The grumpy thread

[scaryoldcortina]

"Do not go gentle into that good night..."

 

I'll miss you and your music, Angus.

 

Damn, didn't realize he died! Sad now.

[Parky]

Fucking Hermes....

 

"We have successfully delivered your parcel"

 

Not to me you haven't!

 

"We left it securely in your porch"

 

I don't have a porch

 

"We left it somewhere else then although cannot confirm where"

 

No you haven't. It's not here. It's not anywhere

 

"Driver confirms White House half way up a hill"

 

Nope, not me. Best go get it and try again hadn't you?

[scaryoldcortina]

Your parcel is at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC.

[dave21478]

People on mway slip roads who won't hoof it to get in front of a truck but dither and nearly cause a massive accident - not impressed with you right now

 

Chucking it down and the truck had nowhere to go, good job there was a hard shoulder is all I can say, will be a lot more accidents if they keep phasing them out

 

Sliproad idiots, man.....Jesus fucking christ.

My new "favourites" are the rocket scientists who sit behind me along a slip road and swerve onto the carriageway as soon as they can, even if that means crossing the chevrons and then accelerating up beside me....where the fuck do they think I am going to go? could they seriously not wait? 

 

 

Not sure if self-entitled me-first cunts, or just completely fucking oblivious.

[AMC Rebel]

Black Friday grumps.

 

Business is Business right?  Tell the great unwashed that something was once £500 and now its £400 even though its only ever worth £400 20 in the first place and bingo. The idiots will queue up fight to hand over the dosh.

 Fixed that

[UltraWomble]

For the last 22 years that we have lived here there has been a sodium street lamp over the road - it illuminates the road, footpath on both sides and to some extent our garden too.

 

This week the council have changed it to a new fangled LED lamp which casts a pool of brilliance as intense as an exploding star in an area approximately 10 foot in diameter and then the rest of the street is dark until the next street lamp about 40 foot away.

 

What a time to be alive eh?

[Pillock]

Black Friday was ace last year, I got asked to help out in one of our stores so you advantage of the McBreakfast that had been bought in.... Prepared to open at 6am.... And let nobody in.

 

I hung around until about 1am and sacked it off home, it was "average Saturday" busy. Everyone buys online, anyone who says there were fights last year is bullshitting.

 

There was a queue in the retail park over the road, but only cos nobody had told the park management people to open the gates early. About a dozen cars.

 

So my advice remains, if you're going to buy anything electrical in November, just wait until the last week. If you weren't, then don't.

[Timewaster]

Street lights?Yep. They have done that to us too.

From a warm yellow glow, the street is now in darkness punctuated by brilliant white spots.

[Louise2cv]

Oooooooh Street lights...

 

Up here the council have cable tied two signs on every single street lamp and illuminated road sign: one an I.d. number and the other a contact number for reporting faults.

 

Seems like a pretty impressive waste of time and money to me.

[dome]

See, Facebook is entirely composed of your friends updates. If you're complaining that it's full of shit, just remove people from your friends list until it isn't.

 

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This times about a million. If your Facebook feed is full of shit then delete/hide people as necessary.

 

Or get new friends.

 

You have control(mostly) over what you see on your feed.

 

If you don't like it, change it.

[anonymous user]

Oooooooh Street lights...

 

Up here the council have cable tied two signs on every single street lamp and illuminated road sign: one an I.d. number and the other a contact number for reporting faults.

 

Seems like a pretty impressive waste of time and money to me.

It's more likely that these signs replace the job of the person who used to come around to check if they were working, so on paper at least it will be a saving

[forddeliveryboy]

The whole moving world's changing into one bloody massive strobe effect with all the LEDs. I first noticed it on bus tail and stop lamps, it's not a huge distraction but there nonetheless. Since my LED headtorch has a fantastic wide, even beam why can't the council find lights with the same? At least all the heavy wiring for street lighting which is now unnecessary could be used to make hookups for EV charging points.

[Cavcraft]

The street lights at my local hospital are terrible. A sort of orange half-arsed gloom that doesn't really light the road up, with the added bonus* of being on a bend outside maternity near a pedestrian crossing. At least A&E is close by though.

[captain_70s]

I too am irritated by the new street lights which manage to be dazzling while illuminating very little.

 

Seems like a pretty impressive waste of time and money to me.

 

Even more so when they're putting new ones on every week 'cause street lamp ID number plates become drunk teenagers favourite new collectable.

[Kiltox]

I must be the odd one out - I love the LED street lighting and think it's a vast improvement - the light doesn't scatter anywhere near as far so it lights what is important and not the windows of every house in the street!

[panhard65]

They have fitted a few of these new led street lights near me an they are fucking shit if it's foggy. It's like trying to drive with main beam on and you can see bugger all. The old ones have the softer light and don't reflect back so you can see where you are going. Progress eh ?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Oooooooh Street lights...

Up here the council have cable tied two signs on every single street lamp and illuminated road sign: one an I.d. number and the other a contact number for reporting faults.

Seems like a pretty impressive waste of time and money to me.

In Milton Keynes, where there are about 4 million street lamps and signs, they took an old school approach to this.

An old giffer painted ID numbers on every one with a stencil and paintbrush, it took him about 2 years, his high tech equipment included a milk-crate to stand on. I often wondered how much time it would have saved just by employing a taller bloke.

When the council cut the verges they have three 7.5 tonners with impact absorbing concertina things and flashing chevrons blocking a lane 1/2 a mile before the mower, this old giffer had a scruffy black 3 door SAAB 900 with the hazards on , which he moved along every 3 or 4 posts. Nobody died....although saying that I haven't seen him for a couple of years.

[AMC Rebel]

I must be the odd one out - I love the LED street lighting and think it's a vast improvement - the light doesn't scatter anywhere near as far so it lights what is important and not the windows of every house in the street!

 

No you aren't, I love them.

[AMC Rebel]

When the council cut the verges they have three 7.5 tonners with impact absorbing concertina things and flashing chevrons blocking a lane 1/2 a mile before the mower, 

 

Severn Trent around here get a temporary traffic light permit, then cone off a vast (empty) area and leave the lights going 24/7 for the entire duration of the permit totally regardless of the work going on and whatever chaos they are causing.

[AMC Rebel]

The whole moving world's changing into one bloody massive strobe effect with all the LEDs. I first noticed it on bus tail and stop lamps, it's not a huge distraction but there nonetheless. Since my LED headtorch has a fantastic wide, even beam why can't the council find lights with the same? At least all the heavy wiring for street lighting which is now unnecessary could be used to make hookups for EV charging points.

 

I think the strobe effect is where they are using pulse width modulation to control the brightness - that's how they make the transition between tail and stop on most of them.

[Richard]

This picture shows off the strobe effect quite nicely. I had my head torch on low power while I ran around with a flashgun trying (unsuccessfully as it turned out) to light the whole area. At least I seem to be good at moving at a constant speed.

 

DSC_2716 by RichardB5, on Flickr

[beko1987]

Drove most of the way down the M40 thinking I had a soft tyre or some other issue, turns out it's just a bit windy, and when I drove past a gap in the tree's I got blown about. Was most odd

[nebuchenezer]

Drivers of Somerset:

 

Fog lights are only to be used when visibility is less than 100 yards due to fog. 

 

Got that ?

 

An apology as well - my name is Angus and I have clearly lost control of my storm, it is even pissing me off now.

[jon928se]

This picture shows off the strobe effect quite nicely. I had my head torch on low power while I ran around with a flashgun trying (unsuccessfully as it turned out) to light the whole area. At least I seem to be good at moving at a constant speed.

 

DSC_2716 by RichardB5, on Flickr

Why have you got a tractor with no front wheels in a cave?

 

I quite enjoy the news footage of people punching each other to buy a TV that nobody has ever heard of. Especially knowing that when the victor proudly arrives home they find it was fucked in the melee.

 

I had a grump tonight as some dick in a Smart car accelerated into a gap I was indicating into and committed to which nearly forced me into some cones. Wanker. However you can imagine my delight when later on someone else refused to let him in and the balance of the universe was restored. For extra karma points, Mr Smart then accelerated around the car that wouldn't let him in and massively clouted a kerb in the process. I heard the crump from two cars back. Hopefully a fucked alloy and tyre justified the willy waving and the gain of two car lengths in the queue.

 

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[Richard]

It's a mine. There are two Bedford KMs, a Mk3 Zephyr, a Morris Minor, several Minis and bits thereof and a Bedford CA down there, among other things.

[Richard]

And an otter.

[r.welfare]

Felt a thump manoeuvring into a parking space this morning, then it appeared the car had lost drive. Got out to find my front wheels pointing inwards and only one responding to input from the steering wheel. Tie rod had pulled out at the rack end on the nearside. Had the tracking done a couple of weeks ago - wonder if related?

 

Car recovered to garage where they will fit new tie rods and track rod ends both sides. Verdict is I was very lucky - the effect at speed would have nasty, although I hope it was the low-speed strain that exposed the issue.

[Guest Hooli]

Car recovered to garage where they will fit new tie rods and track rod ends both sides. Verdict is I was very lucky - the effect at speed would have nasty, although I hope it was the low-speed strain that exposed the issue.

 

Maybe not.

 

The castor (or something) means the wheel should follow where the car is going, the same as when you A-frame a car. Indeed I'm sure a Le Mans car once came into the pits in the good old days with a broken trackrod & it was only a marshal seeing it that stopped it being sent back out when they found a replacement.

 

 

As to street lamps, I'm undecided. We've got the LED ones now, they are a horrible light & our village looks a lot less quaint but at least they don't shine in our windows. I'm sure we'll all get a reduction in council tax now the leccy bill has come down right?

[Guest Hooli]

Oh forgot the main grump.

 

OI FUCKNUGGETS if you want to drive really slowly because it's raining then DON'T bloody move to the third lane & get in everyone's way FFS.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Maybe not.

 

The castor (or something) means the wheel should follow where the car is going, the same as when you A-frame a car. Indeed I'm sure a Le Mans car once came into the pits in the good old days with a broken trackrod & it was only a marshal seeing it that stopped it being sent back out when they found a replacement.

 

 

Eh? The wheels are only going to follow if they are held relative to each other, not if they are flopping around all over the shop with a busted track rod.