The grumpy thread

[chaseracer]

A few green caulises with coloured leaves at their tops and a box full with sweet brown lumps will sort it.

Has never failed on any woman.

Clearly, you have not met the unique and rather excellent Dr. Rachel Seabrook...

[jakebullet]

My dad's died. This means I won't see him for a 10 word conversation once every 2 years. Everyone thinks I'm a heartless git 'cos I'm not blubbing like a school girl. Being dead doesn't suddenly make him the best dad in the world.

 

N Cunty Bob the fucking builder next door has got cement on my disco. Bastard.

[John F]

My dad's died. This means I won't see him for a 10 word conversation once every 2 years. Everyone thinks I'm a heartless git 'cos I'm not blubbing like a school girl. Being dead doesn't suddenly make him the best dad in the world.

 

N Cunty Bob the fucking builder next door has got cement on my disco. Bastard.

 

I can appreciate that. My dad died last August... I didn't get too emotional over it either, we weren't as close as we could have been, but he was still my dad.

 

Cement on your Disco is another thing entirely... bastard! Smear dogshit on his door handles.

[myglaren]

Auto renewing shit. I wrote to a company asking them not to auto renew something, they never responded and I forgot about it until getting the invoice half an hour ago. They say they're taking the money on Monday - hopefully not Monday at 00:01 because their customer services don't open until office hours. 

 

Logged into their billing site, there's no option to cancel services on there (of course not) but I have changed my card details to gibberish which should hopefully slow them down a bit. 

 

I hate auto renewing stuff, it preys on the weak, forgetful and stupid. Which is unfortunate because I'm weak, forgetful and VERY VERY STUPID.

I generally get caught out with forgetting to cancel but this year I was up with the lark and phoned M&S to cancel ten days before renewal as most of them grab the cash a week early.

Spoke to a very charming young lady who was -no doubt under obligation- curious as to why I was cancelling.

I could get cover for half the price (although putting my son on boosted it to over £400)

She asked the usual questions and was quite concerned about his accident in May - last year.

It had taken a year to resolve and his claim was against the council, not an insurance company.

She renewed the policy for the same despite his accident and they didn't debit my account until four days after the start of the new policy.

Usually M&S make me grumpy but not on this occasion.

 

(I also had a new windscreen at their expense, went very smoothly and the Auto-Windscreen guy was first class).

 

 I appear to be posting in the wrong thread here.

 

OK - it's far too hot and the barbecues are driving me nuts.

No automotive grumps currently though - unless my driver's seat collapsing qualifies 

[myglaren]

The company I "work" for supplied us all with 50% thicker shirts at Easter.... they're black. Set o'cunts. I reckon I might go back on Monday in a grey "VIZ" (Johnny Fartpants or Sid the Sexist) shirt..

My company insists on us wearing their oompaloompah orange t shirts, but only supply one, which I wear on Monday morning.   Then change into one of my own, twice a day as I can't use any form of deodorant.  I chuck it in a sink of cold water about once an hour to provide evaporative cooling as the place is usually at 999.9ËšC when it isn't -276ËšK.  They turn a convenient blind eye although it is supposedly a disciplinary infraction not to wear the 'uniform'

[myglaren]

A few green caulises with coloured leaves at their tops and a box full with sweet brown lumps will sort it.

Has never failed on any woman.

Brussels sprouts?

[myglaren]

Garden-ists.

 

Why is it that every time we get more than two consecutive days or decent sunshine, everyone with anything more than a window box decide to give their grass a number 2 haircut every day?

Everywhere you go just now it's a cacophony of lawnmowers, electric shears and these really annoying strimmer things, revving and buzzing away, drowning out the radio, spreading pollen everywhere.

 

Sit the fuck down and chill the fuck out......

I'm sad to say that I am one of those, cut my grass a least twice a year 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Although we're all sick of me going on about it, here's the conclusion to the auto-renewing shit story. 

 

1. I email them asking them not to auto renew (no response). At this point I didn't think it auto renewed anyway, so no big deal.
2. They send me an invoice on Saturday, which will automatically bill me before their customer service desk opens. I log into their site and change my card details. 
3. I send a panic-y email to their customer service (no response)
4. Payment fails. I get an email about this then another about the unpaid invoice
5. They phone me about the unpaid bill. I demand cancellation. They email me a cancellation form. 
6. Next day, another unpaid invoice reminder (after the confirmation of cancellation)
7. Then, inexplicably, a credit note where it appears they are trying to refund the amount they never took from my fake credit card.
8. A new invoice arrives demanding a different sum of money, with no explanation. I ask and am told it is to cover the apparently undocumented one months' cancellation notice. 
9. I send a cheque because I don't want them having my bank details.

[TimothyClaypole]

My company insists on us wearing their oompaloompah orange t shirts, but only supply one, which I wear on Monday morning.   Then change into one of my own, twice a day as I can't use any form of deodorant.  I chuck it in a sink of cold water about once an hour to provide evaporative cooling as the place is usually at 999.9ËšC when it isn't -276ËšK.  They turn a convenient blind eye although it is supposedly a disciplinary infraction not to wear the 'uniform'

 

I've 3 shirts to last a week - you get fined for not wearing the uniform- I questioned only having 3 shirts and was told "So what?" - fine if you want people stinking like tramps.

 

I'm already wearing trousers, boots and a vis vest I bought myself due to the company stuff being shite.

[dome]

I have been offered what is for me the perfect job (bike store manager) in an up and coming company with big expansion plans which could be the best move in the world but the wages are low and I could barely survive on what I'd start on. Which makes me hate my current job even more, even though it pays better.

[Sigmund Fraud]

I've 3 shirts to last a week - you get fined for not wearing the uniform- I questioned only having 3 shirts and was told "So what?" - fine if you want people stinking like tramps.

 

 

You guys shouldn't complain of having to wear work uniform... At least, you're not surrounded by pretentious twits whose clothes cost more than your car !

[myglaren]

You guys shouldn't complain of having to wear work uniform... At least, you're not surrounded by pretentious twits whose clothes cost more than your car !

Got some of those here too.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

And only two star. My posts have been pinking all day. 

[daveb47]

Is that better for you...?

Going to have an awards system as well

[Spiny Norman]

Oh please no....

These new tags do nothing to enhance the forum IMHO, and they're just distracting, given they're bigger than the avatars.

 

 

Also, what's the point of them all saying "senior member" for everyone, whether it's someone with 10,000+ posts who joined years ago, or someone who joined a couple of weeks ago, with a dozen posts?

[daveb47]

Also, what's the point of them all saying "senior member" for everyone, whether it's someone with 10,000+ posts who joined years ago, or someone who joined a couple of weeks ago, with a dozen posts?

 

Give me a bit of time,its either do it all while motor is running or take board of t road while i sort it....So there

[Spiny Norman]

Dave, with the greatest of respect mate, what needs 'sorting'? Was something broken, has anyone actually asked for all these gizmos?

Personally I could do without all these likes, awards etc, and I already know I'm a member, ta.

[daveb47]

Has been suggested/asked for.

Maybe we need a poll?

[RedSparrow]

Why the McDonald's stars? Are we the blue forum now?

 

Mine are for cleaning the toilets and making the chips. I'm very proud.

[hairnet]

them awards thing make the pages longer to scroll

 

makes it hard when youre as near as dammit 56k

[Micrashed]

NHS also shite

I have 2 uniforms, due to OMG cost cutting exercises I cant get any more, every time I order them the order gets binned.

 

That said we are supposed to be going into scrubs which I fucking hate with a vengeance because no matter how hard you shake it the last drip always goes down your leg and shows up on pale blue pyjamas.

[SambaS]

Some foam fell out from behind my dash, I assume. I picked it up then put it back on the carpet to put in a bin later.. picked a friend up, forgot all about the foam now it is smushed into the carpet in 5 areas, but it aint turned to dust or stayed foam. OH NO! It's turned into a chewing gumesque-boot-polishy-non-foam-hybrid. FS. No hope of it ever coming out. Scrap the car!

[daveb47]

Great combination today,hot weather,hay fever & angina.

[Junkman]

You forgot to mention the hangover.

[daveb47]

You forgot to mention the hangover.

Wish i had one,might make me feel better.

[Junkman]

Gosh, you must feel like a pack of artificial honey in the sun.

I hope you get better soon.

[trigger]

Prove if it's ever needed that the Pistonheads forum is full of twats, after someone asking if there 20 year old RX7 was a classic and me saying it's a future classic someone pipes up to say this about my car.

 

IMHO Your Cortina isn't a classic because it's a Cortina (maybe if it's a Lotus Cortina that's different). There is no point in having the term 'classic' if it just means 'old'.

 

What a cock jockey.

[Junkman]

If 'tinas aren't classics I would like to learn the definition of the term.

[Spiny Norman]

If 'tinas aren't classics I would like to learn the definition of the term.

 

That very question seems to keep most classic car forums going indefinitely.

Someone asks 'Is my 'xxxxx' a classic?' and a mahoosive argument starts up, usually ending in a huge row after someone takes offence at the term 'Morris Oxford convertible' or mentions Top Gear.

 

[Junkman]

Yeah, but a Cortina? Gimme a fuggin break. Show me something that's more classic (OK, there is, but you get my drift).