The grumpy thread

[MarvinsMom]

wot?

 

i know i've a slurp..... but, wot?

[HH-R]

I had a BMW cut in behind me to take a slip road last second and sit three inches off my arse earlier, dipped beam and fog lights pointlessly blazing.

 

In his haste to GET IN FRONT!!11!!, he tore round me and by using the outside lane of the roundabout, he got stuck with the traffic all with the same idea whilst I chose the empty left lane (2 out of 4 lanes marked for that road). Was surprised to see the light blazing sod pass me again 3/4 minutes later (I paid no more attention after he got past on the slip road) on a dual carriageway, GR8 driving mate, got you a long way.

[fred]

Fuck sake - Gardeners ?? Need my drive weeding hedges cut back - Ive tried but my lungs are still kinda delicate - and my knees are fooked - phoned up 4 gardeners in the past month - any of em get back NO ?? Fucksticks

[Timewaster]

That's the sort of beer money job for a local retired giffer if you can find one.

 

Tried the local classifieds for a handy man?

[Craig the Princess]

Was planning on working on the Princess today. Alarm set at 8, woke up at 10 with no mojo for it. Did manage to put screenwash in the Brown Metro and Rover. Fuck sake man.

[chaseracer]

Fuck sake - Gardeners ?? Need my drive weeding hedges cut back - Ive tried but my lungs are still kinda delicate - and my knees are fooked - phoned up 4 gardeners in the past month - any of em get back NO ?? Fucksticks

 

 

^ Excellent bloke.  Old car fan, too.  Tell him Dave from Heath Hayes sent you...

[Ghosty]

Just nearly had my leg broken going across a mini-roundabout on my bike by some twunt in an SLK who doesn't seem to understand 'give way to the right'.

 

Thankfully said idiot managed to see me and stop in time so I just kept riding and fucked off, thought I'd had it though.

[cort16]

GR8 the next door neighbours have bought their kids a drum kit.

[beko1987]

Buy a bigger one...

[dave21478]

Buy bagpipes.

[EssDeeWon]

Whats pissing me off lately? There has to be something as I am a grumpy git.

 

Oh yes......Impatient drivers risking my wing mirrors when there is a vehicle parked on THEIR side of the road. What you do is slow down or wait a few seconds for the oncoming vehicle (me) in the clear lane to pass, then pull out and pass vehicle obstructing your lane and continue your journey.

 

Every single time I approach this scenario lately the oncoming car swerves round parked vehicle nearly taking the side of my car off, forcing me into the side of the road to avoid contact.

 

Im all for dashcams because of important/impatient stupid people like this who cannot bear to wait just a few seconds, but instead risk a collision because they MUST get to wherever their going A-SAP

[scaryoldcortina]

Yeah, that happens to me a lot. There is a fairly narrow but busy road I need to use to get pretty much anywhere, it has double yellow lines along its entire length. There are also shops, and the council recently extended the footpath outside the shops making the road only just wide enough for two buses to pass.

 

This hasn't stopped people parking there at all, so there is always a chance that someone will swerve into your path instead of waiting, and sometimes there is a dead stop because there are two cars on the yellows on opposite sides and the bus can't get through. It's great* Even better is the new primary school they built at the bottom of the bank which ensures that twice a day you can't get out of our village.

[chaseracer]

Doctor Who.

 

Why is this pointless shit still being made?  Malcolm Tucker's not swearing anywhere near enough.

[Ghosty]

Speaking of pointless shit, it's clock change night.

[trigger]

I've been putting up a flat pack baby Mamas and Papas dresser changer tonight that we've bought second hand with no instructions. I haven't been so angry and wround up in ages! It was just a pile of about 30 pieces with no idea of what went where, you spend an hour putting it together only to find the next piece won't fit without taking all apart again! ARGHHH!

[robinmasters]

I've nearly been hit so many times on roundabouts that I was starting to think I'd got it wrong, and they'd changed the rules so that the right lane is now for going straight on.

 

[Timewaster]

The local Fud Clowncil decided to change the layout of the busiest roundabout in town to left lane to turn left only and right lane for straight on and right.

 

Not such a bad thing as the left lane did used to back up a bit BUT all they did was paint 2 arrows on the road right at he junction. So people are swapping lanes last minute and if there was a car in front then you can't see the arrows at all!

 

Thanks to an online shit storm, they have now put some signs up.

[Eddie Honda]

I've been putting up a flat pack baby Mamas and Papas dresser changer tonight that we've bought second hand with no instructions.

http://www.mamasandpapas.com/product-instructions/?f=Dresser%20Changer

 

I've put together loads of flat-pack without instructions. Dead easy, but I was trained on Lego back in the 70s.

[Eddie Honda]

Had a wonder round IKEA today, and if that isn't a pisser in itself, I've just found out the bastards aren't doing the Borgsjo range anymore. Why is it every time I want to get something, they discontinue it?

[Ghosty]

The local Fud Clowncil decided to change the layout of the busiest roundabout in town to left lane to turn left only and right lane for straight on and right.

 

Not such a bad thing as the left lane did used to back up a bit BUT all they did was paint 2 arrows on the road right at he junction. So people are swapping lanes last minute and if there was a car in front then you can't see the arrows at all!

 

Thanks to an online shit storm, they have now put some signs up.

Sounds a lot like Tameside.

[jakebullet]

Another fucking negative feedback on evilbay from yet another registered 10 seconds fuckwit with an incomplete address. I'm officially sick of the bastard place.

[sporty-shite]

I've nearly been hit so many times on roundabouts that I was starting to think I'd got it wrong, and they'd changed the rules so that the right lane is now for going straight on.

 

In that illustration, I was of the impression that you can go straight on from the right lane. Two exit lanes, so both can be used?

[Timewaster]

I would agree with sporty but it's not often you get two lanes coming of all junctions. There is usually at least one single lane exit.

 

Another Fud Clowncil own goal was to remodel another roundabout at vast expense to eliminate the second lanes rather than put lane signs or markings up because nobody ever knew which one to be in. Genius!

[Pillock]

Unless you're driving an Eastern European lorry in which case it's left lane for everywhere, including swinging all the way around the outside of the roundabout to come back the way you came.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Had a wonder round IKEA today, and if that isn't a pisser in itself, I've just found out the bastards aren't doing the Borgsjo range anymore. Why is it every time I want to get something, they discontinue it?

Ikea may be a bit shit and proper busy but it's always full of the beautiful ladies (said in a captain bertorelli voice) that it's always worth a visit

[dave21478]

Unless you're driving an Eastern European lorry in which case it's left lane for everywhere, including swinging all the way around the outside of the roundabout to come back the way you came.

Not just the Easterns....

In the French highway code it says roundabouts should be taken as the above diagram, (but opposite direction obviously) right lane for right and straight, left lane for left and all the way round.

Then it goes on to say "alternatively, do what the fuck you want" - not quite in those words, but something along the lines of "or just use the outside lane for all exits".

[Eddie Honda]

Roundabouts PIF 1979:

 

 

Don't think things have changed much. I was trying to find something about the right/straight on thing, but my old brown DoT "Driving" book 3rd Edition/11th impression is hiding somewhere. The RSA (Road Safety Authority) in Ireland wasted their time on this, but I don't think anyone in the country has seen it, judging by the roundabout usage standards encountered.

 

[Louise2cv]

I've ranted here before, but the new thing seems to be to indicate right to go straight on

 

My parents kept mentioning it but (what with them living in the big city) it was a while before I followed a car that did it. Now I see it ALL. THE. TIME. Even here in the sticks.

 

What is that?

 

NO.

[Vin]

I've also been suffering 'roundabout stress' lately. It's all to do with drivers not giving way to traffic from the right....

 

Last week, I was turning right on a roundabout, I was at 'ten to twelve' when this Rover 75 drove straight out from the left (he didn't give way and stop...) and was alongside me...I had nowhere to go, so had to stop and let him pass me on the inside!!!!

 

I was always taught to stop and give way to any traffic that was already on a roundabout, regardless of how many lanes there are...

[fred]

Fucking Pikeys landed on the Delves green common again - God damn was only two weeks ago they got fecked off - Fucksticks cock and Arsebiscuits