The grumpy thread

[chodweaver]

Could the people of Milton Keynes stop coming up with new and creative ways to be utter assholes?

 

It's not just Milton Keynes. Louder and smokier is terribly fashionable everywhere now, the morons

[Wibble]

9 hours ago, Fumbler said:

I believe so. We went through it once. It tried to absorb us.

It isn’t so bad here in “Amazingstoke” to quote Ricky Gervais. Having moved here from Reading it’s positively tranquil and much friendlier but I sympathise, as we can here the racers on the ring road at night and nothing is done about it here either!

[Wibble]

Sorry, “hear the racers” 😵‍💫I’m off to bed.

[Metal Guru]

9 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Could be worse. Could be Lutonistan or Peterhorror.

What’s the name for the Italian part of Luton? Last time I was there I saw what looked like a mafia funeral, straight out of the movies.

[paulplom]

21 hours ago, Talbot said:

Not at all.  I can just read other sites:

www.pepipoo.com 
http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php

The case law in question if you're interested: http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2009/2924.html

Sorry, I can only speak from personal experience and what a trained professional told me.

If I could have got out of the fucker I would have.

[Matty]

On 11/22/2021 at 3:21 PM, sierraman said:

It’s always the way. Deep pockets, short arms but then when it ends up getting bangered everyone’s up in arms despite not having a viable offer to buy it. 

See also colc and the peugeot

[Talbot]

1 hour ago, paulplom said:

Sorry, I can only speak from personal experience and what a trained professional told me.

Absolutely.. (and that wasn't aimed at you!)  I've heard some fairly shockingly bad advice from solicitors before now, so I can completely understand that you've been given bum information.  It's part of the reason why I linked to actual case law... no opinion there (professional or otherwise), it's absolute legal fact.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

9 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

What’s the name for the Italian part of Luton? Last time I was there I saw what looked like a mafia funeral, straight out of the movies.

Bedford rather than Luton, surely? Bedford's practically Little Napoli.

[Jerzy Woking]

2 hours ago, paulplom said:

Sorry, I can only speak from personal experience and what a trained professional told me.

There are trained professionals and there are trained professionals.

 

[Leyland Worldmaster]

Bullying cunts. I stepped out of Alison to ask a tailgating cunt if he was OK last night. 

I realise it was probably not a great idea, but I have reached my limit with bullies. 

I think he was more scared. I realise I drive a smol shopping trolley, but it wasn't like I was dwardling and the temperature was shy of 1°C...

[juular]

7 minutes ago, Leyland Worldmaster said:

Bullying cunts. I stepped out of Alison to ask a tailgating cunt if he was OK last night. 

I realise it was probably not a great idea, but I have reached my limit with bullies. 

I think he was more scared. I realise I drive a smol shopping trolley, but it wasn't like I was dwardling and the temperature was shy of 1°C...

I'm not sure they always realise they're doing it, genuinely I think some folk use sitting an inch off someone's bumper to regulate their own speed. Doesn't make them any less of a cunt.

[Zelandeth]

Aaaaand I've just had a torrent of abuse from someone on the next street over for occasionally parking a car there for a couple of hours.  Not in anyone's way, no parking restrictions and there's always a plethora of spaces available.  Isn't suburbia fun.

[Spurious]

11 minutes ago, juular said:

I'm not sure they always realise they're doing it, genuinely I think some folk use sitting an inch off someone's bumper to regulate their own speed. Doesn't make them any less of a cunt.

 

20 minutes ago, Leyland Worldmaster said:

Bullying cunts. I stepped out of Alison to ask a tailgating cunt if he was OK last night. 

I realise it was probably not a great idea, but I have reached my limit with bullies. 

I think he was more scared. I realise I drive a smol shopping trolley, but it wasn't like I was dwardling and the temperature was shy of 1°C...

I'd a chap properly dangerously cut my up in the Jimny at a properly marked junction recently. I may have pushed the horn slightly longer than was necessary. They're also rather loud horns, Hella Supertones, they've got a bit of a kick to them, and in the Jimny it's like a terrier having the bark of a doberman. 

Knob head in a white Seat SUV thing. He stops ahead of me. And gets out. Spotty wee shite probably driving his mother's car. 

So I get out. Which is never a good idea because I'm not that sort of individual. But I'd had a bad day. 

I just don't think he expected a 6'4" 15st bloke to get out of a Jimny. I told him to fuck off and get back in your car. which he promptly did and then drove off rather quickly. 😂

Which is just as well as I don't really do confrontation. 

[cobblers]

10 minutes ago, juular said:

I'm not sure they always realise they're doing it, genuinely I think some folk use sitting an inch off someone's bumper to regulate their own speed. Doesn't make them any less of a cunt.

Deffo this. Monday night I was driving the camper home from work from Chesterfield towards Baslow. Behind me was a BMW, pushing me along at 35 in a 30 limit. When the road opened up to two lanes up the hill and a 60 limit, he nearly clipped me, so eager he was to pass! Then proceeded to do 50MPH, brake way more than required for corners and generally dawdle along on the unfamiliar dark roads. He was seriously holding me up, and I was driving a fully loaded 3.5 tonne van with mud tyres on ffs!!!

Anyway, on two occasions cars pulled out of junctions well infront of him, and as soon as he saw this he'd accelerate to 65/70, catch them up and then tailgate the shit out of them, to the point where one guy brake checked when going through Baslow. Completely oblivious, as soon as these cars turned off he slowed back down to mid-40s on fast NSL lanes.

 

[juular]

2 minutes ago, cobblers said:

Deffo this. Monday night I was driving the camper home from work from Chesterfield towards Baslow. Behind me was a BMW, pushing me along at 35 in a 30 limit. When the road opened up to two lanes up the hill and a 60 limit, he nearly clipped me, so eager he was to pass! Then proceeded to do 50MPH, brake way more than required for corners and generally dawdle along on the unfamiliar dark roads. He was seriously holding me up, and I was driving a fully loaded 3.5 tonne van with mud tyres on ffs!!!

Anyway, on two occasions cars pulled out of junctions well infront of him, and as soon as he saw this he'd accelerate to 65/70, catch them up and then tailgate the shit out of them, to the point where one guy brake checked when going through Baslow. Completely oblivious, as soon as these cars turned off he slowed back down to mid-40s on fast NSL lanes.

 

Yep, welcome to modern driving.

I get this a lot in my van. Right up my arse, eager to overtake, and yet as soon as we hit an NSL I'm miles away. Back into a 30 and after a few minutes I can see them barreling up behind me at 45.

One speed wonders.

[jamescarruthers]

47 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Aaaaand I've just had a torrent of abuse from someone on the next street over for occasionally parking a car there for a couple of hours.  Not in anyone's way, no parking restrictions and there's always a plethora of spaces available.  Isn't suburbia fun.

The funniest response I heard to such people thinking that that own the street outside their house is to point that it’s not your fault and if they’d done better at life, they’d have a driveway. 
 

(no offence to those without a driveway, but it’s a fun way to wind up these entitled pricks)

[Talbot]

1 hour ago, cobblers said:

I was driving the camper home from work from Chesterfield towards Baslow. Behind me was a BMW, pushing me along at 35 in a 30 limit. When the road opened up to two lanes up the hill and a 60 limit, he nearly clipped me, so eager he was to pass! Then proceeded to do 50MPH, brake way more than required for corners and generally dawdle along on the unfamiliar dark roads. He was seriously holding me up,

Last bellend who did this to me (forced their way past while I was in a 30, then couldn't achieve more than 45 in a national) got solid full-beams and horn for about 20 seconds (which feels like absolutely bloody ages) as I was completely pig-sick of tossers like him.  He hadn't a clue what to do, so the instant the road allowed me to do, I went past and completely lost him.  I have a feeling he was boiling over with rage in his little box of hate, but as I was 300yds ahead of him and losing him at about 20mph, I could not have given less of a shit.

[Zelandeth]

2 hours ago, jamescarruthers said:

The funniest response I heard to such people thinking that that own the street outside their house is to point that it’s not your fault and if they’d done better at life, they’d have a driveway. 
 

(no offence to those without a driveway, but it’s a fun way to wind up these entitled pricks)

Most of the houses have and/or garages...hence why there's virtually noone parked on street there and it was possible for me to displace a car during driveway Tetris (I have to move two cars out of the way to get out of the garage, and there are a total of three on street parking spaces on our road, near always occupied by staff from the nearby school) without bothering anyone.  Or so I thought!

[jamescarruthers]

2 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Most of the houses have and/or garages...hence why there's virtually noone parked on street there and it was possible for me to displace a car during driveway Tetris (I have to move two cars out of the way to get out of the garage, and there are a total of three on street parking spaces on our road, near always occupied by staff from the nearby school) without bothering anyone.  Or so I thought!

You definitely need the cheapest legal car parked up outside this twats house pronto. 

[Zelandeth]

2 minutes ago, jamescarruthers said:

You definitely need the cheapest legal car parked up outside this twats house pronto. 

Nah, was thinking the van would work better.  Make sure I close the blinds first to ensure I block out as much daylight as possible...

Vindictive, me?  Surely not...

To be fair I'll just try to park on the opposite side of the crescent and try to steer clear of where I was today.  I can do without any more hassle than I already get.

[jamescarruthers]

10 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Nah, was thinking the van would work better.  Make sure I close the blinds first to ensure I block out as much daylight as possible...

Vindictive, me?  Surely not...

To be fair I'll just try to park on the opposite side of the crescent and try to steer clear of where I was today.  I can do without any more hassle than I already get.

True, no point in seeking trouble out. Would be satisfying though! 

[clayts450]

On 10/27/2021 at 10:32 AM, sierraman said:

I know I’m a tightwad but isn’t £40 a bit expensive to reseal 2 tyres? The pressure is dropping a couple of Psi a week, literally wants the tyre taking off, rim cleaning up and refitting with plenty of paste. Can’t be more than half an hours work. This is at the local tyre under the arches type place so not one of these big outfits. 

My local indie wanted to charge me a fiver for doing one of my tyres. Gave him a ten-spot and told him to keep the change. I think he may be stuck in the 80s.

[clayts450]

On 10/29/2021 at 6:08 PM, wuvvum said:

My local tyre place only has two people working there so the man on the front desk also wields the ugga dugga gun.  

They also tighten wheel bolts / nuts properly with a torque wrench, rather than doing them up to 3,750 lb/ft with the gun and then going "click" with the wrench.

This. I like it when they ask you what torque setting you want too.

[clayts450]

(BTW, sorry if my holy post resurrection comments are pissing people off - I've been away a while)

[warch]

3 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Aaaaand I've just had a torrent of abuse from someone on the next street over for occasionally parking a car there for a couple of hours.  Not in anyone's way, no parking restrictions and there's always a plethora of spaces available.  Isn't suburbia fun.

I used to get this a lot when I worked in town. People really do get very aggressive if you park on the street outside their house. The worse I got was a posh middle aged bloke having a screaming fit at me as I paused outside his cottage in an Essex village whilst deliberating about where to park. 
 

I never moan at people blocking my driveway or parking outside my house, I can hardly see them over my wild peas anyway.

[Wack]

On 10/25/2021 at 9:25 PM, sheffcortinacentre said:

Was one driving round my estate last week ( not actually gritting) god knows what that's about????

Driver training , how to drive round cars without hitting them 

[mintwth]

4 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Aaaaand I've just had a torrent of abuse from someone on the next street over for occasionally parking a car there for a couple of hours.  Not in anyone's way, no parking restrictions and there's always a plethora of spaces available.  Isn't suburbia fun.

Don't worry, it will be gone before your visitors 'need' to park here

[clayts450]

On parking disputes, it can escalate quite quickly - be careful out there:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10233485/Pictured-teacher-34-garden-centre-worker-wife-33-killed-home.html

[GrumpiusMaximus]

4 hours ago, Talbot said:

Last bellend who did this to me (forced their way past while I was in a 30, then couldn't achieve more than 45 in a national) got solid full-beams and horn for about 20 seconds (which feels like absolutely bloody ages) as I was completely pig-sick of tossers like him.  He hadn't a clue what to do, so the instant the road allowed me to do, I went past and completely lost him.  I have a feeling he was boiling over with rage in his little box of hate, but as I was 300yds ahead of him and losing him at about 20mph, I could not have given less of a shit.

Had something similar yesterday driving to work.  I was driving the Focus of Slow and some prickette came up behind me in a white Seat.  Proceeded to tailgate me for about 3 miles and I gradually got to the point where I was driving slower and slower and slower the closer they got.  Ended up at 30MPH and they overtook around a blind bend.

Leaned on the horn, flashed them and gave them the vs.

About a minute later, we come to a junction and I'm right behind them in the queue and give them a smile and a friendly wave.  Then followed them for the remaining 4 miles to Canterbury.  At no point did they get further than 50 yards in front of me the whole way because of the conditions and the other traffic.  Was incredibly satisfying to give them a wave when they finally turned the other way at the last junction.

[clayts450]

6 hours ago, juular said:

I'm not sure they always realise they're doing it, genuinely I think some folk use sitting an inch off someone's bumper to regulate their own speed. Doesn't make them any less of a cunt.

I'm a considerate road user, and given I'm restricted to 50 on single carriageway roads I will always facilitate someone overtaking me, pulling as far left as I can on wider roads, slowing slightly to allow a simple overtake, even indicating left to hammer home the point, always checking the road ahead to ensure no junctions (TomTom very good at showing these - Google Maps not so hot). It is incredible just how many tailgaters fail to take this overtaking opportunity which is presented to them by my good self with a gold-plated cherry on top - they seem somehow  to bottle it, but usually get the hint and back off a bit - probably think I'm an unpredictable and possibly pissed driver.... Anyway, those that can overtake do, and usually reward me with a double hazard flash as a thank you, which leaves me feeling all warm and fuzzy. It's nice to be nice.