The grumpy thread

[peter9000uk]

Have an Olcit to cheer you up

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

[Lankytim]

The car park at work is a frickin' quagmire. Half of it is gravel but the other half has been "extended" onto a grassed area. Great in the summer, but shite now. Everyone is getting to work earlier and earlier to try and bag a "good" space. I'm getting in 15 mins early and still have to park over on the shitty side. Mud all over the Volvo, my shoes, and on the floor mats and pedals. Will work do anything about it? No, coz the directors park on tarmac!

[M'coli]

I lost at least a pint of Tripel today fronm the batch of homebrew that I've got brewing. You're meant to give it a stir to aeriate the brew as the yeast apparently likes oxygen (although personally I think it's because you need to knock the CO2 out of it as the yeast can only force so much CO2 out into the brew, after a certain amount it becomes too acid/difficult to ferment more) and the bugger foamed up and dumped a load of wort over the top of the fermentation vessel.

[eddyramrod]

I lost at least a pint of Tripel today fronm the batch of homebrew that I've got brewing. You're meant to give it a stir to aeriate the brew as the yeast apparently likes oxygen (although personally I think it's because you need to knock the CO2 out of it as the yeast can only force so much CO2 out into the brew, after a certain amount it becomes too acid/difficult to ferment more) and the bugger foamed up and dumped a load of wort over the top of the fermentation vessel.

 

Was that in English? Bloody hell, we like some esoteric stuff round here, it fair warms yer cockles....

[freebird]

Citroen have never really made too much thats bland...

 

Apart from the ZX (especially the estate), Saxo, Xsara, Xsara Picasso, C3, C4 5-dr, C5 Mk2 (which they try to sell as German. It kind of is - does things very well and is horribly fuggin dull). I'm still not sure what a DS4 is, even though I've seen a couple in the flesh. It had no redeeming or even rememberable features.

 

Even the C6 is starting to bore me. Wacky arse but a nose just like anything else, and a dull, DULL interior. It's like they blew the entire creative budget on those rear lights (which are admittedly ace) and a curved rear window.

 

Mind you, Citroens are still not pig ugly like those built by parent company Peugeot. Small mercies perhaps.

 

EDIT - I forgot the C2. That's how memorable that ugly little piece of shit is.

Ok, fair cop, a lot of that stuff was utter tosh.

In fairness, most of that stuff quoted is post 80s...................

[M'coli]

Och, I've been doing some hombrewing while I was waiting for DHL to arrive on Wednesday, if I'm lucky the Tripel (as in, Belgian-style Tripel) will be ready for Christmas and be about 8.5% ABV.

[Albert Ross]

Not wanting to feel left out... But this. About modern shit cars.

 

[scaryoldcortina]

^ that's rich coming from a man who works for a Forksoarhill dealers

 

I apologise for my earlier comment. I had a bad day and got carried away. I promise not to say fuck any more.

 

 

 

Oh fuck, I said it again. Bugger.

[Albert Ross]

I work for a Fucksall dealer because we are busy. If I worked for Toyota, I would have been out of work because they rarely fuck up as often. Also, our local Ford dealer, Ringways, was taken over by Stoneacre for 18 Million Earth Quids!!!!!

[trigger]

I think i may have made a bit of a FUBAR... I bought a few car brochures of Retro Rides last Saturday, £16 worth, from a new user, I paid via paypal and he said that he'd post them Monday.

 

It's now Saturday and they still haven't arrived, I sent him a message yesterday just asking if he's posted them but I've had no reply and he hasn't posted since.

 

What's the chances that I've been scammed. I'll give it a few more days but I'm not hopefull.

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.c ... =1#1443292

[cobblers]

Just went in to Motorworld for a tin of matt black to hide some sins. I would never set out to go to motorworld on purpose, but I was passing.

 

£7.99 was what they wanted for a 300ml tin of bargain basement matt black paint. Fuck that for a game of soldiers, I'll go to bloody bullseye and get twice as much paint for half as much money, and not have to wade through a display of shit mountain bikes and "KROOZIN" tat to get at it.

[autofive]

I think i may have made a bit of a FUBAR... I bought a few car brochures of Retro Rides last Saturday, £16 worth, from a new user, I paid via paypal and he said that he'd post them Monday.

 

It's now Saturday and they still haven't arrived, I sent him a message yesterday just asking if he's posted them but I've had no reply and he hasn't posted since.

 

What's the chances that I've been scammed. I'll give it a few more days but I'm not hopefull.

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.c ... =1#1443292

 

 

could be just a late post

 

have you asked mods for his email address?

[dollywobbler]

Does look a bit scammy. No pics available but he's going to put them on Ebay? Can PayPal get you your cash back?

[autofive]

i was reading just the other day that you can open a paypal dispute for non ebay items

[Timewaster]

Just went in to Motorworld for a tin of matt black to hide some sins. I would never set out to go to motorworld on purpose, but I was passing.

 

£7.99 was what they wanted for a 300ml tin of bargain basement matt black paint. Fuck that for a game of soldiers, I'll go to bloody bullseye and get twice as much paint for half as much money, and not have to wade through a display of shit mountain bikes and "KROOZIN" tat to get at it.

 

I fear shops like this are dying on their arse (I worked at one for best part of 20 years until 2008) as YOOFS cant afford to insure anything and spend their birthday money / dole on Xbox games instead, most people drive cars that dont need weekly tinkering and hardly anyone does their own servicing anymore.

Therefore they are trying the "lifestyle" market (cheap mountain bikes and crap tents), upping their prices to cover the shortfall and sealing their own doom.

[dollywobbler]

Mr Bollox. You used to be amusing and having met you, you seem a nice sort of a bloke really. But WTF is all the Ikea shit about? Putting it in the non-shite threads I could understand but why the rather excellent Prototype thread? I'm baffled. You seem to spend a lot of time complaining about how shit it is here but not actually contributing any shite stuff yourself anymore (and your standards have been epically high this year with stuff like Avenger-rescue, Maserati madness etc).

[Mr_Bo11ox]

IKEA STRÅLA CHRISTMAS CANDELABRA, AVAILABLE IN VARIOUS COLOURS, £17.99

 

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/40218771/

[Des]

^Most superb response of evah.^

[morris_ital_lover]

But WTF is all the Ikea shit about? Putting it in the non-shite threads I could understand but why the rather excellent Prototype thread? I'm baffled. You seem to spend a lot of time complaining about how shit it is here but not actually contributing any shite stuff yourself anymore (and your standards have been epically high this year with stuff like Avenger-rescue, Maserati madness etc).

 

Having studied(/checked his most recent posts). Mr Bol is not randomly spamming threads with Ikea (ok apart from this one) but commenting on the real shite (example 1: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12476&p=319516#p319516 ) and then "Ikea"ing those thread that have gone stupidly off topic some of which he posted in before they went off topic. It is a weird way of making a point but I understand why he is doing it.

 

 

BTW

[warren t claim]

But WTF is all the Ikea shit about? Putting it in the non-shite threads I could understand but why the rather excellent Prototype thread? I'm baffled. You seem to spend a lot of time complaining about how shit it is here but not actually contributing any shite stuff yourself anymore (and your standards have been epically high this year with stuff like Avenger-rescue, Maserati madness etc).

 

Having studied(/checked his most recent posts). Mr Bol is not randomly spamming threads with Ikea (ok apart from this one) but commenting on the real shite (example 1: http://autoshite.commlm/phpbb3/viewtopic.p ... 16#p319516 ) and then "Ikea"ing those thread that have gone stupidly off topic some of which he posted in before they went off topic. It is a weird way of making a point but I understand why he is doing it.

 

 

BTW

 

But the M5 Crash thread evolving into a discussion about the general poor standard of driving has hardly gone off on a massive tangent has it? The fact that it has 8 pages and contributions from several members without involving personal insults or politics surely means that it justifies its own existence?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Awaits "zany" picture of a KLIPPAN sofa

[simmo]

Why don't you just call a troll a troll? You wouldn't tolerate this from a Newby or Outsider.

[Cavcraft]

I think i may have made a bit of a FUBAR... I bought a few car brochures of Retro Rides last Saturday, £16 worth, from a new user, I paid via paypal and he said that he'd post them Monday.

 

It's now Saturday and they still haven't arrived, I sent him a message yesterday just asking if he's posted them but I've had no reply and he hasn't posted since.

 

What's the chances that I've been scammed. I'll give it a few more days but I'm not hopefull.

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.c ... =1#1443292

 

 

Trig, he was on line (over at R-R) at 09.49 today, perhaps worth trying him again?

[Autoplas]

Why don't you just call a troll a troll? You wouldn't tolerate this from a Newby or Outsider.

 

or Norm

[Pete-M]

[Guest]

Pete, I had to go away and LOL heartily at that last post.

[trigger]

That's brilliant Pete, that's got to be Norm!

 

Trig, he was on line (over at R-R) at 09.49 today, perhaps worth trying him again?

 

He replied to my pm yesterday Billy, he said he's been away with work and that he's posted them now so hopefully (fingers crossed) they will be here next week.

[trigger]

In other news, I had someone try and kill me last night.

 

I was driving along the A12 near Colchester which is a two lane duel carriageway in heavy traffic in the Golf, It was about 5.15pm so it was dark, I was stuck in the slow lane doing 55 mph and i saw a gap in the fast lane coming up so i put my indicator on and waited for the first car to pass, the gap was still plenty big enough so i pulled out, I then get the car behind speed up and roar right up my arse so much so that he was touching my rear bumper!.

 

I couldn't go any quicker as the car in front was only doing about 65 mph, The behind car was still up my arse, so as soon as i past the slower car i indicated and pulled back left, well this cunt (strong words but you'll see why in second), pulled along side of me and started to push me off the road!, I had my two nearside wheels over the white line on the left and into the grass and he had over half his car in my lane!

 

To be honest, I did shit myself, I had to brake sharply and he just speed like an arsehole, It really shit me up, especially after what happened on the M5 on Friday, I swear to god that i didn't cut him up and he was well behind, he just took a grudge to someone being in front of him, The Golf cabrio is a bit of a girly car so thank god it was me driving and not some young woman (it was too dark to see who was in the car so he wouldn't have known).

 

I never got the plate and the police would have done fuck all, I'm hoping someone behind would have reported it as the road was busy at the time, all i can remember is that it was a burgundy red Peugeot 407 starting KE55.

 

I'm still shooked up about it tbh.

[ProgRocker]

 

To be honest, I did shit myself, I had to brake sharply and he just speed like an arsehole, It really shit me up, especially after what happened on the M5 on Friday, I swear to god that i didn't cut him up and he was well behind, he just took a grudge to someone being in front of him, The Golf cabrio is a bit of a girly car so thank god it was me driving and not some young woman (it was too dark to see who was in the car so he wouldn't have known).

 

I never got the plate and the police would have done fuck all, I'm hoping someone behind would have reported it as the road was busy at the time, all i can remember is that it was a burgundy red Peugeot 407 starting KE55.

 

I'm still shooked up about it tbh.

 

What an utter arsehole. It reminds me of Richard Hammond's article on the Top Gear website a couple of months ago when he was driving his wife's Fiat 500C. The offending vehicle in that situation was a Peugeot as well. Karma will catch up to people like this one day.

[Cavcraft]

I'm not going to have a big whinge, but, oh well ok then, I am going to have a big whinge: why do people feel they have to respond to every single thing posted on here, if it doesn't interest you, don't respond.

 

The constant arguing over content/lack of content serves no purpose other than to massage egos.

 

I have more or less given up posting on here as I feel I have little to add; I am coming more and more to the conclusion that internet forums are not for me.

 

 

Spot on.

 

I've been as bad as anyone for flaring up at stupid posts/stupid people but really trying to stop now. Getting to the point where you almost don't dare to read a thread for fear of it turning into an e-battle somewhere along the way.

Just hope that some of the ones that left still lurk (I think Mini-Mad does for example) and will come back again soon as we defo lost some quality people on here. Trouble is whilst it's still kicking off people won't feel obliged to return.