The grumpy thread

[taxi paul]

When I went over the cat and the fiddle road three times a week in my little lorry. Left indicator meant "your clear to overtake me". Left indicator and a touch of the brake lights meant ,"clear for now to overtake, but if something comes I will stop and let you get past". Right indicator meant thanks.

[PhilA]

That's uncommon here.

 

You flash your lights to the car in front just before you pass them. AKA look in your mirror, I'm going round you.

 

Thanks is only ever by a wave.

 

You only ever otherwise use your bright lights in anger or to signal that there's a police speed trap ahead, though neither are an official sanctioned usage of vehicle signals.

 

Phil

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

5.30 train cancelled due to no driver being arsed to steer the train so I'm stood sitting at this here station wasting my time. Thought I'd buy my weekly ticket for next week in advance but computer says no. Thought I'd buy it online and do it that way but internet says a ticket starting on the 18th can only be bought on the 20th. This is too much for this time of the morning.

[Cavcraft]

Message the managing director with pictures of the damage and the location, also damage to the truck, if it's a company vehicle there should be a daily check done so damage would have been noted prior.

 

Trouble is they'll deny it anyway. Why would they (except morally, of course) make a claim on their insurance when they know he has no proof?

[nebuchenezer]

Yay, snow!

 

Perfect* for my automatic RWD car which doesn't have winter tyres on it yet.

100 kg of bagged cement in the boot

 

worked for father neb in his mk iv cortina 2l auto in the days before winter tyres

[Minimad5]

Do we have anyone one here in a H.R or H&S position ?

Required a tad of advice.

If so, please throw us a P.M

 

^Reason why I R grumpy

[Guest Hooli]

Even more betterer!

 

https://youtu.be/HYuvLetJMy8

Almost the only good bit of a very disappointing film.

[cobblers]

Well, I've learned a new thing about not refreezing chicken after it's slightly thawed cos someone left the freezer door open. "it still felt quite cold" wasn't a sufficient defence

 

I've also lost about half a stone since eating my tea last night. When the room stops spinning and turds stop flying out of me I might try to go to bed.

[ProgRocker]

I rarely contribute to this thread.

 

The perils of keeping a 2003 car in an en bloc garage built in the 1960s. Both wing mirror casings are now damaged. The rest of the wing mirror components look OK and at least I haven't scraped the side of the car so thank heavens for small mercies.

 

I've already handed my notice on the garage to the council, I'll hand the keys back on 4th January and the Almera will have to stay outside in the residential car park.

 

I've had the garage since January, never had much of an issue putting the car in the garage during the year. I guess my concentration levels aren't as high in December - I probably have that SAD thing.

[The Moog]

That feeling better after a bug - false dawn. Back to stomach cramps and other symptoms.

 

Only blessed relief is my new bidet - cooling relief.

[dozeydustman]

Oh dear lord...Whoever you were in the 18 plate Mercedes I let through the narrow bit in Newport Pagnell this afternoon...please don't flash your headlights to say thanks.  I literally had to pull over and wait about a minute before I could see properly again.  Those aren't headlights, they're bloody photonic weapons... That's the first time I've been properly blinded like that.

 

 

I tend to turn my front fogs on and off quickly instead of main beam as the HID mains in the Saab will burn holes in the fabric of reality.

 

 

In the remoter parts of Scotland, you indicate left to say 'I am stopping, come through' and indicate right to say thank you. Seems very sensible. I always try to switch from headlights to sidelights at night, and just bloody wave in the day.

 

 

I have come across this a few times in the South East. Confused the hell out of me as the driver signalled left but didn't slow down or pull over. I thought he'd just left his indicator on until he gave a pulling over hand signal as well.

 

As a thank you after I've passed I do the lorryist's two right two left on the indicators

[MorrisItalSLX]

Fucking Sydney Trains.

 

What a lot of daft cunts that couldn’t organise themselves out of a wet paper bag.

 

That is all.

[Snipes]

Having an old woman push in front for the cash machine queue then proceed to jam her card repeatedly into the case because she can't see the blinking green card slot..

[Uncle Jimmy]

That feeling better after a bug - false dawn. Back to stomach cramps and other symptoms.

Only blessed relief is my new bidet - cooling relief.

Posh bastard

[Uncle Jimmy]

Really worries me that more and more people seem to think it's ok to mouth off utter shit about other people, whether regarding race, gender, lifestyle etc. I thought we were meant to be living in more enlightened times. Instead, I'm left wondering whether other parts of the world might be nicer.

Yes! The police must act immediately to stop all that talk!

[Bobthebeard]

Oh dear lord...Whoever you were in the 18 plate Mercedes I let through the narrow bit in Newport Pagnell this afternoon...please don't flash your headlights to say thanks.  I literally had to pull over and wait about a minute before I could see properly again.  Those aren't headlights, they're bloody photonic weapons... That's the first time I've been properly blinded like that.

Quite so....

I was blinded by someone coming the opposite way at the local (small) railway station whilst en route to pick up Mrs Beard last night. No idea what the offending car was though. All I could see was a blinding white/blue glare. Had to pull over and stop for a few minutes. Speed bumps or just poorly surfaced roads. Dunno. Point is that I couldn't see anything for a short while afterwards. Progress eh?

[The Moog]

Posh bastard

Was a whole £30 ...

[Uncle Jimmy]

Was a whole £30 ...

I was gonna get one for my new bathroom, sadly not enough space. They have a useful purpose as you get older believe me

[SierraMikeHotel]

Having an old woman push in front for the cash machine queue then proceed to jam her card repeatedly into the case because she can't see the blinking green card slot..

It's only ever old people who push in front of you, in supermarket queues, or to get on the bus first...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

It's only ever old people who push in front of you, in supermarket queries, or to get on the bus first...

...or running over you/into you in their mobility scooters

[Tamworthbay]

Update from last night, apparently my grasp of history is incorrect, I thought our forebears fought and died in ww2 because they believed in the destruction of bigotry, racism and general evil that Fascism stood for. I thought they fought to liberate Europe and stood up to the vile genocide enacted upon Jews, gypsies, the disabled and anyone that didn’t fit Nazi ideology. But apparently it was actually so we have the right to call people mongs, retards, mental and spakkers without the PC brigade interfering. I really do despair of some of my fellow humans at times

[Lacquer Peel]

Incidentally that was done for a reason. That's the General Lee, drifting around Lee Circle in New Orleans.

 

Grumpy ish though because they removed the statue of the namesake because people find history offensive.

 

Phil

A statue representing white supremacy and slavery in a black majority city, removing it is a good thing.

 

It'd be like a statue of Hitler existing in Germany 150 years after the defeat, it's historical revisionism in statue form portraying the Confederacy as the winners.

[Floatylight]

Update from last night, apparently my grasp of history is incorrect, I thought our forebears fought and died in ww2 because they believed in the destruction of bigotry, racism and general evil that Fascism stood for. I thought they fought to liberate Europe and stood to the vile genocide enacted upon Jews, gypsies, the disabled and anyone that didn’t fit their ideology. But apparently it was actually so we have the right to call people mongs, retards, mental and spakkers without the PC brigade interfering. I really do despair of some of my fellow humans at times

Unlike! It seems everywhere I go there are people reading the Sun & Daily Mail... Sheeple

 

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[The Moog]

I was gonna get one for my new bathroom, sadly not enough space. They have a useful purpose as you get older believe me

No need to thank me - takes 15 minutes to install literally.

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boss-Bidet-Self-Cleaning-Nozzle/dp/B01DXE2BEC

[dollywobbler]

Yes! The police must act immediately to stop all that talk!

 

Eh? I can't even see how you leapt to that conclusion. I'd rather people just thought about the power their words have rather than send the rozzers around.

[PhilA]

A statue representing white supremacy and slavery in a black majority city, removing it is a good thing.

It'd be like a statue of Hitler existing in Germany 150 years after the defeat, it's historical revisionism in statue form portraying the Confederacy as the winners.

But don't bury it and forget that it happened. That way the next generation(s) may end up making the same mistake.

 

Also, don't forget that a majority of slave owners in southern Louisiana were black themselves. That gets glossed over real quick.

 

Either way, greed, avarice, cruelty and bigotry aren't the best things to found your rules and morals on. But again, don't let it be forgotten for the same reason I stated above.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Update from last night, apparently my grasp of history is incorrect, I thought our forebears fought and died in ww2 because they believed in the destruction of bigotry, racism and general evil that Fascism stood for. I thought they fought to liberate Europe and stood to the vile genocide enacted upon Jews, gypsies, the disabled and anyone that didn’t fit their ideology. But apparently it was actually so we have the right to call people mongs, retards, mental and spakkers without the PC brigade interfering. I really do despair of some of my fellow humans at times

 

Actually, no. They were just clearing the way for new forms to flourish. We're not yet in the realms of interfering with people's brains and thought processes yet, but God knows the Chinese Government / Amazon / Google are trying their best.

 

But don't bury it and forget that it happened. That way the next generation(s) may end up making the same mistake....

 

But doesn't history tend to repeat itself eventually anyway?

[GrumpiusMaximus]

But don't bury it and forget that it happened. That way the next generation(s) may end up making the same mistake.

Then why is a statue the necessary icon of remembrance? An object specifically constructed to venerate an individual.

 

I have no horse in this race, I’m genuinely curious.

 

Rather wish we got rid of all the Churchill statues, personally. Mass-murdering prick.

[New POD]

Do we have anyone one here in a H.R or H&S position ?

Required a tad of advice.

If so, please throw us a P.M

 

^Reason why I R grumpy

I'm not but I have some safety qualifications and pissed my employment law module on a John's in Engineering.

[somewhatfoolish]

But don't bury it and forget that it happened. That way the next generation(s) may end up making the same mistake.

 

Also, don't forget that a majority of slave owners in southern Louisiana were black themselves. That gets glossed over real quick.

 

Either way, greed, avarice and bigotry aren't the best things to found your rules and morals on. But again, don't let it be forgotten for the same reason I stated above.

I think a big issue is that a lot of the statuary commemorating confederate heidbummers was erected by colossal racists in the first half of the 20th century to remind the nominally emancipated that they better not get ideas about actually exercising their voting rights, as opposed to memorials erected in the immediate aftermath of the civil war. They shouldn't be forgotten; I like the idea of shunting them somewhere less prominent, like one of those parks filled with soviet era lumps of Stalin, Beria etc that Jonathan Meades toured round once.