The grumpy thread

[MrDuke]

  On 14/03/2015 at 07:14, Lankytim said:

Nowt I can do about it other than insist my daughter wears her headphones. Ignorant fat fuckers.

There is always another option. Just make sure you block the carriage CCTV first. And tell your daughter to keep her eyes shut until the screaming stops.

[Craig the Princess]

  On 14/03/2015 at 07:14, Lankytim said:

I'm on a train to London with my 5yr old daughter and the Mrs and we're sat next to a table with four foul mouthed northern kyle reject fat scumbags. Nowt I can do about it other than insist my daughter wears her headphones. Ignorant fat fuckers.

You can text the British transport police if they are being anti-social (this has been put in so they can't see you calling the police). Text 61016.

 

My experience when working on trains is the btp are very good at dealing with the twats unless there is an incident ongoing meaning they get diverted to another call.

[JohnDeere]

  On 14/03/2015 at 02:59, Tetleysmooth said:

What a twat.

I took a double decker to Broadstairs last night. 42.5 tonnes.

Just coming up to where the sliproad from Faversham joins the M2, and saw a nice shiny white BMW curving round to join the motorway.

I thought 'uh-oh'.

Sure enough, he's right alongside me. I couldn't move out as it's only two lanes wide there and I was being overtaken, but the geezer wasn't slowing at all, he just kept pace with me, until that is, the sliproad came to an end. He had to brake. Hard.

He came out behind me, then straight into lane two and overtook me. Sure enough, I got a furious blast on the horn. He got one back.

What's up with these thick skulled pillocks? Can't they see the bigger picture. What did he expect me to do? Brake like mad just to let him out? Just move over into lane 2 and squash the poor bastard overtaking me into the Armco?

I hate driving lorries now.

I think the problem is the minority of muppet lorry drivers on the roads means Mr Important BMW Driver assumes they all are. Aside from the eight miles of overtaking on a two-lane motorway at 0.0001mph difference... Last night I passed two separate left-hookers parked on the hard shoulder talking to the driver of the car they'd side swiped. And see daily cases of trucks swerving onto the hard shoulder or out into lane 2, presumably when the driver is dealing with an important Facebook update.

[Angrydicky]

You have my sympathy Tetleysmooth, I see this all the time. I'm usually in my Austin Somerset, trundling along at about 56, when I come up to an onslip with cars trying to merge. However, often lane 2 is full of cars overtaking at 70/80, so what do you do? I normally try to back off or speed up if necessary to accommodate them, but it's not always that easy, especially if there's lots of cars attempting to merge in. Occasionally you do get twats like that BMW driver. These twats don't seem to realise that traffic merging onto the motorway HAS to give way to traffic already on the motorway, and think you should jam the anchors on/swerve into lane 2 to accommodate them. Bloody annoying.

Other things that annoy me on motorways are HGV overtakes (when both drivers are taking the piss, going exactly the same speed and both refusing to back down), and those idiots who swerve across three lanes of traffic because they weren't paying attention to where their exit was.

[The Moog]

Power button on Lumia 925 is barely working. Only a year old. Grrr

[chaseracer]

  On 14/03/2015 at 08:08, dollywobbler said:

Can't believe how much trouble that W124 is proving to be. Really does sound like it's time Vauxhall was let off the hook. New slogan time?

 

To be fair on the old bus, it's just been thrown back into use after eight months in mother-in-law's garage and some time sitting on the drive before my mate could fit it in for an idle control valve, proper plugs and an MOT - which it sailed through with no advisories.

 

It runs and rides beautifully.  When it runs...! 

[Inspector Morose]

I'm really trying not to laugh, David, I really am.

 

(I hate having cars prove me wrong - serves it right!)

[dave21478]

Petrol pumps here now have 18" TV screens on them that shout adverts at you while you fill up.

Who thought that would be a good idea? Why the hell does EVERYTHING have to be plastered in advertising these days?

 

I would be quite tempted to smash the fuck out of it with my jack handle, but the screens are built into metal and lexan boxes obviously designed to withstand this sort of treatment.

[steve_earwig]

That sounds like something the Shermans would come up with. They'll be over the urinals next (if they aren't already).

 

Slip roads: Like everyone I guess I always try to move into the next lane coming up to slip roads when I can see cars coming out at a speed that may interfere with me, I'm not just being polite, I don't trust the drivers here not to just charge out into me. Any what do the Croats do? Why, they undertake me regardless of course. Last weekend I was on the 4-lane dual-carriageway coming into Zagreb where my bro-in-law lives, I'd just overtaken a Twingo (I think it was, something horrible anyway) but as I was coming up to a slip road which I could see a flock of cars on I stayed in the fast lane, keeping the same speed. What does the Twingo driver do? He under-takes me, naturally.

[EssDeeWon]

  On 14/03/2015 at 02:59, Tetleysmooth said:

What a twat.

I took a double decker to Broadstairs last night. 42.5 tonnes.

Just coming up to where the sliproad from Faversham joins the M2, and saw a nice shiny white BMW curving round to join the motorway.

I thought 'uh-oh'.

Sure enough, he's right alongside me. I couldn't move out as it's only two lanes wide there and I was being overtaken, but the geezer wasn't slowing at all, he just kept pace with me, until that is, the sliproad came to an end. He had to brake. Hard.

He came out behind me, then straight into lane two and overtook me. Sure enough, I got a furious blast on the horn. He got one back.

What's up with these thick skulled pillocks? Can't they see the bigger picture. What did he expect me to do? Brake like mad just to let him out? Just move over into lane 2 and squash the poor bastard overtaking me into the Armco?

I hate driving lorries now.

 

I kind of see this as a grin because the bellend BMW driver was forced to brake hard and go round the bus, rather than the other way round.

 

Is it just me or does anything modern, german and white spell utter twat, pillock, in a rush, more important, 5 years HPi at £350 p/m. Suckers!

[purplebargeken]

I use the A13 in Essex quite a bit and it seems that no fucker will move over to let people onto the carriageway. Odd and irritating. 

[cort16]

I was listening to a thing on the radio about a a PR company who organised events for charities. They paid them quite a lot of money but he always brought the  results. They gave him 1 million dollars he earned them 20 million. They ran this arrangement for years and earned the charities a lot of money as they had a really top flight team who knew how to organise and run these things and understood the dynamics of raising money for charities.

. Someone out side the organisation found that the charity was OMG paying someone a millions of dollars. The outrage, this should be getting spent on saving kittens or nuns or whatever the charity does so overnight he lost all his business, his company shut down and the charities all pulled the work back in house who didn't have the expertise to run the the events. Net result they spend a 1 million organising events in house and generate 5 million dollars so are down 15 million on the previous setup. That's 15 million NOT going into the charities coffers.

 

The wages and how charities outsource should be accountable to their board but they should absolutely have the right to outsource and pay top wages if it brings the results.  If you pay someone 30 grand and they generated 100,000 and you pay someone 200,000 and they generate a million it;s a no brainer. Kittens are saved etc. What they have to be careful of is paying 200,000 and getting nothing. If you're using a charities money to pay top dollar you'd better be fucking sure it counts. I think the place that charities have fallen down in this aspect is they don't have anyone reviewing whats being delivered until it;s too late.

[danthecapriman]

  On 14/03/2015 at 02:59, Tetleysmooth said:

What a twat.

I took a double decker to Broadstairs last night. 42.5 tonnes.

Just coming up to where the sliproad from Faversham joins the M2, and saw a nice shiny white BMW curving round to join the motorway.

I thought 'uh-oh'.

Sure enough, he's right alongside me. I couldn't move out as it's only two lanes wide there and I was being overtaken, but the geezer wasn't slowing at all, he just kept pace with me, until that is, the sliproad came to an end. He had to brake. Hard.

He came out behind me, then straight into lane two and overtook me. Sure enough, I got a furious blast on the horn. He got one back.

What's up with these thick skulled pillocks? Can't they see the bigger picture. What did he expect me to do? Brake like mad just to let him out? Just move over into lane 2 and squash the poor bastard overtaking me into the Armco?

I hate driving lorries now.

I get this sort of shit a lot and I'm only driving a big van!

The other day on the A27 I came upto a junction, the left lane of the slip road goes straight into its own lane on the A27, the right lane merges into the A27 like a normal slip road does.

I usually move out at slip roads if I can, just good road manners. This time I couldn't so had to carry on as I was being overtaken.

On the slip road the left lane is totally empty. Right lane has Mr self righteous cunt in his financed Audi (in white!) coming up at high speed. Of course to use his brain and use the left lane or slow down a touch and merge in behind me would have been beneath this road king so instead he tries to race ahead of me and cut across in front of me. I had a big heavy van towing a trailer with 800 litres of oil in it so to avoid a crash I had to brake hard, the trailer brakes locked and skidded and the bell end in the Audi gives me fingers and cuts across another lane of traffic to get to the fast lane where he belongs!

It's lucky the guy behind me was on the ball aswell and not following me too closely. Could of been nasty!

 

I'm positive these people have mental issues. They think they are better and more important than anyone else and can not stand anyone being perceived by them to get ahead of the or get one over on them. You only have to look at their rude vile reactions after almost causing these incidents to see this.

I like to consider myself as 'pretty decent' and if I'd of done something wrong by complete accident and almost caused an accident or pissed of another innocent person I'd apologise and not be a dick about it blaming everyone else. Of course these wankers can't behave like that because they see themselves as far to good to have to apologise to anyone else!

 

But, rant over. After this happened I was rewarded with the sight of a lovely blue Sunbeam Rapier trundling along the A3. It was a lovely original looking car. Made me feel better seeing that!

[cort16]

That Window phone Cortana advert with the posh hipster band "oh, you made me laugh cortana" make me want to punch the TV.

[gordonbennet]

Slip road merging, blind twats...my tanker is probably the worlds brightest yellow,  the reflection from which probably blinds the poor buggers in the space station, but can mr german heap driver see it right beside, can he buggery.

 

The other ones who boil my piss are Aldi drivers who need 1.3 lanes at every roundabout or in lane control, the massive A1 series (ugly slug that) usually carry the most spatially unaware....or is the handling that bad on them that unless they straighten the corner the heap slides off into the scenery.

[xtriple]

  On 14/03/2015 at 12:00, cort16 said:

That Window phone Cortana advert with the posh hipster band "oh, you made me laugh cortana" make me want to punch the TV.

I so agree with you. That bird is a right munter as well but... she has a decent rack! They all just look like a bunch of bellends and I hate them all! There, that was a proper, childish rant... I needed that!

 

Fell asleep about four this morning and was rudely awakened by his royal fatness throwing up at half six. I am a tiny bit tired and tetchy....

[alf892]

  On 14/03/2015 at 12:11, gordonbennet said:

Slip road merging, blind twats...my tanker is probably the worlds brightest yellow,  the reflection from which probably blinds the poor buggers in the space station, but can mr german heap driver see it right beside, can he buggery.

 

The other ones who boil my piss are Aldi drivers who need 1.3 lanes at every roundabout or in lane control, the massive A1 series (ugly slug that) usually carry the most spatially unaware....or is the handling that bad on them that unless they straighten the corner the heap slides off into the scenery.

Whitworth Bros......based on location and colour?!

[Slappy]

  On 14/03/2015 at 11:20, danthecapriman said:

I get this sort of shit a lot and I'm only driving a big van!

The other day on the A27 I came upto a junction, the left lane of the slip road goes straight into its own lane on the A27, the right lane merges into the A27 like a normal slip road does.

I usually move out at slip roads if I can, just good road manners. This time I couldn't so had to carry on as I was being overtaken.

On the slip road the left lane is totally empty. Right lane has Mr self righteous cunt in his financed Audi (in white!) coming up at high speed. Of course to use his brain and use the left lane or slow down a touch and merge in behind me would have been beneath this road king so instead he tries to race ahead of me and cut across in front of me. I had a big heavy van towing a trailer with 800 litres of oil in it so to avoid a crash I had to brake hard, the trailer brakes locked and skidded and the bell end in the Audi gives me fingers and cuts across another lane of traffic to get to the fast lane where he belongs!

It's lucky the guy behind me was on the ball aswell and not following me too closely. Could of been nasty!

 

I'm positive these people have mental issues. They think they are better and more important than anyone else and can not stand anyone being perceived by them to get ahead of the or get one over on them. You only have to look at their rude vile reactions after almost causing these incidents to see this.

I like to consider myself as 'pretty decent' and if I'd of done something wrong by complete accident and almost caused an accident or pissed of another innocent person I'd apologise and not be a dick about it blaming everyone else. Of course these wankers can't behave like that because they see themselves as far to good to have to apologise to anyone else!

 

But, rant over. After this happened I was rewarded with the sight of a lovely blue Sunbeam Rapier trundling along the A3. It was a lovely original looking car. Made me feel better seeing that!

 

M275/M/A27 merge going east? I frigging hate that part of the road. It seems to catch a lot of people out, especially if they don't know the area well. It's been designed wrong for the priorities at the end of the day, but there's no real way around it I guess.

[gordonbennet]

  On 14/03/2015 at 12:20, alf892 said:

Whitworth Bros......based on location and colour?!

yup, sussed.

[danthecapriman]

  On 14/03/2015 at 12:40, Slappy said:

M275/M/A27 merge going east? I frigging hate that part of the road. It seems to catch a lot of people out, especially if they don't know the area well. It's been designed wrong for the priorities at the end of the day, but there's no real way around it I guess.

Bang on! It's a really crap layout and as you say lane priorities are wrong.

The other place that causes a lot of problems and accidents is further east, where the A27 is four lanes wide with the Eastern road junction joining, then shortly after two lanes split for the A3, the other two carry on A27 Havant, Chichester direction.

The lanes are clearly marked with huge overhead road signs yet people still can't exercise any lane discipline, race down lane 4 then try to cut back across into lanes 1 or 2 to take the A3, wait until the chevron area before cutting back across one way or the other. It's to the point now where you approach these places expecting trouble!

 

Trouble is, even though the road layouts are a bit crap, why don't people slow down a bit for these junctions and look what they are doing instead of just carrying on flat out!?

[Ghosty]

  On 14/03/2015 at 09:02, Angrydicky said:

 

Other things that annoy me on motorways are HGV overtakes (when both drivers are taking the piss, going exactly the same speed and both refusing to back down), 

 

A1 southbound, from the A57 to the southern A1M. Hell.

 

Also nearly got killed by a left hooker eastern European trying to pull out on me and the old man in his Civic down there a while ago.

I pancked and starting shouting, 'horn, fucking horn' so he started flashing the lights at them and didn't understand why I was getting pissed off at him?

[hairnet]

  On 14/03/2015 at 09:39, dave21478 said:

Petrol pumps here now have 18" TV screens on them that shout adverts at you while you fill up.

Who thought that would be a good idea? Why the hell does EVERYTHING have to be plastered in advertising these days?

 

I would be quite tempted to smash the fuck out of it with my jack handle, but the screens are built into metal and lexan boxes obviously designed to withstand this sort of treatment.

they have tvs in the bogs on the newer stena ferries doing just this

 

tried to pee in behind to short it all but it was too high

[Richard]

  On 14/03/2015 at 09:02, Angrydicky said:

 

Other things that annoy me on motorways are HGV overtakes (when both drivers are taking the piss, going exactly the same speed and both refusing to back down).

 

Car drivers are doing that on the A9 now, on the single carriageway sections.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Spent all day trying to get all the rust off the inner sills on a shit suzuki I bought. It might have been easier if I just gave up as the entire drivers side is gone and 90% of the passenger.

 

I then messed for ages trying to make a pattern of the shape for the new metal I need but I gave up as nothing would hole such a shallow shape.

 

When I get the metal it's getting bodged, non of this cutting out the rot I just don't have the skill or patience yet I just want rid of the car

[hairnet]

F1 coverage - i dont watch it much but will watch if bbc happen to show it live

 

aussie monaco spa and canada

 

but for coultard

 

monotone chisel chinned twat - let edwards get a fookin word in will ya

 

i tried to watch the qual earlier but turned it off as within 5 mins he annoyed me more than that prick jordan

[HH-R]

  On 14/03/2015 at 12:00, cort16 said:

That Window phone Cortana advert with the posh hipster band "oh, you made me laugh cortana" make me want to punch the TV.

 

Their muzak is absolute shite too.

[dugong]

Having my bi-annual falling out with Facebook. Arrrgh.

[warren t claim]

  On 15/03/2015 at 03:26, dugong said:

Having my bi-annual falling out with Facebook. Arrrgh.

I was wondering where you'd gone!

[Cavcraft]

  On 15/03/2015 at 03:26, dugong said:

Having my bi-annual falling out with Facebook. Arrrgh.

 

 

Mine is bi-daily now. The FB version of this place didn't keep me too long, either. 

[ruffgeezer]

I've been offered a new job, it's in a yound workshop which at the moment has no ramps, there will be tyre fitting which I haven't done in a long time as well as the attitude that any job can be done.

 

I was made up initially, but I am riddled with self doubt so I cannot see this for what it is. It's an opportunity to work a lot nearer home which I have wanted for a long time, the boss is a really nice guy. Why am I finding it so hard to know what to do?