The grumpy thread

[retrogeezer]

mri scan results are in, I have early onset osteoarthritis in my knees...at 43. Not impressed.

[M'coli]

I've been told the same this week for my left knee - I'm 41...

[retrogeezer]

my right knee is far worse than the left. Really hurts to kneel, takes ages to straighten my leg again if I have been kneeling and going up/down stairs is really painful too.

I feel like an old man when I have to get stuff from low down in a supermarket..

[autofive]

why is it when there is a child missing, or a child murder case in the courts, up pop the mccanns to give an interview?

 

these people have no shame. Just because they have not been convicted, doesnt make them innocent.

[andrew e]

Ha! If you want cripple top trumps I'm 38, and got the diagnosis last year.... February's MRI result (which only came last week FFS....) sez bonus arthritic spine!!! I'd echo what Retrogeezer says, and add the "leaving the cinema like you've shat yourself" to the list too.

 

Ho-hum, I've just stuck all my eggs in a nice no stairs detached residence (bungalow) and decided to retire at 55... While I'm still mobile!

[freebird]

Ive got spondylosis in my lower spine, arthritis in my neck, my knees are mega fucked after spending the last 25 years using them as cushions/hauling myself up poles and im nearly 50 and cant afford to retire.

Its fair to say that, somehow, i will have to carry on till retirement age when I will finally not have to work If I dont mind spending my last years not having a pot to piss in.

Ive no real pension ( children/mortgage meant i couldnt afford to make the payments at the time) and Im thinking positive in the Mr Micawber vein "something will turn up"...yeah win the lottery

Live for today, fuck tomorrow.

Checkmate.

[Des]

Can't sleep as I'm bouncing off the walls, buzzing like shit, got an electronic ciggy this morning and been pissing around with it but now realise I've probably done a months worth of nicotine. The ciggy seems a good thing, nicotine is pretty essential to me as living within the M25 means I am constantly confronted by jerks, freaks and weirdos who absolutely demand I slaughter them, if I give in then I'm going to get into trouble because the law is an ass and will define wasting scum as naughty. Back to the fancy ciggy, it's called an Ego-T and is simple to use, doesn't stink like proper fags, quite pleasant, there's a big range of oils to burn in it, I've been using one called Bens Hedge, but weirdly there's a taste of apple to it, I might yet try cherry or Tesco veg oil for economy. Typical Chinese shit though, nicely made and good quality but then let down by the USB charger mains adaptor, not really compliant as there's insufficient shrouding around the mains pins, no big deal, that is until I unplugged the bastard and it left its live pin in the fucking socket, the one circa 1970 socket with no switch, that was fun challenge, now did I pull the fuse for the downstairs ring, which would necessitate reprogramming all manner of telly / phone / modem bollocks, or did I dig it out using a fork and a marigold?

[messerschmitt owner]

bet you were buzzing after taking the plug out ...

 

 

My grump is smart cars! In particular roadsters!

Mine has been dying for a chunk of last year. Recovered home with the car refusing to go in to gear in October last year and parked up. I knew the clutch was worn down to about 30%. Last night finally looked at it and it steadfastly refuses to acknowledge that it should start when you turn the key. Shows fault P0702, which is a transmission issue. Took the actuator off and it looks like it has seized as there is no movement at all in it. £200 for a new one!

 

Will perhaps try and clean and grease it this weekend but not holding out much hope for the thing.

[Rod/b]

The Facebook group. Just left it as the signal:bellend ratio seems to have taken a huge turn for the worse recently. Bah.

[Spiny Norman]

The Facebook group. Just left it as the signal:bellend ratio seems to have taken a huge turn for the worse recently. Bah.

 

Aye, what started off as a decent page has quickly deteriorated into a gathering of twats.

 

I've been half way through writing out some "WTF are you talking about, you know fuck all about fuck all..." type responses to some of the more ill-informed cockgobblers on there recently, but life's too short.

[messerschmitt owner]

What's a Facebook group?

[skattrd]

What's a Facebook group?

 

I have a horrible feeling that when the gates open for new members then the ones that post toss on facebook will be doing the same on here ... I say lets keep the doors locked!

[dollywobbler]

I still find it quite easy to ignore the crap I'm not interested in and enjoy the bits I enjoy - a bit like this forum really. Or anything else on the internet.

[skattrd]

Last week I replaced the large bonnet vent on the Beta as the old one had been broken by the previous owner when the bonnet cable snapped ...

Guess whats just happened?

 

The fecking bonnet won't open so it looks like I'm going to have to smash the new vents

Not today though as I'm going to try and research other options that don't involve breaking things.

[eddyramrod]

406 was keyed today while I was at work. FFS! It's old and ordinary, what hope is there for having anything nicer? Oh and my mate went to get his lawnmower out for the first time this year... and it's been nicked out of his shed. You can't have any fucking thing these days....

[warren t claim]

406 was keyed today while I was at work. FFS! It's old and ordinary, what hope is there for having anything nicer?

 

[Lord Sterling]

For the past few weeks, my bank account has taken a battering, every week its been pay this, pay that, pay the fucking other, all in £80s, £100s etc... Today its housing rent, mate for helping me pick up car and the bloody neighbour for doing my garden (I hate garden work) when I was a lower paid job at FedEx, somehow I managed to save just to about 1k. Now I've started this new slightly higher paid job, I can't seem to hold onto my money.

 

This ends now. Next week, no more pay this and that. That money will be mine and it will stay in my account. Fuck everything else

[Angrydicky]

Local car spares shop has closed down. A damn shame, was a really handy place

[wuvvum]

The LNA is broken again. Appears to be the distributor cap this time. It was running fine, switched the engine off, went to restart it two minutes later and it didn't want to know. Called a mate who came out with his Jeep to try and tow start it but it wasn't even trying to fire. Took the dizzy cap off and the centre contact thingy has disintegrated. Wonder what the chances are of Wilco having one in stock?

[autofive]

LNA?

[Guest]

LNA?

 

CItroen LNA. A rebadged Peugeot 104, sometimes with the flat twin from a 2CV. Can't remember what Wuv's has.

[wuvvum]

Mine has the 1124cc 4-pot. I'd like a 2-cylinder version - they don't have distributors, apart from anything else - but I don't think they ever sold them here so it'd be a Leboncoin job.

[Rod/b]

Took the dog up to the beach yesterday to give her a run. Wake up today, she's gone lame in her front left foot and i'm sunburned.

[dollywobbler]

Mine has the 1124cc 4-pot. I'd like a 2-cylinder version - they don't have distributors, apart from anything else - but I don't think they ever sold them here so it'd be a Leboncoin job.

 

You're right - never sold here but a few have made it across the Channel since. Very odd hearing the 2CV soundtrack in a small supermini.

 

Given how many cars used the 1124cc motor, I wouldn't have thought a dizzy cap would be too hard to find?

[skattrd]

Changing the radiator on a VW Bora (mk4 Golf/A3/Leon etc) the screws to hold the radiator in place are behind the bumper and headlights ffs. The battery and various other things need to be removed or moved to get the rad out as well. Oh and If the car has aircon then there are aircon pipes in the way as well .... What a pain that was.

 

Oh, and because changing the rad on the boring took so long I haven't been able to get the Lancia to the garage to look at the busted bonnet release .... I also have earache.

[ruffgeezer]

Is it a suitcase 1124 or a TU 1124?

[RedSparrow]

My cat has decided to encourage me to keep the house tidy, by pissing on any clothes I leave on the floor. This morning I picked up a shirt and held it to my face to check if it was clean enough for another day's use and buried my face in piss covered material.

[SambaS]

Another reason why I wont have any animals in the house... and I really want a cat

[Spiny Norman]

Don't take this the wrong way, but a healthy, happy, house trained cat won't piss or shit on the floor unless there's something wrong.

[KruJoe]

True. Though when they become really old and senile, they can start doing it in 'worrying' places.

Edd, do you fancy coming and cat-sitting for us when I'm away tat-papping in the foreign? (Work allowing, of course.)