The grumpy thread

[omegod]

18 hours ago, Bren said:

Won a wrought iron gate on ebay. I was the only bidder.

After paying seller informed me they had given it to the scrap man the previous week.

Should be easy for ebay to sort out, basically an "open and shut "case 

 

I'll get my coat 😂

[High Jetter]

18 hours ago, Bren said:

Won a wrought iron gate on ebay. I was the only bidder.

After paying seller informed me they had given it to the scrap man the previous week.

Like the gate, the seller must be un-hinged. (Pass me my coat, omegod)

[Zelandeth]

Dear people of Milton Keynes.

Please get it through your thick skulls that the right turn lane on single carriageway roundabouts is not your own, personal overtaking lane.  Unless otherwise signed, left lane is left & ahead, right lane is for right turning traffic and only right turning traffic.  Dual carriageway, where there are two exiting lanes, go for your life and be as impatient as you like.  But if there's only one lane to exit into, fsck off and wait your turn like everyone else.

If you absolutely MUST do that, at least put your foot down and just bugger off into the distance, don't dawdle and then try to merge into the rear quarter of my car when you've realised that the lane you're trying to drive into doesn't exist because it's occupied by oncoming traffic.  Or more often, barge in front of me...and then drive 15-20mph slower than I would have been driving anyway if the road in front of me was clear.  Or like the guy in the (local) taxi two cars in front of me just now, park blocking the whole road while having an "animated discussion" through the passenger window with the driver of the car he'd cut up and causing traffic to back up all the way round the roundabout.

Given that this place is roundabout central, it never ceases to amaze me on any given day how many people with absolutely do no grasp the most basic concepts of how they work that I encounter.  Replacing "give way to traffic from the right" with "make eye contact then drive in front of you" is probably my favourite one to encounter at least two or three times a week.

Edited September 30, 2024 by Zelandeth
Correcting autocorrect

[comfortablynumb]

I find a scruffy 6 wheel range rover classic and a driver with a ' don't give a shit' attitude, to whom another scratch is easily ' repaired' with yet another can of Matt black solves most of those sorts of problems @Zelandeth.

Apart from the ones who wouldn't see an exploding supernova whilst it burned their retina into the back of their skull.....

[Minimad5]

I've always been fortunate enough to not really get ill. If anything maybe the odd cold, but it pretty much didn't affect me other than a runny nose etc.

This month I've been properly wiped out, no idea what it is but jesus - My head felt like it weighed 2 tonnes, my bones & joints ached, and I had zero energy. Now full of headache, mucous cough and general man-flu.

iIf this is what getting older is like, then I don't like it 😅

[chadders]

31 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

I find a scruffy 6 wheel range rover classic and a driver with a ' don't give a shit' attitude, to whom another scratch is easily ' repaired' with yet another can of Matt black solves most of those sorts of problems @Zelandeth.

Apart from the ones who wouldn't see an exploding supernova whilst it burned their retina into the back of their skull.....

When I worked in MK I found having a company car was very useful as there'd always be a spare on site if someone did push you too hard. Most accidents at roundabouts there are likely to be pretty low speed if I remember correctly so not exactly life threatening and anything to overly worry about.

[Zelandeth]

1 hour ago, comfortablynumb said:

I find a scruffy 6 wheel range rover classic and a driver with a ' don't give a shit' attitude, to whom another scratch is easily ' repaired' with yet another can of Matt black solves most of those sorts of problems @Zelandeth.

Apart from the ones who wouldn't see an exploding supernova whilst it burned their retina into the back of their skull.....

A scruffy Rover P4 works too.  Absolutely nobody pissed me about when I was driving this.

I don't think I got cut up once the whole time I owned it to be honest!

The only thing that did occasionally make me roll my eyes was the number of people who blasted past me the moment I merged on the motorway as she did take a bit of time to wind up to speed - only for a minute or two later for me to go howling past them in the outside lane - as she honestly seemed happiest in full juggernaut mode.

While I never really needed to use it in anger, the horn was loud enough to be heard from the far side of the country.  As I discovered on a couple of occasions when I triggered it by breathing on the horn ring on the steering wheel while reversing.  Not sure who I made jump more - myself or anyone in the surrounding area.

[Zelandeth]

34 minutes ago, chadders said:

When I worked in MK I found having a company car was very useful as there'd always be a spare on site if someone did push you too hard. Most accidents at roundabouts there are likely to be pretty low speed if I remember correctly so not exactly life threatening and anything to overly worry about.

I think the one I see the most is where someone has stopped when pulling onto a roundabout and the car behind them hasn't spotted them abort their launch, ending up running into the back of them.

Well, aside from the plethora of crash-for-cash nonsense where someone cuts in front of you on one of the 70mph roads and then slams the anchors on so you pile into the back of them and they pile the blame on you.  I haven't seen anyone trying that lately, but they were absolutely bloody everywhere a year or two back.  Usually a car from 2000-2005 with three people in, and conspicuously no working brake lights you'd see if you were behind them for more than a couple of minutes.  It had got to the stage at one point that I had just automatically started giving any cars from that sort of era an extra wide berth if I saw them on any of the major thoroughfares.

I imagine MK was a bloody gold mine for that type of scam though.  I'm guessing the proliferation of cheap dashcams is probably why it seems to have thankfully largely disappeared.

[EyesWeldedShut]

6 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

I think the one I see the most is where someone has stopped when pulling onto a roundabout and the car behind them hasn't spotted them abort their launch, ending up running into the back of them.

Well, aside from the plethora of crash-for-cash nonsense where someone cuts in front of you on one of the 70mph roads and then slams the anchors on so you pile into the back of them and they pile the blame on you.  I haven't seen anyone trying that lately, but they were absolutely bloody everywhere a year or two back.  Usually a car from 2000-2005 with three people in, and conspicuously no working brake lights you'd see if you were behind them for more than a couple of minutes.  It had got to the stage at one point that I had just automatically started giving any cars from that sort of era an extra wide berth if I saw them on any of the major thoroughfares.

I imagine MK was a bloody gold mine for that type of scam though.  I'm guessing the proliferation of cheap dashcams is probably why it seems to have thankfully largely disappeared.

Someplace on here (about two years ago but I cannot find the post) I moaned about trying to get over the MK roundabouts on the smaller side roads in the Bini - stuff coming across my bows on the dualled (H?) roads was shifting so fast that it was almost impossible to get onto the roundabouts without some degree of danger. 
Those roads were great when I was doing White Arrow around there (1998  ) but they're too wide/open/fast for today's SUV and EVs esp. when the drivers are a bunch of inconsiderate cnuts in a rush for work. As you can tell, I was not enamoured.

Not been back since.

[chadders]

I suspect that the more limited visibility of today's tanks has made it worse as well.

13 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Someplace on here (about two years ago but I cannot find the post) I moaned about trying to get over the MK roundabouts on the smaller side roads in the Bini - stuff coming across my bows on the dualled (H?) roads was shifting so fast that it was almost impossible to get onto the roundabouts without some degree of danger. 
Those roads were great when I was doing White Arrow around there (1998  ) but they're too wide/open/fast for today's SUV and EVs esp. when the drivers are a bunch of inconsiderate cnuts in a rush for work. As you can tell, I was not enamoured.

Not been back since.

I suspect that the more limited visibility of today's tanks has made it worse as well.

[fairkens]

1 hour ago, Minimad5 said:

I've always been fortunate enough to not really get ill. If anything maybe the odd cold, but it pretty much didn't affect me other than a runny nose etc.

This month I've been properly wiped out, no idea what it is but jesus - My head felt like it weighed 2 tonnes, my bones & joints ached, and I had zero energy. Now full of headache, mucous cough and general man-flu.

iIf this is what getting older is like, then I don't like it 😅

Sounds like covid, my sympathies

[jakebullet]

It's been pissing it down all day. Rain is getting in somewhere where porch joins house. Ma says "You can have a look at that tomorrow".

Great, I can fix it with my anti leak eyes. Lead looks ok, so could be getting in anywhere and running to the edge of ceiling to drip in. I haven't got a tall enough ladder, or any idea where it's getting in, but I can look at it. Arse biscuits.

[mercedade]

Holy shite. 

[somewhatfoolish]

What a complete bastard. Good riddance.

[comfortablynumb]

17 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

What a complete bastard. Good riddance.

Bet all the people who gave him money are a bit sick now...

[alcyonecorporation]

38 minutes ago, mercedade said:

Holy shite. 

Good for Debs. 

I hope she can move on.

[myglaren]

Never heard of either of them.

[montytom]

Wasnt he the not2grand fella? didnt he have an affair with a pie aswell or am I thinking of someone else??

EdIt.. Wanked into or with a trifle. 

Dirty basteward either way

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, myglaren said:

Never heard of either of them.

Thankfully, me neither.

[Erebus]

This really pissed me off reading this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crm24rv10dyo

Poor kid.  What a ridiculous idea.  What the hell was the council thinking installing a dangerous trip hazard?  

 

[artdjones]

37 minutes ago, Erebus said:

This really pissed me off reading this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crm24rv10dyo

Poor kid.  What a ridiculous idea.  What the hell was the council thinking installing a dangerous trip hazard?  

 

It's the usual modus operandi of public authorities now.

Don't crack down on illegal or dangerous behaviour. Just take measures to make it impossible while also inconveniencing the vast majority of law abiding citizens.

[alcyonecorporation]

17 hours ago, montytom said:

Wasnt he the not2grand fella? didnt he have an affair with a pie aswell or am I thinking of someone else??

EdIt.. Wanked into or with a trifle. 

Dirty basteward either way

New YT channel: Not2Years

[Metal Guru]

8 hours ago, artdjones said:

It's the usual modus operandi of public authorities now.

Don't crack down on illegal or dangerous behaviour. Just take measures to make it impossible while also inconveniencing the vast majority of law abiding citizens.

The person (s) who agreed to this should be made to pay hefty compensation to that kid out of their own pockets. 

[alcyonecorporation]

Sake. 

 

[UltraWomble]

Pay to reject cookies - what fuckery is this?

[somewhatfoolish]

3 minutes ago, UltraWomble said:

Pay to reject cookies - what fuckery is this?

Fuckery because greedy. Open it in a private window or whatever your browser's equivalent is and agree to the cookies. When you close the window the cookies go away.

[horriblemercedes]

I keep getting flyers from Slimming World posted through my front door. Have they seen me out and about, thought "he looks like a right fat shit" and tailed me home to find out where I live? 

[comfortablynumb]

Seen a couple like that recently too I think it was the times newspaper doing the same.

Shows how much your data is useful to them!

[IronStar]

EU can’t slap them with a massive fine too soon for that

[GrumpiusMaximus]

46 minutes ago, UltraWomble said:

Pay to reject cookies - what fuckery is this?

Now we’re not the EU…