The grumpy thread

[scaryoldcortina]

"The space permitted between a “1†or an “I†and another character is proportionately greater than the above dimensions"

 

If that's the only thing it failed on go back and kick him in the nuts.

[EssDeeWon]

Was supposed to get almost £80 cashback from Topcashback for buying broadband from TalkTalk, been waiting almost three months and nada.

 

Told them to shove it, first and last time I'll be using anything like that.

 

I wouldn't tell them to shove it.

 

I would pursue them for it, after all they agreed a deal that meant you get £80 cash back, but they don't cough up?

 

It takes only a few minutes to drop a line to the financial ombudsmen. (And then send them the case number)

[HH-R]

I might have burnt my bridges a bit now, could give it a go though.

 

Their Facebook page is full of complaints that cashback hasn't tracked, TCP's answer to that being that you can lodge a missing cashback claim and it MIGHT appear sometime in the next three months... or six... or never.

 

I never have any luck with stuff like that, TT's £100 shopping voucher offer that's on more often than the DFS sale wasn't on for three days, which is when I signed up, typical.

 

Still happy with the deal, saving £26 a month compared to BT and the broadband hasn't dropped out since June which is a new record.

[cort16]

I fucking hoovered up a sock as I was hoovering around it due to not being arsed to pick it up. It's a dyson and it's sooked it up deep, deep inside and when I turn it on smoke pours out (no doubt from the smouldering sock). I did attempt to dismantle it but my hung over brain can't cope so I just gave up. 

Fuck socks, literally. I guess it's a trip to the dyson doctor.

[hairnet]

tv decided to change channel at 7pm onto radio 1 - havent listened to them for at least 20+ years

 

no stuff set till later (film)

 

and ive been out all day and watched nothing - listening to cd purchased from amazon who delivered today (WTF??)

[EssDeeWon]

I might have burnt my bridges a bit now, could give it a go though.

 

Their Facebook page is full of complaints that cashback hasn't tracked, TCP's answer to that being that you can lodge a missing cashback claim and it MIGHT appear sometime in the next three months... or six... or never.

 

I never have any luck with stuff like that, TT's £100 shopping voucher offer that's on more often than the DFS sale wasn't on for three days, which is when I signed up, typical.

 

Still happy with the deal, saving £26 a month compared to BT and the broadband hasn't dropped out since June which is a new record.

 

You might be surprised. If Talk Talk are approached by the FOS it costs them £550 so they might just pay up the £80 they owe you.

[Taff]

I might have burnt my bridges a bit now, could give it a go though.

 

Their Facebook page is full of complaints that cashback hasn't tracked, TCP's answer to that being that you can lodge a missing cashback claim and it MIGHT appear sometime in the next three months... or six... or never.

 

I never have any luck with stuff like that, TT's £100 shopping voucher offer that's on more often than the DFS sale wasn't on for three days, which is when I signed up, typical.

 

Still happy with the deal, saving £26 a month compared to BT and the broadband hasn't dropped out since June which is a new record.

 

send them some feaces, then

[cort16]

Someone's been reading too much hot rod magazine,

 

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rover-SD1-Vitesse-V8-Modified-selling-as-a-project-/252051986226?hash=item3aaf781732

[fred]

Someone's been reading too much hot rod magazine,

 

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rover-SD1-Vitesse-V8-Modified-selling-as-a-project-/252051986226?hash=item3aaf781732

I could 'roll' in that as the yoof saying gos

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I lost £100 in cash at the side of the A43 near Northampton last night at about 3am.

[danthecapriman]

Why is it always raining in this fucking shit miserable cunt-ry we seem forced to have to exist in!?

It's fucking mid August, it should be hot and sunny but instead it's pissing down, dark, cloudy and miserable. I hate rain and being wet. Just in time for my 2 weeks off work!

[scdan4]

Thought I'd spend some kwality time with the darling offspring. I know, lets speak in bad cockenee accents and go fly a kite.

 

1) Buying a kite is surprisingly difficult. But in the 4th store managed it.

 

2) Dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad,dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad

 

3) Got the kite in the air "How do I do a loop the loop?"   "It's not a loop the loopy type kite love, the shop didn't have any of those"  "I'm bored of kite flying. Can we go home.

 

4) Got a headache now. 

[beko1987]

It sounds as painful as the why why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why why that I get with my 3 year old now.

 

Apparently "Because it is" is not a resonable explination of whatever it is...

[Junkman]

If that's the only thing it failed on go back and kick him in the nuts.

 

I shall do that regardless.

If there is a thing that makes my piss boil, it's this stupid British MoT, which's pointlessness can't be appropriately worded.

[scaryoldcortina]

I have to disagree, it isn't pointless. For a starter it keeps me in a job.

 

For every stupid tester that doesn't read the manual and fails things that they shouldn't there are hundreds of drivers who never look at their car except to find it in a car park. Bald tyres, bad brakes, blown bulbs, that "funny clonk noise" you have been ignoring.... I see some absolute heaps at times, and they are always owned by someone who is surprised that it failed.

[Junkman]

Concentration camps also kept people in jobs, however, there are decent ways to feed a family.

[scaryoldcortina]

I hope that was a joke.

[meshking]

 

 

Apparently "Because it is" is not a resonable explination of whatever it is...

My default answer "because the drummer from Def Leppard has only got one arm". Stops them dead in their tracks. For a while.

[bub2006]

 

My default answer "because the drummer from Def Leppard has only got one arm". Stops them dead in their tracks. For a while.

I'm going to remember that and use it in future, thanks!

[Slappy]

I hate the m4 round brissle. especially on fridays. It is always, always broken. Slightly different reasons, slightly different places, but always, always broken.

 

The hatred is such we now refuse to travel near it on a friday.

 

Remember kids, just say no.

 

 

Oh Balls, guess what I'm doing Friday...

[Rusty_Rocket]

As much as I find the more trivial MoT failure points annoying, I'm thankful we have the system we do.

 

The average British driver never even glances at his/ her tyres, let alone checks the pressure and tread.  We all have to mix with these selfish pricks on a daily basis, while they seemingly do everything in their ability to collide with other road users with their 2-ton killing machines.

 

The fact that there is a professional checking these things once a year is a thing we should all be very happy about.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

The MOT system in this country is great, I am constantly amazed at how much thought goes into making sure the test is fair and appropriate to all the thousands of different types of car out there with all the different technologies in them all. And that it costs so little. It seems amazing that it hasn't been comprehensively 'reformed' by cack handed ministers and turned into some half arsed stitch up effort run by Capita or whatever by now.

[cobblers]

Yeah I'm totally on board with it, it's really quite fair. Most testers are pretty good, you might find one with a fly up his arse about something or other but you can always just go to another place!

It could be a hell of a lot worse, like bollox says if it was taken over by one of the main players in bureaucratic outsourcing we'd be fucked, they would probably bring in some insane rule like just give you a pass/fail and if the car failed you'd have absolutely no idea why, and it's a 3 month wait plus £200 for another crack.

 

Plus it's still just about lax enough that if you find the right tester they will overlook the complete lack of a catalytic converter and other victimless crimes.

[EssDeeWon]

I find the MOT excellent VFM! Having just bought the 75 it was a great way for only £40 to have the car overhauled and checked over.

 

Generally I don't worry or care much about the annual MOT because I look after my cars.  But having just bought the car it was a good way to find out what needs doing. And all that work is now done and passed with no advisories 

 

Secondly, I know (and have known) of birds who run their Fiesta's / KA's / Corsa's / 206's into the ground and if it wasn't for the annual MOT test their cars would never go anywhere near a garage for tyres / brakes / shocks / welding etc... 

 

Frightening. 

[MarvinsMom]

+1 for the current MOT system, only we have to be vigilant to make sure that it doesn't start to include stupid shit like fitting different wheels on a car from what the factory fitted, such as me using 12 inch alleys instead of friggin' metrics.

 

sadly our half witted political leaders don't i fear have either the sense or back bone to prevent this from happening.

 

an MOT tester of my acquaintance got dragged over the coals by VOSA several years ago.

 

he failed a Nissan K10 Micra for rust in the front sub-frame/engine bed. this was that bad the pointy prodding tool went through it like tissue paper.

 

the VOSA man said he shouldn't have done this, as it wasn't a testable item!!!

 

the testers i think are stuck between a rock and a hard place! 

[scaryoldcortina]

Thank feck for that!

 

I like to think I'm a pragmatic tester. I know the manual inside out. I don't set out to fail something, everything gets assesed on its merits. Say for example that a car is in good nick and otherwise a pass, but I notice the brake pads on the front are pretty low. Brake roller test records a pass. If I worked for Kwik-fit, that would fail as "pads below 2mm" but I'm more inclined to advise "pads wearing low". You can't take them out during a test to measure them, maybe it's 2.1mm left.... Obviously, metalled pads or a serious imbalance or effort reading, yeah, fucked and failed.

 

If Junkman's 405 only failed on that numberplate, the tester is a twat, and the AE would tell him to his face that he was said female part. If it failed on other stuff too, I can see why it got included by a cautious (thick) tester who was worried that an old heap with many marginal problems might get referred to VOSA (oops, it's DVSA this week) and got him a bollocking. I see a lot of that, along with unneccesary advisories "just in case". Most testers hate older cars because they have to look for stuff, or read up or something.

[UltraWomble]

6 weeks after surgery to my knee I go and hurl myself at Blackpool prom.

Knee looks like it has a clowns nose - normally this wouldnt be so bad, but I have a feeling I might have ruptured my meniscal repair as its swelling like a balloon now.

I also hurmed my phone at the prom too...

 

But mostly Im pissed pff about my jeans. They were new.

[scaryoldcortina]

an MOT tester of my acquaintance got dragged over the coals by VOSA several years ago.

 

he failed a Nissan K10 Micra for rust in the front sub-frame/engine bed. this was that bad the pointy prodding tool went through it like tissue paper.

 

the VOSA man said he shouldn't have done this, as it wasn't a testable item!!!

 

the testers i think are stuck between a rock and a hard place! 

 

That's a good example of the sort of problem we face. The front xm on a micra wasn't close enough to a prescribed item (steering, suspension, brakes, seatbelts) to count for rust holes, and not structural enough to cause imminent failure of brakes or steering, Prob is, they are always rotten, and you find big holes. We who read the manual knew this, other testers went "OMGRUST!!!!!" and failed.

 

Worse still, now VODVSASA have added engine and gearbox mounts into prescribed areas IT IS NOW A FAIL!

 

Meh. I'm glad I can read.

[Pillock]

Next week, when the MOT test goes up to £75 and can only be done by garages who have the right equipment that changes every 6 months and you have to book it online on a website that rarely works unless you're on NCSA Mosaic v1.03 and no free retests and fail items have to be signed off by a mechanic rather than dicking around with brakes on your driveway..... we can blame Bollox for reminding those in power that currently, it's not a bad system.

 

Because it's not really. It has a sense that it's actually thought out by people who know vehicles, especially if you read that MOT testers blog thing where testers send in photos of someone who has made a balljoint out of a chicken drumstick, there's some very clever stuff goes off behind the scenes.

[Slappy]

A friend of mine just described her 7 years young Mazda 3 as "coming to the end of it's life".

 

Then again, in the same breath I warned her of the galloping rot that will kill these off faster than you can say "saltwater based paint".