The grumpy thread

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Next week we'll be required to walk thrice widdershins around the vehicle before proceeding to dance a Celtic jig, followed by a backflip and playing the ukulele whilst eating a banana at this rate...

I'm not anti-lockdown by any measure but they are sneaking these in with very little fanfare or transparency.

[LightBulbFun]

9 minutes ago, Alan_Green said:

 Also "practise" or "practice".

good spot

but this is the Government they have not been able to spell since the "NOT LICENSED" Taxation class was introduced over 40 years ago now LOL

[Alan_Green]

Hard to believe but it's true.  Here's a cut and paste from the Gov.UK linked to above.  So I can no longer teach my boy (who is sitting across the room from me) to drive because of Covid!  If anyone can rationalise this by any stretch of the imagination please let me know.   Also no more takeaway deliveries.  Just Eat will go to war with them.

[LightBulbFun]

17 minutes ago, Alan_Green said:

Also no more takeaway deliveries.  Just Eat will go to war with them.

is worth noting this is AFAIK just for learning to drive in a car

I think mopeds/motorcycles are generally covered separately

so I think everyone's pizza's are safe for now LOL

[Eddie Honda]

4 hours ago, dollywobbler said:

Yup, confirmed truth. That shat me up as we did some L plate tuition today. Thankfully ok in Wales.

Do they still do "D" plates there? (couldn't see it on that Gov page)

[bobdisk]

The English language is a queer thing.  In the English language, 'practise' is the verb where you do something, eg you practise your driving to make it better, and 'practice' is the noun for something, eg a doctors practice. In American English, 'practice' is both the verb and the noun.  So the DVLA are right for a change.

https://www.writing-skills.com/practice-or-practise

[New POD]

8 hours ago, Alan_Green said:

Hard to believe but it's true.  Here's a cut and paste from the Gov.UK linked to above.  So I can no longer teach my boy (who is sitting across the room from me) to drive because of Covid!  If anyone can rationalise this by any stretch of the imagination please let me know.   Also no more takeaway deliveries.  Just Eat will go to war with them.

How to rationalise it?  Well, the only explanation, is that IF something happens you will come into contact with people.

People that you wouldn't have met. 

The RAC man, that is towing you home, when you brake down, the third party who crashed into you, after a night shift of 16 hours on a covid ward, the ambulance staff, the A&E doctor, the nurses and patients on the trama ward. 

Yes a very slight possibility for you, but if every learner is out practising, then that's 1000's who didn't need to be on the road. 

Same with driving to walk. On Saturday I drove 3 miles to somewhere I knew would be free of people, to park at the end of a road where I have parked 20 times in 2020, and with one rear wheel spinning on frozen mud and the other on sheet ice, I was stranded. On a flat road.   I got my wife to sit in the drivers seat and whilst I was attempting to push the car a bloke got out and started to help.  Whilst I should be grateful, I came with in 2 metres of him for about 1 minute.  A contact that both of us didn't need to have, due to me wanting to drive my car (which hadn't moved for a week and only just started) 

Add up all the people driving 5 miles to exercise and not stating local and it's potentially a few extra people the NHS can do without. 

That's the only way I can rationise it. 

I know there's guidance and law and they are different, but this is everyone's problem. We all need to minimise contact. 

[High Jetter]

^^^ I could not agree more. Minimise contact, minimise risk.

[Supernaut]

2 hours ago, High Jetter said:

^^^ I could not agree more. Minimise contact, minimise risk.

I'm doing my part!

I didn't leave the house all day yesterday. I bought Automation and made all sorts of shite virtual cars.

[myglaren]

My grandson is unable to have driving lessons although my daughter has been accompanying him a couple of times a week.

The driving instructor told him the lessons were postponed and there were no tests being done.

The dozy lad across the street has continued having lessons, also practising with his mother, father and grandfather in his car (not all at once) and has now passed his test (surprisingly as he is pretty hopeless).

[crad]

morons parking with their fucking hazards on outside one stop on the high street where theres double yellows. how about you park in the two big fuck off car parks just up the road, or are you too bloody thick. boils my piss cos all it does is clog up the roads. bloody townies.

[High Jetter]

^^^ At night, do they 'park' facing oncoming traffic leaving their headlights on too? That riles me even more.

[montytom]

25 minutes ago, crad said:

morons parking with their fucking hazards on outside one stop on the high street where theres double yellows. how about you park in the two big fuck off car parks just up the road, or are you too bloody thick. boils my piss cos all it does is clog up the roads. bloody townies.

I fully agree once the hazards are on it seems they think the rules of the road dont apply to them.

[beko1987]

1 minute ago, High Jetter said:

^^^ At night, do they 'park' facing oncoming traffic leaving their main beams on too? That riles me even more.

Efa. Especially when you can see them a mile up the sodding road and be blind the whole way

[Wack]

I wouldn't want to be on the bottom of the London property ladder in 2021 

[crad]

Just now, Wack said:

I wouldn't want to be on the bottom of the London property ladder in 2021 

its the same in the south east- i've no chance

[Fumbler]

10 minutes ago, crad said:

its the same in the south east- i've no chance

Same here. The best I can do is rent.

[cort1977]

Couldn't find more up to date figures but I'm sure London prices haven't fallen...

[Pieman]

Won't matter when we're all dead by July.

[New POD]

23 minutes ago, Pieman said:

Won't matter when we're all dead by July.

You okay? 

[New POD]

27 minutes ago, cort1977 said:

Couldn't find more up to date figures but I'm sure London prices haven't fallen...

Looks to me like houses in the North are still affordable. 

[bobdisk]

11 hours ago, High Jetter said:

^^^ At night, do they 'park' facing oncoming traffic leaving their headlights on too? That riles me even more.

I turn my main beam on at them, if no one is coming the other way. Sometimes they get the hint.

[jonathan_dyane]

Bloody bastard toothache

[omegod]

I didn't think I could be more pissed off with the government but seeing the farcical food parcels sent out to kids while their Tory chums are skimming off the top I actually felt like crying. Twats 

[Wack]

20 hours ago, New POD said:

Looks to me like houses in the North are still affordable. 

The amount of londoners there are in Warrington I think they've realised that , 650k would buy a very big house up here , not a 3 bed semi 

[omegod]

11 minutes ago, Wack said:

The amount of londoners there are in Warrington I think they've realised that , 650k would buy a very big house up here , not a 3 bed semi 

Time to get the pitchforks out and run the f*ckers out of town ? 

[Low Horatio gearbox]

House sellers who answer every question you ask them except the one about vehicular access to the property and then go silent   😒

 

21 hours ago, Wack said:

I wouldn't want to be on the bottom of the London property ladder in 2021 

 

Having recently left I'll say yes.. in fact  you can prery much discount being able to afford anything if you are a mere mortal without a heathy five figure income and a pile of cash for a deposit.  Because "lhaaaandahhhaaaaan"

[richardmorris]

21 hours ago, Fumbler said:

Same here. The best I can do is rent.

Yep, renting for 25 years now.

[Wack]

19 minutes ago, omegod said:

Time to get the pitchforks out and run the f*ckers out of town ? 

I'll just buy up all the shiny buttons ,they'll soon go 

[Wack]

 

23 minutes ago, Low Horatio gearbox said:

Having recently left I'll say yes.. in fact  you can prery much discount being able to afford anything if you are a mere mortal without a heathy five figure income and a pile of cash for a deposit.  Because "lhaaaandahhhaaaaan"

I've posted this before, I found a Surrey  builders catalogue from 1958 , 

 

The most expensive house on the list is £5350 which according to the inflation calculator is £127,500 in 2020

Those houses would be 800k+ today