The grumpy thread

[purplebargeken]

All adverts are shite ap[art from the one with the wonky mouthed girl who's dentist advised her to 'go pro'.

[Craig the Princess]

That is a very good point Ken.

 

[purplebargeken]

and her too but there is another one who is a bit fitter.

[ruffgeezer]

Are you on about the bird who used to be in Hollyoaks? 

 

[Pillock]

I'm pretty good at avoiding adverts - between having ninja reflexes on the Sky+ 30x speed, and Adblock+, and listening to ad-free radio I hardly ever get them.

However that just makes it more irritating when one sneaks into my life. Follow a link on my phone, start reading a webpage, and then BLAM a full-screen advert appears. Go for the close button, miss by a pixel and it fires you to another website because it thought you wanted to buy their shit product. Fuck you.

 

In fact it seems to be mobile webpages are getting too good at sneaking past ad-blocking host files, I was reading one of these "27 ways of making a sandwich that will blow your mind!!!11" websites and every image they'd put on there, had another image overlayed which you had to close to see the image. I don't mind the fact you need to make a bit of money out of a website, but Buzzfeed and all that shit that are the worst for adverts just steal content anyway. They're getting paid and have close to zero outlay. Fuck them too.

[Angrydicky]

I'm selling the Victor on ebay. Amazingly I haven't been receiving the mammoth bids the sellers of other seventies cars have been getting recently, maybe it's because I don't bump up the price with a spare account.

 

Anyway I just received this message. Makes me despair, it really does.

 

 

[doobietoo]

My reply would be "to the right near the bottom"

[dave21478]

Right-wing asshole neighbour is ranting in the street to polite, pleasant other neighbour.

Literally nobody here gives a fuck about the guy or what he says, including his wife by the look of things just now.

[Skizzer]

Anyway I just received this message. Makes me despair, it really does.

 

 

Tell them to GET IN THE FUCKING SEA and you'll guide them from there.

 

GLWTS by the way, lovely car.

[skattrd]

Computer bollocks all going wrong ... only continue reading if you understand a bit of computer speak.

 

NAS not working properly, but I want to backup before trying to fix. I can't use windows as it doesn't recognise the file format of the NAS o/s (nix based). Reboot laptop in to Ubuntu, except Win10 has overwritten the grub bootloader, so that needs repairing. Eventually reinstall bootloader and get in to Ubuntu, I try cloning NAS o/s (on a USB drive) it's corrupt and won't clone. Now I'm creating a ghost usb drive to clone the nas o/s before running repair on it ... If this doesn't work I'll have 9TB of unreadable data.

 

TLDR: 4 hours wasted pissing about with computers and still not fixed.

[Pillock]

If you've got Hirens, there's both good cloning tools and drive repair tools on there.

Good luck though. Sounds like a ballache.

[chaseracer]

I might* know of a suitable replacement. Could be French. You like French.

 

Only if it begins with C and ends with X... 

[chaseracer]

Right-wing asshole neighbour is ranting in the street to polite, pleasant other neighbour.

Literally nobody here gives a fuck about the guy or what he says, including his wife by the look of things just now.

 

Tell him Jeremy's won.

[Lankytim]

Just smashed my phone, desperately need it for work. FUCK

[bub2006]

Ebay cunts. Kismet brass footpath I want to sell. State that I won't ship until funds are in my bank account and not held in PayPal limbo do to people trying to rip me off. Message winner of said item stating would they prefer a bank transfer or wait till funds are cleared. Wait says they. 19 days have passed PayPal still holding funds and I get a message. Item not dispatched. What are you playing at? You recieved my money but fail to send items. Case opened. I reply that I've gone through this and they agreed to it and funds still pending in PayPal. Fuck it I sent money back and ebay and PayPal can go to fuck

[cobblers]

Some cretin just pulled out in front of me, then when I got quite close to him on account of the fact I was having to brake hard to not hit him he stopped the car and got out to have a go at me for tailgating him because "he had a kid in the car"

 

Fuckin maniac. I won't pretend I gave him a witty put down, I was too flabbergasted at his idiocy to do anything than just stare blankly and confusedly at him for a a bit til he got back in the car.

[jakebullet]

Got up this morning to a series of increasingly worried "are you ok?" texts on my phone. Er, why wouldn't I be? Well, you phoned me at 7 am with a silent call, and a) you never phone and b ) you're never up at 7am.

 

As I was pushing Z's at that time, the only logical explanation is Ma is reading my texts and fucked up n phoned instead. Denies it of course, but phones don't randomly phone people.

[Lord Sterling]

but phones don't randomly phone people.

Really?

 

Many years ago when I was still at school, myself, Ma and sis_Sterling left the house to go into town. We were still in our street when my mobile phone (Nokia 5110, remember those? I've still got a couple of them somewhere) started ringing, I looked at it and it was the home landline and one was at home...

[fred]

Not really a Grumpy man thing - But watching 'match of the day' Saw this big ass spider limping up the wall, had a leg missing and looked like it was trying to escape whatever bit its leg off,

Poor bugger lost its grip and fell back down behind my unit. I fear there is something large and 'Oribble behind my unit - Arghhhhhh

[fred]

Really?

 

Many years ago when I was still at school, myself, Ma and sis_Sterling left the house to go into town. We were still in our street when my mobile phone (Nokia 5110, remember those? I've still got a couple of them somewhere) started ringing, I looked at it and it was the home landline and one was at home...

Have to agree on this one - had my landline call me in the middle of the night, I live alone, and was quite weird

[Bren]

I'm selling the Victor on ebay. Amazingly I haven't been receiving the mammoth bids the sellers of other seventies cars have been getting recently, maybe it's because I don't bump up the price with a spare account.

 

Anyway I just received this message. Makes me despair, it really does.

Tell them you're not on the map - you're in the house.

[Angrydicky]

After all that, the Victor didn't sell. It ended at £1800 RNM - had nearly 250 watchers though. Loads of stupid questions, mainly asking what the reserve was and for a BIN price. One fellow who asked for a BIN price then said it's too expensive has just messaged me saying it's "obviously reached what people were prepared to pay" and if I would reconsider my BIN price he would be interested. I say he won't be willing to pay what it's worth, as the reserve was a fair bit lower than the BIN price I gave him, and he didn't bid anywhere near it. I'm not that desperate to sell. So many wasters who bid in £10-£50 increments as well. What's the point?

 

That's the last time I try to sell a car on ebay. My Austin Cambridge also reached a very disappointing figure considering the sky high prices others were fetching, but at least this time I had the sense to put a reserve on it. It seems that unless you shill bid your classic into the next century, all you get are timewasters and stupid bids.

 

If anyone here is interested, I'd let it go for £3250. It's in excellent condition, I've spent loads of money having paintwork done on it and I've just remembered I have an overdrive gearbox in the shed I bought for it (cost £250!) that I'd include for that price.

[purplebargeken]

EBay is very odd at times. I'd happily bid on a Victor but obviously couldn't afford it.

[anonymous user]

Having recently gone through this with the A35 you have my sympathy. I used the Classified ad rather than auction and did eventually see it going to a good home. I wonder if the chap telling you it's not worth what you think it is, is the same one who told me I was seriously overvaluing the A35.

 

I think some of it may be timing, it's now the end of summer and many of the people who would want your Victor would want to take it to shows and it's the end of the season. Your best bet would be to store it over the winter, let it get covered in dust and then bring it out next spring as an OMGBF.

[Alan_Green]

Got up this morning to a series of increasingly worried "are you ok?" texts on my phone. Er, why wouldn't I be? Well, you phoned me at 7 am with a silent call, and a) you never phone and b ) you're never up at 7am.

 

As I was pushing Z's at that time, the only logical explanation is Ma is reading my texts and fucked up n phoned instead. Denies it of course, but phones don't randomly phone people.

Are you using a new charger? A charger I bought on Ebay caused a ZTE Blade smartphone to call everyone in my address book if I charged it with the screen unlocked.

[cobblers]

Yeah, some really wank dangerous knockoff chargers (for the love of god don't use these, you'll burn the house down, a genuine samsung one is only £4!) send such a noisy 5v out that it messes with the touchscreen and registers random presses all the time.

[Taff]

my cafetiere has a crack in it

[mercrocker]

Having recently gone through this with the A35 you have my sympathy. I used the Classified ad rather than auction and did eventually see it going to a good home. I wonder if the chap telling you it's not worth what you think it is, is the same one who told me I was seriously overvaluing the A35.

 

I think some of it may be timing, it's now the end of summer and many of the people who would want your Victor would want to take it to shows and it's the end of the season. Your best bet would be to store it over the winter, let it get covered in dust and then bring it out next spring as an OMGBF.

 

What species of front bottom rings someone up to tell them their car is too expensive?     I'm foaming at the mouth just reading about this,  not quite sure how I would actually handle a call/email/text like that myself.    Is it all Brewer's fault or have people really all been this fucking stupid all along and I haven't noticed?   I think it really is time that there was a reasonably high voltage zap facility available on keyboards and phone pads - preferably with a Skype option so you could see the fuckers flinch when you press it.   Berks.

[jakebullet]

Are you using a new charger? A charger I bought on Ebay caused a ZTE Blade smartphone to call everyone in my address book if I charged it with the screen unlocked.

 

Not on charge, just sat there switched on. I never leave it on charge overnight 'cos OMG towering inferno remake.

[Pillock]

Well if it's your ma reading messages, then put a PIN on it. In fact it needs a PIN anyway, I can never figure out why people don't. One lost phone equals a world of pain.