The grumpy thread

[ruffgeezer]

7 hours ago, 24vdiamond said:

Which bit of lincs are you, ive a nearly new Bosch machine that came out of me late dads place so not done much work, can do you a deal on that!

Annoyingly,  I've only just seen this - I splurged on a new one this morning.  Thanks for the kind offer though!

[Minimad5]

On 12/12/2024 at 22:54, High Jetter said:

How were you compromised? 

No idea, I've not used the card much 🤷‍♂️

[Spiny Norman]

UBER. Called a taxi this morning and he must have been just round the corner because almost immediately I got his message saying he was here so I texted him back saying '2  mins' as I hadn't got my shoes on and when I got dpwnstairs the fucker had gone. Had the cheek to charge me £8 for a cancellation fee too, which I subsequently claimed back through Paypal.

I'll stick to the local money launderers in future.

[andy18s]

9 hours ago, Minimad5 said:

No idea, I've not used the card much 🤷‍♂️

Shell petrol stations were a cloning hotspot not too long ago..

[ruffgeezer]

Eddisons- I've not changed my password with them but cannot log in nor receive password reset emails, made a new account and cannot get the email to ore-reg for the auction that finishes Monday.  Bastard.

[New POD]

8 hours ago, Spiny Norman said:

UBER. Called a taxi this morning and he must have been just round the corner because almost immediately I got his message saying he was here so I texted him back saying '2  mins' as I hadn't got my shoes on and when I got dpwnstairs the fucker had gone. Had the cheek to charge me £8 for a cancellation fee too, which I subsequently claimed back through Paypal.

I'll stick to the local money launderers in future.

Last summer, we were waiting for an Ubber to take us about 2 miles from our hotel to the Open Air Theatre to watch Paul Weller.  

The price quoted was about the same as the Bus £4.50.  So we booked about 15 mins before we would need to leave.

When we booked it we had time to walk down to the Promanarde and get a bus, bus 10 mins walk. 

So we are sitting in the hotel bar and the bastards cancelled.  

Then had to run to catch the bus. (which we managed with about a minute to spare) 

Never used Uber since. 

[Marina door handles]

I need a new  mobile phone, my old phone wont hold charge anymore. I hate phone shopping even more than I hate clothes shopping mostly because I find phones tedious... Wish me luck! 

[Westbay]

2 minutes ago, Marina door handles said:

I need a new  mobile phone, my old phone wont hold charge anymore. I hate phone shopping even more than I hate clothes shopping mostly because I find phones tedious... Wish me luck! 

In the true spirit of AS - fit a new battery !

[Split_Pin]

Agreed, my phones have had a few batteries before I finally change the device.

Cheap and very easy to do yourself.

[reb]

2 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

very easy to do yourself

What kind of phones are you buying that changing the battery doesn't involve fucking around with bonded glass?

[Split_Pin]

1 minute ago, reb said:

What kind of phones are you buying that changing the battery doesn't involve fucking around with bonded glass?

Just a basic Samsung thing, I dont know the model number. 

[reb]

Just now, Split_Pin said:

Just a basic Samsung thing, I dont know the model number. 

Must be fairly old then, even the billy basic A series involves removing glass that's not really designed to be removed without specialist equipment these days.

[Marina door handles]

32 minutes ago, Westbay said:

In the true spirit of AS - fit a new battery !

I have done that around 3 years ago, I was tempted to do it again.... But I find myself sat naving a lot with the phone, it struggles to keep a good GPS lock and can be a bit wacky at times.  Also the camera is crap and I use that a lot. So it really is time to man up and get a new one. 

[castros_bro]

33 minutes ago, Marina door handles said:

I need a new  mobile phone, my old phone wont hold charge anymore. I hate phone shopping even more than I hate clothes shopping mostly because I find phones tedious... Wish me luck! 

Hi,

What's the phone ?    Some have battery glued in (warm with hair dryer and prize out with old credit card/guitar pic) and connected by flat cable n plug so worth trying yourself.  Even if you get a new phone it's worth trying on the old one just to learn stuff.  Or sent it to me.

[Marina door handles]

Just now, castros_bro said:

Hi,

What's the phone ?    Some have battery glued in (warm with hair dryer and prize out with old credit card/guitar pic) and connected by flat cable n plug so worth trying yourself.  Even if you get a new phone it's worth trying on the old one just to learn stuff.  Or sent it to me.

Cough! See reply just above yours! 

[castros_bro]

2 minutes ago, Marina door handles said:

Cough! See reply just above yours! 

My excuse is It took me 4.5 mins to write that.

[Westbay]

While my original post was a bit 'tongue in cheek' there is a more annoying aspect nobody has mentioned ... the operating system changes and some of the apps no longer work as they should/used to - the company named after a fruit are 'good' at this ...😡

[chaseracer]

It's the AS conundrum: try as we may to keep things going long past their intended lifespan, sometimes the only option is replacement.

 

[Sir Chocolate Teapot]

17 hours ago, Jazoli said:

Either buy off here or privately if you have to, I didn’t think a dealer supplied £1400 car existed any longer.

there’s an XC90, a Corsa, a Blingo, an X Type, a Polo, a Panda, an SX4 etc, I’d take a chance on any of them rather than a 1500 bombsite banger.

So very correct.

And I need at some point a panda in my life.

I have bought 2 from here, both been fine steeds and as expected

It was a car I have wanted to try for a long time and looked good in the ad and over the phone, in keeping with the title of this site, a mk1 skoda fabia estate with the 1.9 tdi.

[myglaren]

2 hours ago, andy18s said:

Shell petrol stations were a cloning hotspot not too long ago..

I had mine cloned at a Shell station.  That was probably twenty years ago though.

Bank saw it and stopped the card then emailed me about it and refunded the fraudulent purchases.

[sdkrc]

Was out running in the park today and ran past a youngish family, mother, father, young child. Their dog came belting out of the woods and started to run at me, then around me whilst growling aggressively. It wasn't a big dog, more of a medium/small dog and I felt in zero danger.

It barked and growled and then chased after my feet, trying to bite my shoe. I caught him in the head slightly with a soft heel. 

I stopped and turned to the family, namely the fat lass with a long head and stared at her. She said "he's so annoying". No attempt to curb the behaviour or apologise. I shouted aggressively at her "put him on a fucking leash then" followed by "you fat retard". 

The rest of my run was spoiled but I got to thinking. What would happen if I just kicked the dog as hard as I could? Is that an appropriate reaction? Genuine question. My dad did that once to a jack Russell back in the 90s. Nothing annoys me more than shit dogs and room temperature IQ owners. 

[Bren]

Have the lurgy. Started sneezing a few days ago - this has developed into a nasty productive cough and a hoarse voice.

My peak flow is 300 - if it gets any lower it's hospital. Silly for going in work last night.

[Marina door handles]

4 hours ago, Westbay said:

While my original post was a bit 'tongue in cheek' there is a more annoying aspect nobody has mentioned ... the operating system changes and some of the apps no longer work as they should/used to - the company named after a fruit are 'good' at this ...😡

You still have a Banana phone? 🙃

[chaseracer]

1 hour ago, Marina door handles said:

You still have a Banana phone? 🙃

It's in Transit.

#sorry

[adw1977]

4 hours ago, sdkrc said:

What would happen if I just kicked the dog as hard as I could? Is that an appropriate reaction?

No, because it's not really the dog's fault.  Kicking the owner as hard as you could, though...

[sdkrc]

I disagree. Punching the owner doesn't neutralise a dog trying to bite me.

Don't get me wrong, I fully acknowledge the behaviour is the responsibility of the shit owner but that doesn't stop it being a shit dog trying to bite me. 

I guess if it properly went for me I'd have punted it into the lake. I'll save that kinda action for more extreme cases.

[maxxo]

night before last ended up only have an hours worth of sleep

yesterday was the most ill i have been in a long time

sickness, the shites, cold, flu etc

12 hours of kip last night

feeling a fait bit better today, ended up going out for food with my parents so chose to get pizza and bring what i couldn't eat home (dinner tomorrow looking forward to it)

but fuck me

i feel ruined, knocked out, not so much sick now just full of cold really and i'm sick of it

in other news

had a knock at the door this morning from the next door neighbour on the other side

sorry to bother you, but i noticed you left your keys in your car and handed me them, cue much thank you's

so i'd left the keys in the ignition of the XM for about 24 hours

no one took it thankfully

[Spiny Norman]

Once again, one of First Bus Glasgow's professional* bus drivers has attempted to turn his double decker into a cabriolet on a bridge with no warning signs on it whatsoever.

[Metal Guru]

5 hours ago, sdkrc said:

I disagree. Punching the owner doesn't neutralise a dog trying to bite me.

Don't get me wrong, I fully acknowledge the behaviour is the responsibility of the shit owner but that doesn't stop it being a shit dog trying to bite me. 

I guess if it properly went for me I'd have punted it into the lake. I'll save that kinda action for more extreme cases.

We used to have a very timid dog that wouldn’t really defend itself against other dogs. Once out for a walk, a terrier of some sort got it by the throat. Pretty sure it would have killed or at least seriously hurt our dog, so I intervened with my size 13s. 

Needless to say the owner wasn’t happy and I just said “I didn’t kick it that hard”, to which my brother added (helpfully *) “ well you’d have got 3 points if it was on a rugby pitch”.

[New POD]

20 hours ago, Marina door handles said:

I need a new  mobile phone, my old phone wont hold charge anymore. I hate phone shopping even more than I hate clothes shopping mostly because I find phones tedious... Wish me luck! 

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