The grumpy thread

[Jazoli]

1 hour ago, paulplom said:

I just sit behind them with my high beam on. You can see them looking in the rear view mirror thinking wtf!?

Again every time they tap they're brakes just give them a flash.

Don't understand why you would do that to be honest as its a bit knobbish, my daughter is not the most confident driver and does brake a lot for corners and oncoming cars and to have a plank in a van constantly flashing her would really piss me off as it would upset her, I also sit with the brakes on in my auto, its life, most people do, get over it, I have an auto dipping rear mirror and a rear sun blind, you can sit your your main beam on as much as you like 

[loserone]

Do two knobs make a right or something?

[New POD]

13 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Scared rabbits who tap their brakes every time a car comes towards them in the dark. In town, 30mph, streetlights on. Oh, and now I've started, idiots who sit in traffic queues with their foot firmly planted on the brakes so their 50,000 brake LED's blind anyone behind them. You'd think handbrakes had never been invented.

Dickhead. 

Just chill. Life is too fucking short to be pissing half the rest of the world off. 

Just because you are the next Colin McRae doesn't mean you need to be a dick. 

 To be fair I sit with my foot on the brake, because the hand brake on my auto used to be a bit shit.  I fixed it but being an auto I don't need it for hill starts. 

[New POD]

20 minutes ago, loserone said:

Do two knobs make a right or something?

Left. 

[paulplom]

Inconsiderate driving in general is a bit nobbish tbf

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[TataBobu]

12 hours ago, LostnotFound said:

If they can invent a car that can drive itself, why can't the car just lower the intensity of the brake lights if they're on while stationary and the parking sensors can detect something behind it?

Rear parking sensors are active once reverse is engaged.

[HillmanImp]

Got a bid on the 944 on ebay. Think the buyer might be a breaker. Not sure if I like that or if I shouldn't be bothered. 

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, New POD said:

Dickhead. 

Just chill. Life is too fucking short to be pissing half the rest of the world off. 

Just because you are the next Colin McRae doesn't mean you need to be a dick. 

 To be fair I sit with my foot on the brake, because the hand brake on my auto used to be a bit shit.  I fixed it but being an auto I don't need it for hill starts. 

I'm a dickhead for grumping about drivers who are unconfident or inconsiderate and  fail to drive correctly? 

[Bren]

Facebook marketplace. Like gumtree for the unemployed.

[New POD]

47 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

I'm a dickhead for grumping about drivers who are unconfident or inconsiderate and  fail to drive correctly? 

Yep ????

[New POD]

3 hours ago, TataBobu said:

Rear parking sensors are active once reverse is engaged.

The sensors could be active all the time. Just the buzzer needs to.only work.when.in reverse.....

[beko1987]

FFS bid on and won a Miele Cat and Dog turbo head for a customer nearly 2 weeks ago. 'it' turned up today but 'it' is a completely different floor head.

If I wasn't so skint I'd not mind as much, but I am skint so a suitably pissed off message has been sent to the seller...

[myglaren]

29 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

FFS bid on and won a Miele Cat and Dog turbo head for a customer nearly 2 weeks ago. 'it' turned up today but 'it' is a completely different floor head.

If I wasn't so skint I'd not mind as much, but I am skint so a suitably pissed off message has been sent to the seller...

There was me imagining the turbo head with Disney cats and dogs moulded on to it.

Stupid thing is I have one - somewhere.

[Richard]

7 hours ago, loserone said:

that's the point of electric handbrakes, they release for you when you try to drive off

Eventually. 

[paulplom]

Strange. My van one does it as soon as you lift the clutch.

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[beko1987]

Renault fitted one to my Laguna that started to release as you drove off, and finished it's thing maybe 20 yards up the road... I remember near stalling it once as I made a quick getaway from somewhere and turned the car on, knocked it into D and floored it roughly at the same time, confused the shit out of it.

I became one of those wankers that sat on the brakes, or knocked it into P through TEH FEAR for most of my ownership, a certain Vel Shatis has taught me that was a good idea

[Kiltox]

35 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Renault fitted one to my Laguna that started to release as you drove off, and finished it's thing maybe 20 yards up the road... I remember near stalling it once as I made a quick getaway from somewhere and turned the car on, knocked it into D and floored it roughly at the same time, confused the shit out of it.

I became one of those wankers that sat on the brakes, or knocked it into P through TEH FEAR for most of my ownership, a certain Vel Shatis has taught me that was a good idea

The Renault system is actually very good unless you try to take off super quickly, IMO. 

[beko1987]

14 minutes ago, Kiltox said:

The Renault system is actually very good unless you try to take off super quickly, IMO. 

Yep, once you get used to going into D then waiting for the sound to start then pull away normally it's fine. Racing at the lights though, pain in the bum

[xtriple]

In my efforts to get everything bought and paid for for the upcoming celebration of our Lords birth, a celebration whic appears to get more ridiculous and ott each and every year, I have just been to 'Pets At Home' and bought a few bits for the mutts. I mean only one carrier bag this year when normally it's two... £56 for fuck all! I was so surprised I nearly let out a little whimper at the attractive young lady on the counter. I know they charge like wounded rhinos but I expected about £30...

I got home and read the e-mails and there's a bill for import duty waiting for me. Great except it's for something I no longer want, have already over paid for and been ripped off on postage (£77 post!) I was seriously tempted to just write it off and not pay the duty.

But did.

Oh and the very worst thing of all: I booted fook out of the car from a junction and the bloody 'Nanny state' that MB insist on killed the potentially epic amount of oversteer I was just looking forward to, still, sounded good though   I am such a child.

[anonymous user]

1 hour ago, Kiltox said:

The Renault system is actually very good unless you try to actually use it.

Sorry

[GBJ]

11 hours ago, Jazoli said:

I also sit with the brakes on in my auto,

Why?

[GBJ]

11 hours ago, New POD said:

Dickhead. 

 To be fair I sit with my foot on the brake,

You're the dickhead.

[Lord Sterling]

**FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS ALERT**

Come home. Need leccy. The electricity key is usually kept in an obvious place.  Can I find it? Of course not. How silly a suggestion that I should be able to find something after losing it. Not in the car, not in any of the clothes/jackets I've worn in the last few days. Nowhere.

So will have to pop out again, in the cold, to go a shop 3 miles away in the next town (because shop here closes at 7pm) to pickup a new key and drop some leccy on it.

I'm not surprised, simple things haven't been simple for a long time with me. Mind you, I suppose I'd take that over anything majorly going wrong i.e. a massive shit fan in one go.

[New POD]

11 minutes ago, GBJ said:

You're the dickhead.

Yeah. Probably. Being a dickhead isn't an exclusive club, that only a few people can join is it? 

[DVee8]

Hospital appointment tomorrow afternoon,to try to repair my damaged gullet..

A camera down to the damaged area.expand a balloon and inject with 4 botox injections.

I'll have a lovely smooth tummy.

[GBJ]

42 minutes ago, New POD said:

Yeah. Probably. Being a dickhead isn't an exclusive club, that only a few people can join is it? 

No, you're right, it's full of people like you, too lazy to drive properly or think about the affects their actions have on others.

[New POD]

8 minutes ago, GBJ said:

No, you're right, it's full of people like you, too lazy to stop properly or think about the effects their actions have on others.

Edited for accuracy and correct use of words. I'm too lazy to be stationary properly 

And it has E-ffects not A-ffects.  

I haven't crashed since 2010 and have driven 250,000 miles in that time, so define properly.  

Mind you I've seen lots of crashes in my rear view mirror. 

Seriously though - Chill. 

[SiC]

1 hour ago, GBJ said:

You're the dickhead.

I sit on the brakes at lights too. Why? Because I own an Audi with retina burning LED brake lights. So if someone pulls up too close, I can have a nosey on what they're doing in the rear view mirror. 

[Matty]

1 hour ago, GBJ said:

No, you're right, it's full of people like you, too lazy to drive properly or think about the affects their actions have on others.

Calm down pal it's like you're suggesting he's shot someone

[clayts450]

Is it time for this photo yet ?