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Why oh why cant they resurface the road during the day when I am not trying to sleep. Sod the several hundred people who would have to turn round and go via Starbeck. Grr

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Rab - I really hope you get better soon mate. Relax and take it easy.

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Looks like yet another welding day wasted waiting for this sheet steel to arrive from Ebay. Also no sign of my floorpan and outriggers I ordered on Friday. :x

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To the twunt of a knobjockey in the M reg Toyota on the A1 this evening between the M62 and Doncaster;

 

FCUK OFF the outside lane is NOT yours. Move over you mouthing breathing, oxygen wasting carbon reject. :evil::evil::evil:

 

And relax

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Kids, when you grow up don't manage people. They are generally cunts.

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Gentleman in the grey Octavia estate typically heavily laden, reg. WF*****. I've seen you about many a time on the Colchester section of the A12, I know full well that you take the Clacton turn-off and head in the Weeley direction. I also know that every time I've seen you about you've been cruising at approx 90-100 mph, you tailgate, typically avoid using your indicators where you can help it, cut in to the beginning of queues and generally antagonise people. You incite road-rage and will, no doubt, someday cause a massive, fatal accident.

 

I'm standing well clear.

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  RoadworkUK said:
Gentleman in the grey Octavia estate typically heavily laden, reg. WF60KE*. I've seen you about many a time on the Colchester section of the A12, I know full well that you take the Clacton turn-off and head in the Weeley direction. I also know that every time I've seen you about you've been cruising at approx 90-100 mph, you tailgate, typically avoid using your indicators where you can help it, cut in to the beginning of queues and generally antagonise people. You incite road-rage and will, no doubt, someday cause a massive, fatal accident.

 

I'm standing well clear.

 

*J.

 

I've seen a dickhead matching that description on the A12 about 3 weeks back... Really thought he was gonna get followed home and given a pasting the way he was driving.

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  Angry Dicky said:
Oh yeah, the new photobucket is a massive steaming turd.

 

Never 100% great but it is now a big steaming dog turd from hell. Progress. Pah!

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Imgur is the way to go, so far I'm finding it does what I ask it to, and without being a massive resource hog.

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And talking of computer related things, I can once again verify Windows 8 is a bag of absolute fucking shit. If anyone's going to buy a new PC shortly then avoid this plague like a plague.

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Speed bumps. They're every feckingwhere around here and are currently being fitted down my road :evil: We've lived here for 15 years and to my knowledge the only accident has been when my Mrs put my motocycleshite through the neighbors garden fence. Speed bumps would not have helped her plight one bit.

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Greedy people: someone offered me a cycle for £15.00 after they advertised for £25. I agreed to the deal then half an hour later I got 'I've been offered £30 but you can have it for £25'. I knocked them back as we had a deal at £15, and told them to take the £30 they'd been offered. Then they said '£20 and no less' so I still fucked 'em off.

It's a great buy because it's a decent bike, and there's a few quid in it, but I'm not going to have it at any price now.

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I went to fill the car up with diesel this morning and when I picked the nozzle off the pump the wind blew the diesel sitting in the end of the hose (about 1/2 a litre by the looks of it) down the side of the car, down my trousers and all over my jacket. I smell like I've fell into a tank of heating oil. I'm tempted to go out and by a new pair of jeans at lunch time as I fuggin hate the smell of diesel!

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  cort16 said:
I went to fill the car up with diesel this morning and when I picked the nozzle off the pump the wind blew the diesel sitting in the end of the hose (about 1/2 a litre by the looks of it) down the side of the car, down my trousers and all over my jacket. I smell like I've fell into a tank of heating oil. I'm tempted to go out and by a new pair of jeans at lunch time as I fuggin hate the smell of diesel!

 

I was brimming SWMBO's corsa once with petrol at asda, doing the old trick of fill it up so I can see the fuel under the filler cap. However, it filled up more quickly that I'd anticipated, and I spilt about a fivers worth of pez all down my trousers. I had to walk into Asda (swmbo wouldn't let me back in the car) stinking of petrol, buy some cheap trousers and change in the toilets. I got some funny looks queuing at the tills making people cough!

 

I wanted to keep my now petrol soaked trousers, so hung them up in the garage for a month until the smell went. Sadly the petrol fucked the cheap dye up and they went red in places. They are now my working on the car trousers.

 

Cool story bro etc.

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I'm back up to 7-800 miles a week on the motorways now and people's driving is really starting to cheese me off. How people can drive under a matrix sign that reads "DON'T HOG THE MIDDLE LANE" yet still be in the middle lane with nothing in lane 1 for miles is beyond me, do they think the signs are for everyone else? What's difficult about that concept? I've given up undertaking, it seems a little dangerous so I just make a point of going round them in lane 3 with a flash of the fullbeam as I momentarily occupy lane 2, immediately start indicating back into lane 1 as I pass them (and I've got the side repeaters in my wing mirrors so they're right next to their stupid ignorant face as I pass), and back to 1. Sometimes it works, sometimes I wonder if they have any spacial awareness at all.

 

Also, the bell in a BMW 545i that tried to dive onto the M5 at Cribbs yesterday from the middle lane of the roundabout, then sounded the horn as I was in his way in the correct lane. Drove right up behind me, jumped into the inside lane of the slip road and tried to undertake but just ended up slamming the brakes on inches from the back end of a Polo that was just there, doing the right thing in the right lane. Back into my lane behind me, then across the hatches onto the motorway and STRAIGHT into lane 3. I passed him about 2 miles later as he was in lane 2 trying to force his way into the queue for the M4 turning that had started a mile previously. He looked proper furious so I made sure I slowed slightly, hopefully he saw me LAUGHING MY TITS OFF at him.

 

All I can do these days is thank my lucky stars I get home alive, and laugh at the idiots who believe their goal in life is to shave 30 seconds off their drive home and screw everyone else.

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  beko1987 said:
  cort16 said:
I went to fill the car up with diesel this morning and when I picked the nozzle off the pump the wind blew the diesel sitting in the end of the hose (about 1/2 a litre by the looks of it) down the side of the car, down my trousers and all over my jacket. I smell like I've fell into a tank of heating oil. I'm tempted to go out and by a new pair of jeans at lunch time as I fuggin hate the smell of diesel!

 

I was brimming SWMBO's corsa once with petrol at asda, doing the old trick of fill it up so I can see the fuel under the filler cap. However, it filled up more quickly that I'd anticipated, and I spilt about a fivers worth of pez all down my trousers. I had to walk into Asda (swmbo wouldn't let me back in the car) stinking of petrol, buy some cheap trousers and change in the toilets. I got some funny looks queuing at the tills making people cough!

 

I wanted to keep my now petrol soaked trousers, so hung them up in the garage for a month until the smell went. Sadly the petrol fucked the cheap dye up and they went red in places. They are now my working on the car trousers.

 

Cool story bro etc.

 

You should never fill a car that much anyway. I've got a friend who did this one hot summer in France. The petrol then expanded in the heat and quite a lot of it was lost down the side of the car. Petrol expands, and during warmer months, the ambient temperature will be far higher than the underground storage tanks. Second click is as far as I go when filling up.

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but its winter

 

did you not notice that ?

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I had to walk into Asda (swmbo wouldn't let me back in the car) stinking of petrol, buy some cheap trousers and change in the toilets. I got some funny looks queuing at the tills making people cough!

 

You should have went to the cigarette counter first and bought a lighter and some fags then watch everyone around you back away slowly.

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  autofive said:
but its winter

 

did you not notice that ?

 

Of course. I should have realised. I'm sure he only fills his car up in the depths of winter. Silly me.

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Does Petrol not evaporate a lot faster than water? Everytime I have got fuel all over me it does seem to dry really quickly. Dont try and burn it off like a mate of mine did as you will be in hospital with a burnt groin.

 

In other news, wifey's Mazda 2 would not lock last night. Was pressing the fob and nothing was happening. The doors were all shut but the little indicator on the dash said one of the passenger side doors was open. It was well shut and there was nothing hanging out of the car etc that might make it think it was open.

 

I thought its just playing silly buggers, I will lock it the old fashioned way with a key. Sadly the car thought it knew better and still refused to lock the doors despite me turning the key telling it to lock.

 

Therefore we simply had to leave the car unlocked all night. I told her that when she was on the way into work this morning she should put the blowers on full whack in the car to try and defrost anything that might have been frozen causing the problem. It seems to have worked and it locked when she got to work.

 

However my grump is why could I not over-ride the car? Why did it decide it knew better than me? Fair enough having a warning light saying that there is a door open but then deciding it was right and I was wrong? What a smug prick.

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When I used to brim the Puma up in the summer the petrol cap fused itself on tight, so you're probably right there. Nearly snapped the only key I had several times on that POS. I can't afford to do that now anyway. £50 gives me 3/4 a tank which lasts, and puts the meriva to the top of the gague but no fuel in the neck. I won't do it in future given the example above!

 

Although you'd think I;d have learnt from the 206, it had a hole somewhere above the 3/4 full part of the tank, so derv used to piss straight back out. Flooded the esso in marlow's forecourt finding out, and the lad behind the till just said 'chuck a bucket of sand over it'. When I said it might need about 7 buckets he paid more of an interest, so we waited about 10 minutes for him so I could help, he didn't show up so I buggared off. Only put in £40 at a time from then on!

 

Cort - Genius!! If it ever happens again I'll do that!

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  HillmanImp said:
Does Petrol not evaporate a lot faster than water? Everytime I have got fuel all over me it does seem to dry really quickly. Dont try and burn it off like a mate of mine did as you will be in hospital with a burnt groin.

 

It evaporated quickly, but the smell remained. I had to hang my trousers out the window in a carrier bag for the drive home (heavily pregnant, moany, always-feeling-sick SWMBO wouldn't let me throw them away as it would be a waste, but wouldn't allow them in the car... :roll: )

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:D:D:D:D

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I had to hang my trousers out the window in a carrier bag for the drive home (

 

The lock thing is usually because one of the locks is giving too much resitance so it pops the locks back up.

My Alfa did this for and I eventually had to replace the lock mechanism in the drivers door although I could feel that the lock wouldn't physically turn even with the key in the lock. Does it turn freely?

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  dollywobbler said:
  autofive said:
but its winter

 

did you not notice that ?

 

Of course. I should have realised. I'm sure he only fills his car up in the depths of winter. Silly me.

 

why not re-post your thoughts in summer

 

 

we will have forgotten by then and your expert advice will be vital

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  cort16 said:
Does it turn freely?

 

Yeah, it was turning okay I think it was just having a HAL moment. Hopefully wont do it again and if it does it would be better if it was not 11pm when its freezing cold and I am pissed. Not arseing around with lock mechanisms on pissy Mazdas anyway. I have enough of my own cars to avoid working on without worrying about electronic gubbins on throwaway plastic cars.

:wink:

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I tend to find that driving my car straight after brimming it removes the need to worry about fuel pissing out due to it expanding, whether it is winter, spring, summer or fall!

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  messerschmitt owner said:
I tend to find that driving my car straight after brimming it removes the need to worry about fuel pissing out due to it expanding, whether it is winter, spring, summer or fall!

 

Autumn. You are NOT in America.

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Spent the whole week in my flat because of a nasty bronchitis and the neighbours in the flat over mine are driving my crazy!

 

They (young couple, students) are arguing the whole day, crying, shouting at each other, stomping on the floor and such nasty things. Sadly, this house is a cheap built 1970s shite-house, so I am able to hear everything through the paperthin walls. :evil::evil::evil:

 

At night I do not hear them because I only sleep with earplugs anymore because of them but now that I am at home the whole day, it´s really getting me angry! Mrs. Lukas (she hates earplugs) told me last night they argued for about an hour, after that they started to re-arrange their furniture. At 3am!!! :mrgreen:

 

Since I live here (2 years), I´ve been up there 3 times to complain and tell them to be a bit more quiet, at least at night. Helped for a few days, then the memory is gone. :| I´m annoyed. Now more than ever because I´m sick. Moving away in summer 2014. Counting the days!

 

L

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  sporty-shite said:
  messerschmitt owner said:
I tend to find that driving my car straight after brimming it removes the need to worry about fuel pissing out due to it expanding, whether it is winter, spring, summer or fall!

 

Autumn. You are NOT in America.

it's the lyric from a song by Carole King...

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