The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

Didn't that post say something else a moment ago?

 

Yes I was trying to make light of a comment you made earlier but I spazzed up by not replying in time and my phone froze.

[MrDuke]

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.

 

As FBP7 said, it can take quite a while for your body to adjust to new meds. In the past, it's taken me around 2 weeks on average to get past the 'weird' side-effects of new drugs (including the ones that made me switch from deep sleep to total alertness in about half a second, several times a night - or the ones that made me sit drumming my feet on the floor for ages without even noticing). In an ideal world (where they weren't remotely busy), GPs would be checking on you every few days to monitor the effects, however in reality it's important that you go back to see them if you're really uncomfortable with the way the drugs make you feel.

[chaseracer]

...it's important that you go back to see them if you're really uncomfortable with the way the drugs make you feel.

This also applies if you've been on them for a while and start to feel a bit weird/shit/odd/fucking homicidal toward the knobjockey in the Jaaaaaag who cuts you up on the A38.

 

How very topical...

 

[HillmanImp]

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.

 

Shirley people just make jokes about anything that's in the news. I remember loads of jokes about that young lass that got killed by sledging on a Land Rover Discovery roof a few years ago, she was not famous or owt.

 

Obviously if some random guy you don't know crashes his VW Golf into a tree and dies then there is not much material there so pretty much no jokes will be made (although as I wrote that it did make me think of 'World Class Leaderboard'). However if its a big enough news story with an angle on it for some some 'humour' then it will happen.

 

Not saying anything about the quality of the 'jokes' of course.

[TimothyClaypole]

Apple are the best.

 

(I have no Apple products) but have an account from ages ago.

 

Attempting to get into said account as I was sure I had some credit there from some ITunes cards I got for free in the past I now have access to some random blokes account, would be great but all he has is hundreds of single tracks from all the Now albums... cheapskate. 

 

Still it's a nice complement to the Amazon account I have also in some woman's name.

 

 

I emailed both companies but heard nothing back.  Secure servers my arse.

[Station]

Yeah, don't worry Samba, you'll be fine, it's just your body adjusting. My mate had this, and they eventually reduce the dosage, to the point of giving you a placebo possibly. In a few day's time, all your anxiety will be forgotten about.

[dugong]

+1 on how appalling iTunes is. 

*waits for that Apple apologist (not Tayne, although my respect for him has gone down slightly) to berate us for not having a brand new iPod 'set up right' and to claim that a 'factory fresh iPod can't wipe out your existing song library' even though that's exactly what my 4G 20 did the first time I tried to sync it with my PC. 

It got deleted that same night and SharePod installed in its place. Never had an issue since, even with my 'junk, stupid, useless' PC. Or any other PC, thinking about it. 

[dugong]

Unfortunately, this is another post about money. 

Being the jobless bell-end (copyright Lacquer Peel 2013) that I am, I've done some work for some of my oh-so creative mates, and now they're being vague about when I may or may not be paid. 
The last cock up was over those photos. That was via another friend of a friend and they seemed aghast that I expected a wage paying. Yeah, how dare* I expect to pay my bills from doing work - how unreasonable am I!

 

I've given my time, equipment and fuel to this, and I won't get paid fairly (if I get paid at all). Thanks to the brilliant pay cock-up this month December is going to be even worse financially than last month, and I somehow have to buy presents out of the £insulting pittance I haven't been paid. 

I can see this all ending badly. 

[MrDuke]

Shirley people just make jokes about anything that's in the news. I remember loads of jokes about that young lass that got killed by sledging on a Land Rover Discovery roof a few years ago, she was not famous or owt.

 

Totally agree, but it's not just the fact that some people are cracking jokes (which as you say is to be expected), it's that the jokes are somehow considered less offensive and more acceptable because of 1) who he is, and 2) the 'OMGirony!!' of how he actually died. You can almost sense the delight that it was a car-crash rather than, say, drowning or being stabbed.

However, I also agree that the other extreme of reaction is rather stupid - several acquaintances who I thought were fairly sensible have spluffed their emotional load over FB as if he were actually related to them. Although on reflection they were all female, not that that should be any excuse.

[Lord Sterling]

However, I also agree that the other extreme of reaction is rather stupid - several acquaintances who I thought were fairly sensible have spluffed their emotional load over FB as if he were actually related to them. Although on reflection they were all female, not that that should be any excuse.

 

This is something I've always had trouble with. When someone famous dies, and I mean "celebrity" famous, the emotion that comes out from some people is unreal. The papers, television all seem to react in an 'over the top' fashion, so much so that you kind of feel like an outsider. Its almost that you feel if you react in a 'normal' fashion ie. Yeah, sad he/she has passed away but meh, you'll almost get bullied about being "unfeeling" and so on. What a crock of shit.

[MrDuke]

This is something I've always had trouble with. When someone famous dies, and I mean "celebrity" famous, the emotion that comes out from some people is unreal. The papers, television all seem to react in an 'over the top' fashion, so much so that you kind of feel like an outsider. Its almost that you feel if you react in a 'normal' fashion ie. Yeah, sad he/she has passed away but meh, you'll almost get bullied about being "unfeeling" and so on. What a crock of shit.

 

Bizarrely, I can still 'get a rant on' about Di's coverage, all these years later. Perhaps that makes me sadder than the proles who actually worship her memory, I dunno

[dollywobbler]

I feel a lot more sympathy for those having fun in a club when a helicopter landed on the building than I do for folk pissing about in powerful cars. Either way, sad news but why the film bloke seems to be getting discussed more is beyond me. 

 

Personally, I try not to let death get to me. It happens all the time, sometimes in dreadful circumstances, which I can usually do nothing about. Some might think me uncaring but if you let every death in the world get to you, you won't live your own life.

[Lord Sterling]

I feel a lot more sympathy for those having fun in a club when a helicopter landed on the building than I do for folk pissing about in powerful cars. Either way, sad news but why the film bloke seems to be getting discussed more is beyond me. 

 

Absolutely agreed. There seems to be this underlying notion that celebrities are far more important beings than mere people. Hence why you get the media going on a frenzy about one celebrity dying in a car accident than say lots of normal people in Scotland having been killed/hurt and injured by a helicopter that landed on a pub. Coverage of the Helicopter accident seems to have been almost forgotten about in favour of a film actor.

[dugong]

Absolutely agreed. There seems to be this underlying notion that celebrities are far more important beings than mere people. Hence why you get the media going on a frenzy about one celebrity dying in a car accident than say lots of normal people in Scotland having been killed/hurt and injured by a helicopter that landed on a pub. Coverage of the Helicopter accident seems to have been almost forgotten about in favour of a film actor.

News editors in the US have the phrase 'if it bleeds, it leads'.

If you add the cult of celebrity into the mix, then that story is sitting at the top of the running order for as long as the hits on the website \ social media keep rising. 

 

Not saying I agree with it, but that's what happens.

[scruff]

Unfortunately, this is another post about money. 

 

Being the jobless bell-end (copyright Lacquer Peel 2013) that I am, I've done some work for some of my oh-so creative mates, and now they're being vague about when I may or may not be paid. 

The last cock up was over those photos. That was via another friend of a friend and they seemed aghast that I expected a wage paying. Yeah, how dare* I expect to pay my bills from doing work - how unreasonable am I!

 

I've given my time, equipment and fuel to this, and I won't get paid fairly (if I get paid at all). Thanks to the brilliant pay cock-up this month December is going to be even worse financially than last month, and I somehow have to buy presents out of the £insulting pittance I haven't been paid. 

 

I can see this all ending badly. 

 

I feel your pain and this boils my piss like little else - got a similar 'ongoing issue', very much doubt I'll ever see financial reward for services rendered. It's so difficult to turn work down though and you don't expect 'friends' to take the mick do you?

[dugong]

I feel your pain and this boils my piss like little else - got a similar 'ongoing issue', very much doubt I'll ever see financial reward for services rendered. It's so difficult to turn work down though and you don't expect 'friends' to take the mick do you?

 

You don't - you put it to the back of your mind because you don't want to mither friends for money. Trouble is, I'm helping him make his crust, so I want some frigging recompense. It'll be such a small sum of money though it's pointless falling out over it, because he isn't getting a lot to film \ edit it in the first place. 

 

I'll refuse to help again if this doesn't turn out the way I want. I've got a lot of time for this bloke, but if he's going to take advantage of my better nature (and he knows how brassic I am) it won't be a case of me turning it down out of spite - it'll be because I can't afford to do it. He takes an innumerable amount of crap off clients who drag their feet over payment - it happens a lot, I know. One of the reasons my crap recording studio went to the wall was because of people owing us money and pleading poverty whenever the issue of payment was raised.

 

It's not his fault, but he isn't helping the situation. 

 

He's in exactly the same boat as me, but I don't think he realises how crippling it is for me to even fill my car up at the moment.

 

In other news, my boss in the job that turned on me is living up to his micromanaging pedant role with gusto. He has an extraordinary ability to make you feel like a complete idiot even if the context, situation and point of contention wasn't even your fault. It doesn't matter, anyway - he's in charge and I'm not, so I'm wrong regardless. This will crop up again as a biting little aside when I do eventually have to speak to him again in person, just you wait. 

[Lankytim]

Hey Dugong,

 

Why don't you go on an agency and become a delivery van driver. Seemingly stacks of work about, moreso if you go self employed, you should to just do the odd day a week or something.

[dugong]

Hey Dugong,

 

Why don't you go on an agency and become a delivery van driver. Seemingly stacks of work about, moreso if you go self employed, you should to just do the odd day a week or something.

Won't the drop times make me want to commit murder?

 

Got any links?

[Lankytim]

http://www.atrlimited.com/Contact_Us

 

I was working for my local branch of this lot, seemed OK, everything is self-employed and payment is via an umbrella company. They operate all over the place so even if the office closest to you is still miles away they should still be able to find you work locally. They do warehouse work, van driving e.t.c although I only used them to get HGV work. They don't like me anymore because I now work direct for one of their clients, a big verboten in the agency world. The client is very big  so gave them the big FO and I never heard anything back.

 

Anyway, worth a look I recon.

 

Oh, and yes, you will probably want to kill someone after 30 seconds, but no more than usual I guess!

[scruff]

Must admit - seeing the (local) work out there on Shiply, UShip, DeliveryQuote etc - I'm seriously considering getting a cheap Berlingo/C15 or even a Transhit for moving furniture and household goods about. The figures aren't huge by any means but handy 'beer money'. Going well with the truck, but OMG expansionz experimentz is tempting!

[dugong]

http://www.atrlimited.com/Contact_Us

 

I was working for my local branch of this lot, seemed OK, everything is self-employed and payment is via an umbrella company. They operate all over the place so even if the office closest to you is still miles away they should still be able to find you work locally. They do warehouse work, van driving e.t.c although I only used them to get HGV work. They don't like me anymore because I now work direct for one of their clients, a big verboten in the agency world. The client is very big  so gave them the big FO and I never heard anything back.

 

Anyway, worth a look I recon.

 

Oh, and yes, you will probably want to kill someone after 30 seconds, but no more than usual I guess!

I was keen until you described the pay arrangements. Not going through the murder with HMRC again. 

[Lankytim]

Oh a grump from me....

 

Needed to swap the tax on the Multipla from disabled tax to regular full fat tax, according to the web this can only be done at the local DVLA office, i.e Shrewsbury, 30 miles away. I checked the opening hours online and as they only open office hours I booked today off work to go and sort everything out.

 

Anyway, I turned up at the DOOVLA office only to find it had moved, fair enough, only 5 miles away. Turned up there to find it had closed down altogether! No mention of it on the web or anything!

 

A quick phone call resulted in a trip to a post office just down the road where the whole transaction was carried out in about 2 minutes. Turns out post offices can now alter tax classes. I could have just sorted the road tax at my local PO instead of dragging my ass to Shrewsbury and wasting a day off work.  PAH!!

[dollywobbler]

Must admit - seeing the (local) work out there on Shiply, UShip, DeliveryQuote etc - I'm seriously considering getting a cheap Berlingo/C15 or even a Transhit for moving furniture and household goods about. The figures aren't huge by any means but handy 'beer money'. Going well with the truck, but OMG expansionz experimentz is tempting!

 

Can't you just strap a big box onto the back of your beavertail? SCRUFF'S QUALZ0RZ SHIPPING!

[Lankytim]

I was keen until you described the pay arrangements. Not going through the murder with HMRC again. 

 

 

It's a doddle to be honest, well, not as much aggro as I expected.

[dugong]

It's a doddle to be honest, well, not as much aggro as I expected.

Er............you're still not selling it to me. Sorry. 

[Cavcraft]

Must admit - seeing the (local) work out there on Shiply, UShip, DeliveryQuote etc - I'm seriously considering getting a cheap Berlingo/C15 or even a Transhit for moving furniture and household goods about. The figures aren't huge by any means but handy 'beer money'. Going well with the truck, but OMG expansionz experimentz is tempting!

 

 

Having had a couple of goes at this previously, here are my findings.

 

'I give u £5 take my sofar to tip'

 

'Cleer out my rubbish (two vans load) I'll give you a tenner'

 

'Can you pick a motorbike up from 50 miles away, I'll give you a tenner for your fuel'.

 

That really is the norm I'm afraid, for everyone one or two good jobs you get, you'll get stacks of clowns.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

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!

 

Go to iPhoto preferences and change "connecting camera opens:" to "no application". 

[Lankytim]

Er............you're still not selling it to me. Sorry. 

 

 

Well, work sucks, if you need the money you got to do things that piss you off,

[Caffiend]

That really is the norm I'm afraid, for everyone one or two good jobs you get, you'll get stacks of clowns.

 

Some don't seem to help themselves though - some of the quotes I've had back from 'testing' the cost of moving contents of a 3 bedroomed house (10 years of junk, furniture, etc) 100 miles away - well, they'd hardly even make their fuel money back, let alone pay for any of their time. Bonkers.

[Cavcraft]

Yeah, there must be something dodgy with some of them. I suspect a bit of cherry comes into the equation to help keep costs down with some of them.