The grumpy thread

[somewhatfoolish]

On 19/02/2025 at 17:14, artdjones said:

Friends of mine went to a wedding near Toxteth thirty five years ago and the whole shop was walled of behind perspex walls. You pointed, they got your order together, you pushed your money through a small slot, and they pushed the goods out through a bigger one. 

Yup, in the 90s the average non-leafy district of Glasgow offlicence was filled with perspex screens and a small kiosk opening where the till jockey handed you what you'd paid for, these places are just catching up with the avantgarde. 

[Barry Cade]

5 hours ago, goosey said:

Why can’t people just merge in turn?

Thing that's properly getting ma goat lately is people merging from a slip road on to a busy dual carriageway.  They stop where the 2 roads converge and stick their indicator on, instead of going along the slip road and merging in to the gaps. Causes the roundabouts at the top of the slip roads to get all jammed up. Edinburgh City Bypass is demolition derby now...

[sheffcortinacentre]

Also entering from slip road onto m/way DC just drive straight out ( indicating optional) forcing traffic to take avoidance.

[Metal Guru]

3 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

I don't know if it's just me, but why, when there's a lane closed ahead, don't they encourage everyone to use all the lanes until the last moment, and then merge in turn? 

Surely if you're using all the available carriageway, it'll reduce waiting times?

Until of course, there's the usual Muppet who , as said above, sees it as an affront to their masculinity, or femininity, or two spirited penguins, or whatever it's it this week?

I don’t think the majority of drivers know this is what you are actually meant to do. If you don’t get into line at least 1/2 before the restriction, most think you are pushing in and will do their upmost to block you out. 

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

We should be so lucky.

Sang a soap star*

[sheffcortinacentre]

Correct , extra points for character & soap.

[paulplom]

15 hours ago, motorpunk said:

Leicester Greggs had security on the door earlier this week. Once one of the best cities in the world to live in, apparently. Mostly a shit hole now.

Greggs at the Bigg Market in Newcastle has a pair of bouncers on the door at the weekend.

[alcyonecorporation]

15 hours ago, alcyonecorporation said:

This week can fuck off. 

I had my collections pouch nicked last night with £80 inside. 
Guess who made no money at all? 

I did get to do it in an N/A diesel ZX, though. 

That should be in the anti-grumpy thread. 

A ZX with a back door that doesn't lock...

[comfortablynumb]

Haven't been there for years, but last time I was in jersey, they had signs saying merge in turn. Only time I can remember seeing them, as a standard road sign, not at roadworks 

[alcyonecorporation]

17 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

Haven't been there for years, but last time I was in jersey, they had signs saying merge in turn. Only time I can remember seeing them, as a standard road sign, not at roadworks 

Traffic law in the Channel Islands is different to the rest of the UK. 

[motorpunk]

10 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

I don’t think the majority of drivers know this is what you are actually meant to do. If you don’t get into line at least 1/2 before the restriction, most think you are pushing in and will do their upmost to block you out. 

You’re right, of course, but it’s seemingly nearly always some turkey-teeth, trout faced idiot, perched upright on the drivers seat of their Range Rover, too busy on their mobile to notice the cascade of cones who does it. And they can FRO.

[Metal Guru]

24 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

Haven't been there for years, but last time I was in jersey, they had signs saying merge in turn. Only time I can remember seeing them, as a standard road sign, not at roadworks 

From what I can  remember (last visit 1998), the merge in turns were often three or four way junctions where we’d have a mini roundabout. 
There’s only about 1/2 mile of dual carriageway along the sea front at St Helier so I doubt if it’s much of an issue at road works.

The 4 way halts you get in North America instead of lights or a roundabout, can be farcical , with no one knowing whose turn it is.

[chaseracer]

1 hour ago, comfortablynumb said:

Haven't been there for years, but last time I was in jersey, they had signs saying merge in turn. Only time I can remember seeing them, as a standard road sign, not at roadworks 

There's a set of MIT signs on the Walsall ring* road*, but only northbound and only to a single roundabout.  The adjacent Toby carvery must confuse people.

[horriblemercedes]

17 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

I don't know if it's just me, but why, when there's a lane closed ahead, don't they encourage everyone to use all the lanes until the last moment, and then merge in turn? 

 

Isn't that exactly what we are encouraged to do? Some idiots just don't understand it

[horriblemercedes]

Grump for me. My phone rang and it was a number I didn't recognise. Normally I ignore them. They can leave a message and I'll call back, or they can send a text (much preferred).

However, my aging mum has recently been leaving her phone at home and locking herself out. She has called me a couple of times from a phone she has borrowed from a stranger. I thought I should answer it, in case it was one of those.

 

"Hi horriblemercedes, I called your work this morning but they said you weren't in, so I sent an email and got an out of office reply and so I thought I'd better call you."

"How did you get my number?"

"In July I was hoping you could help me with something and I want to get it planned."

"How did you get my number? I don't believe that they'd give you it at work."

"Oh, I remember Dan mentioning that he was friends with you, so I asked him for it."

"And he gave it to you?"

"I told him that you were trying to get hold of me."

"I'm not."

"Anyway, I was hoping you could look at the email by this afternoon."

"I won't."

"OK, what about this evening?"

"Maybe next week."

"OK, first thing on Monday?"

"I very much doubt it. Bye."

 

First of all, Dan will get a bollocking for not checking that he can give my number out, but why do cunts like that think that it's ok to behave this way? He's a client, he has been told by my office and my email that I'm not available, and so he lies to a coincidental, mutual friend to get my phone number. I've blocked the number, but I'm sure that if he wants to contact me in my free time, he will just borrow a phone to do it.

[comfortablynumb]

13 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

Isn't that exactly what we are encouraged to do? Some idiots just don't understand it

Never actually seen it promoted, which is probably part of the reason people act the way they do?

[horriblemercedes]

1 minute ago, comfortablynumb said:

Never actually seen it promoted, which is probably part of the reason people act the way they do?

 

What about these signs?

[Mally]

ASDA have nicked 1-1/2" off my zip fly.  I need to unfasten my belt now, and my phone an wallet are attached to my belt!

Can't take them back, I've shortened one pair and taken labels off the other. No wonder it's 2 for £16.

[cobblers]

28 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

Grump for me. My phone rang and it was a number I didn't recognise. Normally I ignore them. They can leave a message and I'll call back, or they can send a text (much preferred).

However, my aging mum has recently been leaving her phone at home and locking herself out. She has called me a couple of times from a phone she has borrowed from a stranger. I thought I should answer it, in case it was one of those.

 

 

First of all, Dan will get a bollocking for not checking that he can give my number out, but why do cunts like that think that it's ok to behave this way? He's a client, he has been told by my office and my email that I'm not available, and so he lies to a coincidental, mutual friend to get my phone number. I've blocked the number, but I'm sure that if he wants to contact me in my free time, he will just borrow a phone to do it.

My personal mobile number "found its way out" to a few customers years ago and people would pester the fuck out of me at all hours. Nowadays I absolutely *do not* answer the phone unless I recognise the number. My voicemail is "Hi, this is Dave's personal phone number - if you're looking for XYZ Electronics, please call the office on 01xxxxxxx. Do not leave a voicemail"

Yesterday I was driving to see my nan in hospital, she's broke her hip. I got a missed call off a number I don't recognise. Then again, and again. 10 calls over the space of 5 minutes, plus a few voicemails. I don't have my phone connected for bluetooth calls, so I pulled over worrying it was urgent from the hospital or something, and just as I was about to call back, they rang again.

"Hi Dave just wondering what your business address is, I need to post something for you to fix"

"I'm not at work right now, please call the office"

"Can't you just tell me what it is?"

"Couldn't you have just called the office?"

I might have lost a customer, but I don't think that it was the type of customer we'll miss.

 

[horriblemercedes]

5 minutes ago, cobblers said:

My personal mobile number "found its way out" to a few customers years ago and people would pester the fuck out of me at all hours. Nowadays I absolutely *do not* answer the phone unless I recognise the number. My voicemail is "Hi, this is Dave's personal phone number - if you're looking for XYZ Electronics, please call the office on 01xxxxxxx. Do not leave a voicemail"

Yesterday I was driving to see my nan in hospital, she's broke her hip. I got a missed call off a number I don't recognise. Then again, and again. 10 calls over the space of 5 minutes, plus a few voicemails. I don't have my phone connected for bluetooth calls, so I pulled over worrying it was urgent from the hospital or something, and just as I was about to call back, they rang again.

"Hi Dave just wondering what your business address is, I need to post something for you to fix"

"I'm not at work right now, please call the office"

"Can't you just tell me what it is?"

"Couldn't you have just called the office?"

I might have lost a customer, but I don't think that it was the type of customer we'll miss.

 

I've been so careful not to let my phone number get out to people, but my friend of 20 years had it long before I knew this customer. I haven't spoken to him yet, but I will, because it's really not ok to give out any contact details without permission.

 

I had this one recently. At the end of an unrelated phone call:

"While I've got you, can you give me Bob Smith's number?"

"I'll ask him and let you know."

"Don't you have it there?"

"Yes, I have it, but I won't give out his number without permission."

"Oh, this bloody data protection shit. Nightmare, isn't it?"

"I wouldn't give it out without asking him even if there were no regulations."

"Ok then, get him to call me."

"I'll pass the message to him."

"When will he call me?"

"I don't even know if he will, let alone when."

[comfortablynumb]

50 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

 

What about these signs?

Didn't say there weren't any, I even said I'd seen them in jersey, just that I hadn't seen them recently 

[horriblemercedes]

7 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

Didn't say there weren't any, I even said I'd seen them in jersey, just that I hadn't seen them recently 

That's fair enough. We must go to different places...I feel that I see them all the time!

[comfortablynumb]

I wish I saw them more......🤔

[Metal Guru]

7 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

I wish I saw them more......🤔

They’re certainly not at all roadworks, not that matters to the road captains. HGV drivers still straddle both lanes too, their bit of power over car drivers that doesn’t involve killing them.

[hairnet]

some jock twat drove into the side of my car two hours ago

no it wasnt @320touring

i hate tesco

i have their details

and even tho i told the insurance and said it was unlikely i would make a claim when i can clearly check for damage (thanks jock weather)

they said youre entitled to a rental car

the only thing that made me larf is not that its a local place here

its the local place at home i regularly use

fuck fridays

[purplebargeken]

Discovered a detail sander in the shed.  Nice size, cordless too. Can I find the charger, can I fuck. Ok, let’s see if I can find one on the internet. Can I fuck. 

[comfortablynumb]

8 minutes ago, purplebargeken said:

Discovered a detail sander in the shed.  Nice size, cordless too. Can I find the charger, can I fuck. Ok, let’s see if I can find one on the internet. Can I fuck. 

Universal jobby? One of those with interchangeable plugs and voltages, worked for me on something a while ago 

[purplebargeken]

It’s one of those pronged slide into the charger things. I’ll wade into the shed tomorrow and have a proper look but confidence is low.

[purplebargeken]

Sigh

[comfortablynumb]

1 hour ago, purplebargeken said:

Sigh

This one?

167285873070 ebay