The grumpy thread

[Mrcento]

How the fuck do you buy a car?, i can't even get NEAR one nowadays.

Admittedly, i'm somewhat limited to local things given the lack of anything on the road to go drop everything and see something instantly, arranging transport with a mate or public when it doesn't even matter if you agree to buy something sight unseen, some shitehawk will be there within 20 minutes, cash in hand, flatbed and away with it.

Between adverts seemingly not showing up for hours and insta-flagging as sold once they finally do, to even seeing them posted live, replying within a couple of minutes and finding out it just sold (like how the fuck?, did they post the ad whilst someone was looking at the car?, Did the buyer teleport?, it's been up 90 seconds!)

Then there's sellers.... try actually getting a reply that's not 'Sorry, sold'. You rarely ever get one. Radio silence until the ad is gone. The 1 or 2 replies you do get out of about 50 attempts tend to be 'i have someone interested already offering me over asking price' bollocks.

Phone number?, Cool, they won't answer calls, or a text. Email?, Yeah good luck with that.

I really don't want to do finance, but it's looking more and more appealing. Seems buying has become just as much of a ballache as selling and dealing with the mouthbreathers is.

[New POD]

What's your budget? What are you looking for? 

[Metal Guru]

Went for a “play” on Hartside  but the bottom 2/3 had been recently resurfaced and 20mph signs still up , so slow convoy for most of the way . Why do people still feel the need to hit the brakes at every bend even when they’re only doing 20 in the first place and going uphill FFS?

[Rocket88]

15 hours ago, New POD said:

What's your budget? What are you looking for? 

And there’s his problem… 14 hours, no response!

[Bren]

Returned from our camping holiday in North Wales.

Due to pulling a trailer and having a roof box I travelled no faster than 60mph on the A55 and M56.

And there were still people going slower than me for no reason. Even HGV 's were passing them.

If people dont feel comfortable on faster roads they really shouldn't be driving. Likwise driving slower to save fuel - find another route.

[Metal Guru]

33 minutes ago, Bren said:

Returned from our camping holiday in North Wales.

Due to pulling a trailer and having a roof box I travelled no faster than 60mph on the A55 and M56.

And there were still people going slower than me for no reason. Even HGV 's were passing them.

If people dont feel comfortable on faster roads they really shouldn't be driving. Likwise driving slower to save fuel - find another route.

It’s even worse when they get onto narrow twisty roads or heaven forbid a hill steeper than 5%. 

[Wack]

Supermarkets and their rip off techniques

Just been into Asda , shelf end , 8 cans of coke £3.75 , walk round the corner and the same pack is marked up at £4.25 so I go back

 

3 shelves all marked on the shelf edges at £3.75 , bottom two , coke zero , top shelf diet coke , all 3 tickets read coke zero £3.75 so people assume diet coke is £3.75 and just drop it in the trolley

Took the ticket off and chucked it

Arseholes they are

[Rustybullethole]

[Mrcento]

9 hours ago, Rocket88 said:

And there’s his problem… 14 hours, no response!

The reply wasn't quoted so no notification, and i never looked in the thread 😂

The truth is, i don't have an answer to that....  there is no specific criteria, i'm looking for literally anything with a decent MOT, that runs and isn't a rot box, budget ideally around £1500 (i can't justify any more on something i'd hate) but very flexible if it's something i really like.

Problem is i can't get to anything quick enough, have no access to transport bar public or getting a friend when they're available and by the time i've done any of that, everything is gone. So i'm really stuck with a small pool locally, and can't even get to them quick enough either.

The few viable things that come up only don't seem to sell because the seller seemingly won't reply to anyone.

3rd message sent on a car today to try and get a reply, so much hassle for something that is so dull....

On that note, something i liked that came up and went in minutes a few days back, something VERY similar popped up, looked at the ad, it's being sold because the one i wanted replaced it and this one is more fucked, and the same money, and worse spec, and much, much further away... FFS 😂

[Rocket88]

Whereabouts are you?

[New POD]

1 minute ago, Rocket88 said:

Whereabouts are you?

His profile says Dundee. 

[Rocket88]

Ah….. well my Peugeot Partner might be up for grabs.11 months ticket, £1750

Scunthorpe

[Jazoli]

14 minutes ago, Mrcento said:

The reply wasn't quoted so no notification, and i never looked in the thread 😂

The truth is, i don't have an answer to that....  there is no specific criteria, i'm looking for literally anything with a decent MOT, that runs and isn't a rot box, budget ideally around £1500 (i can't justify any more on something i'd hate) but very flexible if it's something i really like.

Problem is i can't get to anything quick enough, have no access to transport bar public or getting a friend when they're available and by the time i've done any of that, everything is gone. So i'm really stuck with a small pool locally, and can't even get to them quick enough either.

The few viable things that come up only don't seem to sell because the seller seemingly won't reply to anyone.

3rd message sent on a car today to try and get a reply, so much hassle for something that is so dull....

On that note, something i liked that came up and went in minutes a few days back, something VERY similar popped up, looked at the ad, it's being sold because the one i wanted replaced it and this one is more fucked, and the same money, and worse spec, and much, much further away... FFS 😂

Buy that x3 from @95 quid peugeot in the classifieds 

 

 

[MikeR]

On 03/06/2023 at 10:47, cobblers said:

Suns out nowadays and all the local cycle club lot are out treating the roads on my commute as their own personal race track.

Dozens of them, every other night in the week - veering out in front of me while I'm passing them nice and wide so they can overtake their pals. I nearly ended up putting the van in the ditch last week swerving to avoid someone.

Yesterday, as I was pulling away from a green light at the crossroads (indicating to turn left!), a group of half a dozen of them undertook me at speed and went straight across - it's a good job I was paying attention!

I'm a cyclist and I absolutely thoroughly support this new push to give cyclists more space etc etc, but it really seems to have emboldened these absolute dickheads into feeling invincible.

 

Sooner or later one of them is going to end up getting themselves killed and ruining a totally innocent persons life who was just trying to get to work. 

this grinds me , if a group of cars started having a get to together of any type , plod would be there in no time  to give points out , but a gaggle of lycra warriors can do no wrong !  , they can have group meetings on the move  , speed trials , circuits and what not on a open road and curse any driver that gets in the way .

must get my 3 speed shopper out for a run around town and upset a few drivers !!  

 

[artdjones]

9 hours ago, Bren said:

Returned from our camping holiday in North Wales.

Due to pulling a trailer and having a roof box I travelled no faster than 60mph on the A55 and M56.

And there were still people going slower than me for no reason. Even HGV 's were passing them.

If people dont feel comfortable on faster roads they really shouldn't be driving. Likwise driving slower to save fuel - find another route.

I drove from Killarney to Killorglin a couple of hours ago which is 12 miles of a national route with a 100kph limit The person in front in a Renault Kangoo Kar insisted on driving at 50-60kph the whole way. Normally there are 6 straights where you can do a quick overtake, but today the opposite side of the road was full of a constant stream of Honda 50s returning from a bike fest.

[EyesWeldedShut]

2 hours ago, Mrcento said:

The reply wasn't quoted so no notification, and i never looked in the thread 😂

The truth is, i don't have an answer to that....  there is no specific criteria, i'm looking for literally anything with a decent MOT, that runs and isn't a rot box, budget ideally around £1500 (i can't justify any more on something i'd hate) but very flexible if it's something i really like.

Problem is i can't get to anything quick enough, have no access to transport bar public or getting a friend when they're available and by the time i've done any of that, everything is gone. So i'm really stuck with a small pool locally, and can't even get to them quick enough either.

The few viable things that come up only don't seem to sell because the seller seemingly won't reply to anyone.

3rd message sent on a car today to try and get a reply, so much hassle for something that is so dull....

On that note, something i liked that came up and went in minutes a few days back, something VERY similar popped up, looked at the ad, it's being sold because the one i wanted replaced it and this one is more fucked, and the same money, and worse spec, and much, much further away... FFS 😂

Auction? 
If you have the time, take a punt on something. If it's really bad then pop it into a different auction house (i used to do Exeter/Plymouth like that - bought/sold some crap but had a couple of good 'uns)

[Metal Guru]

8 hours ago, Rustybullethole said:

I saw a camera van nearly cause a crash by suddenly braking and turning off the road because they’d spotted a sneaky place to hide. Before that it was being driven erratically as they were obviously on the lookout for such a spot.

Don't know whether to drop the chief Constable a note or is that a can of worms I’d be best avoiding.

[Wack]

Travellers in town , never seen 3 up no helmets on motorbikes round here before ,  5 kids about 12 years old on 3 bikes

They know they've got the bikes but their parents will be crying their eyes out at the funerals when they kill themselves I'm sure 

[Wack]

My wife has created a work of modern art by not checking the combination oven was empty before pre heating it

This was a microwave splash guard

[TataBobu]

Bloody blower! It stopped suddenly, and I just had to waste a couple of hours yesterday to try and fix it while at my parents, before coming back home. Managed to check both fuses, and disconnect the 2 pin connector. No power trough it. So I thought "let's check the relay". The coil had a bit of a huge resistance, at 88 ohms. Managed to actuate it by connecting directly to the battery, placed it back on and surprise! It worked trough all 4 speed settings. Nice time was had the rest of the day, and in the evening when started going back home guess what. Not even the slightest breeze. Today is a bank holiday over here, so no shops open. I'll have to dig trough boxes of stuff hoping to find another relay. I can't rob the other one of similar size from the car as it's the main relay.

 

[artdjones]

Why are brake pads so delicate these days? Especially rear pads. One of the pads on the rear of the Megane was stuck. I very carefully levered it out of the carrier without touching the friction material, took it into the shed and lightly ground the pad edges. Then as I was in the act of putting it on the bench the pad material decided to completely fall off. Not the first time this has happened, and not what you want to find at 4pm on a bank holiday Saturday. 

Luckily, the garage I sometimes help out at had a couple of compatible sets on the shelf, although I'd never heard of the brand before.

[Dave_Q]

9 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

I saw a camera van nearly cause a crash by suddenly braking and turning off the road because they’d spotted a sneaky place to hide. Before that it was being driven erratically as they were obviously on the lookout for such a spot.

Don't know whether to drop the chief Constable a note or is that a can of worms I’d be best avoiding.

Can't imagine it's worth the effort, I complained to WY Police after one of their cars passed me dangerously close while cycling. Clear road with nothing coming the other way, driver just a knob. 

They eventually came back to me to say that the car was on blues responding to an emergency (it wasn't) and they had no camera footage of any description so they would pass on my comments to the driver. 

FFS all I wanted was some reassurance that the bloke would receive some training/words about driving safely around cyclists, whether the blues are on or not you still need to get your car down the road without driving dangerously close to anyone.

[Metal Guru]

29 minutes ago, Dave_Q said:

Can't imagine it's worth the effort, I complained to WY Police after one of their cars passed me dangerously close while cycling. Clear road with nothing coming the other way, driver just a knob. 

They eventually came back to me to say that the car was on blues responding to an emergency (it wasn't) and they had no camera footage of any description so they would pass on my comments to the driver. 

FFS all I wanted was some reassurance that the bloke would receive some training/words about driving safely around cyclists, whether the blues are on or not you still need to get your car down the road without driving dangerously close to anyone.

Yeh, they’ll probably say the car behind was too close and then quote how much money, I mean how many lives have been saved , zzzzzzzzzzz.

[PicantoJon]

Dear knobhead I have the misfortune of working with, don't be messaging me on my days off saying "you've messed up" before checking that it wasn't your own fucking laziness that caused the finances to be owt by a particular amount. 

Arsehole. 

[cobblers]

2 hours ago, Dave_Q said:

Can't imagine it's worth the effort, I complained to WY Police after one of their cars passed me dangerously close while cycling. Clear road with nothing coming the other way, driver just a knob. 

They eventually came back to me to say that the car was on blues responding to an emergency (it wasn't) and they had no camera footage of any description so they would pass on my comments to the driver. 

FFS all I wanted was some reassurance that the bloke would receive some training/words about driving safely around cyclists, whether the blues are on or not you still need to get your car down the road without driving dangerously close to anyone.

A customer's wife is a copper. She can barely drive her fiat 500 - it's dented and scratched all corners, she'd had 3 at fault crashes in 18 months. An absolute menace on the road, by her own admission but she just laughs it off. "Oh yeah, I'm always crashing! hahaha! Whatever will I do next? HAHAHAH" And they send her out in a great big van without a care in the world! I'm not sure if they do any extra driver training for general beat bobbies nipping out to take statements off mrs miggins who's had her lawnmower nicked but I would presume not much, if she's still allowed to drive.

 

[Wack]

22 minutes ago, cobblers said:

A customer's wife is a copper. She can barely drive her fiat 500 - it's dented and scratched all corners, she'd had 3 at fault crashes in 18 months. An absolute menace on the road, by her own admission but she just laughs it off. "Oh yeah, I'm always crashing! hahaha! Whatever will I do next? HAHAHAH" And they send her out in a great big van without a care in the world! I'm not sure if they do any extra driver training for general beat bobbies nipping out to take statements off mrs miggins who's had her lawnmower nicked but I would presume not much, if she's still allowed to drive.

 

I wonder how much carnage there is when she's out in the van

[MikeR]

Ambled home today in the mobile handbag , had a urban bus in front of me that stopped at a stop on a narrow bend , so I stopped and waited behind him because it's the type of road where a car comes the other way just as you overtake and I am not on a rush  .. Uber taxi stops behind me , waits 5 seconds and decides I am a jerk for waiting and goes for it .....

And a car comes the other way .

He is then stuck beside me , I just give him a broad side of " u are a knob " looks and stay put ...

He then struggles to get back behind me  whilst a q of cars builds up with the lead driver giving him dirty looks .. then the bus moves on ..

Do taxi drivers take driving tests ? 

[Wack]

I couldn't imagine doing a job where everyone hates you

This is my local post office

As you can see it's not busy , a just eat driver stopped alongside the shop about 25m straight on from where I took the picture

There are double yellows there but they're very faded , not even sure if they're still legal

Anyway

Hiding behind this sign is a traffic warden who waited for him to go in the shop then boom , over with the ticket printer

What a fucking job

[iainrcz]

Fuck me.

Finally got an email address, after about 3 months, to send the PDF Aegon sent me to withdraw my money.

Now the cunts want a bank statement or blank cheque.

Jesus fucking wept.

[Noel Tidybeard]

6 hours ago, MikeR said:

Ambled home today in the mobile handbag , had a urban bus in front of me that stopped at a stop on a narrow bend , so I stopped and waited behind him because it's the type of road where a car comes the other way just as you overtake and I am not on a rush  .. Uber taxi stops behind me , waits 5 seconds and decides I am a jerk for waiting and goes for it .....

And a car comes the other way .

He is then stuck beside me , I just give him a broad side of " u are a knob " looks and stay put ...

He then struggles to get back behind me  whilst a q of cars builds up with the lead driver giving him dirty looks .. then the bus moves on ..

Do taxi drivers take driving tests ? 

no they just get their plate from Wolverhampton