The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

I once hit a Vauxhall Nova in my Cavalier and wrote it off, so it's not just the birds who are shit at driving!

[Station]

I kind've like Simon Mayo, even that muppets song he has at the start of his show on Friday (just as I'm setting off home!).

 

I remember years ago, my dad being stranded at a family party and couldn't get back (we were all home by this point), so he drove home. This was in the days when it wasn't as frowned upon, but gives you an idea of why you shouldn't drink and drive. I looked out of the window as he reversed the car into the drive. I don't know what happened next as he didn't stop for a second and reversed straight through the closed garage door.

I also remember at the same time, my uncle getting taken into the police station because he was over the limit. The police called his wife and asked her to take him home. That was it! This was in the very late 80's, probably 89, or 90.

[Cavcraft]

I like Steve Wright, you're not supposed to take it seriously

 

I can tolerate him, but I still live in hope that he gets chinned live on air for talking over his guests.

 

Also, because it's the grumpy thread and he's had other mentions, I want to see Dullbot O'Bleary of talent show 'fame' get a fucking good shoeing one day for touching up everyone that appears before him.

[Jim Bell]

Simon Mayo. Do you listen to him with relish?

[Ghosty]

Just had to reinstall Windows after it shat itself. Nothing is more annoying than reinstalling everything.

[trigger]

I *think* I have a £150 protected excess but i need to double check, I'll say I done it to protect her insurance, it's just frustrating as it's my nice car which I haven't had that long, mind you she did the same thing in the Alto a few months back too and that was tiny.

[trigger]

Simon Mayo is alright but Ken Bruce is boss, I do like him.

[dollywobbler]

Just had to reinstall Windows after it shat itself. Nothing is more annoying than reinstalling everything.

 

Apart from absolutely everything in the world. Including Radio 2 DJs.

[mattblack]

This reminds me of some dead, stray dogs ball sack of a man that I once heard proclaiming placca wings on a Clio 'Valva' to be illegal.

 

Give. Me. Strength.

 

We have 'Billy Bullshit' contractor at work, he was telling us the other day how years ago his mate 'made' a wing for his car by sticking a load of Fablon over the rust holes, 'and it sailed through the MOT, you wouldn't get away with it now as they use a magnet'...

[oman5]

Radio 2- Alex Lester FTW. only really applicable if you work nights though.

[Station]

I always keep an eye out for bikers when they're weaving through traffic and give them plenty of space, as they're not some breed different to human beings, they do take the piss sometimes though:

 

http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/the-footage-that-the-nyc-bikers-didnt-want-you-to-see-1435594427/1436603736/@orlove

[cms206]

Simon Mayo is alright but Ken Bruce is boss, I do like him.

This. I get grumpy if I miss Popmaster.

 

The only presenter I really don't like is Jeremy Vine, though I do miss Dave Pearce's Dance Years on a Saturday night. Also four hours Bob Harris a week is not enough.

[Rocket88]

I'm surprised Mr Wright hasn't had his collar felt by plod during the course of the Yewtree inquiry

[Mr Livered]

Yeah, I was just going to say I've lost ount of how many times Steve Wright has been mentioned in this thread!

 

And rightly so. Every time.

Apparently Steve Wright was the DJ that Morrissey wrote about for the Smiths song "Panic" - the one with the exhortation to "hang the blessed DJ"...

This song was written in reaction to an incident where the BBC DJ, Steve Wright, played the trite and spunky Wham! track, "I'm Your Man," following a news report about the Chernobyl disaster – a devastating nuclear accident that occurred on April 16, 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. Guitarist, Johnny Marr, recalled to NME in 1987: "'Panic' came about at the time of Chernobyl. Morrissey and myself were listening to a radio report about it. The stories of this shocking disaster comes to an end and then immediately we're off into Wham's 'I'm Your Man.' I remember actually saying, 'What the f*ck has this got to do with people's lives?' And so, 'Hang the blessed DJ.' I think it was a great lyric, important and applicable to anyone who lives in England."

(source)

[RichardMoss]

Radio 2- Alex Lester FTW. only really applicable if you work nights though.

Or are in a time zone 3 hours ahead of the UK, like wot I is

[RichardMoss]

Bastard Jeep electrical systems - and Jeep's inability to fix obvious/serious faults at the design stage or when they come to light in service.

 

The ECU on XJ Cherokees is a known weak area - it doesn't take kindly to heat and so where do you think that Jeep put it?  Yep - right next to the bloody radiator.  They also encased the circuit board in rubber gel to make it waterproof (and make it even hotter!).  All very well if you live in Detroit but (and this may come as some sort of startling revelation to the engineers at Jeep) many Jeeps get sold in the Middle East and the ECU is totally bloody useless when you live in the desert where water ingress is not a problem!   It's even more annoying when you consider that the rest of the vehicle works quite well - lightweight (ish), powerful (ish), manual gearbox etc. 

 

What's really frustrating though, is that the vehicle was in production for nearly two decades and they never thought that it might be a good idea to relocate the damned thing to somewhere cooler (like the inside of the vehicle).  Much better to keep producing the same shite design and let the customer fix the issues - perhaps the inspiration for the Rover K series head gasket?

 

You may have guessed from the above rant that that I have just had ANOTHER offroading trip ruined today by this piece of shite.

[overrun]

Radio 2 and Radio 4 throughout the night FTW if you're driving home in a new piece of shite.

 

Radio 1 when the hours are small.

 

Both the Annies, Mista Jam, Mike D, Rob da Bank etc playing breakbeat, DnB, rock, dubstep and other sweet choonz.

[Sigmund Fraud]

Bastard Jeep electrical systems - and Jeep's inability to fix obvious/serious faults at the design stage or when they come to light in service.

 

I suppose it's one of those awful Renix units ? Are you sure it's the ECU rather than one of the myriad of sensors ?

[Station]

I like that bloke from Fun Loving Criminals (Huey something or other?), he has a show late Friday night, he plays a really good selection of choonz.

[Lord Sterling]

What a fucking brilliant day I've had. Not as bad others but there have been some rather unnecessary things happen today.

 

Woke up late and therefore got into work late. Later on in the day I was informed that my job was supposed to have ended at the end of last week, I will however get paid which is what I expect anyway. The agency didn't leave me a voice message last week as they thought they'd done.

 

So I came home and decided to try and install Sis_Sterling's Printer/Scanner to my computer as Ma is always banging on about needing a bloody scanner/printer. Computer decides to say no, I get angry, kick it and the power-pack sparks and kills it dead. I guess it gives me a good excuse to buy a better computer now as I was trawling through ebay looking for one last night.

 

I am now in bed as I have decided to give up on day.

[Cheggers]

BBC 6 Music is the only way to go...and I saw the brekky presenter Shaun Keaveney having a curry in London last night (+ bonus grump...not excessively large curry and 2 beers each for 3 of us, £140  )

[privatewire]

I have to switch off Ken Bruce around 11.30, because that's when he has the cuntmeister Vine on to talk about what mince he will have morons phoneing in about that day.

 

I fervently wish the old Ayrshire curse of "I hope your next shite is a hedgehog" upon Vine and all his descendants.

[chaseracer]

Couple of my friends were contemporaries of JV at Durham in the mid/late-80s. By all accounts, he was a dick even then...

[Lankytim]

I like JV. So there.

 

Steve Shite however....

[jakebullet]

Negged on evilbay by some lying foreign twunt and now every bastard in the western hemisphere is trying it on with "where's my item mate?" including twats who bought only yesterday.

[RichardMoss]

I suppose it's one of those awful Renix units ? Are you sure it's the ECU rather than one of the myriad of sensors ?

It's the Jeep/Chrysler sytem and it is definitely(ish) the ECU because when I bung a handful of ice cubes on it to cool it down it starts up again!  Ice cubes + desert = problematic "Supply and Demand" situation, though.

[ShiteRider]

Negged on evilbay by some lying foreign twunt and now every bastard in the western hemisphere is trying it on with "where's my item mate?" including twats who bought only yesterday.

If it makes you feel any better i bought an 8 ball off you for the ,since departed, black cortina and was made up with it

[sporty-shite]

BBC 6 Music is the only way to go...and I saw the brekky presenter Shaun Keaveney having a curry in London last night (+ bonus grump...not excessively large curry and 2 beers each for 3 of us, £140  )

 

Lass who I used to work with studied music with Keaveney. She's still in touch with him, and reckons he's a top bloke. His show's good, too.

[cort16]

I've started listening to Keaveny in the mornings. He's not that annoying and the music's always interesting.

[hairnet]

omghgf on a fiesta (trig help)

 

skoda in the firing line as replacement