The grumpy thread

[ashmicro]

4 or 5 mates, 30 litres of Frosty Jack's and a few Roy Chubby Brown DVDs. Sod going out.

[warren t claim]

4 or 5 mates, 30 litres of Frosty Jack's and a few Roy Chubby Brown DVDs. Sod going out.

 

Nah, for a classy night out you need a cheap bar, a filthy comedian and a dyke show.

[outlaw118]

^^^^What he said^^^^^^

Had a "gentlemans evening" in a pub in Spitalfields in Laaahdahn a good few years ago. Comedian (George newman?) took the piss out of me and bro' ("Nice to see you've got over the anorexia lads"), he did a bit of patter, brunette came out, took her clothes off, comedian, then blonde, comedian, then both of them together.

Smart.

[Guest]

Sat in the Salford section of MediaCityUK for the first time. It's beautiful, but I've been tucked up on my timetable and can't take some of the courses I was promised.

[Guest]

Sat in the Salford section of MediaCityUK for the first time. It's beautiful, but I've been tucked up on my timetable and can't take some of the courses I was promised.

 

Huge row at home because of the timetable. Nice one Salford, you take the piss out of me and leave me with a schedule I cannot justify to anyone.

 

Jesus fucking wept, I don't need this.

[AnthonyG]

Switch Nightclub which no doubt be shit as well.

 

A nightclub called 'Switch' sounds just a bit dodgy.

Funnily enough I have an interview in Ipswich on Friday and they are putting me up Thursday night, I think I'll just hide in the hotel room. A Ramada 'Encore' dosen't sound too promising, Google Earth seems to have it located in a patch of wasteland .

[RoadworkUK]

A Ramada 'Encore' dosen't sound too promising, Google Earth seems to have it located in a patch of wasteland .

 

Ipswich is a patch of wasteland! (soz Trig...!) The Encore is stuck on a sort of island between the road to the station and one of Ipswich's Venice-like rivers. It's 300yds away from the old and long abandoned Mercedes-Benz of Ipswich showroom, and the derelict perma-empty previous B&Q.

 

If you like the Ramada, and who wouldn't, there are some smashing flats for sale next door....

[RoadworkUK]

In other news, I'm in the habit of leaving the Rover unlocked at work, as the alarm has a habit of being alarming when it doesn't need to, and you can't lock the car without the alarm arming.

 

Some scrotes nicked my tax disc.

 

Entirely my own stupid fault, I shall have to fork out seven sheets for a replacement. At least he didn't steal any of my cassettes!

[warren t claim]

A Ramada 'Encore' dosen't sound too promising, Google Earth seems to have it located in a patch of wasteland .

 

Ipswich is a patch of wasteland! (soz Trig...!) The Encore is stuck on a sort of island between the road to the station and one of Ipswich's Venice-like rivers. It's 300yds away from the old and long abandoned Mercedes-Benz of Ipswich showroom, and the derelict perma-empty previous B&Q.

 

If you like the Ramada, and who wouldn't, there are some smashing flats for sale next door....

 

I must say that Ipswich is fantastic compared to Lowerstoft.

[RoadworkUK]

 

I must say that Ipswich is fantastic compared to Lowerstoft.

 

Well, duh...

[Cavcraft]

More pointless, oyxgen thieving car 'buyers'. One day I really will set fire to a car and send a video of it being destroyed to some idiot who offers a quarter of what the car is worth.

[Lankytim]

BOUGHT 2x 185/70/14's from ebay.

 

I'm such a dork! Anybody want to buy a pair of pirellis with 6mm tread for £20?

Isn't that the size Bollox needed for the back of his Argenta?

 

Humm, imagine if he had two simultaneous punctures, he'd have to buy them from me at an inflated price. Arf arf!

[cort16]

I just bought a garden shredder to process the 5 year back log of junk mail we've got in the house as MrsCort16 has major OMG identity theft paranoia and normal shredders are shit and just overheat.

I got it built up and lobbed a few letters through it which it easily munched so I then did what anyone would do and tried a full machine mart catalogue, which truly fucked it by compressing the paper rock hard , seizing the blades and blowing the fuse. I've just spent 2 hours knocking/pulling the catalogue out with a cold chisel, hammer and a pair of grips. I also nicked the fuse out MrsCort16's sewing machine. Sorry love the ass extension on my purple velvet pantaloons is gonna have to wait!

[scaryoldcortina]

Flu. Son sent home from school yesterday with a fever/headache, Mrs is sniffling and shivering, now I've just sneezed 5 times and my head feels like it's full of molten lead. Bugger.

 

Also, the bloody cat has chewed through my headphone cable for the third time. There isn't enough left to shorten it this time, so I'm going to have to make a lead up for it. Grr.

[tonedepear]

I'm going to have to make a lead up for it. Grr.

 

 

?

[scaryoldcortina]

That's a really good idea thanks!

[yes oui si]

That's a really good idea thanks!

Aren't cat leads made with 7-13 loops?

 

Wandered into town after lunch to meet a friend so we could take advantage of Orange Wednesday at the cinema and pizza express, popped into work for a wee and got reminded that I had swapped my Friday shift for today, and that I was due to start 15 minutes ago.

 

Fucksake.

 

*n

[Pillock]

Mot ran out on the Leon.

 

On the 27th August

 

Happened to trip over all the paperwork today when cleaning some crap out and just glanced at the certificate..... Been driving round in it convinced it was due in November, I think it was even advertised with a November expiry but my fault for not checking and filing all the paperwork properly. Good job I wasn't followed by any ANPR-equipped rozzers, ironically as I took the GF to work today in her Focus we were tailed by a marked X5 all the way up the A46. Glad it wasn't in my car! Got it booked in later this afternoon, means I'm going to have to get the suspect wishbone done sooner (i.e. for the test!) rather than later (i.e. when I've got some cash).

[warren t claim]

Just received a text from the guy buying the CAVCRAFT Escort estate to tell me he's had a family emergency and can't afford to buy it tomorrow. Never mind, at least he had the decency to let me know and hasn't been cheeky enough to ask for his deposit back.

 

This may be a blessing in disguise as I had the money earmarked for another Mk2 R*****t L****a.

[retrogeezer]

Just received a text from the guy buying the CAVCRAFT Escort estate to tell me he's had a family emergency and can't afford to buy it tomorrow. Never mind, at least he had the decency to let me know and hasn't been cheeky enough to ask for his deposit back.

 

This may be a blessing in disguise as I had the money earmarked for another Mk2 R*****t L****a.

 

It's being moved on again already?

[Cavcraft]

Just received a text from the guy buying the CAVCRAFT Escort estate to tell me he's had a family emergency and can't afford to buy it tomorrow. Never mind, at least he had the decency to let me know and hasn't been cheeky enough to ask for his deposit back.

 

This may be a blessing in disguise as I had the money earmarked for another Mk2 R*****t L****a.

 

Can you ask him if the family emergency is that his wife is pregnant and he needs a bigger car? If he likes Escorts he's going to love a certain white Mondeo.

[autofive]

my digi SLR is burgered

 

Lots of 'noise' or whatever the slapheads call it, on all the pics and display shows it, even with the lense cap on.

Was working fine until the catering trailer pics

 

e.g.

 

[CIH]

that's a grim scene

[retrogeezer]

hmm, don't know much about DSLR's but do know that you can have the sensor cleaned. Do you change the lens much as thats what lets in dust & dirt.

[ashmicro]

I just fixed a mate's Nikon D40X. All it needed was a firmware reflash. Have a look at your DSLR's manufacturer website.

[tonedepear]

my digi SLR is burgered

 

That's not sensor muck, its too uniform. Its some sort of sensor problem.

 

^ +1

 

There's a bloke down the road from me who does proper old-fashioned camera repair, using tools and spare parts and not just sending stuff off @ £75 a go.

 

Bit far, but you could call him and post it, or if you wanted I'm up in Durham most weeks so could do some AS couriering.

 

http://www.premierelectronicservices.co.uk/1.html

[retrogeezer]

ah, not a proper dslr then.....so I'll go with what Tayne said...

[autofive]

Much as this may go against the beliefs of this forum, I say ditch the camera, A5.

 

If I'm correct its 10 year old 1.9mp HP C912 that's been styled to look like a DSLR. I think whatever you buy next would be an improvement and repair would be uneconomic.

 

Unless you can find someone to drop a 12mp sensor in but keep it 1.9 on the logbook.

 

 

it is a 912. but its a genuine SLR (half the light through the eye piece) with a pentax lense and guts, not a mock up slr with a lcd display only..

 

ive had it for about 7 years, and its served me faithfully

[autofive]

Its not an SLR.

SLRs have a mirror to send all the light to the view finder which flips up to take the shot. They also have interchangeable lenses.

Yours is a bridge (between compact and SLR).

I know there's a few people on here who swear by their Fuji bridge cameras.

 

i stand corrected

 

 

i have been looking at the X90, but the price is out of my meagre budget this month. i ll just have to save up

[Guest]

Dear small un-named child on Gaddum Road,

 

Thanks for nearly giving me a heart attack as you and your idiot friend shot out into the road from behind two badly parked Chelsea tractors either side. My tea exploded out of the bag and went all over the passenger footwell, and then your rectum faced shit of a father decided to shout abuse at me into the bargain from across the road. Cheers mate, did the fact that your kids caned it across a curving, bumpy, unlit road not concern you somewhat? Not only can you and your dinner party guess not park for shit, lining either side of the road for several hundred metres, your pointless German status symbols blotted out what little light there was. Good job I was driving slowly, anyway and not like you inevitably do - 90 mph everywhere, isn't it? Don't supervise your kids, it's fine pal - you just stay glued to your iBerryTwatPad - much more important.

 

Here's a thought you irresponsible prick - WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU LETTING YOUR KIDS RUN ACROSS AN UNLIT ROAD ON A BLIND CORNER? Had I not needed to get home, you'd have got what was left of my tea all over your powercunted suit and face, and then a wheelbrace in the back of your head for good measure. FUCK RIGHT OFF.

 

Seriously, I swear the kids round here have a death wish.