The grumpy thread

[3VOM]

I had a brief flash of unloading a 360 excavator and knocking the guys house down, but then I had another flash of reality that razing his home to the ground and crushing him to death would be seen as slightly over the top.

and you'd probably lose your driving licence.

[Lord Sterling]

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

Yeah, and not enough angry bastards moaning about people who post moaning about "minor" motoring transgressions on a thread dedicated to moaning eh?

[Hendry]

On the subject of tyres..this is something that gets to me, irks me even. I've seen countless people with high end Audi's/Merc's etc, only to run absolute budget rubber on them. I always tend to judge the owner on this basis that, if they can skimp on rubber, then they can skimp elsewhere with car maintenance. Why bother having such a high end car if you can't really do it the justice it deserves?

 

Because theyre what id say show-offs, they probably spent all their disposable income buying the bloody thing and then putting big wheels on it, and theyve chosen a bad compromise where they spend their money making themselves look well off in other peoples eyes at the expense of not being able to afford to service, maintain and repair the car if it goes wrong.

 

Im not being sexist, but I notice a lot more cars with bald tyres owned/driven by women than I do men, and working in a main dealers years ago my theory was backed up by the numbers of female owned cars coming in needing obvious maintenance or with hard to miss faults/noises/bangs/clunks/warning lights/bulbs blown. 

 

Im not that bothered about people putting budget tyres on a prestige car, to me theres no difference between doing that on a fancy car as a run of the mill car, i wouldnt do it personally on any car, and dont think its good on anything, but some people arent fussed about stuff like that the way we are, a tyre is a tyre to them, but it does piss me off when I see/hear any car with obvious dangerous defects. 

[purplebargeken]

A minor grump in all honesty...... anyone recall the purple Volvo V40 that I sold in Jan/Feb 2016? 

 

Just had a letter come through today saying that although the car is MOT'd and taxed (by someone) it is not showing upon the askMID database.

 

Hmm, why are they communicating with me? That would be due to them believing I am still the owner. I am pretty sure it has gone through two owners since I owned it. They will get a call tomorrow.

 

No doubt they will make me jump through all sorts of hoops to prove I don't actually have the car. Deep joy.

 

The car was sold on a weekend and the form posted on the Monday.

[HH-R]

I don't read much into tyres on cars, the majority of folk simply use them as an A to B convenience and don't know much other than putting fuel in and taking it to a garage to be fixed. If a garage tells them the tyres need replacing, so long as the replacements are round, have tread and hold air, they tend to put the cheapest ones that place uses on to keep the bill down as that's what most people want.

 

My own car has been owned by one previous owner since it was 6 months and old they splashed out on servicing every 5k miles, but when I got it it had some right mingebag tyres on.

[Guest Hooli]

I put el-cheapo tyres on, it's only a car ffs. It's not like they are as important as on a bike, bikes get decent rubber. Mind you due to the bikes I don't drive cars fast so it works out well.

[Kiltox]

Bearing in mind I still work for DHL but on another contract and 50% of the lorry driving work in the area come via DHL i think it would be a bad idea. I'm a 3rd party contractor and don't want to get banned from every DHL site forever.

 

To be fair, I could've just parked somewhere more suitable, but to be fair to me had I known that's what I would have done..

I think the worst thing about all of this is that you're a contractor not by choice but by the fact they are at it to avoid employers NI etc

 

I choose to be a contractor in my field because the rates are worth it - I assume that is not the case for you and many others who are told it's the only way you'll get work

[DodgeRover]

I had a brief flash of unloading a 360 excavator and knocking the guys house down, but then I had another flash of reality that razing his home to the ground and crushing him to death would be seen as slightly over the top.

I'm sure given some peoples work and financial situation, if they had been sacked with no warning it would be seen as a proportionate response

[D Spares & Tyres]

If theres a decent cop in Scotland, particularly in the traffic division, ive yet to meet them!

The only Scottish traffic cop I ever met pulled me for speeding on a Sunday outside a rural school..... Wasn't far over the limit but he was very concerned over the children i could have run over. He wasn't very happy when I asked if Scottish schools opened on a Sunday...

 

He also berated me for the crack in my windscreen and told me it was dangerous because ' it was now weakened and could shatter at any moment, covering me in glass'

 

Such a bell end

[Cheggers]

After 10 years on Autoshite, I've just used the Ignore function for the first time.

 

 

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[AlabamaShrimp]

Now everyone's trying to guess who you've blocked!

[twosmoke300]

Who said that ?

[Cheggers]

No everyone's trying to guess who you've blocked!

I know

 

 

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[AlabamaShrimp]

Lol insert an old picture of Catherine Tate saying something we've all heard before

[Noel Tidybeard]

Yeah thanks. A bang or two on the swede but nowt major.

Stupid BFO logging truck coming the other way in the middle of the road forced me to either head for vergetown or try my luck with a head on smashbattle.

The three hour walk home in 35C heat was the worst part.

 

did the BFO logging truck leave the scene of the accident he caused.....?

[alcyonecorporation]

After 10 years on Autoshite, I've just used the Ignore function for the first time.

 

 

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I had 28 people filtered on my old account.

 

There's one person I ignore as alcyonecorporation. And no, it's not you. I used the report button for the first time in 2017. I too have been posting in various forms here for ten years. 

 

Blocking people wasn't getting me anywhere. Although there are several users on here who regularly get on my nerves, there isn't a great deal I can do about it.

Were I in charge, I'd kick them so hard through the door they wouldn't land for a week. Undemocratic, so it's probably right I'm not a mod. 

 

If I bugger off for a few days, I'm either not feeling the content and/or pissed off with something posted. 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

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

 

I turned around by reversing into the opening of a one way side street the other day, and a passing police car stopped in front of me and the driver was yelling something at me (I didn't open my window) about the manoeuvre's illegality. He was actually angry about it. Truly bizarre. 

 

Between this and all the dashcam overreactions I see on YouTube, I reckon the Franz Ferdinand moment which kicks off World War III is going to be some bloke stopping in a yellow box junction and being attacked by cyclists. 

[Bucketeer]

did the BFO logging truck leave the scene of the accident he caused.....?

Yes. Yes it did. No hint of stopping even though I was sliding down the bank as it was driving past/at me.

It must be an everyday occurrence in these parts. A few people drove past as I was trying to get out of the car and didn't stop either. If I saw someone stumbling out of a car ditched down a steep banking I'm sure I would stop. If only to take a photo.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Now everyone's trying to guess who you've blocked!

LP.....

[Pillock]

I went to Bug Jam yesterday.

As we got in, the news going around was that BlackCurrent had crashed at the top end of the strip, just after crossing the line at 135mph. This car was seriously nice, being a record-holding full electric doorslammer. A truly magnificent car, a wonderful bit of engineering, capable of 8 second quarter miles.

 

There's a few grumps around this, I had a personal attachment to this car as it turns out it was built from a car my ex used to race, and prior to that we used to cruise around in bouncing off the bumpstops. I still remember taking her to look at it when it was for sale back in about 2002. It was a few years before I realised - wasn't until I saw the car with the decklid on and recognised the reg plate. I was reminded of this seeing the paint scraped off the door showing the lurid non-VW green colour, I think the doors and roof skin were the only original parts.

 

 

Secondly, people at the show had posted the crash to facebook before anyone knew anything - bearing in mind the driver's mum is on facebook and could have easily seen her son in a horrific accident with no context or confirmation he was OK. More than a little crass - in fact from the banking they had no idea if the driver was out of the car or even alive.

 

Thankfully the cage did the job perfectly and despite the car doing two full rolls and hitting the wall upside down, the driver lept out into the arms of a track official (to stop him touching a potentially live car!) and was drinking ale in the pits an hour later

 

In happier times...

 

RIP BlackCurrent.

 

Oh, also the weather at Santa Pod was proper dogshit, so I saw a total of four cars go up the strip before the rain came down. Although that meant I sat in the pits drinking tea and chatting shit all day (and someone had offered up half price tickets anyway) so not a total loss.

 

[Cavcraft]

Apparently having a mountain bike in the house is 'unsightly' and I need to 'put the bloody thing in the garage.' Pfft, women, hey?

[chaseracer]

Which garage, though? 

[DodgeRover]

What she means is a motorcycle is more astetically pleasing.

[JeeExEll]

^^ Leave a car engine on the kitchen table. Mountain bike will then be forgotten about. Sorted.

[anonymous user]

Just say that you would worry about it being in the garage as it cost you so much.

[alcyonecorporation]

Buy her a dishwasher, that usually works*

*Other sexist relationship advice is (un) available. 

[cobblers]

She had a 6ft tall naked black Mannequin in this spot for about 2 years, I reckon the bike is a bit more reasonable TBH but she still moans about it from time to time.

 

[Ghosty]

Apparently having a mountain bike in the house is 'unsightly' and I need to 'put the bloody thing in the garage.' Pfft, women, hey?

The parents got so sick of my bikes in the laundry/back of the garage that they got me a shed.

Then I got my Whyte which I refuse to keep in the shed. For some reason they don't mind.

At one point my mum was suggesting I get a mk2 Chopper for my birthday and keep it in the dining room!

[richardmorris]

https://www.nymr.co.uk/news/heartbreak-after-vandals-attack-heritage-railway-carriages-news

[cobblers]

Aah man, what a nightmare.