The grumpy thread

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Technical ability FAIL.

 

Need to convert a Word2007 .docx file to PDF, sharpish - can anyone help? Ta muchly...

select print

then pdf

then save as pdf

choose location and ...

 

Oh, you have a PC - sorry to hear that! On a mac it is as simple as that to generate a pdf on any file

 

That's exactly what happens on my PC after I downloaded and installed cutepdf, an operation that took all of 10 minutes.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

What is it with all these cunts who put cars on autotrader and price it at £199, saying "REAL PRICE £499,999 NO TIMEWASTERZ"?

 

How about you just put the right fucking price and stop clogging up the first 5 pages of all my fucking searches?

 

Cunts.

 

I'm half-tempted to buy a pay as you go sim card and call them all at 2am every night for a week and tell them all what they've done wrong.

 

You know you want to do it!!!

[mattblack]

it is Liverpool, they nick their dresses from C&A!

 

Must have nicked them a while ago then...

 

My missus was upset when they closed down, the only way she knew which way round her knickers went was when they had C and A in them...

[Richard]

[cms206]

Exhaust completely split at the first silencer this morning on the Proton, the Group N rally car burbling and farting was getting it lots of looks. And laughs. B%X.

 

 

Volvo still dead, one of the Nationals is still blocked in... grrrrr...

[chaseracer]

Technical ability FAIL.

 

Need to convert a Word2007 .docx file to PDF, sharpish - can anyone help? Ta muchly...

select print

then pdf

then save as pdf

choose location and ...

 

Oh, you have a PC - sorry to hear that! On a mac it is as simple as that to generate a pdf on any file

No, I have a MacBook Pro - but I need a PDF that actually looks like the original doc! Anyhoo, a mate who knows about these things is working on it - thanks for all the suggestions, chaps.

[BMC Dan]

Somebody in the neighbourhood has had Adele's latest album on full blast for most of the past two mornings.

[Negative Creep]

The agency hasn't uploaded this week's timesheets which need to be completed by Monday morning. I better still get paid on Friday.............

[ashmicro]

Agencies can be mongs. I worked for a Belfast-based one some years ago, and they "forgot" to pay me, and told me to wait until the end of the following week!

 

I pitched up at their office, and demanded paid, and stated that if I didn't get paid, they could have the job of explaining to the client why I wasn't coming back.

 

I got paid...

[Negative Creep]

They only told us on Thursday we'd be needed for another 4 weeks. But then they told a different group the same thing, until they were called in and told there was no work left, so they could either go home at lunchtime or at the end of the day. I'm STILL on the wrong tax code as well. Saying "oh don't worry, you'll get it all back" doesn't really help

[Pillock]

Technical ability FAIL.

 

Need to convert a Word2007 .docx file to PDF, sharpish - can anyone help? Ta muchly...

 

My copy of Word 2007 does this all by itself. I think it was an actual Microsoft add-on I installed, but I just go to the menu, choose Export, choose PDF and there's nothing else needed.

[brammy777]

Stupid Flickr 'photo of the week' contests. I entered one for British Convertibles made between 1945 and '75, only to receive a message a few minutes later asking me to change it, as the car I had entered has four seats and is thus against the rules... Maybe they should rename the contest as ones for Roadsters then. Such a trivial matter to get annoyed about, but come on. It's going to be a load of bloody Austin Healeys now.

[M'coli]

I was wondering the other day where you were, Brammy - we hadn't heard much from you of late. Good to have you back.

 

Do you think they'd have thrown it out if it was of an Alvis convertible?

[brammy777]

A TF21 no less

 

Thanks for the welcome back. In a more worthy grump, I have still got absolutely no job going. I'm not going to make this a WOE IS ME post, I am lucky enough to still be living at home and have all I need, but it's just a bit disheartening. There is a popular line that my friends spin at me when I am unsuccesful in applying, and that is the good old; 'you are over qualified for it'. Is that honestly true? Just because I have a BTEC Diploma doesn't mean I don't want to work in bloody retail.

[M'coli]

A TF21 no less

I didn't expect to guess the manufacturer, but a TE21/TF21 did spring to mind!

[Tayne]

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[brammy777]

In all fairness, David, who seems to be the guy who is 'in charge' of that group, so to speak, did send a very nicely worded PM about it, so, a mountain of a molehill really.

[Guest]

I am categorising my grumps today.

 

1. AA Gill. Why this pretentious arsehole still has a job is beyond me. His piece on MediaCity was a load of stuck up bollocks. This leads me neatly on to.....

 

2. MediaCity itself. Why bother London? You don't understand the North, only a tiny fraction of your staff want to relocate, and it's still going to cost you a fortune. Sorry, let me rephrase that. You don't WANT to understand the North, and you don't care enough about it, so why try to 'cater' for it in such a half arsed way? So that's 1,500 BBC staff relocating out of a total of 17,000. Where are the local jobs going to be then? Up the chimney? Down t'pit? Swimming in the fucking gravy? MediaCity's just a cock waving exercise for all concerned. I'm looking at YOU, BBC, ITV and the University of Salford. The building's costing the latter £40k A WEEK to rent, and the transport arrangements are a shambles. Hmm, good prospects.

 

3. Audi A1s. MOTHA_WAT has bought one, for some reason. Yeah, I don't like it. I'll list the worst bits:

 

a. Seats with stupid bolsters that don't locate. The backrest canes your back.

 

b. The suspension is too firm and crashes over everything.

 

c. Stop \ Start. FUCKING. START. UP. AGAIN. Yeah. Who's gonna push an Audi that's stopped dead?

 

d. The stereo controls are RETARDED. Why are there two rotary knobs for track searches and power \ volume? Why does the fucking stereo come back on when I've turned it off? Why not just put one large rotary in the centre for power \ volume, and put two buttons either side to do the tracks?

 

e. The power delivery. So that's absolutely FUCK ALL power until 2100 rpm, and then you get all of [what's there] in a bellowing hit, and then you have to change gear. Who mapped this fucking thing, an idiot? You CANNOT drive the damn thing on a trailing throttle, i.e. gently. If you want to make any progress (e.g. to accelerate up to the speed limit) you have to smack the throttle down to the stop. Then you get into the power band, and full boost, and you're going about 20 mph faster than you wanted. If all VAG TDIs are like this (and they are if the ones I've driven are any indication) I'm not surprised in the slightest they're all barreling along at 2000 mph on dual carriageways \ motorways.

 

f. The reaction it gets from others. Seriously, you'd have thought I'd won the lottery the way my friends creamed themselves when I got out of it. No, it's a boring little German hatchback. Calm down.

 

Least Motha_Wat likes it. Then again, anything's better than a sodding Peugeot 206.

[Station]

Hey, that looks quite neat!

 

 

However, outside of a retouched photoshop creation, it's probably very normal looking.

[Guest]

Hey, that looks quite neat!

 

 

However, outside of a retouched photoshop creation, it's probably very normal looking.

 

g. This image shatters like porcelain when you hear it idle. Sounds like a knackered FX4.

[seth]

You don't WANT to understand the North, and you don't care enough about it, ...

 

The real reason is because the BBC have heard that Hirst lives there.

[Negative Creep]

You don't WANT to understand the North, and you don't care enough about it, ...

 

The real reason is because the BBC have heard that Hirst lives there.

 

 

Everything past the Watford Gap Services can go bollox

[M'coli]

Don't worry NC, the West Country's only good for retiring to/having a second home in...

[Station]

North/South divide - just look at BBC weather report. "We'll be having lots of sun, but people in the north will have shitty weather. But fuck them, we don't care."

 

Also, has anyone seen 'Click', BBC New's weekly 'technology' report. GR8 if technology consists of Ipads and social networking. That's all it covers. It's SHIT.

 

I no longer watch BBC News, because the newsreaders make a sloppy smacking noise with their mouths before they talk.

[Pete-M]

d. The stereo controls are RETARDED. Why are there two rotary knobs for track searches and power \ volume? Why does the fucking stereo come back on when I've turned it off? Why not just put one large rotary in the centre for power \ volume, and put two buttons either side to do the tracks?

 

I prefer to have two rotary knobs for volume and track / station searches. Dislike buttons for track search, cannot abide 'em for volume. That's the one thing that pisses me off about the Nakamichi, buttons for track search. Arghh. Four of 'em.

 

The Jag has a nice rotary control for the volume, and this bloody big wedge shaped thing for track / station search. Hate it.

 

The Heep has buttons for volume and track. Near identical ones, near enough next to each other. Wonderful. Go to turn the radio up and change station. GR9 for making me look at the stereo, GR1 for user friendliness.

 

Skodas in work have probably very similar stereo setups to the A1. Dead easy to use. Don't have to look at it to make it work.

 

This type of thing.

 

[Negative Creep]

When I was in NZ I met a Mancunian and the Kiwis were greatly amused by our dirty northern monkey/soft southern fairy banter

[autofive]

the real question is where does the north begin?

 

my opinion: Leeds/Manchester

 

anything below that is either the midlands, or the south

[Guest]

 

Skodas in work have probably very similar stereo setups to the A1. Dead easy to use. Don't have to look at it to make it work.

 

This type of thing.

 

 

Sorry mate, the controls in the A1 are fucking stupid. And the stereo comes back on when you turn it off. Quite glad I don't have to drive it around actually. A car with stupid controls mapped by an idiot does not make for a happy Wat. But OMG OMG OMG it's an Audi OMG the screen pops up so what I think doesn't mean shit.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

good point, autofive. Sheffield seems more of a Midlands city than a Northern one.

[eddyramrod]

Somebody in the neighbourhood has had Adele's latest album on full blast for most of the past two mornings.

 

She's not still recording is she? Ohhhhhhhhhhhh dear, the music industry is closer to death than I thought...