The grumpy thread

[DodgeRover]

.The grief they give the greek fella 2 doors up is unbelievable.

There will be instant action if he complains as TPTB will class it as racially motivated, in fact you could phone the council and speak to their anti social behaviour team to give them a briefing mentioning this and ask what the next steps are. Harassment via your letting agency is obvious proof they are having a pop.

[Cavcraft]

Made out first and hopefully last ever journeys with Uber today.

Had we know they operate a ‘drive to kill’ policy (especially towards bikers and scooterists) and and a refusal to obey traffic lights, we’d have got the tube.

[chodweaver]

sick of those damm flying things , so with the cheapo fly zapper dying ,

 

I thought I would raid its kill grid , which fitted nicely around a very attractive to flying things bulb  , powered by a 3.5 K volt flux capacitor ...

 

it would send the dam flying things into another place ...not near me ....  evil laughter  " neeeaahaaaa hhhhhhaaaa ha ha "

 

looking good ...

 

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and the big switch on !!   

 

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o shit O SHIT ..... 

 

lets just see that again  ( with out the bulb )

 

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back to the drawing board .....    the little flying bar stewards can live another day   ......

 

Holy fuck!

[Pillock]

Made out first and hopefully last ever journeys with Uber today.

Had we know they operate a ‘drive to kill’ policy (especially towards bikers and scooterists) and and a refusal to obey traffic lights, we’d have got the tube.

I've only ever caught two Ubers, because O2 Priority had a £10 off code and I've got two O2 phones and needed to go about £12 worth of distance twice.

 

One was terrifying, I honestly thought the brakes were fucked but I just don't think he fancied slowing for corners. The second was a decent driver but just kept giving me death stares.

[Kiltox]

They’re not all that bad - I used to Uber at least twice a week in London before we moved office and only a handful were mentalists.

[New POD]

Most conveyancers are paralegals on £15k a year. The only spanish villa they'll see this summer is on love island.

I stand corrected. Conveyancer thwarted by the need to get a signature off one of the Partners all of whom are on a yacht off the Caribbean.

[dean36014]

Once again my Vodafone SIM card won't work on roaming data in France. Nearly two years they've been trying to sort it, last attempt was another new SIM card and i still can't get roaming data. On my return Vodafone can stuff they're SIM card. I've even bought new phones to see if that was causing it.

[dean36014]

Oh yes. Spent hours on the helpline going through all the phone settings. Then they allegedly find faults there end which will get it working again. Bullshit all the time, it used to work perfectly on previous network, and my girlfriends SIM card will work properly in my phone too, which is on a different network. Just fed up with the hassle of not being able to do simple things without trying to find an open WiFi over here

[beko1987]

One of my criteria for my new phone was under no circumstances would it be anything to do with Vodafone! Horrible company

[Guest Hooli]

 

How the FUCK does the neighbour know who your letting agent is?  Do you have the name and address of the Landlord?  

 

Where I used to live a few years ago we (the locals who stayed long term) kept a basic list of which agents where letting which houses in the street from the signs up. It was needed due to the amount of utter scum they'd put in that made life hell for everyone. The worst house took a land registry search &  a hand delivered letter to the landlord's place to sort the issue, suddenly he found tenants that weren't utter scum who'd sit up all night taking drugs (needles in the street & back alley) stupidly loud music & threats of violence to anyone who complained.

[Pillock]

I agree, Vodafone are horrible.

Talk to me about a discounted O2 SIM on your return

[Datsuncog]

Oh yes. Spent hours on the helpline going through all the phone settings. Then they allegedly find faults there end which will get it working again. Bullshit all the time, it used to work perfectly on previous network, and my girlfriends SIM card will work properly in my phone too, which is on a different network. Just fed up with the hassle of not being able to do simple things without trying to find an open WiFi over here

 

Had exactly the same problem with EE, for years. I would go over the border to the Irish Republic - no signal, no nothing. Ages then spent on hold to customer services after I got home to then be told "oh yes, that's it all set up for roaming abroad now, no problem." Next trip - still no signal. Tried new SIM card, new handset, full reset each time - nothing. Maddening.

 

A theory advanced by one of the techies was that because I'd originally opened the account with Orange way back in 1999, my customer number was short a digit - and so my account had never properly ported across to whatever systems EE use to permit roaming, and wouldn't work no matter what settings were applied. But he couldn't go any further into the system to resolve that.

 

Eventually I just cancelled my contract and went elsewhere. It's been fine with Three.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

….The worst house took a land registry search &  a hand delivered letter to the landlord's place to sort the issue....

 

Best three quid ever spent?

[Guest Hooli]

Sure was.

[Kiltox]

Where I used to live a few years ago we (the locals who stayed long term) kept a basic list of which agents where letting which houses in the street from the signs up. It was needed due to the amount of utter scum they'd put in that made life hell for everyone. The worst house took a land registry search & a hand delivered letter to the landlord's place to sort the issue, suddenly he found tenants that weren't utter scum who'd sit up all night taking drugs (needles in the street & back alley) stupidly loud music & threats of violence to anyone who complained.

You’d think landlords who were willing to house scum would be a bit more clever about hiding themselves

[dozeydustman]

Where I used to live a few years ago we (the locals who stayed long term) kept a basic list of which agents where letting which houses in the street from the signs up. It was needed due to the amount of utter scum they'd put in that made life hell for everyone. The worst house took a land registry search &  a hand delivered letter to the landlord's place to sort the issue, suddenly he found tenants that weren't utter scum who'd sit up all night taking drugs (needles in the street & back alley) stupidly loud music & threats of violence to anyone who complained.

 

 

We had a property inspection last week, got the report back today with "interior maintained and cleaned to a high standard; gardens still have weeds and need final tidying but a massive improvement to move in inspection". The gardens are just one of the many projects I have on the go.

 

Regarding the Greek fella, the Slobs never actually say anything racist to him as he speaks with a local accent, so I doubt they know his name. Have taken parcels in for him in the past and Mr Phillipousis seems a decent bloke. They just don't like anyone else in this part of the road. They are the Tubbs and Edmund of Chichester methinks.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

You’d think landlords who were willing to house scum would be a bit more clever about hiding themselves

Some hide behind offshore companies. Not sure how you'd go about hand-delivering letters there....

[320touring]

Some hide behind offshore companies. Not sure how you'd go about hand-delivering letters there....

Boat or Airplane, I'd wager;)

[chaseracer]

The Feathers pub in Lichfield does an obscenely nice waffle with shit loads of ice cream and cream with oodles of toffee sauce. Bloody gorgeous but £4 so I only have it when the mother in law is paying.

 

I really wish you hadn't told me that... 

[Cavcraft]

Hard to know what you're moaning about, TBH. The other day somebody must have picked my mobile 'phone up, deleted my Spandau Ballet ring tone and then put it back down. It just doesn't ring True.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

I just hurt myself slamming my head into the desk...... thanks Cav.....

[meggersdog]

Bloke brings his car in for MOT today who I didn't see last year.Apparently had a problem with a service at the garage nextdoor so went elsewhere for his mot. Apart from a serious fuel leak I also failed the car on a brake pipe.Two years ago I advised this brake pipe and looking at the history where he went last year also advised both front brake pipes stated they should be replaced.Phoned to tell him the bad news and he's not happy.

When he came to collect the car he had already phoned nextdoor to see if they could clean the brake pipe up enough to pass.The mechanic nextdoor rightly told him if the pipe was pitted cleaning it up would weaken it as the wall of the pipe would be thinner.As they couldn't fit the work in until next week he'd booked it in elsewhere and told me they might be able to do the retest after they'd fixed the fuel leak.

So the bloke is trying to get away with not replacing a rusty brake pipe that he's known about for two years.The car is a 2005 automatic L322 Range Rover with a shit handbrake . FFS man just get it replaced before you plough into nuns and kittens as the thing bursts.

[bramz7]

Seriously, this Oldsmobile auction has turned into a farce.

High bidder doesn't message back for over a day. I then offer it to second bidder as they're keen.

High bidder then replies promising collection.

I tell second bidder I have to honour it.

High bidder then pulls out.

 

 

Fuck sake!

[richardmorris]

Hell, if I had an advisory for brake pipes I wouldn’t be driving it until they were replaced. They can’t be horrendously expensive.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Hell, if I had an advisory for brake pipes I wouldn’t be driving it until they were replaced. They can’t be horrendously expensive.

...but some people are just misers.

[bramz7]

Seriously, this Oldsmobile auction has turned into a farce.

High bidder doesn't message back for over a day. I then offer it to second bidder as they're keen.

High bidder then replies promising collection.

I tell second bidder I have to honour it.

High bidder then pulls out.

 

 

Fuck sake!

And now the second highest bidder has too. Jesus.

[Timewaster]

So the bloke is trying to get away with not replacing a rusty brake pipe that he's known about for two years.The car is a 2005 automatic L322 Range Rover with a shit handbrake . FFS man just get it replaced before you plough into nuns and kittens as the thing bursts.

Aren't they a body off job on later Land rovers?

[chaseracer]

Hard to know what you're moaning about, TBH. The other day somebody must have picked my mobile 'phone up, deleted my Spandau Ballet ring tone and then put it back down. It just doesn't ring True.

 

That's comedy Gold, that is.

[fordperv]

Hell, if I had an advisory for brake pipes I wouldn’t be driving it until they were replaced. They can’t be horrendously expensive.

Yep couldn't agree more, not worth messing around where safety is concerned

[D Spares & Tyres]

Aren't they a body off job on later Land rovers?

Technically, yes I think they are but although I've never looked at them in sure they could be re-routed.

 

Don't forget though, most L322 models are still on finance and the owners can barely afford fuel let alone repairs.