The grumpy thread

[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.

[dean36014]

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.

I worked for Hermes very briefly 18 months ago using my own vehicle, got 45p a parcel, hence why it was briefly! I'm an experienced HGV driver and was managing 20 drops an hour in a built up area, so thats £9 an hour. Take away fuel, wear and tear, insurance and you can see why i told them to stick it after a week. Think its time the goverment stepped in and outlawed this sort of thing, its effectively slave labour. Its not just delivery the parcels either, its all delivered to you in dumpy bags, you have to then scan in every item, sort the parcels, print a manifest etc etc. This could take at least an hour before you even got around to loading the vehicle. It worked out at roughly £2 an hour max in total when you costed in every thing.

[maxpower]

I worked for Hermes very briefly 18 months ago using my own vehicle, got 45p a parcel, hence why it was briefly! I'm an experienced HGV driver and was managing 20 drops an hour in a built up area, so thats £9 an hour. Take away fuel, wear and tear, insurance and you can see why i told them to stick it after a week. Think its time the goverment stepped in and outlawed this sort of thing, its effectively slave labour. Its not just delivery the parcels either, its all delivered to you in dumpy bags, you have to then scan in every item, sort the parcels, print a manifest etc etc. This could take at least an hour before you even got around to loading the vehicle. It worked out at roughly £2 an hour max in total when you costed in every thing.

I applied  for multi-drop driving job... but the company wanted to put there logo on my van, fine i said as long as it is a magnetic sign, no they wanted to paint the company name and logo on the van. "Do i get paid for advertising your company?"

no

then i don't want the job.  tossers!

 

                                                                    

 

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[Mr Lobster]

Problem is that a lot of marketplaces - Amazon, eBay, Rakuten etc - already offer 'free' shipping and want third party sellers to offer 'free' shipping as well. Obviously nothing is actually free so the seller either increases the prices (which customers don't want) or ships using the cheapest possible method available. Hence shit service.

 

Everyone needs to accept that shipping isn't free and that you ultimately get what you pay for. I'm sure if given the choice most customers would rather pay an extra couple of quid in the knowledge that their item would be shipped via a reputable company who might not damage / lose / steal their item than getting free delivery from Yodel

[Pillock]

My company uses DHL for big things and Yodel for packets. Complaints about Yodel are drastically more common....

 

A while back I delivered parcels for a company I forget the name of. Basically loads of Next stuff. It was 50p per parcel or so but it was complete bollocks and they were constantly changing my area to one I didn't know so took longer.

 

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[Brent_Crude]

I've got this Glastonbury toss on the tely in the absence of anything much else on and it's just making me angrier the more I watch. You've got a pair of patronising, lispy helmets presenting interspersed with overhyped drivel representing the best of the current crop of Radio One approved artists, cheered on by a crowd of arrhythmic hipster bell ends wondering just how exactly one does go about holding a shit in for 5 days.

 

Time to watch that Arena documentary about the Cortina that someone posted.

[John F]

Had a break-in last night... some filthy scum ripped the tiles off the roof of my new garage, ripped out part of the roof structure and tried to nick whatever they could get.

 

Luckily the alarm went off and the bastards must have scarpered, but they've caused a fuckload of damage.

 

Angry doesn't even begin to describe how I feel

[drum]

That's a pisser john F. I'll put my trivial post elsewhere.

 

Someone in Forfar had their entire garage dismantled and stolen in broad daylight two weeks ago

[Cavcraft]

Sorry to hear that, John. I despise thieves, hope they get caught mate..

[John F]

There's sod-all chance of them getting caught, Billy.

 

And even if they were, at most they'd get a few weeks' board & lodging at the taxpayer's expense before they're back out ruining society again. A bullet's too good for these scum.

 

They'd struggle to dismantle mine drum, it's made out of concrete blocks...