The grumpy thread

[Datsuncog]

The small crack in the corner of the Subaru's ultra-kingsize glass sunroof is no longer that small. It appears on a mission to visit its opposite corner, and soon.

 

Banjax.

[Alfamale]

I saw two Minors in Sheffield today. A 1965 C plate Trafalgar blue 2 door parped past me whilst walking into town, and I saw an Almond green one parked outside a shop. They're great to see on the road.

Was the blue one a slightly tatty, almost rat-look affair. If so it belongs to a youngish lad which is even more of a grin in my book.

[Vin]

I'm a bit late to this and I will miss the shag thread . But, I am finding it quite amusing, reading rants about people being snowflakes, from people who are being dummy spitting snowflakes themselves over the loss of a thread on a forum...

[Kiltox]

Apparently I can't get a phoneline set up at the new house because "the exchange is full", whatever the actual fuck that means. Odd, because there's a fairly recent openreach master socket on the wall, and the area's not exactly a heaving metropolis. FOR FUCKS SAKE.

Ordered full piss BT fibre broadband a couple of weeks ago. 300mbit fibre to the premises job, no fucking about

 

Brand new house with FTTP and an openreach fibre modem already fitted

 

BT said they’d activate on 27th Dec (today) but almost immediately they said it’d actually be 2nd Jan.

 

Phone call today - “we’ve just tried to activate your service remotely but it didn’t work, suspect the equipment in the house is faulty, we need to come and look at it and the first date is 2nd Jan”

 

.... left hand, meet right hand

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Was the blue one a slightly tatty, almost rat-look affair. If so it belongs to a youngish lad which is even more of a grin in my book.

 

 

Not tatty but 'used' with lots of stickers on the boot lid.

[MrDuke]

At least you only have to wait a week or so. I can expect an update on the 21st. Not any actual progress, just an update.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Board games.

My memory.

My ability to decipher rules.

I can't even start the damn things let alone get to board flipping tantrum stage.

Not playing Monopoly, then.

[Kiltox]

At least you only have to wait a week or so. I can expect an update on the 21st. Not any actual progress, just an update.

That’s ridiculous.

[andy18s]

Ordered full piss BT fibre broadband a couple of weeks ago. 300mbit fibre to the premises job, no fucking about

 

Brand new house with FTTP and an openreach fibre modem already fitted

 

BT said they’d activate on 27th Dec (today) but almost immediately they said it’d actually be 2nd Jan.

 

Phone call today - “we’ve just tried to activate your service remotely but it didn’t work, suspect the equipment in the house is faulty, we need to come and look at it and the first date is 2nd Jan”

 

.... left hand, meet right hand

Over here in the land of super fast internet (Bulgaria),we ordered one of the combined tv/internet packages on a Friday afternoon

8am the next morning we had workers knocking on the gates for us to let them in and finish running 400 metres of fibre optic cable to the house

Monday saw an engineer turn up with router and tv boxes,and was finished and away on his moped before lunch

Service so far has pissed all over anything that BT managed, we do get the odd drop out but nothing like when we're back in the UK

Not bad for £12 a month

[sierraman]

Hmm this could be the route of my shit running issue...

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I'm on the new Open Fibre network (OFNL), so my ISP is a bit of a weird one called Vfast.  We don't have a BT line to our house.

 

When we moved in, I gave Vfast a call and asked when I could be online.  They said 'tomorrow, we'll send off a router now,' then they read my address back to me and realised that I was 5 minutes from their main office.  They put a router aside from me and I popped in that evening to pick it up.  Was up and running that night.  Total turnaround from initial inquiry to working fibre (at advertised speed, no less) 4 hours.

 

Can't say fairer than that.  BT can do one.

[beko1987]

The small crack in the corner of the Subaru's ultra-kingsize glass sunroof is no longer that small. It appears on a mission to visit its opposite corner, and soon.

 

Banjax.

A sheet of Christmas plywood and a roll of festive gaffa tape then!

[DodgeRover]

Over here in the land of super fast internet (Bulgaria)

 

Do you know anybody who does quality lpg installs over there, speaking to people over here who have taken stuff home for conversion they are getting them fitted for less than I could buy parts for...

[Rod/b]

I’m driving to Muscat in the morning with the family for a few days holoday, so i’ve just been and packed the truck full off bikes, scooters and that sort of shit. “Hmm, what’s that on the floor in the spot that only the truck ever parks in?” I wondered to myself. “Oh, it’s transmission fluid, and it’s dripping from the fucking bellhousing”

 

Excellent.

[Mally]

I saw two Minors in Sheffield today. A 1965 C plate Trafalgar blue 2 door parped past me whilst walking into town, and I saw an Almond green one parked outside a shop. They're great to see on the road.

 

They are expensive to see on ebay!

[Mrcento]

Ordered full piss BT fibre broadband a couple of weeks ago. 300mbit fibre to the premises job, no fucking about

 

Brand new house with FTTP and an openreach fibre modem already fitted

 

BT said they’d activate on 27th Dec (today) but almost immediately they said it’d actually be 2nd Jan.

 

Phone call today - “we’ve just tried to activate your service remotely but it didn’t work, suspect the equipment in the house is faulty, we need to come and look at it and the first date is 2nd Jan”

 

.... left hand, meet right hand

 

This is how my experience with BT fibre started, they pushed the date back with no plausible reason given, then again, then ended up just cutting all lines to my house without telling me because they couldn't be bothered fixing it, so terminated the contract and blamed my previous suppliers for holding the line (that still ran over BT even with them) hostage.

 

Tried to talk to them, was passed to multiple people all called "Steven" at ever more ridiculous made up departments within the company (Hello, Level 7 Claims escalation department, Steven speaking, how may i help?), ended up in the hell of IT support via live chat email after the 4th Steven of the hour hung up on me, the live chat woman effectively told me to fuck off to another company and they were keeping all activation fees.

 

Ended up contacting the company they'd accused, who just put the thing through legal, Got a massive apology from BT, who admitted their fuck up (likely pressured legally to undo the accusations) and gave a full refund. I went back to my old company, who were just starting to offer the service i wanted anyway and had no issues.

 

BT are an absolute shower i'd never, ever go near again.

[AMC Rebel]

All this stuff on the forum would never have happened under the old regime......

 

because the fucker would have been offline again for a weird essential upgrade.

 

Not that anyone gives a shit what I think (and they are quite right) but I did feel we lost a certain something with the renaming of the question thread, less so the women we'd like to.... - I agree with the Moog - it had really run its course.

 

One exceedingly good thing I have noticed is the plethora of twats who used to just post wanky memes and shitty gifs in response to almost anything seems to have disappeared. 

[DodgeRover]

Actually I can't remember the forum being down for upgrading that much tbh.

I do remember a lot of people moaning and saying it couldn't possibly cost that much to run a forum and demanding figures from Dave then disputing them. Oddly I think the amounts are roughly similar now yet no one is moaning about costs or slagging those who contribute.

 

Memory is a marvellous thing though so I could be talking total bollocks.

[Louise2cv]

It's not worth dragging all that up again but that's not how I remember it. For balance.

[AMC Rebel]

 so I could be talking total bollocks.

 

 

I never talk anything else

[Laseraligningfoofooflanges]

The like to shag thread could just have been renamed Pretty Ladies?

This +1

[Mrcento]

Actually I can't remember the forum being down for upgrading that much tbh.

I do remember a lot of people moaning and saying it couldn't possibly cost that much to run a forum and demanding figures from Dave then disputing them. Oddly I think the amounts are roughly similar now yet no one is moaning about costs or slagging those who contribute.

 

Memory is a marvellous thing though so I could be talking total bollocks.

 

Sounds familiar from my time as admin elsewhere

On that site, we never, ever pestered anyone for contributions, in fact the largest bulk came from people giving over money at events/shows etc, we'd hold Barbecues etc that were free but left a jar at the side for people to contribute what they wanted. We also incentivised membership, offering packages that came with Stickers, a mug, calendar etc which helped, we also got the odd donation through the site... people don't really realise just how costly it can be to run something like that (or this), so you'd always get some form of dispute and to be honest, even with donations etc, we were still usually short and admin were clubbing together to cover the shortfall.

 

But you'd still get folk accusing the site of profiteering, "It can't cost that much", you'd show them exactly how much it cost, they'd accuse you of manipulating it, say "Oh but you get all that money (not having a clue on the actual total) at events, donations, through merch etc without the blindest realisation that we actually have to pay to get merch made in the first place, t shirts, hats, calendars, mugs, stickers, hoodies etc, then pay for food, drink etc for the BBQ to actually get these donations and even if they see £80 in a jar, that isn't £80 profit, it's more like £15. But still, Andy, who'd donated £5 18 months ago would be eye poppingly livid when we'd put up new merch and accusing us of coining it in, as Admin were all backstage trying to scrape together an cover a shortfall for the third year running, contemplating how we could cut costs and keep the lights on another year.

[Supernaut]

One exceedingly good thing I have noticed is the plethora of twats who used to just post wanky memes and shitty gifs in response to almost anything seems to have disappeared.

[Louise2cv]

Which isn't what happened here.

[dozeydustman]

I really hope Joloke is OK. I hate seeing people in distress.

[Shirley Knott]

Hmm this could be the route of my shit running issue...

 

^Aye, that might do it...

 

As an aside, back when I drove Ka's/Fiesta's I had a bit of a fetish for collecting those Ford coilpacks at scrap yards whenever I was there (They're known to break and will fit in your pocket). I had a collection of good Motorcraft/Beru ones that I listed on Ebay after swearing off any more blue oval stuff, all of which had a 1p start.

 

Long story short none of them sold and they ended up getting binned around this time last year

[DodgeRover]

I really hope Joloke is OK. I hate seeing people in distress.

What's happened to Jo?

[Mrcento]

Which isn't what happened here.

 

Never said it was, i wasn't here, i've no idea, i was only talking about my experiences as admin on another site in relation to people debating hosting costs.

[dozeydustman]

What's happened to Jo?

 

She said she was on the verge of a breakdown because of a nuisance neighbour. Haven't seen nor heard from her in over a week.

 

A few other members had expressed their concerns over the last few days. I have offered my services by PM as a shoulder to cry on if needed.

[warren t claim]

Here is a generalisation: often the people who have loads of stories about how awful the police are, tend to have loads of stories about their many experiences of dealing with (*being dealt with by) the police.

I dunno. The offer of being planted with either a bent screwdriver or a bag of weed after being given a good kicking in the back of a V8 Sherpa courtesy of Merseyside's finest* makes me beg to differ. In some ways they were just getting me for something to make up for what I'd previously got away with so I shouldn't complain too much.