The grumpy thread

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her mental state was already noted, but for some odd reason she was left alone in the her house most of the day, if she had been with others, it may not have happened, at least today.

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her mental state was already noted, but for some odd reason she was left alone in the her house most of the day, if she had been with others, it may not have happened, at least today.

[ashmicro]

That's awful. Poor woman.

[ashmicro]

That's awful. Poor woman.

[rml2345]

That is bloody rough. It's not a good place mentally when you're considering that...

Poor woman indeed

[rml2345]

That is bloody rough. It's not a good place mentally when you're considering that...

Poor woman indeed

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Tragic news indeed.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Tragic news indeed.

[Rocket88]

Fucking Olympics!

 

Watching the closing ceremony I thought the wife had spiked my Horlicks with acid or something... What a load of pish.

 

I thought it was pretty good, espec Elbow.

[Rocket88]

Fucking Olympics!

 

Watching the closing ceremony I thought the wife had spiked my Horlicks with acid or something... What a load of pish.

 

I thought it was pretty good, espec Elbow.

[willswitchengage]

My car CATASTROPHIC EXPLODED on the commute today. I will be bicycling in for the rest of the week until I can buy something else. Here's a moan/advert I entered into the delightful BX forum earlier:

 

Left work today at five as usual, heard a bang as I exited the gate and thought hmm just another massive pothole, a few miles down the road the LHM light kept flicking on, then it became permanently on, so I pulls over into a pub car park for investigation. EPIC LHM EXPLOSION! Green stuff literally gushing from the driver's side turret. I have no idea what happened but I am putting the car on the market. It's presently sat on my driveway, in low, in Reading. It has graphite speedlines with newish Michelins, it's done 78k miles, it's the shittest engine (1.6 carb), it has an "unknown" timing belt replacement (took my far too long to realise the gentleman who I bought it from lied there in the advert), it's LHM was done two years ago along with a new pump, it's virtually spotless on the outside and has a tailblazer. It has one month's MOT (I'll be cancelling Wednesday's appointment tomorrow when the garage opens again), it failed last's year's on a handbrake not being tight enough. It's practically rustless underneath and has never been welded. It will be on SORN from tomorrow also. It's a rarer colour. It will come with a bootload of spares including HP pumps, exhausts, roof bars, an alternator, new(ish) tyres and lots of other random things with absolutely no intrinsic value whatsoever. Presently, the car even has a full tank of fuel (grrrrr) although I'll probably just do the twattish thing and syphon it off. The car has a brilliant battery that has never let me down (Bosch silver).

 

Bring me £200 and a trailer and it's yours, the lot of it. My phone number is 0 seven 849 deux 592 one 9 (not in working hours) or pm me on here if you're interested and I'll have an honest and calmer chat. There could be a discount if you're nice or if everybody on here says ZOMG £200 UR MENTAL!!! Sorry if this all sounds a little aggressive but after the novelty of taking photos of the car on the back of a recovery truck wore off, I'm actually quite fed up now

 

Although I have only met one of you I have enjoyed my brief stay in BXland

 

Also phone isn't the peak of reliability either so can't upload pics from it, but I was quite surprised that it managed to get onto the back of a Fiat beavertail in "low" position. Had a nice chat with the driver on the way home too even though I didn't agree with his taste in cars, or phone-whilst-driving penchant

[willswitchengage]

My car CATASTROPHIC EXPLODED on the commute today. I will be bicycling in for the rest of the week until I can buy something else. Here's a moan/advert I entered into the delightful BX forum earlier:

 

Left work today at five as usual, heard a bang as I exited the gate and thought hmm just another massive pothole, a few miles down the road the LHM light kept flicking on, then it became permanently on, so I pulls over into a pub car park for investigation. EPIC LHM EXPLOSION! Green stuff literally gushing from the driver's side turret. I have no idea what happened but I am putting the car on the market. It's presently sat on my driveway, in low, in Reading. It has graphite speedlines with newish Michelins, it's done 78k miles, it's the shittest engine (1.6 carb), it has an "unknown" timing belt replacement (took my far too long to realise the gentleman who I bought it from lied there in the advert), it's LHM was done two years ago along with a new pump, it's virtually spotless on the outside and has a tailblazer. It has one month's MOT (I'll be cancelling Wednesday's appointment tomorrow when the garage opens again), it failed last's year's on a handbrake not being tight enough. It's practically rustless underneath and has never been welded. It will be on SORN from tomorrow also. It's a rarer colour. It will come with a bootload of spares including HP pumps, exhausts, roof bars, an alternator, new(ish) tyres and lots of other random things with absolutely no intrinsic value whatsoever. Presently, the car even has a full tank of fuel (grrrrr) although I'll probably just do the twattish thing and syphon it off. The car has a brilliant battery that has never let me down (Bosch silver).

 

Bring me £200 and a trailer and it's yours, the lot of it. My phone number is 0 seven 849 deux 592 one 9 (not in working hours) or pm me on here if you're interested and I'll have an honest and calmer chat. There could be a discount if you're nice or if everybody on here says ZOMG £200 UR MENTAL!!! Sorry if this all sounds a little aggressive but after the novelty of taking photos of the car on the back of a recovery truck wore off, I'm actually quite fed up now

 

Although I have only met one of you I have enjoyed my brief stay in BXland

 

Also phone isn't the peak of reliability either so can't upload pics from it, but I was quite surprised that it managed to get onto the back of a Fiat beavertail in "low" position. Had a nice chat with the driver on the way home too even though I didn't agree with his taste in cars, or phone-whilst-driving penchant

[ruffgeezer]

I've still got my xantia estate for sale here, 145k, recent service inc cambelt, waterpump and radiator, it is Citroen matt white and went from Spilsby to Bristol and back with no bother, the A/C doesn't work and one of the rad fans is a bit grumbly, but those are the only major issues, well other than it being a flat-painted shitebox with very little charm or charisma.

 

However, it drives nice and is does plenty of MPGs so perhaps might be of use to you?

 

Edit: actually it might just be that the return pipes have split, where on the strut is the lhm appearing?

[ruffgeezer]

I've still got my xantia estate for sale here, 145k, recent service inc cambelt, waterpump and radiator, it is Citroen matt white and went from Spilsby to Bristol and back with no bother, the A/C doesn't work and one of the rad fans is a bit grumbly, but those are the only major issues, well other than it being a flat-painted shitebox with very little charm or charisma.

 

However, it drives nice and is does plenty of MPGs so perhaps might be of use to you?

 

Edit: actually it might just be that the return pipes have split, where on the strut is the lhm appearing?

[willswitchengage]

Sozzle but I can only just afford the insurance on a NA Diz and I'm currently already in an ebay bidding war

 

I couldn't work out - some was dribbling from the sphere, it looked like it was blowing right out of the top - literally gushing, there was a godawful bang a few minutes before the big red light came on. The rigid line to the sphere was fine which is what puzzled me - there was no visible damage to any of the exposed components. The struts had been pretty stiff anyway so I imagine they're just shagged inside and finally kaputt...

[willswitchengage]

Sozzle but I can only just afford the insurance on a NA Diz and I'm currently already in an ebay bidding war

 

I couldn't work out - some was dribbling from the sphere, it looked like it was blowing right out of the top - literally gushing, there was a godawful bang a few minutes before the big red light came on. The rigid line to the sphere was fine which is what puzzled me - there was no visible damage to any of the exposed components. The struts had been pretty stiff anyway so I imagine they're just shagged inside and finally kaputt...

[Lankytim]

To join in on the knackered daily bandwagon the Saab spunked a load of oil out the back of the engine all over the exhaust today. I've been noticing a few odd smells when the car has been parked up after a run but today things got alot worse with puddles of oil on the drive and clouds of smoke. OMG HGF? nope, its a borked oil pressure switch. Looks a bastard to get out as the starter needs to come off to get to it, plus it's 24mm and don't have a spanner big enough to get over it. I may just get a garage to do it...

 

I wonder if just tightening it up will cure the leak?

[Lankytim]

To join in on the knackered daily bandwagon the Saab spunked a load of oil out the back of the engine all over the exhaust today. I've been noticing a few odd smells when the car has been parked up after a run but today things got alot worse with puddles of oil on the drive and clouds of smoke. OMG HGF? nope, its a borked oil pressure switch. Looks a bastard to get out as the starter needs to come off to get to it, plus it's 24mm and don't have a spanner big enough to get over it. I may just get a garage to do it...

 

I wonder if just tightening it up will cure the leak?

[Guest]

My grumps are extremely minor when compared to the tragedy above, but nevertheless......

 

1. I completely fucked up the shots I took at the ICCCR on my FTL.

 

I loaded the film the wrong way up, so it jumped off the sprocket and exposed both sides before the spool chewed half of it up. Aaaargh. The film was £2, so I'm not that arsed. I've got another film I've loaded up correctly this time. I did feel like a bit of a tit asking the bloke in the RCC to show me, but I haven't used a fully manual 35mm camera since I nearly dropped my dad's OM-10 off the portcullis at Conway Castle, so there you go.

 

2. My normally excellent and trustworthy local garage did me up the arse getting the 460 through its MOT.

 

Part of me thinks I shouldn't complain - it's a 22 year old car that failed on handbrake effort and nothing else. What I object to is the bill being £60 more than what they quoted because it needed new rear pads when a new NSR caliper went on. I did think that putting manky pads into a new caliper was a bit wack, but they were way ahead of me on this one. They bought and fitted the pads and then added it to the bill without calling me to ask if it was alright. They rang me as I was walking into the building, but that was only to say it was ready.

Look lads, I appreciate it probably did need new pads, but could you fucking well discuss it with me beforehand? I'm now £60 down on what I thought I had - or to put it another way, a full tank towards the Gathering this Sunday. Bit sore over that to be honest - especially when they had one side off anyway and the pads were £23. There ain't an hour's labour in that. Maybe if I did it, but not for them.

 

And the crack I had filled in the windscreen has reappeared. I don't think the 460 likes being ignored.

 

3. Local kids on pushbikes with no road sense.

 

This is the 3rd time in as many days I've had slam on driving home because of irresponsible parents letting their kids take their bikes out on the main road without them having the first fucking clue about what they're doing. 4 of them pulled out on to Park Road without looking and halted the flow of traffic both ways while they wobbled their way across the road. They have no idea about when to defer and how quickly a car can take up a 'massive' gap they've chosen to pull out on.

 

I didn't do my Cycling Proficiency - I don't think they're run any more - but then again my folks refused to let me go out on the main road until I was shown by FATHA_WATANABE. Do parents just not give a fuck any more, or is it me?

 

4. Sale. Since when has the Town Centre become such a shit tip?

 

It's full of fucking charity shops and fat wheezing chavs cramming their faces with sausage rolls. Or bellowing at their 79 kids, whichever comes first. One of them shouted 'COWDEH, COWDEH! Y DOIN MAH FUCKIN EAD IN COWDEH' repeatedly for ten minutes while I queued up to get some medicine in Boots. Her little shithead kid tore about the place screaming his tits off without ever stopping for breath.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

4. Sale. Since when has the Town Centre become such a shit tip?

 

It's full of fucking charity shops and fat wheezing chavs cramming their faces with sausage rolls.

 

I had a letter published in the Messenger suggesting the Co-op site be turned into a park where people could 'injest their Greggs pasties in pleasant surroundings' instead of an Aldi, which prompted someone to write in the next week calling me a snob.

[willswitchengage]

4. Sale. Since when has the Town Centre become such a shit tip?

 

It's full of fucking charity shops and fat wheezing chavs cramming their faces with sausage rolls.

 

I had a letter published in the Messenger suggesting the Co-op site be turned into a park where people could 'injest their Greggs pasties in pleasant surroundings' instead of an Aldi, which prompted someone to write in the next week calling me a snob.

 

Writing to local papers is fun. I got one published a while back saying something along the lines of "WIND FARMS ARE AMAZING" solely so I could enjoy next week's torrid of HOUND HIM OUT OF THE COMMUNITY mentalisms from the narrow minded wankers that inhabit where I used to live. I have no real opinion on wind farms, illegal immigrants, paedophiles etc but it's jolly drole conjuring up adjective-heavy ripostes from the bonkers extremists out there.

[RedSparrow]

Heh heh the co-op letter made me laugh.

What was cowdeh? Cody?

And yes they should be sterilised.

[Guest]

4. Sale. Since when has the Town Centre become such a shit tip?

 

It's full of fucking charity shops and fat wheezing chavs cramming their faces with sausage rolls.

 

I had a letter published in the Messenger suggesting the Co-op site be turned into a park where people could 'injest their Greggs pasties in pleasant surroundings' instead of an Aldi, which prompted someone to write in the next week calling me a snob.

 

Oh. I must be a snob, then.

 

What was cowdeh? Cody?

 

Aye. FOOKS SAYKE COWDEH FOOKIN SHUT UP Y DOWIN MA EAD IN.

[Cavcraft]

The Co-op alone are worth mentioining in this thread. Does anyone have one nearby that doesn't make prices up on the spot and have staff who are actually interested in customers, not who that bloke from number 27 is/isn't shagging this week?

Oh well, at least it gives the smackhead's wives somewhere to go in their pyjamas at mid-day for ten fags and some milk.

[RedSparrow]

The Co-op alone are worth mentioining in this thread. Does anyone have one nearby that doesn't make prices up on the spot and have staff who are actually interested in customers, not who that bloke from number 27 is/isn't shagging this week?

Oh well, at least it gives the smackhead's wives somewhere to go in their pyjamas at mid-day for ten fags and some milk.

 

My local one is exactly like that. Miserable old women chatting to their mates while a que of 10 people wait.

And its literally the most expensive place to buy food in the whole town. When I was here all the time I went to the Premier shop run by friendly Srilancan chaps. And people wonder why BLOODY IMMIGRANTS TAKING OUR JOBS!!!etc.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

My local Co-op is fine, presumably because it's located in the city centre and number 27 seems to be the Council Diversity Manager's office. Don't fancy paying their prices, though, so I just walk by the Co-op en route to the amazing* food emporium that is FULTONS FOODS to buy no-added-water ham at about 2/3 of the price of Tesco Value water-with-added-ham, and bargainous Swiss chocolate (everything else they sell seems to be frozen nasty 'ready meals').

[ruffgeezer]

I sold my old Ax gt around 5 years ago, I got reasonable money for it, and was told it would be used for track days, it wasn't and this is where it is (15 miles from home) now:

 

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1992-CITROEN-AX-GT-BLACK-not-saxo-vtr-106-gti-quicksilver-/290760081514?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item43b2a6c06a#ht_500wt_1203

 

It's on it's second engine, and appears to have lost it's interior, I don't think it's been used since I sold it though.

 

Crap vtr engine on carbs at bruntingthorpe:

 

Morettes!

 

It's engine donor:

 

I've more if anyone is interested, the paint on the roof was knackered though, and it'd had a new bootlid as the old one had been busted on a skip!

 

Oh and the front bumper is cracked and plastic welded due to a suicidal pheasant.

[Angrydicky]

I dunno, my local Co-op is ok, better than the alternative which is Asda anyway. It's quite expensive but is worth the extra for the convenience I reckon.

[2shoes]

4. Sale. Since when has the Town Centre become such a shit tip?

 

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Didnt know Sale had a town centre! Mind you I apparently live in a village which is actually a road between a motorway junction and the city. Village my arse!!!

 

Our Co-Op is next to Aldi. We've got it all

[pompei]

A5, that is terrible to hear. Such suffering. There but for the grace and all that...