The grumpy thread

[Polystratus]

It is a strange phenomenon that occurs with vRS F[l]abias. Their owners genuinely seem to think they have the fastest car on the planet. They're reasonably gutsy, but nowt special. They also have no suspension travel whatsoever.

 

If you really want to infuriate one, refuse to let them filter into the middle lane from the left. In a Volvo 460.

 

 

Seen a lot of this on a certain Skoda forum a few years back, some said how cool and fast the vRS is and all other versions are crap, then year later they driving around in something else..

[Polystratus]

It is a strange phenomenon that occurs with vRS F[l]abias. Their owners genuinely seem to think they have the fastest car on the planet. They're reasonably gutsy, but nowt special. They also have no suspension travel whatsoever.

 

If you really want to infuriate one, refuse to let them filter into the middle lane from the left. In a Volvo 460.

 

 

Seen a lot of this on a certain Skoda forum a few years back, some said how cool and fast the vRS is and all other versions are crap, then year later they driving around in something else..

[Wilko220]

Hardly a big hitter, but sad to see another British car-maker bite the dust...

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18089584

[Negative Creep]

Is that Lada the ex-Count Pnada one of this parish. It is amusing that Dan88 just doesn't get it...

 

 

I'm sure he'll be straight back to the HI M8 TKAE £100 COLECT TONITE texts very soon

[vulgalour]

Popped out the back door to check Mr Bunny was tucked up for the night and noticed the aerial on the Princess is at a funny angle. Had a better look and some bastard has snapped it. It'll be one of the drunken tramps that shortcut through our garden to the lane again, the last time we had dealings with one of them was when they couldn't figure out that rattling the drive gates wouldn't automagically make the padlock open. To be fair, the old aerial was almost impossible to put down due to corrosion on it which is precisely why I'd left it extended, but I didn't expect it to get snapped while the car is effectively parked on my back garden.

 

Now added new (and probably electric) aerial to my shopping list for the pre-Waddington Princess list. Failing that, I've got a metal coathanger in the wardrobe that I've been keeping for just this occasion.

[Wilko220]

^ Hard lines. People really are twats.

Normally I'd thoroughly approve of the coat-hangar look, but I'm not sure it would quite do justice to your particular super-Wedge!

[Negative Creep]

Whatever happened to coat hanger aerials? I used to see them all the time when I was a kid

[chaseracer]

 

This. /\/\

 

Doesn't pick up the Light Programme at all well...

[Louise2cv]

Little country lane, I just pass a pull-in then spot a tractor quite a way down the road, I can't see if there's anywhere to pass near him but he goes to one side into a gateway just as I put it in reverse, you can tell neither of us want to seem like they expect the other to move out of the way. He pulls further in so not wanting to make his efforts pointless I go forward but end up bumping the verge as it's still too tight (I'm a pregnant lady, OK? Everything you've heard about pregnancy brain is true).

 

Tractor guy then goes back a touch and pulls right into the field, problem solved right? No. Because now Edna and Doris have turned up a little way beyond where the Tractor was and they sit there, just past a huge passing place pointing at me ushering me backwards.

 

So I then have to reverse miles back to my original passing place, and my panic/confusion/irritation/condition means I have by this point almost totally lost the ability to reverse in a straight line.

 

So I end up looking like a right dick, and totally losing my cool. I'm still shaking because I feel like I've made tractor guy move when he shouldn't and I totally cocked up my driving. Thanks Edna. Bitch.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Take comfort in the fact that they won't be around much longer. Ha!

[Lankytim]

Can't you have them arrested?

[eddyramrod]

By the time the rapid response team got there, they'd be dead and buried anyway wouldn't they?

[Louise2cv]

I'm more p'ed off by my panic and falure to be able to drive than I am about her not moving. Although she easily could have done .

[autofive]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-la ... e-18166573

 

not content with dicing with death to chop underground cables, some loons want to climb too

[trigger]

How the hell do these mouth breathers cut down electric cables without frazzling themselves?.

[vulgalour]

Surely it would be easier for them to do what the tenants in the house my brother moved into had done and rip out all the copper piping in their own home, turning it into a shithole until the landlord could get permission to evict them? Need to see some Darwinism in action on some of these people.

[rml2345]

I'd like to knnow how they cut down that sort of cable without being crunchy fried pikey too. Unless they haven't managed it and blown themselves up, tripping the circuit/ causing damage...

[rml2345]

Oh aye, I meant to have a grump...

I've got bloody a sore gum because my last wisdom tooth has chosen to sit beneath it rather than bloody well push on and the pain is making me post drivel like this on your forum.

GRRRRRRR...

[Station]

Selling two cars I've dealt with some right cunts. 5 in the pas WEEK who have all done the same thing including one who was miraculously given a car by his nan so he wouldn't be needing to buy the car anymore.

[ChinaTom]

40 today.

[trigger]

Happy birthday!

[John F]

40 today.

 

Yep - happy birthday!

[trigger]

No really a grump at all by was just reading a thread over on pistonheads about a early Astra that needed to be sold due to it's elderly owner retiring from driving and then all the comments about how it's hateful and should be scrapped... as you'd expect over on there.

 

http://pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.as ... &mid=94980

 

Luckily the silver ending is that the cars sold it to a enthusiast for £300 to hopefully be restored.

[M'coli]

40 today.

Happy birthday youngster !!

[Cavcraft]

Happy birthday, Tom!

 

Trig: Glad that Mk1 got saved, pretty sure I read somewhere the booted versions were down to single figures now.

[Guest]

All the best Tom

 

Not deleting it, but I'm getting sick of Facebook. Fed up of University types whinging constantly about not being able to get placements. I WAS KNOCKED BACK FOR SIX FUCKING YEARS BEFORE I GOT ANYWHERE, SO DON'T FUCKING WHINGE TO ME ABOUT NOT BEING OFFERED ANYTHING WHEN YOU'VE SPENT ABOUT TWO SECONDS LOOKING.

 

Also, marks. Several of them 'haven't got firsts' in a recent assignment so naturally it's the BIGGEST INJUSTICE OF ALL TIME and is THE MOST HURTFUL THING IN THE WORLD. You know what? I couldn't even hand stuff in when I was Uni the first time around, because of illness. The fact I've got through this year despite a shit salad of unpalatable events and got everything in seems bloody amazing to me - by my standards, it is. This time in 2004 I was an utter wreck.

 

I can't relate to them over much. Lord knows I have tried. The sort of horseshit music they go on about depresses me - it's either half arsed impersonations of stuff that was done better 10 years ago or ragged, self consciously wacky OMG LOL IM A BONKERS FOLK TYPE shit that's incredibly wearing to listen to.

And what the fuck is this constant comparison with each other's marks \ pissing contest thing all about? Why does it have to be a competition? Why do they have to tell each other every 20 fucking seconds about how well they [think] they're doing? Am I the only one who thinks that's really fucking strange? It must be - it must be me. Whatever happened to quietly knowing yourself and getting on with it? Every time I think I understand them, something else contradicts that judgement.

 

I'm just struggling to see the point at the moment If I want to speak to AS types, I can get hold of them on here. I can even ring the ones I know personally. I just want to spend time with people my own age or older, and family. And that's it.

 

You know where to find us.

[triumph1300]

I've only joined up to say a few things, granted I didn't paint my car for other peoples enjoyment, only my own but I'm fed up of know it alls jumping to conclusions about my personal life and my car.

Firstly bringing my personal life/clothing/money situation into this is absolutely pathetic, your lives

must be amazing to have to sit online to talk about it! The way I dress is because I like the clothes, I'm not making a statement, how judgemental are you all?!

Also, no, i don't have a job at the moment but I do have A LOT of possessions which I sell to make money. Once again, assuming I'm a benefit scrounger who doesn't want to work and spends government money on cars. Wrong. I have worked since I left school,and I didn't ask the building trade to die on its arse or England to fill up with the Polish.

Secondly, you all say I ruined the car? Well none of you idiots have seen the car in person. The pictures made it look nice. It has had a very bad paintjob, and when the wings were replaced, they were painted a completely different shade of white. The passenger door was full of filler, same with the front valance, the bonnet is dented, and there was rust patches all over the car. These were all taken back to bare metal, treated, etch primed, high build primered, flatted back then yes, hand painted. The reason it was hand painted is because I'm waiting to get a compressor to spray the car, it will be going satin black and not matt.

I can't believe how narrow minded you are on here, you all call me names and slate the fuck out of me when you haven't actually got a clue about anything to do with me.

The car gets whatever it needs to keep it on the road, it is my daily driver and it won't ever be going to a scrapyard like you all seem to think. I won't be getting rid of this, purely because its tax exempt and insurance is 85 quid a year...

So carry on slating the car all you like,I have no problem with that, but don't be making assumptions about my personal life as that is fucking stooping low.

Also, who took my pictures and posted them on here without permission?

[gallondrunk]

I wondered when you would turn up, black satin triumph man.

[autofive]

this isnt retrorides

 

if someone thinks your (or my) car is shit, they will say it.

 

it's criticism.

 

Thats what happens in the real world, outside the plastic bubble where everyone smiles and the sun shines all day (or retro rides, as its known to some).

 

 

i did not express an opinion on here, or other forums, about your car and the 'improvements' and the reason for this is that its your car, if you want it to look like it does now, that is up to you.

 

You are judged by your deeds, and your words. Let he who is without a lambs wool roller and 50 pence worth of matt black cast the first stone. (to paraphrase the biography of Alexander the Great, often called the Bible)

[gallondrunk]

I'll elaborate..

 

Who cares? It's your car, do whatever the hell you wish to do with it. People are critical but it doesn't matter, not really. Fuck 'em, there are more important things.