The grumpy thread

[beko1987]

I agree with your face ache grump. We are expecting again and are keeping it low key this time. Told my parents, amys parents and amys sister. Was about to phone my step brother and step sister when we saw that my step sister had already put it on Facebook...

 

Que swmbo ripping step sister a new arse hole then blocking her. We had to tell people then as they saw it on Facebook first.

[EssDeeWon]

Fuckin Facebook, I'm not on it, nor would I ever go on it.

 

Sad but this is most peoples first port of call when they have something to say or announce nowadays, everyone thinks their a C list celeb and think everyone wants to know about their uninteresting business.

 

Facebook is one of the most irritating things to come out of this century IMHO.

 

Yes Im a grumpy bastard with less than 250 friends, and no I don't care if someone I hardly know is having a baby/getting married/going on Holiday/having a shit etc etc..

 

Moan over, that feels better, now I can begin my day 

[AlabamaShrimp]

Facebook..... I just don't get it. It's like a room rammed with people shouting "look at me, I'm better/know more/am having a much better life than you" all at once.

 

While I'm sure it's nice to know something and keep in touch with certain people but really I don't need to know exact in and out of your life,what you had to eat or weather your happy/grumpy. It just seems pointless intrusion

[hennabm]

Volvo can no longer supply parts my my 240

 

All I needed was the bottom hose but no!

 

Had a Google and found a company called Micksgarage who claim to be based in Coventry. They can supply a hose made by Gates. I just hope it doesn't stutter.

 

Has anyone had any dealings with this Micksgarage before?

[tooSavvy]

Arsetablet.... notorious for 'please rob us' holiday timetabling.

 

Nah... they ffinn deserve it!

 

 

TS

[chaseracer]

^^ Savvy's back!

 

[fordperv]

I'm not on Facebook, the people who count ring or text me and vice versa, i like it that way

[xtriple]

I like Facebook!

 

I hardly ever post anything on there but it gives me morning laugh seeing the utter drivel and tripe that people post. I have 'friends' that really are the very worst type of wannabee/look at me/duckface types and they really amuse me. I know I'm wrong and shallow and all that, but fuck it, we all deserve a laugh... don't we?

 

It's actually dead useful for keeping in touch with people abroad as I have proper friends in America/Iceland etc and we talk via the message system all the time.

[UmBongo]

Facebook was designed for people who have no life, brains or friends.

 

Would you show random people in the street pictures of your kids or pets?

 

Didn't think so.

[MrDuke]

Facebook is excellent if you can be bothered to use it properly. I have around 20ish people as 'friends' who I also know in real life, I can choose to ignore any or all of their posts if they start irritating me. I don't want to talk to any of them on the phone, and half of them live hundreds of miles away, so it's a fairly useful way to stay in touch. I'm vaguely aware that there are several million numpties and retards using it too, but I can't say I've ever encountered them, mainly because I choose not to. There's a select few blogs and/or forums that throw up some genuinely interesting stuff that I wouldn't have stumbled across in my normal web-browsing. And it's been an excellent zero-cost way to promote a small business, simply due to sheer volume of exposure (no, nobody's tried to swap an Xbox for any of my stuff).

[cort16]

5 weeks since the garage did the mot in my cortina and I popped in today to find they've done fuck all. When I gave him a hard time about it he said 'well your car is just used now and again all these other folk use there's every day '. Fuck off! I'm paying you the same money as everyone else am I not. I'm raging I'm tempted to go and get it and bring it back here even though it has no mot.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I would bring it home after that, the guy sounds like a right arrogant wanker who thinks he's doing you some sort of favour.

[Pillock]

Facebook was designed for people who have no life, brains or friends.

 

Would you show random people in the street pictures of your kids or pets?

 

Didn't think so.

Neither would I friend strangers on Facebook..... The people who see my pictures on Facebook are friends, perhaps it's nice to tell people what's happening without sending the same texts time and time again. Plus Facebook is a passive system, if you text someone it arrives on their phone no matter what, it beeps and demands attention. If you update Facebook, it both waits till they're interested and gives them the option of categorising you as someone they don't want to see in their feed.

 

As you can tell, I'm bemused by people moaning about a service they don't have to use, and is one of the least intrusive ways of communicating. I hate people phoning me, because that happens when they're not busy and not necessarily when I'm not busy.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Facebook is great, its not like its flippin compulsory is it FFS. Stop moaning.

[Louise2cv]

I can't stand Facebook snobbery. It's like television snobbery, "I don't have a telly so I am going to look down on everyone who does and take every opportunity to gob off about how I don't have a telly and how unintelligent people who watch telly are."

 

You don't use Facebook/watch telly or whatever. Bully for you. It does not make you a better person.

 

Why is posting a picture of you/your dog/your kids/your car on facebook any different from posting here?

 

There are probably loads of people who think internet forums are for social cripples who can't manage conversations face to face or have very limited interests... You going to rush to agree with them?

[drum]

It's not facebook that's shit, in fact it was quite handy when abroad recently being able to message home and send pics without worrying about roaming charges or whatever. What is shit is that most users seem to post utter crap on it and share pointless guff.

 

Even worse, morons use it as a vehicle to spout drivel and spread gossip. Our small town has a FB group that started as a place to post old pictures of the place but has turned into an open forum for people who spout crap without having the brains to consider the consequences of their bile.

 

Bad news also for today's teenagers who can never escape their peer group thanks to all this social media shit.

[chaseracer]

FB is a tool; to be used, as with all tools, with care.  Everyone has a choice whether to use it at all.

[MrDuke]

Even worse, morons use it as a vehicle to spout drivel and spread gossip. Our small town has a FB group that started as a place to post old pictures of the place but has turned into an open forum for people who spout crap without having the brains to consider the consequences of their bile.

 

Bad news also for today's teenagers who can never escape their peer group thanks to all this social media shit.

 

I take your point about it being used to spread poisonous rumours, but then I think that would happen anyway, through pub & cornershop gossip. The difference with social media is that it spreads that much faster - but then again that can be a positive, depending on what you're trying to spread.

 

Regarding online bullying and/or peer pressure, I think that runs a lot deeper than individual platforms. It's another symptom of a decades-old culture that blurs reality for people who are too young and impressionable to have a sense of perspective, and who can no longer disconnect when they feel vulnerable.

[HH-R]

Facebook is great, though I only really use it for not losing touch with people who haved moved away, basically what I used to use MSN Messenger for before they killed it off. I use it instead of texting when I can too because phone keyboards are designed for people with knitting needles for fingers nowadays.

 

The news feed is usually full of shite though, this can be curbed a bit by pruning your friends list and not bothering with groups/liking anything/friending companies and businesses but everyone will have someone on their friends list who invites you to play Candy Crush Saga 34 times a day, uploads 900 pictures a week of their toddler doing mundane things like eating or sitting, or shares every "She Put These Cake Ingredients Together And What Happened Next Will Shock And Astound You!" link.

 

I wonder if you can sack off the Facebook side of things and just keep messenger...

[wuvvum]

There are probably loads of people who think internet forums are for social cripples who can't manage conversations face to face or have very limited interests... You going to rush to agree with them?

Well that pretty much describes me to a tee, so, yes.

[Louise2cv]

Same here.

[Pillock]

 

 

Bad news also for today's teenagers who can never escape their peer group thanks to all this social media shit.

They can, and it's a five minute job to set your privacy settings.

 

If you don't have any mutual friends with me, you can't find me on Facebook. If you do have a mutual friend, you get to see my picture and name. Only friends see my shit, and even then there are friends who see less than others because every post can be directed at a target audience.

 

Admittedly it's not as easy as G+ to do that in, but it's possible using both the apps and the website.

[drum]

They can, and it's a five minute job to set your privacy settings.

If you don't have any mutual friends with me, you can't find me on Facebook. If you do have a mutual friend, you get to see my picture and name. Only friends see my shit, and even then there are friends who see less than others because every post can be directed at a target audience.

Admittedly it's not as easy as G+ to do that in, but it's possible using both the apps and the website.

Setting your privacy settings doesn't stop adolescents worrying about what's being plastered across their peer group's snap chat, FB or whatever else kids use their phones for. Of course I might be wrong and cyber bullying doesn't exist.

[Pillock]

No, but surely that's no worse than pre-social media, when all the cool kids hung out on the park benches talking about whoever it was whose mum said they had to stay in and do their homework.

[Lord Sterling]

5 weeks since the garage did the mot in my cortina and I popped in today to find they've done fuck all. When I gave him a hard time about it he said 'well your car is just used now and again all these other folk use there's every day '. Fuck off! I'm paying you the same money as everyone else am I not. I'm raging I'm tempted to go and get it and bring it back here even though it has no mot.

Seriously Cort, get your car out of there ASAP. The dweeb mechanic thinks he knows better than you and is taking you for granted. Now that you've given him a hard time, he is either going to let your car stand around or not fix it properly/create more problems on the car because he doesn't like your attitude.

 

Yes it might have no MOT, but that's a minor problem compared to not knowing when your car will actually be fixed if ineed at all it will be fixed properly.

[MrDuke]

Setting your privacy settings doesn't stop adolescents worrying about what's being plastered across their peer group's snap chat, FB or whatever else kids use their phones for. Of course I might be wrong and cyber bullying doesn't exist.

No, but surely that's no worse than pre-social media, when all the cool kids hung out on the park benches talking about whoever it was whose mum said they had to stay in and do their homework.

This is what I was trying to say before. We now live in a culture where very young people are bombarded 24/7 by various kinds of media, to the extent that they can no longer distinguish between different environments. Kids who are bullied at school can no longer escape from it at home, because 'home' is just another place for them to receive abuse through a screen. It's no good trying to apply the (blindingly obvious) adult logic that if you switch off the screen then they can't hurt you, because social media is such an integral part of their everyday life, you may as well tell them to never leave their bedroom.

You could blame their parents for not instilling in them a sense of perspective, or you could blame them for being so young and naive, or you could blame their friends for being dicks, or you could blame a random social media platform for just being there. None of which really gets to the root cause.

And in all fairness, you can't compare a dozen kids laughing because you've been grounded, to an unrelenting stream of comments from half your class telling you how slutty/fat/gay/ugly/thick/inbred/mental/alloftheabove you are, every single day over weeks and months.

[scruff]

They can, and it's a five minute job to set your privacy settings.

 

If you don't have any mutual friends with me, you can't find me on Facebook. If you do have a mutual friend, you get to see my picture and name. Only friends see my shit, and even then there are friends who see less than others because every post can be directed at a target audience.

 

Admittedly it's not as easy as G+ to do that in, but it's possible using both the apps and the website.

 

Exactly it's not rocket science. I agree it's full of dross but just ignore it. FB is great for me, I use it a lot to keep in touch with friends and only join groups that interest me. 

[HillmanImp]

It took me a while to figure out that Facebook was actually a tool to take pictures of your dinner. At first I missed the point and only stalked my ex girlfriends with it. Now I have released its full potential, I can amaze people with a picture of my totally unremarkable spam and egg sandwich or a Sunday roast that looks pretty much the same as any other one served in pubs the length and breadth of the country.

 

Its totally changed my life. 

[Cavcraft]

The 'buyer' of my Corsa SRi is pissing me about. Took a £25 deposit just over two weeks ago, he then said he'd pay over two weeks and collect it when he'd settled the final amount. Last week he had an 'emergency bill' this week some girl he doesn't really know has taken his cash card and he hasn't got on-line banking or any other way of paying. Just to help* matters I'm finding all this out from his brother-in-law who's a good mate of mine.

 

Looks like I'll have to re-advertise it and use his deposit towards next Saturday's drinking fund.

[dave21478]

I sold the C2 to my sister probably about a month ago. Still havent been paid for it. "eh, Ive been busy, havent got a chance to get to the bank"

Does she have online banking? well, no because she never used the activation code within the timeframe its valid for so cant access her account. Can she write me a cheque? well, no because her chequebook has no cheques left and she hasnt ordered a new one yet ....and on and on and on and on go the excuses, basically she is feckless and hopelessly disorganised.

If im not paid by Friday Im having the wheels off it and leaving it on bricks on her drive until she sorts her arse out.

 

No fucking apologies either. I wonder if she would piss around any other seller like this? obviously not as no other seller would entertain the idea of letting a car go without payment but apparently those rules dont apply to family.