The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

Ebay mongtards. I had the good fortune to win a prized 17 inch knobbly for the back of my dominator, not critical just at the moment but I thought I'd get in whilst the price was right.

Signed in tonight and found a message from the seller saying that the item has been re-listed as it didn't make the non fucking existent) reserve. What a cockspanner.

 

You need to leave him bad feedback for it, then bid again and repeat the process.

[Micrashed]

You need to leave him bad feedback for it, then bid again and repeat the process.

And you need to let us know the item number so we can bid it up to the stratosphere and then not pay and message him SRY M8 Thort it would fit my Reliant

[hairymel]

I have no idea what colour you wanted to spray your Talbot in, but I sure as fugg know that that Fiat coupe would be that colour now had I been you.

 

someone else's customer - so not really fair game.

 

and i was throwing paint around in a 'public' thoroughfare

 

was a bit frustrated though, all good now (until i see how the paint turned out )

[Junkman]

Nothing is more exciting than watching paint dry.

[chaseracer]

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The current Thomas Cook 'adverts' on the haunted fish tank; didn't Jimmy Nesbitt used to be an actor...? 

[Cavcraft]

As lazy as I might* sometimes* appear to be, I would like to be able to DO MY EFFING JOB with equipment from the last 400 years or so, thanks.

[Sigmund Fraud]

Bugger... A boredom-induced, cheeky bid has made me the proud* owner of yet another scruffy 700 series Volvo

[vulgalour]

My PC is out of action again.  Since February (when I moved into my parents' house) it has eaten a motherboard and two graphics cards.  The most recent graphics card death is odd because it all worked fine when my friend in Sheffield fixed it, I even used the computer and played on it for a bit.  However, by the time I'd driven home (sensibly avoiding the M1 and all the associated drama, happy coincidence that) and plugged the PC in the graphics card had died.  How this happened I have no idea and there seems to be no logical reason for it.

 

Most annoying of all about this is the fact that I can't get to any of my photographs that are locked away on the hard drive on my PC so I can't do my blog and other updates that I'd like to.  I'm also stifled as to how much work I can do - because I'm slowly returning to work now, which is a good thing - as all my references and contact details are also locked up in my other PC.  Oh well, just another big expense to add to the list.

[cort16]

The BBC and it's wall to wall coverage of Glastonbury. TV, Radio1, Radio2 and Radio6 all CONTSTANTLY going on about bloody Glastonbury.

It's not that I don't want to watch it on the telly or whatever but every single employee of the BBC seems to be heading there and it's all they seem to bloody go on about.

[retrogeezer]

Glasto, the most uncool cool festival ever...

[Station]

I hear the tickets sell out every year in minutes, and all are bought by ticket touts and people called Miles who take their horrid hippy kids and get drunk on wine at a music festival while spending the entire weekend in a tent that cost more than my entire outing watching awesomeness at Donnington Monsters Of Rock 1996.

I'd rather spend a weekend at the Auschwitz Festival 1941 than with these awful people.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

My PC is out of action again.  Since February (when I moved into my parents' house) it has eaten a motherboard and two graphics cards.  The most recent graphics card death is odd because it all worked fine when my friend in Sheffield fixed it, I even used the computer and played on it for a bit.  However, by the time I'd driven home (sensibly avoiding the M1 and all the associated drama, happy coincidence that) and plugged the PC in the graphics card had died.  How this happened I have no idea and there seems to be no logical reason for it.

 

Most annoying of all about this is the fact that I can't get to any of my photographs that are locked away on the hard drive on my PC so I can't do my blog and other updates that I'd like to.  I'm also stifled as to how much work I can do - because I'm slowly returning to work now, which is a good thing - as all my references and contact details are also locked up in my other PC.  Oh well, just another big expense to add to the list.

 

Are you sure the power supply is working okay? A faulty one can mess up components if its output is erratic. 

[Mr Lobster]

Agreed on Glasto, to me it has all the appeal of spending a weekend shoving wasps up my arse.

[RedSparrow]

I hear the tickets sell out every year in minutes, and all are bought by ticket touts and people called Miles who take their horrid hippy kids and get drunk on wine at a music festival while spending the entire weekend in a tent that cost more than my entire outing watching awesomeness at Donnington Monsters Of Rock 1996.

I'd rather spend a weekend at the Auschwitz Festival 1941 than with these awful people.

 

Add VW campers and novelty wellington boots and you are spot on.

[Cavcraft]

I'd love to see the Rolling Stones but the thought of sharing a field with crusty, dreadlocked 'hipsters' and twats with posh wellies fills me with loathing. I'd be also willing to bet the posh willies kids call them by their first name and equally the parents call them 'guys'.

If I ever, EVER go anywhere with my kids and shout out 'hey guys' in their direction then I would fully deserve to be beaten half to death with a BFO spade.

[Spiny Norman]

With the best will in the world I can't imagine the Stones will sound anything like as good as they did in their heyday, I was lucky enough to see them in Glasgow about 30 years ago  and I'd hate to go again and be disappointed.

[Junkman]

I had no idea they sounded good in their heyday.

[vulgalour]

@Conrad:  Brand new power supply that hasn't shown any signs of being faulty.  I'm told there's nothing wrong with it by people more in the know than I.  I'm just going to buy a new computer when I have the funds and put up with the current bodge.  I'm just not sure which route I'm going as the computer was a little bit overspecced for what I need so a laptop might be a more sensible replacement and may well be cheaper.

[SambaS]

Wrong thread but when a young lad heading to glasto with his 60 year old father requested Gimmie Shelter i had a bit of a moment in my Transit Connect. They weren't camping. They had a teepee

[garethj]

I strayed onto Pistonheads forum.  If they allowed signatures on there, I'd have "I know you like your new BMW diesel but can you stop bringing the subject into every discussion?  You're like a fucking Munich evangelist"

[cort16]

Wrong thread but when a young lad heading to glasto with his 60 year old father requested Gimmie Shelter i had a bit of a moment in my Transit Connect. They weren't camping. They had a teepee

You didn't hear it on the BBC by any chance?

[Doctormop]

I'd love to see the Rolling Stones but the thought of sharing a field with crusty, dreadlocked 'hipsters' and twats with posh wellies fills me with loathing. I'd be also willing to bet the posh willies kids call them by their first name and equally the parents call them 'guys'.

If I ever, EVER go anywhere with my kids and shout out 'hey guys' in their direction then I would fully deserve to be beaten half to death with a BFO spade.

 

Last weekend I encountered 'The modern parents' on tour and Cressida (Earth mother) insisted on calling bored looking Tarquin and Guinivere "Team", at every opportunity, was seriously tempted to force feed them all tofu and make negative gestures at them through the medium of mime,

[TimothyClaypole]

4 days off work on holiday, someone else did one of my items but just put "unable to test" - through being a lazy hippy not through any proper reason so I get said item passed to me to test properly... thanks.

[skattrd]

Yodel - the worst delivery company ever.

Yesterday my parcel wasn't delivered as I was out, today it wasn't delivered as it is now damaged. The parcel is at my local depot but they won;t allow me to inspect it and check whether the contents are undamaged or not. I reckon they've stolen them.

 

I avoid Amazon as they use Yodel (3 packages lost/not delivered around Xmas) and I shall not be using Pixmania now as they also use them.

[Spiny Norman]

Somebody told me that Yodel pay their delivery drivers something like 75p a delivery, using their own vehicle and fuel?

If that's true, no bloody wonder they 'supplement' their wages by pinching the odd box.

 

It's our fault really. No-one wants to pay for anything nowadays so it's little wonder when the service you get for what is often free delivery is so pants.

[messerschmitt owner]

I'm disappointed that the bbc seems to have absolutely no coverage of Glastonbury whatsoever. Here it is, one of the world's greatest music festivals and there's hardly a mention on the beeb of it. How could they have missed such an iconic music event and have nothing about it on any of their tv or radio channels.

[Wilko220]

I read in the paper earlier that the BBC is supposed to be running more coverage of Glastonbury this year than it ever has.

[messerschmitt owner]

I read in the paper earlier that the BBC is supposed to be running more coverage of Glastonbury this year than it ever has.

I think their coverage is the same. It's just the amount of adverts about it that has gone up exponentially.

[Cavcraft]

Don't worry, it got mildly patronised by Chris Evan and Alex 'listen to me, I'm even Welsher today' Jones on R2 this morning.

 

Incidentally Amazon do seem to be incredibly toss these days. My lad ordered something so long ago (he thinks nearly four months) he forgot about it. It arrived yesterday, along with something my daughter ordered (separately and from a different seller) that was packed by a limbless peasant using a damp 10p mix paper bag.

[Richard]

Yodel - the worst delivery company ever.

 

Incorrect. DX, formerly SMS, is the worst delivery company ever. They used to deliver concert tickets and routinely delivered them after the concert was over.