The grumpy thread

[Dick Cheeseburger]

The last line of that post actually turned my stomach. Glad they only showed pictures of legs and arms with bone showing through shredded flesh on the CBT.

Either way you pays your money and takes your chances. Personally I would rather be sliding down a road with leathers and Kevlar on my extremities than a pair of shorts and a vest. Of course the oncoming truck will make a mockery of your existence regardless of what you are wearing.

Biking - still fun though!

We’ve have a collective noun for Sunday riders who rag the shit out of their sports bikes whilst racing their friends on the queen’s highway.

 

Donors.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Sit at my computer nodding in agreement with the 'dress for the slide, not the ride' mentality. Then the sun comes out, and it's shorts and t-shirt on and out for a ride.

Totally get that - here in Belgo fritte land though it is actually law to wear the gear. Plod WILL pull you if out in trainers and jeans/shorts instead of proper boots jacket and bike gear etc.... I think you even MUST wear gloves every time too.

Getting all kitted up to go grab some milk is a bit of a ball ache so the bike doesn't get out as much as I'd like.....

[Guest Hooli]

How does that work with bike jeans?

[Timewaster]

I've only ever ridden in shorts / t shirt once. Southern France on a camping jaunt.

 

It was only a mile or so but I was too busy shitting myself about the potential consequences to enjoy the breeze.

And burning my leg on the exhaust and the heat off the engine... Not enjoyable at all really.

 

A couple of guys at work have ditched the hyper power crotch rockets for Lambrettas.

 

Still fun, but you can just grab helmet and gloves to get milk or whatever and they get used much more often, just on short trips rather than long runs.

 

Me? I just pushed the bike into the shed and left it there.

[xtriple]

Every sunny day, local trips, just grab a helmet and go. Gloves, boots, leathers? No way takes longer to get it all on than to do the trip. I am old, aware of the risks and a pretty observant geezer on a bike (can spot an arsole a mile off - they drive cars!    ) so managed to escape being knocked off for an alarming number of years.

 

I quite like the added danger, heightens your awareness to surroundings and other people. But then, I am odd.

[Eddie Honda]

I am old,

Well I'm not, but pretty much agree with that. If you're too hot, you can't concentrate.

[iainrcz]

Made a recycling box stand a year or two ago, stained it and put a felt top on it.

Great gear.

 

Got some new boxes t'other day.

Do they fit?

 

Do they buggery.

 

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[purplebargeken]

Letter from Enfield council re: garage rent. Has gone up from a tad over 17 quid a week to fucking 33 quid a week!!! WTF? Why??

 

I imagine it won't be long before Mrs PBK identifies this and demands that the garage does one. 

 

Where the fuck I will be able to put the stuff accrued in said garage needs to be thought about when and if she notices (and she will).

 

Bollocks. 

[Wack]

£33 a week that's £1600 a year, hope you've got an old Maserati in it or something that's increasing by more that that

[purplebargeken]

Not much bloody chance of that.

[purplebargeken]

Made a slight error.

 

Went from £16.86 a week in March to £30.42 a week in April. 

 

I hadn't noticed tbh, am stunned Mrs PBK hasn't commented already but it sadly cements the no more chod rule.

 

Cunts

[purplebargeken]

I think they want to price people out in order to knock the garages down and make more parking spaces. 

[Guest Hooli]

Sell it for houses I bet. More profit than letting people park.

 

 

Cunts.

[sierraman]

A lot ended up empty round our way. I just used to find an unused one and stick my own padlock on it then keep using it until the council pasted a notice on the door saying they hadn't received the rent.

[purplebargeken]

Oh yeah, dropped my phone face flat on the pavement after getting out of the car at home.

 

New Nokia 3310 getting delivered.

[fordperv]

On the CBT tests they show some quite graphic pictures of bike accident injuries as an encouragement to wear proper protective kit.

 

Needless to say I would never ride without proper kit regardless of weather! Pretty horrendous stuff, not “wow, that’s an amazing scar, what a road warrior badge of honour you have there” type stuff, more like “how can you function as a human being with all that flesh missing?” type photos.

 

Most car accidents don’t involve sliding along an abrasive surface at 50mph plus, quite a few bike accidents do and the injuries produced are horrendously complicated long term repair jobs. Bones and muscles can be largely repaired with time and plaster, flesh takes an awful lot more to replace and never ever looks like a good repair.

 

Be like Nyphur - overheated but protected!

I wish I had pictures of mrs fps uncles scars from when he got skittled by a smidsy, he was wearing full gear the scars resemble a shark attack victim.

[MarvinsMom]

was going to go to the car show at Preston Park in Stockton today.

 

got marvin cleaned up, only to find out that a 29 year old austin metro isn't a classic......

 

now ok, this isn't the first time i've heard this, but on the way to the loosers  public car park we see maybe a dozen or so barried up citroen saxo's been shown in the, er, show.

 

so an aging austin isn't a classic, but some ruined little turd less than half marvin's age, is?

 

well fook you, and fook your show.

 

we went to whitby instead. 

 

which was very nice.

[myglaren]

I'm from Whitby but rarely go there anymore, haven't seen my brother in three years and yes we do get on OK.

Daughter #3 lives a hop, skip and a jump from Preston Park, often down that way

[richardmorris]

But how many more car accident victims did she see on an daily basis?

Not as many - she was doing ( as was everyone else in the dept) CT and X-ray on call so was only called for emergencies after hours. Bikers made up a higher % of the intake than any other - she did her higher HNC thesis on it.

 

The worst was a poor guy who went under an articulated lorry and took the top of his head off. I think that was the one she woke me up for at 3am to ask me not to ride one.

[yes oui si]

Letter from Enfield council re: garage rent. Has gone up from a tad over 17 quid a week to fucking 33 quid a week!!! WTF? Why??

 

I imagine it won't be long before Mrs PBK identifies this and demands that the garage does one.

 

Where the fuck I will be able to put the stuff accrued in said garage needs to be thought about when and if she notices (and she will).

 

Bollocks.

https://governance.enfield.gov.uk/mgAi.aspx?ID=41564&zTS=undefined

 

There you go.

[Guest Hooli]

I think we might be breaking the no politics rule here?

[Guest Hooli]

was going to go to the car show at Preston Park in Stockton today.

 

got marvin cleaned up, only to find out that a 29 year old austin metro isn't a classic......

 

now ok, this isn't the first time i've heard this, but on the way to the loosers  public car park we see maybe a dozen or so barried up citroen saxo's been shown in the, er, show.

 

so an aging austin isn't a classic, but some ruined little turd less than half marvin's age, is?

 

well fook you, and fook your show.

 

 

That's one thing that's really put me off car shows too. Barried up shit is just shite & will always be shit no matter what age it is.

 

I've complained to show organisers before that they'd lied saying it was a classic car show when over 50% of the 'show' was barried shit & the fucking PT cruisers owners club. Neither of them are classic, except as classic examples of shit.

[Jazoli]

We’ve have a collective noun for Sunday riders who rag the shit out of their sports bikes whilst racing their friends on the queen’s highway.

 

Donors.

Oh do fuck off, we have a collective noun for judgemental pricks,

 

Cunts

 

[MarvinsMom]

this is why today we drove to Whitby via the coast road, instead of the more direct moors road.

 

see the moors road is it seems part of the yorkshire tt circuit and on a nice day like today, there are plenty of accedent statistics flying about.

 

and i should imagine if one of them did come off while emulating barry sheen (kinda showin my age there....) then they wouldn't be any good as an organ doner...

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Fucking Persimmon.

 

Moved into a new house a couple of weeks ago.  We've had a few minor snagging issues that I was expecting.

 

About 22.30 last night, we had a fairly big one.  I'm in the bath, get a shout from downstairs.  Get out of the bath to go and see what's going on.

 

Water coming out of the light fitting.  Some numpty hasn't fitted the overflow properly.  Not the first time I've had a bath but maybe a bit more went down the overflow than last time.

 

Call them up on their 'emergency' line and I got so angry I was going to swear, so I passed it on to my partner.  They won't send anyone out to have a look.  No emergency plumber, nothing.  Lady Grumpius was particularly enraged when the call centre moron referred to me as her 'husband' and spent the time pointedly correcting her on our marital status (which I found quite funny).  I'm assuming that the only reason they won't send anyone out is because emergency plumbers are expensive and despite paying their retiring CEO 75 million, they won't bother spending £100 on a problem that is entirely of their doing.

 

I know the leak wasn't that bad and there wasn't actually that much water in it.  I also know that it'll dry out in time and all that we'll have to do is paint the ceiling.  I also know how to fix the leak and I even know how to get the bath panel off - but because this is a new build, nobody is going to let me touch the problem because they'll complain that I've 'fiddled'.

 

What's really aggravating is that up until now, Persimmon have been excellent.  I think our local sales office is particularly good.  The staff actually do what you ask of them when there are problems and respond to phone calls.  Even the customer service email address for snagging has been very decent when I've emailed them with problems.

 

But when it actually fucking matters.  When you've got water coming out of your light fittings at 22.30 on a Saturday, they're shit.

 

So now I probably have to miss work on Monday morning and wait for a plumber to get here.  Again.

[loserone]

Ah, the piece of mind from buying a new house, instead of spending 1/3 as much and then another 1/3 making it actually how you want it.

[privatewire]

Fucking Persimmon.

 

Moved into a new house a couple of weeks ago.  We've had a few minor snagging issues that I was expecting.

 

About 22.30 last night, we had a fairly big one.  I'm in the bath, get a shout from downstairs.  Get out of the bath to go and see what's going on.

 

Water coming out of the light fitting.  Some numpty hasn't fitted the overflow properly.  Not the first time I've had a bath but maybe a bit more went down the overflow than last time.

 

Call them up on their 'emergency' line and I got so angry I was going to swear, so I passed it on to my partner.  They won't send anyone out to have a look.  No emergency plumber, nothing.  Lady Grumpius was particularly enraged when the call centre moron referred to me as her 'husband' and spent the time pointedly correcting her on our marital status (which I found quite funny).  I'm assuming that the only reason they won't send anyone out is because emergency plumbers are expensive and despite paying their retiring CEO 75 million, they won't bother spending £100 on a problem that is entirely of their doing.

 

I know the leak wasn't that bad and there wasn't actually that much water in it.  I also know that it'll dry out in time and all that we'll have to do is paint the ceiling.  I also know how to fix the leak and I even know how to get the bath panel off - but because this is a new build, nobody is going to let me touch the problem because they'll complain that I've 'fiddled'.

 

What's really aggravating is that up until now, Persimmon have been excellent.  I think our local sales office is particularly good.  The staff actually do what you ask of them when there are problems and respond to phone calls.  Even the customer service email address for snagging has been very decent when I've emailed them with problems.

 

But when it actually fucking matters.  When you've got water coming out of your light fittings at 22.30 on a Saturday, they're shit.

 

So now I probably have to miss work on Monday morning and wait for a plumber to get here.  Again.

Ahhh, Persimmon, We had one of their houses about 18 years ago, The only way I could get them to fix the snagging list on our house was by threatening to park my car ( at that point a seagull shit covered Montego) Outside a different sales office every weekend with placards in the windows detailing our issues. That seemed to focus their attention.

[cort16]

Some pished guy ran into the back of my next door neighbours new van the other night . Only done 350 miles and shunted it about 20 ft only just missing mrs c’s car.

I heard the bang and looked out the window and saw him drive it around the corner , parked it and legged it.

I called the police hopefully they’ve got him.

[Cavcraft]

/\

That's shit. Some bastard did the very same to my 100E a few years back now. He was already banned from driving, yet he drove back from the pub (all of a few hundred yards) to his house whilst off his face and wrote my car off. Never got a bean off the fucker, either.

[Guest Hooli]

Fucking Persimmon.

 

Moved into a new house a couple of weeks ago.  We've had a few minor snagging issues that I was expecting.

 

About 22.30 last night, we had a fairly big one.  I'm in the bath, get a shout from downstairs.  Get out of the bath to go and see what's going on.

 

Water coming out of the light fitting.  Some numpty hasn't fitted the overflow properly.  Not the first time I've had a bath but maybe a bit more went down the overflow than last time.

 

Call them up on their 'emergency' line and I got so angry I was going to swear, so I passed it on to my partner.  They won't send anyone out to have a look.  No emergency plumber, nothing.  Lady Grumpius was particularly enraged when the call centre moron referred to me as her 'husband' and spent the time pointedly correcting her on our marital status (which I found quite funny).  I'm assuming that the only reason they won't send anyone out is because emergency plumbers are expensive and despite paying their retiring CEO 75 million, they won't bother spending £100 on a problem that is entirely of their doing.

 

I know the leak wasn't that bad and there wasn't actually that much water in it.  I also know that it'll dry out in time and all that we'll have to do is paint the ceiling.  I also know how to fix the leak and I even know how to get the bath panel off - but because this is a new build, nobody is going to let me touch the problem because they'll complain that I've 'fiddled'.

 

What's really aggravating is that up until now, Persimmon have been excellent.  I think our local sales office is particularly good.  The staff actually do what you ask of them when there are problems and respond to phone calls.  Even the customer service email address for snagging has been very decent when I've emailed them with problems.

 

But when it actually fucking matters.  When you've got water coming out of your light fittings at 22.30 on a Saturday, they're shit.

 

So now I probably have to miss work on Monday morning and wait for a plumber to get here.  Again.

 

Sounds exactly like renting, a brilliant process while they get your money. Then 'fuck off' as soon as there is an issue.