The grumpy thread

[myglaren]

DRLs.

Three separate deliveries of pizzas last night, all of them with DRLs on, dash lights and nothing else.

And a new MG monster the previous night visiting also failed to put lights on when leaving.

Say what you will about automatic lights, I have become used to them over the past ten years or so.  The C5 dash only lit up when the lights came on.  The Civic lights up when the key is turned so that could be a problem but lights on automatic saves engaging the brain after dark.

Did get caught out with the BX that lit up when the engine started.   Only once fortunately, very brightly lit car park.

And posted in the wrong thread first  

And obliterated all new posts - again   

[robinmasters]

21 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

I've heard it said that having a double-barrelled name used to mean you were posh.

Nowadays, having a double-barrelled name tends to mean you're illegitimate. 

Not necessarily mutually exclusive. 

But back to the topic at hand, Radio 2 is actually quite good; at night. Huey Morgan, Craig Charles and Trevor Nelson all play good music and don't talk too much rubbish. Steve Wright, Jeremey Vine et al can get in the fucking sea though. 

I'd also second Radio 6. I can even just about stomach that bloke that use to be half of Mark and Lard these days. 

[barefoot]

Craig Charles should stick to playing Dave Lister. We saw him playing records at a festival & the fucker never shut up, singing along & so on.

[Spiny Norman]

3 hours ago, myglaren said:

 

Did get caught out with the BX that lit up when the engine started.   Only once fortunately, very brightly lit car park.

That was the car that earned me a friendly chat with two of Strathclyde's finest  back in the late 80s. First car I'd ever encountered that lit the dash up so long as the ignition on.
But I agree, there's a hell of a lot of cars at night these days with no rear lights on, why don't they make DRL light up the back as well? Seems an odd way to do it.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, Spiny Norman said:

...., there's a hell of a lot of cars at night these days with no rear lights on, why don't they make DRL light up the back as well? Seems an odd way to do it.

Why not do away with DRLs and save a bit of power and resources? What was wrong with not having lights on in broad daylight? 🤷‍♂️

[myglaren]

49 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Why not do away with DRLs and save a bit of power and resources? What was wrong with not having lights on in broad daylight? 🤷‍♂️

Perfectly adequate in the UK and the majority of other countries butt in Scandinavia where the days are dark in winter, the roads long, straight and almost deserted and lined with trees, a point of light is easily spotted and can be a life saver - especially where the traffic from the right has the right of way.

Which is why VolvoSaab  invented it.  At least they did it with sensible levels of brightness and remembered that the rear lights can be useful too.

 

Further to which,  I have just returned from a trip to Chester-le-Street for replacement specs.  It was full of people!  People everywhere.  Very disconcerting.  I liked the world without all those people much better.

[wuvvum]

48 minutes ago, myglaren said:

Further to which,  I have just returned from a trip to Chester-le-Street for replacement specs.  It was full of people!  People everywhere.  Very disconcerting.  I liked the world without all those people much better.

I believe that is permitted under the current rules though, driving to a town in Durham for purposes related to one's eyesight.

[loserone]

On 15/04/2021 at 09:40, Tetleysmooth said:

first dead Stuart Little

I got my first mouse of this house yesterday morning (in the pantry FFS), and my first mole ever last night.

[jakebullet]

Ma has just smashed an elderly bottle of redex and redecorated the porch a fetching shade of pink. Of course it's my fault for it being there, not hers for being a blind bat trying to force yet another charity begging bag into a space that doesn't exist for no purpose whatsoever.

[loserone]

Which, the mouse or the mole? 

 

 

[MikeR]

Shit , and the nearest one is a drive away ....

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, MikeR said:

Shit , and the nearest one is a drive away ....

Kwalitee product

[BorniteIdentity]

On 4/16/2021 at 9:10 AM, barefoot said:

Craig Charles should stick to playing Dave Lister. We saw him playing records at a festival & the fucker never shut up, singing along & so on.

Haha.

I did a gig with him back in 2019. A lovely bloke, one of the nicest and humblest I’ve had the pleasure of. He never goes on stage alone though - the best never do - so that was probably his rider talking. Two litres of Grey Goose from memory. 

[Bren]

I have watched Line of Duty since the beginning.

However, the bounds of believablity have been well and truly stretched.

[loserone]

15 minutes ago, volvov70 said:

Nah, just your racist aside on coronavirus grump. 

Think you misunderstood.  The racism is portrayed intentionally, but isn't mine.

[MikeR]

the amount of shite I have moved from a house clearance , loaded car up last night to take clothes to work to dump in the collection box ,

but woke up at 2am remembering it was GONE !! , the BOX was gone and I had a stuffed full car to empty so more shite could go to a booked tip trip !!!

got up at 7am , had breaky , first stop Tesco's and filled the collection dalek , went to work , came back

and filled the car again with more clothes , happened to drive past another collection bin on the way home , stopped and filled that one up  .....

got more shite from home and took it all the tip ..... in time for the 4pm booking

went back to house clearance loaded up more stuff for work and did some painting ,,,,,,

car might have its seats back up by Wednesday ........

 

[High Jetter]

Our boiler is due it's annual service - we have a plan with Domestic & General (taken out last year as cheaper than getting BAXI to sort it as a one-off - my usual guy was stumped) which includes cost of said service. Went to book online, have to create an account. Account created, full details given, click 'book appointment'...and get taken to page with 'phone number to call them! Grrrrrr why not say that in the first fecking place?

[Pieman]

So they can spam your email address forever after.

[MarvinsMom]

todays grump.

those useless fuckin' cunts at channel 4 have taken it upon themselves to change the simpsons from 6pm to 5,30, and put some shitburg school "drama" on instead.

fuck off.

fuck off and die you idiotic wankers,

i did not want to watch Hackly Bridge when it was on later on a night, i certainly DO NOT want to watch it with my tea.

pricks.

 

 

[Jazoli]

Watching TV with your tea is council, just miss a day then watch it on catchup, its on whenever you want then!

[High Jetter]

Probably not helpful, but you could a) eat earlier or b) record it and get the added bonus of whizzing through the adverts. We usually only watch what we've recorded precisely for that second reason.

[MarvinsMom]

i do still have the "video recorder" sat under the telly,

dunno if it still works though.

[goosey]

It’s just gone 8pm and my neighbours thrown a couple of bricks in his cement mixer to clean it out. 

[Agila]

European Super League can absolutely get in the sea. What a way to ruin football.

Greedy arrogant fools. It would need fans worldwide to genuinely boycott all tv and stadium ESL games. (they won't though and we all know it)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56807310

[goosey]

He didn’t answer the door when I went round, so I looked through the kitchen window and saw him lying face down on the floor asleep, to be fair he has been laying bricks all afternoon so probably just  nodded off and forgot about the mixer.  
 

[SRi05]

2 minutes ago, Agila said:

European Super League can absolutely get in the sea. What a way to ruin football.

Greedy arrogant fools. It would need fans worldwide to genuinely boycott all tv and stadium ESL games. (they won't though and we all know it)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56807310

I'd let these "super clubs" fuck off and do their own thing, and maybe the rest of the game can get back to some sort of normality. Yo-yo clubs bagging £100 million for being relegated etc, get it to fuck 

[Timewaster]

1 hour ago, MarvinsMom said:

todays grump.

those useless fuckin' cunts at channel 4

fuck off.

fuck off and die you idiotic wankers,

pricks.

Possible, slight over reaction? 

[MarvinsMom]

4 minutes ago, Timewaster said:

Possible, slight over reaction? 

remember, British Steel  on Teesside went on strike when the BBC put Hector's House on instead of Magic Roundabout....

and Simpsons was the one thing i did like to watch most days, so no, no not really!

[Spiny Norman]

Naughty old Hector.

[Timewaster]

2 minutes ago, MarvinsMom said:

remember, British Steel  on Teesside went on strike when the BBC put Hector's House on instead of Magic Roundabout....

and Simpsons was the one thing i did like to watch most days, so no, no not really!

Well I never knew that, perhaps it was a case of strike first, think of a reason later. 

Silly Hectors. 

The Simpsons is great but there are some really lame episodes and they seem to be the ones they show over and over again.