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I agree, Boils my p***. Not only that you get hounded with bidding alert e-mails.
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What's made you grumpy today?
WolfCrazy64
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my little seicento is going to be sold as spares or repairs as the damage by the pothole is;
two new tyres (one seriously punctured, the other has a lump in it)
a set of new suspension bushes
the car is losing a lot of water and has been leaking a reddish orange fluid from the front
and it needs to be taxed
all together the repairs (and tax) will come to around £400 and since the car is only worth around £450 it just isn't worth fixing
it was a good little car and I am very sad to see it go
two new tyres (one seriously punctured, the other has a lump in it)
a set of new suspension bushes
the car is losing a lot of water and has been leaking a reddish orange fluid from the front
and it needs to be taxed
all together the repairs (and tax) will come to around £400 and since the car is only worth around £450 it just isn't worth fixing
it was a good little car and I am very sad to see it go
dtimmins1985
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Re: What's made you grumpy today?
Nice phone call from work to say that i have been overpaid and have two options to pay it back - in full, or over 3 months - whilst currently on sick claiming SSP due to a broken Metatarsal... fingers crossed they can stretch it over 6 months, awaiting a phone call tomorrow - fingers crossed....
Nice phone call from work to say that i have been overpaid and have two options to pay it back
- in full, or over 3 months - whilst currently on sick claiming SSP due to a broken Metatarsal... fingers crossed they can stretch it over 6 months, awaiting a phone call tomorrow - fingers crossed....WolfCrazy64
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my little sei is now up for sale Ihave decided to get a scooter because I have not got my full license yet (nor can I afford to) and the insurance and tax is cheaper.
once I get my full license I'll probably sell the bike and get another punto
Ihave decided to get a scooter because I have not got my full license yet (nor can I afford to) and the insurance and tax is cheaper.once I get my full license I'll probably sell the bike and get another punto
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Seeing the Citroen c1 doing just over 100mph miss the barrier on the m25 by Centimeters after edging onto the grass verge ! Wake up , if you crash at that speed .... Pffft
Pea souper this morning on the way to work, so obviously perfect conditions to run on DRLs only..according to every Audi driver I saw this morning. I will say my methods for my survey weren't perfect, but due to the difficulty seeing them I probably passed many more with out noticing
Now it could be the auto lights weren't picking it up but the 5 year old system on the Mazda thought lights were a good idea....
Now it could be the auto lights weren't picking it up but the 5 year old system on the Mazda thought lights were a good idea....
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It's quite likely it's the auto lights, if Audi set up are anything like my golf (and they are because mine had the Audi auto main beams as well) then it's not always obvious when the lights are on or off to the driver as the only indication is the dash lights get a bit brighter.
My grump is my car is off for its first service next week which isn't a major problem it's all paid for as part of a service package. The depressing thing is I've clocked 10,000 miles in the a touch over 6 months..... Ouch
WolfCrazy64
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good news i'm not getting rid of my sei after all i have temperailaly swapped it for his sei untill the repairs on mine are done.
Audi auto main beam? Do they flash when you get within 3 feet of the back bumper of another car?
But hmm sounds like a good combination automatic lights that aren't and no light to indicate that..
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Audi auto main beam? Do they flash when you get within 3 feet of the back bumper of another car?
Huehuehuehue.
Saw another BMW indicate today, as an aside, and a Porsche Caymanne flashed me out of a busy junction. It's madness out there I say!
As my late Mother-in-Law drifted into the last months of her life (she died almost one year ago) I used to smile benignly at her recollections of all the people she used to listen to on record or radio and all those she used to see at the cinema who had recently died off. I just thought, "well, these things happen, people get old, or ill, and then they die."
Although she was twenty years older than me at the time, I now have an idea of what she meant. Joyce saw the deaths of her idols from an earlier time as heralding her own demise. I don't quite see it that way, but it's strange how all of a sudden the obituaries are mounting up.
I wasn't surprised when Keith Moon died; nor Brian Jones; nor even Marc Bolan. There was a pattern of kinds, in as much as Marilyn Monroe and James Dean also died well before their times and it was almost expected that some would go through drink or drugs. Lynyrd Skynyrd had their share of tragedy when Ronnie Van Zant, Steve and Cassie Gaines and their manager Dean Kilpatrick, along with others, died in a plane crash. Yet guitarist Gary Rossington, the one thought most likely to die young with his drinking and drug taking is the only one to have survived. Allen Collins (guitarist) died a few years ago from complications following a car crash that claimed the life of his girlfriend several years earlier; Bassist Leon Wilkeson also died suddenly after, like Allen Collins, reaching comfortable middle age and keyboardist Billy Powell was the most recent to shuffle off this mortal coil. Drummer Artemis Pyle is (as far as I know) still alive albeit possibly still serving a long prison sentence for a sexual offence.
Arguably one of the finest rock and blues guitarists of the late 20th Century, Stevie Ray Vaughan also died in an aircraft crash when the helicopter he was travelling in came down in a mountainous area. He'd been on tour supporting Eric Clapton and the story goes that Clapton wanted to speak with their joint manager and asked Stevie to swap helicopters, with the result that Eric is still with us, yet Stevie is no more.
Some, like John Lennon and George Harrison died as a result of a violent assault and Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson died as a result of some kind of personal physical abuse. John Entwistle, bassist with The Who died in a manner that probably made many other 65 year old men think: "I'd like to go like that.....dying of drink and drugs in a hotel room with two teenage prostitutes!
When they were young, I wouldn't have been surprised that the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Phil Lynott had died, but somehow, when stars reach their late 60s or early 70s, there's little reason to think they won't make it for another decade at least.
But lately, Glen Frey of The Eagles aged 67 of Rheumatoid Arthritis; Lemmy aged 70 from cancer; David Bowie aged 69 from cancer and now Keith Emerson aged 71 as a result of suspected suicide by firearm. Jimmy Bain former bass player with Rainbow and Thin Lizzy aged 68; Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane one of the bands that defined the Summer of Love aged 74; and of course, Sir George Martin who wasn't a musician at all, but being known as the "5th Beatle" might as well been. Although in fairness, he was 90.
Most of those I've named above had an effect on my life and I think I know now how Joyce felt as the stars of her younger days died off one by one, but although I'm grumpy, but not depressed because somewhere in my future I may have an appointment with a bottle of Single Malt, some Cocaine and two 18 year old prostitutes in a hotel........................just, for God's sake, don't tell Mrs. Beard!
Good night all and I'll see you all tomorrow, I hope.
Although she was twenty years older than me at the time, I now have an idea of what she meant. Joyce saw the deaths of her idols from an earlier time as heralding her own demise. I don't quite see it that way, but it's strange how all of a sudden the obituaries are mounting up.
I wasn't surprised when Keith Moon died; nor Brian Jones; nor even Marc Bolan. There was a pattern of kinds, in as much as Marilyn Monroe and James Dean also died well before their times and it was almost expected that some would go through drink or drugs. Lynyrd Skynyrd had their share of tragedy when Ronnie Van Zant, Steve and Cassie Gaines and their manager Dean Kilpatrick, along with others, died in a plane crash. Yet guitarist Gary Rossington, the one thought most likely to die young with his drinking and drug taking is the only one to have survived. Allen Collins (guitarist) died a few years ago from complications following a car crash that claimed the life of his girlfriend several years earlier; Bassist Leon Wilkeson also died suddenly after, like Allen Collins, reaching comfortable middle age and keyboardist Billy Powell was the most recent to shuffle off this mortal coil. Drummer Artemis Pyle is (as far as I know) still alive albeit possibly still serving a long prison sentence for a sexual offence.
Arguably one of the finest rock and blues guitarists of the late 20th Century, Stevie Ray Vaughan also died in an aircraft crash when the helicopter he was travelling in came down in a mountainous area. He'd been on tour supporting Eric Clapton and the story goes that Clapton wanted to speak with their joint manager and asked Stevie to swap helicopters, with the result that Eric is still with us, yet Stevie is no more.
Some, like John Lennon and George Harrison died as a result of a violent assault and Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson died as a result of some kind of personal physical abuse. John Entwistle, bassist with The Who died in a manner that probably made many other 65 year old men think: "I'd like to go like that.....dying of drink and drugs in a hotel room with two teenage prostitutes!
When they were young, I wouldn't have been surprised that the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Phil Lynott had died, but somehow, when stars reach their late 60s or early 70s, there's little reason to think they won't make it for another decade at least.
But lately, Glen Frey of The Eagles aged 67 of Rheumatoid Arthritis; Lemmy aged 70 from cancer; David Bowie aged 69 from cancer and now Keith Emerson aged 71 as a result of suspected suicide by firearm. Jimmy Bain former bass player with Rainbow and Thin Lizzy aged 68; Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane one of the bands that defined the Summer of Love aged 74; and of course, Sir George Martin who wasn't a musician at all, but being known as the "5th Beatle" might as well been. Although in fairness, he was 90.
Most of those I've named above had an effect on my life and I think I know now how Joyce felt as the stars of her younger days died off one by one, but although I'm grumpy, but not depressed because somewhere in my future I may have an appointment with a bottle of Single Malt, some Cocaine and two 18 year old prostitutes in a hotel........................just, for God's sake, don't tell Mrs. Beard!
Good night all and I'll see you all tomorrow, I hope.
Unless she cooked you steak for dinner this evening chances are you wont get over stimulated tonight and keel over with a smile on your face :devil:
Ah, yes. Mrs. Beard only made me aware of this, er, whatever you call it tonight, sadly, just after I'd had Shredded Beef in OK Sauce with fried rice from the takeaway.
Personally I think her timing is just a little suspect.
wellt oday i noticed on ebay there is an abarth kit for cinquecento for sale,same set that was purchased from forum,but what annoys me is the price,he is selling for double the purchase price,as i was after them,im not forking out £300 for a kit that i saw sell for £150 the day before,
welldone jiminwatford,pushing up prices that dont need it :bang:
welldone jiminwatford,pushing up prices that dont need it :bang:
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I saw that on Facebook. Was tempted to just buy it and not pay just to annoy him...
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Spent an additional 2 hours in my car today - these days I normally spend around 3 hours to/from work.. This morning I'd driven for 45 minutes, before realising that I probably should've brought my laptop with me to work.. So back home and pick it up - arriving at work an hour late! Then this afternoon going home - I was had 1km to the motorway exit.. And then there'd been an accident, resulting in an additional hour just sitting there doing nothing. Great.
Shane MacGowan of the Pogues is living on very borrowed time by these measures . .!
Got Raikonnen on the F1 sweep stake at work for the second year in a row, looks like he's going to be contributing just as much as he did last year..
