The grumpy thread

[richardmorris]

More a warning. But met our old boss yesterday for the agm. In passing mentioned he'd been the victim of card fraud. Seems £5000 or so had been taken from his current account using his debit card details. Bank has refunded it all so no loss.

 

BUT there were two possible sources- one he wAs executer of his nieces estate 16 years ago and last month Santander ( As they are now) was in touch regarding a dormant account - then worth perhaps £1200. Asked him to provide bank details to transfer the money. Seems legit though and they calculated the total interest accruing and it all appeared in his account. Then he says he saw money had been taken out, being paid to an online casino. He thinks it was this transfer or a local flower shop he'd used recently.

 

THen he says he'd had an email from hmrc about a tax refund of £152 from 2014 ( how they'd been trying to get in touch and he only had two weeks left to claim) and asking him to put in his debit card details for payment!! We almost shouted at him! This is a professor who was in line for a Nobel Prize in chemistry. But someone who also gives his wife a monthly allowance in cash and doesn't have a credit card. I have said not to expect this supposed refund but I'm not entirely sure he believes me.

[Captain Furious]

Very sorry to hear the sad news about your sister-in-law

 

The world really isn't a fair place

[andrew e]

Billy, ouch. Hope your Mrs is O.K. too.

[bub2006]

Thoughts with you billy.

[Coprolalia]

The world is truly a cruel place, condolences Billy.

[Tamworthbay]

Sorry to hear that Billy, shit I am 44 and it's no age

[xtriple]

Sorry to hear this. Thoughts are with you and all her family.

[dugong]

Jesus, Billy. Hope she went surrounded by family (and peacefully).

[Skizzer]

Sympathies from me too Cavcraft, that's just shit.

[Lankytim]

Sorry for your loss, Cav. 

[fordperv]

sad news cavcraft, condolences to you and your family

[Mr Lobster]

Sorry to hear that, Billy. Thoughts with you and your family.

[Cavcraft]

Thank you. We knew it was coming (hospice) but it didn't make it easier. It's daft really, you hear some encouraging signs yet you know the end is coming, a sort of self denial phase thing maybe, I don't know.

[overrun]

Cars for sale that have had a replacement engine or gearbox - these items have always.....ALWAYS...done "only 130000 km". Same with people selling just engines or gearboxes, they all..... without exception..... have done under 150k. 

You know.....a cynical person might, just might, be a little dubious of these claims.

 

I bought a 52K mile 2010 Corsa 1.0 thing with a kippered timing chain and bendy bits inside, so instead of arsing on fixing it, U Pull it supplied me a 20K mile engine and box from a 2014 car.

This would normally be a good thing when I sell the car on, but matey wouldn't give me a receipt, stating as much.

 

So say nowt it shall be.

[M'coli]

Same age as me.  I'm so sorry Billy.

[Ghosty]

What happened with Hirst? I'd noticed his posts had gone. Presumably, I missed a shitstorm?

 

I'll miss his contribution, even if no one else does!!

 

All that I've seen is what's in the posting info thread. 

From what I understand someone pissed Hirst off and he pm'd Daveb47 asking if he'd ban them. Dave refused, Hirst then asked him to delete his own account and everything he'd posted, Dave again refused due to potential issues with the forum software.

Hirst edited every single one of his posts to be blank and deleted his account, so an irritated Dave temporarily restricted edit priveliges for the whole site (since been undone). 

 

I haven't noticed Hirst post outside the open forum for a long time. 

 

 

 

Somewhere in all this and the board migration, the delete button disappeared. 

 

 

Meanwhile, I'm sitting in my bedroom, and it's rather warm. If I open the window, all I can hear is shit pop music in perfect clarity at least a quarter of a mile away, and a fuckton of car horns. I'm stuck with constant bass thumping now. Could hear a live band before, no idea if it's a pikey funfair or a wedding party or what.

 

I want to go to bed, I'm off to Chumley tomorrow.

[M'coli]

As ever, misinformation wins out.

[overrun]

All that I've seen is what's in the posting info thread.

From what I understand someone pissed Hirst off and he pm'd Daveb47 asking if he'd ban them. Dave refused, Hirst then asked him to delete his own account and everything he'd posted, Dave again refused due to potential issues with the forum software.

Hirst edited every single one of his posts to be blank and deleted his account, so an irritated Dave temporarily restricted edit priveliges for the whole site (since been undone).

 

I haven't noticed Hirst post outside the open forum for a long time.

 

 

 

Somewhere in all this and the board migration, the delete button disappeared.

 

 

Meanwhile, I'm sitting in my bedroom, and it's rather warm. If I open the window, all I can hear is shit pop music in perfect clarity at least a quarter of a mile away, and a fuckton of car horns. I'm stuck with constant bass thumping now. Could hear a live band before, no idea if it's a pikey funfair or a wedding party or what.

 

I want to go to bed, I'm off to Chumley tomorrow.

Why do people cry and delete posts/ask to be removed/have posters banned from forums when they throw their toys out of the pram?

 

Attention seeking bairns.

 

If I took issue I would tell whoever to fuck off.

Failing that, I suppose I would stop coming on the forum.

Never would I go on like that.

 

I honestly think I am the only one who couldn't give a fuck.

[M'coli]

DO NOT FEED THE TROLL.

[Doctormop]

Terrible news Cav, there really are no words,

It might seem insensitive posting this but another truly great young lady lost her battle a couple of days ago,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-37260055

 

The programme 'Before I kick the bucket' was one that made me cry openly for the first time in years.

[trigger]

Theres more to this than whats been posted. Hirst had good reasons.

[overrun]

Theres more to this than whats been posted. Hirst had good reasons.

 

Obviously I don't know them, but I also can't ever see there being a need to wipe yourself from a forum.

 

Don't like it? Don't use it.

[overrun]

DO NOT FEED THE TROLL.

 

Me? 

[BavarianRetro]

I don't know the circumstances. Hirst was always entertaining and gave the impression of being a bright, if a little eccentric, bloke. I think he's missed.

 

Don't criticise unless you know the facts.

 

There can be circumstances when it's better if you never existed.

 

On another car forum there was a really good, popular, likeable member - I met him a couple of times. Like everybody he had posted his opinions on day to day matters on their version of the open forum. He was - still is - an extremely talented man in a very small field of people doing his line of work. He worked with expensive, luxury products and at that time he was the second man in the UK team for one of the leading manufacturers. The leading, globally recognised, manufacturer approached him to run their UK side and at that point, he decided his forum user name - his not indistinctive car's not indistinctive registration number - was a potential liability.

[Cavcraft]

Why do people cry and delete posts/ask to be removed/have posters banned from forums when they throw their toys out of the pram?

 

Attention seeking bairns.

 

If I took issue I would tell whoever to fuck off.

Failing that, I suppose I would stop coming on the forum.

Never would I go on like that.

 

I honestly think I am the only one who couldn't give a fuck.

 

Ordinarily I'd agree with that, but Hirst was actually dignified enough to have not done this in public, so to speak, instead he did it behind the scenes. He had good reason to go as Trigger said, and it's a loss to this place that he has.

 

What I will say is we have had a handful of 'delete my account' requests, and whilst I don't think we can, even if we could I wouldn't to be frank. That's not a chip at Hirst, nor anyone else come to think of it, in fact I think he's done the right thing by removing his posts as he clearly felt pissed off enough to leave, which is his call.

[Royale80]

Went to the pub yesterday afternoon-called in to the local kebab shop to take home tea for me and the family. Go there every 5 or 6 weeks. Takes this long to fancy another. Usual servers behind the counter-asked for one large kebab and one chips. Waited 10 mins they then give me only one tray-I say "where are the chips" they reply "in with the kebab" I tell them I've never had this (less food in one tray-being a greedy person) - always separate-they then tell me I should have told them at the start. So I tell them to "stuff it" (I hadn't paid by then and was very polite for me!) but then had to walk an extra 300 yards to the next kebab shop. Still burned a few more calories off walking!

 

Steve

[Ghosty]

Seems there's a lot to this. Don't shoot the messenger etc.

[nigel bickle]

Billy, mate - I'm so sorry for your loss. 44 is no age. Hope you, and the family, can cope.

 

Hirst gone? I'm not suprised, but will miss him. I liked his directness, cynicism- often well judged, and the way he stayed the course. Perhaps he'll be back, one day.

 

I've stacks going on, but learnt that publicity here bites- having gained myself a pair of stalkers. I rarely post anything now- it's just not worth it.

[M'coli]

Me? 

No, not you. There's also a difference between dummy-spitting and persecution, and the only advice I'd offer is that if it occurs to anyone else, keep records of PMs, quote original posts so the content is preserved even after a troll has edited their original dig to something more benign, and be dignified about it. Hirst tried his best to deal with it (he's not the only forum member trolled by the same person), but I also believe that his account wasn't deleted on his asking.

This is why I said not to feed the troll - if they're reading these posts they're likely to be getting their ego boosted by thinking, "I did that", probably fueling any sociopathic tendencies further.

[purplebargeken]

Trolls are curious creatures. Often rather sad and inadequate things.

 

You have to pity then for their sad little lives.

 

Nah, fuck 'em.

 

Stalkers. Well, that's a whole different ball game. Nasty stuff