The grumpy thread

[autofive]

thats the line that i get in the post office - dont need your insurance, or MOT as the system checks before a disc is issued

[wuvvum]

I was told they need insurance but not MoT. I certainly taxed the Twingo without taking the MoT certificat with me.

[Micrashed]

Why in the name of all that is HOLY do new computers take a fucking ice age to set up - new lap top - powered up at 1700 hrs, still going through its bloody set up - updating 105 out of 124 and has been at this for about 2 hours now.

And currently cant get the bastard thing to accept my serial number for Office 2010.

The updates take the piss. Pulling the power, swearing at the bastard then turning it on again might work.

23.30 finally finished, however Office still wont let me unlock the full version (and I did uninstall from my old netbook)

Flaps

[Des]

This on the gate

 

 

 

And another on the door

 

 

 

Today failed in fending off a joho, on the sign being pointed out, the souless brainwashed shell of a person explained that the importance of 'the message' justifies ignoring such signs. 'That just shows how deluded you are', was my message. Wish I'd thought to add 'Now fuck off back to your pedo ring'.

The only fuckers I want to hear 'The Message' from are Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, certainly not some vacuous godsquad freak.

[Albert Ross]

I was once staying with my Sister over a Christmas break, when she lived in Telford. I was having quite a "happy" Christmas, as it happens... Christmas Day morning, waking up gently with a can of Special Brew and a "Jamaican Wooodbine" for breakfast, when there was a knocking noise from the front door. I was close to it, so answered it. Witnesses..... The first thing uttered by them was this "It looks like you could use some guidance".... My response was this. "Here's some guidance for you! There's the path, there's the gate. Use the fuckers." Looking like a bear helps..... Apparently her address was blacklisted by them after that..... She was grateful!

[Micrashed]

still cant get twatting office to work.

 

In other news apparently I am officially an old fart - in compiling a disc of music for my daughters birthday party tomorrow (7) I have been told that Bony M, Adam and the Ants and even 2 Unlimited and Black Box are out and people like One Direction (who?) PSY (?????) and Justin Fucking not even gone through puberty yet Beiber are the order of the day.

 

The children have reluctantly agreed to the Gap Band -Oops Upside on the sole condition I demonstrate the dance....

[Lord Sterling]

Fucking brill. Not only has my car decided to implode its own engine, but now my bloody SatNav has decided to throw in the towel. Since Ma_Sterling borrowed nav' a week ago its failed to launch in 'Navigation' mode, all other unimportant non-navigational stuff works fine. Fuxake, it wasn't a couple of weeks ago when both car and SatNav worked perfectly

[Spiny Norman]

Last time I tried my sat nav it wouldn't go beyond the start-up screen and just froze. I hardly ever use it, do these things develop amnesia when you leave them in a drawer for months on end?

[Lord Sterling]

Could well be. My nav' is a shitey 'Keomo' thing bought off a neighbour some years back. Never had a problem with it, it mostly spent time in my car's glovebox. I wouldn't use it for months on end then come to use it would power up and go to Navigation mode like it was used yesterday. Of course now it won't do that, I suspect its a software problem, I'm not gonna give up on it if I can find someone/somwhere that deals with these things.

[michael1703]

3 words that bug me is a new thing everyone says nowadays, possibly comes from poofball,the sort of tripe harry redknap would say

 

the 3 words

 

 

" To Be Fair "

[vulgalour]

yeah but, at the end of the day, right, you've got to give them credit where it's due, to be fair like.

[eddyramrod]

Where shall I start?

 

My connection is rubbish, it was better in Cyprus, which is a tiny third-world island, than it is in a long-established industrial town in England. Fucking hell.

 

Granada still hasn't come back from the garage, it's been away at least 8 weeks now, some of which was part-sourcing time though. Got a box to take round tomorrow...

 

And some time last night...

YOU FUCKING MISERABLE BASTARD! WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE! You better pray I never find you. That door was 30 years old and exactly like new. Not any more, obviously. Grumpy? You fucking bet!

[RedSparrow]

Shitbags!

Every time someone gets a Metro it's just a matter of time.

Please please please get a massive steering wheel lock. This thing is too rare to be nicked and wrapped round a tree.

[Wilko220]

Really sorry Eddie - that's a very depressing sight. You're never too far away from scum in this country, alas.

Presumably it'll need a new door - or do you think it might be repairable?

[eddyramrod]

Wilko, I have no idea, alas. It isn't broken, only bent, so it might be possible to get it back into shape, near enough. I've already had a go myself, but working solo in a back alley with no tools and not much more knowledge... it's nowhere near as good a job as the scrote did. I'm going to the garage that has my Granada tomorrow, so I'll ask him to pick it up and see what he can do, if anything. He's got a long list of stuff it needs anyway. The door will never ever be quite the same, it'll never fit like it did and it'll have to be painted. Until today it was 100% original paint on that body.

All I've done with these two cars since I imported them is spend fucking money, money I don't have, and they've repaid me by breaking down more and more often, more and more seriously and more and more expensively. I'm heartily fed up of the pair of them and just want to see them gone. Both of them. Immediately. I'd burn the fuckers but no insurance company would believe it was done by a third party.

[Albert Ross]

Absolute wankers Eddy. I had this happen to my Land Rover, literall a week after I replaced the (thankfully) separate door tops. Yeah, they might only be 20 quid a side, yet the time taken to replace the glass withn, about 4 hours a side. Plus preparation and paint. I only hope that they might do it again some day. And I'm awake to witness it. I would do time..... no mistake. I don't graft my arse off to have my "nice" things to have some thankless little cunt ruin them and try to take them away.... Grr.

[retrogeezer]

You definitely need to get one of these (or two) asap, they can normally be picked up used on ebay for a resonable price:

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksi ... &_from=R40

 

These are a good alternative if you can't get a disklok:

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=s ... &_from=R40

[vulgalour]

aww crap, Eddie, that massively sucks

[eddyramrod]

All I've done with these two cars since I imported them is spend fucking money, money I don't have.

 

RG, good suggestions, but see above. I just want rid of the fuckers, both of them. Every penny I spend now to get them through MoT and registration is good-money-thrown-after-bad. I can't possibly do better than catastrophic losses.

[Cavcraft]

What a bastard, sorry to hear about what happened, Eddie. I hope whoever did it gets their fucking hands chopped off one night.

 

 

Ebay grump from me: You want payment and collection in five days? I've been trying for 2 of them to get your contact details from you, you can relist the fucking thing if you don't get back to me soon.

[Lord Sterling]

Shit Eddy, that's a pisser. This happend to me when I had my old E-reg white Sterling. Some cock had bent open the top of the door but the (bloody loud) alarm went off and scared the wanker away, I called the cops and they were around here within 5mins in a T5 looking for the little cock jockey, don't know if they caught him.

 

Tye next day, a copper in a T5 came around to check things out, he suggested I get a 'visual deterrent' in the form of some sort of disk lock, as whikst my car has an alarm, little thieving scotes won't have the braincells to think it has an alarm being the age that it was, so any opportunist is gonna think fair game and have a go at thieving it.

 

I've biught some big disklock thing and never had a problem since, of course that won't stop vandels or wankers who want to rob from inside your car.......

[retrogeezer]

All I've done with these two cars since I imported them is spend fucking money, money I don't have.

 

RG, good suggestions, but see above. I just want rid of the fuckers, both of them. Every penny I spend now to get them through MoT and registration is good-money-thrown-after-bad. I can't possibly do better than catastrophic losses.

 

Oh yeh, I forgot that bit... doh!

[dollywobbler]

That's very depressing.

 

Have you actually got these up for sale anywhere Eddy?

[ruffgeezer]

Wilko, I have no idea, alas. It isn't broken, only bent, so it might be possible to get it back into shape, near enough. I've already had a go myself, but working solo in a back alley with no tools and not much more knowledge... it's nowhere near as good a job as the scrote did. I'm going to the garage that has my Granada tomorrow, so I'll ask him to pick it up and see what he can do, if anything. He's got a long list of stuff it needs anyway. The door will never ever be quite the same, it'll never fit like it did and it'll have to be painted. Until today it was 100% original paint on that body.

All I've done with these two cars since I imported them is spend fucking money, money I don't have, and they've repaid me by breaking down more and more often, more and more seriously and more and more expensively. I'm heartily fed up of the pair of them and just want to see them gone. Both of them. Immediately. I'd burn the fuckers but no insurance company would believe it was done by a third party.

 

Eddy, could you not see if anyone on here wants to buy them? Get them to mot and register it knowing that most of us are a trustable bunch?

[Doctormop]

I would do time..... no mistake. I don't graft my arse off to have my "nice" things to have some thankless little cunt ruin them and try to take them away.... Grr.

 

I am genuinely starting to think this way, I have never intentionally hurt anyone in my life but as every do gooder and his or her dog is on the side of the attacker not the victim I don't know whose side I'm on anymore,

steal from me or assault me and I WILL fight back, be more violent, vicious, sadistic than you and then YOU can go throught victim counselling, aftercare, crime reference numbers etc but you will fare worse than I do.

I will get the £100 fine and bound over to keep the peace and make your life a misery whilst you can do nothing to prevent me from doing so; sounds fair enough.

 

Obviously sorry for what has happened Eddy, it should not be this way.

[ruffgeezer]

An aerosol paint can unceremoniously shat out it's contents in a plastic toolbox in the garage yesterday, no problem I thought, clean the worst of the mess up and leave it open to air.

 

I got to doing some more work in there today only to utterly gas myself out, I am still feeling the effects nearly 2 hours later, having not finished the jobs I wanted to, fuckity fuck fucks.

[Angrydicky]

Cambridge only sold for £1600 on Ebay. It should have made at least £2000. High bidder is in Stockport, which is a very long way from here, and he's intending to drive it home according to the emails he sent prior to bidding.

 

Just grumpy at myself for not putting a reserve on it, but I thought these cars were supposed to be sought after. I'm just hoping he doesn't fuck me around and keep me waiting weeks on end.

[eddyramrod]

I thought these cars were supposed to be sought after.

 

You and me both, Dicky! Ahem... Mk1 Granada, old enough to be tax-free, Essex V6, manual box, even a nice colour. Can't give the fucker away.

 

Eddy, could you not see if anyone on here wants to buy them?

 

If anyone does, feel free to inundate me with PMs! I'd be delighted to see them go to Shiters as at least I'd be fairly sure they will live, rather than being abused (which is what's happening now) or stripped.

[Negative Creep]

Left yod n my car roof overnight and it didn't get stolen! Except it did rain, and now it's water damaged and won't turn on at all. Shit on a fucking shitstick.

[Guest]

Volvo's refusing to start and it's getting boxed in. People are going to start taking pops at it soon.