The grumpy thread

[wuvvum]

Just got home from three hours in A&E after collapsing for no apparent reason earlier this evening. I was just standing talking to a couple of friends, started to feel a bit strange so went to lean against the wall, but didn't make it and had to be carried to a chair. Apparently when I was in the chair I then went completely rigid for about 15 seconds, with my head right back and my eyes wide open, but I don't remember any of that. I was unconscious for a couple of minutes - I actually started dreaming - then came to of my own accord, and my first thought was "oh fuck, that really did just happen". I was helped over to a window and the fresh air soon had my brain functioning again, but everything else still felt like it was about to shut down. One of my friends drove me to A&E, where after a lengthy wait and various tests they concluded that I had fainted (yeah, thanks, I'd never have guessed) but couldn't work out why. They ran through a number of reasons that can cause people to faint, but none of them was relevant to me. My blood pressure, heart rate and blood sugar levels were all spot on; I'd had a glass of wine with my dinner but nothing else to drink all day, and I'm not on any medication.

 

So basically I've collapsed for no obvious reason, it's never happened before and nobody seems to know whether it's likely to happen again. GR9. I still feel a bit strange now, although my head is perfectly clear. I'm just glad it happened when I was out socialising - if it'd happened when I was at home I could've clocked my head on something and things could have been a lot worse.

[RedSparrow]

I am feeling the rage about Trotter vans again. Urge to wield hammers in the general direction of OFAH twats is rising.

 

Totally. That last one particularly irked me for some reason. The early series of Only Fools are actually really good but things like this make me want to hate it on principle, based on other people who like the show

[Cavcraft]

Sorry to hear that, Wuvv, whatever it was I hope it passes and doesn't come back.

[vulgalour]

Wuv: I can actually relate to that, I've had similar happen more than once, though usually when I come round my legs don't work for a while, which is a bit frustrating. The way the Neurologist I saw explained it to me made it sound like I was one of those fainting goats, apparently some people are just prone to blacking out or having fits for no discernible reason, though normally there's a trigger like injury or shock, it's not always the case and it's not a form of epilepsy. Apparently, I'm perfectly fine to use heavy machinery and even to drive because it doesn't affect those activities in the same way as epilepsy would. Like you, all my stats came back healthy and it took them several years to come to the conclusion that "it's weird, but you're just like that". If it happens again, see your GP so they can keep a track of it just in case, otherwise don't worry about it.

[dollywobbler]

Not nice Wuv. My wife had an eposide like this last year, but it was even more unusual because she was sitting down. Out like a light for several minutes. Terrifying, especially as it took an ambulance 28 minutes to get here. "They won't get lost" says the operator. They got lost. Soon the whole fuggin' village knew something was up as the ambulance went all over the sodding place.

 

Again, they could find absolutely nothing wrong.

[HillmanImp]

started to feel a bit strange

 

This. My missus has had a couple of episodes recently which has resulted in her going to A&E (first time with 9 stitches in her smashed up head). She was worried that she was epileptic or something and would not be able to drive but the doctors said they they were happy it was not that and she was okay to drive because she was aware that something was about to go wrong before it happened. They dont know what is causing it but were not worried as think it was just a faint as she was aware of it before. Someone might have more experience of this but thats what they told us a few weeks ago.

 

Personally, I think it is just exhaustion so she has been banned from doing too much exercise (she is a keep fit fanatic) but she is still sneaking off and doing mega long runs and is not 'just going to the gym for a swim', a bit like me when I say 'I am just off out to the get a screwdriver from the garage' and I have a glass of scotch before setting off to work in the morning.

[Ben_L]

Just been informed that the MOD have thrown their dummy out of their pram and kicked my company out of their sector.

Redundancy looms, just as I've got a new house and stuff... GR5....

[Station]

I've taken apart many cars, including engines, and put them back together again, comprising of big ends and tiny 1mm springs.

 

And yet ...

 

I CAN'T FIGURE OUT THIS FRIGGING HEATING BOILER IN MY HOUSE!

 

 

Please heater boiler manufacturers, make your units simpler to use and less prone to breaking, you sheistering c**ts.

[Guest]

Seller on the blue forum whinges no-one's looking at his steering wheel. I explain how moribund the for sale forum is. Somehow he takes this as an insult and decides I'm low-balling him.

Never mind. Would have looked nice on the 305, that.

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=pfsw&thread=146032&page=1

 

*Posted in between the break between Job 1 and 2, at University. I must have too much time on my hands.

[Guest]

And he's now thrown his toys out of the pram and gone home, and sent me a shitty PM to boot. Jesus.

[vulgalour]

Internet: serious business.

[Guest]

Internet: serious business.

 

Serious topics. Serious wood.

[beko1987]

aparently someones trying to / has jumped off the handy cross roundabout (j4 m40) so the whole motorway is being diverted down into marlow and along my fucking route home!

 

Good job I'm going to a friends house after work, hopefully the TRAFFIK KAOS will be clear by then!

[TimothyClaypole]

My van lost all it's new electricity just before Junction 4 of the M18 this morning.

 

(I'd suspected it might so had a spare battery in the back, changed it over and nursed it back home trying to save what I could as it's a smaller battery).

 

The battery light is on all the time so I assume something alternator related?

[Station]

Yes that's very much alternator related!

[cobblers]

What van? And yes, deffo alternator related.

[TimothyClaypole]

2.4 LWB/HiRoof malarky.

 

I'd keep it but it uses diesel like I had a trade card account.

[andrew e]

aparently someones trying to / has jumped off the handy cross roundabout (j4 m40) so the whole motorway is being diverted down into marlow and along my fucking route home!

 

Good job I'm going to a friends house after work, hopefully the TRAFFIK KAOS will be clear by then!

 

Hey if you want some HOT MARLOW ACTION watch the Railway programme at 9pm on BBC. A bit sad really. In other news it Explains why Slough is full of sat-nav dither's this evening.

[beko1987]

I'll record that, be good to see the donkey!

 

The m40 is open but royally fucked. Back roads (wooburn to Stokey, 2 to 5) is fine though FYI.

[autofive]

[triumph1300]

Am I being unreasonable to think that all stanced/stretched tyre/sticking out wheels etc is a bit of a strange mod?

I don't understand the logic behind it all, especially when you look on the blue forum and every thread you click looks like a collapsed scalextric car. I browse this forum all the time now, blue forum really does grind my gears (and before anyone says it yes I know I painted my car matt black, just without the retarded wheels/stickers/rust patches/Hawaiian crap that all the sheep use)

[dollywobbler]

Am I being unreasonable to think that all stanced/stretched tyre/sticking out wheels etc is a bit of a strange mod?

I don't understand the logic behind it all, especially when you look on the blue forum and every thread you click looks like a collapsed scalextric car. I browse this forum all the time now, blue forum really does grind my gears (and before anyone says it yes I know I painted my car matt black, just without the retarded wheels/stickers/rust patches/Hawaiian crap that all the sheep use)

 

At the Retro-Rides gathering in 2007, a Toyota something or other was doing a demonstration on the track, showing off it's stretched tyres and stance yo. I did laugh when it shat it's tyres mid-bend. I know we rant about this almost as often as we do about how crap Autoshite has become and how shit all modern cars are, but I don't understand modifications that make a car worse.

[messerschmitt owner]

the blue forum is fantastic! I love it - gives me many hours of fun!

[Rocket88]

 

For once, Brewer was right, should have kept it brown........awful lot of skimping in last night's episode, such as how they got that horrendous crease in the door sorted out............

[autofive]

yes.

 

lets spend 500 quid on a LSD but nothing on the engine/gearbox/rear suspension

 

and then paint it yellow

[vulgalour]

Am I being unreasonable to think that all stanced/stretched tyre/sticking out wheels etc is a bit of a strange mod?

I don't understand the logic behind it all

 

 

As I understand it, the primary reason for stretched wheels is a way to get a car lower without modifying the wheel arches and it has evolved from that to what you see now, rather like how estate agents* shoes get pointier, their skin more orange and their suits shinier with every passing year. The estate agents themselves don't see it happening, but in a subconscious bid to outdo each other and themselves, they're heading towards looking like plasticoted rakes with pumpkins stuck on top.

 

 

*I am aware this is a sweeping generalisation of the trade, but this is Autoshite.

[garbaldy]

/\ I've just met that very agent this morning and he must have thought I was a right prat because I couldn't stop smirking

[cort16]

I got offered a mk1 Escrote 2 door rolling shell today infact. It needs a bit of weldage in the boot and the guy wants £2500. Sounds like a lot of money for a rolling shell but if I could get it back on the road and sell it I could probably retire.

[Cavcraft]

Lenny Henry getting the freedom of his home town for services to entertainment. As he's actually about as 'entertaining' as eating a nettle and glass butty I'm at a loss to see why Dudley town council have given him that 'award'.

[dollywobbler]

Probably because there's f*ck all else worth celebrating in Dudley!