The grumpy thread

[M'coli]

Drove the 11 or so miles to my local factor this morning to pick up,amongst other things, the pre-ordered headset for the 205. As I looked at the headset, with its copper o-rings, cam cover gasket, valvestem oil seals and the like, I noticed there appeared to be no head gasket. Turns out you can get a headset with no headgasket in it, and they'd ordered that one up. A headset with no heid gasket - who'da thought, eh? Fuckwits

[cort16]

The apprentice makes my head hurt. Too...many......arseholes...

[TimothyClaypole]

Finished work at 3.30pm, sat in the car park for 4 1/2 hours before setting off for home, thanks to my Astra having a fit.

 

RAC man turns up tries to start it then goes to check the starter with his meter and it started just from moving the wire to it...

 

(wire has been repaired before - he said it looked a good job but needs sorting again).

 

I'm not in the RAC either.

[Angrydicky]

I feel sorry for the Standard owner Looked a really nice example too.

 

Hopefully it will be repaired, and the recovery firm's insurance will foot the bill.

[Cavcraft]

The apprentice makes my head hurt. Too...many......arseholes...

 

My favourite programme that. The inordinate amount of self important gobshites makes their fall even funnier, and you can already see who's going to be the biggest twats on there.

[cort16]

Have you seen the canditate audition videos on the BBC website? What a horrendous collection of twats although it is entertaining.

 

Check out this fud.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p018ccmc

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0071b63/clips

[eddyramrod]

Hope the old girl behaved herself on the way home, and that Roger wasn't too traumatised by the experience?!

Not only did she behave, she's continued to do so, and Roger wants first dibs!

 

Where's the bloody thread, Ed?

I'm uploading my snaps to Photobucket now, hold yer water!

[Cavcraft]

The apprentice makes my head hurt. Too...many......arseholes...

 

 

{cough} Irish doctor {cough}

[barrett]

on the way home the guy, who lives in London, was driving over the QE2 bridge when it over heated and cut out, he called for a recovery truck which arrived and attached the car to the back of it's dolly, whilst going down the M25 the car came loose, fell off and ended up in someones back garden.

 

That's horrible, I saw that car a couple of weeks ago and it was absolutely MINTOLA. I spent ages crawling all over it, one of the nicest Eights I've ever seen. that's mega depressing to see it like that, it looks pretty terminal now. Poor bloke...

[KruJoe]

What is truly horrible, is what Sam posted this morning (twice)- or did everyone miss it???

Poor lad's mate croaked it!

Condolences old chap.

 

Minor grump: I've managed to open a warren of tin-worm holes in the back arch of my 216. Some had been wobbed up previously. CBA / don't have time to fix properly this week, so Kurust and Gaffa tape it is for now.

While I was doing that, I forgot to renew my muti-car classic policy, so it expires in 30 minutes. What a twunt I am, FJ have sent me two letters and two texts of warning. I'll just have to get up early and ring them before I do owt in the morning.

[RedSparrow]

Just watching the new Apprentice now. You have to remember it is a reality TV show so most of the candidates have some serious personality defects and there are really only 3 or 4 viable candidates. It seems to be hardly worth Sugar's time, I'm sure he's got better things to do, but it has raised the profile of him and his businesses .

The fun part is watching the arrogant prats fail at really simple things and then seeing them trying to worm their way out of it. I bloody love the show I have to admit.

[fotorabia]

the weather must be improving..zero visibility..as the RAF-NATO have started careering their fucken jet fighters down Loch Sunart again..as soon as we get Independance we should start charging these flying fuck machines for violating our airspace and damaging my hearing nerves...

[dollywobbler]

Aye. We get the jets here in Wales too. Had a Typhoon light up the after burners right above my head last week. Noisy. (well, ok, several thousand feet above my head but it was still loud!)

 

This is the limit of my experience of The Apprentice. I'm happy to leave it at that.

[MrDuke]

Try living next door to a fighter training base Although I can't complain about it, as I knew what it would be like when I moved here. If I lived nowhere near a base but still had them screaming overhead, I'd be properly livid. Could you not make some very large letters to spell out deeply offensive messages to them?

[Lankytim]

I lovr watching low flying jets in Wales or Scotland, love the noise too. I'm not sure i'd like living with it though. I remember a farmer somewhere painting the roof of his barn with "PISS OFF BIGGLES" However this just attracted more jets!

[Cavcraft]

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Likewise. Used to love hearing them then trying to spot them before they disappeared when I was driving round Dolgellau and Bala.

[retrogeezer]

Yep, I love the noise and sight of jet fighters but I guess if it was every day it would be tedious.

[fotorabia]

We had an early accident..about 1970... where one clipped the lip of the cliff in Glen Tarbet....then the infamous helicopter crash over the Sound of Mull full of the M16 anti IRA personnel round about 1988...and actually the sight of a slow moving Vulcan looking like it was running on diesel was interesting...was waiting for it to land in the loch Cannonball-James Bond style...

[Cavcraft]

I was talking to some blokes who service those wind turbine things and they REALLY hated the RAF. Apparently working on a ladder in the dark in a bendy giant tube isn't much fun without the aid of fighter jets whooshing through and scaring the shit out of you.

[Pete-M]

Be fun to watch though

[vulgalour]

My computer. I have sound for Mp3 and video player programmes but no desktop noises and no internet noises, so I can't watch iPlayer and the like. On trying to reinstall sound drivers to attempt to fix the issue, the installer (whichever site I use) crashes. Then Flash crashes. Then my computer goes on a Go Slow and I have to restart. I also have to restart the computer at least once every 24 hours because Flash will crash, new install or not. I can't play computer games at all, not even the most basic ones, because Flash crashes. The mouse double-clicks when I don't want it to and sometimes won't click at all, because it's fucked. The USB ports don't always work.

 

Everything was fine with this computer until I moved into my parents' gaff, then it cooked it's motherboard because it had filled up with dust and animal hair in a matter of weeks (I clean it out regularly now, never had to before) and ever since I've had nothing but trouble with it. I can just about upload photos and use car forums so that's something, but for everything else its crap. I'll take it back to tech bod mate to fix it again when the Princess is back on the road but I reckon it's going to be new computer time before the year is out. Maybe I'll get a laptop instead.

[barrett]

BUGGER

 

The Standard is ALREADY broken

 

I hate old cars

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Better there than half way to Northwich. What's it done (or not done)?

[barrett]

o/s/r leaf spring has snapped. OMG STANCED. Fucking thing.

 

[STUNO]

Too much bouncy bouncy in the back seat already ?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

To diagnose any problems just connect it to a ËœCharles Babbage analytical engine' via the local telephone exchange and read off the fault codes. "Hello Caller. The fault code you have requested is P0053: Loss of British sovereignty in India"

[cobblers]

I know this is hardly news to anyone on here, but the DVLA really are a bunch of useless bastards. They have spelled my name wrong in a variety of different ways on my last 4 or 5 V5s (It's not that hard, I'm not foreign or anything) and being the upstanding citizen, I've actually corrected them on this and kept things in order.

 

Latest one - I sent the tax off my van for a refund about 7 weeks ago. Today I've just got a letter saying that they can't issue me a refund because they can only pay refunds to the registered keeper.

This letter is addressed to my first name and middle name - they've completely omitted my surname. Quick check of the copy I took of the form I sent to them, and yes - I had filled it in correctly.

 

Apparently they will "normally only refund from the date they receive a response to this letter" so that's just cost me two months tax. Absolutely fucking useless, the lot of them.

[skattrd]

ebay sellers not replying to messages.

On Wednesday I hit BIN on some wheels in Nottingham, hoping to collect them on the way home from work one evening this week. I wanted to get them and fit them to the car before driving over to Chumley. I've messaged the guy twice and have yet to get a response ... I don't think the seller wants my money, I've not paid by paypal, I was going too do cash on collection.

[chaseracer]

Cobblers - complain. It's their cockup, so you shouldn't lose out.

 

https://emaildvla.direct.gov.uk/emaildv ... k_108.html

[Cavcraft]

ebay sellers not replying to messages.

On Wednesday I hit BIN on some wheels in Nottingham, hoping to collect them on the way home from work one evening this week. I wanted to get them and fit them to the car before driving over to Chumley. I've messaged the guy twice and have yet to get a response ... I don't think the seller wants my money, I've not paid by paypal, I was going too do cash on collection.

 

 

V. frustrating, but some sellers are quite slow. I was badgering some geezer over a bike the other day as I had a fairly limited window where I could collect. He couldn't seem to be arsed answering e-mails or text message and took an age to eventually answer the 'phone. Anyhow I whizzed up to collect a couple of nights ago and you couldn't have met a nicer fella, I think he was just one of those people that didn't rush anything.

 

Incidentally if I think someone's getting twatty about an item not making what they wanted,I usually pay by Paypal (if it's not too expensive] as it a) generally pisses them off due the fees involved and I honestly think it sometimes forces their hand to sell to you.