The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

Maybe he's coughed up his last millimetre of working lung?

[STUNO]

All these lovely, affordable, interesting cars that are for sale on AS and the wider internet will all be gone by the time I have the Golf sorted and ready for sale and/or cash in my pocket.  *shakes fist at Sod and his law*

 

You could wait 6 months and buy my wonderful Corsa !!

Collection at Heathrow car park

[vulgalour]

Corsa and Heathrow and Car Park in one sentence.  That's a triple whammy of OH HELL NO.

[trigger]

I thought I'd share this story my dad told me tonight, a chap I know who lives in his village has a late 90's Range Rover, He's had it years and has recently spent over £3000 on having a new gearbox and diff fitted, Saturday he was driving down the M25 with his caravan on holiday when the dash started to smoke and before he knew it the whole car went up in flames, This RR was also LPG converted so the fire brigade had to shut the M25 for 5 hours whilst they waited for the gas tanks to cool down.

 

To make matters even worse the insurance company have told him the book value for his car was £500!, To say he's not happy is a understatement!.

 

Edit - even better there's a big feature about it here!

 

http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/story/2013-08-23/caravan-fire-closes-m25/

 

[RedSparrow]

Bird I split up with 2 years ago still in my head. I don't know what's wrong with me sometimes.

[chaseracer]

Nothing. Perfectly understandable. Been there.

 

"This too shall pass".

 

[beko1987]

Saw a K2 Micra (P reg) on a flatbed on the hard shoulder of the M40 this morning

 

The day has an omen on it already!

[inconsistant]

Driving back through Normandy on Saturday on the autoroute, queued in 2 lanes of solid traffic for an hour and a half to get through a toll booth, where they charged us 2.80 euros for the privilege.

 

FFS/Pour l'amour de baise.

 

We moan about the motorways in the UK but I reckon we've got it pretty good in comparison.

[dollywobbler]

Syria. How is the government so bloody blind? "Oh yes. Let's go and start another war in the Middle East. Our track record is exceptional!" I really do dread to think what the genuine reason for action is. Oil seems likely, as does military suppliers needing to sell more arms. I hate it and have written to my MP to say as much. www.writetothem.com if you fancy doing likewise before Parliament is recalled.

[Bobthebeard]

 

We moan about the motorways in the UK but I reckon we've got it pretty good in comparison.

This presumably doesn't include any of the M6 below Stafford.

[autofive]

Syria is a prize for Israel

 

supplied by america and its poodles

 

didnt they used to call it lebensraum?

[chaseracer]

Emailed my useless MP yesterday. No doubt he'll reply when he's off the phone to the Nazi uniform rental shop.

 

The price of oil is already edging up. Politics? Always follow the money...

[RedSparrow]

Syria. How is the government so bloody blind? "Oh yes. Let's go and start another war in the Middle East. Our track record is exceptional!" I really do dread to think what the genuine reason for action is. Oil seems likely, as does military suppliers needing to sell more arms. I hate it and have written to my MP to say as much. www.writetothem.com if you fancy doing likewise before Parliament is recalled.

 

[Bobthebeard]

Scary stuff.

"If the only tool you have is a hammer then every problem has to look like a nail"

Yup. That's the US.

[Vin]

Interesting take on Syria, seems about right unfortunately

 

"Bombing Syria: war as therapy - The narcissism of the bomb-Syria brigade is terrifying"

http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/syria9/13960#.Uh3zbH-29EM

[Junkman]

"If the only tool you have is a hammer then every problem has to look like a nail"

 

If the only tool you have is a missile, then every problem has to look like a country.

[Bobthebeard]

If the only tool you have is a missile, then every problem has to look like a country.

America is such a massive consumer of oil. Any threat to oil supplies seems to be dealt with in the same way. War. Political spin is used of course, chemical weapons being the latest. The World has many countries that have terrible records of human abuse, but only the oil bearing countries are considered worthy of intervention.

It won't end well, but it never does. Money and power being the two motives. The UK is now just a 'satellite' of America so here we go again. IMHO.

[autofive]

America is such a massive consumer of oil. Any threat to oil supplies seems to be dealt with in the same way. War. Political spin is used of course, chemical weapons being the latest. The World has many countries that have terrible records of human abuse, but only the oil bearing countries are considered worthy of intervention.

It won't end well, but it never does. Money and power being the two motives. The UK is now just a 'satellite' of America so here we go again. IMHO.

 

 

the interesting part of this whole syria 'affair' is the intention of the USA (and the UK) to openly side with 'the rebels' (the new mujahideen/al qaeda/the taliban whatever you choose to call them) to smash the government who the usa had previously supplied these chemical weapons to, along with conventional arms, attack helicopters, police & army training etc.

 

its afghanistan /russia or iran/iraq all over again and we are still living with the outcome of both these conflicts today.

[Junkman]

Adolf Obama is orchestrating WW3, that's what's currently going on. So what's all the fuzz?

[Bobthebeard]

the interesting part of this whole syria 'affair' is the intention of the USA (and the UK) to openly side with 'the rebels' (the new mujahideen/al qaeda/the taliban whatever you choose to call them) to smash the government who the usa had previously supplied these chemical weapons too, along with conventional arms, attack helicopters, police & army training etc.

 

its afghanistan /russia or iran/iraq all over again and we are still living with the outcome of both these conflicts today.

How true...

The definitions of 'terrorist' and 'rebel' are clearly only defined by what the USA and UK actually want from that country. Oil and a stable Middle East. So oil it is then.

[STUNO]

Can the UK (and the US) govts say they have no chemical warfare supplies ? If no the might just have the moral superiority.

[autofive]

Can the UK (and the US) govts say they have no chemical warfare supplies ? If no the might just have the moral superiority.

 

 

who developed sarin for military use?

 

i ll give a clue: I live here

 

who sold it to Iraq? (most likely source of the warheads)

 

do you need any clues?

 

 

 

just as there are restrictions on 'conflict diamonds' and Raubgold isn't about time we had restrcitions on looted oil?

[Junkman]

Can the UK (and the US) govts say they have no chemical warfare supplies ? If no the might just have the moral superiority.

 

Hey, we are the good boys, understand?

[Cavcraft]

I don't profess to understand much about Syria but I wouldn't be happy to have 'us' just stand by whilst they dropped chemical weapons on their countrymen.

 

That said, I've always maintained that its bollocks 'we' care about human rights or we'd have invaded China by now.

I mean its not like we have a massive amount of trade with them or the fact they'd kick our arse big time is it? So China must be fine and there's never any human rights issues against their own people?

[dollywobbler]

That's the thing Cavette - it's absolutely f*ck all to do with human rights. That's just the cover story, much as it was with Iraq. After Iraq, I can't really believe that chemical weapons were used against Syrian people by the government, just because our media/government tells us so. It could also be argued that even if chemical weapons were used, it was in response to an uprising sponsored by the West. If you don't want a lion to attack you, don't poke it with a bloody stick.

[Spiny Norman]

The trouble with this 'war on terror' is that the Muslim states tend not to like it when we westerners impose our notions of democracy and morality on them. Maybe we should just sit back and let them fight it out?

If there's military action to be taken, let the other Arab states take care of it, we should learn to keep our noses out.

 

On another note, how would we have felt if the Yanks (or the UN or someone else with an over inflated sense of self righteousness) had intervened in Northern Ireland?
Who's to say they'd have come down on the side of the UK government and not the republicans? What would have happened then?

[SambaS]

America makes me ashamed to be a human being.

[SambaS]

Again

[Lord Sterling]

Syria. All this talk of a possible invasion of Syria is causing a lot of discomfort to my existing worry as I have family over there as well as my possible Lady_Sterling in-waiting.

 

All this on top of coming home and having twatty little chav kids effing and blinding at me thinking they are somehow tough. All I'm doing is coming "home" and parking my car up.

 

I want out of here. NOW

[Junkman]

The trouble with this 'war on terror' is that the Muslim states tend not to like it when we westerners impose our notions of democracy and morality on them.

 

Tellya wot, I can sort of imagine Ali and Mohammed sitting there on a settee in one of them Muslim states, watching telly.

And what they see is Adolf Obama, Josef Cameron, Eva Merkel, and what's that French wanker's name? doing their thing. All wonderful elected Führers of our superb defugginmocracies.

Now, if being 'led' by this kind of deadfucks is what a democracy leads to, I can fully understand that Ali and Mohammed agree to be a tad reluctant to allow something similar to happen in their country.