The grumpy thread

[Pieman]

DID YOU JUST CALL ME FAT?! 😆😂

[dave j]

I have only ever named one of my cars, it was a VW Polo that cost me 1p so I had to call it Penny!

Car naming is rife with vw camper owners, people are suprised when I say my camper doesnt have a name other than rusty deathtrap! 

[Talbot]

To the driver of the Sky van, who appeared around a corner at speed while I was already crossing a road, who then drove at me, missed me by very little and then shouted out of his window for me to "get a fucking move on, got things to do".

You can go fuck yourself.

Seriously.  Just piss off and die.

You arrogant, obnoxious, rude waste of blood and organs.

Never mind a dashcam, I think I need a "walking along" cam.  The amount of utter cuntishness you witness when on foot is astonishing.

[Zelandeth]

14 minutes ago, Talbot said:

To the driver of the Sky van, who appeared around a corner at speed while I was already crossing a road, who then drove at me, missed me by very little and then shouted out of his window for me to "get a fucking move on, got things to do".

You can go fuck yourself.

Seriously.  Just piss off and die.

You arrogant, obnoxious, rude waste of blood and organs.

Never mind a dashcam, I think I need a "walking along" cam.  The amount of utter cuntishness you witness when on foot is astonishing.

Yep.  I'm out for a good few miles every day walking the dogs and have been very seriously considering buying a body cam because of the nonsense that I see.

The arseholes who think the redways are their own personal dirt bike highways are also high on the list.  A favourite here as well is stopping on quiet 20mph residential streets, waving you to cross, then driving at you (or the dogs).  Have had that happen a bunch of times so now just refuse to move if someone waves me across.  Which has also earned me an earful of abuse several times.

[inconsistant]

Call Sky and report the time/place. I’m assuming their vans will have trackers so they’ll know which employee it was. 

[Talbot]

3 minutes ago, inconsistant said:

Call Sky and report the time/place. I’m assuming their vans will have trackers so they’ll know which employee it was. 

I tried calling sky.  If you don't have an account with them, they absolutely refuse to talk to you about anything.

[inconsistant]

Ha thats rubbish! Maybe try their new customer line!

[cort1977]

Twitter is good for this kind of thing apparently. They don't like bad publicity there.

[cort1977]

Also, how is sky still a thing when you can stream Netflix etc?

[Talbot]

35 minutes ago, inconsistant said:

Ha thats rubbish! Maybe try their new customer line!

"hello, this is sky"

"I need to discuss the attitude of one of your drivers on the road"

"We can't deal with that here"  *click*

Shower of Bastards.

[mitsisigma01]

2 hours ago, Talbot said:

To the driver of the Sky van, who appeared around a corner at speed while I was already crossing a road, who then drove at me, missed me by very little and then shouted out of his window for me to "get a fucking move on, got things to do".

You can go fuck yourself.

Seriously.  Just piss off and die.

You arrogant, obnoxious, rude waste of blood and organs.

Never mind a dashcam, I think I need a "walking along" cam.  The amount of utter cuntishness you witness when on foot is astonishing.

Was that down by your home? I know someone hopefully high up enough to know the procedure, was it a proper fully liveried Sky van or an agent subbie small sign type van? 

[2cvspecial]

a colleague noticed i had back pain had walking stick and called she me "old  man " , what a Cheeky S*D not nice and P***ed off rest of the day was a "great (NOT)" day swore at shouted at by another colleague NOT acceptable at all complaints done and sorted hopefully they will be in  trouble  and taken to  a https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/law-and-courts/legal-system/small-claims/ small claims court  is it bullying ? any advice and opinion appreciated

[sdkrc]

Not sure why that would go to a small claims court?

[Spiny Norman]

A colleague engages in a bit of work based piss taking and you're threatening them with legal action...

Are you for real?

 

[2cvspecial]

35 minutes ago, Spiny Norman said:

A colleague engages in a bit of work based piss taking and you're threatening them with legal action...

Are you for real?

 

yes constantly goes on

[2cvspecial]

56 minutes ago, sdkrc said:

Not sure why that would go to a small claims court?

it is constant bullying against disability (disability discrimination)

[adw1977]

That behaviour needs to be tackled by your management.  Not sure how Small Claims would be involved.

[sdkrc]

Stress at work is something you can sue for but you'd need strong medical evidence and you'd need to prove that your employer was negligent in addressing it. 

Stress at work is really difficult to prove.

Asking for legal advice on a car forum might not be your best bet

[Remspoor]

What to do if you are bullied at work.

https://www.gov.uk/workplace-bullying-and-harassment

[Timewaster]

2 hours ago, 2cvspecial said:

a colleague noticed i had back pain had walking stick and called she me "old  man " , what a Cheeky S*D not nice and P***ed off rest of the day was a "great (NOT)" day swore at shouted at by another colleague NOT acceptable at all complaints done and sorted hopefully they will be in  trouble  and taken to  a https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/law-and-courts/legal-system/small-claims/ small claims court  is it bullying ? any advice and opinion appreciated

There are several stages of intervention that would need to have failed to get anywhere near a court.

It is down to the company to sort out through either local management or HR.

Unless you ARE especially old, I don't think that is a protected characteristic, so not much leverage there.

Have you tried inviting them to politely fornicate elsewhere?

[MikeR]

some bearded  twat in a swedish brick estate complete with dog cage in the back tried to block me out today ,

all I wanted to do was filter in , but no , 6 foot of bonnet was rammed up the car in front to stop me getting in .

fine , looked  at him , he saw me , called him a twat and to get a life , then overtook the car in front of him and pulled in with out breaking a sweat ..

well talk about red flag to a bull , he spent the next 7 miles trying to catch me ......

and failed

[horriblemercedes]

1 hour ago, sdkrc said:

Not sure why that would go to a small claims court?

I think people think that you can just sue and get money for anything. 

 

For small claims, you'll need to demonstrate a financial disadvantage from the comments. For any kind of legal recourse you'll need to demonstrate negligence. I can't see it working in this case but I'm no expert 

[Talbot]

4 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Was that down by your home? I know someone hopefully high up enough to know the procedure, was it a proper fully liveried Sky van or an agent subbie small sign type van? 

Was in central Horsham, and was a liveried sky Transit.  Unfortunately happened so quickly I didn't get the registration.  I was more shocked that a liveried sky van was being driven in such a manner.

[richardmorris]

4 minutes ago, Talbot said:

Was in central Horsham, and was a liveried sky Transit.  Unfortunately happened so quickly I didn't get the registration.  I was more shocked that a liveried sky van was being driven in such a manner.

Peoples driving at the moment is appalling. None of them would pass the driving test if they did the same thing  during one.

[Fumbler]

9 minutes ago, Talbot said:

Was in central Horsham, and was a liveried sky Transit.  Unfortunately happened so quickly I didn't get the registration.  I was more shocked that a liveried sky van was being driven in such a manner.

It's a general rule down where I live to avoid contact with any Sky branded vehicle- more likely than not they're being driven by arseholes who think safety second. An experience I had was when on the Uckfield bypass, I was slowing for the roundabout 100 yards ahead of me, and the road was single carriageway with no area to pass. A fully liveried Sky van somehow overtook me as I approached the stop line and forced itself around the roundabout. I wonder if they have trackers in their vehicles at all with the way I've seen most of them drive.

[Crackers]

Despite the massive repair estimate, I was feeling quite positive about the Rover earlier. 

Unfortunately I then made the mistake of talking a particular person whose ability to ruin my mood in the face of the slightest inconvenience is unparalleled. 

Now hit another massive slump in motivation, feel absolutely knackered and generally pissed off. Ffs.

[chaseracer]

15 minutes ago, Crackers said:

Unfortunately I then made the mistake of talking a particular person whose ability to ruin my mood in the face of the slightest inconvenience is unparalleled...

Some people light up a room as they enter it; others, as they leave...

[EightMegs]

I mistakenly ordered the wrong front arm bushes for Harris the Yaris and wanted to get the correct ones before the weekend, so I decided to phone the Toyota parts counter who informed me that they wouldn't sell the bushes separately from the arm and that they wanted €230 per side! I shelled out for an express courier.

[New POD]

7 hours ago, chaseracer said:

Some people light up a room as they enter it; others, as they leave...

According to my wife, the later describes me.  

No need for details, but my grump involves being screamed at. And the fact that I seem unwittingly to have made my wife a very sad and angry and lonely person, whilst trying to do the exact opposite. 

It's part of the pattern. And nobody needs to.tell me my marriage is fucked and I should call it a day. 

[Talbot]

11 hours ago, chaseracer said:

Some people light up a room as they enter it

Isn't that usually referred to as "Arson"?