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BOC? I worked for them when they had Pierdrive Nissan in Wigan...

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Ebay sellers, again! When I am reading an advert I am not in the slightest bit interested in which motor show that particular model was launched in. Neither could I give a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut as to what model it succeeded or whether you think it was designed in Bertone/Pininfarina/Harris Mann's etc finest hour. I AM interested in whether you have bothered changing the cambelt and if it has any history so can we just stick to the important facts please?

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Seems a lot of people aren't happy with that CO2 advert either. Thanks to the good people on Pistonheads, I complained to the ASA about it. Never done anything like it before but this angered me enough to act. Now I feel like a grumpy old man! If you'd like to do the samehttp://www.asa.org.uk/asa/how_to_compla ... ints_form/

And it's workinghttp://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20091020/tuk ... dbed5.html
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^ Just complained to ASA about that as well. I really don't like the way this government is going, churning out propaganda like that. It concerns me as to what is being forced at kids in schools etc in a similar line to this?

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Just watched that clip - what a load of crap. Words like could & maybe that mean nothing. And once again, it's the everyday folk being targeted 'keeping houses warm and driving cars' What about all the supermarkets/warehouses/offices all being kept warm and all the lorries/buses/trains/planes?And why is it down to this little country that can make make fook all difference when the Far East and USA are chucking out far more CO2 than we ever have.I couldn't believe it the other day when I heard that ships have NO emissions regs at all! And how does nearly all our stuff get here....yep, ships. And most of the from the far east.....what a fookin joke.From the scrappage thread:

I was at U Pull It York on Saturday with a BMW mad mate, and we noticed hordes of Polish/Easties stripping dozens of cars. Audis, BMW's, a bit of Rice and Fiat/French stuff. All the panels were off and they're coming back for the engines and drivetrains. A complete Audi A4 1.8 5v on a P plate to be stripped was £175 - get a gang of Polacks stripping them down and that must be a few quids worth back in Poland/Romania etc.

There is a sad irony in that what are probably on the whole decent cars are being stripped of everything and the parts will be used to keep cars on the road in eastern europe where the mot's and emissions legislations are far slacker than here in the UK.
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Just watched that clip - what a load of crap. Words like could & maybe that mean nothing. And once again, it's the everyday folk being targeted 'keeping houses warm and driving cars' What about all the supermarkets/warehouses/offices all being kept warm and all the lorries/buses/trains/planes?And why is it down to this little country that can make make fook all difference when the Far East and USA are chucking out far more CO2 than we ever have.

I think my Mrs is sick of hearing me rant about that ad when it comes on, it's utter frikkin' bile, whoever commissioned it/wrote it needs a smack. And what is it with people who, when driving at night, slow down for oncoming traffic? I followed some dribbley chinned twonk this evening who kept a consistent 65mph until something came the other way and he slowed down to 50. Stupid git. I totally get it though, YOU CAN'T SEE, CAN YOU?!?! Get off the road you tart!! He pulled away when we reached a 50 limit and he didn't slow down, so the problem solved itself. Still, what a tit.
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Just watched the CO2 ad, effing rubbish.'Is there a happy ending Daddy?''Yes love, I'm about to purchase a an Austin 3 Litre, rare as fuck & looks the dog's bollocks. So yes, there is a happy endinig. For me.'

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'Is there a happy ending Daddy?'

"No darling, might as well just crack you over the head now eh, cos you won't make it to your thirties probably if this commercial is anything to go by"Seriously disturbing advert - I was appalled when I first saw it. I hope the little girl is not actually looking at the pics we see because she looks far too young to understand the whole business and appreciate it properly.
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Vic once saw an up-and-coming comedian who made this a subject of amusement, but I'm not ripping off his act (which sounds pretty good if he's picked up on this) as this has been a point of irritation for me for quite some time.

 

Innocent smoothies. Specifically all the utter rubbish they write on the packaging. I bought a big carton today on account of it being reduced to a Hirst-style price (£2.99 to 75p) and I've got it in front of me under my beady eyes. Nearly everything on the packaging is a twee little joke or comment.

 

Here are the worst offenders:

"If we do all of that, you should be holding a drink to be proud of. And if we don't, you can tell our mums."

"Even if we have to try 500 varieties of mango before we find the perfect one. We're sort of obsessed."

"Please keep me in the fridge and shake* me before pouring. *It helps if the cap's on"

"Enjoy by: 21/OCT/09"

 

I don't want a cheerful fun smoothie, I want an impersonal and harsh one. I like to imagine some poor foreign fruit farmer getting cut a really raw deal over the phone by some tosser in a dark blue pinstripe suit, long-distance lorry drivers hauling it all around whilst reading the paper at the wheel, bored warehouse staff unloading it whilst smoking a tab-end, some dreary temp night worker at Morrisons sticking it in the chiller cabinet, then one of his colleagues marking it down to 20p a few days later before it reaches me, the end customer. None of this "tee hee, it all comes from nature, we love the planet and our mums" toss.

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Innocent smoothies. Specifically all the utter rubbish they write on the packaging. I bought a big carton today on account of it being reduced to a Hirst-style price (£2.99 to 75p) and I've got it in front of me under my beady eyes. Nearly everything on the packaging is a twee little joke or comment.

Don't get too upset, Hirst. Your 75p (or a fair chunk of it) will be going to those nice ladies and gentlemen at Coca Cola, so you can be sure that those comments are sincere and come straight from the wallet. :wink:http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009 ... -coca-cola
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chuffin fuel prices.....just been past Tesco and it's gone up 2p a litre since last Friday. I wonder what the excuse is this time...

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I hate christmas too. It's winter so it's cold and wet and dark all the fooking time and I have to buy shitty crap, usually from places like Boots, made by some 4yr old in china working a 12hr shift for 50p a week, for people I don't like and spend the rest of the year ignoring becuase they either piss me off or just mildly irritate me. I hate christmas dinner too. Pissing about cooking a whole bloody turkey for 2 days and about 5 tonnes of stuff nobody actually likes but we have "because it's christmas".I do get 2 days off work so I'll take that please Ta.

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I hate christmas too. It's winter so it's cold and wet and dark all the fooking time and I have to buy shitty crap, usually from places like Boots, made by some 4yr old in china working a 12hr shift for 50p a week, for people I don't like and spend the rest of the year ignoring becuase they either piss me off or just mildly irritate me. I hate christmas dinner too. Pissing about cooking a whole bloody turkey for 2 days and about 5 tonnes of stuff nobody actually likes but we have "because it's christmas".I do get 2 days off work so I'll take that please Ta.

Yep sums it up for me too , just to really piss me off everyone at work loves the fooking stupid music thats played over and over and over again in shops and every bloody where else , I have to listen too it all fookin day , someone shoot Noddy Holder please or at least shut him up
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Saw that rubbish advert in work, nearly launched the TV across the floor!Listening to Jeremy Vine on Radio 2 as well. There was an (his words) Environmental Expert, and two Environmental SCEPTICS on. The EXPERT was going to try and convert the SCEPTICS! There is no hard evidence, only evidence through ice in the north/south poles possibly pointing that there are shifts in temperatures every thousand or so years (which I'm not debating). The argument is that THIS little space of decades ... it's been WARMER!I've argued til I ruptured my sphincter with some people in work, and there's no getting through to them (even one claiming I should use public transport to get into work - 30 miles!). I'm not denying CLIMATE CHANGE ... I'm denying SUDDEN climate change, man made climate change, climate change because of cars, etc. I also trolled Greenpeace forums, they will not listen to anything other than MAN IS DESTROYING THE PLANET DUE TO DRIVING CARS. Proper little Hitlers.

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Did the dinosaurs smoke about in V8s then?

:lol::lol::lol:
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Did the dinosaurs smoke about in V8s then?

:lol::lol::lol:
Seconded! I expect this to be widely quoted and at some point in the future to be plagarised on Top Gear!
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Oh shit don't blame me for Jeremy Clarkson hooning about in a marina wearing T Rex suit!! :lol:

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On the same theme, that twat Al Gore. "The Inconvenient Truth" has at least 9 factual erros in it [a.k.a downright lies] His initial $2 million stake in a carbon offset company is now worth $150 million. There was a very good article in The Sunday Times a couple of weeks ago that shot down most of his arguements, and was highly sceptical about some of the "alternative" sources of energy that he goes spouting on about, e.g solar panels, which are only 12% efficient, hugely expensive, and because they reflect a lot of heat back up into the stratosphere, actually damage the enviroment......

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Al Gore...Carbon offset company... a.k.a my big fat fucking pension at the expense of all of you.

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Pah,...... bloody global warming. Can't buy standard soddin light bulbs now in the UK, only those energy efficient bloody things.....Cost a fortune to make....dim as fook....then cost a fortune to dispose of because of their high mercury content. You can bet someone high up in the Govt powers that be has shares in the companies that make these things, and has convinced the morons in parliament that this is the way to go.....Bastards. :evil: On a brighter note, i will be back in blighty in time to watch footie in the pub on saturday :D . Oops......sorry.....that's not grumpy at all :wink:

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I hate those new lightbulbs, im currently being blinded by one.They arent compatible with old lampshades, so thats not very handy is it.Hahah regarding the governments global warming advert, the ASA has now launched an enquiry into it.And a tory MP served out the best line: 'If they really want to stop puppies from drowning, they should stop building houses on flood planes.'Pwned.

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I stocked up on proper lightbulbs a few months back so I have a cupboard at home with maybe ten years supply in it :mrgreen: Carbon offset? Bollocks. :evil: Bloke I know (vaguely) runs a company 'doing' carbon offsetting - you pay him some money he 'offsets' the carbon your business produces. He runs a newish M5 but thats ok because 'it's carbon neutral' as he offsets it. Seems like snake oil to me and a way to extract money out of the naive.

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I love those 'proper' lightbulbs, you sometimes have to replace them every month because the filaments are so weak. It's traditional.What's the issue with energy savers really? They last for years and once they've warmed up the light from them is fine. I'm sure in the near future they'll emit a more natural light, will warm up quicker and be less bulky and ugly.

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In short, there is no such thing as "man made" global warming. It's the biggest con trick of all time, strangely first brought about by a certain Mrs. Thatcher. This planet has gone from being a very hot rock to being in an ice age then warmed up a bit an then gone back to the mini ice age an then warmed up again. The Romans used to grow grape vines in soddin Scotland fer fooks sake an all this without the aid of any cossie eight pot fire breathing monsters. These tree huggin, pantie wearin, retards are the ones responsible for my sporadic bouts of insane blind rage. AND how the hell's my parting with my hard earned gonna prevent the unpreventable. The world's full of fuggin morons, present company excluded. Right, i'm of to the bar for a globaly warmed pint. Fuck em.

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I love those 'proper' lightbulbs, you sometimes have to replace them every month because the filaments are so weak. It's traditional.What's the issue with energy savers really? They last for years and once they've warmed up the light from them is fine. I'm sure in the near future they'll emit a more natural light, will warm up quicker and be less bulky and ugly.

Same here, been using them for years anyway. They are a bit of a pain to warm up though. It would be nice if they came on when you flicked a switch.
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I love those 'proper' lightbulbs, you sometimes have to replace them every month because the filaments are so weak. It's traditional.What's the issue with energy savers really? They last for years and once they've warmed up the light from them is fine. I'm sure in the near future they'll emit a more natural light, will warm up quicker and be less bulky and ugly.

Just that they take a while to warm up and don't emit quite the same light. I'm sure in a few years they will be a lot better though.
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and the candle bulb ones look ridiculous and cost a fortune.

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I find pointing some of those who buy the argument over man made global warming (and Gore enriching) to this

 

http://www.vidoosh.tv/play.php?vid=5281

 

helps. Best bit for me is when he explains the Al Gore suggestion that Polar Bears fell in numbers because of the lack of ice. Lord Monckton explains...

 

"The study found that because of storms the sea swell was particularly high that year and the poor unfortunate creatures were simply swept off the ice and drowned. Sh|t happens and in this case it did."

 

And he knows the science too so those "stoodents" at the end who try to catch him out get only factual answers.

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I stocked up on proper lightbulbs a few months back so I have a cupboard at home with maybe ten years supply in it :mrgreen: Carbon offset? Bollocks. :evil: Bloke I know (vaguely) runs a company 'doing' carbon offsetting - you pay him some money he 'offsets' the carbon your business produces. He runs a newish M5 but thats ok because 'it's carbon neutral' as he offsets it. Seems like snake oil to me and a way to extract money out of the naive.

I laugh at people who buy carbon offsetting - its the best scam of this century. Own a field? what to make some money? Plant some trees(preferably conifers)The EU/Forestry Commission/Defra will generally give you some money for this, which will pay for the actual cost of the saplings, minidigger hire, labourers etc. Once said trees are planted get paid all over again by persuading upper middle class twats that fast growing breeds of tree 'offset' X carbon emissions a year, so they can have multiple city breaks via Easyjet without feeling guilty!Or buy a village in India a solar powered water well pump or, well, anything really, just long as you could claim it saves on potential carbon 'emissions' - taken to the extreme you could walk to work and charge people for this, as you were not taking the car/bus/anything that uses energy.

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