The grumpy thread

[Richard]

See also Sky TV, except with no improvements and lots of nuisance phone calls badgering you to give them even more money so you can see constant adverts with a wider choice of logos in the corner.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Sky TV is wank

[Bobthebeard]

Sky TV is wank

In what way? Ok, not cheap, but reliable (usually) and the Sky Plus system has served us well for a few years. Not really found a viable alternative TBH. Rarely watch live TV so recording stuff is important. Have found Sky+ to be consistently good in that department really.

Although when the last broadband router broke/melted slightly getting a replacement from Sky was difficult to say the least! As in:

Sky..... "we have just done a line test and all checks out ok"

Me...... " the line is fine, the router is broken"

Sky......."the router is working according to our tests"

Me........"hang on.... Try it again now"

Sky........" Yes. It is working"

Me........." I had just unplugged it and thrown it in the garden. How can it be working then?"

Sky........" It checks out fine. Have you tried rebooting it?"

Me........" It is broken. It smells of burning and cannot be switched on or off. It is now in the garden. Unplugged and BROKEN"

Sky....... " try removing the power source and.....

 

Arrrrgh!

 

They replaced it eventually.

[dave21478]

Its peen persistently raining for two days in a row which means that damp has now got into a junction box somewhere and my internet speed is down to 0.2mb. Thats not an awful lot faster than dial-up - forum pages take ages to load, threads with lots of pictures end up timing out and watching iplayer or something like that is out of the question. I cant even watch youtube in 120p.

 

And this happens every time it rains for a couple of days.

 

Apparently, there is "no problem with the line" whenever I call them about this.

 

€36 per fucking month for this. 

[Jazoli]

Fucking taps, more importantly independent hot and cold taps, we seem to be the only country in the world fitting these stupid fucking things into new buildings, whats wrong with a mixer, you can get the temperature you want quickly and easily, rather then scalding yourself trying to wash your hands in warm water, twatting stupid old fashioned shite, in this respect modern is indefinitely better in every way, but don't get me start on motion activated modern shite, that doesn't work at all and starts dispensing water when you have moved your hands away from it.

[Hendry]

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.

The one pictured being Scottish registered and having an Arnold Clark number plate on will probably be on Enterprises fleet as a buyback and will end up on the Linwood forecourt at 14K very soon.

[MrDuke]

The wind can seriously get knotted. Preferably before my partially-constructed workshop gets obliterated. And before I have to try and get to sleep tonight.

[HH-R]

Driving on dual carriageways the past couple of days has been quite interesting in the wind ^

 

The steering wheel was more of a request than any actual directional control.

[MrDuke]

I can deal with driving in the wind (just about) - the rain last night was nightmarish, though. Ya know in '50s movies, when someone's driving in heavy rain, and there's some effects guy chucking buckets of water over the screen and it looks nothing like rain at all.... well, last night it was as though some '50s effects guy was on my roof chucking a neverending bucket of water over the screen. The wipers were not improving my vision at all, even at comedy fast speed, and most of the local roads were flooded in around 10 minutes. Roll on snowstorms, at least other people tend to drive slower then.

[Pillock]

 

 

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.

Do your research and ring up to cancel.

 

I was on a "mates rates" through work - £75 package for £38 four years ago, the top of the range deal at the time half price.

 

Since then it's gone up five quid, four times so it's now £58. I don't use one of the boxes, the internet is faster than I need too. There's a new staff deal for £48 but I'm not allowed on it as I have one already.

 

Got a BT deal through work - half price BB, ten quid for infinity. Same day, half price Sky drops into my inbox too, £33 worth of Family bundle for £16.50. With line rental paid up front that makes £39 a month, so I phoned Virgin to tell them and cancel.

 

Virgin managed to find a Loyalty Discount and knock my BB and line rental down to £20, so still going with Sky for TV but I'm £240 a year better off. And I get a new router too which was the other reason to ditch Virgin.

 

Shame I had to threaten to leave to get a good price though.

[Pillock]

BTW, they never checked I was getting these staff deals.... If you want me to forward the details, you can't apply for them but you can tell Virgin you are entitled to them

[Inspector Morose]

As can be seen in the motorway thread, my drive over the past few days has been like driving a block of flats mounted on jelly in an earthquake. On the way back to base tonight on the M40, if it wanted to change lanes, there was nothing I could do to stop it. Must have looked like I was an foren trucker or summat.

[cobblers]

Fucking taps, more importantly independent hot and cold taps, we seem to be the only country in the world fitting these stupid fucking things into new buildings, 

 

The other week when I'd had three hours sleep in three days had a great idea to beat the scaldingly hot tap vs cold tap game by just putting one hand under each so it would average out.

[Honey Badger]

Agreed a price (£700) on a mint V6 Accord coupe with a guy from another forum, low miles and full history while he was looking for a new car, see a post from him in the forum extolling the virtues of his new BMW, so drop him a line to ask when I can pick the coupe up only to be told he traded it in for £400 as he didn't think I'd want to travel to London to get it as I'm so far away.

 

I live near Northampton and he's in Harrow, just over an hour away by train.

 

Fucksticks

[Richard]

I hate mixer taps. Why have one tap when the technology exists to have two?

[chaseracer]

I live near Northampton and he's in Harrow, just over an hour away by train.

 

He's been assimilated by THAT LONDON.  They think differently there.

[quicksilver]

Fucking taps, more importantly independent hot and cold taps, we seem to be the only country in the world fitting these stupid fucking things into new buildings, whats wrong with a mixer, you can get the temperature you want quickly and easily, rather then scalding yourself trying to wash your hands in warm water, twatting stupid old fashioned shite, in this respect modern is indefinitely better in every way, but don't get me start on motion activated modern shite, that doesn't work at all and starts dispensing water when you have moved your hands away from it.

Another pet grump of mine and I remember a conversation on this very subject with one of our European students who was utterly confused by our separate taps. The ones that annoy me specifically those stupid taps with the push knobs - they dispense so little water that you push the knob but by the time you've moved your hand underneath the spout the water has stopped running. I end up doing some sort of contrived hand dance to hold the knob down with one hand while washing the other. Utterly useless at their one simple job!

 

I think even those are out-stupided by the hands-free soap dispenser I saw advertised though. Sure your hands probably do get covered in germs when you touch the dispenser but the very next thing you're going to do is wash them anyway so what is point? Just an expensive novelty for impressionable clean freaks with more money than sense.

[alf892]

Agreed a price (£700) on a mint V6 Accord coupe with a guy from another forum, low miles and full history while he was looking for a new car, see a post from him in the forum extolling the virtues of his new BMW, so drop him a line to ask when I can pick the coupe up only to be told he traded it in for £400 as he didn't think I'd want to travel to London to get it as I'm so far away.

 

I live near Northampton and he's in Harrow, just over an hour away by train.

 

Fucksticks

Get on to the garage and see what they want for it...............you might even save a few quid

[beko1987]

Another pet grump of mine and I remember a conversation on this very subject with one of our European students who was utterly confused by our separate taps. The ones that annoy me specifically those stupid taps with the push knobs - they dispense so little water that you push the knob but by the time you've moved your hand underneath the spout the water has stopped running. I end up doing some sort of contrived hand dance to hold the knob down with one hand while washing the other. Utterly useless at their one simple job!

 

I think even those are out-stupided by the hands-free soap dispenser I saw advertised though. Sure your hands probably do get covered in germs when you touch the dispenser but the very next thing you're going to do is wash them anyway so what is point? Just an expensive novelty for impressionable clean freaks with more money than sense.

We got one of those hands free soap things years ago when they were on offer in asda.

 

Since it ran out, I've just popped the cqp off the soap thing with a screwdriver, and filled it with 50p hand soap, pop the cap back on and voila! Is handy when I've been working on the car/something messy as I only have to get the tap and sink covered in shit rather than the soap pump too.

 

Is a pain in the arse though when doing something unrelated I brush past the sensor and it jizzes over the side...

[UmBongo]

Apparently I signed for a parcel eight days ago and I wasn't even in the fooking house.

 

So one of my scumtard neighbours has my Christmas box and can't be arsed putting it on my doorstep.

 

Twats!

[Inspector Morose]

The cat has just stepped into my shepherds pie. Now cleaning up lamb mince, gravy and mashed potatoes from the house. The term 'went like a scalded cat' was obviously quite true.

 

Checking cats paw for damage. Other than hurt cat pride and general grumpiness, all is fine.

[DS20]

It is sleeting and blowing a gale outside. Winter, you can FRO, kthanxbai.

[The Moog]

First time this year I have needed to dilute the veg. I think summer is over 😡

[Slappy]

Girlfriend looks to be off to that there London in the new year for a new job.

 

So packing and moving my life once again 6 months after I did it last time, but it doesn't look like I'll be able to go with for the foreseeable due to lack of long-term job prospects up in the Capital way.

 

More bittersweet than grumpy I guess...

 

My Fiesta's clutch will be grateful though....

[bub2006]

Fucking yodel van drivers. On way home from work just now,yodel van coming towards me. Decides as I am about 3 car lengths to indicate and pull onto my side of road and stop. Busy main road too. Ends up blocking my side of road and drives towards me practically to my bumper. Gets out van,swears at me then goes to get parcels from the back. Not impressed. Try to make a complaint and yodel charge 5p a minute to call complaints. If I wasn't in my works tunic with company name on I would have a chat with him but care work tends to frown upon a criminal record for assault.

[beko1987]

Should have waited for him to go and deliver his parcel, kick a headlight out then do one sharpish...

[bub2006]

Yet again it boils down to busy main road and if he got my reg plate. Already had van blocking road,Vectra wouldn't have been much help.

[Noel Tidybeard]

apply parking brake put vehicle in neutral and wait for obstruction to clear (remember to switch off enine if a long wait is anticipated to protect nuns, kittens, etc...)

[bub2006]

Got round him eventually. Didn't help that it was at a time that roads where getting busy on one of main roads into and through the town.

[TimothyClaypole]

Gumtree buyer -  you have my email address so why would I want to text you back about something I'm selling?  

 

Either you want it or not, if I'd wanted a chatback service I'd have put my number on the advert not email address.

 

 

Previous buyer sent a link for the same product saying he could get it for £25.00, the link said it was £27.00 and I was asking £25.00 anyway... bizarre.

 

I'd rather give the 14% to Ebay.