The grumpy thread

7,140 · October 1, 2016

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Why is everything so difficult.

Halfords.

1,444 · October 1, 2016

Apologies for kicking you while you're down Ken, but why not pull them out first then take them into the shop to match up?

As number plate lights are usually those little 5W jobs, I just buy 10 at a time from eBay for 99p delivered. Damn useful to have a stock as the other one in the pair will usually go shortly after.

4,447 · October 1, 2016

Re The Cars that Made Britain Great....

I got approached by the production company for that back in January. Gave us a massive list of all the cars they wanted models for and could we source them. They reckoned it'd be nice to have the celebs looking wistfully at the model while they regurgitated something an intern had found on Wikipedia. They also ought it'd be nice if the celeb could. Keep the model afterwards.

So anyway we could source most of them so gave them a quote (a very reasonable one it must be said) to which they replied that sorry they didn't have a budget but could we do it for free and they'd give us a mention on the losing credits.

Mere nanoseconds passed before I gave my verdict. The lack of celebs holding models and the fact we aren't on the credits tells you all you need to know.

24,183 · October 1, 2016

Grump #1 Bag of plastic wheelarch trim clips from eBay are completely useless: dimensionally identical to Ford ones but rigid so won't work. Excess force produced by evil temper shatters them.

Grump #2 Pattern bumper end caps and mudflaps are completely useless because they are only approximately the right shape and the design requires that they be exactly the right shape. In all 3 dimensions. And made of the correct material, not pastry or recycled pop bottle.

Grump #3 Tried to buy a fancy telly today in Currys. Decided what I wanted and lo, there it was on display. Looked really nice but "ooh you don't want one of those" says the serving lass "Panasonic have decided not to support the operating system anymore, so in a couple of years none of the online features will work"

So I still don't have a proper youtube telly.

28,511 · October 1, 2016

buy a chrome cast if you have an Android phone! then any telly with a hdmi, and there's many cheap massive 'dumb' tells out there

44,856 · October 1, 2016

Internet failed again halfway through Dirt Every Day. *shakes fist*

I reckon our exchange has flooded again. This has happened before. Of course, a sensible company would investigate why its exchange gets flooded and do something about it. Sadly, this is BT Openreach...

Working for now. It'd better behaving during strictly or I'll get really, really cross. I might even have to write a letter.

26,358 · October 1, 2016

I might even have to write a letter.

Don't try to email it...

18,724 · October 1, 2016

I wasn't in the i10 at the time, was there to sort something else out for another car.

Bought on impulse. Serves me right.

Anyway, arguing with the spotty 'manager' will make me feel better.

13,579 · October 1, 2016

Grump #3 Tried to buy a fancy telly today in Currys. Decided what I wanted and lo, there it was on display. Looked really nice but "ooh you don't want one of those" says the serving lass "Panasonic have decided not to support the operating system anymore, so in a couple of years none of the online features will work"
So I still don't have a proper youtube telly.

This sort of thing is gripping my shit unusually tightly these days.

WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY STILL SELLING THEM THEN?

I know, I know, I get it...planned obsolescence....sell another one in a couple of years time, corporate expansion, please the shareholders blah blah blah....but jesus....Im no envirohippy but our planet is literally getting fucked by our modern iphone-compatible, wifi enabled, blue LED mood-lit lifestyles and we have to throw perfectly good tellys out where they end up in some african or indian hell-hole where little kids break them up to recover a few grams of precious metals all for the sake of some fucking software updates.

Life off grid in a wee cabin in the woods somewhere is looking more and more attractive every day.

26,005 · October 1, 2016

My nans was like that, she just kept using it and didn't realise it was 100% completely blocked, for months.
Anyway then she went out and spend fuckin Â£300 on a Dyson v6 battery powered jobbie. When I went round to set it up for her, I tested it out and completely filled the bucket in ten seconds use.

My grandfather was the same. Battery one stopped working and my dad found it full to the brim ( twice the max level) and filter solid.

26,005 · October 1, 2016

Internet failed again halfway through Dirt Every Day. *shakes fist*

I reckon our exchange has flooded again. This has happened before. Of course, a sensible company would investigate why its exchange gets flooded and do something about it. Sadly, this is BT Openreach...

Working for now. It'd better behaving during strictly or I'll get really, really cross. I might even have to write a letter.

But I expect open reach will say that they don't own the exchange and bt is responsible.

28,511 · October 1, 2016

But I expect open reach will say that they don't own the exchange and bt is responsible.

so you will write to bt who will say they don't own it and open reach are responsible

then you'll explode!

14,353 · October 1, 2016

Re The Cars that Made Britain Great....

I got approached by the production company for that back in January. Gave us a massive list of all the cars they wanted models for and could we source them. They reckoned it'd be nice to have the celebs looking wistfully at the model while they regurgitated something an intern had found on Wikipedia. They also ought it'd be nice if the celeb could. Keep the model afterwards.

So anyway we could source most of them so gave them a quote (a very reasonable one it must be said) to which they replied that sorry they didn't have a budget but could we do it for free and they'd give us a mention on the losing credits.

Mere nanoseconds passed before I gave my verdict. The lack of celebs holding models and the fact we aren't on the credits tells you all you need to know.

WTF? Hardly a massive advert is it, had similar though would I loose a days work and do a 300 mile round trip for fuel money? Er no obviously.

17,126 · October 1, 2016

I just spent 15 minutes on live chat to BT regarding my direct debit. A simple request apparently impossible to understand

"My account is massively in credit, can I have the money back please but leave the direct debit as it is"

Responses included:

"But you don't have a direct debit"

"Ah yes, I see - you do know you already have a direct debit set up don't you?"

"We won't refund you because your next bill is due"

"Ah yes, the last bill was paid yesterday but your next bill in three months will need to be paid so we will hold the money for that"

"I will need to speak to my supervisor"

"Do you realise your account is in credit and you don't need to increase your direct debit?"

"I am sorry we don't have an account in your name. Are you definitely with BT"

"Sorry we aren't sure what it is you need from us"

"Ok so you want us to set up a direct debit on your account alongside the one you already have? We cannot do this. We can increase your monthly payment though in case you think you aren't paying enough"

"We cannot refund the money as we do not have your bank details"

"We understand. We will refund the credit balance and cancel the direct debit as requested"

"Do you realise you are paying more than you need and your account is in credit - would you like us to refund you?"

Eventually got it worked out but took 45 minutes. Fucking BT. None of my other utility providers have offered any sort of problem and have all dealt with the issue at hand in two minutes flat. I would have called them but their automated system doesn't have an option to vary direct debit payments and their phone lines close at 6.

Alec Baldwin - personally I think BT's service is as good as your dramatic delivery which I think summarises my opinion of your acting.

2,492 · October 1, 2016

I asked bt to tighten a line that crosses my front garden. It dangles a bit low. Their technician said it couldn't be tightened. They didn't seem to believe me about my classic crane collection.

26,005 · October 1, 2016

I just spent 15 minutes on live chat to BT regarding my direct debit. A simple request apparently impossible to understand
"My account is massively in credit, can I have the money back please but leave the direct debit as it is"
Responses included:
"But you don't have a direct debit"
"Ah yes, I see - you do know you already have a direct debit set up don't you?"
"We won't refund you because your next bill is due"
"Ah yes, the last bill was paid yesterday but your next bill in three months will need to be paid so we will hold the money for that"
"I will need to speak to my supervisor"
"Do you realise your account is in credit and you don't need to increase your direct debit?"
"I am sorry we don't have an account in your name. Are you definitely with BT"
"Sorry we aren't sure what it is you need from us"
"Ok so you want us to set up a direct debit on your account alongside the one you already have? We cannot do this. We can increase your monthly payment though in case you think you aren't paying enough"
"We cannot refund the money as we do not have your bank details"
"We understand. We will refund the credit balance and cancel the direct debit as requested"
"Do you realise you are paying more than you need and your account is in credit - would you like us to refund you?"
Eventually got it worked out but took 45 minutes. Fucking BT. None of my other utility providers have offered any sort of problem and have all dealt with the issue at hand in two minutes flat. I would have called them but their automated system doesn't have an option to vary direct debit payments and their phone lines close at 6.
Alec Baldwin - personally I think BT's service is as good as your dramatic delivery which I think summarises my opinion of your acting.

I threatened them with the data protection act at work when they were amalgamating our account with another company with a similar name- this has been going on for over fifteen years! They got the hump when I started complaining, so I told them to cancel everything apart from the one line we were actually paying for. Hopefully whoever has paying for the other services on our account will do something about this.

I hope Whichever Tory shit who thought privatising BT a good idea is rotting in hell by now.

18,091 · October 1, 2016

to be fair, even when they were GPO telephones the only "good" thing about them was Busby.

Their customer service was none existent then too, in fact they were even worse! it took them 6 months to connect up the parents phone when we moved house back in the day (or 1980-ish) and that was with a phone with a turning dial thing on the front of it, which was permanently tied onto the wall!

BT, have always been, and always will be shit, and still now the mention of that name makes my father start to twitch and foam at the mouth!!

14,581 · October 1, 2016

I had a friend who left one perfectly good job and went to work for BT.

Within three months he had saved them Â£11M a year. Did he get a bonus or salary increase?

Nope! Not a sausage.

28,511 · October 1, 2016

they charged me a Â£75 deposit when we moved into the flat. I paid it, not knowing any better and 6 months later we got it back, as a credit on the bill. they still took the direct debit...

both if amys sisters partners work for open reach (one is high up in fibre installs and the other is training to be a manager) and my default answer to them trying to sell me their company's services is not with yours. they stop involving me in their conversations now... sky have been fine, and quite cheap when I break it all down into the component services

23,350 · October 1, 2016

They wanted Â£100 to re-connect my phone line at my old flat, phoned sky and they got an engineer to do it for Â£20, also presumably that engineer was from BT given they use the same lines/junction boxes to my knowledge...

28,511 · October 1, 2016

yep, everything uses open reaches infrastructure, its just the company selling it to you that's different!

it's easy to play Sky off against bt though and get a cheaper cost... we only pay Â£10 a month for unlimited fibre thanks to that trick on the my sky account!

6,429 · October 1, 2016

Text message from tesco: You've now used your data allowance. To avoid Â£bumrape you may want to buy an add on.

Well that's very nice of you tesco. Clicked tesco app, paid Â£3 for another 250mb. Simples!

Except when I check my account afterwards they've charged Â£1.42 for the data used by the app in the process of buying the add on.

27,854 · October 1, 2016

Â£3 for 250 imaginary megabytes? FFS you can buy 4gb of real ones for that, posted!

27,998 · October 1, 2016

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Grump #3 Tried to buy a fancy telly today in Currys. Decided what I wanted and lo, there it was on display. Looked really nice but "ooh you don't want one of those" says the serving lass "Panasonic have decided not to support the operating system anymore, so in a couple of years none of the online features will work"
So I still don't have a proper youtube telly.

What? That's bollocks, new Panasonic's have Firefox OS on but the lower models will still work, might not get updates.

They're shit though, for smart. LG with WebOS or even Samsung are better, or stretch to a Sony X83 with Android.

28,375 · October 1, 2016

Any HD TV plus Roku is my advice.

https://www.roku.com/en-gb/products/compare

12,191 · October 1, 2016

I complained to BT about their Kriss Marshall adverts once. I got an apology and they stopped using him soon after, they must have had a few complaints.

4,462 · October 2, 2016

All you fuggers complaining about BT don't know you're born...I once had to deal with Kingston Communications...

They can stick the cream phone boxes up their arse.

28,511 · October 2, 2016

Text message from tesco: You've now used your data allowance. To avoid Â£bumrape you may want to buy an add on.
Well that's very nice of you tesco. Clicked tesco app, paid Â£3 for another 250mb. Simples!

Except when I check my account afterwards they've charged Â£1.42 for the data used by the app in the process of buying the add on.

I recommend id mobile if 3 has good signal where you live! tenner a month for 4gb, 500 mins and 5000 texts

27,997 · October 2, 2016

I recommend id mobile if 3 has good signal where you live! tenner a month for 4gb, 500 mins and 5000 texts

GiffGaff are also good. I pay Â£12 a month for a fair chunk of data (can't remember what, never gone over it), 500 minutes and unlimited texts.

28,511 · October 2, 2016

giffgaff are on aren't they? so that might help if 3 are crap where you live

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