The grumpy thread

[Stroller133]

I got my eyes tested at tesco for free, they give you your prescription and you can go wherever you like then £100 for 2 pairs of designer glasses didn't seem bad at all to me

I've had 2 pairs of designers glasses, with anti glare lenses, one pair are sunglasses and the eye test for £155, so although I'm sure the price could be cheaper, for my first pairs I was glad to choose in a shop and try on rather than guess online. The first style I thought I'd like just looked wrong on my face.

The reason I feel robbed is my prescription says I'm longsighted but by 0.25, looking on line that the smallest value you can get,hardly seems worth it, up to 3.0 is considered mild. Both eyes have slight astigmatisms but still only 0.75 and 0.5,I think this should be the biggest benefit,but we'll see.

[dollywobbler]

Drivers who don't know what speed they are doing.

 

If I've overtaken you FOUR times on the same damn motorway & I've got cruise control on, then you sirs (several of them) are muppets who aren't paying attention to driving.

 

Had this a lot when I had the MG GS. And I'm not just talking very slight changes. I'm talking folk dropping to 55, then accelerating past at 90 moments later, before inevitably going back to a crawl. SOD OFF! Even without cruise, it isn't that hard to keep a consistent speed up. I've managed most of my sodding life without cruise!

 

Of course, people probably get fed up with 2CVs screaming past, then slowing down as they hit the slightest hill. Or a headwind. Or the bow wave from a truck. Or a leaf...

[Guest Hooli]

Exactly that!

 

I'd get passed by them doing about 90 & then 10miles later they'll be following a truck in Lane 1, a few miles later they scream past - repeat until bored.

[Tamworthbay]

Just buy a VW camper van, I have never driven on as many empty roads as when we had ours, there was never a car in front it seemed (just don't look in the mirrors).

[Guest Hooli]

I was stupid enough to have a goona, but I didn't pay for the experience. Why would I spent eleventy billion pounds on a VW camper to get the same effect?

[cobblers]

Just buy a VW camper van, I have never driven on as many empty roads as when we had ours, there was never a car in front it seemed (just don't look in the mirrors).

Hey, speak for yourself! My T25 goes like a bastard. A bastard that does 0-60 in 12.5 seconds which is wank really but not bad for something you can sleep in.

[Craig the Princess]

Also, drivers in Bradford - you can go quickly round roundabouts, too.

 

That's how the fat spazz in the knackered Peugeot keeps getting past you.

 

Also, it ran out of fuel near Ferrybridge Services and I fell over trying to push it up the sliproad. FUN.

Do people not understand how gearboxes work? In the Rover 214 I'm forever being held up by people who crawl around the roundabout then accerale at a snail's pace until they get to 55mph. Just drop a gear.

 

And don't get me started on people who need a gap big enough to get a Convoi Exceptional through to enter the roundabout.

[dollywobbler]

Mind you, quickly watching a few Russian Dash Cam vids is usually enough to have you thinking things really aren't so bad over here.

[ChinaTom]

Grumps brought on by having to walk past this every time I get home, and knowing I'll never be able to own it.

 

 

It should cheer me up, but I feel nothing but jealousy.

 

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[Bren]

While changing the filters on our dyson the spine has managed to break itself in half.

Bollocks.

Will look at repair rather than replace.

[Noel Tidybeard]

Grumps brought on by having to walk past this every time I get home, and knowing I'll never be able to own it.

 

 

It should cheer me up, but I feel nothing but jealousy.

 

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methinks this needs reporting to the rozzers for the number plate

[Lacquer Peel]

It looks uggers to me.

[Lord Sterling]

Grumps brought on by having to walk past this every time I get home, and knowing I'll never be able to own it.

 

[*Picture of Yellow Mercedes C63 AMG*]

 

It should cheer me up, but I feel nothing but jealousy.

I have to admit, I do like the current model C-klasse, particularly the C220, it's very me, however something like that C63/et al doesn't bother me. I'm happy knowing that I don't and probably wouldn't own a car as expensive to buy and run as that. I'd imagine just the servicing bills must be eye-wateringly expensive, probably twice as much as I'd ever spend on my own car in 2/3 years.

[Des]

Drivers who don't know what speed they are doing.

 

If I've overtaken you FOUR times on the same damn motorway & I've got cruise control on, then you sirs (several of them) are muppets who aren't paying attention to driving.

 

They're lanehoggers, incapable of using motorways correctly, sitting in an overtaking lane and sometimes / usually accelerate when there's space in front, dab brakes when there isn't, that's where their ability abruptly halts, so they're slowing considerably when in front is an overtaking lorry or Honda then speed up when there isn't.

Then you come along with your ability to change lanes with all the thought process, judgement and use of mirrors entailed, maintaining steady progress while the zombies speed is up and down like a Rover temperature gauge.

I actually don't get it, driving well, safely, whilst making good progress is hardly a mentally taxing task, after a few years it's a piece of piss, compensating for the fuckwits though, now that's a challenge.

[KruJoe]

dyson 

 

Enough said, I hate the bloody things. Heavy and unwieldy but ineffective and fragile. I won't go on.

BUT SRSLY

Get in touch with Beko, he'll sort you out Bren.

[KruJoe]

 

That looks like it's waiting for a 30mph meeting with the full frontal crash wall at MIRA's test lab.

[beko1987]

Whata the DC number bren?

[Cheggers]

 

That looks like it's waiting for a 30mph meeting with the full frontal crash wall at MIRA's test lab.

Well I'm going to buck the trend by saying I love it, even if the colour is a little "sudden"

 

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[Guest Hooli]

Tapatalk!

 

I had to install it yesterday as it's bloody banner hid the login button on our mobile site & wouldn't fuck off no matter how much I tapped the 'x'. Now I'm getting email notifications for every new thread posted! All the notifications I can find are turned off on the bloody thing.

 

 

Never mind, I've just found the setting. Obviously being a notification, you don't put it in the notification menu but fucking hide it elsewhere.

[Guest Hooli]

They're lanehoggers, incapable of using motorways correctly, sitting in an overtaking lane and sometimes / usually accelerate when there's space in front, dab brakes when there isn't, that's where their ability abruptly halts, so they're slowing considerably when in front is an overtaking lorry or Honda then speed up when there isn't.

Then you come along with your ability to change lanes with all the thought process, judgement and use of mirrors entailed, maintaining steady progress while the zombies speed is up and down like a Rover temperature gauge.

I actually don't get it, driving well, safely, whilst making good progress is hardly a mentally taxing task, after a few years it's a piece of piss, compensating for the fuckwits though, now that's a challenge.

 

 

Exactly, it must be harder work to drive like a retard.

[Eddie Honda]

Grumps brought on by having to walk past this every time I get home, and knowing I'll never be able to own it.

That looks like it's waiting for a 30mph meeting with the full frontal crash wall at MIRA's test lab.

Relieve those blues CT. Stop walking past it and stick a load of these on. (especially over the shit attempt of a number plate)

 

[lexi]

Will cunts please stop raising their voices in the second half of their sentence?  Everywhere now, including Radio 4.  Honesty fuck! If you want to ask a question, please do so in another fucking sentence! It sounds like they are spelling out the patently obvious for the mentally fuckin' challenged.

  It's as annoying as female? (dubious)  tennis players who on hitting the ball, sound like a Russian shot putter in childbirth!

     When people do it on air, they should simply be asked..............WTF is that you are sitting on to make your voice do that in a sentence? Get your fucking timing right for going up and down and staying level on voice, or get the fuck out for some electromocution lessons. What would happen if the cunt read the football results out like that? 

[AlabamaShrimp]

^^^The whole radio voice thing is why I hardly ever turn the thing on in the car. That smug fake cheery smashy and nicey type noise just gets on my tits, we'll that and the constant repeats of the same song you've heard a million times before.

[michael1703]

Urrgghh

 

I suffer from vertigo, I don't get the full on 12 hours of puking often but had a near miss.

 

In the very constricted loft space putting celotex up and had a dizzy half hour.

 

I'm alone in the house in a loft space,with no phone or signal and a 290mm gap to squeeze through

 

 

The entrance

 

 

The lack of space, I can just about turn over to lay on my back with my shoulders tight to the rafters

 

 

More daylight than should normally be present in a loft

 

 

Oooo, that's fucked

 

 

Bollocks to this, I've done enough for a Sunday, I'm off to the beach

[chaseracer]

^ Sympathies.  Not nice...

[Supernaut]

Been on hold to esure now for over half an hour.

 

Just got my phone sitting on the desk on speaker phone. The fucking twats have removed all email addresses from their website too, just a list of phone numbers and postal addresses. I just want to cancel the Civic's insurance because it's got very little chance of seeing the road again any time soon! Fuck's sake.

 

 

 

EDIT: I hung up and phoned the number for complaints instead. I got through to somebody almost instantly then managed to cancel it in 3 minutes flat. I got refunded in full minus a £26 admin fee, so it effectively cost me £26 to insure it for a week. Not bad.

[alcyonecorporation]

Apparently I'm being 'unfair' in claiming my second hand bumper with cracks, scuffs and scratches not shown in the deliberately angled eBay photos, is not as described.

 

So why no mention in the listing of the things I've pointed out?

 

Fuck this. I'm sick to death of weasel arsehole sellers that can't describe their parts accurately. Deeply, utterly, truly pissed off.

Might have to price a new bumper up at this rate.

 

How is this so fucking difficult? It's a common as muck car with thousands and thousands and thousands of running examples. How can it be this hard to get a bumper in one piece? How?

[AlabamaShrimp]

Back passenger door can be a bugger to open from the inside but it's random. This morning it wouldn't shut but then did when the lock was down?? But, unlock it and it wouldn't open from inside or outside?

 

Get home after a small drive, fuckers working again. Might just have been too cold but I'm definitely going to have to take the door apart now.

[chaseracer]

2000 pages of whingeing ahoy!  You miserable buggers...   

[oldcars]

Apparently I'm being 'unfair' in claiming my second hand bumper with cracks, scuffs and scratches not shown in the deliberately angled eBay photos, is not as described.

 

So why no mention in the listing of the things I've pointed out?

 

Fuck this. I'm sick to death of weasel arsehole sellers that can't describe their parts accurately. Deeply, utterly, truly pissed off.

Might have to price a new bumper up at this rate.

 

How is this so fucking difficult? It's a common as muck car with thousands and thousands and thousands of running examples. How can it be this hard to get a bumper in one piece? How?

I have stopped buying second hand parts online. Paying £30 for a set of mint* Rover 75 mudflaps from Stevie Wonder was the last straw.