The grumpy thread

[High Jetter]

We're confused too. Good luck

[cort1977]

Had an old friend visit over the weekend, not seen for years because he lives in Australia.  Was great to see him, hasn't changed, had a fun time etc. 

But he hasn't changed at all. What's funny and not a big deal in a young man without responsibilities seems childish and selfish in a man in his forties with a wife and kids.

And now I'm grumpy and a bit sad because one of my oldest friends is a bit of a twat really.

[Spiny Norman]

Maybe he was just trying to be that same good old tosser of a mate he was 20 years ago so you both had a good time?
Or maybe he's not changed but you have?
Or maybe Oz just does that to you?

[goosey]

Had it 5 mins and I’ve already got bag of shit peacocks climbing all over it 

[Pieman]

Can you roast peacock?  Bet it's miles better than turkey.

[Rocket88]

8 minutes ago, Pieman said:

Can you roast peacock?  Bet it's miles better than turkey.

Not as nice as swan…..😱

[ruffgeezer]

4 hours ago, Pieman said:

Can you roast peacock?  Bet it's miles better than turkey.

Yes but don't overdo it or you end up with Crisp- oh nevermind! 

[Pieman]

6 minutes ago, ruffgeezer said:

Yes but don't overdo it or you end up with Crisp- oh nevermind! 

Get OUT! 😆

[Markeh]

While a day-long Virgin outage is great for not having to do work, it also does get in the bloody way, quite a lot.

[goosey]

this was at just the right height to jab me in the balls 

[EyesWeldedShut]

7 minutes ago, goosey said:

this was at just the right height to jab me in the balls 

Look on the bright side, if you were a dwarf you’d be blind in one eye instead??

[GrumpiusMaximus]

2 hours ago, Markeh said:

While a day-long Virgin outage is great for not having to do work, it also does get in the bloody way, quite a lot.

They're hard to find in Essex too.  Or so I hear.

[EyesWeldedShut]

32 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

They're hard to find in Essex too.  Or so I hear.

I thought it was Cardiff?

(the old Welsh RareBit joke) 😉

[IronStar]

On today’s menu:

In my city there are multiple streets with the same name, and I live in one of them. The namesake one is across the city, 30 minutes drive away. Guess which one my package went to, for the umpteenth time, despite me telling the sender to state part of the city I’m in when sending? Delivery company’s take? Oh, sorry, we’ll get it to you tomorrow. Full price for the next day delivery, no sorry we fucked up and delayed it for a day. 🙄

In other news, the very useful guy that worked in the parts store has quit, and has inevitably been replaced with “I need a VIN to sell you parts” guy. He has all the details he needs, has the parts, but wants VIN to confirm. For a car made in ‘98. 🤦

[goosey]

walked to the top of Easington Colliery for this beautiful view and all I can hear is some bloke shouting at his dog the way someone would shout at a pisshead in a pub 

[Remspoor]

5 hours ago, goosey said:

all I can hear is some bloke shouting at his dog

 

[maxxo]

7 hours ago, goosey said:

walked to the top of Easington Colliery for this beautiful view and all I can hear is some bloke shouting at his dog the way someone would shout at a pisshead in a pub 

never got round to venturing up the top there

seen the sculpture millions of times, hell been in the car park loads

looks absolutely lovely! that's my weekend walk sorted

[myglaren]

Never stopped off there but we used to drive to Whitby every weekend and there was a conveyor system around there that dumped the unusable detritus from the pit into the sea.  Used in "Get Carter" IIRC.

Must go and have a look one day.  Don't go to Whitby any more, except on my brother's birthday and not always then.

[NorthernMonkey]

When you’re there, pop round and make sure mad Jean’s ok, will you?

[Markeh]

Well... I'm an idiot then.

First agent I spoke to at Virgin 'give it 24 hours' - erm, no, it worked perfectly fine before your scheduled maintenance and now only 1 out of 20 devices in the house wants to connect to the network, you've clearly fucked something up.

Two hours of calls later I got an engineer appointment for Thursday morning. This after I'd threatened cancellation, complained and been passed to several departments (I was never rude or anything, I'm not THAT kinda dickhead with call centres).

Been out to the pub this evening.

Lo and behold half of the stuff is seemingly working again... well don't I feel stupid

[RoverFolkUs]

Parts in motion. 

Why is it double the price for a set of gear cables which are literally 1-3mm longer...? 

Supposedly the cheaper ones which I ordered are "wrong"

They can't be, the Ford IB5 box is the same across the board...

Edit - 

Looks like a definite crafty upsell, scroll down a bit and here we have another set, same as the "correct" £112 ones, for £60... 

How awfully convenient, "sorry, these £57 ones are wrong but don't worry, we have the correct ones for £112"

It would be a different matter if I had ordered the incorrect ones, but they were NOT shown in the list of results when I searched by reg before ordering

[Tickman]

6 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Parts in motion

My experience is very similar. I'll not use them at all now.

[EyesWeldedShut]

1 hour ago, Tickman said:

My experience is very similar. I'll not use them at all now.

Using a laptop/desktop I've found that if you chuck one of their items into the basket you'll often get a cheaper priced version in the 'recommended items' ticker thing that then appears - usually from PiM themselves. It's also worth searching only PiM listings on a part number as it'll often chuck up a really cheap result - it may not be matched to your individual vehicle - things like DV6 parts for a Bini are often not x-ref to a PSA part for example.
On the phone app this is bloody tricky to manage so I don't use it - the smol screen and the layout is a bitch to work with.
I've also had it where you checkout having paid ££££ and there, in the 'other folks bought this' there's the same thing for only ££ - that's mostly an eBay algorithm tbh - I have a suspicion that there is an upsell going on there.

[MikeR]

We are doomed , just watched a chap pull up to the out of use  pump at a petrol station ... He took the yellow warning sign off the pump handle , put it in his car and ......

It didn't work !! 

His wife got out to look at it , he looked at it , they passed it between them , tried it again , then decided to put it back , but needed to put the warning sign back on , which ment getting the pump handle out again , so they tried it again .. 

It still did not work ...

I went in and paid for my fuel and by that time they had moved the car back into everyone's way who was coming into the station and where inspecting the pumps ... 

[mercedade]

Missed out on the house I was trying to buy. 

Houses for sale in my village/town are rare things, and this one was a bit weird. Shabby ('potential') but in a weird leasehold arrangement which might have complicated making improvements. 

Went for less than I could afford, but more than I wanted to pay, so feeling conflicted about my valuation skills. 

[juular]

14 hours ago, Tickman said:

My experience is very similar. I'll not use them at all now.

Same.

Trying to return an item they have wrongly supplied or is faulty is a Kafkaesque experience.

[DavieW]

£7.50 for a pint of Goose Green Midway IPA - FRO Alton Towers.

[Mrcento]

People, just, people... fucking sellers in particular.

List a car, not many details in the ad, but list it as spares or repairs, put a price in it and specifically say it's or nearest offer.... cool.

Ask a couple of questions about why it's listed as spares or repairs, get acceptable responses... ok, can i come have a look? Silence.

I know where the car is, it's local (literally down the road from a relatives house, so recognised it instantly), swing past on my way home the other night, looks decent. Throw in an offer on the ad (£100 under the asking price, it is listed ONO after all....). Silence.

Throw in another offer slightly more than the last one that is literally £50 under the full asking price. Silence.

Ask again then what they want for it?, Silence.

A look through the message history looks like they straight up blanked asking to view and i'm blocked after the 1st offer. That was read, The follow ups are all unread. Utter fucking weirdo behaviour.

Do i just go full psycho and leave a note on the windscreen calling them a cunt? 😂

[High Jetter]

No, just a note with your number, and 'interested'

[Mrcento]

3 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

No, just a note with your number, and 'interested'

I feel that messed around by them i kinda don't want to give them the money now. Cannot be fucked dealing with someone that wouldn't even reply when asking to look at it, then blocked me for making an offer they said they were open to.

More at a point of

'Will you take the full asking price?'

'Yeah, of course!'

'Ah so you were just being an ignorant cunt?, Nice to know, good luck with the sale'.

And fwiw, parts for it are very hard to get, borderline unobtanium, so as 'spares', it'll likely it'll end up scrapped in a few months, ah well.