The grumpy thread

[SambaS]

Can someone with a traders policy put my car on it for a couple of weeks? My driving other cars extension only covers cars that are on the MID.. already spent £25 on day cover and need to TAX it!!! Pleasey please.

 

If anyone can help probably best to PM Thank you.

[chaseracer]

It's best not selling to a bloke like that even if he offered you the asking price.

He'd be on the phone within a week trying to get you to pay for any repairs. I think you were very restrained and polite!

Quite...

 

[Cavcraft]

Samba: You'll need to be careful with that one. People with 'ordinary' insurance aren't as a rule allowed to drive cars belong to people with trade insurance. I often get asked to lend people cars because their insurance covers them for covered (with someone else) cars (if that makes sense, but when they check with their insurance they won't allow it because it's on a trade policy.

 

Ps: getting tax is a nuisance, too. Some P.O's would tax cars not in my name but they won't do it now and even the DVLA office who always used to do so won't let me now, unless I put the green slip in my name.

[philibusmo]

I have not been ill this year and as a rule am very rarely ill. So why oh why do i have to come down with something now, in the middle of 4 dry and windless days where i could be welding and 2 days before I am due to drive from Devon to Gdansk in Poland. Bad timing hardly begins to cover it.

[cobblers]

MOT test on the daily golf was aborted due to it being too low to slide the jack under once it was on the ramps. FFS just drive it on a bit of wood like I do every time I jack it up!

My mums completely bone stock MX5 was exactly the same on the same ramp but he wasn't funny about that since it's not modified and just used a scissor jack to get it high enough to jack properly.

On top of that grump, my van is STILL here waiting for the dumbarse painter to take it. FFS!

[meggersdog]

So my phone skidaddled across the centre console and into the passenger's side footwell somewhere.Not to worry I'll retrieve it when I get home.I parked up and opened the passenger door but couldn't see the phone.Must be under the seat so just as I lift the seat Kerunch,yep metal and screen connect,the thing is wedged into the lifting mechanism and is now fooked.I've got things for sale too with only my mobile number listed...Bugger, can't get another phone until tomorrow as Tesco now only sell their own pay as you go phones.

Oh, and that occasional clonk from the rear silencer is not a broken rubber mount but even though there's smoke coming out the back the exhaust has snapped right after the first silencer.These old Discoveries don't sound much louder with no exhaust.

[SambaS]

Okay thanks Cavette, I will put the question to my insurers. This is annoying as last year they wrote to me to say the car didn't need ANY insurance at all. Loop hole closed

 

All I really want to do is TAX it to make it more sell-able and drive it to my Mum's as it's a nicer area and sell it from there.

 

I guess another £25 on day insurance... my profit is going to be nil if I'm not careful!

 

It's already in the garage having timing chain fitted £89 in parts, £150 in labour, and a clunky steering diagnosed and fixed, which is the rack or the ARB bushes.

 

I'm counting on this car clearing my rent arreers.... Should really be going towards a YB Cosworth engine but there you go!

[beko1987]

Missus has just watched tonights shitenders. Poor fucking rover, looked like it drove alright!

[Ghosty]

Did you have to bring that up?

 

(Junkman: don't read the post above).

[vulgalour]

It's no use, I have to set fire to the house.  Animals and house have been repeatedly flea treated, or so I've been told while I was away.  Parents have gone away for a fortnight on my return which I didn't really have notice of (again) and it would appear the house and the poor old dog have got fleas again.  Visitors have commented on the ankle bites they get, I'm getting ankle bites and the dog is getting no respite from it.

 

So yay... I have to deflea the house and dog or something.  What a ballache.  Why is it being so bad for fleas this year?  Our neighbours are also having the same issues with their house and pets.

[dollywobbler]

Wrong thread!

[fotorabia]

Drove 160 miles return to Inverness to see a neurologist for all off 5 minutes.

Repeat..for an EEG brainwave test...

Wait two weeks for results..nada..so call them...sorry Dr.Jones is on holiday.

Wait one more week...call them again..sorry...Dr.Jones has emigrated to New Zealand.

So..im like fuck the results....and Im heading back off to Australia within the month.

[jakebullet]

Evilbay starts stealing final value fees on postage today. Not bad enough that the post office takes 10K a year to lose my parcels, now ebay wants a grand for doing jack shit.

[daveb47]

Sons telly packed up t'other day,so we decided to take a trip to big telly shop in romford,Got cash out of bank to get one.

When we got there seems that they dont take feckin cash,debit/credit cards only.

Hadnt got card with us either..

[Ghosty]

Evilbay starts stealing final value fees on postage today. Not bad enough that the post office takes 10K a year to lose my parcels, now ebay wants a grand for doing jack shit.

Fuck sake - I've got five records on that I kind of want to sell, but won't, and at the same time I don't want to sell as I can't be fucked posting them after what happened last time...

[Mr Livered]

Sons telly packed up t'other day,so we decided to take a trip to big telly shop in romford,Got cash out of bank to get one.

When we got there seems that they dont take feckin cash,debit/credit cards only.

Hadnt got card with us either..

Is it always cash only or was it just that day? Every so often there's a newspaper article about the coming "cashless society" and I don't like the sound of that at all.

[Ghosty]

Getting shouted at by the mother for accidentally breaking a plant pot.

It was on a fucking 3-leg stool...

[Ghosty]

And now, the one time I want to watch a programme on ITV Player, they're that fucking shit, it's the only one not on there.

It's Ade in Adland for anyone wondering.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Ghosty your complaints are the feeblest yet seen on here, make sure you let us know each time your mum tells you off or theres nowt on the telly wont you.

[retrogeezer]

And now, the one time I want to watch a programme on ITV Player, they're that fucking shit, it's the only one not on there.

It's Ade in Adland for anyone wondering.

 

It's repeated on Thursday at 10.35pm.

 

http://www.tvguide.co.uk/titlesearch.asp?title=Ade%20In%20Adland

[Ghosty]

Thanks for the help!

 

Also I've got a problem: my problems aren't problems!

[Junkman]

Like my mom always used to say: If a problem requires a complicated solution, it's not worth to be solved. Just live with it.

[Tetleysmooth]

Just want to say a big thanks to the bastard in the white Transit who cut me up badly on a roundabout near Uckfield, Sussex, on Tuesday evening.

Missed him by a fagpaper, but because of him I had to restack some of the load in my trailer.

TWAT.

[chaseracer]

"Bastard in a white Transit"?  Shouldn't be too hard to find...

[Sigmund Fraud]

Is it always cash only or was it just that day? Every so often there's a newspaper article about the coming "cashless society" and I don't like the sound of that at all.

 

There's nothing futuristic about a cashless society. I, for one, am invariably cashless between the 20th of each month and payday  

[TimothyClaypole]

Spent a lovely time after working fishing about in the drain outside that had become blocked (not the poo's one - if it was I'd have locked the house up and moved away).  Turned out to be "sand" washed off the knackered rendering which it's done before but also not helped by a load of snails... some kind of mass suicide or something.

 

 

Will go back to it when the stink has faded off and give it a proper washout with some more Jeyes Fluid and measure up for a better fitting bit of wood to cover it now I have a bench top jigsaw to cut it out better.

[vulgalour]

Nowt worse than blocked drains.  When I lived in Sheffield the kitchen sink drain seemed to be frog suicide central, the first you'd know about it would be the GODAWFUL stench first thing in the morning when you washed pots/put any water down the drain.  Vile.

[Cavcraft]

Tara, yer bastard. It's going straight to the shredder at the docks apparently, no passing go, no collecting £200. Though it wasn't too far off that!

 

 

 

 

[cort16]

Excellent angled camera work there.

[Wilko220]

Stop trolling him