The grumpy thread

[dugong]

Haven't been fully paid and the bank has kindly battered me for going over my overdraft. 

GREAT WORK, (work). 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Drove over to the storage place to find my car blocked in.

I did intend to give it a run out tonight to an open air screening of The Fast and the Furious.

 

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You might want to get it out of there before the badminton club arrive. They're going to be apoplectic when they see all those caravans parked on the court.

[beko1987]

Have had to move out of our flat temporarily due to a massive rat problem. Missus saw 3 run outfrom under the sofa, called her country bumpkin sister who extracted a whole nest. Pest controller is coming back tuesday, we are now living at my mums and we had to take eva to hospital last night to check she was ok (which she is) but the 90 miles I did last night have fucked my fuel budget, as have a few other emergency purchases and now we will be fucked in about a week, which is a week before payday.

 

And the XM has gone rock fucking hard again, an issue that I took my anger out on by driving very fast along a shit road last night to teach it a lesson. And It's become apparent to me how fucking shit the dipped beams are on it. Due to tiredness at 2am this morning I drove with the fogs on as well (which helped a bit), and blended right in... I think I should also go to an eye quacks as I'm blinded by everything coming the other way, to the point of slowing to 20 in a nsl to be safe as I went blind.

[Station]

Took week off to get four cars running/MOT'd/on the road:

 

In five days I wanted to get Nippa engine swap done, MOT'd and taxed, MR2's MOT'd and back in the garage until summer, Justy running OK, and Astra running and driving.

 

Put intercooler on Astra

Put bonnet back on Nippa

Took carb off Justy and put it back on again

MOT'd MR2 massive over-zealous MOT tester fail.

 

I could've done that in an afternoon. Complete waste of a week.

[overrun]

You might want to get it out of there before the badminton club arrive. They're going to be apoplectic when they see all those caravans parked on the court.

Looks like they already have. Bloody caravans and motorhomes everywhere.

[MrDuke]

I think I should also go to an eye quacks as I'm blinded by everything coming the other way, to the point of slowing to 20 in a nsl to be safe as I went blind.

 

Nah, that's normal with modern headlights - I regularly have 2- or 3-second 'blackouts' on B-roads from oncoming cars. Hurrah for modern safety measures!!

 

Also, I do sympathise with the rat problems, it's no fun at all. We had them (very briefly) at a previous house... fortunately one of my cats is an absolutely lethal killing machine, and they evacuated after a couple of days.

[oman5]

Our champion rat catcher moggy, Jasper, buggered off after we moved house. other cats we have had would leave mouse/rat corpses in the kitchen to show you how well they'd done. Jasper used to just eat the bloody things.

[beko1987]

Been tempted to borrow a cat. Been offered an elderly terrier for a few days too, is that the autoshite way?

[M'coli]

It'd make you feel like a boss, but might not help the rat problem!

[beko1987]

Fuck it, we could park that in the car park by the flat and live in it though, looks bigger than the flat

[SambaS]

By Jesus I don't half feel weird.

[Station]

Samba - get off internet. Go to doctor.

[RobT]

 

Did iTunes save all my data like they promised would happen? No.

 

 

Fuck them.

 

I once had an iPod and spent ages putting my old CDs onto it.  Then I tried to add some more a second time and it wiped the lot, as opposed to syncing and only adding the new ones.  Fuck them indeed.   I may have missed something but I spent ages trying to 'fix' it, and figured technology that takes that much effort to fathom is bollocks. 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Just eaten a lot of undercooked chicken because I can't read numbers.

 

uh oh

[Craig the Princess]

Sister-in-law has scrapped the Peugeot 306 1.4 she got from us

[beko1987]

I once had an iPod and spent ages putting my old CDs onto it.  Then I tried to add some more a second time and it wiped the lot, as opposed to syncing and only adding the new ones.  Fuck them indeed.   I may have missed something but I spent ages trying to 'fix' it, and figured technology that takes that much effort to fathom is bollocks. 

Thats why apple are shit. I only got for devices I can drag and drop shit onto, and sort it out how I want. I spent a year once manually renaming all my downloaded music so it looks good on an mp3 player, am never letting apple near it so they can fuck it all up.

[Tayne]

Spent pretty much the whole pissing day trying to make my iphone tether to my tablet, due to Apple's incredible fucking stupidity.

 

Does it work now? No. 

 

Fuck them.

 

 

Oh my, that is terrible!

The whole day, you say?

Due to Apple's incredible fucking stupidity, you say?

 

I can't understand why you wouldn't be able to do such a thing...

 

 

Erm, I sort of 'phoned my service provider before and I don't have tethering. Which probably explains why it wouldn't connect 

 

 

 

Oh well, now you've established that, you can have a rant about Apple's incredible fucking stupidity.

[Mr Livered]

My grump is about people who feel the need to be unpleasant and vaguely aggressive to people they encounter on the internet. Particularly when they're probably perfectly pleasant people in real life.

[MrDuke]

My grump is about people who feel the need to be unpleasant and vaguely aggressive to people they encounter on the internet. Particularly when they're probably perfectly pleasant people in real life.

 

F**K OFF YOU N00B W**KER

 

 

 

 

My grump: apparently it's fine to have a jolly good laugh when someone gets killed in a car crash, just as long as he's a bit famous and did some crap films.

[saucedoctor]

My grump is about people who feel the need to be unpleasant and vaguely aggressive to people they encounter on the internet. Particularly when they're probably perfectly pleasant people in real life.

I have a theory about this phenomenon. So much of the interpersonal communication we use is non-verbal, i.e., facial expression, hand movements and tone of voice. You can't really get a lot of that across with words on a screen (unless you know the person, er personally, and then you know what they're like). Therefore, some or most of the meaning is lost, and therefore open to some folks thinking that you're having a pop at them.

 

However, it should be noted that some people in fact are in fact total fuckdogs.

[Cavcraft]

Now now Alex Salmond whilst I don't wish to urinate on your thin slice of potato, fried (or detract from my own stupidity) but by the time I'd rang them the second time I'd sorted the first problem with my service provider.

I'd have also expected Apple to know what tethering was. Or provide the service they said they did.

I reckon that's 2-1 to them in the Stupid World Cup but I'm pretty sure I can get a late equaliser!

 

Smiley face l o l smiley face

[SambaS]

Samba - get off internet. Go to doctor.

Did that, its the fruits of that visit causing the weirdness.

 

Though by day 5 things would settle down. Feel a bit high. Really tired too.

[Cavcraft]

I think you're right in a way Sauce Doctor but sadly because of the facelessness of the Internet it's become far too easy to gob off.

 

I'm going to blame social media for a lot of it as its so easy to become keyboard Conan and lie a lot. Think about it, we're all ( believe) smart enough to know the script, but anyone of us could join any forum we wanted on the net, from a sort of top dollar earner to a gun toting hard man. Once a handful of people get away with acting like a knob on the net it almost becomes the norm and this open season for every sad wanker to do the same.

It does flair up from time to time on here but as a rule it's not often thankfully.

[Craig the Princess]

My grump: apparently it's fine to have a jolly good laugh when someone gets killed in a car crash, just as long as he's a bit famous and did some crap films.

 

The reaction to this had been an odd mix of the immediate jokes that follow any famous person being killed and a mass outpouring of grief which (to me) seems pretty OTT.

[Cavcraft]

Stupid phone

[Station]

Also don't trust ITunes. It makes it too difficult to sync music. I have too lost all my music thanks to an overly-zealous ITunes. It doesn't let you sync on more than one PC. I needed to go home in 1/4 of an hour, and it took 3/4 of an hour as it HAD to sync all my apps and my settings. I needed a bit o' Cannibal Corpse for the drive home, but fuck you ITunes. The sting in the tail came when it attempting to sync and somehow destroyed my hard drive because the silly sodding program hung during syncing. I also like seeing the history of what songs I have listened to. If there is a discrepancy between Itunes libray and your IPod/Iphone, it'll reset everything. God, it really does suck.

 

I will use Mediamonkey which allows you to drag and drop, without worrying about having to sync like ITunes has a habit of, but also the 'friendly' functionality of Itunes.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Itunes and iPhoto are the biggest crocks of shite i have ever encountered. As soon as i plug the digi camera into the flipping 'puter it starts grabbing all the photos and organising them as it sees fit. Then i have to 'export' the bastards one by one if i actually want to do owt with 'em. FUCK OFF!

[Caffiend]

A Netizen's guide to Flame Warriors (should possibly go in grin, suits here though. I'll just grump about the horribleness of the word 'Netizen'. The Flame Warriors are quite amusing though).

[Inspector Morose]

Did that, its the fruits of that visit causing the weirdness.

 

Though by day 5 things would settle down. Feel a bit high. Really tired too.

 

Depends what the Doc has put you on but it can take up to a couple of weeks for the weirdness to settle. Make sure you keep an eye on any strange side effects - one I had left me humming to myself constantly and chewing my bottom lip all the time. Don't panic. If it doesn't settle, it might be that that particular one isn't for you and there are plenty for the doc to choose from!

 

Stay in there SambaS!

[saucedoctor]

iTunes smokes the fat one. Also, I'm having a CUNT of a day setting up server side junk mail filters for a client because his SPAZZPhone 5S can't do it. An 80 quid BlackBerry can do it, and do it well.

Fuck Apple. I'm taking another trip to the US and A about April anyway. While I'm there this time, I'm gonna dig up Steve "Blow" Jobs and chuck stones at his festering corpse.