The grumpy thread

[Guest]

to be fair, this isn't really a car thread!

 

FFS, non-car thread in car forum fails for car-related reasons.

 

 

It was a car related grumpy thread once before you joined, so far Luxo most your posts haven't even involved any thing car related worth reading, either sort it out or fuck off, your fuckin me off now with all this shit you write.

 

and that goes for you Norm as well.

 

[Parky]

Bloody 'ell! Popped in for a browse and seem to have found a site that looks like Autoshite, smells like Autoshite, but somehow isnt Autoshite. Anyone seen Autoshite anywhere?

[Richard]

[Parky]

Beige Horizon to the rescue! Nice one Rich

[Guest]

Autoshite is begining to feel like a chore and not the fun it used to be. Good guys have pissed off to other forums and we have Nutty Norm with his silly - political sh*t.

[RoadworkUK]

Please don't go, guys..

 

We can get through this.

[Guest Len H]

 

To be honest I quite enjoyed Blitz's trolling of the Autoshite News 24 thread.

[George-Roper]

 

To be honest I quite enjoyed Blitz's trolling of the Autoshite News 24 thread.

 

 

I did that ages ago Lenny but everyone else shows up commenting on his crap. Near enough shutting the door behind me too

[OwdChina]

Bloody Hell guys.....calm down, everybody has a grumpy day sometimes, no need for a world war.

 

 

Awaits a slagging

[RedSparrow]

I should apologise too for joining in retarded arguments.

 

I shall be blocking him. First time I have ever done so on any board. Perhaps we all should?

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

I'll block him, too, in order to keep myself out of trouble in the future.

 

Trigger, while I have never claimed to be a God of automotive knowledge, I think you're being a bit over the top here (however, I respect your right to your own opinion and I'm not offended). Unless, of course, you mean this thread, which I will happily admit to using as an off-topic 'vent' board as most other members do. People get grumpy about car problems in other threads and, as far as I can tell, that's perfectly fine with everyone.

 

I really don't understand why so many otherwise civil and pleasant shiters can't just ignore whatever doesn't interest them as opposed to taking personal offence at someone making a quick comment on the economic prospects of Norway or someone else mentioning public sector pensions, and all that on a thread that nowadays is mostly used for non-motoring issues. Off-topic discussions are very useful in forging a bit of an AS 'community', as the recent phenomenal support for eddy has shown.

 

Let's put this episode behind us all, shall we?

[warren t claim]

Suits me. The way we are acting we are just begging for Amazo to poke his head around the door again.

 

...and then hopefully nip back down the corridor to suffer from MS.

[Negative Creep]

If a newbie or casual viewer comes on and read all this crap that keeps going on, they aren't going to participate. Net result is the forum becomes insular, or dies

[Lankytim]

Just lost an auction on a nice pair of Ford mechanics overalls. Nuts! Having overalls with a main dealer or car manufacturer embroidered on guarantees a decent discount at the local breakers... they think you're trade, see.

 

I hate missing out on stuff on e.bay at the last minute. I kinda go cold turkey.

 

Sorry, this is a bit of a pointless post too, isn't it!

[M'coli]

No, it's highly valid.

[andrew e]

You used to see a chap selling ex laundered ones round the car shows, but I seem to avoid crossing paths with him. Is he still out there????

[Cavcraft]

Just lost an auction on a nice pair of Ford mechanics overalls. Nuts! Having overalls with a main dealer or car manufacturer embroidered on guarantees a decent discount at the local breakers... they think you're trade, see.

 

I hate missing out on stuff on e.bay at the last minute. I kinda go cold turkey.

 

Sorry, this is a bit of a pointless post too, isn't it!

 

Keep an eye out for a local autojumble, Tim. Usually there's someone there selling them, got my son two pairs of Rolls Royce ones cheap, much to the amusement of his colleagues who now dub him 'porn star' as I underestimated the size of said overalls and they're way too small!

[trigger]

Sorry, this is a bit of a pointless post too, isn't it!

 

Not at all, It's just the sort of post i like to see on here!

 

I nicked my overalls from work, they are bright orange and designed for people with short torsos which isn't me so i end up taking like Michael Jackson when working on my car.

[simmo]

Bright orange? do you work at Guantanamo Bay?

[eddyramrod]

I kept a boilersuit from a previous job when the contract was taken over, and new uniforms issued; from being a lovely blue suit with the name of a cleaning company over the pocket, it now has green patches (including a combat pocket) from some other redundant uniform, and a Volvo sew-on patch over the original name.

 

This is absolutely not a Grump. I'm very happy with my suit and will wear it (and continue to add green patches when needed; I have the matching pocket for the other side ready-and-waiting) for many years to come, I hope. It was issued to me in 1996, so it doesn't owe me much...

 

Grump? All this fucking politics!

[The Moog]

Came home to find something had fallen of a shelf and landed on the Macbook pro. Cost to replace screen by Apple £500 ... insurance job it is then ...

 

I blame Poltergoose

 

[Lankytim]

Just lost an auction on a nice pair of Ford mechanics overalls. Nuts! Having overalls with a main dealer or car manufacturer embroidered on guarantees a decent discount at the local breakers... they think you're trade, see.

 

I hate missing out on stuff on e.bay at the last minute. I kinda go cold turkey.

 

Sorry, this is a bit of a pointless post too, isn't it!

 

I'll swap pants with you, Lanks.

 

Ok then, just bear in mind that pants over here mean something different. Do you want me to wear them for a week before I send them over to you?

[trigger]

Bright orange? do you work at Guantanamo Bay?

 

It feels like it sometimes!

[maxpower]

driving today i saw that the driver side front tyre had a slow puncture... so i phoned head office for a job number to get tyre changed.. and they said if they changed the tyre then they would have to change all 4 to winter tyres

i told them that i had job number to change ONLY 1 tyre and that if they changed all the tyres i doubt they would be paid... so in the end i had to go to a petrol garage to put air in the tyre as they wouldn't change just one tyre.

 

can they do that? can they get away with ripping people off?.... and with the amount of vans my company has, if they lose the tyre fitters lose the contract it's gonna be a lot of money to lose for the sake of one tyre change.

[autofive]

driving today i saw that the driver side front tyre had a slow puncture... so i phoned head office for a job number to get tyre changed.. and they said if they changed the tyre then they would have to change all 4 to winter tyres

i told them that i had job number to change ONLY 1 tyre and that if they changed all the tyres i doubt they would be paid... so in the end i had to go to a petrol garage to put air in the tyre as they wouldn't change just one tyre.

 

can they do that? can they get away with ripping people off?.... and with the amount of vans my company has, if they lose the tyre fitters lose the contract it's gonna be a lot of money to lose for the sake of one tyre change.

 

 

maybe the tyres are leased

[Guest]

The work of one itinerant gobshite at Uni who never, ever, ever, ever stops talking. Thanks to her \ it the FCP* expert won't help anyone in my set because we all 'talk over' him 'constantly' and 'whinge on that we already know it all'. Long story short - she has an ego the size of a 747 scale tumescent penis, and is pissed off because she wasn't made director of her group. Producer and director roles are given to the third year co-op students. She knew this before signing on to the course. Did she read that part? Did she fuck, she was too busy boring everyone else shitless with how much she knew about TV programme-making (all gleaned from a fortnight logging course at MUTV, or something). As she is now the editor of her group, she has wasted no time at all complaining to all and sundry about how insulting she finds the job and how she feels it's a waste of her time.

 

Please, please, PLEASE shut up. It's lovely that you know FCP** girl, it really is. I don't, because I happen to have an aversion to the gay white shitbag coffee shop toytown computers and last used FCP as version 4 in 2006. Version 7 is completely different. Hence, what I know is irrelevant.

 

Seriously, the next time her and her STUPID friend pipe up again I'm going to scream something rather unpleasant, and if it silences the room, so be it. Sadly, this day is not far away. We'll soon find out how soundproof the MCUK classrooms are.

 

Peace and lack of politics,

 

Wat.

 

* and ** - Final Cut Pro.

[chaseracer]

^^That was highly political. Life = Politics.

Amen. The alternative is to assume the ostrich position, then complain when it all goes shit-shaped.

 

However, enough...

 

 

Peace & AS love, brothers and sisters...

[Cavcraft]

Adapting the ostrich position personally, but sometimes people's complaints about other people's posts are equally as tiring to read, sometimes worse. Surely the pm facility is the first port of call? Right, quite apt given very recent post/s on here: works van has flat tyre. We have to ring national company who now have the contract. Cue half arsed 'we'll be there tomorrow or Monday' comment. Thats no bloody use at all sorry. 'Ok, we'll be there by 5.30pm'. That's no sodding use either. 'Err, ok how does mid-day at the latest sound?' Yeah, that's fine. Ten minutes later the 'phone rings; 'hi, we're the depot coming to fix the puncture, there's no chance we'll be there this morning, it'll be about 5.30pm'. Flipping brilliant

[ashmicro]

Came home to find something had fallen of a shelf and landed on the Macbook pro. Cost to replace screen by Apple £500 ... insurance job it is then ...

 

I blame Poltergoose

 

 

 

Have a look here: http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/PC-Components ... 86.c0.m282

 

Apple are a ripoff for everything, repairs especially. Laptop screens are a piece of piss to repair, and the macbook one might even be the same as a laptop one, and I have about 8 in my junkpile, erm I mean spares stock. Post or PM me the exact model of your macbook and I'll see what I can find out. £500 is a disgrace before God and Ulster.

[eddyramrod]

works van has flat tyre. We have to ring national company who now have the contract. Cue half arsed 'we'll be there tomorrow or Monday' comment. Thats no bloody use at all sorry. 'Ok, we'll be there by 5.30pm'. That's no sodding use either. 'Err, ok how does mid-day at the latest sound?' Yeah, that's fine. Ten minutes later the 'phone rings; 'hi, we're the depot coming to fix the puncture, there's no chance we'll be there this morning, it'll be about 5.30pm'. Flipping brilliant

 

So what are you supposed to do, while they faff about? Go to the nearest KwikShit and buy a tyre for cash? Rent a van at zero notice to do the day's work? Simply fail to serve your customers?

 

Great British Business at work... GR0.003 for survival.