The grumpy thread

[omegod]

Jimmy Tarbuck is as funny as a fucking school bus crash. Another 'pro-celebrity' Scouser who wouldn't live there if they gave the houses away.

 

 

He's also a convicted criminal, Terry Thomas the 60's cad, supposedly promised him a spot in his show in Liverpool then reneged so Tarby stole some stuff off him including a gold lighter, Tarby did some time for it I believe ! Regardless, he's a complete twat!

[cobblers]

If pushed I'd rather annoy someone than anger them.

Instead of driving mega slow and turn it all road ragey, I just drive like I don't know what I'm doing or where I'm going, and indicate and slow down a bit for turns I don't end up taking, then position myself all wrong aiming at a roundabout then wait and miss a few gaps before pulling out quite slowly etc.

For some reason the idea of some bellend getting incredibly frustrated with me thinking I'm an absolute idiot is much more satisfying than someone knowing I'm trying to wind them up and getting angry about it. Perhaps it's because I'm less likely to get punched in the head, I dunno.

[AMC Rebel]

Captive audience. Oil light comes on on the motorway, where else are you going to get some more? I believe the best laugh is pulling into one with a service station and asking for a tyre price.

Are there some with Tyre bays?  Genuine question - I can't think I've ever seen one (in the UK), but it turns out I don't know everything

[cort16]

I had a someone who I seemed to fall into the same commute cycle as who would drive 6 inches from my back bumper no matter what speed I went at but when the road was clear and I'd slow down so they could get past they wouldn't over take. I don't know if it was nerves or something but it just seemed to be how they drove. MEGA annoying.

[AMC Rebel]

Some absolute fucking waste of skin stole my Sky broadband router from the back of my car.

 

A completely worthless paperweight they provide free to their customers and that as far as I know doesn't work on any other service

 

Fucking unbelievable.

 

Sympathy.  Back in the day some bellend stole my sister's car radio so I go her one of the ones with a removeable front.  She probably still has the front bit - which was being dutifully kept in her house when some scrote nicked the other bit WTF use was that?

 

I know I bang on about it here, but we put up with a level of "petty" thieving in the UK that would be considered an outrage in many other countries.

[Bren]

Another incident inside a prison.

 

On the same day, hand wringing liberals Nick Clegg and Jacqui Smith have called for the prison population to be cut in half.

 

There is a reason so many people are in prison.

 

They have obviously never gone downstairs at 3am and found some bloke in a ski mask and holding a machete wanting the keys to their Audi Q7.

[gordonbennet]

Ah Cobblers yes..

 

When one is trying to get a far too powerful* lorry moving at roundabouts, and committed across the road more or less blocking it, but because for some fuck nose why reason the road safety* planners design blind roundabouts, so didn't see a car approaching at warp factor 6 and without indicating is slewing right trying desperately to push the tyres off the rims...should say at this point one's crystal ball has run out of charge long ago...well sometimes a lorries presence baulking such important progress causes a massive blast on the hooter.

 

At which point  one may actually stop dead because its possible one has not seen someone who'se stuffed half under said lorry hence the hooting, so once stopped one looks all around for the source of danger, everywhere that is except at the bod with the horn (you never lock eyes or acknowledge them being there), once safe to proceed is re-established ones shrug one's shoulders and carries on.

Apparently.

[bub2006]

Feel free to tell me if what I have done is wrong or I could have done things differently please as I can't see a fault. I was at a junction in Nottingham tonight in a lwb sprinter. Indicating right but cannot pull out as traffic in the road Im wanting to enter is stationary due to rail crossing barrier being down and a keep clear sign painted on the road. About 20 seconds after me waiting at the junction, the car behind started pipping an revving up. Then decided to go onto the wrong side of the road and next to bollard on my right hand side to call me a Fucking wanker and nobhead then wheelspun out of the junction from the wrong side of the road and went left. Way I saw it was my road wasn't clear so I couldn't safely pull out let alone go anywhere. Right pissed me off and I've been racking my brains how I could have done different.

[Lacquer Peel]

Nothing you should have done differently. Dickheads be dickheads.

[martybabes]

I'm not sure grammar and spelling being 100% is really necessary for a car forum about shite old cars.

As long as your not using txt speak you're posts are fine by me.

 

Very good - I see what you did there.

[155V6]

The Halifax

To cut a long story short,I paid 2 weeks wages into their ATM Tuesday night as I can't always get to the branch during opening hours.The money is not in my account yet as due to a problem, they can't get into the machine from inside the branch.I've already had to cancel a couple of standing orders which are due to go out tomorrow,also the mortgage needs paying.This looks like being a fun Christmas if they can't sort it out tomorrow 

[bub2006]

Nothing you should have done differently. Dickheads be dickheads.

Cheers. I'm not the best driver nor the most experienced but even I did not think I'd done anything wrong.

[Lacquer Peel]

They're big vans, sometimes you have to hold back to wait for a space bigger than you'd fit a car into to appear. Guy behind you was an impatient cretin.

[155V6]

Obviously,you should of pulled out & blocked the junction up so Mr Selfish could get past.That's what would happen round here 

[vulgalour]

Would've been nice if the lads in the Seat had bothered to look at me the other day instead of pulling out and making me swerve to the wrong side of the road to avoid being T-boned.  Me on a major road, them emerging from a blind junction.  They then proceeded to drive aggressively at me for the few yards of the rest of the road I was going down.  I just... urgh.  At least I was paying attention and had room to avoid them.

[bub2006]

They're big vans, sometimes you have to hold back to wait for a space bigger than you'd fit a car into to appear. Guy behind you was an impatient cretin.

Apart from the keep clear area my road I wanted was blocked and if I'd have gone to pull out the arse of the sprinter would be still in the side road and the nose on the other side with the rest blocking the opposite way!

[cort1977]

Don't waste your time worrying about it bub, they're (their?) everywhere.

[Ghosty]

Aye. On last month's Critical Mass ride in Manchester (an event that cyclists hold in mixed regard, partly down to a lot of hippie types, but I know the guy that runs it round here so I help out), there were around 50 of us cycling down Oxford Road in central Manchester in a large group. It's a wide road, one lane southbound, two lanes northbound. We're going south, and a bus behind us decided it couldn't be arsed waiting behind us and proceeded to try and overtake all of us by running down the wrong side of the road, on the wrong side of islands and the like. 

He got stuck at a set of traffic lights, on the wrong side of the island, facing another bus. I have to wonder how he got out of that as IIRC buses aren't permitted to reverse in service in greater Manchester, with the exception of two bus stations with bay parking (airport and Trafford Centre).

[Cavcraft]

An etymological query, if I may: is it "smart-arse" with a hyphen, or "smartarse" without? 

 

Smart arse, I reckon.

[Cavcraft]

Are there some with Tyre bays?  Genuine question - I can't think I've ever seen one (in the UK), but it turns out I don't know everything

 

There used to be, I don't use the motorways a great deal now to be honest so they may have all gone. At one time a fair number had garage services and they were just complete robbers. Incidentally someone told me the reason you'd see a lot of cars and trucks on the ramp back onto the motorway broken down or with the bonnet up was because the services could had a monopoly on their own patch, so if they had a garage they wouldn't allow breakdown or recovery firms on their yard so they (garage on the services) could do the repairs. No idea if that was true, but could have explained why so many people were on the exit ramp with the bonnet up.

[LC Torana]

I'm not sure grammar and spelling being 100% is really necessary for a car forum about shite old cars.

As long as your not using txt speak you're posts are fine by me.

[gordonbennet]

There used to be, I don't use the motorways a great deal now to be honest so they may have all gone. At one time a fair number had garage services and they were just complete robbers. Incidentally someone told me the reason you'd see a lot of cars and trucks on the ramp back onto the motorway broken down or with the bonnet up was because the services could had a monopoly on their own patch, so if they had a garage they wouldn't allow breakdown or recovery firms on their yard so they (garage on the services) could do the repairs. No idea if that was true, but could have explained why so many people were on the exit ramp with the bonnet up.

 

Yes things seem to be different now.

Years ago if you found a flat tyre on the lorry in an MSA you had to pull the lorry out onto the motorway hard shoulder sharpish or the call out service your company used wouldn't be allowed to fix it, the garage on the site having a nice little protection style contract with the site operator.

As you say the costs if forced to use them were scandalous.

 

Oh and Bub, ref the Sprinter van and the brain donor pissing his panties cos he had to wait a second, don't worry about it mate, arseholes are increasing in number and at a high level of instant foot stamping due to it being Christmas innit, never let twats like that get under your skin mate.

[Angrydicky]

Well Sainsburys did turn up but unfortunately an hour late and with about 50 percent of what I ordered. Everything was 'out of stock' so nothing for Christmas for me or the mutts... they enjoy their Christmas dinner of turkey with all the trimmmings while I have a veggie sausage with all the trimmings. So, no turkey, sprouts, cheese, roasties, yorkshire puds... Well done Sainsburys, excelled yourselves. Best of all, I ordered all this last week so it would be  'in stock'.

 

Makes sod all difference when you ordered it, the order is picked on the morning of delivery, so if it's in the week before Christmas it's quite normal to have loads of stuff out of stock. Blame the idiots panic buying shit because the shop is closed for one day (shock horror).

 

Also quite normal for deliveries to be very late or not turn up at all at this time of year. The slots are all booked up and it only takes one driver off sick to have his load spread across the remaining drivers, who already have too much to contend with. We've got three off sick at our place at the moment. And if it gets to the time the driver is contracted to, he will usually take the remaining deliveries back to the store as he's pissed off with the job and would rather go home than stay out for another hour or so getting the deliveries finished.

[Pillock]

I don't think it's the supermarket shoppers fault.... The supermarkets are still the same size, but they shrink all the regular ranges so they can get massive turkeys in that feed 400 people, and bags of nuts you can't open, and fucking Vienetta and stuff.

 

So anyone trying to do their normal shop finds loads of stuff out of stock, as they only had three pieces of cheese that weren't rammed with an odd fruit, packaged with a little bow and put into a wicker basket for £14.99 to start with.

 

Sainsburys normally has a cracking Free From section, loads of dairy free stuff for Mrs_P. Now that fridge is full of patê so apparently people with allergies just have to eat ice cubes through the festive season. I also wanted some crumpets - they had none, but they did have literally a 6ft high wall, 15ft long, of mince pies. With hardly any being bought.

[Mr A Lawrence]

Makes you proud to be in the free world doesn't it.

[myglaren]

I went to Aldi - it was business as usual

[Bobthebeard]

The BBC 'news' was calling today "frantic Friday" or similar.....

Don't shop, don't drive and don't fly warnings. Chaos predicted etc. So people immediately shop, drive and fly.

Mad.

[beko1987]

I need to go to asda after work as I haven't bought amy anything. But if I get there and there's a queue to get into the carpark or something I'm driving on by!

[cort16]

I went to Aldi - it was business as usual

Me too. There's not many queues when the checkout operator puts through 1200 items a minute.

I much prefer this approach of getting it all through the checkout then bagging it in your own time. 

[Supernaut]

I need to go to asda after work as I haven't bought amy anything. But if I get there and there's a queue to get into the carpark or something I'm driving on by!

 

If you don't get her anything, judging by your previous posts about her on here...

 

Well, it was nice knowing you.

 

 

 

Annoyingly, I think I do need to go to a shop today. For some cat biscuits, of all things.