The grumpy thread

[Guest Hooli]

It's his responsibility to provide adequate access to the path, as I understand it.  You probably know this already but you can report him for it...

 

Indeed I was thinking of doing just that.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Hot day + vinyl seats = moistened shirts:

 

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I overheated, the car overheated, my camera overheated. Fuck this warm weather shit.

 

Also YouTube won't accept the videos I filmed for reasons known only to itself.

 

Reminds me of my first 'big' journey.  Two weeks after I'd passed my test, I drove from Gravesend to Hereford to see my Grandparents.

 

The journey there was epic given that I didn't want to use motorways but nevertheless I made it safely.

 

Bear in mind that I'm 6'2" and a bit overweight - even when I was 18 and the fact that I drove a base Ford Ka.  On the way back, I ended up on the M25.  In a four-hour traffic jam.  In temperatures exceeding 32C.

 

I've never known anything quite like it.

[richardmorris]

Do they? that's never happened to me & I keep my friends list well below 20.

I have no friends ( surprise!) but don’t have this. Nor do I have many adverts.

[Guest Hooli]

Oh & at the other end of the food production chain some farmers...

 

Out cycling today & some twat had quite obviously driven into a hedge with his tractor to push the bramble bushes completely across the bridleway in the trees to the side of his field. It hadn't done his fence much good either. Then at the top of the hill the bridleway goes across the field, except farmer giles hadn't left a gap in his planting so diagonally across a bloody large field I had to carry my bike at shoulder height & force a way through.

 

FFS.

 

Just copied the pic off my phone. This was actually a low section, in some of the worse bits the bike didn't touch the floor when put down.

 

[MikeR]

just been past Winter hill twice this weekend ..... it is just a mass of smoke , and the smoke is drifting across the land like a big cloud !!!!!

[AlabamaShrimp]

Do they? that's never happened to me & I keep my friends list well below 20.

It seems so unless there's something I've missed. I even got the phone to get the desktop version and it still did it.

[xtriple]

Just do your BIG shopping online. I have just done mine, it will be delivered free of charge on Tuesday evening by a man with a van. So much better than having to go to the supermarket and mix with the great unwashed

 

 

 

I do still have to go tot he local Co-op every couple of days for fags and Jumbones - you know, the essentials!

[DodgeRover]

I do still have to go tot he local Co-op every couple of days for fags, Jumbones and picking up hot ladies - you know, the essentials!

Edited for accuracy there

[beko1987]

just been past Winter hill twice this weekend ..... it is just a mass of smoke , and the smoke is drifting across the land like a big cloud !!!!!

I've watched the news for the first time in ages and have seen footage of it, looks bloody scary!

[dozeydustman]

Flies. Been swarmed by them for the last 2 days. Empty the kitchen bin 3 times a day, don't leave wet cat food out festering all day, keeping on top of washing up etc. Millions buzzing around outside, in our garden, next door's garden, and the house after that.

 

That, the ridiculous 33 Celsius heat (according to the Toyota) and 70% humidity, plus OMGAIRCONFAIL while on way to shops has made both Mrs D and myself a bit grumpy today.

[danthecapriman]

It’s been fu****g hot this weekend. You’ll never* see me complaining about the weather, but I’ve just spent the whole weekend building a very hefty shed/garden building. Knackering in this heat, but today was the day to put the roof felt on! My word, I’m absolutely spent now!!

[Sloth in a bowl]

Holy shit, that car would have had so much damage by the time they returned to it to n my drive. Then again I’d probably be in jail. It’s jacking up my blood pressure just reading it

My considered response may have been a nail or two under each tyre. No criminal damage done by putting nails on your own drive and letting somebody else drive over them.

[chaseracer]

My considered response may have been a nail or two under each tyre. No criminal damage done by putting nails on your own drive and letting somebody else electing, of their own free will, to drive over them.

 

FTFY.

[Sloth in a bowl]

Alternatively, if we are getting clever. A small sign, a clamp and profit.

[clayts450]

Just do your BIG shopping online. I have just done mine, it will be delivered free of charge on Tuesday evening by a man with a van. I then have to work out how to get the supermarket to come back later with the right subsitutions

 

 

 

Worst supermarket fails 

 

Here’s our list of the weirdest substitutions, as told to us by the shoppers who received them: 

 

1. ‘I received a sack of onions when I had ordered a bottle of white wine.’ 

 

2. ‘I got extra strong mints in place of beef mince.’ 

 

3. ‘I once ordered a pack of condoms for my husband and we received a pregnancy-testing kit – presumably for myself!’ 

 

4. ‘Dog food was put in instead of clothes hangers.’ 

 

5. ‘I got sent a bar of Dairy Milk instead of a premium salad.’ 

 

6. ‘I ordered mayo and had it subbed for window cleaner.’ 

 

7. ‘I received nappies instead of toilet paper.’ 

 

8. ‘Baby food was replaced with tampons.’ 

 

9. ‘I was given a bottle of Chardonnay when I wanted some apple juice.’ 

 

10. ‘I ordered gluten-free bread and got dog food.’ 

 

11. ‘Tissues substituted for sausages.’ 

 

12. ‘They sent tinfoil instead of bin liners.’ 

 

13. ‘I asked for a punnet of peaches and they substituted it for peach shampoo.’

[SiC]

We ordered some strawberries from Occado. The substitution was strawberry flavoured condoms.

[STUNO]

Is Carpenter back on long term shortages list not just Canterbury?

 

Probably, but enquire and the officials at NZ house will know exactly the requirements.

[Timewaster]

She is a selfish twat who knows where I live. Can't be more than 20 - hence as a bloke in my mid 30s and a scruffy looking bugger, my trying to keep a low profile, being polite, and doing everything I can to not inflame any situation as I know it'll only blow up in my face.

 

She's only gone and reported *me* to the plod for harassment apparently...had the knock at the door while I was in the middle of dinner.

 

FFS.

I'd love to know how that conversation went!

 

Did the woman try getting her story in first incase you exact some horrible and well deserved revenge?

[Rave]

Just copied the pic off my phone. This was actually a low section, in some of the worse bits the bike didn't touch the floor when put down.

 

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It must be a fairly little used bridleway then. To be fair I'm not sure how a farmer could reasonably plough and sow a field of wheat or similar while leaving the route of the bridleway clearly demarcated. What I've previously observed on other rights of way is that within a few days of ploughing and sowing, regular users mark the path again and from then on regular use keeps the crop from growing over it.

 

There's no excuse for the brambles though, agreed.

[adw1977]

It must be a fairly little used bridleway then. To be fair I'm not sure how a farmer could reasonably plough and sow a field of wheat or similar while leaving the route of the bridleway clearly demarcated. What I've previously observed on other rights of way is that within a few days of ploughing and sowing, regular users mark the path again and from then on regular use keeps the crop from growing over it.

 

There's no excuse for the brambles though, agreed.

Well if the brambles put most people off using it then the crops will grow over the rest of it.

[MorrisItalSLX]

We ordered some strawberries from Occado. The substitution was strawberry flavoured condoms.

 

Is that what you told the missus 

[Guest Hooli]

It must be a fairly little used bridleway then. To be fair I'm not sure how a farmer could reasonably plough and sow a field of wheat or similar while leaving the route of the bridleway clearly demarcated. What I've previously observed on other rights of way is that within a few days of ploughing and sowing, regular users mark the path again and from then on regular use keeps the crop from growing over it.

 

There's no excuse for the brambles though, agreed.

 

I've seen others on it & I last rode it about six weeks ago.

[loserone]

I'm sure it might not have the highest priority, but a run up the route on a quad bike with a log behind it after ploughing would be enough to make it a clear track.

 

We were collared by a farmer last year as we hadn't followed the public footpath. Asked her how we were expected to follow an invisible line over a blind crest to a broken gate with a seemingly deliberately obstructed sign, and it was a moment of revelation for her - she'd never walked the path from the point of view of someone who had no prior knowledge of it's route.

 

As a result, she had a problem with 'trespassers', I.e. walkers who couldn't find the path and instead followed here tractor tracks.

[Bren]

Arsonists starting more fires on Winter Hill. Some people really are utter rubbish.

[dave21478]

Another day, another letter, another bill for a few hundred euros. Multicar policy for the Panda and Metro. Its not a huge sum in the grand scheme of things, but fuck me...I am trying to save money and its just a constant drain of 300 sheets here, 200 sheets there, 500 there, 100 for this etc etc.

 

Also in the post were the two microswitches I ordered a wee while ago. Fine, except they are too "strong" - they require too much force for the application I have, so I levered one apart, wondering if I could shorten the spring, but its not a coil, its a flappy bit of flat springy metal and it went BOING and wont go back into place so thats that fucked.

 

Work is two steps forwards, three steps back with everything going to shit and jobs piling up.

 

The centuries-old rant of tradesmen just not fucking bothering to even turn up.

 

Im tired. Just really fucking tired all the time - I know this heat isnt helping but fucking hell my energy levels are through the floor.

 

Want another car to replace the MGF. Need* a car to replace the MGF. Have pennies saved....fucking nothing interesting for sale anywhere. I just dont know what I want. Wouldnt say no to a P38 but its too much of a risk to buy one blind and everything local is dogshit. Would take a mid-sized estate car, but nothing takes my fancy. Cant be a project, needs to be reliable and usable but increasingly I find myself looking at the danger-ground of 8+ year old cars for sale for 4k or so....right at the point in their lives where expensive shit might go wrong. Im just not willing to take that kind of risk, so its back to sub 1.5k shitters and its fucking grim pickings tbh.

 

dunno.

[DodgeRover]

Does it cost a packet to visit the Drs in France? If not probably worth going and describing your symptoms?

Otherwise amphetamines for breakfast?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Arsonists starting more fires on Winter Hill. Some people really are utter rubbish.

 

That's breeding* for you.

[dozeydustman]

What the actual fuck are the DVLA up to? I have completed the online change of address form twice now. I have a medical marker against my license, so the medical team have to deal with it.

 

They have yet again sent my driving license to my old address. Second time in 4 weeks. Yet they send any other correspondence to my new address.

 

Bunch of useless fucking idiots.

[wuvvum]

Just got home from work to find "abandoned vehicle" stickers on the Rover of Doom, Jag and ex-Bramz 205.  WTactualF?  All three are taxed, MOT'd, insured and in regular use, so in what fucking parallel universe can they be considered as abandoned? 

 

I have obviously fired off an email to the environmental protection dept at the Council, but what the hell is going on?  If anyone can report any vehicle as abandoned for any reason then we're all fucked.

[dozeydustman]

Just got home from work to find "abandoned vehicle" stickers on the Rover of Doom, Jag and ex-Bramz 205.  WTactualF?  All three are taxed, MOT'd, insured and in regular use, so in what fucking parallel universe can they be considered as abandoned? 

 

I have obviously fired off an email to the environmental protection dept at the Council, but what the hell is going on?  If anyone can report any vehicle as abandoned for any reason then we're all fucked.

 

 

I'd try and get those stickers off ASAP if you can. They make an otherwise good car an instant vandal target.

 

IIRC spray the stickers with WD-40 to dissolve the glue.