The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

Same thing round here yesterday, Hairnetty. Old bloke on some sort of modern 125 bike said he got a ticket for parking under a tree in the car park. The bike/motorbike bit was full and he wasn't on a walk through or car parking space, just a bit off the track under a sodding tree. 

 

 

[Lord Sterling]

  On 07/07/2019 at 17:55, Frogchod said:

Another fucking speeding ticket has arrived.

81 in an 80 limit FFS.

45 euro fine.

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Hmmm. This also goes a long way to explain why the French people I deal with on a daily basis are so angry.....

[hairnet]

  On 07/07/2019 at 17:55, Frogchod said:

Another fucking speeding ticket has arrived.

81 in an 80 limit FFS.

45 euro fine.

Might have to look at retro fitting a speed limiter to the van.

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brick under the throttle

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 07/07/2019 at 17:55, Frogchod said:

Another fucking speeding ticket has arrived.

81 in an 80 limit FFS.....

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A few questions spring to mind, in no particular order:

- where there is a limit, is it ever acceptable to breach it?

- should limits apply to everyone, but not to oneself?

- if there is to be a breach of a limit, what margin is "acceptable"?

- if there is to be a margin, what is the point of having a limit?

[wuvvum]

In answer to question 2, the new 80 km/h limit on French rural roads shouldn't apply to anyone, because it's fucking ridiculous.

[anonymous user]

I think the margin is to allow for potential minor inaccuracies in speedometer readings. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 07/07/2019 at 20:39, wuvvum said:

...the new 80 km/h limit on French rural roads shouldn't apply to anyone, because it's fucking ridiculous.

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Make it 180km/h then, and see how everyone gets on....?

[iainrcz]

12 hours listening to this.
I'm pretty sure at some point it'll shit the bed.

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[Wack]

Up at 3am , ring security cam keeps turning on , it's set to detect nothing smaller than a human 

Only a spider 3" in front of the sensor happily spinning a web is human sized at that distance 

[Wack]

  On 07/07/2019 at 08:01, Dick Longbridge said:

I hope you took a photo with the tyre and plate in full view, and sent it to plod. 

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A  month ago a guy on facebook sent his mustang into ford for a service , he thought it was funny that the service report said rear tyres 0.0mm 

I and most of the group weren't so amused he thought driving about on bald tyres in a 420bhp car when it hadn't stopped raining for a week was funny 

 

[New POD]

  On 07/07/2019 at 20:31, Tadhg Tiogar said:

A few questions spring to mind, in no particular order:

- where there is a limit, is it ever acceptable to breach it?

- should limits apply to everyone, but not to oneself?

- if there is to be a breach of a limit, what margin is "acceptable"?

- if there is to be a margin, what is the point of having a limit?

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If there was no limit, would it be safer? 

I ask because I know lots of roads where it would be foolish to take any bend at NSL. 

And the only crashes I've seen are related to lack of grip at speeds much less than the NSL due to ice. 

[davehedgehog31]

Could hear a woman at my work crying from the next office. I thought the poor soul had maybe just received some bad family news or was perhaps on a massive drug induced comedown. 

No, turns out she was crying because her new settee didn't get delivered on Saturday and she had to cancel her friends coming round as a result. 

CUNT

[Saabnut]

Yesterday, I decided I needed to get on with the recently acquired 9-3 as I want to take it to France next week (It has been off the road for nearly 3 years). It had failed an MOT on a sticking calliper (2 new ones purchased) and rear shock mounts broken (they are ally castings). Started with the OSR mount. Shock undone easily, 2 of the 3 bolts out. Third bolt is tight. Breaker bar and large amounts of weight added. I have done this before so made sure my fingers were out of the way in case the socket slipped. Big bang and ooooh that smarts. Socket snapped (a good quality impact socket) which altered the angle of decent so my finger was exactly between the breaker bar and the back axle. It was so painful I did not swear!

Spent the morning changing the bandage on my finger as everytime I forget and touch anything with it, it changes colour! The rest of the morning has been spent trying to make the workshop look more like a workshop and less like a slaughter house by cleaning the blood off my tools. Really cannot risk more damage to my finger today so a day off from cars.

Decided as the forecast is for today to be the only dry day this week, I would mow the grass. The mower is behind the Saab. Which has no wheels and partially dismantled rear suspension.

Wonder if the pub is open?

[3VOM]

Backing out of supermarket car park space same time as someone opposite-ish. Old git with Volvo - no damage. Old git with Corsa - dent in body. Old git in Corsa thinks he's going to claim off my insurance. Pyrrhus comes to mind.

[Wack]

  On 08/07/2019 at 08:11, davehedgehog31 said:

Could hear a woman at my work crying from the next office. I thought the poor soul had maybe just received some bad family news or was perhaps on a massive drug induced comedown. 

No, turns out she was crying because her new settee didn't get delivered on Saturday and she had to cancel her friends coming round as a result. 

CUNT

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They'll be the same ones moaning about the environment but far too busy to shop so order online them collect from the 30 newly installed fully refrigerated with AC running 24/7  outdoor collection lockers from a supermarket that's only closed from 11pm saturday to 10am sunday all fucking week 

[New POD]

  On 08/07/2019 at 08:11, davehedgehog31 said:

Could hear a woman at my work crying from the next office. I thought the poor soul had maybe just received some bad family news or was perhaps on a massive drug induced comedown. 

No, turns out she was crying because her new settee didn't get delivered on Saturday and she had to cancel her friends coming round as a result. 

CUNT

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So my daughter rents a furnished flat.  Lounge has a 2 seater sofa and a dining table with 4 not very comfy chairs.

Daughter had a party.  I took 3 camping chairs.  I'm fucked if I'm standing on my feet for 3 hours. 

If my sofa wasn't delivered and i had people coming round I'd tell them to bring a chair or bean bag.  It's not hard. 

[reb]

Apparently selling an "axe" with no edge to it whatsoever is something that is ok now. Not too much of a grump because I was planning on sharpening it anyway as even good axes don't have a fantastic factory edge, but I'd at least expect it to be able to split a piddly bit of firewood! For £13 I can't really complain I suppose. After a sharpen and replacing the varnish with boiled linseed oil it should be a serviceably pleasant thing to use hopefully.

[captain_70s]

  On 05/07/2019 at 16:54, captain_70s said:

Went to see my mate's new house, nice and early so I could get home and be in for a DPD parcel delivery, got distracted by the waste pipe popping off the washing machine and flooding the utility room. Got home, missed parcel delivery by 2 minutes, passed the van going the opposite way...

The parcel is a new exhaust for the Acclaim.

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As an update, I organised to collect this from the DPD depot after work today. Only when I arrived it transpired it'd actually been loaded onto a van and was out for delivery again but the driver had reported it as undeliverable because it wouldn't scan out, because it was logged in as to be kept in the depot for collection... The guy at the desk did say he'd phone the driver and see if he'd deliver it anyway and just have me sign for it manually but given he was supposed to be back at the depot at 21:00 I doubt that is going to occur...

Looks like I'll be heading out to Cambuslang tomorrow. Again. 

[Jerzy Woking]

  On 07/07/2019 at 17:55, Frogchod said:

Another fucking speeding ticket has arrived.

81 in an 80 limit FFS.

45 euro fine.

Might have to look at retro fitting a speed limiter to the van.

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Do you get points on a licence for this, like in the UK?

I love driving through France on D roads on my way to and from Spain, but now I'll have to be looking constantly at my speedo, and not the fantastic countryside

[wuvvum]

The latest scam from those scamming cunts at TV Licensing.

Made to look like an enforcement officer has been to knock on your door, but if you look closer the "handwritten" bit is printed on - they've even printed it slightly on the piss to make it look more convincing.  Turn it over though and there's a printed address and a Royal Mail prepaid postage doobery - so technically, yes, it is delivered "by hand" - by the fucking postman, like every other bit of post I get.  Twats.

[SiC]

Write return to sender on the otherside and post it back?

[dozeydustman]

Just had to rescue this poor little sod from one of the cats. He's still alive but shocked. Where I wish I had a small cage and a few mealworms to nurse him back to some kind of health.

He's tucked away in the hedge and took hold of a perch, I hope he makes it through.

 

[puddlethumper]

  On 08/07/2019 at 18:57, reb said:

Apparently selling an "axe" with no edge to it whatsoever is something that is ok now. Not too much of a grump because I was planning on sharpening it anyway as even good axes don't have a fantastic factory edge, but I'd at least expect it to be able to split a piddly bit of firewood! For £13 I can't really complain I suppose. After a sharpen and replacing the varnish with boiled linseed oil it should be a serviceably pleasant thing to use hopefully.

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What you need is a splitting axe not one of those kindling choppers.

Or hit it wiv a wump ammer. ?

[loserone]

Noo, never hit an axe not designed for it with another hammer or anything metal.

 

I sometimes use a different bit of firewood to help ours through

[reb]

  On 08/07/2019 at 20:57, puddlethumper said:

What you need is a splitting axe not one of those kindling choppers.

Or hit it wiv a wump ammer. ?

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Will a £15 silverline job be decent? I don't mind having to sharpen it, as long as I don't have to replace it in 6 months when the head comes flying off!

  On 08/07/2019 at 21:14, loserone said:

Noo, never hit an axe not designed for it with another hammer or anything metal.

 

I sometimes use a different bit of firewood to help ours through

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I only have one hammer and it's not big enough to help here I don't think, so no worries there.

I don't have that many logs right now, so the main reason for the axe really is splitting reclaimed wood into kindling so it made more sense to get a smaller one. Wish I'd got a big bastard now though!

Made it look and feel 100x better after an hour of varnish removal via scraping with my Opinel:

 

[Frogchod]

  On 08/07/2019 at 19:57, Jerzy Woking said:

Do you get points on a licence for this, like in the UK?

I love driving through France on D roads on my way to and from Spain, but now I'll have to be looking constantly at my speedo, and not the fantastic countryside

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With a French licence they take points off.

With a UK license you'll get away with a fine for minor offences.  

Speed camera fines are now being sent to the uk.

There aren't that many working cameras here they're well signposted. 

If there's a copper lurking in the bushes with a laser oncoming motorists will flash their lights.

 

[beko1987]

Ha, apparently someone's tried to spend £130 on my credit card at Harvey Nicholls. 

They'll be dissapointed when it declined, partly because its got a small limit and its up to it anyway, partly because Lloyd's know I don't shop there and declined it for me... 

[Jazoli]

  On 08/07/2019 at 20:50, dozeydustman said:

Just had to rescue this poor little sod from one of the cats. He's still alive but shocked. Where I wish I had a small cage and a few mealworms to nurse him back to some kind of health.

He's tucked away in the hedge and took hold of a perch, I hope he makes it through.

 

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Think yourself lucky, my cat brought a fucking seagull in last year, that put up one hell of a fight and shat everywhere,  I have also had a couple of junior rabbits brought in, I did wonder why there was rabbit droppings next to the couch, when I lifted it up the rabbit bolted for the back door, headbutted it and dropped dead, it was quite funny really, although not if you were the rabbit

he is an 8kg monster though, the black cat is normal sized for reference!

[Kiltox]

  On 09/07/2019 at 08:06, Jazoli said:

Think yourself lucky, my cat brought a fucking seagull in last year, that put up one hell of a fight and shat everywhere,  I have also had a couple of junior rabbits brought in, I did wonder why there was rabbit droppings next to the couch, when I lifted it up the rabbit bolted for the back door, headbutted it and dropped dead, it was quite funny really, although not if you were the rabbit

he is an 8kg monster though, the black cat is normal sized for reference!

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Why have you stolen my cats?

[Jazoli]

  On 09/07/2019 at 08:13, Kiltox said:

Why have you stolen my cats?

 

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