The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

Where in Cheshire are you, Wack?

[Jazoli]

6 minutes ago, Wack said:

I've had a light haulage business since 1990 , nothing grand , just me and a 3.5t pickup truck ,, I wound it down about 5 years ago to 2-3 days a week after my biggest customer all but stopped shipping within the UK , decided I didn't want to go chasing new business .2 years ago another customer I worked with rang and started giving me work , it's now gone back to 4-5 days

I hate it , every day is a ball ache ,, traffic from 7am to 7pm , there's no quiet periods anymore, where is everybody going 

Every day without exception I meet at least one utter cunt on the motorway , either driving way too fast for the conditions or weaving about lane to lane in heavy traffic, in lane 3 at the 100yd marker then across 3 lanes and off.

Then there the new smart motorways with idiots in lane 3 doing 61mph for miles refusing to move over 

Looking back I think I coped because I had 5am starts every day while the twats were still asleep , I properly fucking hate it now 

Rant over , sorry 

I feel your pain, I had a great job as a service tech for a large company, I used to spend most of my working days on the road, after 7 years I'd had enough and was at the point I was ready to ram someone off the road or kill them to death for being a cunt, so I quit, I now hate driving anywhere really, it's just a complete ballache, even riding motorbikes is a pain as the world is full of fucking dashcam warriors who are happy to post details of your perfectly safe (but fast) overtake online for all to see, its got to the point that the bike stays in the garage most of the time and I use the car just to get 10 miles to work and back.

[Wack]

24 minutes ago, Jazoli said:

I feel your pain, I had a great job as a service tech for a large company, I used to spend most of my working days on the road, after 7 years I'd had enough and was at the point I was ready to ram someone off the road or kill them to death for being a cunt, so I quit, I now hate driving anywhere really, it's just a complete ballache, even riding motorbikes is a pain as the world is full of fucking dashcam warriors who are happy to post details of your perfectly safe (but fast) overtake online for all to see, its got to the point that the bike stays in the garage most of the time and I use the car just to get 10 miles to work and back.

I know what you mean about dashcam warriors , they sit there one after the other doing 43mph in a 60 then when you dare to overtake them they start tapping the dashcam , I've had that once when I overtook 4 cars in one go because they just sat there nobody looking like they were going to overtake.

thankfully it looks like the police only take an interest in dangerous driving and as dashcam ownership increases they'll be swamped with footage of people driving over mini roundabouts  

[Wack]

47 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

Where in Cheshire are you, Wack?

Warrington 

[Cavcraft]

57 minutes ago, Jazoli said:

I feel your pain, I had a great job as a service tech for a large company, I used to spend most of my working days on the road, after 7 years I'd had enough and was at the point I was ready to ram someone off the road or kill them to death for being a cunt, so I quit, I now hate driving anywhere really, it's just a complete ballache, even riding motorbikes is a pain as the world is full of fucking dashcam warriors who are happy to post details of your perfectly safe (but fast) overtake online for all to see, its got to the point that the bike stays in the garage most of the time and I use the car just to get 10 miles to work and back.

+1.

 

Even 17-18 years ago it was horrible, can't imagine what it's like now. It was pretty much a daily thing getting into some sort of argument with an idiot on the road.

[Wack]

Last week I was stuck on a roundabout on trafford park , every change of the lights more cars piled into the yellow box completely blocking it

Eventually I pushed my way across the lanes so the road in front was clear , one clear lane to cross , I'm at an angle so edge forward slowly because of the blind spot 

Next thing some utter twat comes onto the roundabout hand on the horn doing 20mph from the left , I stopped dead and he just missed the front of the van to join the queue of 200 cars in front of him 

The other drivers probably heard me shouting YOU FUCKINGGG CUUUNNTT over the radio in their cars 

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, Wack said:

I've had a light haulage business since 1990 , nothing grand , just me and a 3.5t pickup truck ,, I wound it down about 5 years ago to 2-3 days a week after my biggest customer all but stopped shipping within the UK , decided I didn't want to go chasing new business .2 years ago another customer I worked with rang and started giving me work , it's now gone back to 4-5 days

I hate it , every day is a ball ache ,, traffic from 7am to 7pm , there's no quiet periods anymore, where is everybody going 

Every day without exception I meet at least one utter cunt on the motorway , either driving way too fast for the conditions or weaving about lane to lane in heavy traffic, in lane 3 at the 100yd marker then across 3 lanes and off.

Then there the new smart motorways with idiots in lane 3 doing 61mph for miles refusing to move over 

Looking back I think I coped because I had 5am starts every day while the twats were still asleep , I properly fucking hate it now 

Rant over , sorry 

My dad does cash in hand driving work for someone and only does it if he can be on the road by 4am, otherwise he hates it! He always gets work too as he is the only oppo who likes the shonky flatbed transit that's speed limited, and they shift alot of glass panes and stuff so he's usually wanted for something! He just enjoys putting his foot flat to the floor and doing 59mph with the wagons in peace

[Wack]

Mine has a limiter but it's 70mph , about 73mph on the clock , it's ok until you get some twat doing 64mph in lane 2 then when you overtake on the limiter to see them sat alongside you in the blind spot mirror now doing the same speed so you have to abandon the overtake then they slow down.

 

[Rovorsche]

Being both impatient and benevolent I decided to chuck some money at Halfords to stop them going the way of Maplin for a little bit longer, I needed some high temperature mastic/instant gasket to reseal a MAF sensor.

I didnt need anything else but bought a few other bits including an oil filter tool, cannot find any of mine, they may be on perma-borrow and I have forgotten who to.

So it came out of the packet, round the filter housing on the Z3, just need to tighten the clamp now....... Ping!

And that was it, the tiniest failure sound ever and it was busted, didn't even start to hold onto the filter.

The grumpy part kicks in as I opted for the "Email you a receipt" and didnt get a paper copy, can you guess if the Email version ever arrived  ?

 

As its from the Professional range I was thinking

Where as it seems to be more of the "Five Dorra, long time" quality, fucked in five minutes.
I changed my mind about posting a picture for that

 

 

[Anthony]

Are you sure that's the Professional / Advanced range?  Packaging looks like the normal own brand stuff, and that's often pretty shoddy - although not even getting a single use out of a tool is a joke regardless and should be replaced / refunded.

[wuvvum]

1 hour ago, Wack said:

Mine has a limiter but it's 70mph , about 73mph on the clock , it's ok until you get some twat doing 64mph in lane 2 then when you overtake on the limiter to see them sat alongside you in the blind spot mirror now doing the same speed so you have to abandon the overtake then they slow down.

That's why I won't buy anything with a speed limiter.  When I'm in the Maxus I tend to cruise at 60-65 to keep the fuel consumption down, but it's reassuring to know that I could wind it up to 100+ if I ever needed to.

[Rovorsche]

2 hours ago, Anthony said:

Are you sure that's the Professional / Advanced range?  Packaging looks like the normal own brand stuff, and that's often pretty shoddy - although not even getting a single use out of a tool is a joke regardless and should be replaced / refunded.

Doesn't say it on the box but does on the website

https://www.halfords.com/workshop-tools/tools/hand-tools/halfords-advanced-professional-oil-filter-removal-band

The sun has come out, maybe I'll take a wander over and see what happens, need to pickup some DIY stuff from the same trading estate.

Worst case is I'll end up bodging another hole in the banding strip and repeat until I run out of strip

 

Update: Swapped it for a pair of filter pliers, a tub of M&M's and a demister sponge to make up the difference

[Pieman]

2 hours ago, Wack said:

in lane 3 at the 100yd marker then across 3 lanes and off.

Every time I see someone do that, I really want to see the vehicle they cut across bash into their rear corner and spin them into the barrier.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

3 hours ago, Wack said:

I've had a light haulage business since 1990 , nothing grand , just me and a 3.5t pickup truck ,, I wound it down about 5 years ago to 2-3 days a week after my biggest customer all but stopped shipping within the UK , decided I didn't want to go chasing new business .2 years ago another customer I worked with rang and started giving me work , it's now gone back to 4-5 days

I hate it , every day is a ball ache ,, traffic from 7am to 7pm , there's no quiet periods anymore, where is everybody going 

Every day without exception I meet at least one utter cunt on the motorway , either driving way too fast for the conditions or weaving about lane to lane in heavy traffic, in lane 3 at the 100yd marker then across 3 lanes and off.

Then there the new smart motorways with idiots in lane 3 doing 61mph for miles refusing to move over 

Looking back I think I coped because I had 5am starts every day while the twats were still asleep , I properly fucking hate it now 

Rant over , sorry 

Doesn't matter how early you get out there anymore, this week I've been on the M1 and M25 before 5 everyday and not only the usual twats you mentioned but phantom lane and junction closures that put the matrix signs on and cause half the cars to slow down meaning the other half who know which gantries actually have cameras almost run into them( I might* be in this second cohort)

This morning I left Milton Keynes at 02.00 taking two old ladies to Gatwick, hit the M1 cruise set at 90 and look forward to being back in bed by 5.  

All going well until j18 of the M25 there's a car in the outside lane of 4 sitting at a steady 80, no sign of moving over. This cunt sits there until j13 at Staines then does the 45 degree swerve to the slip road, I meanwhile have sat in the correct lanes behind him. I didn't hassle him, flash him or undertake, why?

Because it was fully liveried Met Police BMW 530 touring!!! 

I've never seen such bad driving from a Police car in my life.

[barefoot]

21 hours ago, wuvvum said:

I've been to Sheffield twice,

I've been to Sheffield twice too, to see popular beat combo; the U2's

Up the M1, turn left, venue on the left - will go again.

[Wack]

3 hours ago, wuvvum said:

That's why I won't buy anything with a speed limiter.  When I'm in the Maxus I tend to cruise at 60-65 to keep the fuel consumption down, but it's reassuring to know that I could wind it up to 100+ if I ever needed to.

I didn't know it had a limiter on it until I was on the the 200 mile drive home doing the no radio on listening for noises test drive 

Overtook a truck and it hesitated, first reaction , fuck what was that , 5 minutes and it's ok so I'm waiting for a bang and smoke but no seems to be ok 

Water in the diesel maybe then I pass another truck and power loss

Bollocks it's got a limiter on 

[New POD]

1 minute ago, Wack said:

I didn't know it had a limiter on it until I was on the the 200 mile drive home doing the no radio on listening for noises test drive 

Overtook a truck and it hesitated, first reaction , fuck what was that , 5 minutes and it's ok so I'm waiting for a bang and smoke but no seems to be ok 

Water in the diesel maybe then I pass another truck and power loss

Bollocks it's got a limiter on 

The technical term is Guvnar 

[Wack]

This is the kind of crap I'm talking about , I see driving like this daily 

Van in the outside lane , I've removed the sound because it's my son and I talking , I'm doing 62mph so he must be doing close on 80

 

 

[Rovorsche]

Keep that camera rolling, there are TV shows that will buy footage of vans like that somersaulting over the barrier and into the trees.

[Wack]

If only that had happened, somebody like him would probably have just looked in the mirror and fucked off if he'd caused a crash doing that.

[Zelandeth]

I try to avoid swearing on the internet...but fscking bloody sodding hell...That fucking hurt.

Was just folded into the shape of an upside-down question mark under my workbench hooking up some cabling to the back of my PC when out of nowhere I got the most godawful cramp in my right calf.  While completely boxed in under the workbench, with only one avenue of escape - unfolding myself and crawling backwards out through the small gap between my chair and the wall. 

Cramp is bloody horrible when you can take quick action to get the offending muscle or muscle group into a more comfortable position.  It's bloody torture if you can't! 

Also managed to damn near knock myself out while trying to extricate myself from under there - and made enough of a racket that I set the dogs off downstairs so am in trouble for waking everyone else up.

Sod it...going to bed now I think.

[paulplom]

Nothing worse than proper cramp. One of the only pains that makes me shout out.

[New POD]

I have joked with people that they need a confined spaces risk assessment when they have been under a desk routing cables. 

Now I see it isn't anything joke about.

[New POD]

13 hours ago, Wack said:

This is the kind of crap I'm talking about , I see driving like this daily 

Van in the outside lane , I've removed the sound because it's my son and I talking , I'm doing 62mph so he must be doing close on 80

 

 

I see nothing but a perfectly timed exit from the motorway. 

[beko1987]

I get terrible leg cramps if I'm not careful. usually I feel it coming on and force it away, but if I don't it tenses my leg up so much that I'm forced to throw myself somehow to a different position and ride it out.

I think I had it in my sleep the other night and it didn't wake me up as my leg killed when I woke up and through most of the morning.

It's even more annoying when it comes on during sex...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

12 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

I get terrible leg cramps if I'm not careful. ......

It's even more annoying when it comes on during sex...

The wrong part of you gets stiff?

[twosmoke300]

I suffer from thigh cramp after a race. Not half as bad now I’m a bit fitter and lighter but can happen up to two days after .

Its bloody agony and I’ve had both legs go at the same time before. Missis was pissing herself laughing but I was fucked. Feels like there is a tennis ball stuck in my leg for about a day after . Muscles knotted right up .

Keep hydrated , eat bananas etc but still get them . My dad has never had cramp in his life ffs 

[Pieman]

3 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

The wrong part of you gets stiff?

[BorniteIdentity]

I got cramp once whilst on Oblivion at Alton Towers. Obviously the restraining bar was down and I couldn’t move. The pain was like nothing else; a guy in the front row turned around and tried to help as I had no fucking idea what was happening.

Only time I’ve ever had my leg massaged by a strange man. Honest. 

[MikeR]

Just bought another fitness tracker ..

The last one did not work .....

I am still the same weight ....