The grumpy thread

[whitevanman]

There is a big deiference between driving fast in town and driving fast on twisty A or B roads.....in town you automatically become a twat if you drive like that

[FredTransit]

Yeah, there's a time and a place. 2am, dual carriageway, no other traffic, 60mph = no harm done. Built up area, pedestrians, mid afternoon, 40mph = dick head.

[Captain Mainwaring]

Oh, on the motorway it's fine (so long as you don't get up someone's arse in the MIDDLE LANE and start flashing your lights as some idiot did to our car a year or so bacK). I meant around town and in built up areas.

[alf892]

A! North closed on Weds morning. I drive up there at about 5am.Howcome they can afford to put a load of truck on the road with pretty flashing lights to tell us the road is closed but can't signpost a diversion???Result is chaos as no fucker knows where to go......and end up following someone in the hope they know a bit more.Not just once either........happens all the time.......these 'incident control units' close the road at the drop of a hat.........rarely is diversion posted.Twunts

[retrogeezer]

Oh, on the motorway it's fine (so long as you don't get up someone's arse in the MIDDLE LANE and start flashing your lights as some idiot did to our car a year or so bacK).

I take you were overtaking something in the inside lane at the time then?? Or is it a sarcastic post?Keep left unless overtaking - very simple rule of the motorway than virtually no-one seems to understand.

[whitevanman]

Keep left unless overtaking - very simple rule of the motorway than virtually no-one seems to understand.

Very true indeed....

[Captain Mainwaring]

Oh, on the motorway it's fine (so long as you don't get up someone's arse in the MIDDLE LANE and start flashing your lights as some idiot did to our car a year or so bacK).

I take you were overtaking something in the inside lane at the time then?? Or is it a sarcastic post?Keep left unless overtaking - very simple rule of the motorway than virtually no-one seems to understand.

Yes, that's the thing, we were in the middle lane and obviously moving faster than the inside lane. The guy behind us had the fast lane at his disposal yet for some reason wanted me to move into the inside lane. I didn't get it.

[FredTransit]

On that note, people who come on to the motorway and cross over an empty inside line to sit in the middle lane. WTF's that about??

[Cavcraft]

People who don't check their mirrors on the motorway.Why on earth do people approach lorries on the nearside lane then slam on when they're .00002mm from their back bumpers?Use your mirror when you see a slow vehicle in front, indicate then pull into the middle lane when safe to do so IN PLENTY OF TIME you nitwits

[55bloke]

Litter. How many on here were taught to just drop stuff when you have finished with it, no matter where you are? Nobody? Yeah thought so.....

This is one of my pet hates. When I moved to Seffield from North Yorkshire, I simply couldn't believe the amount of plastic (from packing material, I presume) that festoons every hedge and fence, and how every ditch is knee deep in fast food wrappers, and how there's a 10 foot semi circle of tab ends outside the door of every pub. And I'm similarly astonished how many folk chuck drink cans and food wrappers out of the windows of moving cars rather than taking them home and chucking them in the bin. Do people actually LIKE living in a shit hole?!

[Milford Cubicle]

It's a bit depressing isn't it?I live in one of the cleaner parts of the country (still see plenty of litter though) and it always surprises me when I head down the road. I can only assume people see so much rubbish around them that they think their little piece won't make much difference, or that it's some council lackey's job to clean up their litter. It doesn't take much to keep a plastic bag in your car and carry your rubbish home or to the next bin.

[Mr Lobster]

I agree with all of this and find it a bit depressing. I think a lot of it comes down to people being very self centred and really not bothered about anyone else or the world around them. I really don't understand why people are so lazy they can't just take their rubbish home with them. Every motorway sliproad is covered in crap that people have discarded purely because they are lazy and selfish.Sadly, some people do seem to like living in a tip. We get loads of rental cars that are brought back in a fairly disgusting state. And then they get abusive when they get charged for cleaning up their crap.

[retrogeezer]

On that note, people who come on to the motorway and cross over an empty inside line to sit in the middle lane. WTF's that about??

Someone did this to me a few years back, at 2am on a totally clear motorway apart from me.I see the car coming out of the services on the slip road ahead, move from the inside lane to the middle lane so they can just join. I get within about 30 yards from them and they just drive straight across the inside lane to the middle lane in front of me.They were doing about 40mph and I was doing 75.....I was not a happy bunny.

[whitevanman]

Wheelie bins.................I live in a rural, fairly pretty part of the country, so why do I have to put up with wheelie bins at the end of every road and drive? the bins get emptied once a week, so take the thing back to your houses you lazy, idle, smelly, dirty bastards...and stop making the country side look like a dump....

[55bloke]

Still on the subject of litter, I was in Roundhay Park in Leeds a few years ago the day after some rock gig or other, and you literally couldn't see the grass for crap!! Dozens and dozens of lorry loads of it I would guess. I've attended my fair share of such events, and I can honestly say I've never left anything behind. What is the matter with people?

[Father Ted]

On that note, people who come on to the motorway and cross over an empty inside line to sit in the middle lane. WTF's that about??

Someone did this to me a few years back, at 2am on a totally clear motorway apart from me.I see the car coming out of the services on the slip road ahead, move from the inside lane to the middle lane so they can just join. I get within about 30 yards from them and they just drive straight across the inside lane to the middle lane in front of me.They were doing about 40mph and I was doing 75.....I was not a happy bunny.

Or people who dont understand that they need to build up speed and wait for a suitable gap to filter back from the hard shoulder into motorway traffic. Couple of years ago I was coming back from Warrington with about 400kgs of Oak furniture in the back of the BX and on the trailer along with several glass shelves nestling in the back, i in the inside lane doing a steady 55 - 60, traffic in the middle lane coming past me and suddenly this twat in a Passat indicates and pulls out from a standing start off the hard shoulder about 50 yards in front of me, there was no where for me to go except the hard shoulder, had I braked hard I would have been squidged or decapitated, had I swerved into the middle lane I would have caused a pile up.Silly sod was waving his fist at me as I passed him on the inside on the hard shoulder. I slowed a bit to let him overtake as Ivan (whos furniture it was) wanted to give him a bit of a rugby player type talking to, but he wouldnt come past me.

[Guest]

People who feel the need to take a camera with them on a night out in town, as if it is some important event which requires documenting. The local paper devotes an entire section to dreary photos of people in clubs. They're usually along the same lines - a few anonymous girls with Bacardi Breezers grinning in a dingy club with a caption along the lines of "DANCING QUEENS: Becky, Sam and Helen partying in Trollops". It's not that they're particularly unpleasant or hateful-looking people, but 99.9% of readers won't know or care who you are - why should they be informed that you went out? It's non-news, it is an entirely useless bit of trivia, even people who know them shouldn't really care that much.If they're going to do that, they might as well start putting photos of me exchanging an incorrect oil filter at the motor factors, or an in-depth review of what I had for my tea. Probably be more interesting, actually. Might have sausages tonight.

[Rusty Pelican]

My local " Asda " roundabout , try and picture this , roundabout with 4 exits basically a cross , 50 yards from this is Asdas , entry and exit to said Asdas is traffic light controlled , Car park filling up , queues to get in then stretch to the roundabout , Dead oposite the Asda exit is a trading estate , queues of bods leaving work , queues of bods trying to get into Asda , queues of bods trying to get somewhere else , result of all this is tonight they were queued RIGHT ROUND the fucking roundabout and no one goes anywhere , FFS council sort this out especially as theres planning for 600 new houses just up the road from the bloody thing

[Cavcraft]

Telford:Why was it built on an ideal of roundabouts, industrial estates, miserable as sh1t people and fat lezzers with more tattoos and stubble than most blokes?

[Pillock]

'Facepalm'Anyway, my laptops left click has pretty much broken. Oh and I have college at 9, and I just realised I have a hefty load of things to do before I leave at half seven.

What laptop is it? They're often fixable with a bit of lateral thinking

[Pillock]

A! North closed on Weds morning. I drive up there at about 5am.Howcome they can afford to put a load of truck on the road with pretty flashing lights to tell us the road is closed but can't signpost a diversion???Result is chaos as no fucker knows where to go......and end up following someone in the hope they know a bit more.Not just once either........happens all the time.......these 'incident control units' close the road at the drop of a hat.........rarely is diversion posted.Twunts

I was sat at work just next to the A1 at Newark, it was closed when I got there but I crossed the A1 about 5.30am and had a clear run, didn't notice anything odd (you can't actually see the road from that bridge).A colleague then got in to work at 12 noon, having been aiming for 9am! A three tailback caused, like you say, by there being absolutely no diversion signs, so people were just satnavving like sheep into the nearest sleepy town. Like lorry drivers.... and he wasn't even on the A1, this was the A617.

[Pillock]

Todays rant: Tie-wraps. In fact packaging in general.I've just had to kit out a new workshop - 176 benches, most of them with a PC, monitor, barcode reader, mouse, keyboard and a couple of extension leads for power.I've had to undo 2,150 tiewraps this week! Why on earth a VGA cable needs four on it I have no idea. And then the plastic plug protectors (4 on each bench), the caps on the VGA cable (2x), boxes for everything, boxes in boxes, and in the case of the HP PCs - boxes in boxes in boxes. With plastic-wrapped CDs in them, in their own little cardboard sleeves.I'm not complaining for hippy 'save the planet' reasons - more the fact I had to wheel the skip down to the forklifts dozens of times even after krushing the boxes. But apparently there's no way of ordering just what you want, it has to be a full retail box of everything. In the skip went 150 barcode reader stands, 176 copies of Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows Office, 176 monitor stands, 220 carrycases and holsters for drills..... just sell us what we need!

[whitevanman]

Todays rant: Tie-wraps. In fact packaging in general.I've just had to kit out a new workshop - 176 benches, most of them with a PC, monitor, barcode reader, mouse, keyboard and a couple of extension leads for power.I've had to undo 2,150 tiewraps this week! Why on earth a VGA cable needs four on it I have no idea. And then the plastic plug protectors (4 on each bench), the caps on the VGA cable (2x), boxes for everything, boxes in boxes, and in the case of the HP PCs - boxes in boxes in boxes. With plastic-wrapped CDs in them, in their own little cardboard sleeves.I'm not complaining for hippy 'save the planet' reasons - more the fact I had to wheel the skip down to the forklifts dozens of times even after krushing the boxes. But apparently there's no way of ordering just what you want, it has to be a full retail box of everything. In the skip went 150 barcode reader stands, 176 copies of Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows Office, 176 monitor stands, 220 carrycases and holsters for drills..... just sell us what we need!

I could have done with a couple of carry cases and drill holsters.......

[Minimad5]

Windows XP would be good too (As i repair sheet loads of computers for friends and so on, but cant format due to no XP)Recycle - The possabilities are endless

[FredTransit]

Stick em on ebay, even for £1 a go plus postage? Do you not want £176?

[j-j]

Todays rant: Tie-wraps. In fact packaging in general.

Too right! my personal gripe here is the 're sealable' pasta packets. Sure you get the little sticker thing that works (for a while) but I have NEVER managed to open a packet of pasta without the fakkin thing all splitting and tearing all asymmetrically and spilling the pasta shapes all over the place. Why do they make resealable packs out of crap material? I mean I opened a packet of wine gums and there was a nice , clean opening - no mad packet spontaneous destruction, same, a big packet of Doritos - opened nice stylee. Why the hell not make the pasta pack out of the self same plastic as the crisps/sweets or whatever?? then there would be a POINT to the resealing sticky bit

[The Liberator]

my personal gripe here is the 're sealable' pasta packets. Sure you get the little sticker thing that works (for a while) but I have NEVER managed to open a packet of pasta without the fakkin thing all splitting and tearing all asymmetrically and spilling the pasta shapes all over the place. Why do they make resealable packs out of crap material? I mean I opened a packet of wine gums and there was a nice , clean opening - no mad packet spontaneous destruction, same, a big packet of Doritos - opened nice stylee. Why the hell not make the pasta pack out of the self same plastic as the crisps/sweets or whatever?? then there would be a POINT to the resealing sticky bit

I especially dislike the plastic they use to seal the top of packs of chilled stuff, bacon for example. In one corner there's a little tab that's not glued down, to encourage you to think you'll be able to peel the top off neatly. Well I bloody can't. Either the plastic rips in two long gashes, leaving me still unable to get to what's inside, or after a couple of minutes of getting angry, I give up and have to stab the top with a knife instead.

[Albert Ross]

In response to the notion of people growling when told they will be charged for cleaning their mess up, I recall a time I worked a camper van sales place.We often handled the sales of campers and caravans for other people, charging them a fee for doing so. A couple turned up to view a rather nice Beige Talbot Express "Pilote" coachbuilt, and were duly showed the outside, and then the salesman opened the door, and ushered the couple inside. The lady came out hurling, and the bloke behind her nearly as green. Turns out the owner had used it for a holiday away, and forgotten to clean out the chemical bog. It was August, and had been there since March or so......... So turds, piss, small closed up area, and 5 months of festering and a nice hot summer later...... We rang the owner, who glibly said we should empty it for him and clean it up as part of the deal. Bollocks did we, the Boss told him how much he was going to charge him for doing it, so he turned up himself to do it (We had all the normal campsite cleaning facilities on site) Facemask, Marigolds, Wellies on, etc, and went to clean it up. We all stood around waiting for him to come running out. He came out greener than the prospective purchaser, and was heard to say that he would pay the money next time. My how we laughed!It did sell, but at a seriously reduced price!

[Gompo]

A! North closed on Weds morning. I drive up there at about 5am.Howcome they can afford to put a load of truck on the road with pretty flashing lights to tell us the road is closed but can't signpost a diversion???Result is chaos as no fucker knows where to go......and end up following someone in the hope they know a bit more.

I presume you mean just north of Newark? Which way did you go out of interest?

[Father Ted]

Tie wraps? Tie fucking Wraps????Have you seen kids toys today??When I was a nipper in the 70's stuff came in a box.So Christmas morn, open box take toy out, throw box on fire. Jobbed.Now, everything is wrapped to bloody buggery and then secured in the box by little bits of plastic coated twisty bits of wire, but not simply untwist and release, no some sick bastard in Taiwan twists them first one way then another so you spend frickin ages having to undo stuff. Also screws - why screw something into a cardboard bx with a miniscule cross head screw and plastic lug? And as for plastic? I shredded my fingers last Crimbo on all the bloody plastic packaging they stick stuff TOO the boxes with.Bring back