The grumpy thread

[beko1987]

Cheers for the added detail!

I didn't say I was doing anything, just sat on the toilet. Their hot on phone use atm again (rolls round every so often) so I just go to the toilet every now and again for 10 mins and have a read.

 

Bloody annoying when I get back to my desk and actually thrn need an urgent wee, stupid bladder

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I didn't say I was doing anything, just sat on the toilet. Their hot on phone use atm again (rolls round every so often) so I just go to the toilet every now and again for 10 mins and have a read.

 

Bloody annoying when I get back to my desk and actually thrn need an urgent wee, stupid bladder

 

To be fair, this wasn't a concern for Autoshite Couriers.

[AMC Rebel]

This bastarding old trout had installed herself in my reserved fucking seat

 

 

 

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

This bastarding old trout had installed herself in my reserved fucking seat

 

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"Excuse me madam, your newspaper seems to have bestowed you with a sense of utmost entitlement and superiority.  With that in mind, can you fuck the fuck out of my fucking seat, you fuck?"

[Guest Hooli]

 

 

"Excuse me madam, your fucking news fucking paper seems to have fucking bestowed you with a fuckimg sense of utmost fucking entitlement. With that in fucking mind, can you fuck the fuck out of my fucking seat, you fucking fuck?"

 

Edited for extra rage

[Parky]

Updated personal and work iPhones on Sunday. All good, except on Monday neither would work. Picked up internet ok, WhatsApp worked but neither would make or take calls which is a pretty fucking enormous flaw with a device which should have that as its minimum performance standard.

 

Off to Apple who sorted it. All good again. Except today I get an email from the guy I am working for saying

 

“Call me when you get this. I tried all day yesterday and this morning and am not happy about you constantly hanging up on me”

 

WTF? My phone is here, on and ready. Five bars of signal, can’t understand what’s going on. So I called my own number from the home phone and it immediately failed, stating “the other party has hung up”. It didn’t even ring or register that I had been called! Tried it three times, same each time.

 

Bloody hell! So many times people have said they have called me or left messages but I never believed them, thinking they were just fobbing me off. Turns out my phone is kaput. Christ knows what other important calls I have missed because of that fucking thing.

 

Verdict - Nokia 3210 for the win.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

She probably just sat in the wrong seat.....

 

 

Why let common sense and reasoning come into it?  After all, the Daily Mail is involved.  If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

[Parky]

It's not you mate! I hope you don't feel like I'm picking on you.

 

I just won't click on a Daily Mail link out of principle. They've fucked this country up far more than any 'Shariah Threat'. They don't get any of my advertising money anyway seeing as I've been using a uBlock Origin for years...

 

All papers have a bias, yes. All writing has a bias of some kind. It's just that the Mail has always been particularly nasty. They haven't changed much since they supported the British Union of Fascists back in the 30s...

Even when it’s not political, you can see the internal bias of that paper. That poor girl who died after eating the Pret sandwich? The subtitle mentioned how the bread was produced (sorry, churned out - hints at lack of care) in a foreign factory.

 

It works. My Dad is an avid reader and lectured me about the quality control in British bakeries based on his experience of spending NO TIME WHATSOEVER in a bakery.

[artdjones]

"Excuse me madam, your newspaper seems to have bestowed you with a sense of utmost entitlement and superiority. With that in mind, can you fuck the fuck out of my fucking seat, you fuck?"

It's a good job you're not a Daily Mail reader and prejudiced, isn't it.

[Rocket88]

Updated personal and work iPhones on Sunday. All good, except on Monday neither would work. Picked up internet ok, WhatsApp worked but neither would make or take calls which is a pretty fucking enormous flaw with a device which should have that as its minimum performance standard.

 

Off to Apple who sorted it. All good again. Except today I get an email from the guy I am working for saying

 

“Call me when you get this. I tried all day yesterday and this morning and am not happy about you constantly hanging up on me”

 

WTF? My phone is here, on and ready. Five bars of signal, can’t understand what’s going on. So I called my own number from the home phone and it immediately failed, stating “the other party has hung up”. It didn’t even ring or register that I had been called! Tried it three times, same each time.

 

Bloody hell! So many times people have said they have called me or left messages but I never believed them, thinking they were just fobbing me off. Turns out my phone is kaput. Christ knows what other important calls I have missed because of that fucking thing.

 

Verdict - Nokia 3210 for the win.

 

I'd be having a fairly terse conversation with your provider........

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Even when it’s not political, you can see the internal bias of that paper. That poor girl who died after eating the Pret sandwich? The subtitle mentioned how the bread was produced in a foreign factory. I mean come on, honestly?

 

 

Spot on.  It's the 'little' touches that most people wouldn't notice.  They'd read the by-line and 'French' but wouldn't take it on board consciously.  Add 20 of these little nudges to the paper each edition and you end up with subtle xenophobia instilled into the reader.  The reader learns to associate 'foreign' with 'bad'.

 

This is precisely how they operate.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

It's a good job you're not a Daily Mail reader and prejudiced, isn't it.

 

My prejudices are there for everyone to see.  I accept my biases and accept disagreements.  I also accept that I am a hypocrite and that people are inherently contradictory.

[Floatylight]

IF they're your only neighbours.

 

1. Obtain PA speakers

 

2. Place next to wall.

 

3. Load up pornhub find obnoxiously loud video and set to loop.

 

4. Go out for dinner till about 4am.

Nah, a Sound transducer bolted to a joist or adjoining wall, playing for a few seconds every hour you are out should do the trick..

 

https://youtu.be/xkWA-IzdVMI

 

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[Rocket88]

I read the Mail.........it's biased, irresponsible, and xenophobic...................the Express is worse, the Guardian is insufferably smug, Telegraph is a posher version of the Mail, Times is weird, and seems to swing wildly from one editorial position to another.............Sun and the Mirror are pun riddled and infantile..............I must admit to turning to the sports pages first, and pretty much disregarding the rest....

[Parky]

I'd be having a fairly terse conversation with your provider........

In all honesty it seems to be hardware. My personal phone was my daughters one and I inherited it after she upgraded. It’s five years old, and it was only when I told the Apple guy about its battery life and he inspected it to find various issues did I realise what a tough life it had already had. The missing lens cover and the filthy lens probably explains why the photos off it are so poor!

 

It also went in a bucket of water six months ago. Was rapidly rescued and the cover did a good job of keeping it dry but I wonder if some water penetrated it and started corroding something....

 

Everyone said that when i called through the cars Bluetooth, the static made it impossible to hear me. I blamed the car and the then provider (BT) but am increasingly realising it was the phone crapping out

[Eddie Honda]

Sadly just a confused old giffer like it is every single time someone drives the wrong way up the motorway.

Every single time

 

That's bollocks as well. Whilst confused giffers might make the majority of these cases. It can be novice drivers (Google "Lauren Smee" - there was another novice up Scotland too that put a HGV over) and foreign HGVs that suddenly realise they're heading for the tolls on the M6T (Google "M6 toll HGV wrong way" and I found a Lithuanian and Romanian HGV reports in seconds.)

 

Not in anyway condoning/endorsing the Dail Heil by the way.

[New POD]

Agreed. Anecdotally the only people I see reading that rag are women of a certain age - but it must be widely read somewhere to sell so many.

Father in law used to read the socialist worker or such thing in the 50s and 60s.

 

Now he reads the Daily Fascist. Sometimes he rings me up to tell me something that I urgently need to know.

I have been chastised for answering in sarcastic tones "So, you read it in the Daily mail? Well it must be true......

Except it's not....."

[New POD]

Every single time

 

That's bollocks as well. Whilst confused giffers might make the majority of these cases. It can be novice drivers (Google "Lauren Smee" - there was another novice up Scotland too that put a HGV over) and foreign HGVs that suddenly realise they're heading for the tolls on the M6T (Google "M6 toll HGV wrong way" and I found a Lithuanian and Romanian HGV reports in seconds.)

 

Not in anyway condoning/endorsing the Dail Heil by the way.

It fits with my ban all over 80s from driving.

Which might kids my parents off but hey they can afford taxis.

[Parky]

Having seen the dash cam footage I honestly cannot fathom why the old guy just kept going. How could he have not registered what was happening?

 

I worry Parky Sr will do something like that one day. He is fine when he is in familiar places but get him on a road he hasn’t seen before and he is a menace to other road users

[dozeydustman]

It fits with my ban all over 80s from driving.

Which might kids my parents off but hey they can afford taxis.

 

 

I don't see there should be an outright ban on over 80's driving, but I do think at 70/certain age they should have an assessment on their capabilities to drive with a driving examiner, along with a check on their physical and mental health.

 

For some old duffers giving up driving is not good for them as they lose their independence, and can become isolated & lonely, particularly if they live where there are no buses, trains etc.

[New POD]

I don't see there should be an outright ban on over 80's driving, but I do think at 70/certain age they should have an assessment on their capabilities to drive with a driving examiner, along with a check on their physical and mental health.

 

For some old duffers giving up driving is not good for them as they lose their independence, and can become isolated & lonely, particularly if they live where there are no buses, trains etc.

I actually agree with you.

[Kiltox]

It fits with my ban all over 80s from driving.

Which might kids my parents off but hey they can afford taxis.

When you’re 79 and they want to take your license off you, you might see this differently.

[dollywobbler]

I can understand how you can get confused and drive up the wrong side of a motorway.

 

I can't understand how you could do that for several miles at speed and not realise...

 

I remember once seeing some old duffer driving the wrong way around a roundabout. You could see in his face that he knew something was wrong. He didn't bloody stop though. He seemed paralysed by confusion.

[New POD]

When you’re 79 and they want to take your license off you, you might see this differently.

I am sure you are correct. Problem is that people don't make plans for their very old age.

[New POD]

I remember once seeing some old duffer driving the wrong way around a roundabout. You could see in his face that he knew something was wrong. He didn't bloody stop though. He seemed paralysed by confusion.

Father on law got to the end of the dual carriage way, and wasn't sure what to do at the roundabout. It came back to him, and he was able to drive home, but it freaked him out and he decided that the rest of us were too bonkers on the roads and he'd be safer not driving.

He's the only person I know who gave up driving before the "accident"

[BorniteIdentity]

Is it not time for ‘alligator ramps’ or whatever they call them on every motorway on/off slip? That way you can only pass them in the correct direction - and going the reverse results in immediate blow outs? Make them droppable in case of police needing to release trapped traffic in the wrong direction and bingo.

 

I appreciate there are a lot to do, but if they make it motorway standard henceforth and start a programme of works quickly then they’d be done within 5 years.

 

I also appreciate it will slow traffic down. I don’t see that as a bad thing at junctions.

[catsinthewelder]

Are some junctions particularly high risk for this?  I'm sure that I've seen the odd one where it would be easy to make a mistake whereas others would be nearly impossible to cock up.

 

Our hire insurance has an upper age limit of 75 which can be a PITA when that is about the average age in Ludlow.  I've had a few customers that were a bit old and doddery at 55 and potential customers of 85+ who I would have been happy to rent to.

[SierraMikeHotel]

 

 

Father on law got to the end of the dual carriage way, and wasn't sure what to do at the roundabout.

This sounds like the start of dementia

 

I did a short course on it (Dementia Friends) and the example they used was that a common symptom is to put the electric kettle on the hob. It's not because they've gone simple, it's because the brain is accessing an earlier memory and when that person was young they did put the kettle on the hob.

 

Without knowing how old your father in law is, it's possible he learned to drive when roundabouts were still a rarity.

[DodgeRover]

A blanket ban at 80 would be a devastating blow for a lot of older people, who would simply be stuck in the house with no means to go anywhere without booking a taxi, a simple competence and eyesight check every 5 years starting from 75 would be more reasonable.

 

How many accidents are due to older drivers though compared to new drivers or the unlicenced?

 

I remember a series of accidents involving foreign HGVs U turning on the motorway through gaps in the barriers but don't recall people asking for a ban on them.

 

Re the getting to the roundabout and being confused it could have been as simple as missing the direction signs or not knowing which lane flew off where, some just aren't that easy to navigate?

[dozeydustman]

A blanket ban at 80 would be a devastating blow for a lot of older people, who would simply be stuck in the house with no means to go anywhere without booking a taxi, a simple competence and eyesight check every 5 years starting from 75 would be more reasonable.

 

 

Yup. One of my granddads carried on driving until about a year before he passed away. We didn't know he had started to lose his eyesight until he had a couple of very minor accidents; knocking mirrors off or scraping against a bollard etc. One of the perils of type 1 diabetes is eyesight loss.

 

My other granddad immediately gave up driving at 70, and it was the worst thing he could have done. He was very sharp minded, active, still crawling under one of my previous shiteheaps showing me how to repair this and that. By 72 he had become sedentary and hard to get out of the house. We think he was depressed as he had willingly given away his license, despite being given the all clear at his age 70 medical. By 75 he was suffering with vascular dementia as he did nothing but sit in his armchair and watch the telly, showed no interest in helping me with mechanic type things any more. I think if he'd carried on driving he'd still have been an active man and given up nearer age 80.