The grumpy thread

[freebird]

Minimad does lurk, he sent me a very nice PM the other day ( after all of that sh*t ) Im sure he will be back.

[whitevanman]

I confess I was getting into the general banter last year, thats why I took a sabbatical away from it all to get some perspective, Cortinadave convinced me to come back...little has changed other than the different faces, though Norm made me smile in an off topic way and as much as I wanted to reply I didn't.

[myglaren]

Went to clean the C5 today, ready for a funeral in the morning and the damned thing wouldn't start.

First failure to start on anything in at least twelve years. IIRC the last thing that did this was a Visa when the distributor eventually flew to pieces after clattering around for ages.

It's been slow starting for a while - 10~15" usually and a bit longer when cold but usually only the first start of the day.

 

Flattened* the 'newish' battery and got a million silly warnings and error messages as a result - including the daft TrafficMaster bint.

 

Swapped the battery for the old Varta one that was on when I bought the car, so at least five years old and likely a lot more.

Still wouldn't start but closer. Let it have a rest and put the newer battery on charge - except the charger wouldn't -er- charge.

It did start after 'resting' for half an hour.

 

*Checked the 'dead' battery voltage - 12.26V. Charger is reading between 2 & 3V unloaded

 

At least it should get us to the funeral tomorrow.

 

A minor grump - recently (around a week now) when I hit the "Go To Unread Posts" button, it takes me to stuff read yonks ago - around 40 pages back from the current crop of posts.

 

This is on two different machines & operating systems/browsers.

 

Anyone else noticed anything similar?

[Cavcraft]

Mileage may be a huge factor Myglaren, but if you're ever round this neck of the woods I've got a perfectly good round post battery you can have if you're stuck.

[loserone]

A minor grump - recently (around a week now) when I hit the "Go To Unread Posts" button, it takes me to stuff read yonks ago - around 40 pages back from the current crop of posts.

 

This is on two different machines & operating systems/browsers.

 

Anyone else noticed anything similar?

 

Yes, although I had assumed it was because I've reverted to a month old firefox temp. directory, and I use a greasemonkey script to open all unread posts in tabs. I'll quit trying to fix it now, thanks

 

Oh, a grump: Although the 323F's original-spec back box has arrived, the fitting kit I ordered at the same time hasn't, and the old gasket is fubar. I will turn some heads when I go to work in the morning..

[myglaren]

Mileage may be a huge factor Myglaren, but if you're ever round this neck of the woods I've got a perfectly good round post battery you can have if you're stuck.

 

Thanks Billy but I don't think it is the battery.

 

I bought a Yuasa Pro six months ago and it should be fine but the slow starting wasn't affected by putting the new battery on and as said the old Varta one managed to start it, despite having stood untouched for six months - pretty sure there was nothing wrong with it.

 

I think it is probably the starter motor spinning too slowly. Time to invest in a new one probably.

 

I'm more peeved that the charger seems to be US. Only had it about twenty five years

[whitevanman]

/\ me too on the unread posts thing

[BMC Dan]

Someone from my old college was stabbed to death in our local town centre in the early hours of this morning, R.I.P Billy.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-be ... s-15611104

 

Was just round the corner from where another person was murdered back in 2001 after being accused of jumping the queue at KFC one night, no wonder why I avoid the place as much as possible nowadays.

[Autoplas]

People with entirely unrealistic expectations of internet forums and expect every post to be on topic and relevant

 

This isnt a criticism of anyone, but its the internet people, if you want to have an entirely on topic and constructive conversation all the time you wont get it on internet forums, however good your intentions and however specialised the site.

 

People come on here for entertainment purposes, its not an old car university or a grammar police station

[Cavcraft]

People with entirely unrealistic expectations of internet forums and expect every post to be on topic and relevant

 

This isnt a criticism of anyone, but its the internet people, if you want to have an entirely on topic and constructive conversation all the time you wont get it on internet forums, however good your intentions and however specialised the site.

 

People come on here for entertainment purposes, its not an old car university or a grammar police station

 

It's, not its.

[Autoplas]

yewel neva take me alive coppah !

[Lord Sterling]

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.

 

Absolutely agreed.

 

I've wanted to say something like what SirTainlyBarkin said but have so far refrained. I refrained because I have no interest in having debates/arguements over the net. I've had my fair share arguements, e-fights and so on. I just one day decided I'd had enough. I come on here to have abit of laugh and ogle some old tat.

 

I myself had a few problems here a few years ago when something I said came across the wrong way. After that I also took a long sabatical, but after a few months I came back, as back then I found alot of the threads and posts very funny, the humour was alive, it always used to put a smile on my face. But I also then took the opportunity to change they way I posted, I'd lost alot of the over-confidence I once had as a member, hence why my posts these days may come across a little boring and somewhat pointless. I still post here as there are a few posts/threads that still come across as lol-worthy and to be honest, this is about the only forum I am still a regular user of.

 

This forum has noticeably changed and I dont think for all the better. I can certainly understand why some members moan/post strange pics as some sort of wierd protest but I just simply ignore posts that dont interest me and move on until I find something vaguely interesting. It would be much better if others did too.

 

I've seen the arguements and thread drifts over the past couple of years or so and I've never felt the want to get involved and make a point. I have no interest in that whatsoever. If I had more to talk about regarding my shite I would, but I dont.

[Craig the Princess]

why do people feel they have to respond to every single thing posted on here, if it doesn't interest you, don't respond.

 

Absolutely agreed.

 

 

I agree too, I had a bit of a moan Friday night on the ebay thread as some people were going off line but really I should have just ignored it. The foe button is the key here.

[Cavcraft]

Mostly my fault for being a mingebag but it didn't help I had to take the domestic manager to work just now, right as the listing was ending, so I missed out on this...

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/250921609074? ... fresh=true

 

Would have been ideal for the garage, didn't need any electrickery to work it, it was only a handful of miles away plus I have contacts for the solvent it uses

[maxpower]

bunged up with man-flu... blocked hooter, streaming peepers and a throat that feels like i have had sandpaper for lunch

 

it's feckin works fault with customers coughing,sneezing and breathing all over you

[eddyramrod]

bunged up with man-flu... blocked hooter, streaming peepers and a throat that feels like i have had sandpaper for lunch

 

it's feckin works fault with customers coughing,sneezing and breathing all over you

 

Yeah, then they'll complain if you try to take a sickie; nobody will believe you.

[Guest]

Dear Work,

 

I'm too busy to do that Sunday shift you insist I do. It's not worth me travelling down for a four hour shift as I make about £9 after tax. Uni has changed out of all recognition, and to be honest, it's higher up the pecking order than you are. I don't have a full day off at any point during the week, and this is beginning to grate.

 

I've therefore decided that I'm having Sunday as my day off whether you like it or not. Now, it seems churlish to me to fall out and or \ be awkward over a four hour shift, but if you want to stick your cock in the wasp's nest, so be it. My patience is pretty limited and I've got shit to do.

 

Sorry about that.

[chaseracer]

Dear Work,

 

I'm too busy to do that Sunday shift you insist I do. It's not worth me travelling down for a four hour shift as I make about £9 after tax. Uni has changed out of all recognition, and to be honest, it's higher up the pecking order than you are. I don't have a full day off at any point during the week, and this is beginning to grate.

 

I've therefore decided that I'm having Sunday as my day off whether you like it or not. Now, it seems churlish to me to fall out and or \ be awkward over a four hour shift, but if you want to stick your cock in the wasp's nest, so be it. My patience is pretty limited and I've got shit to do.

 

Sorry about that.

Seems fair.

 

[maxpower]

bunged up with man-flu... blocked hooter, streaming peepers and a throat that feels like i have had sandpaper for lunch

 

it's feckin works fault with customers coughing,sneezing and breathing all over you

 

Yeah, then they'll complain if you try to take a sickie; nobody will believe you.

 

oh no... no sickie for me.... being the generous guy i am, i aim to go to work and share it with everyone i come into contact with

 

revenge is sweet..... besides any sickies between now and jan 2012 will affect my redundacy payout

[Negative Creep]

I seem to have been on the verge of having a cold for the last 2 weeks

[autofive]

1st day of ice and frost and the bloody giff-tina's drivers door iced up

[eddyramrod]

My first Cadillac and the Daimler that replaced it both used to do that. Most annoying.

[Cavcraft]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... ident.html

 

[dollywobbler]

Shit year for the Arrows Billy. Hope these things don't always come in threes...

[ashmicro]

RIP. Sounds like some sort of failure in the ZeroZero system.

[eddyramrod]

I would imagine that in present company I'm one of a tiny minority who've had occasion to try to park at Paphos General Hospital. I know there isn't a hospital east of New York with sufficient parking, but really... combine the usual inept design with Cypriot drivers and you get an unholy mess. Going into more detail would just depress me, so let's leave it there. You all know what hospital parking is like normally; just multiply the AAAAAAARGH factor by a couple of hundred.

 

Oh yeah, then add in: I'm driving a 39-year-old car, and I have to unload a passenger into a wheelchair. You'd think a hospital would have some provision for that eventuality, wouldn't you?

[ashmicro]

iPods. No, not another one of my "Apple stuff is shit" rants. MP3 players of all types and pedestrians. This morning a not unattractive young lady walked right out in front of me in Chichester Street, (as I was taking Kate to work), oblivious to 15 feet of Jaguar bearing down on her. I had to stop sharpish, and she just stood there, frozen to the spot. Kate put the window down and said "HEY! How old are you?"

 

The ped said "I'm 20". Kate said "Well if you want to see your 21st, take out your earphones and pay attention you eejit"

 

I got told off too: Kate said "I bet you clocked her before she stepped of the kerb cos she's young and pretty. Some ugly woman in the same place would now have the imprint of a Jag grille on her bum!"

 

She knows me too well!

[jonny69]

I'm starting to get a bit fed up with the retarded shit that people seem to be able to manage on the roads. This morning I had to sit on a train for an extra twenty minutes because someone managed to crash into and smash the gate off a level crossing. If this was a level crossing on a difficult stretch of road, bad conditions or partially hidden or unmarked I could understand this happening. But it's inside the M25 on a narrow 30mph road in town at the station where the traffic drives past at about 20mph at best. What the **** do you have to be doing to not see a sodding great flashing beeping gate coming down AFTER the lights have gone red?

 

And it was the gate BEFORE the crossing and it was smashed down towards the traffic, so it even looks like they were on the wrong side of the road. At a level crossing.

[Guest]

Had ears done on Monday. The machine got so blocked it stopped at one point.

 

Anyway, all's sorted, felt a bit wonky but drove home fine. For the past two days my balance has been a bit off but then came back. With that out of the way I've spent Tuesday and today feeling like someone's squished me. Today is way better but yesterday was a joke, I could barely keep my eyes open.

 

At least there's no infection there now. The weeping gunge was traced back to a manky headset that I used at that call centre. So, two bouts of hardcore food poisoning and a recurring ear infection from the call centre - the filthy bastards.

[cort16]

We've just taken our house off the market after a year and a half of not being able to sell it. The estate agents have just sent us a£500 bill including a £255 admin fee for taking it off the market. Nice work eh? £1000 setup, £150 a quarter then 500 quid for NOT selling a house.