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  Cheggers said:
  sporty-shite said:
Why do people put ebay classified ads on their watch list? Just phone me, FFS. :roll:

 

I've been known to do that - Bookmarking it until your own car sells and you have the cash :wink:

 

Fair point. At least people might be interested in it. Could do with it gone, though, too many bills, not enough cash :(

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In addition to my other grumps, today, as I turned up at work I was amazed to discover that the dealership had taken in not one but two Peugeot 406s as part-exchange over the weekend. An 'S and an '02. £250 each, apparently. One a GLX, the other a Rapier.

 

Why the grumps?

 

They both disappeared on the Auction Lorry Of Doom within half an hour of me getting in and I didn't get to have a play.

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Grump. I was in an RTC yesterday tea time. I was a passenger in my mate's Getz when a clampitt in an A6 Avant sailed out on front of us. Whammo! Getz is totalled, my mate the driver bashed her nut on the B post and I have some world-class bruises on my legs. Nothing serious, thankfully, and we have an eye witness who was on foot and only about 20 feet away.

 

Big thumbs up to the NI Ambulance Service who checked us out and calmed us down, and props to the PSNI officer who gave me a cigarette!

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  ashmicro said:
Grump. I was in an RTC yesterday tea time. I was a passenger in my mate's Getz when a clampitt in an A6 Avant sailed out on front of us. Whammo! Getz is totalled, my mate the driver bashed her nut on the B post and I have some world-class bruises on my legs. Nothing serious, thankfully, and we have an eye witness who was on foot and only about 20 feet away.

 

Big thumbs up to the NI Ambulance Service who checked us out and calmed us down, and props to the PSNI officer who gave me a cigarette!

 

Urrrgh. Hope everything get sorted out.

 

The following aren't full on grumps, but they're still annoying.

 

1. STILL waiting on a place to get back to me about a job I might have got. Going to ring today even though part of me thinks I'm being a nuisance.

 

2. STILL waiting on a piece of kit I ordered from the States. It left San Diego on the 15th. Have HMRC got it and doing their usual? How do I track it to see if it's in the UK or not?

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Gah. WRC footage. Last year, ESPN did it and I benefited by being able to download it from YouTube. This means that really, I have no grounds for complaint.

 

But I will. Eurosport seem to have got it this year and it's entirely unwatchable! Whoever recruited the commentators (there are two of them from the few minutes of Day 1 and Day 5 that I watched) was clearly at lunch while any tests were done. Or perhaps in a different universe. What really is the pinnacle of motorsport (whatever Little Bernie would have us believe) has been utterly ruined, I fear forever. MINI are apparently struggling to get sponsorship this year. Well, I don't think the telly is going to help them!

 

It should be massively exciting. Lots of team changes, new manufacturers coming in yet sadly it's let down by the absolute shambles that is the coverage.

 

It would be better if they got Raymanboy to do it. I'm in a real sulk now.

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  watanabe said:
Urrrgh. Hope everything get sorted out.

 

x2, At least you (mostly) walked away unharmed, Nasty things car crashes, I hope your mate is ok as well.

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  dollywobbler said:
Gah. WRC footage. Last year, ESPN did it and I benefited by being able to download it from YouTube. This means that really, I have no grounds for complaint.

 

But I will. Eurosport seem to have got it this year and it's entirely unwatchable! Whoever recruited the commentators (there are two of them from the few minutes of Day 1 and Day 5 that I watched) was clearly at lunch while any tests were done. Or perhaps in a different universe. What really is the pinnacle of motorsport (whatever Little Bernie would have us believe) has been utterly ruined, I fear forever. MINI are apparently struggling to get sponsorship this year. Well, I don't think the telly is going to help them!

 

It should be massively exciting. Lots of team changes, new manufacturers coming in yet sadly it's let down by the absolute shambles that is the coverage.

 

It would be better if they got Raymanboy to do it. I'm in a real sulk now.

The firm that were supposed to be doing it went into administration - have a look on the autosport website to read more. Basically, we're lucky there's coverage at all.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/96951

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Ah, no wonder it feels like a complete shambles! Hope Mr Todt really can turn WRC around in 5 years as he pledges.

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Rallying died for me the minute Dave Richards started trying to play at being the dirt road Bernie. I used to only take one week off work every year, and it would be the week in November when the RAC Rally was on. Loved it.

 

For the last 10 years or so the once magnificent RAC Rally has been the "Rally in a Cardiff Car Park" and just not worth bothering with. Admittedly this year they did have stages back in the glorious forests of North Wales, but they massively cocked up with pricing and telly coverage. Richard Brainstorm of NWP fucked it massively too, but he's just a prick.

 

I've got videos from '90, '91, '92, '93 and '94 of the Top Gear Rally Report programme that used to be on every night around 7pm on BBC2. Rallying was the biggest spectator sport in the UK in '92 with 750,000 people turning up in various rural forests in November. I've got photos from the start line in Chester in '92, you couldn't move for people who were there to see the rally cars. Now you could quite probably get a lift there in one. It'd be easier than catching the rallying on telly as they move it around the schedules as they please. I'll plan to watch the San Remo rally on telly, it'll be advertised as being on at 8pm on Dave or summat and I'll finallly track it down three weeks later on some obscure late night channel half obscured by the bloke who does sign language trying to sign pace notes and the sound of a four pot turbo.

 

Nobody builds rally replicas anymore (other than the Mk2 Escort / Chevette / Sunbeam crew who do actually rally 'em). 15 years ago every Impreza was a Colin McRae / Richard Burns replica, every other Nova SR had Compomotives, huge mudflaps and a cage, Now the sport is dead in the UK and there's not much we can do about it. Hooning about in tweaked Mk2 Escorts etc taught me more about how to actually handle a car than pretty much anything else I've ever done in one. Making rally replicas also taught me a bit about how cars actually work. All lost now because Beardie Richards wanted to make the sport "more TV friendly".

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Maybe it's just where I live, but rallying doesn't seem dead at all around here. There are loads of unassuming hatchbacks driving around with a load of spotlights bolted to the bonnet and a rollcage hidden inside. You can usually hear them coming...

 

To be honest, standing in a forest watching a car drive past you at speed is utterly dreary. And cold. The NorthOne TV footage was thoroughly gripping. The on board footage is what really makes it, and gives a real feel for the stupid speeds being achieved. Super stages aren't really my idea of fun - they are too artificial - though I do like it when the gravel-spec cars are hooning around on Tarmac, because they roll like 2CVs!

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A lot of the fun for me (and quite a few other folk) was getting up at 2am, loading the car with enough supplies to last three days and then heading off to Kielder or Hafren to watch McRae etc giving it the full beans through forests at first light, and then following them around the country for a few days trying to leap-frog the rally cars over the course of the event. Bacon butties in the forest first thing in the morning and then there'd be a few hundred people trudging from their cars to the stages. It was a lot more fun than it sounds.

 

Rallying has been neutered, yes the in car footage is bloody good, but it's no use if it's a fortnight out of date and you need a week and the forensic skills of Sherlock Holmes to find it.

 

North / Mid Wales has always been hardcore rallying country along with the Lakes, Scottish Borders and a few random bits of Yorkshire. 20 years ago it was a lot more widespread. Still makes me grin when I see Novas with spots, flaps and cages around Queensferry and Mold. I just wish there were more of them.

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Aye, can imagine that the carnival atmosphere (the Scandinavians still seem quite good at it) helps make the events.

 

Last year, I was able to watch three days of rally footage sometimes as early as the Sunday night that the rally finished courtesy of YouTube. Felt like a great season, especially with the Citroen Sebastians going pell mell at each other! It really should become mainstream telly again though. I just don't understand why there is so much excitement about the terminally dull F1. It says a lot more for the skills of good TV producers than it does for the sport.

 

And while you're at it, bring back Rallycross. And Kickstart.

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  dollywobbler said:
bring back Rallycross.

 

I've actually found a bit of rallycross on the channels I can get here! It does need better scheduling. Also, waaaaaaaaaaay back, like 40+ years, we used to get autotesting and trialling on TV, both now totally absent. TV autotesting would be a must-see!

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As someone who missed the golden era of rallying... even I can see it's gone to shite. Back when I was 8 ish there was a programme on channel 4 with the highlights, the cars were big, scarey saloons that looked and sounded awesome (well the evos and imprezas were), everyone knew about Colin McRae and Richard Burns. On the road there were crappy barry replicas of WRC Focii, Imprezas, EVOs etc. Now no-one knows who Kris Meeke is, who has just lost his seat at prodrive (../MINI) because of a lack of funds. Loeb who is fantastically talented is unknown etc etc etc.

 

The FIA seems to turn to shite all underneath it with stupid ideas from people like Max "Fourpot" Mosley leading to little superhatches in WRC, any innovation in F1 seems to get banned as being an unfair advantage, sportscars have gone to shite etc etc. GRUMP.

 

Oh and just as my evening seems to have reached GRUMP.10 that fat twat Salmond appears on the TV chuckling his way through an interview in which he shows why he hasn't a clue what he's doing.

 

Oh and yes... BRING BACK RALLYCROSS!!!!1111!!! :D

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I used to love watching the rallying and I was well pissed off when it disappeared off council telly last year.

Done right, rally coverage is every bit as exciting as the BTCC or the bikes, even the hopeless mess they made of it on Dave was better than nowt.

 

Please tell me ITV4 still have the contract for the whole day's coverage this year.

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Can't believe I forgot to add this....

 

Ash, hope it's all sorted out swiftly for you. Best thing is, you survived more or less intact.

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Anyone remember the music they used, I do!

 

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Poxy BBC

I was really interested in watching the program about the Crusades on I-player. It is supposed to be an educational factual program but in less than a minute my head was spinning and I came very close to having a vertigo attack and chucking up my dinner. All because of hand held cameras and rapid scene cuts. The only trick they missed was a rapid zoom.

The sooner they get back to proper program making the sooner I will buy a television again.

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People attempting to turn the ebay tat thread in barry boys - ENOUGH ALREADY!. Thanks.

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  ashmicro said:
The BBC is like Westminster - full of Scots.

 

EFA :lol:

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People who seem to spend their whole time on Facebook, complaining about how crap Facebook is. If you don't like it, LEAVE! No-one is forced to use it!

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Computer expired on monday evening - no A/S - missed all my Ebay sales ending - expence of new pc etc etc. :x

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Motor Trade insurance renewal quotes all seem to be about 25% up on last year. Arrgh!

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Here's a collection of small irritants that are building up to piss me off, royally.

 

1. Shipping quotes for my new shite. Finally get in touch with Mr Bickle's recommended transporter bloke and he wants TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY QUID to bring it up. Er, so that's almost double what you charged Nigel for the same distance. Wow, that was worth waiting for - and countless emails, voice phone messages and emails. Fucking wish I'd never bought the bastard thing now - this is too hard. The number Lankytim gave me to contact isn't recognised when I dial it.

 

2. The recorder I ordered from the States STILL hasn't turned up 23 days after I ordered it - and despite the sellers insistence the tracking number doesn't work in either RM or Parcel Farce track & trace. I've had stuff in six days via the same USPS international service. Bet you HMRC have it and are wanting to anally violate me over some trumped up valuation, bet you any amount.

 

3. 460 is off the road and the clutch retaining bolt FRF PROMISED me would be here on Friday didn't show. Better be here on Monday lads, 'cos you took my money soon enough.

 

4. The job I had an interview for WON'T respond despite 15 phone calls, 5 emails and 6 voice mail messages. This is ridiculous now. DO I HAVE THE JOB OR NOT?

 

5. Yet another disappointing mark from University. The tutor clearly has no understanding WHATSOEVER about how much extra work I had to put into that stupid fucking film for it to be watchable. And the camera man, who was useless and did FUCK ALL, got a higher mark than me. No doubt our useless shit of a director has got more than me too despite a piss poor folder and zero interest in the feature itself. Ah well guys, we have a formal complaint written that runs to ten pages and which rips every excuse you've thrown at us to shreds. Fob us off again and we're going to the chancellor of the University. Happy days, what?

 

6. Seller on eBay hasn't responded to my 3 emails asking for a final amount for postage. Aww, having a sulk because your old mags only went for a fiver? I don't give a flying fuck. Fucking answer my emails and send me the magazines you spiteful little twat.

 

7. If scrap metal prices are on the up, why have three places told me my Jeep alloys are only worth £10 for 4? On the make are we? Got a buyer that I don't know about? Ah well, I'll just have to set them on fire then. Shame.

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I bloody hope scrap alloy hasn't gone down in price, I've just 'won' a set out four Jag alloys for £22 on eBay.

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bleedin Google. It's put safesearch on at the 'strict' level, and there is no way of removing the bugger. It just changes it back to default. I've checked the add-ons etc etc, everything seems in order...gggggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

I've fixed it at the 120843208th attempt (doing exactly the same thing as the previous 120843207).

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A mate of mine came round yesterday evening offering to sell me an N.reg Discovery V8 with single point lpg.He was in a rush so dumped it on my drive and I gave him a lift home.When I got back from taking the dog for a walk I moved the car as it was more abandoned than parked.Now you don't really expect your mates to have your leg up but luckily I haven't paid for it yet so I'm going to renegotiate.

I jumped in the car and found the driver's window half way up.He told me the rear windows didn't work but must've forgot to mention the driver's window won't close.He also forgot to mention the power steering pump is noisey,the glovebox is broken, the ignition barrel is worn or the fact the rear door won't open unless the key is in it.Oh yeah and because it was dark when I got home I didn't look at the V5 until I was in the house, nine former keepers...great.

 

Nothing major and it's all fixable but next time I won't be so trusting.

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