The grumpy thread

[dollywobbler]

Yeah, takes two to tango though. A slight press on the brake and none of this flare-up would have happened and I would have carried on thinking "what a dizzy bint" rather than feeling all het up about it.

[scaryoldcortina]

Something similar happened to me twice today... I'm not going back out in case the third dozy bint makes contact!

 

First, straight bit of 30mph road, good visibility. I saw the punto on the right waiting to turn on and eased off "in case" but I wasn't prepared for her ambling out at 5mph right in fromt of me and not speeding up.... if I hadn't braked hard and swerved she would have driven into my offside wing! 50 yards later I turned into the industrial estate so I have no idea how long it took her to adjust her hair/glasses sufficiently to start taking notice of traffic.

 

Second one, almost home (almost to the top of the hill) when the transit in front slammed on his brakes and bounced onto the kerb. I was ready for this because he does that every day but the girl in the Corsa behind me wasn't.... She had to brake very hard, and spent the next few seconds swearing and waving her hands at me while tailgating, but I turned right to go up our street. I did make sure I stopped in the road to check that my way was clear for a second or two before proceeding

[Negative Creep]

Never underestimate the indignant mother. Such as the one who wrote in about a fast train passing without warning, which was EXTREMELY (sic) dangerous to her and her children as they were standing on the edge of a platform

[AnthonyG]

I take it you were in the 2cv DW, can't be that hard to get up speed again in the others?

 

Would a 1963 Rover P4 with a ready fitted Perkins diesel engine for sale for £750 in Lampeter cheer you up ?

 

GR8 FOR VEGOIL/CONFUZIN AND OR IMPRESSIN FARMERZ AT THE SHOWZ

[Guest]

Never underestimate the indignant mother. Such as the one who wrote in about a fast train passing without warning, which was EXTREMELY (sic) dangerous to her and her children as they were standing on the edge of a platform

 

This comment has offended me and my unborn child. And my sister, who is dead. I feel this situation is unfair and as a result I want £100 in vouchers or I'm going to Watchdog.

[dollywobbler]

I take it you were in the 2cv DW, can't be that hard to get up speed again in the others?

 

Would a 1963 Rover P4 with a ready fitted Perkins diesel engine for sale for £750 in Lampeter cheer you up ?

 

GR8 FOR VEGOIL/CONFUZIN AND OR IMPRESSIN FARMERZ AT THE SHOWZ

 

No, I was in the Saab. I'm probably still in a 'I've got no power' mind-set though! I'm not used to having power, so people who cause me to lose momentum do make me huffy!

[AnthonyG]

If you'd bought that Volvo 740 you could have just punted her off the road and gone merrily on your way!

 

BIG BUMPERS FTW

[Tayne]

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[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Earlier this year I threw a party to celebrate the purchase of my 100th 13mm/half inch ring spanner and socket.

I'm still pissed off after losing two 13mm spanners in/around a canal in February. A very stupid way to lose tools which I'm reminded of every time I use my remaining, non matching spanner. It's the only useful metric size!

 

I had that leaflet about AV arrive today. I'm still not sure what I'll vote for on election day.

Me neither. I hope the voting slip has a box for 'I cared enough to come out and vote but don't know enough to decide'.

 

2. Digital telly.

I was for some reason under the impression that once the analogue signal was turned off, the digital signal would increase in strength. Apparently not.

[ashmicro]

^^ Digital sig will have its wattage cranked up. They can't do it across the board at the minute, as it will walk over analogue. I did a server job for Bastards, Bolsheviks and Cunts (NI) a while ago and got chatting to one of their engineering staff in the canteen. Another factor to consider apparently is the fact that even cheapo £20 digiboxes are getting better and better all the time, as are the Freeview antennae. Mine was only £12 (plus a score for the box). I can get all the channels, and I live in a "marginal signal area"

[Negative Creep]

Never underestimate the indignant mother. Such as the one who wrote in about a fast train passing without warning, which was EXTREMELY (sic) dangerous to her and her children as they were standing on the edge of a platform

 

This comment has offended me and my unborn child. And my sister, who is dead. I feel this situation is unfair and as a result I want £100 in vouchers or I'm going to Watchdog.

 

 

I think it is outrageous you have questioned my post. I demand compensation as my good friend is a lawyer and if you don't I shall be contacting my local newspaper and MP

[Guest]

Is it only me who notices and is bothered by the compression ratio on digital TV? Some channels look like the sort of thing you might get in 2003 when you were trying to watch a streaming "Realplayer" clip on your 56K modem. Being that an analogue signal can look fantastic with a properly-installed roof aerial, it seems like a step backwards in a way.

[CIH]

tooth ache ow

 

also people who try to soup-up rusy old shitters

[dollywobbler]

I don't have a telly, so wouldn't know. We got a visit from the licence folk at the weekend. Trust them to pick one of the few times we're not here! Guess they weren't convinced that we don't have a telly seeing as we've got TWO satellite dishes (haven't worked out how to reach them and take them down yet, but have removed the internal house wiring) and a huge old-style TV aerial (that we just keep forgetting we own). They're welcome to have a look around though. We really don't have one.

[Pillock]

Is it only me who notices and is bothered by the compression ratio on digital TV? Some channels look like the sort of thing you might get in 2003 when you were trying to watch a streaming "Realplayer" clip on your 56K modem. Being that an analogue signal can look fantastic with a properly-installed roof aerial, it seems like a step backwards in a way.

 

Indeed, it does look shatpank. I'm always seeing complaints from people that their brand new 60" TV has a terrible signal - do a bit of digging and it turns out they're just watching freeview. Plug a high-def source in and ooooooh, it looks nice now.

Even on my 40" from across the room, some channels just look awful, on both Freeview and Virgin. HD is fine, but some of the SD channels are really muddy.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

^^ Digital sig will have its wattage cranked up. They can't do it across the board at the minute, as it will walk over analogue. I did a server job for Bastards, Bolsheviks and Cunts (NI) a while ago and got chatting to one of their engineering staff in the canteen. Another factor to consider apparently is the fact that even cheapo £20 digiboxes are getting better and better all the time, as are the Freeview antennae. Mine was only £12 (plus a score for the box). I can get all the channels, and I live in a "marginal signal area"

That's something. My house is in a strong signal area but doesn't have an aerial so I'm using an electric booster internal one, which is never ideal but under analogue it was never worse than a snowy picture. Digital signal breakup makes channels completely unwatchable.

 

Is it only me who notices and is bothered by the compression ratio on digital TV? Some channels look like the sort of thing you might get in 2003 when you were trying to watch a streaming "Realplayer" clip on your 56K modem. Being that an analogue signal can look fantastic with a properly-installed roof aerial, it seems like a step backwards in a way.

No, it bothers me too. I've said before that programmes like Strictly Come Dancing and X-factor are the ugliest programmes on TV with all their flashing lights making it look like it was filmed on a mobile phone.

[CreepingJesus]

Glasses spontaneously broke yesterday. My clear ones, not my 'Mr Cool' shades. The spring in the left leg just popped.

So, today I goes to get them fixed: lass tells me it can be done, but it'll take a while. Fair do's, tho' I've forgotten to lift shades from car, can't be arsed going back to get them.

I'm not so blind that I can't navigate my way to Greggs via the cash machine, buy a chicken tikka slice and a coffee, and find a bench to sit on.

I am, however, blind enough to miss a C-plate boggo Polo that's sitting right beside me, with an old bloke who looks a lot like Carl Fredricksen in it, until it's too late to balance pastry product, coffee, and set phone to camera in time. Bollocks.

I get mildly annoyed about missing good spots, when there's really nothing I can do about it; I want to rewind time when I've been unlucky/stupid/too slow.

Bad driving day part, oh, 10 is it? There's a roundabout not far from here, which the council have decided to turn into a 30' diameter rainforest replica. Hence, no-one can see across the bloody thing. I pull up to the line, to turn left, a bloke on a scooter pulls up to my right. We both move at the same time, when a wankstain in a Dunfermline Coachworks 11-plate Golf comes round there, virtually on two wheels. How he didn't wipe out the scoot, I'll never know; and my face, bracing myself and mouthing 'oh for fuck's sake', was obviously visible enough to him, for him to make the 'wanker' gesture at me.

Shooting off up the road, he nearly rear-ends the car in front of him, which has stopped...due to the police clearing up an accident going the other way. His passenger (big lad, ginger, freckly face) leans so far out of the window to shout something at two lasses walking up the pavement, I was able to get a description of him. From the driver's side. They shoot up to the next roundabout, do the same again and head back down the hill. Fuckers.

On the offchance either of the fannybaws read this - you've been reported to the feds, the car's owners will be informed too. Consider yourself lucky that Kay kept me in the car.

[wuvvum]

If you'd bought that Volvo 740 you could have just punted her off the road and gone merrily on your way!

To be fair, you could probably do that with a flat-front 9000 as well.

 

Hypothetically speaking, what could one be done for in a situation such as the one DW described if one were to snatch dozy bint's keys out of the ignition and hurl them over the nearest hedge? It wouldn't be criminal damage unless the keys broke on impact; it wouldn't be theft as there's no intention to permanently deprive - bint can quite easily go and fetch her keys while you go on your merry way. I've been tempted to do this myself on a couple of occasions, but I'm sure plod would find / invent something to nick me for.

[eddyramrod]

Wilful obstruction of the public highway? You're deliberately stranding a car in the middle of the road...

[Richard]

I remember reading about a case like that a few years back, I'm pretty sure the bloke involved lost his licence for it.

[trigger]

I'm off to London for the weekend tomorrow as a birthday treat, No real plan, we got a cheap hotel through my wife's work in Lime street (Her London branch has it's own hotel for special clients upstairs), Not sure what we are going to do yet, She wants to go to Portobello Market tomorrow.

 

My grumpness is that i didn't realise it was the bloody London Marathon on Sunday when i bought my train tickets! Bollocks it's going to be rammed!

[Station]

When breaking down waiting for the AA:

 

a) 99% of people driving past had a proper good look to see what was going on,

3 people shouted something at me when they drove past (when I was out of the car),

c) A taxi driver beeped and flashed his lights when my car started kangaroo-ing to a stop. I called him a 'Bell End'.

[Des]

The roads were particularly bad today, not sure what's going on but for some time now there seems to be days when droves of moron zombie helpless shithead scum are just everywhere, might be related to monthly paydays, lunar phasing, care in the community need for tinfoil hats, god knows but it's a steep price to pay for the good days. Today I had to pop around here and there locally, took forever, then off to Harley St. to drop off one item and adjust another for someone I've kept waiting ages and really need to get done with, fucking M1 closed, divert to A41, one great long line of stationary pondlife scum, every variation of lifestyle statement was there, each one a selfish ridiculous little shit obsessively grasping for inches of roadspace, piling thoughtlessly into every gap causing the maximum obstruction and ensuring the greatest gridlock clusterfuck possible. I turned off to criss cross through Bushey, this does mean a 15 to 20 MPH limit forcefully imposed by the living dead who dutifully patrol all roads where overtaking is not feasible, (they also like to panic brake at each speed camera in spite of their low velocity) this also proved futile so I had to ring my punter and take a bollocking.

Another day leaves me fighting the belief that the human race is pointless, beyond help and needs termination.

[RobT]

Another day leaves me fighting the belief that the human race is pointless, beyond help and needs termination.

 

Well put Des. A road near me was closed off this afternoon in rush hour due to an accident and the rozzers were directing traffic. The number of people giving verbal to the coppers was unbelievable, in so much that how dare their mad dash home at 5.30pm be disrupted by such a piffling thing like a serious RTA. However, the notion that the RTA was proably caused by this very type of mad dash bellend wasn't lost on me. Unless it affects them personally they just don't give a shit

[CreepingJesus]

The halfwit with the air horn, during the Amir Khan fight. Came thro' loud and clear on my kitchen radio: 40 fucking minutes of inane tooting. Couldn't have been that audible in the Manc Arena, or someone would have done something about it, right? I've never wished a snapped tendon on anyone 'til now.

[Negative Creep]

Talking of sound is anyone else getting a horrible buzzing when watching BBC1? Thought it was my tv at first but every other channel and input is fine

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

I don't have a telly, so wouldn't know. We got a visit from the licence folk at the weekend. Trust them to pick one of the few times we're not here! Guess they weren't convinced that we don't have a telly seeing as we've got TWO satellite dishes (haven't worked out how to reach them and take them down yet, but have removed the internal house wiring) and a huge old-style TV aerial (that we just keep forgetting we own). They're welcome to have a look around though. We really don't have one.

 

 

License enforcement are much worse than the DVLA- private-sector and much more slimey. NEVER talk to them or let them into their house- they're well-known for underhand tactics, and will use any kind of pretext to get you to buy a license (they work on commission). They don't have the right to enter your house unless they have a search warrant, which is practically impossible to obtain, so just DON'T LET THEM IN. In fact, what I usually do when I get bored with baiting them is write a letter saying that "I do not consent to any visits by your agents, and any attempts by them to gain access to my property without a search warrant will result in your company and its agents being sued for both trespassing and harassment". That gets understood much quicker than "come and see that I really don't have a TV".

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

The PU51 DRY thread.

 

Stop replying to it.

[Cavcraft]

To the gobshite in the 04 plate blue Peugeot estate: driving as close behind me as you possibly can then ramming on the brakes and pulling into the middle of the road is going to make absolutely fuck all difference. Had you had a brain or working eyesight you'd have seen the three cars in front of me going slow and if you want to overtake on blind corners between Bakewell and Buxton then just go for it.

You weren't quite so cocky when you were at the side of me by the lights later were you though?

[shite_meister]

I'm off to London for the weekend tomorrow as a birthday treat, No real plan, we got a cheap hotel through my wife's work in Lime street (Her London branch has it's own hotel for special clients upstairs), Not sure what we are going to do yet, She wants to go to Portobello Market tomorrow.

 

My grumpness is that i didn't realise it was the bloody London Marathon on Sunday when i bought my train tickets! Bollocks it's going to be rammed!

 

When you say rammed I hope you're talking about kicking the back doors in on your good lady before spraying her kidneys with your man-filth?