The grumpy thread

[Guest Hooli]

But chemtrails must be real, those behind them have a FB page https://www.facebook.com/InternationalChemtrail/

 

Also those wonderful Russians are busy spraying antichemtrails to protect us from them.

 

[Fumbler]

Oh how wonderful of them. I wish they also exspose Porten Down for holding all the intercepted aliens in the UK.

[beko1987]

Someone's been out to see the car and straight away called it a stress fracture, so booked in on Thursday to try again!

[Datsuncog]

Chemtrails discussions. FFS. People really will believe any old shit. "NEVA SAW THESE IN THE 80S." No, we did. You just can't remember. "THEY WERE REALLY BAD THE OTHER DAY." Yes, because of actual variety in the climate. GOOD GRIEF.

 

But chemtrails must be real, those behind them have a FB page https://www.facebook.com/InternationalChemtrail/

 

Also those wonderful Russians are busy spraying antichemtrails to protect us from them.

 

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Oh how wonderful of them. I wish they also expose Porten Down for holding all the intercepted aliens in the UK.

 

 

We could be on to something, chaps: apparently, the clues are hidden in the crop circles...

[Fumbler]

Old people (usually part of the rambler's association) shouting all sorts of shit (encluding all types of expletive) at you as you either approach them in your car on a road or when you cycle past them while giving them a wide birth. Always a good "get up and go" initiative.

[Fumbler]

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We could be on to something, chaps: apparently, the clues are hidden in the crop circles...

I'll get onto my friends in northern America and Egypt. Meanwhile I'm going to inspect this cosmic energy hub pyramid in the Aztec lands. The paintings and engravings tell a lot about our ancestoral mastery of free energy...

 

[greengartside]

Just grumpy about work colleagues. Some are okay and some treat me like I’m invisible. I know you can’t please everyone but it’s difficult when you’re not the most confident chap and have a real difficulty starting a conversation, especially when it seems to be one sided. Just been one of those ‘meh’ days.

[captain_70s]

 

Another bit of Glasgow's history erased as the Western Infirmary falls, ready to be replaced with some modular plate glass boxes...

 

The frequent complaints of boxy concrete 1960/70s buildings jarring with the older examples being made of local sandstone seems to matter not seems as they've demolished the older buildings as well...

[Guest Hooli]

Old people (usually part of the rambler's association) shouting all sorts of shit (encluding all types of expletive) at you as you either approach them in your car on a road or when you cycle past them while giving them a wide birth. Always a good "get up and go" initiative.

 

 

The RA, utter arseholes in red socks. They always look miserable when outdoors & think everyone else should too.

[C1am]

Worcester Bosch customer service. E-mails, website contact form and numerous phone calls advising "I am held in a queue." 

 

I would like to exchange money for a boiler service - clearly they have enough so don't require mine. 

[yellowperil]

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Another bit of Glasgow's history erased as the Western Infirmary falls, ready to be replaced with some modular plate glass boxes...

 

The frequent complaints of boxy concrete 1960/70s buildings jarring with the older examples being made of local sandstone seems to matter not seems as they've demolished the older buildings as well...

 

 

I pressed like because there isn't an "agree" button or a "dislike" button.

[dozeydustman]

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Another bit of Glasgow's history erased as the Western Infirmary falls, ready to be replaced with some modular plate glass boxes...

 

The frequent complaints of boxy concrete 1960/70s buildings jarring with the older examples being made of local sandstone seems to matter not seems as they've demolished the older buildings as well...

 

 

Agree with Yellowperil. Glasgow is a pretty city, steeped in a rich history and has many beautiful buildings of many eras. The craftsmanship that went into cutting, shaping and carving those old stone blocks is fast becoming a lost art, it's a shame to see buildings like that get torn down, even when structurally sound and could be re-purposed.

 

I hope the sandstone gets recycled.

[somewhatfoolish]

Worcester Bosch customer service. E-mails, website contact form and numerous phone calls advising "I am held in a queue." 

 

I would like to exchange money for a boiler service - clearly they have enough so don't require mine. 

Ask a neighbour(ideally one you like/trust) who does their boiler; there will be someone local who will do it better and cheaper than A. N. Other service tech in a van, and more importantly you'll be able to speak to the person who will actually be doing the service.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

My new windscreens cracked already! Fun phone call in a minute...

Best not have a word with FOAD about this....

[AMC Rebel]

Old people (usually part of the rambler's association) shouting all sorts of shit (encluding all types of expletive) at you as you either approach them in your car on a road or when you cycle past them while giving them a wide birth. Always a good "get up and go" initiative.

 

 

The RA, utter arseholes in red socks. They always look miserable when outdoors & think everyone else should too.

 

 

There seems to be a vague undercurrent of cowardly hatred running through a lot of "gangs" in this country.  A couple of years ago I was waiting for a bus.  I wondered out onto the shared footpath to see if there was any sign of the bus when and old bloke and his wife (and they have to be old to be old to me) came up behind me on their bikes and he muttered something in a particularly nasty passive aggressive manner about me "taking up the whole path".  It's a real shame.  I was making it awkward for him - but not on purpose, and up to that point I didn't think he was twat - in fact not having eyes fitted to the rear of my head, I hadn't seen him approaching.

[AMC Rebel]

Worcester Bosch customer service. E-mails, website contact form and numerous phone calls advising "I am held in a queue." 

 

I would like to exchange money for a boiler service - clearly they have enough so don't require mine. 

 

They won't touch mine as it's too old.  It's just a Worcester - before the Bosch bit.

[chaseracer]

Managed to fall down the stairs earlier, fortunately on my ample arse rather than headfirst.  Aches/stiffness?  Check.  Weapons-grade ibuprofen?  HELL YEAH.

 

You can stop laughing now.

 

[320touring]

Managed to fall down the stairs earlier, fortunately on my ample arse rather than headfirst. Aches/stiffness? Check. Weapons-grade ibuprofen? HELL YEAH.

 

You can stop laughing now.

 

Take care and get well!

[Guest Hooli]

Still laughing ya clumsy twat

[richardmorris]

Managed to fall down the stairs earlier, fortunately on my ample arse rather than headfirst. Aches/stiffness? Check. Weapons-grade ibuprofen? HELL YEAH.

 

You can stop laughing now.

 

I fell down the stairs when I lived in ascot in 2001. Dressed in my best suit and leather soled shoes going to a funeral. Thumped my elbow on the bottom step and couldn’t use my hand well - not helpful as I was the church warden and needed to hold one of the staffs. Took about ten years to not feel painful when resting on it! Helpfully I had the CX at the time which one can drive left handed with no effort.

[Tamworthbay]

Take it easy Mate, stuff like that can hit hardest the next day.

[somewhatfoolish]

There seems to be a vague undercurrent of cowardly hatred running through a lot of "gangs" in this country.  A couple of years ago I was waiting for a bus.  I wondered out onto the shared footpath to see if there was any sign of the bus when and old bloke and his wife (and they have to be old to be old to me) came up behind me on their bikes and he muttered something in a particularly nasty passive aggressive manner about me "taking up the whole path".  It's a real shame.  I was making it awkward for him - but not on purpose, and up to that point I didn't think he was twat - in fact not having eyes fitted to the rear of my head, I hadn't seen him approaching.

Highway code sez:

 

 

 

Even the Department of Transport think they're twats.

[SiC]

Highway code sez:

 

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Even the Department of Transport think they're twats.

You can cycle on a shared path though. Quite a lot of them around Bristol. Stupidly often not wide enough for both cyclist and pedestrian.

[dollywobbler]

You can cycle on a shared path though. Quite a lot of them around Bristol. Stupidly often not wide enough for both cyclist and pedestrian.

 

Approaching Durham, there is a cycle lane which takes up precisely half of one side of the road. So, you can't do anything but drive in it. A hundred slaps with a bunch of nettles to whoever came up with that one.

[Fumbler]

Approaching Durham, there is a cycle lane which takes up precisely half of one side of the road. So, you can't do anything but drive in it. A hundred slaps with a bunch of nettles to whoever came up with that one.

Local town has that as well on one road thankfully. Unserprisingly it's the road all cycle users (especially the annoying lycra ones) don't use, so they continue to complain about cycle rights.

[myglaren]

Approaching Durham, there is a cycle lane which takes up precisely half of one side of the road. So, you can't do anything but drive in it. A hundred slaps with a bunch of nettles to whoever came up with that one.

Reminded me of something I heard last week.

Vague recollection:  You know how good a friend is by how hard they slap you with a bunch of fresh nettles *

 

Nettle stings are good for arthritis (allegedly) so the more and harder they hit the better for the arthritis.

 

Not sure which is worse.

 

 

*from Vindolanda, supposedly.

[somewhatfoolish]

The council minions in charge of cycling at Argyll & Bute council are partial to, when not spending the cycletrack budget on cycletracks that resemble the rougher parts of the dark side of the moon, anointing a metre wide strip adjacent the kerb of some roads with red or green tarmac and calling this a cycle track. As it's punctuated by various drain covers and other street furniture and on many stretches of the roads enough drainage camber to make it unsafe to cycle on it's as much use as a chocolate tea pot. There's enough prior art about what constitutes a cycle track for it to be reasonable to dismiss this as fuckwitted window dressing by a local authority who don't give a shit about cyclists or cycling.

[Fumbler]

It's a council initiative down here in Kent and Sussex (at least) to pedestranise or encourage that lovely, continental cafe lifestyle. So much so parts of local town are now for pedestrians only, ignoring the fact that said town's road system is crippled and it wouldn't help to sever a couple of its arteries and veins. Aaaand they did just that. Grant came along and they decided to spend it on shitty flagstones which break when someone steps on it rather than upgrading the road surfaces on main roads in/out of the town.
Uckfield, the town on the other side of me, decided to widen its pavements to encourage that continental cafe lifestyle and then bollocked it up as there are nowt cafes and now the parking is hell. The joys of grants.

[taxi paul]

Woken up at 2.30 am this morning by the police. Inform g me that missing foster child had been arrested for finding something before it was lost. So lack of sleep and lots of phone calls . On the bright side he appears to be staying in his en suite accommodation tonight so at least I won't be disturbed.

[Cavcraft]

There are lots of idiotic cyclists, but there are lots of dickhead dog owners who watch you cycling carefully as their precious pet who isn't on a lead wanders straight into your path. I was riding home down the canal path many years ago when some old duffer's dog walked right in front of my front wheel. It was either go in the canal, or try left and hope not to roll down a bank. Took the less watery option, went through a barbed wire fence and rolled into a thorn bush about 12-15ft down the bank. I'm not a violent person, but had the dog owner been twenty years younger he'd have taken the less dry root, via the end of my boot.