The grumpy thread

[dollywobbler]

My experience of local council folk is that they're a bunch of work-shy, break-loving tosspots. That's not to say they all are, but some DEFINITELY are. Life seems to revolve around endless tea breaks and doing work quickly and efficiently just doesn't seem possible. You DO get people coasting in their 'safe as houses' job not really giving two shits about doing their job well. That's not just a council problem either.

 

However, most people doing a job with people involvement - ie teachers, nurses etc - are doing it because they have a love of helping people, and employers are very quick to exploit that fact, just as others (or the same ones) exploit the fact that some people like boasting about how busy they are at work. O RLY? In that case, we expect three hours unpaid overtime every night just so you can boast to your friends. Sorted!

[trigger]

My mate took his K reg BMW 318is in for it mot today and it failed, badly, the garage quoted him £500 to get it through, the car is a bucket of shit anyway so i recommend scrapping it and using the money to buy another cheap banger with mot.

 

The idiots told the garage to carry out the work as he knows the cars history, I've told him that he's mad.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

But does he actually like his car or does he drive it because he can't afford anything better?

[trigger]

He likes the car but can't afford to change it either, he's had it nearly 2 years now and has never serviced it, it's a right heap, rusty arches, torn interior, boot spoiler which has fallen off the works.

[Lord Sterling]

BMW 318is....never serviced it, it's a right heap, rusty arches, torn interior, boot spoiler which has fallen off the works.

 

Sounds great, we need a current pic of it in all its rusty and torn shiteyness.

[cort16]

Cavette, it's not like those mondeos are shit cos they aren't. The two litre duratec's probably the best one as it's not bad on fuel and doesn't have the dizzlers issues it's just there's so bloody many of them the prices have dropped through the floor.

I recon maybe the problem with your one is it's white so people think it's ex-plod and those wheels would put off your normal family type buyer. You'd maybe get a better result with steels and trims then flog the wheels on their own.

[George-Roper]

[Cavcraft]

Cavette, it's not like those mondeos are shit cos they aren't. The two litre duratec's probably the best one as it's not bad on fuel and doesn't have the dizzlers issues it's just there's so bloody many of them the prices have dropped through the floor.

I recon maybe the problem with your one is it's white so people think it's ex-plod and those wheels would put off your normal family type buyer. You'd maybe get a better result with steels and trims then flog the wheels on their own.

 

 

I reckon you're right. However I've just seen what the engines can fetch so breaking it is now a distinct option. The other good thing about this (if it happens) is that'll be one less of the fucking things on the road.

[whitevanman]

when they tried it in 1971 the accident rate in the north went up.

 

 

Having been around for too many years I here this quoted many times....along with the children at a bus stop in Skye being killed because of the trial. There is no documented evidence for either claim, Panorama did a program about it in the mid 70's, I am opposed to it in concept as GMT is the base line for all time and co-ordinates, so why should we change and no longer be the centre??

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

The GMT will still remain the centre of everything time-based, because it's been that way for ages and changing it would be costly.

 

I'm in favour of keeping summer time all year round, however this would have to be agreed at a Europe-wide level or it would screw lots of things up...including airline timetables and stockmarkets.

[eddyramrod]

Billy, have you got a photo of this Mondeo around here somewhere?

[Pete-M]

Bloody beard is turning white, ffs.

[autofive]

Bloody beard is turning white, ffs.

 

 

ho ho ho

 

you ' ll be alright for a job at xmas

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

FUCKING TWATS! May you have a slow and painful death.

 

They broke off my door mirror during the night and, as the road is one-way, reasonably wide and pretty quiet, I can't imagine it having been anything else than 'for fun'. Ford didn't make them foldable so they stick out into the path of drunks who see them as a challenge.

 

Needless to say, the area is full of CCTV but is there any chance that they'll be found out? IS THERE FUCK?

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Better still, there's a healthy supply of wing mirrors on evilbay, in every colour including some loony light blues and light greens, and THERE ARE ZERO grey ones. Fucksticks.

[RedSparrow]

The wing mirror thing happened to me reguarly when I lived near town centre. Literally ever friday night for 3 months the same row of cars would have their mirrors kicked off. Fiesta now had scratches on the doors under the mirrors because it happened so often. Sometimes I could jam them back on, sometimes a new fitting (Ford £35, cheapo £22). Just cunts. I didn't bother telling the police as all the could have done is hidden and waited for the fucker and I doubt they would have done that.

We just have to take it on the chin living in a country where people are selfish and nasty.

That Derren Brown show last night illustrated that nicely.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

They've done it before, but it was just unclipped...Now it's broken. I can still attach it back onto the door and drive around town, but it's not totally secure and the electric adjustment has also been fucked. I'm incredibly pissed off.

[Skizzer]

^^That sucks. Our street got hit a couple of weeks back - I think it's some pissed up knobrot rich kid teenage arsewipes that pass through on their way back from WethASBOoons. They dicked about with my motorbike as well, and broke the front mudguard where they smacked the brake disc lock into it.

 

Don't anybody mention this to Scooters, it'll remind him about the schemies that trashed his 250GTi a while back.

[George-Roper]

Try hammering a smaller vandal over it.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

[chaseracer]

Don't anybody mention this to Scooters, it'll remind him about the schemies that trashed his 250GTi a while back.

GTi? You had me worried there for a moment...

 

 

[Skizzer]

Don't anybody mention this to Scooters, it'll remind him about the schemies that trashed his 250GTi a while back.

GTi? You had me worried there for a moment...

 

Hehe! Oops, fat fingers That would be a 205, obv. If Scoot had a 250GTO I'm sure he'd have mentioned it.

[Pete-M]

If Scoots had a 250 GTO it'd be the only one ever built in beige with a 950 crossflow.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

And a shafted alternator

[Cheggers]

RIP Sir Jimmy Saville...now then, now then, now then

[AnthonyG]

Mundane-O = The Ford Taurus of Yurrup

 

Surely you mean the Ford Contour and Mercury Mystique of Europe!

[Lankytim]

Got up mega early this morning to go on a scrapyard mission. I wanted to remove the front struts from a Volvo 240 GLT in the local breakers, plus the rear anti-roll bar, plus a load of other bits that had been asked for by my chums over on the VOC forum. I had to take so many tools that I made use of a sack truck I have in the garage for carting crap with. Drove to the breakers, carefully set all my tools up on the sack truck and secured them with a bungee rope (LT being thorough for once shocker) Dragged the thing down to the bottom of the breakers to where the GLT was stood and.... the fecking thing had been crushed! ARSE BISCUITS!!!

[warren t claim]

Can someone please explain to me the UK tabloids fascination in Jeremy Clarksons sex life? Why are they implying that he kept the existence of his first wife a secret? She was mentioned several times in his column in Performance Car (RIP).

[Cheggers]

Clocks going back, dark mornings, dark evenings, winter...fugging hate it

[j-j]

Fuckstix. I took the CX in to Glasgow town from my parent's drive out in the stix to do some work on it at a friendly garage that allows some regulars to their own work on a weekend, anyway, the MOT is out (you can tell where this is going..) though it's still insured till March and I'd slapped a costly, thin beermat in the windscreen before the test was up in September, to keep moving it in and out the drive at the folks' a simple matter.

 

So, I'd 'booked' it in for 'MOT work' at the garage - no probs there and all was going swimmingly. I set off back to the cuntryside and noted that I was pretty hungry having not eaten much this morning, I cut into a services on the M74 at Bothwell only to notice a new addition to the sort of central reservation between the in and out roads to the carpark: a post there in the middle that you must go past as there's no U-turn possible, and topped off with beady, lensy, scope-like camera looking thingys what looks at all the grot what goes in (and out too it seems). I haven't been in that services for ages and this thing is new but I think it's some ANPR sort of weapon. No doubt it scanned my plates and indeed has now auto-issued a charge notice of sorts since I'm driving sans MOT. Now I know that the whole pre-booked MOT work and/or test is an appeal point for these situations but I understand the rules governing exemptions to no MOT use state something like 'you MUST drive directly from the test centre/ place of MOT work to your off-road location without stopping to refuel or ANYthing' so I guess I'm fukd....

 

So assuming the worst, what is the charge I'm going to get for driving without MOT (but still with tax and such) fine amount and points?

 

Jeez, there's always something fukd going on in my life......ugh...groan... especially since it's my faggin fault!