The grumpy thread

[FakeConcern]

Just drove up to Norwich today & was annoyed to find that the A11 Roundabout at start of the new (well only a few years old) Thetford bypass has been fitted with traffic lights! Not much traffic today & we still got a red light & when we could go got a car pull out from another junction in front of us and promptly stop as their next set of lights was red! What a great bit of road design!

[wuvvum]

Is that the Mildenhall roundabout?  They've been fucking about with that for ages now.  Not sure why tbh - I've never had any issues with traffic coming through there (at least not since they dualled it - coming down the single carriageway bit through Elveden could be a chore if there'd been a race meet at Snetterton or whatever).

[Zelandeth]

0230.

 

I've an early start tomorrow, and to be in a functional state I really need to be asleep about four hours ago.

 

Was just about getting drowsy when I suddenly remembered that the Lada is still parked in front of the Audi (company car, less said the better. It's not even mine and I hate it)...and Chris has an early meeting tomorrow. Balls.

 

Cue getting dressed, finding keys, tripping over dog toys in the dark, then tripping over the dog in the dark, to go play musical cars.

 

I can usually count on one hand how many times I stall a car in a year. However trying to be quiet I of course managed to stall the Lada three times. Oh, and catch the horn on the steering wheel while shuffling it.

 

Managed to not only wake everyone here up, set the dog off but also wake our neighbours. Oh, and pretty sure I walked into a drug deal in progress too.

 

Off to go and try to get settled again.

[Guest Hooli]

True, but literally everywhere is ruined on sunny weekends, no matter where you go.

 

Be it a beauty spot, shop, pub, restaurant, whatever. All ruined by fairweather wankers who only seem to leave the house for 12 days a year and have no idea how to behave when they do.

 

 

There are a few places left, the first trick to finding them is drive more than 4hrs from a centre of population towards civilisation (ie somewhere with no people) then keep going for another 4hrs.

[DodgeRover]

I'm working with shit again, reuse the old doors, locks and now bits of skirting, jobs taking twice as long as it should and isn't going to look anything special

[Zelandeth]

Bloody Amazon delivery drivers turning up and nearly battering the door down at two minutes to eight in the morning. Just why?!?

[twosmoke300]

Two minutes to 8 is 1/4 the way through the working day , hardly early

[Lord Sterling]

Fucking shit Monday again. Firstly, the M5 was at a standstill making me late for fucking work by 15 minutes. Secondly, the cooling system decides that todaymof all days, whilst stuck on the M5 is the time to have a fucking airlock and try and overheat. Thirdly, something snaps in the drivers side keylock as I lock it up after getting into work. The door lock still works but I think a spring gave up. Bastard.

[Cavcraft]

Another ‘expert’ messaging me about something he’s clearly absolutely fucking clueless about.

I think it’s that time of the year again on social media.

[Guest Hooli]

Bloody Amazon delivery drivers turning up and nearly battering the door down at two minutes to eight in the morning. Just why?!?

 

Just a crazy leftfield idea but maybe he's got a delivery for your address and wants you to answer the door at a normal time for deliveries. I mean 'back in the day' that's when the postman would have turned up too.

[fordperv]

Bloody Amazon delivery drivers turning up and nearly battering the door down at two minutes to eight in the morning. Just why?!?

Another Amazon related grump, I purchased something for Mrs fp using a card I don't usually use, get a message from my card issuer showing me transactions that seem suspect, some bastards only went and took my details from there and tried to buy stuff

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Tonkotsu, the new Japanese-style ramen joint, opened up for business in Ealing yesterday. Half the vegetarian things on the menu are unavailable, and takeaway service won't start 'til January.

 

Great start, lads.

[BorniteIdentity]

Just a crazy leftfield idea but maybe he's got a delivery for your address and wants you to answer the door at a normal time for deliveries. I mean 'back in the day' that's when the postman would have turned up too.

I'd rather they knocked 7 shades out of my door than pretended to and left my parcel in the van. We're at that time of the year after all!

[cort1977]

Every breaker yard I've been to has been the same. You turn up, they eye you up and figure out how much they can charge you and if you don't fancy it you can fuck off.

 

You have to be canny, I'm not exactly posh but i went to university and have a south of England accent.  I used to wear rigger boots and overalls to go to Persley's in Aberdeen but not sure it fooled them that much.  I probably still paid the 'posh English wanker' tax.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Thirdly, something snaps in the drivers side keylock as I lock it up after getting into work. The door lock still works but I think a spring gave up. Bastard.

 

 

E46?

 

This is the twat that's broken, because E46. The die cast monkey metal collar will have broken. You need very strong fingers, infinite patience and some bits to fix it.

 

 

[Wack]

That first few weeks of ownership , when you're still wondering if you've bought a lemon

 

Picked up a 2011 ducato a couple of weeks ago 26,000miles. FSH, test drive was fine, 200 mile drive home was fine , last week the tickover went uneven, HMMMM

 

Today drove to Stratford 120 miles , got there , turned it off , and it kept running , took the key out, and it kept running , fuck me

 

Stalled it and it wouldn't start again, arsehole bollocks , no curly glow plug light and the immobiliser light is on

 

Called the AA , checked fuses, earth points, looked for chafed wiring , scanned it , loads of codes , cleared them and it started but the immobiliser light is still on

 

Drove it home then up to Steve's, look this is what its doing , turn it off and fuck off , stops and starts on the key , starter is on the way out though as it's hit and miss

 

Fuck me , luckily I've still got the transit

[Zelandeth]

Went into Oxford today (don't look at me, I was just driving).  Ten bloody quid to park for three hours, and all the usual spots we used to park are two hours max now, so wound up wasting an hour driving around in circles.

 

Now I'd rather just take the bus there...if it didn't take more than twice as long as driving.

[Wack]

Most city centres are around that sort of money now, Manchester has the heated indoor trafford centre with thousands of free parking spaces, or the same shops outside at £15 to park the car , and they wonder why the high street is dying

[anonymous user]

I think Oxford does win the prize for the least car-friendly city, it always amused me on Inspector Morse and latterly Lewis that they always managed to park anywhere in the vicinity of where they needed to be.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Hateful place. My accountant is based there, right in the centre. I park on Banbury Road and walk in.

[iainrcz]

Woman on TV whinging about money, and filmed going to a food bank whilst smoking.

 

STOP SMOKING SAVE MONEY YOU FUCKING TWAT.

 

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[scaryoldcortina]

The existence of food banks generally makes me grumpy but the recent drives for donations, supermarket tie ins and worse still Tory MPs opening and praising said foodbanks for helping feed the poor? Words fail me. Can we stop normalising poverty please? It's not the 19th century anymore so relying on charity shouldn't even be a thing.

 

...and don't even get me started on the front page of the daily heil today. Save our NHS with volunteers? Get in the sea you failure of irony.

[Frogchod]

You have to be canny, I'm not exactly posh but i went to university and have a south of England accent. I used to wear rigger boots and overalls to go to Persley's in Aberdeen but not sure it fooled them that much. I probably still paid the 'posh English wanker' tax.

English wanker tax is very much a thing. Except that here it doesn't mater if you're Scot,Welsh or Irish or even Parisian

I can manage looking like a local and reeking of fags and pastis but as soon as my accent is heard it's 30% tax ????

[cort1977]

The existence of food banks generally makes me grumpy but the recent drives for donations, supermarket tie ins and worse still Tory MPs opening and praising said foodbanks for helping feed the poor? Words fail me. Can we stop normalising poverty please? It's not the 19th century anymore so relying on charity shouldn't even be a thing.

 

 

Liked and unliked just so I could like it again. 

[Lord Sterling]

E46?

 

This is the twat that's broken, because E46. The die cast monkey metal collar will have broken. You need very strong fingers, infinite patience and some bits to fix it.

 

 

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Yep, it's now sat in a garage in Worcester awaiting some results. The lock doesn't bother me. I am...or at least was...hoping to get the key fob sorted so I needn't bother using the lock anymore anyway. The engine now needs attention...

[purplebargeken]

STOP SMOKING SAVE MONEY YOU FUCKING TWAT

 

I remember watching a TV prog on poverty in the UK. Virtually all of those filmed who were supposedly in poverty had a dog (insert usual stereotyping bull breed here), multiple brats, satellite/cable TV, smoked and had large (for then) TV's.

 

 

[Craig the Princess]

STOP SMOKING SAVE MONEY YOU FUCKING TWAT

 

I remember watching a TV prog on poverty in the UK. Virtually all of those filmed who were supposedly in poverty had a dog (insert usual stereotyping bull breed here), multiple brats, satellite/cable TV, smoked and had large (for then) TV's.

 

It's almost like the TV producers have an agenda they want to push.

[Fumbler]

oh wait.....

[MarvinsMom]

STOP SMOKING SAVE MONEY YOU FUCKING TWAT

 

I remember watching a TV prog on poverty in the UK. Virtually all of those filmed who were supposedly in poverty had a dog (insert usual stereotyping bull breed here), multiple brats, satellite/cable TV, smoked and had large (for then) TV's.

 

 

 

you used to get an extra £10 a week off of the social if you had a dog....... same for been an alcoholic, you used to get extra off the social for that too.

[scaryoldcortina]

you used to get an extra £10 a week off of the social if you had a dog....... same for been an alcoholic, you used to get extra off the social for that too.

That's such a persistent myth that there was even a foi request asking about it.

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/546772/foi-2510-2014.pdf