The moaning old git thread

[MartinW]

Paul - 

TLP - I blame your Parents.

[Barbel Mick]

 

[Rusty Nuts]

Stupid leather-clad sportsbike dad, endangering his 10 year old daughter by feeding her McDonald's

[TLPower]

Harsh Martin, very harsh. My "I blame the parents" comment is my stock reply to any family dispute. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Usually is doesn't.

[Fat Rat]

I consider the word 'Store', when referring to a Shop, an Americanism, so I am already irritated when I see or hear it. What really bakes my noodle though is the phrase 'in store' particularly as some seem to think they can also invent a word (Instore) 

[grumps]

Signs in cars that say


" Slow Down - Show Dogs in Transit"

So bloody what? Will I be driving any more carefully just because you've got some over-bred mutts in the car?

[Fat Rat]

Oh, and using the number 4 instead of the word 'for' 

[Brockett]

- Grumps - they're just bragging about their dogs.  Like those sad folk with "little princess on board" Signs.

[Brockett]

So no "phones 4 U" then?

[grumps]

Also, "I slow down for horses"

So do I cos I don't want the things kicking shi*e out of my car or bike.

[Fat Rat]

No phones for me, I even turned down a quote from a Plumber because his company was called Plumb4U.

Oh, there are still people on this very site who insist on writing that gibberish here 

[grumps]

Is that right M8? 4 sure.

[TLPower]

 Kindly pass me the can opener Mrs Power, I need to release the worms....

People who refer to a vehicles instruments as "clocks".

Clocks tell me the time, nowt else.

The collection of various gauges, meters for speed, revolutions per minute, temperature of the coolant and fuel level (if fitted) are not clocks, they are INSTRUMENTS formed in a cluster.

Please do not get me started on people calling gears "cogs"......

[King Orry]

Nah, sorry but you're waaaay out of line there TLP..
Speedo and rev counters were originally made by clock makers like Smiths, so clocks they were.. and clocks they always will be. 
Instruments, just noooo..  save that for the orchestra ????

going to 'cog' it down a gear or two now and disappear.. 

[TLPower]

Gauges or dials then.

Not CLOCKS.

[AlanT]

Instruments it is.........

From the horses mouth....

"History of SMITHS Instruments

Samuel Smith & Son

Samuel Smith Junior began selling clocks and watches in the Strand, London in 1871.  By the turn of the twentieth century they were the premier clock and watch supplier in London and at the same time taking their first steps into manufacture of automotive speedometers.  Through the twentieth century the product portfolio grew and the name Smiths became synonymous with automotive components.  One of the factories producing instrumentation was in Ystradgynlais, South Wales,   formerly the Celtic Clock and Watch factory known locally, even today, as ‘Tick-Tock.’"

Also....

"Smiths became the dominant supplier of instruments to British motorcar and motorcycle firms"

[TLPower]

Thank you so much for that Alan T.

You see King Orry what an education can do for you. NOT CLOCKS.

[Ridaz]

Bashtard mail order companies that allow you to place an order before telling you the item is out of stock...
Getgeared!!!!! Getfecked!

[TLPower]

Excellent moan my Geordie chum. Was it a telephone order and they didn't understand you?

Sportsbike shop are ace.

[Rusty Nuts]

"Send wa a reean sooot, an' diven't mek it a laal, Your buggerman!  "