The grumpy thread

[Pillock]

Harsh! Can you claim anything back from the card company?I had my debit card cloned a while back, got all the money back that they'd taken out from a Russian cash machine within a couple of days.

[pogweasel]

OOOh that's tight. Had it happen too, few years back I got 4x £250 charges on my card at a pez station in east london. These crim types were clearly quite amateur, as I had been to that fuel stop 10 days earlier (and had the reciept) and when they did the deed, I was actually on my work christmas party, at which my card was also getting hammered, but with reciets to show I was thereMongz.

[gearoil]

Pillock - when I called the card company I got through to a person in the UK ( good start ) who was exceptionally helpful. Chap said, the unusual pattern of spending on the card flagged up as suspicious, they cancelled the card and were going to contact me that day.The stuff on Amazon will be refunded, if anything else shows up they will cancel those too and send out a whole load of forms, etc...They managed to spend just £30 but the amount of failed purchases attempted in 3 days... :shock:Pog - 4 x £250... Having visions of four 45 gallon drums getting filled up?

[pogweasel]

Pog - 4 x £250... Having visions of four 45 gallon drums getting filled up?

One assumes the cashier made a sneaky copy of the card number & expiry date, then several days later "swiped" and took the cash out of the till & into their pocket - tills would still balance so the employer would be none the wiser....

[gearoil]

Pog - 4 x £250... Having visions of four 45 gallon drums getting filled up?

One assumes the cashier made a sneaky copy of the card number & expiry date, then several days later "swiped" and took the cash out of the till & into their pocket - tills would still balance so the employer would be none the wiser....

Ah.A much more likely scenario.

[Volksy]

Yep, the merchant copy of the receipt has all the card details on it, so even after you've left they are easily accessable to the person behind the till.

[Father Ted]

Can I moan about bolloking christmas music on the wireless? I retuned the wireless in the wifes car 6 times* and each bloody time I hit some christmassy twaddle. Its as if the playlist has suddenly gone from millions of records to just the contents of "Now Thats What I Call Christmas"Dont get me wrong, christmas is great, brill time for the kids, I get my yearly shag, everyone is happy. But can we please have some Spinal Tap or something to break the bloody monotony. *the other option was the CD player which I cant work and always seems to contain Celine Dion.

[pogweasel]

Dont get me wrong, christmas is great, I get my yearly shag,

U O me 1x new keyboard. I just LOL'd my beer over this one.

[Rusty Pelican]

Stinking bloody cold just in time for christmas , I can have whatever I wish for christmas dinner ----------------- wont make any odds , I cant taste fuck all

[Pete-M]

I've got my annual xmas trek to my brothers house tomorrow. He lives about three miles east of the middle of frickin' nowhere in a tiny village only accessible by tiny little lanes that are like a friggin' skating ring at the best of times. The lanes are covered in mud, cow shit, dust or ice depending on time of year. Oh joy.So that'll be drive 90 miles there in the morning, with my mental old mum as a passenger, eat a bloody freezing xmas dinner, hike to the pub with my brother - who's one of those who'll spend the whole time there telling me how to live my life and trying to 'score points', back to his house after one pint (because I'm driving..) sit in the house for a couple of hours watching whatever his kids want to watch on telly, then drive back with mum giving me a replay commentary on everything that happened in the house while I was in the pub getting lectured.Get home, cook something edible and warm and try and watch some telly. If I'm lucky I'll escape the house for a couple of hours in the evening... Christmas? Blows goats if you ask me.

[Lankytim]

Freecycle jokers.Ive advertised a set of Allegro wheels with newish remould tyres on freecycle and had loads of replys. Ive selected a chipper lass who "desperately needs" the wheels to help her get her Allegro back on the road, shes local and ive actually seen her in her VP a couple of times.Emails to and fro, arranging a time to come round to get them... No further contact. I may as well tip the wheels. Timewasters.Same with an old TV ive got. Its GWO and so would do someone a good turn rather than lobbing it off a bridge. Had a few nagging messages from someone called Vince so i thought hed may as well have it. Never turned up, no explanation, nothing. Thats before I get to the huge number of inane messages from illiterate halfwits"I WIL HAV IT TO DAY M8, JUST MOOVED IN IN BURLEM, LOL THX" Seems to be the same people too. If I put half a packet of cheese and onion crisps on Freecycle id get the same old people messaging me the same begging drivel. If its free, some people will have it. Doesnt matter what it is.Its Burslem not "Burlem" you twat. Anyway, the wheels are getting binned and the TV is getting thrown from a flyover on the M6 though a coach windscreen. Fuck freecycle.

[Pillock]

Fuck freecycle indeed.I've also struggled to get rid of a TV, and more recently a freezer. Only been used for 3 months, it was as new but I really couldn't be bothered to eBay it, they seem to fetch next to nothing.Cue 30 mails in a day from people struggling to spell their own names, let alone "Please" and "Thankyou". Anything with a sob story got binned - I really do not care that your husband just left you with the kids, I'll raise you "My wife shacked up with my kids and best mate which is why I had to go out and buy a shedload of emergency white goods". Anything in TXTSPK was equally binned. Anyone who emailed me twice got them both binned. Anyone asking when I could deliver for an advert that said "Collection only" - binned.That left one person. As it was she was hot, so I'd have chosen her anyway, but the fact remains Freecycle is full of mouthbreathers just looking to stock their Pajeros up for the next car boot.

[Cavcraft]

Freecycle jokers.

 

Ive advertised a set of Allegro wheels with newish remould tyres on freecycle and had loads of replys. Ive selected a chipper lass who "desperately needs" the wheels to help her get her Allegro back on the road, shes local and ive actually seen her in her VP a couple of times.

 

Emails to and fro, arranging a time to come round to get them... No further contact. I may as well tip the wheels. Timewasters.

 

Same with an old TV ive got. Its GWO and so would do someone a good turn rather than lobbing it off a bridge. Had a few nagging messages from someone called Vince so i thought hed may as well have it. Never turned up, no explanation, nothing.

 

Thats before I get to the huge number of inane messages from illiterate halfwits

 

"I WIL HAV IT TO DAY M8, JUST MOOVED IN IN BURLEM, LOL THX"

 

Seems to be the same people too. If I put half a packet of cheese and onion crisps on Freecycle id get the same old people messaging me the same begging drivel. If its free, some people will have it. Doesnt matter what it is.

 

Its Burslem not "Burlem" you twat.

 

Anyway, the wheels are getting binned and the TV is getting thrown from a flyover on the M6 though a coach windscreen. Fuck freecycle.[/quote]

 

[pogweasel]

LOL @ family christmas.

 

Don't mind it so much.

 

Though if it weren't for Er Indoors & the poglets I think I would deffo not bother.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3 ... 430&ref=nf

 

As for freecycle, I am sure I have ranted about this before, it is mostly populated by freaks deadbeats and the kind of doler scum you wouldn't waste your urine on if they were a-blaze. But there are still some very good sorts out there, for instance the lovely lady who brought me jam to exchange for my flymo, or the barking mad chap who let me ransack his shed for tools when all I went for was a timing strobe...

[CIH]

Yeah bloody family christmas. My need to move my arse out into my own gaffe so they can all be told to feck off and stop pretending it's great.

[Cavcraft]

Drinking at home makes me grumpy. Fuck that for a caper. In the fifteen odd years I lived here I've probably had ten cans at most. I just can't get into it and would far rather get down to the pubs and have a bit of a laugh and socialise.

[Lankytim]

Pubs are too expensive, Billy. Plus I dont have any friends.

[Cavcraft]

I should have added that obviously you don't get twatters at home who want to fight you for looking at them the wrong way* and all that sort of thing and I do see why people would prefer to drink at home. I just can't do it and reckon I'd be an alcy in no time at all if I did.*Unless you move in with my missus

[Spiny Norman]

Christmas eve, and my Rover 600 (the one with the Rover engine) decides now would be a good time to get all BL on me and blow its head gasket. PieceOfShit

[Rocket88]

Twunts who place ads for cars with no price, but p.o.a.................you know how much you want for your rancid old lemon, why not fucking say so. I don't have the will/time/patience to spend money on a phone call so that I can play "guess the price"..............

[Cavcraft]

Twunts whop place ads for cars with no price, but p.o.a.................you know how much you want for your rancid old lemon, why not fucking say so. I don't have the will/time/patience to spend money on a phone call so that I can play "guess the price"..............

You won't ever want to join OvalChat then ( a banger racing forum) as 99% of adverts are along the lines of 'Ford EScrt 4 sil. GR8 4 begnnrs. txt me 4 piccies an prise.' Then followed by 800 requests for pictures and price, all ignored or followed up with 'lot ov intrest from ppl, txt me 4 prise or pm wiv ofers'.

[Rocket88]

"Posh" classic car sites are the worst......it's the "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" attitude that gnaws my spleen. A plague on all their houses.

[Lukas]

I hate most sellers of older cars in good condition, because they are asking mainly prices that are rediculously high and most cars are absolutely not worth it! And if you ask them why they are asking such high prices they tell you: "The car is in such a nice condition, I´ll never get one this nice again. So if someone buys me this extremely high price, I´ll let it go, but otherwise I´m happy to keep it."

[Cavcraft]

'Gauging interest'.When you see that in a for sale section it actually means 'I'm not putting a price on it in the vain hope someone offers me fifty times what it's worth'.

[Rusty Pelican]

Bloody cold , step daughter stayed last night , not wishing to give the missus my cold and being a gentleman and giving the spare bedroom to the daughter i slept on the settee , Damb cat , paddle paddle paddle settle , sleep , i then sleep , she the wakes up paddle paddle paddle , settle , sleeps ,i then sleep , all fucking night , if i locked her out she just scrabbles at the door for hours untill i let her in , need sleep and beer now

[Lankytim]

Couldnt you just wrap the cat in clingfilm and lob it in the garden or something?On a different note..Some SCUMBAG has decided to steal the gritbin from outside the wifes Grandparents house. They live on quite a steep hill and its very icy. Thanks to these selfish bottomfeeders theres cars and OAPS sliding all over the place. A bucket of grit for their drive would have been ok, but no- They think theyre entitled to the whole fucking bin putting a whole row of streets in danger of slipping over/getting stuck.Some people dont even deserve to die, yet alone live.

[Cavcraft]

Some kind person told my missus and the nurses at work that they're 'not allowed to enjoy themselves' after they wished each other happy Christmas

[Claypole]

This site and RR has ruined the likes of Mutiny On The Buses etc. for me. I don't watch the films properly anymore as most of the time I'm spotting cars and vans instead. Was a lovely NSU (I think) on earlier in orange.

[M'coli]

This site and RR has ruined the likes of Mutiny On The Buses etc. for me. I don't watch the films properly anymore as most of the time I'm spotting cars and vans instead. Was a lovely NSU (I think) on earlier in orange.

Naw, naw, naw, those fillums were ruined LONG before the invention of the internets...

[Station]

Drinking at home makes me grumpy. Fuck that for a caper. In the fifteen odd years I lived here I've probably had ten cans at most. I just can't get into it and would far rather get down to the pubs and have a bit of a laugh and socialise.

Whenever I did that, I just had to get outside and go somewhere. 1/2 the reason I gave up was because my mate's started getting drunk AT HOME, while watching the telly, or even worse, ten drunk lads sitting in a room watching porn. FUCK THAT.