The grumpy thread

[fordperv]

Metro...

sorry but i must argue

 

 

i used to have one with the same wheel trims

 

*i know metros had them but its the r8 that jumps to mind

[Ghosty]

Both. 

[fordperv]

you posted just as i was adding in an edit, only on autishite would you get 2 people excited about an aged rovers wheel trims, i love this place,

 

does anyone else think the r8 just keeps getting more handsone with age or is it just me

[andrew e]

Richard The Long version @Vodafone.

 

Wouldn't release PAC codes of my two daughters monthly contracts. Turns out months back when I'd added an extra 1gb of data to their phones some creep at Voadfone gave them new upgraded contracts instead. I got a little excited like yourself. Started calmly but within 24 hours had cancelled 4 contract phones and cancelled the DD. Requested a full buyout bill. Went to EE got 4 new contracts.

 

Because I had cancelled the DD they cancelled my online paperless account. Which meant I had no idea about the bill. However Vodabellend couldn't give the bill verbally because of data protection...This went on for months, getting no where ultimately on every call I prefixed any taking with HOW MUCH MONEY DO I OWE YOU SEND ME A BILL. Debt collectors were calling my kids phones (Their EE phones!!!)I sung the Hokey Cokey to one donut at Vodafone (I hope that's used for training purposes) during one call. I tried polite, I tried angry, I tried everything.

 

So shamefully I changed tact. When I got a call all I said was "I am recording this call due to racial abuse, send me an itemised bill". This shamfull act got me an audience ultimately with someone owning a brain. Get the right operative you can get a cancelled bill, an emailed cancelled bill, an apology and a bank credit within 10 minutes. A horrible thing too for a customer who WANTED to pay.

 

I had this account for many years (the last 2 years with 4 contracts), overall my bill over the years with Vodafone would have bought me a new Dacia. Sadly they just didn't get a shit.

[andrew e]

BONUS GRUMPS:

 

Wife had a surprise Gall bladder removal a week back.The main surprise was cancelling the trip to Singapore for her birthday. We're watching the GP on channel 4 now.

 

I've burned though a set on continentals in 12k (still grip well but bald nearly) and incredibly I've replaced them with more continentals.

 

Sister in law had a heart attack at home, then another in A&E whilst my youngest was waiting for her. She's 38 and fit (but genetically flawed, no one in her family collects a pension). She's ok for now.

[michael1703]

Pets.....

 

End of July, cat fell ill on a Tuesday evening,had her put down on the following day

 

End of August bought kitten

 

September 4th dog caught kennel cough, out of hours vet £275

September 5th follow up at regular vet £52

September 10th kitten second vaccination

September 12th neighbours cat attacks kitten (kitten not actually going out yet,was outside as I was doing something and thought he'd be safe with me)

September 13th take kitten to vets £65

September 14th neighbours cat comes in to house at midnight and attacks kitten (manage to trap neighbours cat and takes cat back mentioning they should pay vet bills which they agree to)

September 16th take kitten to vets again

September 17th kitten starts shaking and has high temp, out of hours vet £352, knocks kitten out and drains out puss that previous days vet visit didn't manage to extract.

 

September 20th...... I've got another vet appointment, I'm sure there's more to come.

[beko1987]

the Bentley of cats

[beko1987]

" That baby monitor is fucked, why are the batteries not charged? It's been on charge all day"

 

Actually love, it's been on charge for 3 weeks as we never really use it, but you insist on leaving it docked. So now the batteries are probably fucked...

 

Both kids have the puke bug, and I have an ominous feeling in my stomach now... Not had fried egg smelling burps yet though which ALWAYS come 1-2 hours before I am sick, every burp makes me feel better, it best stay that way...

[Negative Creep]

You know those "once seen cannot be unseen" things?

 

 

 

You're welcome

[xtriple]

I woke up in a massive bad mood this morning (yes, actually slept last night), no idea why, just was. I sort of survived the morning by ignoring as many people as humanly possible and not answering the phone. Then I had to go out in the car...

 

• The final straw was a Nissan Juke (I think) coming down the road towards me on MY SIDE OF THE FUCKING ROAD!!!!!!!! Normally  I would stop, shake my head in despair and then carry on my day without giving it another thought. But today, I pulled over to the centre of the road and stayed there. I had a real proper rant at the stupid fucker driving and made them reverse back up the road and get into a correct road position, then advised them to get a few lessons and carried on with my day... feeling, it must be said, rather better moodwise than before!

Also, what the fuck have I just done to my keyboard? It suddenly started typing 'posh' halfway through this post!

[M'coli]

You've managed to hold down the ctrl key instead of (or as well as) shift when you typed the letter 'I' which has turned on the italics.

[purplebargeken]

I salute your justified action and rant!

 

I know just how you feel (I think) as this is an almost daily event here in that there North London.

[Cavcraft]

Is there actually a point to this page if people keep starting rants about finance, Wheeler Dealers, new cars or whatever on new threads?

[ShiteRider]

^^^ This, it gets on my fucking tits. This was the the purpose of the grin + grumpy threads so the board doesn't get clogged up with shit.

[burraston2006]

Just got a new neighbour across the road. Not met them yet but parking is tight and they've got 4 cars. Should be interesting! ( I've got 3 so I can't really complain-have I just talked myself out of a grump?).

[Negative Creep]

Oh the joys of modern parking. My parents certainly aren't too pleased that the people next door have 4 cars, including 2 vans, and don't use their garage or driveway

[Cavcraft]

My neighbours moaned to the extent one of them grassed me up probably 12=15 years ago now for an untaxed car, so I got 15 all legit then parked them out there. In more recent times it's been quite funny, as there were sort of half-arsed, not-quite-directed-at-me-but-meant-for-me comments about the number I have, so I moved them somewhere else (completely out of the way) and there's mumblings again. 

[RoadworkUK]

Is there actually a point to this page if people keep starting rants about finance, Wheeler Dealers, new cars or whatever on new threads?

 

I agree. I was about to post a thread that I'm popping down to the Co-Op, but I'll put that in here now.

 

Anybody want anything?

[burraston2006]

There's a bloke across the road who thinks the space outside his house is his . If some one has the temerity to park there you can see him bobbing in and out of his door and when the offender moves he'll move his car 6 feet back.We just find it amusing! He'll also park in a knob jockey way and try to take up two spaces so his missus has somewhere to park and will adjust when she comes back. I just park wherever there's a space as I'm fit enough to walk an extra 50 feet if I can park exactly outside the house!

[Supernaut]

There's a bloke across the road who thinks the space outside his house is his . If some one has the temerity to park there you can see him bobbing in and out of his door and when the offender moves he'll move his car 6 feet back.We just find it amusing! He'll also park in a knob jockey way and try to take up two spaces so his missus has somewhere to park and will adjust when she comes back. I just park wherever there's a space as I'm fit enough to walk an extra 50 feet if I can park exactly outside the house!

 

Welcome to my street.

 

My neighbour is in the end terrace. His house potentially has enough space on the street in front of it for two cars. Instead, he parks his sole car across his own front gate to stop other people parking in front of his house.

Yes, he makes his own access to his own house more difficult just to be passive-aggressive about parking. Priceless.

[Negative Creep]

This is why I'm buying a smaller car so I can use the driveway.

[Supernaut]

This is why I'm buying a smaller car so I can use the driveway.

 

I really want a driveway!

 

Hence me applying for better paid jobs in cheaper to live in cities, so I may be able to rent / buy somewhere with a driveway.

[mrbenn]

The problem round here is no so much the lack of off street parking, more that people prefer to abandon their cars on the road. People seem to think that "parking" is complete when they're within a couple of feet of the kerb. That's not parking. That's just stopping the car, getting out and pissing off! (Andy Parsons, Mock The Week).

[Negative Creep]

I really want a driveway!

 

Hence me applying for better paid jobs in cheaper to live in cities, so I may be able to rent / buy somewhere with a driveway.

 

 

People opposite me have just put a bit of wood by the curb and park on their lawn. Illegal I know, but I'm not complaining since it frees up two more spaces on the road

[AlabamaShrimp]

Stupid modern* cars! Fiesta mk6 has a design fault on the seat catch where they just break or the metal bit on the cable comes off

 

 

This one's been changed at least 3 times and broke again yesterday. Other sides been changed and currently has a broken cable at the bottom so you can't get in the back at all.

 

Looking on the Internet its only about 30 seconds with two screwdrivers to take the clip off..... An hour later and out of frustration I started wragging but it still won't come off the bottom.

 

Sodding test is next week, I'm just going to pay someone, it's easier......

[Richard]

Aberdeen is a bastard for parking. My work put me in a B&B in the centre of Aberdeen once and the nearest parking was a mile away.

[dollywobbler]

Is there actually a point to this page if people keep starting rants about finance, Wheeler Dealers, new cars or whatever on new threads?

Agreed. Maybe some gentle locking of threads and a gentle word to the starters of said threads?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Agreed. Maybe some gentle locking of threads and a gentle word to the starters of said threads?

And maybe a general reminder that the Tat thread is not solely for eBay , but any car seen advertised that may be of interest ( or not) to the rest of us. The fact that there are 3 separate eBay threads, it seems unlikely whatever you've seen won't fit in one of them.

[BorniteIdentity]

Aberdeen is a bastard for parking. My work put me in a B&B in the centre of Aberdeen once and the nearest parking was a mile away.

 

About 7 years ago we had to drive all the way from Cambridge to Aberdeen in one hit to empty a flat my FIL had been renting whilst working up there.  He became ill so ended the agreement, we went to collect all of his stuff.  What a fantastic city, but OMG you're not wrong about parking.  He had to buy a small car just to fit into his allocated space, and the bollard was absolute necessity.

 

I really love the place, but Christ parking was a 'see you next tuesday'.

[Pillock]

Agreed. Maybe some gentle locking of threads and a gentle word to the starters of said threads?

 

Absolutely.... I don't think it would be seen as too heavy handed to drop them a PM of "Hey, just so you know I've merged your thread into the Grumpy Old Man thread as it seems to fit better in there" and merge rather than lock it. Sure that's within the abilities of the board software.

 

I'd quite like the ability to "ignore" a thread as well as a user, I know I can just not click it but they still get in the way of quality stuff. And I'm basically weak-willed and I'll click it anyway, and then I'll reply, and then I'll go and sit in the corner for a bit.