The grumpy thread

[Heidel_Kakao]

I feel like I know more about "Mad" Jean than my own mother.

[dave j]

My Audi coupe Failed it's MOT last week on emissions. It's been off the road for a few years so not currently mot'd or taxed. Booked it in for retest today and it broke down on the way to the MOT! Luckily the mobile mechanic I use down the road from me was free so he was able to tow me back home. The fuel pump relay I bought off eBay (cheap Chinese shite)had failed after less than 2 days. ☹️ Luckily a local motor factors is getting a Febi one for me tomorrow, hopefully that one lasts a bit longer!

[Talbot]

People in cars, in general, really are self-entitled nasty arseholes, and I have utterly had enough of them.

While trying to be a bit more concious of not driving 1.2 miles to work, I have tried cycling, only to have about 5% of drivers execute really very dangerous close passes on me, including one utter cunt, working for amazon, who while I was turning right off a main road, overtook me.  I was inches from being under a sprinter, all because some arrogant shithead (with whom I had already made eye contact and he saw my signal and intentions) couldn't wait 5 fucking seconds to allow me to complete my turn.

That, clearly not working, means I have now tried walking.  I have to cross a fairly major road while doing so, and in most instances it's not awful.  Except when you get another shithead drive straight at you because they've come around a roundabout or a bend in the road at the speed of light, and are at a dangerous speed.  Extra points to the utter utter wankers who, when they see a pedestrian crossing the road, then accelerate towards said pedestrian.  Because they can't possibly stand to lose 1 second on the road?

Top marks this evening to the self-entitled little shithead who, on exiting a roundabout where I was already crossing, slowed down to allow me to finish crossing, but then blasted her horn at me, as if she couldn't lose 5mph just to allow someone to finish crossing the road.  That pushed me over the edge, and the empty celebrations tub that I was carrying home got forceably launched at her bonnet and windscreen.  I hope I scared the living shit out of her and she has a good long think about the utter shit that she is.  Didn't stop either, just drove off into the distance.

It is seriously time to put the emphasis on testing the driver at least as much as we test the car.  The condition and quality of the driver is far more important than the condition of the car IMO.

I am absolutely fucking done with modern roads.  Have we seriously become so car-centric that it's impossible to travel a walkable distance to work without driving?

Fuck Everything.

[sheffcortinacentre]

No, post COVID we've become fully self entitled .

[Supernaut]

10 hours ago, Westbay said:

Do you have a hobby / interest you can develop into a (part time) business ?

Get into adult education and learn new skill ...

Retrain as a teacher - 10 years in IT should get you a good "starter for ten" ...

https://www.gov.uk/mature-student-university-funding

I think I'll go and start a thread in the open forum about career stuff, that's a good point to think about though.

[richardmorris]

Smart motorways don’t work.

 

 

[captain_70s]

1 hour ago, Talbot said:

Have we seriously become so car-centric that it's impossible to travel a walkable distance to work without driving?

Fuck Everything.

More or less.

The fact that cars can now take a roundabout at 30mph without much squealing of tyres and flinging themselves into a hedge mean that folk just take them as fast as they can regardless of sightlines.

Even in the car it's not uncommon for me to have pulled onto a roundabout only to have a car enter and bear down on me because they simply don't intend to stop.

Entering the road network on a pushbike feels borderline suicidal...

[richardmorris]

10 minutes ago, captain_70s said:

More or less.

The fact that cars can now take a roundabout at 30mph without much squealing of tyres and flinging themselves into a hedge mean that folk just take them as fast as they can regardless of sightlines.

Even in the car it's not uncommon for me to have pulled onto a roundabout only to have a car enter and bear down on me because they simply don't intend to stop.

Entering the road network on a pushbike feels borderline suicidal...

After the revolution when I am commissar for transport ( and everything else) there will be 5 year retests for licenses. 

[artdjones]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

Smart motorways don’t work.

 

 

Everyone has known that since they were invented. Except for the engineers*, civil servants and politicians who think they are a great wheeze for saving money.

[richardmorris]

17 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Everyone has known that since they were invented. Except for the engineers*, civil servants and politicians who think they are a great wheeze for saving money.

Well they would work if lanes were closed for safety as per the recovery above. Twice this week the m3 has been closed at 7.30am because of a crash and as there is no hard shoulder, and now roadworks to add them,  means gridlock until 11am on local roads,

and to be a little fair to engineers and designers I think the original plans called for refuges every third of a mile or so snd permanent live response to close the relevant lane.

[cobblers]

22 hours ago, nev_jr said:

No matter how hard we try or research tips and tricks, one of my dogs just refuses to stop eating shit and we’ve no idea why she does it. Those two dogs never would’ve guessed how spoiled they were going to be when we adopted them. Hey ho, she’s probably been doing it for a long time before we came onto the scene. 

Our rescue dog is the same, we got her at about 4 months old, shes about 8 months now. she loves nothing more than chomping down on our other dogs shit. He had the squits a few months ago and she came in with her face and head absolutely covered in runny shit, because she'd been sat with her nose under his arse waiting for the goods.

It's just his shit she eats. She loves it. We've changed his diet completely and tried all the other bullshit tips, nothing works. I basically have to watch him every time he's outside and catch his turds with a shovel while she looks on. 

"Mans best friend" etc! 

[richardmorris]

1 minute ago, cobblers said:

Our rescue dog is the same, we got her at about 4 months old, shes about 8 months now. she loves nothing more than chomping down on our other dogs shit. He had the squits a few months ago and she came in with her face and head absolutely covered in runny shit, because she'd been sat with her nose under his arse waiting for the goods.

It's just his shit she eats. She loves it. We've changed his diet completely and tried all the other bullshit tips, nothing works. I basically have to watch him every time he's outside and catch his turds with a shovel while she looks on. 

"Mans best friend" etc! 

Hormones?

[cobblers]

1 minute ago, richardmorris said:

Hormones?

It's a bit of a suspicion - He's 11 and has had no knackers for ten years so he's not pumping much out, but she's a right floozy. We're having her done soon - hoping that maybe it puts her off it!

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, Talbot said:

People in cars, in general, really are self-entitled nasty arseholes, and I have utterly had enough of them.

While trying to be a bit more concious of not driving 1.2 miles to work, I have tried cycling, only to have about 5% of drivers execute really very dangerous close passes on me, including one utter cunt, working for amazon, who while I was turning right off a main road, overtook me.  I was inches from being under a sprinter, all because some arrogant shithead (with whom I had already made eye contact and he saw my signal and intentions) couldn't wait 5 fucking seconds to allow me to complete my turn.

That, clearly not working, means I have now tried walking.  I have to cross a fairly major road while doing so, and in most instances it's not awful.  Except when you get another shithead drive straight at you because they've come around a roundabout or a bend in the road at the speed of light, and are at a dangerous speed.  Extra points to the utter utter wankers who, when they see a pedestrian crossing the road, then accelerate towards said pedestrian.  Because they can't possibly stand to lose 1 second on the road?

Top marks this evening to the self-entitled little shithead who, on exiting a roundabout where I was already crossing, slowed down to allow me to finish crossing, but then blasted her horn at me, as if she couldn't lose 5mph just to allow someone to finish crossing the road.  That pushed me over the edge, and the empty celebrations tub that I was carrying home got forceably launched at her bonnet and windscreen.  I hope I scared the living shit out of her and she has a good long think about the utter shit that she is.  Didn't stop either, just drove off into the distance.

It is seriously time to put the emphasis on testing the driver at least as much as we test the car.  The condition and quality of the driver is far more important than the condition of the car IMO.

I am absolutely fucking done with modern roads.  Have we seriously become so car-centric that it's impossible to travel a walkable distance to work without driving?

Fuck Everything.

An AS voice of reason, tested towards your limit. Yep, they're all idiots.

[hairnet]

so was looking at going to stuttgart to visit mercedes having not done it for an awful long time

they now have ulezbians and seeing as dussel had it see where else

they do but unlike the french one 3.80

the german one is 17.50 plus their vat

they can FRO

found out you can (like i did in dussel) park at the closest bahn and in but coming in from the direction i will

IT TAKES YOU THRU THE FUKCING  CITY!!!!!!!!!

fuck them

 

[Pieman]

3 hours ago, cobblers said:

Our rescue dog is the same, we got her at about 4 months old, shes about 8 months now. she loves nothing more than chomping down on our other dogs shit. He had the squits a few months ago and she came in with her face and head absolutely covered in runny shit, because she'd been sat with her nose under his arse waiting for the goods.

It's just his shit she eats. She loves it. We've changed his diet completely and tried all the other bullshit tips, nothing works. I basically have to watch him every time he's outside and catch his turds with a shovel while she looks on. 

"Mans best friend" etc! 

*puts midnight snack away* 🤢

[ruffgeezer]

5 hours ago, Pieman said:

*puts midnight snack away* 🤢

Have you been at the bog wotsits again? 😵‍💫

[Westbay]

11 hours ago, richardmorris said:

After the revolution when I am commissar for transport ( and everything else) there will be 5 year retests for licenses. 

another tax on the proletariat ! 😂

[comfortablynumb]

11 hours ago, artdjones said:

great wheeze for saving money

Just this.

Fuck safety😕

[Zelandeth]

Been away over the weekend.  Had a great time, just on the road heading home now (being a passenger in your own car is really weird).  Just had a message from the in-laws who have been house (and dog) sitting for us: Apparently we have no heating this morning.  Great!  

Why can't we ever just have something nice without there being a sting in the tail at the end?

Hopefully it's just the random once every year and a half or so occasion when the pilot light has gone out for no readily explicable reason.  Though they are utterly non technical people so are being told to just turn an electric heater on if needed (there's a good reason I've kept a few) and wait.

[Royale80]

Went out to Rover to discover crack in windscreen. 

£115 excess so not too bad.

[LightBulbFun]

2 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

(being a passenger in your own car is really weird).

somehow I dont see myself having this particular experience! (not unless shenanigans at the FoD are involved, which to be fair is quite likely LOL)

[Datsuncog]

Bing bong bollocks.

Corner of the frame on my glasses just snapped (not the hinge), while I was gently cleaning them. Not dropped, not abused.

Only bought them new in June...

[Metal Guru]

1 minute ago, Datsuncog said:

Bing bong bollocks.

Corner of the frame on my glasses just snapped (not the hinge).

Only bought them new in June...

Should’ve gone to Specsavers! Oh, you did!

[comfortablynumb]

Swombo had this on a pair of hers, took them back.

' oh sorry it's a manufacturing fault, we'll fit another frame'

Took about a week, and sorted, worth a try?

[iainrcz]

Fucking around with waste pipes on the new sink.  None of it will fucking work.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

35 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Bing bong bollocks.

Corner of the frame on my glasses just snapped (not the hinge), while I was gently cleaning them. Not dropped, not abused.

Only bought them new in June...

Jack Duckworth quick fix? 

[myglaren]

9 minutes ago, Dick Cheeseburger said:

Jack Duckworth quick fix? 

Fixed my daughter's with "Tree Frog Oily Glue"

Wasn't expecting it to last five minutes but has held for about three weeks now.

I have said that I will buy her new ones but she is dragging her heels.

[Datsuncog]

38 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

Swombo had this on a pair of hers, took them back.

' oh sorry it's a manufacturing fault, we'll fit another frame'

Took about a week, and sorted, worth a try?

Yes indeed, I've been on to the optician - they agreed that they should have lasted longer than six months, and say they'll order me up a new set of frames and then be in touch to bring the old ones and swap the lenses around - "about five or six days".

Fingers crossed!

[Datsuncog]

30 minutes ago, Dick Cheeseburger said:

Jack Duckworth quick fix? 

It could come to that... I'm back wearing my old set to finish up at work, and my goodness I hadn't realised just what a difference the varifocals make.