Rant Generic, I Don't Like Thread.

I didn't like my wife's ex husband.

He's dead now...

 

Just ordinary bulbs- the catch being I'm after ~100 watt equivalents which is what pushes the price up; most seem to be 40-60watt and they are indeed right around the £5-8 region. I did manage to find some for £6 which are stated as being 100w equivalents so I'll see how they bright they are- I can't stand dingy 60w bulbs or warm-white bulbs, I've got to have nice bright cool-white (~6600k ) 100w or higher ones...

 

Door-to-door salespeople ... holy crap those annoy the **** out of me!

For the narrative below YGWIAN = Young Git With Ipad And Nametag

Me: <opens door to unknown caller>
YGWIAN: Yes hello I come from ****, and we see from our records that you've turned our previous offers down.
Me: Yes, let me just stop you right there. We're not interes...
YGWIAN: Yes, but we now have this really good package that...
Me: Still not interested.
YGWIAN: But the package...
Me: As I was saying; not interested
YGWIAN: So, shall I just make a note in our permanent records that you're not interested?
Me: Yes

In fact, now that I think of it, pretty much all salespeople annoy me.

 

Accidentally inhaling food while eating - then spending the next 5 minutes trying to eat the rest while coughing.

 

Makes you wonder how proponents of "intelligent design ®" manage to overlook that obvious and glaring design flaw...

 

Cord retractors on hoovers, what's with them twisting the cable?

 

If I eat any more I'll end up looking like Trump...

 

I don't like impatient and aggressive drivers who can't wait a few seconds to let my son set off at his own pace at a roundabout as a learner driver.
2 secs hesitation an they're beeping the horn. One W* in an Audi TT yesterday undertook him after about 10 secs on a tricky roundabout that I have to watch carefully on my way home from work every day.
FFS, no patience or give & take, it's Me me me me me.

 

well there's your problem.

 

My bum hole neighbor at it again shouting at his missus for her password to god knows what. Then him spying on me when I go for a smoke out the back door? He thinks I’m the a hole... gah! Never even spoke to him ffs. Like to keep myself to myself but he’s getting to me., soon I’m going to say something.

 

Which roundabout is that, Tre?

You’d be absolutely blown away with what my brother recorded on his drive today... similar idiocies and actually much worse. Someone couldn’t figure out how to speed up to join the motorway, so came to a complete stop on the side of the road. Unbelievable.

On another note, I also almost got taken out on Thursday. Copied from a text to my brother:

The guy in the lane next to me moved over, so I went to move into his lane, but the guy in front of him was slowing to turn into the gas station... so this prick swings back into the lane that I was moving into and almost smashed my front left wing.

Why are so many F-tards allowed to drive?!

 

It was the Asda / Station roundabout on Wessex Way heading from Richmond Hill towards Christchurch. We were turning right to go past that evil Asda slip road and off to the overcliff.

Dad and my Mrs now both have dash cams and I wonder if I ought to get one for the boy when he passes his test...

My grandmother was told whilst learning to drive in the late 1920s "Expect a fool on every corner" - maybe make that 2 these days. After all, every village has one

 

DO get the lad a dashcam. Up here in N Wales, the popo specifically ASK for dashcam footage of stupid drivers.

 

Yeah but when you're the guy coming the other way and he clips your wing and keeps driving you'll be kicking yourself.

Personally, I don't have one; nothing worth recording has happened to me since they became commonplace, and often they wouldn't cover enough of the road to give a full picture of what's happened.

 

I can faintly believe that dashcams aren't at least an optional fit to cars these days, especially when you can spec systems which do most of the driving for you, and up to a dozen parking cameras.
I assume this is something do do with regulations in particular geos about recording? I'd have one, but it's just another thing that I'd have to either permanently fit, or remember to put it up and take it down for every drive (even the ones around the corner, because you know the one time you're driving a mile away is the one time you're going to be in a crash and find yourself in a dispute about blame)

 

Heh. I used to have one that I swapped between RS and Mundaneo. I forgot so often I just bought one specifically for each car, tbh, I don't see the point in doing it any other way given how cheap they are, and the hardware mounting kits being dirt cheap.

 

When doing the insurance last time around, dashcams would have mostly paid for themselves - started looking into it though and there are so many out there, and I'm sure 90% of them are trash, just didn't bother. I'd probably be more inclined to do it if it was easier to figure out which ones were decent.

I did once avert an altercation with a dashcam bluff though. Some idiot pulled in inches from taking out the front of my car, I hooted and flashed my lights, he stopped and got out of his car, I rolled down the window and asked if he really wanted to do this on camera, pointing to my rear view mirror (there's a cluster of cameras in there for driver aids, but none of them recording). He quickly got back in his car and carried on.