The grumpy thread

[Wack]

Aaaarrrrggghhhhh!!!! Almost totally run off the A14 by a tit of a lorry driver... AGAIN!

 

Twice this month. Words absolutely fail me right now.

 

Both occurrences have the same thing in common and that is this: they don't want to slow down.

 

So instead they change lanes whilst a car is next to them. Has the world gone fucking mad? When was this acceptable? IF you don't want to slow your pig iron dinosaur down because it'll take 700 gear changes and 2 months to get back up to your restricted limit then DONT BE A FUCKING LORRY DRIVER!!! 

 

Shit a duck...

There are some good LGV drivers but there are a lot of bad ones who bring their road rage driving a car attitude with them when they get behind the wheel of a truck , I hate driving on the A14 , the elephant racing is a PITA , they just bully their way out not caring if they kill you in the process

 

Coming back from Sheffield over woodhead I got onto the M67 , there's a bit where it's 3 lanes ,Lane one turns into a sliproad but it's a good mile before the exit .

 

I was passing an artic , me doing 65 in lane 2 when his RH indicator came on , nothing in front of him for 3/4 mile , a car in lane 3 doing 80 , I'm alongside him when he starts to move over, I've nowhere to go so I brake like fuck and he pushes me into lane 3 , car brakes and I see dust as he puts a wheel on the grass

 

I was just waiting for the bang and death but amazingly nobody hit anything , truck driver, no fucks given , daydreaming , saw a sign saying left lane ending in 1m and just pulled over , I think there must've been inches between the 3 of us

[mk2_craig]

Car telly ads. That's twice where I've seen the "brake assist" function promoted as being essential to prevent car/pedestrian collisions. First one being the FUNT in the VW who clearly shouldn't have any form of wheeled personal transport.

 

If that's not promoting slack, dozy driving then I don't know what is.

[Lord Sterling]

...Land Rover have recently started with a guy with a Brummie accent...

Really? Can you point me to this advert if its uploaded somewhere already?

 

The only advert currently with a Brummie accent is that GTech hoovers (Yea Beko, hoovers) advert as the owner of the company appears in it himself and he is originally from Worcestershire.

[Magpie215]

There are some good LGV drivers but there are a lot of bad ones who bring their road rage driving a car attitude with them when they get behind the wheel of a truck , I hate driving on the A14 , the elephant racing is a PITA , they just bully their way out not caring if they kill you in the process

 

Coming back from Sheffield over woodhead I got onto the M67 , there's a bit where it's 3 lanes ,Lane one turns into a sliproad but it's a good mile before the exit .

 

I was passing an artic , me doing 65 in lane 2 when his RH indicator came on , nothing in front of him for 3/4 mile , a car in lane 3 doing 80 , I'm alongside him when he starts to move over, I've nowhere to go so I brake like fuck and he pushes me into lane 3 , car brakes and I see dust as he puts a wheel on the grass

 

I was just waiting for the bang and death but amazingly nobody hit anything , truck driver, no fucks given , daydreaming , saw a sign saying left lane ending in 1m and just pulled over , I think there must've been inches between the 3 of us

Had this happen a few times don't mind too much if it's just me in the car....but when it happens when Mrs Magpie is in the car we never hear the end of it...and somehow it becomes my fault lol....raging

[Parky]

In France last week I found Italian truck drivers seemed very keen on pulling out on me for no reason - had a hat trick of "shiiiiiiit!" Moments courtesy of our Fiat building cousins.

 

In each case they sat in front for a few seconds before moving over again, not having overtaken anything.

 

I did learn that Bridgestone tyres are rather good at wet braking

[stuboy]

people who drive at 20mph in 30mph zone , then slow down for the speed camera...(usually trilby wearing drivers with box tissues on back shelf)

[DodgeRover]

Priority to the right thing? Pulling over in case someone shoots out of a side road as they've got no chance of stopping/ slowing?

[PhilA]

Really? Can you point me to this advert if its uploaded somewhere already?

The only advert currently with a Brummie accent is that GTech hoovers (Yea Beko, hoovers) advert as the owner of the company appears in it himself and he is originally from Worcestershire.

Range Rover, my bad.

 

https://youtu.be/veGBfTBQtu0

 

Listening again, it's not quite Brum.. I've been out of the country a while lol

[alf892]

I have a degree (FWIW) and I applied for a depot driving job towards the end of last year - never heard a peep, although I'm not 100% convinced they got my application as the online form was utter shite.

I used to work for a company that operated rail freight......drivers were all on £40/50k a year and they struggled to find them. They all got vans to get to work. To fill in gaps they used zero hours guys.......who all did work for other opcos and were in a position to get themselves a nice deal. Some of them might only do a trip or two a week for us but we would give them a fully expensed van.

 

In the end they realised it wasn't going to get any better until someone started training more drivers......so they set up such a scheme.

 

This was just over 4 years ago so no idea if scheme is still running. Company was Colas Rail

[John F]

I might hope my 'passing' might be commended as 'not lingering'...

 

To me >> Out IS Out!

 

Can't imagine anyone wishing for the 'other'... *

 

*I refer to 3legged dogs "oh, but Prince is everything to US!"

 

**anyone ASK Prince.. ??

 

 

TS

 

This is one of the best Savvyisms EVAH.

 

[Talbot]

This morning's grump... very much in line with the "what the **** is wrong with design engineers" thread.

 

Cocking vacuum cleaners. When did they become utter utter shit? Our poxy useless cylinder vacuum has a capacity of about 4cm3, and should you dare to accidentaly exceed that, it instantly clogs the filter, all the "vortex generators" and every single area where airflow is needed. The only fix for that then being to strip the bastard thing down to its component pieces and do your best to clear all the dust and fluff and shite from the absurdly complex moulded and welded pieces that you can't actually get in to, and then bash the filter against something to knock all the dust out of it as new ones appear to be unobtainium.

 

after which you then get about 3 minutes of use of the machine before you have to do the whole filthy procedure over again. You manage about 20% of the time cleaning the house, 50% time cleaning the stupid vacuum and 30% of the time cleaning yourself after getting covered in dust you've already vacuumed up 4 times.

 

But it must be worth it, right.. vortexes are good and make vacuum cleaners efficient don't they? No. It's still a 900w unit and still only has average performance. My £40 piece-of-snot workshop vacuum from screwfix is waaay more effective, and you can acually do things like fill it to capacity and then just tip the contents into the bin without a 15-minute strip-and-rebuild of the unit. Unfortunately, it's motor bearings are utterly fucked, so it screams like The Moog on discovering another out-of-control thread that needs locking all the time you're using it, which is somewhat headache-inducing. Still, it's 15 years old, so it's not doing badly.

 

.. unlike the house vacuum, which will be lucky to see next week if Mr. Hammer has anything to do with it. It's this model:

 

 

Which claims to have a two litre dust capacity. I have never heard such utter bullshit in my life. Fucking throwaway society has a lot to answer for.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Car telly ads. That's twice where I've seen the "brake assist" function promoted as being essential to prevent car/pedestrian collisions. First one being the FUNT in the VW who clearly shouldn't have any form of wheeled personal transport.

 

If that's not promoting slack, dozy driving then I don't know what is.

 

But... that Suzuki ad... I never thought that I'd ever hear that tune in a commercial setting let alone hearing it these days. Awesome.

[dave21478]

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This morning's grump... very much in line with the "what the **** is wrong with design engineers" thread.

Cocking vacuum cleaners. When did they become utter utter shit? Our poxy useless cylinder vacuum has a capacity of about 4cm3, and should you dare to accidentaly exceed that, it instantly clogs the filter, all the "vortex generators" and every single area where airflow is needed. The only fix for that then being to strip the bastard thing down to its component pieces and do your best to clear all the dust and fluff and shite from the absurdly complex moulded and welded pieces that you can't actually get in to, and then bash the filter against something to knock all the dust out of it as new ones appear to be unobtainium.

after which you then get about 3 minutes of use of the machine before you have to do the whole filthy procedure over again. You manage about 20% of the time cleaning the house, 50% time cleaning the stupid vacuum and 30% of the time cleaning yourself after getting covered in dust you've already vacuumed up 4 times.

But it must be worth it, right.. vortexes are good and make vacuum cleaners efficient don't they? No. It's still a 900w unit and still only has average performance. My £40 piece-of-snot workshop vacuum from screwfix is waaay more effective, and you can acually do things like fill it to capacity and then just tip the contents into the bin without a 15-minute strip-and-rebuild of the unit. Unfortunately, it's motor bearings are utterly fucked, so it screams like The Moog on discovering another out-of-control thread that needs locking all the time you're using it, which is somewhat headache-inducing. Still, it's 15 years old, so it's not doing badly.

.. unlike the house vacuum, which will be lucky to see next week if Mr. Hammer has anything to do with it. It's this model:

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Which claims to have a two litre dust capacity. I have never heard such utter bullshit in my life. Fucking throwaway society has a lot to answer for.

Modern vacs are wank. I ditched a perfectly functioning plastic cyclone Fisher Price piece of wank for exactly those reasons and got a Rowenta cylinder hoover that takes a standard universal bag. 

Mint scented bags are cheap from the supermarket...no loss of power until the bag is 102% full and you just flip the lid up, lift out the full bag and bin it, clip a new one in and away you go.

[Slartibartfast]

Just get a Henry. Cheap, simple, will hoover your carpets with acceptable efficiency long past the time cockroaches have taken over the earth.

[Talbot]

I think a Henry might be the order of the day. Not only are they the professional cleaners choice of machine, but they are superbly quiet.

 

It seems very old-fashioned dragging a noisy lump of plastic around while vacuuming now. I had a (fairly rudimentary) central vacuuming system set up where I used to live with the noisy bit out in the garage. Was a far less headache-inducing process and you weren't blowing all the fine dust that the filter fails to catch back around your house.

[clayts450]

I'm sure there's a fellow Shiter who can fix you up with a non-modernz vacuum cleaner....

[SiC]

Henry's are crap really. Only liked by the professionals as they survive being thrown down stairs and the bin is big enough for a full shift vacuuming. Those places that really care and want to have clean floors use professional Sebos and the like. Notice that very rarely do you see a Dyson in a professional setting. Even the quality of the plastic molding on a Dyson are an absolute joke. I've seen far better quality and less moulding imperfections on poundland Chinese plastic junk.

 

I've been reliably informed by someone who used to work for said company that Shark bought up a lot of their engineers. Shame Shark designers make it look like a kids toy with all the gimmicks. Suck up well though and a fair bit cheaper.

[PhilA]

Yeah.. the "super hepa catch it all never see any dust" bags (genuine Hoover) that I bought are crap.

 

Vacuum up a big pile of shite swept out from the garage floor and see it blowing a big cloud of fine dust out of the machine. I thought the bag had a hole in it to begin with it was so bad.

[Cavcraft]

Save money on an expensive trip to Dignitas by simply listening to Radio Merseyside instead.

[Lord Sterling]

Range Rover, my bad.https://youtu.be/veGBfTBQtu0

Listening again, it's not quite Brum.. I've been out of the country a while lol

Yeah, the announcer at the end has a sort of light northern twang, probably Cheshire way.

[The Moog]

Best vac I have has is Titan wet & Dry - got two of the mothers... will take anything chucked at them 

 

https://www.screwfix.com/p/titan-ttb350vac-1300w-16ltr-wet-dry-vacuum-cleaner-240v/36516

[Talbot]

My workshop vac is the the cheaper/similar version of this badged up as an "Earlex" model (which I always misread as "Earwax") and it will equally deal with just about anything. Except it's fecking huge to be using indoors. It's also deafeningly noisy now. Unfortunately SWMBO wants a small lightweight machine for indoors, which I can totally understand. It's just a shame they're all crap.

[beko1987]

Why don't I still have a veg friendly car

 

 

Tesco Wokingham, they have shit loads apparently!

[alcyonecorporation]

Save money on an expensive trip to Dignitas by simply listening to Radio Merseyside instead.

 

I used to do the travel news for Radio Merseyside. 

[Talbot]

Why don't I still have a veg friendly car

 

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Tesco Wokingham, they have shit loads apparently!

Are you there now?

 

Buy ALL of it!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

 

Save money on an expensive trip to Dignitas by simply listening to Radio Merseyside instead.

 

I used to do the travel news for Radio Merseyside.

 

Wonder what the fatality rate was?

[Bren]

The esp light on my A6 was caused by a steering angle sensor that needed recalibrating. Surely an audi specialist with all the latest diagnostic gear could have diaganosed this without saying it needed further investigation?

[Hertz]

Some of these marque "Specialists" are not all they are cracked up to be. My local (literally around the corner) BMW specialist is yet to agree to even take a look at the 645 after it had a power steering fluid leak and the parking sensors failed. To be fair he's probably saying to himself fuck that for a game of soldiers....

[beko1987]

Are you there now?

 

Buy ALL of it!

Dare not run it in the gooner, that's just asking for trouble! Shame, the mate who sent me has a Zafira so would have probably bought the lot there and then! If I had the zx or Xantia that would be a good 3/4 tanks of fuel.

 

Bramz7, your near wokingham*, get it bought!

[alcyonecorporation]

Wonder what the fatality rate was?

 

Yes.