The grumpy thread

[richardmorris]

Get a dashcam. I'm just playing with a GoPro clone as one atm - 42quid but I've had to butcher a phone clamp for a suction mount as they don't seem to be included. For me, has the added bonus of improving my behaviour on the road as well as being a record of other's stupidity.

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On offer in lidl next week.

https://www.lidl.co.uk/en/Non-Food-Offers.htm?articleId=4780

[Hendry]

Fucking hell it seems the day for awful driving.

 

First off, every set of lights i was sat at, front of the queue, lights at red, on a roundabout, crossroads, left or right hand junction with 3 way traffic controls, our light goes to green and I pull away as quick as possible (folk who take ages pulling away from lights annoys me because theres no need, it just stops more people getting through the lights before they change back again) anyway every time I pulled away, a car would come round the roundabout or out of the left or right hand junctions across me, clearly having jumped a blatant red light.

 

Then Im turning right to go into Tescos, theres a bloke waiting to turn right out of Tescos, couldnt flash him out as I usually would because there were cars behind me still in motion going straight on, this tosser decides to pull out into the middle of the road across my path onto the junction box for turning right and then has to stop because of the cars going by, meaning I have to slam the anchors to avoid battering into the side of him.

 

Also people who think they are hardmen behind the wheel of a car, they pull stupid, crazy, dangerous manouvers and when you flash or beep at them because theyve nearly plowed into you or cut you up, you get the wanker sign out the window, sticks the finger up, flashes the V sign, or stops dead and tries to get out and have a punch up, or slows right down and crawls along at 15mph and then you try to overtake (dual carriageway or whatever) and the fucker speeds up to match your speed and stop you getting past. Seriously fucking get a grip and chill out, why do so much people have dormant aggression over fuck all, fucking cardboard cut out gangsters, there have been times Ive had enough and actually got out the car and faced them, ready to crack them over the head with a glass irn bru bottle, before they back down from their threats, not expecting you to stand upto them. 

[Bucketeer]

Are you leaving the hateful heap there??

For now. I'm going to drink my self stupider tonight and then hopefully tomorrow my head will be less painful and I can try to work out how to recover it.

[eddyramrod]

I have one desktop computer and two laptops; the desktop is the one where I do all my writing, which is all stored on a removable hard drive, with all my photos.  It's also the only one of the three that recognises the hard drive.  At least it was.  Now, for no apparent reason, it refuses to acknowledge the existence of the external HD, so I can't get into my safely-stored files.  Fucking marvellous.

[Guest Hooli]

You probably need to delete the device in Device Manager so it reinstalls.

 

 

 

BTW external HDDs are shite, they do break & fail without warning so I wouldn't use one as my only copy of anything important. Nine times out of ten it's the USB bit that fails, so you can open them & put the HDD in a caddy to get everything back.

[AlabamaShrimp]

On offer in lidl next week.

https://www.lidl.co.uk/en/Non-Food-Offers.htm?articleId=4780

That's the same one as I've got (well the case is different) was cheaper from Amazon, about £23, and is no way 1080p but it's better than nothing.

[omegod]

Daft twat in a clio on a three lane main road, not a single fucking brake light working , I near rear ended the bint but couldn't get alongside to tell her. Surely an 11 plate clio has a warning for bulbs out 

[chaseracer]

^ Certainly.  But such a waste of oxygen would be too busy looking at a phone screen...

[Guest Hooli]

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7873768/guns-n-roses-appetite-for-destruction-oral-history

 

Appetite for destruction is 30 years old! How the hell did my generation's music get so elderly?

[richardmorris]

Fucking hell it seems the day for awful driving.

 

First off, every set of lights i was sat at, front of the queue, lights at red, on a roundabout, crossroads, left or right hand junction with 3 way traffic controls, our light goes to green and I pull away as quick as possible (folk who take ages pulling away from lights annoys me because theres no need, it just stops more people getting through the lights before they change back again) anyway every time I pulled away, a car would come round the roundabout or out of the left or right hand junctions across me, clearly having jumped a blatant red light.

 

Then Im turning right to go into Tescos, theres a bloke waiting to turn right out of Tescos, couldnt flash him out as I usually would because there were cars behind me still in motion going straight on, this tosser decides to pull out into the middle of the road across my path onto the junction box for turning right and then has to stop because of the cars going by, meaning I have to slam the anchors to avoid battering into the side of him.

 

Also people who think they are hardmen behind the wheel of a car, they pull stupid, crazy, dangerous manouvers and when you flash or beep at them because theyve nearly plowed into you or cut you up, you get the wanker sign out the window, sticks the finger up, flashes the V sign, or stops dead and tries to get out and have a punch up, or slows right down and crawls along at 15mph and then you try to overtake (dual carriageway or whatever) and the fucker speeds up to match your speed and stop you getting past. Seriously fucking get a grip and chill out, why do so much people have dormant aggression over fuck all, fucking cardboard cut out gangsters, there have been times Ive had enough and actually got out the car and faced them, ready to crack them over the head with a glass irn bru bottle, before they back down from their threats, not expecting you to stand upto them.

 

 

 

Yeah. Muppet driver day today. Some moron decided to overtake me, with no problem appart from the slight issue that I was passing the entrance ( not road) on the left he wanted to take. Did he brake and pull in behind? Did he fuck. Nearly hit me as he emergency braked and swerved left. At 6.30 am, so I reported him as drunk to the police.

[chaseracer]

Did you get TwatPlod's shoulder number?  Sounds like he needs some 'words of advice' from his Inspector.

[strangeangel]

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7873768/guns-n-roses-appetite-for-destruction-oral-history

 

Appetite for destruction is 30 years old! How the hell did my generation's music get so elderly?

 

The music of Guns'n'Roses was born elderly.

[strangeangel]

Surely an 11 plate RENAULT  has a warning for bulbs out 

 

And if it did, do you imagine that it still works?

[Hendry]

Daft twat in a clio on a three lane main road, not a single fucking brake light working , I near rear ended the bint but couldn't get alongside to tell her. Surely an 11 plate clio has a warning for bulbs out 

 

Nope, I had a fairly high spec one on a 59 plate so would be the same model as that one, and mines never gave bulb failure warnings, if the high level was out aswell that would suggest a bigger issue than blown bulbs because they seldom fail, and not usually at the same time as both tail light bulbs.

 

Double grump.

 

Go to pick up my Friday night takeaway. As I have done for at least 2 years I park in the masonic lodge car park next door. Its got at least 60 spaces and I've never seen a single other car parked in there, ever. As I'm walking out the car park a bloke appears out of nowhere, and shouts at me if I park there he'll have my car towed. I asked politely if it was OK to leave it there for the 2 minutes it would take to get my takeaway, and then it'll be out the way. He said "no it bloody isn't, I'm calling a tow truck right now" he also called me a "loon" who thinks the rules don't apply to him. I said "behave its a massive empty car park and I'll be gone in 2 minutes flat" but he didnt reply because he was too busy pretending to call a tow truck on his phone. When I left 2 minutes later he was stood next to my car and told me I'd be breaking the law if I moved it now, because he'd called a tow truck. Said to him "first I'm not allowed to park here, now I'm not allowed to leave...." and drove off. Annoying because I know I was technically in the wrong, but a bit of common sense wouldn't have hurt.

 

Second grump, I'm just getting back to my flat and a police car pulls out on me at a mini roundabout. I beeped my horn and he stopped dead infront of me. I raised my hand in the universal "what are you playing at?" sign, and he reversed back off the roundabout...! Then he followed me into my car park and we had the following chat....

 

Him - Do you know what the proper use of your horn is?

Me - Yeah, alerting another vehicle to your presence

Him - And so why did you use your horn at the roundabout just now?

Me - You didn't give way at the roundabout and I had to emergency stop to avoid hitting you, so I presumed you hadn't seen me

Him - 5 minutes lecture on the use of a horn, mini roundabouts and not gesticulating to other drivers.

 

As he was getting back in his car he said have a nice evening. I said "Thanks, drive safe" and felt like I was out of an 80's action film. 

 

Everyone is a fanny today.

 

Cops!!! Absolute hypocrites who think the rules dont apply to them!

[strangeangel]

Nope. Could probably get the reg plate of the car from my dashcam but not worth the hassle.

 

 

If you have the whole thing on dashcam then I would say it very definitely is worth the hassle.

[clayts450]

I believe this explains the overload of driver twattery today - busiest three days of the year, apparently

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40632485

[Lord Sterling]

Yeah man, proper crap week for driving. Yesterday, got stuck in between Clapham Common and Battersea for nearly an hour because of 3 seperate crashes (also, spotted the Grenfell tower which broke my heart man, seriously, really f***in scary to see, even from the distance I saw it).

 

Yesterday, a twat in an oldish Jaguar XK8 thought he could cut me up and get away with it. Today I nearly got punted into by some stupid bint who thought she could push herself into my lane, I'm in a Mercedes 4x4 so not exactly easy to miss. Earlier whilst coming from Stockport, there were 2 seperate crashes on the M6 which I avoided by going through Bloxwich, (where 2 girls thought they just walk out into the road as it turned green for me) One crash actually involved a colleague from my work who had the vehicle he was travelling punted into the back by an Audi who was rubber necking the crash on the other side. He is Ok but just shaken up, vehicle is still drivable.

 

Then there are a couple of crashes on this site and a broken down vehicle. Wow man, enough already.

[Guest Hooli]

Can't say I noticed, being on the bike cars are just things you overtake a lot.

[BavarianRetro]

Did you get TwatPlod's shoulder number? Sounds like he needs some 'words of advice' from his Inspector.

Get NewPod to draft you a letter.

[dollywobbler]

I drove over 190 miles today, and saw no twattish driving at all. How odd. I did see the remnants of a shunt on the M40 though.

[beko1987]

I drove over 190 miles today, and saw no twattish driving at all. How odd. I did see the remnants of a shunt on the M40 though.

Luckily I went broken hoover collecting in wycombe on the way home tonight so missed that, the m40 looked a mess by j4

[Matt]

Check this monumental bellend out.

 

This junction has crap visibility looking down through the left of frame at the best of times and this guy parked here to chat with his mate for MORE than ten minutes. Normally I would just think he's a twat and leave it at that but I'm pissed off because once they finished their chat the driver turned around and fucking parked no more than 10 feet away. The potential for a collision to occur between a vehicle turning right out of the junction and another travelling from left to right was genuinely really high. Thankfully it was unusually quiet.

 

[DodgeRover]

High levels of twattery last night on the cubs cycle ride. A new mini decided to carry on overtaking when a space had been left for them into the face of oncoming traffic - who had to stop. Mini then drives into someone's drive.

5 minutes later said mini appears again and does exactly the same thing again but this time with a skip wagon!

Oh for a helmet camera..

 

Anyway grin for the night was someone with a matt black Capri that looked like an extra from MadMax and running a V6 or V8, most polite sensible driver to pass us - quite made my night

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Lots of proper angry bastards around at the moment (posting essays on here about minor motoring transgressions)

[hairnet]

Yeah but mo yer a mong

 

Got to scouse for the boat but i don't have my phone with me

 

Ffs good job I can photo and WiFi with this one

[hairnet]

Check this monumental bellend out.

 

This junction has crap visibility looking down through the left of frame at the best of times and this guy parked here to chat with his mate for MORE than ten minutes. Normally I would just think he's a twat and leave it at that but I'm pissed off because once they finished their chat the driver turned around and fucking parked no more than 10 feet away. The potential for a collision to occur between a vehicle turning right out of the junction and another travelling from left to right was genuinely really high. Thankfully it was unusually quiet

 

Ring number and complain

[Matt]

Lots of proper angry bastards around at the moment (posting essays on here about minor motoring transgressions)

 

Minor or not it is the selfishness about it that annoys me.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

So I see

[Inspector Morose]

Don't worry Bol, it'll be back to Hermes in a day or two.

[Snipes]

ECS/CSCS card is due for renewal. What a load of shit.

Same month as my car insurance renewal, a water bill and I got a reminder letter from the dentist. Fuck.