The grumpy thread

[eddyramrod]

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

 

+1. Poor family.

[Ross_K]

The world's most expensive Toyota Aygo:

 

A cynical marketing ploy for sure, although some might say it's not as cynical as the endless re-hashing of the DB9/Vantage...

[M'coli]

*IQ

[Guest]

My mate's stag do, which I'm going to amid endless criticism from other folk (I wasn't going to go, mainly because I can't afford it, and I'm having to take unpaid leave from work) is going to cost 'just' £95 for the whole day.

 

Yeah. This one's got wings, for certain.

[Ross_K]

*IQ

 

Aygo/iQ/little Japanese shopping cart - you know what I mean.

[morris_ital_lover]

The world's most expensive Toyota Aygo:

 

A cynical marketing ploy for sure, although some might say it's not as cynical as the endless re-hashing of the DB9/Vantage...

 

In fairness to AM is part of this not to so with the new EU emissions regs about average carbon output or somesuch...? I copped one of those in Belfast with a fellow auto enthusiast and we stopped at it, inspected it and then laughed at it/it's owners stupidity. Think what you could buy (new) for £35-40k? But instead some choose to get one of these horrors.

[Ross_K]

It's so garish... The seats, the dash. Fuck, it's like that Dartz Pombron thing with the whaleskin leather seats.

 

Actually the interior of the Cygnet makes the Rover BRM look understated.

 

My Grandad used to say a fool and his money are soon parted. I wonder how many fools will fork out for one?

 

 

I think I'm gonna start bringing iQ's (thanks M'coli ) in from Japan, respraying them and punting them to fashion victims...

 

Here's one for £4200 - just needs some 18" rimz and a new nose:

http://www.tradecarview.com/used_car/ja ... /10814231/

[Richard]

I thought these had been on the go for years.

[meggersdog]

Got home to find lumps of artex on the kitchen floor,a constant drip drip and a puddle.Looks like the hot water tank has sprung a leak.It's a fugging combination tank too.The Toolstation catalogue informs me a new combination tank is £360.00....Arse...

Didn't really want to have yet another insurance claim but it is three years since the pikeys smashed my windows so might be ok.

[Caffiend]

What I thought was stress headache + hayfever putting a minor damper on my Planet Citroen weekend in Harrogate is in fact sinusitis. Bleargh. At least I didn't feel this shit over the ICCCR.

[Guest]

Man from American website wants photos.

 

Man from American website not want 800 x 600 versions. Man from American website want full res.

 

Man from American website not getting photos unless he pay me dollar.

 

Man from American website say my attitude wrong.

 

Man from American website's company turn over £20K a week (or so I'm lead to believe).

 

etc.

 

In fact, my wife found this all very boring.

[messerschmitt owner]

If the man from America wants photos for business use then he should pay for them.

No ifs, no buts.

Yeah that.

[eddyramrod]

My mate's stag do, ... is going to cost 'just' £95 for the whole day.

 

I have a feeling (vague secondhand memory) that in the dim and distant, there was a time when a stag do meant a handful of blokes having a few pints in a pub. Who the fuck decided 95 notes - per person - was a reasonable price for a stag? And I'd bet on that being one of the cheaper options too.

 

I went out for fish and chips with my best man. Just the two of us, extremely civilised. And I was home by 10, alone and sober. Ideal, as far as I was concerned.

[Mr Lobster]

I was invited on a mates stag do a few months back. I got out of it as baby Lobster #2 was due that weekend. The stag do was a four day trip to Magaluf costing £400 each plus beer and strippers costs. So probably about £700 all in and you can buy a lot of Renault 4 bits for that sort of money.

[vulgalour]

I don't understand why hen/stag nights have to be such a big deal. It's the last night of 'freedom' before you're married and you're supposed to spend it doing something you want to with your mates. All my friends who have got married have had stag nights either at a pub, or out camping (not glamping) or round the groom's house drinking home brew and they were much happier for it. Likewise with hen nights. I seem to have been interchangable and have been to more hen nights than stag nights, but then we are a bit of an odd bunch.

[Guest]

I can't afford to spunk £95 on a day out at the moment. That's the short penis hairs of the matter. If it was one thing, like a meal, than fine. I might just go to the evening event.

[Cavcraft]

Stag dos are now a sort of contest where someone decides to try and outdo other stags nights and thus end up in Poland for six weeks drinking bottled piss and goats cheese, all the while dressed as Postman Pat's lesbian spiderman friend, or whatever. It's 'whacky' man and therefore costly for 'the experience'. I imagine large amounts must go on T-shirts that say 'Dangerous Dave' and 'Big Paul the truckstop' all that sort of shit.

 

I went to Blackpool for the weekend for mine, lost a couple of mates in a nightclub and got pissed. The B&B owners robbed us blind so we just shoved some squashed tins of dog food into the radiators and someone may have accidentally urinated behind the couch. We did mistakenly get the keys to a hen night's twin bedded room too, so we did the honourable thing and re-arranged the knicker draw just enough to let them know someone had been in. But it wasn't me who drew a lipstick cock on the bathroom mirror.

[RedSparrow]

The stag dos Ive witnessed in Prague make me ashamed to be British. Another reason I chose not to live there.

The wacky and original tshirts are brilliant though and definately get them loads of hot Czech fanny.

[Albert Ross]

My stag night was a bunch of mates, three bottles of Jack, a crate of summat, and meeting the future Wife in the local boozer, who was on her hen night........ Sorted. I pulled!

[Guest]

Most of our shared £95 contributions appear to be going on a gorilla costume for the stag to wear. I'm sure £950 could get you most of a real gorilla. Fuck it - we can just fly to Finland and shoot my ex for a fraction of the cost. Far more amusing.

[willswitchengage]

Nah, a stag do is a weekend touring the Shropshire Union Canal.

 

[messerschmitt owner]

Buy a big Nissan estate and have a stagea night instead. Would be a better use of the money.

[Guest]

Buy a big Nissan estate and have a stagea night instead. Would be a better use of the money.

 

[drum]

Mine was a life sentence ago but a Chinese meal followed by pub crawl was all we needed. When I was best man for a pal who was old enough to know better, I had to organise a weekend in Portugal for ten of us. Great fun but two nights for the price of some quality auto with a full year's mot. Have also done the mandatory Amsterdam stag weekend. Was good mind you...

[dollywobbler]

I went on a stag do earlier this year. It was my first other than my own. The signs were all bad. A giant inflatable todger outfit had been ordered and a cocktail workshop had been booked. I don't drink. This was surely going to be a disaster. To make sure it was, I went in my Mk1 BX estate.

 

As it happens, the workshop was excellent, I drank a few delicious vodkas, the girl teaching us was gorgeous and the dick-kit didn't come out until much later in the night. We retired to a very rural pub where we were camping to keep costs down. We just drank and chatted. No stupid challenges (other than trying to get my mate inside the taxi in his outfit) and no-one got horrifically drunk. It was very pleasant. The car even behaved itself. I'd rate it as GR12.

 

I'd hope anyone I know wouldn't want to have a stag do abroad or something. If they invited me on something like that, I'd have to refuse. I'm skint!

[autofive]

last stag do i went on we all piled into a landrover and up into the hills

 

we bagged three stags and a couple of rabbits

 

bum-bum tish

[Ross_K]

Speaking of weddings, one of my wife's friends gets invited to 4 or 5 weddings a year.

She says couples these days expect money as a wedding present - some people have the balls to put this on the wedding invitation...

The going rate is €200 apparently. Does this happen in the UK as well? The last wedding I went to was about 10 years ago so I assume this is a recent thing.

 

So if you get married and invite enough people, you can turn a profit? FUCK RIGHT OFF!

If I got a wedding invitation that said the couple wanted money instead of a present I'd make a point of turning up with a fucking 10 quid Argos toaster.

[Mr Lobster]

Last wedding I went to the couple wanted cash rather than gifts which as they already have a house and that I can sort of see the sense in although it isn't something I'd do myself.

 

Didn't get anything like £200 though, thats just ridiculous!

[Ross_K]

the couple wanted cash...

 

How's this communicated to wedding guests? Veiled hints or is printed on the invitation? Just curious.

[RedSparrow]

I actually wouldnt go if they actively asked for money. Thankfully I dont think any of my mates would think it appropriate. I certainly dont.