The grumpy thread

[inconsistant]

  On 11/10/2013 at 12:43, Junkman said:

If a car is worthy of you, any car, it will come to you sooner or later.

You will never find the right car, the right car will find you. If it doesn't find you, it's not the right car.

 

That's so beautiful it's making me a bit weepy.

[chaseracer]

 

The Prisma is the epitome of "anti-styling". Look at it! /\/\/\ Was it done by a four-year-old?

 

Obv, this means it's one of my favourite 80s cars I wish I'd 'rehomed' the one that was abandoned in Tesco's car park a few years back...

[UmBongo]

  On 11/10/2013 at 12:59, chaseracer said:

 

The Prisma is the epitome of "anti-styling". Look at it! /\/\/\ Was it done by a four-year-old?

 

Obv, this means it's one of my favourite 80s cars I wish I'd 'rehomed' the one that was abandoned in Tesco's car park a few years back...

 

Delta with a boot?

 

I had a Delta HF Turbo, and I still have nightmares aboot whit happened, like.

[HillmanImp]

  On 11/10/2013 at 12:01, skattrd said:

Mr Imp, you should have jumped on that Prisma last month when it went for £460 ... I may have been the second highest bidder on that auction

 

Really? What a goon I am for missing that.  I cant afford it at the mo so may hang fire until such a time that it might drop as per other peeps advice.

 

Ta for the offer of the HPE too but might hang around and wait and see what happens with this.  Soz

[jmsguzzi]

It belonged to one of my Flickr contacts. He only wanted 500 for it before it even went on eBay.

[Lord Sterling]

Money, I suppose this makes anyone bitter, angry and frankly pissed off. But I really don't get what is going on here. For nearly a year now I've been trying to crack the £1k in savings barrier, get above it comfortably so I've got something to vack myself up on. But for some reason, in all that time I've been unable to conquer that BASTARD barrier. Take now for example; my job unexpectedly came to an end last week, agencies don't seem to have immidiate work on. Today I got paid my last pay and a (very small) bit from the tax man which came nigh on £400 which took me passed the 1k savings barrier (for about the 10th time) by at least £100. Today, I have had to spent £130, £70 of that unexpectedly. Everytime I get there, money just seems to get sucked up by one bloody thing or another.

 

Years ago, somehow I managed to save the most money I've ever had, 5k, but of course that soon went when my other job finished.

 

I just give up sometimes, I really fucking do.

[vulgalour]

You are not alone in this.  I've been trying to just get out of my overdraft and can't, every time I get a decent chunk of it cleared an unexpected thing - tax man due to Bolsover Council cock-up, Bolsover Council insisting I pay a bill I've already paid (long story), car breaking - comes along to clear me out and put me back to square one again.  Some days it feels like I'll never have the means to get out of here and I'll be stuck living with my parents well past next Christmas, let alone this.

[Mr Lobster]

I'm not sure if I'm grumpy about this or not -

 

Been offered a car I've wanted for a while and yet I'm not buying it. Why you ask? Well, I've realised that I've still got plenty of stuff to do with the R4 and with two kids and a business time is rather precious. I could buy it but it'd hardly get used and as much as I really do want it, I know the sensible thing is to pass.

 

What is happening to me...

[Junkman]

It's only money. All they ever want is money. It's the only thing that makes them happy. There are hardly any people left that want something else from me, it's always money. Only money.

I drew the consequences and don't give a shit about money anymore. Let them have it. Let them take it all. And more. As long as it is only money, I don't give a moist fart.

[mercrocker]

Well said, Junkman, I would rather run  out of money before  I run out of life rather than the other  way around

[Bucketeer]

^^^^^ + 300.

 

I ran out of money whilst in Bulgaria about 6 months ago but I'm still going and enjoying life. Good things come to good people. (_{I'm fucked then})

[HillmanImp]

  On 11/10/2013 at 15:57, jmsguzzi said:

It belonged to one of my Flickr contacts. He only wanted 500 for it before it even went on eBay.

Really? Tbh i did not have any money at all last month as was moving. Damn my timing.

 

Should really sort out the cars i have though.

[cort16]

The more money you earn the more shite you buy and you just end up with the same at the end of the month. Zero.

 

American TV programs are totally obsessed with money. Most of the shite on discovery and the like is about buying something cheap by ripping someone off, then being a bit of a dick about it before doing it up and selling it for a profit. The program might be about art, property cars, delivering shite, finding shite in barns, knocking stuff down it's totally inconsequential as long as their's some false conflict and they make $$$$$$.

 

According to these programs the american dream seems to mean you need to be a dick and piss all over friends, strangers,random people you meet in the street until you make enough money then everyone will love you even though you're a massive twat.

[Junkman]

It is an American concept, that only money counts and nothing else. Having more money automatically makes you a better person there.

This concept unfortunately has taken hold in Europe as well, incrementally increasing over the past 25 years and now sadly pretty much the same level as in the USA has been reached over here.

For once, I'm glad that I'm as old as I am, since I have experienced times, when there were more values cherished, than money alone, and not everything's value was measured in some monetary amount.

[cort16]

I think if you work hard and earn money then fair enough, spend it on what you want. These programs just seem to trot out the message that to make money and be successfull you have to be a massive tool (see also dragons den).

[Lord Sterling]

Junklad and others - let me make it clear, I'm not "obsessed with money" I hate the fucking thing. However, I'm hopefully heading for something different in my life which will hopefully take me out of Britain for good, but it requires me to have a bit money behind me. I'd simply like to continue building my savings, that's all, but it seems that getting passed this £1k barrier is impossible. I might just stop paying for everything and anything.

[Bucketeer]

^^^^^^ I saved and lived like a hermit for a year and then sold everything I owned to be able to escape Britain. Genuinely, all the best to you.

[Junkman]

  On 11/10/2013 at 18:27, cort16 said:

I think if you work hard and earn money then fair enough, spend it on what you want. These programs just seem to trot out the message that to make money and be successfull you have to be a massive tool (see also dragons den).

 

There is no correlation between "working hard" and "earning money". This is just a deception you are brainwashed into believing from Kindergarten on, so you are easier exploitable by someone richer than you are throughout your life.

[Partridge]

Work hard. Consume. Buy shit. Work hard. Die.

[Negative Creep]

  On 11/10/2013 at 18:45, Junkman said:

There is no correlation between "working hard" and "earning money". This is just a deception you are brainwashed into believing from Kindergarten on, so you are easier exploitable by someone richer than you are throughout your life.

 

 

 Or something you are told by people who got where they are thanks to Daddy or sucking up to/off higher management. If it was true most cleaners would have more money than the Royals

[Junkman]

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Margaret Thatcher

 

Let me translate this.

 

[Lacquer Peel]

Are you having trouble finding work because you're a massive bellend? Just a thought like.

[HillmanImp]

Genuine LOLS like.

[garbaldy]

  On 11/10/2013 at 18:45, Junkman said:

There is no correlation between "working hard" and "earning money". This is just a deception you are brainwashed into believing from Kindergarten on, so you are easier exploitable by someone richer than you are throughout your life.

 

 

my fither always used to use the phrase,   I am to busy working to earn a living 

I now know what he meant all those years ago

[Lankytim]

[Albert Ross]

  On 11/10/2013 at 18:46, Alan Partridge said:

Work hard. Consume. Buy shit. Work hard. Die.

 

Do fuck all. Shag some fat bint one night. Keep in touch. Deny all knowledge until you realise" it" has your nose. Move into the Council House (One with a large garden....) Get Dole handouts. Shag a different fat bint while the first fat bint is doing her shifts at Greggs to earn dinner. Repeat cycle.

[Negative Creep]

  On 11/10/2013 at 20:04, Albert Ross said:

Do fuck all. Shag some fat bint one night. Keep in touch. Deny all knowledge until you realise" it" has your nose. Move into the Council House (One with a large garden....) Get Dole handouts. Shag a different fat bint while the first fat bint is doing her shifts at Greggs to earn dinner. Repeat cycle.

 

 

I think you're forgetting that you need to live with said fat bint whilst claiming you live apart to get a double income, then discover your kids have ADHD and autism, and you have a bad back and depression so need a nice new Motability Zafira to carry your family around

[Junkman]

  On 11/10/2013 at 19:45, watanabe said:

Yes, the laughs never stop* around here.

 

Just had a message from an eBayer saying the camera I sent him was smashed to fuck in the post. I made chump change out of the fucker to start with.

 

BRILLIANT STUFF!

 

Tellya wot, m8. I'm in a shitty mood, too, due to bad news left, right and centre.

Wanna pop by? We could pull each other down even more and bury all this shit under a few gallons of booze, like if we were real buddies or something.

[Albert Ross]

While we're on it.... I had some news last night. A Beautiful, caring sweet, flame haired woman, who I have known for some 25 or more years, died yesterday. Her eldest son found her collapsed at home on his return from his daily travail. He's a lovely lad, he has "what they call" learning difficulties. He did the right thing, called the authorities, and almost immediately, called one of his Aunts, with whom he has just spent Summer. She lives in Corsica. He and his Mum live in Lincoln. He was in bits. Via Facebook, I was informed... Unorthodox maybe, but modern life is a little strange. I absolutely loved this woman. She was perfect in every way. She even liked me. But you know what, we were like siblings. The more time we spent together, the more we realised it. She had been married a couple of times. Her youngest son.... he's an enigma. Not sure where he lived... whether with her or his Dad... But you know what? I feel a little responsible for them. I hurt. It's fucking painful to think that she's gone. Never again will I hear her raucous drunken laughter after a gallon of her Dad's home brew.... never again will I face her sweet smile across a breakfast table. Never, except in my memories. I hope and pray I never forget her. She was a wonderful thing. Goodbye Rachel. A bottle of Fitou is waiting for you up there. X

[Lacquer Peel]

  On 11/10/2013 at 19:37, watanabe said:

Would you mind awfully saying that to my face?

 

HARD MAN.

You have a fucking horrible, negative, arrogant attitude, as shown in thousands of posts on here.