The grumpy thread

[EssDeeWon]

From the Guardian: "The cafe, which opened in December, was open as usual on Sunday morning, with queues of customers paying up to £4.40 for a bowl of cereal."

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/27/shoreditch-cereal-cafe-targeted-by-anti-gentrification-protesters

 

Of course, being in the Graun it could well be wrong.

 

Ah, I read it was £2.50, maybe £4.40 gets you some fancy natural 'crap as you eat' type stuff.

 

No one pelts all these Cafes that charge £2.50 for Beans on Toast though. I mean, 2.5 quid for a few beans and 2 slices of bread, £2.50? A cup full of baked beans and some toast, wholesale your talking about 20 pence worth of food there.

 

The markup on food is amazing. Take the humble cheese burger at a show in the summer, that costs roughly 40 pence to make, but the hoi polloi will happily queue up and hand over 3 sovs a time.

[EssDeeWon]

Just looking for a new motor to keep Mrs D happy and the number of dealer f**kwits who think claim FSH yet "last serviced in 2011" or "missing middle 5 years of service history but was owned by AA mechanic who did his own servicing" is doing my nut in.

 

I had all this when buying a BMW a few years ago, all I heard and read was 'FSH, FSH, FSH

 

What you do is offer to come over and pay the FULL asking price, then miss off one of the middle digits, paying £495 instead of £4995 then look at the dealers reaction when you explain that FULL doesn't always mean FULL, does it Mr dealer??

[fairkens]

Flipping neighbour! Put some monstrosity of a shack at the bottom of his garden, asked if we could leave the back gate unlocked so he could come round our side and finish it off, had too much stuff nicked in the past to be happy about it but said ok. Left it open all day yesterday.

 

Home 30seconds tonight, knock on the door, ignore it... another one louder this time. Hello... Can I come round and paint me shed? What?! Can I come round and paint me shed? What the f were you doing yesterday then?!

 

Is a bit of peace too much to ask when I get home? Really? And I'll get it in the neck for being rude to the neighbours when the missus gets home...

 

Ffs

 

Tl;dr I'm a grumpy bastard

[inconsistant]

If you pay that much for a bowl of cereal you are a bit fucking stupid. Still, it's their money, let them choose how to spend it.

 

Hipster. Does that just mean scruffy twat? If so, I have been a hipster for most of my life.

 

I wish some cunt would gentrify Edmonton. However, in order to do so they would have to nuke the place initially.

Its a typical modern news story calculated to irritate as many people as possible... because there's something for everyone to hate. It's got property developers, displaced locals, pointless fashion, foreigners, imported processed food, perceived idiocy, maximum beards and of course Shoreditch. And the rationalists can point out that people pay lots for coffee already and that for most restaurants the cost of the raw materials and ingredients are minor compared to rent business rates and salaries so £2.50 upwards for a bowl is not bad really.

 

I think its a great story, It's the perfect combination of Nathan Barley ordering a scrambled egg topping for his coffee and Chris Morris shouting "THIS IS THE NEEWWWWWWWWS".

[scaryoldcortina]

"How did we do?"

 

I'm sick of getting customer feedback surveys from everything. I change my house insurance - both the old insurer and the new one email me a survey link so I can give my views. I stay in a hotel for one night, I get a survey. The phone company who were terrible, expensive and hard to leave recently? They sent me a survey.

 

I'm not ever doing another one. Not since the one that only gave options of "Young couple" and "Mature couple" when my wife and I are neither young nor mature....

[Negative Creep]

Got the 406 pack with a nice freshly painted bumper. Still wondering if I should have just left it, but it's done now. Annoyingly the battery was showing signs of giving up the ghost and the local scrappy didn't have one that fitted, so had to buy brand new. Just one thing after another at the moment.

[chaseracer]

Flipping neighbour! Put some monstrosity of a shack at the bottom of his garden, asked if we could leave the back gate unlocked so he could come round our side and finish it off, had too much stuff nicked in the past to be happy about it but said ok. Left it open all day yesterday.

 

Home 30seconds tonight, knock on the door, ignore it... another one louder this time. Hello... Can I come round and paint me shed? What?! Can I come round and paint me shed? What the f were you doing yesterday then?!

 

Is a bit of peace too much to ask when I get home? Really? And I'll get it in the neck for being rude to the neighbours when the missus gets home...

 

Ffs

 

Tl;dr I'm a grumpy bastard

 

Maybe he was busy.  "Lighten up, man..."   

[chaseracer]

Kept a PPI irritant strung along for several minutes earlier, following the classic "someone at this address had an accident" opener.  Not proud of myself, but FACOM if they can't take a joke.

[Louise2cv]

Accident Investigation Bureau, Mr. C. Racer? I had them call yesterday,after racing up the stairs with my dodgy leg to get it, I wasn't best pleased.

 

Not a great advert for their investigating prowess if they don't actually know if you've had an accident, is it?

[scaryoldcortina]

^ I've got a recurring one going from a place that want to discuss my life insurance. Every time they ring I express interest in talking to them but explain that for a variety of reasons now isn't a good time. I'm wondering how many calls they will make before they give up.

[scaryoldcortina]

Accident Investigation Bureau, Mr. C. Racer? I had them call yesterday,after racing up the stairs with my dodgy leg to get it, I wasn't best pleased.

 

Not a great advert for their investigating prowess if they don't actually know if you've had an accident, is it?

 

I got one this evening on the house phone. It never rings so it surprised me a bit (bakalite GPO thing with two brass bells in it!) Anwered and got

 

"This is an important call for the householder regarding the accident that someone had within the last two years. Press five to speak to our representative."

 

italics and bold text indicate a different voice badly spliced into the recording. It was so comical I didn't want to hang up, but I did anyway.

 

 

edit - hey while I'm on about phone robots, has anyone else had the misfortune to ring HMRC recently? They have replaced the "Press 1 for payments, press 2 for a 2 hour queue, press any other number to be randomly cut off" and instead you get a voice recognition pretend person who says "Hi, tell me what you want". So you say "I need to inform you of a change" and it says "I think you said "Please take all my money away because I don't need it any more", say yes if this is correct", and this continues until you eventually agree to whatever it thought you said, because the person you will be speaking will ask you all the same stuff again anyway.

 

Genuine People Personalities......

[Louise2cv]

The only time I have ever been quite rude

(I'm ashamed to say) was a guy in the street who stopped me 3 or 4 times (I have a very forgettable face!) during my lunch hour.

 

"Excuse me madam, have you had an accident that wasn't your fault?"

 

 

I answered politely the first few times, then the last time I swung round and said

 

"No. But you might if you ask me that once more!"

 

 

*emptiest threat OF EVAH!!!*

[mrbenn]

People with too much to say.

 

Opinions are like arseholes. We've all got them, doesn't mean everyone else wants to see and hear them.

[chaseracer]

...I have a very forgettable face!

 

For those unfortunate shiters who have not yet had the pleasure of meeting Louise, allow me to confirm that this is NOT the case!

[Pillock]

I always express vague interest in whatever they're selling (it was often international calling packages before, now it's PPI or accident claims)

 

Tell them you've got a letter somewhere with what they need to know (date of accident, your phone bill with total amount of international calls etc). Place phone down on table. Go about your evening.

[Louise2cv]

For those unfortunate shiters who have not yet had the pleasure of meeting Louise, allow me to confirm that this is NOT the case!

Thank you, but it is true! Nobody remembers me. I worked for a small dept in the local Uni for 3 years, attended staff meetings, staff dos, pic on the office notice board etc etc, I had to remind a lot of my colleagues who I was every time we met up. Then Matt did a couple of months there and from then on I was "Matt's girlfriend" even after he'd left his position there!

[fairkens]

Maybe he was busy. "Lighten up, man..."

😄😄 he's not busy, he doesn't work! Rage rage rage rage rage rage

[STUNO]

Regarding that Cereal Café thing in London, he saddest thing about that was that the newspapers reported on that here. And the price of a bowl of Kellogs finest was 10 pounds in our reports.

[myglaren]

Fucking Firefox again. Crashes out on any site that uses https for up to a minute which is highly annoying so I've reset the bastard to default settings for the 5th+ time now.

 

Set everything back up (i.e disabling the adware it comes with now), reboot the computer and it's lost all of its settings. It's crashed already in the past couple of hours. Nothing else on my machine ever crashes, just this POS.

 

Now it's popping up a message saying "Firefox seems slow... to... start". Yes, because it's a pile of turd now. I really wish there was a decent alternative (i.e not Chrome).

This is strange.  Use Firefox as default browser and never have a problem - on  several computers.

 

Use Chromium for this site though - again problem free on whichever computer I use.

 

Have you tried IceWeasel?  Reputedly good but never been there personally.

[scaryoldcortina]

Yeah, same here. I even use Firefox for the Mot comp, but with pretty much everything it doesn't actually need to run disabled.

 

Chromium is pretty good - chrome without the googleness.

[Inspector Morose]

 

Genuine People Personalities......

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[MarvinsMom]

after 5 days fannying on, the metro still doesn't have any working back brakes and therefore no mot.

 

its had new wheel cylinders, a brake master cylinder, and still no joy. there is next to no effort by the back brakes.

 

have asked them whether or not they have tried bleeding all the brakes in the required sequence, or whether or not they have tried giving the brake pressure limiter valve thing a damn good clean. in both cases my suggestions have been met with a "what the hell do you think you know" type attitude. see the last time i had problems with the back brakes, and when i changed the wheel cylinders (now 4 and half years ago) that was what i needed to do to solve the brake problems, so i think i have so insite into how the car works. afterall i don't think that the mechanics have every come across an austin metro before.

 

plus the clutch is going on the mini, that needs at the very least i think a new slave cylinder, and the father in law is whinging about the xj6 sitting on the drive. that one i am going to try and sell on, plus to be honest i'm going to try and shift the 2 little cars on as well, as the whole shit car thing has stopped been fun, and they are becoming mill stones around my neck. 

 

too many shit heaps, and not enough time......

[alf892]

..........people getting banned and no reason visible.

 

Maybe there should be a sticky for The Banned giving a reason and length of ban.........I think this stuff needs to be visible.

 

Disregard this post if I'm just blind or stupid.......

[Pillock]

Or, he just changed his email address and has cocked it up a bit.

 

Now what am I going to poke with my pitchfork? *sulk*

[320touring]

after 5 days fannying on, the metro still doesn't have any working back brakes and therefore no mot.

 

its had new wheel cylinders, a brake master cylinder, and still no joy. there is next to no effort by the back brakes.

 

have asked them whether or not they have tried bleeding all the brakes in the required sequence, or whether or not they have tried giving the brake pressure limiter valve thing a damn good clean. in both cases my suggestions have been met with a "what the hell do you think you know" type attitude. see the last time i had problems with the back brakes, and when i changed the wheel cylinders (now 4 and half years ago) that was what i needed to do to solve the brake problems, so i think i have so insite into how the car works. afterall i don't think that the mechanics have every come across an austin metro before.

 

plus the clutch is going on the mini, that needs at the very least i think a new slave cylinder, and the father in law is whinging about the xj6 sitting on the drive. that one i am going to try and sell on, plus to be honest i'm going to try and shift the 2 little cars on as well, as the whole shit car thing has stopped been fun, and they are becoming mill stones around my neck.

 

too many shit heaps, and not enough time......

Commiserations re brakes-they can be a bugger. gotta also love know it all garages!

[fred]

Fuck me sideways and call me Fanny - Bloody pikeys and pikelets hath landed on the bloody common AGAIN!! 4 times in 3 fecking months - FFS sake Just fuck off with your shite and general scuttinness

Already got into a set to with some fat pajama wearing barrel of spunk trying to Nob shite from the corner shop. Who went off is some ''Weird Oirish'' Twang - ''Oi neva tuk nuffin never ya kunt yo try sheeeeow moi whoooot I fooookin had wiiilll ya naaaaw''' - ''Um that bottle of wine sticking out your jammies'' ............Fucking pikeys

[beko1987]

My phines had no signal all day. Not the end of the world, but it's just come back and notified me I have 6 voicemails. One ppi one from this morning, but 2 from potential dyson customers from last week. I didnt get any missed calls from them, gone back to them both now, just hope they respond!

[M'coli]

Brake limiting valve went on mine, so I'd be changing that.

 

after 5 days fannying on, the metro still doesn't have any working back brakes and therefore no mot.

 

its had new wheel cylinders, a brake master cylinder, and still no joy. there is next to no effort by the back brakes.

 

have asked them whether or not they have tried bleeding all the brakes in the required sequence, or whether or not they have tried giving the brake pressure limiter valve thing a damn good clean. in both cases my suggestions have been met with a "what the hell do you think you know" type attitude. see the last time i had problems with the back brakes, and when i changed the wheel cylinders (now 4 and half years ago) that was what i needed to do to solve the brake problems, so i think i have so insite into how the car works. afterall i don't think that the mechanics have every come across an austin metro before.

 

plus the clutch is going on the mini, that needs at the very least i think a new slave cylinder, and the father in law is whinging about the xj6 sitting on the drive. that one i am going to try and sell on, plus to be honest i'm going to try and shift the 2 little cars on as well, as the whole shit car thing has stopped been fun, and they are becoming mill stones around my neck. 

 

too many shit heaps, and not enough time......

[Bobthebeard]

Regarding unsolicited phone calls...

A couple of years ago I had a slight bump up the rear on my (then) car. No injuries, no nothing really. The dent in the plastic bumper just pushed out. However the lady who bumped into me wanted to go down the insurance route. Fair enough. It got silly. My car was written off (cat d) and I got a cheque for £1400 with salvage deducted. No fault or blame recorded against me.

Kept the car with no visible damage plus the cash... Barmy.

Anyway...

The calls started a week or so afterwards about the 'accident you had'. Claim ££££££££,s for whiplash/inconvenience/stress/anxiety blah blah... None of which I had, it was a tiny low speed knock.

The calls slowed down to almost none but are now back with a vengeance! As in four or five calls per day every day. I have blocked all numbers not recognised, phone doesn't ring but calls still logged etc. The majority of the calls used to be a London area code, but now come from Nigeria, The Philippines and India.

FFS! Getting really sick of it now, as I have to have my phone set to block every number not in my contacts.

[D Spares & Tyres]

I just answer them, say yes, just hang on a sec while I pull over then leave them hanging on. Surprising how long some of them wait ☺