The grumpy thread

[skattrd]

Wat - your tester was wrong, I've had cars pass with just one wing mirror.

[Spiny Norman]

An Amazon only needs the rear internal view mirror, doesn't even need ONE door mirror. I trust you told him what you thought of his skillz....

 

EDIT, yup pre 78 needs only one mirror. http://www.motuk.co.uk/manual_810.htm

[oldford]

A car first used before 01/08/78 only needs one mirror, which can be an internal one.

[myglaren]

My driver's seat is cabbaged and the MOT is due in a couple of weeks.

Had it welded a year ago but another bit has broken that dumps you in the back seat if not careful.

It was bodged with cable ties until Thursday, when they broke.

I bought a full set of electric leather seats on eBay.  Drove down to Ware to get them yesterday and spent the afternoon at the CCC meeting in Kettering.

The seats were filthy.  Spent most of the day cleaning them and fitting the back seats. Came to the front passenger seat, half fitted but it doesn't work.  Checked all fuses but no movement so can't get it to motor back to secure the front bolts.  Didn't want to attempt the driver's seat and make matters worse.

 

Had a headlight off last week, tried to change the bulb with no success so pulled the bumper of and removed the headlight.

Bulb is fine but can't seem to find what the fault is.

The guy selling the leathers had a air of headlights that I bought for a very reasonable price.

Had a look at them this evening and find they are Xenons.  Not sure if they will fit and work in my lowly SX.

 

At least it isn't so hot and keeping busy prevented me from cleaning the house and going shopping.

Unfortunately the cupboards are bare and it is a good thing the Queen won't be paying a visit this week.

[Station]

Strangely, your car doesn't even need doors, as long as it's got wing mirrors.

 

(ps. possibly dreamt this MOT fact).

[Wilko220]

The Royal baby is nearly here - which is fine in itself.

The grump is that we're now in for a week of the most boring news coverage of evar.

[daveb47]

For once Wilko i am in full agreement with you.

But then i got no time for the royals anyway.

[dollywobbler]

I know some people like the Royals, but I don't and shall attempt to hide from the news for a week or so.

[RobT]

Time for a mega rant from me….

 

Noisy neighbours.  We live on the ground floor and every day we have to put up with excessive noise from the cretins that live two floors up – namely their little shits running around shouting and screaming, with the Dad also being a pain in the ass shouting his head off stoking the kids up into a frenzy.  The mother never leaves the flat so when he’s off working doing shifts in his cab the kids just go mental and she never seems to give them any sort of discipline, or take them out to burn off a bit of energy.  They can go a whole weekend never leaving the flat which is not only bad for the kids, but bad for my sanity!  You can never relax as they might kick off at any moment, and they are often up late even on a school night (by late I mean 10pm).

 

I’ve been up several times to have a word, as have the poor sods who live directly beneath them – they have kids too but I hardly ever hear theirs, which just goes to show how noisy the feral fuckers are on the top floor.  All you get met with is indifference, or they just don’t open the door, which makes you feel even more annoyed/frustrated.  Kids makes noise, yes, but this is beyond acceptable.  Other people moan too, and they live in the block adjacent to ours which isn’t even connected so it’s not just me.

 

What to do though?  Legally the council can’t do anything, I’ve asked the managing agents of the flats but they can’t get involved, or as I see it they can’t be arsed doing any more work than they need to.  The only resolutions are to either move out or bludgeon them to death, and although the last option appeals (both me and the missus really are at our wits end) I’m gonna start saving in order to buy a plot of land in the middle of nowhere and live like a hermit.  I’m consumed with hate for these people which isn’t good for the old ticker, and being at work these days is actually preferable to being at home, which shows how desperate things get.

 

On the plus side, I find tinkering with shite offers me some kind of therapy and escape from all that shit, and evening drives in either the Sierra or the Vitesse recently has proved a sanctuary, although a 19mpg average in the Rover doesn’t make that a long-term solution!

[Station]

I don't watch the news, switched telly on this morning, put the news on as it was all teleshopping, and they were going ballistic. I hate 24 hour news, it's just 99% crap.

[Danblez]

 

Royal Baby: Charles Knows 'Absolutely Nothing'

 

[Spiny Norman]

The impending birth of any sprog Royal or otherwise fills me with no interest whatsoever, but it can be quite amusing trying to spot the government slip all sorts of controversial or unpopular shit past a besotted electorate while every second of the 24/7 news media is busy interviewing anyone who once met Kate wosserface in Greggs 5 years ago.

[oman5]

Time for a mega rant from me….

 

Noisy neighbours.  We live on the ground floor and every day we have to put up with excessive noise from the cretins that live two floors up – namely their little shits running around shouting and screaming, with the Dad also being a pain in the ass shouting his head off stoking the kids up into a frenzy.  The mother never leaves the flat so when he’s off working doing shifts in his cab the kids just go mental and she never seems to give them any sort of discipline, or take them out to burn off a bit of energy.  They can go a whole weekend never leaving the flat which is not only bad for the kids, but bad for my sanity!  You can never relax as they might kick off at any moment, and they are often up late even on a school night (by late I mean 10pm).

 

I’ve been up several times to have a word, as have the poor sods who live directly beneath them – they have kids too but I hardly ever hear theirs, which just goes to show how noisy the feral fuckers are on the top floor.  All you get met with is indifference, or they just don’t open the door, which makes you feel even more annoyed/frustrated.  Kids makes noise, yes, but this is beyond acceptable.  Other people moan too, and they live in the block adjacent to ours which isn’t even connected so it’s not just me.

 

What to do though?  Legally the council can’t do anything, I’ve asked the managing agents of the flats but they can’t get involved, or as I see it they can’t be arsed doing any more work than they need to.  The only resolutions are to either move out or bludgeon them to death, and although the last option appeals (both me and the missus really are at our wits end) I’m gonna start saving in order to buy a plot of land in the middle of nowhere and live like a hermit.  I’m consumed with hate for these people which isn’t good for the old ticker, and being at work these days is actually preferable to being at home, which shows how desperate things get.

 

On the plus side, I find tinkering with shite offers me some kind of therapy and escape from all that shit, and evening drives in either the Sierra or the Vitesse recently has proved a sanctuary, although a 19mpg average in the Rover doesn’t make that a long-term solution!

You have my sympathy, only this year I managed to escape from the fucking pikey scumbag neighbours I had in Merthyr.  mouth breathing fucktards

[M'coli]

The turbodiesel Pug 205 I have is making me lose the will to live.  I've finally got round to trying to replace the head gasket, and I'm fed up with the bastard.  Why do the French have to make such a balls-up of the cooling system pipe routing in the first place, and then use the worst and sharpest jubilee rip-offs to hold them on?  I've got a 1/4" deep gash in my right thumb just above the knuckle joint where I hit one whilst undoing the turbo oil feed pipe.

Next is the fact that it's the dirtiest engine I've ever worked on.  Then, finally, I've got the head loose and the gasket's out, but can I get the head out of the car? NO!  It's still attached to something, but can I get at the twat to remove it?

If I get it back together and it works, it's getting sold.  I didn't like it before I started this, and it's not made liking it any easier.
If I get it back together and it still doesn't work properly, it's still getting sold.

[SambaS]

From experience you have only 2 options:

 

Kill them all, or move.

 

All legislation seem to work in favour of people who want to make noise.. for instance because my noisy neighbours moved away for 7 months, committed benefit fraud by having the benefit agency believe they still lived there, and came back last week to make noise again..... the whole polava I went through at the end of last year doesn't matter one jot. Doesn't count and is irrelevant.

 

*sigh*

 

Time for a mega rant from me….

 

Noisy neighbours.  We live on the ground floor and every day we have to put up with excessive noise from the cretins that live two floors up – namely their little shits running around shouting and screaming, with the Dad also being a pain in the ass shouting his head off stoking the kids up into a frenzy.  The mother never leaves the flat so when he’s off working doing shifts in his cab the kids just go mental and she never seems to give them any sort of discipline, or take them out to burn off a bit of energy.  They can go a whole weekend never leaving the flat which is not only bad for the kids, but bad for my sanity!  You can never relax as they might kick off at any moment, and they are often up late even on a school night (by late I mean 10pm).

 

I’ve been up several times to have a word, as have the poor sods who live directly beneath them – they have kids too but I hardly ever hear theirs, which just goes to show how noisy the feral fuckers are on the top floor.  All you get met with is indifference, or they just don’t open the door, which makes you feel even more annoyed/frustrated.  Kids makes noise, yes, but this is beyond acceptable.  Other people moan too, and they live in the block adjacent to ours which isn’t even connected so it’s not just me.

 

What to do though?  Legally the council can’t do anything, I’ve asked the managing agents of the flats but they can’t get involved, or as I see it they can’t be arsed doing any more work than they need to.  The only resolutions are to either move out or bludgeon them to death, and although the last option appeals (both me and the missus really are at our wits end) I’m gonna start saving in order to buy a plot of land in the middle of nowhere and live like a hermit.  I’m consumed with hate for these people which isn’t good for the old ticker, and being at work these days is actually preferable to being at home, which shows how desperate things get.

 

On the plus side, I find tinkering with shite offers me some kind of therapy and escape from all that shit, and evening drives in either the Sierra or the Vitesse recently has proved a sanctuary, although a 19mpg average in the Rover doesn’t make that a long-term solution!

[SambaS]

Next time I get the hammer out I wont knock on his door with it. I will knock on his Cerebral Cortex.

[Cavcraft]

Next time I get the hammer out I wont knock on his door with it. I will knock on his Cerebral Cortex.

 

I didn't even know he had a TVR.

[philibusmo]

 

Oh good, there has been a royal baby born in a hospital.

 

That's right BBC News, get the helicopter out. You'll get a great view of it from up there.

 

[Mr Lobster]

Not really bothered one way or the other about the royal baby tbh, has no impact on me.

 

But the BBC coverage - FFS stop talking such utter shit -

 

"the delivery suite is fully equipped and has internet access"

 

What the actual fuck. If I'd offered Mrs_L the laptop and asked if she wanted to do a bit of surfing whilst she was pushing either of my kids out I reckon I would have encountered a rage never seen before and I'd probably have had something done to me a bit like giving birth to a laptop but in reverse.

[Spiny Norman]

...and while no-one's been paying attention they're sneaking this one in under the radar ..  

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23401076

[dollywobbler]

Yup - all while cutting the budget on the few poor b*stards who spend their working lives trying to catch the people responsible for the sickest levels of child depravity. That's it Cameron - blame the ISPs for your failings. 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

...and while no-one's been paying attention they're sneaking this one in under the radar ..

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23401076

 

There's a positive side to this - about ten minutes after it's implemented, Britain will have the most computer literate teenagers on the planet. Boys who otherwise wouldn't know how to use the scroll wheel will be able to configure a VPN with their eyes closed. 

[trigger]

As this seems to be doing the rounds already...

 

[Spiny Norman]

  Stolen.

[RobT]

From experience you have only 2 options:

 

Kill them all, or move.

 

 

 

*sigh*

 

A mate at work knows some Polish lads who'd probably do the job at the right price, so a contract killing is a possibility.  But in reality next year will be earliest we can move so I'll just have to deal with it until then.  There are good and bad days and we've had a run of bad ones recently, no doubt made worse by the weather making people more mongish than normal.

[warren t claim]

R.I.P actor Dennis Farina.

 

Feel free to add your own banger racing joke.

[autofive]

 

R.I.P actor Dennis Farina.

 

Feel free to add your own banger racing joke.

 

 

Avi is dead?

 

[Rover414]

 

A favourite scene of mine. Such a shame!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I flipping love GET SHORTY, one of my favourite films of all time

[MrDuke]

Yup - all while cutting the budget on the few poor b*stards who spend their working lives trying to catch the people responsible for the sickest levels of child depravity. That's it Cameron - blame the ISPs for your failings. 

 

Also, I suspect the most depraved stuff is already only accessible via Darknet, so I'm not sure quite what he thinks this will achieve.