Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[BanannaMan]

Originally Posted by ophic

that's a gripe?

I said 'need to' not 'going to'.
Just like getting a new phone.
I dont have the time or the desire to sit around playing on the phone so it will likely take a few weeks to get it all sorted again.

[garynortheast]

There are days which start out in promising fashion, but by mid day I find myself wishing I just hadn't bothered.

[shiftin_gear98]

Cone Fairies. ****ing lots of the blighters by the look of it this morning.


A10 - near Ware - whatever it's called viaduct.
If you are in a car - shame on you - and you're also well and truly ****ed.
If you're on a bike, then it's still a mare.


For the next 12 ****ing weeks....

[ophic]

Originally Posted by shiftin_gear98

For the next 12 ****ing weeks....

Is that what the signs say?

[Red ones]

That's exactly what the signs say. I passed an illuminated sign last night that said "A10 near Ware viaduct. Cones for the next 12 f***ing weeks. "

[maviczap]

Text & email from my sister to say my mum had a fall at home and fractured her hip, not good when she's also suffering from early onset dementia

2 weeks in hospital, which isn't going to help

[maviczap]

I've learnt the translation of Bistro means feck all food

[SV650rules]

Originally Posted by maviczap

I've learnt the translation of Bistro means feck all food

Very true, learnt a long time ago that the more the food costs you the less of it you get on your plate (and normally the bigger the plate as well, so it looks even less). Love it when they make a small tower of triple cooked (why couldn't they get it right first time like others do) chips so that you only get about four in total, but artistically arranged.

[SV650rules]

Originally Posted by Red ones

That's exactly what the signs say. I passed an illuminated sign last night that said "A10 near Ware viaduct. Cones for the next 12 f***ing weeks. "

Would make it a bit easier to understand them closing roads at a moments notice for months at a time if they actually bothered to put signs up telling you what they were doing (apart from closing the road because they felt like it), and why it is that a lot of time when you are negotiating the cones, temporary traffic lights and contra-flow there doesn't seem to be anybody around working - unless somebody forgot to order enough pipe or cable and they are waiting for the rest to arrive from Australia on a slow boat. There has gotta be a better way of installing services than burying them under roads (would get rid of those horrible steel manhole covers as well). We have a building site nearby and they have closed road about 4 times in last couple of months to dig the road up for different services.

I know you can go on local council website and trawl through roadworks to find what people are doing, but why bother as some of out local ones weren't even listed ?

[ophic]

Originally Posted by SV650rules

I know you can go on local council website and trawl through roadworks to find what people are doing, but why bother as some of out local ones weren't even listed ?

Well TFL just said "ceremonial event" for the closures of half of London on Friday. No diversions, no warnings, the usual. Just police blocking the roads.