The grumpy thread

[bub2006]

Nothing you should have done differently. Dickheads be dickheads.

Cheers. I'm not the best driver nor the most experienced but even I did not think I'd done anything wrong.

[Lacquer Peel]

They're big vans, sometimes you have to hold back to wait for a space bigger than you'd fit a car into to appear. Guy behind you was an impatient cretin.

[155V6]

Obviously,you should of pulled out & blocked the junction up so Mr Selfish could get past.That's what would happen round here 

[vulgalour]

Would've been nice if the lads in the Seat had bothered to look at me the other day instead of pulling out and making me swerve to the wrong side of the road to avoid being T-boned.  Me on a major road, them emerging from a blind junction.  They then proceeded to drive aggressively at me for the few yards of the rest of the road I was going down.  I just... urgh.  At least I was paying attention and had room to avoid them.

[bub2006]

They're big vans, sometimes you have to hold back to wait for a space bigger than you'd fit a car into to appear. Guy behind you was an impatient cretin.

Apart from the keep clear area my road I wanted was blocked and if I'd have gone to pull out the arse of the sprinter would be still in the side road and the nose on the other side with the rest blocking the opposite way!

[cort1977]

Don't waste your time worrying about it bub, they're (their?) everywhere.

[Ghosty]

Aye. On last month's Critical Mass ride in Manchester (an event that cyclists hold in mixed regard, partly down to a lot of hippie types, but I know the guy that runs it round here so I help out), there were around 50 of us cycling down Oxford Road in central Manchester in a large group. It's a wide road, one lane southbound, two lanes northbound. We're going south, and a bus behind us decided it couldn't be arsed waiting behind us and proceeded to try and overtake all of us by running down the wrong side of the road, on the wrong side of islands and the like. 

He got stuck at a set of traffic lights, on the wrong side of the island, facing another bus. I have to wonder how he got out of that as IIRC buses aren't permitted to reverse in service in greater Manchester, with the exception of two bus stations with bay parking (airport and Trafford Centre).

[Cavcraft]

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

 

Smart arse, I reckon.

[Cavcraft]

Are there some with Tyre bays?  Genuine question - I can't think I've ever seen one (in the UK), but it turns out I don't know everything

 

There used to be, I don't use the motorways a great deal now to be honest so they may have all gone. At one time a fair number had garage services and they were just complete robbers. Incidentally someone told me the reason you'd see a lot of cars and trucks on the ramp back onto the motorway broken down or with the bonnet up was because the services could had a monopoly on their own patch, so if they had a garage they wouldn't allow breakdown or recovery firms on their yard so they (garage on the services) could do the repairs. No idea if that was true, but could have explained why so many people were on the exit ramp with the bonnet up.

[LC Torana]

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.

[gordonbennet]

There used to be, I don't use the motorways a great deal now to be honest so they may have all gone. At one time a fair number had garage services and they were just complete robbers. Incidentally someone told me the reason you'd see a lot of cars and trucks on the ramp back onto the motorway broken down or with the bonnet up was because the services could had a monopoly on their own patch, so if they had a garage they wouldn't allow breakdown or recovery firms on their yard so they (garage on the services) could do the repairs. No idea if that was true, but could have explained why so many people were on the exit ramp with the bonnet up.

 

Yes things seem to be different now.

Years ago if you found a flat tyre on the lorry in an MSA you had to pull the lorry out onto the motorway hard shoulder sharpish or the call out service your company used wouldn't be allowed to fix it, the garage on the site having a nice little protection style contract with the site operator.

As you say the costs if forced to use them were scandalous.

 

Oh and Bub, ref the Sprinter van and the brain donor pissing his panties cos he had to wait a second, don't worry about it mate, arseholes are increasing in number and at a high level of instant foot stamping due to it being Christmas innit, never let twats like that get under your skin mate.

[Angrydicky]

Well Sainsburys did turn up but unfortunately an hour late and with about 50 percent of what I ordered. Everything was 'out of stock' so nothing for Christmas for me or the mutts... they enjoy their Christmas dinner of turkey with all the trimmmings while I have a veggie sausage with all the trimmings. So, no turkey, sprouts, cheese, roasties, yorkshire puds... Well done Sainsburys, excelled yourselves. Best of all, I ordered all this last week so it would be  'in stock'.

 

Makes sod all difference when you ordered it, the order is picked on the morning of delivery, so if it's in the week before Christmas it's quite normal to have loads of stuff out of stock. Blame the idiots panic buying shit because the shop is closed for one day (shock horror).

 

Also quite normal for deliveries to be very late or not turn up at all at this time of year. The slots are all booked up and it only takes one driver off sick to have his load spread across the remaining drivers, who already have too much to contend with. We've got three off sick at our place at the moment. And if it gets to the time the driver is contracted to, he will usually take the remaining deliveries back to the store as he's pissed off with the job and would rather go home than stay out for another hour or so getting the deliveries finished.

[Pillock]

I don't think it's the supermarket shoppers fault.... The supermarkets are still the same size, but they shrink all the regular ranges so they can get massive turkeys in that feed 400 people, and bags of nuts you can't open, and fucking Vienetta and stuff.

 

So anyone trying to do their normal shop finds loads of stuff out of stock, as they only had three pieces of cheese that weren't rammed with an odd fruit, packaged with a little bow and put into a wicker basket for £14.99 to start with.

 

Sainsburys normally has a cracking Free From section, loads of dairy free stuff for Mrs_P. Now that fridge is full of patê so apparently people with allergies just have to eat ice cubes through the festive season. I also wanted some crumpets - they had none, but they did have literally a 6ft high wall, 15ft long, of mince pies. With hardly any being bought.

[Mr A Lawrence]

Makes you proud to be in the free world doesn't it.

[myglaren]

I went to Aldi - it was business as usual

[Bobthebeard]

The BBC 'news' was calling today "frantic Friday" or similar.....

Don't shop, don't drive and don't fly warnings. Chaos predicted etc. So people immediately shop, drive and fly.

Mad.

[beko1987]

I need to go to asda after work as I haven't bought amy anything. But if I get there and there's a queue to get into the carpark or something I'm driving on by!

[cort16]

I went to Aldi - it was business as usual

Me too. There's not many queues when the checkout operator puts through 1200 items a minute.

I much prefer this approach of getting it all through the checkout then bagging it in your own time. 

[Supernaut]

I need to go to asda after work as I haven't bought amy anything. But if I get there and there's a queue to get into the carpark or something I'm driving on by!

 

If you don't get her anything, judging by your previous posts about her on here...

 

Well, it was nice knowing you.

 

 

 

Annoyingly, I think I do need to go to a shop today. For some cat biscuits, of all things.

[M'coli]

The BBC 'news' was calling today "frantic Friday" or similar.....

Don't shop, don't drive and don't fly warnings. Chaos predicted etc. So people immediately shop, drive and fly.

Mad.

I really don't have much choice to travel unless I hang around and set off overnight - I'm still at work in Brizzle, and have to get home to Yorkshire...

[beko1987]

If you don't get her anything, judging by your previous posts about her on here...

 

Well, it was nice knowing you.

 

 

 

Annoyingly, I think I do need to go to a shop today. For some cat biscuits, of all things.

During an argument a month or so ago she said don't bother getting me anything... so I said OK, then, and didn't. She's been OK these past few weeks though and has bought me some small bits, so now I need to bloody go and buy her some stuff.

[Barry Cade]

I hope I don't have to go near shops today, trying to get a 7 ton flatbed round asda and holding up people full of Christmas goodwill whilst I connect jump leads to a misbehaving 307 is great fun.

[KruJoe]

You guys' posts on the last few pages have reminded me how glad I am not to be a prisoner of western culture and wonderful* family traditions during this "season of goodwill". I know it's coming each winter so take my chance to get out, but I know most of you cannot, and I feel your pain. This is not a gloat, I sypathise, grit your teeth folks, it'll soon be over.

[Tamworthbay]

Me too. There's not many queues when the checkout operator puts through 1200 items a minute.

I much prefer this approach of getting it all through the checkout then bagging it in your own time.

 

I would love to set up a belt with variable speed at out local Morrisons, controllable by me remotely obviously. Then when the old dear in front who clearly is out for a chat and so takes 10 minutes to bag two tins of kit e Kat then I could ramp the belt up to warp speed.

[chaseracer]

So, earlier.  Short, chippy bald bloke with "enhanced" bottle-blonde missus and two surly pre-teens on board (Skye and Jaxson, no doubt), driving private-plated 'lease white' big-alloys X5 through a pedestrian precinct teeming with Christmas shoppers.  While on his phone.  I thought I'd hit the stereotype jackpot until I read Bub's Sprinter story...

 

[bub2006]

I was the one driving a sprinter, captain numbnuts and his borrowed or shared Mrs was in a lease white seat ibiza.

[garbaldy]

So all new or nearly new cars are leased here we go again

[bub2006]

I said lease white as a colour scheme due to nearly all folks I've worked with who had a lease car it has been white. Not a Fucking comment regarding leasing etc. For fuck sake if I could get a car on lease I probably would have done after my run if luck last year.

[chaseracer]

So all new or nearly new cars are leased here we go again

 

Back in your box!   The reference was to the colour, which until recently was the only free option and therefore a popular choice for business users.

 

 

EDIT: Bub types quicker...

[bub2006]

There's always one snotty Twat on here these days and it's getting Fucking daft now.