The grumpy thread

[stillOrange]

Aye, fuck cancer...

[Timewaster]

Reversing into a narrow space between two rough concrete pillars last night:

 

 

Conclusion : I am a parking idiot.

 

Sadly I can beat that. Try reversing one of your cars into another one of your cars.

All my own fault. I left the other one parked in the way.

[Guest Hooli]

Sadly I can beat that. Try reversing one of your cars into another one of your cars.

All my own fault. I left the other one parked in the way.

 

I hope you left a note with your own details?

[dollywobbler]

Tourists. I was on a bit of a mission to get over to Northants, after a lunchtime appointment closer to home. The quickest way was across the mountain road. First, I came up behind a silver Vauxhall Astra, and the driver proved that NOT all Vauxhalls R shite, by pulling over after a short distance. I waved my thanks and re-engaged Speed Level Hoon (not quite maximum, as there are lots of unpredictable lambs around at the moment).

 

Not long after this, a Ford StreetKa, that had been parked up, suddenly executed a three-point turn right in front of me. Said car then proceeded to get right in my bloody way. For quite some distance. Eventually, I went for an overtake, even though two wheels weren't really technically on the road (of the car I'd just spent a fair bit of time cleaning). Stupid and anti-social of me, probably, but I really did need to be somewhere. It isn't that hard to pull over a let a fast car past - I do it, especially if driving well below the speed limit.

 

Hooning recommenced. For a few miles. Then, a BLOODY HUGE camper van was next to get in my way. Not quite full USA spec, but pretty bloody mahoosive. It was crawling along at 30-40mph, often slower on bends, and most of the time, across the white line so there was no room to overtake. Did they pull into possible lay-bys to let me past? Did they bollox. Again, patience wore thin and another rather tight overtake took place. Arseholes. Is it really that bloody hard to look in your mirror, think "oh, maybe they actually need to be somewhere other than having a jolly sight-seeing tour" and quickly pull over? When we moved house with a 7.5 tonner, I was into pretty much every layby to avoid holding traffic up once we were in the mountains.

 

Then, to top things off, I had a Renault Clio following me all the way from Droitwich (where it was raining a bit) to Shropshire (where, for ten miles, it had not been). So, WHY DID THEY HAVE THEIR WIPERS GOING?! Ok, so it's a Renault, so they may not have had any choice, but this was a car being driven in dusky dampness with no lights on as well. I was practically feeling pain from seeing the blades scraping across the windscreen. I think I have a problem.

[eddyramrod]

Tourists. 

 

 

. #FUCKCANCER

 

 

Fucking football.

 

 

all so some cunt can weigh in £30 of batteries.

 

maybe when he breaks it properly i can have it back.

 

All of the above.  There's no need for it, all it does is make miserable the lives of everyone within reach.  And yes, you can apply that comment to any of the topics quoted!

[Supernaut]

[Cavcraft]

People doing sudden u-turns (and three point ones) are probably about the most dangerous drivers about, along with those wankers who drive up to a junction at stupid speeds, then look like they're not going to stop, before slamming on and nudging out 8 inches into the road to try and force their way out. 

[alcyonecorporation]

Fed up of storage costs. I couldn't afford them before and now I really can't afford them. 
I can't take much more of this financially. We only have a promise from the landlord that the rent won't go up again for the forseeable. 

 

[Guest Hooli]

People doing sudden u-turns (and three point ones) are probably about the most dangerous drivers about, along with those wankers who drive up to a junction at stupid speeds, then look like they're not going to stop, before slamming on and nudging out 8 inches into the road to try and force their way out. 

 

Amen,

 

The only time I've properly collided with a car on my bike was a muppet who took the wrong exit on a roundabout & tried to U-turn around the island. Cost me a dislocated collar bone & bent back brake lever. Cost him a door skin, sill & probably a rear wing. Shook hands on it & left before he noticed how much damage he had to save on the insurance hassles for years.

 

Oh, whoever said cars in the rain/dusk with no lights. I just treat them as a gap in the traffic & pull out. If they are trying to be invisible I'll let them think they've managed it.

[Timewaster]

I hope you left a note with your own details?

 

Nah. There was no one about So I just fkd off.

[twosmoke300]

Standard !

[bub2006]

People doing sudden u-turns (and three point ones) are probably about the most dangerous drivers about, along with those wankers who drive up to a junction at stupid speeds, then look like they're not going to stop, before slamming on and nudging out 8 inches into the road to try and force their way out.

I had that the other day. Was in the works lwb sprinter and loaded up. Oncoming traffic was stationary due to roadworks. Just as I was approaching a Luton van who was sat minding his own business in traffic, a muppet in a corsa c pulled out from behind the van right into my path to pull a u turn. The sprinter practically stood on its nose and all I got was flipped off for his stupidity. If he had pulled his corsa closer to white line to see if anything was coming he would have seen a high top bright purple argos van instead of nearly taking us both out.

[320touring]

Tremendous "Sunday Driver" Rant

I've been bimbling around sunny Scotland just north of Glasgow for the last 2 days. Roads full of tractors and sheep drivers following at 25mph far to close to be able to see if clear for an overtake.

 

A touch of hanging back, then maximum deployment of 1UZ made for swiftish progress.

 

When any of the sheep drivers made it past a tractor, they stormed up to a heady 40mph with spurious dabs of brakes mid straight.

 

Meh.

[DodgeRover]

Richmond "pork" sausages, not seen anything less appetising since I stopped waking up in strange beds with a hell of a hangover and no recollection of the end of the night before.

[anonymous user]

Richmond "pork" sausages, not seen anything less appetising since I stopped waking up in strange beds with a hell of a hangover and no recollection of the end of the night before.

I'm sure my interpretation of what you have written is not what you intended

[scaryoldcortina]

I thought that too. It's probably a good job he stopped drinking.

[DodgeRover]

Oh dear that didn't exactly read how I ment it to, let me just be clear there was nobody else with anything sausage like involved at any point.

[hairymel]

 there was nobody else with anything sausage like involved at any point.

 

that you remember 

[Doctormop]

Seem to have had three jobs in the last year, left a shit job after eight years, got a job cleaning in local hospital, hated it, got a job working in council run multi storey car park; lasted five months and three days, hated that too, now got cleaning job AGAIN at local hospital, have to stick at it this time as C.V looks like a bad joke from The Beano, reporting for work in seven hours and dreading it Surely there must be more to life than this..........

OK maybe not, as you were, should be grateful I have a job, many don't.

[dollywobbler]

Seem to have had three jobs in the last year, left a shit job after eight years, got a job cleaning in local hospital, hated it, got a job working in council run multi storey car park; lasted five months and three days, hated that too, now got cleaning job AGAIN at local hospital, have to stick at it this time as C.V looks like a bad joke from The Beano, reporting for work in seven hours and dreading it Surely there must be more to life than this..........

OK maybe not, as you were, should be grateful I have a job, many don't.

 

I think my record in my younger days was eight jobs in two years. Eventually, I just put it on my CV as 'various temporary work.' I didn't even bother stating that I'd been a gas meter reader for four days, nor that I lasted an entire four days at Mr Clutch...

[alcyonecorporation]

ACYCOCNCNCNCNENENENENE CORP CV:

2007-2010 CALL CENTRE WORK 

2010-2012 CALL CENTRE WORK 

2012-2013 SHIT SHOP WORK 

2014 SHIT DEGREE ACQUIRED

2015-2017 PROFESSIONAL ARSEHOLE 

[captain_70s]

OK maybe not, as you were, should be grateful I have a job, many don't.

This is me.

 

Been out of it for two months now and apparently I'm not good enough to stack supermarket shelves or pack boxes in a factory. Got my mate's girlfriend to help write up my CV and cover letter and she's written the CVs for almost all the successfully employed people I know so I doubt its that. Perhaps its the obvious step down from my previous position suggesting I'm not going to stick around in a bargain bucket job or just the fact the market is over-saturated and it's a better deal to take on a teenagers with a lower min-wage or a pensioner who'll stick around rather than a white 20-something bloke...

 

5 years solid employment and steady promotion behind me and now I'm a fortnight away from running out of overdraft. Borrowed some money from the parents to see me through to the end of April and am hoping to sell the Civic to blag me another month's worth of survival. Still got a couple of leads on employment, some of it is even decent, keep getting messed about by agencies and potential employers though. Given times/dates from interviews at short notice which get cancelled half a hour before I'm supposed to arrive...

 

Also I miss the Triumph. it's been well over a year since I last drove a proper car, it just doesn't feel right.

 

Bleh. I R TEH GRUMP.

[RoadworkUK]

Had a lovely time walking around The Naze yesterday. Once the clouds and drizzle had cleared, the sun came streaming through and I had consumed an ice cream. The only thing that spoiled it was that I was constantly reminded of how many arseholes live nearby.

 

Example one: Those who run and protect The Naze have erected excellent, informative and attractive signposts, and of course these have fallen to vandalism, whether it be by being deliberately scratched to obliteration or burned with cigarettes, lighter flames etc.

 

Example two: A burnt out scooter lying on its side in an otherwise scenic part of the nature reserve.

 

Example three: OK, not within the nature reserve, but within half a mile of leaving, doing thirty ish on a built up road, cars parked on both sides and many pedestrians, a chap in a Peugeot Expert still feels that he needs to overtake. Even though he could see the red lights up ahead.

 

What is wrong with people?

[rainagain]

Had a lovely time walking around The Naze yesterday. Once the clouds and drizzle had cleared, the sun came streaming through and I had consumed an ice cream. The only thing that spoiled it was that I was constantly reminded of how many arseholes live nearby.

 

Example one: Those who run and protect The Naze have erected excellent, informative and attractive signposts, and of course these have fallen to vandalism, whether it be by being deliberately scratched to obliteration or burned with cigarettes, lighter flames etc.

 

 

What is wrong with people?

This sort of stuff really pisses me off. The woods near me had a paths marked out with posts and little coloured markers. There was signs put up telling you about the wildlife and showing the routes.

 

After about two weeks it was all wrecked, someone methodically walked each route smashing the little colour markers off every post. The signs where also smashed up.

 

I just don't understand how people can act like this.

[LostnotFound]

 

 

Oh, whoever said cars in the rain/dusk with no lights. I just treat them as a gap in the traffic & pull out. If they are trying to be invisible I'll let them think they've managed it.

 

 

This is my view when it comes to cockwombles for whom moving the indicator stalk up two inches is far too much effort when they get to a roundabout. If you can't be arsed to signal to come around I'll take it is as read that it's my gap to nab.

[alcyonecorporation]

2017 TO PRESENT:

 

PROFESSIONAL ARSEHOLE

[Doctormop]

This is me.

 

Been out of it for two months now and apparently I'm not good enough to stack supermarket shelves or pack boxes in a factory. Got my mate's girlfriend to help write up my CV and cover letter and she's written the CVs for almost all the successfully employed people I know so I doubt its that. Perhaps its the obvious step down from my previous position suggesting I'm not going to stick around in a bargain bucket job or just the fact the market is over-saturated and it's a better deal to take on a teenagers with a lower min-wage or a pensioner who'll stick around rather than a white 20-something bloke...

 

5 years solid employment and steady promotion behind me and now I'm a fortnight away from running out of overdraft. Borrowed some money from the parents to see me through to the end of April and am hoping to sell the Civic to blag me another month's worth of survival. Still got a couple of leads on employment, some of it is even decent, keep getting messed about by agencies and potential employers though. Given times/dates from interviews at short notice which get cancelled half a hour before I'm supposed to arrive...

 

Also I miss the Triumph. it's been well over a year since I last drove a proper car, it just doesn't feel right.

 

Bleh. I R TEH GRUMP.

Don't really know what to say by way of positivity or optimism Captain, think it's just a case of being in the right place at the right time, supposedly three of us were starting this morning, one phoned in last Thursday to say he had changed his mind and the other just didn't show up, like I said its Domestic Work in a Hospital but it's just above minimum wage, guaranteed hours and yet the best they can find is me, anyway, really hope something turns up for you soon,

[Captain Furious]

 

 

Perhaps its the obvious step down from my previous position suggesting I'm not going to stick around in a bargain bucket job

 

You're probably closer to the mark with this than you know, if you're aiming for jobs that are below your skillset/previous employment level it can be as harmful, if not moreso, being over-qualified as under.

 

CV's aren't a one size fits all thing, they need tweaking to each job description, not to the point of blagging it, but if you've just finished a job as a rocket scientist and are applying to stack shelves in Asda then leave out the bit about rockets and focus on stuff that is relevant to Asda, dumb yourself down a bit if necessary, its only a stop-gap but they don't need to know that.

 

Good luck anyway, Agency's are bastards, if you apply for 10 jobs and get a reply back about 1 then thats not a bad ratio, so don't take the no's to heart and just apply for anything and everything.

[Jazoli]

I work in hospitality and there is a massive shortage of staff across the industry, we can't get chefs, barmen, housekeepers, receptionists, porters or pot washers, if you had any transferable skills for any of these jobs I guarantee you'd be employed by tomorrow.

 

A lot of my time is spent trying to recruit and its a nightmare, 3 meals a day, cheap accommodation and a guaranteed 48 hours (if wanted) and £1000-£1500 a month in your pocket after tax, we are offering jobs to folk with the bare basics on their cv's, and we are a prestigious 4 star hotel in the Lakes with a turnover of £millions so you'd think we could pick and choose staff but we can't sadly.

[omegod]

Knobhead scrappers, advertised a rolling shell on local faceache and had the fuckers chomping at the bit as the price of metal has gone up...be round within the hour he said at 6....you can guess the rest. Omegod needs a radox soak so he can fuck right off