The grumpy thread

[Angrydicky]

Planet Rock is great, I wish there was some way I could get that at work.

[dugong]

New PC is dead.

 

Changed the keyboard settings and killed it. Refuses to boot and goes round in circles saying Windows can't be recovered. I suspect it's been built from an image and changing the keyboard settings from septic to c of e has shashed it.

 

Had just about transferred all my stuff over as well.

Sick of this shit.

[Junkman]

Pull out the battery on the motherfuckerboard, re-insert after 3 mins and you will be amazed how nicely it boots up.

[dangerousdave]

I always have a stereo in my cars to drown out the various rattles and bangs I normally listen to absolute radio at work all the rest are crap except radio 2 occasionally

[vulgalour]

6 years of income and tax expenditure finally worked out and now that I come to fill in the form and reply to the letter that I left in a Very Safe Place specifically to avoid it getting moved as always seems to happen with my letters since I moved back in with my parents can I find it?  Can I fuck.

 

So tomorrow I have to call the tax office and try and explain what I need them to send me so I can send them the details by reply and hope that the bill of £800 or so that they sent me is actually in error.  I'm confused as to how I've built up any debt in all honesty, every tax return I've done has said I owe nothing and when I've done regular employment my tax has always been paid by my employer... or at least my employer has always removed the tax from my pay cheque.  Going through the numbers I discovered that Best Connection removed just shy of 25% from my pay packet in tax and NI... I'm not sure if that's normal, it seems very high indeed.

[plasticvandan]

you might have been emergency taxed,worth checking your payslips,obv as you know anything up to 9 and a bit grand is tax free anyway

[vulgalour]

My brother got overcharged by £300 by Best Connection, we were on the same placement, but I was told my tax was correct.  Something to do with it being a second job?

[plasticvandan]

Makes no difference,you could have ten jobs but if you havent collectively earnt more than the tax threshold you dont pay.addeco took over £500 off me from dec-april last year,just got the cheque through for that

[Craig the Princess]

Makes no difference,you could have ten jobs but if you havent collectively earnt more than the tax threshold you dont pay.addeco took over £500 off me from dec-april last year,just got the cheque through for that

 

True, but you have to tell the tax office and have them split your tax code across your jobs or apply for a refund to get it back.

 

25% deducted does seem a bit high however

[Des]

Phone HMRC and explain to them that you have a Princess with a blown head gasket and therefore need a unique tax code created to suit your circumstances, be offensive, anti semitic and vulgar and I'm sure they'll look after you as it's nearly xmas FFS.

[beko1987]

£21 per surname for 3 months of mail redirection. Fuck you royal mail. Knew I should have married the bitch by now...

[TimothyClaypole]

HMV, seeing as Play has long gone to the dogs and Ebay were no help I thought I'd try your website for a dvd boxset.

 

Seems to have turned into some tablet/phone strokers hang out with just one page of highlighted stuff you want to flog and no search button or menu, good work.

[Negative Creep]

I still use Play all the time with no problems

[rml2345]

I think you now have to go into the HMV shop to find that they don't have what you're looking for now, rather than being able to check the site.

[dugong]

Amazon rebuild is starting to get irritating. 

Bloke who did the suspension work still won't say how much I owe him after me asking repeatedly for four months. 

The engine has come out to allow the bay to be sprayed. I said to the garage doing the work that I cannot, cannot, CANNOT afford an engine rebuild because the B18 is not staying in the car forever. I wanted it refreshing (i.e. gaskets, rings and a carb rebuild) to stop it breathing heavily and puking oil all over the drive. 

Bloke has taken the engine out and has now said it smokes (er, no it doesn't) and that it's pissing oil out of every location. He says that a ring and gasket replacement will still make it smoke (except it doesn't smoke, it just breathes heavily) and that it's pointless replacing them without doing a full engine rebuild. We agreed on an earlier refreshment price of £250 and now says the rebuild will be £600. I have said again and again and again and again I have no more money left and CANNOT afford to have the engine rebuilt. I don't want the engine rebuilt because I want to spend the money on the B20.

I don't see how it's suddenly starting leaking oil from the front crank oil seal when said oil seal is less than 2 years old and made of neoprene, ditto at the back. They now need an answer quickly (after two weeks of no contact) meaning I have reschedule what I'm doing to go down and discuss it tomorrow. 

Tell you what lads - instead of leaning on me to have work done that I don't want \ can't afford (the amount in the pot for the work hasn't changed), put the engine back in the car untouched and run some engine cleaner over it. I'll sort it at a later date. I know that engine and I know that car. Scaremongering will not work on me when the car was perfectly capable of moving under its own power. It can now stop and corner better, so there you go. 

I wish people would do what I bloody tell them to when I'm paying the bills.  

[hairnet]

 

 

Bloke who did the suspension work still won't say how much I owe him after me asking repeatedly for four months. 

 

wait for his bill then take four months paying it see how he likes it

 

I wish people would do what I bloody tell them to when I'm paying the bills.  

 

amen - tell them this - gently - withhold money till they do what ya want

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Just tell him you aint got the money to get that done dug. He can blather on all he likes but if you aint got the money thats that innit. Once he understands that there is no money to pay for the job he'll quickly shurrup about it I'm sure.

[Junkman]

I wish people would do what I bloody tell them to when I'm paying the bills.  

 

I gave up on that a long time ago. Everybody does what he wants anyway, regardless of what I say.

Why people never listen to me despite I'm always right, is a phenomenon that will never cease to amaze me,

but I long since stopped to get excited about it.

[MrDuke]

Women. (sorry caffiend)

 

She (my wife, not caffiend) can't tell the difference between a Nissan Almera and a Ford Fiesta, yet seems absolutely assured that an LDV 200 is unsuitable for transporting furniture. Also, when I have the opportunity of a straight swap with said vehicle, it apparently makes more financial sense to instead borrow ££££ and buy a more expensive van from an unknown & less trustworthy source. Of course, these facts are not made known to me until weeks after the swap has been arranged. Oh, and this bringer of debt must be big enough to require commercial insurance, rendering my full no-claims useless. The way things are going, she'll probably decide on an Iveco Daily.

 

FFS :evil:

[Mr Livered]

Well Mr Duke... do you need your wife's approval of each vehicle purchase?

 

My other half usually heartily disapproves of all the shite I buy, but it passes.

[cms206]

Well Mr Duke... do you need your wife's approval of each vehicle purchase?

 

My other half usually heartily disapproves of all the shite I buy, but it passes.

This. I don't normally bother telling SWMBO, preferring just to show up. It's often easier to seek forgiveness than ask for permission.

[Cavcraft]

Three times I've been to the same place (Withington*) this week, inc. twice today and I'm forced to conclude that a very large proportion of drivers in the Manchester area are weapons grade bellends, especially the wankers on the M56.

 

*What a lovely place.

[MrDuke]

Well Mr Duke... do you need your wife's approval of each vehicle purchase?

 

My other half usually heartily disapproves of all the shite I buy, but it passes.

 

Unfortunately, in this case I did, for financial reasons. Believe me, the 'disapproval' would have been violent and a long time passing. If it was just a random car for me to play with I would indeed have told her my intentions after parking it up outside, as I have on past occasions

[Mr Livered]

It's the only way!

 

Tomorrow I'm due to pick up a Renault 5 from Mr Panhard65. I daren't tell Mrs Livered just yet.

[dugong]

Three times I've been to the same place (Withington*) this week, inc. twice today and I'm forced to conclude that a very large proportion of drivers in the Manchester area are weapons grade bellends, especially the wankers on the M56.

 

*What a lovely place.

Listen, if you go to Withington intentionally you have only yourself to blame. 

[chaseracer]

This. I don't normally bother telling SWMBO, preferring just to show up. It's often easier to seek forgiveness than ask for permission.

So far, I've managed to get two XMs, a 2CV van and a Mercedes past Domestic Management...

 

[panhard65]

It's the only way!

 

Tomorrow I'm due to pick up a Renault 5 from Mr Panhard65. I daren't tell Mrs Livered just yet.

Oh dear you're gonna be in trouble !!! at least it is cheap best bring it home when it is dark, it looks a lot better in the dark

[Cavcraft]

Listen, if you go to Withington intentionally you have only yourself to blame.

The first time maybe not, the following two DEFO. Profitable trip each time though it has to be said, so can't complain too much.

Did they base Roadwars on that estate by the way? It's shit where I live, but there isn't as many 15 year old looking lads driving brand new Fiestas up the pavement.

[hairnet]

Listen, if you go to Withington intentionally you have only yourself to blame. 

this

 

like west derby but less scousers

[dugong]

this

 

like west derby but less scousers

West Derby has many advantages over Withington. 

 

1. There are buildings and houses in West Derby.

2. The roads are actually laid out sensibly. 

3. EAHHHHYFUCKINWOT is not a greeting.

4. It is nearer the M62 than Withington allowing for an escape into the Pennines.