The grumpy thread

[boobydoo]

Oh, by the way, if anyone has got any badly behaved kids that they don't know what to do with over the Christmas period, why not pop down to your local Mercedes-Benz dealer and let them clamber all over the £40k plus cars with their dirty boots, greasy fingers and rivetted jeans?

 

We don't charge a penny , they can scoff all our biscuits , make a complete mess of the coffee facility area and continually slam car doors, open boots and move electric seats forwards and backwards, and forwards and backwards, and forwards and backwards, and forwards and backwards.......

 

Every other parent allows this, so this is a genuine offer.................................

[RedSparrow]

I have found that the more 'well off' the parents are, the more badly behaved their little snowflakes are. I'd imagine those visiting a Merc dealer with their parents to be right little shits. Public school education, can't beat it.

[autofive]

supermarkets

 

just been to local asda. i only wanted a few things, but after having to park half a mile away from the door, fighting my way through hoards of braindead idiots buying a months food, and taking their rude and naughty children with them, while listening to the local god-botherers xmas music, fighting off the charity tin shakers, and braving the cut-price shelf scrum, the deli counter queue jumpers and finally getting to the right aisle - i find the aisle full of xmas shite instead of what was there earlier in the week

 

its only one day FFS, why does it make shoppers go nuts just to buy stuff for an overgrown sunday lunch?

[scaryoldcortina]

I went to asda at 11pm last night - it was much the same

[dollywobbler]

I reckon it's working mother guilt leading to the kids getting away with murder.

 

That or the fact that they feel far too posh to shout at their kids like those dreadful common parents. Ugh!

[Richard]

I hear posh people shouting at their kids all the time, rather like in that "Fenton" video that's been doing the rounds, and with much the same impact on their behaviour.

[tonedepear]

I'm fucking loaded* and my daughter is uber-polite, cos ms_tone runs a tight ship. (In the style of Mussolini)

 

Speaking of whom, I stuck her mundano on my awkward to access side drive bit (off the side of my slightly less awkward to get to driveway) the other day while she and jr_tone were away to London. So at her request yesterday I got it off the drive for them as they're out around today, and ripped a bloody great tear in the (already crusty) nsr sill just before the back wheel on a handily placed rock.

 

GR7 for being flavour of the month.

 

If anyone has a modern-ish, mrs-friendly steed at scrap value knocking about they don't need, feel free to mention.

 

*not really

[Lord Sterling]

Grrr, my bastard Sterling has done it again. My expansion has had a minor hairline crack on it for weeks now, recently it started losing water and the 'hiss' frpom the crack had got louder so I've stopped using it. Thinking I've got a few spare tanks to use I thought this'll be a doddle. Of course as my luck would have it, all my spare tanks are either broken or cracked, so I cant use them, off into the bin they go.

 

Today I set off out to go and pick up the Micra so I can get to my garages and see whats there. Of course I managed to get caught out in the sodding rain and was absolutely soaked by the time I got to the Micra (good thing it has a seat cover) I set off to my garages for a session of climbing over the other bastard cars stored in there, of course, I couldnt move them as I had no jump leads and they had flat tyres anyway, besides a Micra battery is no match for a Rover 800 battery.

 

Garage #1 revealed a tank, but of course, you guess it, it was broken!

 

Garage #2 which is still stuffed with my "mates" crap was even harder to get to, you seriously had to be flexible to get around the crap in there, I just couldnt get access to the boot, despite managing just to open it whilst climbing on the roof of the car, I also couldnt shut the boot properly as some of my "mates" stuff had fallen on the car (Nothing too heavy thankfully) onto the rear bumper.

 

I conceded defeat and left empty handed. I shall try and go in the next few days and grab a tank from one of my cars so lets see what problems this will throw up..........

[Lankytim]

Just come back from my works Xmas dinner and piss up. I didn't drink as I was driving and I dont want to waste money on taxi fare. The whole bash was basically a huge wanking circle,people saying how great so and so is, even getting up and making speeches on how great the firm is and how someone is such an asset to the company, generally showing off and being very annoying e.t.c. During work time all they seem to do is slag each other off behind their backs and generally backstab. As the afternoon went on people got drunker and the mutual masturbation got more frenzied. I couldn't wait to get out of there!

 

I don't have anything in common with these people, I just go to work for some money to pay the bills and spend on shite. I don't want work to become some sort of lifestyle choice like some people have. Maybe its me thats in the wrong here?

 

As the great Alan Partridge once said "I just hate the general public".

 

Still atleast I have a few days off before I have to go back.

[Cavcraft]

It's not you that's wrong Tim, it's the odious turds whose spent their working lives arselicking people, and those whose whole life revolves around their job. If I ever got like that I'd leave work and never go back.

[warren t claim]

We should of organised an Autoshite xmas party.

 

Obviously the atmosphere would be thick with the smoke of Players Number 6 and the odd Castella. The venue would have to be a seedy upstairs room, maybe with some classy entertainment like a blue comic with a dyke show to follow, probably with Billy on stage to join them.. After we had emptied the bar we'd all drive home in mk3 Cortinas or FE Victors.

[M'coli]

I don't have anything in common with these people, I just go to work for some money to pay the bills and spend on shite. I don't want work to become some sort of lifestyle choice like some people have. Maybe its me thats in the wrong here?

I think that's one of the reason's you're a member on here...

[outlaw118]

Obviously the atmosphere would be thick with the smoke of Players Number 6 and the odd Castella. The venue would have to be a seedy upstairs room, maybe with some classy entertainment like a blue comic with a dyke show to follow, probably with Billy on stage to join them.. After we had emptied the bar we'd all drive home in mk3 Cortinas or FE Victors.

 

So, when are the invites going out?

[messerschmitt owner]

I had my works party today. I sat at the sales team table as I didn't want to sit next to my workmates - I had a great time - we talked cars, 80s music and why Star Wars remakes were crap!

 

My fun dig at them was that I made the individual biggest sale of the year - £31800 - this week - thanks to doing a deal with a large cruise company for books.

[dollywobbler]

We should of organised an Autoshite xmas party.

 

Looks like the grammar police will be starting a fight. Outside son! It's should HAVE!

[Albert Ross]

We should of organised an Autoshite xmas party.

 

Looks like the grammar police will be starting a fight. Outside son! It's should HAVE!

 

I was about to post on the very same subject matter.... You saved me the bother.

[trigger]

I went out for my works do a few weeks ago, It started at 4.30pm and finished at 3am, I was pretty drunk by the end but my highlight was being chatted up for 20 minutes by a pretty 17 year old in a nightclub, She soon buggered off after i told her that i was 31 though, Oh well!

[Guest]

Massive long shot, but......

 

Has anyone got a Mac with FCP7 that I can lend for a couple of weeks?

[autofive]

flat tyre

[RedSparrow]

UPS.

Do they get paid more if they have to make several delivery attempts? Seriously?

Whoever has my Christmas presents for family in their van would rather leave a 'while you were out' note than ring the fucking doorbell. This is the third day I have had to spend in waiting for them, ensuring missing several seasonal social events. Actually really pissed off.

[chaseracer]

We should've organised an Autoshite xmas party...

There's still time. February would be good - something to look forward to...

[Cheggers]

Bloody French cars!!!

 

Simple enough task, replacing the alternator belt on Miss_Chegg_Junior's Clio...except the bottom bolt on the tensioner is just about as inaccessible as they could possibly make it. Whatever's wrong with a simple adjustment on the alternator???, when did they decide it needed a separate tensioner pulley held on by a bolt so tight against the wheelarch you can't even get a spanner to it.

 

Bumhats

[Negative Creep]

We should've organised an Autoshite xmas party...

There's still time. February would be good - something to look forward to...

 

Should be quite cheap, as we'd only need to buy one pint of bitter and spend the rest of the night nursing it. No birds or poofs allowed.

[Cavcraft]

No birds, what kind of night out is that? I'd like to get pissed and feebly attempt to chat up the FLANGE on the cover of the TR7 brochure please.

[Des]

Bloody French cars!!!

 

Simple enough task, replacing the alternator belt on Miss_Chegg_Junior's Clio...except the bottom bolt on the tensioner is just about as inaccessible as they could possibly make it. Whatever's wrong with a simple adjustment on the alternator???, when did they decide it needed a separate tensioner pulley held on by a bolt so tight against the wheelarch you can't even get a spanner to it.

 

Bumhats

 

First rule of alternator belt adjustment:

The longer the pry bar, the fewer bolts you have to loosen.

[maxpower]

i hate all this xmas bollocks... yo ho ho shite... visitors that you haven't seen for years coming to your house for a free meal just because they can't be arsed to cook.

queues of people miles long clogging up shops(i thought there was a fucking recession)

the geeky student in a santa suit offering to help you pack your shopping whilst waving a charity tin under your nose(where the fuck were you the other 364days)

wankers that can't be arsed to wait at junctions so instead just drive out on wrong side of road sitting along side you ready to try and squeeze into your line of traffic(fuck off you clown and wait in the line like we all have to do)

 

jeeze and xmas ain't even here yet

 

maybe i should apply to be scrooge in next years panto bah! humbug

[peter9000uk]

Bloody French cars!!!

 

Simple enough task, replacing the alternator belt on Miss_Chegg_Junior's Clio...except the bottom bolt on the tensioner is just about as inaccessible as they could possibly make it. Whatever's wrong with a simple adjustment on the alternator???, when did they decide it needed a separate tensioner pulley held on by a bolt so tight against the wheelarch you can't even get a spanner to it.

 

Bumhats

 

Undo top engine mount and raise or lower engine

[Cheggers]

It may just come to that...

 

On a Christmas grump related note, we went to Sainsbury's at 10pm yesterday only to find it looking like it had been looted - No eggs, no milk, hardly any bread. Shitloads of festive bollocks, but could you get actual, proper, real food?

 

Bah fucking humbug

[cort16]

I tried to get the Rover running today to no avail. I'm not getting any petrol up to the engine end, where it's required for burning.

There's power getting to the pump and I can feel it vibrating when I crank it but still no fuel. Bust diaphram in the pump maybe? Obviously all the screws are rusted to buggery so I've left them to soak in WD40 at gas mark 10 over christmas.

[chaseracer]

We should've organised an Autoshite xmas party...

There's still time. February would be good - something to look forward to...

 

Should be quite cheap, as we'd only need to buy one pint of bitter and spend the rest of the night nursing it. No birds or poofs allowed.

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