The grumpy thread

[yes oui si]

And about a billion flying insects.

[Cavcraft]

I've hit a duck, two pigeons, half a dozen pheasants, a partridge, a barn owl, two foxes (result) and a few stoats in the last couple of weeks alone - you get used to it.

 

How's hitting a fox (or any animal) a 'result'? Nothing whatsoever to gloat or sound blase about. 

[sierraman]

A chicken farmer would consider it a result.

[Tetleysmooth]

It's the bigger things you've got to worry about hitting on the road.

When I was a shunter in Beckton, East London, a driver from our Crick depot used to come in for loads regularly.

Didn't see him for a while. Turns out his son was driving to work one night, and a horse jumped the hedge straight in front of him.

Smashed through the windscreen of the car.

Result: the lad was paralysed for life.

 

Deer are getting a big problem now as well.

[yes oui si]

How's hitting a fox (or any animal) a 'result'? Nothing whatsoever to gloat or sound blase about.

Because they're vermin, and the fewer the better.

[New POD]

It's the bigger things you've got to worry about hitting on the road.

When I was a shunter in Beckton, East London, a driver from our Crick depot used to come in for loads regularly.

Didn't see him for a while. Turns out his son was driving to work one night, and a horse jumped the hedge straight in front of him.

Smashed through the windscreen of the car.

Result: the lad was paralysed for life.

 

Deer are getting a big problem now as well.

I shall drive slower today. thanks.

[andy18s]

Alternatively, when somebody says something you don't like threaten legal action and fuck everything up for the forseeable future after you've left the site.

I don't want to know Any details but have things that far on here?

[Cavcraft]

Because they're vermin, and the fewer the better.

 

Bollocks.

[Pillock]

Except people don't agree to disagree, they just go on and on and on and on getting more and more personal and throwing insults around. That is not agreeing to disagree.

 

The "no politics" is pretty simple.

[yes oui si]

Bollocks.

Great debate there. Salient point well made and supported by evidence. Top notch. Well done.

[DodgeRover]

I don't want to know Any details but have things that far on here?

Sadly yes.

[BorniteIdentity]

I've hit a duck, two pigeons, half a dozen pheasants, a partridge, a barn owl, two foxes (result) and a few stoats in the last couple of weeks alone - you get used to it.

 

Not sure I like your version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" tbh

[BorniteIdentity]

 

 

Deer are getting a big problem now as well.

 

I spent the first 15 miles of my 4.30 commute with my hand on the horn - ready to go.  Birds sleeping in the road, rabbits grazing, it's a bloody nightmare. I must have honked at 25 animals this morning.  One bird strike that really couldn't be helped seemed to be a remarkably low fatality rate for this time of the year.

 

I finally get onto the A1(M) and think "Phew - glad that's over" only to see a Muntjac Deer SAT in lane 3.  Rather than ambling into the central reservation, it minced over to the hard shoulder instead.  Cue lots of brake lights and a bit of swearing.

[BorniteIdentity]

The "no politics" is pretty simple.

 

Except for the DWP moans in the open forum.

 

And the spattering of Pro-SNP posts.

 

As I've said before, political opinions are like arseholes.  I've got one - you've got one - but I have no desire to hear yours, and I'm sure you feel likewise.

 

But my post wasn't political.  Yet it got deleted with no explanation.

[DodgeRover]

I've got a question to ask our American friends on here regarding their fellow countrymen that belongs in the open forum but I'm struggling to think how it could be worded/ answered without verging on Politics. I would ask the American that I know personally in real life but there is a good chance the answer would suffer from confirmation bias if you know what I mean.

On the positive side it is keeping my brain active.

 

Oh and at least we don't have free roaming camels to worry about on the road.

I have noticed a lot of deer strikes locally over the last 3 months, not little ones either. If you do hit one please make sure it is dead - don't leave the poor buggers suffering.

[Lord Sterling]

I know that some others have had problems with customer service. As a job, I hate it but for the moment it's a must. The problem is, a lot of places don't really train people properly. I am finding this right now and being on the front line of customer service it really does make me nervous when dealing with certain enquiries.

 

Also, I wish some people wouldn't send certain videos for a "laugh" they really aren't funny.

[Captain Furious]

But my post wasn't political.  Yet it got deleted with no explanation

 

 

Sorry, I normally agree with you, but your post was clearly political.  It was obviously intended to insult anyone who voted brexit and group them in with the shaved, tattoo'd apes or whatever you were describing at the time.

 

Please stop being deliberately obtuse about it and lets move along.

[BavarianRetro]

I'm sorry. That's nonsense - but not as bad as the deletion of the post. The post was a joke.

 

Is any post with a single word which might be considered to be political now verboten?

[DodgeRover]

I'm sorry. That's nonsense - but not as bad as the deletion of the post. The post was a joke.

 

Is any post with a single word which might be considered to be political now verboten?

I'm sorry but that is exactly how I read it as well otherwise why mention the B word at all.

 

Difference of interpretation I guess with missing facial gestures in text based communications that would give a clue as to missing a joke.

 

Let's move on now, my snowflake personality is melting

[Louise2cv]

Why do they upholster cars in that fabric/carpet that grabs and holds on to dust bits and hair?

 

The more you hoover the deeper into the pile it goes.

[The_Equalizer]

I've hit a duck, two pigeons, half a dozen pheasants, a partridge, a barn owl, two foxes (result) and a few stoats in the last couple of weeks alone - you get used to it.

 

Last year I had the hood down on the Merc CLK with my two young kids in the back. While doing about 50 on an A road a fat pidgeon flew straight of a hedge slap bang in the middle of the grill. There was an almighty thump then it promptly slid up the bonnet and windscreen and disappeared over my head. The wife looked at me and then behind at the kids. We half expected to find the dead pidgeon nestled between the kids, however, it must have had enough momentum to at least make it on to the boot and off the other end. Poor bu**ger. Thankfully the kids were asleep and missed the whole thing.

 

 

[Guest Hooli]

Why do they upholster cars in that fabric/carpet that grabs and holds on to dust bits and hair?

 

The more you hoover the deeper into the pile it goes.

 

Fords were always the worst for catching dog hair in my experience, Vauxhalls never trapped it the same.

[sierraman]

Ford carpet is practically written off if it gets sand in it. Impossible nearly to get it out.

[Louise2cv]

In the Suzuki the carpet is that baggy that if you aim a hoover at it it jumps out and catapults shite all over the bit you've just done.

 

I have had a very frustrating morning. But it probably serves me right for not hoovering Matt's car in the 3 years he's had it.

[yes oui si]

Get him to do it himself tbh.

[BorniteIdentity]

It was obviously intended to insult anyone who voted brexit.

Like me you mean? And my parents?? And (probably) my wife??

 

You see. That’s the wonderful thing about the British - pre or post B**x*t. Self deprecating humour.

 

Now I can’t take the piss out of myself, and the Sierra is off the road, I have literally nothing to laugh about. Other than how fucking serious everyone takes everything these days.

 

Everything.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I've hit a duck, two pigeons, half a dozen pheasants, a partridge, a barn owl, two foxes (result) and a few stoats in the last couple of weeks alone - you get used to it.

What? How? I've never hot anything. Tbh I don't even think I've come close to hitting anything are you trying to start some kind of road kill butchers?

[Guest Hooli]

What? How? I've never hot anything. Tbh I don't even think I've come close to hitting anything are you trying to start some kind of road kill butchers?

 

In that fester they've all got plenty of time to dawdle out of the way.

[sierraman]

Once hit a badger at about 40 on a B road doing an airport run at about 3am. Didn't kill it, on the way back an hour or so later I put it out of its misery with the jack.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Jack is a twat though........ he'll hit anything if you point him at it