The grumpy thread

[strangeangel]

I don't think it's bullying as such more people had tried but we're sick of him.

 

 

I set him to 'ignore' (as I have with a handful of others) but I have seen perfectly good forums ruined by one or two idiot trolls like him in the past, so I can entirely sympathise with those who took a more active hand in getting rid of his ass.

[MrDuke]

...Oooh, it needs a full set of brake governer ABS oojit rings. Along with an electronic pull-up traverser...

 

 

...a strain/tear of the hip abductor or illopsoas and the MRI showed oedema on the obturator exturnus and marrow oedema in pubic bone. Consultant queried a stress fracture on the pelvic ramus...

 

 

See, that's what happens when you just go straight to the nearest big hospital and let them screw you over. In future, look for a nice independent back-street therapist, I bet none of those things even exist.

[Angrydicky]

I've been a member here a few years now, and I remember when the forum was overrun with spam and idiot trolls, because there were no moderators. Lots of people stopped posting because it got so shit. I think the balance/purpose of the moderators on here at the moment is spot on. The forum is still pretty much unmoderated with the exception of banning trolls and spammers and locking threads when they get out of hand. That's what moderators should be for, and I think this forum is a much better place for it.

[plasticvandan]

hey,the mods even allow obvious trolls to post for a bit for our entertainment,cant say fairer than that!

[mrbenn]

Where else can you say the C word (Corsa) and not be frowned at?

[Bren]

My local kwik shit were defeated by an oil filter housing.

 

Trust em with pads and discs? Like fook.

[Coprolalia]

I refer you to the prior service history of the Octavia, exclusively worked on by National/Kwik-fit/Halfords.

 

88k, 11 years old.

 

3 clutches, 2 dual mass flywheels, 2 alternators, new sump, 2 batteries, all new doors switches, new water pump, four pads and discs multiple times, 2 timing belts, oil, brake, fuel and coolant flushes at every yearly 8,000 mile service.

[Lord Sterling]

Sofa was delivered, didn't fit. Sofa was taken back and I'd be getting a refund

[dugong]

Sofa was delivered, didn't fit. Sofa was taken back and I'd be getting a refund

That's no way to talk about my ex!

 

She's lost weight, anyway.

[HH-R]

Local Kwik Fit is fine for not taking the piss with unneeded stuff, their standard of work is about on a par with the independents in the area, i.e your car usually comes back just as bad or with a new fault that it didn't previously have.

[Richard]

I've just come in to find Love Actually on my TV. There are only two good things about that film. 1- It killed the Britromcom genre and 2- this.

 

[UmBongo]

I refer you to the prior service history of the Octavia, exclusively worked on by National/Kwik-fit/Halfords.

 

88k, 11 years old.

 

3 clutches, 2 dual mass flywheels, 2 alternators, new sump, 2 batteries, all new doors switches, new water pump, four pads and discs multiple times, 2 timing belts, oil, brake, fuel and coolant flushes at every yearly 8,000 mile service.

 

...and a partridge in a pear tree.

 

Pom pom pom pom...

[AlabamaShrimp]

World with the new* girl today for the first time. Seeing as it was k ly the two of use you'd expect her to talk and stuff. No, her face was my I'm glued to her phone...

 

 

In a other grump I bought* a Fiesta bit of some girl from RR said he sent it last week but sod all. No reply to the pm I sent two days ago either. Slightly shitty pm sent tonight. Don't know how you get your money back through PayPal if it's not an eBay sale

[dugong]

Place temporary (valid) parking scratch card in window of borrowed car.

 

Window mists up. Traffic warden tickets car to the tune of £35.

 

Well, I'm afraid you can JOG ON if you think I'm paying that, lads. You've got some fucking cheek to try and scalp me for £35 a week before Christmas when I complied with your regulations. I just spent £25 on a book of scratch cards to see me into February. I cannot control the amount of condensation in my car's interior. Soz.

 

I'm dying to see their photo evidence.

[Richard]

In a other grump I bought* a Fiesta bit of some girl from RR said he sent it last week but sod all. No reply to the pm I sent two days ago either. Slightly shitty pm sent tonight. Don't know how you get your money back through PayPal if it's not an eBay sale

 

I believe there's some protection if you tick the "goods and services" box but none if you tick the "gift" box.

[burraston2006]

Why can't mongs be arsed to take their dog shit home with them? They go to the effort of stealing the produce bags from ArSeDA, put the shit in the bag and when drop the bag back on to the pavement where the dog just shit. I mean, why bother with the effort? It least if it wasn't bagged the shit would be washed away in the rain. Now we have a bag of shit that will last for a thousand years!

Sorry, rant over!

[Cheggers]

Why can't mongs be arsed to take their dog shit home with them? They go to the effort of stealing the produce bags from ArSeDA, put the shit in the bag and when drop the bag back on to the pavement where the dog just shit. I mean, why bother with the effort? It least if it wasn't bagged the shit would be washed away in the rain. Now we have a bag of shit that will last for a thousand years!

Sorry, rant over!

Amen brother, round here the current trend is to bag the turds up then hang them from the nearest tree or bush...why??

 

Walking Ms_Cheggz huskies over the weekend, my job was to carry the bagged poos...those dogs produce bigger turds than I could, my arm was aching by the time we got back

[Bren]

The steroid tablets (prednisilone)I was given by the doctor have wore off after a few weeks - again.

 

My asthma symptoms have returned - I cannot manage it with an inhaler, even carrying shopping is a struggle.

 

NHS have told me I have an allergy but cannot test what for. Getting really pissed off with this now - I wouldn't mind so much if I was a couch potato but I was very active.

 

Just not any more.

[dave21478]

The Land Rover reverted to the stereotype and shat a few litres of greasy coolant all over my employers 17th century granit paved courtyard. 

[SiC]

Amazingly that A7 is still sat there in the car park with no wheels on it, maybe I should add it to the abandoned cars thread. There's no "Police Aware" sticker on it which leads me to believe that cracking the case of wandering around a medium-sized public car park was clearly too much of a mammoth task for the WYPD. Either that or they're wanting to field pointless calls about it all day. Or it dropped off.

 

 

Maybe the owner is either waiting for the police to do fingerprint swabs, or just waiting for the insurance company to sort it out?

 

When my Saab was written off, the insurance company was extremely happy to have it parked on my drive as if it went to a recovery compound, it'd cost ridiculous amounts per day for the recovers to store it. Could be that it staying in the car park is cheaper than a recovery compound. Or no recovery company wants to touch it in fear of getting more damage. 

 

Not sure how they're going to move this apart from putting new wheels on it? Going to struggle to fit a recovery truck with a beam arm to lift it up on in a car park!

[Cavcraft]

Star Trek/Wars, whatever it is.

 

Science fiction holds the same interest for me as F1, both are absolute bollocks.

[dave21478]

I quite fancy seeing it but nowhere local is playing it in English and films dubbed into French all sound shit since there are apparently only 6 voice actors in the whole country so everyone sounds the same and its read in a fucking monotone.

[cobblers]

Our driver at work drove 50 miles yesterday to pick up a full dashboard off a fairly new bus that "wasn't starting", from a big company who always have spare buses to swap bits off to isolate a fault.

After the usual fairly thorough checks which will show up all the common faults and 99% of obscure ones, I declared it to the gaffers as "No Fault Found", this took about half an hour. I was told to keep looking because "they wouldn't have sent it for repair if it was ok"

 

I spent all morning tearing into the dash, the loom, all the ignition switches and the rest of it, even down to tracing signals through 2 layers of logic on the dash PCB to make sure the "start" signal worked and trying to find any kind of problem. Nothing. Even down to isolating individual wires in the loom, running current through them and checking for hot spots with a thermal camera to try and find intermittent breaks. Nothing!

This afternoon I finally got to speak to the customer, to tell them I couldn't find fuck all wrong with it.

 

Their reply was "Oh, I thought you might say that, we tried another dash on it this morning and it did the same thing. Do you think that the batteries being absolutely fucked could have anything to do with it? It's been stood for a year, then it went in the paint shop and someone left the wipers on for 3 days and they won't take a charge now. I put the boost pack on but that's not much good either"

 

Give me strength.

[Pillock]

Hopefully, give your company a massive fee for time spent too.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Maybe the owner is either waiting for the police to do fingerprint swabs, or just waiting for the insurance company to sort it out?

 

When my Saab was written off, the insurance company was extremely happy to have it parked on my drive as if it went to a recovery compound, it'd cost ridiculous amounts per day for the recovers to store it. Could be that it staying in the car park is cheaper than a recovery compound. Or no recovery company wants to touch it in fear of getting more damage.

 

Not sure how they're going to move this apart from putting new wheels on it? Going to struggle to fit a recovery truck with a beam arm to lift it up on in a car park!

Tbh I bet no one's doing fuck all about really.

 

It's on private land, the owner needs to be contacted first and asked what do they want to do, it might have been them that took the wheels off (I know it's a low probability but still). They might not care, sold it, dumped it or whatever either way, though it might seem obvious, no complainant, no crime.

 

Then it's back to the private land thing and getting the costs back for moving it

[Split_Pin]

Sorry, 2 for the price of one today. 1. Some girls in my team at work had suggested we get our manager an Xmas present which I thought was fine as I have always participated in that sort of thing wherever I have worked. It was agreed that we would find out what perfume she liked, again, good idea. However the girls took it upon themselves to steer the whole thing towards something from either Moulton Brown or Jo Malone. The price? £105. They also decided between the 2 of them that each members contribution would be £15-£20. I was fupping out of my bin over this. Its obviously pocket change to them but to me, with a mortgage and a wife and son to support and provide for and at Christmas, it was a bit fucking much to swallow. Thankfully the consensus among the blokes was the same and the budget was adjusted to a fiver each. However, thats not the end of it, I ended up clicking on the links that they had been sharing. IT'S A FUCKING CANDLE. A CANDLE!! CHRIST IN A BUCKET HAS THE WORLD GONE FUPPING BANANNAS!!!!!! A TON AND FIVE! I'd expect the thing to heat my house for a year for that cost!!!!!!

[Split_Pin]

2. Looking at videos on You Tube of lovely W12 Phaetons and also in my 'Recommended for you' feed was a fucktonne of material about know-all smug wanks parting out these cars for their utterly lame T2 Westfalia projects. The hateful pineapples sheds are dynamically impotent as it is and fitting this fine engine to it marks them out as complete philistinical bunglecunts.

[cobblers]

Hopefully, give your company a massive fee for time spent too.

Nope. Not a penny! We don't charge for testing or shipping. It bites us in the arse quite often, but our main competitors are chancers that just claim to have repaired anything that comes through the door whether they have found anything wrong with it or not, and have no way to test anything other than just "looking for exploded things on the PCB" so to try and keep the reputation of the electronics repair business out of the gutter we are overly mega transparent, to try and keep people from tarring us with the same brush as the other place.

 

If we charged per hour for labour,  it would cost people twice as much to send us something that turned out to be fine than if it was faulty, so we don't otherwise it would scare people off.

[beko1987]

Tbh I bet no one's doing fuck all about really.

 

It's on private land, the owner needs to be contacted first and asked what do they want to do, it might have been them that took the wheels off (I know it's a low probability but still). They might not care, sold it, dumped it or whatever either way, though it might seem obvious, no complainant, no crime.

 

Then it's back to the private land thing and getting the costs back for moving it

Yep, it's annoying, but I just watch him argue with people from the bedroom window and smile!

[gordonbennet]

IanL, you must be related to my Mrs who also has her feet firmly planted on the ground...her gripe is working class women who think!? they should be celebrity class and sell their souls to buy, wait for it, a fuckin handbag i ask you, for about £3500!!!, agreed, the world has gone effin mad.

Her other gripe is labels, why do people pay an arm and leg for the privelidge (do fuck off) of wearing someone else's name on their chest.