The grumpy thread

[freebird]

Please shut up Freebird, you have always acted like an absolute baby and I've always dreaded seeing you replying to anything.

 Then dont read it, its that simple, isnt it?

[Bobthebeard]

that was your first mistake

Lol! Yes.... Probably!

[Bobthebeard]

Then dont read it, its that simple, isnt it?

What's the problem with Freebird? Seems ok so far!

[Junkman]

Not driving on the pavements is easy...

 

It's sometimes harder than one would think it is.

[Bobthebeard]

Not sure if this is actually the case, but now the forum is actually moderated there seems to be a bit more grump going on.... Maybe more is actually less on here? Possibly.

[Cavcraft]

The guy has just messaged me regarding the interior and is honoring the auction. So this spat is invalid. Soz!

 

 

OMG U TIMEWAISTER

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Freeb is capable of giving as good as he gets, its not like laying into some well-meaning but clueless n00b and i'm sure he will stick around. I just found it funny that he buys a bargain set of wheels off some lad, then comes on here calling him a c**t regardless, then complains that the lad has shown a lack of courtesy! I never leave feedback any more as its meaningless, I guess I must be a massive c**t without realising it. Anyway i probably went a bit overboard so soz to all for filling the board up with shite.

[Bobthebeard]

Freeb is capable of giving as good as he gets, its not like laying into some well-meaning but clueless n00b and i'm sure he will stick around. I just found it funny that he buys a bargain set of wheels off some lad, then comes on here calling him a c**t regardless, then complains that the lad has shown a lack of courtesy! I never leave feedback any more as its meaningless, I guess I must be a massive c**t without realising it. Anyway i probably went a bit overboard so soz to all for filling the board up with shite.

We don't mind... Shite is how we roll ole buddy!

[messerschmitt owner]

My grump for today is banger rally tosspots!

 

They often take a realtively sensible decent car and fuck it up - spending tuppence hapenny on add on shit, destroying the car forever in the process then go off on a epic journey where they all have a laugh and dump a worthless blot on the landscape in some foreign country while donating 3p to charity!

 

Just like this wanker!

 

 

 

“Hysterically correct interpretation of the German WW11 fighter planeâ€Â

 

 

OK - shes not an ME109.. but she is our banger car trip down to Dubrovnik. If she makes it ( no reason to doubt she wont ) we would like to sell her to do 2 things - recoup our flight costs ( about 1000 euros ) and donate the rest to a chosen charity of the buyers choice.

 

Shes based on a 430 E class 1997

Full sports exhaust system - £ 2000 optional extra when bought I am lead to believe - beautiful V8

Full MOT

No tax - sorry thats being cash in upon our return...

Two new tyres

Most of the electrics work - cant say they all will at the end though

 

If you are interested you will need to pick her up from Dubrovnik on the 8th July. If no buyer come forward before the end - We will sell her to the locals which could be amuzing as my Croatian is limited to say the least.

 

OK - things to remember:

 

She will be in Duybrovnik - Croatia

Shes's not an ME 109

We will have had a lot of fun getting her there

 

Bid only if you are serious - or you want to give a little money to our Charity - Lewis Manning ( they have not endorsed us in any way shape or form and we will donate any money without reference to our banger - just to keep things tidy on the legal front )

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Messerschmitt-ME109-/151073498952?pt=UK_CPV_Aviation_SM&hash=item232caea748

 

Fuck off and die, you wanker! I hope your 'Messerschmitt' is shot down over Europe and preferably dropped down some ravine with you and your tosspot 'game for a laugh' mates still in it! I'd donate to your 'charity' if you did that!

[Micrashed]

 Imagine how vigilant we all will have to be in 2023 when all cars/cycles/motorbikes etc make no noise at all! 

 

 

Im deaf (well without my hearing aids in anyway) and have so far made it to the ripe old age of Miserable B'stard without getting run over when I cant hear cars or bikes. It is possible.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

^^^ strongly agree with all that MO

[Junkman]

A 430E of all things. What a crying shame.

[Lacquer Peel]

World War Eleven?

[Bobthebeard]

Im deaf (well without my hearing aids in anyway) and have so far made it to the ripe old age of Miserable B'stard without getting run over when I cant hear cars or bikes. It is possible.

It's possible, sure. But imagine what the yoof of today will make of it. The claims direct industry will make millions.

Forget whiplash. Just wait until the "were you hit by a silent vehicle" claims start to roll in. The Mongs will collect big time!

[John F]

Oh yes.

 

It's not even a "ME 109", since designs that were in production* before 11 July 1938 still carried the prefix "Bf" (for Bayerische Flugzeugwerke, as the company was called before Willy Messerschmitt took it over).

 

And it's clearly got a fixed undercarriage.

 

Verdict: Arschloch.

 

* Except airframes built or refitted by Erla Maschinenwerk in Leipzig, where they sometimes incorrectly stamped them as "Me 109". But that's still not "ME 109" as claimed by these clueless, historically-inaccurate Euro roadtrip pisshead wankers. Pah!

[sporty-shite]

There's been talk about equipping electric vehicles with noisemakers to warn pedestrians,

 

A horn, perhaps? Maybe that, coupled with a halfway vigilant driver who can detect a pedestrian and sound the horn accordingly.

 

Job done.

[Cavcraft]

I would agree but I sold my Omega 3.0 on to a char-i-dee banger racer and he gave me very good coin for it. I should be annoyed because the car was mega nice to drive and he probably ruined with jolly jape paintwork and cornflakes boxes nailed to the bonnet but I'm a fickle bastard and MONEY RULES, OK?

[freebird]

Freeb is capable of giving as good as he gets, its not like laying into some well-meaning but clueless n00b and i'm sure he will stick around. I just found it funny that he buys a bargain set of wheels off some lad, then comes on here calling him a c**t regardless, then complains that the lad has shown a lack of courtesy! I never leave feedback any more as its meaningless, I guess I must be a massive c**t without realising it. Anyway i probably went a bit overboard so soz to all for filling the board up with shite.

Bol, let me tell you the full story ( whether you give a toss or not ) then you may understand a tad more why I said what I said.

I won the wheels and contacted the seller and arranged to go and pick them up from a hole in the wall place called Mouton Seas End.

Anyway, the day before, Ive done 9 hours of graft and had to drive to the Airport in the early hours of the morning to pick my daughter up from a 3.20 am flight. I get home at around 5am and get no more than two hours shut eye before Im up and about ( dont want to sleep through the alarm and be a no show) and leave at about 8.30am to do the 25 miles to that place where you are put if you are in the witness protection programme. 

I finally head along what resembles a road and enter a massive shit hole that looks like a farmers scrap yard, gingerly drive right through till I get to this house.

I knock, no answer, I walk around the back and shout, no answer. I then ring up Mr Seller to tell him Ive arrived. Oh, there should be someone around, you have come too far up the road. Go back to where the Greenhouses are and the wheels are there, somebody should be around.

I gingerly reverse back thinking that my £40 wheels will be small potatoes once Ive punctured and fucked my car wheels on god knows what on the road.

I find the Greenhouses and, again, i search and shout but no fucker is around. I finally find the wheels amongst piles of others and assorted scrap/shit, load them into the car and head home.

Call me old fashioned but when I sell something to somebody I like to be there to greet the buyer and if I cant I make sure somebody is.

Its pretty basic stuff, right?

This fella didnt tell me he had to rush to the Hospital to see his dying Granny or needed to sex some newly arrived Turkeys, he just could not be arsed to meet me, as agreed, to hand over the wheels.

Like a fuggin sap, I paid up before I picked them up to show that I wasnt a no show merchant and he could not be bothered to extend a basic courtesy.

Yes fella, Im a dreamer, a romantic fool and still have faith in people and all that shizzle.

Yes, I know Its bollocks.

[freebird]

I would agree but I sold my Omega 3.0 on to a char-i-dee banger racer and he gave me very good coin for it. I should be annoyed because the car was mega nice to drive and he probably ruined with jolly jape paintwork and cornflakes boxes nailed to the bonnet but I'm a fickle bastard and MONEY RULES, OK?

Stupid question time. Did Vauxhall do the 3.0 in transverse as well as inline? Ive seen those lumps shoved into Novas and stuff.

[Cavcraft]

God knows. I think if you lobbed the 3.0 Omega engine into a Nova it'd be the fastest thing you'd ever driven just before it tears itself in half and/or just carries straight on on a corner.

[chaseracer]

3.0 = inline, 3.2 = V6.  I think.

 

Transverse I-6 in a Nova would be a giggle... 

[Lacquer Peel]

Both V6.

[Lankytim]

Whoever made that BF109 out of a merc is a right cripple, it's silver so a P51 Mustang would have been far more apt.

[maxpower]

I don't know if this should be in the G.O.M section or stupid question amnesty.

 

as posted a few pages back that i got a ticket for not changing my parking permit/scratchcard.

 

last night i saw that i was down to my last scratchcard so i went to housing office to buy a new book of scratchcards.

"Sorry but you can't have any as you only bought the last book at the start of june and you can only buy a new book full every 6 weeks"

so let me throw this one out to the "shiter's" incase i am missing the point here.

 

1) allowance of one book of scratchcards @ £10 every six weeks.

 

2) book contains a total of 30 scratchcards.

 

3) 6x7=42 which leaves 12 days without scratchards.

 

4) failure to display a scratchcard results in a parking ticket with £120 fine....... £60 if paid within 14 days.

 

5) housing has no parking bays available for rent at the moment, so you have to use visitor's bays which require the above scratchcards.

 

6) fines payable to "towerhamlet parking services" do you think that lot and my housing association are in cahoots with each other?

[Junkman]

It's all a big conspiracy.

[HillmanImp]

Im deaf (well without my hearing aids in anyway) and have so far made it to the ripe old age of Miserable B'stard without getting run over when I cant hear cars or bikes. It is possible.

 

I know, when I am riding my bike to work I like to put my personal stereo on. Personally, I would have thought that this was pretty inoffensive but I actually get people stopping and shouting at me because I have the headphones in.

 

I can hear you pal, I am just listening to the fucking radio not trying to recreate the late 80's rave scene on my way to work. Even if I did have it on full volume, some bint doing her makeup, not looking where she is going and about to drive into me, sounds EXACTLY the fucking same as any other car about to drive past me up to the point that I hear your bumper crash into my rear wheel and by that point its too late anyhow.

 

If I am about to get flattened I wouldn't mind some music to listen to whilst I wait for the ambulance. 

 

[vulgalour]

Remember recently I had three sets of wheel nuts undone on the BX?  It happened again today on the Princess.  For the first time in forever the Princess was on the street during the day as people were in and out so when I set off to Retro Rides I thought it would be easy peasy.  Get on the motorway and the rear end feels distinctly detached, there's a weird vagueness through the pedals but not noises, so I pull off at the first services which is thankfully very close to where I joined to find the same three wheel nut sets were undone.  Not finger tight this time, but enough to cause movement.

 

What the actual fuck?

 

Oh and my fuel gauge has gone on occasional strike while driving too which made me panic when it suddenly said I had no petrols, and then a moment later I had the amount I expected to have in the tank.  All old cars are shit, &c.

[Lord Sterling]

Bloody 'ell Volks, someone does have it in for you it seems. I'd try and sort some cheapy camera/recorder by the window and see if it catches the wankers in the act.

[autofive]

 Retro Rides

What the actual fuck?

 

 

 

I can see your problem

[Junkman]

Remember recently I had three sets of wheel nuts undone on the BX?  It happened again today on the Princess.  For the first time in forever the Princess was on the street during the day as people were in and out so when I set off to Retro Rides I thought it would be easy peasy.  Get on the motorway and the rear end feels distinctly detached, there's a weird vagueness through the pedals but not noises, so I pull off at the first services which is thankfully very close to where I joined to find the same three wheel nut sets were undone.  Not finger tight this time, but enough to cause movement.

 

What the actual fuck?

 

 

Maybe time to invest in a new torque wrench?