The grumpy thread

[Richard]

No fibre broadband. It's the technology that is useless, you seem to have to start from scratch every time you want to use it. And then sit through a load of adverts.

[AMC Rebel]

The dazzling "safety" sign I'm on about isn't a speed limit reminder - just an instruction to slow down - on a straight road with a 50 limit. I don't know if it fires at everyone, but it always fires for me, whether I am following somone doing 40, or doing the 50 limit. Wtf does it actually mean? Panic! ? Slam the brakes on for no reason? Lift off in case someone coming the other way (who you could see if the sign wasn't dazzling you) might be approaching doing something stupid?

 

I am probably just being a grumpy git

[cort1977]

Have to admitv that i am mightily sick of the whole thing,spent quite a few hours osrting mess out,dont know if i can fix search without recovering  all edited posts & removing them correctly.

I am checking old databases to  see if we have ever had delete enabled but i know we havnt.

Getting quite sick of the constant expense and worry of it all to be honest.

 

Daveb47, do you need an injection of cash to keep the forum running?   I did donate previously but wasn't sure if my contribution was insultingly small.   If you could tell us how much is required I think you would get the donations required.  

 

Considering that I pay for a load of bed-wetting liberal tosh from the Guardian then a donation to Autoshite where people speak much more sense would be a small price to pay.

[Eddie Honda]

Following on from yesterday's tyre blow out... (http://autoshite.com/topic/22252-the-grumpy-old-manpedant-post-feel-free-to-add/page-1843?do=findComment&comment=1058187)

 

Here's today's grump:

 

 

FFS!!!

[Cavcraft]

Hey, I love motorbikes and would have another in a heartbeat. Thing is though, if you're riding one LAC and sit behind me with headlights on full beam when you could overtake, then you're a twat. Making the wanker sign as you then decide to overtake wasn't quite the icing on the cake though, that was 1/2 mile up the road when you were stuck at the lights trying not to make eye contact.

[twosmoke300]

My road bike days are over - or should I say fast bike days are .

I love my green laning and enduro racing because it gives you the speed thrills at a much slower speed . I have more fun riding my little ke175d about than if I had a new sports bike . Must be getting old

[RoadworkUK]

On Billy's point, with "Think Bike" being second nature these days, isn't it about time that the riding-a-Fireblade-with-blue-LED-lights-while-wearing-shorts-and-a-T-Shirt brigade considered thinking about cars every once in a while?

[Eddie Honda]

Hey, I love motorbikes and would have another in a heartbeat...trying not to make eye contact.

Was this posted somewhere else / earlier because I could have sworn I seen it earlier?? (Or is it me going round the twist?)

[Cavcraft]

I honestly reckon 99.999999999999% of bike riders are ace, this was the first one that pissed me off for a long time.

[RoadworkUK]

I honestly reckon 99.999999999999% of bike riders are ace, this was the first one that pissed me off for a long time.

 

Around here it's a far more modest percentage. Still high, but there's a distinctly cretinous underclass.

[richardmorris]

I had idiot Bikers on Sunday. Driving along a 40 mph dual carriage way in Bracknell, was passed by two bikes ( big cruiser things) swerving between lanes. Lights changed on the roundabout ahead so me ( in inside lane) and car in outside lane slowed down and stopped. Biker behind us didn't want to stop and swerved between us and through the red light onto the roundabout in front of the cars coming from the right. Divkheads.

[OwdChina]

Following on from yesterday's tyre blow out... (http://autoshite.com/topic/22252-the-grumpy-old-manpedant-post-feel-free-to-add/page-1843?do=findComment&comment=1058187)

 

Here's today's grump:

 

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FFS!!!

Yesterday I was blasting up the interstate 15 from San Diago to Temecula and about 100yards in front there was an old Chevy pick-up towing a rather large twin axle trailer loaded up with what looked to be about 5 tons of builders rubble at around 70mph.

Suddenly one of the trailer tyres blew completely off the rim right infront of me, went straight across five lanes of traffic and back again without causing a pile up. I was a very lucky old git yesterday and must remember in future to give Mexican builders towing overloaded, fucked trailers at warp speed a very wide berth...........very very wide berth.

[OwdChina]

Jeez...............just finished typing the above grump and one of the smoke detectors starts chirping.......again............the highest one in the house at 15 feet. 

 

Stamps off to get ladders..............grumble.

[jakebullet]

Tagging wanker graffiti artists*.  A bus shelter near me appears to have become facebook for cretins with no phone credit & a paint pen.

 

I reported in to the council. Response, bus companies problem. Reported it to them and they cleaned it up. It now looks like shite again, next report response: stop reporting please 'cos we will only fix a location once every 3 months.

 

Suggested to council they stick one of their monitoring cameras on lamp post next to it, but they're for "serious anti social behaviour only". Er, wankers are prolly tagging half the town and costing you thousands to clean up the bits that belong to you.

 

Is it illegal to have a tin of whatever ral green most street furniture is painted and go round reverse tagging? I'd prolly get nicked for it.

[Tamworthbay]

Pissed off at 'family holiday' deals that assume you have two kids and basically give you one place free. What about all the people with one (or three, four or more) kids? Minor issue really, just pisses me off when they give a baseline price then make out like there will be some sort of discount where in reality there won't be for most.

[Cavcraft]

Yesterday I was blasting up the interstate 15 from San Diago to Temecula and about 100yards in front there was an old Chevy pick-up towing a rather large twin axle trailer loaded up with what looked to be about 5 tons of builders rubble at around 70mph.

Suddenly one of the trailer tyres blew completely off the rim right infront of me, went straight across five lanes of traffic and back again without causing a pile up. I was a very lucky old git yesterday and must remember in future to give Mexican builders towing overloaded, fucked trailers at warp speed a very wide berth...........very very wide berth.

 

You might have a very big problem avoiding Mexican builders if old dickhead hair gets elected. 

[OwdChina]

You might have a very big problem avoiding Mexican builders if old dickhead hair gets elected. 

To be honest I have a lot of Mexican friends and they're good people, just very lax with safety standards and sometimes blindingly obvious things (to me anyway) like weight limits and tyre loads are not the first things to enter their heads.

[dollywobbler]

My guts are still ruined after my healthy* eating plan at the weekend. It's a bloody good job I work from home. Now seriously glad I didn't actually risk a deathburger.

[sporty-shite]

My guts are still ruined after my healthy* eating plan at the weekend. It's a bloody good job I work from home. Now seriously glad I didn't actually risk a deathburger.

Did you eat at Chumley? FATHA_SPORTY had a pasty from one of the vans there, and was up all night Sunday!!

[JohnDeere]

Re insurance discussion earlier.

 

I just moved my modern onto the same FJ policy as the Visa and Prelude. It works out about £50 cheaper than the separate policies, and I get the benefit of unlimited miles across all of them - very handy as it means I can use fhe Prelude more.

 

I have commuting on the Honda, and could have had business too for another few quid.

 

Another bonus of FJ is speaking to a real human and not having to fill out a 19-page web form.

[retrogeezer]

Did you eat at Chumley? FATHA_SPORTY had a pasty from one of the vans there, and was up all night Sunday!!

 

They were four flippin quid!!  I heated up a 49p Aldi one in the oven before I left, wrapped it in foil and it was still warm when i was eating it in front of you! No dodgy guts here either. 

[dollywobbler]

Did you eat at Chumley? FATHA_SPORTY had a pasty from one of the vans there, and was up all night Sunday!!

 

I did. Restricted myself to a bacon sarnie from the stand next door. Think Mr Fowler has had stomach anger too...

[retrogeezer]

So I hear a few loud kids voices over on the golf course at the back of my place about 7pm just as I'm getting dinner ready. Then a few loud bangs on the neighbours roof. I look out of the bathroom window to see about 10 kids that have decided it's great fun to aim at my and my neighbours houses.

I call the rozzers straight away and get the 'we will send someone' and 5 minutes later another ball hits a car up the road so I ring again and say can they send someone asap as the kids are there RIGHT NOW and before there is any more damage or someone gets hit by a ball. Well guess what, no fooker arrives at all and the kids have fun for the next 30 minutes before wandering off to no doubt come back and have another play another day. 

[Eddie Honda]

Amazon order cost me €2.94 more than originally calculated: because exchange rate shift out of favour

 

As a consolation, it was still 62c cheaper than Amazon's offer of paying it in card currency on the day.

[dugong]

Fanatics.

[UmBongo]

Shelling out two hundred plus for a car I only use once a week.

 

Government con artists...#BLM.com etc.

[purplebargeken]

If it happens again with kids on the golf course, just phone plod and say....... I reported this but no-one could be arsed attending. Don't worry though, I am just loading the shotgun whilst I am walking on the green.

 

Attendance guaranteed.

 

Bloody tempted to say that at times.

[Cavcraft]

Some self important botty rocket at work was walking down the road doing that 'The Apprentice' thing of having his phone by his jaw talking to someone. I sat at the junction in my van and put my foot flat to the floor for about 5 or 6 seconds.

[Sheefag]

Black Lives Matter UK.

 

Trustafarians damaging community relations, one stupid, selfish stunt at a time.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/06/climate-change-racist-crisis-london-city-airport-black-lives-matter

[chaseracer]

You're entitled to your opinion, like the rest of us, but your avatar is wilfully offensive.  Lose it, please.