The grumpy thread

[anonymous user]

I also make sure I buy my sprouts early, just in case

I make sure I start cooking mine in September in case they aren't done in time, well you can't be too careful.

 

My grump is regarding the idiot who turned right and went the wrong way down a bit of dual carriageway; unfortunately it was me. It's a bit of road I drive most days and apart from stupidity I have no defence. I have made so many stupid mistakes recently I'm beginning to think I'm losing it.

[hairnet]

ITV are great at raiding the charity shops of television bygone years. Bringing back shite that was shit years ago, only yesterday I noticed they had a new 'Celebrity Squares' on with C list celeb knobs that most people have never heard of, or seen before.

 

And that other blind date crap where some orange faced bellend stands in front of 20 odd rough* short skirted young birds who all confirm his abit of a prat by turning their lights off after his mum comes on and tells the world he still wets the bed!!

madly enough while looking to see when car sos is on - i saw that 4od have deals on wheels from 15 years ago still to watch

 

mwhahahaha wtf

[Bobthebeard]

Whilst we were working away last week Mrs Beard received an email (Sky, now Yahoo account) saying that her email account had been the target of 'malicious activity' and would be shut down for a while. Two hours later she couldn't access her account. As her work depends on email she immediately went into panic mode. She rang the Sky/Yahoo helpline number in the previous email. Oh dear.... I overheard her side of the conversation. The 'helpline' asked her to allow control of the laptop by the 'helper' so he could check out the issues. Soon Mrs Beard was in tears. "Our laptop has been hacked, the helpline have just showed me what has been done.... They have hacked our internet banking... Etc etc...."

At this point Mrs B collapsed sobbing. I took over the phone.

Suspiciously African accented man kept remotely whizzing around our laptop showing warning/error messages.

Hmmmm.....

"I can see that you need urgent help, only $299 and I can fix it for you... "

Bollocks. I hung up the phone and shut down the laptop.

 

It seems the email account was indeed hacked into by scammers. No harm done in the event, but Mrs B was in such a state she would have paid the bugger. Lesson learned hopefully.

Rang Sky and they sorted it all out by re setting the password and username. Going to ditch them though. Anything run by Yahoo is shit, IMHO. Gmail from now on for Mrs B.

[Pillock]

Gmail, with two factor auth where the text you a code every time you add your account to another PC. Not impossible to hack, but a hundred times more secure. Even if a third party have your password, they need your phone too.

 

You can use the same system on Dropbox, Facebook and Microsoft accounts. Amazon too I think. PayPal do it, but it's broken if you try to pay for eBay purchases on a phone.

[Richard]

That means giving out your number though. The only time I've ever had nuisance calls on my mobile was just after I gave my number to Facebook.

[jakebullet]

In two days time I've been a slave of the ebay empire for ten years. I thought I'd seen it all, but no, a new form of twattery.

 

Some mong in Italy buys a pool ball gear knob. Tell me mong, which one of the 15 balls would you like?

~engage radio silence~

 

Now this is not new, there's a least one a week who thinks I read minds.

 

1 week later, angry Italian, where's my ball? I reply pointing out the lack of mind reading skillz. This normally makes them tell you. They sometimes even apologise for being a dick.

 

~engage radio silence~

1 week later, where's my ball? I explain again, this time running it thru google translate as well for good measure.

 

~silence~

Bugger this for a game of soldiers, open cancel sale request, reason: buyer is unresponsive.

 

Today: cancel request denied by buyer. Twat still hasn't told me which ball he wants.

[Parky]

Jake, your customers all sound like nightmares!

[Pillock]

Instead of texts, if you have a smartphone you can get codes through an app. Because I are mega-geek, I have the codes on my watch but same deal, rolling code changes every 30 seconds so password is useless without it.

 

Incidentally, I have given them both my mobile, and my wife's mobile numbers as backup. App stops working, it reverts to text. Neither of us get any marketing calls, FB have had my number for years to confirm logins etc.

[MarvinsMom]

The Inbetweeners, WHF???? 

 

There is currently a bloody advert on saying how they are the funniest thing since the last greatest funny thing. But as far as i can see they are just a load of twats?

 

I guess it's perhaps an age thing (i am 40) but as far as i can see they are a couple (3?) bellends who i would not get tired of punching in the face or kicking them in the head.

 

I was at the local pizza spot last night 'bout 10pm (so before closing?) and the place was full of them, fookin' students, all been cuntish little twats. They should just fuck off back to whatever fucking place their parents are paying for them to study Sociology or some other shit-piss-wank waste of space bullshit qualification. Like i worked with one girl, she raked up £40,000 worth of debt to get a degree in "social policy" meaning the only thing she could do was work for the CAB. WTF?????   

 

That is all. 

[Richard]

 

 

 

 

I guess it's perhaps an age thing (i am 40) but as far as i can see they are a couple (3?) bellends 

 

Four.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Admittedly the second inbetweeners film isn't as good as the first but the TV series was brilliant. The only grump I have is it stopped

[Ghosty]

 

 

I was at the local pizza spot last night 'bout 10pm (so before closing?) and the place was full of them, fookin' students, all been cuntish little twats. 

 

Saturday: it'll be open until about 3am.

[maxpower]

Ok FLU... you have had the pleasure of my company for almost 2 weeks now... please go and drain the energy from someone else now 

[Cavcraft]

The Inbetweeners are ace.

[Cavcraft]

The Wealdstone Raider: the internet's new 'hammer a bigger socket.'

 

Funny at first (for a few minutes) now it's tiresome at best.

[trigger]

Have you seen the app games of him? Mental.

[HillmanImp]

Isn't the video of this idiot about 10 years old? Do we have retro memes now?

 

'O - M - G, that is sooooooooo keyboard cat.'

 

'Kewwwwl'

[HillmanImp]

Went to get some bolts I need for the GT6 but the WHOLE of Guiseley is in gridlock as people queue up to go to fucking NEXT or whatever. 

 

How do these 'out of town' shopping centres get planning approval right in the middle of built up areas with no road network to support them?

 

'Hey, this road is already loaded to capacity, lets build a load of popular shops right next to it. Fuck anyone who actually needs to travel past this area on their way to anywhere'.

 

In Kirkstall too, its already mental 80% of the time so what are they doing, building a load more shops where BHS used to be. 

[fairkens]

That shopping park is shit, the car park is poorly laid out and it's impossible to get in or out of. A fact that has been made worse by the fact that they now have shops people actually want to go to now

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Crewe is like that, fucking impossible to get anywhere on a Saturday due to massive snaking queues coming out of the retail park thing. And the fucking Chinese/Thai supermarket has closed down.

[jakebullet]

Local college wants to flog off playing fields for housing. Massive local opposition, 'cos it's basically a stupid place to put a load of shoebox houses.

 

The planning application has been deferred due to "loss of sporting facilities". Said fields have a huge fence around them with notices saying sod off or your nicked son. So not exactly much of a loss there.

 

College has sussed this means give us a bung as they've offered £300K towards upgrading a leisure centre. Shoebox houses it is then

[eddyramrod]

Another shopping gripe, sorry.  I needed a bit of topup stuff this morning so I went to Asda on my way home from work.  Found a space at the far end of the car park (bugger) paid a pound for a trolley (big mistake) fought my way into and around the store (really should have quit earlier, like before I got out of the car) then I saw the queues for the checkouts.  And every trolley filled for a seige.  I couldn't just abandon the trolley because I had a pound invested in it, so I then had to fight my way around the store all over again emptying it, before I could escape to the fresh air and get my money back.  So I drove to the Co-op round the corner from home and got most of what I wanted (probably one and a half times the price of Asda) and blow me, there's a queue for the tills like they're giving away chocolate!

This time I stuck it out and got my shopping home, so at least I have milk in the house!

 

Where are all these people coming from?  Who the fuck are they expecting to have to feed?  Why couldn't they do what we did and stock up a bit earlier? 

 

I could feel my self-control slipping away.

[Cavcraft]

Aren't all out of town shopping centres like that? Cheshire Oaks is the worst, if anyone doesn't believe it it's J10 of the M53. I'd 'recommend' anytime of the day from end of November to Christmas.

[xtriple]

Yeah, I've just been to the co-op and scanned their opening times. Apart from Christmas day, they are open pretty much as usual so why panic buy? But it's the sodding same every year, I'll just be glad when it's all over - hate Christmas!

[oldcars]

I went to Sainsburys (I'm too posh for Lidl, not posh enough for Waitrose) before it opened. Sat in the cafe and had a massive bacon sandwich whilst watching parking chaos unfold - great vantage point on the second floor of ours. They had parking attendants but they were too busy chatting to point out spaces with their light sabers so much gesturing by drivers ensued.

 

We then went down and did a normal Sunday shop, only extras were some cranberries. I get a slight perverse pleasure from moving trolleys that are abandoned in the middle of the aisle and watching people put stuff in the wrong one but on the whole, aside from the meat isle (because people must eat more animals than usual at Christmas, or something) it was fairly restrained.

I feel it is my duty to add a tin of spam to every abandoned trolley. Makes for a good laugh if you get near said shopper at the checkout

[trigger]

The bin lorry crash in Glasgow sounds utterly horrific, those poor people. RIP to those killed so far.

[cort16]

It not looking good is it, just before Christmas too . It pretty much couldn't have happened in a busier place than that.

[dugong]

It not looking good is it, just before Christmas too . It pretty much couldn't have happened in a busier place than that.

Horrible.

[dave21478]

Another shopping gripe, sorry.  I needed a bit of topup stuff this morning so I went to Asda on my way home from work.  Found a space at the far end of the car park (bugger) paid a pound for a trolley (big mistake) fought my way into and around the store (really should have quit earlier, like before I got out of the car) then I saw the queues for the checkouts.  And every trolley filled for a seige.  I couldn't just abandon the trolley because I had a pound invested in it, so I then had to fight my way around the store all over again emptying it, before I could escape to the fresh air and get my money back.  So I drove to the Co-op round the corner from home and got most of what I wanted (probably one and a half times the price of Asda) and blow me, there's a queue for the tills like they're giving away chocolate!

This time I stuck it out and got my shopping home, so at least I have milk in the house!

 

Where are all these people coming from?  Who the fuck are they expecting to have to feed?  Why couldn't they do what we did and stock up a bit earlier? 

 

I could feel my self-control slipping away.

 

Got a wee bit of metal, a grinder and 10 minutes? make one of these....

 

 

which you can keep on your key ring and use it to release the trolley without needing a coin. The round head is the same diameter as a pound coin. Push it in the slot then shove handle to one side and it rotates out of the mechanism, leaving you with a free trolley.

 

A few times now, I have abandoned a trolley full of shopping half-way round a supermarket due to outrageous queues at the tills or my tolerance for other people dropping dangerously low.

[beko1987]

Thought there was something horribly wrong with the zx on the way home today, was all over the place, pulling to the right more and the back end was more jittery than usual.

 

Turns out is just fucking windy. I get home and there's a bag caught in the tree opposite our house, flapping annoyingly in the wind...