The grumpy thread

[michael1703]

So you sign out of hotmail, it goes to msn.com which always has some bullshit link which is tenuous and you're not bothered but slightly interested.

 

It's always something like " you've been eating biscuits wrong all your life" or "hacks which will improve your shizzle"

[The Moog]

Brothers Merc has snapped a spring on A40. Not got breakdown cover, so having to join AA and pay excess.

 

I am having to cover it as he has no cash for the week. Plus I am supposed to be up in 5 hours but will now have to stay awake to sort out the mess. 

[xtriple]

Took the dogs out on Friday (amongst other things), got home in lots of pain. Felt sick and couldn't even drink my coffee (unheard of! I can ALWAYS drink coffee!) and have since then been lying on the floor and moaning! Struggled out with the dogs once yesterday. No idea what's wrong with me this time, just feel like death and my spine feels like it needs to be ripped out and ironed flat!

[Pillock]

My Sky TV service has just run out of the 50% offer. I've got a feeling my other codes for half price have either expired, or were for new customers only. Plus Sky's inventive way of making money is to let you own the equipment outright, and then phone you every two months to flog you an extended warranty so even if I stick with Sky, I want new kit (and I'll raid the hard drive out of the old kit and skip the rest)

 

It was just about worth £18. No way am I paying £36 for it. I've also got broadband with Virgin for £22.50 including a phone line, but I think that was a 12 month offer too so that'll be going up soon to £30 or something - basically my cushty £40 per month all in is looking more like £70.

 

Now it means I have to do the home entertainment equivalent of insurance company juggling. Check the deals, work out how much per month in real terms (because a lot of them quote £xx per month, plus a phone line, oh and it's an 18 month contract and it goes up in month 13), check to see what's in the channels, compare to the next company. 

 

Part of me wants to go to Freeview, but we do watch stuff on Sky 1 sometimes. So that would mean Now TV at £7 a month, but then adding TV services to broadband is only about a tenner and you get a set top box instead of having to Chromecast it off a phone, so it can be left on to record stuff on series link etc. I can plug a USB stick into my telly to record freeview, but the TV needs to be in standby all the time for that. 

 

Verdict: AAARGH. 

And before you stingy types start, we like watching TV, and both of us work from home so need decent fibre broadband too so quit it with the "just listen to the radio and go outside and play with a stick and hoop".

[myglaren]

Have a look at the Amazon telly thingy - my former next door neighbour ditched Sky & Virgin, bought an Amazon box and says she can watch anything she wants free.

 

Have to admit being a bit vague about it as I don't watch TV hardly - once a month on average although I do watch stuff on iPlayer.  Only have freeview and BTTV that I never use.

[purplebargeken]

Nowt wrong with hoops and sticks, jeez!

[Bobthebeard]

Nowt wrong with hoops and sticks, jeez!

There is in this weather. You may well end up on your arse in a wheely bin! Better to stay indoors and watch telly.

[Pillock]

I've used a lot of Android TV boxes that were awful, so finding a good one is hard. I've also seen a few that come preloaded with spyware!

 

It also bothers me not paying for stuff. However it bothers me equally paying too much for stuff that's crap, like Sky.

 

Maybe a good Android TV box plus NowTV and Netflix apps is the way forward. But still, I'd need broadband. And I can add a full blown TiVo plus 120 channels to broadband for a tenner.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I sledged down a (very bumpy) hill in a rubber dinghy today, at the bottom I crashed straight into one of those big green Calor gas tanks and now my back is knackered again. Suppose I have to admit I'm just not 15 anymore.

[HH-R]

BSB 5 channel TV is what you want.

[Pillock]

Hmmmm, still a bit limited.... Can't record so not adding anything over a Chromecast as far as I can see. Will have a gander at some reviews though as it may solve a different problem and the hardware at least looks good quality.

 

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[robinmasters]

So you sign out of hotmail, it goes to msn.com which always has some bullshit link which is tenuous and you're not bothered but slightly interested.

It's always something like " you've been eating biscuits wrong all your life" or "hacks which will improve your shizzle"

...and every local newspaper site. Why does every single one of these 'stories'/'articles' need to be accompanied by a picture of an obviously American women with an insincere surprised expression on her stupid face?

[The Moog]

Hmmmm, still a bit limited.... Can't record so not adding anything over a Chromecast as far as I can see. Will have a gander at some reviews though as it may solve a different problem and the hardware at least looks good quality.

 

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We do freeview with plusnet broadband. Cheap enough and we have fibre.

 

Have a smart TV so stream over kodi and also use Amazon prime video plus YouTube. Does pretty much everything.

 

If paying is what you want They now do freeview with HD plus decent channels for £5 a month.

[Jerzy Woking]

Nowt wrong with hoops and sticks, jeez!

I had a hoop and stick when I was a kid. Left the hoop outside the sweetshop and some bastard nicked it. I had to walk home.

[fraser.innes.3]

My Sky TV service has just run out of the 50% offer. I've got a feeling my other codes for half price have either expired, or were for new customers only. Plus Sky's inventive way of making money is to let you own the equipment outright, and then phone you every two months to flog you an extended warranty so even if I stick with Sky, I want new kit (and I'll raid the hard drive out of the old kit and skip the rest)

 

It was just about worth £18. No way am I paying £36 for it. I've also got broadband with Virgin for £22.50 including a phone line, but I think that was a 12 month offer too so that'll be going up soon to £30 or something - basically my cushty £40 per month all in is looking more like £70.

 

Now it means I have to do the home entertainment equivalent of insurance company juggling. Check the deals, work out how much per month in real terms (because a lot of them quote £xx per month, plus a phone line, oh and it's an 18 month contract and it goes up in month 13), check to see what's in the channels, compare to the next company.

 

Part of me wants to go to Freeview, but we do watch stuff on Sky 1 sometimes. So that would mean Now TV at £7 a month, but then adding TV services to broadband is only about a tenner and you get a set top box instead of having to Chromecast it off a phone, so it can be left on to record stuff on series link etc. I can plug a USB stick into my telly to record freeview, but the TV needs to be in standby all the time for that.

 

Verdict: AAARGH.

And before you stingy types start, we like watching TV, and both of us work from home so need decent fibre broadband too so quit it with the "just listen to the radio and go outside and play with a stick and hoop".

Get a nowtv box with 3 month entertainment package from asda for £15. It has sky 1 plus others. After 3 months, buy another box and use the voucher with the existing box. You can have upto 3 devices connected to each nowtv account. If you want movies, sign up for the free trial, then cancel. They will give you all of the movie channels for £3.99 for the next three months.

 

Hope this helps.

 

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[dugong]

Find rare parts for Amazon on eBay at a sensible price.

 

Buy item. Item lost in Parcel Force system. Seller gives gibberish code which doesn't work.

Complain to seller and he responds with the same code I told him didn't work previously.

 

Brilliant. Been after a pair of rear hinged vent quarter lights for years; a pair finally turn up at a sane price and they're probably getting kicked to pieces in the back of an Iveco Daily somewhere.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Or like the centre console I bought for the fiesta it wasn't sent in the first place so it couldn't have got lost..

[dugong]

Or like the centre console I bought for the fiesta it wasn't sent in the first place so it couldn't have got lost..

EXCELSIOR - please see the grumpy antidote thread.

[Alexg]

FFS, everything about this

 

[AlabamaShrimp]

Who the fuck is Russel Kane? But worse there's a magazine about twat plates?

[Lacquer Peel]

No PU51 DRY?

 

[r.welfare]

The previous owner of my house "subscribed" to that "magazine", and forgot to notify them of his change of address. Which is nice.

[MrDuke]

RONG_THRED shirley? I had no idea such a thing existed, and it's made me giggle like a schoolgirl    The publishers must have had Alan Partridge in mind when they started it.

[cort1977]

Who the fuck is Russel Kane? But worse there's a magazine about twat plates?

And that it's got to 37 issues.   Insane.    But it has cheered me up.

[dollywobbler]

Jeepers. That is shit. As is Russell Kane.

[Alexg]

Read it here for free. Unsurprisingly it appears to be full of gits

 http://www.regtransfers.co.uk/main/WebMag/PDFs/issue37.pdf

[Bobthebeard]

Plenty of posts asking things like "what can I buy for £xxx, or any recommendations for such and such car for my mother/daughter/father in law etc. Not once have I seen one of the recommendations taken up. ( Although am probably wrong)

Usually ends in "thanks anyway, but..." Etc.

Why ask? Am I being naive?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

My god, never have i seen such a shower of utter morons, I feel dirty just for looking at a PDF of that shower of vacuous cunts!!!!! Imagine spending ACTUAL LEGAL TENDER on a plate for your caravan that says 'M 80ME' ('M Home' apparently, a translation of what this bell end is actually trying to say has been thoughtfully provided). If i had some money that i just didn't want any more I'd give it to a local cats home or a fucking tramp or something rather than on a big reflective sign that says 'I AM A TWAT' AAAARGGGGHHHH MAKE IT STOP

[dollywobbler]

My god, never have i seen such a shower of utter morons, I feel dirty just for looking at a PDF of that shower of vacuous cunts!!!!! Imagine spending ACTUAL LEGAL TENDER on a plate for your caravan that says 'M 80ME' ('M Home' apparently, a translation of what this bell end is actually trying to say has been thoughtfully provided). If i had some money that i just didn't want any more I'd give it to a local cats home or a fucking tramp or something rather than on a big reflective sign that says 'I AM A TWAT' AAAARGGGGHHHH MAKE IT STOP

 

Just beautiful. It's like a form of poetry.

[fordperv]

I am unfortunately a number plate nobber and I do like personal plates, mrs fp bought me one for my birthday which says my nickname with a tweak of a letter, it says it with no left over characters, it's for my mk1 sierra