The grumpy thread

[trigger]

I'm already with TPS and I can't have caller id as my wife rings me on a withheld number from her work so there's not much I can do about it.

[Spiny Norman]

My grump is arseholes eating sausage rolls in Delamere Forest.

 

What about pasties?

[dugong]

Have a feeling the head unit I bought off eBay has been sold out from under me. Paid the seller 10 days ago and he still hasn't accepted my payment. 

Admittedly, I've got worse going on at the moment, but it's still irritating. 

[dollywobbler]

Spam phonecalls are by far the worst thing about working from home. 'We're just carrying out a survey.' Fuck off! You only say that to get around the fact that TPS ONLY blocks marketing calls. Problem is, we do get calls at home that might actually be important, or from overseas folk. Otherwise I'd just unplug the phones.

[Rusty_Rocket]

Spam phonecalls are by far the worst thing about working from home. 'We're just carrying out a survey.' Fuck off! You only say that to get around the fact that TPS ONLY blocks marketing calls. Problem is, we do get calls at home that might actually be important, or from overseas folk. Otherwise I'd just unplug the phones.

 

This used to drive me mad.  I've fixed the nuisance phonecall problem now though- I ditched my land line a year ago.  BT were turning into a total rip-off, so not only do I not have disturbances during the day, I also save money.

I can honestly say, I have had no problem purely using our mobile phones for everything the land line used to do..

[myglaren]

Oh, and while I am at it....cunts that phone me up and immediately put me on hold.

 

I answer the phone and a robot voice tells me to please hold the line while I am connected to an available advisor. This happens 4 or 5 times a week.

 

How about fuck right off? If you cant even be bothered to call me personally, dont fucking bother calling at all.

I rarely answer the phone - it is usually unplugged anyway.

 

Last night I made an exception as it was a Teesside number and may have been my daughter.

Was a guy asking if I had ever worked in a noisy environment.

 

My current workplace is very noisy.  They provide hearing protection that I rarely use other than to eliminate the tuneless whistling and seismic belches of a co-worker.  Already have tinnitus from before they 'insisted' on us wearing earplugs etc.

 

On the other hand, the racket in the background on the phone - clearly a call centre, was many decibels above that of my working environment and would have driven me insane in minutes.  He just laughed when I told him that.  At least he was pleasant and polite and didn't push it.

[wuvvum]

My electric meter appears to have packed up.  I've still got electric, but the display on the meter is kaput and it's not switching on to the night rate.  This is a PITA as it means my Economy 7 heating and immersion heater aren't kicking in. 

 

Fortunately it's been ridiculously mild for nearly-November and I have a power shower so I'm getting by, but I now have to waste half a day's holiday and sit around on Friday morning waiting for an engineer to turn up to fix it.  It's less than ideal timing as we're hopelessly short-staffed at work at the moment, but I need to get it done before the weather does start turning cold - otherwise I'll have to have fan heaters running constantly, which will send my electric bill through the roof.

[TimothyClaypole]

Could be worse, I've been messing with Scottish Power and I'm using £22.00 a week in gas they reckon... 

 

[Cavcraft]

Sorry, it's Steve Wright, again. On conversing with Timothy Spall yesterday

 

'...and the awards, and all that stuff'

 

'All that stuff'? What kind of a chat show/interview is that, you fucking moron? You are the lightest (oh, the irony) of all lightweight interviewers,  the most pointless chat show type host EVER. You're not funny, you're shit at your job and you are most certainly not more interesting than your guests. Stop talking over them, stop bigging yourself up and fuck off.

[chaseracer]

How does 'Wrighty*' keep his job, given that he sounds like (and IS...) an embarrassing & useless relic from the 275/285 medium-wave days?  What does he know, about whom...?  <_>

[rml2345]

I reckon the BBC have just forgotten that he's still there and doing that slot. As far as they know it's Ken Bruce to 12, Vine until 2, white noise then Simon Mayonnaise drivetime at 5.

If we email the Radio 2 controller they'll probably replace him with a lettuce or something, which would be a vast improvement in skills.

[Rocket88]

Quite surprised the Yewtree boys haven't asked for a "request".................

[chaseracer]

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT: Great minds, Col...!

[dugong]

I reckon the BBC have just forgotten that he's still there and doing that slot. As far as they know it's Ken Bruce to 12, Vine until 2, white noise then Simon Mayonnaise drivetime at 5.

If we email the Radio 2 controller they'll probably replace him with a lettuce or something, which would be a vast improvement in skills.

 

I'll do it. £63k and your own producer can't be bad. Not that I know these things. 

[Skizzer]

an embarrassing & useless relic from the 275/285 medium-wave days? 

 

I rather like Steve Wright, possibly for this reason.  DJshite - the Chrysler Horizon of the airwaves.

[r.welfare]

I can't stand all that "love the show" shit he keeps coming out with.

[trigger]

Steve Wright, rhythms with cunt.

[hairnet]

put mayo back on in the afternoon

[cms206]

We'd be as well with Scottie McClue on in the afternoons on Radio 2. That's entertainment!

[dave21478]

There is something unsavoury about Steve Wright. He just sounds so fucking pleased with himself all the time.

[dollywobbler]

Crikey. Time flies. It seems only weeks since our last rant about the dough-faced, vomit-inducing Wrighty and his frustratingly shit Big Show. It probably was only weeks. He is still shit.

[HH-R]

I suddenly "got" Steve Wright's show the other day. He's trying to be as irritating as possible and get away with it. He's GOT to be.

[HH-R]

Possibly the only thing worse than his "craic" is the extremely shite, random, forgotten music he plays. Still better than the commercial stations though!

[andy18s]

Wait till they put that mongo Chris Moyles in his place.........

[Craig the Princess]

I would rather be waterboarded than listen to either Wright or Moyles

[AlabamaShrimp]

What is it with smug cunts on the radio anyway? They have have that radio voice where they're either fake happy, super some or a combination of both.

 

Tbh I don't know why I have a radio in the car as I seem to spend more time turning them over. The new kind that use mp3's help though

[Noel Tidybeard]

bring back wogan is what i say- king of all that is beige

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I've just got my first car with DAB and after a couple days jumping around the dial. I'm back to Radio 2 and 4- I is old fart.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Wogan is DIRE

[Keymaster]

What you all need is dab for radio 6. Its for champs. And youre all champs, right?