The grumpy thread

[sporty-shite]

If I remember correctly it wasn't the Welsh that wanted that bridge..............

Presumably, that'd explain why you only pay into Wales. Anyway, regardless of who wanted it, IT'S TEN POUNDS NINETY PENCE. And cash only. Get into the 21st century, bridge-boys.

[Pillock]

How on earth is it possible / sensible that France owns a bridge that joins two countries, neither of which is France, together?Surely that's like me owning my neighbours stairs....

[Milford Cubicle]

^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_finance_initiative

 

The root of all evil

[retrogeezer]

The original Severn Bridge, built with tolls both ways, was only supposed to be a toll bridge for the first few years (until it was paid for) that surprisingly changed. The second Severn crossing was privately financed and the first one was sold (They are both French owned). For some reason, apparently, our government finance will be used for the urgent ongoing repairs to the old bridge.

Yeh, you just see the meeting can't you... ' look, we have this bridge we can make money out of forever here, lets flog it to another country shall we'

[Waderider]

TEN POUNDS AND NINETY FUCKING PENCE to go IN to Wales.

Come on now, clearly it's a release fee for getting out of Englandshire

[Mr Lobster]

Cheese and Onion Square Crisps. Or Dentists. I'm not sure who to moan about really so fortunately can combine the two.Had a filling at l'dentistes about six months ago. Sat eating a packet of the afore mentioned spud based snack and became aware that something was very definately not as it should be. Appears my shiny new (and very fucking expensive) filling has decided to call it a day. Well thats just great, so for the last 20 hours or so I have been in moderate pain, only heightened by the fact that this afternoon I have to go to the dentist, have needles shoved in my mouth and then have to pay for the privilege. This is very much not making me cheerful.

[mnde]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PEUGEOT-305-GL-BL ... 0483997258

 

Oh you utter, utter MONG. I was all excited too (doing a search for Peugeot models, spotted "305 (1)")

 

Great spelling too.

 

 

Mark.

[andrew e]

Please don't post the green one in a similar condition, because I want to harvest it as its the same colour as the mrs Me I'd spend £50 on a rear window, stick the hood up for £150, hydraulics £50, all the unique cabrio bits (everything bar the lights and bonnet/ bumper - the wings are different) and the alloys for £80. Thats probally £400 before you frag the rest.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

These cash only tolls drive me mad, why no-one has dynamite belted themselves at Dartford I dont know. Its on the main route for anyone who's come from the continent and who is travelling further north than London, and they are supposed to arrive at the fuggin kiosk with pound coins in their pocket. Where are they supposed to get those from? This is 2009 FFS, get some card readers you utter cretins

[Guest]

What happens if you get to a toll and turn out not to have enough money? I've always wondered, because at these kinds of big tolls there doesn't seem to be anywhere to actually turn around.

[seth]

They crush your car and you walk across the bridge/through the tunnel.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

They made me turn round and go to a cash machine 'nearby' (about 2 miles away on an industrial estate) at 3 in the fuggin morning.

[Richard]

On the Tay Bridge you used to have to fill in a form with all your details. I'm not sure how the toll was recovered but in practice somebody in the queue would come forward and pay it so they could get moving. (no I don't know that from personal experience).Obviously that is more likely to happen when the toll is 20p than when it is £10.90.

[Mr Lobster]

Mersey tunnels are cash only as well. I have one of the electronic 'tags' but when that doesn'ty work or you are in the wrong size vehicle they expect you to pay - once I was let off and once given a form telling me I had seven days to pay plus a surcharge of £5.00. Twunts.

[seth]

Kill two birds with one stone - get Mrs Seth a whisk for Christmas.

Oh, Hirst, Beware should you ever see Mrs Seth brandishing a whisk and heading in your direction...

[brammy777]

Sorry to change the subjectBut my rant is Vodafone.Okay, theyre not a bad operator, not at all in fact, reasonable charges if you go over and good offers on contracts.But the one thing that pisses me off is the fact that if i send a text to my gf, and she replies when i have no signal, i have to send another text in order for me to recieve her original reply. And i can literally have no signal for a split second and it does this.Annoying. Very annoying. Never had this problem on O2, but they did hike up charges without telling me.Well at least i have unlimited texts.Oh and if im sending a text, my phone freezes and wont let me answer calls.Other than that, perfect.

[warren t claim]

Mersey tunnels are cash only as well. I have one of the electronic 'tags' but when that doesn'ty work or you are in the wrong size vehicle they expect you to pay - once I was let off and once given a form telling me I had seven days to pay plus a surcharge of £5.00. Twunts.

A quick U turn up the service road is a lot cheaper!!! lol. Apparently the tolls are only to pay the interest on the loan taken out to build the thing in the first place. It obviously was a fucking provvie loan as they are still paying it off after nearly 40 years...

[pogweasel]

sounds like your phone is up the spout Brammy. I've been on Vodafone for 12 years and never had an issue like that.

[brammy777]

In all honesty, it might be my gfs phone.But she gets my old ( well i say old but its still less than 2 years old and is a really good phone) one soon. Vodafone ftw.Well i might change my tone when my bill arrives on friday.....O2 are shit.Terrible contracts, terrible we wont tell you how much going over costs.but the reception is good....I hate iphones though.Its impossible to type!

[chester drawers]

Electric Dreams BBC4. Didn't wish to cast a cloud of doom over the positive vibes in the other thread so it goes here...

 

Sorry but this programme really got on my tits. Dressing the "technicians" in white coats like they do in kids' science programmes. How very zany. Why not go the whole hog and get wardrobe to source some fluorescent pink goggles?

 

The implication that seventies cars never had wing / door mirrors. The tedious over-use of the words “death trap†to describe aspects of the car & kitchen. So there’s nowt hot in your 21st century kitchen then? Drink cold tea and eat raw food do you? Ok so I know it’s mostly scripted and there’s some director telling the family what to say and how to react but it’s no less irritating for that.

 

I’m normally quite a big BBC4 fan; The Secret Life of The Motroway / Airport, North Sea Oil Story etc. but I found Electric Dreams to be just as patronizing as any other mainstream “reality†TV. What I’d like to have seen is Tim Hunkin enthusing over the workings of a Dansette changer, or drawing sparks off a hybrid Decca Bradford TV chassis whilst Rex Garrod looks on wearing a period purple Double Two shirt. But that’s probably of limited appeal. And not "entertaining" enough. So I think I’ll go and dig out The Secret Life of The Vacuum Cleaner and watch that instead. Hoping Micro Men’s better. Oh and a thumbs up for the ever-scathing Charlie Brooker’s Gameswipe - that was a winner.

 

I vote for more Hunkin on TV

[Pillock]

Please don't post the green one in a similar condition, because I want to harvest it as its the same colour as the mrs

Your missus is green?

[brammy777]

Dont even get me started on people labelling old cars as either a)deathtrapsb)rubbishI.e my college class do that alot, due to ignorance, anything made pre 1997 is old in their books.a)deathtraps if you drive like a twat, as is any car, and i reckon people think new cars being safer gives them an excuse to drive like fools.Saxos are the worst with this, i will never willingly get in one, after being driven from london to basingstoke in one at 116 all the way. Not keen.b)rubbish? Age does not define quality, and you cannot call yourself a car enthusiast if you dismiss cars merely on age factor, you can have an opinion for sure if youve experianced it , but a bunch of bass obsessed 18 year olds havent, and are thus twats.Somone in my class once had a massive lecture at me because apparently my knowledge of older cars is redundant and useless.

[Milford Cubicle]

My car's a rubbish death trap and I like it.I just have to keep reminding myself not to crash into any 5 star NCAP rated cars, I'll be fine.

[Mr H Sceptre]

Seriously pissed off here.I've been getting messages for the last week or so on my telly saying that on 30th September I've got to retune my Freeview box. No probs with that. I checked it out on the interweb & its so an extra 500,000 folk can receive Channel 5 (they will be sorely dissappointed).So this afternoon I retune said box, no problem, but upon checking out that all my channels are still present, I find I've lost BBC1 & BBC2!! OK, I'll just retune it again, these things happen. Well, I've been periodically retuning the f**king thing since about 3pm & still no BBC1 & BBC2. I'm far from happy, especially as they are the 2 channels I tend to watch.Yes, I could unplug the box & stick to terrestrial TV only, but ITV4 does show Minder & The Sweeney, plus I like Sky Sports News of a Saturday afternoon.So I lose the 2 channels I pay a license fee for, just so a few folk in mid Wales or Suffolk or whereever can watch furking Neighbours or Loose bloody Women.Really not happy about this.

[Twiggy]

Getting back to tolls... the Forth Bridge is toll free... it`s falling down though. In fact, I think all tolls in Scotland have been abolished. Got some sense, the Scots.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I'd be happy to pay the toll if it means they promise to keep an eye on the supports.

[whitevanman]

Getting back to tolls... the Forth Bridge is toll free... it`s falling down though. In fact, I think all tolls in Scotland have been abolished. Got some sense, the Scots.

Yup you'll get no disagreement from me there............bloody west coast Labour abolished west coast tolls bwhen they were in power, so the SNP abolish the east coast tolls when then get in........ less than a year after they'd spent £3Million on a new toll plaza..................Typical petty small minded Scottish politicians

[STUNO]

There WAS a toll bridge near here. The council put tolls on it which were to be removed when it was paid for. Bridge was paid for and council used the money for various projects. The residents got their own legal eagles on the job. Result....tolls gone, the council had never legalised their tolls after the bridge was paid for.

[andrew e]

What happens if you get to a toll and turn out not to have enough money? I've always wondered, because at these kinds of big tolls there doesn't seem to be anywhere to actually turn around.

Mr B must have been unlucky - normally they let you through, but charge you DOUBLE!

 

As an aside last month in france I cruised up to a french set of tolls, handed over my card because I was a euro short or summat (29 euros toll) the same card that worked at every other toll in france. Girl shakes her head, I pidgeon french, shakes head, I offer sterling shakes head, etc. Several horns later a stunning perfect english speaking lady comes over and takes my details, says is this the card? Yes, shakes head goes to booth bolloks girl Then tells me in future I can pay sterling, offered that I say... anyway I get an invoice to pay the 29 euros. As I'm heading for the ferry and am not hitting another toll, I decide to pay it 7 days later when I drive home from Prague.

 

No problems, drive from Prague, roll up to toll outside the channel hand over invoice and 29 euros. This is where I find out there are two toll operators in france, and this is the wrong one... FFS

 

Eventually electronically paid it at the bank (after arguing about them wanting 12 quid to do it as the invoice was french.)

[brammy777]

I just missed the bus It wouldnt be so bad if there was another one before nine, but no stagecoach have given us a terrible timetable which goes708732908College starts at 9, so looks like im going to be late. Brilliant.Oh and i could have got the bus to winchfield station, in the opposite direction but that goes727927