The grumpy thread

[shedvan]

Sorry to hear that wuvvum thats sad news

[trigger]

Sorry to hear that too Wuvvum.

[Cavcraft]

+3, sorry to hear that Wuvvum.

 

I only ever remember my maternal grandmother, who I used to visit in London whenever I could. Heartbroken when she died, must be 30 years ago now.

[AnthonyG]

Sorry to hear that Wuvvum, I lost my 'last' grandparent when I was 31. Mind you my parental grandfather died 32 years before I was born, in a Fleet Air Arm Swordfish plane off Malta. My dad never saw him, that's hard luck but must have happened a lot in the war.

[Cavcraft]

"That" white 405

 

Guys, we've had every single possible joke, gag, prank, wind-up and comment on that fuggin car in both the eBay and eBay Bargains threads...can we please just move on now???

 

It'll fall on deaf ears. The eBay thread now seems to mostly contain at least two or three reposts of the same vehicle and the same picture on each page or two, mostly from quoting.

[Timewaster]

The eBay thread now seems to mostly contain at least two or three reposts of the same vehicle and the same picture on each page or two, mostly from quoting.

 

Its not that bad. It is still my favorite page

[Lacquer Peel]

I had a white Peugeot 405 once, it also had a broken handbrake cable and clutch fork. There was 3 feet of snow on the ground so I SCRAPPED it despite changing the cambelt and clutch 20k previously.

Massive fud.

[Des]

[chaseracer]

/\/\

 

Nice one, Des...

[Lankytim]

I like hearing about that 405, and the sellers dismal attempts at flogging it.

[Mr Lobster]

Variously -

 

Took Mrs_L's car to the jetwash on Wednesday as she was off to a funeral and it was filthy. Four wash bays and one of them has a big cone in the middle denoting its out of useness.

 

I'm in one and the other two working ones are in use. Woman in a Micra finishes vacuuming then goes to the wash bays. Rather than waiting for one to become free she moves the cone so she can get in, drives into position then sticks some money in (which pops back out). Then goes into the shop and starts ranting at the cashier. WTF. After that she sits behind me drumming her fingers on the steering wheel. For once I was disappointed not to have any more change so I couldn't spend another three minutes applying the protective spray wax crap just for the sake of it.

 

Later the same day, as Mrs is still at funeral and I am responsible for the kids I go to Tesco. park in parent and child bay. As I'm getting baby Lobs car seat into the trolley women parked in the next bay returns to her car and rather than making the extensive (10 second) walk to the trolley bay to return her trolley, wheels it from the back of her car and leaves it in front of mine. Given that I have spent my entire day trying to work whilst having two small children harrassing me my patience is quite thin and I suggested to her that perhaps she might like to expend a further couple of seconds of her life in relocating the trolley to its place of origin.

 

This (predictably) doesn't go down well and she gives a big 'ooh, whats your problem' type of response. To which I tell her (at possibly considerable volume) that given she appears to have a working pair of legs dangling beneath her body that she must either be very selfish, ignorant or both if she can't manage to get the trolley back to its home rather than leaving it in front of my car. Anyway, she does it and doesn't make eye contact whilst in the meantime both kids are looking at me really strangely.

 

Thirdly. Perrys. Would it be possible to actually have customer parking that is in any way not filled with Chips Away vans, assorted trade ins and any manor of other stuff so that I don't have to park in your used car display as there is fuck all else in the way of parking in your horrible tatty dealership.

 

Finally, BT for two reasons. Firstly your Broadband is fucking woeful and despite you telling me it was fixed and sending an engineer to replace a bit of cable (£95? Cheers) its still shit. Also, I'm not arsed that your call centre is in India tbh but why do all the people have to pretend to have English names? This week I have spoken to 'Fiona', 'Abigail' and 'Simon' If they had used their real Indian names I wouldn't have had a fit and put the phone down y'know.

[shedvan]

The eBay thread now seems to mostly contain at least two or three reposts of the same vehicle and the same picture on each page or two, mostly from quoting.

 

Its not that bad. It is still my favorite page

 

 

I just don't get why quoting the post you reply to is such a mortal sin? And in truth I must admit that angry passive aggressive remarks only make it seem funny to do so, it would be fair enough if you were adult enough to explain why this is so... er.. so whatever it is that makes it so bad to the 'offenders'

[Mr Lobster]

Not so much the quoting of text, more the picture. You end up scrolling down a very long page only to see the same picture over and over and over again.

[shedvan]

Thats fair enough, I'm happy to admit to being maybe a little childish in doing it deliberately once I'd seen people getting their knickers in a twist over it mea culpa I am sorry I guess its just a bit like kicking someone in the arse when they bend over, a guilty pleasure!

[Ben_L]

 

Is there any relevance in the 405 being a Left Hooker? Does it signify a French car heading towards a potentially french horse and reflect upon the French being allowed to do as they please with horses?

[Cavcraft]

Not so much the quoting of text, more the picture. You end up scrolling down a very long page only to see the same picture over and over and over again.

 

Thanks, you've just nailed it superbly.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

If you want to quote an eBay picture again for context, you can tweak the numbers on the end to alter the size.

 

example:

 

 

4x4!

 

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1992-Vauxhall ... 1e78461ff5

 

'genuine rimschor rear spoiler fitted'

 

Here's the code for the picture:

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/1992-Vauxhall-Calibra-2-0-4x4-/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/PK8AAMXQgb1RPgt-/$T2eC16JHJGoE9nuQeWuLBRPgt9YR(g~~60_12.JPG

See that _12.JPG at the end? Change it to a lower number and look what happens:

 

4x4!

 

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1992-Vauxhall ... 1e78461ff5

 

'genuine rimschor rear spoiler fitted'

That's _6.JPG

 

Assuming that works in all browsers and not just mine, that's a nice way to remind people what car you're talking about without quoting the full size image.

 

ALWAYS POST RESPONSIBLY

[autofive]

Finally, BT I'm not arsed that your call centre is in India tbh but why do all the people have to pretend to have English names? This week I have spoken to 'Fiona', 'Abigail' and 'Simon' If they had used their real Indian names I wouldn't have had a fit and put the phone down y'know.

 

someone rang me yesterday claiming to be from my bank (he didnt know which bank it was ), with an obvious kenyan accent he announced " Hello, this is Christina Wilkinson, Im ringing from your bank"

 

He must have mis-read his script

[Albert Ross]

Ay up, Herr Lobster, which Perrys branch is this? It's a perpetual gripe of mine, and I bloody work for them! I get numpties parking in front of my workshop door, where it states "Keep Clear" and "No Parking" in big letters, not even joined up ones.... To hear someone actually complaining about it would get results. Oh, BTW, the call centre is in either Blackburn or Burnley, I forget which. All the local White Rose style people are livid when they hear they were forced to talk to a "Red Roser". That was maybe 800 years ago! Get over it!

[Mr Lobster]

Blackburn. Two branches actually, initially the Mazda franchise but secondly Peugeot. Oddly the Mazda parts department is two miles down the road in the Peugeot site in an area of Blackburn that might otherwise be termed 'a shithole'.

 

It puzzles me why dealers don't see that customer parking is useful. Despite the fact that I was served quickly my overriding impression of both sites was 'that was fucking hard work' mainly because of the hassle in being able to park.

 

They'd do well to cross the border to Skipton Mazda who have an abundance of customer parking. In fact, thats exactly what I'll be doing when it needs a service.

[Albert Ross]

Well that's a shame, but thoroughly understandable. I work at one of the bigger branches, we even have a staff car park (because we're on an "Urban Clearway") I reckon that on a good day, we can have 500+ cars on site, in the parking areas/workshops/bodyshop/valet bay/display areas/death-row etc. We also handle parts for other Vauxhall dealers, and ship out their stuff daily.... all because we are virtually on top of the A1/M1/M18, and close to all the importer's stock yards etc.

[freebird]

e'Bay.

Unless its just my imagination, the place has got considerably worse of late when it comes to car advertising.

Im finding it hard to believe just how fucking thick people are. Are they truly bereft of ANY common sense?

They advertise cars for pretty stong money and either put up one picture that is utter wank or several that are in the Stevie Wonder/Helen Keller territory for visual expertise.

Do they really want to sell their cars or are they pulling the piss?

To compound it they then construct a pile of literary bollocks, if they can actually be arsed to write more than a sentence, that could only be bettered by Josef Fritzels statement "Its ok, she consented..."

It does seem to be more of an e'Bay thing, elsewhere its not nearly as bad.

I can live with the poor grasp of the English language but im finding it increasingly frustrating seeing adverts constructed that are nothing more than dog wank.

Those fuckers wont be getting my hard earned then...

[skattrd]

My elder sister has taken my Mum to stay with my younger sister in Ely for the week. However they forgot her insulin, so guess who's got to drive down to Ely so his Mother gets her medication ... I'm knackered, its been a long week, and next week is damned busy for me, including trips to Hampshire and Scotland. I was hoping for a rest this weekend.

Oh and England lost the rugby

[Timewaster]

If I were home, I'd offer to stick the kettle on for you. There are worse places than Ely to have to go to.

That said, all routes to and from Lincolnshire are bloody awful, half of them have grass growing up the middle.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Trying to paint the car in the garage and the fluorescent light started strobing. I tried three different starters with no luck so went looking for a replacement bulb, which no-one has. Can I put a thin bulb in a T12 38mm fitting? The pins are the same but obviously the housing will be too big.

[Bobthebeard]

Trying to paint the car in the garage and the fluorescent light started strobing. I tried three different starters with no luck so went looking for a replacement bulb, which no-one has. Can I put a thin bulb in a T12 38mm fitting? The pins are the same but obviously the housing will be too big.

 

Give it a go. What's the worst that could happen?

A. It won't work.

B. It will work briefly.

C. It will explode dramatically, causing more paint damage to the car waiting to be painted.

D. It will work fine.

E. It will take out the power in your garage/house/ street/neighbourhood/county at huge repair costs to yourself.

 

D. Is the probable outcome.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Already had a mild taste of C because the spare starters were taped to the side of the fitting, and when I pulled them off a decade's worth of perished tape, dust, rust and paint flakes fell onto the wet paint.

 

If I can't find the right bulb locally in a couple of days I'll get the thin one.

[ruffgeezer]

Where are you and how big is the tube? I have a shitload of spares...

[Bobthebeard]

Fecking Personal Injury Claims.

Injury lawyers adverts are screened every few minutes on "certain" Sky channels. Makes me grumpy! A horrible claims culture going on here. Would like to bet that 95%* of the claimants have fuck all injuries. Just another way to "make a bit o cash out of the system mate"

BBC Breakfast programme had a less than half arsed attempt at exposing the spurious whiplash claim culture recently, but as usual, said feck all constructive. Apart from the fact that these sponging mongs put all of our insurance premiums up by ££££s.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Where are you and how big is the tube? I have a shitload of spares...

I'm in Manchester, bit far to go for a £6.50 tube. But thanks for the offer