Nob of the Day.......

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

First thing this morning the car windscreen was frozen. So I lobbed a bucket of cold water over it.

 

And then discovered the rain sensitive wipers were active. 

 

I am soaked. 

[Bender]

17 minutes ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

First thing this morning the car windscreen was frozen. So I lobbed a bucket of cold water over it.

 

And then discovered the rain sensitive wipers were active. 

 

I am soaked. 

Least they weren't glued to the screen  

[Tiggie]

Once again it is me 

 

Electric Oven packed in last week, interesting fault, it kept turning the grill on while using the oven and refused to switch off 

 

Wife wanted it replacing with an all singing & dancing model she had seen. I said no as old one was a 13amp plug in and when I remodeled the kitchen years ago I had removed all the old wiring and put the socket in for the oven. I didn't want to be taking tiles off wall, running new cables from cooker socket, re-tiling etc etc so said it had to be a similar model so I can just do a straight swap with no messing.

 

Took old oven out today to discover that past me had planned for this by wiring the plug socket with 6mm cable 

[Stu]

10 hours ago, Tiggie said:

Once again it is me 

 

Electric Oven packed in last week, interesting fault, it kept turning the grill on while using the oven and refused to switch off 

 

Wife wanted it replacing with an all singing & dancing model she had seen. I said no as old one was a 13amp plug in and when I remodeled the kitchen years ago I had removed all the old wiring and put the socket in for the oven I didn't want to be taking tiles off wall, running new cables from cooker socket, re-tiling etc etc so said it had to be a similar model so I can just do a straight swap with no messing.

 

Took old oven out today to discover that past me had planned for this by wiring the plug socket with 6mm cable 

 

Does the wife know? 

[Tiggie]

@Stu

 

 

[Stu]

Just now, Tiggie said:

@Stu

 

 

 

Goes on facebook looking for Gina..............

[Bender]

2 minutes ago, Stu said:

 

Goes on facebook looking for Gina..............

I don't do Facebook, but I could, Gina you say  

[Tiggie]

She would genuinely be pissed off if she finds out! 

 

 

I'm impressed with myself for the forward thinking when I did the kitchen. Just not so much with my memory!! 

[husoi]

Today's Nob:

 

Whoever the DX delivery driver was that allegedly couldn't find my address.

Even if the eejits have delivered here many times. 

[Bender]

Today it was pc fecking 2 faced plod. 

 

Sat behind a fully marked up police estate car, noticed he was a bit tardy at pulling away creeping up to traffic lights hmm had it been a van or a car I would be thinking on the phone. 

 

Gets to end of bus lane, pulls along side Ohhhh Yea scrolling through a smartphone looked like what'sapp couldn't tell for certain but def phone, he looks at me and launched phone into passenger seat, picks up his radio, pulls in front of me into a box junction blocking said junction, I was almost out of van but lights changed,  he then shot of left at roundabout no indicators, presumably so I didn't follow him, so phone, box junction, no indicators, wonder how many points that would get the rest of us. 

[S-Westerly]

Did you read about the cops in America somewhere who got sacked for chasing after a Pokemon instead of attending a robbery? LMAO.

[Guest]

The woman who parked like this at tesco Diss today

[Tiggie]

My boss would like to nominate whichever company it is that has put a temporary traffic light directly at the end of his driveway 

 

Cul-de-sac too so only way out is a left turn 

[Bender]

8 minutes ago, Tiggie said:

My boss would like to nominate whichever company it is that has put a temporary traffic light directly at the end of his driveway 

 

Cul-de-sac too so only way out is a left turn 

Something fishy about that...... 

[dynax]

22 hours ago, goat said:

The woman who parked like this at tesco Diss today

 

 

I had a youngish lass parked next to me in Sainsbury's  straddling 2 bays, I said to her forget specsavers go straight to Barnard Castle, she was not impressed

[S-Westerly]

I was in Barnard Castle last week and I'm fine with my specs. Roads were knee deep in shite though.

[Bender]

11 minutes ago, S-Westerly said:

I was in Barnard Castle last week and I'm fine with my specs. Roads were knee deep in shite though.

Should have gone to spec savers 

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

Not sure if they just didn't see me or just didn't care. 

 

I spotted them moving early so just kept an eye on what they might do - assume the worst and you won't be surprised.

 

 

[MikeHorton]

Totally unaware! 

[onesea]

4 hours ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

Not sure if they just didn't see me or just didn't care. 

 

I spotted them moving early so just kept an eye on what they might do - assume the worst and you won't be surprised.

 

 

They had probably checked the road was clear before you came into clear site or decided you where far enough away to pull out regardless.
Once they are in the middle of the road they figured if you hit them it’s your fault.  
If it makes you feel any better I recon they would of done the same to a car…

Edited February 3, 2022 by onesea

[Stu]

On 03/02/2022 at 14:33, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

Not sure if they just didn't see me or just didn't care. 

 

I spotted them moving early so just kept an eye on what they might do - assume the worst and you won't be surprised.

 

 

 

Given the angle they was parked at and you was coming around a bend they wouldn't have seen you in their mirrors full stop 

 

All they would have seen is the whit car parked behind them 

 

All traffic would have been totally out of view 

 

If they had pulled off and carried on straight there probably wouldn't have been an issue 

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

2 hours ago, Stu said:

 

Given the angle they was parked at and you was coming around a bend they wouldn't have seen you in their mirrors full stop 

 

All they would have seen is the whit car parked behind them 

 

All traffic would have been totally out of view 

 

If they had pulled off and carried on straight there probably wouldn't have been an issue 

True - I realised this which is why I kept an eye on them. They were moving slowly so had they gone straight ahead I intended to simply cruise past as there was plenty of room, but I had a hunch they would then execute a different manouvre without checking which is precisely what they did.

[onesea]

Well I am going with the cyclist who pulled out of the side road into my path.  When I sounded horn he looked back and a stuck finger up.
I suggested not to pull out in front of cars, he told me to open my eyes.

 

Urm no they where open or I might of been learning what to do with the bike…

[S-Westerly]

A general rant about (usually rural) drivers who seem to have cars which aprt from when stopped seem unable to proceed at any speed except 40 -45 mph. I got stuck behind one today for almost 15 miles. In the NSL bits he did no more than 45. In the villages with 30 or 20 he did 40. 

[bonio]

We call this Suffolk driving. Odd to think it happens in other places too.