The grumpy thread

[beko1987]

We have slugs in the front garden and I put a ring of Coppaslip around the pots. They didn't come back, but swmbo did forget once and picked a pot up...

[quicksilver]

As a software developer I'm really starting to get annoyed by some of the large companies' constant tinkering with their products. Every one seems hell bent on 'updating' a popular product that works well by making it worse and removing useful features - Flickr, Facebook, ebay, LinkedIn, all getting worse with every change. My pet hate that seems to be spreading is news feeds that don't put stuff in chronological order but use some sort of crappy 'relevance' or 'interestingness' algorithm that puts older things I've already seen at the top and buries the new stuff further down. Whatever happened to "if it ain't broke don't fix it"? I guess having done everything worthwhile the only way to keep their developers occupied is getting them to tinker with things that don't need changing.

 

Facebook seem to have gone even better now and removed the one feature that set their messenger apart from others: I found it very useful as it told you when your message had been read so unlike texts or emails you would know the other person had read it. I sent some messages today, no read confirmation even though the other person was online, so I went back to some older ones I know have been read and replied to and there's no read confirmation there now either. At first I thought maybe my messages hadn't been seen but now I'm beginning to suspect they're being ignored and the one time the read confirmation would be really useful it's gone. Grrr....

[laser wheels]

Yep, as I mentioned a few pages back got my first one, too, for 37 in a 30.

 

Still waiting to here back about the speed course. I don't mind that but the fine will be a ball ache right now.

 

Am I right in thinking you don't have to mention this to the insurance people?

[vulgalour]

These speeding grumps highlight a problem I've noticed in the past couple of years.  Now it seems if a road is a 30mph or a 40mph there are no sign posts applied and you just have to guess.  There's a number of roads around here that look for all the world like 40 zones and the first you know it's a 30 is when one of those speed-activated signs light up to tell you to slow down.  Solution is most likely to drive at 30mph everywhere and put up with the white vans and KAHN Range Rovers trying to climb into your back seat.

[beko1987]

Amys just phoned, a stone flicked up on the motorway and cracked the windscreen on the meriva...

 

So that's:

New windscreen (insurance job)

Air con issues (hopefulyl just a re-gas)

Clonking coming from the front end (bushes)

Cambelt roulette

 

to sort now! Joy!

 

Anyone know if insurers get funny if one leaves it a few days to report the crack? Not got £75 until she gets paid next week. Do we ring now and report or wait until we can pay and report?

[Bobthebeard]

These speeding grumps highlight a problem I've noticed in the past couple of years.  Now it seems if a road is a 30mph or a 40mph there are no sign posts applied and you just have to guess.  There's a number of roads around here that look for all the world like 40 zones and the first you know it's a 30 is when one of those speed-activated signs light up to tell you to slow down.  Solution is most likely to drive at 30mph everywhere and put up with the white vans and KAHN Range Rovers trying to climb into your back seat.

Spot on there Vulgalour! I suspect I iz a victim of that in Cramlington. Big wide road etc. Same around here (Lytham St Annes) the prom is a big wide road with no signage (30 limit) but often a camera van lurking to catch out the unwary. I know the roads here and drive slowly, been overtaken many times by angry van drivers and local footballers in posh cars.

[Lord Sterling]

Mahmoud phoned, he has been trying to find a waterpump for the E280 everywhere, seemingly all the parts suppliers don't supply them or have the wrong one, even Merc "specialists" don't seem to have them. Seems my waterpump is one of a kind.

 

That said, a car like wouldn't usually fall into the hands of a penniless bum like myself anyway. Looks like I'm gonna have to call on the bank of Ma

[Richard]

Amys just phoned, a stone flicked up on the motorway and cracked the windscreen on the meriva...

 

So that's:

New windscreen (insurance job)

Air con issues (hopefulyl just a re-gas)

Clonking coming from the front end (bushes)

Cambelt roulette

 

to sort now! Joy!

 

Anyone know if insurers get funny if one leaves it a few days to report the crack? Not got £75 until she gets paid next week. Do we ring now and report or wait until we can pay and report?

 

How would they know when it happened? When I claimed for mine I told them it had happened a couple of weeks before and they didn't seem to mind.

[oldcars]

Just paid £300 to give the seals replaced as oil was leaking from the transfer box on the santa fe. Got it back two weeks ago and its done it again. Bridge?

[Cavcraft]

Never chase after anyone who doesn't chase after you.

So the ice cream man can fuck off for a start.

[chaseracer]

Just paid £300 to give the seals replaced as oil was leaking from the transfer box on the santa fe. Got it back two weeks ago and its done it again. Bridge?

 

Not until you have a serious conversation with whoever did it, regarding (1) the quality of their work and (2) when they're going to finish the job properly.

[320touring]

These speeding grumps highlight a problem I've noticed in the past couple of years. Now it seems if a road is a 30mph or a 40mph there are no sign posts applied and you just have to guess. There's a number of roads around here that look for all the world like 40 zones and the first you know it's a 30 is when one of those speed-activated signs light up to tell you to slow down. Solution is most likely to drive at 30mph everywhere and put up with the white vans and KAHN Range Rovers trying to climb into your back seat.

Presence of street lighting means 30mph unless otherwise indicated- infact according to gov.uk 30 unless shown otherwise

 

https://www.gov.uk/speed-limits

[dollywobbler]

Presence of street lighting means 30mph unless otherwise indicated- infact according to gov.uk 30 unless shown otherwise

 

https://www.gov.uk/speed-limits

 

Indeed. If there are no signs, chances are it's probably 30mph or 60mph. If you're in the sticks, 60mph is more likely and if there are no street lights, they have to post 30mph reminders. People just don't see speed limit signs though. I have discovered this during my minibus driver training. Folk just sail past as if they're not there. Especially 20mph ones! (in Aberystwyth, these are rightly used only where they need to be - ie down the high street and along the prom, where folk are too busy going "ooh look, the sea!" to care about the traffic they're walking out in front of).

 

A 40mph limit must have entry signs where the limit starts and repeaters thereafter, so if there are no signs, then it can't be 40mph.

[richardmorris]

New desk I ordered from listers in Chester arrived this afternoon. Unfortunately the drawer unit is broken- ball bearings everywhere and side panel cracked. Looks like it was dropped ( it's oak and very heavy) but the packaging was intact. Day off work waiting too!

[oldcars]

Not until you have a serious conversation with whoever did it, regarding (1) the quality of their work and (2) when they're going to finish the job properly.

I have and its being looked at again. The breather hole had blocked so this was fixed and we had thought it was the reason it had failed in the first place but it might not have. Its being looked at tomorrow.

[Timewaster]

re speeding courses. Our company, no names, decided to send all our worst drivers on a speed awareness day.

(No one saw a problem with all the worst drivers heading for the same place at the same time.)

My colleague was sent because he backed into a post. He said it was hard going, gory videos,crying widows and relatives, traumatised emergency crews etc.

He turned to the guy next to him and said "this is a bit much, I only backed into a post"

 

The other guy was almost in tears and replies "I'm only here because my company car had its wheel trims stolen!?

[maxpower]

ARGROSS! sit in all day for a sodden delivery only for them to send something completely different from what i ordered....

[cort16]

Aye I'll probably wish I'd taken the points by the end of it.

[ruffgeezer]

To be fair, it's all about the attitude you take it with, I'll accept that some of the facts and statistics they present are probably bollocks, but they do educate you about how to tell what speed limit you are in and how to be more aware when you are driving, it isn't just a long bollocking for going a little bit too fast.

 

No one was able, however to answer why someone doing 35 in a 30 could do the course by choice, but someone doing 50 on a 30 didn't have to and just got the fine, to my mind they need it much more than anyone else does. Perhaps they should have a second tier course for cunt's speed awareness.

[Pillock]

A guy I work with went on an awareness course, he got flashed by a camera on the way back from it and just got another awareness course!

 

My grump today is seeing a fairly big accident on the M18 between M1 and A1, on the other side of the road. Within the next two miles, there were two wombles just sat in their 4x4s on the "police vehicles only" ramps scoffing their sandwiches. Erm, how about doing some work?

[Lord Sterling]

I went to a speed awareness course some years ago. It was Ok, just lots of info on how to think with regards to road situations, what makes you speed etc...

 

That was it. Though I remember a bit where it went a bit like the official secrets act where your not supposed to talk with others of whom you attended the course with when it finished about the course due to a possibility of relatives not knowing etc... which inthought was a reasonable request

[Cavcraft]

This was a great place for cycling, dog walking, leisurely strolls, running and jogging etc. Was.

 

 

 

 

 

It's the Millennium Path between Deeside and Chester. It's (supposed to be) completely free of traffic.

[beko1987]

How would they know when it happened? When I claimed for mine I told them it had happened a couple of weeks before and they didn't seem to mind.

Ah that's handy then. Looking at it it's not a crack, but a fucking big chip/chunk. Looks like it's been shot at!

 

Will phone them after payday. I presume I phone aviva first and not gavin?

[TimothyClaypole]

A guy I work with went on an awareness course, he got flashed by a camera on the way back from it and just got another awareness course!

 

My grump today is seeing a fairly big accident on the M18 between M1 and A1, on the other side of the road. Within the next two miles, there were two wombles just sat in their 4x4s on the "police vehicles only" ramps scoffing their sandwiches. Erm, how about doing some work?

 

We were queuing on the other side with the rubberneckers.

 

They were probably on pasties as they are always in the Morrisons just off Junction 1, not that they've picked up the massive piles of shredded tyres at the exit there anyway. 

 

When I had a van I stopped both lanes further up and recovered the big lump of wood everyone was swerving around myself, they are rubbish.

[richardmorris]

Ah that's handy then. Looking at it it's not a crack, but a fucking big chip/chunk. Looks like it's been shot at!

Will phone them after payday. I presume I phone aviva first and not gavin?

Well they're not going to charge you immediately are they? Book it in to be done next month? Oh and yes, just tell your insurance, that's what you pay them for.

[Stanky]

Ah that's handy then. Looking at it it's not a crack, but a fucking big chip/chunk. Looks like it's been shot at!

 

Will phone them after payday. I presume I phone aviva first and not gavin?

do you have fully comp insurance? If so, its possibly worth getting it filled by one of those outfits who always lurk in supermarket car parks. They usually do it FOC if you can show them an insurance cert. They will often do the job for £25 cash-in-hand as well, especially towards the end of a day - in case you don't have fully comp insurance

[fordperv]

This was a great place for cycling, dog walking, leisurely strolls, running and jogging etc. Was.

 

 

autoshite pikies.jpg

 

 

 

It's the Millennium Path between Deeside and Chester. It's (supposed to be) completely free of traffic.

I bet they would be on their way sharpish if one of the caravans was to accidentally catch fire

[jakebullet]

Pikeys are in the local paper. Against massive local opposition the council builds a temporary pikey stopping area. They will be able to force pikeys from the parks etc to this place, where they will pay rent and stay for a maximum of 14 days.

 

Council are now going to court to evict pikeys who have been there 7 weeks, paid nothing and have fucked it all up. Well done council...

[Timewaster]

A to B Brilliant.

 

He was deemed to have had an "at fault incident".

 

Any way MY company car has wheel trims.

Whatare you saying?

[Timewaster]

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