The grumpy thread

[Father Ted]

Oooooh the Chuckle Brothers - Im taking the lad and eldest daughter to see them in Southport - an evening of "to me, to you" twattyness.

[whitevanman]

I detest 'the breakfast show' in any format, be it national or local radio. No radio until 9.30 pls.

Pah, Wogan in the morning is a veritable minefield of double entendres and cheeky Oirish wit. I'm gonna miss the old fool.Local radio DJs should all be shot.

I'm sure CortinaDave will be very pleased that you want him shot...........

[garethj]

I listen to Radio 4 on my 15 minute car journey to work, although if John Humphrys can't find anyone to lay into I listen to my mp3 player.Is it possible to get internet radio in a car yet?

[Rocket88]

Radio 1....shiteRadio 2....with the exception of Jeremy Vine, okRadio 3....incomprehensibleRadio 4fm....ok, but a bit "Guardian" for meRadio 4lw...essentail [cricket]Radio 5......good with the exception of Nicky Campbell, and an oirish bloke who annoys the f*ck out of me, thank Christ Danny Baker's back

[Richard]

MSN Messenger- "A newer version is available. You must install the newer version in order to continue. Would you like to do this now?"

 

No I fugging wouldn't. The new version has so many adverts and so much other wankiness that there is only room for one letter in the chat window.

 

All is not lost though. Windows 2000 compatibility mode is my friend.

 

[Guest]

This new MSN is balls, looks like the sort of rubbish you'd get on an Apple Mac. How do you turn everything off?

[Guest]

There we go, turned loads of rubbish off, added a third-party patch by someone called "Ahmad" and now we're rolling again. I feel like I have to do this with most new software. There should be a "grumpy sod" mode where it makes it all grey and boring like all software should be.

[Mike D]

There we go, turned loads of rubbish off, added a third-party patch by someone called "Ahmad" and now we're rolling again. I feel like I have to do this with most new software. There should be a "grumpy sod" mode where it makes it all grey and boring like all software should be.

I've been ignoring my 'upgrade to a new dealings worse than your current dealings' message for weeks now. I logged in on windows messenger rater than msn live the other day as it was playing up, what a minter, no features at all!!!

[dollywobbler]

What makes me grumpy is the alternator failing on the BX. Granted, despite no charging, it still got me the 25 miles home, and I've been ignoring a blatent charging issue since I got it, but it is still upsetting.Even more so when I force the shonky Bond to undertake its longest journey to date to pick up an alternator in Peterborough. On a high because the Bond actually managed it without anything going wrong, only to get home and find out it's the wrong fugging alternator, and the old one won't come off either.F*cking cars. Rubbish!

[pogweasel]

It's a diesel, you don't need an alternator. Just turn the radio off and don't use your indicators, that'll last you weeks. At least you don't lose your PAS like yu do with new cars.

[Milford Cubicle]

It'll only last for so long before the stop solenoid engages.I managed to get several hours use out of mine when the auxiliary drive belt snapped before the stop solenoid engaged - I think it clicks closed when the battery is very low - I could be wrong, but it just stopped dead until it got another dose of electricity.

[dollywobbler]

Well, I might see if it'll get me to work in the morning, only so I can leave it at a garage and let them fix it. The alternator is in one of those 'permanently cursing' places so I might pay someone else to skin their knuckles.Or I take the Bond into work and get the alternator swapped for the correct one. Gawd that thing needs new seats...

[Cavcraft]

Oooooh the Chuckle Brothers - Im taking the lad and eldest daughter to see them in Southport - an evening of "to me, to you" twattyness.

Whoa there fella! Been to see 'em six times now and they're bleeding brilliant. Even got on stage with them once and received a flan to the face for my troubles.

[pogweasel]

Or I take the Bond into work and get the alternator swapped for the correct one. Gawd that thing needs new seats...

Sounds bad. Why not chop it in for a new Picanto under the scrappage scheme.Oh, hang on......

[Milford Cubicle]

Oooooh the Chuckle Brothers

[gearoil]

NIMBYS....

 

PLANNERS.

 

Have a look at this...

 

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top- ... -24692553/

 

'Birmingham City University is also objecting, claiming that racing is putting students off their studies...'

 

14 complaints in total - none from students.

 

A speedway match is done and dusted in about 2 hours, the races are around the 60 second mark. They can't put up with it for 2 fucking little hours a week...?

 

What a bunch of CUNTS.

 

Thank you. Rant over.

[Albert Ross]

Fer fuck's sake! Surely they know that come race night, the "students" will be getting mopped up/locked up by the local Constabulary.....or betting on the outcomes, and enjoying the Speedway...Not only that, Birmingham and the West Midlands surely is the spiritual home of the British Motorcycle industry as was......BSA, Triumph at Meriden, etc....Humber in Coventry, others I'm sure......

[dollywobbler]

Birmingham doesn't have a great track record either. There was a lovely music venue in the centre of town - they built some posh flats opposite and guess what! The new twats complained about the noise, place lost its licence.This is well worthy of a large dose of angst in my book.

[mattblack]

Could someone tell me why cars now seem to be fitted with a device that disables the indicators when approaching a roundabout...?

[Rusty Pelican]

Could someone tell me why cars now seem to be fitted with a device that disables the indicators when approaching a roundabout...?

Nerer read anything so true in my life

[ashmicro]

Could someone tell me why cars now seem to be fitted with a device that disables the indicators when approaching a roundabout...?

It's because people dont have an arse about roundabouts. I got knocked off my motorbike by a twunt who was so confused that she indicated both ways, hit me and then hit the roundabout.

[Pete-M]

I got knocked off my motorbike by a twunt who was so confused that she indicated both ways, hit me and then hit the roundabout.

You haven't by any chance got a video of that? That'd be a Youtube classic.

[RedSparrow]

Could someone tell me why cars now seem to be fitted with a device that disables the indicators when approaching a roundabout...?

I dunno. Probably for the same reason that 4x4s don't have indicators. I am now genuinely surprised when a 4x4 driver indicates.

[ashmicro]

Bluetooth headset users who aren't driving. I was out this evening in the Rover and this fat git walking an equally fat dog was that busy yammering on he nearly ended up with a freshly waxed 25 up his rectum.You see these fuckers in the supermarket too, usually also fat.

[ashmicro]

I got knocked off my motorbike by a twunt who was so confused that she indicated both ways, hit me and then hit the roundabout.

You haven't by any chance got a video of that? That'd be a Youtube classic.

Alas no. I was rather busy at the time, trying not to be dead.Would have been a corker of a vid, though! HA! I'd never thought of it that way.

[Mash]

Some time ago it became the norm on TV for someone telling you about an event that happened in the past to talk about it in the present not past tense. This irks me somewhat. I'll give you a for instance:"It is Monday and Postman Pat returns home early to find his wife in bed with Ted Glenn. He drags Ted out of the bed and punches him on the nose".When I went to school it was:"It was Monday and Postman Pat returned home early to find his wife in bed with Ted Glenn. He dragged Ted out of the bed and punched him on the nose".I first noticed it on This Is Your Life ages ago and it pissed me off but it seems to be all the time now, historical documentaries and the like. Am I the only one it bothers? :?One that got my goat was something about population shift and early Britons and the guy saying something along the lines of "this helps to do so and so which means we're seeing more people blah blah blah".This happened 10,000 years ago, so talk about it as such!

[Mr Lobster]

Great, now that it's darkish when I set off to work and it's getting dark in the evenings earlier, all the spam javelin lickers who drive around with their front foglights on have resurfaced.Why? Do you really think it makes you look cool / means you can see more or is it just because you are a massive cock with an ego the size of a planet. And why do you get upset when I full beam you in return Also, at traffic lights / junctions why can nobody be bothered to take the foot off the brake pedal and apply the handbrake? I don't actually need two minutes of staring into three bright red lights thanks and unless you are driving an auto (in which case I can just about maybe understand) then FFS put the handbrake on.That is all.

[M'coli]

Also, at traffic lights / junctions why can nobody be bothered to take the foot off the brake pedal and apply the handbrake? I don't actually need two minutes of staring into three bright red lights thanks and unless you are driving an auto (in which case I can just about maybe understand) then FFS put the handbrake on.

I think we've had this discussion before now, but it's all due to new cars having a "button" brake rather than a "hand"brake with an actual lever that you can pull up to apply it. What a push-button world we live in now, why didn't we let Reagan push another button in the 80s...

[mnde]

Why is it that the drivers who pull out infront of you on a fast road, forcing you to slow down because they haven't picked a big enough gap, are the ones who do 45 mph in a 60 limit? Why is it that in monsoon rain conditions some berks still bimble about with no lights on, when they can plainly see that everyone else around them has?Why is it that so many people think sidelights are adequate in the dark? Oh and while I'm on the subject of sidelights, why is it Peugeot 206s who always have one sidelight out?Oh and to the lorry driver who flashed me in Norfolk on Monday while travelling too close behind because a tractor was holding up traffic and we were doing 45 in a 60 zone (the two white vans between the tractor and me had no chance of overtaking): what did you expect me to do? Adverts that are particularly annoying me at the moment:"We buy any car.... dot com""Mummy, I want to do a poo!" Mark.

[Richard]

Talking of car lights...Anybody who comes towards me with HiDs on gets a face-full of full beam. Always.Also- indicators inside headlight units. Unacceptable.