The grumpy thread

[himoverthere]

Are they under tension?  It does seem odd, most of the ones I've seen around have gaffer tape and/or cracks and chips to some degree whereas the same generations of Fiestas, Escorts and Scorpios didn't seem to have this problem.

 

Made of bakelite I think. I had one, which came with a new bumper - not a mark on it when I got it at 11 years old, but in the paperwork there was an invoice for a new bumper.

 

One winter at the tip I got boxed in, as you do at the tip, but I reckoned I could get out. I knew I'd have to reverse very close to a bollard, which I couldn't see because it was so low - so I decided that I'd maximise my chance of getting out by reversing very slowly until I just felt the car nudge the bollard. I touched it at less than 1mph I reckon. Shattered the b*stard.

[himoverthere]

Found out today I'm paying 26p a day for nothing (on top of my gas). I have those card meters - I put 20 quid in a month, and it's take £16 and leaves me with £4 for actual gas.

So I'm not only paying for gas now, I'm paying 80% on this mystery 'tarriff', that the fella on the phone couldn't even explain where it went. I just want to pay £10 and have £10 worth of gas. (I'm also having the top up meters removed next month.)

This can't be right surely?

 

A house I used to live in had one of those. The service charge we paid counted for naff all when the battery in it packed up and we had no gas all weekend.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

 

Place your bets, what will Three call themselves in their next text message? That one Vodafone message leads to several months of texts, but Three (or 3, they can't decide) have taken the much more creative approach of never using the same name twice. Really gives a good first impression, keep it up!

[cobblers]

Three are (from my experience) an unprofessional set of ballbags that make the other dickhead networks look good in comparison. I hope you have better luck with them than I did.

[HillmanImp]

But they're three and do what they want, any old time. 

[SambaS]

Station I thought I was reading my own post about gas meters what a joke they are

[cms206]

My own fault so I shouldn't really grump; just had three lots of roadtax up today, all pre-2001, all more than 1549cc.

My ringpiece is stinging like a motherfucker.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Three are (from my experience) an unprofessional set of ballbags that make the other dickhead networks look good in comparison. I hope you have better luck with them than I did.

 

Everyone's told me that I'm only on PAYG so if they piss me off I can just chuck the SIM card down a drain. 

[vulgalour]

I'm still on an Orange PAYG sim card that's over a decade old. Interestingly, I no longer get cold calls offering me contracts with other providers, in fact I rarely even get any spam these days so perhaps the number has fallen out of circulation or something.  No idea.  Still can't plug the landline phone in unless I want to call out because of the excessive amount of phone calls from people I don't know trying to sell me things I don't want.

 

Could the gas meter thing be worth a call to the ombudsman or Watchdog or something?  They were doing that weird poor tax thing 15 years ago to me and wouldn't remove the meters because, amazingly, my income was considered too low and there was something like an £80 removal fee and then a further reconnection fee to switch to a direct debit or something.  Madness.

 

Current grump is that I shan't have my car on the road in time for the next RR meet which just happens to be on my birthday.  I'm also really narked with myself for failing utterly to sort this suspension out on my own, but I knew the risks when I bought the car, I just foolishly thought it would never happen to me.

[ShiteRider]

Fuckin' trick or treaters are a pain in the arse. I don't mind the little ones, up to about 7 or 8 years old, but sadly they're a minority.

The majority are gobshitey teenagers, the girls dressed like whores and the lads like satans' shoplifters. I know from experience i'm going to be awake all night as these dicks set fireworks off all night........

[Angrydicky]

I always turn all the lights off and spend the evening in front of a nice film, with my headphones in. Just finished watching Die Hard with a Vengeance, and now I'm listening to Judas Priest while perusing Autoshite. GR8.

[Wilko220]

I embraced the authentic Hallowe'en tradition by turning all the lights off and pretending I was out.

 

[skattrd]

I'm off work at the moment and am slowly getting some stuff done around the house. This week I've had a new boiler fitted which is gr9, that's not a grump though. It would appear that the plumber had knocked a pipe under the kitchen sink when turning the stop-cock off and caused a very minor leak. 2 days later I notice water seeping through the laminate floor in the kitchen (say what you like but I like laminate floor). I now have a chunk of the floor lifted and am trying to dry the floor out. I do not want to have to remove the sink, cooker and everything else to lift the rest of the floor to dry it out .... Bollocks, it feels like every-time I take one step forward there's another backwards.

I was supposed to be finishing off decorating the bathroom today and smoothing off the wall where the old boiler was. I just can't be arsed with any of it now.

[cort16]

There's something up with my Merc. It's down on power and doesn't feel like it's getting enough if any boost. Ghaa, No EML light on or smoke and it idles okay.

Off to the dealer next week and get it checked out. I need to bring the 520 back from the bowling club to fill in.

New cars are shit etc

[cort16]

the eml is on now. balls

[beko1987]

I'd fucking love that. Our last Bill was £125 combined. Next quarter it will probably top £350, but I won't know until they throw a dart at a board and multiply the answer by cheese

[ruffgeezer]

Viewing arranged on the Ax tonight, so yesterday I prep'd it, got all the paperwork together and made sure it ran up ok.

 

Viewing arranged for tonight a no show.

 

What the fuck is wrong with people these days? Is it no longer common courtesy to let people know that you aren't going to show up!

[Lankytim]

Ring the bastard up and ask where they are!

[Wilko220]

Viewing arranged on the Ax tonight, so yesterday I prep'd it, got all the paperwork together and made sure it ran up ok.

 

Viewing arranged for tonight a no show.

 

What the fuck is wrong with people these days? Is it no longer common courtesy to let people know that you aren't going to show up!

 

Where are you advertising it, just out of interest?

[Negative Creep]

Supposed to have someone come and view the Merc tomorrow. Place your bets now........

[ruffgeezer]

Where are you advertising it, just out of interest?

It's been on axoc, 106moaners, saxperience, the local Facebook sites, RR and here.

[Wilko220]

That's really bad then - I was assuming you we're talking about the usual Gumtree types, rather than supposed enthusiasts.

Hope you have more luck soon.

[Negative Creep]

The person who was going to view the Merc today never showed up. What a surprise.

 

 

 

So that's another perfectly good car I can't even give away. Does anyone know some nice offshore PPI or accident management companies who may be interested in certian mobile numbers?

[KruJoe]

It was sad when Yewtree announced they were after Rolf, now they're having a feel of Paul Gambaccini's collar.

[beko1987]

The IT system I test for my job is not going very well, and my mention of just hammering a larger system over the top at our big weekly meeting just now was met with blank faces.

 

FUCK EVERY1

[Rocket88]

"Hello, is that Dominoes"? 78 12" meat feasts delivered to the bastard who didn't show up to view my Merc /AX [delete where applicable], if you'd be so kind

[dugong]

"Hello, is that Dominoes"? 78 12" meat feasts delivered to the bastard who bid my car up near to the reserve and then tried to chip me down to virtually nothing over the phone because he was 'miles away' and despite being a project it 'needed lots of work', if you'd be so kind.

 

EFA

[dugong]

EFA

Hilariously, had he not argued and argued and argued over everything like the prize winning 'negotiator' he thought he was, I would have let the car go. Hard to take a phone chipper seriously when they haven't even seen the car in question. TIME WASTER.

 

Never mind. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victoire.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

A golden rule of shite dealing that one – ‘sorry, I’m not really up for discussing the price with folk who have not viewed it, come and have a look and we’ll talk however’ normally sends toss-pots scattering but rarely deters a serious punter I find.

[Negative Creep]

"Hello, is that Dominoes"? 78 12" meat feasts delivered to the bastard who didn't show up to view my Merc /AX [delete where applicable], if you'd be so kind

 

 

Not really fair on the people who have to make and deliver them though