The grumpy thread

[alcyonecorporation]

middle of the road  

[LightBulbFun]

If it doesn't play this I'll be disappointed.

 

 

looks at video... looks at my user name  

 

whatever you do dont* google search for pictures of a Low pressure sodium Lamp or SOX lamp after watching that video....

 

(the props department for that music video must of been quite interesting, especially dealing with  the heat produced by those quite clearly incandescent lamps.... "just stand still while I insert this itchy fibreglass/asbestos heat insulation sheet between your tits!")

[angle]

I've done the same with a new can of plusgas in the back of the Xantia!

It could be worse, I've done it with four pints of semi-skimmed.

[DodgeRover]

my makita 18v charger has a changable choon for when its finished nuking the batteries

After the umpteenth time it Gives other people longer to triangulate on it's whereabouts before chucking a brick at it too!!

[Aston Martin]

This cunt nearly wiped me out.

I was at a roundabout at the front and couldn’t move due to a line of traffic coming. This learner was indicating right, she then decides she doesn’t want the exit to the left of me. So she yanks the wheel left to give my car a facelift, the instructor grabs the wheel and pulls her into the proper lane.

 

But it’s ok as the learner was laughing on the way past...

[Supernaut]

After the umpteenth time it Gives other people longer to triangulate on it's whereabouts before chucking a brick at it too!!

 

I wonder if anybody does a charger with bluetooth / wifi connectivity, then it can send your phone a message once it's charged.

A custom message would be good: "Oi, shitface! Your drill has charged! Come get it!"

[Parky]

This letter in the FT from Julian Malins QC

 

Nice eh? Apparently a state education isn’t enough to pass a driving theory test. That must mean every youngster on the road was privately educated - and my state education would have prevented me passing the New Zealand theory test. Oh hang on, no it didn’t.....

 

Everyone is entitled to an opinion but really, is this his best shot? Has he no idea of insurance costs for young drivers?

 

For shits and giggles I did a comparison. In 1990 I had a Renault 5 1100cc valued at £300. The insurance cost me £280 which I earned in a couple of weeks full time at a local Supermarket during the school holidays.

 

If I bought Parkette a Clio 1.2 valued at £325 found on eBay, the insurance would cost £2800. I would suspect that was a significantly larger barrier to the road than a “mere” state education

[madrat]

Did you tell them they had a gun in the car? That response is quite unheard of around here!

No just said 6 lads in a car in a public park, smoking dope, and will then drive off stoned, seen them do it before.

[alcyonecorporation]

This letter in the FT from Julian Malins QC

 

Nice eh? Apparently a state education isn’t enough to pass a driving theory test. That must mean every youngster on the road was privately educated - and my state education would have prevented me passing the New Zealand theory test. Oh hang on, no it didn’t.....

 

Everyone is entitled to an opinion but really, is this his best shot? Has he no idea of insurance costs for young drivers?

 

For shits and giggles I did a comparison. In 1990 I had a Renault 5 1100cc valued at £300. The insurance cost me £280 which I earned in a couple of weeks full time at a local Supermarket during the school holidays.

 

If I bought Parkette a Clio 1.2 valued at £325 found on eBay, the insurance would cost £2800. I would suspect that was a significantly larger barrier to the road than a “mere” state education

 

 

Breathtakingly arrogant. 

 

The QC, not Parky. 

[Captain Furious]

When I did the theory test (admittedly some years ago now) merely being alive was enough to pass it.  This was before they had the interactive hazard perception stuff, but essentially if you didn't know the answer you picked the most cautious answer.

 

An elderly lady steps out in the road infront of you, do you

 

1) Wind down the window and shout abuse at her

2) Speed up and swerve round her

3) Slow down and prepare to stop and let her cross

4) Run her over

 

That sort of level.  To say nothing of the fact that you could buy a book which had all the questions and answers in and brain dump them.

[sierraman]

I stopped reading when I saw Julian Malins QC.

[Lacquer Peel]

Young people are just stupid! It's not that they're priced out of everything that previous generations could afford and took for granted.

[DodgeRover]

I wonder if anybody does a charger with bluetooth / wifi connectivity, then it can send your phone a message once it's charged.

A custom message would be good: "Oi, shitface! Your drill has charged! Come get it!"

Milwaulkee I beleive

[DodgeRover]

Young people are just stupid! It's not that they're priced out of everything that previous generations could afford and took for granted.

Can you add scarcasm or serious to this post just in case it triggers forum melt down or Maxwells big silver ban hammer?

[Lacquer Peel]

Sarcerious

[alcyonecorporation]

on what planet is that response acceptable?????????????????????????????????

[Alfamale]

I have always said that some kind of IQ test should be part of the driving examination.

 

**Runs, puts on tin hat and hides**

[scaryoldcortina]

Planet Clare.

[gm]

gah - there's a car I might be interested in on gummers but it's contact by email only - I've just finished work and it's not far from here but sod's law the seller will not respond until I get home (25miles away)

[Tamworthbay]

I have always said that some kind of IQ test should be part of the driving examination.

**Runs, puts on tin hat and hides**

If you had seen the results of reaction time experiments of some of the people I know who now drive you wouldn’t worry about the tin hat, you would want a full airbag suit.

[meggersdog]

Planet Clare.

has pink air

all the trees are red

no one ever dies there

no one has a head

[iainrcz]

My job makes me grumpy.

 

I've had enough, I'm so bored of it I tend to walk around switched off hoping no one needs any help.

 

It's been the same shit give or take for the last 13 years.

 

3 shifts a week is all it's got going for it.

[fordperv]

For fuck sake im seriously considering not helping random people who are struggling, I saw a chap when I was getting my tea whos caliper had stuck on he had the wheel off attempting to free it but didn't have anything to do it with, I went home to get a hammer and after belting it about to free it, the bloody banjo on the flexi started leaking, now im really pissed off with myself over it.

[Guest Hooli]

Seams are spilt on my bike jacket, so it's in for repair. Bet that means a perfect BH weekend I can't go out for a ride during.

[Christine]

For fuck sake im seriously considering not helping random people who are struggling, I saw a chap when I was getting my tea whos caliper had stuck on, I went home to get a hammer and after belting it about to free it, the bloody banjo on the flexi started leaking, now im really pissed off with myself over it.

I thought for a moment  it was a guy with a caliper on his leg who was struggling ...and you went home  "   to get a hammer and after belting it........    "

[MikeR]

took the dogs for a walk , the older one panted , and panted , sat on its arse in the field after a good sniff around ...

 

then it had a lie down , and came over for a nose  when I chatted to my little old lady with a collie

 

then it panted all the way home ....got in the house

 

and threw up in its bed !!!

 

why ?

 

my life is so full , my little old lady was going home to a bottle of red wine ... I just got dog puke !

[Jazoli]

Seams are spilt on my bike jacket, so it's in for repair. Bet that means a perfect BH weekend I can't go out for a ride during.

 

I've got a spare but you'd have to ride here to collect it

[Christine]

Hot pink rusty Mini   thread  just jammed my p.c .

 

 Remembered it did that last time I clicked it 

[chaseracer]

I don't understand expensive microwaves, they only need two things...

 

1 ) a timer

b ) a power setting

 

Everything else is bollocks so why pay for it? After all the only things my microwave does is soften butter, defrost things & make scrambed eggs.

 

I have just bought an electric toothbrush.  The choice ranged from THIS CLEANS YOUR TEETH PERFECTLY WELL at twenty quid to WOW INTERNET APP SMARTFONE READY FIVE SETTINGS LUXURY MAKES THE TEA!!!!1! at nearly £300.

 

What?  Why...?

[cobblers]

our lass came back with one of those bluetooth ones on the recommendation of one of her dumbarse mates and I lolled at it for long enough that she didn't talk to me all night.

 

Then she actually looked at what the bluetooth app did and took it back.

 

The app is simply a timer. The bluetooth connectivity just tells your phone when the toothbrush is going, and the app shows a video of which corner of your mouth you should be aiming at, changing every 30 seconds or something. It even came with a stand to sit your phone on and watch the animation as it guides you to brush your teeth.

 

£200 refunded she bought the same £30 brush as I've had for 8 years and they take the same heads anyway FFS!