The grumpy thread

[dollywobbler]

Oh wow. Are you organising a "Mums and tots shite fixing" sessions? Sounds like a great idea.

 

One thing that is annoying is that there is this assumption that you always must have a CRB check to do anything at all involving children. It's just not the case and it sickens me when stuff gets knocked on the head because of OMG CRB KAOS - stuff like Santa visits to schools in Wales last year for example, because someone got jumpy about CRB checks the week before. It's not like Santa goes off with children and hides in locked rooms with them FFS.

[Mr H Sceptre]

CRB's can be a bit OTT indeed. I worked in the Facilities/Health & Safety Dept for a leading energy supplier a few years ago. A good company to work for to be honest. But, part of my job involved signing in any Mums/Dads coming into the office with their kids. I didnt even talk to the kids, it only involved a parent signing a Disclaimer but I still had to have a CRB done. I was quite embarrased when an old conviction for Criminal Damage came up from 15yrs previous.....

[cms206]

I drive school buses for a small operator and we've recently had a driver have his enhanced disclosure OK'd for carrying schoolkids by three councils areas we cover, but not the fourth. CRB checks aren't all they cracked up to be in many ways, seems to be luck of the draw depending on which area you're in.

[dollywobbler]

I've got a CRB as well, as I'm sometimes on school bus duty. In situations like that, it does rather make sense. There is some serious overkill though.

[Mr H Sceptre]

Yes, overkill is better than regulations that are too slack when it comes to looking after nippers I guess.

[cort16]

I'm off today so thought I'd have a wee drink last night. As usual went overboard and now have a stinking hangover and I'm supposed to be servicing the sd1 this afternoon. Bluuuuuuurgh.

[Pete-M]

CRB checks? Good idea, but in practice a total waste of time.

 

As an example for 'think of the children' type stuff. Never let kids get into a limo. Gary Glitter could open the Auto-Trader, buy a shabby old Lincoln stretch, shove an advert in the paper and be driving your kids about by the end of the day.

 

With most limo companies if you manage to turn up wearing a suit and prove you can drive the thing and they'll send you out on the road "Fully trained". Most UK cities have no limo regulations, which means the driver doesn't need any test to drive 'em, so no CRB check for Mr Glitter's new enterprise.

 

Ludicrous.

[TimothyClaypole]

Internet Explorer 9, thanks for that Microsoft.

 

I REALLY appreciate you moving the favourites button to the top right, a win for the team there lads...

 

I don't want to use Firefox or anything else so why do something so stupid as to move a button that's been in the same place since god knows when.

[ashmicro]

Try IE10 instead? And yes, moving the favourites button was fucking annoying.

[vulgalour]

Veganism.

 

Pandas

 

Dolphins.

 

All are utterly, totally, irrefutably pointless... and smug in the case of the latter and I can't stand smug animals.

[morris_ital_lover]

Fair enough... on a similar note a feminist protestor decided to camaign against the shackles of a male lead society by chaining herself to the gates outside my university with a couple of sex dolls by her side.

[dollywobbler]

Ugh. Feminists really do my head in. I'm all for moving away from treating women as mobile food and pleasure dispensers and more like treating them as humans, but most prominent feminists just piss me off. If you want equality then fine, not a problem. But some of them seem to want supremacy. Piss off. Seems very pot-kettle to want to strut around belittling men.

 

Personally, vegetarianism confuddle me as well. We were designed to be omnivorous. I guess what annoys me more is that because I own a 2CV and have a beard, everyone assumes that I must be a vegetarian! Could not be further from the truth I'm afraid. Fire up the barbie!

[Albert Ross]

Smug "Women" in traffic with "new" MINIs. You are NOT going to make me move over to let you use my side of the road aswell. You bought the bloated wart of a "car". Learn to drive the fucker. It's fat. Like your arse. I have 2 tons of relatively immovable metal under my arse, as do you. But mine is harder than yours, and I care about that.

[Cavcraft]

Ugh. Feminists really do my head in. I'm all for moving away from treating women as mobile food and pleasure dispensers

 

 

Totally and utterly agree there, Ian.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*They can also be used for washing, ironing and general household chores.

[Lankytim]

What about male feminists? What's that all about?

 

Anyway, today I kept busy and decided to swap the borked tailgate on my Volvo for a good used one in the same colour, early on in it's life a bin lorry reversed into it, wrecking the tailgate and denting the o/s wing. It was professionally repaired but the channel that holds the seal on the new tailgate has broken away at the top, allowing it to leak water, plus all the plastic trim around the rear window creaks and rattles in a very annoying fashion- the paintwork just doesn't look right either.

 

Fitted new hinge wiring to the replacement tailgate and prepared it to fit. Unbolted the VERY heavy tailgate on the Volvo, carefully carried it over to some rubber mats where I was going to lean it up against a wall and strip it and... CLUNK I dropped it on my left middle finger! FUCK!! PAIN!! my latex rubber glove filled with blood and it began to drip all over the place.. Spent this afternoon at the local minor injuries unit- my finger looked like a burst sausgae!

 

No stiches this time, and an X ray showed the bone was OK so it wasn't too bad. I have had these weird paper strips stuck all over it to hold the skin together and a load of bandage wrapped over the top.

 

I need to be more careful in future!

[eddyramrod]

I did that with a paving slab 30 years ago. Not something I'd choose to repeat! I feel your pain, Tim.

[mattblack]

I think

[mattblack]

I might post

[mattblack]

like this

[mattblack]

from now on.

[Cavcraft]

Dacia

[mattblack]

What do

[Cavcraft]

Denim

[mattblack]

you think?

 

[ruffgeezer]

I got the Xantia closer to a fresh MOT than it has been for a while,

 

I had to weld a patch in the rear door shut, a small patch on the exhaust as well as some pads, and a handbrake cable. I did all of that nearly 6 months ago on the basis that when winter was out of the way, I'd re-mot it and start using it again.

 

I thought given it's 146.000 miles I should treat it to it's second timing belt, and also a fresh waterpump as it was looking a little seepy, oh and whilst I was there, I noticed the radiator was looking moody too, so I'd best do that right?

 

handed it back to my boss to do the mot, "it's failed, the abs light doesn't work..." This wasn't mentioned last time, and the airbag light is missing too... so today I pull the dash apart to change the bulbs, surprise surfuckingprise, some knobhead had kippered the bulbs, the airbag clockspring is fucked as is one of the abs sensors.

 

FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

[M'coli]

Veganism.

 

Pandas

Dolphins.

All are utterly, totally, irrefutably pointless... and smug in the case of the latter and I can't stand smug animals.

 

I did once post on Faceache about my dreams to someday enjoy a tuna-friendly dolphin-mayonnaise sandwich, but no-one seemed to understand it...

 

Of course Dolphins are smug - most of them are able to swim fast in the open sea, have sex for fun, commmunicate by ultrasound and clicking language (Halo Jones FTW!!) but they don't have opposable thumbs so couldn't hold a drift while hammering a kingpin out of a Imp steering joint, so don't sweat it, ok?

[cobblers]

If you're not arsed for ABS or an airbag you can just make a little circuit with a 555 timer for about £4 which will make the lights work as they should.

[ruffgeezer]

I could but driving a xantia with faulty abs is not sensible, and I work at the garage that does my mots, so that isn't really viable

 

Edit:

 

At work I do get privvy to some fundamentally pointless tasks; at some point many years ago, this engine was removed because it was knackered, it was then moved a fair distance to our engine storage facility, where it has lived for probably 20 odd years, today we removed it to fill the space with other similarly knackered engines from modern cars...

 

Its a 1.6 from an early sierra we think...

 

 

Good working order then?

[DSdriver]

I have just got the late fatherDSdrivers 08 reg car out of the garage and taken it round to my mate with a bodyshop so it can be tonsed up for selling. The only undamaged panel is the roof. It has only done 6000 miles and has already had one side done before. Needs a new front wing, the rest is repairable. How can anyone do so much damage to a car in so few miles?

[Craig the Princess]

The vehicle details for C208 UPM are:

Date of Liability 01 06 1999

Date of First Registration 17 06 1986

Year of Manufacture 1986

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1596cc

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type PETROL

Export Marker N

Vehicle Status Unlicensed

Vehicle Colour BLUE

Vehicle Type Approval Not Available

 

Cubed or tucked up in a garage?