GentleGiant

Yeah, isnt it, and then I foolishly deleted it, forgetting that these forums are populated by assholes. Yeah, dont bother with the ban, I quit.

I will reiterate, we were following another vehicle at a safe distance, we werent speeding up, or slowing down, we didnt try to undertake the lorry; we were sat minding our own business; the lorry was fast enough to come up behind us, pull alongside within a few seconds of pulling out to overtake, start honking his horn, pull another 1/4 length of his lorry in front, THEN start forcing his way in. The gap between us and the car in front was safe for our speed, but it WAS not large enough for a HGV, at the end of the manoeuvre he was only a few feet behind the lead car. There was NO justification, the car in front of us was the ONLY other vehicle in front for as far as we could see in the visibility, the lorry could have easily continued and pulled in in front of that car (remember, we were matching speed), so if he was overtaking us, he was over taking the other car as well. Just checked the video file, I was shaking so much, I accidentally hit stop after only 5 seconds, and didnt get the details, bummer. A lot of hostile HGV drivers in here, so I will also mention I spotted a Staffordshire NHS Ambulance tail-gating at speed in the outside lane, not long before this happened, no flashing lights, just screaming along at 80+ (in the fog) and 10ft off the back of the car in front - shocking.

So, I was passenger heading North on the M6 yesterday morning; thick, heavy patches of fog, so we were keeping our speed down, and maintaining a safe gap to the car in front in the inside lane. Around Stoke, a large HGV came up behind us, pulled out and started to overtake. When the lorry was ~ half way past us, he started sounding his horn... cue looks of WTF in the car; THEN he started drifting his lorry into and out of our lane; when we still didnt get the hint, he just came straight across, forcing us to brake hard. No junction, no hill and (at that time) very little other traffic. If we hadnt braked, we would have either been forced off of the motorway, or crushed under the lorry, it was quite scary. I managed to get my phone out, and start recording, but it was all over by then; I did get a good recording of the sign writing and number plate, so the company will be getting a call Monday; but a waste of time contacting the Police I suspect; depends if the video has a clear recording of his ranting and middle finger waving at us as we pulled out and went around him to film the side (and try and find a phone number)

My sister managed to badly break her wrist/arm a week before Christmas; every day except the Bank Holidays, she had to be taken to the Hospital for 7am and then wait until 4pm in the hope a bed would come free and she could have an op to insert the metal plates she needed. Finally done on the 29th. (I TOLD her Webbs of Wychbold is a jinx, EVERY TIME she goes there something bad happens)

Loudon Wainwright, Songs for the New Depression.

I'm at that age where (if she had boobs) I could quite fancy her.

I've always described it as paint stripper. They serve it in tiny ceramic cups, about half the size of a thimble; it makes Saki taste like lemonade.

Just watched an old episode of "The Antiques Road Show", and had a thought. Anything that old and that ugly is probably worth millions.....

I used to have an Electrical Foreman (and shift leader), who couldnt handle anything more complicated than a two way light switch. I didnt last long there, as I refused to do, or sign off on, dodgy installs (Kay&Co.Ltd).

I didnt have a HomeHub, it was a Netgear DGN2000, and the engineer was supposedly monitoring my connection at the exchange, as the DSLAMs can be monitored, and configured remotely. (The DGN2000 later melted, but I dont think the problems were related :peek: )

It will sell well in Lancashire, honest; it will clash nicely with the orange and dark purple paintwork I spotted in one house in Nelson.

I have some Chinese "White Wine", that's starting to eat its way through the ceramic bottle; I wonder if I should risk it; last time I had any - 8 thimble fulls; I was totally ga-ga (on a full stomach and drunk slowly over a 2 hour period!!). OFFICIALLY, it is 55%, but............

I find seaweed wrapped around a hockey stick works best. But it has to be at least a 64bit hockey stick.

Off by default?? When announced , it was going to be on by default, so perhaps they DO listen to customers now and then.

I take it you block all windows updates then?? My Win7 box hadnt been modded since I built it in 2008 (other than a HDD failure and replacement) and had a genuine licence I paid full price for; yet Micro****e suddenly decided my licence wasnt valid back in the spring; I had to run Anti-WAT to get my PC back. The same thing happened to my sister a month later, and her PC hadnt had a replacement part AT ALL, the damn thing was only a year old, and again, had a genuine license.