The grumpy thread

[pompei]

The Daily Mail is an absolute fugging disgrace. What depresses me even more than the outmoded filth they write is that it is apparently lapped up by the Great British Public. I have to confess that Mrs P reads it on Saturdays - she says she likes the colour supplement - and there have been rows in our household when I have refused to buy it for her. I'd only get it if I could wrap it up in a copy of Razzle

[Mr Lobster]

  Ross_K said:

Another great Clio/Kangoo design feature is the starter motor down the back of the engine. They seize up with amazing regularity.

 

Agreed. Having to get it in the air and get a driveshaft out to get the starter off wasn't really a great idea. Quite like it when its working though!

[Louise2cv]

I'm getting seriously hacked off with the one sided tunnel vision olympics coverage from BBC news. There is other stuff happening! It isn't the "GB deserve all the medals games", "GB expect all the medals games" "GB fail to shine rather than other nations shine games", it the Olympics, you know, where loads of nations play some games? Someone has to win, it isn't always going to be us.

 

 

 

This is the ENTIRE headline news story from BBCNews online, copied and pasted:

 

  Quote

Olympics venues are "stuffed to the gunnels" with sports fans, London 2012 chairman Lord Coe has insisted amid a row over empty seats.

 

He spoke after hundreds of seats were left unfilled on Saturday and Sunday morning at events including swimming, rowing, tennis and basketball.

 

For serious? You couldn't have squeezed it in somewhere else in a "roundup" or something? Or, heaven forbid, wait until there's actually a story to publish?

 

The olympics has turnedthe Beeb into the MOST commercial channel out there and it stinks.

[AnthonyG]

I think that above picture of Onslow's Cortina in a empty yard was taken fairly recently, like about 2009 or so. It was probably royally fucked though (or possibly a replica anyway).

 

 

  Negative Creep said:

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Seems like it died with the show

[AnthonyG]

  willswitchengage said:

Well I guess we could celebrate proper British achievements like the Mau Mau rebellion and Bloody Sunday but I think universal healthcare and fifty years of the world's most influential popular music have probably had a more positive impact on people's lives. Of course we could always a US style healthcare system that's three times as expensive and takes two years off your life expectancy like Mr Romney wants, too.

 

I don't agree with that article, but I really don't understand our obsession with the NHS. Many countries around the world have universal healthcare, which is just as good, and in some cases such as Germany and Sweden, considerably better. Many are also often a lot more cost effective as well.

 

I speak as someone who had their testicular cancer treated by the NHS, and they did a great job, but the service shouldn't be treated as some sort of religion or closed to reform. The taxpayer pays enough for it, and it is horrendously open to abuse - people getting unnecessary cosmetic surgery because they are 'depressed' etc.

 

BTW, I think the Mau-Mau rebellion would be regarded as a Kenyan 'achievement'. Agree with the music though, although McCartney really is a annoying fucker these days - a total parody of himself.

[RedSparrow]

They recon most of the empty seats were for sponsors. So the cunts from McDonalds and Coca Cola can't be arsed to turn up for their free seats whilst thousands of people round the world missed out on seeing something they would've been genuinely interested in. Good work.

[Louise2cv]

* don't get me wrong, I'm not having a go at people who like/wanted/follow/enjoy/take part in the Olympics, personally it's not really my thing and I think Britain should save it's willy-waving for times when we have something to wave: "we've got no money, we've got no money, we're doomed. Doomed! lets have a massive party, but don't you lot expect the services you've been used to or expect a decent wage or pension or security in your jobs by the way did we mention the MASSIVE party?" But that's by the by.

 

I just don't appreiciate the BBC coverage very much.

[tonedepear]

  AnthonyG said:

McCartney really is a annoying fucker these days - a total parody of himself.

 

I'll just leave this here...

 

[HillmanImp]

  Wilko220 said:

RIP Onslow

 

 

Always thought he was a very good actor. Sad news.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19032928

 

I read that he had kicked the bouquet.

[Albert Ross]

As for the sponsorhip fiasco, I know a few serving members of the Armed Forces who are there... (My Son being one of them) They are being provided free (very basic) accommodation and packed lunches from a local School, and apparently the food is great.... but they aren't allowed to take it in with them due to the franchises on site not permitting food to be taken in.... They have had to scoff all the grub at the gate, and peel the labels off the water bottles! They're there to do a job and earn money, not fucking spend it! Someone's head needs to roll.

[RedSparrow]

I read that all food and drink in the complex has to be from McDs and Coke.

And the armed forces are now being used to fill empty seats.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

  RedSparrow said:

I read that all food and drink in the complex has to be from McDs and Coke.

 

There are some other catering providers, who, at the request of McDonald's, are forbidden from serving chips either as a standalone product or side dish, with the sole exception of fish and chips.

[Albert Ross]

To be frank, if they were provided a "chitty" for a free breakfast and lunch at the on site facilities, it would be better for all concerned... At least no "rules" would be broken, they would be fed when they were hungry, and it would be hot!

[willswitchengage]

Re NHS... TIME4CONSPIRACYTHEORIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111

 

A rather exhaustive list of government beneficiaries of private healthcare services - which whether or not you think it has affected policy does really demonstrate the need for all vested interests to be surrendered. GPs are actually in the minority in the new CCBs so there goes the argument that NHS is now run BYDOCTORS4DOCTORS. So, we're back to where we were before there. Now we're just left with the "market based reforms" or whatever they call it these days, hopefully they'll be more successful than our first privatised hospital, Hinchingbrooke, which is currently posting a £30m annual loss.

 

Anybody else seen the Olympics imposter? Classic http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19035551

[pompei]

Tying up a couple of threads here, apparently Geoffrey Hughes did Macca's voice-over in the Yellow Submarine film

[pompei]

And this is the ultimate Macca impression ...

 

 

he also does a mean John, George and Ringo (and countless others) - should really be in the grin thread

[tooSavvy]

Olympophobe here......

 

Go on Cav... Going for Gold?...err, a Slam Humperdunk!!

 

Had a very tiring day, Friday.... up to load van in Edinburgh, calls in Ebro-Perth-Leven-Dumfermline, unload & back home to Wallsend...

 

I was driving through Jedburgh when R4 played the 'Big Ben Ding-thing' at 8:12... no signal on radio, so missed it!

 

When I got home at 8PM, totally pooped, I was wondering what to watch whilst having a bite of supper...Ahh Haa! First episode of 'When the boat comes in' from our Box Set - Episode1:-"A Land Fit for Heroes and Idiots", couldn't put it better myself...

Quite fitting to revisit this epic tale of Glory, Family, Poverty, Strikes, Lockouts and Skulduggery (...with a bit of Sheep rustling too!... not quite what Mr Boyle had in mind for his sheep..lol) given our history, and speaking as a proud Geordie.

Possibly many in the Olympic Stadium watching a TV Spectacularised 'take' on the history of UK[PLC] were unaware that the site, totally toxic pre-olympics, was the location of the London matchgirls’ strike, in 1888, at the Bryant&May factory.

 

The characters in Wtbci, on the other hand, Jessie the teacher and proto-feminist and likely the father Bill, a union activist, would have known all about it and be able to debate the isssues at hand.

 

Best of luck to all our competitors, as far a sponsorship goes..... perhaps someone might schedule 'Supersize Me' one evening soon.

 

Me, a cynic? 'Weyy nahh, man!'

 

tooSavvy

[vulgalour]

The more I'm exposed to the Olympics, the more it feels like it's The London Olympics, not The British Olympics or even London hosting the Olympic Event. I agree with Louise's sentiments on the matter when it comes to the selfish "waaa, why aren't Britain winning?" rather than "Hearty congratulations, winning country!". Also, if Coca-Cola and McDonalds are sponsoring the event, why are they so insecure about competition that they're abolishing anything that isn't themselves? Personally, I would have loved to see the Olympics sponsored by Marks & Spencers and Greggs.

[autofive]

  volksangyl said:

The more I'm exposed to the Olympics, the more it feels like it's The London Olympics, not The British Olympics or even London hosting the Olympic Event. I agree with Louise's sentiments on the matter when it comes to the selfish "waaa, why aren't Britain winning?" rather than "Hearty congratulations, winning country!". Also, if Coca-Cola and McDonalds are sponsoring the event, why are they so insecure about competition that they're abolishing anything that isn't themselves? Personally, I would have loved to see the Olympics sponsored by Marks & Spencers and Greggs.

 

why not have olympic sponsers that advertise healthy products rather than saturated fat mcdonalds and coca cola's suger laced watery drink

 

the olympics is a rolling monster of sponsership and money grabbing, and yet the competitors dont get paid anything as they are all amateurs

 

where does all the earnings go?

[dollywobbler]

^^^ Quite. The fittest people in the world competing, while the adoring public are urged to eat shitty food and drink that rots teeth.

 

A pal went to the shooting and apparently even the branding over the hand driers was taped over!

[cms206]

Cut finger with razor whilst removing old sealant in the bathroom in a vague effort to stop my kitchen ceiling coming in.

 

Ouch.

[tooSavvy]

  cms206 said:

Cut finger with razor whilst removing old sealant in the bathroom in a vague effort to stop my kitchen ceiling coming in.

 

Ouch.

 

Cut through social etiquette... doorstepped my upstair neighbour, to sort the sealant in his shower to stop MY bathroom ceiling coming in..!!

 

....razor? timetabled option

 

tooSavvy

[trigger]

I want some of what he's smoking!

[mk1_4dr]

  RedSparrow said:

They recon most of the empty seats were for sponsors. So the cunts from McDonalds and Coca Cola can't be arsed to turn up for their free seats whilst thousands of people round the world missed out on seeing something they would've been genuinely interested in. Good work.

 

I can't speak for McD's employees, but I can assure you that us cunts at CocaCola haven't heard a sniff of corporate/free tickets to the Olympics.

[Guest]

French cunt's the high bidder again on the wheels with circa 20 minutes go.

 

You'll pay me every last penny of the reserve price, you grasping little shit, and if it finishes shy of the reserve with your name at the top, I'm reporting you to eBay for trying to fuck the auction up. Then I'm finding the most expensive courier and holding you to a binding contract. Prick.

 

Alternatively you could fuck off and buy that other set of wheels you keep banging on about. Unless that was a crap ploy to try and get me to drop the price. Or you're just a spiteful bastard who's seen his arse.

[Albert Ross]

We know people in France. Could they not "visit", or better still, you wil have his address..... Pizza anyone?

[cobblers]

For the last few months my dad has been delivering parcels for Yodel, who are by far and away the most shite delivery service ever. If you've had a parcel delivered by a bloke in a megane with the back seats down and 3 children bouncing around in the back, then it was Yodel. You can also 100% guarantee that the car is either 100% uninsured, or at best insured for social use only and the idiot driving it is hoping that a copper won't notice the back end full of parcels.

 

Every time I've been anywhere with him for the last 2 months I've been telling him that his front brake pads were fucked and he needs to get them changed. I'd even offered to change them for him.

 

Yesterday I get a phone call: "Dave, my brakes are grinding like mad and the car won't stop, and I've got 90 parcels to deliver! Can I borrow your van?"

 

Well he's not insured to drive it and it's got whacking great wheels and skinny tyres and he doesn't understand the fact that you cant just slam up kerbs, so I told him to stick it up his arse cos I'd get 6 points for letting him drive it with no insurance, and realistically the best case scenario would be that he would knock the fuck out of my wheels and use all my petrol.

 

I explained the insurance situation to him and he then offered me 3/4 of his 50p a parcel wage if I'd drive. £33.75 for driving round half a day delivering parcels, technically uninsured and paying for my own petrol? No thanks dad! Instead I'll sit at my desk at home and earn £9.oddph doing soulcrushing patent research with no risk of losing my driving licence.

 

He slammed the phone down in a big huff but I reckon I'll get a call about 10am tomorrow all apologetic and then asking me if I'll go up and fix his car cos he'll have to pay someone else to do it.

[Guest]

  Albert Ross said:

We know people in France. Could they not "visit", or better still, you wil have his address..... Pizza anyone?

 

A Citroen GS full of burning shit would be more appropriate.

[Guest]

Wheels ended at £92 with the top bidder being wanker - boy.

He's just got his arse blocked and reported to eBay.

 

Oh dearie me.

[Albert Ross]

You know where he lives..... Google his local amentities, and perhaps he might appreciate a Taxi or two. After 3am. It might go something like this... "Je voudrais un Taxi, silver plate" Or summat. In your best Clouseau accent, of course.