The grumpy thread

[Guest]

Sorry to be hammering the GOM thread folks. I suppose you can tell when I'm on my uppers \ properly annoyed \ very upset because I don't eff and blind. This is one of those occasions.

 

I'm trying to slow work down a bit, so that my loss of hours is more gradual. Whether I manage this is up to them, but I made the HR lady squirm a bit when I started asking questions, so there may be some leeway. Or not. Who knows?

 

The upshot of this is that I am going to have a clear-out. It was coming anyway. My inevitable problem with employment always comes around this time, although I haven't lost my job, I've just had the hours reduced to more or less sod-all.

 

I'll be getting pictures of the following in a few days' time. Ironically, I'm still at work, so can't make anything available for viewing or post straight away.

 

Let's start with the big stuff:

 

Set of 4 15 x 7" ATS Centras. Good condition, deep dish, complete with four shagged Nankang NS-2s on a cretinous stretch. £250 collected.

Set of 4 14 x 6" Gutmann Cross Spokes. Decent condition, will need a re paint. No tyres. £200 collected.

Set of 4 14 x 6" Peugeot 405 Mi16 5 spoke alloys. The early type, fitted in 1988. Good condition, no tyres. £150 collected.

 

Momo Volvo Roma steering wheel. OEM extra on the 700 \ 900 series. Great condition, very rare. No boss adaptor. £180 posted (this is damn cheap, trust me)

Momo Volvo Daytona steering wheel. OEM extra on the 400 series. Fair condition, currently on my 460, cut in top of spoke, boss adaptor included. £40 posted.

Moto-Lita Volvo Amazon 14" steering wheel. Wood rim, plain horn push, hub adaptor, fair condition, slatted spokes, no dish. £120 posted.

 

1:43 IXO Le Mans Ford Mustang GT 350 road car - As new, with sleeve. £12 posted.

1:43 Lumnyo (Norev) Isuzu Piazza Irmscher Nero. As new, with sleeve. £15 posted. These are bloody expensive. This is half price to your door.

1:43 Norev Isuzu Asso Di Fiori. No sleeve, otherwise excellent condition - £12 posted.

 

Plus a fuck load of those Corgis I still have and lots of 35mm cameras - although they will probably be hitting eBay.

 

I'm going to offload some of my wheeled shite as well, although I imagine the car I want to sell is going to bring all kinds of fuckwits out of the woodwork.

[M'coli]

Jon, anything under 16 hours per week and you can sign-on too, it's not a great solution but it might just help.

[Guest]

  M said:

Jon, anything under 16 hours per week and you can sign-on too, it's not a great solution but it might just help.

 

I'm not quite ready to go there yet, but it's a last gasp option.

[cobblers]

Fuck me, 500 miles of veg and the fuel pump is PISSING out from the pump head seal. Looks like I'm going to have to get acquainted with rebuilding diesel pumps (although apparently you can replace this seal with the pump in place)

[Lord Sterling]

Well, my first post on the new forum....

 

Yesterday I had a really shit day, had a huge arguement at work with the mouthy lady I work with, she started getting stressed out about the job I was doing and things got heated, I felt after that I was being ignored by some of the people there. Today though was a bit better, woman still aint talking to me but that suits me fine, I go to work to make mo ey, not make friends.

 

Also, just brought my car back from Steve but the noise is still there, good thing is is that I get to use the Rover 45 TD Connoisseur!

[maxpower]

i went to see a micra tonite... cheap enough... no pics on site.... only 5mins away from maxpower towers, so i thought why not.

 

what a bag of nails, pulled up 1st thing i see, dent in boot where last owner had revrsed into a post. needs a c.v joint.( i thought someone was in the boot playing symbols) drivers electric window don't open... so i asked the guy why he put the car up as "excellent condition"?

he said "well it only has 44k on the clock" yeah but the fcukin clock won't mean shit if the car falls apart around it

[maxpower]

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[vulgalour]

That £87 Admiral took out of my account without warning and in error should have been refunded by now.  Called them, told that it won't be 3 working days it'll be 2-10 days and it was only actioned yesterday.  The money should be in my account today.  That's money I need for stuff, not money that they're allowed to keep hold of.  Up until this point, Admiral had been faultless.

[vulgalour]

It's okay, Admiral coughed up today.  That's a relief.

[Danblez]

  On 07/06/2013 at 11:57, watanabe said:

Parcel Force are being pricks. Ordered something via DHL from Germany, who then passed it to Parcel Force who decided they 'didn't understand' my work delivery address.

 

I've given them all the information I've got, and they're saying its incorrect and they can't release the parcel. Their IVR is shit and you can't speak to someone to trace the package. Their email team takes a week to respond.

 

Comical really given that I ordered it on May the 12th.................

I had a very interesting experience with ParcelForce this week after someone posted a scrap of paper through my door last week saying parcelforce had tried to deliver a parcel and to give a random mobile number a call. There was no way I was ringing it and telling a stranger when I would or would not be home so rung the redelivery number I got off the web. They told me they were not aware of people posting random scraps of paper through the letter box and apparently my parcel had been delivered a week ago.

 

Anyways long story cut short. The parcelfoce driver apparently "employs" someone to deliver parcels for him. The parcels are classed as delivered when picked up by this guy who then keeps hold of them until he tries again or he gets a call. What an abolutely shite way to run a business, what the fugg is going on there?

 

I am in two minds of whether to complain or not, this is quite frankly not acceptable but poor "Graham" is just trying to make a few quid in hard times!

[M'coli]

That's classed as mail interception - get it stopped!

[Spiny Norman]

WHS, that's criminal. I'd be onto the head honchos at Parcelforce with that one, it probably goes on all the time.

[Rocket88]

Bought a very tidy E36 Bmw ragtop a month ago. The roof wasn't working, but the vendor assured me "it had worked until a couple of days ago" and that he'd been told by "his mechanic" that is just needed a new micro switch. Took it to a local Beemer specialist, who found that the uppy downy motor was little better than a collection of broken cogs and wires,[and, judging by the look of it had been like that for months]  and ordered a replacement. Installed that, still didn't work. Discovered that all the rams had been fiddled with, and two of the many relays were knackered.

Finally fixed [cost a fortune] I think it's "dog turd through letter box" for the previous bullshitter of a previous owner. Shame, because apart from that, it's been really well cared for.

[Danblez]

  On 07/06/2013 at 12:23, M'coli said:

That's classed as mail interception - get it stopped!

 

What if Graham comes and shits through my letterbox though?

[Lankytim]

Ebay cripples.

 

Sold a vase last week, royal mail tried to deliver it twice but the recipient wasnt in. Obviously this is my fault as the buyer has opened an item not recieved dispute. She wants a refund as the person the vase was for has now gone to Australia.

 

Spazzers.

[chaseracer]

  On 07/06/2013 at 13:27, Danblez said:

What if Graham comes and shits through my letterbox though?

 

Poke a sharpened broom handle up his arse?

[SambaS]

Hello world?

[MrDuke]

After 2 weeks in the new house, my broadband is now almost as fast as dial-up (but not quite). The most irritating thing is that it's mostly my fault - I forgot to notify them we were moving, so didn't get connected for over a week, otherwise it would've been sorted by now. By phone-company standards, they've actually been really communicative and helpful throughout, but I've still got to spend the whole weekend watching pictures display one row of pixels at a time, until the BT engineer cometh on Monday.

[ShiteRider]

I've been collecting bits for the 'tina estate revival that impends, my NOS taillights arrived today.........they are second hand. Apparently some fuckwit of an ebay mong must think this is okay.  Lower rear valance arrived yesterday which is ,admittedly, rust free.....it's also a non-gen panel, and twisted like a fucking quaver because it was sent wrapped in one sheet of bubble wrap.......a four foot long thin steel panel.

I normally like to collect my ebay treasure, but these parts were from absolutely miles away.......... i'm just pissed off that ebay is proliferated by retards and liars.

[Des]

Fucking Bilderburg wankers, all gathered near enough in my back yard to plan how to rob what little the masses still have, so I have near constant helicopters, feds and Group 4 muppets trying to look all 'hard like' buzzing around me. So I spent what I could of today clearing up where I took a shed down, disturbed a bees nest and I then have those little bastards swarming round me being all angry, so I knocked up a box out of a shed door to replace their laughable effort of a domicile I wrecked, put a big entrance hole slap bang in the middle and they spent all afternoon hovering round it, can't work it out and have to squeeze their fat arses in round the back, thick or what?

 

 

And all the while I'm nailing bits of scrap together this little bastard is watching me from the gutter.

 

 

Tosser must have thought he was getting a new pad, well fill your boots Red, hope you hit it off with the existing tenants.

[messerschmitt owner]

today, I came home to this!!!!!

 

Another bloody mouth to feed!!

 

IMG_1547 by messerschmitt owner, on Flickr

 

Mind you, it is eying up that Robin above it!

[vulgalour]

Keep it away from water, don't feed it after midnight.

[messerschmitt owner]

  On 07/06/2013 at 20:51, volksangyl said:

Keep it away from water, don't feed it after midnight.

you may have just helped name the little b*******d

[TimothyClaypole]

Looking for the paperwork for my van so I can get it for an MOT now it has a new windscreen fitted, found the stuff for my Astra - oh that's out of MOT by a week too... fiddlesticks. 

[SambaS]

does anyone know where i can buy some more-Christian looking shoes?

[Mr Lobster]

Spammers back on the board. The more things change, the more they stay the same....

[RedSparrow]

What annoys me more is that people still reply to them every time.

[hennabm]

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[Albert Ross]

  On 07/06/2013 at 20:37, messerschmitt owner said:

today, I came home to this!!!!!

 

Another bloody mouth to feed!!

 

IMG_1547 by messerschmitt owner, on Flickr

 

Mind you, it is eying up that Robin above it!

 

If you don't want the poor wee mite, I have a loving home here......

[messerschmitt owner]

You're not getting the little git. She's cute, isn't she.