The grumpy thread

[dozeydustman]

My Cougar ran out with 25m range to go, I've yet to run the Saab out of fuel but have done 15 miles or so when the SID says "Refill fuel now".

 

My Scimitars were the best for an over-eager low fuel light. Both would come on at around the 3/4 mark of the gauge.

[DodgeRover]

I've run out of fuel twice once on a steep hill as the fuel ran away from the pickup / had to put 20l in before it would prime!

Once moving a slightly out of T&T XR3i to a place of repair, showing just over a quarter tank it conked out on the same hill in the opposite direction, once it had sat at the bottom it fired up and got home.

[myglaren]

My picasso ran out at an indicated 37 mile range left. I was only around corner from home though.

Haven't run out for years, last time was in the Renault 4 at Washington Wildfowl Park, early 80's, baking hot day, car full of kids, had to walk for miles to get a can of petrol, wife never forgave me.

 

The C5's will both do 60 miles at least when the no diesels light comes on - have pushed it a bit further but always been lucky.

65L tank that I have managed to get 72L in on a couple of occasions.

[Guest Hooli]

I have to use twattatalk on my phone. The damn twattatalk banner that appears over the site doesn't vanish no matter how often I hit the 'x' and it covers the login button so I can't ignore it.

[Guest Hooli]

It's only taken two years of motoring, I've finally managed to run out of fuel.

On the motorway of course. Luckily I'm close to home.

Don't trust range computers, kids.

I had the use of a Jeep Cherokee once and even at 25mpg on a run it did 12 miles with a range of zero.

Mind you I also had a Manta that run out at 1/3rd of a tank. Handy as it leaked above 1/2....

[The Moog]

I ran out of fuel once. So took petrol can and trudged to the nearest station.

 

I got quite a few toots and people pointing and laughing.

 

Sadly I was wearing this t shirt that day

[The Moog]

I use Tapatalk and see zero ads.

 

You do need to turn a fair amount of stuff off on it such as all notifications, avatars, pics etc.

[mercrocker]

I ran my Yank out once.  Just once.  Had to push it to garage with no power steering - Not superman it ran out literally yards from the garage but it still shagged me out.   I have never run out again - Never trusted fuel gauges since and I always set my trip to zero each fill up unless I literally only put a tenner in. 

 

When I had that Pontiac there were five garages in our town - now there is only one.   Probably just a co-incidence.....

[xtriple]

Just had a new version of Firefox install itself, lost all my passwords, adblock, spellcheck, Google home, everything. Expect huge hissy fits as I try to re-install all these various items.

[Guest Hooli]

Odd. I've never* lost all that when FF upgrades.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*yet

[Pillock]

It costs £5 a year to browse AS (and any other forums) ad free on Tapatalk, its a small price to pay and makes using the site sooo easy on a mobile or tablet.

Although if you pay once, and then stop, the adverts never come back..... I paid a couple of years ago and I get the odd message reminding me that I'm not longer premium (as on, once every few months) but no adverts.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

None of those fuckers out there can park properly. None of them.

 

Local shopping centres are already taking on that "end of the world" vibe as every fucker is in wandering around the aisles.

 

There should definitely be a lane system in supermarkets, and a minimum speed around the aisles. With SS style guards beating everyone who disobeys the rules.

 

I went into Tesco to get two things and it took fucking hours. People lumbering around, blocking aisles with trolleys overflowing with shite, kids having tantrums, bahhhhhh

 

How long does it take to select a carton of milk and fuck off down the aisle? Must you park your trolley sideways across the milk and then pause to read all the ingredients (I'll give you a fucking clue, it's got MILK in it). Then get shirty when I reach across your trolley to lift some fucking milk myself???

 

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[mercrocker]

Had a chance to go somewhere today.   Unfortunately, piggy bank said no.  OK, then, what about an afternoon in with my record collection?   Great, I'll do that instead.   Weather is shite.  We have all the food indoors (and beer) we need.   Excellent. 

 

Except some of the family got wind we were in and plonked 'emselves down for lunch.  From 11am to nearly 4pm. because they "had nothing else to do"

 

Apparently I am an unsociable cunt.  

 

Yes.  That is why I stay in MY OWN FUCKING HOUSE.

[Guest Hooli]

None of those fuckers out there can park properly. None of them.

 

Local shopping centres are already taking on that "end of the world" vibe as every fucker is in wandering around the aisles.

 

There should definitely be a lane system in supermarkets, and a minimum speed around the aisles. With SS style guards beating everyone who disobeys the rules.

 

I went into Tesco to get two things and it took fucking hours. People lumbering around, blocking aisles with trolleys overflowing with shite, kids having tantrums, bahhhhhh

 

How long does it take to select a carton of milk and fuck off down the aisle? Must you park your trolley sideways across the milk and then pause to read all the ingredients (I'll give you a fucking clue, it's got MILK in it). Then get shirty when I reach across your trolley to lift some fucking milk myself???

 

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A good game is seeing how far away you can take the 'abandoned' trolleys without them noticing. Or adding random items like cucumbers & condoms...

[They_all_do_that_sir]

A good game is seeing how far away you can take the 'abandoned' trolleys without them noticing. Or adding random items like cucumbers & condoms...

Played that game with colleagues a few times at lunch in LIDL, a favourite is to distract them in the queue while another colleague loads the conveyor belt with tat.

 

We abandoned a mate with thirty tubs of moisturising cream mixed in with his lunch while we fecked off outside to watch him try and tell the cashier they weren't his

 

This works so well in Lidl because of the ridiculous speed they start scanning your shopping, so before matey had worked out what was going on the cashier had scanned through five of the tubs

 

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[barefoot]

The fair wife has done one of her legendary tidy ups.

My airwair boots, which admittedly I only wear a handful of times a year, appear to be a casualty.

She must have two hundred pairs of shoes, I have one.

£130 to replace, they were still like new.

 

I am more than a little vexed.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

The fair wife has done one of her legendary tidy ups.

My airwair boots, which admittedly I only wear a handful of times a year, appear to be a casualty.

She must have two hundred pairs of shoes, I have one.

£130 to replace, they were still like new.

 

I am more than a little vexed.

This annoys me! Apparently I don't need four pairs of shoes.

 

Work / formal shoes

Trainers

Nice Boots

Walking boots

 

She has so many shoes we've had to box some and put them in the attic, they are in the bottom of both our wardrobes, in the cupboard under the stairs, in her car.....

 

 

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[Tamworthbay]

The fair wife has done one of her legendary tidy ups.

My airwair boots, which admittedly I only wear a handful of times a year, appear to be a casualty.

She must have two hundred pairs of shoes, I have one.

£130 to replace, they were still like new.

I am more than a little vexed.

Perhaps she just knows your username and is trying to help?

[MikeR]

None of those fuckers out there can park properly. None of them.

 

Local shopping centres are already taking on that "end of the world" vibe as every fucker is in wandering around the aisles.

 

There should definitely be a lane system in supermarkets, and a minimum speed around the aisles. With SS style guards beating everyone who disobeys the rules.

 

I went into Tesco to get two things and it took fucking hours. People lumbering around, blocking aisles with trolleys overflowing with shite, kids having tantrums, bahhhhhh

 

How long does it take to select a carton of milk and fuck off down the aisle? Must you park your trolley sideways across the milk and then pause to read all the ingredients (I'll give you a fucking clue, it's got MILK in it). Then get shirty when I reach across your trolley to lift some fucking milk myself???

 

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I have bought and wrapped my presents ..... I have only one job to do ...

 

go to the supermarket , like all those in the past who have wandered around like a fly in a room getting in my way

 

 

and get in the way myself  ,,,

thats it , get a shopping trolley ,

park it in the way ,

stand in the way ,

walk backwards .

stare at my mobile .

pick out the produce with out a bar code , label etc  ,

get 1 of the 2 for 1 offer

generally use every trick that has been used on me ...to get in the way

even down to counting out my loose change .....

[They_all_do_that_sir]

I have bought and wrapped my presents ..... I have only one job to do ...

 

go to the supermarket , like all those in the past who have wandered around like a fly in a room getting in my way

 

 

and get in the way myself ,,,

thats it , get a shopping trolley ,

park it in the way ,

stand in the way ,

walk backwards .

stare at my mobile .

pick out the produce with out a bar code , label etc ,

get 1 of the 2 for 1 offer

generally use every trick that has been used on me ...to get in the way

even down to counting out my loose change .....

You forgot waiting until all your shopping has been scanned through and a queue has formed at the till before you "remember" you didn't lift something obscure from the furthest aisle in the store, before disappearing for 15mins

 

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[Tamworthbay]

A fiend of mine was buying the booze for a party a few years ago, it came to a couple of quid under £150 so they got a big bag of nappies they didn’t need, when it was all scanned through it came to a few quid over the £150, so they told the cashier they only had £150 and then put the nappies back. Apparently they got seriously evil looks from the cashier when they came back but it still makes me smile thinking about it.

[chaseracer]

Is it me.........?

 

[myglaren]

I usually do my Christmas shopping on Christmas eve.

Had a very unusual panic about it a couple of weeks ago and thought I should get on with it.

Then said panic abated and it was back to the 24th as usual.

Except now the family - there are five kids and seven grandkids - are expected on Christmas Eve now.

Change of plan required - or just panic maybe.

 

And at Homebase yesterday three cars as near as possible to the entrance - Porsche 4x4, Quaskai and some other people carrier - taking up seven spaces between them.

Camera had just died in the store, taking photo's of the heavily discounted lights for daughter.

 

They are still cheaper at Screwfix, a couple of hundred yards from Homebase.

[Noel Tidybeard]

The fair wife has done one of her legendary tidy ups.

My airwair boots, which admittedly I only wear a handful of times a year, appear to be a casualty.

She must have two hundred pairs of shoes, I have one.

£130 to replace, they were still like new.

 

I am more than a little vexed.

 

return the favour with her shoes

[New POD]

A good game is seeing how far away you can take the 'abandoned' trolleys without them noticing. Or adding random items like cucumbers & condoms...

I've done this to one of my Brother in Laws more than once

 

Not the nice one that posts on here. The other one who is a dick.

[sheffcortinacentre]

They do it in chippy to stand in the studying menu above counter then when its thier turn still don't know what they of the tribe outside want change order twice then only have a £20 note so leave shop with no change left.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Had a chance to go somewhere today.   Unfortunately, piggy bank said no.  OK, then, what about an afternoon in with my record collection?   Great, I'll do that instead.   Weather is shite.  We have all the food indoors (and beer) we need.   Excellent. 

 

Except some of the family got wind we were in and plonked 'emselves down for lunch.  From 11am to nearly 4pm. because they "had nothing else to do"

 

Apparently I am an unsociable cunt.  

 

Yes.  That is why I stay in MY OWN FUCKING HOUSE.

I see my relatives (very nice ones) just once a year.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Why isn't the for sale/wanted thread pinned? Spent 20 minutes trying to find it and still can't. Bet I've been past it twice..

[Mrcento]

None of those fuckers out there can park properly. None of them.

 

Local shopping centres are already taking on that "end of the world" vibe as every fucker is in wandering around the aisles.

 

There should definitely be a lane system in supermarkets, and a minimum speed around the aisles. With SS style guards beating everyone who disobeys the rules.

 

I went into Tesco to get two things and it took fucking hours. People lumbering around, blocking aisles with trolleys overflowing with shite, kids having tantrums, bahhhhhh

 

How long does it take to select a carton of milk and fuck off down the aisle? Must you park your trolley sideways across the milk and then pause to read all the ingredients (I'll give you a fucking clue, it's got MILK in it). Then get shirty when I reach across your trolley to lift some fucking milk myself???

 

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My annoyance is people with mobile phones in the supermarket. Usually blocking the aisle with the trolley or at least the section they are standing at whilst they make a phone call.

 

I don't have a problem with someone quickly calling someone to see what sort of something they want picked up, but i regularly see people going around phoning for EVERY ITEM.

 

"Hi, i'm in the cheese Aisle, you wanting Cheese? Ok, what type?, ok what size?, right see you soon"

 

30 seconds later

 

"Hi, me again, they've got Yoghurt on special, you want them too?, ok, see you soon"

 

you go to the next aisle and they wander up it, phone out

 

"Hi, yeah, i'm at the oil, what size do you want? what type? Sunflower? yeah ok see you soon"

 

Next aisle, phone out

 

"Hi, I'm at the beans, what size will i get?, ok see you soon".

 

Next aisle

 

"Hi, me again haha, yeah is it plain or milk chocolate digestives? ok, what size?"

 

You'll be finished the shop, at the checkout and usually see them wandering around with their phone to their ear with about 8 things in the trolley in the time you've taken to get 40 because of the time they've spent on the phone checking and double checking every fucking item.

 

Either the person on the other end needs to do the shopping instead, or they need to hand the person a specific list if it bothers them that much. either way, it's irritating and absolutely pathetic to see. Do they not communicate at home or know what they like? ffs.

[Ghosty]

Why isn't the for sale/wanted thread pinned? Spent 20 minutes trying to find it and still can't. Bet I've been last it twice..

 

The green folk deemed it unnecessary, claiming it'd keep itself afloat (hint: it doesn't), and we apparently had too many pinned topics (nobody had an issue, this was a mod's opinion - it was for sale, help, shitecycle, and a couple of spurious ones like a Shitefest thread and something else), so unpinned almost everything, apart from some stuff that only applies to new members, and that 'please read' topic which has a horribly messy list of all the things that should be pinned in it, but isn't actually working as nobody reads it (probably as the title doesn't suggest there's an index), and often it's full of broken links. Now the pinned topics are a load of stuff nobody reads (what use is 'a small clarification' once you've read it - besides it just says 'you know who you are' and PMing members would surely be more effective???), and a revolving door of semi-relevant things - calendar and secret santa will be gone soon, and SF19 will get re-pinned at some point (though SF threads do tend to keep themselves afloat as necessary). As for the new members thread, half the people that post in it never post on the forum again, so I don't see the point of that being pinned, or really existing for that matter.  It's all a bit daft IMO.

 

The for sale and shitecycle threads could just have been merged, but weren't, and I can't remember the last time I saw shitecycle.

Shitely request threads keep being made and subsequently deleted by mods, and merged into the 'official shitely thread' as nobody can find it - again, because it's not pinned. This also means people are less likely to find solutions to their transport needs.

 

Of course, despite the claim too many threads were pinned, we somehow ended up with even more pinned threads than before - enough to completely fill my 1080p monitor with the browser on fullscreen. God help anyone that doesn't use fullscreen browsers or has a lower resolution.

A lot got unpinned when I made a post in news 24 about it, but even so the threads that are pinned are pretty much useless, and the ones people would actually use if pinned just get waysided. 

 

It's all a bit daft, and I don't particularly approve of it, but what do I know