The grumpy thread

[tonedepear]

I adopted my ex's dog (she couldn't be bothered with walking or anything else) and I loved that thing, but I was then given the boot. I miss the dog the most.

I love dogs, but I doubt I'll ever have another one.

 

Similar. My ex wife wanted a dog, so in the end I caved and we got one although I never really wanted one. A year on and we parted ways. 7 years on I still have the dog.

 

IMGP3211 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr

[myglaren]

I guess some people believe the bullshit advertising. I'd rather pay £18.50 to BT for something that works brilliantly than whatever TalkShite charge for something that is rubbish. My sister was with TalkCrap, and frequently if I phoned her number nothing happened, and their internet sped was up and down like a whore's knickers when it did actually work. She got out of her minimum contract by threatening to sue them for breach of contract. The sneering bastard on the other end of the phone asked for her solicitor's name and my sister said "I don't have one. I am a solicitor, as is my husband who works for HM Treasury." (bending the truth a little, he does some work for HM Treasury, but hey, she's a lawyer!)

 

As I said, I have never spoken to anyone who had anything but contempt for them, and I too wonder how they stay in business.

 

NTL were rubbish too, so much so that someone set up a website called nthell.com, Virgin are a bit better.

 

AOL is very variable.

 

Sky, o2 (Be), and another that I can't remember seems pretty ok - o2's customer service is very good, and free to call. I only left Sky because they kept phoning me to ask if I wanted their Sky calls package and it was pissing me off.

 

AOL in the UK is now run by TalkTalk, owned by Carphone Warehouse/PCWorld. Comes as no surprise that they are rubbish.

My SIL was with TalkTalk, had broadband and phone about three days out of five.

He moved to Teesside and they wanted to charge him £38 to transfer, which seemed reasonable until he realised it was £38 A MONTH!

Cancelled and they owed him £75, which was duly paid but then three months later had a letter threatening to send in the payments for his 'final bill'

Although they refunded the £75 they then billed him £5 for not using the service for the remainder of that month and emailed the charge to him, which he duly ignored as he was no longer a customer.

I heard him on the phone to them and wouldn't have liked to have been on the receiving end of that call.

 

He now has Sky Broadband - a complete joke. The speed is so low they can only use it for emails and can't download attachments as it takes all day, YouTube is completely unusable.

 

BE looks interesting - I'm on BT and should get a decent speed but due to infrastructure limitations can only manage up to 2GB on a good day.

 

ETA: Today must be an exceptionally good day!

 

[ashmicro]

You're about 50 miles from Manc and that's it?

 

 

Type your number and postcode into this:

 

https://www.productsandservices.bt.com/ ... _DEVICES=Y

 

See if you can get fibre, and a speed estimate.

[myglaren]

You're about 50 miles from Manc and that's it?

 

 

Type your number and postcode into this:

 

https://www.productsandservices.bt.com/ ... _DEVICES=Y

 

See if you can get fibre, and a speed estimate.

 

Not around here yet - been on the upgrade list for ages, since fibre was announced.

All they will guarantee is around 1MB due to the ancient (1970's) copper wiring.

The guy who did the phone lines around here (Washington) was a mate of my father in law, great guy (Irish) and it was SOTA when it was done - phone/cable TV to every house built.

 

Worse for the SIL - he lives a couple of miles from Stockton & Darlington and my dial up was better than his broadband.

[wackywacerwill]

sorry just spoke to a mechanic the car ideling is not good dont want it sorry to mess u around

 

AARRRRRRGGGGGGHH, EBAY WASTERS

[Guest]

My new employer is so tight he won't even provide us with tea and coffee. We have to buy our own. And our own milk.

 

I'm sorry mate, but you're paying us fuck all, giving us crap shifts and for what? A saving of £10-15?

 

Seriously, I wonder about people sometimes.

[Negative Creep]

Latest email from my work is that the two 15 minute breaks "are not necessarily free time and may be used for personal assessments or one to one meetings". Oh and the last update I had from the agency was that I would be there until 3rd September (I still worked today and no one has said anything). So I may turn up at any moment to find I don't have a job. Except I've just been put on a shift rota that changes every 3 weeks. For £200 a week.

[HillmanImp]

Dog has gone. Spent most of the day in a drunken stupor. First time I have cried like that since I was a kid.

[M'coli]

Where did it go to?

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

I could never have a dog. Nowt wrong with them, but I can barely clean up after myself.

 

My new employer is so tight he won't even provide us with tea and coffee. We have to buy our own.

 

I think that's fair enough. It's the motivation you need in order to buy some half-decent tea as opposed to making do with Asda Smartprice.

[Station]

My new employer is so tight he won't even provide us with tea and coffee. We have to buy our own. And our own milk.

 

Surely you must qualify for the longest run of shittest jobs! I worked for Bank Of America last year for a few weeks, you didn't get tea/coffee, but you got free milk (from a big dispenser in the canteen). I was nearly bathing in the stuff at home, I used to fill my coffee mug thing with the stuff at the end of the day.

 

Similar. My ex wife wanted a dog, so in the end I caved and we got one although I never really wanted one. A year on and we parted ways. 7 years on I still have the dog.

 

I really love dogs, but can't handle it when they die, it really kills you.

 

Dog has gone. Spent most of the day in a drunken stupor. First time I have cried like that since I was a kid.

 

Argh.

[HillmanImp]

Dog went to the brother of a guy from the pub. Met him first. Bit of a scally bit works a a landscape gardener so can look after Kato during the day, his girlfriend has a kid and does not work so can give him attention if at home. I am in pain doing it but it makes sense. Fucking gutted though.

 

But to make it better I just booked tickets to see Jimmy Cliff on Tuesday.

 

Not as good as Kato though.

[Mr H Sceptre]

But to make it better I just booked tickets to see Jimmy Cliff on Tuesday.

 

Not as good as Kato though.

 

 

'Kin' 'Ell, where is Jimmy Cliff playing??

[DCLane]

The O2 Academy in Leeds on Tuesday: http://www.leedsgigtickets.co.uk/tickets/5646/

 

I work next door (The Rose Bowl) so we get to hear for free

[TimothyClaypole]

My Ebay video camera purchase:

 

"Unfortunately some damage was done at home and my insurer is insisting I keep it until they have been, and they may want it ?

Other than a refund (your payment is still with ppal) the best I can offer is the PC connection kit which was not with it so is still available:-

For GR-DVX series with adapter panel three cables and instructions.

If you want this for same price let me know and I will post asap.

Else it will have to be a refund, sorry.

I will keep a note and if the camcorder becomes available I will give you pre notice".

 

I smell shenanigans.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I don't know why you're doubting him, his story seems reasonable to me when dramatised.

 

[HillmanImp]

The O2 Academy in Leeds on Tuesday: http://www.leedsgigtickets.co.uk/tickets/5646/

 

I work next door (The Rose Bowl) so we get to hear for free

 

Yeah, thats it. Dont want to make the same mistake I made a few years back with Arthur Lee and wait for him to come again when I have more cash.........he might be dead.

[Station]

Waking this morning with a totally dead arm. I whimpered for a bit, it's a scary experience, I always think I'm going to have to have it amputated or something.

Then when it finally comes back to life, it HURTS.

[cort16]

I've had the double dead arm in the morning, which means you can't turn on the lights or open the bedroom door. You're just standing their swinging a dead arm at the light switch hoping it'll catch.

[M'coli]

Waking this morning with a totally dead arm. I whimpered for a bit, it's a scary experience, I always think I'm going to have to have it amputated or something.

Then when it finally comes back to life, it HURTS.

Are you not tempted to put it to good use while you can't feel what it's doing?

[Albert Ross]

A mate of mine advocates such things. He reckons if you sit on your hand prior to a wank, it feels like someone else is doing it to you. He also says that if you sit on your cock, it feels like you're doing it to someone else.

[maxpower]

A mate of mine advocates such things. He reckons if you sit on your hand prior to a wank, it feels like someone else is doing it to you. He also says that if you sit on your cock, it feels like you're doing it to someone else.

 

he must be VERY well hung....or old and everything has headed (sagged) south to be able to sit on his own cock

[ashmicro]

PFAKT: A bloke in my year at school broke/dislodged a small bone in his neck trying to suck his own cock. When he came back to school, he told everyone that he'd fallen off his scrambler. What he didn't realise was that his brother had already told us what REALLY happened.

 

His mother also caught him In flagrante delicto with the vacuum cleaner.

[maxpower]

PFAKT: A bloke in my year at school broke/dislodged a small bone in his neck trying to suck his own cock. When he came back to school, he told everyone that he'd fallen off his scrambler. What he didn't realise was that his brother had already told us what REALLY happened.

 

His mother also caught him In flagrante delicto with the vacuum cleaner.

 

he sounds like a real sucker

 

work for dyson does he?

[M'coli]

[Negative Creep]

PFAKT: A bloke in my year at school broke/dislodged a small bone in his neck trying to suck his own cock. When he came back to school, he told everyone that he'd fallen off his scrambler. What he didn't realise was that his brother had already told us what REALLY happened.

 

His mother also caught him In flagrante delicto with the vacuum cleaner.

 

A kid in my secondary school class, James May (no, not that one) once informed us that his, erm, man juice tasted exactly like cottage cheese

[Albert Ross]

Oh, so that's what cottage cheese tastes like. Oh. Erm. Oooops.

[maxpower]

 

can just imagine that guy at ashmicro's school wearing a t-shirt with that printed on it

[messerschmitt owner]

And regarding the last 6 or so posts.... I repeat:

 

Sounds quite desperate. Is it really that bad over there?

yeah, the country is full of wankers.

[messerschmitt owner]

^^Why not bring in, say, oh, something like Amsterdam for the weekend once a year and resolve all the frustration?

nah, that doesn't work - total wankers have to live the life permanently!