The grumpy thread

[Richard]

Windows 8. Fucking useless.

[beko1987]

They should put more shops at the dumps. Furniture, electrical gear and other usefull stuff gets sold cheap to those who want it, the profits go to charity and stuff with life left in it doesn't get landfilled.

 

There's one in Oban

 

http://www.lorireuse.co.uk/buy.html

 

We have one at our local tip, and it's horrible.

 

Back in the day they used to line up all the electricals at the side, and you could pop over and enquire. I used to get dysons for £10, clean them up and ebay them for £60-70 (back when they were worth something). Same with PC's, hifi's etc.

 

I went into the 'Re-Use' shop last week, and it's full of tat! Old furniture, clothes etc and very expensive. The only vacuum I saw was a DC07 with no tools for £50! No electricals really, everything decent was over £40. I then saw a dyson being dropped off by someone, and asked about it, and they can't sell it to me for elf and shafety. Certainly nothing will get re-used if they charge a fortune for them. There is also only 3 parking spaces for the shop, so I finished at the oil bin, put the ermpty can back in the car and wandered over.

[warren t claim]

Fucking PPI claimline on 0843 4104770.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

$£"$(&£"%&"£%&" public sector (yes, I know, don't be offended). I filled up with £65's worth of petrol, ready for a 150-mile trip, overnight stay (paid for by myself), and interview on the arse end of nowhere (which was set by them, without asking for my opinion, for 09:15, and then they refused to reschedule), and they cancelled it, even though AA Roadwatch shows that all roads in the area are open as normal. So I've lost almost two days of my life because someone cannot be arsed to clear their bloody driveway.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

*cancelled it 'due to weather' [obviously]

[cort16]

They should put more shops at the dumps. Furniture, electrical gear and other usefull stuff gets sold cheap to those who want it, the profits go to charity and stuff with life left in it doesn't get landfilled.

 

There's one in Oban

 

http://www.lorireuse.co.uk/buy.html

 

We have one at our local tip, and it's horrible.

 

Back in the day they used to line up all the electricals at the side, and you could pop over and enquire. I used to get dysons for £10, clean them up and ebay them for £60-70 (back when they were worth something). Same with PC's, hifi's etc.

 

I went into the 'Re-Use' shop last week, and it's full of tat! Old furniture, clothes etc and very expensive. The only vacuum I saw was a DC07 with no tools for £50! No electricals really, everything decent was over £40. I then saw a dyson being dropped off by someone, and asked about it, and they can't sell it to me for elf and shafety. Certainly nothing will get re-used if they charge a fortune for them. There is also only 3 parking spaces for the shop, so I finished at the oil bin, put the ermpty can back in the car and wandered over.

 

It only works if they don't charge a fortune for it otherwise it's totally pointless.

[Negative Creep]

I can understand why they dont sell electricals. If the lamp they sell blows up in little Timmy's face I'm sure there would be an article in the local rag (with a picture of the customer looking suitably indignant) and a call to injurylawyers4u to cover the emotional distress they've suffered

[Bobthebeard]

I can understand why they dont sell electricals. If the lamp they sell blows up in little Timmy's face I'm sure there would be an article in the local rag (with a picture of the customer looking suitably indignant) and a call to injurylawyers4u to cover the emotional distress they've suffered

 

This seems to apply to anything sold though. If someone bought a wardrobe and it fell on little Timmy during an earthquake or domestic row or whatever, the phones at injurylawyers4u would still be ringing.

Sign of the times methinks. Sadly.

[warren t claim]

Michael Winner R.I.P. Calm down dear....

[Lacquer Peel]

Michael Winner R.I.P. Calm down dear....

 

 

This is a beautiful clip (edit: of Winner defending lesbians against Richard Littlejohn).

[Bobthebeard]

Michael Winner R.I.P. Calm down dear....

 

Not entirely sure what the clip has to do with it, but hey.

[RedSparrow]

Michael Winner R.I.P. Calm down dear....

 

 

This is a beautiful clip (edit: of Winner defending lesbians against Richard Littlejohn).

 

[cobblers]

First day at my fancy new job and it went pretty well all things considered, Managed to get to chesterfield without getting stuck in SNOW CHAOS despite being the first person on most of the roads (at 6:45am),

I did all day at work without making any real fuckups and fixed about a dozen speedos for dennis darts and suchlike, then spoiled it all by beaching the van on the way out of the carpark on a raised section of kerb that was hidden by the deep snow, right in front of both the managers I got unstuck pretty quick but deffo looked a prize cunt.

[loserone]

Fucking PPI claimline on 0843 4104770.

 

You must be earlier in the queue than I am, they didn't call me until 14:39.

[Albert Ross]

$£"$(&£"%&"£%&" public sector (yes, I know, don't be offended). I filled up with £65's worth of petrol, ready for a 150-mile trip, overnight stay (paid for by myself), and interview on the arse end of nowhere (which was set by them, without asking for my opinion, for 09:15, and then they refused to reschedule), and they cancelled it, even though AA Roadwatch shows that all roads in the area are open as normal. So I've lost almost two days of my life because someone cannot be arsed to clear their bloody driveway.

 

Could you not have hammered a smaller interview over it?

[wuvvum]

Still bugger all interest in the Sierra, either on RR or Carandclassic.

 

 

Is it because I is automatic?

[richardthestag]

this

 

 

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JAGUAR-E-TYPE-3-8-1962-/330860560477

 

Yes the side frames have been modified & will require changing if it is put back to standard & also the Gearbox tunnel has been modified to accept auto box.

 

Makes me want to cry

[vulgalour]

It's just an E type, there's bazillions of them still kicking around.

[richardthestag]

Not feeling the love for the old e-type angyl.

 

There aren't too many early e-types left now, most of them dissolved by the late 60's. If it weren't for those cuntingly awful rimz, I would have had this up as a 1970's crime. But I reckon some redneck managed to stop shagging his sibling (probably) for just long enough to think that wrecking the frames and grinding a hole through a hideously expensive bonnet would be a great idea.

 

Way out of my price range!

[vulgalour]

The only E type I've ever liked is this one.

 

 

 

I just never really got what the fuss was about aesthetically, I don't think they're a well proportioned or even attractive car. But the one above works for me in a cartoon sort of a way.

[Spiny Norman]

That just looks wrong.

[Mr Lobster]

I actually quite like the red one but then I'm not a fan of E-Types at all. Over hyped and don't do anything for me looks wise.

 

Reason for grump - came downstairs at 6am to discover water running through the dining room ceiling - pipe in loft had developed a tiny hole allowing water to run down through the airing cupboard and through the ceiling. Fuckety fuckety fuck.

[warren t claim]

This works for me.

 

[warren t claim]

Multiple People Shot At Texas College Campus. When will the fucking yanks ever learn?

 

http://huff.to/11OXQFZ

[HillmanImp]

I don't think they're a well proportioned or even attractive car.

 

I like this

 

I dont like this

[Timewaster]

I don't think they're a well proportioned or even attractive car.

 

I like this

"Lovely E-type"

 

I dont like this

"Horrific, bloated, ballsed up by Yank regulations, embaressment"

 

Those later E types look like a chineese copy of the original.

 

Wrong wrong wrong.

[vulgalour]

If I had to have a Jag, &c. Better by far than any of the E Types.

 

[Craig the Princess]

$£"$(&£"%&"£%&" public sector (yes, I know, don't be offended). I filled up with £65's worth of petrol, ready for a 150-mile trip, overnight stay (paid for by myself), and interview on the arse end of nowhere (which was set by them, without asking for my opinion, for 09:15, and then they refused to reschedule), and they cancelled it, even though AA Roadwatch shows that all roads in the area are open as normal. So I've lost almost two days of my life because someone cannot be arsed to clear their bloody driveway.

 

Not just the public sector. In 2009 I drove from Sittingbourne to Peterborough in falling snow in an LDV 400 (my only MoTed vehicle) for an interview, arrived 10 minutes early. Waited. And waited. About 40 minutes later the recieptionist tells me they can't make it in due to the snow and rearranges. LDV400 then gets stuck on the ice in the car park until a nice passer-by gave me her dishwasher crystals she had for grip on the ice. Interview the next week (another 200 mile round trip) and I still didn't get the bloody job!

[retrogeezer]

1st time out in the car for 5 days, already had one stupid tart reverse out of a drive straight in front of me on a sheet ice covered road. Nothing behind me of course, she just could not wait 10 seconds for me to go past first.

 

[triumph1300]

I don't know why it bugs me so much when people sell complete piles of junk for far too much money. Has anyone else seen the XR2 that needs tlc on the blue forum?

It isn't even his, it was left in a barn, it has no keys or logbook, no xr2 wheels, no steering wheel, no interior, no bumpers, no bodykit, no exhaust, no bonnet, no rear spoiler, one spotlight is missing, the body is rotten, the engine and electrics need "sorting" whatever that means, its horrendous. I guess every single XR2 specific bit has been raped for a 1.1

How he can advertise that as needed TLC is beyond me, and stating the shell isn't that bad? I want whatever hes on.

 

http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/w36 ... 48590c.jpg

 

http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/w36 ... f44a30.jpg

 

http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/w36 ... 90f9bc.jpg