The grumpy thread

[vulgalour]

What about now?

[Junkman]

The wheel nut thing has become a grump of it's own now.  Seriously guys, it's someone tampering with my cars, it's not because I've forgotten to do the nuts up or I've got the wrong bits on the car or the car magically undoes its own nuts.

That, my friend, is no fun at all. It's downright malicious. Please be careful. I wish I could help you somehow.

[trigger]

Have you thought about painting the nuts after you've tightened them?, any damage to the fresh paint would highlight any malicious activity.   

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I wasn't joking about pointing a CCTV camera at it. Someone you don't know is repeatedly tampering with your car and you don't know what their motive is. You don't know if they'll end up cutting your brakes, torching the car, swapping the lenses in your 3D glasses so it looks like Avatar is running away from you, or worse. 

[Lankytim]

Can't you check them every time you go out in it? I would!

[RedSparrow]

Just found out that there will be builders all over the block where I live right through to the end of August. Scaffolding right outside the window so I have to keep the blinds closed. The building company have decided to hire that special breed of builder where they make massive amounts of noise whilst acheiving very little (I have worked in construction so I know a bit about it). Oh, and Czech builders like to start at 6am.
This is going to be a great summer.

[autofive]

Just found out that there will be builders all over the block where I live right through to the end of August. Scaffolding right outside the window so I have to keep the blinds closed. The building company have decided to hire that special breed of builder where they make massive amounts of noise whilst acheiving very little (I have worked in construction so I know a bit about it). Oh, and Czech builders like to start at 6am.

This is going to be a great summer.

 

often local councils will place a limit on the hours worked on site. ask your local council if they have such a restriction in place, as contractors will ignore it if no one complains

[Junkman]

The Rover is at my local garage since Monday morning for some odds and ends to be sorted before going on a bigger trip planned for next weekend.

Most things are sorted since Monday afternoon, apart from the oil change. It looks like a black hole has opened and swallowed all pre-1976 Rover V8 oil filters. After two wrong ones being delivered, we now hope the correct one will arrive tomorrow.

My wife has requisitioned the Peugeot, so I have to cycle forth and back to work, which means it rains twice a day for half an hour.

[M'coli]

Back to the noiseless electric car grump - it's all very well saying keep your eyes peeled etc., but blind people use the streets and need to cross the roads too.

[Spiny Norman]

Back to the noiseless electric car grump - it's all very well saying keep your eyes peeled etc., but blind people use the streets and need to cross the roads too.

 

I bet more deaf people cross the roads unaided.   

[RedSparrow]

often local councils will place a limit on the hours worked on site. ask your local council if they have such a restriction in place, as contractors will ignore it if no one complains

 

I think as a hangover from communist times you basically have no right to reply and no-one would ever question it anyway - the building co-op commitee have decided and so that's that. They would probably laugh in my face if I said anything!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I've not had feedback from the last eight things I've sold on eBay, that's unsettling because they're the first batch of items I've sent from a different post office than usual. I hope I've not been scammed by a fake post office. 

 

Thinking back, it did look like this and was staffed by a seven year old: 

[RedSparrow]

Ah I had that Post Office!
I bloody loved it!

[Mr Lobster]

I wouldn't worry, I reckon we only get feedback from about 40% of eBay buyers these days. Mildly annoying but not really worth getting wound up over. 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I don't really mind not getting the feedback itself, but I like the acknowledgement that the item's arrived, the buyer's happy and I don't have to worry about it anymore. 

[retrogeezer]

You don't leave feedback when you shop in town, now that ebay is a just another on-line supermarket for just about anything I don't see why it should really be any different.

 

Back in the good old days when it was collectors trading stuff you needed to know how genuine the seller of a 30 year old electronic game was but feedback for mobile phone case/battery/charger/second hand book for £2 posted just ain't worth the time.

[Lacquer Peel]

Isn't the money on paypal 'locked' til the seller gets positive feedback? I imagine that's frustrating for a private seller selling a high value item.

[autofive]

Isn't the money on paypal 'locked' til the seller gets positive feedback? I imagine that's frustrating for a private seller selling a high value item.

 

 

 

PayPal is changing its payment holds, meaning we can better safeguard sellers with good selling records and encourage new sellers to offer the same high fulfillment standards.

Starting on July 15th, access to your buyers’ payments in PayPal may be delayed by up to 21 days. This applies to you if you’re a new seller and you’ve been selling on eBay.co.uk for less than 90 days, you’ve made fewer than 25 transactions in total or you’ve generated less than £165 in total sales.

Your buyers’ payments in PayPal may also be held if you’ve previously been suspended or are currently below standard.

You can access your PayPal funds earlier by uploading tracking information and indicating when your item has been dispatched.

[trigger]

I've noticed the last few items I've bought via paypal on ebay have said that the money won't come out of my bank until a certain date to allow the item to get to me, this is a pain as although I've bought the item the money won't come out of the bank until next week.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

You don't leave feedback when you shop in town, now that ebay is a just another on-line supermarket for just about anything I don't see why it should really be any different.

 

Back in the good old days when it was collectors trading stuff you needed to know how genuine the seller of a 30 year old electronic game was but feedback for mobile phone case/battery/charger/second hand book for £2 posted just ain't worth the time.

 

Imagine that, one of those red LED displays above the door of every business displaying their feedback. Mandatory. If that doesn't keep people out of Arnold Clark, nothing will. 

 

Anyway, I'm not one of those guys knocking out half a million iphone cases every day. I'm just selling my old stuff person to person and the typewritten address label and friendly handwritten thankyou note should tip off the buyer that the sale couldn't be any more personal if the Haynes manual they bought had been hand knitted by their grandmother.

[cort16]

Still No.

[nigel bickle]

Look what I found this morning.  Why do people do this? Tis only an 'old car' isnt it...

 

Soz. Bit emotional.  Spent last night in hosp with poorly Mrs.  Just heaps a bit more onto a crap day

 

Boot print is quite clear -so I drove striaght to the Rozzers. Its got a tiny 'smudge' where he twisted as he came off the door; thus SOCO cant 'use' it -because of that. ''No further action''.

 

[Junkman]

Oh ffs, man. I hope nothing serious with the missus?

[HillmanImp]

Oh no, thats rubbish! What a twunt whoever did that is.

 

Hope the Mrs gets well soon too.

[nigel bickle]

Sadly -very.

[trigger]

What tossers, more importantly I really hope Mrs Nigel pulls through for you, best wishes to you all.

[Wilko220]

This made me cross.

Sainsbury's should have backed this checkout assistant and told the ignorant prick of a customer to, indeed, fuck off to Waitrose.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23158579

[Cavcraft]

What a stupid little idiot to do something like that, the mind truly boggles.

 

All the very best wishes and good luck for Mrs B.

[vulgalour]

Condolences, Mr Bickle, on all fronts.  I do hope Mrs Bickle gets better soon.

[Mr Lobster]

Not good all round Nigel. Hope things get better.