Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[sorebutt]

OK,

For all those who are either pensioners or will be, lets have your gripe of the day, what has really pee'd you off.

Let me start the ball rolling,

I have found out today I am to lose my beloved SV650S - 3 years old she is and has been as reliable as a reliable thing could be. A mere 16K on the clock she's going around mid September - devastated.

[Bibio]

why?

[Ben.tattooer]

Drivers texting. I pulled one up on it today and his response was "what's it to you?" Smh.

[DJ123]

People who consistantly let you down. I no longer believe them, but it still gets my goat.

[carelesschucca]

I hate lying backstabbing fatherless so and so's that say they're your friend and smile at ya while they're stabbing you in the back in the worst possible way.

Not to worry the phrase 'Dead To Me' has never rung so true.

and breath, I suppose this isn't just a gripe for today but the last wee while..

AND BREATH DEAN!

[tactcom7]

Drivers who don't say thanks when you flash/move over to let them out.

[tonyt]

The bloody state of the roads... the constant looking out for potholes... sunken manhole covers...sunken drain covers...gravel everywhere.. plus what really ****es me off is the cheap top surface they chuck on the roads consisting of wet tar and tons of loose gravel and stones and call it road improvement.. :confused:

[dizzyblonde]

Roofers that are replacing a roof, and don't look at the weather forecast. Leaving it exposed overnight.


Not my roof incidentally.

[timwilky]

Kids on motorcycles bleating not fair.

[andrewsmith]

Mods

Can this be renamed the Tim Wilky thread?? ;)

[jambo]

My wallet is too small to hold the £50 notes that I like to carry with me in case I see something I fancy, and I can't find a place that will do a same-day chrome wrap for my aventador

Jambo

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[thefallenangel]

Getting a ticking off for saving the day because I purchased an item on my works credit card instead of using the new purchasing system.

If it wasn't for work I would be 5 stone lighter and a lot happier

[DJ123]

people who clap in the cinema. WTF?!

[Matt-EUC]

People who indicated to go round ****ing pinch points!!! And people who indicate to go round parked cars!! What, you think I didn't see it?! You assumed I'd think you were going to plough straight into the ****ing back of it?! I know you're going to go round it you ****ing dumb ****!

To add to that, people who do the above next to a right turn!! If I'm coming the other way, I'll often stop close enough to the obstacle so they can't get past and gesture them to turn off.

Quite often they will turn their indicator off but sometimes they gesture that they're going forwards so I pull up beside and say "well don't ****ing indicate then!"


Not a gripe of the day but hey ho.


Sent via the medium of interpretive dance.

[Red ones]

People who slow down by 10 mph and / or refuse to change lanes just because they're driving through a tunnel. Where's the sign that says "Lose 10moh and don't EVER change lanes?"

[garynortheast]

People.

[atassiedevil]

People who make taking a simple roundabout or corner look like tackling advanced brain surgery.

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Drivers that don't pay attention to pedestrians when turning corners

High way code rule 170

watch out for pedestrians crossing a road into which you are turning. If they have started to cross they have priority, so give way

And drivers who dont understand box junctions

174
Box junctions. These have criss-cross yellow lines painted on the road (see ‘Road markings’). You MUST NOT enter the box until your exit road or lane is clear. However, you may enter the box and wait when you want to turn right, and are only stopped from doing so by oncoming traffic, or by other vehicles waiting to turn right. At signalled roundabouts you MUST NOT enter the box unless you can cross over it completely without stopping.
Law TSRGD regs 10(1) & 29(2)

[Dave-the-rave]

Cameras that monitor yellow boxes.

[JamesMio]

Not indicating as you leave a roundabout, leaving me sat waiting to go whilst you tootle off down the road beside me.

[timwilky]

Turning right at a roundabout from the left hand lane so that you cut up everybody correctly using the right hand lane as they attempt to leave, whilst you meander on, in your own merry world. Oblivious to those braking and blowing their horns, as your blinkers prevent you from looking anywhere but forward.

(I have a friend who decides which lane to enter a roundabout, by which is the smallest. Not what direction do I wish to take.)

[saucysaunders]

Started training again and have been on the protein shakes.
5 days later and I need a dump every hour! My insides are melting!!!

My office also stinks for some strange reason, although that's more likely everyone elses gripe of the day :)

[TamSV]

Turning right at a roundabout from the left hand lane so that you cut up everybody correctly using the right hand lane as they attempt to leave, whilst you meander on, in your own merry world. Oblivious to those braking and blowing their horns, as your blinkers prevent you from looking anywhere but forward.

(I have a friend who decides which lane to enter a roundabout, by which is the smallest. Not what direction do I wish to take.)

Have to agree with this one, plus the addition of no indicator usage so you're guessing their intentions.

It seems to happen so often that I wondered if they had changed the highway code and it was me that was wrong.

[Spank86]

And people who indicate to go round parked cars!! What, you think I didn't see it?! You assumed I'd think you were going to plough straight into the ****ing back of it?! I know you're going to go round it you ****ing dumb ****!.
Perhaps you should check your highway code.

[Matt-EUC]

Pretty sure it says moving vehicles... Probably wrong though, link?


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[Matt-EUC]

Regardless, it still ****es me off.


Sent via the medium of interpretive dance.

[Spank86]

Pretty sure it says moving vehicles... Probably wrong though, link?


Sent via the medium of interpretive dance.

if you go round a car without leaving your lane no need to indicate, If you leave your lane you're supposed to.

[Matt-EUC]

What about opposite junctions? I know full well they deserve a slap.


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[Spank86]

Not gonna read it but I'm pretty sure it's still the right thing to do.

[Matt-EUC]

Pretty sure it's not.


Sent via the medium of interpretive dance.

[thefallenangel]

Useless accountants trying to run an engineering department. You stick with pushing numbers round and battering people to bankruptcy while engineering keeps the world going!

[MattCollins]

Is it December already?

[carelesschucca]

my gripe for today is because of Siii... Ron, how dare you contact me just after five in the evening when I'm going out for a romantic meal with my wife and how dare you tell me that I have a space on a trackday tomorrow for very little money. How dare you make me loose concentration on my meal and my lovely wife and have to contact my boss to beg for a day off (which he's given at the cost of a pint next friday, more bleeding expense) it's just not on Ron... Just not on...

[Spank86]

Pretty sure it's not.


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pretty sure it is, unless indicating would create a danger, such as making someone turning out of a junction believe you meant to turn into it.

[Bluepete]

People who ignore "out of office" replies on company email then whine like fecking bitches to your boss that you haven't replied to them.

Whilst I'm on holiday in Dorset.

Where they don't have interwebs yet.

[goodgumbo]

Somebody said it before but, people who operate 2 tons of metal while looking at a tiny screen in their lap instead of their surroundings.

[timwilky]

People who ignore "out of office" replies on company email then whine like fecking bitches to your boss that you haven't replied to them.

Whilst I'm on holiday in Dorset.

Where they don't have interwebs yet.

You have holidays? do you deserve one? have you made your target?

"I pay your wages" about time you harassed some real criminals instead of griping about people expecting you to do your job!

Anyway, if no 20th century communication in Dorset, htf did you post your gripe. Or did you only find out about the whining when you got back. hope the boss put them right.

[timwilky]

Todays gripe.

E mail overload, just logged in and 200 mails since last night. 80% delete on sight. The rest, just keeping me in the loop type from the rest of the world to cover their arses. Nothing that actually requires my attention.

[saucysaunders]

Pretty sure it's not.


Sent via the medium of interpretive dance.


You'd be a lot more annoyed if you didn't notice the parked car, and are just overtaking the driver when they pull out, knocking you off your bike.
This could all have been avoided if they did the thing you hate...

I swear this gripe is actually the dislike of drivers being considerate, looking in their mirrors, giving advance warning of what they're about to do and just generally driving properly...?

I'll assume you drive a BMW :P

[Littlepeahead]

Unexpected item in bagging area.

[maviczap]

Wife returned from a nice 10 days away and is grumpy, even though she's on holiday for another week as well.

Got out of bed on the wrong side me thinks

[Geodude]

Unexpected item in bagging area.
Oooer :p ;)











Sorry i dont get out much :)

[timwilky]

Another gripe for today

Pharmacies that collect scripts from the doctors surgery without being requested to. GP receptionists who won't process another prescription because they they have given to someone without permission.

Pharmacy assistants/receptionists who want to waste my day. 20 minutes to discover where the script was. when was it requested? How? She must have taken it already! No not at the Pharmacy she uses. Oh its at Asda 2 miles away. Then stupid questions when I walk up there to collect it. If I had dropped it in at my local place in passing, they would have delivered it this afternoon. No the bloody supermarket storm after me wanting me to pay when I pick up her stuff off the counter and walk out.

Sir Sir you need to pay. You need to stop taking scripts without authority.

Waiting for the letter to say I am banned from Asda.

Yes feeling grumpy today.

[tactcom7]

BMW drivers who tell you to eff off when you politely say indicators after you stop to let them out and they go right instead of left.

[Bluepete]

BMW drivers who tell you to eff off when you politely say indicators after you stop to let them out and they go right instead of left.


They're actually an optional extra on BMW's. Many people don't realise and fail to ask for them to be fitted,

My gripe for today is people who tell lies.

Pete ;)

[andrewsmith]

They're actually an optional extra on BMW's. Many people don't realise and fail to ask for them to be fitted,

My gripe for today is people who tell lies.

Pete ;)

They are on batternberg coloured ones ;)

[Matt-EUC]

People who sit in lane two/three with nothing in the oher lanes... ****s.


And Spank. Because he keeps proving me wrong and therefore, he is stupid.
I am always right, especially when I'm wrong and nothing can change that.

[maviczap]

My gripe for today is people who tell lies.
Pete ;)

Pete in your occupation and mine, its part of the job. :cool:

Just so long as its the criminals telling lies, I can accept that, other work related folk, I agree with you. :smt062

[Bibio]

3 cars on a 3 way roundabout all reach the 'give way' at the same time, who has right of way?

[Matt-EUC]

Whoever moves first.


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[goodgumbo]

3 cars on a 3 way roundabout all reach the 'give way' at the same time, who has right of way?

The most forward thinking.

[Spank86]

3 cars on a 3 way roundabout all reach the 'give way' at the same time, who has right of way?
me.

Wait, is one of them me?

[Nutsinatin]

People who sit at 48 mph in the overtaking lane of a national speed limit dual carriageway completely oblivious to the queue of traffic building up behind them and the stream of cars undertaking them.

[jambo]

3 cars on a 3 way roundabout all reach the 'give way' at the same time, who has right of way?

The one with the conviction not to apply the brakes :)

Jambo

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[CharleyFarley]

They're actually an optional extra on BMW's. Many people don't realise and fail to ask for them to be fitted

Pete ;)


Have to agree with this...........tho both Niall & myself are BMW drivers. Both know where indicator stalk is and what it's function is!! 😜

[fenjer]

people who post other peoples news on FB or tag them in a status about it before they get the chance to announce it themselves.

eg: Congrats to so and so [insert tag of friend here] on their engagement/birth of baby/house/etc.

STFU.

[Foot]

Drivers who brake at every opportunity they can find. Especially when going down hill and the brakes are on and on and on the whole way.

[saucysaunders]

Have to agree with this...........tho both Niall & myself are BMW drivers. Both know where indicator stalk is and what it's function is!! 😜

In the last year or so I've had two near misses with police cars, both times they were turning right out of petrol station in BMW's and both times they didn't bother to indicate. What scares me the most is the fact that if something happened they'd probably still manage to wiggle the blame on to me!

[Luckypants]

Having a ******* cold!

[Richie]

waking up and thinking... crap I'm susposed to be at work....!

[maviczap]

People on Freecycle wanting stuff.

Not usual stuff, like empty jam jars or stuff like that.

Just seen a 'Want' add, anybody got a Blaupunkt CD multi player for a car

[Ch00]

Companies that lie to you.

Companies that fob you off.

Companies that are dishonest.

Companies that won't do what they promised.

[Bluepete]

Companies that lie to you.

Companies that fob you off.

Companies that are dishonest.

Companies that won't do what they promised.

That's the Police for you!

Pete ;)

[Ch00]

That's the Police for you!

Pete ;)

For once Pete its not the job i'm moaning about!

[scotty217]

When filtering on the M6 this morning, I saw a woman using her laptop whilst driving! That really made me chew my chinbar!!!

[Red ones]

When filtering on the M6 this morning, I saw a woman using her laptop whilst driving! That really made me chew my chinbar!!!


Yes. You would have expected her to be using an iPad by now!

[goodgumbo]

Yes. You would have expected her to be using an iPad by now!

No, she only uses the iPad to take pictures at concerts.

[maviczap]

Hurricane Bertha or the remnants of.

Galeforce wind, rain, thunderstorms its meant to be summer and laying on the beach type weather

[Littlepeahead]

People who sit in the quiet carriage on the train and aren't quiet. Like the woman on Friday who sat there jabbering to her mate on her mobile for an hour while ignoring her kid who in piercing toddler wail kept up a chorus of Mummy Mummy MUMMMMMMMMYYYYYYY! the whole time.

And people who sniff. Yes I know in summer you have hay fever and in winter a cold but that's no excuse, just wipe your nose on a tissue. Carry a hankie. Just stop sniffing aaaggghh.

[Matt-EUC]

And people who sniff. Yes I know in summer you have hay fever and in winter a cold but that's no excuse, just wipe your nose on a tissue. Carry a hankie. Just stop sniffing aaaggghh.


It's either sniffing or snot rockets.


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[Geodude]

I'd rather sniff, hankies are so messy :(

[Red ones]

There is a guy in the office who sniffs, to make it worse he also shouts when he's on the phone.

[timwilky]

<Bloody Lusers>


I am trying to help out one of our site managers who has a user on a secure VPN that is having difficulty accessing a particular group of servers on the corporate network.

Because he is on the remote secure network dedicated to MOD work, I am unable to remotely connect to his workstation. I have sent the user a list of commands I wish him to type at a shell prompt (Including examples of what the expected response should be). As the manager responsible has gone on holiday he kindly dumped this call on my stack (I ever knew I had one) and I am getting grief for a lack of progress from someone I have never heard of, who doesn't know what I do. Simply because an incident I was asked advise on has gone out of SLA, and there is a red light gone on somewhere

So I contacted the user to get the results of the tests. He has not done it as he thinks someone from IT should do it. OK, I am 150 miles away, I do not have the security clearance to enter the building, never mind access his workstation. He says it does not work. But will not say what is not working, under what circumstances etc.

Sod it, it can wait for the local site manager to come back, as obviously not an urgent requirement if the user will not put 5 minutes effort into giving me a clue.

</Bloody Lusers>

[keith_d]

My gripe for today is manuals that say, "pass the wire through the frame and re-connect to the reg-rec."

But don't mention that you've go no access to the space in between and it's full of pipework and inlet manifolds. If the sun comes out tomorrow I'm going to take the tank and air box off, get in there, and route this darn cable.

Keith.

[maviczap]

TNT delivery drivers!

They tried to deliver a parcel yesterday, but instead of leaving it with my neighbour they took it back to the depot.

I rearranged delivery for today, as I wasn't prepared to drive 50 miles each way to collect it.

I've waited in all fecking day, not a sign of him turning up & I doubt he's going to turn up now!

Leave it with my neighbour next time!

[Spank86]

My gripe for today is manuals that say, "pass the wire through the frame and re-connect to the reg-rec."

But don't mention that you've go no access to the space in between and it's full of pipework and inlet manifolds. If the sun comes out tomorrow I'm going to take the tank and air box off, get in there, and route this darn cable.

Keith.

A bit of green garden wire might be your friend here. I usually find it handy for poking around.

[maviczap]

TNT delivery drivers!

They tried to deliver a parcel yesterday, but instead of leaving it with my neighbour they took it back to the depot.

I rearranged delivery for today, as I wasn't prepared to drive 50 miles each way to collect it.

I've waited in all fecking day, not a sign of him turning up & I doubt he's going to turn up now!

Leave it with my neighbour next time!

Even worse the lying fecker has said that he's attempted delivery today, when I've been waiting in for him, according to the online tracking! :smt013

He did the same on Wednesday, no card through the door, only yesterday! :smt013

Give me Parcelfarce, Hermes or Citylink any day compared to TNT

[Nutsinatin]

Even worse the lying fecker has said that he's attempted delivery today, when I've been waiting in for him, according to the online tracking! :smt013

He did the same on Wednesday, no card through the door, only yesterday! :smt013

Give me Parcelfarce, Hermes or Citylink any day compared to TNT

Got a new phone delivered Thursday, recorded delivery, by DPD. No one was in so they left the parcel in front of the front door, in the rain. The box was still full of water when I got home Friday afternoon, so that's going back Monday.

[maviczap]

Yep DPD aren't great here either.

[keith_d]

A bit of green garden wire might be your friend here. I usually find it handy for poking around.

Even with the airbox lifted clear and generous application of the bent coathanger it's still a pain in the a**e job. There are just too many places where the connector can get wedged.

Anyhow, it's done now. Time to re-install the reg-rec and charge the battery.

Keith.

[maviczap]

Grumpy teenagers who think they know everything + sinus congestion headaches

[Bibio]

asking people to do their job and nothing getting done. i'm now going to get wet on my holidays. this biking malarky is staring to slowly get me down.

[littleoldman2]

No joy on the textile alterations ?. Would P me off too.

[Geodude]

sinus congestion headaches
Oww i get them too with added toothache so i feel your pain :(

asking people to do their job and nothing getting done. i'm now going to get wet on my holidays. this biking malarky is staring to slowly get me down.
You still got no joy fella, you want me come up there and stand over them menacingly till they do them!





Ps im as menacing as a puppy but can tickle quite well ;)

[maviczap]

Oww i get them too with added toothache so i feel your pain :(

Yes, I get the toothache as well :(

Another gripe from yesterday, if you go shopping, why don't you get the essentials, like bread, instead of coming home with feck all to eat, so I don't have to go out and do a proper shop :smt097

[Littlepeahead]

Sheep. Luckily the rider walked away from this one with a couple of bruises. But I swear they are the stupidest animals on the planet.

http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/08/17/718901fe2051d729b40304c4ee935f3c.jpg

[maviczap]

Blimey, glad everyone walked away from that?

Anyone we know LPH

[Spank86]

Sheep drive cars now?

[Littlepeahead]

I should point out I didn't take this pic. Paul the 6th took it, that's Rob H's bike, and Rob's guardian angel must have been on overtime. So the moral of the story, sheep do less damage than cars in a head on, kill the sheep, show no mercy, do not swerve.

[maviczap]

I should point out I didn't take this pic. Paul the 6th took it, that's Rob H's bike, and Rob's guardian angel must have been on overtime. So the moral of the story, sheep do less damage than cars in a head on, kill the sheep, show no mercy, do not swerve.

Lucky escape.

I remember reading somewhere that you should aim for the sheep, don't try and avoid it.

[L3nny]

Screws on roads

http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/08/17/aae34fbb8d7bddb4677833893d1628ae.jpg

[goodgumbo]

That's the worst.

[Red ones]

People who call my mobile and ask if I'm Anna.

Do I sound like a woman?


I keep forgetting to say 'Yes'

[goodgumbo]

People who call my mobile and ask if I'm Anna.

Do I sound like a woman?


I keep forgetting to say 'Yes'

Anna short for your nickname, Anaconda. Right?

[maviczap]

Aaaaggh complete electrical failure to my garage power supply. Don't know what the problem is either.

Nice to come home to after putting up my mums new shed, which wasn't a faff free build

TNT still didn't deliver my new tool chest.

Not a great day

[Littlepeahead]

But on the up side I posted you a hard drive and in the envelope is a usb memory stick that doubles as a bottle opener. Just back up your memory before drinking yourself into oblivion.

[maviczap]

But on the up side I posted you a hard drive and in the envelope is a usb memory stick that doubles as a bottle opener. Just back up your memory before drinking yourself into oblivion.

I may need that bottle opener sooner rather than later. :smt091:smt091:smt091:smt091

Does this statement sound clear & concise?

'Someone will be in to receive the delivery' :?

Right off to the garage to electrocute myself with 240v

[Brettus]

Today my gripe is (as most days) intolerance. A general lack of empathy and understanding of the situation. If something isn't right in a group of people then whinging about it will NOT sort it faster or better. Constructive comments only and understanding of whatever solution you are given. Is that too much to ask?

...Cannot be reconciled with Wisdom, Justice and Love......

That reminds me, I must go and play some Linkin Park music this afternoon.

Just for the record, I notice it in myself too. I'm not blameless or a paragon of morality but some people revel in being contrary and generally unhelpful when there is a problem. What is worse is a solution that isn't good enough.

Imagine the situation, you get done for speeding by a gatso, the solution presented is to slow down before you pass them in future. The response feels like "what? that's so inconvenient, why doesn't my new bike doesn't automatically negate all speeding fines?, this is rubbish!" :rolleyes:

OK maybe I'm being a little harsh but outwardly I'm being very professional :) :laughat:

[dizzyblonde]

Kids......


.....with bigger feet than your own :smt027

[maviczap]

The weather........................................... ...............

half an hour on the beach, before the clouds rolled in & covered up the sun

Sea's bloomin cold too