The grumpy thread

[dozeydustman]

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Another bit of Glasgow's history erased as the Western Infirmary falls, ready to be replaced with some modular plate glass boxes...

 

The frequent complaints of boxy concrete 1960/70s buildings jarring with the older examples being made of local sandstone seems to matter not seems as they've demolished the older buildings as well...

 

 

Agree with Yellowperil. Glasgow is a pretty city, steeped in a rich history and has many beautiful buildings of many eras. The craftsmanship that went into cutting, shaping and carving those old stone blocks is fast becoming a lost art, it's a shame to see buildings like that get torn down, even when structurally sound and could be re-purposed.

 

I hope the sandstone gets recycled.

[somewhatfoolish]

Worcester Bosch customer service. E-mails, website contact form and numerous phone calls advising "I am held in a queue." 

 

I would like to exchange money for a boiler service - clearly they have enough so don't require mine. 

Ask a neighbour(ideally one you like/trust) who does their boiler; there will be someone local who will do it better and cheaper than A. N. Other service tech in a van, and more importantly you'll be able to speak to the person who will actually be doing the service.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

My new windscreens cracked already! Fun phone call in a minute...

Best not have a word with FOAD about this....

[AMC Rebel]

Old people (usually part of the rambler's association) shouting all sorts of shit (encluding all types of expletive) at you as you either approach them in your car on a road or when you cycle past them while giving them a wide birth. Always a good "get up and go" initiative.

 

 

The RA, utter arseholes in red socks. They always look miserable when outdoors & think everyone else should too.

 

 

There seems to be a vague undercurrent of cowardly hatred running through a lot of "gangs" in this country.  A couple of years ago I was waiting for a bus.  I wondered out onto the shared footpath to see if there was any sign of the bus when and old bloke and his wife (and they have to be old to be old to me) came up behind me on their bikes and he muttered something in a particularly nasty passive aggressive manner about me "taking up the whole path".  It's a real shame.  I was making it awkward for him - but not on purpose, and up to that point I didn't think he was twat - in fact not having eyes fitted to the rear of my head, I hadn't seen him approaching.

[AMC Rebel]

Worcester Bosch customer service. E-mails, website contact form and numerous phone calls advising "I am held in a queue." 

 

I would like to exchange money for a boiler service - clearly they have enough so don't require mine. 

 

They won't touch mine as it's too old.  It's just a Worcester - before the Bosch bit.

[chaseracer]

Managed to fall down the stairs earlier, fortunately on my ample arse rather than headfirst.  Aches/stiffness?  Check.  Weapons-grade ibuprofen?  HELL YEAH.

 

You can stop laughing now.

 

[320touring]

Managed to fall down the stairs earlier, fortunately on my ample arse rather than headfirst. Aches/stiffness? Check. Weapons-grade ibuprofen? HELL YEAH.

 

You can stop laughing now.

 

Take care and get well!

[Guest Hooli]

Still laughing ya clumsy twat

[richardmorris]

Managed to fall down the stairs earlier, fortunately on my ample arse rather than headfirst. Aches/stiffness? Check. Weapons-grade ibuprofen? HELL YEAH.

 

You can stop laughing now.

 

I fell down the stairs when I lived in ascot in 2001. Dressed in my best suit and leather soled shoes going to a funeral. Thumped my elbow on the bottom step and couldn’t use my hand well - not helpful as I was the church warden and needed to hold one of the staffs. Took about ten years to not feel painful when resting on it! Helpfully I had the CX at the time which one can drive left handed with no effort.

[Tamworthbay]

Take it easy Mate, stuff like that can hit hardest the next day.

[somewhatfoolish]

There seems to be a vague undercurrent of cowardly hatred running through a lot of "gangs" in this country.  A couple of years ago I was waiting for a bus.  I wondered out onto the shared footpath to see if there was any sign of the bus when and old bloke and his wife (and they have to be old to be old to me) came up behind me on their bikes and he muttered something in a particularly nasty passive aggressive manner about me "taking up the whole path".  It's a real shame.  I was making it awkward for him - but not on purpose, and up to that point I didn't think he was twat - in fact not having eyes fitted to the rear of my head, I hadn't seen him approaching.

Highway code sez:

 

 

 

Even the Department of Transport think they're twats.

[SiC]

Highway code sez:

 

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Even the Department of Transport think they're twats.

You can cycle on a shared path though. Quite a lot of them around Bristol. Stupidly often not wide enough for both cyclist and pedestrian.

[dollywobbler]

You can cycle on a shared path though. Quite a lot of them around Bristol. Stupidly often not wide enough for both cyclist and pedestrian.

 

Approaching Durham, there is a cycle lane which takes up precisely half of one side of the road. So, you can't do anything but drive in it. A hundred slaps with a bunch of nettles to whoever came up with that one.

[Fumbler]

Approaching Durham, there is a cycle lane which takes up precisely half of one side of the road. So, you can't do anything but drive in it. A hundred slaps with a bunch of nettles to whoever came up with that one.

Local town has that as well on one road thankfully. Unserprisingly it's the road all cycle users (especially the annoying lycra ones) don't use, so they continue to complain about cycle rights.

[myglaren]

Approaching Durham, there is a cycle lane which takes up precisely half of one side of the road. So, you can't do anything but drive in it. A hundred slaps with a bunch of nettles to whoever came up with that one.

Reminded me of something I heard last week.

Vague recollection:  You know how good a friend is by how hard they slap you with a bunch of fresh nettles *

 

Nettle stings are good for arthritis (allegedly) so the more and harder they hit the better for the arthritis.

 

Not sure which is worse.

 

 

*from Vindolanda, supposedly.

[somewhatfoolish]

The council minions in charge of cycling at Argyll & Bute council are partial to, when not spending the cycletrack budget on cycletracks that resemble the rougher parts of the dark side of the moon, anointing a metre wide strip adjacent the kerb of some roads with red or green tarmac and calling this a cycle track. As it's punctuated by various drain covers and other street furniture and on many stretches of the roads enough drainage camber to make it unsafe to cycle on it's as much use as a chocolate tea pot. There's enough prior art about what constitutes a cycle track for it to be reasonable to dismiss this as fuckwitted window dressing by a local authority who don't give a shit about cyclists or cycling.

[Fumbler]

It's a council initiative down here in Kent and Sussex (at least) to pedestranise or encourage that lovely, continental cafe lifestyle. So much so parts of local town are now for pedestrians only, ignoring the fact that said town's road system is crippled and it wouldn't help to sever a couple of its arteries and veins. Aaaand they did just that. Grant came along and they decided to spend it on shitty flagstones which break when someone steps on it rather than upgrading the road surfaces on main roads in/out of the town.
Uckfield, the town on the other side of me, decided to widen its pavements to encourage that continental cafe lifestyle and then bollocked it up as there are nowt cafes and now the parking is hell. The joys of grants.

[taxi paul]

Woken up at 2.30 am this morning by the police. Inform g me that missing foster child had been arrested for finding something before it was lost. So lack of sleep and lots of phone calls . On the bright side he appears to be staying in his en suite accommodation tonight so at least I won't be disturbed.

[Cavcraft]

There are lots of idiotic cyclists, but there are lots of dickhead dog owners who watch you cycling carefully as their precious pet who isn't on a lead wanders straight into your path. I was riding home down the canal path many years ago when some old duffer's dog walked right in front of my front wheel. It was either go in the canal, or try left and hope not to roll down a bank. Took the less watery option, went through a barbed wire fence and rolled into a thorn bush about 12-15ft down the bank. I'm not a violent person, but had the dog owner been twenty years younger he'd have taken the less dry root, via the end of my boot.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

The council minions in charge of cycling at Argyll & Bute council are partial to, when not spending the cycletrack budget on cycletracks that resemble the rougher parts of the dark side of the moon, anointing a metre wide strip adjacent the kerb of some roads with red or green tarmac and calling this a cycle track. As it's punctuated by various drain covers and other street furniture and on many stretches of the roads enough drainage camber to make it unsafe to cycle on it's as much use as a chocolate tea pot. There's enough prior art about what constitutes a cycle track for it to be reasonable to dismiss this as fuckwitted window dressing by a local authority who don't give a shit about cyclists or cycling.

 

 

Bloke walks into a bar and orders a pint.  A minute or so later, a bit of tarmac swaggers in:

 

'Six pints of Old Rosie please, Bob!'

 

He goes and sits with his drinks and starts swigging away.

 

Five minutes later a red bit of tarmac walks in.

 

'OI!  Six FUCKING pints of FUCKING whisky, Bob, you WANKER!'

 

Bob hands over the drinks.  The first bit of tarmac runs outside and hides under a picnic bench, nervously watching the red tarmac through the door.  After another ten minutes, the red bit of tarmac lets out a loud belch, wanders off to the gents, walks out doing up his flies and wanders off into the night.

 

The bloke goes outside to counsel the first bit of tarmac.

 

'Mate, are you alright?'

 

'Yeah, I'm alright?'

 

'Are you sure?  You looked pretty surprised to me.'

 

'Yeah.  Well.  I'm alright now.'

 

'Ok.  I don't get it though.  You're a bit of tarmac, he's a bit of tarmac.  If it came to it, it'd be even stevens, right?'

 

'No mate.  You don't get it.  I'm a bit of tarmac.  He.  He's a fucking cyclepath.'

[Fumbler]

There are lots of idiotic cyclists, but there are lots of dickhead dog owners who watch you cycling carefully as their precious pet who isn't on a lead wanders straight into your path. I was riding home down the canal path many years ago when some old duffer's dog walked right in front of my front wheel. It was either go in the canal, or try left and hope not to roll down a bank. Took the less watery option, went through a barbed wire fence and rolled into a thorn bush about 12-15ft down the bank. I'm not a violent person, but had the dog owner been twenty years younger he'd have taken the less dry root, via the end of my boot.

I was going to write the exact same thing! They're usually also the ones that shout expletives as you go past, even when you ring your bell.

[Lord Sterling]

Managed to fall down the stairs earlier, fortunately on my ample arse rather than headfirst.  Aches/stiffness?  Check.  Weapons-grade ibuprofen?  HELL YEAH.

 

You can stop laughing now.

 

I fell down some steps in Turkey and almost landed on some poor geezer who was sat a few steps below minding his own business texting on his phone. My ankle still hurts slightly now.

[Fumbler]

What sometimes grinds my gears are these cow apologist types (vegan association). One of these groups decided to erect notices in tube stations early this year saying "Be vegan for January to save cows." when these people are also the types who go along and critisize everyone for using cars, burning oil, gas, coal, not wearing green sandals etc. They seem to have forgotten that their friend, the cow, is a large greenhouse gas producer and is contributing a nice amount to el scorchio weather and white furry bear problems.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Well, if fewer people ate cows there would be fewer of them.

 

But yes.  Pushing views on other people is a big no-no in my view.

 

I've been a vegetarian since 2010 but have never, ever tried to convert or persuade anybody to match my lifestyle choice and I always offer to bring my own food to parties...

[Lacquer Peel]

 

 

Well, if fewer people ate cows there would be fewer of them.

Exactly.

[SiC]

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/today-last-day-you-can-1962751

 

 

The worst is if in a one hour bay, parking starts at 50 pence for 10 minutes. 3 quid for an hour.

[DodgeRover]

Woken up at 2.30 am this morning by the police. Inform g me that missing foster child had been arrested for finding something before it was lost. So lack of sleep and lots of phone calls . On the bright side he appears to be staying in his en suite accommodation tonight so at least I won't be disturbed.

Is this the same one or a different one either way they sound troubled.

[taxi paul]

Same one sadly. Unfortunately due to cutbacks the lack of suitable semi secure placements means these kids will continue till they get sent to a young offenders institute. Which costs a lot more. Like my neighbours. Been evicted for not paying the £100 a month bedroom tax. Fair enough should pay it. Now the three if them,all adults. Have a room each at a premier inn costing how much a month? Say at least £2,000. So the local council can't pay the tax for them but then has to pay to accommodate them. The world is fucking mad.

[Snipes]

So I'm at the very very final stages of becoming an electrician. This last stage, which should take about 6-12 months, has dragged on for almost 2 years because my damn accessor doesn't pick up his messages. I could finish this an thing tomorrow but hey, he's not answering his fucking messages again!

[Kiltox]

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/today-last-day-you-can-1962751

 

 

The worst is if in a one hour bay, parking starts at 50 pence for 10 minutes. 3 quid for an hour.

FFS Bristol

 

A more car hating city I never did see