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@poly: It's actually fairly relaxed in most respects, but sickness seems to be THE WORST THING you can do to the company. I'm off today, I made the effort to get in but I simply didn't feel safe behind the wheel so I went home again before I went too far. Called in sick, coughed a lung up at them, boss was not impressed that I was ill. So I'll try again tomorrow and hope I don't get a bollocking, especially since I actually rather like my workplace and the vast majority of the people I work with and even the customers, who are generally quite lovely.

 

@CtheP: Hope you get better soon! Sounds like a wretched thing you have going on there.

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Bring back the spammers, at least they were different, it's like reading the script for Harry Enfields Old Gits now. :mrgreen:

 

 

If it's not of interest then don't read it?

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Circumstance has forced me to part ways with the Polo. End of an era for me this one, but needs must. It was either the Polo or the Princess, not a comfortable decision to make.

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Looked at a Vectra C and thought it wasn't a bad car for the money. £600/52 plate)

 

I feel dirty and need a shower.

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The 1.8 petrol ones are OK Warren, and to be honest if you ignore the reputation of the 2.0 diesel they're not that bad either.

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Cock. Fuck. Shite. :evil:

 

I've just found out through the estate agent that the wee flat I've been trying to shift for over a year now has most of the bathroom ceiling lying in the bath and damp patches on the bedroom walls.... :(:(:(

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Nearly wiped out twice today. First time by an absolute bell end in an Aston V8 Vantage on the M6. I was in L3 passing a van that was overtaking a truck when Aston man came screaming up behind me at 50-60 mph more than I was doing. I had nowhere to go as there was a dawdling Berlingo in front of me. Aston man had misjudged things hugely. As soon as Berlingo got out of my way and we'd passed the van I moved into L2 (still a lot of trucks in L1). Aston man followed me into L2 flashing his lights and gesturing wildly then swerved into L3, pulled level with me and sat there gesturing at me as if to say he'd like to lose a fight but was too coked up to notice. I had done absolutely nothing wrong, but he was livid and driving like a cock. I laughed at him and he fucked off at 140-150 mph. I rang Lancashire Police (hands free) and informed them of an easy to spot knob head driving like a dick on the M6. They were very thankful and said they'd 'keep an eye out, and hopefully nick him'.

 

Incident number 2 was this afternoon on the A5 near MIRA. Old giffer in a Rover 25 tailgating the car in front which suddenly braked and turned off. Giffer hit the brakes hard, locked up and skidded to a halt sideways across the A5. ABS is wonderful, without it I'd have had no way of avoiding it. That bit of the A5 may be a 50 limit but when there's an old hit just sitting in the middle of the road, in a dip it ain't the safest place to be..

 

They're all out today...

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They're all out today...

 

Aren't they just? I had your Aston driver's long lost brother driving a brand new Audi A6 come screaming up behind me in a 30 limit today while I was following another car.

 

Swerving wildly out into the middle of the road and coming very close to my bumper, you could almost see the blood shooting out of his ears. He appeared out of nowhere so I hadn't even had a chance to piss him off yet. Unusually for me I didn't get wound up at all and just made a show of looking at him in my rearview mirror just so he knew I could see his antics. This caused him to back right off and wave a theatrical hand of apology while the little white pills continued to rattle around his arteries. We got to a roundabout with two lanes, me and the car I was following turned left to join the main A road. This was totally out of order, natually, as he also wanted to go left, so he tore out into the right hand lane and managed somehow to overtake both of us in the wrong lane without wiping out several other innocent drivers in the process.

 

This was actually quite amusing by now because I got to watch his continued fury as despite continuing to tailgate every car he came across for the next couple of miles, he never got past the HGV struggling up hills at 40mph.

 

I try not to get wound up by this sort of thing any more, life's just too short for pointless stress.

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I deal with these type of gobshites on a daily basis on the same stretch of road, which involves a 40mph zone. The closer these impatient, willy waving twats get the more I slow down a touch, usually to around 35mph before they get the message. Then, as I'm about to exit the forty zone into the unrestricted one I stealth change down a couple of gears, get a few yards into the unrestricted zone then nail it. Clouds of shitty veg oil smoke follows then a couple of seconds later old twatty in knob extension realises what's happened and for a few, brief, glorious seconds I've handed him his are on a Blackpool Tower tin tray. I always, but always, make a point of openly laughing at them when we get to the short stretch of dual carriageway a bit further on and in special cases I'll get in the wrong lane at the roundabout, get in front of them and then do 20mph all the way into town letting everybody out of side roads in front of me.

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They were all out yesterday too. I was coming out of Dunfermline when a bus up ahead did a slightly dodgy lane change. The driver of (I think) a Clio, with "the fairies made me do it" written on the back, was unimpressed and cut me off to take the bus on the inside. When we reached the roundabout the Clio driver swerved right in front of the M90-bound bus before swerving left in front of me again to take the A92. All this with a toddler in a child seat in the back.

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On friday I was being tailgated in this manner heading north on the A1 just before the new stretch of A1M, at about 5.30pm, and as is often the way, tailgater wants me to go faster than the queue of traffic is letting me go at that moment in time...

However, the Cavalier is blessed with a carburettor - it's amazing the amount of "back the fuck off" a loud bang and 2 foot of flame out of the exhaust has... :lol:

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I don't have any issues whatsoever with people going very fast indeed whether it's on Motorways, A roads or whatever. As long as they know what they're doing, and they're not taking the piss by razzing around in built up areas.

 

Aston driving man isn't a dick because he's got an Aston, he's a dick because he doesn't know WTF he's doing driving it.

 

The old giffer in the Rover 25 was the one that nearly got me. I couldn't see what the car in front of him was doing because I couldn't see much of the that car at all. Giffer was obviously close to the car in front but I see that all the time so just held back my normal distance and let them get on with it. I couldn't initially see the car in front of him indicate as the Giffer was so close behind, so the first thing I knew of the mayhem was the front car suddenly turning left (was indicating, I saw this as he turned off) and Giffer losing control. Big cloud of tyre smoke and a stationary Rover blocking the road. I hit the anchors full on and just managed to pull over into the lane junction that the first car had turned down. Giffer just sat there in the middle of the A5, blocking the road while everyone around him had to take avoiding action. Eventually he got his shit together and trundled off at 30 mph...

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Fit bird at work has been off for several days now after being involved in an accident last week in her boyfriend's car - boyfriend was slowing down and indicating to turn right off a local A road, dippy bint in Range Rover Sport behind decides to put her foot down and overtake just as they're turning off. Bint's reaction was "oh well, it's OK, nobody's died"; unfortunately, fit bird and boyfriend were on their way to the funeral of her sister-in-law, who dropped dead from a brain haemorrhage a couple of weeks ago at the age of 36, so bint's comment didn't go down too well, to say the least.

 

There does seem to be an unusually large number of cretins on the road of late - to the point where I'm thinking of getting the ABS on the Rover sorted after a couple of near misses - I'm also going to have to dig out my old Air Zound airhorn for the pushbike as with the cold weather my throat isn't up to yelling profanities at bus drivers who cut me up / pedestrians who wander into the road whilst texting etc.

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Bring back the spammers

 

I wouldn't worry, two or three at least have set up camp here anyhow.

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I 've spent the last few days in the UAE. Driving here is an interesting experience to say the least.

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Delusional people.

 

I think the nation as a whole is quite delusional

 

First noticed it on them x factor fame idol type programmes and now everyone just seems a bit delusional in general

 

Ebay drives me crazy with grand ideas of how good something looks or how much its worth but reality begs to differ

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Saw a laser cutter better than the one I'm after for sale, emailed straight away, it was down as being in Edinburgh so roughly a 9 hour round trip but saving about £4500 on a new one so worth it....

 

Seller replies "Oh it's in Shetland, is that a problem?". :roll:

 

According to Google maps the best part of a 48 hour jaunt and god knows how much over the £350 it quotes in fuel, arse.

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Just sent the seller of that three politely and colourfully worded questions and received the response "No". What a cunt, deliberating not bidding now. What happened to politeness?

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If there's more than 12 hours left stick a bid on it then retract it a bit afterwards telling him you didn't like his response.

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Yesterday must have been twats day out on the road, sure enough. I was going round to the parents house to investigate the mystery warning lamp on Fatha's XF*, and some wee lad came round the corner in a Ka, heading straight for me, and not looking (he was clearly looking at/for something on the floor). I leaned on the horn and hammered the brake, he looked up, swerved violently the other way and hit the kerb (and stopped). His face was a picture. I shook my head and drove on.

 

He would have been fucked up badly or dead had his 15 year old rotbox had been in a head on-collision with my 2055KG Merc. Hopefully, he will take the experience as a lesson.

 

 

*MIL, no codes stored, I just turned the light off.

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People who can't see when they're driving at night.

 

Here's the clue - it's an NSL A road, single carriageway but a nice road with almost no houses around. It's dark and the car you're following is doing 35mph. When a car approaches with its lights on, he presses the brake and slows to just under 30.

 

Here's the diagnosis from Dr_GarethJ "there's something wrong with your fucking eyesight, go and get it checked"

 

Tonight I was following a car like this for miles, but I was 2 cars back so would need to have overtaken 3 cars safely to get past. In the 59bhp Peugeot it wasn't on and normally I'm happy to follow the pace of traffic because fretting doesn't help but Jesus Harold Christ this was stressful

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Getting seriously naffed off with the bloke on eBay who lists a set of Cavalier seats for 28 days, then deletes the listing when I offer £65.00... Then relists at £9.99 and then I go to put a bid in and he's ended the fuckers... I mean, what is the chuffing point?

 

Toys being thrown out of pram much!?

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The dark clouds in my head are gathering up again, I am not usually cheerful around this time of year, but I suspect I am almost unbearable at the moment, I have to try and keep my mind occupied otherwise it ends up giving me the massive hump, which it has and I have, for the moment I don't know what to do with it all, sometimes even average seems a bar that is set too high.

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Depression? Go to the docs and get some happy pills. They work great! :D:D:D:D:D:D

 

Seriously though, they do work.

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Oh no another sufferer of the big D. I'm on Mirtazapine for it :(

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Getting seriously naffed off with the bloke on eBay who lists a set of Cavalier seats for 28 days, then deletes the listing when I offer £65.00... Then relists at £9.99 and then I go to put a bid in and he's ended the fuckers... I mean, what is the chuffing point?

 

Toys being thrown out of pram much!?

 

£65 for Cavalier seats? Which model are they out of?

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I'm on Citralopram (or whatever it's called)

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Citalopram. I think half the population of the UK is currently on them. Been told by a CMH nurse that these work better with women.

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Would one of these daylight lamps help maybe?

One of my friends gets really down during the winter and has invested in a couple of these rather inappropriately named 'SAD lamps', she says they help quite a bit.

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