The grumpy thread

[AlabamaShrimp]

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

You're only jealous!

 

Tbh I don't drive everywhere at a million miles an hour and really aren't that bothered about going fast. I don't drive the ST or XR like a nutter there's too many other cars.

[Louise2cv]

Get him to do it himself tbh.

This is a fair point. But he doesn't care about the mess. It was just offending my eyes.

[New POD]

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.

i don't think you can blame brexit or North Korea or Ivana trump or May for the broken Seirra.

[yes oui si]

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?

I (currently) drive a van for a living, covering an area about three times that of greater London which is entirely rural.

 

The last few mild winters have resulted in an explosion in wildlife numbers due to the huge amount of small flora and fauna now present as food.

 

Due to the rural nature of the area, once you get off the main roads (the A1 is still single carriageway up here, and you're lucky if the road you're on has a dividing line), wildlife doesn't encounter enough heavy traffic to develop 'road smarts' so tends to just run/fly across roads whenever it feels like it, or if it gets scared by the approaching loud noise whilst sitting in a hedge.

 

Sudden movements to avoid them would put myself and other road users at risk a lot of the time so I just hit them. If it is clear and safe to slow down suddenly or avoid then I do.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I've no idea who big that there London is. Where abouts are you?

[yes oui si]

I've no idea who big that there London is. Where abouts are you?

I cover about the same area as the east riding of Yorkshire; slightly smaller.

 

Northumberland and the eastern borders.

[cort1977]

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.

Not sure we have any actual Americans on here just a few immigrants like me.  I'm happy to answer questions though, I have lived six years in Texas so have some idea of what's going on.

[Supernaut]

Good old HP support.

 

My name is Kiran and this is a follow up for the case ID: 5330404195 ; which is open with ARUBA HPE network team. CUSTOMER ISSUE AND PLAN OF ACTION TO BE UPDATED. We had e-mailed with the information you have requested with a document. Please let us know you were you satisfied with the information you have received and will we be able to close the case.

Thank you again for contacting ARUBA HPE Networking Support, please do reply to us with the information as requested.

Uh.... what? I simply replied with "Yes you can close the case. Thank you"

 

 

 

 

For context I received the replacement part (and shipped back the faulty one) yesterday, and also informed them of this.

[DodgeRover]

i don't think you can blame brexit or North Korea or Ivana trump or May for the broken Seirra.

I'm pretty sure BBC news could spin it to blame 3 of the 4..

[Aston Martin]

If it snows the country dies, if it's a bit damp the country dies, a bit of sunshine and it's the end of the world.

 

Fuck this, I'm moving to somewhere less annoying, like Azerbaijan.

[Mally]

I once hit a Cow with my BSA 250.

In my defence it was a black Cow on an unlit road.

[Eddie Honda]

I'm pretty sure BBC news could spin it to blame 3 of the 4..

[New POD]

I once hit a Cow with my BSA 250.

In my defence it was a black Cow on an unlit road.

my wife's great uncle Ira used to dispatch ride for Birmingham evening post as a teenager in the late 40s

He used to ride to South Wales to pick up the news every day and had a short cut through the Brecon Beacons where he had a short cut through a farm yard where a goose would chase him and peck at his legs. One day he went through at speed, stick his leg out and caught said goose across the neck. The goose was last seen rolling around in the farm yard.

When he got back to Birmingham it transpired that his leg was broken which explained the pain over the previous 2 hours.

[New POD]

 

I'm pretty sure BBC news could spin it to blame 3 of the 4..

That's not politics just pointing out the likelihood that the media might have some bias with which to interest the viewer.

[clayts450]

my wife's great uncle Ira used to dispatch ride for Birmingham evening post as a teenager in the late 40s

He used to ride to South Wales to pick up the news every day and had a short cut through the Brecon Beacons where he had a short cut through a farm yard where a goose would chase him and peck at his legs. One day he went through at speed, stick his leg out and caught said goose across the neck. The goose was last seen rolling around in the farm yard.

When he got back to Birmingham it transpired that his leg was broken which explained the pain over the previous 2 hours

 

Geese are evil buggers. One of my childhood mates grew up on a farm. His parents used to leave him in his pram outside guarded not by a dog, as one might imagine, but by a goose.

 

No-one ever ran off with baby.

 

In fact no-one even went up to go coo-coo, gaa-gaa or any other inane babyspeak twaddle as they couldn't get remotely close for fear of having extremities either pecked off entirely or at best pecked to smithereens.

 

Evil, I tells ya.

[Stanky]

Ha, yes they are properly mental. We had a smallholding when I was growing up including 4 geese and a gander. The gander was utterly deranged and would savage people without warning. It was only matched by someone (I forget who) who marched into the field, and expertly grabbed it by its neck, holding it off the floor at arms length as it charged towards him.

 

It was sweet when a plane went over though, all the geese used to turn their heads to watch it go over - they had to sort of pivot around the axis of the beak to see.

[Eddie Honda]

That's not politics just pointing out the likelihood that the media might have some bias with which to interest the viewer.

What sort of bias might that be? It isn't sporting, it isn't numerical...

[SiC]

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?

You've obviously not met pheasants. Oh my god.

 

They run out. They look at you. Run back in to the verge.

 

You slow down and start to swerve around.

 

They double back and run straight into the middle of the road.

 

Sucidial bloody animals. Not helped by the fact they are fed up to be heavy, so they can't fly very well at all nor want to either. Fed to be heavy, so they fly slow and the rich city folk have more of a chance to shoot them down. Because they paying a lot to go on a shoot, it's expected to hit a few - despite being a poor shot.

[Pillock]

Yeah, pheasants are just absolutely suicidal.

I don't know what it is about them and cars, whether they just don't see them or they move too fast or what.

 

But yeah, every time I've got a pheasant it's apparently seen me, stopped and thought "fuck it, what's the worse that can happen?" before just strolling out with a microsecond of notice to stop the car.

[New POD]

You've obviously not met pheasants. Oh my god.

 

They run out. They look at you. Run back in to the verge.

 

You slow down and start to swerve around.

 

They double back and run straight into the middle of the road.

 

Sucidial bloody animals. Not helped by the fact they are fed up to be heavy, so they can't fly very well at all nor want to either. Fed to be heavy, so they fly slow and the rich city folk have more of a chance to shoot them down. Because they paying a lot to go on a shoot, it's expected to hit a few - despite being a poor shot.

I lost count of the number of people I nearly rear ended because they thought a peasant worthy of emergency braking.

Until a bloke at work suggested that might be my fault for traveling too close and not expecting the expected.

[AlabamaShrimp]

my wife's great uncle Ira used to dispatch ride for Birmingham evening post as a teenager in the late 40s

He used to ride to South Wales to pick up the news every day and had a short cut through the Brecon Beacons where he had a short cut through a farm yard where a goose would chase him and peck at his legs. One day he went through at speed, stick his leg out and caught said goose across the neck. The goose was last seen rolling around in the farm yard.

When he got back to Birmingham it transpired that his leg was broken which explained the pain over the previous 2 hours.

Could they not just have used the phone?

[richardmorris]

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 first Citroen cx I test drove had a velour interior, I was wearing cords and couldn’t move in the seat! Couldn’t swivel to get out!

[drum]

Took a tick off the mutt at the weekend, then another three of the little bastards off him tonight.

 

He doesn't seem too bothered mind.

[wuvvum]

You've obviously not met pheasants. Oh my god.

 

They run out. They look at you. Run back in to the verge.

 

You slow down and start to swerve around.

 

They double back and run straight into the middle of the road.

 

Sucidial bloody animals. Not helped by the fact they are fed up to be heavy, so they can't fly very well at all nor want to either. Fed to be heavy, so they fly slow and the rich city folk have more of a chance to shoot them down. Because they paying a lot to go on a shoot, it's expected to hit a few - despite being a poor shot.

I hit a pheasant once at 50mph on my Honda NH125 moped.  I didn't even try to swerve to avoid it as I knew that whatever I did the stupid fucking thing would find its way into my path anyway, so I just stayed upright, feathered the throttle and rode straight into it.  Didn't cause as much of a wobble as I'd feared given that I was riding at speed* on a lightweight scooter with 10" wheels.

[OwdChina]

Not sure we have any actual Americans on here just a few immigrants like me.  I'm happy to answer questions though, I have lived six years in Texas so have some idea of what's going on.

We did have one from Tennessee a while back but I seem to remember him suddenly going yellow after a dispute.

[yes oui si]

 feathered the throttle 

Sake   

[stephen01]

Sent many polite messages to sellers of some *fine vehicles over the last couple of days, nothing no replies not even to say it's sold, apart from one guy who was selling a mpv thingy couple of texts said I was keen, could come any day as he was local, seller said away all weekend, ok, txt him Sunday to say are we on for tomorrow viewing? (Monday) nothing.

 

Maybe I need to lower the standard of my messages as I think I'm being to polite, now where's my sons broken XBox

[Neil clark]

Sent many polite messages to sellers of some *fine vehicles over the last couple of days, nothing no replies not even to say it's sold, apart from one guy who was selling a mpv thingy couple of texts said I was keen, could come any day as he was local, seller said away all weekend, ok, txt him Sunday to say are we on for tomorrow viewing? (Monday) nothing.

Maybe I need to lower the standard of my messages as I think I'm being to polite, now where's my sons broken XBox

Someone on here selling a *beautiful Honda CRV...... O it's me!

[stephen01]

Two broken x boxs and 100 euros left over from holiday.

 

Sadly I already have a CRV. Bloody great car

[PhilA]

We did have one from Tennessee a while back but I seem to remember him suddenly going yellow after a dispute.

Been here ten years. Seen a few things.

 

Still upset that work schedule has me thinking today is Thursday. Cruel.

 

 

Edit: it's 2018, 11 years.