dropping off a few quid to various well paid council officials.

 

I don't pay taxes so that council workers can wander around in cabs and chuck parties in Shanghai. I pay them to get the streets swept, the libraries running and stuff like alley gates (which this rabble have cancelled spending on) to keep crime down.

 

This lot aren't there to help the people, they're there to help themselves.

[Cavcraft]

Not many of them are (there to help people) though, Pete, regardless of political party. It does my box in when councils waste money on shit that isn't needed yet fail to spend on stuff they should.

[nigel bickle]

Its similar down here, in Tory heartland rurality. Some of the roads are simply atrocious -I've driven better farm tracks - yet we have pointless scheme after scheme, quango after quango, political correctness after...etc etc..

 

My local Council (rabidly anti car) -have announced that they intend to triple the number of COVERT cameras (despite the hundreds of easily visible ones) to trap people flytipping. This has -of course- nowt to do with their insane communal bin policy, daft amenity site rules - ruthlessly enforced or total inability to remove household rubbish on time, as agreed.

 

Its all going to end badly..

[Pete-M]

Not many of them are (there to help people) though, Pete, regardless of political party. It does my box in when councils waste money on shit that isn't needed yet fail to spend on stuff they should.

 

Oh indeed. It's just that for the last ten years or so Liverpool Council was run by the Lib Dems, and whilst they weren't perfect, they did try. My local Lib Dem MP chap has knocked on the door once a fortnight for years. "Hello, I'm Graham, Local Lib Dem MP. Any problems? Anything I can help with?" and the bloke has actually done his best. He's always held his little clinic thing, twice a month and he has been brilliant. He made a difference. The bloke actually cares and wants to help his community, but he's been voted out because he's a Lib Dem and for some insane reason people in Liverpool have voted the Labour lunatics back in. Hard to believe after Hatton, but that's what they've done, short memories... They'll complain about Thatcher and forget that Michael Heseltine did a lot to help this city, most of which was deliberately ruined by Hatton and his cronies doing the same as this new lot are doing now..

 

The City looks worse for a Labour council already, which is how Labour like it when they're in opposition - make the place scruffy, don't clean the new buildings, make people feel bad, waste all the money you've got, blame the Coalition, and when the money has gone shout how you spent millions building a new school, and how the shiny new library couldn't be opened because the money wasn't there. Sell the old library to developers and pocket the cash.

 

Their other usual trick is to hire out of town contractors so that local people don't see a penny of the council spending.. "Unemployment has risen, it's because of the coalition".

[ashmicro]

Driving Licence mongs. While chatting down the pub a couple of weeks ago, me and my best mate were talking about the trucks we're allowed to drive, and it turns out that because we passed our tests 21 years ago we can drive up to 7.5 ton rigid. Indeed me and said mate passed our tests within 2 hours of each other in 1990. While looking at my licence my mate says "Here, have you been huurtling around on that enormous Suzuki?" I replied in the affirmative. He said "Well you shouldn't have been, the group isn't on your licence." Sure enough it wasn't.

 

So, I sent my licence back to County Hall with a letter explaining that they had made a fuck up, and to rectify it forthwith. I got a phone call from them to say that yes I was correct, and they were very sorry.

 

Just got my new licence this morning, and the motorcycle group is on it. As is the address I moved out of 6 years ago. Yet they posted it to my current address. MONGS.

[Guest greenvanman]

^^^^^^

That could have gone a lot worse, believe me. I know of two people who sent in their photocard licence for the 10 year renewal and both received a new licence which was missing their motorcycle entitlement. On being informed of their cock-up, DVLA told them they'd have to produce proof of passing a motorcycle test. When neither of them could they were told they'd have to do the test again

[warren t claim]

My heart goes out to the families of the miners killed in Wales.

[cms206]

Been offline for days, so my first post back on here is in the grumpy thread.

 

Just been paid off. Again. No warning.

 

 

Bollocks.