The grumpy thread

[Lankytim]

Ordered a pair of tyres for my PT CRUISER and UK mail have lost them. The driver tried to deliver them yesterday and apparently left a card (he didn't, I was working in the front garden all day and nobody turned up) and although they were apparently out for delivery again today they are now showing as delayed, which I think really means lost. 

 

I was hoping to get the CRUISER MOT'd this week too!

[Station]

Good reactions Mat, but fair play to you for not slamming on and road raging them, it looks like an innocent mistake by a new driver.

[vulgalour]

I can join this club!  On the way back from the shops a doom blue estate pulled out in front of me.  The driver had checked the road was clear to her left, but not to her right where I was.  No big drama as it was all 20mph or so and room to get around her but it was a bit surprising being just a few yards from the house.  Must be a day for it.

[bub2006]

I drive this. You will be surprised how many folk pull out on it and say I didn't see you. I had a chap pull out on a island causing me to slam on the brakes. He then wound down the window and said "and you can fuck off you big yellow cunt" not like its a small van in a plain colour either

[Kiltox]

"and you can fuck off you big yellow cunt"

LOL

 

 

Sorry, don't know why I'm pissing myself at that

[bub2006]

I found it amusing too

[purplebargeken]

You are not that big and you don't look yellow.

[nebuchenezer]

The BMW of much trustyness is annoying me this week

 

One of the front wishbone lollipop bushes has shat itself meaning motorway cruising is limited to an indicated 75 mph before the shakes set in.

 

a coil pack is playing up giving intermittent 5 cylinder running.

 

And, this morning, the lens cover for the left hand rear reversing/fog light lens cover fell off after closing the boot lid ffs

 

GR5.3 coz I am 200 miles from repair facilities until Saturday

[inconsistant]

Spelling.

 

[trigger]

I had that same email this morning and had a laugh at it. Great going GSF!

[STUNO]

You are not that big and you don't look yellow.

There's a third thing I think you forgot !!

[danthecapriman]

Just went to the local tip, started unloading the car into one of the skips and walked back to the car to get some more rubbish out. The car parked next to me is trying to reverse out, at the same time the next space to that a guy is trying to reverse in, the space next to that someone else is trying to pull out and all the while some other impatient twat is trying to drive past the lot of them! All four of them ended up stuck in a jumble of cars! Then to get out of it the woman in the space next to me who was trying to reverse out try's driving forwards almost driving into me and the back of my Granada!

What's wrong with people!? No one has any patience anymore, it's always me first. If they'd have seen the first car start to leave and waited until it had gone before doing their own manoeuvre none of that would have happened. The funny thing is that in their selfish rush to get out first and save themselves a few seconds waiting they actually ended up all stuck together waiting for a couple of minutes!

 

 

And +1 on the road crossing thing. I once walked half way across a zebra crossing and a car (doing significantly more than the car parks 20mph speed limit) didn't stop, he drove onto the wrong side of the road to miss me and kept going.

He was so close he almost hit me with his door mirror, so as he went passed I thumped the car roof as it passed! That made him stop. He gets out and starts his 'little hard man strut' over to me so I give him a load of verbal. He didn't say anything after that and got back in his car and drove off!

It was very close to knocking me over and actually scared the shit out of me when it got close. If it was an elderly person or child it could of been bad.

[cros]

BBC1 had no news again this morning because of the Olympic games. I'm surprised how the the murderers, burglars, rapists and terrorists are having some time off to watch it because I don't find it that interesting myself.

[Captain Furious]

I'd be going to the union if my breaks were reduced by 40%

 

If we had a union and I was a member, which we don't and I'm not

[Tickman]

I had that same email this morning and had a laugh at it. Great going GSF!

I had the same email this morning and didn't notice any spelling issues!

 

I had to check and mine was spelt correctly, I wouldn't have noticed either way though.

[Tetleysmooth]

BBC1 had no news again this morning because of the Olympic games. I'm surprised how the the murderers, burglars, rapists and terrorists are having some time off to watch it because I don't find it that interesting myself.

 

The BBC News did see fit a couple of nights ago to inform the world that they had absolute proof that British Special Forces are now operating in Syria. It had obtained photos of their secret mission. Not fucking secret any more is it, you stupid twats.

What are the BBC, the ISIS information exchange? I bet the fanatical bastards were truly grateful for that little nugget of information.

[Pillock]

Ignorance is bliss. I don't watch the telly news, I don't buy newspapers. Occasionally something will creep through on Facebook, or even here, if it's really important at which point I'll decide whether it affects me.

[Des]

Having a right old ballyhoo since a twatting lorry took out my bedroom, a week scumming it in a hotel while I cleared the spare room, sourcing a pair of charity shop beds and gnarly Argos mattresses, although they'll serve well in the future when the spare room will be just that, rather than a testament to decades of hoarding.

I'll be back in the hotel soon for an estimated 3 weeks. Fuck that. Structural engineer and builder took a look and, along with patching a hole in the wall, the fucker needs tying back into the rest of the house with steels, like the iron X things you see on the side of old barns only these days it's done flush with resins, main bedroom floor up,  the hall and landing will then have to be replastered and decorated, same for the dining room, whole exterior front and side will have to be recoated. My treasured woodchip wallcoverings shall be lost.

Hall, landing, main bedroom and dining room will all need to be emptied, I'm wondering if I should get the place valued and ask the insurance to buy it, claim I'm scared to live there now, lorryz iz after me. and Just to rub it in, latest bit of local council shit through the letterbox, amongst the usual bollocks about how awesome and not a shower of inept corrupt dishonourable cocksuckers they are, reports an impending restriction of heavy vehicles in my street. Noice timing.

[Sheefag]

That mostly sounded like good news to me?

[mat_the_cat]

Blimey that was close, good quality video by the way. What camera are you using out of interest?

 

It was this one; there was a thread about it a couple of years back started by Cobblers I think.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/G1W-2-7-1080p-HD-In-Car-DVR-Vehicle-Camera-Dash-Cam-Recorder-120-Night-Vision-/272241791407

 

I got two at the time and both are still working, however the other will not record over old clips so you have to wipe the card every so often. The other has been OK except for sometimes missing a second or two between clips. Can't fault the quality for the price though!

 

Good reactions Mat, but fair play to you for not slamming on and road raging them, it looks like an innocent mistake by a new driver.

 

We all make mistakes is how I (try to) look at it, was a bit pissed off in the heat of the moment (hence the beep) but at least no harm done and hopefully they'll look a bit more closely in future. And I'll be more aware of that entrance...

[Slappy]

Worst Zebra incident for me was when a bloke in a Scudo van declined to even attempt to stop on the offiside when I was 1/3 of the way across. Fortunately I was more aware of his presence than his of mine and had enough time to see his face react to me sarcastically applauding his error.

 

Of course I have also been at fault, another time I had my headphones in and stupidly almost walked out in front of a Suzuki Alto. What a shite way to have gone that would have been...

[xtriple]

I got run over on a Zebra crossing when I was a kid!

 

I was riding my bike (Claud Butler 'Gran Sport' - my pride and joy) and the cars at the crossing had stopped, waved me over and then the silly sod in a frogeye Sprite set off at a right old lick and me and the bike ended up on his bonnet! He chucked it in reverse, so I slid down his bonnet and he fooked off at a right old rate.

 

I think it was future wife with a time machine had come back to make sure I didn't fuck up her future life... or my Mum had put a contract out on me... I wouldn't have put it past her!

 

I wasn't badly hurt but my poor bike had bent rims and a peddle was damaged. I was much more upset about that but at least my soft and flabby body protected the frame and forks so the paint was okay

 

Police did get him and I recall he got a proper doing in the courts.

[cros]

Having a right old ballyhoo since a twatting lorry took out my bedroom, a week scumming it in a hotel while I cleared the spare room, sourcing a pair of charity shop beds and gnarly Argos mattresses, although they'll serve well in the future when the spare room will be just that, rather than a testament to decades of

Sorry to hear that, sounds nasty Des. Dash cam needed on the bedroom window in future.

[Danblez]

Ignorance is bliss. I don't watch the telly news, I don't buy newspapers. Occasionally something will creep through on Facebook, or even here, if it's really important at which point I'll decide whether it affects me.

I have recently decided this is the way forward and had a rather relaxed week!

[Kiltox]

Facebook "cars for sale" pages really bring the worst people out of the woodwork

"wots abt 4 £200? no sheds"

So you want to spend £200, the cost of 4 decent tyres or tanks of fuel and aren't expecting a shed?

[Jazoli]

Facebook "cars for sale" pages really bring the worst people out of the woodwork

 

"wots abt 4 £200? no sheds"

 

So you want to spend £200, the cost of 4 decent tyres or tanks of fuel and aren't expecting a shed?

Oh yes they piss me off big style, I have advertised a few cars on my local ones and without fail the thick inbred twats appear posting shite like '200 CASH 2nite m8' for a car I'm asking a grand for, I got banned from one because I just started insulting people who posted stupid things.

 

I saw a post just like the above last night 'car wonted, must b deesul wiv gud mot 4 tekkin my babz owt in, 150 cash hear'

 

It makes Gumtree look like its populated by university graduates.

[johngarty]

 

 

Having a right old ballyhoo since a twatting lorry took out my bedroom, a week scumming it in a hotel while I cleared the spare room, sourcing a pair of charity shop beds and gnarly Argos mattresses, although they'll serve well in the future when the spare room will be just that, rather than a testament to decades of hoarding.

 

 

 

Well sir as you now have an empty bedroom, even with a lorry in it, heres your fucking bedroom tax.

[Kiltox]

Oh yes they piss me off big style, I have advertised a few cars on my local ones and without fail the thick inbred twats appear posting shite like '200 CASH 2nite m8' for a car I'm asking a grand for, I got banned from one because I just started insulting people who posted stupid things.

 

I saw a post just like the above last night 'car wonted, must b deesul wiv gud mot 4 tekkin my babz owt in, 150 cash hear'

 

It makes Gumtree look like its populated by university graduates.

 

 

£100 cash waiting, must have no faults and a long MOT

 

(photo of some crumpled tenners)

[beko1987]

Oh yes they piss me off big style, I have advertised a few cars on my local ones and without fail the thick inbred twats appear posting shite like '200 CASH 2nite m8' for a car I'm asking a grand for, I got banned from one because I just started insulting people who posted stupid things.

 

I saw a post just like the above last night 'car wonted, must b deesul wiv gud mot 4 tekkin my babz owt in, 150 cash hear'

 

It makes Gumtree look like its populated by university graduates.

I've commented before with these thoughts, when the obvious traders start asking about service history and paperwork on a £150 corsa or clio on our local cheap cars group.

 

Although their definition of cheap is different to mine it seems

 

 

 

etc

[DVee8]

Playing frizzby with my kids this morning, frizzzby heading at me chest height my hand is out to catch it. It gets a up lift of air and smack's me on the bridge of the nose between the eyes. I now have a inch long gash between the eyes and down my nose. Ouchh,lol