The grumpy thread

[SiC]

Obviously not enough. She needs to understand:

 

What is a Disney Rhyme?

[dollywobbler]

Got home about 4. No real problem in the modern motor, a new shape BMW X3. However, last 5 yards is onto the drive. Backed up no problem, put on stupid electric handbrake and car slides back onto the road. Repeated twice before it eventually stayed put.

 

In house, kettle on. Here's a strange beeping noise outside. Ignored it, brewed up, looks out of window and my car is in the middle of the road.

 

Outside with a few bags of Saxa's finest and cleared the drive and car back on. Looking out of window every 10 mins now though to make sure it's still where I left it.

 

Can you not leave it in gear? Jeepers, I learnt never to trust a handbrake when I was 18 (first day of 2CV ownership...). Also, bricks.

[danthecapriman]

I managed to break the sodding passenger front outside door handle on the Volvo today. It’s been getting gradually more and more difficult to open this door, I’ve had to pull the release handle quite hard to open the door but today it made a snapping sound and won’t open from outside anymore.

Opens fine from inside and looking online it seems the plastic around the handle gets brittle and snaps off so sounds like that’s what’s happened.

 

A brand new handle is £15 off eBay, downside is that changing it means stripping the door card and trims, which are made of brittle plastic! And it’s frigging freezing outside so bollocks to doing that job for a while.

[Lord Sterling]

^^^ I've just read Dan's post in a Scottish accent after seeing the above 'Limmy's Show' video. Aye.

[Wack]

If only there was a system to help people like her not speed?

There is. It's called "being banned". That'll help her with that pesky speeding, unless she can also walk at 26mph.

Might have been on pistonheads, can't remember , guy got off a ban for multiple speeding offences because it would affect his disabled son , at the time I was working as a courier driving 80,000 miles a year in cities and towns I didn't know and central London 2-3 times a week , I had a clean licence then, I don't drive that many miles any more but it's still clean and has been for over 20 years

 

As far as I was concerned disabled son or not this guy had 4 chances to alter his driving and chose not to so should've been banned, why should my or your family be put at risk because he drives like a cunt

 

Then I read a surprising statistic , there are over 10,000 people still driving with 12 or more points on their licence , Blackburn/Darwen is the highest in England( not surprising after driving round there regularly)

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40862975

[Ghosty]

^^^ I've just read Dan's post in a Scottish accent after seeing the above 'Limmy's Show' video. Aye.

 

 

Well it is about Volvos...

[taxi paul]

Our cat is cremated and it's ashes are in a box next to my wife's ashes. Best place for the carpet pulling in and out the door bleeding thing.

[BorniteIdentity]

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-woman-who-nine-speeding-1263439

 

To save you the rising anger, this is an 'avid fundraiser who also volunteers at an animal sanctuary' who's been caught speeding three times in a month, having 'recently' been caught running a red light, and is blaming everything she can think of in the local paper. Bullshit checklist:

 

'made to feel like a criminal'

'it's going to destroy my business'

'I don't think it's fair to be penalised for something everyone does'

'I do respect the limit'

'it's so hard to drive at that speed'

'there's no difference between someone that does 70 in a 20 and someone that does 26'

'I feel the system isn’t there to help people like me'

 

[Mally]

Can you not leave it in gear? Jeepers, I learnt never to trust a handbrake when I was 18 (first day of 2CV ownership...). Also, bricks.

 

How does the ice know your cars in gear?

Also, bricks

[Captain Furious]

Rough snowfall map of the UK as of 09:00 GMT on 1st March 2018

 

 

Ffs is one 'snow day' really too much to ask

[The Moog]

Our college has declared itself open .... which is going to be interesting.

 

I am in along with a handful of staff, we have a handful of students, it is still snowing, icy underfoot. Classes will have to be repeated due to students not being in.

 

It leads to a philosophical question of when is a college considered a college? Does it require students and staff?

 

We hope to find out today. 

[DodgeRover]

If a tree falls in an empty college does it still make a sound?

[alcyonecorporation]

If a tree falls in an empty college does it still make a sound?

 

If so, how many UCAS points does it generate? 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

If so, how many UCAS points does it generate? 

Half if they're on an A-Level, all of them if it's a BTEC...

[alcyonecorporation]

Half if they're on an A-Level, all of them if it's a BTEC...

 

But what do you see yourself doing with your empty college in the future? Empty university isn't like empty college. 

[AlabamaShrimp]

Talking about cultural appropriation on the Wright Stuff. What an absolute load of bollocks.

 

Who the fuck came up with that sentence? It's crazy. It's like saying you can't learn from other people.

 

'In my country 100s die each week through infection' 'the country next door had this penicillin stuff. We best not use it though so we don't insult anyone'

 

We need to ban numbers as they're from India. Shit I've just realised I'm using the Roman alphabet!!

[Junkman]

So, after my recent Germany endeavour I say this: Public transport fucking sucks and is no longer acceptable as a means of travel in the 21st century.

But you have to put yourself through that ordeal from time to time, just to be reminded what a fascinating machine the automobile really is.

[chaseracer]

If a tree falls in an empty college does it still make a sound?

If so, how many UCAS points does it generate?

Half if they're on an A-Level, all of them if it's a BTEC...

But what do you see yourself doing with your empty college in the future? Empty university isn't like empty college.

Metaphysics 101?  Welcome to AS... 

[Junkman]

Talking about cultural appropriation on the Wright Stuff. What an absolute load of bollocks.

 

Who the fuck came up with that sentence? It's crazy. It's like saying you can't learn from other people.

 

'In my country 100s die each week through infection' 'the country next door had this penicillin stuff. We best not use it though so we don't insult anyone'

 

We need to ban numbers as they're from India. Shit I've just realised I'm using the Roman alphabet!!

 

 

A man once told me I shouldn't do Blues, because I'm white.

I said to him that following his logic, black people shouldn't do the Opera?

[Tickman]

So, after my recent Germany endeavour I say this: Public transport fucking sucks and is no longer acceptable as a means of travel in the 21st century.

But you have to put yourself through that ordeal from time to time, just to be reminded what a fascinating machine the automobile really is.

 

I did Berlin two weeks ago and the public transport there just worked. If you missed your train then another was along in 5 minutes. The buses came on time and the trams ran like clockwork.

 

We then flew back into Glasgow and the M8 was closed at that junction with no diversion signs at all.

 

I hate public transport but not in Berlin!

[mercrocker]

A man once told me I shouldn't do Blues, because I'm white.

 

 

 

That should only apply to Pat Boone.

[MikeR]

FFS

 

even the gas is running short !!!

 

https://news.sky.com/story/uk-facing-gas-supply-crunch-as-country-gripped-by-big-freeze-11271649

[Cavcraft]

Bring on fracking.

[xtriple]

Just been to the Co-op (because I NEEDED to) and the bloody place is full of people all buying madly. No milk, bread, shelves are pretty bare and all I wanted was some fags and Jumbones for the dogs. I felt the need to buy more, so I bought hot cross buns at the checkout. T'is madness I tell thee! We have got snow sure, but it's not loads and the roads are all pretty much clear and it's forecast to rain tomorrow anyway.

 

I thought all the posts about 'panic' buying was exaggerated, seems that is not so!

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Metaphysics 101?  Welcome to AS... 

I see the nothingness before me and declare it present.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Just been to the Co-op (because I NEEDED to) and the bloody place is full of people all buying madly. No milk, bread, shelves are pretty bare and all I wanted was some fags and Jumbones for the dogs. I felt the need to buy more, so I bought hot cross buns at the checkout. T'is madness I tell thee! We have got snow sure, but it's not loads and the roads are all pretty much clear and it's forecast to rain tomorrow anyway.

 

I thought all the posts about 'panic' buying was exaggerated, seems that is not so!

Hah!  This happened down a couple of villages along:

 

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/weald/news/police-called-as-selfish-customer-160747/

[Datsuncog]

Just been to the Co-op [...]  No milk, bread, shelves are pretty bare

 

To be fair, that sounds like my local Co-op every day of the year...

[AMC Rebel]

every time I see "CAN HAZ" a little part of me dies.  Where in the name of all that is shite did that start*, and would I be convicted for murdering the git responsible?

 

* I think I know where it started on here - I mean in the world, like.

[Captain Furious]

Meanwhile...a friend of mine just posted this on faceache.  Somewhere near Edinburgh I presume because that's where she lives.

 

 

"But you're still gonna try and make it in, right?"

 

[The Moog]

So college closed.... Woo