The grumpy thread

[michael1703]

Hope all goes well wat,bully him into doctor appointment as old men are stubborn, my dad had a heart attack at 58, fit and healthy,never ill,never drank or smoked, lucky he thought something was up and NHL direct got him in just in time.

 

 

My grump

 

HS2

 

 

 

What a huge waste of money to rape our countryside even further, do they actually know the figures for the amount of people that need to perform these journeys and how the 45 mins saved can be beneficial to the country as a whole or just a few hedgefunders that have a weekend home out of town.

 

Building projects that hit a few snags can go a bit over budget, how many snags in 20 years add up to overspend and an extra year or two to complete? More people are working from home and video conferencing might have actually caught on properly by then, how can you know what the next twenty years will bring?

 

I'd rather they worked out how we are going to manage for electricity/gas/fuel for the next twenty years, it seems they just think of something to waste obscene amounts of (borrowed) money on and claim it will "create jobs"

[Guest]

MY NEW NP30 KEEPS CUTTING OUT

 

THIS IS A FUCKING PISS TAKE

 

COMPLETELY FUCKED OFF!

 

This is so unfair. Fucking had it with tonight. The new unit refuses to power up, it just goes into some kind of protect shut-down like the other one did. Tried it with two different mains cables and via the wall socket and a extension cable. Really, really, really UPSET AND PISSED OFF now.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

I agree with Michael- HS2 is a complete fucking travesty. The direct train from Sheffield to Huddersfield (35 miles, should almost be ideal commuting distance) takes 1h35. NINETY-FIVE MINUTES for 35 miles. Similarly, the train from Stockport to Manchester Airport (9-10 miles) goes via Manchester Piccadilly, where it makes a leisurely stop for about 12 minutes, so the 10 mile journey takes around 40 minutes. Leicester to Stansted Airport (73 miles as the crow flies) takes 2h24 and costs a whopping £116.50 (each way, in 2nd class!). There is no train, or even bus, connecting East Midlands Parkway with East Midlands Airport which is round the corner!

 

You could probably sort that whole lot out for £800m. A billion at a push. But it doesn't go to London and, as a result, nobody in Whitehall gives a flying fuck. So let's spend £32bn on a white elephant instead. GR9 stuff!

[retrogeezer]

Hope your dad is better soon Jon, push him to go to the docs just in case.

 

HS2, agree with the above really. What is the point on spending billions (which will probably be double the estimate like all these big schemes, Millennium Dome,Wembley, 2012 Olympics anybody?) when the existing network is overpriced and pants. If it's built it will just be more executive transport for the elite and company execs sticking the ticket cost on expenses.

[Vin]

They've always regretted the closure of the Great Central under the Beeching cuts. It was the last north/south route completed in 1899 but it was also the most advanced, it was all built on the flat i.e cuttings, embankments and viaducts so there were no gradients, there were no road level crossings, only over bridges and it was built to the european loading gauge, as it was envisaged by the Great Central as being part of a route through a channel tunnel and then onwards to Paris. But, the only major urban connurbations it served was Sheffield, Nottingham, Leicester and London, which is why the decision, short-sighted decision in hindsight, was taken to close it in the 1960s.

 

I can see the point of HS2. You get the expresses off the west coast main line and the cross country routes. Then you can get more regular stopping trains and freight trains up the west coast.

 

It's not just about the 'elite' and quicker travel times.

 

They should have planned an interchange, like Ashford in Kent, somewhere in Oxfordshire though. If you live north of London, what's the point of having travel back into London, to go north...

[Des]

£32bn for a bit of a railway? I think we're owed a teleporter, a Blakes7 one and none of your Startrek rubbish.

[RobT]

On HS2 I found myself agreeing with the turd from the Tax Payers Alliance when he was on BBC Breakfast today, never thought that'd happen. His point about it being for high earners only rang true. Fly or get an earlier train is my opinion, we're all in too much of a rush these days.

[Cheggers]

The Radio 1/ Comic Relief "Challenge".

 

A bunch of "celebs" are currently paddling their dugout canoes down the Zambezi to raise money for Comic Relief, rowing for up to 8 hours a day for 5 days. All very good, worthy stuff but if you look at the detail they're planning to travel a total of 111km...that's less than 22km a day. While I'm sure it's not exactly the Olympic rowing lake, isn't that a bit unambitious to be called a challenge? - A relatively fit bloke should be able to CARRY a canoe 111km in 5 days, AND they're heading downstream. If you lobbed a rubber duck in at the start line it would probably drift that far in the time given.

 

So, Radio 1, please don't make it sound like some kind of friggin extreme physical challenge, coz it ain't

 

And yes, I do need to get out more...

[retrogeezer]

it's a free jolly for a few celebs in the name of making a few quid for charity that some of them would not miss as small change. Not forgetting of course they have a full back up team and have to do sod all else at either end of the day day as it will all be done for you.

 

On HS2 I found myself agreeing with the turd from the Tax Payers Alliance when he was on BBC Breakfast today, never thought that'd happen. His point about it being for high earners only rang true.

 

That's what I said about it being another means of travel for the elite, company expense account.

[RedSparrow]

-Meet nice girl in the pub

-Give her my number

-She texts me the next day, keen to meet again

-Realise I have forgotten her name

-FUCKSTICKS!

 

I'm going to have to get her to meet some other friends so I can pick up her name in the process. Oddly, I remembered her sister's name alright.

[Cheggers]

-Meet nice girl in the pub

-Give her my number

-She texts me the next day, keen to meet again

-Realise I have forgotten her name

-FUCKSTICKS!

 

I'm going to have to get her to meet some other friends so I can pick up her name in the process. Oddly, I remembered her sister's name alright.

 

"I want to store your number in my phone, what do you like to be known as?"

[Cavcraft]

Tell her you hope it starts with 'sli' or 'slo' as 'sla' and 'slu' are covered.

[RedSparrow]

Thanks, but Cheggers I think your idea is a bit too obvious. It's been a couple of days.

[retrogeezer]

reply with a question and put your name in the reply, then hopefully when she replies she will do the same.

[RedSparrow]

Retro - yeah that was the first thing I tried! I think I will continue to do it and hope she subconsciously does the same!

[retrogeezer]

lol.....great minds and all that!

 

Just call her gorgeous, that should work.

[richardthestag]

if she is anything like mrs thestag try to avoid calling her sweet tits.

 

She really does not like that

[RedSparrow]

Yep, it'll have to be princess, treacle and any other Frank Butcher / Den Watts style compliments I can think of.

[Rocket88]

-Meet nice girl in the pub

-Give her my number

-She texts me the next day, keen to meet again

-Realise I have forgotten her name

-FUCKSTICKS!

 

I'm going to have to get her to meet some other friends so I can pick up her name in the process. Oddly, I remembered her sister's name alright.

 

"I want to store your number in my phone, what do you like to be known as?"

 

ask her what her email address is........may give the game away........

[freebird]

-Meet nice girl in the pub

-Give her my number

-She texts me the next day, keen to meet again

-Realise I have forgotten her name

-FUCKSTICKS!

 

I'm going to have to get her to meet some other friends so I can pick up her name in the process. Oddly, I remembered her sister's name alright.

 

"I want to store your number in my phone, what do you like to be known as?"

 

ask her what her email address is........may give the game away........

It might even give her game away if she replies [email protected]

EDIT: That has come up in red, am i to assume that there is a REAL email address of that name?

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Mulva?

[Partridge]

The email idea is good, but if her name isn't in it...if you do facebook maybe ask her if she’s on that? “Are you on facebook? Then it will be easier to keep in contact, and neither of us will have to keep shelling out for texts so much."

[cort16]

The answers simple. Post her telephone number up on here and allow an Autoshite representative to call her up and see if she's interested in winning a luxury chauffeurdriven tour of the local scrapyards in one of the following vehicles . A Kia Sedona, FSO Polonex, Talbot Samba or Austin Princess. All she has to do is supply her name, e-mail address and small holding deposit of £100.

[ruffgeezer]

Simple, tell her you are a technical tit and have deleted her name by mistake, then hand her your phone and ask her to save her number in it for you

[Mr Lobster]

Ref. this possible knobhead who may/not join up on here aren't we better off not giving him anymore publicity? If he sees the thread it'll probably make him more determined to join up and cause grief.

 

He might actually be an improvement on some of the quality* stuff posted here at present.

[Cavcraft]

Ref. this possible knobhead who may/not join up on here aren't we better off not giving him anymore publicity? If he sees the thread it'll probably make him more determined to join up and cause grief.

 

He might actually be an improvement on some of the quality* stuff posted here at present.

 

Valid point. You just need some blurry pictures to hammer it home, and perhaps to re-post them a few hundred times of course.

[Partridge]

Part 2, another cockwand:

 

'Your KIA, is it manual?'

Sigh, not it's an auto, it says it's an auto on the advert.

'Did you say manual?'

No, I said auto.

'How much tax'

Sigh, snotty voice, THERE IS NO TAX IT SAYS SO ON ADVERT.

''What's your best price?'

Did you not read the advert?

'Yes. What is your best price?'

Tell you what, you fucking tell me: what's YOUR best price then?

Long silence...'I give you £400'

Absolutely fucking no chance, forget it.

'It's an auto, nobody want them. Is wrong engine, nobody want 2.9, no tax I need tax'.

So it's the wrong engine, the wrong gearbox and it's not taxed, that's your issue with it?

'Yes, not popular car'

Well you won't want it then will, you, fuck knows why you 'phoned in the first place?

Then I put the 'phone down and promptly saved his number as 'knobhead2 01.13'. Ten minutes later, the 'phone rings. Anyone want to guess who it was? I didn't answer it.

 

Quality!

[drum]

Just forked it out the price of a decent piece of autoshite on parts for the wife's daily drive . She doesn't get bangernomics.

And nobody local has the proper tools to change a timing belt.

[rml2345]

Why are folks giving GOM posts their own threads?

Here's a tip; If it's a grump then POST IT IN THE FUCKING GRUMPY THREAD.

That is all.

[sporty-shite]

FUCKING VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE. ALSO FUCKING INCOMPETENT ME.

 

Right, the rear pads are down to the metal on Mrs S's Beetle. Got new pads, stripped pads out, and unleashed my (newly bought) caliper wind-back tool. Nothing. Tighter than a tight thing on World Tight-Fucker Day.

 

Question is, should it be this tight, or is the caliper fucked? I favour the latter, but just don't want to spend unnecessarily. And also don't trust my judgement to get it right.

 

Any tips, shiters?