The grumpy thread

[omegod]

Currently on holiday in Malta with the wife and received a call from my panic stricken  daughter who'd received a letter from a collections agency stating she had failed attend Bromley magistrates court ( we live in Liverpool ) in January for a matter and the £75 fine is now at £1,109 and a warrant has been issued by the court  for collection agents to secure goods to this effect immediately. 

She didn't have a clue what it was about but was in tears and whirling off into a hyper panic, I dread to think what my phone bill will stand at but I called the debt collectors who wouldn't discuss it so got her to call and give consent to deal with me, they weren't interested in the fact we had received no letters regarding this prior , refused to discuss what the original issue was or where an offence was committed and kept asking if I would make full payment ....... like fuck I would as she's never been to Bromley .  Long call to Court services and it transpires the person concerned lives in Essex and has the same name and DOB as my daughter and got pulled for no insurance in Hackney,  seems the collections agency just plucked the wrong person from equifax and sent them someones debt. 

I called the collections agency and informed them they had fucked up royally and made a data breach but they weren't arsed even though they had the Essex address on file  and they curtly said " that's sorted now bye",  had the recipient been of poor mental health this could easily have tipped them over the edge.   

Sorry for the long rant but this was fucking awful and I'm seething, I'll be reporting the data breach to the information commissioner in the hope they get a fat fine and I want my phone bill paid...twats 🤬

[EyesWeldedShut]

On 12/06/2024 at 19:58, Pieman said:

He is responsible for one of my favourite cover versions (as in, if he hadn't written it this cover wouldn't have happened)...
 

 

For a bad moment there I thought you meant this cover - that one really belongs in the Grumpy Thread 

 

[DavieW]

Wall to wall football and politics on every news and current affairs programmes. FRO. 

[Bren]

Full of the lurgy. No doubt picked it up visiting my mum in hospital. Staff said there was covid on the ward.

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, omegod said:

I'll be reporting the data breach to the information commissioner in the hope they get a fat fine and I want my phone bill paid...twats 🤬

Yep, fight it as hard as you can, when you get back.

[Pieman]

1 hour ago, DavieW said:

Wall to wall football and politics on every news and current affairs programmes. FRO. 

Either that or Taylor FUCKING Swift, I am sick and fucking tired of hearing about her.

[jakebullet]

I've been to the cinema to see real film. During trailers for modern shite I get told to turn my phone off by staff, so I stop facebooking that I'm seeing the matrix and turn it off. As usual thought goes thru my head, but what if there's an emergency ? Nah, it'll be right.

Turned it back on in the end credits. PING! goes messenger. Oh it's Ray, not seen him for ages! Message is only telling me his wife died tonight. Message sent 5 minutes after I turned phone off. 

So not only am I upset about Meg, but I feel a total shit that he's going to think I've been ignoring his message. I don't do well at meaningless platitudes at the best of times. RIP Meg.

[RoverFolkUs]

On 08/06/2024 at 17:48, maxxo said:

Grump at myself

always liked old computer tat

i threw away a Dell Dimension 2400 today, not even 1GB of ram in it 

just had to no use for it at all, it’s not worth anything and well the capacitors had blown

but I always liked them

i feel bad about taking it to the tip but it was just clutter

 

Reddit excerpt as follows: 

Quote

Recycle it, if anything it’s a waste of electricity.

😅

[sheffcortinacentre]

3 hours ago, omegod said:

Currently on holiday in Malta with the wife and received a call from my panic stricken  daughter who'd received a letter from a collections agency stating she had failed attend Bromley magistrates court ( we live in Liverpool ) in January for a matter and the £75 fine is now at £1,109 and a warrant has been issued by the court  for collection agents to secure goods to this effect immediately. 

She didn't have a clue what it was about but was in tears and whirling off into a hyper panic, I dread to think what my phone bill will stand at but I called the debt collectors who wouldn't discuss it so got her to call and give consent to deal with me, they weren't interested in the fact we had received no letters regarding this prior , refused to discuss what the original issue was or where an offence was committed and kept asking if I would make full payment ....... like fuck I would as she's never been to Bromley .  Long call to Court services and it transpires the person concerned lives in Essex and has the same name and DOB as my daughter and got pulled for no insurance in Hackney,  seems the collections agency just plucked the wrong person from equifax and sent them someones debt. 

I called the collections agency and informed them they had fucked up royally and made a data breach but they weren't arsed even though they had the Essex address on file  and they curtly said " that's sorted now bye",  had the recipient been of poor mental health this could easily have tipped them over the edge.   

Sorry for the long rant but this was fucking awful and I'm seething, I'll be reporting the data breach to the information commissioner in the hope they get a fat fine and I want my phone bill paid...twats 🤬

Keep at it cuz they'll all try to fob you off.

[RoverFolkUs]

4 hours ago, omegod said:

Currently on holiday in Malta with the wife and received a call from my panic stricken  daughter who'd received a letter from a collections agency stating she had failed attend Bromley magistrates court ( we live in Liverpool ) in January for a matter and the £75 fine is now at £1,109 and a warrant has been issued by the court  for collection agents to secure goods to this effect immediately. 

She didn't have a clue what it was about but was in tears and whirling off into a hyper panic, I dread to think what my phone bill will stand at but I called the debt collectors who wouldn't discuss it so got her to call and give consent to deal with me, they weren't interested in the fact we had received no letters regarding this prior , refused to discuss what the original issue was or where an offence was committed and kept asking if I would make full payment ....... like fuck I would as she's never been to Bromley .  Long call to Court services and it transpires the person concerned lives in Essex and has the same name and DOB as my daughter and got pulled for no insurance in Hackney,  seems the collections agency just plucked the wrong person from equifax and sent them someones debt. 

I called the collections agency and informed them they had fucked up royally and made a data breach but they weren't arsed even though they had the Essex address on file  and they curtly said " that's sorted now bye",  had the recipient been of poor mental health this could easily have tipped them over the edge.   

Sorry for the long rant but this was fucking awful and I'm seething, I'll be reporting the data breach to the information commissioner in the hope they get a fat fine and I want my phone bill paid...twats 🤬

Utterly deplorable, best of luck, definitely be as persistent as possible 

[Metal Guru]

3 hours ago, DavieW said:

Wall to wall football and politics on every news and current affairs programmes. FRO. 

BBC Scotland had an article about the fans in gathering in Munich. “There’s a real buzz etc etc cliche , cliche.”

There were a few people milling around. For a midday in a major city, I would have said it looked unusually quiet, but let’s not spoil what passes for journalism these days with facts.

Yes, keep the football to the actual match broadcasts. I hate the shots of fans in pubs  “going wild” when a goal is scored in particular.

[andy18s]

20 hours ago, jakebullet said:

Down the bottom end of my estate there's some purpose built "dump granny" sheltered housing maisonettes. The council have decided when Ethel shuffles off that it would be a great idea to move in druggies / released from prison / other twats. Cos they'll integrate really well with 90 year olds, they love a bit of bangin trance.

For some reason that nobody can fathom crime has increased and there are lots of young men who like wearing ballies strolling about selling herbal supplements*.

Hope you're keeping track of these indiscretions on your cctv ..  #sarcasm

[goosey]

£233 to hire a car for 2 weeks then another £210 to hire 2 booster seats 😡

[jakebullet]

48 minutes ago, andy18s said:

Hope you're keeping track of these indiscretions on your cctv ..  #sarcasm

Tell me where you live and I'll send them your way given you love diversity*

[loserone]

54 minutes ago, goosey said:

£233 to hire a car for 2 weeks then another £210 to hire 2 booster seats 😡

Just another reason to drive the whole way

[goosey]

40 minutes ago, loserone said:

Just another reason to drive the whole way

Definitely, but I have just found out you can check car seats into the Hold of the plane for free 

[Metal Guru]

39 minutes ago, loserone said:

Just another reason to drive the whole way

When my son was young we went to Canada for 3 weeks. We just went and  bought a booster seat when we got there and gave it to a charity shop when we left. Far cheaper than hiring one.

Normally we pay for the extra driver too. Last time I hired a car , I was on my own but noticed the cost for two cars (lowest grade) was almost the same as one car plus extra driver. The add ons for car hire are a total rip off.

[loserone]

8 minutes ago, goosey said:

Definitely, but I have just found out you can check car seats into the Hold of the plane for free 

Yeah, flying with three kids, all the luggage, and three car seats is not something I want to do again.

[grogee]

Fucking curtains. 

A few weeks ago, I had to repair the curtain pole in Master Grogee's bedroom, where I am currently sleeping because Divorce. 

Master Grogee came in and demanded I wake up with a flourish of pulling the curtains and of course pulled it off the wall. 

I 'fixed' them again, except once again I couldn't drill through whatever was behind the plaster, even with my cobalt drill bits. WTF is it?! I presume an RSJ... 

Anyway my 'repair' was only about an inch deep because of this. 

Mrs Grogee comes around in her usual morning stomp and is similarly heavy handed, so once again they pull out of the wall. FFS. 

Even though it's my fault it would have been fine for anyone with an ounce of mechanical sympathy, of which Mrs G possesses none. 

They only had to hold on until the feckin house sale completes, eg a couple of months. 

FUMING. 

[beko1987]

12 minutes ago, grogee said:

Fucking curtains. 

A few weeks ago, I had to repair the curtain pole in Master Grogee's bedroom, where I am currently sleeping because Divorce. 

Master Grogee came in and demanded I wake up with a flourish of pulling the curtains and of course pulled it off the wall. 

I 'fixed' them again, except once again I couldn't drill through whatever was behind the plaster, even with my cobalt drill bits. WTF is it?! I presume an RSJ... 

Anyway my 'repair' was only about an inch deep because of this. 

Mrs Grogee comes around in her usual morning stomp and is similarly heavy handed, so once again they pull out of the wall. FFS. 

Even though it's my fault it would have been fine for anyone with an ounce of mechanical sympathy, of which Mrs G possesses none. 

They only had to hold on until the feckin house sale completes, eg a couple of months. 

FUMING. 

No more nails and tell them to never fucking touch it again? 

[Rust Collector]

1 hour ago, grogee said:

Fucking curtains.

My mrs managed to do the same, by sitting on the sofa under the window without bothering to move the curtain that was draped over where she wanted to sit…

Didn't help that whoever put it up used about a quarter of a rawl plug and didn’t screw the rods or brackets together.

It’s on the list to be patched up, when I can be bothered.

[myglaren]

13 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

BBC Scotland had an article about the fans in gathering in Munich. “There’s a real buzz etc etc cliche , cliche.”

There were a few people milling around. For a midday in a major city, I would have said it looked unusually quiet, but let’s not spoil what passes for journalism these days with facts.

Yes, keep the football to the actual match broadcasts. I hate the shots of fans in pubs  “going wild” when a goal is scored in particular.

It is probably fans arriving for the Taylor Momsen (Pretty Reckless) concert.

[Remspoor]

5 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

When my son was young we went to Canada for 3 weeks. We just went and  bought a booster seat when we got there and gave it to a charity shop when we left. Far cheaper than hiring one.

Normally we pay for the extra driver too. Last time I hired a car , I was on my own but noticed the cost for two cars (lowest grade) was almost the same as one car plus extra driver. The add ons for car hire are a total rip off.

How does that work? Pick up car at airport. Travel in car to shop, with no booster seats.  Go to charity shop, drop the booster seat off. Drive sans booster seat to airport.  So risks were taken to save a few quid.

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

How does that work? Pick up car at airport. Travel in car to shop, with no booster seats.  Go to charity shop, drop the booster seat off. Drive sans booster seat to airport.  So risks were taken to save a few quid.

Picked the car up in city, Vancouver, got a taxi from the airport. Spent a few days in the city before needing a car. Taxis don’t normally have booster seats either but what can you do?

[Remspoor]

Today in Lidl, somewhere in Spain.

[IronStar]

I really really really REALLY fucking despise dealing with wreckers on Facebook. You ask for some parts. 10 of them pop up. 5 of them are saying I don’t have all of it/have something random mildly related. 4 them will say “I have it” snd then dully proceed to ignore the question “how much” or phonecalls on the phone number they fucking posted. 1 will reply with the price, but will never read the message or pick up the phone.

Fuck the fucking fuck off, bunch of mouthbreathing idiots. How do you even stay in the business and make money?

[maxxo]

Cannot stand living back in Middlesbrough for a moment longer, end of July I’m determined to move back to County Durham

tonights fun, A19 Tees Flyover I was going 70 and I saw a golf full of young lads come flying up behind me at well over 100

balloons in their mouth etc and on the phone 

somehow didn’t hit me, a combination of me absolutely booting it and I suspect the auto emergency braking in the Golf as I saw the driver looking at the passenger the whole time 

I hate driving the XM in Teesside, nearly lost it tonight and I know something will happen to it

im actually very pissed off about that

led me to have a slightly unpopular opinion 

I think it’s good pretty much all moderns have auto emergency braking and with the way people drive I can’t wait for self driving cars

not feeling the best today anyway

[IronStar]

18 hours ago, IronStar said:

I really really really REALLY fucking despise dealing with wreckers on Facebook. You ask for some parts. 10 of them pop up. 5 of them are saying I don’t have all of it/have something random mildly related. 4 them will say “I have it” snd then dully proceed to ignore the question “how much” or phonecalls on the phone number they fucking posted. 1 will reply with the price, but will never read the message or pick up the phone.

Fuck the fucking fuck off, bunch of mouthbreathing idiots. How do you even stay in the business and make money?

Dear God this is still going. I’m looking for a very specific “high” radio for Bravo that supports CD Changer so I can plug in Bluetooth dongle. I added a photo in the OP stating I’m looking this specific radio. Not a random one that went in. Specific. 
i’ve been offered at least 15 so far from the few wreckers that have been so kind to answer the phone or read a message. 
Answers on the postcard how many of these are the one I’m looking for.

[MikeR]

18 hours ago, IronStar said:

I really really really REALLY fucking despise dealing with wreckers on Facebook. You ask for some parts. 10 of them pop up. 5 of them are saying I don’t have all of it/have something random mildly related. 4 them will say “I have it” snd then dully proceed to ignore the question “how much” or phonecalls on the phone number they fucking posted. 1 will reply with the price, but will never read the message or pick up the phone.

Fuck the fucking fuck off, bunch of mouthbreathing idiots. How do you even stay in the business and make money?

Stopped dealing with breakers years ago , nearly new prices for worn out shite and attitude to match , I use the local parts shop that supplies the local garages and local people now . 

[EyesWeldedShut]

"I'm only changing the pads" he cried
"You'll need these then, sonny boy"
Discs x 2
Backing plates x 2
New handbrake shoes x 4
Expander x 1
Fitting kit.
The misery, the misery