The grumpy thread

[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.

[Sheefag]

You have PM.

[oldcars]

Broken stuff. Fed of trying to fix stuff but never getting anything fixed. Time to give up and pay folk i think.

[Mr A Lawrence]

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

I don't think papa lazarou is offensive.

[dave21478]

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.

Every time I am in town now I see some dick holding their phone horizontally in front of their face and using the speakerphone.

It takes a real force of will to prevent me from slapping it out of their hands.

[Sheefag]

Coincidentally, I saw this yesterday for the very first time when I was sat at some lights on the Upper Richmond Rd in South West London, I didn't realise it was the 'latest thing'.

It's a busy dual carriageway, so loud that he had to put the phone right near his ear to hear thus negating the effect.

I imagine the boys who supplement their income by nicking phones with the aid of scooters must be chuffed to death with this new fashion.

[MarvinsMom]

I don't think papa lazarou is offensive.

"your my wife now......."

[Mr A Lawrence]

Hello Dave.

[Danblez]

Occasionally I am forced to look at something on Facebook which isn't available anywhere else on the interweb. Each and every time it becomes more irritating. I normally try not to log in because I get harassed with stupid emails saying "welcome back" and such bollocks for weeks. This is getting increasingly difficult, now not only do I have to put a security code in to view certain pages but those which don't require this security code now have a big fuck off banner at the bottom which keeps springing up and asking if I want to log in.

 

How anyone puts up with the total crock of shit that is Facebook I will never know. All I do know is I am never going to use it, even if I am the last person on the planet not to. And I will rejoice as I have never rejoiced before when it finally dies a death.

 

Hateful hateful hateful.

 

*and breathe*

 

 

 

 

 

[purplebargeken]

I remember Papa Lazarou. Very weird indeed!

[Cavcraft]

Oh, here's another one for you: cocky bellends in front of authority. You know the sort? All 'captain know-it-all' and arrogance when they're filming themselves playing the barrack room lawyer and hard man in front of a traffic warden, then uploading the video on the Internet. I can only guess as to the type of 15 year old keyboard warrior who's impressed by some two Bob gobshite saying 'I know my rights' and all that 'please don't stand in my personal space, officer' type shit. I can't help hoping they get someone on the last day in that job who knocks them clean out with one punch.

[Negative Creep]

Oh, here's another one for you: cocky bellends in front of authority. You know the sort? All 'captain know-it-all' and arrogance when they're filming themselves playing the barrack room lawyer and hard man in front of a traffic warden, then uploading the video on the Internet. I can only guess as to the type of 15 year old keyboard warrior who's impressed by some two Bob gobshite saying 'I know my rights' and all that 'please don't stand in my personal space, officer' type shit. I can't help hoping they get someone on the last day in that job who knocks them clean out with one punch.

 

 

Have a compilation of them getting owned for your viewing delectation