The grumpy thread

[Pete-M]

I hate 'none news', particularly about celebs. Do I really need to know Jordan has blown her nose? No I don't. Football related stuff can stay at the back of the newspaper too, thank you very much!

+1

[trigger]

I really can't stand Jordan/Katie Price and all she stands for, If she's an idol for the women of the future then the futures fucked.Cheap Biscuits at 49p per pack, That's Asda price, Cheap plastic kids toys, That's Fisher Price, Selling cheap rape stories to the Sun, That's Katie Price!.

[Cavcraft]

'Celebrity' magazines like 'O.K'. What a crock of shit, are people so bleeding sad they cannot wait to see the chintzy/naff/gaudy/tacky wedding of some cockhead footballer and his inflated chest silly fucking bint bird getting married?Can't say the desire to see these types of wankers roll up in horse and carriage c/w gold wedding dresses, snivelling vile kids dressed like princesses and utter bollocks about how much in love they are has ever made me want to buy any of that shite. Newspapers: what's with all this 'Guess which celebrity inserted hamsters up his arse after snorting coke in a nightclub' bollocks then just having a shaded out caricature of someone's head you don't recognise?Any fucker could make up crap like that and not post pictures or names.

[Guest]

'Celebrity' magazines like 'O.K'. What a crock of shit, are people so bleeding sad they cannot wait to see the chintzy/naff/gaudy/tacky wedding of some cockhead footballer and his inflated chest silly fucking bint bird getting married?Can't say the desire to see these types of wankers roll up in horse and carriage c/w gold wedding dresses, snivelling vile kids dressed like princesses and utter bollocks about how much in love they are has ever made me want to buy any of that shite. Newspapers: what's with all this 'Guess which celebrity inserted hamsters up his arse after snorting coke in a nightclub' bollocks then just having a shaded out caricature of someone's head you don't recognise?Any fucker could make up crap like that and not post pictures or names.

+1 who reads this tripe? Also the sun/star/mail/other tabloid I mean if i wanted to read that crap id buy heat or whatever, though apparently reading the times etc (anything other than the previously mentioned tabloids it seems) makes me someone who thinks I'm superior to everyone else (when did wanting to read intelligent articles become a bad thing?)

[Mr Lobster]

+1 who reads this tripe?

The four girls I work with. They read each and every one until the print has been read off the pages

[Cavcraft]

So does my missus. And she likes Big Brother Daft cow

[Milford Cubicle]

What you want to be reading is these gaudy 'real life stories' magazines.

 

[Justin Case]

What you want to be reading is these gaudy 'real life stories' magazines.

 

I'm surprised that neither the barn find Stanza nor the Mk 2 Escort clutch swap were deemed important enough to rate a mention on the cover, otherwise I would have bought it like a shot

[andrew e]

Newspapers: what's with all this 'Guess which celebrity inserted hamsters up his arse after snorting coke in a nightclub' bollocks then just having a shaded out caricature of someone's head you don't recognise?

Since when has Pog been a celebrity :lol:P.S. is the Oven still on?

[Justin Case]

http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/09/22/cel ... e-news-uk/

 

Is it worth joining the queue for the oven

[Gompo]

The celebrity stuff is for fuck-wits, for the most part. Dont have anything interesting in their own lives so read about other's.I quite like football, and if the team I support are on TV I will try and watch it. Also try and watch the 'big' games but not bothered if I miss them

when Bobby Robson died i saw grown men crying.

What's wrong with that?

[dollywobbler]

Odd isn't it? Even I want 'aw' when I found out Sir Bobby had died. The last nice chap in football?

[Cavcraft]

Gentleman and legend. Fair to say he was universally popular and reknowned for the enthusiasm he rubbed off on people.

[Gompo]

Exactly.. I cant remember if I had a tear in my eye (i do get quite emotional about things) when I heard but I was definitely upset. ...And I quite dislike Newcastle Utd and have no feelings for Ipswich Town.

[Mike D]

Lorries holding up A roads doing 40 odd mph can get bent. Fugg off on the motorway and stop holding me up. Also, the roadworks on the A46 between Nottingham and Leicester can ram it, why the hell put a 40mph limit on when all the construction work is going on in the fields next to the road, not actually impinging on any of the highway whatsoever?!!Also, people that describe cars as having no rust. Just cos it's covered in wag and underseal, doesnt mean it isnt there!!!!

[dollywobbler]

Can't agree on the truck thing. They should do 40mph as it's the speed limit. That also means I can safely overtake them in the 2CV. When they're bouncing off their limiters at 56, it's much more difficult to get up enough momentum to get past!It's also the reason I HATE those fast tractor things. I can easily overtake a tractor doing 20mph. When they're zooming around, it's proper tricky!

[Mike D]

It's a right crap idea, that 40mph thing. Also, in practice, you end up with a queue of pussies who refuse to overtake and cause a mass tailback. I was half tempted to barrel my truck along the newly constructed 'mud highway' so long suckaz!

[wuvvum]

When they're bouncing off their limiters at 56, it's much more difficult to get up enough momentum to get past!

But then if they're bouncing of their limiters at 56, they're only doing 4mph less than the car speed limit, so there's really no point in overtaking them. 40mph lorries are a royal pain in the arse round here. I live in a small town with a large Tescos, and Tesco lorries always stick rigidly to the limit. The problem is that the roads round here are not straight enough to provide adequate overtaking opportunities, so people who are thoroughly hacked off with being stuck 20mph below the speed limit end up taking stupid risks to force their way past. I've done it myself on occasion when I've been late / in a hurry. From a road safety point of view, reducing the HGV speed limit to 40 has created a lot more problems than it has solved. Especially when you get pillocks in 6.5-tonne Iveco Dailys thinking they're limited to 40 as well .

[dollywobbler]

If you actually timed it, you'd probably find there isn't that much advantage with a 20mph difference though - unless you're travelling for a few hours behind a truck - and that generally only happens when two trucks are 'overtaking' each other on the A14 (ie doing exactly the same bloomin' speed...)

[wuvvum]

If you actually timed it, you'd probably find there isn't that much advantage with a 20mph difference though - unless you're travelling for a few hours behind a truck - and that generally only happens when two trucks are 'overtaking' each other on the A14 (ie doing exactly the same bloomin' speed...)

Or on the A17, for some reason. I've been stuck behind trucks all the way from King's Lynn to Newark on more than one occasion - the odd few bits of dual carriageway serving only to change the truck that I am stuck behind. That's the only road that it ever happens to me on, but it does add a good 20 minutes to the journey time. It's true that if you're only stuck doing 40 for a couple of miles you don't really lose a significant amount of time, but for some reason I (and a lot of other people I know) still find it highly frustrating. Perhaps because there's no real justification for the HGV speed limit being that low.In other news, I don't like being 30. I remember my dad's 30th birthday - it makes me feel old.

[Richard]

Did they reduce the HGV limit? I thought they increased it from 30.

[Volksy]

Happy Birthday Mr Wuvvum, being three years past the 3..oh, it aint so bad.. but it is a milestone.. and I remember freaking out at the time.. Just grab some cheap ale and you'll sail through..

[wuvvum]

No, it always used to be 56 on unrestricted A-roads. It was reduced to 40 about eight or nine years ago I think. It was 30 at one stage, but that was years and years ago.

[Richard]

Is that when the 50/60 limit for vans came in too then?

[andrew e]

My Wife.I do just over 1500 miles in the last 11 days without destroying the car. I stick her car in for a cambelt, she borrows mine, does 4 miles destroys it Somehow the top elbow on the side of the rad has let go... steam clean the engine and washed the street. I wonder if the impellors failed on the pump and this was weak anyway? So now its new rad, pump, thermostat £200. Bah. If its not H/G death (LPG powered E39...) that is

[Cavcraft]

I can understand why truck drivers overtake at what seems like 0.0001mph faster than the other because it's dogshit being held up by other trucks you know will accelerate slower than you and crawl up hills.Only know because we had limiters fitted to 7.5 tonners where I used to work so getting ahead of bloody HGVs was always a priority.Until I 'accidentally' ripped the cable thing off the limiter one day and carried on doing 80mph.However what really pissed me off was when you'd go to overtake a truck and they suddenly find another mile or two per hour and sway out to the middle of the road. That's when I'd get past them then slow right down to make 'em go through 227 gears whilst I just accelerated away. Got to the point where I could overtake 5 in one go on the A483 9they never liked that for some reason) and some tit phoned my boss and said he'd been a transport driver and manager for 22 years and never seen such bad driving as mine. Took it as a compliment at the time.

[ChinaTom]

Until I 'accidentally' ripped the cable thing off the limiter one day and carried on doing 80mph.

Seems the Spaniards have that trick too - followed a train of 5 'E' plated juggernauts on the M11 last night. I was cruise controlled 83 so the fluorolvos wouldn't bother with me; and followed them all the way to the A11Edit: Out of curiosity, what could one of these get to if derestricted?Edit: also, I would be interested to know about the gearboxes in these modern trucks. I often hear about huge amounts of gears, but assume they are just autos. Oops, topic scope creep again so it pisses me off greatly that I don't know this.

[dollywobbler]

AFAIK, modern trucks still use manual gearboxes, so umpty bazillion changes needed from a start off as the basic ratios (first, second, third etc) are split, often two ways, to keep the engines in their terrifyingly narrow power bands. Doubt autos could handle the strain to be honest, or they'd all be using them. Probably still easy to change a clutch than a torque converter given the mileage covered.

[Pillock]

Happy Birthday Wuv!As for the A17, I bloody hate that road. I live in Mansfield, went to uni in Norwich so there were many, many trips down the A617/A17/A47 and it's always the bloody 17 that made me want to take my seatbelt off and throw myself out of the car at speed.They gradually started to interfere with the few overtaking spots there were, such as west of Leadenham where a nice mile-long stretch of dual was cut down with a silly wide centre reservation. Leadenham hill itself lost the 'bravery' lane too.

[r.welfare]

The 15 miles of roadworks around J29 on the M1. Still not finished yet, and I've got to suffer it once again on my trip up to Bradford next week.Sure, the traffic flows well enough, but it seems to take forever at that 50 limit.