The grumpy thread

[clayts450]

Fireworks.

 

Discuss.

[beko1987]

I didn’t realise that was the crash reason. Very sad.

Yep.

 

My opinion has changed entirely now I've read the 4x4 had foreign plates on... Can only imagine the terror, that's a fast strech too between 5 and 6

[New POD]

Fireworks.

 

Discuss.

Did you mention to your wife, that she's put on a little weight?

That usually results in exhibition strength fireworks.

 

Real fireworks. Get the biggest ones you can get. Put them in the middle of a very small garden. Never be asked to do fireworks again

[Tamworthbay]

Fireworks.

 

Discuss.

Love em, but the clue is in the name - Fireworks NIGHT, not fireworks week, fireworks month or even as it seems to be for the last ten years, fireworks any fucking day between September and March.

[dozeydustman]

Fireworks.

 

Discuss.

 

 

I love fireworks. Always have done. But too many people are irresponsible with them. Fireworks night - yes. I grew up in a town with a large Indian population who put on a big firework display for Diwali.

 

I can't stand little scrotes who manage to get hold of rockets and bangers then light them and throw them into people gardens, at cars, and animals.

[Captain Furious]

On the way to work this morning there was a piece of debris in the road, it was unclear what it was but that section of the M6 is currently narrow lanes because of roadworks, I was in the middle land and I didn’t really have any room to manoeuvre around it

 

So with gritted teeth I just ran over it with the passenger side wheel. Turned out to be a fairly hefty chunk of metal which clattered along the car with a hell of a racket. Got to work expecting some damage, but a quick glance over didn’t reveal anything obvious.

 

Coming home tonight I notice that I cannot see further than about 10ft in front of the car. I can only assume it’s damaged one of the headlight level sensors, which are on the passenger side front and rear suspension, causing them to dip to their lowest setting. Fucking great

[myglaren]

Do not blame the person who made the mistake, but those members of his family who didn't stop to ask if he was still competent to drive and didn't take his keys off him.

I dread ending up in this sort of situation and being unaware.

 

I'm sure my kids would take the keys and have the car crushed though.

[iainrcz]

On the subject of fireworks...

 

Not long after we moved in our house something spurred the little shits in our local vicinity to decide to chuck eggs, flour and a couple of fireworks at our house every Halloween and bonfire night for the first two years.

 

So having a well disguised anger management issue I vowed to find them and murder them.

 

Having thought about a better plan I bought a security camera and installed it above the drive.

 

The following day we got egged again

 

So I got a large cardboard box, flattened it and wrote in big letters

"Thanks for the eggs, next time throw some bacon too. Ps smile, you're on camera" and taped it to the inside of the front bay window.

 

Queue school time and 3 teenage boys on my drive gurning directly in to the camera.

Well done morons I now know who's been chucking shit at my house.

 

I waved at them through the window.

 

Guess how much trouble we've had since.

 

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[New POD]

I love fireworks. Always have done. But too many people are irresponsible with them. Fireworks night - yes. I grew up in a town with a large Indian population who put on a big firework display for Diwali.

 

I can't stand little scrotes who manage to get hold of rockets and bangers then light them and throw them into people gardens, at cars, and animals.

I worked in a petrol station. 2 evenings a week during my 6th form.

 

Interesting times.

 

To be fair, me and my mates made surface to air rocket launchers using drain pipe and oh er rockets, and fired them whilst pissed from the tops of pine trees towards targets on the ground.

 

Of these people, one definitely joined the army, another joined the police, and a third became a city trader.

Parent's were magistrates, pharmacists and bank managers, personnel managers and Systems Analyst.

The 1980s was great, middle class kids could get away with anything.

Nobody asked you where you'd been or why you smelt of gunpowder. Mind you mine were too busy praying at house group bible study to notice what a little shit I was.

[New POD]

I dread ending up in this sort of situation and being unaware.

 

I'm sure my kids would take the keys and have the car crushed though.

It was only a guess. Don't know about the recent crash, just live in a town full of old buffers for whom driverless cars will be introduced too late.

[Richard]

Yep.

 

My opinion has changed entirely now I've read the 4x4 had foreign plates on... Can only imagine the terror, that's a fast strech too between 5 and 6

 

 

Did it? It's a right hooker and the caravan has the door on the left.

[Captain Furious]

I’ve often wondered about the mechanics of joining a motorway in the wrong direction, I guess if it’s one of those where you join from a junction off another road it’s more conceivable, but joining from a roundabout would take a pretty abrupt manoeuvre (unless you were already going round the roundabout the wrong way)

[artdjones]

Irish cars are foreign,also rhd.

[Snipes]

I worked in a petrol station. 2 evenings a week during my 6th form.

 

Interesting times.

 

To be fair, me and my mates made surface to air rocket launchers using drain pipe and oh er rockets, and fired them whilst pissed from the tops of pine trees towards targets on the ground.

 

Of these people, one definitely joined the army, another joined the police, and a third became a city trader.

Parent's were magistrates, pharmacists and bank managers, personnel managers and Systems Analyst.

The 1980s was great, middle class kids could get away with anything.

Nobody asked you where you'd been or why you smelt of gunpowder. Mind you mine were too busy praying at house group bible study to notice what a little shit I was.

 

You'd have to be  shooting at airbourne targets fro the rockets to be surface to air....

[Cavcraft]

Even I've run out of patience with Facebook 'buyers' now. This spare Corsa is having the engine taken out and the rest crushed, then I'm going to message all the penniless illiterate fucking morons and tell them I gave it away for nothing.

[Christine]

Is it a  x16xel ingin?

[MarvinsMom]

Fireworks.

 

Discuss.

fuckin' hate them.

 

we live in a prosperous, nice wee town, and it can be like a noisey day in Mogadishu/Grozny/Beruit for a month or so BEFORE firework night, and if that falls on a weekday, several friggin' days afterwards. (see also New Years Eve)

 

i'd bloody ban the fuckin' things.

 

when Thomas was alive he used to go spare, running upstairs to hid under the quilt, before sauntering back downstairs later "having seen the flash/bang/noise off" bravely....

[Tadhg Tiogar]

 

 

 

 

Some twat decided to drive the wrong way up the M40 and ruin some poor bastards life, and my commute home turned into 2 hours.

Thanks whoever that was!

M40 is closed at Oxford btw

OK I'd shit myself if I saw this!

Check out @mrmad1234’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/mrmad1234/status/1051889617639755779?s=09

Probably not as much as the audi/bmw/insert stereotype here driver in l3 with his cruise set to 95 who saw it coming as he glanced up from his phone...

Yep.

My opinion has changed entirely now I've read the 4x4 had foreign plates on... Can only imagine the terror, that's a fast strech too between 5 and 6

Did it? It's a right hooker and the caravan has the door on the left.

Irish cars are foreign,also rhd.

BBC Oxfordshire have a brief report of this, but updates probably more likely in the morning.

 

ITV report here

 

The M40 has had a bit of a reputation for wrong-way traffic. In the early 1980s, the motorway used to end just short of Oxford. My parents were taking me in the family Cortina Mk.3 to visit Oxford in the hope that I'd be inspired enough to study hard to get into the University in the years to come. Some hope.

 

I digress. Mam has a habit of being able to sleep during any journey and, as we got near to the end of the M40, she awoke just in time to see a white Rover P6 flash by in the fast lane....on our side of the motorway. I remember looking back through the rear windscreen watching it carry on down the wrong way, as cars going our way in the fast lane flashed their headlights and frantically pulled aside.

 

We heard later that it was an oul fella driving the P6. He managed to progress a few more miles on the wrong side of the M40, then collided head-on with a Mercedes. He died instantly, and I think the Merc driver also succumbed.

[D Spares & Tyres]

So I see a man who identified as a woman has just won a women's bike race...

 

So... If I identify as a 8 year old, can I enter a primary school's sports day and kick their arses in the 100 metres?*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*To be fair, I may still lose

[Tamworthbay]

My 11 year old can kick my arse big time over a mile, about half way round she is usually running backwards taking the piss and challenging me to go faster.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Bloody bass guitar.  I've got electrical gremlins I'll classify as 'miscellaneous ground issues'.  Tried various combinations of things, to the same result.  No sound or horrible ground noise.

 

In the end I gave up and soldered the J pickup straight to the output jack.  None of those annoying pots now.

[Guest Hooli]

The Saab 9-5 I helped a mate buy last month appears to have shat it's clutch..

 

What you need to do is get him to buy my 9-5, it's got the correct number of pedals to cure all clutch issues.

[bub2006]

Some twat decided to drive the wrong way up the M40 and ruin some poor bastards life, and my commute home turned into 2 hours.

 

Thanks whoever that was!

 

M40 is closed at Oxford btw

Towing a caravan too wasn't he?

[beko1987]

Towing a caravan too wasn't he?

Yep. Heard conflicting stories that it was stolen, and that he was just an unfortunate tourist

[beko1987]

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6278839/amp/Car-towing-caravan-WRONG-WAY-M40-crashes-vehicles.html

[dozeydustman]

my Google and social media accounts have been hacked. So has the wife’s.

 

Probably the same bastard doing my bank account last week.

 

Just spent the last half an hour changing passwords on my laptop, my phone and going to change the wifi password in a minute.

 

All computers are now disconnected so having to rely on mobile data until I find out how.

 

Bastards

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Have you got 2FA on everything?  That's saved my bacon once or twice.

 

Recommend that you let Windows Defender do a scan, too.  It could be that you have malware on your laptop and that's what has let everything out.

[catsinthewelder]

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6278839/amp/Car-towing-caravan-WRONG-WAY-M40-crashes-vehicles.html

 

FFS put up a Daily Wail warning,  I know its in the link address but I just read the google bit and clicked it.

[dozeydustman]

Have you got 2FA on everything? That's saved my bacon once or twice.

 

Recommend that you let Windows Defender do a scan, too. It could be that you have malware on your laptop and that's what has let everything out.

Mrs is doing that on hers. Meanwhile in Apple Land I’m trying to find something suitable

[beko1987]

FFS put up a Daily Wail warning, I know its in the link address but I just read the google bit and clicked it.

Sorry, I posted it up because it had good pictures!

 

Have another twatter videio

 

Check out @AlexVarga_’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/AlexVarga_/status/1051898094428844033?s=09