The grumpy thread

[Anthony]

My missus and her complete lack of understanding of traffic and how long it takes to get anywhere.

 

I told her it would take 2 hours to get to Heathrow yesterday evening given the weight of traffic heading back into London after half term. Apparently I didn't know what I was talking about as someone from work told her it'd take an hour so she could leave later. Unsurprisingly, it took 1h 57m, she missed her flight and my left ear is now a little deafer than it was.

 

Was meant to be picking her up again at 8.30pm tonight, which I only agreed to as the traffic would be quiet then. She phoned a short time ago to say she'd got on an earlier flight and that I now needed to pick her up at 6.30pm instead, when chances are traffic will still be a nightmare, which of course she had no consideration for nor thought to ask whether it was convenient to collect her that early given I'm at work. Inevitably I'll be late as there's no way I'll get there by the time I finish work, which will of course somehow be my fault.

 

I'm apparently "unreasonable" for suggesting that next time she should drive herself...

[Bren]

today we have mostly killed the lexus.

 

Kerry driving, we pulled out a junction and collected a couple on a motorbike.

 

think the rider has bust a leg, but his missus, on the pillion was ok.

 

she couldn't really see with a load of kids milling around on the footpath at the mouth of the junction. No excuse, was all our fault,we pulled out into their path and at least no one was killed.

 

hell, i didn't see them until they were sailing over the bonnet!!

 

caught us right on the indicator on the driverside of the car, so wing, bumper, bonnet and all the front of the car has been pushed over. like this

 

 

going to call insurance tomorrow to get the wreck towed away, and no, neither of us want the car back and as such we don't want to see it again.

 

i guess after our excess is paid out of the settlement we will have £10, maybe £15 out of it.

 

ah well, it was fun while it lasted........

No one was killed. We all lose concentration at some point - I am waiting for an NIP from North Wales because of a lack of concentration.

[OwdChina]

My missus and her complete lack of understanding of traffic and how long it takes to get anywhere.

 

I'm apparently "unreasonable" for suggesting that next time she should drive herself...

You have my sympathies..................I hate driving to San Diego airport for that very reason............And now flatly refuse to drive to Los Angeles airport for any reason at all................90ish mile journey took 6hours one way last time.

Everybody coming here is now told to get a connecting flight from LA to San Diego..........where I will grumpily pick them up....wife included.

[Cavcraft]

My missus and her complete lack of understanding of traffic and how long it takes to get anywhere.

 

I told her it would take 2 hours to get to Heathrow yesterday evening given the weight of traffic heading back into London after half term. Apparently I didn't know what I was talking about as someone from work told her it'd take an hour so she could leave later. Unsurprisingly, it took 1h 57m, she missed her flight and my left ear is now a little deafer than it was.

 

Was meant to be picking her up again at 8.30pm tonight, which I only agreed to as the traffic would be quiet then. She phoned a short time ago to say she'd got on an earlier flight and that I now needed to pick her up at 6.30pm instead, when chances are traffic will still be a nightmare, which of course she had no consideration for nor thought to ask whether it was convenient to collect her that early given I'm at work. Inevitably I'll be late as there's no way I'll get there by the time I finish work, which will of course somehow be my fault.

 

I'm apparently "unreasonable" for suggesting that next time she should drive herself...

 

You should have just said 'Yeah love, I'll leave now, you said it was only an hour' then rolled up at ten past nine tonight.

[eddyramrod]

NOBODY has balls that big, Billy!  Not even MrBollox!

[plasticvandan]

It's Monday and already this week can FUCK OFF.

Today had a few short trips and finished early or so I thought.

My job tomorrow is from Long Marsden I Warwickshire. This means I get to go home but have to make my own way home from Banbury in Oxfordshire. Thinking I'd be clever and save a bit of money I thought I'd call up amother driver who was heading slightly further south to Kidlington but had another job out and was heading towards Wolverhampton. Except his job in Kidlington had failed (vehicle was sold to another third-party) when we arrived. So it meant waiting around for an hour or so until the office could get their are shifted into gear, who then decided that he should make his own way home as I was supposed to.

Fair enough, but upon trying to buy a discounted ticket the site rejected my card, then I remembered that I've got bills coming out in a few days time and I'm already at the limit. Thinking 'FUCK this' I bought a ticket straight from the machine costing me £40. It'll be another £10 to get home in a taxi as our wonderful busses stop plying their trade after 6pm.

Phoned up work and explained my circumstances, they said they'd help me get to my next job tomorrow. I cannot honestly see this week going well...

Trust Ford?

[chaseracer]

+1.

 

I think it’s just a stupid ‘new’ fad all this ‘needs restored’ and what not. I wonder if most people who type like this also put ‘alot’ a lot.

 

It's SCTSH.

[wuvvum]

"needs salted".

 

I still struggle with this form that crops up on here and in eBay ads (needs fixed, wants washed).

 

Even if exposed to it through local dialect I can't understand how it sound natural or correct? Isn't it as grating as could of, would of, should of?

I thought it was odd when I first saw it, but I've seen it so often now that I barely notice it any more.  It seems that, like most of the other legacies of the Roman occupation, the gerundive failed to make it north of the Wall.

 

Now "would of", on the other hand...

[chaseracer]

Trust Ford?

 

Never have, never will... 

[clayts450]

Driving rant. Having pored over the Highway Code after being charmed into attending a What's Driving Us course in December due to skipping a red light by 1 second, I have had my semi-retired driving brain shocked into remembering that an amber on its own means stop at a traffic light unless it's unsafe to do so. So on the way home to night, zipped through one amber on a peddy crossing as matey boy behind was right up my arse in his SUV (although TBF he pulled up).

 

Later, different matey boy takes exception to my pulling up at an amber midway round a roundabout as this time it's safe for me to do so and matey gives me a long blast of the horn. Waiting for the green light he then pulls around me, cuts me up and (naturally when the light turns red and amber together - ie still stop) dives into the left hand turn we're both taking and zooms off in his VX Knobhead.

 

He breaks the speed limit and gets a flash off the warning sign (sadly not a camera) and disappears off into the distance. Until about half a mile later when he's stuck at a roundabout and I coast safely and legally up behind him. Net gain of this bloke, 1 millisecond shaved off his journey time.

 

The expression cock rocket was thereby utilised.

[Lord Sterling]

Trust Ford?

The very same. Dickheads could've had the vehicle ready for today but decided it was booked for valeting tomorrow and they wouldn't get it ready until tomorrow. Twunts.

[warren t claim]

Fucking so called 'Mischief Night'. 

 

An excuse for the local feral tip rats to throw missiles at passing cars, mostly taxis. 

 

Not worth the risk of a smashed window so I'm at home with a bottle of Merlot.

[taxi paul]

I never worked mischief night. Left it to the settle drivers who didn't give a shit has not their cab..also the greedy drivers who would brag about making a fortune while getting the cab wrecked by knobheads.

[plasticvandan]

The very same. Dickheads could've had the vehicle ready for today but decided it was booked for valeting tomorrow and they wouldn't get it ready until tomorrow. Twunts.

I had to go up there several times over the past couple of months to fit 30 hardtops onto Ford Rangers.First time none of the trucks were ready,second time none were ready and several werent even on site,and had to fit them all outside in the rain,3rd time did them all inside but had to wait hour and half before they could find them.This despite having been emailed the list of chassis numbers needed a week in advance.useless.

[LostnotFound]

Halloween, yes it has his history in the colonies both in Scotland and America but it's just not English so can you fuck off with your tonnes and tonnes of pointless plastic shipped from China ready to go straight to landfill 24 hours later just so a few supermarkets can make a couple of bob. 

 

It irritates me we already have a decent celebration at this time of year but that gets overshadowed, and the only reason being there is no real commercial money to be made in someone collecting scrap wood,buying half a dozen sausages and a few sparklers .

 

Rant over till tomorrow where I shall moan if any adult allows their child to practice for selling the big issue by begging at strangers front doors.

[chaseracer]

I would like to rant about my boss, who’s very keen to plaster the wall at work with motivational memes. I suggested ‘Eat well, keep fit, die anyway’ which got a laugh but didn’t make the final cut.

 

I'm prepared to bet the mortgage that your employer has both a 'mission statement' and a grammatically deficient tagline below the company name for use on all marketing or correspondence... 

[5speedracer]

^^^^

I probably speak for all the Scots on here in that I object to Scotland being called a colony. Yes, we know a lot of southerners think of us that way but you don't have to bloody tell us!

 

 

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[Guest Hooli]

Halloween, yes it has his history in the colonies both in Scotland and America but it's just not English so can you fuck off with your tonnes and tonnes of pointless plastic shipped from China ready to go straight to landfill 24 hours later just so a few supermarkets can make a couple of bob. 

 

It irritates me we already have a decent celebration at this time of year but that gets overshadowed, and the only reason being there is no real commercial money to be made in someone collecting scrap wood,buying half a dozen sausages and a few sparklers .

 

Rant over till tomorrow where I shall moan if any adult allows their child to practice for selling the big issue by begging at strangers front doors.

 

Well said, I fooking hate halloween.

[Guest Hooli]

^^^^

I probably speak for all the Scots on here in that I object to Scotland being called a colony. Yes, we know a lot of southerners think of us that way but you don't have to bloody tell us!

 

 

Colony of what though?

 

Ya nae the same as us ken!

[Guest Hooli]

Today's rant is from yesterday!
 

Parking the Saab on my drive so I still have room to get the bike out means it's right near the house & edge of the drive, guess what happens when the front wheel falls off the drive?

 

 

Yup, I crashed into my own house FFS.

[Lacquer Peel]

I dislike grumping about people but there's an especially irritating guy on the CCC Facebook page who is seemingly determined to turn it into a page about himself. And he reckons his XM is worth £3k.

 

Yes, I know who you mean. He seems to have plenty of disposable income and spends it on crappy old Citroens so it's hard to totally dislike him but he does post a lot.

[dollywobbler]

I love Halloween, but mostly for the sexy witches and candy skulls. 

[fordperv]

Colony of what though?

 

Ya nae the same as us ken!

Volvo drivers?

[MorrisItalSLX]

My old garage stereo just ate one of my favourite cassette tapes (The B-52's - Mesopotamia + Party Mix). Now both the stereo and the tape are in the bin.

 

eBay replacement tape - $50!!! 

[Heidel_Kakao]

My old garage stereo just ate one of my favourite cassette tapes (The B-52's - Mesopotamia + Party Mix). Now both the stereo and the tape are in the bin.

 

eBay replacement tape - $50!!! 

That is annoying, Amazon UK have one for £5.30 but don't know if they will ship down under.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Party-Mix-Mesopotamia-CASSETTE-B-52s/dp/B00000EYTP/ref=tmm_acs_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Maybe it is time to upgrade to those new fangled CD's that they have nowadays.

[MorrisItalSLX]

That is annoying, Amazon UK have one for £5.30 but don't know if they will ship down under.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Party-Mix-Mesopotamia-CASSETTE-B-52s/dp/B00000EYTP/ref=tmm_acs_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Maybe it is time to upgrade to those new fangled CD's that they have nowadays.

 

But that would require me replacing my entire music library AND putting a new stereo in the Jag, or I could break out my vinyl now I have a proper turntable.

 

Also, I thought the Proton had turned you back into a tape user?

[xtriple]

I've not heard someone say they're going to "mash the tea" for ages.  Ah, childhood.

 

I'm from Rotherham as well! My Nan used to say things like that all the time and the Tea pot was left on the gas burner all day and topped up as required, that was proper 'mashed' like liquid tannin in a hot pot!  

[alcyonecorporation]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE APHIDS

[Heidel_Kakao]

But that would require me replacing my entire music library AND putting a new stereo in the Jag, or I could break out my vinyl now I have a proper turntable.

 

Also, I thought the Proton had turned you back into a tape user?

That is a good point, I was thinking it might it be easier to obtain that album on CD and then you could record it to tape yourself but then I guess you may as well just download it for free online somewhere if you were going to do that.

 

The Proton has turned me back into a bit of a tape user but only because it feels appropriate in that vehicle, the majority of my music is on CD and while physical media seems kind of pointless I still like being able to pop into a charity shop or Poundland and pick up a new CD and jam it straight into the stereo and listen to it instantly.

[AMC Rebel]

I thought it was odd when I first saw it, but I've seen it so often now that I barely notice it any more.  It seems that, like most of the other legacies of the Roman occupation, the gerundive failed to make it north of the Wall.

 

Except the legal system - where the Scots are more akin to Roman Law than the English - odd.