The grumpy thread

[DS20]

JEREMY VINE, Y U SHOUT?

 

(News at 10, BBC1)

[michael1703]

Hi viz vests

 

Can we make it so they are licensed and you have to prove your need to wear one?

[320touring]

Hi viz vests

 

Can we make it so they are licensed and you have to prove your need to wear one?

 

 

Nup- I need one to steal the Lead off your roof;)

[dugong]

Hi viz vests

 

Can we make it so they are licensed and you have to prove your need to wear one?

Tell that to IKEA. The last time I had some of its meatballs, my arse needed a hi-vis to warn everyone else of the impending doom around the toilet.

[dugong]

Dribble, dribble fap, the iPhone 6 has AE \ AF lock!

 

And? My S3 had that two and a half years ago. SNORE.

[michael1703]

There's some weird inbuilt thing where hi viz = legit

 

It's since the police went from black to hi viz that things got worse

 

Bring back tabards

[dugong]

Bring back tabards

LUCAS FREELITES WANTED

 

BROKEN WORKING W.H.Y. TOP PRICES PAID

[wuvvum]

Cheeky little c*nt!

 

[michael1703]

The spiders trying to work out hieroglyphics

 

"A bird in the hand,is worth two in shepherds bush"

 

[inconsistant]

 

No.

[HillmanImp]

Hi viz vests

 

Can we make it so they are licensed and you have to prove your need to wear one?

 

These were traditionally used as society's marker for someone who should have tried harder at school. 

 

The lines seem to be blurring somewhat these days though with anyone and everyone wearing them in roles that do not even require them to be 'highly visable'. I see gardeners wearing them when mowing the lawn. Why, surely something high viz would be better off on the flowerbed so that you can spot my shrubs before you trample all over them.  

 

Social climbing by clothing. Whatever next. Suppose its the exact opposire of Burberry

[Skizzer]

IMG_3771.JPG

 

[sawn off Minis on the wall]

 

No.

 

I hope the engines got pulled out and installed into early Metros.

[Mr Livered]

Social climbing by clothing. Whatever next.

Social climbing by clothing has beeen around for a very long time; probably as long as clothing has. Going right back to the beginning, I imagine that wandering around in nice furs would mark you out as a competent hunter!

 

Clothing choice can say "I'm wealthy and can afford nice clothes", or "I'm switched on, tuned in and trendy". As far as workwear is concerned, it can say "I'm important and not to be fucked with" or - if it's a high vis jacket - something more like "I'm busy doing a job, please respect that and co-operate with me". It's a styling element that both those with genuine authority (police) have in common with those who are genuinely busy and doing an important job (like those who repair roads, utility pipework, etc).

 

If I was going to try to nick a car using the tactic of blatantly hiabing it in broad daylight, I'd wear a high vis jacket. Partly for the very simple reason that it's a good idea to look like the "real thing" but also because the jacket might help reduce the likelihood of being asked awkward questions by neighbours or whatever. Before approaching me, my attire would already have declared my bona fides.

[Lankytim]

apparently a hi viz and a clipboard means you can commit any crime in broad daylight, no questions asked.

 

Also, I've recently moved up the social ladder by ditching the yellow hi viz and wearing an orange one instead. Instant manager powerz!

[michael1703]

I look like stig of the dump,burnt and holed overalls,beardy,weathered,knackered boots etc

 

I go shopping like that,I've normally got a minimum of £150 in cash in my top overall pocket and buy the most expensive option of whatever's there, last summer I'd sold a car for £2k and kept the money in my top pocket for about 6 weeks, kept pulling £50's out in my local co-op

[Cavcraft]

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Bring back bastards

 

I agree, it seems at one time there were loads of them, now it's all wankers and knobheads.

[Pillock]

I borrowed a work van today, drove to a store, and left with £5k worth of very nice new TVs.

 

I had permission to do so. It was all legit. But because I went in via the warehouse, I had a hi-vis on. Because I had a hi-vis on, nobody questioned a thing. No paperwork, no phone calls, nothing.

 

Because I had a hi-vis on, they loaded my van for me! The van wasn't even signwritten, I can't drive our 3.5t lutons as I have no tacho card so they gave me a hired white sprinter.

[xtriple]

I managed to break two toes this morning getting into the bath/shower. You are not supposed to kick shit out of the bloody thing... apparently! However, because of the amount of painkillers/nerve damage (completely dead left leg!) I've got, I didn't notice until I looked down and saw two little piggies sticking out at a funny angle. I just twisted/bent them back into position and carried on. I had to go to the hospital today anyway for a scan (yet another!) on my spine so got them to see if I'd done any damage.... er, yes!

[Jazoli]

JEREMY VINE, Y U SHOUT?

 

(News at 10, BBC1)

Jeremy Vine is a grade a cunt, no question

 

My gripe for today is twats at traffic lights, why is it such a surprise that they have turned green and you have to set off, wankers, its pretty fucking obvious if they are red when you stop they might change anytime soon requiring you to get a move on and not make impatient fuckers like me wait for 5 minutes whilst they cycle again, twats

[Negative Creep]

I borrowed a work van today, drove to a store, and left with £5k worth of very nice new TVs.

 

I had permission to do so. It was all legit. But because I went in via the warehouse, I had a hi-vis on. Because I had a hi-vis on, nobody questioned a thing. No paperwork, no phone calls, nothing.

 

Because I had a hi-vis on, they loaded my van for me! The van wasn't even signwritten, I can't drive our 3.5t lutons as I have no tacho card so they gave me a hired white sprinter.

 

I think that could happen pretty much anywhere if you were bold enough. So many temps and visitors at my place I have no idea who they are, and certainly don't have the time to question anyone I don't know.

[richardmorris]

Jeremy Vine is a grade a cunt, no question

 

My gripe for today is twats at traffic lights, why is it such a surprise that they have turned green and you have to set off, wankers, its pretty fucking obvious if they are red when you stop they might change anytime soon requiring you to get a move on and not make impatient fuckers like me wait for 5 minutes whilst they cycle again, twats

 

 

Probably the same people at supermarket checkouts, who seem completely surprised when they're asked to pay and need to get their purse/wallet out.

[Cavcraft]

I thought the appropriate attire for social climbing was a pair of hideous trousers, a hideous striped jumper and some golf shoes.

[DS20]

The A1 just north of Peterborough last night.  Roadworks; fair enough.  Diversion; fair enough.  EXCEPT sodding posted diversion involved a sodding tour of most of the East Midlands, as it turned out.  So I went through Stamford instead, adding a mile and five minutes to the journey.  But why o why did the Highways Agency feel the need to send everyone through Duddington, Uppingham, Oakham, and Melton Mowbray?  It adds >10 miles and about half an hour, just to bypass a mile of closed carriageway

 

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[fordperv]

I was supposed to be doing some brakes on mrs fp's dads focus but it's raining, fuck you weather I may just go crazy and do them anyway

[michael1703]

I think that could happen pretty much anywhere if you were bold enough. So many temps and visitors at my place I have no idea who they are, and certainly don't have the time to question anyone I don't know.

When they were building the millenium dome a newspaper did a piece about security, he bought a high viz jacket,a coffe and a bacon sarnie.

 

He walked straight through security without anyone questioning.

 

On a similar note, I came home from work,got out of car and started pushing cars about on my driveway, got suspicious looks from tractor driver in field,went in to porch and took my recycling out to the bins and then he carried on.

 

Which gave me the idea that if I were to burgle anyone and get rumbled, I'd take the bins out as it would look normal, burglars don't tend to do house chores

[Richard]

The A1 just north of Peterborough last night.  Roadworks; fair enough.  Diversion; fair enough.  EXCEPT sodding posted diversion involved a sodding tour of most of the East Midlands, as it turned out.  So I went through Stamford instead, adding a mile and five minutes to the journey.  But why o why did the Highways Agency feel the need to send everyone through Duddington, Uppingham, Oakham, and Melton Mowbray?  It adds >10 miles and about half an hour, just to bypass a mile of closed carriageway

 

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Come and live up here for a while and a 10 mile/half hour diversion will seem like bloody luxury. Diversion routes into three figures are not unknown, even for planned work.

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/drivers-facing-150-mile-diversion-until-1507877

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-28661092

[meggersdog]

The A1 just north of Peterborough last night.  Roadworks; fair enough.  Diversion; fair enough.  EXCEPT sodding posted diversion involved a sodding tour of most of the East Midlands, as it turned out.  So I went through Stamford instead, adding a mile and five minutes to the journey.  But why o why did the Highways Agency feel the need to send everyone through Duddington, Uppingham, Oakham, and Melton Mowbray?  It adds >10 miles and about half an hour, just to bypass a mile of closed carriageway

 

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Because Stamford doesn't want lorryists ruining it's cobbled streets.

 

Imagine a fleet of artics trying to negotiate the sharp bend at the top of St.Mary's hill.Walls have been damaged before.The streets are not wide enough

[HillmanImp]

Element has gone in the oven. I go in the oven and take out the screws for the cover and then the screw for the element. Then look at pulling the element out. Oh, I can't as its held in place by two screws that have been put in from the back of the oven. So I have to pull the oven out. Once the oven is out, there is a cover on the back held in place by another 14 screws that seems to have a sole purpose of stopping me getting at the two screws I need to get at to undo the element. 

 

Why could they not just have put these on so that they were undone from the inside? How hard would that have been? Why would you do this?

 

The only think I can think of is that it must have been made by the French.

[DS20]

Because Stamford doesn't want lorryists ruining it's cobbled streets.

 

Imagine a fleet of artics trying to negotiate the sharp bend at the top of St.Mary's hill.Walls have been damaged before.The streets are not wide enough

 

Yes, true. Stamford was the alternative diversion I went for, being in the car. But even for the biggest of the big trucks, there're two or three alternative routes west of the A1 that do not require visits to Oakham and Melton. I will be treating the HA diversion routes with considerable caution in future.

[vulgalour]

After much consideration I made the very uncomfortable decision to walk away from Dream Job today.

 

I can't and won't go into the details publicly and I'm hoping this is just a temporary situation.  Work on the Princess is on hold indefinitely as a result, I'm not very happy about this at all.