The grumpy thread

[grogee]

This is the only entrance/exit to our housing estate with 200+ homes in it. It is totally blocked.

What the fuck were they thinking?

[twosmoke300]

Doing the job they were told to do . Not sure what they are doing in that pic but most likely a repair / upgrade for the residents . 
People just gotta moan ! Hope you sat there on your horn ! 

[Fumbler]

  On 23/11/2021 at 17:29, twosmoke300 said:

Doing the job they were told to do . Not sure what they are doing in that pic but most likely a repair / upgrade for the residents . 
People just gotta moan ! Hope you sat there on your horn ! 

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It looks like drain repairs and maintenance, which is rather invasive looking at the pile of roadsurface in the bottom corner. I bet they're replacing collapsed drains.

It's a bit of a Catch 22 for them: Do it during the day and block access to the estate, meaning residents cannot get in or out. Do it during the night and there's no access issues, but instead the noise will be the cause for complaint. Nobody wins.

I'd happily let them block our road (a main road) to fix our drains once and for all. They've been blocked for 16 years. I can also understand why people wouldn't be happy to see their new estate get torn up because of some issue that was glossed over during construction.

[Timewaster]

We can't see what signage is at those road works but if there is no alternative route then all they can do is 15 minute delays and let cars through when they can. 

[grogee]

The wider context is that a) it's tarmacing the road by Bloor Homes, and b) there is an alternative entrance to the estate but Bloor Homes has bollarded it and it's not in use. 

I have no quarrel with the workmen. I have an issue with their paymasters

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 23/11/2021 at 16:51, Remspoor said:

....What is the point of voting?

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To keep the current tyranny in control?

[Jerzy Woking]

  On 22/11/2021 at 18:58, lesapandre said:

He's lucky to have got his bike back. Above a certain level of infringement (I have never tested it I drive like Monsieur Hulot) they confiscate and crush. No question.  But like I say they run their country differently - I'm a guest I go with the flow and enjoy the cheese.

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The police told him he could have his bike back, but could not ride it until he had gone through controls at the port. So I drove my van up from Spain to transport it and my brother to Calais.

20 minutes before we got to the police station, they rang him to say that the Magistrate hadn't signed the documents within 72 hours of the offence, and so he could ride back to Calais as he could not be banned.

When he got home, he got the letter to say he had been banned from driving in France for 6 months. C'est la vie

[chodweaver]

  On 23/11/2021 at 14:04, Zelandeth said:

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]

  On 23/11/2021 at 15:28, Fumbler said:

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

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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]

  On 23/11/2021 at 14:57, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Could be worse. Could be Lutonistan or Peterhorror.

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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]

  On 23/11/2021 at 09:51, 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

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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 22/11/2021 at 15:21, 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. 

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See also colc and the peugeot

[Talbot]

  On 24/11/2021 at 07:37, paulplom said:

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

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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]

  On 24/11/2021 at 00:58, 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.

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

[Jerzy Woking]

  On 24/11/2021 at 07:37, paulplom said:

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

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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]

  On 24/11/2021 at 12:41, 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...

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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]

  On 24/11/2021 at 12:50, 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.

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  On 24/11/2021 at 12:41, 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...

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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]

  On 24/11/2021 at 12:50, 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.

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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]

  On 24/11/2021 at 13:07, 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.

 

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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]

  On 24/11/2021 at 13:00, 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.

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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]

  On 24/11/2021 at 13:07, 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,

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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]

  On 24/11/2021 at 13:51, 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)

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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]

  On 24/11/2021 at 16:21, 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!

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

[Zelandeth]

  On 24/11/2021 at 16:24, jamescarruthers said:

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

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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]

  On 24/11/2021 at 16:29, 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.

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

[clayts450]

  On 27/10/2021 at 09:32, 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. 

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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 29/10/2021 at 17:08, 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.

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