The grumpy thread

[trigger]

Here you go! http://www.commaoil.com/productsguide/view/6/257/PRE1L

[fiatdaft]

Why did you bother arguing with the salesman over something like that !!

 

It's the only remotely fun thing to do in MRL in South Street, trust me.

 

The last time I was in, I specifically told the salestwat I was a single bloke and fancied "something a bit sporty", maybe a Celica, Fiat Coupe, even an Alfa 156 or a 3 series. YOU want to know what this plonker led me to? A fucking Diseasel Vauxhall Meriva......

I didn't need to be asked to leave, I ended up telling the oily fud who had been tailing me the whole time EXACTLY what I though of him, his sales skills, his acne, his bad breath and his tie before I left.

 

I do have an idea why the salesman could have been like that,but it prob would sound a bit far fetched and unbelievable!

[tonedepear]

Sorry to hear about your recent shit Tony but friggin hell you have a great voice!

 

Cheers Trig! Appreciated!

 

how much does that trailer tent weight all-in?

 

I love it, Mrs Tone HATED it, and it seems a bit excessive just on my own!

 

Ex-works 310kg

Gross Weight 420kg

 

It's light enough, certainly. Don't notice you're towing it unless you go over a speed bump at pace and it appears in mid air in your mirror!

[Guest]

Dear Natwest,

 

I'm clearing my overdraft and banking with someone else. I'm sick of your aggressive letters and shit headed backpedalling.

 

Regards,

 

Wat.

 

Remember Natwest, you tried this 'minimum deposit' shit with students before and it [rightly] lost you a shitload of retained custom. Nowhere in your T&Cs does it say that I have to make regular deposits to maintain an overdraft on my student account. NOWHERE. If you want to shift the goal posts for no reason and act the cunt, then I'll take my business elsewhere. You have no right to send me aggressive letters about this. NO RIGHT AT ALL.

 

Unless you're talking about my other account. What, so me getting paid monthly isn't enough? What the fuck?

[Captain Mainwaring]

Bank in 'being cunts' shocker.

[warren t claim]

That's a blow Tonedepear. Sorry to hear that.

 

However, in true vulture stylee, how much does that trailer tent weight all-in? Am considering the trailer-tent option for our camping as after four years, Mrs Wobbler has decided that our self-inflating mat doesn't deliver the camping comfort we desire. Airbeds are crap too.

Honestly I wouldn't worry too much, the only thing I can honestly think of that's easier to pull than a trailer tent is possibly any girl who works is a solarium handing out tokens. Even easier than a £199 Halfords trailer.

[pompei]

Fuggin hell, Tone, that's bad news. I know it's a cliche but it will get better, even if it seems that it couldn't possibly. It may take some time but you will come through it.

[willswitchengage]

Dear Natwest,

 

I'm clearing my overdraft and banking with someone else. I'm sick of your aggressive letters and shit headed backpedalling.

 

Regards,

 

Wat.

 

Remember Natwest, you tried this 'minimum deposit' shit with students before and it [rightly] lost you a shitload of retained custom. Nowhere in your T&Cs does it say that I have to make regular deposits to maintain an overdraft on my student account. NOWHERE. If you want to shift the goal posts for no reason and act the cunt, then I'll take my business elsewhere. You have no right to send me aggressive letters about this. NO RIGHT AT ALL.

 

Unless you're talking about my other account. What, so me getting paid monthly isn't enough? What the fuck?

 

Helpful banking. A friend of mine works their too and their employee relations are no better. Been with Halifax for fours years and they've never put a foot wrong.

[Cavcraft]

Sorry to hear that Toned, can't be easy and I hope things work out for you somehow.

[Negative Creep]

Dear Natwest,

 

I'm clearing my overdraft and banking with someone else. I'm sick of your aggressive letters and shit headed backpedalling.

 

Regards,

 

Wat.

 

Remember Natwest, you tried this 'minimum deposit' shit with students before and it [rightly] lost you a shitload of retained custom. Nowhere in your T&Cs does it say that I have to make regular deposits to maintain an overdraft on my student account. NOWHERE. If you want to shift the goal posts for no reason and act the cunt, then I'll take my business elsewhere. You have no right to send me aggressive letters about this. NO RIGHT AT ALL.

 

Unless you're talking about my other account. What, so me getting paid monthly isn't enough? What the fuck?

 

Helpful banking. A friend of mine works their too and their employee relations are no better. Been with Halifax for fours years and they've never put a foot wrong.

 

I couldn't go with Halifax due to their dreadful averts where their ethnically diverse employees pretend to enjoy singing a shit song. I have however been with the Co Op for a long time and never had a problem. Call centre staff are helpful and based in the UK

[scaryoldcortina]

Taxing a car.

 

Mrs S's disability motor (a sierra ghia) was due for taxing at the end of may - I dug out the DLA exemption certificate when the reminder arrived, and noticed it had expired... I sent it back to the DWP the same day. End of may came and went, no replacement cert. Parked the sierra up at the yard and started ferrying her around in the mk2 tina instead. Finally got a new certificate on saturday, but not until after the post office shut, so it was on today's job list. I got the cert, my trade insurance and the MoT but the V5 isn't in the folder where it should be and I can't find the v11 reminder now (because it came 6 weeks ago and the kitchen is now in bits) so I STILL can't tax it! I'm hoping the DVLA send me another reminder because the car hasn't been taxed or SORN, should be due any day now.

 

On the upside, at least it isn't our only car!

[dollywobbler]

 

I couldn't go with Halifax due to their dreadful averts where their ethnically diverse employees pretend to enjoy singing a shit song. I have however been with the Co Op for a long time and never had a problem. Call centre staff are helpful and based in the UK

 

I've found it's been worth ignoring the adverts. I've been with Halifax for many, many years and they've not let me down. AND their call centre is in Edinburgh. Hmmmm. Scots accents. They've severely tested by loyalty with those awful fucking excuses for adverts. If I hadn't got rid of my telly, I probably would have given in and changed banks. Then they really snared me by offering me a Reward account. If I get a grand into my current account every month, they give me a fiver. For the past few months, they've been desperately trying to get me to change my account to a 'much better' one in which I either pay them, or they give me not very much at all. Er, no thanks. Quite happy with the current arrangement actually! Certainly beats interest rates...

[Albert Ross]

Why do most of us keep vehicle documents in the kitchen? (Except Nigel who built a fortified extension to house his)

[cheguava]

Why do most of us keep vehicle documents in the kitchen? (Except Nigel who built a fortified extension to house his)

 

Do folks do that? I don't. But I do have theft prevention measures - if I can never lay hands on them I don't think any other ####er will find it easy!

[Negative Creep]

Why do most of us keep vehicle documents in the kitchen? (Except Nigel who built a fortified extension to house his)

 

Do folks do that? I don't. But I do have theft prevention measures - if I can never lay hands on them I don't think any other ####er will find it easy!

 

 

No one will ever find my documents because they're stashed away in my room. Set of drawers by the bed, third one down in the blue folder under my phone bills - safe as fuck.

[Cavcraft]

The best thing to do with V5s and MOT certs is to have them just sort of strewn all over the shop. Then when you need one urgently and spend so long looking for it you're actually steaming with anger, your missus asks what you're looking for then just plucks it out of thin air.

[vulgalour]

I cannot get my brother to see sense. He's just sent another repairable cheap car to the scrapyard. He has this habit of late of wanting, essentially, a brand new car for banger money. There's no way at all I can convince him that any car over 5 years old with tax and MoT at under £1000 is going to need some work within the first year, and at the £250-500 bracket, it's more than likely going to need a bit of maintenance and welding within the first few months.

 

So, when you're looking to spend £500 (at the very most) on a car that is fast, interesting, enough room for two adults and one child, economical and reliable obviously what you do is scrap the Tigra that you could sort out if you had the patience to do it and get a Rover 211 1.1 instead.

 

(Not actual car, image for illustration purposes only)

 

This can only end in more scrappage, if he buys it, which he might not. Why can't he just buy a car and keep it, like I do, and just use it less when it needs to be fixed/he can't afford petrol?

[sporty-shite]

He scrapped the Tigra? Thought he only bought it about two minutes ago? That's a seriously short attention span!!

[vulgalour]

Yup... he's like that at the moment and it's annoying me. In this instance, it's annoyed me more than usual because I'd talked him round on Friday/Saturday from wanting to bin it to waiting until Monday for me to have a look to assess the repair work needed properly. Having seen the pictures, yes, it needed most of an outer sill on the driver's side and one or two small floor patches the same side, but it was a long way off being a Mr Boll Maserati.

 

Instead of the plan of a joint purchase welder so we could learn panel fabrication together and save money in the long term, he decided the best course of action was to look at another Tigra which turned out to be too rotten and too expensive to be of use, and then scrap the green one without getting me involved. I feel a bit put out by that, I'd come up with a sensible, affordable, and not too long winded plan to get him on the road in a car he liked a lot only to see him get shut of it. I hope Tigras now climb in value to the giddy heights of Mk1 Escorts and are unattainable for him when he comes to wanting one in the future, it would serve him right for being such a short-sighted numpty.

[AnthonyG]

a car that is fast, interesting, enough room for two adults and one child, economical and reliable

 

I'm not sure Vauxhall Tigra is the first car that would come to mind on the above points. But then, a Rover 211 wouldn't either.

 

Can't you get him to buy a Maestro or something ?

[Craig the Princess]

Banks? Cunts.

 

HSBC have taken 3 1/2 months fucking about to get to the stage where our house purchase will occur either on our two week holiday or my 3 week work trip to India. Neither side has a chain, all the paperwork so far was done in week 1 and the mortgage is being swapped from our current house.

[vulgalour]

@AnthonyG: I'd love to convince him to buy a Maestro, or a Monty, or even an Allegro... but he won't, and even if he did he'd likely scrap it at the first HINT of anything amiss. There's been some stuff on here that would be ideal, is in his price bracket and ticks a few of the right boxes. Off the top of my head, there's that Honda Quintet and a BX estate, both of which would do what he wants and *should* be in his budget for things like insurance... but he'd moan that they were too old, or the wrong colour or some other bollocks.

 

Post Office appear to have moved the goal posts yet again on parcel prices, failing to update their website to line up with the actual fees. I charge eBay people £1.50 postage (because that's how much it should be) on some 49p items, the Post Office charge me £2.70 (because that's how much it actually is)... you do the maths on that one. Then the fridge conked out the other day, which meant having to buy a new one. Feels like I'm running to stand still lately.

[sporty-shite]

Fucking insurance brokers. Or more specifically, the lying bastard insurance broker that is Be W*s*r.

 

Took out a policy last year when I bought the 145. Paid over the odds because they told me they would reinstate my expired NCB. They told me I would be able to use 9 years bonus anywhere at this renewal. I double checked this, and when they told me I would have 9 years NCB this year, I bought the policy.

 

Anyway, decided that this year, seeing as I'd have a good lump of bonus that I'd start dabbling in the trade again. Got some fairly decent quotes for a trade policy, and was ready to go ahead. Then found out the brokers had automatically renewed. No problem, thought I, I'll just phone up, cancel, and jobs good. Then they tell me, if I don't renew through them, I'll only have the 1 year NCB I have built up this year, and he only way I can have 9 years is if they handle my renewal.

 

So, what should have been about £1000 is now over £1600, because someone made a promise that no-one else is prepared to keep. Adding insult to injury, it's going to cost well over £500 to cover the Volvo now I only have 1 year NCB, unless I get a Volvo only classic policy, and I really don't think I'm going to keep the 480 for any length of time. So, insurance runs out at midnight tonight, and I don't have a renewal in place. I could start using the Lupo that I bought for Mrs S, but that'll cost about £450 for a years cover. And it's a Lupo.

 

So, that's my tomorrow sorted. Trying to not get fleeced, and making massive compromises. Great.

[meggersdog]

Got home tonight to find a note shoved through the door.

Last year I had pneumonia and spent a few days in hospital so didn't feel up to cutting the hedges.I've kept the front tidy but the back hasn't been cut for a year and must be getting on for eight feet tall.The moaning old pensioner whose garden backs on to mine put a note through the door telling me to cut the hedge.F*** off you old git, get a hobby that doesn't involve gardening.It's too wide for him to cut right across so he wants it thinning out.

By leaving my side as nature intended I have blackbirds nesting in the hedge.I wonder how many prim and proper privet hedges have birds nesting in them ? I'm doing my bit for the wildlife so piss off you moaning old git.

[Craig the Princess]

Got home tonight to find a note shoved through the door.

Last year I had pneumonia and spent a few days in hospital so didn't feel up to cutting the hedges.I've kept the front tidy but the back hasn't been cut for a year and must be getting on for eight feet tall.The moaning old pensioner whose garden backs on to mine put a note through the door telling me to cut the hedge.F*** off you old git, get a hobby that doesn't involve gardening.It's too wide for him to cut right across so he wants it thinning out.

By leaving my side as nature intended I have blackbirds nesting in the hedge.I wonder how many prim and proper privet hedges have birds nesting in them ? I'm doing my bit for the wildlife so piss off you moaning old git.

 

I'd refer the meddling old git to The Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981

 

All birds, their nest and eggs are protected by the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981, and it is thus an offence to damage or destroy an active nest or prevent parent birds access to their nests.

 

In the case of birds such as the barn owl that are listed on Schedule 1 of the Act, it is an offence even to disturb the birds when at or near the nest.

 

A general licence, issued by the government, allows ‘authorised persons’ to kill or take roof-nesting feral pigeons in Britain, and house sparrows, starlings and feral pigeons in Northern Ireland, and destroy their nests, but only if it can be shown that action was necessary for the purpose of preserving public health.

 

An ‘authorised person’ is the owner or tenant of the land or property, or someone acting with the owner’s permission.

 

Because the licensing arrangements can change at any time, it is important that the relevant government department is consulted for up to date legal advice before any action is taken.

http://www.rspb.org.uk/advice/law/whats ... helaw.aspx

[jonathan_dyane]

Sorry to hear that Tone. In consolation I must say I loved you Steve Earle cover. Are you familiar with Richmond Fontaine?

[tonedepear]

Sorry to hear that Tone. In consolation I must say I loved you Steve Earle cover. Are you familiar with Richmond Fontaine?

 

Cheers fella. I'm not familiar, but I'm working on it now!

[RoadworkUK]

Has anybody tried to do 30 lately? Seems to be virtually impossible without getting overtaken or getting a Range Rover Evoque in your rectum. The 30 limit is the only one I feel properly guilty fracturing; has it become optional?

 

Also; very sorry to hear about your situation, Tone; I'd be crushed if things changed like that for me. Comfort pint available in North Essex if you need it.

[wuvvum]

Thursday before last, driving home from work, the traffic ground to a halt on a usually fairly fluid stretch of A road. Sat there doing nowt for ten minutes, then started to move slowly, till I eventually got to where plod had closed off the road because of an accident at a junction. There was a Ducato van sat there with its hazards on and a Kawasaki Ninja on its side on the verge.

 

Anyway, a few days later the usual boards went up at the side of the road - "Serious collision here, PM Thursday, any info to Police on 0845 whatever". Driving home from work today, the signs were still there in the same place, but "serious" had been changed to "fatal".

[dollywobbler]

Has anybody tried to do 30 lately? Seems to be virtually impossible without getting overtaken or getting a Range Rover Evoque in your rectum. The 30 limit is the only one I feel properly guilty fracturing; has it become optional?

 

Also; very sorry to hear about your situation, Tone; I'd be crushed if things changed like that for me. Comfort pint available in North Essex if you need it.

 

It wasn't until I moved from Birmingham that I realised that in other parts of the country, people actually DO obey the 30mph speed limit.

 

What really narks me is numpties who do 40-45mph everywhere. Regardless of speed limit. They potter along on fast roads, look all indignant if you have the cheek to overtake them at a fully legal 60mph, then tailgate you through 30mph zone areas, before disappearing in your mirror when you hit the NSL signs. Or you catch them just before a village, knowing there's a great overtake just the other side. However, you're doing the 30mph limit and they're still doing 40-45mph. By the time you reach that delightful overtake, they're around the next bend. Gah!