The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

That is a shame, AROnline was a brilliant website, you could spend hours reading all the info and the sections on the concept cars were fantastic.

 

Pissing me off slightly is the fact I was introduced to several double Baileys with double brandys (brandies?) last night for the first time. This, along with the oligatory vodkas and lagers, has left me feeling somewhat fragile this morning.

[Lankytim]

  Station said:

^Haven't looked on there for ages, but noticed it's turned into a ('British') car news aggregate site, much like Pistonheads, Evo, and every other car magazine site on the planet, what a shame. Also been bought out by 'Honest John'???

 

Photo of Brookland's racing test circuit, soon to be a Tesco's (hurray!).

 

 

 

Who TF is allowing that to happen??????

[RoadworkUK]

  Lankytim said:

  Station said:

^Haven't looked on there for ages, but noticed it's turned into a ('British') car news aggregate site, much like Pistonheads, Evo, and every other car magazine site on the planet, what a shame. Also been bought out by 'Honest John'???

 

Photo of Brookland's racing test circuit, soon to be a Tesco's (hurray!).

 

 

 

Who TF is allowing that to happen??????

 

If they're so desparate to build on Brooklands, why can't it be Brooklands Jaywick?

 

[retrogeezer]

The Brooklands thing is a joke surely, they already have a store at Brooklands.

[Cavcraft]

  retrogeezer said:

The Brooklands thing is a joke surely, they already have a store at Brooklands.

 

I doubt that would stop them to be honest. We have two 'main' Tesco foodstores, one Tesco Direct and two small Tesco foodstores in Chester.

[TimothyClaypole]

Unpacking computer towers at work.

 

Sliding them out of the box: Two pieces of polystyrene, a plastic bag and a metal box, the perfect combination for shock therapy.

 

I'd forgotton the pleasure of them these past 3 years.

 

Oh and add in camera's too, discharging the flash capacitor into my thumb, twice.

[dollywobbler]

  Cavette said:

  retrogeezer said:

The Brooklands thing is a joke surely, they already have a store at Brooklands.

 

I doubt that would stop them to be honest. We have two 'main' Tesco foodstores, one Tesco Direct and two small Tesco foodstores in Chester.

 

I wish something would bloody stop them. They're tearing down an old folks' day centre in Aber for another unnecessary store. Sainsbury and Asda are also both trying to get in on the act. Seeing as we've already got a Morrisons and a Co-Op, neither of which are ever terrifyingly busy apart from pre-Christmas, it does make me wonder why Aber is the place to be. It's hardly a bleedin' metropolis.

[Negative Creep]

I have a Tesco Express a few minutes walk away and another half mile down the road

[Cavcraft]

I wouldn't be surprised if they're trying to run other shops out of twon so they can do what the fuel stations did and whang their prices up. Having said that if they manage to fuck our local Co-op off I won't lose too much sleep over it.

[Timewaster]

Come to cambridge. There is at least 10 bloody tescos

[Guest]

  Cavette said:

I wouldn't be surprised if they're trying to run other shops out of twon so they can do what the fuel stations did and whang their prices up. Having said that if they manage to fuck our local Co-op off I won't lose too much sleep over it.

 

This is the only time I'll type this about Tesco.

 

The old industrial site across from my former employer is going to be turned into houses, and rumour has it Tesco wants to build a shop there. I hope they do. I hope they run him out of business and all the locals defect to it. I hope it springs up out of nowhere and his custom disappears overnight. He's a very, very strange individual whose prices are through the roof and he deserves to go under. It's the recession innit, he can get fucked. I hope Tesco get their planning approved in that instance.

 

Also, coppers.

 

I was treated to a bizarre variant of the eyeball drive-by last night in Sale. SCTSH_ANDY decided he wanted to get his 405 back from the unit. He's been running the 460 every day, so drives me there and swaps to the Pug for the way home. We get into town and park up, me splitting off to go into the church car park in the Volvo.

 

As I get out a police Transit Connect comes roaring round Marlborough Road and onto Montague, and draws roughly level with me across the road. The officer inside stops, puts the interior light on and fucking GLARES at me. I break eye contact with him and carry on getting stuff out of the boot. SCTSH_ANDY's seen events unfold and stays on the same side of the road as his parked 405, looking back at the copper in his van.

 

I go and join him across the road, and at this point the Connect swings slowly into the car park, stopping behind the 460. SCTSH and me stand across the road, looking back at the police van. On goes the interior light again and he scowls at us both. He's no doubt running the Volvo's plate through the PNC and is verily shocked at the fact that it's MOT'd and insured. I realise I've left something in the boot of the 460 and so walk over to get it. The van doesn't move. Before I reach the car I stop and stare at him. He stares at me.

 

Now, at this point, it might have been courteous for the copper to drop the window and explain what's going on, rather than making the moment pointlessly tense. I'm waiting for him to do this because the last time I spoke to a dibble before being spoken to, I got screamed at for having 'no manners'.

Alas, no. As I go round to the boot with my keys, he hammers it out of the car park and on to Hope Road.

 

What the fuck was that all about?

 

Later on, as I'm driving home in the C4 on Washway Road, the same Transit Connect draws level with me as I'm stopped at the lights near Meadway. The same thing happens. The interior light goes on, the copper driving stares me out and then toes it hard on the green.

I hope he does it to a maniac who snaps and smashes the van up. It's actions like his that cause things to kick off. A two minute conversation would have cleared whatever it was up.

 

Strange.

[Lankytim]

Morrisons are building a new store down the road from my on a factory site thats been derelict for the last 15 years or so. They are going to have a petrol station too, and as everyone knows, Morrisons fuel is the cheapest EVAR! Fingers crossed it will have a jetwash and LPG. Theres also a Tesco in the area that has very pricey on fuel, hopefully this Morrisons will piss them right off.

[Cavcraft]

Probably some silly intimidation trick Jon and they've got the wrong person. Next time they do this (assuming you're on foot) then just stare at them for a few seconds then run like hell in the opposite direction. It's GR10 fun when they catch you up* as they expect you to be some highly wanted escaped lifer with a gun and when they find you're not they get a bit pissed off but have to let you go.

 

 

*Your experience may vary.

[RedSparrow]

Sadly the Police force seems to be increasing made up of little shits who used to hang around with the naughty boys at school and revel in little power trips like the one you have just experienced. I would say report it but they won't give a fuck.

[fiatdaft]

Why would anybody want to report a policeman for staring at them?

[warren t claim]

Are you sure he wasn't interested in SCTSH_ANDY?

[messerschmitt owner]

maybe he fancied Jon?

[RedSparrow]

  fiatdaft said:

Why would anybody want to report a policeman for staring at them?

 

I don't think it's appropriate behaviour for someone who is supposed to be setting an example. But yeah, it would be pointless.

[Guest]

  warren t claim said:

Are you sure he wasn't interested in SCTSH_ANDY?

 

I suspect it was the fact an 'old shitter' was driving around late at night. It's the oldest car in the area by quite some distance, even taking SCTSH_ANDY's stuff into account. He was definitely staring at me each time, too.

 

The only bit that really bothered me was when he did the same thing to me when I was driving home in the Citroen. I doubt he'd been following me - then again, my mate Phil was tailed to his door in Timperley from fucking Fallowfield and the copper gave him a bollocking for taking a 'weird route' home.

 

I genuinely think some of them have nothing better to do.

[warren t claim]

  messerschmitt owner said:

maybe he fancied Jon?

 

Good point! Do you come quietly, Jon?

 

Or maybe he thought "Fuck me! A Volvo 460 Turbo! I've not seen one of those for ages".

[fiatdaft]

At least he took an interest,imagine if the car had been nicked and he didn't take an interest.

[Guest]

  warren t claim said:

  messerschmitt owner said:

maybe he fancied Jon?

 

Or maybe he thought "Fuck me! A Volvo 460 Turbo! I've not seen one of those for ages".

 

Or he might have just been acting the dickhead, like so many of the lower ranking officers seem to these days.

[warren t claim]

I reckon you should of done a runner in the 460, revelling in the nostalgic sound of GMP air horns. No other force in the country still uses them.

[Guest]

  fiatdaft said:

At least he took an interest,imagine if the car had been nicked and he didn't take an interest.

 

OK, so what was the staring competition about then? Short answer : he thought the car was shady because it was old. £10 says he wouldn't have looked at me twice if I'd been in a '10 plate Fiat 500.

[Guest]

  warren t claim said:

I reckon you should of done a runner in the 460, revelling in the nostalgic sound of GMP air horns. No other force in the country still uses them.

 

Whilst playing 'The Bill' opening theme at full pelt?

[Cheggers]

  watanabe said:

  fiatdaft said:

At least he took an interest,imagine if the car had been nicked and he didn't take an interest.

 

OK, so what was the staring competition about then? Short answer : he thought the car was shady because it was old. £10 says he wouldn't have looked at me twice if I'd been in a '10 plate Fiat 500.

 

Doesn't your second Police stare-out disprove this?

 

It must be you

[warren t claim]

  watanabe said:

  fiatdaft said:

At least he took an interest,imagine if the car had been nicked and he didn't take an interest.

 

OK, so what was the staring competition about then? Short answer, he thought the car was shady because it was old. £10 says he wouldn't have looked at me twice if I'd been in a '10 plate Fiat 500.

 

I got stopped while I was refuelling the 405 yesterday 'cos it was old and a bit tatty. Even though it wasn't insured in my name he let me go without even giving me a producer.

[Guest]

  Cheggers said:

  watanabe said:

  fiatdaft said:

At least he took an interest,imagine if the car had been nicked and he didn't take an interest.

 

OK, so what was the staring competition about then? Short answer : he thought the car was shady because it was old. £10 says he wouldn't have looked at me twice if I'd been in a '10 plate Fiat 500.

 

Doesn't your second Police stare-out disprove this?

 

It must be you

 

Hey, I wasn't saying owt. Something similar happened years ago and I was told not to 'answer back without being spoken to first'. To every subsequent answer I was silent. Mare just liked the sound of her own voice.

[scaryoldcortina]

I got a staring contest and then a tug a while ago. When the git finally spoke to me his first words were "Oh, you're not who I thought you were..." but he gave me a producer and checked the car over anyway :

 

I'm grumpy because of my daughter. I'm catching all kinds of hell because her car has broken down less than 24 hours since I used it to try out my "new" code reader. I know nothing I did is in any way damaging or caused any faults but she (*being female) sees it much differently and she is really pissed off.

[eddyramrod]

  watanabe said:

the copper gave him a bollocking for taking a 'weird route' home.

 

Oh they'd love me. We went out for lunch today, and a little drive round town afterwards. West side of Paphos, east side of Paphos, halfway to the airport, random circuits of back streets with little idea where they will take me... Obviously I had my camera with me, and despite the rain managed to snap a few old cars I hadn't noticed before. Weird route home? Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh yes! Always the best.