The grumpy thread

[fordperv]

I get wound up by seeing people riding bikes without proper gear on, i once upset a guy on a gsxr750 by asking him how much his kevlar knee, hand and elbow implants were as he was wearing shorts and t shirt to ride

[hairnet]

no ebay cocksniffer RTFADVERT

 

fucks sake

[fred]

I get wound up by seeing people riding bikes without proper gear on, i once upset a guy on a gsxr750 by asking him how much his kevlar knee, hand and elbow implants were as he was wearing shorts and t shirt to ride

Its an age thing I guess, anyone below 30 considers themselves immortal - I did and did stupid things, above that things start wearing out. You get backache - strains etc, and hit 40 and by bugger you sound like your old dad

[dave21478]

A lady I know worked at a scooter rental place on Mallorca. With every rental they gave the speech about appropriate clothing but could see the peoples eyes glaze over as they stopped listening.

Pretty much every week some girl in short shorts and a bikini top or some guy in nothing but shorts would find out the hard way. Usually just going too fast and finding a pothole or gravel in the road on a curve.

 

Also - wear your fucking helmet properly! sadly before I got my dashcam so no film of it but I was following a scooter with two kids on it here. There had been a rain shower after a long hot period so the road was greasy as fuck. They were riding like knobs and I could see it coming a mile away so kept well back and they inevitably binned it on a corner, fortunately at relatively low speed as both their helmets flew off and went bouncing down the road.

[purplebargeken]

^^ No sympathy whatsoever.

[mercrocker]

Down zat zhere Cornwaaaal one summer afternoon many many sleeps ago we were admiring each others crap bikes when a Yoshi-piped Z900 snarled in with much unnecessary throttle windage. Ridden by a bird in a pink halterneck bikini and not much else. The bike was hotter than she was and had obviously been thrashed like the bastard it was. She took her lid off, shook the blond hair into a an 80s-tastic feather cut and strode into the beer garden. My gobshite mate asked how she would like her tits sanded with 30 grit so she would know how it would feel if she fell off dressed like that.

 

He really wasn't to know it was her boyfriend's bike that she had just taken for a blatt up the newsagent, and yep, he was the massive fucker over by the rockery, nursing a growling grudge against grockel twats....

 

The afternoon didn't end well, one of us ended up with a very sore face so you should always wear proper protection!

[oldcars]

People. Why are so many all me me me, why not break the habit of a lifetime and possible think about others?

Wish i could build a house, on its own mile away from others 

[Richard]

 

The afternoon didn't end well, one of us ended up with a very sore face so you should always wear proper protection!

 

Full face helmets aren't great in a fight, they provide a convenient handle to hold with one hand and a window to punch through with the other.

[chaseracer]

People. Why are so many all me me me, why not break the habit of a lifetime and possible think about others?

Wish i could build a house, on its own mile away from others 

 

This.  To a magnitude of infinity.  With razor wire...

[saucedoctor]

Trying to buy a new laptop today. Narrowed it down to three at Argos. Described as having "Intel i5 AMD A10 " processors (!)
They haven't got any of them left anyway, anywhere.

 

PC Wankers: likewise no stock of actual laptops, just netbooks and those shitty fold over things. And despite some tool asking me twice, I don't want a fucking Macbook instead.

1 local shop has no laptops at all, and the other one isn't open.

 

 

I have a fair old chunk of change to spend on this, and no bugger is in a position to relieve me of it.

[EssDeeWon]

^Try your local John Lewis, they have a great selection and offer free extended warranties IIRC

 

Don't be put off by the '££John Lewis££' banner, their electrical equipment like Laptops and TV's are more or less in line with the others like Argos / Curreys / PC World.

[saucedoctor]

Cheers for the tip, however I need one today. The NI John lewis has been planned for 13 years, but doesn't yet exists due to the WANKERS at Stormont.

 

I think I'll get one off scumtree as a temporary measure until I can get a better one. I see John Lewis will deliver to NI, so that's a possibility. Ta.

[Pillock]

Just hope it doesn't need repairing if you buy from JL. Their repair operation is crap. 

[AlabamaShrimp]

They must be some good laptops to have Intel and amd chips

 

 

Today's moan those sodding BT adverts. It's on every ad break on the discovery type channels. Wouldn't mind so much but it's bollocks about a sale. This'll be the same sale that's been on for the last year that gets a name change every six months.....

[Inspector Morose]

Wives - do no guilt your husband into not going out and enjoying what he likes on the premise of shopping for a barbecue to be held tomorrow for your family. When you then go off and enjoy doing what you want to do, leaving said husband to reflect on the totally wasted day until you finally manage to come back, don't be too surprised if he's feeling "a little off".

 

I could just go off anyway but the wrath that would invoke can only be understood by the brow beaten husband society.

[Richard]

Similarly, a visit to a farm shop followed by an evening with the in-laws is not a good way to spend the last day of my holidays.

[andy18s]

Got home to a Penalty Notice from the good people who run the Dartford Crossing last night

It seems when I took a run down to that there London last month I neglected to pay the fees for using their lovely bridge and tunnel.

For this privilege they informed me they wanted a total of £140 in penalties (halved if paid within 14 days)

Once I'd dug up the emailed receipt they'd sent me,and got a copy of my debit card statement showing the online payment had gone out,I handed it all over to the Mrs as it was her Disco I'd used and who they wanted to speak to...

15min later she had ended up with a formal apology from some manager at the call centre,and an offer to refund the £5 charge that had been paid....

Computer glitch apparently. .

..loads of incorrect fines are getting sent out and it seems most people are just coughing up and paying....

[chaseracer]

Wives - do no guilt your husband into not going out and enjoying what he likes on the premise of shopping for a barbecue to be held tomorrow for your family. When you then go off and enjoy doing what you want to do, leaving said husband to reflect on the totally wasted day until you finally manage to come back, don't be too surprised if he's feeling "a little off".

 

I could just go off anyway but the wrath that would invoke can only be understood by the brow beaten husband society.

 

When are you coming over?

 

[Inspector Morose]

The way it's heading, about 3 and I'll suffer the consequences.

[chaseracer]

Kettle will be on.  

 

I'm building a xylophone today - should be fun.

[Parky]

Got home to a Penalty Notice from the good people who run the Dartford Crossing last night

It seems when I took a run down to that there London last month I neglected to pay the fees for using their lovely bridge and tunnel.

For this privilege they informed me they wanted a total of £140 in penalties (halved if paid within 14 days)

Once I'd dug up the emailed receipt they'd sent me,and got a copy of my debit card statement showing the online payment had gone out,I handed it all over to the Mrs as it was her Disco I'd used and who they wanted to speak to...

15min later she had ended up with a formal apology from some manager at the call centre,and an offer to refund the £5 charge that had been paid....

Computer glitch apparently. .

..loads of incorrect fines are getting sent out and it seems most people are just coughing up and paying....

SNAP! Me too, luckily I have had so many sodding problems with that shower of useless bastards I make sure all receipts are retained. Didn't get an apology through so you did well!

[fordperv]

What a shitty day it's peeing down so I can't polish my car ready for tomorrow, my bumper is on though and the car looks pretty good to be fair

[cms206]

It appears that Tapatalk sponsored posts already know the outcome off the raffles tonight.

[Ghosty]

Some twunt is burning garden waste and they're smoking out the whole street. Fucking stinks.

[twosmoke300]

^^^ nimby 😄

[Jerzy Woking]

To be fair, the kind of people that ride 125s like that have it coming to them, they're always obnoxiously loud and badly driven, because 125 LISENSE M8.

 

I have a 125-that could be a description of me. But I must say it is all the fault of Wuvvum for selling me a complete hooligan tool thaqt encourages bad riding. Can over 50 year olds still be 125 riding hooligans?

 

When I was 16 I had a piaggio zip50. Binned it on gravel in Sutton-in-Ashfield at about 25 mph 3 days after taking cbt. I had really bad gravel rash and still wince when I think of how rough the nurse was in A an E with the tweezers and antiseptic. I was wearing a vest and tracksuit bottoms. Since then no matter what I ride I wear protective trouser and jacket. I've had folk say to me Oh it's only a scooter, why wear all gear but regardless of what you ride be it a moped or a hayabusa at 30 mph you will still end up in trouble.

 

Similar here-riding 4 up on a Honda C90 when I was about 14, and binning it, flat out (probably 20mph) when braking too hard on a packed gravel former railway siding. All my mates had a few scratches, but I lost the skin on the heel of my hand when I hit the roads. The scar reminds me to always wear protective gear. I may look and feel like a tit all leathered up when on my scooter, but I'd look even worse with unsightly skin grafts.

[Tamworthbay]

What a day, one of my best mates who I have known for getting on fifteen years and was so close he was almost family has shit on me from a great height. I am gutted. No reason at all that I can fathom and it will be no gain whatsoever to him. I just don't understand why he would do it. Feeling really crap about. Gutted.

[scaryoldcortina]

I was somewhat premature in my grin about tranferring my mobile number - it's now even more broken. The number has somehow half transferred leaving me with a phone that makes outgoing calls fine, but doesn't receive them at all. THIS IS NO USE! Both the old phone company and the new one blame the other. GR1.

 

Second, my sister asked me to help fit some roof bars (genuine ford) to her B-max. You would think it would be easy..... guess again. For the benefit of any ford designers reading this, if you have to scrape back sealant and repaint parts of the car to fit a roof bar kit you designed it WRONG. 1/10 try harder next time.

[Pillock]

Yeah, I've got some of those roof bars from a 307 - when I looked at fitting them to the Focus (same bar, same fitting) you have to dig down in the sealant below the gutter to find a captive thread....? Bizarre.

 

The bars are still cluttering up my house. If anyone wants them, feel free.

[vulgalour]

Clutches.  A simple clutch change has turned into more expense and faff and ballache.  Stupid old cars.