The grumpy thread

[hairnet]

Consensus is that if you are offered a re-education day instead of getting points, tell them to poke it and take the points. 3 points has pretty much zero effect on insurance and the training day is a wasted day when you could have been doing something productive like cleaning your belly button.

 

this happened to me on the m62 while they put the gantries in for the variable limit shite and like you 56 in the 50 and was in the car sadly - im immune on the bike as they forward face

 

points or awareness course i took the awareness course that

 

i had to take a morning off work for

 

it cost more than the ticket

 

its been almost two years - my insurance has actually gone down those two years

 

do take the points

[jakebullet]

Another ebat twunt. Gives me a negative "cheap tacky rubbish,, just drilled dice with caps in".

 

So sorry your £1.50's worth of dice wasn't gold plated... Perhaps you'd like to look in the argos book for something you'd like better? What's that, you haven't got an argos book? I can help* with that !

[DS20]

I am beginning to think that just myself and maybe 100 other people - many of them users on here - are the only sane people left and everyone else is retarded and/or a cunt.

 

A friend just phoned me up quite upset. She inherited her fathers house a few years ago and has been renting it out with no real problems. She had no use for most of his stuff so left it in the house, including several hundred paperback novels. They werent itemised, but just listed on the inventory as "5 bookcases full of books" or something. She was fully aware that there would probably be some "shrinkage" as books tend to get lost, borrowed and loaned etc, but she was fine with this and had no problems with previous tenants.

The current folk - a couple in their late twenties - have just had their first annual  inspection and when she went in saw all the books were gone - every single one of them.

 

"where are the books?"

 

"oh, we couldnt find any firewood so we have been burning them." 

was the reply, given without a hint of apology or realisation they had done wrong.

 

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literally speechless.

 

 

When I lived in Scunthorpe, I had some neighbours who used to break up their furniture so that they had some firewood to barbecue with.  Perhaps they and your friend's tenants are related?  

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Another ebat twunt. Gives me a negative "cheap tacky rubbish,, just drilled dice with caps in".

 

So sorry your £1.50's worth of dice wasn't gold plated... Perhaps you'd like to look in the argos book for something you'd like better? What's that, you haven't got an argos book? I can help* with that !

 

Yo Bullet, I dont know how many of these things you sell but it sounds flippin horrendous, fair play to ya for keeping on at it

[Richard]

Another ebat twunt. Gives me a negative "cheap tacky rubbish,, just drilled dice with caps in".

 

So sorry your £1.50's worth of dice wasn't gold plated... Perhaps you'd like to look in the argos book for something you'd like better? What's that, you haven't got an argos book? I can help* with that !

 

Can you explain how your Argos book punishment works? It sounds good but I can't see how it doesn't cost you money to post them.

[jakebullet]

I'm shifting in the region of 800 sets a month. It's always the same with ebay, people who pay nowt are a pain in the arse, I think because ebay has trained them to be entitled to everything.

 

I've done 700 odd bags of dice on Amazon this month at a similar low price, and not a single problem.

[jakebullet]

Can you explain how your Argos book punishment works? It sounds good but I can't see how it doesn't cost you money to post them.

 

Only costs if you remember to put stamps on them.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Can you explain how your Argos book punishment works? It sounds good but I can't see how it doesn't cost you money to post them.

 

You sneak up behind them and beat them with an Argos catalogue. 

[EssDeeWon]

The main road into and out of Southend (A127) is riddled with those average speed camera's, dont know how I have never had a ticket as I tend to average slightly higher than 50, however I was told the way to avoid these things is to change lanes between camera's, could be total bollox though....

 

Yeah I thought so...

[sloth]

filled the diff on the trummy after replacing the quill seal. moved it today, and its still leaking. fml

[Skizzer]

^ You are Rowley Birkin and I claim my five pounds.  Sympathy though, it sounds annoying.

[Sigmund Fraud]

Seal was a quality* reproduction item, I gather ?

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

The main road into and out of Southend (A127) is riddled with those average speed camera's, dont know how I have never had a ticket as I tend to average slightly higher than 50, however I was told the way to avoid these things is to change lanes between camera's, could be total bollox though....

 

Yeah I thought so...

 

There was some truth to this when the cameras were new (for legal, not technical reasons) but it hasn't been the case for a long time now. 

 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/21/speed_camera_myth/

 

 

According to [the speed camera manufacturer], the need for Home Office Type Approval (HOTA) may have given rise to the confusion. This, he says “is a form of rigorous testing that any system must undergo before it can be used for enforcement. Until recently, the only HOTA available applied to cars maintaining their lanes.

“However, a new test schedule was carried out last year, which means that average speed checking can be applied even where cars change lanes.â€Â

[hairnet]

the annoying scottish twat (no offence to sctsh on here) on fifteen to one who announces the competition thing when the ads come on

 

bit like modern singers who sing old classics and waahhhhh wooo more than is necessary when normal would be cleaner and better

 

he flowers it up and its very annoying - needs the chap on who did it when william g was on it

[The Moog]

Found a house we really liked. Put offer in but then found out it was with auctioneers so had to pay £6k cash buyers premium for them to do fuck all.

 

Sod that. Forgot about it until they phoned us yesterday about it. Wanted to know whether I was going to auction. Told them about the premium and they couldn't give a toss. Fair enough.

 

They wanted us to up our offer from £115k (guide price £125k been on market since March) so asked them the reserve .. £160k ... What the fuck is the owner smoking. Been to auction twice already and not sold, apparently he has had 6 offers around our price, turning them all own.

 

House itself is run down because no one is living in it.

 

Just grumpy cause someone wants £6k for no work, and bloke wants 40k more than market prices.

[HillmanImp]

There was some truth to this when the cameras were new (for legal, not technical reasons) but it hasn't been the case for a long time now. 

 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/21/speed_camera_myth/

 

I was just reading this whilst someone at work was talking to me about a clients bank account. I was still reading this when they finished and I suddenly thought 'SHIT! I need to answer them' and proceeded to reply to them about speed cameras, not about the clients bank account, which did cause some confusion.

[vulgalour]

I went and bought the wrong clutch for the Xantia.  We found this out after 6.5 hours fighting with French noodles and a gearbox that is wider than the hole it lives in.  Not a happy bunny.

[barefoot]

The fair lady barefoot has just had eggheads on the telly.

They must be scripted to win week in and week out.

If they were really that clever they'd all go on different shows and win a millionty pounds each.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Eggheads is bollocks. One or two of them do know a lot of shit but if they were actually clever* their questions wouldn't be multiple choice

[Chas4545]

Found a house we really liked. Put offer in but then found out it was with auctioneers so had to pay £6k cash buyers premium for them to do fuck all.

 

Sod that. Forgot about it until they phoned us yesterday about it. Wanted to know whether I was going to auction. Told them about the premium and they couldn't give a toss. Fair enough.

 

They wanted us to up our offer from £115k (guide price £125k been on market since March) so asked them the reserve .. £160k ... What the fuck is the owner smoking. Been to auction twice already and not sold, apparently he has had 6 offers around our price, turning them all own.

 

House itself is run down because no one is living in it.

 

Just grumpy cause someone wants £6k for no work, and bloke wants 40k more than market prices.

 

The seller does not need the money. Wait until you find a "motivated" seller, and save yourself loads.

[Craig the Princess]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-30126590

 

This happened on our line last night (one of my depot collegues was involved), very glad that injuries were very few and minor but very sad all round.

[Wackeldackel]

Guilty secret here. I was on eggheads in 2006 with some clever folks I went to school with. They were all at uni and I was working for a civil engineering firm, and as I mentioned in the "what do you do cos I'm nosey" thread, I was a mega swot, school quiz team and all the extra curricular shit I could do until the lure of cold hard cash in my grubby hand lured me away from academia (thank fuck).

 

We were playing for £42, 000. If we'd won, my teammates would have had zero student loan to pay off, one by one they all got eliminated against those smug (CJ de Mooie), cuddly (Daphne Fowler) millionaire (Judith Keppel) and just plain oddball ( Kevin the mastermind bloke and Chris (owlish looking, retired train driver) leaving just silly bollocks me in the last round against all 5 eggheads.

 

I did the three multiple choice questions no problem, then sudden death. First three sudden death questions were fine too. Then my 4th sudden death question, "what was the name of the purple dinosaur on multicoloured swap shop?"

 

I bet everyone on here is saying "easy, piece of piss, next question" or words to that effect. However, I was born in 1988. Multicoloured swap shop was cancelled in 1981. Noel Edmonds is a tidybearded wanker who can poke his cosmic ordering up his arse, I didn't have a clue. Cue lots of long faces as 42 large one have just slipped through our collective hands. To make matters worse, I knew the answer to th eggheads 4th question too, the playwright derek jarman, who wrote loads of smutty plays about lesbianism. End result, the eggheads carried on to £48, 000 till they finally got beaten and my teammates and I went and got pissed in a wetherspoons while all pissing ourselves laughing at the bright orange makeup caked on us for the tv cameras.

 

When it was broadcast they didn't even show my first 3 sudden death questions either, suppose that will be my grump moment here. The team were called the Langton lions, and I think the episode has been repeated a few times, I got a text off a mate about 2 years ago, "you're on the telly, but from ages ago!" So there, my mate gary got a bit starstruck and got all their autographs which he still has, he's a media analyst for eurosport tv, the girl poppy is currently doing humanitarian work in Sierra Leone helping with ebola victims, her brother frank is a teacher in malaysia, dicky was in the navy and now training to be a pilot at BA, chris studied at Cambridge and is now some sort of marketing executive and me, I dig holes for a living! But we nearly beat those eggheads....

[Wackeldackel]

Oh yeah, it was POSHPAWS, the purple dinosaur, SWAP SHOP nearly written backwards. Fuck.

[Doctormop]

What really does my box in with Eggheads is all this thinking aloud, Well its not C, it can't be A, so I'm going to say B Jeremy,

JUST FUCKING SAY B IN THE FIRST PLACE THEN YOU PRICK!!

 

I had the honour of appearing on fifteen to one in 2001. William G Stewart was a true gent, I got first 2 questions wrong and was out straight away.

[Wackeldackel]

What really does my box in with Eggheads is all this thinking aloud, Well its not C, it can't be A, so I'm going to say B Jeremy,

JUST FUCKING SAY B IN THE FIRST PLACE THEN YOU PRICK!!.

They made us talk the bollocks out of every answer, to make it more entertaining to watch, apparently. Dermot Murnaghan was something else, a real pro, as soon as we finished filming he was bang, next episode, next episode, he could probably grind out half a series before lunch. I bet he was on a nice little earner there.

[Stroller133]

Some insurers want you to declare it http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/insurance/motorinsurance/11197781/I-took-a-speed-awareness-course-and-my-car-insurance-doubled.html

The question is, are they legally entitled to ask and is there a database with it on so would they ever know anyway?

[Hertz]

I keep getting hounded by non fault accident companies on my mobile and it's ever since advertising some alloys on Gumtree. I reckon these twats just use ads from there to call people. Surely this isn't right? Back in the day when I used to be in Telesales we used the good old Yellow Pages to try and flog someone something. Anyone else had calls after advertising on Gumtree or am I putting 1 and 1 together and getting 3.....

[Bren]

Remember "going for gold" with Henry Kelly?

 

He would often start a question with "what am I?"

 

I hoped and prayed that one day a contestant would answer "a twat."

[EssDeeWon]

What really does my box in with Eggheads is all this thinking aloud, Well its not C, it can't be A, so I'm going to say B Jeremy,

JUST FUCKING SAY B IN THE FIRST PLACE THEN YOU PRICK!!

 

I had the honour of appearing on fifteen to one in 2001. William G Stewart was a true gent, I got first 2 questions wrong and was out straight away.

 

Could not agree more, this happens on lots of quizzes, the contestants are obviously told to long out these multiple choice questions and blab for a minute before just saying 'B'

 

I do like Fifteen to One, my uncle went on in circa 2003 and was the last person knocked out before the final 3.

[r.welfare]

A bloke I work with was on Pointless on Tuesday. He and his sister won but only bagged a grand because the last winners got the rollover. He is epically good at quizzes mind.