The grumpy thread

[retrogeezer]

So, I've got funds to do things like buy a pair of new steering rack gaiters for the Princess, how awesome! I have some disposable income in the first time since forever. Oh but wait, what's this? A letter from nPower telling us that the estimated bill for the past 6 month period is £400 short... so they waited 6 months to tell them we were going to owe them £400? I'm... less than impressed by this. That £400 doesn't exist yet and if it did, it was going into stuff like having fun, maybe even a drink of the boozeytipple. But no, life has decided that I need to stay poor for a bit longer.

 

Gone through the numbers and the amount is correct, I just don't understand why they didn't inform us of this impending debt sooner so I could have adjusted finances to cope with it rather than waiting this long for it to be this high. Suffice to say, I will be paying it back over the longest term possible and then switching to a cheaper provider. Fuck you nPower and your insanely expensive gas.

 

 

Give them a ring and say you can't afford it and that the lower usage over the summer months will reduce the debit quickly. Energy companies always want you to overpay in advance during the summer to cover the higher winter costs. This means they have YOUR money sat in THEIR bank earning them interest so tell them to wait for the money.

[HillmanImp]

Oh dear so no comebacks.

 

Just post a picture of Goatse saying that it him. Most of us wont know the difference.

[vulgalour]

In further lolworthy fuel crisis news on the gas front, my parents - similar house and gas usage to me - used half as much gas over the course of a year than I've supposedly used in one quarter. Something is off here, so we're running a few comparison tests by running the cooker and the boiler for set periods in each house and recording the units used to see if there's a wild difference. I may have a faulty appliance or a faulty meter or even a tiny gas leak I don't know about. Of course, it might just be that nPower are being bastards.

[vulgalour]

Just post a picture of Goatse.

 

For the love of kittens, don't do this!

[TimothyClaypole]

Took me 2 years to get an overpayment back from the bandits at NPower...

 

[BMC Dan]

The car show at Woburn Abbey this bank holiday weekend which I was really looking forward to has now been postponed until June, due to fear of the still soggy ground it's held on being churned up. Just hoping that the pass I have will still be valid for the next show there

[trigger]

There's a number of show this weekend being cancelled due to soggy fields, Battlesbridge is borderline and the Ipswich to Felixstowe run isn't looking great with us being told we have to park on the footpaths at Christchurch park in Ipswich this year instead of the field.

 

600+ vehicle's only allowed to park on footpaths will be GR8 4 LONG QUEUES

[barrett]

[Guest]

MY RIDE MY WAY

[trigger]

FUK DA H8ERZ. YO.

[Guest]

What colour is he actually spraying it?

[vulgalour]

Satin black is longhand for fucked. Which is a shame, it was looking pretty smart up until he went 'old school hot rod' with it. Seems apt that Bonnie Tyler's I Need a Hero is on the radio as I type this.

[Cavcraft]

Is that the fella who was trying to offload that car because the wheels had the wrong valve clearance so he sprayed them yellow or something?

[RedSparrow]

The chap who thought it was a good idea to fit Dolly Sprint alloys to a 1300?

Wasn't he trying to sell it on? So is it him or the next in line to continue fucking the poor car up?

[trigger]

Yep same bloke still and he started painting the wheels red. the car looks as if it's actually sobbing in that photo.

 

Or has it just gorged it's own eyes out just so it can't see it's own reflection in a passing shop window?

[M'coli]

What a waste of a car, yet again. Why is it that punters who make their cars look like blackboards never learn?

[vulgalour]

Probably going to end up with drama... I really shouldn't stick my oar in, this is the internet after all. I dunno, maybe he'll surprise us all and make a decent hot-rod themed car out of that Trump. I'm expecting something rather more like this to happen:

 

So it'll look like a tatty old Trump on space savers all round instead of a mid-resto old Trump. I'm one to grumble, have you seen the mess I've made of the Polo? Yeah... I shouldn't be a hypocrite about all this and actually give him the benefit of the doubt, he might surprise us all.

[barrett]

I don't actually have any problem with satin black paint per se, there are enough cars out there that actually wear it well. It's more the fact that this guy has already demonstrated what an utter tool he is with his pointlessly stubborn stance (no pun intended) about what wheels he 'can' fit. There is absolutely no chance that this is going to end well, at best it'll be sold off in a few months looking like an utterly hopeless shed as an 'unfinished project' when he gets bored of it and the cycle can begin all over again on something else.

From the moment this car popped up on RR it has been the subject of discussion by me and some other Bitter Men, and so far all the 'mods' have been wearily predicted way in advance, such is the level of individuality* being displayed here. At least I got some cheap lolz from xbo11ox' replies.

 

 

(also, I'd happily drive that one posed above)

[Mr_Bo11ox]

What tickles me with these turkeys is they manage to convince themselves that a matt black rattle can job is some sort of creative, artistic 'slant' on car customising that they have come up with themselves. "yeah i'm kinda taking inspiration from this look and that look and putting some bargain bucket alloys on to give it a sort of 80's ironic twist'.... FUCK OFF! Get the facts ding waller: you are painting it cos you just cant leave stuff alone, you're doing it with rattle cans on your driveway cos you're skint, you're using matt cos if you try to use gloss you'll end up with a shite finish, and you're using black cos you can buy massive tins of it from Wilkos or whatever for £4. Its a simple as that! Its the same every time, just ask any dubber who did it to his last golf (now baled). At least its rarer nowadays than it was a few years back though.

[Albert Ross]

I wish i was a traffic cop sometimes.

 

 

 

Sorry you can only be a pirate.

 

I honestly think I know the girl....

[outlaw118]

Thats the lovely Mrs Trig!!

[Cavcraft]

PWHOAAR! She could cross swords with me anytime!

 

Back to the Triumph owner on RR, some MEGA comments on there from Bol and Pog. I just don't think that lad really gets it though does he?

[trigger]

Keep you hands off my wench or i'll attack you with my sword.

[outlaw118]

Pork?

[Cavcraft]

There's an EFA involving the word 'pork' there Trigger, but I'm not saying it

[RedSparrow]

Can someone link the Triumph thread again please? I could so with something to read.

 

My boss:

 

1. I inform my boss there will be a parcel or a note to collect a parcel from the post office delivered to our work address, please could he leave it at reception.

2. Boss ignores this, takes the note home.

3. Boss loses note.

4. 2 weeks pass.

5. Boss finds note at home and leaves it on reception for me on exactly the day after the last day it can be collected.

 

Such a fucking prick.

[BMC Dan]

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.c ... ead=125765

[TimothyClaypole]

He's unemployed but it's a daily that does a lot of miles?

[Cavcraft]

Toys R Us is 42 miles from him?

[Mr Lobster]

I'd be willing to bet a slap up meal at the local 2 for £10 type pub that if you check the DVLA data on that one in twelve months it'll be dead or SORNd.

 

Yeh he can do whatever he likes with it because its his and all that but even so, since when did a cheap satin black finish done on a miniscule budget mean a car had any sort of future.