The grumpy thread

[scdan4]

I'd do that, to be honest.

 

The work was done, needs paying for etc etc.

[captain_70s]

Actually had a slight neck pain (and I mean very slight for a few hours). OMG I FINK I SHUD GET SUM COMPENSASHUN 4 THE TRUMER

My mate's girlfriend claimed for non-existent whiplash a few years ago. Got two grand out of it.

 

I now spend my time at traffic lights hoping somebody rolls into me so I can wipe out my debts...

[Pillock]

I've told this story here before, but I once claimed for legitimate whiplash - went to A&E, advised not to work, lost two evenings behind a bar and two days bonus at work - sick pay covered wages. All in, seventy quid or so. Claimed for seventy quid or so.

Came back from a holiday to find two letters. One offering £1400. The other dated a week later saying essentially "Ok, look £2100 and that's our final offer". They can't give it away fast enough, it's madness. 

 

(Madness that I couldn't wait to pay into the bank, natch)

 

 

Today's grump is also financial. Spent ONE HOUR on the phone to HMRC today, I'd noticed my tax code had gone up hence I'd been paid "too much". I know, but it was about £150 and if that happens all year, they're gonna ask me for a shedload of cash next April. Of that ONE HOUR, 57 minutes was on hold and 3 minutes was a nice lass with a lovely Scottish accent explaining that they'd dropped my tax code last year to recoup underpayment due to my employers forgetting to mention a company car, but now my P11 had gone through actually it wasn't as bad as they thought. So, essentially it's right.

 

The grump comes when I get home, pick up the mail, and there's a letter from HMRC explaining my new tax code. ONE HOUR. Gah.

[anonymous user]

I think it is an essential part of ringing any government department that you make sure you have prepared a flask and sandwiches beforehand. Earlier this week I tried to get hold of DVLA to check if they had updated things, since I sold the A35 in July. The first number I found just told me they were too busy and to ring back. The second one gave me a multiple choice exam, before I eventually got through to be put on hold. Eventually I did get to speak to a person (she was very nice) who confirmed that they had not changed keeper and it was still down as my car. I was advised that I needed to write in, I did point out that I had already done that when I sent the V5 (with receipt of posting) so could I not just email as there might be more chance of getting it? No I had to write and then wait up to four weeks before checking to see if they had lost it a second time.

 

I then had a brainwave, in between they have brought in the change details on line system, unfortunately I did not have the V5 reference number, nor the address of the purchaser, but I did have his name and ebay id. I sent him a message and got the address and V5 reference off the green slip and did it on line in a few minutes. I now have an email confirmation from DVLA of the details change. I was also pleased to hear that the A35 has done a round trip from Chepstowish to Southampton with no problems.

[UmBongo]

Happened to glance in my rear view mirror just before impact - from the looks of it she was playing with the radio. Bumper has been pushed in slightly and paint is scuffed but nothing seems to be broken. Probably not worth going through insurance but the fact she didn't care in the slightest she'd hit me is tempting me to put a claim in

 

 

Claim, claim, claim...

 

The dozy sodette might start to care when her premium goes up.

[dollywobbler]

Oh FFS. Like it'll make any difference! All it means is higher premiums for ALL of us.

[Negative Creep]

Many, many years ago, when BL were still alive, I worked in the warranty department of a BL distributor so got to see the whole range of cars (and their problems) first hand. One day in the service department a chap getting was very agitated regarding a rather large bill for work on his car. He did reluctantly settle the bill by cheque. A while later it was noticed that he was still sat outside in his car and eventually someone went to check if he was alright, he wasn't, the poor bugger had popped his clogs, ambulance etc. called, but too late for him.

 

It is alleged that the MD of the garage got someone to rush up to the bank and pay his cheque in, so that it was in the system before the account got frozen.

 

 

Although buying the farm inside a BL car must make you some sort of AS legend?

[Eddie Honda]

Happened to glance in my rear view mirror just before impact - from the looks of it she was playing with the radio. Bumper has been pushed in slightly and paint is scuffed but nothing seems to be broken. Probably not worth going through insurance but the fact she didn't care in the slightest she'd hit me is tempting me to put a claim in

 

Get one in, you can always drop it later, but starting one later....

 

Even a few mph can make the old dome wobble.

[jakebullet]

I can't believe the stupidity of my idiot sister and what she expects us to fall for. She's just renewed her car insurance and put new man who's only got a provisional license on as well "because it makes it cheaper".

 

She has full no claims, is 39 and drives a kia picanto 1.1. £780

 

I'm never getting such a high performance car if that's cheaper....

[Aston Martin]

Hey, yes it's me again. Trying to cram-in more crap before tomorrow.

 

One of the bin collectors suggests going to a local pub for lunch. How should Benjamin respond? Select the BEST option below.

 

A. 'I could do with a pint after that accident'

B. 'One pint won't hurt'

C. 'OK, I'll have a couple'

D. 'Alcohol and driving don't mix. How about a cafe?'

 

How about a fucking cafe? 

 

 

 

For lunch what would be best for Benjamin to have? Select the BEST option below.

A. A 3 course meal and coffee

B. Pasta and orange juice

C. Burger and chips with a fizzy drink

D. Nothing

 

 

 

Benjamin is gonna get slapped.

 

 

 

Enough of me for now, i'll be back tomorrow after I fail this highly important exam.

[Eddie Honda]

Jeeze. Wotalottabolllix.

 

Good luck.

[HH-R]

I can't believe the stupidity of my idiot sister and what she expects us to fall for. She's just renewed her car insurance and put new man who's only got a provisional license on as well "because it makes it cheaper".

 

She has full no claims, is 39 and drives a kia picanto 1.1. £780

 

I'm never getting such a high performance car if that's cheaper....

When Mother HH-R was learning to drive, my dad put her on his insurance with a provisional licence for practice and it brought his premium down £20! He wasn't impressed, having driven for decades and never even had a parking ticket.

 

£780 for a Picanto? I'd weep paying even half that.

[Lord Sterling]

I can't believe the stupidity of my idiot sister and what she expects us to fall for. She's just renewed her car insurance and put new man who's only got a provisional license on as well "because it makes it cheaper".

 

She has full no claims, is 39 and drives a kia picanto 1.1. £780

 

I'm never getting such a high performance car if that's cheaper....

Wow, I'm younger (by 7 years) got nil no claims because I've had a Classic policy for some years and got the 2.5 Sterling insured for just over £600.

 

Shit price but ya' know...

[fred]

Both illnesses are utter utter bastards of the highest order. My gran is rapidly disappearing due to dementia and has already started to forget family members. It's horrible to watch but you still go round to visit for the brief moments where you see the person you grew up with and loved.

Think my mother is starting to suffer from alzheimers , cant remember a lot of things done recently but remembers stuff from years ago like it was yesterday. She cant drive her car anymore due to arthritis of the spine knees etc .And fuck it sometimes just upsets the crap out me, as the powers that be still says she is still well enough not to get any fucking Government help - Bastards

[Ghosty]

I'm sorry but how is what does someone's choice of lunch have to do with anything, provided they eat?

 

Normal car theory is a pisstake, it's almost always blindingly obvious what the right answer is if you have any common sense at all.

Hazard perception is daft and every single person I know that's done it only scraped through it, myself included. One of these days they might want to re-record some hi-res clips too! My driving instructor didn't like it - she was in the 'too soon, you fail' camp.

 

The minor bump thing: it's daft. The mother did that to three people in a stationary in traffic Jazz when she had her old Polo, but that was because it was downhill, in the rain on a greasy road, and the ABS couldn't cope, or just didn't cut in for whatever reason. I just remember some juddering. Polio had a broken numberplate, Jazz went through insurance (was new). Needed a new bumper as the end of the metal support went through it. The three people in the Jazz all put in whiplash claims, for an impact of probably around 10mph or less...

 

Meanwhile, academic grump. I'm transferring universities from Wolverhampton to Manchester Met - I have a letter dated August 7th confirming my place. I change my details on the student finance website (when it's working which is 40% of the time roughly). While I'm on holiday they send me a letter dated the 26th telling me to reapply. I send them paper forms recorded delivery as it's just easier. Logged in today and I get a notification that suggests they've received it (I could tell as there was no maintenance loan - I'm living at home), but there's no other evidence on the site. No news regarding my grant application either (last year for that, thanks Tory twats).

Meanwhile, MMU's online enrolment, which opened on the 18th, won't let me log in. I kept trying (as the website advises, 'it may take a few days to activate'), I keep getting 'sorry, there seems to be a problem, please phone in office hours'. After a week or so of this I call them up, give them my student number and they tell me some department hasn't looked at my application yet, 3-5 working days, thank you and goodbye.

Well, it's now been 10 working days and my induction is a week on Tuesday, I'm starting to get a little stressed, constantly trying to log in to both that and seeing if Student Finance England's website is even working.

[fred]

If we're going to get into this, I'm 35 with 7 years NCD and live in the middle of town so park my 3 litre BMW on the street.

 

I pay £188.

Im a old crust and when I had my 7 series 3,5 fully comp was 200 quid

[fairkens]

Get one in, you can always drop it later, but starting one later....

 

Even a few mph can make the old dome wobble.

 

 

be careful though, if you go for one of the no win no fee claim farmers, they won't let you drop it without you paying their outstanding fees, which will likely be exorbitant

[chaseracer]

Irony is truly dead.

 

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[AlabamaShrimp]

There's some singing bint on BBC 1 right now. She must have said "yeah" about a thousand times.....

[seth]

 

 

The grump comes when I get home, pick up the mail, and there's a letter from HMRC explaining my new tax code. ONE HOUR. Gah.

 

Happy Hour by the Housemartins?

[Bren]

Morrisons to close stores as profits are down.

 

Stop being greedy feckers then, people wouldn't need to go to Aldi, and you wouldn't need to sack people.

[Cavcraft]

I hope they shut the one by me, as long as the work force (except the manager) get new jobs.

[Negative Creep]

Hope they don't clsoe the one near me, I love their tiger bread and doughnuts. Although I still haven't forgiven them for discontinuing their fake Dr Pepper

[Chas4545]

Changing the subject a tad, just seen the new  Hyundau Tucson advert on telly. They seem to be aiming sales at drive by bombers, including shots of "bomb " being set off by remote trigger - what a fail.

[purplebargeken]

Just had a minor meltdown. The place 4 houses down from us was being 'rented' by a polish gypsy family. They hadn't paid rent for 3 years and were subletting. They were evicted last week. They dumped what they didn't want/couldn't take in the front. The son was dealing and doing all kinds of shite so good riddance.

 

The mass of shite has also been cleared today. Sadly quite a bit of it has blown all over the pavement and is just sitting there. I came home and sorted our bins for collection and got fed up of looking at it and cleaned it up. Then to cap it all, the woman a couple of doors down who is friendly with Mrs PBK, came out just after I had finished. She kicked and threw the rubbish from her garden onto the pavement saying that it wasn't her rubbish and why should she clean it up and moaned about how bad the road has become. I then had a bit of a go and said that no-one has any pride in the appearance of the road, people dump rubbish where they see rubbish already dumped and although it isn't 'our' rubbish it only takes a couple of minutes to clear it up as I had just done. I may as well have spoken to the fucking wall. I just stood there shaking my head.

 

The state of the road has steadily declined over the last few years and no-one seems to give a shit about it.

 

Next door to us is a mum and 3 kids, the partner is already married and is quite the stoner/dealer himself although to be fair he has been fine with us, although there are almighty rows most days between him and wife no2. They have a very young baby and twice now over the last couple of days I have removed dirty baby wipe products from our front garden. The partner dumped a baby seat on the pavement in case someone wanted it. The 8 year old daughter who is not very pleasant was playing with a Tesco trolley in the front garden. She dumped it on the pavement when she got bored. Rita told the dad and he shifted it all properly, so fair do's. 

 

I am probably over-reacting and I know it will make no difference whatsoever and there are worse things in the world, etc, etc and I am acting like an old fart but it is so frustrating. 

[jakebullet]

The state of the road has steadily declined over the last few years and no-one seems to give a shit about it.

 

I am probably over-reacting and I know it will make no difference whatsoever and there are worse things in the world, etc, etc and I am acting like an old fart but it is so frustrating. 

 

You've just reminded me, I need to escalate my old fartness.

 

6 weeks ago some twat 'tagged' 4 lamp posts around a junction near me. It looks mega shit. Filled in the graffiti form on the council website, 4 weeks later they 'fade' 1 lamp out of 4 and that's it. Sent email to the council 2 weeks ago, and nothing. Think next step is ward councillor. Not sure where to go from that.

 

WTF is this even supposed to say?

[chaseracer]

Vento? Vectra? All taggers are shit?

 

Hard to tell...

[Cavcraft]

It's Velta, they're a lamp post removal/replacement company working for various highways. The red arrow indicates where the main knock out fuse is for when they start drilling into the base area.

[Eddie Honda]

And they say it's grim oop North Ken.

[andy18s]

Changing the subject a tad, just seen the new  Hyundau Tucson advert on telly. They seem to be aiming sales at drive by bombers, including shots of "bomb " being set off by remote trigger - what a fail.

Would need to be well funded bombers to,at £28k otr price.....

One way of out gunning Isis is suppose,who can only afford new Hilux's