The grumpy thread

[Eddie Honda]

Hasn't bits of Salford become poncified?

[overrun]

Yep, Booths is a thing for poncy Northerners.

 

What is? I'm maximum Northern and I have never heard of it.

[Tamworthbay]

I'm maximum Northern.

YOU'RE SANTA?

[hairnet]

Untrue. There is one in Salford.

where all the poncy twat from london who work for the beeb live hence £££ prices

[hairnet]

300 mile motorway slog tomorrow.  I like the idea of motorways, just a shame that in practice they're spoiled by people who can't plan or react sensibly to other road users.  Given that even on a good, quiet run it can take me 6 hours to make the journey door-to-door I'm quietly dreading how long it's going to take so close to Christmas day.

 

Oh well, I'll plod along with the trucks like I always do, keeping out of moron alley at the other side of the motorway and just trying not to die of absolute boredom or someone else trying to drive through me because they only left 5 yards to make their exit.

 

someone on ken broose this morning said they were heading from the isle of wight......in the car...............

 

 

to scotland..........

 

WHY?!?!?!?

 

why would you not fly???

 

MAXIMUM INSANE

[r.welfare]

Was it Mr T or Dennis Bergkamp?

[Richard]

I wouldn't even consider flying that journey.

[gordonbennet]

Popped into that new Monmouth services yesterday, its a handy pit stop both sides cos they have a Subway and Greggs, yum.

 

Anyway, happened to notice Mobil 1 engine on the shop shelf, 1 litre a bargain* £24.99 whilst 4 litres a snip* @ £74.99

Are they taking the piss or is it a case of if people are stupid enough to pay it we'll charge it?

[overrun]

YOU'RE SANTA?

 

I am red and white!

[Cavcraft]

Popped into that new Monmouth services yesterday, its a handy pit stop both sides cos they have a Subway and Greggs, yum.

 

Anyway, happened to notice Mobil 1 engine on the shop shelf, 1 litre a bargain* £24.99 whilst 4 litres a snip* @ £74.99

Are they taking the piss or is it a case of if people are stupid enough to pay it we'll charge it?

 

Captive audience. Oil light comes on on the motorway, where else are you going to get some more? I believe the best laugh is pulling into one with a service station and asking for a tyre price.

[greengartside]

Listening to Jimmy 'Stuck in the 60's' Tarbuck on Radio 2's "Tracks of my Years" this week.

 

What a self-centred, self-righteous, arrogant prick.

 

I would love to hitch his stupid fucking teeth to a towbar and drag him across broken glass all the way to Italy. You know he'll preach on about how he met Tom Jones, sorry, "Jonesy" once when he bumped into him in HMV in Swansea in 1967.

[Cavcraft]

Jimmy Tarbuck is as funny as a fucking school bus crash. Another 'pro-celebrity' Scouser who wouldn't live there if they gave the houses away.

[cobblers]

This morning about half 6 I was driving to work, it was fucking awful on the roads - Absolutely white over with ice, everywhere. I've never known anything like it. I slipped on my arse crossing the road to get in my car!

Usually I bomb it to work because it's windy country lanes all the way, but obviously this morning I was going fairly steady.

Still 35/40mph which TBH was faster than I should have been going in hindsight (but in my defense it was that frosty ice not the shiny ice).

 

I was gingerly plodding along about 40mph on onr of the straights when some complete brain donor in a mk6 Golf started to tailgate me!

 

I was honestly in two minds about just stopping the car dead and blocking the road completely, but he was so close and there was so little grip that any unexpected braking would 100% definitely have caused him to run into the back of me. I thought better of it and continued and this car just stayed stuck right to my bumper for a couple of miles.

 

The most infuriating bit is I've been stuck behind this prick on the way to work a few times before, and you know what? On a sunny dry morning they'll do 45MPH tops down that same NSL road. There's no words to describe people like that

[EssDeeWon]

^^ Those are the people that don't adjust their driving for various driving conditions.  They drive the same speed and tailgate in rain, snow and shine.  The type of people that do 80mph in the outside lane on a dry summers day and also do 80mph in the outside lane in heavy rain with piss all visibility.

[M'coli]

They're the same sort of people who look at you in disbelief if you ask them to run down that icy road but because their car has ABS, traction control and the like think that all that gubbins will automatically generate grip no matter what the conditions.

[Kiltox]

Some absolute fucking waste of skin stole my Sky broadband router from the back of my car.

 

A completely worthless paperweight they provide free to their customers and that as far as I know doesn't work on any other service

 

Fucking unbelievable.

[bub2006]

Do fat people have friends? (I realise I may be pushing this joke a bit now )

No. We don't and no narrow isles as I struggle to get my viscount, blu ribands and penguins enough already

[Pillock]

Some absolute fucking waste of skin stole my Sky broadband router from the back of my car.

 

A completely worthless paperweight they provide free to their customers and that as far as I know doesn't work on any other service

 

Fucking unbelievable.

They'll be trying to flog it to Cash Converters tomorrow for £20 because it must be valuable, it's got computery stuff on it.

 

Cash Converters will tell them to jog on as they come free with a box of frosties, so it'll be in the skip then.

 

Arseholes.

[Tamworthbay]

No. We don't and no narrow isles as I struggle to get my viscount, blu ribands and penguins enough already

You ain't fat mate, by my local standards you are more likely to be classed as Belsen survivor.

[BavarianRetro]

Supermarkets have "aisles". "Isles" are areas completely surrounded by water - islands

[chaseracer]

No. We don't and no narrow isles as I struggle to get my viscount, blu ribands and penguins enough already

 

Yes, you do - us porkers gotta stick together!  Not literally, obvs...

[Tamworthbay]

Supermarkets have "aisles". "Isles" are areas completely surrounded by water - islands

Life has people, internet has pedants

[Tamworthbay]

Move to Tamworth lads, you will been taken in and force fed custard creams on account of being skinnies.

[BavarianRetro]

I was a pedant before the internet existed.

[chaseracer]

An etymological query, if I may: is it "smart-arse" with a hyphen, or "smartarse" without? 

[BavarianRetro]

Better to be smart than just an arse.

[richardmorris]

Depends whether you have a smart arse or are a smart arse. I like the way private eye has now decided on pedantry corner after years of pedants' (of which I was a published contributor) corner as there were too many letters about missing or misplaced apostrophes.

[cort16]

I'm not sure grammar and spelling being 100% is really necessary for a car forum about shite old cars.

As long as your not using txt speak you're posts are fine by me.

[michael1703]

^

 

Wot e sed

[Cavcraft]

This morning about half 6 I was driving to work, it was fucking awful on the roads - Absolutely white over with ice, everywhere. I've never known anything like it. I slipped on my arse crossing the road to get in my car!

Usually I bomb it to work because it's windy country lanes all the way, but obviously this morning I was going fairly steady.

Still 35/40mph which TBH was faster than I should have been going in hindsight (but in my defense it was that frosty ice not the shiny ice).

 

I was gingerly plodding along about 40mph on onr of the straights when some complete brain donor in a mk6 Golf started to tailgate me!

 

I was honestly in two minds about just stopping the car dead and blocking the road completely, but he was so close and there was so little grip that any unexpected braking would 100% definitely have caused him to run into the back of me. I thought better of it and continued and this car just stayed stuck right to my bumper for a couple of miles.

 

The most infuriating bit is I've been stuck behind this prick on the way to work a few times before, and you know what? On a sunny dry morning they'll do 45MPH tops down that same NSL road. There's no words to describe people like that

 

I love people like that, just slowly decrease your speed in increments of about 3mph at a time. When you get to where you're turning off make a point of accelerating like mad to show him you were just going slow to annoy him.