The grumpy thread

[andrew e]

My employer is alcohol zero tolerance, so I always sound cheerful saying I'd love to work - but I had a drink earlier... Thing is it is the same overtime hungry blokes who do every shift, then go sick on the booked turns and they want you to cover them... Grrr...

[andrew e]

As for the dashcams, nobody needs them. The only people getting anything out of them are the manufacturers and youtube's advertising sales team.

[andrew e]

Well it is the grumpy thread!

[AlabamaShrimp]

Got offered a job last week but still waiting for them to ring an confirm a start date after seeing my qualifications. I know it's been the holidays but just want them to ring.

 

This isn't helped though by my current boss being a wanker. He knows I've been offered another job, said he come see me on Monday with some money he owes me. Of course he didn't bother turning up, i just can't be arsed chasing him up

[EssDeeWon]

As for the dashcams, nobody needs them. The only people getting anything out of them are the manufacturers and youtube's advertising sales team.

 

Shirley these provide hard evidence in the case of an accident, especially when 99% folk claim it wasn't their fault these days and without a decent witness its only your word against theirs?

 

Take today for example, if I hit silly old biddy then the evidence is there for all to see (she cut me up rather me just driving into her) which is probably what she'd say.

[andrew e]

I'm just not convinced. And I used to do 30+k a year up January this year, exclusively on the M25. Remember you have to HAVE the accident first, use your wits and you don't need one. Just a horn and plenty of swearing.

[EssDeeWon]

I am, and although I don't plan to have an accident I do believe some dash cam footage makes the decision for the insurance companies very very easy.

[Angrydicky]

Must be the time of the year for bad drivers. I drove to Oxfordshire and back in the Victor yesterday, and twice it nearly got written off. The first was in Aylesbury, I was passing a bus stop with a minicab parked in it when all of a sudden he decided to pull out and do a u-turn right in front of me. He looked surprised at the sound of my horn! Then, on the way back on the M25 near Waltham Abbey, a young girl in a KA was leaving the motorway on the slip road, then realised she was taking the wrong exit and literally swerved straight across the hatchings and in front of me, causing me to brake. No "sorry" wave or anything, and she calmly left at the next junction as if nothing had happened. 

 

I did see a few old cars. All the 'proper' classics (Minor, MK2 Jag, Bentley, A7 etc) ignored me, though I did exchange waves with the driver of a very tidy MK2 Astra hatch. I also saw a Y reg Citroen GS/GSA near Thame - anyone on here? Bloke in his forties driving.

[strangeangel]

As for the dashcams, nobody needs them. The only people getting anything out of them are the manufacturers and youtube's advertising sales team.

 

Not true. A friend of mine got an insurance claim, which would have gone down as 50/50, to 100% in his favour once the other chap's insurance saw the footage from his helmet cam.

 

There were no witnesses, so blokey was quite happy to lie about the circumstances of the collision to try and wriggle off the hook. As long as nobbers like this exist, there will be case for rolling with a camera on.

[EssDeeWon]

 No "sorry" wave or anything, and she calmly left at the next junction as if nothing had happened. 

 

 

Those are the ones that wind me up the most, in their own world they believe their good drivers as they drive off leaving havoc behind them!

[HH-R]

Every man and his dog has been on the roads today. Had to queue to get into a shopping centre car park, took about 20 minutes to get to the other side (and once you're in there's no escape), actually got parked right outside of the door of the shop I wanted. No fucker would let me out of the parking space so I was sitting there a good ten minutes and it took another 20 to get out. I'd have sacked it off had I not paid for the stuff in advance, I don't do shopping with other people. Got pulled out in front of three times, then a bloke in a van decided it would be a good idea to bump up on the kerb then run across two lanes of traffic on a busy road. He jumped when he nearly got run over. Thick.

[jakebullet]

I'm a victim of woman logic again.Got to take idiot sister to hospital tomorrow, and also have to take nag food to her stupid horse. Woman logic is do both things at same time.

 

Problem is I can take my car (disco) which carries nag food fine, but is too tall for the multi story, so drive round and round and round trying to find one of the few street parking spaces. Or I can take her car (picanto) which fits multi story, but everyone gets a sack of food on their lap cos it's a tiny shitbox.

 

Have pointed out why didn't we take the fucking food today in my car and hospital in her car tomorrow, but no, that's illegal and I must now be punished with shoutyness alternated with silent treatment.

 

tldr: wimmin.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I sometimes look on the new car comics websites because I bought Autocar religiously when I was young and I am still interested in some new cars, especially if they're something different like the new Mustang.

 

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/ford-mustang-versus-bmw-m235i-comparison

 

Troy Queef writes...

 

like staging an NFL game at Wembley

 

The Mustang is global now, Limey

 

a fog so sumptuously thick that even air traffic control has bent to its will

 

like a herd of bison, the Mustang is best viewed in proper Panavision

 

That notion hardens like animal fat in the arteries upon driving.

 

Awful, unreadable dreck. I can't believe he referenced Alan Partridge unironically at the start of the article, he's like Partridge if he wrote about cars.

LOL that is indeed thunderously shit. There is a particular writing style that these goons employ which tells you they have completely missed the point and will never pen a decent, informative, thought provoking passage of text.

[HH-R]

I too am disappointed that there is no mention of "dab of oppo" though.

[STUNO]

One of my dream cars, not logic cars is a Lancia 8.32. I live in a part of the world where they just don't exist  so I am safe. I opened the local classic car mag yesterday , glanced at the for sales and saw it. Lancia 8.32 newly imported, has passed compliance checking (partial strip-down looking fer faults, rust, accident damage etc) low mileage and now ready to go. Priced well at $17,000 for the local market and of course I can't afford it.

Back to reality then...

[Cavcraft]

The missus just said, "Your obsession with cats is totally out of control, so I've packed your bags."

 

I think she's kicking meeeowt

[UmBongo]

Every man and his dog has been on the roads today. Had to queue to get into a shopping centre car park, took about 20 minutes to get to the other side (and once you're in there's no escape), actually got parked right outside of the door of the shop I wanted. No fucker would let me out of the parking space so I was sitting there a good ten minutes and it took another 20 to get out. I'd have sacked it off had I not paid for the stuff in advance, I don't do shopping with other people. Got pulled out in front of three times, then a bloke in a van decided it would be a good idea to bump up on the kerb then run across two lanes of traffic on a busy road. He jumped when he nearly got run over. Thick.

 

We don't do duvets.

[LC Torana]

The missus just said, "Your obsession with cats is totally out of control, so I've packed your bags."

 

I think she's kicking meeeowt

Do you really mean this?

[cort16]

The door on my council lockup, which contains my p6 must have broken something internally as it won't open. I can unlocked it and turn the handle but the door is stuck fast. I've not been down for maybe 4-5 weeks,. I suspect one of the rods has burst or come off on the back of the door so it's not releasing.

I thought I'd spray some wd40 into the bit the rod goes into at the top of the door incase it was stuck. I sprayed a good load in there only then to realise I was spraying it into the door next to my one. Oops. To be fair Ive got a crushing hangover, so far the finest of the season.

I'll need to try to dig out my council rent book and get someone to come out and try to fix it as I want to get it in for it's mot early next year.

[The Moog]

Come home to find shed has been leaking

 

Loads of tools are soaked. Luckily Bucketeer Builders came to the rescue with a 5 year guaranteed* roof fix

 

 

*guaranteed by Bulgarian Builders Federation.

[Bren]

Got a notice from parking eye - my wife overstayed 56 minutes at the Cockhedge car park in Warrington.

 

That 'll be £60 please.

 

All this was put into context a couple of hours later when we were told my wife's mother has a particularly aggressive form of cancer. 2015 just keeps getting better.

 

When Charlie was born I could'nt fault the NHS - however it has taken months for this to be diagnosed despite my mother in law going down hill so rapidly that alarm bells should have been ringing somewhere.

 

I firmly believe that people are treated like cars - once you are too old and uneconomical to keep going that's it.

[richardmorris]

Nearly rear ended an a class Mercedes this morning on the road to Windsor through the great park. They were doing 40 in a 50 limit and then slammed their brakes on for no reason- nothing in front, no turnings or anything coming the other way. Turns out as they continued, that it was a dead pigeon on the road. They then proceeded at 40 through the 30 limit. If I was American and had a gun.....

[richardmorris]

Got a notice from parking eye - my wife overstayed 56 minutes at the Cockhedge car park in Warrington.

That 'll be £60 please.

All this was put into context a couple of hours later when we were told my wife's mother has a particularly aggressive form of cancer. 2015 just keeps getting better.

When Charlie was born I could'nt fault the NHS - however it has taken months for this to be diagnosed despite my mother in law going down hill so rapidly that alarm bells should have been ringing somewhere.

I firmly believe that people are treated like cars - once you are too old and uneconomical to keep going that's it.

Sorry to hear of your mil. To be fair, they really don't think like that. My grandmother had a hip replacement 18 months ago at 93. She died in May this year basically of old age ( pneumonia, heart failure etc) but thehip was fine. They actually did it with a rather expensive spinal block as the general anaesthetic would have killed her. The problem is getting to the right people with the right information in the first place. I'm ( hopefully) having an op next month- two months from GP referral and had the outpatient appt. with the registrar last week. My first GP visit since 1999 and my first hospital trip since 1976!

[The Moog]

Can't believe the focus has had ftp.

 

Have now got a serious sense of humour failure after 36 hours awake, jet lag and sickness.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Just paid £20 for 6 hours evening/night-time parking in fucking Manchester!!!! NCP bastards.

[andrew e]

Google Brighton parking if you want cheering up!

[DeeJay]

Just had a look at Liverpool airport parking charges.

2hrs 0600-0800 1st Jan. £28.99

Plus £1 booking charge.

[Tetleysmooth]

And I thought it was just me with people's driving this week.

Been delivering in London two nights out of four. Clerkenwell, Holborn Viaduct, Hackney, Highbury. Usual shit.

Too many incidents/near misses to list here. Got a couple of nights off now. Thank the Lord.

[warren t claim]

One of my dream cars, not logic cars is a Lancia 8.32. I live in a part of the world where they just don't exist  so I am safe. I opened the local classic car mag yesterday , glanced at the for sales and saw it. Lancia 8.32 newly imported, has passed compliance checking (partial strip-down looking fer faults, rust, accident damage etc) low mileage and now ready to go. Priced well at $17,000 for the local market and of course I can't afford it.

Back to reality then...

The 8.32 is my favourite saloon of all time. I've sat looking at them on ebay while pissed and coked up with a tempting offer of a personal loan from NatWest in my email inbox toying with me and still managed to resist.

[M'coli]

Minor grump: I appear to have knackered my battery charger by trying to charge a battery that didn't want to be charged. Bumhats.