The grumpy thread

[Inspector Morose]

Bought my first reading glasses today after 47 years of spectacle-less sight.

I am now officially old.

[MikeR]

Hamster drivers ...

Today every middle lane hogger has been one .. 

How can they drive like that ?

[chaseracer]

36 minutes ago, FPB7 said:

Bought my first reading glasses today after 47 years of spectacle-less sight.

I am now officially old.

Welcome to middle age, friend.

I am, of course, suitably ashamed of my initial reaction above...

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[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, FPB7 said:

Bought my first reading glasses today after 47 years of spectacle-less sight.

I am now officially old.

Reading glasses!? Lightweight!

Ye're old if those 47 years have ended up in having to wear varifocals. 

[myglaren]

1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Reading glasses!? Lightweight!

Ye're old if those 47 years have ended up in having to wear varifocals. 

I'm somewhat older, can't be doing with varifocals/bifocals so have three pair (actually 5, a couple of duplicates) and four pair are buggered, need updating

[Tadhg Tiogar]

6 minutes ago, myglaren said:

.... can't be doing with varifocals/bifocals ...

I put it off as long as I could. But resistance was futile.

[dozeydustman]

3 hours ago, MikeR said:

Hamster drivers ...

Today every middle lane hogger has been one .. 

How can they drive like that ?

Hamster drivers?

[MikeR]

The ones that hug the steering wheel with nose touching the wheel ......

I could not get in the car if the seat was that far forward !

[MikeR]

Another day another grump .. Yesterday it was a gaggle of  tandams ...  As in many trying to climb a steep twistry hill together .... And i am stuck 3 cars back from a "carefull driver " who cant/could not get past the lead bike to save his life ..  Lead bike nearly stops because its a f in steep hill  .. The carefull  car does stop..  And We all stop on this 1 in 8 .. And the  trailing tandams dont want to stop on a 1 in 8 because they dont have handbrake . so they starts overtaking the stopped cars . wobbling uphill on a blind bend on the wrong side of the road .

 

Darwin still lives .

 

ps . found the car cam footage , woman on the left was looking at us as if the say "what the f is going on " ...  and behind me to my right is a tandem coming up the outside of the cars !!

[bigstraight6]

On 5/26/2019 at 5:41 PM, FPB7 said:

Bought my first reading glasses today after 47 years of spectacle-less sight.

I am now officially old.

That’s the age I reached when I found quite by accident I needed glasses to read, 4 years on now and sight is bang on except the glasses for reading issue, I really struggle to read anything without glasses now.

[dozeydustman]

6 hours ago, volvov70 said:

Father V  had two Meso tumors removed from his left lung three weeks ago - he is fine. Lung cancer is pretty much curable these days if caught early enough.

My thoughts are with you.

Thank you for the kind words. We're not entirely sure what timescale we're looking at but have been told already that it's inoperable. TBH I think months or even weeks as she's getting very very weak.

[Zelandeth]

What is it with me finding the most self important assholes of "traffic officers" lately?
Just got given an absolute ear bending for "revving my engine in an antisocial and intimidating manner."

I blipped the throttle when shifting down from second to first as I came to a halt... because it's an old school commercial box and will often crunch at you if you don't double declutch while doing that...though you wouldn't know what double declutching was if I battered you round the head with the IAM handbook would you...

Absolute asshole... absolutely suited the BMW he was driving...

[chaseracer]

What manner of 'traffic officer' was this, Zel - proper plod or highway womble?

[LightBulbFun]

3 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

What is it with me finding the most self important assholes of "traffic officers" lately?
Just got given an absolute ear bending for "revving my engine in an antisocial and intimidating manner."

I blipped the throttle when shifting down from second to first as I came to a halt... because it's an old school commercial box and will often crunch at you if you don't double declutch while doing that...though you wouldn't know what double declutching was if I battered you round the head with the IAM handbook would you...

Absolute asshole... absolutely suited the BMW he was driving...

that sounds like you where in the camper van

why would someone think you would be ""revving your engine in an antisocial and intimidating manner." in a 30 year camper van?!

as I said before with the Xantia incident, its going to be a right laugh if they make the mistake of pulling you over in the Model 70

 

[Zelandeth]

Aye... menacingly displaying all 78 raging horses the camper van has to offer.
 

Was one of the highways agency idiots as always seems to be the case around here.

He'd been following me for about 20 minutes, so had obviously decided he wanted to give me hassle long  before I turned into a car park and he boxed me in.

 

Good thing he didn't follow me home... someone has spilled something all over one of the roundabouts which has reacted with the water from a recent deluge to make it into a giant foaming skidpan.  Wound up drifting a good 3/4 of the way round it on about 50% opposite lock - at about 15mph.

[jumpingjehovahs]

Aye... menacingly displaying all 78 raging horses the camper van has to offer.
 
Was one of the highways agency idiots as always seems to be the case around here.
He'd been following me for about 20 minutes, so had obviously decided he wanted to give me hassle long  before I turned into a car park and he boxed me in.
 
Good thing he didn't follow me home... someone has spilled something all over one of the roundabouts which has reacted with the water from a recent deluge to make it into a giant foaming skidpan.  Wound up drifting a good 3/4 of the way round it on about 50% opposite lock - at about 15mph.

How can a Highways Agency Officer justify following you and then offering advice on your driving? Certainly, he can’t have any power to block your vehicle in and prevent you from moving on?


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[chaseracer]

Way exceeding his already spurious 'authority'...

[sheffcortinacentre]

Last womble that came on to me like that was told to go hassle someone who thinks they were guna be taken in by his pretend plod appearance.

His female associate said I want your name & address so I asked are you a police officer?

Her reply was no.

So I said Im not giving you them then, you could be going to give them to your mate to burgle me seeing as I'm broken down overan hour from home.now go away I'm waiting for the AA.

A mate who's a time served mechanic was changing a tyre on the hard should when as if by magic one appeared beside him & during the procedure was constantly told you shouldn't be doing that you should get to a safe position & wait for a professional to come do that when he done he said I am but it's my day off but I still now what to do see you  & drove off.

You should have took there details & reported him traffic cops can't stand them.

[sierraman]

Past 2 days of looking at £500 cars has reinforced what I already knew. £1000 is the starting point for something respectable with a bit of life left in it. Searching for a car for the in laws, they’re not too fussy just something average sized that does everything averagely. 15 years ago £500 got you something fairly decent that would stand a fighting chance of seeing a year or two out. I think now inflation means a grand is the old £500. 

[Amishtat]

Zel, you took that from a traffic womble? Hope you got some id to report him by, surely that behaviour is well outside his remit. Also, I'd have loved to have seen the camper in a good old fashioned roundabout slide.. 

[LightBulbFun]

I just learned that Aussie50 has passed away

May he RIP,

(I pretty much grew up watching his videos along with Photonicinduction and other "nutters" of the same type.)

[Broadsword]

People who call Range Rovers trucks. Something to do with the surge in pickup truck popularity I suspect. A Range Rover is no truck.

[SiC]

5 minutes ago, Broadsword said:

People who call Range Rovers trucks. Something to do with the surge in pickup truck popularity I suspect. A Range Rover is no truck.

Because they're commonly seen on the back of one?

 

 

Bada um tsh

[andy18s]

15 minutes ago, Broadsword said:

People who call Range Rovers trucks. Something to do with the surge in pickup truck popularity I suspect. A Range Rover is no truck.

Or Jeeps....

 

[Broadsword]

14 minutes ago, SiC said:

Because they're commonly seen on the back of one?

 

 

Bada um tsh

Ah damn. You had me there!

[twosmoke300]

It’s funny cos it’s true ?

[Zelandeth]

8 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

I just learned that Aussie50 has passed away

May he RIP,

(I pretty much grew up watching his videos along with Photonicinduction and other "nutters" of the same type.)

Hell that's a bloody shame...he was only our age.  Always enjoyed his channel...some of his shenanigans with JGCertified actually made me laugh till I was almost in tears.  For all I've never met the guy, he always felt like someone it would be eminently possible to walk into a room with him and immediately lose hours nattering about pretty much anything tech, car or engineering related.

Loss to the engineering world as a whole too, was really nice to see a young lad keeping a lot of old school engineering principles alive and well. 

[Fumbler]

8 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

I just learned that Aussie50 has passed away

May he RIP,

(I pretty much grew up watching his videos along with Photonicinduction and other "nutters" of the same type.)

Jesus I never knew! How sad. I really enjoyed his Crunchy PC and his rambletrons. He even got some VW 8 valve engines to run as well.

[LightBulbFun]

I hope someone takes good care of his dog, and also handles his workshop properly, it would be a shame for all of his stuff to go in the skip, he had some very impressive rare and historically important bits and pieces

heres his facebook page if anyone wants to know more about his untimely passing  https://www.facebook.com/edward.jones.9400984?__tn__=%2CdK-R-R&eid=ARAMFqAml3XEsKlRAhV1g2vML4wTYDYRANiGbunSO_2yJDPxKw1C68275aJReaMZGss4pM3KWQWmBGkW&fref=mentions

[clayts450]

Some bastard hacked my ebay/Paypal/Amazon accounts this PM and made some purchases this afternoon so have spent the last few hours sorting that little mess out 

TSB - perfect, cards stopped, blocks on a few dodgy transactions, time taken 5 minutes

Paypal - perfect, filled in a form, transactions on hold, time taken 2 minutes

Ebay - perfect, contacted seller to explain, all okay : somewhat foolishly the buyer pretending to be me had sent a message to the seller through eBay asking them to send it to a new address. The seller messaged them back (also sent to my Gmail account as well) advising it'll go to the address on the account but didn't disclose the address - luckily they haven't sent it yet, but muppet very kindly provided his address. Argos catalogues on their way

Amazon - fucknuggets. Clearly an offshore call centre - had spotted three transactions on my TSB account, two for the same amount, all to Amazon (one a token £1 probably pre-authorisation) Agent checked and stated only one order since my last legitimate order - asked them to check again. And again. They confirmed they could stop the one order as it hadn't left the warehouse. Great. Asked them again, to please double check as there were two debits on my TSB account for the same amount. No, no, all okay, one order, and I've stopped it. Wasn't until I managed to get into the account online that there had indeed been TWO orders and one had been delivered today (handed to me in person apparently), the second order (the one she stopped) where the blagger realised he'd fucked up and added his address (this time an address somewhere else - I sense more Argos catalogues on their way). He'll get nowt. Neither will Amazon as TSB have already stopped the payments. Anyway, checked my Amazon safe place, and sure enough, a nice shiny new digital camera in there. FFS. All boxed up and ready to go back tomorrow.

What a fucking ballache. Anyway, all bases covered, all passwords changed, crisis averted - thankfully the hacker(s) were as thick as pigshit and fucked up not once but twice.