The grumpy thread

[RoadworkUK]

Chap in a silver new shape Range Rover dangerously cut me and several motorists up on the A14 near Cambridge this evening.

 

Judging by his private registration 999S and the way he then shot off at about a ton I can only assume he was responding to some kind of terrible emergency.

 

I can only that hope everybody involved is OK.

[wuvvum]

Got stuck behind a combine harvester (in convoy with a couple of tractors) on the way to work this morning.  This kind of thing occasionally happens and is one of the joys of living in the arse end of nowhere, but normally they a) pull into a layby to let faster traffic past and b ) usually turn off into a field / farm track after a relatively short distance.  Not this time.  We sat at 25 mph (not bad going for a combine but bloody frustrating on a NSL A-road) for 7 miles - all the way to the outskirts of Norwich.  I thought to myself "he's got to turn off now".  Nope.  He kept on driving into Norwich, all the way to the ring road.  With the result that I was late for work, three days after getting a bollocking for being late too much.  At least it was only a minute late today - thank feck I left early.

[twosmoke300]

I was going to defend the farmer then I read the 7 miles bit ! Ignorant fucker

[Guest Hooli]

Late in the year for combines isn't it? they stopped getting in the way weeks ago around here.

[twosmoke300]

Saw a couple on salvage missions last week .

Maybe it was a contractor taking it back to base for the winter

[Lord Sterling]

What a monumental fuck up today was. As if having an FTP in a 56-plate (that's 2006) Corsa and ending up getting home at 11pm yesterday for an early 6am start today wasn't enough...

 

From being picked up around 6:30am this morning I didn't get dropped off to my first car today until gone 11am (as we had to get to Stoke via Nottingham and Telford) car picked up and dropped off just before 2:30pm, this left me with a very tight schedule to get my next car, 22 miles away in Sandtoft before 5pm. Got to a very lonely Crowle station and called up, a few taxi companies, no one could help me get to the place before 5pm as they all had jobs in sCUNThorpe . However, thankfully the car place had an after-hours security guard who'd sort me out my vehicle so at least I had something to go home in, except.... the office had forgotten to give me a bloody release code.

 

But this was minor hiccup compared to happily arriving on to the A42 just off the M1 to be confronted with a line of traffic that wasn't moving. Yep, you probably guessed it, a lorry had cheerily jackknifed spreading most of its contents onto the carriageway. The Police/Traffic wombles(?) decided to shut the motorway for 2 hours, I could feel my sanity honestly slipping away as I began to lose my grip on reality, once is fine but twice on the trot? Yep, it's probably why I began talking to myself and shouting to the world as I had nothing more than a Vauxhall Insignia to keep me insulated from the horrible outside world (and I like Vauxhall Insignias) So once again, instead of getting home at 8:45pm, it was once again an 11:30pm stroll into the door.

 

Thankfully, it's not an early start tomorrow.

[gm]

I'm just in from work, ready to get my head down for a good nights kip except this is happening right outside my bedroom window

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network rail have decided that 3am is a perfectly suitable time to chop down and wood-chip all of the trees on the embankment that runs by my garden - fuckers !

The fuckers are back again, an angry neighbour has just given them a piece of his mind !

[Cavcraft]

Hats off to the knobrocket behind me going down the (narrow) back lanes yesterday. It's always helpful to have some to have some self important tit weaving alll over the place like he wants to overtake me when there isn't even room to do so.

Anyhow, I hope slowing down to 25mph and him having to wait a couple of miles before you got past me made him even later. Fingers crossed he's there again this morning.

[michael1703]

I'm late for work, spent an hour in the shower, now playing qotsa songs and need to buy some stuff on the way in, it'll be 10 by the time I get there, got loads to do and supposed to finish at 4 to go to physio

 

Today is going to be an arse

[michael1703]

Fuck it, let's do this! Ok Wednesday,I'm firing up the P4

[bub2006]

Fucking work and zero hour contract. I love the job but i dont know where i stand over christmas or even in a few weeks time when rush ends. Its alright for some knowing they have security. I dont know what ill do over quiet time if told im not needed.

[burraston2006]

^ Me and the other half are both on zero hours contracts (we're carers). Don't know one week to the next what we're doing. When we do plan stuff so we have a life, they moan like fxxk about our availability. They can fxxk right off as we want a life as well. As far as we're concerned zero hours works both ways!

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

"Expressing my individuality innit"

 

What a pity - it was never valuable but this really gets on my tits. 

[dugong]

GOM thread? 

[sierraman]

The fact it's sat in front of a scrapyard speaks volumes.

 

What a pile of shit. Correct me if I'm wrong but it's now pretty much unsaleable?

[Ghosty]

 People shouldn't have to work jobs like that - it's a horrible way to make a living.

 

That's why they volunteer.

 

I agree though, there's no need to be more infuriating than car salesmen, acting like they've got a stick up their arse and a gun to their head.

What really irks me is when they come door knocking, they can FRO then.

I'm looking at you, Barnardo's.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

It wasn't worth much in the first place. But it was a nice old car someone had looked after for 20 years.

[Guest Hooli]

I'm not a BMW fan, but whoever did that is a cunt.

[DodgyBastard]

Yeah, those wheels don't look too good, I'd have went for style 5's...

[Slartibartfast]

Can't get that worked up about it. It's not like 7 series BMWs are either particularly noteworthy or thin on the ground. I don't get the Rat Rod aesthetic personally, but have no problem with a bit of car customisation. It'd be boring if we were all the same.

[Junkman]

I'd be a bit miffed if it was a car I just sold.

If it were a car I wanted, I'd buy one of the other umpteen million out there.

In the end it's just another German car, so no big loss.

[2MB]

Overall I think it's good that people can and do customise their cars, but this particular example of originality is a poor copy of an E28 5 series that was built a few years ago. Shit taste in wheels as well

[cros]

I was at a table outside a cafe last Friday having a sandwich. There was a seedy looking couple nearby who each had a coffee piled up with squirty cream and their second crime was that the bloke repeatedly dipped his finger in the mess and let his dog lick it off. I often see people allowing their pets' slobbering tongues to come into contact with their own mouths and wonder if it's just me that finds the practice unpleasant?

[sierraman]

So long as you've got your money from the guy that's buying it who gives a shit I suppose. It'll likely end up wanting something like an exhaust and he'll be fucked. It will then be joining the pile of washing machines and bits of rusty tin on the pile behind the concrete fence.

[Louise2cv]

No it is pretty yakky. As a dog owner I sometimes don't have a lot of choice about being licked but I try my hardest to avoid it.

 

A guy in my dad's local used to practically French kiss my dad's dog. Why would anyone lick back?!

 

Ack ack ack!

[Guest Hooli]

Dogs only try to lick your face just after they've licked their arse, or in the case of one of ours - just after she's eaten a cowpat.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

 who gives a shit I suppose. 

 

I do, plus anyone who appreciates old, low value cars in nice nick and doesn't like seeing stuff wantonly destroyed. Some twat around here did a matt black 'look at me' paint job on a really tidy 1994 X300 Jag, one of the first. The car was clearly well loved and it came to the crossroads: one way = it gets looked after. The other way = it gets fucking ruined by some fool who wrecks stuff 'for shits and giggles'.

[Uncle Jimmy]

Agreed, looks dreadful. However it's part of the cycle that ordinary cars go through. At some point numbers will decline to a point that they become desirable again, values go up, knobbers can't afford to 'improve' them any more.

[barrett]

Yawn

[Laseraligningfoofooflanges]

Im biased towards e38's, So naturally im going to say its very sad indeed.

 

Id sentence the mong to 20 years of daewoo matiz he can rat look that