The grumpy thread

[D Spares & Tyres]

Fair enough.

 

Even so, I would never complain upon being presented with a vagina ☺

[SiC]

Saw fertility consultant again today.

 

Frustrating as we've had to do it all privately as fertility is at the bottom of the NHS pecking order and massively long waits. Sads because all the possible treatment options have been tried and failed.

 

Quite hard to accept that not only is no explanation or why, even more hard to know that there isn't much else can be done. It sucks.

[cort16]

It’s brutal. We waited two year for ivf but it did work !

[Slartibartfast]

Saw fertility consultant again today.

 

Frustrating as we've had to do it all privately as fertility is at the bottom of the NHS pecking order and massively long waits. Sads because all the possible treatment options have been tried and failed.

 

Quite hard to accept that not only is no explanation or why, even more hard to know that there isn't much else can be done. It sucks.

I'm sorry chap

[Guest Hooli]

Mainly because we hide them. It's become a daily ritual unfortunately.

 

That's sad that people couldn't follow simple rules for a fun thread.

[Kiltox]

Saw fertility consultant again today.

Frustrating as we've had to do it all privately as fertility is at the bottom of the NHS pecking order and massively long waits. Sads because all the possible treatment options have been tried and failed.

Quite hard to accept that not only is no explanation or why, even more hard to know that there isn't much else can be done. It sucks.

Just buy some more BL tat and all chance will be gone

 

HOLY SHIT IM JOKING - gutted for you, please ignore my inner cunt sir.

[SiC]

It’s brutal. We waited two year for ivf but it did work !

It would be great if we could go to the IVF route and we were very prepared to pay. This was the plan but needed to get the lining thicker. After over a year and half of tests, operations and treatment, nothing has worked nor increased it.

 

Feels all so sudden, abrupt and end of the line right now.

[strangeangel]

Mark E Smith dead. A true original; the appeal of most of his later work was lost on me, but the Hacienda in 1985 was one of the best gigs I've been lucky enough to witness, and pretty much everything The Fall recorded between 1979-85 was indispensible.

 

RIP curmudgeonly Manc dude.

[forddeliveryboy]

Yawn.

Shame. That thread was started with the best of intentions by Barratt, but had become something of a No Go zone because some people just get too excited about ladies.

 

It's a shame the pornography element was allowed to continue on and on, particularly given the thread has been killed once it seemed to have ceased. Or did I miss another bunch of readers' wives?

[cort16]

It would be great if we could go to the IVF route and we were very prepared to pay. This was the plan but needed to get the lining thicker. After over a year and half of tests, operations and treatment, nothing has worked nor increased it.

 

Feels all so sudden, abrupt and end of the line right now.

I’m Sorry to hear that. Things can change , right at the start they told us we had virtually no chance but it came around in the end .

[sheffcortinacentre]

The railways are so fucked because the shareholders dividends are more important

[chaseracer]

The railways are so fucked because the shareholders dividends are more important

 

As with so many "public services" these days.

[Talbot]

Not so much a Grumpy post as a "what the hell was he thinking?  What a twat" post, as the resultant mess delayed me for over three hours, and is still having a knock-on effect 2 days later:

 

Note:  I am about to describe a fairly serious RTA,  If you don't want to read about that, skip on please.

 

So, I am 500ish miles from home, doing my round-robin journey (as mentioned in the shitely thread) and I've left my trailer in the hotel car park while doing what I need to do in Edinburgh.  Go back to the hotel to collect the trailer.. it's pishin' doon wi' rain (scottish technical term) so I am trying to get done asap, and manage to foget to strap my ramps down..  Pull out onto the road and immediately remember they are loose.  Shit.  Pull into the next turning, pull over 50yards down the road and get out to strap them down.  I'm stood on the trailer sorting the ratchet strap, when there is an unmistakable crunching-of-plastic-and-metal sound from the junction I've just turned at.  Look up, and at the same time is a much bigger, and very ugly sounding crunch, and a small white van is moving in a very un-natural way.. and there's an HGV there too.

 

Shit.  That was a fairly massive accident.  It's a quiet-ish road, there's not a lot of traffic on it, and I'm 50 yards away from what sounded like a nasty crash.  I cannot ignore that.  Bollocks to the trailer.  Run down, and sure enough, there's a rigid-eight lorry with some OSF damage.  He's fine.  Driver is on the phone already calling 999 (on speaker, can hear he's talking to an operator).  Next vehicle is an Astra.  Some damage... not that bad, driver is talking to someone and appears fine.  OK.. move on.  Next vehicle is the issue:

 

A VW caddy van has clearly been the vehicle that hit the Rigid Eight.  The front is basically gone.  Driver's side door is non-existant.  Cannot see any way of accessing the driver that side, who I can see is awake and alert, but dazed and confused.  Try the passenger side.  Door is jammed, but as a moderately* large person, I can heave on things quite hard.  Door eventually opens, and the driver is definitely in some trouble.  The passenger side dashboard is over the seat.  The centre console is facing me and over the gearstick, the steering wheel is part over the drivers seat and part over the handbrake, and the driver basically has a dashboard in his chest, as it's been pushed about 2' back towards him.  He doesn't appear to be badly injured, but who knows what may have happened.  Main issue.. he's trapped, and trapped solidly.  There is nothing that I or anyone else there can do, so the only thing I can do is keep him calm, keep him talking and keep him alert until the emergency services arrive.

 

Which took about 10-15 minutes.  Felt like an eterity to me.  Probably felt even worse to the trapped driver.  We talk about what he does, where he's from.  He asks me to call his boss and tell him there's been an accident, which I do.  Turns out its a company van, probably why he wanted to tell his boss.  More idle chat about nothing in particular, just keeping him from panicking and struggling.  Two Fire and Rescue appliances arrive, and they start to assess the situation.  I'm asked to stay with the driver as I'm helping keep him from struggling and panicking.  Ok, will do.  Jaws of life, and various other hydraulic equipment starts to be used.  Remains of driver's door cut off.  Various bits cut away, and then a chuffing enormous hydraulic ram is used between the base of the B-pillar and the remains of the A-pillar / bulkhead.  Hydraulic pumps strain, and the dash is slowly pushed away from the driver.  It's like watching a crash in reverse in slow motion.. very odd feeling.

 

More metal is cut away.  The remains of the windscreen is removed.  More hydraulic rams are used and the dash moves a little further away.  Driver cannot move without some rather nasty pain, so I'm asked to keep him as still as I can.  Ambulances arrive.  Paramedic looks over me to the driver, but tells me to stay put.  Now that they can access him from the driver's side, they don't need access past me.  Discussion between paramedics and Fire/Rescue, and they decide (unsurprisingly) that he needs a spine board.  How to get him on one as gently as possible?  More power equiment.

 

Bulkhead behind driver/passenger is removed (unscrewed and pulled out).  Driver-side B-pillar is cut top and bottom and removed. Both back doors are removed.  A lot of the driver's side of the vehicle is removed right the way into the back body.  Remains of A-pillar is removed. My assistance is no longer needed, as paramedics now need to get to both sides of him, but have to promise him that I'm not leaving and will still be here. Neck collar on,  driver's seat is cut in half at the base, driver is very gently reclined and moved onto a spine board and taken into an ambulance.  I pass his phone on to a paramedic.

 

It's now about 90 minutes since the accident occured.  It's taken over an hour of metalworking to get the driver free.  At this point I realise there are about 15 Fire and Rescue persons, about 10 paramedics and 10-15 police present.  The place is lit up like blackpool illuminations and there are red-and-blue flashing lights as far as I can see.  Erm.. this is quite a serious incident then!

 

Speak to Police officers, and given that I was the only person who sort-of saw what happened who wasn't involved, I need to give a statement.. which I do.  Speaking to the officer, and putting together the damage that I had seen on the various vehicles, it became clear what had happened:

 

The VW van had been driving North along the A68.  The Astra had been to his left, about to pull out of the side road that I was in, and the Rigid-Eight had been travelling south, but was going to turn across the VW to turn into the road that the Astra was pulling out of.  The astra pulled out.  Straight into the side of the VW, and pushed him into the path of the Rigid-eight, which hadn't quite got to the junction yet.  VW driver had absolutely no chance of avoiding.  Rigid-Eight driver had absolutely no chance of avoiding.  Astra driver will be charged with dangerous driving.

 

An utter mess, and very very close to being much more serious for the VW driver.  He *just* had a survival space in the remains of his vehicle.  a few MPH more, and he might not have had.

 

A big well done to the emergency services, and a big "what the hell were you doing?" to the astra driver.  The visibility wasn't brilliant (it was raining) but it was good enough to see what was coming.  There was no reason for this accident.  It could have easily been avoided with the use of just a little care and attention.  I hope the VW driver makes a full recovery, and I really do feel very sorry for him, as he did absolutely nothing wrong.  A huge amount of destruction, pain, emotion, chaos, resources and countless knock-on effects to hundreds of persons, for the want of a split-second's worth of attention by a driver.

 

I think I just had to write this out to make a little more sense of it.  This seemed like the best place to do so.  Stay safe everyone.  Please drive defensively.  You just don't know what will happen, or what effect someone elses actions may have on you.

[forddeliveryboy]

The railways are so fucked because the shareholders dividends are more important

The BBC ran a story this morning about a government consultancy which reported on the future of UK roads, the journalist missed out all the daft ideas which the report took very seriously and concentrated on an aside that in the future it would be possible to reduce the cost of 'tax' on motoring for the elderly and those on benefits.

 

Whereas the serious suggestions were for PFI to get going big time for roads, that congestion would have grown another 63% in 12 years and road use could be controlled by real-time taxation.

[eddyramrod]

Stay safe everyone.  Please drive defensively.  You just don't know what will happen, or what effect someone elses actions may have on you.

Top advice.  And yes, you did right telling us the story.  It looks like you've got it pretty-well sorted out in your head now.  Try not to dwell on it.

In 1989 I saw a cyclist killed by a drunk-driver on a Sunday afternoon.  I can still replay it in my head like video.  The bloke in the Escort van didn't stop.

[chaseracer]

I think I just had to write this out to make a little more sense of it.  This seemed like the best place to do so.  Stay safe everyone.  Please drive defensively.  You just don't know what will happen, or what effect someone elses actions may have on you.

Holy shit.  Glad you're unhurt.  Hope VW man mends soon.

[DeeJay]

Liked for your actions, (not the accident obviously).

[AlabamaShrimp]

Mainly because we hide them. It's become a daily ritual unfortunately.

Then ban the dipshit that kept doing it if they've been warned.

[danthecapriman]

Bloody hell! Hope the VW guy is ok. Feel bad for the truck driver too as it wasn't his fault.

just goes to show the damage you can do behind the wheel.

[Slartibartfast]

Well done for helping keep that poor bugger calm. It will have made a huge difference to him.

[Wack]

Saw fertility consultant again today.

 

Frustrating as we've had to do it all privately as fertility is at the bottom of the NHS pecking order and massively long waits. Sads because all the possible treatment options have been tried and failed.

 

Quite hard to accept that not only is no explanation or why, even more hard to know that there isn't much else can be done. It sucks.

Nature is a funny thing, a guy at work wanted kids but couldn't have them,they'd been together for 20 years, he got to his 40s, her late 30s then bang, pregnant, doctors couldn't explain why , at least sex is something you do many times a year(hopefully) so there's always a chance.

[paulplom]

Just changed the battery on daughter Iphone6, fuck me what a palaver, it's glued in to fuck and after a bit of levering the old battery started to smell a tad " stop levering or I'll melt ya bastard face off"  

 

All done now with several screws left over 

I tried to change the battery in a tomtom a few years ago. I accidentally pierced the battery with a knife. It went off like a large firework. I was in the wash house at the time and flung it across the room where it proceeded to burn a massive hole in the lino and set fire to the skirting board. I nearly shit myself. Very  dangerous. Be careful.

[Lacquer Peel]

Fuck, like, at the end of the day it’s all just metal

 

We get very emotional about it but as long as you walk away

I think you missed the moral of the story.

[LostnotFound]

My grumps are nothing compared to the above. The aftermath of an accident is horrible but our emergency services do an amazing job. I do wish we had a government that valued them.

 

 

For me it's bloody cars. Got up at 3:30 to drive to work, car isn't running as smoothly as it should do. Presumed it would sort itself out as it warmed up. After a few miles it got worse, stopped running on all 4 then the eml started flashing.

 

Queue slow crawl home to nab the wife's car, to show how early I leave for work I still make it in time. I'll have a look at the fault code when I'm home and it's hopefully just a coil pack I think to myself.

 

However when I get to work I pick up my work bag from the pass anger footwell and it's soaking wet at the bottom. Imagine that I'll get an earful for something leaking in there and soaking her car, but it's bone dry inside so it turns out it's the other way round.

 

As mentioned on the bikeshite thread the vfr calipers are enroute to being rebuilt, so my current fleet isn't doing too well...

 

What I want to know is how the fuck do they all know when is exactly the same time to play up?

[M'coli]

Final grump about the C & G thread? I rexkon it should have been parsed of the latest dodgy stuff and locked. I quite liked seeing the older photos of granny going shopping with a car in the picture too.

[alf892]

Then ban the dipshit that kept doing it if they've been warned.

This...........that would be moderation.

 

I enjoyed the thread......especially the older pics......... whether 'glamour' or not. I think I contributed some nice ones too.

 

It is a shit decision.

[Cavcraft]

No it wouldn’t, it would lead to people saying we’re power crazy and all that bollocks, the usual ‘freedom of speech’ stuff and then more moaning.

 

Sadly, it was a brilliant thread ruined by people just not thinking.

[Mally]

Saw fertility consultant again today.

 

Frustrating as we've had to do it all privately as fertility is at the bottom of the NHS pecking order and massively long waits. Sads because all the possible treatment options have been tried and failed.

 

Quite hard to accept that not only is no explanation or why, even more hard to know that there isn't much else can be done. It sucks.

 

Sorry to hear that.

My S in Law was on the early trials with Drs Steptoe and Edwards at Oldham.

Were about 6 couples on the trials..

Resulted eventually in the birth of Louise Brown? I think.

They persevered with my S in L for quite a while after that, but to no avail.

[D Spares & Tyres]

I was born in the seventies, too late to understand fully the animosity between mods and rockers

 

I have always been a rocker though. Lately I'm starting to understand...

[Parky]

Can I just say well done Talbot, that must have been pretty traumatic for you - not as much as for the VW driver but still a heck of an unpleasant situation to be put in because of the actions of an idiot driver.

 

What was the Astra driver doing during all of this?