The grumpy thread

[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

[Pillock]

Love the way the DM lead with FOREIGN number plates, just to stir things up a bit. Had it been an old giffer they'd have blamed the signs for being confusing.

 

Also, they showed a video and several pictures, plus a quote from the police saying "please don't share any footage".

 

Remember when they announced they were going to start MOTing caravans? Everyone else "that's a good idea, you quite often see them upside down on the motorway". DM: "TAX ON BRITISH HOLIDAYS".

[GrumpiusMaximus]

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

 

 

Sophos Home is apparently the AV software of choice currently.  I've never used it so I can't vouch but after a Google, it would appear that independent websites are giving it the thumbs up.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Love the way the DM lead with FOREIGN number plates, just to stir things up a bit. Had it been an old giffer they'd have blamed the signs for being confusing.

 

Also, they showed a video and several pictures, plus a quote from the police saying "please don't share any footage".

 

Remember when they announced they were going to start MOTing caravans? Everyone else "that's a good idea, you quite often see them upside down on the motorway". DM: "TAX ON BRITISH HOLIDAYS".

 

During the last OMGSNOKAOS! I had pedestrian access to a bridge on the M20, where I decided to livestream (on Periscope) the utter ridiculousness that was going on underneath me.  Lasted about 15 minutes.  I wander home and within minutes I've got multiple news agencies across Europe messaging me, asking if they could use the footage.  I checked them all out before I said 'yes'.

 

I was waiting for it.  Then the Daily Express asked and got a firm 'no' with a threat of legal action.  Then, the motherlode.  The Mail asked.  I told them 'no' and threatened them with legal action and a few choice words about their journalistic standards.  It was exceptionally satisfying.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Have man flu. Ruined weekend as a result and off work again today as I can't bloody well move.

 

I don't generally like being off work unless it's proper arranged leave, I'm odd like that. I like having a reason to be off, laying around the house frustrates me. Plus the weather is mild and dry, I had been looking forward to commuting on the Kawasaki.

 

Bet it rains tomorrow

 

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[wuvvum]

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

I particularly like the photo of the rusty police Sprinter.

[Guest Hooli]

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

 

 

I'm impressed how many managed to avoid it, most of them can't avoid cars traveling in the same direction at the same speed normally.

[beko1987]

[captain_70s]

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...

[Guest Hooli]

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...

 

Nor I to either.

[willswitchengage]

Love the way the DM lead with FOREIGN number plates, just to stir things up a bit. Had it been an old giffer they'd have blamed the signs for being confusing.

 

Also, they showed a video and several pictures, plus a quote from the police saying "please don't share any footage".

 

Remember when they announced they were going to start MOTing caravans? Everyone else "that's a good idea, you quite often see them upside down on the motorway". DM: "TAX ON BRITISH HOLIDAYS".

 

I also love the way the 'foreign numberplates' shitstirrer (predictably reciprated in the article's comments) can fairly easily be shown to be highly unlikely.

 

The vehicle is moving far too quickly to clearly determine in the footage if it is left or right hand drive, or has non-UK plates. Fair enough.

 

However, it is using its windscreen wipers, which is very clear in the video. The wipers sweep from the right, informing us that it is right hand drive. The vehicle is therefore either British or Irish registered or some random Japanese import registered in another country.

 

But on the balance of probabalities the vehicle is British. That councillor's 'foreign numberplates' statement is either a prejudiced lie or irresponsible guesswork.

 

#fakenews

[dozeydustman]

Sophos Home is apparently the AV software of choice currently.  I've never used it so I can't vouch but after a Google, it would appear that independent websites are giving it the thumbs up.

 

 

just tried to download Sophos Home. It's an antivirus etc I've not heard of before.

 

Apparently my e-mail address is already in use for that one. Hmm.

 

Meanwhile my spam e-mail folder is filling at an alarming rate.

[Pillock]

Latest news on the M40 is both the occupants of the Subaru towing the caravan were in their eighties which makes them being part of an international caravan theft gang unlikely, and sadly it seems just a fatal level of confusion. The driver of one of the cars going the correct way also died.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Latest news on the M40 is both the occupants of the Subaru towing the caravan were in their eighties which makes them being part of an international caravan theft gang unlikely, and sadly it seems just a fatal level of confusion. The driver of one of the cars going the correct way also died.

 

More footage here

[xtriple]

Just been out trying to get some jobs ticked off the list on the XJ - started by Waxoyling the boot area and then inside the bootlid as they like going there, then inside the arches etc and all is going swimmingly until it started to effin' rain AGAIN! It has actually been dry for a few hours though miserable and overcast, at this rate, it's going to take until the next millennium to get the 6 remaining tasks done!

[cobblers]

Love the way the DM lead with FOREIGN number plates, just to stir things up a bit.

 

Makes you sick, they're such lying shitbags. "I just read it for the news I don't fall for their propaganda" but when they slyly chip away at people like that, it's no wonder that so many people are angry about completely the wrong things. And to use a story where three people died to do that? Absolute scum, I really hope that anyone with half a brain who works at that place struggles to sleep at night.

 

Clearly it's a RHD car due to the wipers and the fact that it's driving up the fast lane. If it was a FOREIGNER they'd be on the other side of the road. Sadly just a confused old giffer like it is every single time someone drives the wrong way up the motorway.

[AMC Rebel]

Makes you sick, they're such lying shitbags. "I just read it for the news I don't fall for their propaganda" but when they slyly chip away at people like that, it's no wonder that so many people are angry about completely the wrong things. And to use a story where three people died to do that? Absolute scum, I really hope that anyone with half a brain who works at that place struggles to sleep at night.

 

Clearly it's a RHD car due to the wipers and the fact that it's driving up the fast lane. If it was a FOREIGNER they'd be on the other side of the road. Sadly just a confused old giffer like it is every single time someone drives the wrong way up the motorway.

 

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.

[beko1987]

Another crash needing the air ambulance 2 junctions further back now too.

 

I might change my commute home...

[bramz7]

Stuck in traffic on the M6 toll. Laods of emergency services have gone past. I've been up and down this road loads but never in traffic this bad.

[dozeydustman]

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.

 

 

The whole of Chichester.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

The Daily Mail and Express really are only good as toilet paper.  Their level of 'journalism' should be considered criminal.  Dacre was a master at being 'just' the right side of libel but still managing to defame and insult anybody he disagreed with.  Things haven't changed since his retirement but I am honestly convinced that he was the most dangerous man in the UK.

[beko1987]

Crikey I only looked at the link to see the different pictures, didn't actually read the text, it all looked like the standard press release sexed up a bit. Bucks free press, Oxford mail, BBC news, itv news and Thames Valley police all had different opinions on the same matter, I just fancied a gawp at the pictures...

 

Ill keep quiet from now on!

[Cavcraft]

Don't worry about it, chief, you put a link up (which lots of us have done) as you thought it was suitable for here. The DM (for the terrible rag that it is) is bloody good at clickbait, plenty of people get sucked in to sharing something interesting, only to find it's that paper.

[cobblers]

/\ What he said /\

They're fucking brilliant at getting you to click stuff, but wherever possible it's subtly infected it with their fucked up worldview. 

[beko1987]

/\ What he said /\

They're fucking brilliant at getting you to click stuff, but wherever possible it's subtly infected it with their fucked up worldview.

Oh I ignore that. I read mail and express and guardian stuff online, and always see the total bias each paper brings. But at the end you generally get the info you wanted, and can usually comb it out into a rational amswer.

 

All media is biased, its just a matter of seeing through that!