The grumpy thread

[RayMK]

..............and it is why I've got a MacBook.  I've had it for two years and never had a problem, crash or any signs of slowing down.  I stuck with Windows 8 on my old laptop/netbook which was a free upgrade offered by Microsoft - I had been on 7 previously. Unfortunately, MS would not upgrade 8 to 8.1, or rather they offered it but it would not work despite having a legitimate product key from the operating system which came with the laptop when bought new.  I had, even when 10 was fairly new, heard so many horror stories that an upgrade to 10 was declined.  8 still works ok in a typically MS flaky fashion but is no longer supported with updates.  If I was still at work and had 10, I would be hairless by now.

[Aston Martin]

It makes me grumpy when I post something amazing in the Ebay thread. That I don't need, but desperately want.

[sierraman]

Round us we have a lot of this with uninsured motorbikes haring about at breakneck speed. I've not made plans to commit any genocides on the local youth population though.

[Craig the Princess]

Ungrateful bastard Multipla has thrown off its auxiliary belt. Managed to nurse it bone without power steering but with the Volvo still broken in on Allegro power next week.

[Aston Martin]

It makes me grumpy when I post something amazing in the Ebay thread. That I don't need, but desperately want.

There may or may not be another forum member going to look at it for me now...

[xtriple]

Hot out there. Very hot man.... took the dogs to the beach, mucho lovely ladies in skimpy bikinis swanning about and Chester does like to wander so one has to keep an eye on him doesn't one? Anyway, grump. Bloody fan in the car seems to be MIA so no A/C or even a draft to keep one cool. 5 speeds and not one of them actually work.

[mercrocker]

Merc vent fans of this era seem to give up the ghost about now.....Try and get a genuine one unless you need to pretend your driving an SRN6.    Dunno about aircon models but mine in the 190E looked a proper cock to do so gave it to a specialist (I know, that's how the Bentley started.......)

[Tadhg Tiogar]

....Bloody fan in the car seems to be MIA so no A/C or even a draft to keep one cool. 5 speeds and not one of them actually work.

The CX had the drive belt for the A/C compressor removed a long time ago, so no A/C for me either.....

[ruffgeezer]

It looks like the motherboard in my computer has died.  It seems just lately as soon as I get my head above water, something comes along and shits on it.

 

I found a lot of my GIJoes in my parents loft recently and had been trying to sort a deal out for them as a job lot, which would land me £800 but that seems to have gone quiet too.

[dozeydustman]

..............and it is why I've got a MacBook.  I've had it for two years and never had a problem, crash or any signs of slowing down.  I stuck with Windows 8 on my old laptop/netbook which was a free upgrade offered by Microsoft - I had been on 7 previously. Unfortunately, MS would not upgrade 8 to 8.1, or rather they offered it but it would not work despite having a legitimate product key from the operating system which came with the laptop when bought new.  I had, even when 10 was fairly new, heard so many horror stories that an upgrade to 10 was declined.  8 still works ok in a typically MS flaky fashion but is no longer supported with updates.  If I was still at work and had 10, I would be hairless by now.

 

 

I switched to OS X years ago after Vista was launched. While XP was half decent, the constant bloatware and updates, then slowdowns were horrendous. 7 is quite stable and I use that on an ancient Toshiba laptop on which I do my photographic stuff (scanning slides/negatives etc). 

 

My third laptop was gifted to me by my sister in law after she had a paddy with it, it automatically updated to 10 and wrecked it. I now run Ubuntu on it, which is OK but still too hard going for its miserly spec.

 

The only problem with Mac OS X is Apple have really neglected their computer software of late, concentrating more on iOS devices.

 

I think Linux is the future for computers TBH

[LostnotFound]

I really wish this showed it how I saw it, camera make it look so much more sedate. :

 

 

This is not related to you specifically more my opinion on dash cam footage.

 

I flicked through it but didn't see anything odd? Someone was closer than you'd liked so you slowed down and they went past so all is good. I would always rather someone overtake than sit on my wheel. 

 

 I know we'll all end up with them, but IMO something you'd have forgotten after a few mins in the past but now have the ability to wind yourself up time and time again watching stuff back. It's another nail in the coffin of enjoying driving / riding.

[mrbenn]

I really wish this showed it how I saw it, camera make it look so much more sedate. :

 

 

Something like that prompted me to get a dash cam with rear facing camera included.

 

Two pricks in a van displayed some of the most agressive, threatening driving I've ever seen, 95% of which occurred behind me, before swerving towards my car as they overtook. Totally unprovoked. I was doing 60mph in a 60mph zone when they arrived behind me and continued to do same until they pulled out to overtake, then I lifted off to encourage get them past and fuck off.

 

The front facing camera only caught them pulling back in too close, hardly a hanging offence, and the passenger window going up as they ceased their tirade.

 

If I'd had a rear camera then I'd have 100% reported them to the Police. They'd probably have got a talking to at worst as they didn't actually hit my car, but at least I'd have felt able to persue the issue.

[beko1987]

I've done no work on my car this weekend as I had planned. However, I've not broken anything either which is probably a good thing...

[xtriple]

Bloody front tooth is loose! I mean LOOSE! wobbling around like a three inch nut on a toothpick. Sod it, means I have to go and see Ursula, wonder if she's forgiven me yet?

[The Moog]

Air BnB flat in Paris has thinnest curtains ever. And a streetlight opposite. So hence waking up every hour thinking it is broad daylight. Grumpy and old this morning ..

 

That plus thunderstorms last night meant before even got to football was soaking. We reached a consensus and got beer and went back to flat to dry out.

 

Too old to be wet through to then watch a friendly between two teams not that fussed by.

[Des]

Here's a prick bowling through a red light with the pedestrian crossing bit active a few days ago, school chucking out time for bonus wanker points. Shitty dashcam showing wrong date.

 

 

I've bubbled the tosser to the babylon website, nicely laid out form to fill, being a nark has never been easier, we'll have to see if anything comes of it, hope so, this type of cunt is quite boringly common and will carry on until it ends badly for someone else.

Skip to 40 secs for the action.

[rainagain]

I'm totally sick of selfish drivers, I took the kids out on Sunday, leaving the house I was tail gated all the way through the 30 zone by an angry guy in a resale silver Golf. The road then became a dual carriageway I overtook a lorry and stayed in lane two so I could turn right at the upcoming roundabout (which was 100 metres after overtaking lorry so not worth moving back to lane 1). Angry Golf man overtook the lorry than undertook me and forced his way in front of me forcing me to do an emergency stop as he then slammed on his brakes for the roundabout.

 

Then later in the day we parked in a long car park with spaces on one side, two woman parked behind me on the road rather than using any of the remaining empty spaces. When we went to leave I tried to reverse back out of my space but I couldn't get out as their car was there, I waited, expecting them to see the rear of my car in their side window and move but instead they just sat there stuffing their faces with a McDonalds. I had to get out and I asked them politely to move, the driver just huffed and gave her mate her food and speed off complete with revving engine

 

I just don't understand people now a days, it's all me me me. Even simple stuff like that fact that no ones cares about parking on blind corners or opposite junctions. 

[Shonky]

This selfish driver theme is just horrific. My driving seems to bring out the worst in people, as I'm black boxed for the time being so you can forget about rising to the twats that love to challenge you because of it.

 

I often drive down roads are, say, 30 miles per hour. But nobody in reality actually does 30 on them, 'cause they're big and like, innit.

 

The sort of driving that ensues is horrific. I get flashed, tailgated, and that's just on a twenty mile round trip to college every day.

 

I've had two especially bad cases with white vans trying to get me to rise to it, as I'm in my chavvy black Corsa with black wheels (which I happen to love). One of them, I slipped out at a roundabout so there was a gap *just* enough for me, so he was forced to wait, since he'd been tailing me for a couple miles now.

 

It worked. He waited, I got out. I'm up to the 30 speed limit, and suddenly, I see him beating the balls off his shiny new Fix It Again Tony pick-up to catch up to me again! What's the objective? The end goal? 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Here's a prick bowling through a red light with the pedestrian crossing bit active a few days ago, school chucking out time for bonus wanker points. Shitty dashcam showing wrong date.

 

 

I've bubbled the tosser to the babylon website, nicely laid out form to fill, being a nark has never been easier, we'll have to see if anything comes of it, hope so, this type of cunt is quite boringly common and will carry on until it ends badly for someone else.

Skip to 40 secs for the action.

I've seen moped and scooter riders do this before. Cyclists in London used to do this frequently.

 

Having the wrong date on your dashcam video may not be helpful for evidence purposes if they ever (bother to) track the fella down.

[Datsuncog]

I just don't understand people now a days, it's all me me me. Even simple stuff like that fact that no ones cares about parking on blind corners or opposite junctions. 

 

We have people constantly parking across our driveway. Constantly. Royal Mail vans, couriers, takeaway deliveries, next-door's mates. Sometimes just random cars. It's a quiet residential area on the very edge of town too, not a busy inner-city street. It's baffling.

 

Bad enough when you return home to find you're blocked and have to leave the car out on the street, but an absolute bugger to have to go around knocking doors when you need to get out of your own frigging driveway in a hurry. Rather than being apologetic, the culprits tend toward grumpiness/total indifference.

 

Especially when they could just as easily have parked four feet along the road and not across the driveway. I don't give a tinker's toot if they park in front of the house, that's fine. Just not across the driveway!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

....Bad enough when you return home to find you're blocked and have to leave the car out on the street, but an absolute bugger to have to go around knocking doors when you need to get out of your own frigging driveway in a hurry. Rather than being apologetic, the culprits tend toward grumpiness/total indifference.

 

Especially when they could just as easily have parked four feet along the road and not across the driveway. I don't give a tinker's toot if they park in front of the house, that's fine. Just not across the driveway!

There have already been a couple of reports of people protesting about fire engines and ambulances (on emergency calls) parking in front of their houses, so I'd say the selfish society is already endemic.

 

One householder directly opposite where I live makes a point of parking his Honda on the only available bit of kerbside outside instead of on his own driveway. I've had one or two people from the Ghanaian Embassy residence a few doors away dumping their cars across my driveway, but they are easy to find because I know who they are. There's another neighbour who brings home Mercedes Sprinter-type LWB minibuses from his work and takes up quite a lot of the available kerbside parking. Add to this the commuters who try to bag a free spot for the entire day (this is the last street near the Tube station which still has no parking restrictions / CPZ arrangements), and you've got a pretty good recipe for discontent.

 

That's why a lot of residents here now have dropped kerbs.

[Captain Furious]

Time is literally passing at 1/4 the rate of normal time today.  I have been here 3 hours and 21 minutes and I feel like I have seen every single one of those minutes tick over.

 

I'm here until 6pm, I can't even comprehend how far away that is.

[Cavcraft]

Don’t realky know what you’re moaning about, tbh. II've just driven through a village that had a sign "Speed Check Area" and other one flashing the number "30" at me.

 

Well something is wrong because both my speedo and satnav clearly said I was doing 95.

[mercrocker]

I hope you were checking your phone app at the same time, to make absolutely sure.....

[SiC]

I find that the higher the population density the greater the number of idiots on the road. Its primarily reason number one I'm extremely tempted to move out of Bristol suburbs and back to the countryside. I'd love to live in west wales, but unfortunately there isn't work for me over there. More annoyingly, the industry I'm in (software + hardware development) I need to be either along the M4/M5 corridor, Cambridge or London. Of which everywhere is very busy, overcrowded and expensive.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

There is now a leak in the office building, so we now have a waterfall of sorts just inside the entrance door......

[alcyonecorporation]

CVD/Brightside: when it's actually cheaper and less stressful to drive uninsured.

 

They make Adrian Flux look competent, and that's saying something.

[Pillock]

Even a government run agency set up for centrally issued mandatory insurance would be less stressful than buying from most insurers.

[Lacquer Peel]

Even a government run agency set up for centrally issued mandatory insurance would be less stressful than buying from most insurers.

That's what is needed. For something that is required by law it shouldn't be in the hands of money grabbers who set the rules as they go.

[Captain Furious]

That's what is needed. For something that is required by law it shouldn't be in the hands of money grabbers who set the rules as they go.

 

Damn straight, it should be in the hands of the Governm....oh hang on