The grumpy thread

[retrogeezer]

Poxy dog owners (not all of em) that let their dogs crap all over the bloody footpath. They are probably the same tosspots that leave their dogs in the back garden barking like mad at 1.00am!

[Rusty Pelican]

Poxy dog owners (not all of em) that let their dogs crap all over the bloody footpath. They are probably the same tosspots that leave their dogs in the back garden barking like mad at 1.00am!

And the poxy dog owner around here that lets his pooch run wild which then shits in my front garden on a regular basis , ever hit dog shit with a flymo , not good

[Mike D]

Poxy dog owners (not all of em) that let their dogs crap all over the bloody footpath. They are probably the same tosspots that leave their dogs in the back garden barking like mad at 1.00am!

And the poxy dog owner around here that lets his pooch run wild which then shits in my front garden on a regular basis , ever hit dog shit with a flymo , not good

I hit a bird... not a nice sight!!!!! especially as i was mega hungover and fragile feeling at the time. Yuk.

[Father Ted]

To be fair to my battleaxe, sorry, wife, she wants to move closer to her work. This suits me fine as I won't have to pick her up every sodding morning then listen to ten minutes of inane rambling and technical medical terminology which means absolutely naff all to me.

Arr, but MY bint wants to move to a place called Hoghton where a shoebox costs twice what it does here, the pub is thatched as is the beer and costs £4 a pint and you need a car to go anywhere, school, shops, pub etc etc.

where I live I am 2 minutes walk from:-

3 pubs ( 2 more within 5 minutes, plus 3 social/labour clubs). 3 Indian carry outs, 3 Chinese carry outs, 1 Turkish, 1 Italian, 2 chippys , 1 KFC, library, schools, bus route and train station.

[trigger]

I'm getting pissed off with the dark nights now, Apart from the obvious driving to and from in the dark and other stuff, I'm also missing out on cracking spots!Tonight i saw what must be the best spot yet but it was to dark to get a photo! .Outside the Audi garage Colchester i only past a CITROEN AMI ESTATE!!! Parked on the side of the road, Looked like it was painted in Matt black with a white roof, Never seen one before like that, Looked like a workers car or maybe a scrappage victim?. Anyone know it? HPV ***N was the reg.I'll have to go back at the weekend now and try and find it again!

[Guest]

Poxy dog owners (not all of em) that let their dogs crap all over the bloody footpath. They are probably the same tosspots that leave their dogs in the back garden barking like mad at 1.00am!

 

Kebab shops have to get their meat somehow you know.

[Milford Cubicle]

Tonight i saw what must be the best spot yet but it was to dark to get a photo!

Buy a tripod or a dazzling flashgun

[peter9000uk]

And the poxy dog owner around here that lets his pooch run wild which then shits in my front garden on a regular basis , ever hit dog shit with a flymo , not good

Do what I did scoop it up dump it on their doorstep and put a note through their letterbox saying you have returned their propertyI also get the dogshit problem all the time when fishing the local canals, not nice putting all your gear down and finding it is in a dog egg. The owners turn deaf when you say anything to them.I remember a year or so back when watching the local football team one Sunday, a dog and owner walked right through the middle of the match with no regard to the game going on and then the dog proceeded to take a dump right in the middle of the pitch and the dog and owner just carried on walking! As per usual they were deaf to all the players, officials & spectators shouting at her to at least pick it up.Another pet hate if chuffin mountain bikers who think they own the canal towpath and cycle down it at a hundred miles an hour. We have pointed out to them several times that if they would care to read the locals bylaws posted at all the entry points they would discover that cycling is prohibited.

[CIH]

bloody dog owners who allow their dirty ass pets to piss in the their car then take it to garages to have work done/MOTs...

[mattblack]

Too thick/bone idle to replace a headlamp bulb? Simply swith on your front foglamps to compensate....(this works even better if the sidelight is blown on the same side as well...)

[M'coli]

Too thick/bone idle to replace a headlamp bulb? Simply swith on your front foglamps to compensate....(this works even better if the sidelight is blown on the same side as well...)

Sometimes with moderns it's not a simple job to change a bulb, a situation that I cannot understand: why design a car so that safety critcal lighting components are largely inaccessable?

[Lankytim]

Another pet hate if chuffin mountain bikers who think they own the canal towpath and cycle down it at a hundred miles an hour. We have pointed out to them several times that if they would care to read the locals bylaws posted at all the entry points they would discover that cycling is prohibited.

A pet hate of mine is people fishing on the canalside who have stupidly long fishing rods that take up the entire towpath meaning I end up smashing them when I cycle past on my moutain bike. Its a proper cycle friendly path too BTW.

[Mr H Sceptre]

Too thick/bone idle to replace a headlamp bulb? Simply swith on your front foglamps to compensate....(this works even better if the sidelight is blown on the same side as well...)

I actually have done this with the rear lights/rear fog light on my old Tempra. Not cool, but needs must from time to time......

[M'coli]

I remember a year or so back when watching the local football team one Sunday, a dog and owner walked right through the middle of the match with no regard to the game going on and then the dog proceeded to take a dump right in the middle of the pitch and the dog and owner just carried on walking! As per usual they were deaf to all the players, officials & spectators shouting at her to at least pick it up.

You wasted that opportunity - at least 24 witnesses to an owner letting their dog take a dump on public ground? FFS! That should have been a fine at least! As a dog owner I'm aware of the odd places that dogs decide they need to go on, but to not clean that one up is outrageous. Did no-one think of picking it up and squashing it into the palm of her hand saying "I think your dog dropped this."!!!

[whitevanman]

Now I understand thats a swearing is allowed on this thread. BUT I'm going to try and be very calm about this rant

 

 

 

DRIVERS of cars in front of me that cant drive because there is 13mm of snow...........

 

WHY overtake me then?

 

WHY are you slowing down going up the hill?

 

WHY not just pull over into the left hand lane and get out of my way?

 

WHY are you still breathing?

 

WHY have all the van drivers and other arseholes decided its a good idea to make me struggle by blocking me in?

 

Why is it that the P100 still ends up in front of you as I slowly trundle past you in your stuck vehicles?

 

Why has the other half had to put up with 15 mins of the most foul road rage I have ever suffered from?

 

would it realy have been so much efforet for everyone just to have followed the nice truck that was clearing a way through for us?

 

Modern cars with wide tyres are SHIT in snow.

 

Modern drivers seem incapable of driving steady or understanding the most basic principle of driving in snow....smooth and steady *dickhead*

 

 

honets to Gods a tiny bit of snow and a small hill = 30 mins and loads of wheel spinning in the P100 just because they cant drive...........Solution?

 

 

 

DONT FUCKING DRIVE IN IT THEN ARSEHOLE !!!!!!

 

 

rant over for just now..but will be resuming shortly with an agist rant

[Guest]

Thought I'd go for an unusual position with the inevitable ranting that comes with snow.

 

What I hate is all the whinging that happens about the country "grinding to a halt" when it snows. Usually with arguments along the lines of "Well, (insert snowy place) manages to get on with things". I bet The Wright Stuff has had some people going absolutely mental over it.

 

However, these snowy places don't really have much choice. If it's a place where it snows often, it's worth investing in fleets of snowploughs, winter tyres, grit. All this stuff costs money, but if they're pretty much guaranteed weeks/months of bad snow, it makes sense. As pointed out on the BBC News, the Scottish Highlands have loads of kit and they cope well with snow - it'll be there in the budget.

 

On the other hand, around where I live we might have a few days a year where the snowfall causes some problems. I made the decision to take three days off early this year due to heavy snow, a few other days I've faced a bit of disruption, but nothing worth giving myself a headache over.

 

I think the general message I'm trying to get across is this - would you prefer a few days of possible disruption, or more tax? I don't mind it really, it's not all bad for things to grind to a halt occasionally. Someone once pointed out how friendly strangers become once there's been some heavy snow, kind of a Blitz-style "we're all in it together" spirit. I couldn't disagree with that!

[outlaw118]

I'm with you Hirst, it's not that bad, few inches last night - I'm in Essex near lakeside/J30 of M25...main roads ok, side roads a bit slippy, but The Moose has traction control and ABS, how hard can it be?Whats really pissed me off is that I'd previously booked today off as annual leave, to finish shopping, do some bits and pieces, and generally extend the weekend, as I'm off for some tests at the local hospital Saturday, and I might be kept in. Anyhoo, a colleague texted me this morning, and said Big Boss Man has declared that us field based staff should stay at home all day, and make phone calls, but still get paid for a full shift, 7.5 hours. Bastards!! I've wasted a days holiday!!!

[Cavcraft]

Shopping (again) and birds.Instead of saying 'I'll just nip into (insert name of store) for one thing, I know what I want and will be out in five minutes' why don't they tell the truth?'Actually I'm going in for one thing but will be in there for hours on bleeding end looking at/buying useless tat that will lie round for years on end and never be used. You sit in the car smoking like a laboratory beagle, getting more and more annoyed and glare at the stupid people who take 227 attempts to back into a parking spot and still manage to open their doors on other peoples cars'.

[Guest]

Ebay.

 

I managed to get a Google G1 phone really cheap off a lad who's crap with money and up to his eyeballs in debt. I don't give a toss about these new smart phones, they're too big, the battery life is terrible, they have 'mug me' written all over them.....and you have to put up with endless blathering about the 'amazing apps' they have.

 

Anyways I whang it on eBay. I've already made back what I paid and there's still a bit of time to go.

 

Despite the fact it's a UK phone coded for a UK network, with a UK interface and a UK charger, I get some mong asking me for a shipping quote to Bulgaria. I also have a question along these lines from an Italian window licker about a soundcard I have for sale. Seeing as these people never ever ever win the bidding, 'because the shipping is too expensive' after you've traipsed to the PO and got a quote from the vacuous slapped arse faced harridan at the counter, I responded along the lines of:

 

'Don't be so fucking stupid. If you're not actually taking the piss it'll be £50, mainly because I know you're not properly interested'.

 

Apart from one enamel sign I had that ended up going to New Zealand (long story but the bloke was a serial collector who'd been searching for one all over NZ and Australia and couldn't find one until he happened upon my auction...he sent me a £20 deposit as soon as he had my email address to assure me he was serious) I've never had a overseas bidder who mithered me for a shipping quote actually win an auction and go through with what they were suggesting.

 

I had one idiot from Australia win a Philips DCC 730 I put up. He'd hassled me for the entire running time of the auction - would I get a shipping quote, would I convert the power supply for him or get him an adaptor so he could run it in Oz, blah blah.

 

Anyway I get a quote for him and he starts whinging that I'm trying to do him on postage (how about MY time that I had to waste going and getting the fucking thing weighed and quoted for?) which I wasn't. How about 'It's £45 for shipping because you're 12,000 miles from me and it's a damn heavy player?' A week passed and there was no money.

 

Then came the classic 'Can I pay in installments?'. For a FIFTY QUID FUCKING SEPARATE. He got told in no uncertain terms to die of cholera and it was relisted. He tried to bid again and I blocked him out. He then went to eBay and claimed I refused to sell to him, and that I was 'withholding his property'.

 

Aaaaargh, eBay.

 

Also, people driving like tossers in the ice. Watched one X5 go hoofing into a bollard at work which was piss funny.

 

Here's a tip smart arse : 4WD doesn't mean you can go hurtling round icy bends on your blingin' 19" rims without going straight on. ABS don't work on sheet ice does it? Prick.

 

Pull out of the car park, and everyone spins away in first. I don't. Girl asks me 'Why does your car not spin its wheels, does it have special tyres?'

 

'No love' I reply, 'It's in second'.

 

Bless. But she's fit as, and the tyres weren't a bad guess I suppose. No 1 for me would be 'don't drive like a prick' but then again I work in Wythenshawe so that's a pre requisite.

[155V6]

People expecting a parcel,Why not watch out of the lounge window as I pull up in the van,watch me get out,open the back door & find the parcel.Then watch me walk up the drive,but don't open the door until I put the parcel down & ring the bell about 73 times?.

[barrett]

Saw some great comedy driving today, some twat in an Audi tried to overtake a Merc Sprinter (doing about 20 on a very icy road), as soon as he pulled out and accelerated his car shot off towards the opposite curb....annoyingly he managed to reign it in before he twatted himself into someone's garden, which would've been much better.

[Station]

People defying 'one way road' laws in supermarket/shopping complex car parks. Clowns (usually in a german TDi) coming head on towards you going the wrong way in the middle of the road, and then grimmacing and fuming when you don't attempt to get out of their way!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I deliberately ignore those 1-way systems as I am always entertained by how mad folk get when you do it! Some people use it as an excuse to give the horn some proper hammer, V-signs, wanker signs, silent yelling and all the rest of it, as if you'd just shat through their letterbox then ran off, then within 0.2 seconds they have forgotten all about it, parked their car and gone into the shop.

[Tayne]

[michiel]

People who use their horns in a low and echoing underground carpark. Impatience is a sin (in my Book). Dutch postal service has a great tool for postage (worldwide), just weigh using kitchen scales, go online and look up the postage. I'd hate it if I had to go to the post office, especially since they keep closing down more and more...

[Milford Cubicle]

Modern cars with wide tyres are SHIT in snow.

Incorrect.My 2 wheel drive Audi has fat low-pro tyres and tonight I took the back roads. the snow covered roads with the hairpins and steep drops.

Still, the skinnier the tyre the better as far as snow driving goes. It's always funny watching BMW X5s and the like spinning their 295 section tyres away while you saunter past them in a 2-wheel drive car.

[Tayne]

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[Guest]

I agree with Mr B - I enjoy ignoring unenforceable rules, what are they going to do about it? The only reason I don't park in "Parent and Child" bays in the supermarket is that I don't want my car keyed, otherwise I would relish the opportunity. I regularly ignore the one-way system at Asda, which saves me loads of time and effort.What's even better are implied rules - recently I saw a bunch of cars clumped together in some kind of awkward "queue" at the entrance of the petrol station, waiting for pumps to become free in turn. Never seen that before. You drive in and go to the pump you think will become free next, you don't bumble around in the entrance. I think someone just decided they were going to do it that way, so everyone else decided to follow. I just drove around the lot of them and went straight to a pump, cutting out my waiting time by several minutes and mildly irritating a taxi driver for supposedly not taking my turn. Think you'll find I did - my car's got a load of petrol in it now. C U L8R!

[M'coli]

The only reason I don't park in "Parent and Child" bays in the supermarket is that I don't want my car keyed,

Last time I parked in one of these spaces I had my mum with me. They don't specify what age the child has to be!Also at petrol stations, I have in the past performed a 3-point turn and reversed up to a pump that had another car at it and its driver doing their shopping, and filled up much to the disgust of others waiting for a free pump. I think Imp ownership might have something to do with this with the tank being in the front, so it is natural to do this with an Imp.

[Station]

Still, the skinnier the tyre the better as far as snow driving goes. It's always funny watching BMW X5s and the like spinning their 295 section tyres away while you saunter past them in a 2-wheel drive car.

I'll report back when I take me 12" 145/50 tyres out tommorow! Let's hope they do!