The grumpy thread

[New POD]

9 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

They have had a yellow colour since day 1 - back in the noughties it started kind of pale, lemony, Robinsons Barley Water colour. Since then it has gone brighter, then orangier and now the bilious colour you are feasting* your eyes upon. In five years time it'll look tired and be worth 10% less than a more neutral colour.
But then she's not interested in that - all show and no trousers? (You know what I mean).

Liquid yellow was the Generation one yellow. A pleasant, gentle yellow that looked good even as it faded in the sun.  That's because someone buying a gen one, didn't need to say look at me! The car said it all.  GRADUALLY the stylists, have gone colour blind and they need the colours of an acid trip to feel alive again. 

[New POD]

9 hours ago, Matty said:

Depends how much you like what your in. Years ago when I was in works pickup with a lad like that I anchored on. He went right under the back and peeled the bonnet back.

"Sorry pal, a deer ran out" 😁

Fucking wild animals.  I once slowed down to almost zero, because there was a pack of sheep on the side of a mountain road, above Settle near Malham Tarn in the mist. They walked in front, so I stopped, then as they walked away I started to pull away and one big fucker turned around and ran straight in front of me. Rolled up to the bonnet on my metro, as I hit it, rolled back onto the road and trotted off, with a smirk.  No damage, but wife spent the next ten minutes telling me I was a shit driver.  

[MikeR]

years ago when we did the 3 peaks , the sleep were sleeping on the road at night ,

so to get them to shift we would bump them , the Tipos plassy bumper took a few knocks that night

then a big cloud of dust n shite would go up in the air , lit by the head lights ... followe by lots of grinning in the car

[EyesWeldedShut]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

 

** Seriously. If he's faster, let him be faster. Would it hurt you to let him past (assuming there's a place to make that happen) 

Part of the reason we take that road slow is the dead sheep. Every year we get lambs and ewes killed by the likes of this guy - there's about six or seven miles of unfenced, open mountain there and a lot of sheep.
It appears that sheep don't have any sort of Darwinian trait as regards traffic and they'll always be doing their best to (1) sleep in the middle of the road (so you whizz around the corner and are confronted by a life size Grommit and you have no place to go but either over Grommit or off into the bog) or (2) they'll leap out in front of you with gay abandon. Latter is usually the case when you see a lamb one side of the road and a ewe on the other. Locals can see that as a hazard, visitors are less likely to anticipate it.
The mountain road is much busier nowadays as satnavs seem to now be offering it up as the 'quickest' route - it usually comes up as two minutes or so quicker than the signposted 'official' route which is 10 miles longer so folks'll choose it. In the van or towing or being in a hurry I'd choose the A44/A470/A44 option though as it is a much less stressful option.
Pulling over is possible in one or two passing places but, to be honest, when he rocked up behind me at Mach 1 and sat there on full beam - I turned into Victor Meldrew and just thought 'fuckwit'. Even when he dipped his lights t'missus thought he was on full beam as we could see our shadow being cast in front of us for miles.
 

[edit] - ahh, see @MikeR has already mentioned the sleepy sheepy in the roady - I think they like the residual heat & dryness off the tarmac. They're also salt junkies and like to have grit bin licking parties which can be interesting* when the grit bin is bang on the roadside - can't move them for love nor money.

[Talbot]

2 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

he rocked up behind me at Mach 1 and sat there on full beam

That would have me driving at giffer speeds or even lower in an instant.  I've come to a full stop before now, on a single track road.  The fun game is to wait until they get out of their car in a frothing rage, then move off.  as soon as they're 2" from your bumper again, you stop again.  Rinse and repeat.

Had one guy doing this to me in Dorset many years ago.  At one point I came to a stop in a passing place, and he shot past me.  Only to be met by the oncoming steam traction engine on it's way to the Dorset steam fair.  He'd seen what had happened and just kept plodding on at his 5mph.  Bellend had to reverse all the way back, and then back around me and behind me as I was perfectly positioned to allow enough space for the traction engine, but not for anyone to be in front of me.

and once it had passed, we set off at a sensible speed again.  Shockingly, with Mr.Bellend a lot further back...

😁

[captain_70s]

11 hours ago, SiC said:

Isn't the crank pulley nut supposed to be a lock tab washer on them? 😬

It didn't when I took it off, but that's not to say there shouldn't be one. It's not reverse threaded or owt, handy...

The fact it came off as I was pulling into the services and we heard it ping off the undercarriage and I saw "something" in the mirror rolling into the lorry park is nothing short of a miracle. It could easily have fucked off on the M74. 😂

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

Fucking wild animals.  I once slowed down to almost zero, because there was a pack of sheep on the side of a mountain road, above Settle near Malham Tarn in the mist. They walked in front, so I stopped, then as they walked away I started to pull away and one big fucker turned around and ran straight in front of me. Rolled up to the bonnet on my metro, as I hit it, rolled back onto the road and trotted off, with a smirk.  No damage, but wife spent the next ten minutes telling me I was a shit driver.  

Sometime in the early 80s, we were on holiday near Glen Coe. We’d gone to the local hotel for our dinner and were returning to our camp site and encountered sheep in the road. They all moved except for one ram who just stood there facing us. 
After a few toots to try and make it move, it stepped forward and head butted the headlight, (Cortina Mk4 , nice big rectangular one), cracking it right across it.

F@cking hard Scottish sheep!

 

[sierraman]

I do wonder how many of these Uber eats delivery folks are actually insured for hire and reward. You can’t get near the local ‘eateries’ for their cars abandoned all over the place. 

[DavieW]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

I do wonder how many of these Uber eats delivery folks are actually insured for hire and reward. You can’t get near the local ‘eateries’ for their cars abandoned all over the place. 

Don't forget the poor ones who use push bikes - no lights, cycling the wrong way down 1 way streets, disobeying traffic lights. Despise them all.

[RoverFolkUs]

5 hours ago, sierraman said:

You can’t get near the local ‘eateries’ for their cars abandoned all over the place. 

Small moment of disbelief earlier, drove past and there was a Yaris (obviously) parked diagonally where circled, clearly having driven from the oncoming direction and just nosed in to presumably pick something up from that restaurant!😂 

 

[chodweaver]

I do wonder how many of these Uber eats delivery folks are actually insured for hire and reward. You can’t get near the local ‘eateries’ for their cars abandoned all over the place. 

Vanishingly few. Because, as with the proper insurance for parcel delivery, it's fantastically expensive. And it doesn't come with all the marvelous advantages of ordinary Social, domestic and pleasure use policies, like 3rd party cover on any other vehicle. I'm not even sure that I'm accruing no claims discount on mine.

So you can hardly blame them for taking the cheapest they can get, assuming they bother to get any at all - UberEats' checks when enrolling drivers are laughably lax. Some unscrupulous drivers will have multiple accounts, on multiple mobiles, and use them all to increase the number of delivery orders they can pick up. Leaving their mobiles on the outside window sill of the MacDonalds they're working from is also a trick to get first pic of orders as they go on the system - because the algorithm favours the mobile closest to the UberEats laptop in the restaurant*

*Term is used loosely

Also, watch out for takeaway drivers that over a period of months and years have a string of almost identical vehicles that carry the same (not personalised) registration. I don't know what the advantage of doing this is, but I'm sure the VIN number on many no longer matches its registration.

[sheffcortinacentre]

The advantage is one insurance,licence,mot & tax covers them all on anpr.

As the computer says all ok.

[dozeydustman]

Stopped off for breakfast on way to dad’s belated father’s day out.

I’m allergic to soya. Everything where we have stopped for breakfast may contain soya and guess who forgot his epipen

[myglaren]

Just been to a funeral, with me as pallbearer and chief officiant.

Daughter's snake, now buried out in among the bushes.  It was her ninth birthday present.  She will be 39 tomorrow.

She was known as "The Snake Girl" at school.

[Metal Guru]

26 minutes ago, myglaren said:

Just been to a funeral, with me as pallbearer and chief officiant.

Daughter's snake, now buried out in among the bushes.  It was her ninth birthday present.  She will be 39 tomorrow.

She was known as "The Snake Girl" at school.

I’m imagining a coffin for a snake.

[sierraman]

12 hours ago, chodweaver said:

Vanishingly few. Because, as with the proper insurance for parcel delivery, it's fantastically expensive. And it doesn't come with all the marvelous advantages of ordinary Social, domestic and pleasure use policies, like 3rd party cover on any other vehicle. I'm not even sure that I'm accruing no claims discount on mine.

So you can hardly blame them for taking the cheapest they can get, assuming they bother to get any at all - UberEats' checks when enrolling drivers are laughably lax. Some unscrupulous drivers will have multiple accounts, on multiple mobiles, and use them all to increase the number of delivery orders they can pick up. Leaving their mobiles on the outside window sill of the MacDonalds they're working from is also a trick to get first pic of orders as they go on the system - because the algorithm favours the mobile closest to the UberEats laptop in the restaurant*

*Term is used loosely

Also, watch out for takeaway drivers that over a period of months and years have a string of almost identical vehicles that carry the same (not personalised) registration. I don't know what the advantage of doing this is, but I'm sure the VIN number on many no longer matches its registration.

If they can’t do the job legally then really the Traffic Police (remember those) should be pulling them in and checking for hire and reward cover on the insurance. 

[sheffcortinacentre]

Hahaha!!!

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, myglaren said:

Just been to a funeral, with me as pallbearer and chief officiant.

Daughter's snake, now buried out in among the bushes.  It was her ninth birthday present.  She will be 39 tomorrow.

She was known as "The Snake Girl" at school.

Liked for your efforts, and the fact your girl had the same pet for nearly 30 years.

[Bren]

I have noticed in the last few days how appallingly driven some buses are.

I thought I was over reacting until I had my wife as a passenger - even she commented.

It's as if their drivers have only just passed their test.

[Richard_FM]

5 minutes ago, Bren said:

I have noticed in the last few days how appallingly driven some buses are.

I thought I was over reacting until I had my wife as a passenger - even she commented.

It's as if their drivers have only just passed their test.

When Stockport had a free bus I used to use it to get around town.  One of the drivers seemed to be a frustrated racing driver, accelerating whenever it suited the roads & having to slam on the brakes a lot.

[sierraman]

23 minutes ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Hahaha!!!

They probably wave them past on the way delivering the order to the police station at dinner time. 😂

[Low ontime]

On 7/28/2023 at 7:18 AM, paulplom said:

I had one homless bloke ask me for change last week. Sorry, I don't have any I replied. Join the club, I don't have any either I'm fucking skint he said. 

If I was carrying he would've had it.

I really don’t like this carry on, why are they making their problem your problem!

realistically we are all a few pay checks away from homeless if it all goes tits up.

one of many reasons why I don’t carry change and I’m certainly not swiping my card down their ass crack to help them out. As for the ones hanging around car park pay machines.. fuck off you are scaring the kids!   

[chaseracer]

You seem to be also running low on empathy and the milk of human kindness.

[Bren]

Still looking at the classifieds.

Jesus wept.

I think I may be better off keeping my car.

[sheffcortinacentre]

1 hour ago, Low ontime said:

I really don’t like this carry on, why are they making their problem your problem!

realistically we are all a few pay checks away from homeless if it all goes tits up.

one of many reasons why I don’t carry change and I’m certainly not swiping my card down their ass crack to help them out. As for the ones hanging around car park pay machines.. fuck off you are scaring the kids!   

Nowadays quite a few are doing this for a living ,a mate saw one woman swapping her outfit with another at their car.

& I've seen a guy regularly at two different supermarkets about 5 miles apart.

[sierraman]

24 minutes ago, Bren said:

Still looking at the classifieds.

Jesus wept.

I think I may be better off keeping my car.

I thought you’d only just bought one! 

[3VOM]

Bollocks

 

[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, Bren said:

I have noticed in the last few days how appallingly driven some buses are.

I thought I was over reacting until I had my wife as a passenger - even she commented.

It's as if their drivers have only just passed their test.

They always seem to stop with a jerk. I don’t know if that’s air brakes and you can’t ease off for a smoother stop as in a car ,( someone enlighten me, never driven a vehicle with air brakes),  or whether they like seeing passengers struggling to stay in their feet.

Also they don’t seem to even notice Mini roundabouts round my way. Now I realise it’s impossible to get a bus round one, but they just ignore the give way lines or any one else there and just drive through.

[Rustybullethole]

47 minutes ago, 3VOM said:

Bollocks

 

Is that a fossilised dog shit on your rad there?

[High Jetter]

I'm no expert, but I think something is missing...