The grumpy thread

[Alfamale]

Is it just me or is the standard if driving on the M60 particularly bad. As a Yorkshireman obviously I don't venture into enemy territory that often but every time I have to use that road you can guarantee I will be tailgated, cut up or just generally amazed at the stupidity of some manucunians.

 

Sorry for another, all other drivers are shite rant.

[alf892]

I'm grumpy because at work we've had to discontinue legal action to get two very large invoices from 2015 paid as the costs are about to exceed the invoice amount. Scumbags win - they have a million pound overdraft and no assets so nothing to lose by ringing up huge legal fees.

Our Lawyer was quite pleasant and helpful (at £200 an hour!) the one time I talked to him ( we have used STA via the FSB) but basically said that the legal fees will exceed the invoice amount pretty much instantly and if we don't win then we're probably looking at two sets of legal costs plus the loss of the income in the first place. I am not about to gamble £60k plus on a £14k debt. Who is?? Off to open a bottle!

Go for a winding up order straight off......if they are iffy but want to keep trading (and have a bit of cash flow) they will pay. See the gov UK website because you have to do it correctly. It is a last resort but very effective and can be very very quick. Cost is not unreasonable.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Does this include the people who tell you to fit a Zetec to your car?

They can tell me all they like but I aren't going to do it (this goes with the mind your own business stuff and don't tell people, especially strangers, what they should or shouldn't do).

 

I don't like that some do it to theirs (I just don't understand why as all this "modern traffic" stuff is bollocks) but that hardly means I'm going to start arguing with them or stuff like that on the Internet because of it.

 

Someone posted a pic of a madly painted mk1 interior. I don't get it but so what, it's not mine, no one died and I'm sure the person that owns it is happy with it.

[anonymous user]

Travelling down a not very busy dual carriageway today and see's blue lights some way back, I pulls to the left to leave an entirely clear lane only for the stupid fiesta bint in front does an emergency stop and sticks her hazards on causing me to swerve round her, cop car passes unhindered, the death stare off the stupid cow at the next lights were hilarious! Why do people go to pieces ?

Because they can, or they just see the world differently. Not the same, but in a similar vein I took the dog to the vet for his jabs today, the access to the vet is via a pub car park. On leaving I could see a line of cars turning in from the main road, including two funeral limousines so held back to let them in. The person behind me was obviously oblivious to my reason for waiting and decided to pass me, going straight into the path of the cars coming in and basically bollocksing up the traffic by refusing to pull in to let the limo squeeze past.

[Skizzer]

Go for a winding up order straight off......if they are iffy but want to keep trading (and have a bit of cash flow) they will pay. See the gov UK website because you have to do it correctly. It is a last resort but very effective and can be very very quick. Cost is not unreasonable.

This. I had the immense pleasure of starting the process of winding up the UK arm of one of the Big 4 accountancy firms a couple of years ago, after they made an admin cock up and dropped 3 months of my invoices. My, how that got their attention.

[richardmorris]

Go for a winding up order straight off......if they are iffy but want to keep trading (and have a bit of cash flow) they will pay. See the gov UK website because you have to do it correctly. It is a last resort but very effective and can be very very quick. Cost is not unreasonable.

I don't want to go into details really, but their defence is straight denial that we've done any work for them -obv we have their samples for analysis still. It's complicated by us being a subcontractor. We've already paid some £1500 in legal costs and enough is enough. First time in thirty years someone has done this! We're just too nice.

Word on the street ( yo Huggy bear!) is that their eu funding collapsed last year.

 

 

and I've just deleted some injudicious posting after my rather nice glass of red.

 

Well we'll survive - not that long ago we would not have been able to survive this debt. As I told the solicitor this morning- we wish to draw a line and move on.

 

And I've just worked out how many bottles of £7.99 wine this would buy, It's in the several thousand. Hey ho.

[richardmorris]

Travelling down a not very busy dual carriageway today and see's blue lights some way back, I pulls to the left to leave an entirely clear lane only for the stupid fiesta bint in front  does an emergency stop and sticks her hazards on causing me to swerve round her, cop car passes unhindered, the death stare off the stupid cow at the next lights were hilarious! Why do people go to pieces ?

 

 

Last year on the way back from the 2cv duck race in Farnham I spotted blue lights behind me, I was following a learner driver and we both indicated, slowed and pulled over. The loony woman in the cash cow behind me pulled out to overtake me and narrowly missed side swiping the ambulance which sounded its horn. She swerved right over to the other side of the road. No clue at all.

[Timewaster]

loony woman

cash cow

No clue at all.

Draw your own stereotype conclusions

[richardmorris]

Well it's a good enough stereotype to stay clear of all of them.

 

Thinking about if ( for a couple of seconds)I don't think I've seen a man driving one.

[Craig the Princess]

And I've just worked out how many bottles of £7.99 wine this would buy, It's in the several thousand. Hey ho.

Real shit of a thing to happen.

 

If you whack their address up we could get some retribution with Argos catalogs.

[AMC Rebel]

Ebay has some shit code that keeps loading scam sites when I look at auction pics - they haven't been hacked directly but have some shitty code allowing redirects.  It seems this has been going on for ages. Tossers (In my humble opinion of course).

[HillmanImp]

we wish to draw a line and move on.

 

I know its easy to say on t'interwab but I'd be breaking bones of some fecker ripped me off for loads of money like that. I actually applaud you for having the balls to say on here you are putting it behind you before you drink another bottle of red and drunkenly write 'PAEDO' on their car bonnet with Nitromors at 3am.

[wuvvum]

At Kings Lynn auction yesterday, narrowly missed out on a tidy red Series 2 Visa Spécial (the 652cc version).  It wouldn't start - wasn't pulling fuel through to the carb.  Auction bloke said it'd have to be pushed through, then the auctioneer came through on the radio saying leave it where it is, we'll sell it without bringing it through.  The Visa was right over the far side of the compound to the auction hall.  I ran back to the hall (literally - first time I've broken into a run in over a year), and got there just in time to hear the hammer fall at £400.  Gutted is an understatement.

[cort16]

I needed to go to b&q to buy some long bits of wood. I've done this before by putting the roof rack on the JUKE a job  I hate as it never goes on easily. Sure enough even though I followed all the measurement fittings to the letter it wouldn't clamp on properly (why did you not fit proper roof rack mountings Nissan the Juke is a family car with a small boot FFS).

After a LOT of fucking around I fitted it securely and went over to B&Q to be ripped off. I  then tried to tie down the wood to the roof rack with a couple of ratchet straps. I got the first one on okay but the bastarding second one kepts tieing itself in knots. I saw people come into the car park, go into the shop, come out and leave in the time I was fannying around trying to get it secure. Eventually I got it on but it was vibratiing like anything at over 30mph. I could see the court case in the new. "The 40 year old from Ayrshire was seen by many witnesses in the car park of B&Q angrily trying to strap down several planks of wood before. Shouting fuck it that'll do and driving off at 7mph).

I got home and nobody died but the whole sorry episode took 2 hours to get 7 planks of wood.

[AMC Rebel]

If it makes you feel any better, a motorway copper helped me reattach a bfo piece of oak tabletop that had flown off the roof of my Aldi a3 on an M1 slip road. He was a very decent chap indeed.

[Cavcraft]

My weekend:

 

Vectra: Think the DMF has started to give up.

 

Transit: whistling noises when driving.

 

Fireblade: fixed one indicator, the opposite one packed up.

 

My wonderful but clapped out old lawn mower has mowed it's last lawn.

 

My shitty Titan strimmer/hedgecutter (new last year) is still running like a bag of bollocks, can't find receipt. Also took fuel cap off before and it went down a drain.

 

Mini: plagued with morons asking about it and making shit offers/hopeless swap suggestions.

 

Silverline buffer: just about fucked.

 

Road bike: rear mech hanger snapped off Friday on the way home from work. My own fault (as per) because I tried to ride up some steps on it full tilt.

[Kiltox]

If you gave them your name and address when you bought it, Screwfix will sort out that strimmer no bother

[Timewaster]

My hateful mower deserves no more of my time or money.

It will be unceremoniously dumped outside the local mower repair mans workshop with a note saying "keep the Focker"

[cort16]

I bought a flymo about 10 years ago and it worked great for 8 years then went on fire . I bought the equivalent new model last year and it's totally shite. It gets about 6 blades of grass in it the bogs down . I want a proper pez one but We're in a terrace so need to carry the mower through the house to cut the front grass.

I need to get s something to replace that flymo though I hate gardening and it's rubbishness just compounds the pain.

[dave21478]

I had some mowing problems this weekend too.

 

 

That hurt like a proper bastard. The mower didnt enjoy it either.

 

Lucky, I suppose. I got thrown to the "safe" side rather than the spinning death side. Lucky I wasnt stuck under the bastard either - I was working alone in a place where I wouldnt be found for weeks.

 

[Cavcraft]

If you gave them your name and address when you bought it, Screwfix will sort out that strimmer no bother

 

Thanks, fair play they were brilliant. Really really helpful and even re-sent me the receipt via email. Just got to find a fuel cap for it now

[Timewaster]

What is it, and whats wrong with it?

It's a knackered 80s or 90s Suffolk Punch that eats starter pulls.

Having rebuilt the original, that failed. Rebuild kit from eBay, that failed. New starter pull fitted. Lasted 1 pull before it fell apart.

Had enough. It was a piece of shit before all this started.

Can't remember the last time I managed to get the whole garden mowed in one go without it conking out.

[bub2006]

I'm an angry man And today it has cost me. Struggling to refit gearbox back onto the c2. Ended up ripping bumper off, knackering arch plastics and kicking the shit out the washer bottle. I should have just gone for a fag. Will try again tomorrow for fitting box, getting car up and running then will attempt to bodge the bumper back on.

[RoadworkUK]

My Wife and I crossed the road to the bakery, yesterday. Perhaps we weren't as diligent as we could have been, but with our several heavy bags of shopping we did at least have a cursory glance beyond our peripheral vision to check that we weren't about to be be steamrollered by any of the local Q7s.

 

And we were, at least, using a pedestrian crossing, which is a recommended crossing point and has big, flashing orange beacons to draw it to people's attention.

 

But still, we managed to inconvenience a lycra-clad human missile on a Scott racing bike and felt a whoosh of air displaced as he rushed past within 18 inches of impact. It was silent - the only sound heard was a distempered 'Well done, guys' shouted over his rapidly disappearing shoulders.

 

While we're sorry if he was racing against the clock, and our use of said pedestrian crossing stole valuable seconds from his time sheet, I'll take this opportunity to suggest that his race organisers don't schedule a road race to blast through a busy village centre on market day.

[Timewaster]

I had some mowing problems this weekend too.

 

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That hurt like a proper bastard. The mower didnt enjoy it either.

 

Lucky, I suppose. I got thrown to the "safe" side rather than the spinning death side. Lucky I wasnt stuck under the bastard either - I was working alone in a place where I wouldnt be found for weeks.

Hell. How did you manage that?

 

Glad yr okay.

[alf892]

Retrogrump from Friday........

 

Took my car in for 4 new tyres and tracking.

 

 

 

A well planned operation...........................

 

 

 

Negotiated price......and on Sunday I freed off the track rods to make tracking easy - don't want them heating the buggers up.

 

 

 

Mrs Alf dropped it in for me (and walked home bless her)

 

 

 

I rang the place and asked them not to jack it on the sill.

 

 

 

10 mins later tyre place ring back.......no locking nut.

 

 

 

I 'm amazed............My brain has retained an image of my hand putting it back........supported by me thinking 'that's a job done'

 

 

 

Anyway its not fucking there now.........I can only think I left it on the n/s/f nut. And brain has made up what should have happened.

 

 

 

Rebooked for Monday as I are optimist.

 

 

Continues today because I didn't get them off. Tried sledgehammering a socket over which didn't work. Looked at buying a remover.

 

Then asked tyre place how much.......about £20 so I decided to let them own the problem

[Cavcraft]

My Wife and I crossed the road to the bakery, yesterday. Perhaps we weren't as diligent as we could have been, but with our several heavy bags of shopping we did at least have a cursory glance beyond our peripheral vision to check that we weren't about to be be steamrollered by any of the local Q7s.

 

And we were, at least, using a pedestrian crossing, which is a recommended crossing point and has big, flashing orange beacons to draw it to people's attention.

 

But still, we managed to inconvenience a lycra-clad human missile on a Scott racing bike and felt a whoosh of air displaced as he rushed past within 18 inches of impact. It was silent - the only sound heard was a distempered 'Well done, guys' shouted over his rapidly disappearing shoulders.

 

While we're sorry if he was racing against the clock, and our use of said pedestrian crossing stole valuable seconds from his time sheet, I'll take this opportunity to suggest that his race organisers don't schedule a road race to blast through a busy village centre on market day.

 

I despise the twats who do this, there's a path by us that's usually rammed with them at weekends and sadly the 'serious' looking cyclists are usually the worst of the lot. It's great when they shout abuse though as I always take great delight in giving them grief back. One stopped once about 20 yards away and asked me to repeat what I said ('use your bell or shout next time, you fucking prick', Iirc)  and then rode off again in a hurry.

[dave21478]

'tis the season for cyclists having road races here. I was driving along a while back minding my own business and some cunt on a motorbike came round the corner on my side of the road, forcing me to the verge. He was an escort for some teenagers on a road race. Behind him were three bikes; Seriously? its not a fucking closed road, you still have to follow the fucking rules. You stick on your side and I stay on mine and nobody gets hurt.

 

Last year, the organiser of one event were caught with a tub of white dulux and a big brush trying to alter the layout of a junction nearby to give right of way to the route the race was to use.......what the fuck was he expecting to happen?

[Supernaut]

I noticed it was MAMIL season at the weekend too.

 

Why do they always choose to cycle about on narrow NSL A roads rather than, I dunno, any-fucking-where-else where there might be less traffic? Or do they enjoy causing such huge tailbacks that a majority of people in the tailback get so pissed off they end up overtaking them 2 inches from the end of their handlebars?

[Pillock]

A crowd of lycra clad twats is a guaranteed event every weekend in the little village where my daughter works. Most weekends through the summer there'll be signs up advising caution because cyclists - presumably because they give zero shits about the rules of the road. They're quite happy to just carry on at a junction assuming you'll swerve around them.

 

One got knocked off doing that last year, had great pleasure in waiting for the police to show up and balancing the story because it was one poor car driver against a dozen LycraTwats. Nobody injured but a scrape down the Fiesta, presumably about as easy to claim against a cyclist on a road race as it is to claim against ISIS.

 

I might just put some signs up warning of a car race and just go hurtling around the village. Seems to work for them.

 

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