The random rants was a popular thread back in the day, so I thought we'd have a new thread here to let rip!!

As Gideon (where are you!!??) says...

So, let's GO!!! I'm going to start by having a good old moan at how fricking expensive it is to run a car these days!! I've only just passed my driving test, it was ~£30 just for my first license, about £70 for both the theory and practical tests (which luckily I passed both first time). £17 for each hour lesson of which I had about 25... now for the insurance, I have a 1.9l diesel Peugeot 206 and my insurance is over a hundred quid a MONTH and with diesel not far off becoming £1 a litre it's bloody crazyness!! And to top it all off been driving a week and already had to fork out £78 for a new battery for my car. GEEZ!

Rant away my friends!

You read my mind Fluff, I though about bringing this topic back too! Ok here goes:

I work in Red Lobster now. I usually make good money and enjoy being a waiter, most of the times. Then a situation like last night occurs. I had a couple come in and get two 3 pound live main lobsters. They were like $64 a piece. They also ordered 4 bar drinks and an appetizer. I was thinking, wow this guy must be rich or something. They ran me around asking for extra of this and that, so of course I got it for them. By the end of the meal their tab was $169 for two people. I was pretty happy when I printed out their bill because I had taken good care of them and 15% of 169 is quite the tip. The gentlemen told me of how he appreciated my good service and enjoyed his dinner. When I went back to get the book, the guy left me $5 on a $169 tab. In the end I neglected my other tables for $5. If he was still in the restaurant I would have been like thanks you .

Speaking of KiLLa, have any of you talked to him? I haven't seen him since he tried to startup killasoft.net

975I hear ya with the car thing fluff - they are sooooo expensive. This year mine has had a new exhaust £120, and bodywork needing doing to the door £90!!! Plus that i have to fill it up £10 a week with petrol - which no doubt is gonna go shooting up soon!


Insurance is ridiculous expensive. Who are you with for a 1st time driver? I got a great deal with Tesco when i first passed £975 a year ( others were quoting £1500!!) Ive managed to get it down now with asda insurance to £40 a month (nearly 3 years no claims) and thats with tiff on the insurance too!

Im looking for a new car in case i start having to do a new job my boss was on about (drviving to lots of workplaces to do mens health checks - cough please!) Been looking at Peugot 206 - how are they?? Im driving a saxo at the mo

Just bought a brand-spanking-new tent for one of Stewie's sexy parties and got it all out, set up & WOW it's flaming big! Now Janeybob's calls from work to see if we can pack up & fook off camping for the weekend when she gets in, bit thinking, yes, no, yes, no........ then rings up the farm where I always go camping and was told that they have stopped campers using there site!

Whoooooooooooo! there camp site was ace! bloody hot showers, great community, not far from the local shop (oooooooooo sounds like League of Gentlemen) and 15 mins walk to the local town. There's another camp site further down the road, but a hell of a hike and don't think taxis will go down that route (don't stray from the beaten path stranger!)

So I've got a new tent with nowhere to go! think I'll have a camp out with the weasels & ferrets, poke sticks at passing Chav's, but atleast I've now got a spare tent for Donnington & the one that's mouldy will get a paint job I think so we can find it in the mists of 70,000 other tents. Last festival we camped at we knew where we pitched up, Down the emergency access road (where everyone was camping on anyway) 600yards to the forensic tent (yes! a real forensic tent you get at crime scenes), turn right at the beer shrine (all pray to the beer shrine & off it beer every time you pass it) 100 yards further & next to the Viking tent!! Think I'll spray "Janes Beer Creche" on the side so she can look after peoples beers for the weekend

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(oddish182000 @ Apr 29 2006, 07:48 AM) [snapback]61879[/snapback]</div>Yeah I'm with Tesco's at the moment too but as second driver, but hoping to take the PassPlus course which gets 20% discount on your first year, and then shop around to get the best deal I can on my own so start getting my further discounts.

Yeah I personally love my 206 - it's a great little car but then again I'm no car expert - if it's fast and it looks good I like it lol.

Text language


Is it any wonder the kids today (my god i sound old!!) cant spell or anything!! I HATE it when people write in this text language!! - My cousin has a website and its all written in this text langugae!! she is 13 and i cant understand it at all



its a wonder they pass any english exams!!

Oh i know!! Nearly £1 a litre here!! Used to be able to fill up for £20 - but thats only half now

" that jumps the self serve price up to $1.19-1.21 per litre!"

Lyndon, thats the price it was here TEN years ago

Can you rant about rants? Sure you can.
What are you complaining about gas prizes for. Simple solution, don't drive every bloody were you're going. Use a bike or walk, if you get tired on the way there take the bus back.
Besides Sweden has gasprizes at 12.25 sek/liter = $1.65 per liter ($6.25 per gallon) =£0.92 per liter (£3.48 per gallon), you guys still are about 25%-10% cheaper so just shut up.

Oh, and my knee is bloody sore from playing soccer. Can't a guy get older without starting to break down?
And what is this crF|p that's on the telly tonight...

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(manneman @ Apr 30 2006, 03:08 PM) [snapback]61997[/snapback]</div>
Easy solution if you live in a urban area where everything is within a bike/walk distance, but like many that live in rural areas these are not an option for myself. Work schedule, lack of mass transit in my area, distance I must travel to work, fuel for my farming equipment, these are just some of the many factors that provide myself a more than suitable basis for my rant.

So, whilst I realize that your fuel prices are significantly higher than most, open your eyes to a broader spectrum of views before flexing your intellectual might upon others.

Public transport ?!?!?!?!? What is that ?!?!?

Where I'm from the color of my skin prevents me from using any kind of 'public transport' so I have to own a car if I want to get anywhere. I wish I could walk to work but a 40km walk in the morning and evening does not appeal to me.

Back to the rant, which is kinda relevent to this anyway. TRAFFIC ! Man I despise sitting in it. Can never understand why cars come to a complete stop on the freeway. By the time you get to where you think the problem causing it is there is nothing ! People slowing down for squat ! Sometimes wish I was driving a Ford F650 to just plow my way thru..... haaaaaa..... maximum overdrive here we come !

5 miles to work 5 miles back - down a unlit 60mph windy country road

fair enough in the summer but in the winter not much chance i would survive. Plus when i get to work i work in an area with a very high crime rate. Only reason they not took my car because i have a coded imobiliser on it!

It's a public holiday today and I'm at work...... What the he!! is wrong with me ?? I guess I am a scumbag money grabbin contractor after all

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Fluffster @ May 5 2006, 03:08 AM) [snapback]62256[/snapback]</div>
When you say "CYLISTS" do you mean the pedal type ?