The grumpy thread

[IronStar]

I ordered an LPG mixer plate for Florida. Actually, I ordered two just in case so I have a spare. Guy #1 shipped it on Friday, I get a message on Saturday that delivery is scheduled. I need to pop out. I call the delivery guy, phone is off. I leave the money with the store on the ground floor. I come back home, no one called, no one dropped off the parcel. 4PM I get an updated “sorry we missed you” status. No you fucking didn’t, I was there! Your phone is turned off! No attempted delivery note either.

Right, fine, it’s in the post office on Monday then. What’s this, not my post office? Nevermind, I’ll drive there on lunch break. Oh, what’s that, it’s temporarily* working until 2PM not 7PM? Fine, I’ll pick it up tomorrow morn…oh, it works from 1PM tomorrow. 

Guy #2 shipped it today, not on Friday as we agreed. As the usual delivery driver is on holiday, I have a distinct feeling that one will be a wild chase as well.

Chances of having the car fully functional this weekend- rapidly slimming 🙄

[comfortablynumb]

When we thought we might have a problem with the council, and a nonexistent footpath, I rang a couple of solicitors to see what the score was.

Cheapest was £395 an hour

Don't know if that was plus vat, I didn't get that far

7 hours ago, chadders said:

And your problem when the solicitors want paying for doing that.

At £200 or whatever an hour it'll be expensive, like anything to do with solicitors.

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

24 minutes ago, ProgRocker said:

She could learn to play "Lila's Dance" by the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Some 'rapid fire' drumming in that once it gets going.

Find a cymbal in a rubbish bin and he can play along to ‘One More Red Nightmare’…

[chadders]

13 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

When we thought we might have a problem with the council, and a nonexistent footpath, I rang a couple of solicitors to see what the score was.

Cheapest was £395 an hour

Don't know if that was plus vat, I didn't get that far

 

Ours is obviously a bargain then at £200😀

[andy18s]

1 hour ago, IronStar said:

I ordered an LPG mixer plate for Florida. Actually, I ordered two just in case so I have a spare. Guy #1 shipped it on Friday, I get a message on Saturday that delivery is scheduled. I need to pop out. I call the delivery guy, phone is off. I leave the money with the store on the ground floor. I come back home, no one called, no one dropped off the parcel. 4PM I get an updated “sorry we missed you” status. No you fucking didn’t, I was there! Your phone is turned off! No attempted delivery note either.

Right, fine, it’s in the post office on Monday then. What’s this, not my post office? Nevermind, I’ll drive there on lunch break. Oh, what’s that, it’s temporarily* working until 2PM not 7PM? Fine, I’ll pick it up tomorrow morn…oh, it works from 1PM tomorrow. 

Guy #2 shipped it today, not on Friday as we agreed. As the usual delivery driver is on holiday, I have a distinct feeling that one will be a lot wild chase as well.

Chances of having the car fully functional this weekend- rapidly slimming 🙄

I still can't believe that we have 2 competing delivery services here in Bg,

Both guarantee overnight shipping with an inspection option where you pay the return shipping if you refuse an item.

And cash on delivery. 

They've both put up their minimum charges to around 7lev (£3 ish)

Now you do need to pick up at a local store but that's not a problem. You can ask for home delivery for an extra lev or 2 but with Bg addresses being so lackadaisical, you usually meet the van at the village square anyway. 

[IronStar]

1 hour ago, andy18s said:

I still can't believe that we have 2 competing delivery services here in Bg,

Both guarantee overnight shipping with an inspection option where you pay the return shipping if you refuse an item.

And cash on delivery. 

They've both put up their minimum charges to around 7lev (£3 ish)

Now you do need to pick up at a local store but that's not a problem. You can ask for home delivery for an extra lev or 2 but with Bg addresses being so lackadaisical, you usually meet the van at the village square anyway. 

We have like 6, all useless. Post owned PostExpress is usually least shit one, but it’s very dependent on the courier. The chap that usually does my part of the city is amazing, and I always talk cars and life with him. 
Prices are comparable with yours, which is an insult as Bulgaria is much bigger than Serbia. Cash on delivery is an extra charge with all of them.

They all have “convince” option of store or box machine pickup, but the price is equal to what you would pay for home delivery, so I never really understood why would you bother. Maybe if you’re at work and they’re trying to deliver to home, so you send it to self-service box?

[andy18s]

By store I meant each courier have their own dedicated shop,pretty much any small town will have 1 somewhere.

Econt is the main company and deliver to Romania and Greece as well,with Speedy doing things slightly differently. 

Speedy are bringing in the drop boxes but most of the older generation don't "get it"..

Dhl are partnered with Econt for anything to go overseas,or if you need stuff to definitely get anywhere. 

 

[Yoss]

I'm glad to see your couriers are as bad as ours. A few months back I was waiting for a starter motor and the courier, DPD, gave me a one hour window for delivery. I was sat looking out of the window when I got the sorry we missed you email. I have a very good view of our road from the window and nobody came. 

The message continued to say they would deliver it to a local shop where I could pick it up and they would let me know when it was there. About an hour later the email arrived so I went straight to the shop. It wasn't there. Any attempt to contact DPD was futile as it would start with a request for the item number to which they would just tell me it was at the shop which it wasn't. 

Five days later I get another email saying it was being returned to the sender with no explanation of where it had been or why, seeing as they had found it, couldn't they deliver it to me. 

Once it arrived back at the seller he resent it with Royal Mail which is handy as I work at the local delivery office and could intercept it as soon as it arrived. 

I mean we're not perfect, and are probably getting worse, but some of the other couriers are terrible. But as I've said before a lot of it is down to the individual staff. Hermes/evri have a terrible reputation but the lady that does it round here is brilliant. She's been doing it years, she's really friendly, likes the dog and we've never had any problems. 

[New POD]

5 hours ago, Remspoor said:

It was the solicitor  who held it back. It was not the bank. Solicitors evidently also have a duty to ensure there is no money laundering.

Is it in a UK bank account? Did the bank flag it up, when the person was alive?  If not then where's the issue? 

[maxxo]

Milton Keynes 

Had to drive through it twice over the weekend

driving standards are abysmal, seems everyone is booting it everywhere

how many roundabouts does a city need?

every half a mile another roundabout

the sheer volume of traffic as well

im used to County Durham, where driving is pleasant for the most part so this was a massive culture shock and my relaxed approach to driving didn’t seem to work

dont even get me started on the current state of the M1, so many roadworks

[Pieman]

5 minutes ago, maxxo said:

dont even get me started on the current state of the M1, so many roadworks

They may as well just reduce the speed limit permanently to 50mph along the whole length of the M-fucking-1 and have done with it, given that about 95% of it is reduced to that with bullshit average cameras all the time anyway.

[maxxo]

4 minutes ago, Pieman said:

They may as well just reduce the speed limit permanently to 50mph along the whole length of the M-fucking-1 and have done with it, given that about 95% of it is reduced to that with bullshit average cameras all the time anyway.

I suppose the one positive is I got 64 mpg out of an XM on the way there and back

it was really annoying, added lots of time to the journeys 

[Agila]

Stopped off after work for McDonald's (don't judge me). 

Got the monopoly game back on. According to the sun, regent street is basically the main rare one for a 32 grand electric mini.

Get regent street 

I'm bouncing up and down with joy with a belly full of Philly cheese stack, plotting about blagging bond street and Oxford street.

Turns out they fucked up and it's bond street that's rare.

Fuck the sun.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/30297945/mcdonalds-monopoly-martin-lewis-money-saving-expert/

 

Cheers McDonald's, now kids are crying, you've ruined Christmas.🤣

[HarmonicCheeseburger]

10 hours ago, jakebullet said:

Monged out of his mind idiot next door has a child. A hyperactive one. Last week the thick bastard bought her a whistle, and she tooted the fucking thing morning noon and night. She's now got a cap gun, and is attempting to recreate the Somme.

Not the child's fault, but he just tells her to "play in the garden" while he gets stoned in the house. Think I should order her a drum kit from amazon. Play daddy* a nice song.....

Flute, drum kit, cheap dart foam gun to shoot him with, kazoo, load af Bluetooth cheapo speaker. 

 

[HarmonicCheeseburger]

1 hour ago, Pieman said:

They may as well just reduce the speed limit permanently to 50mph along the whole length of the M-fucking-1 and have done with it, given that about 95% of it is reduced to that with bullshit average cameras all the time anyway.

Which nobody follows every single time I am in an average speed zone people come past me as if their balls will separate from their body if they drop below 90. 

[Supernaut]

I'm not even trying to sell anything on here at the moment, but I'm still getting annoyed at the sheer number of for sale threads getting derailed into a political discussion lately.

Something in the water?

[Mally]

16 hours ago, jakebullet said:

Monged out of his mind idiot next door has a child. A hyperactive one. Last week the thick bastard bought her a whistle, and she tooted the fucking thing morning noon and night. She's now got a cap gun, and is attempting to recreate the Somme.

Not the child's fault, but he just tells her to "play in the garden" while he gets stoned in the house. Think I should order her a drum kit from amazon. Play daddy* a nice song.....

In the child's defence, I used to have a plastic Winchester rifle. It took rolls of caps and they lasted ages. .....Until they were used up.

Then I went on to my tin whistle.  These ore probably plastic now and will soon get stood on and broken.

Close your door and chill.

[New POD]

6 hours ago, Agila said:

 According to the sun, ..... insert some ballocks they made up......

Fuck the sun.

 

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=1GGR-FI5SpU&si=MufOB3YbncC_v8Jj

I agree. Fuck the Sun. 

 

[New POD]

1 hour ago, Supernaut said:

 

Something in the water?

If it is, then blame the Cuntservatives for not sorting out the water companies whilst in office. 

 

Am I doing this right ? 

[myglaren]

8 hours ago, maxxo said:

Milton Keynes 

Had to drive through it twice over the weekend

driving standards are abysmal, seems everyone is booting it everywhere

how many roundabouts does a city need?

every half a mile another roundabout

the sheer volume of traffic as well

im used to County Durham, where driving is pleasant for the most part so this was a massive culture shock and my relaxed approach to driving didn’t seem to work

dont even get me started on the current state of the M1, so many roadworks

The last time I was there I attempted to take an alternative rout.  My satnav was old, never registered and never updated.

It didn't go well.

Nor on the way there (Little Horwood), took me for a tour of the MK hospital car parks and returned me to the road where the car park entrance is.

Using the satnav wasn't much better than guesswork.

[omegod]

Solicitors ...bleurgh .... Sadly my MIL is at the end of her life and wanted to get her ducks in a row , her will leaves her house to Mrs Omegod and her brother and she was advised by a solicitor to transfer the house equity to them now rather than them having to go through probate after the fact, I contacted a local conveyancing solicitors for her who seemed happy to assist but have been pissing us around for weeks, not returning calls  and they have now suddenly decided they don't do home visits ,she's bedbound which they knew all along FFS ! 

I suggested we set up a teams type meeting where they can confirm this is her wishes and them then prepare the deed of transfer for signing, needless to say this has met with huffs and puffs 

I know they need to be extremely careful with this stuff but FFS they have been useless 

Fuckem, we'll do probate  

[Remspoor]

14 hours ago, New POD said:

Is it in a UK bank account? Did the bank flag it up, when the person was alive?  If not then where's the issue? 

I explained that in my original post. 

 

[somewhatfoolish]

6 hours ago, omegod said:

Solicitors ...bleurgh .... Sadly my MIL is at the end of her life and wanted to get her ducks in a row , her will leaves her house to Mrs Omegod and her brother and she was advised by a solicitor to transfer the house equity to them now rather than them having to go through probate after the fact, I contacted a local conveyancing solicitors for her who seemed happy to assist but have been pissing us around for weeks, not returning calls  and they have now suddenly decided they don't do home visits ,she's bedbound which they knew all along FFS ! 

I suggested we set up a teams type meeting where they can confirm this is her wishes and them then prepare the deed of transfer for signing, needless to say this has met with huffs and puffs 

I know they need to be extremely careful with this stuff but FFS they have been useless 

Fuckem, we'll do probate  

Unusual for solicitors to forgo a means of charging you a healthy hourly rate. Very much fuck useless solicitors. DIY conveyancing is maybe worth a look as there's no money or mortgage lender involved to fuck things up.

[Popsicle]

14 hours ago, maxxo said:

I suppose the one positive is I got 64 mpg out of an XM on the way there and back

Thats good mpg's especially with shit loads of 0-70-0 every mile around MK.

[maxxo]

6 minutes ago, Popsicle said:

Thats good mpg's especially with shit loads of 0-70-0 every mile around MK.

I didn’t even bother trying to get to 70 as I could see on the sat nav I’d have to stop again in half a mile so didn’t see the piint

[IronStar]

On 09/09/2024 at 18:19, IronStar said:

I ordered an LPG mixer plate for Florida. Actually, I ordered two just in case so I have a spare. Guy #1 shipped it on Friday, I get a message on Saturday that delivery is scheduled. I need to pop out. I call the delivery guy, phone is off. I leave the money with the store on the ground floor. I come back home, no one called, no one dropped off the parcel. 4PM I get an updated “sorry we missed you” status. No you fucking didn’t, I was there! Your phone is turned off! No attempted delivery note either.

Right, fine, it’s in the post office on Monday then. What’s this, not my post office? Nevermind, I’ll drive there on lunch break. Oh, what’s that, it’s temporarily* working until 2PM not 7PM? Fine, I’ll pick it up tomorrow morn…oh, it works from 1PM tomorrow. 

Guy #2 shipped it today, not on Friday as we agreed. As the usual delivery driver is on holiday, I have a distinct feeling that one will be a wild chase as well.

Chances of having the car fully functional this weekend- rapidly slimming 🙄

Chased down the packages. Called the LPG / Carb dudes. Carb half of the duo is away on holiday, and is back on 21st. They were both supposed to be back on 1st of September, but apparently this guy took off again.

Chances of car working this weekend- officially 0.

The biggest Zastava meet is on 22nd of September. If anything, a single thing goes wrong on 21st and I can’t fetch the part immediately, I can’t take the car, and I was really hoping I would be able to go.  

[BorniteIdentity]

12 hours ago, omegod said:

Solicitors ...bleurgh .... Sadly my MIL is at the end of her life and wanted to get her ducks in a row , her will leaves her house to Mrs Omegod and her brother and she was advised by a solicitor to transfer the house equity to them now rather than them having to go through probate after the fact, I contacted a local conveyancing solicitors for her who seemed happy to assist but have been pissing us around for weeks, not returning calls  and they have now suddenly decided they don't do home visits ,she's bedbound which they knew all along FFS ! 

I suggested we set up a teams type meeting where they can confirm this is her wishes and them then prepare the deed of transfer for signing, needless to say this has met with huffs and puffs 

I know they need to be extremely careful with this stuff but FFS they have been useless 

Fuckem, we'll do probate  

Do probate.

There’s literally nothing to be gained. Not financially, not time wise. Every single conveyancer will have at least one or two probate sales going through at any one time, and the process has changed little in years.

Good luck through the next few weeks and be kind to one another (and yourself.)

[maxxo]

Oh yeah more exciting stuff

great news

ive been diagnosed with both arthritis and diabetes in the same week

lovely

more stuff to look forward to as I get older 

[High Jetter]

6 hours ago, maxxo said:

Oh yeah more exciting stuff

great news

ive been diagnosed with both arthritis and diabetes in the same week

lovely

more stuff to look forward to as I get older 

Hang on, are you even 30 yet? Though my Uncle was diagnosed way back when with diabetes when he was in his teens. Still active now in his 80s, has had to inject all this time - hope you don't need that.

[maxxo]

3 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Hang on, are you even 30 yet? Though my Uncle was diagnosed way back when with diabetes when he was in his teens. Still active now in his 80s, has had to inject all this time - hope you don't need that.

I’m 25 so it came as a surprise if not unexpected