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8 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

There's an equally cretinous ad on the TV to this effect too. 

Are there covid adverts on the telly.  I have heard one a couple of times on Classic FM and it sounds like Mariella Frostrup (lovely) but have found no confirmation anywhere.

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18 minutes ago, Jazoli said:

They are trying to justify their incredibly dangerous 'smart' motorways after there has been several deaths.

Another stupid idea which really shouldn't have made it past the planning stage. Still, as we see so often, (including, it appears, the news 24 thread on here) there's fucking morons everywhere nowadays. 

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3 hours ago, sierraman said:

Just seen a sign by highways England, ‘if you break down on the motorway pull to the left...’

I mean what dickhead doesn’t know this? If you don’t know that you need banning.

There's a radio advert running to the same effect in this area with a bastardised version of "go west" by the Pet Shop Boys, turned into "Go Left".  I'm very much of the same opinion that anyone who breaks down in a live lane and doesn't do everything they possibly can to get off the carriageway and just leaves it there should be banned permanently

"But why? Why am I banned?"

"Because you're too stupid to be trusted with a high-speed metal box filled with people in close proximity to many other high-speed metal boxes filled with people".

But then I'm all in favour of permanent (life long) bans for anyone caught drink driving, causing death by dangerous driving, driving whilst disqualifed, etc.etc.

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1 hour ago, Talbot said:

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For anyone who isn't famailar with Phillip Jackson's work:  https://www.collectedcurios.com/   His slightly* surreal series called "Spider and Scorpion" is just superb.

Wow, that's a blast from the past. Didn't realise he was still going.

The problem with Sequential Art and also Questionable Content (another long-running comic) is that as soon as you stop reading it for a few months you're completely out of the loop, as I am with both.

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9 hours ago, sierraman said:

Just seen a sign by highways England, ‘if you break down on the motorway pull to the left...’

I mean what dickhead doesn’t know this? If you don’t know that you need banning.

Some years ago.

My uncle, with 3 top execs from his firm, broke down in a traffic queue in the outside lane on the M4 in the rush hour, in the dark and rain.  2 month old Audi 100.  

This was before mobile phones. 

It just stopped. Hazards and lights all failed too. 

It was all he could do to get 2 wheels on the central reservation.  He managed to get out and get the car behind to go to a phone and let the police know. 

They had to close the motorway to push it to the hard shoulder whilst waiting for a tow truck. 

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9 hours ago, sierraman said:

Just seen a sign by highways England, ‘if you break down on the motorway pull to the left...’

I mean what dickhead doesn’t know this? If you don’t know that you need banning.

I've seen a number of "professional" drivers pull into the orange refuge areas then sit there with their indicator on waiting for a gap in the traffic so they can enter lane one at 3mph to leave , last one was in an 18T rigid on the M1

I do hope it's all camera monitored because they're supposed to call on the phone, wait for the lane to be closed then be escorted out by the highways agency , you know so somebody doing 70 isn't suddenly up the arse of a truck

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Some friends of our family broke down on the M11 and were told to remain in the vehicle on the hard shoulder. This was in the early 80s.

You can guess what happened next; one of our so-called "knights of the road" went into the back of them.

One was left paraplegic; one with pelvic damage, one with neck damage. The insurance payout at the time apparently was a record and made the TV news, but it cost them their restaurant business.

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4 hours ago, Wack said:

I've seen a number of "professional" drivers pull into the orange refuge areas then sit there with their indicator on waiting for a gap in the traffic so they can enter lane one at 3mph to leave , last one was in an 18T rigid on the M1

I do hope it's all camera monitored because they're supposed to call on the phone, wait for the lane to be closed then be escorted out by the highways agency , you know so somebody doing 70 isn't suddenly up the arse of a truck

When you ring the operator asks you if you'd like the lane closed, or did at least when I rang. I declined as it was quiet and safely pulled out into lane one (ex hard sholder)

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4 hours ago, Lankytim said:

When you ring the operator asks you if you'd like the lane closed, or did at least when I rang. I declined as it was quiet and safely pulled out into lane one (ex hard sholder)

This was first day of release from lockdown 29th , it was very busy , so busy on the way back I was expecting to see a crash because I couldn't see how he could safely pull out from that position 

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Oh FFS.

The place I usually go for anything car related is still operating trade only.  So I turn around and go to Halfords.

Sign on the door "Maximum number of people in store: 27."

The queue for the checkout went all the way to the back of the store, crossed over past the parts desk, then looped about a third of the way back to the entrance.

Bit of very appropriate mental math later I reckon there's at least 150 people in the queue alone.

That's a hard nope from me, I never even got as far as fully walking in the door.

Guess I am ordering from Amazon then.  So much for the plan to do the oil and filter on the Jag this afternoon.

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Got caught out in a similar fashion yesterday.Rocked up at my usual car parts place to be greeted by two long complicated printed A4 sheets taped to the window.Could only be bothered to read the bits in red,basically,bog off back home,order it on our crap website and then come back and we'll lob it out the door at you.Was only oil for the tractor so I got it from the ag merchant.Was pleased to find it was a fiver cheaper so not a total loss.

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did similar today

went out in the hairdressers car to buy some bits you can only get from m and s (yeah i know)

this was at 11am

car park mostly full but parked close ish

went to walk in and there was queue of at least 15 people waiting to go in

theres other shops an iceland and an aldi 100 ft away

no queues

wtf?!!

5 mins later i was home putting kettle on - m and s specific stuff can wait till another time

 

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57 minutes ago, Dan the van said:

Got caught out in a similar fashion yesterday.Rocked up at my usual car parts place to be greeted by two long complicated printed A4 sheets taped to the window.Could only be bothered to read the bits in red,basically,bog off back home,order it on our crap website and then come back and we'll lob it out the door at you.Was only oil for the tractor so I got it from the ag merchant.Was pleased to find it was a fiver cheaper so not a total loss.

Similar here.  They're open for click and collect - but that option only exists on the website for trade accounts as far as I can see.

Plus it's one of those maddening ones which only let you search for stuff it thinks is right based on your reg number - there's no "browse" option.  Which if you're just after something generic is absolutely infuriating - or as is the case with about 50% of the stuff for the Xantia, if the website's database is wrong.

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49 minutes ago, hairnet said:

did similar today

went out in the hairdressers car to buy some bits you can only get from m and s (yeah i know)

this was at 11am

car park mostly full but parked close ish

went to walk in and there was queue of at least 15 people waiting to go in

theres other shops an iceland and an aldi 100 ft away

no queues

wtf?!!

5 mins later i was home putting kettle on - m and s specific stuff can wait till another time

 

This isn't just a queue. This is an M&S queue. 

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Oh, also, April Fools Day can get in the sea.

It takes me far, far, far too long to figure out that about 50% of them I read are "jokes" just because of how my brain works. 

Especially stuff that pops up in the trade press etc which I automatically process as being a valid source of information.  Makes me feel an utter dunce an hour or so later when I realise that I've been taken in hook, line and sinker by it.

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