The grumpy thread

[Talbot]

Grump.

 

Fucking twats parking in Tesco/Sainsbury/Audi/Lidl/any other fucking shop, who even when you park on the other side of the car park to avoid people parking next to you, then park in the space right next to you and slam their door into the side of your car.

 

I've had cause to be sat in my car waiting for things to occur a couple of times recently, and every single time without fail, a car has arrived in the space next to me and belted the side of my car. Even more irritating is when I get out and confront the utter shithead who's just dinked the side of my car, and I get a load of abuse off them "who gives a fuck", "yours is a shit old car anyway" etc.etc.

 

Last one pissed me off so badly that I got back into my car and opened the passenger door as hard as I possibly could into his driver's door, leaving a fucking huge crease. Cue a nose-to-nose confrontation. about a dozen people were watching what was going on, with a couple videoing it (which I welcomed). Eventually the utter wanker in the other car backed down and wandered off into Tesco, to the sound of applause from the ever-growing crowd!

 

It irritates the shit out of me that people care so little for anyone else's property, and then when confronted rather than apologise decide to become abusive and arrogant. I was ALWAYS taught to be careful not to clang the car next to us in a car park and never have. Ever. I think I need cameras in the rear-view mirrors looking back down the side of the vehicle. I've no doubt for every one incident I've witnessed, there's another dozen I've not seen.

 

I'm beginning to have a fair bit of sympathy for people who park over two parking spaces, and they're cunts.

 

Wankers. Wankers everywhere.

[madrat]

Fucking royal wedding, just piss off.

[Talbot]

Fucking royal wedding, just piss off.

"Just switch off your TV set, and do something less boring instead"

[Timewaster]

Parking spaces don't seem to have changed size since the Austin 7 was the thing to be seen in.

 

Doesn't excuse twattish behaviour but I am always struck by how big car parks and spaces seem when I'm in Mrs's 206.

 

There was one multi storey in Brum where my mates A6 needed a shunt to get around the aisles nevermind in the spaces.

[madrat]

I am, going out to play with new pond filter.   Its every were, radio, papers TV and after Saturday they still wont stop, who gives a shit, there are more important things happening.

[Guest Hooli]

"Just switch off your TV set, and do something less boring instead"

 

That TV show was boring as hell too.

[Timewaster]

The media are wetting themselves with excitement. They actually have something to report on to fill the 24hr a day barrage of up to the minute nothing we are subjected to every single day.

 

I'd much rather they put news on when there is some news. Not every half hour whether there is any news or not.

[Talbot]

That TV show was boring as hell too.

The irony of a TV show that told you to turn off your TV set wasn't lost on me, aged about 7. When it came on, I regularly followed their advice.

[Guest Hooli]

So did I. I was often heard to say 'good idea' & do exactly that.

[mercrocker]

I turned mine off in 2001.   Mrs Rocker has a device in her lounge but the minute I hear it I crank up the amplifier.   Fucking telly is the pits.  Still boils my piss that ultimately its me that buys the licence which is ironic given I never had one when I actually bothered to watch the fucking shit.   Watching TV nowadays is like being made to look at Hello magazine with your eyelids pierced open.

[Guest Hooli]

Working it out it was about 1997 when I last had a TV, after six months I gave it away as it was boring & only got turned on about once a month - then turned off 5mins later as nothing was on.

[Guest Hooli]

I cycled past a car doing some of that today, she was so busy on her phone there was about a 500yrd gap in front of her. As I rode past a cheerful 'traffic has moved love' seemed to confuse her.

 

I mean, playing with ya phone with the roof down ffs. Could you make it any easier for someone to give you points?

[Supernaut]

Fucking royal wedding, just piss off.

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/features/useful-things-meghan-markle-could-have-bought-instead-of-her-wedding-dress-20180515164860

[wuvvum]

Grump.

 

Fucking twats parking in Tesco/Sainsbury/Audi/Lidl/any other fucking shop, who even when you park on the other side of the car park to avoid people parking next to you, then park in the space right next to you and slam their door into the side of your car.

 

I've had cause to be sat in my car waiting for things to occur a couple of times recently, and every single time without fail, a car has arrived in the space next to me and belted the side of my car. Even more irritating is when I get out and confront the utter shithead who's just dinked the side of my car, and I get a load of abuse off them "who gives a fuck", "yours is a shit old car anyway" etc.etc.

 

Last one pissed me off so badly that I got back into my car and opened the passenger door as hard as I possibly could into his driver's door, leaving a fucking huge crease. Cue a nose-to-nose confrontation. about a dozen people were watching what was going on, with a couple videoing it (which I welcomed). Eventually the utter wanker in the other car backed down and wandered off into Tesco, to the sound of applause from the ever-growing crowd!

 

It irritates the shit out of me that people care so little for anyone else's property, and then when confronted rather than apologise decide to become abusive and arrogant. I was ALWAYS taught to be careful not to clang the car next to us in a car park and never have. Ever. I think I need cameras in the rear-view mirrors looking back down the side of the vehicle. I've no doubt for every one incident I've witnessed, there's another dozen I've not seen.

 

I'm beginning to have a fair bit of sympathy for people who park over two parking spaces, and they're cunts.

 

Wankers. Wankers everywhere.

[Timewaster]

The best bit about why don't you? Was laughing at the Norn Iron kids talking about making a Fil Um.

 

The Fil Um was usually depressing shit about the troubles or sheep farming or rock formations.

 

(I don't wish to make light of the troubles or sheep farming for that matter, but I was 9!)

 

Time to go out on my bike.

[myglaren]

I turned mine off in 2001.   Mrs Rocker has a device in her lounge but the minute I hear it I crank up the amplifier.   Fucking telly is the pits.  Still boils my piss that ultimately its me that buys the licence which is ironic given I never had one when I actually bothered to watch the fucking shit.   Watching TV nowadays is like being made to look at Hello magazine with your eyelids pierced open.

Two and a half years since I last watched my TV* - I was aware of the impending wedding but only just.

 

*I do watch selected progs on iPlayer - The Bridge mainly.

[treehugger]

Parking spaces don't seem to have changed size since the Austin 7 was the thing to be seen in.

 

Doesn't excuse twattish behaviour but I am always struck by how big car parks and spaces seem when I'm in Mrs's 206.

 

There was one multi storey in Brum where my mates A6 needed a shunt to get around the aisles nevermind in the spaces.

This is why everybody should have small cars. If your family is too big for that, why not sell them into slavery?

[madrat]

This is why everybody should have small cars. If your family is too big for that, why not sell them into slavery?

Or stop having fucking kids!

[New POD]

This is why everybody should have small cars. If your family is too big for that, why not sell them into slavery?

 

Shopping a Costco is a dream. Massive US spec spaces, because erm....I suppose they just have a car park spec and emailed it to their UK ground works contractor.

[treehugger]

Or stop having fucking kids!

Ah........................you mean the c*** brigade!

[Zelandeth]

So I go down to an organised get together of folks that takes place roughly every three weeks down in London.  Have missed the last two or three though because we had other stuff on.  Well...okay, aside from the last one...I just forgot about that.  Next one's this Saturday.  Cue brief moment of "isn't that the day that bloody wedding is on?"  Yes...yes it is.  D'oh!

 

Now, one of two things is going to happen.  Either A: Everyone will be at home glued to their TV screens and the trains down to London will be if anything, quieter than usual.  Or B: Half the country will be trying to get into the capital and everything will be absolutely and completely mobbed.

 

Tube doesn't bother me, especially since I figured out that it's actually less than half an hour's walk from Euston to St. Paul's...really isn't worth faffing with the Tube for that distance unless it's tipping it down.

 

Now somewhat undecided as to whether to go along or not...Tending more towards the "run the heck away from London as fast as possible" camp just now however.  Which is annoying as I'd been looking forward to that. 

 

Also: Waiting for car parts to arrive sucks.  Only been a few days I've been waiting for the ECU for the Lada, but it feels like about four months already...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

....Wankers. Wankers everywhere.

It's probably inbreeding.

[Parky]

Perhaps cars should be taxed on size?

 

After all if reducing congestion is an aim, halving the size of cars will halve the length of the traffic jams, right? Kei cars are the answer - make them zero tax, hell even subsidise their purchase price and people will see the sense in having something smoll.

 

And they will fit in parking spaces a lot easier

[Parky]

So I go down to an organised get together of folks that takes place roughly every three weeks down in London.  Have missed the last two or three though because we had other stuff on.  Well...okay, aside from the last one...I just forgot about that.  Next one's this Saturday.  Cue brief moment of "isn't that the day that bloody wedding is on?"  Yes...yes it is.  D'oh!

 

Now, one of two things is going to happen.  Either A: Everyone will be at home glued to their TV screens and the trains down to London will be if anything, quieter than usual.  Or B: Half the country will be trying to get into the capital and everything will be absolutely and completely mobbed.

 

Tube doesn't bother me, especially since I figured out that it's actually less than half an hour's walk from Euston to St. Paul's...really isn't worth faffing with the Tube for that distance unless it's tipping it down.

 

Now somewhat undecided as to whether to go along or not...Tending more towards the "run the heck away from London as fast as possible" camp just now however.  Which is annoying as I'd been looking forward to that. 

 

Also: Waiting for car parts to arrive sucks.  Only been a few days I've been waiting for the ECU for the Lada, but it feels like about four months already...

And don’t forget the FA Cup is on that day. If it’s sunny and the beers flowing, you’ll have Chelsea and Man U fans singing loudly on public transport.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

... Kei cars are the answer -..... they will fit in parking spaces a lot easier

....but their drivers will still have problems fitting them in. Or indeed fitting in them.

[DodgeRover]

Fucking eBay, pulling a 7 day listing with 12 hours left to "sell" elsewhere with no disclosure.

 

At least the degree to which I'm pissed off justifies that I do want another R8.

Money in your hand is always better than dealing with ebay non payers.

[Ghosty]

No reason to pull an auction though, it's pretty bloody unsporting imo. 

eBay has a Second Chance button for a reason.

[rantingYoof]

I'm doing some extensive research ahead of planned car swappage in June.

 

Lots of cars about now on bomb-site trader forecourts which have just had a 'fresh' MOT bunged on as they only had a couple of months left etc. Coincidentally, all had 'oil leaks' or other advisories at last MOT and the new MOT clearly pre-dated the new regs which arrive in about a week's time. Doubly coincidentally, all the new MOTs are squeaky clean and advisory-free.

 

I wish I wasn't such a cynic. If I were looking at spending less than £700 on something it'd be a shrug and 'carry on', but I'm in the dreaded £2-2.5k bracket which is a substantial outlay for something which clearly has an 'MOT' on it.

[SiC]

If someone had cash in hand at a value that is acceptable to me, I'd happily pull an eBay auction. Annoying to buyers and it's happened to me a couple of times. Very frustrating.

 

But unfortunately there are far too many time wasters to risk letting an auction run Vs cold hard cash in hand. If eBay came down harder on buyers that bid and don't complete, it'd happen far less.

 

I thought you couldn't stop an auction though if it has less than 24hrs to run?

[captain_70s]

So I finished work at midnight today and drove home, mulling over the fact that at the end of the month I'll be back to being a temp on a 0-hour contract. Apparently I interviewed very well for the full time position and there are no complaints about my work ethic etc but I bombed the arithmetic test... The weather is forecast to be nice tomorrow, this means that work will be like a sauna. 

 

On the way home half of the M8's off-ramps were inexplicably closed for roadworks and the resultant diversion added 10mins to my commute home. Despite the roadworks the average Glaswegian street still looks like it's been shipped in from North Korea.

 

As I pulled onto my street I drove past all three of my unusable cars, parked at various intervals in differing levels of disassembly and legality. The SORN'd Dolomite waiting for it's MOT exemption, the Acclaim with it's rusty holes, the Civic sitting on axle stands with it's rear brakes partially removed. At least the parts to fix it have been shipped, not that I've managed to free the calipers from the car as the handbrake cable brackets might as well be welded on.

 

Having parked my only functioning car, the borrowed Rover that isn't even mine, I unlock the mortice and open the door to my flat, having destroyed the Yale lock on Sunday after locking myself out and having to break back in. I observe the piles of tools and car parts, and car part boxes lining the hallway, I enter the living room and switch on the light only for the bulb to instantly blow.

 

I sit here at my PC, with it's graphics card that crashes whenever I try to play games, in the dark and type this post. Can't be arsed, yo.