The grumpy thread

[Mr Lobster]

customers - grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

+1

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Got in my landcrab yesterday morning, it wouldnt start. Flat battery. Went to it today, still wouldnt start, even with a spare battery and jump leads. Arsed around for ages and eventually got it going (earth strap down the back of the engine playing up). Set off to work, got 8 miles then ran out of fuggin pez! THANKS FOR THAT.

[Father Ted]

iTunes.Wife wanted an iPlod, so I have bought a touch(ed). As a surprise I am loading it up with all her music, and trying to download a file off iTunes of a Celine Dion album I cant convert because it has some wanky software that stops the computer dead if you try putting it in a PC... Anyway - iTunes - grinding my PC to a halt and clogging up the WiFi network at home so that everyone has commented hos slow its got.I think I will stick with my Sony walkman.

[Milford Cubicle]

I think you can use Windows media player to sync to iPods.

[ashmicro]

ipods and that shit software itunes are a pain in the cock.

[Father Ted]

Jesus Wept, Im getting a nosebleed trying to navigate the apple site to find some games to load up on it for her.Fucking trendy wanky shiny crap

[Tayne]

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[outlaw118]

Being slightly afraid of technology as I am, may I recommend the Sony MP3 player - it was a piece of piss to load stuff off the PC - admittedly all stuff that I'd taken from CD, but uses a form of Windows Media. Even I can do it!!

[Station]

Jesus Wept, Im getting a nosebleed trying to navigate the apple site to find some games to load up on it for her.Fucking trendy wanky shiny crap

Fuck using ITunes. Download albums using Soulseek, and then use Mediamonkey to sync them to the IPod. I've been doing it this way for years.I have to say, in this day and age of plastic, and things breaking all the time, Apple have done a good job on the IPod. It's one thing I'll keep for years and years.

[Richard]

iTunes=appalling shit.

[trigger]

I love my iPod touch, I'm on it all the time, It's got a great web browser and some great games as well.I can't understand why your having problems downloading songs of itunes into it as i find it very easy and I'm useless with stuff like that, (Mind you i have over 5300 songs on in which 75% must be from Limewire) I also recommend getting Doodlejump and Angry Bird games, both very easy games but you'll be addicted with in minutes.

[M'coli]

The problem is using iTunes itself to download the music and configure whatever player you have. If you liken the player to a memory stick/card that you can listen to music on, just do so, much less hassle than using some software to try to do it.

The wife got me one of these for Christmas 2008, it's the one I would have bought myself if I wasn't a tight git. Phillips stuff isn't "fashionable", but it works.

[maxpower]

i feckin hate itunes!!! i had over 4000 songs on an ipod and when i got a update software message on the pc so i did update and it wiped every feckin song i had never got em back! had to start all over again

[Claypole]

Bought a battery, psu, hard drive and keyboard for a faulty laptop, batteries not charging, keyboard doesn't fit (when i took old one off surprisingly that's not the right one either and hard drive is clicking like mad... bloody Ebay gimps. Where's that Paypal dispute button...

[Minimad5]

Claypole , PM me with the make of Laptop, i may be able to help you sir.(I have a Sata HDD for a laptop some place too... if you are interested)

[pogweasel]

Saturday morning irritations:1) No clean underpants. Had to go to Asda to buy new underpants. I think someone must be stealing my underpants. 2) Upon returning from my trip to purchase undergarments, I discovered that one of the wheel trimZ has disappeared off my van. TBH, it was the shabby NSF one which was a bit kerb damaged. Presumably it made a bid for freedom up the A1 last night, possibly causing mild swerving & annoyance for other motorists. Now I cannot have 3 trimmed wheels and 1 black steel, how much could a replacement be.... oh £50. FIFTY FUCKING QUID for a piece of plastic. I think Halfords will be getting £14.99 for a set of 4 this afternoon.3) The post office. I'll do your bloody job for you, shall I. Letter in the box, not for us, not our address, not our postcode, it's on the other side of town. GR1. Admittedly the road name can sound -vaguely- similar when pronounced but are spelled totally different. I look forward to delivering this letter, I expect to get a gob-full off the woman for all the pizzas and curry deliveries that have gone to her house and not to ours over the last few years....

[Guest]

1. Turn the existing ones inside out.2. Take the remaining trims off - it's a van.3. Don't worry about it.

[Mr Lobster]

Pog, You can adopt the 'three wheel trims on my van' look of someone who doesn't care about such trivialities.Actually, just take the other three off. It'll look fine.

[Cavcraft]

!) Wait for neighbour with similar sized arse to put washing out.2) Leave wheeltrim off, put chevron stickers along bottom of both sides of va, add mobile 'phone number stickers spaced out to look like a landline number and go round stealing things.3) Open the letter. It might be a coupon for a free pizza.

[Guest]

Why is it suddenly okay to whore the latest modification to your car on the MAIN BOARD of Retro Rides? What's the Reader's Rides section for then?Arrrrrggghhhhhhh.

[chester drawers]

and trying to download a file off iTunes of a Celine Dion album I cant convert because it has some wanky software that stops the computer dead if you try putting it in a PC

I despise iTunes. A colleague has dumped it and Windows in favour of Ubuntu. The bundled media player works with his iPod, it doesn't arse up his media library every time he downloads album art and DRM magically disappears You can download a CD ISO for free and try it live (no need to install if you don’t like it).Celine Dion? That’s grim. I'd rather have another root filling than listen to that. Does she like Mariah Carey too

[Mr Lobster]

I don't mind iTunes myself. Seems to work ok for the few bits I ask of it...

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I quite like iTunes, I've never had a problem with it. I have it open most of the time and it doesn't have any noticeable effect on my computer's speed. Although I probably spend more time listening to Spotify now, and when I do take my iPod out getting frustrated that all the music on it is from 2005.

[Mr Lobster]

I do however dislike my ipod for its pitiful battery life although as I mainly use it in the van with a cassette adaptor and it permenantly plugged to the charger it's not really the end up the world.

[Cavcraft]

In a newsagents today some od boy asked for a dozen first class stamps.Lazy disinterested young bint passed him six. 'Well I don't know what a dozen is, do I?'

[Father Ted]

Saturday morning irritations:1) No clean underpants. Had to go to Asda to buy new underpants. I think someone must be stealing my underpants...

I stopped wearing underpants in 2003 - by 2005 my fertility and sperm mobility had increased so much that women were getting pregnant just by sitting in my seat. A vasectomy followed shortly after. I had to laugh at the "40 ejaculations" before I was considered to be a jaffa.Albert Einstein didnt wear underpants either....

Celine Dion? That’s grim. I'd rather have another root filling than listen to that. Does she like Mariah Carey too

Bloody hell aye, and all sorts of female romantic tripe. Fortunately I am deaf so I simply switch my hearing aid off. Currently toying with some sort of DAB / CD docking station affair to replace the shagged Sanyo hi-fi. None of them have tape players

[FredTransit]

Saturday morning irritations:1) No clean underpants. Had to go to Asda to buy new underpants. I think someone must be stealing my underpants. 2) Upon returning from my trip to purchase undergarments, I discovered that one of the wheel trimZ has disappeared off my van. TBH, it was the shabby NSF one which was a bit kerb damaged. Presumably it made a bid for freedom up the A1 last night, possibly causing mild swerving & annoyance for other motorists. Now I cannot have 3 trimmed wheels and 1 black steel, how much could a replacement be.... oh £50. FIFTY FUCKING QUID for a piece of plastic. I think Halfords will be getting £14.99 for a set of 4 this afternoon.3) The post office. I'll do your bloody job for you, shall I. Letter in the box, not for us, not our address, not our postcode, it's on the other side of town. GR1. Admittedly the road name can sound -vaguely- similar when pronounced but are spelled totally different. I look forward to delivering this letter, I expect to get a gob-full off the woman for all the pizzas and curry deliveries that have gone to her house and not to ours over the last few years....

1, agree with those that say go commando till you have washed some2, This is autoshite. Roll it as it is, or take the lot off and paint the wheels silver!3, just stick it back in the post box the next time you are passing, I only deliver them meself if they are in the next street.

[boobydoo]

Celine Dion? That’s grim. I'd rather have another root filling than listen to that. Does she like Mariah Carey too

I'm sure I read somewhere that shes the worlds best selling female artist ever.I also read that "Everything I Do" by Bryan Adams that sold about a gazillion copies worldwide was initially turned down by both Lisa Stansfield and Annie Lennox. Stupid bints.P.S They'd have murdered it anyway.

[Father Ted]

Bloody hell.

 

Just been offered an identical 'van to THIS for £5K - with a shed load of extra bits. Bloody bloody arsecakes. Another 2 months and I would be in a position to buy and store and use. But not right now. Bloody bloody bloody arse dandruff.

[M'coli]

Tonight I had a twattess passenger accuse me of hitting their car (07 Mondeo)while I was parking mine, I said I didn't touch theirs. She then started on a long partonising speech about how it was worrying that if I'm supposed to be in control of a vehicle that I didn't know I'd hit someone (Believe me, I'd know...) - and I said "I haven't touched your car - so I'm not responsible for damage that's already there." Her arsehole of a companion (who was out of the car when I parked mine) then chipped in with "are you calling us a liar"(fuck off, I didn't touch your car, you weren't in the car so how can it be 'us') and "we've only bought the car today, so expect us to be wound up".So they bent down to look look at it - it was the back of 7, light fading I put switched on my car lights - low and behold some impact damage. They took a long look, and said "yeah, that was already there, but if there had been more I'd have had the police here to sort you out." Fuck right off you little extorting twat, like the fuzz would have come out to sort out a parking dispute when you'd thought you'd found a patsy for the old damage to your car!