The grumpy thread

[wuvvum]

Is it 20w/50 oil you buy Fred? It's not suitable for modern or turbocharged engines.

Asda's 10W40 mineral oil is at £2 a litre at the moment - I feed it to my Saab and it doesn't seem to mind. All the old stuff gets the cheap 20W50 stuff, although recently I've been using a lot of Tesco 15W40 diesel oil, which was down to £5 for 4 litres - gone back up again now though

[FredTransit]

Right I'll pack my bags in the morning............how easy is it to get housing there?

Dead wasy, you just need a lot of money. Or you can live in one of me ambies!!

[FredTransit]

Is it 20w/50 oil you buy Fred? It's not suitable for modern or turbocharged engines.

Asda's 10W40 mineral oil is at £2 a litre at the moment - I feed it to my Saab and it doesn't seem to mind. All the old stuff gets the cheap 20W50 stuff, although recently I've been using a lot of Tesco 15W40 diesel oil, which was down to £5 for 4 litres - gone back up again now though

I am thinking of only buying diesel oil now, you can put diesel oil in a petrol, but not the other way round (petrol oil's too thin for a diesel)

[Timewaster]

Crap for getting parts? My local parts place is open every day except Christmas day itself. I'm not helping am I?

When i ran a spares place, every c*******s I put a bowl of humbugs on the counter with a sign "BAH! HUMBUGS!"Raised more smiles than crappy tintsel and shitty 12v christmas trees.I think the current regeime there is rather more festive.

[Mr Lobster]

When i ran a spares place, every c*******s I put a bowl of humbugs on the counter with a sign "BAH! HUMBUGS!"Raised more smiles than crappy tintsel and shitty 12v christmas trees.I think the current regeime there is rather more festive.

Thats superb! I'm doing that at work in December!

[whitevanman]

Right I'll pack my bags in the morning............how easy is it to get housing there?

Dead wasy, you just need a lot of money. Or you can live in one of me ambies!!

or I could bring the folding caravan.........

[whitevanman]

Is it 20w/50 oil you buy Fred? It's not suitable for modern or turbocharged engines.

Asda's 10W40 mineral oil is at £2 a litre at the moment - I feed it to my Saab and it doesn't seem to mind. All the old stuff gets the cheap 20W50 stuff, although recently I've been using a lot of Tesco 15W40 diesel oil, which was down to £5 for 4 litres - gone back up again now though

I am thinking of only buying diesel oil now, you can put diesel oil in a petrol, but not the other way round (petrol oil's too thin for a diesel)

are you sure? I thought old style diesel oil was 10w40 but had different minerals added..........

[FredTransit]

That's what I am told, diesel oil is thicker. If I was desperate and running out of oil I suppose either would do, but I wouldn't use it long term.

[Milford Cubicle]

Check yer grade here. The 15W/40 stuff I buy from Lidl is for both petrol and diesel engines, though most newer petrol engines are supposed to run 10W/40.

I don't understand why diesel engine oil would be thicker, as they run at a lower temperature than petrol engines.

[whitevanman]

First manual to come to hand Diesel 2.3 Sierra...so its the old PSV unit oil viscosity 10w30 to 20w50 deoending on external tempature.............

[Roc 24v]

Check yer grade here. The 15W/40 stuff I buy from Lidl is for both petrol and diesel engines, though most newer petrol engines are supposed to run 10W/40.I don't understand why diesel engine oil would be thicker, as they run at a lower temperature than petrol engines.

Rather poor that Halfords oil checker, wrong with all of my cars

[Milford Cubicle]

Really? It's been right with all the stuff I've tried, although they are pretty common and technically unsophisticated.

[Guest]

A shit day at work, nearly knocked fuck out of bloke who pulled out in front of me coming home................and it looks like the sale of the Piazza's gonna fall through because the bloke can't get a decent insurance quote on it, as everyone he's spoken to seems to think it's an import.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.

[brammy777]

Regarding fireworks, round here we only seem to sell sparklers, i guess everyone buys them for the massive display.Oh god im not going to get any sleep this coming 5th november am i? oh and also, i forget who said it, but if id served you and you wanted to give the free chocolate to someone else, i would let you.Its your purchase after all, you can do what you like with it haha.I really hate customers who come in asking if their lottery tickets have won and when i say it hasnt, they make sure i tear it up just in case i want to steal their supposed winnings.FYI, the machine prints a slip if you win, and doesnt make a dull noise.And im on cctv, im not going to commit fraud am i?

[Negative Creep]

My mate told me, who works for Dominos, that the answer machine has messages from people ordering pizzas on Christmas day ...

Having worked for Pizza Hut, I can confirm this really does happen

[Guest]

What if you want a pizza?Not everyone sits there tucking into Christmas dinner amongst their families, some people sit alone in their squalid houses, with a single flickering lightbulb illuminating a single tear as it rolls down their pale white face.That's me in the future, that is.

[Negative Creep]

buy one on Christmas Eve and then reheat it

[Guest]

I can't, I sold my microwave to pay for that lightbulb.

[Mash]

What if you want a pizza?Not everyone sits there tucking into Christmas dinner amongst their families, some people sit alone in their squalid houses, with a single flickering lightbulb illuminating a single tear as it rolls down their pale white face.That's me in the future, that is.

PMSL

[outlaw118]

That'd be me now if I had my way.....Slowly sipping on lidl's "reduced to clear" booze, watching shite repeats on my own...Instead I'm expected to play happy families, and be jolly, cook shit loads of food, most of which will end up in the cat or on the carpet (99 year old grandma-in-law, and 4 and 6 year old step-grandkidz), and pretend to be happy that I've got some more socks.bah humbug.....

[Justin Case]

Christmas should be a great time, plenty to eat and drink, traffic-free roads, all the cards with stagecoaches on them neatly arranged inside the recycling bin, and a general feeling of goodwill to all. So why year after year do we all have Noddy ****** Holder rammed down our ears from the middle of October to ruin it all. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

[chester drawers]

I bought an illuminated "Bah Humbug" Christmas decoration from B&Q clearance in January for a fiver. The letters cycle through different colours and everything. Perfect for hanging on windows and conveying my grumpiness to the general populous.Given that I'm still surrounded by clay and rubble though it may be Christmas 2010 before I get to use it. Arse.

[Timewaster]

What if you want a pizza?Not everyone sits there tucking into Christmas dinner amongst their families, some people sit alone in their squalid houses, with a single flickering lightbulb illuminating a single tear as it rolls down their pale white face.That's me in the future, that is.

There will be no flickering lightbulbs. Her government says you VILL buy ze energysaverz!

[Guest]

A shit day at work, nearly knocked fuck out of bloke who pulled out in front of me coming home................and it looks like the sale of the Piazza's gonna fall through because the bloke can't get a decent insurance quote on it, as everyone he's spoken to seems to think it's an import.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.

Why don't you send him to the people you are insured with?

I only ever insured it temporarily. And back then it had tax and MOT.

[FredTransit]

Jesus how long ago was that? Doubt anybody would do that now, more;s the pity!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

My dad used to work for the CIS - they had a rather old fashioned way of doing things until quite recently. Having agents like SirTainlyBarkin's made them very uncompetitive with people like Direct Line.

[FredTransit]

Yeah offering a service, that would make them uncompetitive.....

[Guest]

Yeah offering a service, that would make them uncompetitive.....

Precisely.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Just asked my dad about the hand written cover notes. He says they would have died out about the time they gave their agents laptops in the late 1990s.

[Rusty Pelican]

I was insured with CIS when i started out in 81 , No kindly old boy for me but a rather tasty 30 something single woman , got my insurance off her but nout else , great idea though , cover notes flying hither and tither with weeks before a proper one comes , IIRC the temp ones lasted two months written on a bit of headed A5 , oh the joy