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| Laurie Member Since: 22 Feb 2008 Location: Sussex, England Posts: 2897   
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I've just reached 71
Don't need to find things to grump about. They just turn up on their own.   |
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17th Apr 2014 11:06pm |
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| RobKeay Member Since: 19 Jul 2009 Location: Stafford Posts: 1579  
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That always gets on my nerves. They potter down the lanes where all they are going to do is drive through a hedge or kill a mouse. Then when they get to the village they speed up, and run over your dog and the child taking the dog for a walk. How do they suddenly become Colin I can drive fast Hill. Then they turn into their road without indication because everyone knows they live there. This problem also gets worse at night.
There's no demographic to it, men, women, young ones and the infirm. It's not that I am clever for driving quick down the lanes but always drive slower in the village. The risk is massive of killing someone. |
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17th Apr 2014 11:09pm |
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| bm52 Member Since: 04 Apr 2010 Location: Kent Posts: 2189 
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When I started this thread I never would have thought this thread would get to 100 pages and 82,000 + views
Just show how many grumpy people we have on this forum. At least it helps us rant and expel our frustrations. My grump today is my nackered knee which is really hurting......so no wimping from me i'm off to man up............  BM52 |
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18th Apr 2014 4:38pm |
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| steve E Member Since: 06 Mar 2011 Location: Tenby Posts: 2073 
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Why is it that when walking you seem to be the only one moving over for people to pass while they plough on straight at you.
Mother doofers. |
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18th Apr 2014 5:16pm |
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| Pickles Member Since: 26 May 2013 Location: Melbourne Posts: 3783  
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We pulled up in a servo a couple of days ago, there's only one diesel pump, the driveway was pretty busy, so I pulled up behind a new Skoda S/W, the driver of which had gone in to pay.
So this "woman" (the driver) comes out, & we expect to be able to get our fuel, but no, this "woman" gets into her new Skoda & just sits there, stuffing around, doing I don't know what, but not moving. So I sound the horn, she just looks round, but dosn't move, so I sound the horn again,...longer, so this time the woman gets out, asks me what the problem is, I tell I want her to move so I can get my fuel. She tells me I'm a rude man!! So I gave her a serve, didn't make any difference,...she got back into her car, and,...eventually, drove away. Wifey was with me, she normally doesn't approve of this sort of stuff, but even she said that the woman was a complete goose, ...had absolutely no idea of common courtesy. Pickles. |
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18th Apr 2014 10:25pm |
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| GUM97 Member Since: 05 Feb 2012 Location: Cheshire Posts: 3555 
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Manchester Airport
Why, oh why oh why...is it that you arrive at Manchester Airport, smoothly check in and then head to security, at 05:20 A.M that you are faced with horrendous queues and a total time to get through security of 45 minutes!?!?!? It's not even 6 in the bloody morning!  An engine to TDi for!
"Land Rover- Proudly turning drivers into mechanics since 1948" |
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20th Apr 2014 4:22pm |
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| jimbob7 Member Since: 06 Jul 2013 Location: uk Posts: 2055 |
Staring at the f**kin ceiling fer 6hrs f**kin hrs, an I still cant sleep,bin taking 30/500 co codamol for mi back,just 1 at night,I had 2 last night an still cant sleep. Thats my day bo**oxed,I was gonna go in work today so I postponed a delivery till Friday,ARRGGHH. Pov.spec,ftw. 2006, 110,TD5.
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7th May 2014 4:59am |
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| Macpaul Member Since: 25 Mar 2013 Location: SW Surrey Posts: 439 
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That's decent co-codamol! Sent me off when I had root canal pain.
I think about 30% of people can't metabolise the codeine into morphine though, so you may just be unlucky. Hope you get some relief soon.  backs sometimes. 2003 Td5 110 Hardtop
Now a 2013 110 USW too. |
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7th May 2014 7:21am |
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| skyeplumb Member Since: 22 Apr 2013 Location: Isle of Skye Posts: 134  
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I live in a very popular tourist destination, and at this time of year and throughout the summer tourists in camper vans / hire cars / vehicles with foreign plates etc. arrive in their thousands. this is not a bad thing, it's a good thing for the economy of a small(ish) Scottish island.
What annoys me is the standard of driving for example - slamming on the brakes from 60mph to take a photo, causing massive tailbacks by driving slowly and not allowing traffic to pass (even though there are signs warning of this all over the place). parking & overnight parking in passing places. stopping on clear ways, on single track roads - pulling across the lane to get into a passing space on the wrong side (while I'm also pulling into the space to let them through). Driving along with the passenger sitting on the window sill with their elbows on the roof videoing the scenery! Thinking they are doing you a favour by pulling into a passing space and flashing headlight to beckon you on without looking in the mirror to see that there is a huge queue behind then and I would have nowhere to go...... I could go on, but you get the idea. Grrrrrrrrr
You can forgive the accidental driving on the wrong side of the road or getting confused by a roundabout - lets face it its not easy driving in a foreign country, but there is no excuse for a lot of the things I've witnessed. Series IIa Lightweight - Long Gone Discovery 1 300Tdi - Sold Defender 110 XS 07MY Utility |
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7th May 2014 12:42pm |
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| gilarion Member Since: 05 Dec 2013 Location: Wales Posts: 5109 
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I also have a cottage near a very popular tourist destination, Beddgelert. I do not mind the tourists, what gets up my nose is the amount of litter they drop, and the fascination many have or dropping things like plastic bottles off the little hump backed bridge into the river to see the bottles get carried away with the current
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7th May 2014 2:45pm |
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| Laurie Member Since: 22 Feb 2008 Location: Sussex, England Posts: 2897
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I used to have the use of a cottage just up the road at Nantgwynant.
Lost it when the owner died. |
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8th May 2014 9:30am |
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| gilarion Member Since: 05 Dec 2013 Location: Wales Posts: 5109
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Lovely part of Wales Nant Gwynant, can get a bit misty at the bottom of the valley though. The Afon Glaslyn,(River Glaslyn) flows out from the beautiful lake Llyn Gwynant and then into Beddgelert. My cottage is about two miles from the village along the A498 |
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8th May 2014 12:48pm |
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| Laurie Member Since: 22 Feb 2008 Location: Sussex, England Posts: 2897
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You'd know it then. The old school house (Ty'r Ysgol) near the foot of the lake.
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9th May 2014 12:06am |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20316
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Sodding rain.
Three times I've been stopped trying to do the job I want to do!
Every tine I have work to do the weather is fine, every time I try and do a Defender related job or it's a weekend it starts P'ing it down when I'm right in the middle of a job.  |
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10th May 2014 11:12am |
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