The grumpy thread

[Mr_Bo11ox]

INTERNET DEBATE!!!!!

 

 

A particularly poor one even by GOM standards. 1.8/10

[warren t claim]

Can't afford something? Don't buy it.

 

^^^^^^^^^^This^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[Ross_K]

INTERNET DEBATE!!!!!

A particularly poor one even by GOM standards. 1.8/10

 

Come on - it's better than the shite about the mouthbreathers driving Picassos the other day.

[willswitchengage]

Can't afford something? Don't buy it.

 

^^^^^^^^^^This^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

If that was true then we'd be thirty years behind in terms of consumer capitalism.

[warren t claim]

Can't afford something? Don't buy it.

 

^^^^^^^^^^This^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

If that was true then we'd be thirty years behind in terms of consumer capitalism.

 

I must admit that I'd never buy something like a car on finance. With my lifestyle of occasional bouts without work it wouldn't be a sound idea anyway, that doesn't stop all and sundry trying to make me take out a low rate personal loan every few days though. I'm a good example of why the credit scoring system is fundamentally flawed, I'd pass all sorts of credit checks and don't have any CCJs and my credit score is very high, sadly my ability to repay a large loan doesn't seem to be an important factor in lending me money. Anyway, the thought of being tied down to ownership of a car for five years would give me sleepless nights and I'm pretty sure I'd spend the entire loan duration unable to maintain a workable erection knowing that for the last year of the agreement every monthly payment would be the equivalent of the cars value.

[cort16]

Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers.

Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage.

Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning.

Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth.

Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves.

Choose your future. Choose life...

But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got a Brown and Gold TR7 arriving next week?

[warren t claim]

Classic!

[tonedepear]

I'll readily admit if I'd had >£300 quid left for this month a week ago, that brown TR7 may well have been mine, and I'd be living off beans this week.

[Split_Pin]

Lol @cort!

I've got PF PROJECT as an earworm now!

[Negative Creep]

 

I must admit that I'd never buy something like a car on finance. With my lifestyle of occasional bouts without work it wouldn't be a sound idea anyway, that doesn't stop all and sundry trying to make me take out a low rate personal loan every few days though. I'm a good example of why the credit scoring system is fundamentally flawed, I'd pass all sorts of credit checks and don't have any CCJs and my credit score is very high, sadly my ability to repay a large loan doesn't seem to be an important factor in lending me money. Anyway, the thought of being tied down to ownership of a car for five years would give me sleepless nights and I'm pretty sure I'd spend the entire loan duration unable to maintain a workable erection knowing that for the last year of the agreement every monthly payment would be the equivalent of the cars value.

 

 

Aside from my Student Loan, I've never had any sort of finance, loan, layby, buy now pay later and so on. Simple reason is that I wouldn't trust myself and generally am not bothered about getting the latest thing. I only got my first credit card a few weeks ago, but have yet to use it. Although I admit it may be used to get the Yugo back on the road.........

[Cavcraft]

Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers.

Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage.

Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning.

Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth.

Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves.

Choose your future. Choose life...

But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got a Brown and Gold TR7 arriving next week?

 

 

A better way to turn this 'debate' on it's head could not be conceived.

[Ross_K]

I don't know what the big stigma about credit cards is. As long as you're not carrying a balance from month to month, they're great.

 

With my billing cycle I can fill the car on say the 7th of July and not have to "pay" for it until the end of August. No interest.

 

Obviously GR-∞ if you have no self control...

[Guest]

Take car to A\C specialists. Asked them to find out why the compressor loses gas.

 

Get a call ten minutes ago. 'Car's ready' they say.

 

'Really? What was wrong with it?'

 

'It was just in for a re -gas', they say.

 

'No,' I said. 'You were looking at it to see why the compressor loses gas, not just to re-gas it.'

 

'Well, we've regassed it and it's not losing gas.'

 

'The gas lasts a day and then the compressor gurgles its tits off, the switch stays out and then doesn't work, so it's escaping from somewhere. I asked you to find out why it's losing gas not just to re-gas it.'

 

Aaargh. Yes, I realise you have to re-gas an empty compressor to test for leaks, but either I did a crap job of explaining what I wanted or someone wasn't listening properly.

[Ross_K]

FUCKING CYCLE LANES!

 

Have you ever seen shit like this? This is half a mile away from my house.

 

The right hand lane where the blue 206 is parked has been turned into a massive cycle lane (heading out of town ). Have you ever seen a cycle lane that wide? I could be wrong but I doubt London or New York has cycle lanes that fucking wide.

 

Outside the double hatched lines you have parking spaces and a loading bay. So if you park here and step out you're standing into the path of oncoming bikes.

WHAT THE FUCK??

 

Also, notice the pole behind the temporary road narrows sign. That's gonna be crashed into as soon as the sign's gone...

 

Words defy me. Whatever tofu-eating wanker came up with this idea should be castrated and fed his own balls.

[cort16]

Mmmm Cupcakes

[Ross_K]

Mmmm Cupcakes

 

I think it's something like €20 for 6 cupcakes. Recession?

[willswitchengage]

FUCKING CYCLE LANES!

 

There's an amusing flickr group shit cycle lane that exhibits some more - although mainly from the cyclist's point of view. Exhbit A, from where I used to live:

 

Bus shelter on Bristol Road, Bournbrook by pluralzed, on Flickr

 

Welcome to Edgbaston - sign on Bristol Road, Bournbrook by pluralzed, on Flickr

 

This is a "shared use" pavement where the users are cyclists, pedestrians, bus stops, signs and other pieces of furniture. An abosultely bonkers, dangerous and patronising idea that cyclists and pedestrians can "share" the pavement together - cyclists travel at about 15mph on average, would you have a shared use road like that? Birmingham City Council's "transportation strategy" is full of blindingly cheapskate shit like that. Generally I don't use cycle lanes - they're slow and dangerous, unless they're done properly like in London or Brighton and not by dithering councils who seem to like to put in a token few feet of them or these ever now popular "shared use" paths in some pathetic effort to claim they're making their wards more sustainable.

[Negative Creep]

I see your shit cycle lane and raise you

 

 

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=dock+r ... 5999999999

 

The far side used to be a busy two lane road until those tossers at the council turned one half into a bike lane which never gets used.

[Ross_K]

All that road wasted. It's probably used by a single solitary council worker. There must be an EU grant available to councils to fuck up their roads and piss motorists and pedestrians off.

 

The fucking cyclists around here don't even use these massive cycle lanes. Give me strength.

[autofive]

just had an 'altercation' with a prick in a silver pug 206.

 

First he tries to pull out of a side road in front of me, trying to bully me into stopping (I was travelling at roughly 40mph and had no intention of slamming on the brakes on a wet greasy road), then when i drove around him screams up behind me and sits 3 inches off my back bumper edging in and out until he plucked up the courage to overtake me, Forced to drive over the chevrons in the middle of the road, in a 30mph zone, through a village, I accelerated keeping him alongside me until he spotted the roadsign and kerb in his way. He must have taken this personally and he then followed me through two junctions onto a smaller road then tries to overtake again. Once alongside I keep him on the wrong side of the road approaching a 60mph right hand bend. He is forced to pull in again, and follow 3 inches behind. I then take an unclassified road (tarmac farm track really) as a short cut, he overshoots the entrance to the road, then he must have reversed and he's behind me again. After half a mile of this shit I stop in the centre of the road, he gets out looking like an 8 stone schoolboy and I drive away.

 

who are these tits who think a poxy 206 can accelerate quicker than a 2.9 granada?

[TimothyClaypole]

Mmmm Cupcakes

 

I think it's something like €20 for 6 cupcakes. Recession?

 

- Best bake your own to add to the thrifty advice:

 

 

Very roughly work out to about 30 pence each or there abouts.

[tonedepear]

just had an 'altercation' with a prick in a silver pug 206.

 

First he tries to pull out of a side road in front of me, trying to bully me into stopping (I was travelling at roughly 40mph and had no intention of slamming on the brakes on a wet greasy road), then when i drove around him screams up behind me and sits 3 inches off my back bumper edging in and out until he plucked up the courage to overtake me, Forced to drive over the chevrons in the middle of the road, in a 30mph zone, through a village, I accelerated keeping him alongside me until he spotted the roadsign and kerb in his way. He must have taken this personally and he then followed me through two junctions onto a smaller road then tries to overtake again. Once alongside I keep him on the wrong side of the road approaching a 60mph right hand bend. He is forced to pull in again, and follow 3 inches behind. I then take an unclassified road (tarmac farm track really) as a short cut, he overshoots the entrance to the road, then he must have reversed and he's behind me again. After half a mile of this shit I stop in the centre of the road, he gets out looking like an 8 stone schoolboy and I drive away.

 

who are these tits who think a poxy 206 can accelerate quicker than a 2.9 granada?

 

Wasn't the former mrs-tone was it? (Hers is an na 1.9 diesel one mind, so if she did keep up as described, I'd be quite proud of her)

[Guest]

And the fuckwittery continues.

 

I'm now without a car for the evening because the AC specialist has decided to keep my car in the workshop overnight without ringing me to say that they're not finished with it. After our previous conversation they promised to 'ring straight back'.

 

Went to get the car anyway on the Met to find the garage closed. No missed call, no explanation, fuck all.

 

Not impressed lads, not impressed. Lucky I'm not going out tonight, innit? You can fuck off if you think I'm paying several hours of labour to do something I didn't ask you to do. At no point did you say you needed the car overnight. What was wrong with calling me to say either way? Eh? It's not as if you didn't have my number, is it?

 

Fucking pathetic.

[RedSparrow]

Can't afford something? Don't buy it.

 

^^^^^^^^^^This^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

If that was true then we'd be thirty years behind in terms of consumer capitalism.

 

So? Why do we judge how advanced a society is by the rate at which it consumes pointless consumer crap?

[eddyramrod]

Selling cars. Or in fact, not selling them. Three cars to sell, all in the local papers and on an expat forum; some on assorted specialist websites, not to mention Facebook. I have flyers all over the place, including propped up in the front screen of the pickup, which is the cheapest of its age and type around. The Granada is a (supposedly) desirable-spec cult classic and incidentally one of the earliest survivors. The A40.... well frankly it's a basket case and I wasn't expecting that to be an easy sale. But seriously, after nine months of constant and savage reductions, I can't believe I still have the other two. Worse... I'm getting exactly no phone calls on them. Time is now against me, in a Labour/Conservative kind of confrontational manner. This is not good.

[messerschmitt owner]

Eddy

see if the IMF will bale you out - or, even better, the Germans.

 

Price must be an issue if they have not sold.

 

If it's any consolation, on the BX, one half hearted email about it. Nowt more.

[eddyramrod]

Price must be an issue if they have not sold.

 

pickup, cheapest of its age and type around.

 

 

IMF? And as for the BX, like my A40 they are a bit of a specialist market these days so all I can say to that is... Good Luck!

[myglaren]

I see your shit cycle lane and raise you

 

 

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=dock+r ... 5999999999

 

The far side used to be a busy two lane road until those tossers at the council turned one half into a bike lane which never gets used.

 

You'd think they would do a study - a bit of observation over a few weeks, to see if these cycle lanes are actually required.

 

Was just getting up to go in the shower when I spotted this out of the window.

 

 

Seems she has dropped her phone down the drain and fair play to her she got down, lifted the (very heavy and filthy) drain cover then went groping around in the crap down there for her phone.

 

She then scuttled up the road leaving the drain cover like this:

 

Apologies for the dire image quality, my fault for just doing a point and shoot through an unopened window with a fair bit of flare in it.

 

I did go and reseat the drain cover - something I have been intending to do for the past twenty years as it makes an awful 'clonk' every time a car passes over it - which is every car up and down the street.

[scaryoldcortina]

Twice now this week I've been asked for fairly rare and otherwise unobtainable car parts, which I had, and was prepared to sell (mainly because I'm skint) both times the punter has been pleased, a price was agreed and they left, promising to return the next day to collect, both using the excuse of being in an unsuitable vehicle for old car parts (one in a disco TD5 and the other a 59 plate BM 3 series).

 

See if you can guess how many of them came back to collect? Yup, neither of them

 

In other news, the saxo now has a test. Brake imbalance 8% (I did nothing to it) Split boots downgraded to "advise" by supergluing the fresh split closed again. It does have an oil leak, you can see the stripe of oil along the floor where the driveshaft has been flinging it. Not a huge leak though, and not dripping.

[Ross_K]

You'd think they would do a study - a bit of observation over a few weeks, to see if these cycle lanes are actually required.

 

Nope. They gotta use up their budget don't they?

 

Shite like cycles lanes and support groups for blind transgender midgets or Roma gypsy lesbians is where your taxes go. Great eh?