The grumpy thread

[DVee8]

Little scrots on seeing a pad lock whats in there?why is it locked?

On breaking in oh a heap of shite lets fuck off nowt worth stealing.

 

Maybe.

[fordperv]

^ this is the most feasible one smackheads looking for something they can move on quick like tools etc, if it were rigger booters there would of already been a cortina shaped space in the garage

[AlabamaShrimp]

Lost my old iphone,has anybody got a cheap o2 phone that they can sell me.

My lovely old Samsung D500. It's got a scuffed screen (but you can still read it), rubber thumb thing as melted off (not sticky just age) and is on O2 can be yours for exactly £0, well OK postage costs.

 

Feel free to say no

 

 

 

[Semi-C]

Cavcraft - DVee8 - fordperv : You're probably closest to the truth.

 

My great pal has the dopest set of BMX trails. The hut there was always getting broken into when it was locked up, removed the lock, nay more problems. I guess the logic is:- Must be sumfink valleweaball behind that locked door... Oh, a roller and some tarpaulin.. Lets chop a tree down with a meat cleaver and smear spermicidal lubricant on the wall to show our disapproval.

 

I did sell a much tidier Mk3 from the garage in question earlier this year, the Columbo in me did wonder whether one potential purchaser (read. Perpetual timewaster) had returned to chance his choring arm...??#@!?

 

Our local brown hounds ought to wise up, 1 x Mk3 Cortina wing = OSFooking armfulls.

[Cavcraft]

Say yes to the D500! My old 600 is still going strong despite taking a real hammering over the years.

[jakebullet]

Idiot sister has a flat tyre, but has blown it up n driven home. Go and investigate.

 

Hmmm, that has maybe 2 psi in it. Put 30 psi in it and you can hear it leaking. Got jack & wheel brace out to discover some monkey with a windy gun has tightened the nuts to impossible tight. Plan B, bung lots of air in it and drive the thing to tyre place as sister is "fragile" and can't possibly say can you fix this flat plz?

 

Tyre place gets out their windy gun and struggles to get wheel off. Tyre is removed, inside is full of powdered rubber. Well done sister, you've killed a 6 month old tyre. £43.20 later and I bring it back.

 

Sister starts moaning that she hopes the other 3 last longer than 6 months. Hang on, you replaced all 4 at the same time? Fucksocks. Other 3 wheels will have mega tight nuts as well then. My machine mart windy gun won't touch them, so end up with the joy of 6 foot pole on wheel brace and thump it with hammer. Afternoon totally wasted.

[privatewire]

Lost my old iphone,has anybody got a cheap o2 phone that they can sell me.

Dave, I've got a Blackberry Bold on O2 you can have if you want it. I don't like it, but it works!

[quicksilver]

Two relatively minor grumps from today I need to get off my chest.

 

1. Office space at work. Not only is our attic room still so intolerably hot we have to have the window open in temperatures below freezing but the corridor outside was redecorated over two weeks ago and still absolutely reeks of paint. The combination of the heat and the paint fumes is giving me terrible headaches and drowsiness and I can't concentrate on my work. Fingers crossed after 8 months in this 'temporary' solution they have finally found alternative accommodation for us.

 

2. Smartphones and their pathetic batteries. Mine was at 55% and running slowly because so many apps were open so I decided the quickest way to sort it out was a reboot. As soon as it powered back on I got the beep and the "battery critically low, plug in your charger now" message and the indicator said 7%. Now I've had to plug it in and the cable is so short I can't reach it from where I'm sitting so I'm having to use the laptop instead. How the fuck is it even physically possible for a simple reboot to consume almost half of the battery life? 

[privatewire]

Two relatively minor grumps from today I need to get off my chest.

 2. Smartphones and their pathetic batteries. Mine was at 55% and running slowly because so many apps were open so I decided the quickest way to sort it out was a reboot. As soon as it powered back on I got the beep and the "battery critically low, plug in your charger now" message and the indicator said 7%. Now I've had to plug it in and the cable is so short I can't reach it from where I'm sitting so I'm having to use the laptop instead. How the fuck is it even physically possible for a simple reboot to consume almost half of the battery life?

 

Is it a Galaxy S3 or S4.? I've seen that happen with both. S4s in particular seem to have a battery lifespan of about 6 months.

[quicksilver]

Is it a Galaxy S3 or S4.? I've seen that happen with both. S4s in particular seem to have a battery lifespan of about 6 months.

It's an S2, almost 2 years old now so the battery probably is knackered. Not very impressive considering the bloody thing cost 300 quid and my worthless decade old Nokia 3310 can still go a week between charges.

[rml2345]

Ah. If that's being taken off to their depot, then this may already be a problem. I would always push for having a crashed car taken back to your house as a first step if possible. They only whisk it off to their depot because they can charge something stupid like £40 a day just for having a car in their yard. A lot of cars these days are written off before they even see a bodyshop.

To be fair, given the age and damage (it really does look better in the photos) the insurance claims dude said it was highly unlikely not to be written off by the insurance assessor. It was being taken for assessment anyway but God only knows when they'll do that. I've registered an interest with them on getting it back to keep the other SVM Ovlovs on the road rather than try to repair it. It did stand up really well but the extended amount of time it spend uncollected gave me a chance to have a good look round. The D pillar has been pushed in quite far and has shifted the bumper mountings sideways. The front bumper has also been pushed along with the bonnet and hinges, The bonnet is actually sitting on top of the N/S/F wing with the slam panel bent down at the edges. It could all probably be sorted eventually but it would take deep pockets and/or a garage to store it in whilst I learn how to mend it and sort out replacement bits.

The spare Carisma has failed it's MOT as well, so I'm waiting to hear about repair costs on that. Being an idiot I agreed to the insurance courtesy car, which might come in handy given the Mitsoobeeshee requires mending and may be binned due to cost.

Unfortunately Enterprise had run out of automatic Aygos or whatever their poverty spec hire car is, so I've got one of these;

 

 

 

It's an automatic diesel with moo, wind and tinfoil trim. It has about a million buttons I don't understand but the interior does feel quite good quality and bar one kerbed alloy wears its 13 thousand hire car miles well. It's also pretty noisy, sounds like a Transit diesel and driving it feels like sitting on a dining room chair bolted to a go kart with the steering from a SEGA Arcade game. Gearbox is quite smooth and also comes with a strange manual option which you will only use once as it's dreadful.

Overall it's quite pants and not as good as the Astra from last time. For this, Vauxhall will relieve you of £25,094.

I like the colour though.

[hairnet]

wanted to go to a gig in manc in feb........

 

ill be in ireland that week

 

same gig in liverpool 3 weeks later - they want 5 quid more than manc gig and 2.25 booking fee

 

and the train is 13 quid ffs and they stop at 22.30 - gig stops about then and have to get to lime st

 

found out its cheaper to fly back from dublin and get tram (woop) from airport

 

rail companies ARE on drugs official

[AnthonyG]

£25k for a Mocca? It's based on the Corsa platform! Nom nom non profit for GM even after the inevitable discounts.

[chaseracer]

£25k for a Mocca? It's based on the Corsa platform!

 

Worse then, it's a Grande Punto... 

[wuvvum]

hairnet, on 09 Dec 2014 - 9:04 PM, said:

 

rail companies ARE on drugs official

 

Pot, kettle, black...

 

[privatewire]

It's an S2, almost 2 years old now so the battery probably is knackered. Not very impressive considering the bloody thing cost 300 quid and my worthless decade old Nokia 3310 can still go a week between charges.

Sounds familiar! Is the phone running hot? I returned my S2 after it turned into a sandwich toaster in my pocket!

 

I'm using a Moto G now, 36 hours between charges. Mind you, I'm not a heavy user.

[beko1987]

My s2 used to do that occasionally, never did work out why as I put a different ROM on and it never did it again.

 

Don't discount the s2 for being shit on batteries either, as you can replace them! My HTC one m7 just about lasts a day but the battery isn't replaceable with an eBay cheapy...

[wuvvum]

I recently entered the 21st century and bought a Sony Experia M2.  I've been bloody impressed so far - granted I have most of the extraneous shit turned off when it's not needed, but I'm going up to a week between charges, which for a phone with a screen nearly as big as my computer monitor isn't bad going.

[Hendry]

I recently entered the 21st century and bought a Sony Experia M2.  I've been bloody impressed so far - granted I have most of the extraneous shit turned off when it's not needed, but I'm going up to a week between charges, which for a phone with a screen nearly as big as my computer monitor isn't bad going.

Snap!

 

Ive just chucked my 2 and a half year old Blackberry Bold and bought one of these and am impressed for a "budget" phone. Although with mine I hardly use it, even for calls or texts and its chewing its battery in a couple of days already.

[vulgalour]

I have a mobile phone.  I hate having a mobile phone.  At the moment it's doing sterling duty as an alarm clock, potatocam and spam call receiver and that's it.  It's not a bad phone really, but I don't actually need it, I just need an alarm clock and a pocket digicam.

[Noel Tidybeard]

I have a mobile phone.  I hate having a mobile phone.  At the moment it's doing sterling duty as an alarm clock, potatocam and spam call receiver and that's it.  It's not a bad phone really, but I don't actually need it, I just need an alarm clock and a pocket digicam.

so you need a phone with no sim card FTW

emergency phone call ability for bonus shite poins

[MrDuke]

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What is it with (mostly 'low-end') cars whose dashes seem to have been designed by 5-year-old crack addicts? It's as though every single dial and switch array is independently screaming for your attention - even the steering wheel in the pic looks loudly obnoxious. Maybe they're catering for the ADHD generation whose tiny attention spans would presumably cause them to fall asleep at the mere sight of a dash with a more geometric and chrome-free layout? If I had to drive it for any distance, I think I'd end up vomiting through sheer disorientation.

[daveb47]

My lovely old Samsung D500. It's got a scuffed screen (but you can still read it), rubber thumb thing as melted off (not sticky just age) and is on O2 can be yours for exactly £0, well OK postage costs.

 

Feel free to say no

 

 

 

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Think i have another cheap iphone from sons workmate,will know later today.

Many thanks for offer.

[inconsistant]

OMG The dials and steering wheel look like a big stupid cartoon face smiling at me. I've never hated the inside of a car more than the outside so well done Vox for a new experience.

[chaseracer]

OMG The dials and steering wheel look like a big stupid cartoon face smiling at me...

 

Thanks for that.  I hadn't noticed it before and now I CAN'T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD!!!

 

#passthemindbleach

 

[cort16]

No one in their right mind would actually pay 25 grand for one of those Mokka things though. I think Arnold Clark's got them stacked up 10 deep outside his showroom in linwood for 14 grand a pop.

Still as far as no choice courtesy cars go it could be worse.

[vulgalour]

Yeah, you could have been told there were none left when you needed one.  I'm probably still bitter about that.

[rml2345]

^ That's true enough. It's still horrible though.

I might go and sit in it later to appreciate how horrible it is.

[dugong]

Yeah, you could have been told there were none left when you needed one.  I'm probably still bitter about that.

Quite. A courtesy car with a working heater is still a courtesy car with a working heater - let's not be too ungrateful.

[barefoot]

Fucking Virgin are putting their prices up AGAIN

Another four quid for yet faster inter web 

I use the land line during the day and the only way I can save is by reducing my telly to just free view

minus seven quid.

All a bit pointless.

I started paying the fuckers twenty pounds back in the mists of time & they have done nothing but constantly improve it 

and charge me for imperceptible improvements to the point where next feb I'll be stumping up nearly sixty pounds.