The grumpy thread

[trigger]

Should you really be posting your name, address and bank sort code on the interweb?.

[SambaS]

its okay... what is someone going to do? pay me? 

[Richard]

Should you really be posting your name, address and bank sort code on the interweb?.

 

I'm glad he did, because there's a £30k bill in the post for putting that bastard song in my head.

[dollywobbler]

Wash out your brain with this very silly Rihanna-featuring-sort-of video by Cosmo Jarvis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we5N6yVKWY0

[TimothyClaypole]

Ebayer's cancelling auctions. 

 

Get all pumped up then they pull the rug from under you.

 

"This listing was ended by the seller because the item is no longer available." - so it was just something to pass the time and spend money on or what.

 

 

 

And the VW ad with the crying kids, if I wanted to listen to kids crying I'd take a RyanAir flight to Bratislava/Birmingham....

[Negative Creep]

Ebayer's cancelling auctions. 

 

Get all pumped up then they pull the rug from under you.

 

"This listing was ended by the seller because the item is no longer available." - so it was just something to pass the time and spend money on or what.

 

 

 

Or he could have just sold it elsewhere

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

its okay... what is someone going to do? pay me? 

 

I read a letter in a newspaper where an old woman said she would never give up her cheques in favour of e-bank transfers because she didn't want to give her bank details to strangers. I think she'd never noticed the little numbers on the bottom of her cheques, or even given a moments thought as to how a cheque works. 

[autofive]

ebay sellers often sell elsewhere to avoid the nasty ebay fees

 

moral: if you want something, get in touch with the seller early on and do the deal. dont wait for the end 'to grab a bargain', because there are no bargains on ebay

[purplebargeken]

Never, ever, ever throw away your really knackered camera with the 8G memory card still inside. Fuck, fuck, fucketty fuck.

[purplebargeken]

VA, try these as an alternative to the fuckwits at Royal Mail:

 

http://www.parcel2go.com/

 

They have done me proud on numerous occasions.

[sporty-shite]

106 failed MOT last week. Now, that's not my grump, I fully expected it to, and being as it's 19 years old, it isn't a big surprise. So why the grump?

 

Got a new front pipe to replaced the, frankly, fucked and multiply bodged one that was on it. Not too bad up to now. Then it pissed down for most of the back end of last week. So, finally, today, I could make a start on the MOT jobs, first one being to stop it sounding like a punctured whoopie cushion being sat on by Kerry Katona.

 

So, the pipe comes off, no bother. No seized bolts or snapped studs. I thought, "this is going too well". And it was.

 

The welded-in piece of threaded tube that carries the lambda sensor hed been re-welded in a previous bodge. But, they'd gone a bit skew-wiff and welded in the sensor. Arse. Phoned around, and managed to get one in Warrington. By this time, the car was stripped, and I needed to use it this afternoon, so I took Mrs S's 306, and whizzed off, so I could be back before she went to work.

 

£50 later, I was back. Got new sensor out of box, went to screw it into new exhaust, and lo and behold, there was a big splat of weld on the threads of the sensor carrier, meaning I couldn't get the fucking thing in. By this time, Mrs S was on her way to work, I had a car in bits, and kids to collect from nursery in about 90 minutes.

 

Conclusion: car rebuilt with old exhaust, still sounds like a Z list celebrity with flatulence, and I have to go and get a replacement exhaust in the morning, which I'll have to fit tomorrow night when Mrs S comes home from work, as I'm looking after youngest rascal all day tomorrow.

 

Arsebiscuits.

[Pillock]

its okay... what is someone going to do? pay me? 

 

Jeremy Clarkson once had a rant in his newspaper column about how safe banks were, and how there's no risk whatsoever in publishing your sort code and account number.

 

Within the day, someone had set up a direct debit to a charity 

[Richard]

Wash out your brain with this very silly Rihanna-featuring-sort-of video by Cosmo Jarvis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we5N6yVKWY0

 

That did the trick, I'd forgotten all about Cosmo Jarvis. I still have absolutely no idea who or what Rihanna is and I'm hoping to keep it that way.

[jakebullet]

Evil-bastard-bay's latest cunning plan of adding final value fee to the postage.

 

Marvelous! Royal fail bill is £800 in a quiet month, so why should I pay ebay an additional £80 for doing the square root of bugger all? Arsebiscuits!

[phil_lihp]

The unique way that Royal Mail does things now is baffling. 

 

I've been selling a lot of bike and computer parts lately and can thoroughly recommend Parcel2Go as well, cheaper options than RM, collection the next day from the office and often better insurance etc.  A number of visits to the post office with small, lightweight packages have left me looking at the counter staff with a wide-eyed, open-mouthed look of horror when they cheerfully inform me that the cheapest delivery option is just shy of the amount the item sold for plus my wildly optimistic postage fee.

[TimothyClaypole]

The Post Office I use is now empty when I do go in to get molested.  

 

Good work Royal Mail.

[phil_lihp]

I feel bad complaining about it, any courier really does provide an amazing service getting a parcel of more or less any size and weight to a specific address anywhere in the country within 24 hours (usually) unharmed.  The unfortunate fact though is that Citylink, UPS etc. can pick it up from you, insure it and deliver it within 24 hours for considerably less than the Royal Mail and you don't have to queue for half an hour to do it.

[Richard]

The Royal Mail will be gone soon anyway. It's been put up for sale (they buried that news under some story about MPs' wages) so one of the big couriers will buy it to shut it down.

[cobblers]

Speaking of crazy flipping courier madness, at work we order a load of stuff from Farnell - just electronic components. They're not that cheap really but they are fairly reliable and stock a lot of stuff, but the way they send and pack things is mental.

 

Yesterday I ordered 4 DIP 8 ICs from them (10mm x 8mm each) that cost about 2 quid each.

 

They came in a 36 inch long IC tube, packed in a 26"x12"x9" box. From Belgium, next day UPS delivery.

 

This shit happens twice a week at least, so they must somehow still make money from it, and yet to send the same box within the UK via royal mail would probably cost over £20.

[cort16]

I went to change the light switch in the bathroom as the light flickers sometimes. I'ts one of those pulley down ones. When I took it off there were 5 wires. 1 of them was green (the earth) and the other are all red with three of them screwed into the same port. WTF. I just screwed it back on.

[myglaren]

Speaking of crazy flipping courier madness, at work we order a load of stuff from Farnell - just electronic components. They're not that cheap really but they are fairly reliable and stock a lot of stuff, but the way they send and pack things is mental.

 

Yesterday I ordered 4 DIP 8 ICs from them (10mm x 8mm each) that cost about 2 quid each.

 

They came in a 36 inch long IC tube, packed in a 26"x12"x9" box. From Belgium, next day UPS delivery.

 

This shit happens twice a week at least, so they must somehow still make money from it, and yet to send the same box within the UK via royal mail would probably cost over £20.

I used to get stuff from Farnell and RS and that was pretty much par for the course.

[cobblers]

I used to get stuff from Farnell and RS and that was pretty much par for the course.

I don't mind like cos the bloke in dispatch is always happy for the boxes, the mind boggles when the daily £40-50 order from each of them, with enough stuff to barely fill a pint glass turns up in 3 or 4 different shoeboxes via all kinds of different couriers from all over europe. 

 

Last week I ordered 350 cheap LEDs, something like 6p a piece. They turned up packed individually in anti static bags, each wrapped in a static dissipative bubble wrap bag - it took two lads 45 minutes to unpack them and tip them into a tub so we could actually use them.

[retrogeezer]

Evil-bastard-bay's latest cunning plan of adding final value fee to the postage.

 

Seriously??  How can they be adding a fee to someone elses business?

[Pillock]

I don't mind like cos the bloke in dispatch is always happy for the boxes, the mind boggles when the daily £40-50 order from each of them, with enough stuff to barely fill a pint glass turns up in 3 or 4 different shoeboxes via all kinds of different couriers from all over europe. 

 

Last week I ordered 350 cheap LEDs, something like 6p a piece. They turned up packed individually in anti static bags, each wrapped in a static dissipative bubble wrap bag - it took two lads 45 minutes to unpack them and tip them into a tub so we could actually use them.

 

My place used to get loads of stuff like that, but sometimes in the thousands for some SMD resistors and caps. They'd all get unpacked and put in the same storage bin, not one of them gets touched, and a year later some bugger has to count them for an audit...! 

 

I went to change the light switch in the bathroom as the light flickers sometimes. I'ts one of those pulley down ones. When I took it off there were 5 wires. 1 of them was green (the earth) and the other are all red with three of them screwed into the same port. WTF. I just screwed it back on.

 

Sounds normal. Switch housing is earthed, and it's just an inny and an outy - pull cord and they get connected together. 

If you've only got one bathroom light, it means the three-wire one is the inny and it just has more lighting circuits daisychained to it (like the landing, bedroom, perhaps loft or something).

 

(Note, inny and outy are not proper electricians terms)

[nacho man]

Speaking of crazy flipping courier madness, at work we order a load of stuff from Farnell - just electronic components. They're not that cheap really but they are fairly reliable and stock a lot of stuff, but the way they send and pack things is mental.

 

Yesterday I ordered 4 DIP 8 ICs from them (10mm x 8mm each) that cost about 2 quid each.

 

They came in a 36 inch long IC tube, packed in a 26"x12"x9" box. From Belgium, next day UPS delivery.

 

This shit happens twice a week at least, so they must somehow still make money from it, and yet to send the same box within the UK via royal mail would probably cost over £20.

I work for ups and big companies that send loads get great deals, say £6 anything upto 15kg, next day.

 

Sometimes loads cheaper. The bigger the better deal they will do.

[cort16]

Sounds normal. Switch housing is earthed, and it's just an inny and an outy - pull cord and they get connected together. 

If you've only got one bathroom light, it means the three-wire one is the inny and it just has more lighting circuits daisychained to it (like the landing, bedroom, perhaps loft or something).

 

(Note, inny and outy are not proper electricians terms)

 

Cheers that makes sense (I think). The switch I bought screwy in bit for the inny's won't take all 3 lives as it's too small.  The switch has 2 ports on one side and one on the other (negative I guess). Is the 2nd port to drive another device like a fan or something. I really know nothing about electricity I still sacrifice a chicken everytime the guy reads the meter.

[Pillock]

I'm going to just sort of suggest if you're not au fait with electrickery, might be best not to meddle.

 

You don't get positives and negatives on mains power, but you can think of the three wire "inny" like a car earth.... It's just a live part, so if a switch or light nearby needs a live feed you can tap into it. Sounds like two other devices have tapped into the live, given you only have one light that comes on.

 

Alternatively, like you suggest, you can use your new switch the other way and have one live connected to two devices which both go off when you pull the cord.

 

Please don't die. Mains scares the hell out of me.

[trigger]

My mate frazzled himself a couple of years back whilst wiring up his living room light switch, when he switched it on he got a zap that blasted him into the opposite wall. Luckily he was ok but he had to walk around with a hard on for the rest of the week.

[cort16]

I've nearly blown myself enough times to normally realise when I'm out of my depth. The Mrs's Dad's a spark so I'll need to try to lure him over to have a look at it.

[anonymous user]

My mate frazzled himself a couple of years back whilst wiring up his living room light switch, when he switched it on he got a zap that blasted him into the opposite wall. Luckily he was ok but he had to walk around with a hard on for the rest of the week.

 

I suppose it's cheaper than Viagra, did his missus make him do it again the following week?