The grumpy thread

[Remspoor]

Activists seek to block Christmas displays of alcohol in the supermarket .

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fbusiness%2F2022%2F10%2F23%2Factivists-seek-block-christmas-displays-alcohol-supermarket%2F

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New rules aimed at reducing sales of chocolate are expected to result in supermarkets filling displays at the front of the stores with beer, wine and champagne this Christmas.

[MikeR]

8 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

I’m glad moderns have automatic braking otherwise that twat in the Qashqai at the roundabout next to Greenhithe station would have gone right into my off side rear quarter.  No Mr. Thundercunt, l wasn’t going left.  I was going straight on.  That’s why I wasn’t indicating to go left but was in the left-hand lane.

Absolutely astonishing.

having just been down to the Licky hills area I came across 2 little old darlings ,with in a few minutes ..

the first had not a clue what she was doing at a roundbout so we all stopped  ,whilst she went on her merry way , with a BMW stuck behind her !

the 2nd joining the M5 from the A38 , the little old dear to my left was confused , so when the lights changed I held back , and she went right across the M5 exit ,

and some people gave me a bad look !! , what was I supposed to do,  T bone her car!

[GeorgeB]

8 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

I’m glad moderns have automatic braking otherwise that twat in the Qashqai at the roundabout next to Greenhithe station would have gone right into my off side rear quarter.  No Mr. Thundercunt, l wasn’t going left.  I was going straight on.  That’s why I wasn’t indicating to go left but was in the left-hand lane.

Absolutely astonishing.

"would have gone right into my off side rear quarter"?

Sounds as though the "twat" was on the roundabout and you pulled out in front of them?

 

 

[chaseracer]

2 minutes ago, GeorgeB said:

"would have gone right into my off side rear quarter"?

Sounds as though the "twat" was on the roundabout and you pulled out in front of them?

Or trying to turn left from the right hand lane.  But neither of us were there...

[GrumpiusMaximus]

27 minutes ago, GeorgeB said:

"would have gone right into my off side rear quarter"?

Sounds as though the "twat" was on the roundabout and you pulled out in front of them?

Nope.  They entered the roundabout slightly after I did, in the right-hand lane and tried to turn trun left -  straight into the rear quarter of me making the assumption that I was turning left, so what @chaseracersaid.

[Fumbler]

On 16/10/2022 at 12:17, Zelandeth said:

Been back in Milton Keynes for about two hours now after a holiday in the US for two weeks.

I am already losing the will to live again and feel like I never left.  Few things highlight how unpleasant a place is than not being there for a while.  Why people just seem to go so far out their way to be assholes here I just don't understand.

Funnily enough I had the same feeling when I came home after my two weeks away in WI.

[barefoot]

I picked up a mong on the ringroad this morning. There I was pottering along at the 40 limit, car hame hurtling down behind me & attached itself to my bumper. I dawdled around the next roundabout & exited it doing about 25. I continued at this speed for a surprisingly long time, some two or three hundred yards with speedy still stuck to my bumper. He finally roared past me in an original shape Ford Ka. The fucker must have been about 12.

[beko1987]

I used to get that on the a404 when I used to commute. Was 2 miles before coming off and always busy so I just kept left and chilled at 40 for a while. 

Could always tell the people trying to get ahead in l2, inevitably they'd never leave your sight and be trying to get in right on the hatchings for the off ramp to the m40 North. Oodles of fun being a cunt and blocking them so they have to waste a good 20 minutes at handy cross to get onto the motorway. Usually see them hammer past in l3 10 miles up the road 

If they'd just chilled out and waited they'd be in 5th at tickover happily moving along. L2 is stop/start as its London bound

[MikeR]

just found out my coffee cup shaped power distribution thingy in the car  has a damaged usb port ,probably  some clumsy bar steward in the drivers seat ...

end result is the car cam has not been recording all the time ...

[wuvvum]

Well, it's finally happened.  The Prime Minister is younger than me.  I am officially old.

[cort1977]

22 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Well, it's finally happened.  The Prime Minister is younger than me.  I am officially old.

Just had the same experience. 42.  Bastard!

[MiniMinorMk3]

43 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Well, it's finally happened.  The Prime Minister is younger than me.  I am officially old.

I felt old when Cameron got in, but then was young again when he went. But since BoJo I guess I will now be permanently old.

[Bren]

47 minutes ago, cort1977 said:

Just had the same experience. 42.  Bastard!

When people ask me how old I am I tell them old enough to remember Bruce Forsyth with sideburns.

[Wack]

Just took me 20 minutes to get through to the insurance, another 10 to go through the change of vehicle details and quote which I accepted , reading out the credit card details and I got cut off, no fucker rang me back so i'm back at the start of the queue😡

[High Jetter]

5 hours ago, Bren said:

When people ask me how old I am I tell them old enough to remember Bruce Forsyth with sideburns.

I remember when he was trying to grow them. Nice to grow you...

I'll forgo my coat

[Zelandeth]

Bloody used car prices for early Jeep Cherokees.  I really thought the current fuel pricing uncertainty would have hurt their values a bit... really doesn't look like it based on the prices they're still going for it seems.  Whole market is nuts at the moment, but I really thought thirsty motors like that might have dropped a bit.

Oh well...I can keep periodically window shopping I guess.

[goosey]

12 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Bloody used car prices for early Jeep Cherokees.  I really thought the current fuel pricing uncertainty would have hurt their values a bit... really doesn't look like it based on the prices they're still going for it seems.  Whole market is nuts at the moment, but I really thought thirsty motors like that might have dropped a bit.

Oh well...I can keep periodically window shopping I guess.

Banger racers are paying good money, so the cheaper ones disappear fast 

[Vantman]

6 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Well, it's finally happened.  The Prime Minister is younger than me.  I am officially old.

I am officially really old then, Clement Attlee was PM when i was born!

[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, Vantman said:

I am officially really old then, Clement Attlee was PM when i was born!

Cameron, Boris and Liz Truss are all younger than me.

[Yoss]

6 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Cameron, Boris and Liz Truss are all younger than me.

Liz who? I'd forgotten about her already!

Actually I think she may remembered for a very long time but not for the reasons she would have wanted. 

[myglaren]

14 hours ago, Vantman said:

Clement Attlee

Same here.  I don't remember him though

[horriblemercedes]

15 hours ago, Vantman said:

I am officially really old then, Clement Attlee was PM when i was born!

I thought you were going to say you're older than Attlee, until I got to the end of the sentence.

 

He'd be 140 next year if he was alive

[Cavcraft]

Wickes: absolute and utter c*nts. 

[Zelandeth]

Turns out that the frame of the roof light over our upstairs landing is rotten and needs to be replaced.  Great.  Plus despite being quite careful they managed to punch a couple of holes in the surrounding ceiling plaster when removing it to replace the surrounding roof.

Wonderful.

*Adds "get upstairs ceiling plaster repaired" to the never ending to do list.*

[chadders]

You've never had anything like this done before on an oldish house have you? Punching  a couple of holes is far better than the ceiling collapsing.

For example our kitchen ceiling was supported by 2 narrow gauge railway rails and we had cupboards mounted in front of other ones. That was just the beginning.

[Zelandeth]

7 minutes ago, chadders said:

You've never had anything like this done before on an oldish house have you? Punching  a couple of holes is far better than the ceiling collapsing.

For example our kitchen ceiling was supported by 2 narrow gauge railway rails and we had cupboards mounted in front of other ones. That was just the beginning.

Nope.

Well yes...but in >100 year old houses where we already had the ceilings down beforehand and everything was already being replaced wholesale anyway.  This is the first time we've had any substantial work done on something from the 80s.

It's a small niggle in the grand scheme of things, just would have been nice if the to do list wouldn't keep gaining additional items!

[Spurious]

Speaking of old houses. Got a knock in the kitchen as I was having my porridge early this morn. I live in a mid terrace 1890s build Yorkshire stone house

Neighbours are getting an extension done, which is fine, so have had the groundworkers out to do foundations and drainage. 

We share some of the common drainage system as there used to be a shared outhouse in neighbours garden. My sink drainage comes out of a Victorian glazed 6-7 inch pipe and merges into the common larger glazed clay waste pipe that drains to the street sewer. 

Turns out when the fence was done back a few years back pre-dating all our ownership, they drove the concrete fence post through our sink drain and filled it up with postcrete. My sink/washing machine now just drains into neighbours garden. 

Now left with a £600 bill to hand dig new drainage and install a better system for the front of the house. Surprise bills. Yay. Glad I'd a few pounds put away, rainy day funds. 

Couldn't really put this one off. Neighbours have the ground dug up waiting... 

I want to meet which cowboy who dug a fence hole, felt the drain and then continued to put a post through the drain and then concrete it up. Continued to cover that up and left it for someone else to find and fix. 😔

[maxxo]

https://youtu.be/CAIq20Lptg0

this is one i had today

two women, i'd say in their late 60s in the car.....couldn't get it into gear, i suspected the clutch has gone

anyway, look at all the people who just drove round them......they'd been there for 10 minutes at that point

sorry the camera cut off, but i helped them and pushed them to the side of the road

i feel quite bad as i didn't have a tow rope in the car, as i'd have towed them to the halfords autocentre down the road to get it sorted

but i feel quite good about it

i mean seriously, does no one help anyone?

it took me a few minutes and honestly, why wouldn't you

 

[Talbot]

1 minute ago, maxxo said:

i mean seriously, does no one help anyone?

The risk here is that you make yourself vulnerable to accusations by others.

Push a car to the side of the road?  "You've dented the body"

Tow a car to help someone out?  They fail to brake in time and smash into the back of you.  You now have endless shit to deal with and increased insurance premiums.

Car breakdowns are just nowhere near as common as they once were, meaning people are not attuned to helping others out, and if they do, they put themselves at risk.  I have to say, I'd think twice these days.

[maxxo]

1 minute ago, Talbot said:

The risk here is that you make yourself vulnerable to accusations by others.

Push a car to the side of the road?  "You've dented the body"

Tow a car to help someone out?  They fail to brake in time and smash into the back of you.  You now have endless shit to deal with and increased insurance premiums.

Car breakdowns are just nowhere near as common as they once were, meaning people are not attuned to helping others out, and if they do, they put themselves at risk.  I have to say, I'd think twice these days.

i just didn't think twice about it really

as i say i wish i'd have done more and maybe pushed them round the corner, but just wanted to help them quickly

i'll do it again tomorrow if needs be