The grumpy thread

[Eddie Honda]

Dublin airport is pay IIRC, but it's much simpler to either go round in circles and do a quick pickup at the set down areas or park in McDs or the pez station and wait for the call to do the same.

[M'coli]

What's an "airport"?

[chaseracer]

What's an "airport"?

 

Like a "train station" but much more glamorous.  Apparently.

[Parky]

Unless you are at Rotterdam which is like a Train Station but LESS glamorous

[Inspector Morose]

Like a "train station" but much more glamorous.  Apparently.

Glamorous*

[castros_bro]

Gatwick is still free for drive through drop off/ pick up, just don't go through the parking bit or you'll get stuck in a queue and not get out before you have to pay...

 

Hasn't been free to pickup for quite a while as pickup area is in the multi story carpark - the only drive through is departing drop off with a selection of "no-parking" attendants in attendance.  Obviously if you time it then picking up at the drop off is possible but from the insides of the terminals for arriving passengers there are no signs to the dropoff place.

 

http://www.gatwickairport.com/to-and-from/picking-up-dropping-off/

 

http://www.gatwickairport.com/parking/car-parking-prices/

[DodgeRover]

Forgot that bit, yes we always get picked up from the drop off or walk through to the front of the hotel.

[doobietoo]

Bloody Audi advert writers..... That drag racing advert drives me nuts.. the first bit with the Yank doing a burnout is great but which  badger shagging cum bubble decided to subsitute the sound of a peugeot rally car soundtrack when it pulls away.... first world problems ...pendant...

[Lankytim]

 

 

Fucking parking eye can get in the fucking sea!!!

 

Overstayed apparently in the retail park in Llandudno.

 

Disabled missus wanted to walk round shops for a change and ended up going in nearly all the shops and spending a fucking fortune.

 

FUCK YOU PARKING EYE!!

Go back to the retail park with the penalty notice from PE, ask to speak to the manager and ask them to cancel it. Most of the time they will of you ask nicely and give them a valid excuse.

[MrDuke]

It occurred to me today that the Civic's MOT might be due soon, so I checked online - 29th July. Fecksticks. This is getting to be a proper habit with me now: the last 2 MOTs on the Fez were about 3 months late, despite the garage giving me a nice big plastic keyring tag with the expiry date in black marker.

[Austin Towers]

Hazard warning lights used to legitimise f**ck-wittedness. Especially when you can only see one, and kindly wait so long in mid-traffic to let f-w out of the parking that you have to put your hazards on. And then you might as well nip to the cash point while you're stopped.

[richardmorris]

It is odd that you don't get a reminder like the VED. But it seems you can sign up for TXTs.

 

I did our companies annual return on Monday (now called a declaration). Seems it was due on the 15th- it always used to be th end of September but they hadn't sent a reminder.

Our accountants are also running a month behind on the accounts declaration despite us getting all the files to them in June. I need my calculated bonus to buy a traction!

[chaseracer]

I did our companies annual return on Monday...

 

Thank you.  Must get mine done...

[Stanky]

Did mine the other night, it made for depressing reading!

[danthecapriman]

Warning. Driving grump!

 

I was following some bell end today, driving down a normal urban road. Suddenly and without any signal whatsoever he swings out into the oncoming lane than swings back across to take a left turn. The left turn actually wasn't as it was a one way street. Exit only, with two huge no entry signs and painted one way arrows going the opposite direction to what he was trying to drive.

And apparently I'm a tosser for pointing this out to him?! Dick wad.

 

Then an hour or so later, A27 I'm following a hire van in left lane going over the eastern road bridge (eastbound), all of a sudden there's shit loads of stones and sparks flying everywhere in front of me!

Hire van quickly pulls over and the spare wheel carrier complete with spare wheel has come undone and dropped down and was being dragged along behind the van at 70mph!

You'd be a bit pissed if you'd just hired that.

[adw1977]

 Suddenly and without any signal whatsoever he swings out into the oncoming lane than swings back across to take a left turn. 

 

This seems to be an increasing popular way to drive like a bellend - swing out to make a turn, as if your Vauxhall Astra is a fucking artic.

[nebuchenezer]

This seems to be an increasing popular way to drive like a bellend - swing out to make a turn, as if your Vauxhall Astra is a fucking artic.

Scandinavian flick innit 

[dave21478]

Resurfacing the road here; Again.

Fucking hell, they hadnt got round to re-painting the white lines since they were done last time, but here they are again.

Its the usual shit job of spraying piss-thin tar then dumping hundreds of tons of gravel, leveling it out a little and just fucking leaving it like that for the traffic to press the gravel down and push the excess into the ditch over the next six months. Motorcyclists fucking love it.

 

 

The half-assed job they do really, really annoys me, but what gives me the proper fucking rage is the whole "we have to spend the money on something...." attitude. Also, I obviously have no proof but I will eat my shoes if there isnt some backhanders going on between the surfacing company and the local authority.

 

Earlier this summer they "resufaced" the wee lane right in front of my house. It apparently cost about five grand to do not even 100 meters..... the bit they are re-doing this week is about 6 kilometers....... and the cunt of a mayor gets to trot out his standard reply to any request..."There is no money in the budget for that..." aye, thats because you have pissed it all away on utterly pointless road coverings you wanker.

[dollywobbler]

"Surface dressing" is a big bag of wank, that's for sure. They did a load around here and on the tight turns, of which there are many, the trucks ripped the surface up after just a few days, so they then needed repairing. Aye. Sounds like a very efficient use of our money.

 

Mind you, truck drivers who hammer it through fresh surface dressings can piss off. Got a few chips on the Honda because of one such twat in Shropshire. Took the bloody racing line on a bend, at speed, sending a sea of gravel all over the front of the Honda. Wish I'd managed to see which bloody company it was.

 

Another incident was a pillock in a Mk4 Astra estate overtaking us in the 2CV. I was doing 40mph, which is an infinitely more sensible speed than the 10mph they seem to want you to do for about a fortnight after the dressing goes down, when the Astra overtook, then cut right in front of us, sending a load of gravel towards the windscreen (and chipping it - a brand new screen fitted last November) as he did so. ARSEHOLE.

[Cavcraft]

Christ knows why (as I always block this sort of shit) but in my Facebook news feed a group called 'I am English and proud' has popped up. Two or three stories in and they're clearly even more fucking stupid and hateful than the others that went before them. I started typing a reply out to one of their moronic posts, but sacked it off and blocked them instead.

[Talbot]

Fucking bastard wanking cockwomble of a car.

 

It's a diesel mercedes.  A bloody diesel mercedes is not supposed to break down.  They are supposed to go on for ever and ever and ever and never need any work at all, right?

 

Failed O-Rings in the fuel injection pump means all the fuel drains back to the tank when the engine is off, there's no hand primer, so you just have to crank the fuck out of the engine until the tiny little plunger pump manages to drag fuel the 4 miles it is from the fuel tank up to the injection pump.

 

Except the battery is tired, so it will only crank for about 15 seconds before expiring.  Jump start it, cranking for what feels like a month, and it eventually splutters in to life.  To reveal that overnight the exhaust has gone from "gas tight" to "leaking like a bastard".  It sounds a bit throaty at idle and not too bad up to 1500rpm, but above that is droneing like a shithead.

 

And the rear suspension has *one* flat suspension sphere.  So one side rear suspension is hard as fucking nails, and the other side is soft.  That makes for some interesting handling.  Plus the rot that I need to weld up in the driver-side front floorpan. Fuckit.  I think this one is going to be an engine donor.  The rest can go nose-first in a skip.

[Eddie Honda]

What's an "airport"?

 

...Er, sorry, I meant 

 

a) Aerfort Bhaile Átha Cliath.

 

b ) An aeroway station for aerobuses.

 

c) Nah, Luton Airport!

[HillmanImp]

Working from home. Can't do work effectively with just the one monitor so order another from Argos for £100, same day delivery.

 

Monitor arrives 15 minutes after I've finished work. Friggin' typical.

 

Try and plug it in anyway as I will be working from home again soon no doubt.

 

Only 1 output.

 

FML.

[Pillock]

What USBs have you got? You can get a fairly cheap USB3 to HDMI converter that appears to Windows as another graphics card so you get full dual monitor support.

[HillmanImp]

What USBs have you got? You can get a fairly cheap USB3 to HDMI converter that appears to Windows as another graphics card so you get full dual monitor support.

 

Really? That sounds like the shizzle I need as I have, er hang on.......9 of them and only 3 are used. Is there owt else I need to get to make it work? 

[Des]

 

It's a diesel mercedes.  A bloody diesel mercedes is not supposed to break down.  They are supposed to go on for ever and ever and ever and never need any work at all, right?

 

 

Sir, it is the year 2017 currently, NOT 1985, please adjust your calenders / Casio watch accordingly.

[Pillock]

Really? That sounds like the shizzle I need as I have, er hang on.......9 of them and only 3 are used. Is there owt else I need to get to make it work? 

 

Make sure they're USB3 - they'll have a blue bit of plastic in the middle. Anything less than USB3 (erm... 2 and 1) isn't fast enough.

Have you got a desktop PC then? Might be more reliable to just lob another graphics card in - those USB converters work, but are typical Chinese electrics lottery. Mine works fine though.... just a bit slow.

[HillmanImp]

Tis a desktop. Might give one of them a try first. Doesn't need to be fast. One screen is for doing, the other is for looking. If it doesn't work I might look at the more expensive option.

 

Thanks. 

[beko1987]

512mb graphics cards are pennies, just make sure there's a pcie slot free, although a pci cars will prob do for displaying windows, office, the internet etc

[Parky]

Interview tomorrow. Need a job but seriously can't get my head in the right space.

 

Might be because I am doing a sales project on a contract basis and it's not going that brilliantly this week and starting to get me down. I will be alright in the morning, just needed a moan.

 

Last interview I had was with a complete c*nt and it has sort of put me off them! Tomorrow's is a two hour job, video conference with two guys in Seattle and then a chat with a guy in the office. Fairly intense so need to get my head straightened up. Maybe I just need some kip.

 

Daughter is munting on about Christmas, wife is working late and son is moaning I haven't done dinner. Probably not helping my urge to lash out!