The grumpy thread

[andy18s]

  On 04/06/2022 at 10:33, grogee said:

 

They're all pretending the weather isn't arctic. This feckin country!!!

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[Remspoor]

You Tubers:  Stop the "will it start?" videos.😠

[andy18s]

  On 04/06/2022 at 12:26, Remspoor said:

You Tubers:  Stop the "will it start?" videos.😠

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There's no escape,the algorithm has you now

[J W Pepper]

  On 03/06/2022 at 13:39, RoverFolkUs said:

Wasn't even a services... Forecourt empty, surprisingly*

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Yesterday I saw diesel at 199.9 on the M6 services near Carnforth

[Zelandeth]

Not unexpected given that two other folks in the house have gone down with it, but still.  Arse.

Line is actually far less faint than the camera makes it look.  Definitely positive.

[New POD]

  On 04/06/2022 at 18:12, J W Pepper said:

Yesterday I saw diesel at 199.9 on the M6 services near Carnforth

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Yesterday I paid £1.63.7 At cost co for E10 

[High Jetter]

  On 03/06/2022 at 13:39, RoverFolkUs said:

Wasn't even a services... Forecourt empty, surprisingly*

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I pulled in there just over a year ago. Not impressed, didn't buy anything. Shite location.

[RoverFolkUs]

  On 04/06/2022 at 23:01, High Jetter said:

I pulled in there just over a year ago. Not impressed, didn't buy anything. Shite location.

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Yeah never been there myself. Couldn't actually see where the shop was!? (At a very quick glance only, admittedly) 

Usually Shell are my first choice. Most of them in Sussex that I've been to are pretty good. 

[crad]

  On 04/06/2022 at 23:03, RoverFolkUs said:

Yeah never been there myself. Couldn't actually see where the shop was!? (At a very quick glance only, admittedly) 

Usually Shell are my first choice. Most of them in Sussex that I've been to are pretty good. 

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the shell in our village got done for overcharging

[RoverFolkUs]

  On 04/06/2022 at 23:17, crad said:

the shell in our village got done for overcharging

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They're all doing it, so much for the 5p fuel duty relief 🙄

[High Jetter]

  On 04/06/2022 at 23:03, RoverFolkUs said:

Yeah never been there myself. Couldn't actually see where the shop was!? (At a very quick glance only, admittedly) 

Usually Shell are my first choice. Most of them in Sussex that I've been to are pretty good. 

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Shop at downhill (exit) end IIRC. Unpleasant staff, would not visit again.

'You can be sure of Shell', tho...

[RoverFolkUs]

  On 04/06/2022 at 23:34, High Jetter said:

Shop at downhill (exit) end IIRC. Unpleasant staff, would not visit again.

'You can be sure of Shell', tho...

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Ah yes, just looked on google maps, it's there, where you say. 

Though it's covered in VOSA MOT signs which made me think it was a workshop rather than a shop, especially at a quick glance!

[Markeh]

Go abroad with friends, they said. It'll be fun, they said. First holiday abroad in 8 years and first proper holiday abroad without my folks.

Whoever they are, they didn't account for one of said friends completely losing control of a dodgy hired jetski, coming over the line into the swimming section of the beach and crashing straight into me in the process.

I'm fine, other than a sore shoulder, leg cramps from wild flailing to surface again, and a missing week old pair of prescription sunglasses. Fair play to the lad, he's absolutely mortified (and a bit bruised himself - I'm told while I was in the process of trying not to drown, he flew off rather spectacularly) and has offered to replace them when we're back in the UK, and the shoulder will heal. But come on, we'd maybe been in Turkey for 16 hours at this point, hopefully this will be the last of the near death experiences. Although we were on about hiring a car so maybe not!

Maybe this is Him upstairs' way of getting karma on me for the other week's shunt in London.

[beko1987]

  On 05/06/2022 at 11:50, Markeh said:

Go abroad with friends, they said. It'll be fun, they said. First holiday abroad in 8 years and first proper holiday abroad without my folks.

Whoever they are, they didn't account for one of said friends completely losing control of a dodgy hired jetski, coming over the line into the swimming section of the beach and crashing straight into me in the process.

I'm fine, other than a sore shoulder, leg cramps from wild flailing to surface again, and a missing week old pair of prescription sunglasses. Fair play to the lad, he's absolutely mortified (and a bit bruised himself - I'm told while I was in the process of trying not to drown, he flew off rather spectacularly) and has offered to replace them when we're back in the UK, and the shoulder will heal. But come on, we'd maybe been in Turkey for 16 hours at this point, hopefully this will be the last of the near death experiences. Although we were on about hiring a car so maybe not!

Maybe this is Him upstairs' way of getting karma on me for the other week's shunt in London.

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Might be safer to just stay at a bar for the rest of the trip 😂

[Markeh]

  On 05/06/2022 at 12:23, beko1987 said:

Might be safer to just stay at a bar for the rest of the trip 😂

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Oh I don't know. Everyone else had bets on what day I was going to fall over pissed before we came!

[Timewaster]

  On 05/06/2022 at 12:57, J W Pepper said:

Just read the Daily Mail

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I stopped reading your post after this point.

 

Something about electric cars causing cancer?

https://youtu.be/q3chJN9DCGg

[Dyslexic Viking]

The only ethanol free petrol is 98 octane in Norway and this cost 2.5 pounds per liter today. And the other thing is this temperamental old thing that is constantly annoying me with problems.

[J W Pepper]

  On 05/06/2022 at 13:55, Timewaster said:

I stopped reading your post after this point.

 

Something about electric cars causing cancer?

https://youtu.be/q3chJN9DCGg

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I agree the daily mail do have a habit of using the same words in different articles and clump things together, I just think the technology isn't ready yet, and it would be better to develop more efficient engines.

[Timewaster]

  On 05/06/2022 at 14:13, J W Pepper said:

I agree the daily mail do have a habit of using the same words in different articles and clump things together, I just think the technology isn't ready yet, and it would be better to develop more efficient engines.

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It is an emerging technology, look at how far we have come from the G-wizz to something like a Ionic5.

The next 10 years should see some amazing EVs. They could be mega efficient if they don't keep on building bloody huge things like Audi Q7s that no one needs and make something more like an A2.

Diesel engines have peaked imo, modern ones are saddled with fragile adblue and dpf systems. 

 

[J W Pepper]

  On 05/06/2022 at 14:47, Timewaster said:

It is an emerging technology, look at how far we have come from the G-wizz to something like a Ionic5.

The next 10 years should see some amazing EVs. They could be mega efficient if they don't keep on building bloody huge things like Audi Q7s that no one needs and make something more like an A2.

Diesel engines have peaked imo, modern ones are saddled with fragile adblue and dpf systems. 

 

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You make a good point regarding the G-wizz and how the ranges are increasing, but the charging times still need to be reduced to something convenient, and prices reduced to something affordable, but it is improving, and should get better in the next few years like you say. And you make another good point in making smaller cars rather than big cars

[beko1987]

They need to make them bigger. Both sets of parents have an ev/hybrid and I'm forever helping collect things, do tip runs and etc with my estate. 

I make a point of telling them we'll cancel out all the environmental good they've done by owning their cars and flooring the shit out of the Xsara until it makes power clouds... 

Dad's ioniq is lovely though once acclimatised, if I could ever afford one/they survive well enough to become cheap enough that I could afford one I would

[AnnoyingPentium]

Saw a lot of petrol stations that are bringing petrol prices up to diesel prices. Morrisons has done no such thing, neither has Jet. Thankfully. Still, fucking £1.73 a litre, do they think I'm made of fucking money?

[wuvvum]

  On 05/06/2022 at 14:47, Timewaster said:

Diesel engines have peaked imo, modern ones are saddled with fragile adblue and dpf systems.

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Diesel engines peaked around 1994.

[artdjones]

  On 05/06/2022 at 11:50, Markeh said:

Go abroad with friends, they said. It'll be fun, they said. First holiday abroad in 8 years and first proper holiday abroad without my folks.

Whoever they are, they didn't account for one of said friends completely losing control of a dodgy hired jetski, coming over the line into the swimming section of the beach and crashing straight into me in the process.

I'm fine, other than a sore shoulder, leg cramps from wild flailing to surface again, and a missing week old pair of prescription sunglasses. Fair play to the lad, he's absolutely mortified (and a bit bruised himself - I'm told while I was in the process of trying not to drown, he flew off rather spectacularly) and has offered to replace them when we're back in the UK, and the shoulder will heal. But come on, we'd maybe been in Turkey for 16 hours at this point, hopefully this will be the last of the near death experiences. Although we were on about hiring a car so maybe not!

Maybe this is Him upstairs' way of getting karma on me for the other week's shunt in London.

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Don't hire any motorbikes, scooters or mopeds.

[wuvvum]

If anyone was in any doubt that the quality of BBC journalism is dropping...

Platinum Jubilee: Queen 'humbled and touched' by celebrations - BBC News

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The Trotters' Robin Reliant from sitcom Only Fools and Horses

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FFS.

[High Jetter]

  On 05/06/2022 at 16:39, artdjones said:

Don't hire any motorbikes, scooters or mopeds.

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...or women!

[Timewaster]

  On 05/06/2022 at 18:21, wuvvum said:

If anyone was in any doubt that the quality of BBC journalism is dropping...

Platinum Jubilee: Queen 'humbled and touched' by celebrations - BBC News

FFS.

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Trotters van from Only Horses and Idiots?

[Dyslexic Viking]

Tried to give my cat drops in the neck against ticks and as a typical man I did not read the instructions. According to this I should wear gloves that came with it something I did not see. So this with the fact that my cat would not cooperate we are both protected against ticks now.

[Remspoor]

  On 05/06/2022 at 19:22, Dyslexic Viking said:

Tried to give my cat drops in the neck against ticks and as a typical man I did not read the instructions. According to this I should wear gloves that came with it something I did not see. So this with the fact that my cat would not cooperate we are both protected against ticks now.

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We never wear gloves to give ours the flea treatment. Just wash our hands right away. Give it to them just as they finish their food. They are calmer when licking the bowel.

[Dyslexic Viking]

  On 05/06/2022 at 20:24, Remspoor said:

We never wear gloves to give ours the flea treatment. Just wash our hands right away. Give it to them just as they finish their food. They are calmer when licking the bowel.

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This is a good way to do it will try it next time. Thanks!