The grumpy thread

[dollywobbler]

I did that last week... though to be fair, we did stop chatting when someone came up behind us. 

[HH-R]

Round here the craic is that if you're turning right at a roundabout and in the lane nearest the centre of it, it's fair game for the person that should be giving way to you to pull out from your left and drive parallel with you so you can't take the exit you want. I don't know why people think that that's OK.

 

I've seen people turn left in the right lane many a time too.

[dollywobbler]

Round here the craic is that if you're turning right at a roundabout and in the lane nearest the centre of it, it's fair game for the person that should be giving way to you to pull out from your left and drive parallel with you so you can't take the exit you want. I don't know why people think that that's OK.

 

 

Not in the spirit of the Highway Code, but effectively, you're pulling into a lane that's clear of traffic, so why not? I'll do it sometimes, though I must concede that I'll hang back enough that the car will pass me before I've actually pulled out, and I keep a close eye on them to make sure they actually are turning right.

[AlabamaShrimp]

 

I'm on the Orange line, inside lane.

 

Green bit above is to point out it is single track there.

 

Red line is the other cars path. It had stopped at the give way when I came round on to the single track but set off and nearly hit me at the purple spot

 

[mercrocker]

Some councils don't help, labelling "lanes" approaching roundabouts (and even on them, in some cases) totally at odds with the accepted highway code method, forcing people to adopt unorthodox pathways around them.   This seems particularly prevalent when there is a Tesco or sheds full of shite to herd people towards......

[richardmorris]

I did that last week... though to be fair, we did stop chatting when someone came up behind us.

 

Ah, but did you switch into Welsh as so as you spotted a non-local?

[dollywobbler]

That clears things up a bit. At what point did you put your left-hand indicator on? Clearly that bloke was a div though.

 

And yes, some road layouts are so nonsensical that you have to wonder who on earth actually designed them. Witness our Morrisons. Big roundabout, two lanes. On the approach from one main road, it splits into two lanes, neither of which is signposted for Morrisons, only the junctions either side of it. So, people have to decide for themselves, and then start wars on each other because they believe they're right when actually, no-one is right! It's almost as bad as religion.

[Lankytim]

One of our lorries returning to Stoke from Felixstowe overnight hit a stationary car with no lights in lane 1 on the M1 in Northamptonshire this morning.  Killed the driver outright and twatted the car up an embankment and into a ditch. The driver of the lorry is at home in shock, distraught and says he will never drive again. 

 

I know the lorry driver, he's agency but one of these time served 30 years behind the wheel types and a steady set of hands. Nice bloke too.

 

It was a very sober atmosphere when I returned from my run this afternoon.

[AlabamaShrimp]

That clears things up a bit. At what point did you put your left-hand indicator on? Clearly that bloke was a div though.

 

And yes, some road layouts are so nonsensical that you have to wonder who on earth actually designed them. Witness our Morrisons. Big roundabout, two lanes. On the approach from one main road, it splits into two lanes, neither of which is signposted for Morrisons, only the junctions either side of it. So, people have to decide for themselves, and then start wars on each other because they believe they're right when actually, no-one is right! It's almost as bad as religion.

Left indicator from the start of the single track/green bit so they knew I was going to cut across in front. Anyway moving on...

[gordonbennet]

Bloody hell Lanky, my lad got diverted off this morning, he left the yard half an hour before me and phoned me to go up the A14 instead, wondered what had gone on, it reopened northbound late morning.

 

Horrible thing to happen, i hate that bloody section between 16 and 19 at the moment, its ridiculously narrow and without the overhead lights is as black as hell, there's been dozens of bumps whilst the works have been going on.

 

Even without the roadworks that section has always had more than its fair share of accidents, back in the dim and distant past i collected a bloody lorry tyre on wheel that was sitting right in the middle of lane 1, black as fook early hours between 17 and Rothersthorpe services, not a hope in hell of avoiding it went straight over it with me lorry, limped into the services, one of Beresfords sitting there minus a pair of wheels on a spreadaxle tandem.

[tooSavvy]

Lt... Just AWFUL..... 

 

 

TS

[Lankytim]

We've had a bad week or so. Rollover on the A50 in Uttoxeter a week last Thursday AM, bridge strike on Thursday afternoon, ANOTHER roll on the A14 near Kettering on Saturday (that one demolished a set of lights) and now a fatality. The rollovers were driver error- too fast on roundabouts, bridge strike was complete driver mongery and the fatality just sounds like shit luck. I'm wary of mentioning the company name as apparently they have software that monitors the web and TEH INTERNETZ ROZZERS will come and get me, for those who don't already know I dress like an elf and the company name rhymes with "gobart".

 

We're running 42 trucks round the clock, often 7 days a week and do mega mileage so the law of averages says there will be more incidents, but even so it makes you think. Perhaps I need a more hard-headed attitude to lorry driving.

 

Just reading about the fatality on another forum. It's rumoured the guy had stopped for a piss!

[michael1703]

Why am i not surprised.

 

My ex's dad had a phone call off plod that his small motorbike had been found by plod, near a small supermarket on a rough estate....hitched me trailer and we shot over there within 1/2 an hour, too much trouble for plod to ask the shop owner if they could prop the bike in his back yard? fuck me no they  left it propped against the wall outside supermarket back gate, plod buggered off, bike nicked again before we got there.

 

This country as we often say is bollocksed.

When I lived in London, my zx9r was stolen, a week later I got a call from the police it was on an estate in battersea, some kind people told the police it could be left in the garden, bike thieves started threatening the good Samaritans that they wanted their bike back, police did fuck all, I was in Lincolnshire so sent some muscle round to sort the situation while I thrashed back to London (in a ford thames van at 59mph) picked the bike up and forced cash onto them for looking after it which they wouldn't take but they took a couple of bottles of wine to calm their nerves

[michael1703]

This cooking obsession, tv channels go through phases, DIY,home buying/home selling,dancing,singing

 

Now I can't turn on the telly without marry berrys withered old boat race tucking in to something

 

Her and some geezer called Hollywood are noshing mince pies so they go in for a big close up of her dentures piercing the crust.

 

How fucked up are we as a nation, if entertainment is an old biddy eating pies?

[gordonbennet]

Haven't watched live telly for bloody years, anything at all, record the few bits we want to, don't listen to the radio news especially if its from the state broadcaster and haven't bought a newspaper propaganda sheet for 30 years or more.

 

Haven't got a bloody clue who the hell Marry Berry is, and it sounds like we're missing bugger all.

[tooSavvy]

We've had a bad week or so. Rollover on the A50 in Uttoxeter a week last Thursday AM, bridge strike on Thursday afternoon, ANOTHER roll on the A14 near Kettering on Saturday (that one demolished a set of lights) and now a fatality. The rollovers were driver error- too fast on roundabouts, bridge strike was complete driver mongery and the fatality just sounds like shit luck. I'm wary of mentioning the company name as apparently they have software that monitors the web and TEH INTERNETZ ROZZERS will come and get me, for those who don't already know I dress like an elf and the company name rhymes with "gobart".

 

We're running 42 trucks round the clock, often 7 days a week and do mega mileage so the law of averages says there will be more incidents, but even so it makes you think. Perhaps I need a more hard-headed attitude to lorry driving.

 

Just reading about the fatality on another forum. It's rumoured the guy had stopped for a piss!

 

I understand the 'stammerer' set up the - freight/haulage outfit Elfs R Us (more spotters than a McDonalds team briefing) - to keep work going for tippers during the 'off season', when not hauling quarried stone stock to the Lakeland cement works (building sites going quiet during snowy months...).

 

Also recall that his mantra was 'NEVER decline a potential client'... eg: someone is dropped in by their usual haulier... a big shiny lorry [even an EMPTY ONE] rockets up and takes 4 kipper boxes of Shizzle to NoWhere/NoDistance... and so we make another regular customer >> vis >>> a competitor just lost one  

 

 

TS

[robinmasters]

After reading the old Jag/New Audi thread, I did a bit of interneting of X300s (tool kit under the bonnet? Yes please). Anyway, I came across this comment on Pistoheads which summed the site up for me:

 

I'm 6 foot 4, powerfully built and a conpany director and the X300s are

more than comfortable for me.

'Conpany directors' obviously need more legroom, the self-important twunt.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

'Powerfully built' LOL who on earth describes themselves as 'powerfully built', that is ridic

[320touring]

methinks folks may not be aware of the "company director" meme that is present on PH.. either that or I need a whoosh Parrot;)

[michael1703]

I am poor,short,and weaselly built... I own an x300 also,I tip the scale at a lofty 5ft5.5 inches

 

I actually am a director of a shit company

 

X300s are awesome, I bought mine from a gypsy camp for £400

 

Pace,grace,rusty,growly engine,rust

 

What more could you want?

[dave21478]

Careful lads - you must remember that everyone on Pistonheads is either a top lawyer and/or a millionaire who can afford top lawyers and/or a world champion cage fighter, so if you go badmouthing them, they will sue you into poverty and/or kick your head in.

[dugong]

It seems pistonheads users aren't all 330d on finance driving tossers then (and actually have a sense of humour):

 

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=1116594

CANNOT RECONCILE, ABORT, ABORT

[Cavcraft]

That '911motorsport' dreamer is something else.

[skattrd]

Double grump today, Autoglass replaced my windscreen and the rain sensor no longer works, so they need to come back .. Saturday from 1pm to 6pm ok? No, how about a smaller appointment window so I don't waste half a day sitting around waiting for you, not possible. Can I drop the car off with you? Yes but I would need to leave it with them for 3 hours, don't bother I'll stay home this weekend instead.

Plumb centre - bathroom sink and loo ordered nearly 3 weeks ago, delivery estimate 3-5 days. It arrived on Monday (after over 2 weeks)  except the wrong sink was delivered, replacement sourced from another branch which arrived today, it's scratched to buggery. Replacement ordered from manufacturer, 2-3 day lead time, I should have it by next Monday. I hope my bathroom is back in one piece before Xmas.

[The Moog]

Lost my 17mm impact socket, 8mm, 6mm 1/4 socket from my Halfords tool kit. I am surprised it has lasted so long. Looks incomplete now and pisses me off everytime I open it

 

Can you get spare bits from Halfords?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

If not you can get em from Cromwell tools

[fordperv]

My sapphire has the onset of omghgf when the system is under pressure it misses at idle but when the pressure is released it idles as normal, it's the second one in 23000 miles but I used a fibre gasket when it was done last time, anyone would think it was a k series, oh well I've just been and blown my wad at ford on genuine parts to do the job including a mls gasket from a scorpio so it doesn't go again.

[the judge]

Lost my 17mm impact socket, 8mm, 6mm 1/4 socket from my Halfords tool kit. I am surprised it has lasted so long. Looks incomplete now and pisses me off everytime I open it

 

Can you get spare bits from Halfords?

My pet hate!!Grrrr sympathies dude!!

[Lord Sterling]

Small, insignificant grump, but.....

 

Today I popped to the Job Centre to sign off, I have a months work starting tomorrow. The Job Centre have a very small car park next to the site where they are based, everyone crams in there and park like complete and utter cunts. I spot a huge 2/3 car space beyond some shitley parked cars, I can't get passed the cars and next to the spaces is some fencing, so the only way into the space is to jump back on the carriagway, go around, come back and grab the space as fast as can before the carriageway gets busy.

 

I do this, pull onto the pavement carefully and start reversing into the space as when I'm finished I'd rather not revers out onto the carriageway. As I do, 2 chav girls are walking up and one starts mouthing at me shouting; WAT DU U FINK UR FOOKIN DOOOWIN?

 

Seriously, what the fuck does it look like I'm doing you fucking slack jawed yokel? What's it to do with you anyway? Fair enough I'm on the pavement, I need to park somewhere safe and the fucking carpark is rammed, use your eyes you stupid bag head.

 

It really often makes me wonder how the hell people get like this? When did they think it was Ok to be rude to a complete stranger? Why get involved in something that's got fuck all to do with you?

 

Really.

[dave21478]

Small, insignificant grump, but.....

 

Today I popped to the Job Centre to sign off, I have a months work starting tomorrow. The Job Centre have a very small car park next to the site where they are based, everyone crams in there and park like complete and utter cunts. I spot a huge 2/3 car space beyond some shitley parked cars, I can't get passed the cars and next to the spaces is some fencing, so the only way into the space is to jump back on the carriagway, go around, come back and grab the space as fast as can before the carriageway gets busy.

 

I do this, pull onto the pavement carefully and start reversing into the space as when I'm finished I'd rather not revers out onto the carriageway. As I do, 2 chav girls are walking up and one starts mouthing at me shouting; WAT DU U FINK UR FOOKIN DOOOWIN?

 

Seriously, what the fuck does it look like I'm doing you fucking slack jawed yokel? What's it to do with you anyway? Fair enough I'm on the pavement, I need to park somewhere safe and the fucking carpark is rammed, use your eyes you stupid bag head.

 

It really often makes me wonder how the hell people get like this? When did they think it was Ok to be rude to a complete stranger? Why get involved in something that's got fuck all to do with you?

 

Really.

 

This is why I dont own a stun gun. If I did, there would be a lot of people twitching on the pavement every time I went into town.