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Just been out to a movie. That was actually fine. Didn't even have the usual idiots talking on their phones through half of it.

 

The grump is regarding the latest company car to join the household (mercifully not mine or I'd go insane), an Audi A6 with some numbers and letters after it, no idea and frankly couldn't care less. They're all horrible bloody uncomfortable things I try to spend as little time in as possible. Was seriously bloody glad we needed two cars to get to Scotiacon last November as the thought of spending a five to seven hour trip in whatever German torture chamber on wheels we had at the time was enough to bring me to tears. Thankfully we had enough people to need two cars, so got to take the Xantia instead.

 

The A6 is full of stupid, pointless tech that serves no useful purpose...as with many "premium" cars these days.

 

The kicker though? The flipping DOOR HANDLES are electronic (yes, both interior and exterior). Like an electronic boot release...and we all know how reliable those are long term.

 

Apparently it's to make the action of opening the door feel smoother...just feels cheap and nasty to me!

 

The fact that a computer has control over whether I can open my door makes me deeply, deeply uncomfortable.

 

Not just because I know how reliable these things are, but because what happens if you have a flat battery? I've played the game of trying to get to the utterly flat battery in the boot of a car where the only way to open the boot is electrically operated before. It's royally annoying.

 

Annoying is one thing...but what the actual hell do I do in the event of, oh...I don't know...a major car accident where the battery has wound up a couple of hundred yards away from the car?

 

It actually made me feel unsafe. Not that the emergency brake assist always threatening to get us run over didn't already do that (we've had it trigger utterly randomly mid-overtake in the outside lane of the M6 before - thank goodness there was nobody behind us).

 

Totally aside from that, it's just such a blatant example of what's wrong with cars these days - it's just utterly pointless technology being crammed in there for absolutely no good reason. How much extra must that lot weigh? I thought we were striving to get every millimetre per gallon of fuel these days...this doesn't seem to be the way to do it!

 

Really hope I can avoid having to travel in that thing again before it geta replaced by something probably equally hateful in four months...

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My son in law currently has an A5, newish but not new - he wouldn'y buy a new car.

I found it quite comfortable and pleasant, although it was admittedly overloaded with lots of lights.

Isn't keyless entry as I first thought.  Just as well.

My daughter hates it when she has to take it, prefers to Zoom zoom in her MX-5 or her Mk II Escort cabriolet.  Bling-free area :)

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Just been out to a movie. That was actually fine. Didn't even have the usual idiots talking on their phones through half of it.

 

The grump is regarding the latest company car to join the household (mercifully not mine or I'd go insane), an Audi A6 with some numbers and letters after it, no idea and frankly couldn't care less. They're all horrible bloody uncomfortable things I try to spend as little time in as possible. Was seriously bloody glad we needed two cars to get to Scotiacon last November as the thought of spending a five to seven hour trip in whatever German torture chamber on wheels we had at the time was enough to bring me to tears. Thankfully we had enough people to need two cars, so got to take the Xantia instead.

 

The A6 is full of stupid, pointless tech that serves no useful purpose...as with many "premium" cars these days.

 

The kicker though? The flipping DOOR HANDLES are electronic (yes, both interior and exterior). Like an electronic boot release...and we all know how reliable those are long term.

 

Apparently it's to make the action of opening the door feel smoother...just feels cheap and nasty to me!

 

The fact that a computer has control over whether I can open my door makes me deeply, deeply uncomfortable.

 

Not just because I know how reliable these things are, but because what happens if you have a flat battery? I've played the game of trying to get to the utterly flat battery in the boot of a car where the only way to open the boot is electrically operated before. It's royally annoying.

 

Annoying is one thing...but what the actual hell do I do in the event of, oh...I don't know...a major car accident where the battery has wound up a couple of hundred yards away from the car?

 

It actually made me feel unsafe. Not that the emergency brake assist always threatening to get us run over didn't already do that (we've had it trigger utterly randomly mid-overtake in the outside lane of the M6 before - thank goodness there was nobody behind us).

 

Totally aside from that, it's just such a blatant example of what's wrong with cars these days - it's just utterly pointless technology being crammed in there for absolutely no good reason. How much extra must that lot weigh? I thought we were striving to get every millimetre per gallon of fuel these days...this doesn't seem to be the way to do it!

 

Really hope I can avoid having to travel in that thing again before it geta replaced by something probably equally hateful in four months...

They are not uncomfortable at all, in any way, I am regularly a passanger in one and its a really nice place to sit and travel in, nothing wrong with the spec either, some people are just stuck in the 70's it seems :D
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One of the big issues I have is that the seats are very firm. Fine if you happen to be exactly the same shape as the Industry Standard Human that they have shaped them to fit.

 

I'm not - so I tend to find any VW group car made this century to be horribly uncomfortable. The other issue I have is that my back is stuffed, and something which makes it hurt more than anything in the world is cars with bone-jarringly harsh ride.

 

Which every single one of these company cars has. Especially being a company car they're specced up to the hilt with all the "styling" packs which seem to invariably feature 57" wheels and "sports" suspension...so the wheels may as well be off a train bolted straight to the seats.

 

I'm ashamed to admit it, but I had to move one a couple of cars ago across the drive. I actually had to request help as I couldn't figure out how to get it to move.

 

Turns out you need to have the seatbelt on before it will release the parking brake.

 

I'm 34...and that made me feel about 90.

 

I also felt like I was in a bloody submarine given how little you could see out of it.

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selling stuff is pants ... just rid of a load of stuff in the spring clear up

 

not the " help the animals " shops  .... cant park there with out some council jobsworth eyeing you up .

 

not the local online offline whatever pulls a sale shite spot ...

 

just skipped it ...

 

last time I tried to sell somat , they wanted it dropped off 20 miles away ..... and cheaper !!

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Buyers can't pick and choose and Ebay should support you in this. I've found when issuing a return label (following unjustified complaints and demands for more stuff free of charge to "compensate" them) I never hear from them again.

Its complicated by the fact it's a business account so they automatically approve the return as it's covered by the distance selling regulations , I've been polite telling her all or nothing so I'll see if I get anything back

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Car boot sales do my nut in, did one today, you have to give stuff away , I had an Audi parcel shelf , said £10 to a few people who looked at me like I was mad because they'd have to club together to come up with so much cash

By 10am I'd took a picture and chucked it in the car, 11am it was on Ebay, 4pm sold it for £50

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Car boot sales do my nut in, did one today, you have to give stuff away , I had an Audi parcel shelf , said £10 to a few people who looked at me like I was mad because they'd have to club together to come up with so much cash

By 10am I'd took a picture and chucked it in the car, 11am it was on Ebay, 4pm sold it for £50

My wife did one at Winwick last summer - told her I would sooner set fire to my own bollocks than participate.

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That's where I was today

 

5am - 7am all traders looking for Ebay stock

7am-8am nobody

8am -10am mostly eastern Europeans (but the fit girls usually wear lycra once it warms up so a bonus to pass the time)

10am-noon pensioners have woken up

Noon - 1pm scavengers, you haven't sold that £40 item all day so will you take £1

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Reminds me of the last time I went to a car boot sale. Literally had people swarming around you like vultures trying to get prices as you put things down. I told my wife to stand guard while I emptied the boot as I didn't trust people who were grabbing stuff to then walk away with it when I turned my back.

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I've done a few, I just get out of the car take the tables out to mark my territory then lock it up and walk around until they've all moved on to new victims

 

Last year this woman and her daughter , about 45 & 20 started setting up but had no idea how much pressure they can put you under

 

After about 5 minutes she started screaming at everybody to go away then just threw it all back in the car and shot off spinning the wheels as she went

 

Last year I did one in the big field on the east lancs road at tyldesley, it's more more relaxed than winwick

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Being told* not to buy any more cars until I've paid for my divorce from my ex.

 

On the plus side, roffles are fine.

 

* told is a loose term, as my missus doesn't demand anything, she just suggested that after over 3 and a half years, it should be a priority. She's right of course.

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I remember the first time my parents attended a car boot as sellers, people were pressing up to the side windows of the car to see what was in there before it was even unloaded. They never did another...

Theres a guy called les that goes around all the boot sales , I think at some point in his life he was quite intelligent because when he's lucid he knows some interesting stuff but he has mental health issues, looks like a tramp and rants , a lot

 

You know he's coming , "bloody smoking, I hate smoking , especially blody women smoking"

 

Today I had an old pigeon timing clock , he picked it up and asked what it was , when I told him he said

 

Pigeons ,I like pigeons , I'd sooner have a pigeon than a bloody woman , at least a pigeon might fly away , bloody women bleed you dry and stick around for bloody ever.

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Destroyed the bathroom this morning. I leave the house and get to the top of the street, I see the postman cycling on the path and stop. He panics as he hasn't seen me, slams on and goes over his handlebars. He was fine.

 

I pull out and a motorbike overtaking a van shakes his head at me, the motorbike who was overtaking a van at a junction... I get to work and some cunt has used my wagon over the weekend, it's not as bad as when the agency guys use it, but I still don't like it....... My wagons fucked again as it won't idle, the M62 had a 30 minute delay, due to some poor sod breaking down in the second lane and I've just walked into a ladder.

 

I'm 2 hours into my day.

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No Spoilers, watched the MotoGP yesterday, and nothing to do with the racing.

 

Why is it at nearly EVERY large sporting event, some "singer" absolutely destroys what is a some National Anthem. Don't know who it was yesterday, but it was a bloody awful rendition.

 

And I'm not an American, but if I were, I would be less happy

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Went to burscough boot sale last week. It's not a bad one . Picked up some beer pump clips off a bloke. Got ten of them for two pounds. Usually around six pound each in ebay. I usually go to Widnes market on a Wednesday. It's a proper shite market. All the traders who have the contracts to take stuff from the local recycling places are there. You can get some good stuff if you don't mind rooting and maybe fixing it once you get home. Got a Makita cordless last week. No battery so £4.00 and no idea if it worked. Get home ok battery in off mine and perfect. Also got an embassy cigarette ashtray for a pound, easy tenner on ebay cos man cave tax on this and other brewanaria stuff. Got a 1970's wall clock for a pound, again no man cave tax. Well worth a visit. Friendly bunch of traders.

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I have the day off work today. Yay.

 

Because I start doing blocks of 12 hour shifts from tomorrow. Boo.

 

I seem to have found myself in the opposite situation to my last job. At my last job I felt like I was actually doing something, fixing problems and helping people. It was just that the people I worked with were horrendous cunts.

 

In this job, I work with some really nice people. The work itself equates to trying to make 2+2=5 though. Essentially, it's a company that provides satellite internet, a majority of the work is to do with cruise ships. There is a team somewhere in the company called Capacity Management. Except, they don't manage the capacity... at all. They over-subscribe satellite links constantly as a way of maximising profit. Their team lead is also best buds with the CEO so the entire team might as well have teflon shoulders because any problem you direct at them just slides off. Instead, me and all the other folk on the service desk end up taking the same complaints daily, shuffling ships from one beam to another, then finding that all the other beams are over-subscribed too. These customers are paying a fucking lot for this service, and the company isn't providing it. We have to deal with the complaints without actually just saying to them "capacity management are a bunch of donkey-felchers, it's their fault, here's their email address" instead we have to pretend to fix it.

It's about as productive as bashing my head against a wall.

 

 

 

 

The thought of walking has crossed my mind. I have a year's salary in savings and applications in elsewhere...

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I have the day off work today. Yay.

 

Because I start doing blocks of 12 hour shifts from tomorrow. Boo.

 

I seem to have found myself in the opposite situation to my last job. At my last job I felt like I was actually doing something, fixing problems and helping people. It was just that the people I worked with were horrendous cunts.

 

In this job, I work with some really nice people. The work itself equates to trying to make 2+2=5 though. Essentially, it's a company that provides satellite internet, a majority of the work is to do with cruise ships. There is a team somewhere in the company called Capacity Management. Except, they don't manage the capacity... at all. They over-subscribe satellite links constantly as a way of maximising profit. Their team lead is also best buds with the CEO so the entire team might as well have teflon shoulders because any problem you direct at them just slides off. Instead, me and all the other folk on the service desk end up taking the same complaints daily, shuffling ships from one beam to another, then finding that all the other beams are over-subscribed too. These customers are paying a fucking lot for this service, and the company isn't providing it. We have to deal with the complaints without actually just saying to them "capacity management are a bunch of donkey-felchers, it's their fault, here's their email address" instead we have to pretend to fix it.

It's about as productive as bashing my head against a wall.

 

 

 

 

The thought of walking has crossed my mind. I have a year's salary in savings and applications in elsewhere...

 

so what would happen then if you did say that then on your last day or something?  :mrgreen:

 

(I wonder what would happen if any of the subscribers took legal action against the company because of their shitty service?)

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I have the day off work today. Yay.

 

Because I start doing blocks of 12 hour shifts from tomorrow. Boo.

 

I seem to have found myself in the opposite situation to my last job. At my last job I felt like I was actually doing something, fixing problems and helping people. It was just that the people I worked with were horrendous cunts.

 

In this job, I work with some really nice people. The work itself equates to trying to make 2+2=5 though. Essentially, it's a company that provides satellite internet, a majority of the work is to do with cruise ships. There is a team somewhere in the company called Capacity Management. Except, they don't manage the capacity... at all. They over-subscribe satellite links constantly as a way of maximising profit. Their team lead is also best buds with the CEO so the entire team might as well have teflon shoulders because any problem you direct at them just slides off. Instead, me and all the other folk on the service desk end up taking the same complaints daily, shuffling ships from one beam to another, then finding that all the other beams are over-subscribed too. These customers are paying a fucking lot for this service, and the company isn't providing it. We have to deal with the complaints without actually just saying to them "capacity management are a bunch of donkey-felchers, it's their fault, here's their email address" instead we have to pretend to fix it.

It's about as productive as bashing my head against a wall.

 

 

 

 

The thought of walking has crossed my mind. I have a year's salary in savings and applications in elsewhere…

 

I have a mate who is/was (I think he's now walked) Test Manager for one of these satellite companies, he was constantly facing shit for systems 'not working' - or 'not tested properly before production' and he was constantly under attack. He repeatedly proved they'd done their job but wasn't 'permitted' to see PROD - so couldn't investigate.

Eventually turns out they were doing exactly what you're describing…….. he went apeshit - was physically restrained from lamping the sales manager! He was already looking and promptly GTFO

 

Not a nice situation for you fella…… good luck with that one.

 

I do have contacts in London for a yacht satellite company though I think - if you're interested :-D  (would also VASTLY increase the fishing potential for singles)

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My grump - right hand completely fucking useless today.

Took munchkin to Aqualibi (water fun park) yesterday and 4hrs of a right laugh being a big kid again. H & S would have a fucking fit I'm sure, but the place is a riot and a lot of fun.

Then some useless fat cunt gets stuck as he's just too fucking fat for the ride……. a 'tornado' type rapids - and this twat is essentially a blockage! THAT is how fucking overweight he was...…..

This smart arse then decides he'll walk it...……. of course he then gets to the 'cave' part and promptly falls over - right on top of yours truelly……. knee flattening the right hand and slamming my head into the wall.

 

If that had been a kid he'd have fucking flattened them…

 

Week free of munchkin and easy workload meant I should have time to replace the 330CI exhaust gasket, sort the leaking tyre on the truck, look at the Lada carb, get under the MR Spyder and even get the XJR to the tyre place for 4new boots after a possible early finish...…. Now nothing requiring 2 hands will be possible. FUCK!

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I do have contacts in London for a yacht satellite company though I think - if you're interested :-D  (would also VASTLY increase the fishing potential for singles)

 

Thanks but no thanks. I'm applying for totally different work.

 

London is also a massive NOPE from me too.

 

Appreciate the thought though!

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