The grumpy thread

[retrogeezer]

Formula E is stupid, the cars sound bad and the pitstops are the worst. Changing a vehicle is cheating. I know they can't get around that, they can't wait for 13 hours or change the battery. But, I dunno. Cut the cars power in half.

 

Don't mince around jumping in a spare car!!!

yeh, coz it's so good for the environment having to build 2 complete cars per driver and ship them all over the friggin world isn't it!

[robinmasters]

Me. I'm grumpy that I don't have the courage in my convictions to post a probably inflammatory comment about Obama's hymn singing.

[wuvvum]

Re the bikes, I thought my c90s speedo was massively over reading,so checked it at one of those speed signs,it's dead accurate.so that means all the car driving twats who have to overtake at all costs whether I'm doing 30,40 or 50 are all speeding,and all so that they have to be in front,yeah, well you must feel real hard passing a bike doing 30 in a 30 limit,I could go flying past you if I was doing 50 in a 30 as well,cunts

I had some twonk in a Laguna barge past me on the exit to a roundabout when I was on the way home from work this evening on the Spacy.  It was shortly before the limit goes from 30 to 50, and I was accelerating away from the roundabout, but obviously not quickly enough for him.  Once he was past I wound up to 50 and sat behind him.  After a bit he noticed me in his mirror and sped up to 60 - I followed suit.  I then sat behind him all the way to the next village, where he got stuck in traffic and I passed him again.  So he gained absolutely fuck all from his moronic manoeuvre.  As you say though (and as whysub has said elsewhere today), there's something about being on an old, small bike that creates some kind of pathological need in other road users to get past you at all costs.  Weird.

[Inspector Morose]

Look, you may have a 15 plate Merc but if you do insist in reversing into my right of way as I'm travelling down the road, I will stop with just a fag paper gap from your bumper and just wait while you now have to struggle to manoeuvre to get away.

 

No, I won't sound my horn, shout or even gesture in a manner that could be seen as threatening. I'll just wait and look while you steadily wind yourself up further and further until you see fit to leap out of your shiny car and threaten me with you and your mates. As I said calmly to you then. I don't give a shit just fuck that thing well out of my way and go and bother someone else.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I know it's now a god given right that people with children should be able to park close to the entrance to a supermarket but the spots are there for a reason as it can be hard getting kids in and out of the car with tons of shopping, but, today was taking the piss.

 

of the 8 spots outside morrisons 1 was taken by a bloke just sat in with the engine running. One was a bint on her own who wandered off to subway. And the one that took the piss the most was too scruffy looking bitches in green nurses type uniforms, not one kid between them.

 

As I said it's not a right but I don't Park in them when I don't have my son with me same as I wouldn't Park in a disabled one as I'm not a twat.

 

well OK, I am a twat, just not that kind of twat

[MarvinsMom]

i park up in those spaces more often than not at the local super market.

 

simple reason been that the other "standard" parking spaces are that small that the xj6 fills the fookin' things.

 

right up to the white lines both sides, and then there  is maybe 3 feet of the boot hanging out into the space behind or into the damn roadway.

 

the friggin' kiddie spots are not only wide enough to get the jaguar doors open, but also longer so not all the back of the car is hanging out into fresh air.

 

plus there is less chance of some fucking brain dead window licking cunt in some bmw or aldi opening their fucking hp leased white goods trash shite doors onto my car.

 

the car is arrow straight, save one ding in the passenger back door courtesy of work and the dick in an aldi who parked next to it (i saw him do it) and i want it stay that way.

[Honey Badger]

Most kids are fat, I'm helping to beat child obiesty by taking those spaces up, disabled people deserve their own spaces but I don't see why someone reproducing gives them a god given right to their own massive spaces.

 

In a non child related grump my back is fucking killing me but I need to fit a set of skirting boards tomorrow and paint the floor before the carpet is fitted, I foresee large doses of codeine in the near future.

[jakebullet]

I've come home from vulcan spotting to find the house next door is full of twat teenagers who think it's big n clever to scream n shout n run about slamming doors. It's probably illegal to jetwash the fuckers, but I guess will have to put up with it until some pissed bastard breaks a leg or something. One can only hope.

[sporty-shite]

i park up in those spaces more often than not at the local super market.

 

simple reason been that the other "standard" parking spaces are that small that the xj6 fills the fookin' things.

 

right up to the white lines both sides, and then there is maybe 3 feet of the boot hanging out into the space behind or into the damn roadway.

 

the friggin' kiddie spots are not only wide enough to get the jaguar doors open, but also longer so not all the back of the car is hanging out into fresh air.

 

plus there is less chance of some fucking brain dead window licking cunt in some bmw or aldi opening their fucking hp leased white goods trash shite doors onto my car.

 

the car is arrow straight, save one ding in the passenger back door courtesy of work and the dick in an aldi who parked next to it (i saw him do it) and i want it stay that way.

The reason those spaces exist is so that cars don't get hit when parents (like me) are struggling to get kids out of their car. The fact that some selfish twat (like you) parks in them to save their car being damaged sort of defeats the object.

 

But don't you worry. As long as you're ok.

[Timewaster]

Right on Sporty.

 

Those spaces are a godsend when you are trying to get 2 toddlers into a double buggy whilst trying to hold on to a 4 year old.

[UmBongo]

We've had the cheese wire across the bike paths here in Ipswich recently too, it's sickening.

 

http://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/warning_after_wire_stretched_across_cycle_path_at_head_height_in_kesgrave_1_3995935

 

Only warranted for local ned cunts who insist on riding motor scooters up and down the path next my mother's sheltered housing complex.

 

Doss little pricks.

[UmBongo]

Work is shit...

 

I've been plagued with punctures on the rear tyre of my bike recently.

 

The schools are now out for the summer here and the brats all play around in the car park, despite there being a massive playing field and playground a couple of hundred yards up the road.

 

It's going to rain tomorrow and I'm off to the Moffat car show.

 

I want to buy an Impreza, but they're all high milers, other than the ones going for ludicrous money.

 

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuk it!

[Louise2cv]

Yep I always used to say "we never had parent child spaces when I was little" but now I have realised that when I was little we didn't have massive car seats that toddlers have to be persuaded into. And the straps on these things need two hands to fasten and adjust, so it is near impossible to hold the door while getting the child in. I want the wide space so I don't whack my (paid for in full) full of crumbs Audi (spelled in the non-amusing* way) doors into, for example some sad wannabe pub landlord's jag.

 

Asda seem to have missed the point here and think it's just about proximity to the store, their parent/child spaces are not very wide at all.

[anonymous user]

Asda seem to have missed the point here and think it's just about proximity to the store, their parent/child spaces are not very wide at all.

You could always park over the far side of the car-park where no-one else goes

 

I do know that doesn't work as most cars seem to be magnetic, you park anywhere in an empty car-park and when you come back there will be a car either side of you, even if the rest of the place is empty.

 

Just one question with parent and child spaces, would it be acceptable for an eighty year old, with their fifty year old offspring to use one?

[wuvvum]

I went to work in the 200Vi today.  Got stuck in horrendous traffic in Norwich, and the temp gauge started to climb.  I whacked the heater on full and normal service was quickly resumed, but the problem was that the radiator fan wasn't kicking in.  When I got home I had a quick poke around and it turned out the fuse had blown.  I thought I'd just double check the fan was working by running wires to it directly from the battery.  Trying to pull off the multiplug, it was somewhat stuck so I pulled harder and it came away suddenly, resulting in me twatting the back of my hand on the temp sender directly above.  It's not a big cut, but I think I must have knocked a nerve as my entire right hand is aching like fuck and hurts every time I move it, and I have pins and needles in my fingers.  No masturbation for me tonight then.

[Richard]

 

Just one question with parent and child spaces, would it be acceptable for an eighty year old, with their fifty year old offspring to use one?

 

It wouldn't, but that doesn't seem to stop them.

[Louise2cv]

you park anywhere in an empty car-park and when you come back there will be a car either side of you, even if the rest of the place is empty.

 

EVERY.

 

TIME.

[HH-R]

ASDA have put the world's most brutal speed bumps in here, so now the busiest part of the car park is furthest away from the shop (where I usually park to avoid everyone else) as everyone wants to avoid the. Every time they "improve" the car park, I have to wonder what they're smoking. I remember years ago it was one way, you'd get the odd clown going the wrong way and it caused havoc because the lanes aren't really wide enough for two way so what did they do to fix this? Make it all two way and put bollards on the extreme ends of the rows (which are almost all at 45 degrees and covered in car paint now). Genius.

[chaseracer]

...most cars seem to be magnetic...

 

True...

 

 

 

(Sorry, wrong thread!)

[xtriple]

Been a bit of 'one  of those days' .

 

My e-fag sprang a leak and then packed up altogether, everywhere I went was packed out with fucking people and dogs and kids and bbqs and I got in a proper grump. Not had one of those for ages!

 

On the plus side... Rossi!!!!!!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

 

plus there is less chance of some fucking brain dead window licking cunt in some bmw or aldi opening their fucking hp leased white goods trash shite doors onto my car.

 

 

Classy

[beko1987]

I love rocking into the child spaces in the zx with eva in it.

 

Ive had verbals with people sans kids before using one. Sorry, your on your own with that one.

 

Do what i do and head straight for the back of the car park. Boom, shit loads of spaces and normally at ours its quicker just to do that and walk than it is to circle at the front, especially as ours is one way so you do an aisle, right back out again, anither aisle, right back out again etc

[Coprolalia]

Isn't one of the points of autoshite that you own a car where dings don't matter.

 

Sometimes they even add symmetry and improve the looks of a car. Or you can fix it yourself.

 

Or have I just missed a turn and I'm on Pistonheads.

[dugong]

I get annoyed if more dents appear on an already dented car.

[Noel Tidybeard]

i use the child spaces at asda on my way home from work on the basis of ITS AFTER MIDNIGHT AND THE KIDS SHOULD BE IN FCUKING BED!!

[Jerzy Woking]

Isn't one of the points of autoshite that you own a car where dings don't matter.

 

 That really boils my piss. It's my car, and for me to dent, not for some ignorant fucker thinking "it's a shitty car" to dent. It might be a shitty car, but it's my shitty car.

[HH-R]

The antidote to having your car dinged in car parks is to find a shop that everyone thinks you're a loser for shopping at. It's getting harder nowadays, at one point there was Aldi, Lidl and Netto. Netto has sadly left us, and Aldi has become almost cool so it's a nightmare of a packed car park and full of people blocking 15 foot wide aisles whilst having a natter. Lidl is where I shop but it is on the cusp of being too publicly acceptable too due to their (incredibly annoying) TV adverts. It's difficult, but there are still massively uncool shops out there to make sure people treat you like a red headed stepchild and wouldn't want to be seen dead in. The small independent freezer shops are GR8 for this. 24 hour big name places are OK too, if you go at a very unsociable hour.

[AlabamaShrimp]

It's a great idea this parking away from the shop where it's empty. Shames that Rothwell morrisons shares its car park and it's always rammed. Same goes for most other car parks too.

 

I think the whole thing is really the giant "fuck you" attitude that most people seem to have now. If it's not affecting them directly they don't give a shit and carry on blindly as if nothing has happened.

 

It's like these shootings and stuff in Tunisia and France. People will talk about it being bad and stuff but they'll do sod all to change or stop it happening again

[Lord Sterling]

I get annoyed if more dents appear on an already dented car.

Funnily enough, a ding with some Red paint has appeared on my car since OMG PARKING WARZ with some ignorant twat neighbours have been around. The problem is, where I work also there a few Red coloured cars and my Merc has been to a few places so the small ding has come from somewhere, but I can't exactly be sure where.

[purplebargeken]

Doesn't matter, find the neighbours red car and burn it.