The grumpy thread

[Cheggers]

Usually because they describe the sort of people that use them or the effects they have on people who use them, they are also used by those of us who know that the multiple occurrence of their names can cause them to be bumped up search results and want no part in the promotion of such shite, hence why I always use the term facefuck

I can't see a few mentions of Facebook on Autoshite having too much impact on their Google ranking

 

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[Tamworthbay]

I can't see a few mentions of Facebook on Autoshite having too much impact on their Google ranking

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A few mentions? Worldwide, its millions in a day. If everyone boycotts it can make a big difference to a company. It's for a totally different reason but look at the success of the BDS activity in support of Palestine, by people actively linking names of companies to the crimes/ immoral activities they were linked to on a range of social media it meant that negative reports appeared high up search rankings.

 

It works both ways and companies love free advertising.

[Cheggers]

I get your point when it comes to terrorist organisations, but so what if Facebook gets millions of mentions, it's one of the world's most recognisable brands. The idea of not using their real name to keep them off the front page of Google sounds a bit "tin foil hat" to me.

 

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[gordonbennet]

Agreed to a certain extent but there are two convenience stores near me. A Co-Op and a Sainsbury's Local.  The co-op is a fuckin nightmare, just normal tills but only ever one or two fuckers serving, so a pint of milk can mean a ten minute queue. The sainsburys local has three self service tills as well as a couple of people serving, never had to queue in there once.

 

Guess which one I always go to?  Despite the co-op being slightly closer.

 

For some reason the coop is on a self destruct course,  alienating customers is about par for the course.

Pity i really liked the coop, we had a proper supermarket round the corner with coop furniture store and travel agents instore, gone cos always more staff than customers, now an Asda and its bloody teeming with customers.

[Tamworthbay]

I get your point when it comes to terrorist organisations, but so what if Facebook gets millions of mentions, it's one of the world's most recognisable brands. The idea of not using their real name to keep them off the front page of Google sounds a bit "tin foil hat" to me.

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To disagree with globalisation and the control of media by a tiny number of companies is tin foil hat? And BDS wasn't aimed at traditional terrorist organisation, they are legal companies but involved in illegal/ immoral activities in Palestine, e.g Hewlett Packard and Group 4.

 

There are a hell of a lot of people who fundamentally disagree with the way many large multinationals operate so why would they give free advertising however large or small?

 

Or perhaps it's just an internet conspiracy to piss you off by using facefuck and twatter.............

[DodgeRover]

Twattish delivery drivers, coming home with no1 daughter and there's a 7.5ton wagon delivering and blocking the dead end road halfway down, the only spaces to back into are someone's driveways so decide to wait in the road until he's finished unloading (which I have no idea how long is going to take because communicating is too much for them both) then block someone else's access once they finish so they can back out.

Driver starts waving his arms and shaking his head between every box. Anyway as soon as they start to pull the roller shutter down I reverse up and get out of the way, apparently this isn't good enough as at this point my daughter asks why the man is still going off.

At this point I loose my cool drive out of the space up behind him and have a go verbally, drivers mate intervenes politely and I reverse back up and leave the road clear. At this point driver decides to drive forward to the end of the road, now we have every week grab wagons bin wagons other curtain side 7.5 tonners all reverse up and down the road and turn around at the end. Someone is parked awkwardly and he hits a neighbours car deciding to turn around anyway,

 

Oh FFS now I feel bad for having a go, 2 seconds communication or using some observation would have prevented all this.

God only knows what will happen if they get a delivery on one of the tighter streets.

Is it a good idea to speak to the company involved? I don't particularly want to get the bloke in more trouble but communication ain't difficult.

[Cavcraft]

Seemingly a homeless couple settled round here somewhere in a tent, minding their own business and just trying to get by.

They went out for a while, came back and some shitbags destroyed the tent and all the contents and kicked it round the place.

I'm not entirely sure karma actually exists, but if it does the twats who did this will get a fucking good shoeing one night and end up on the streets themselves.

[Cheggers]

To disagree with globalisation and the control of media by a tiny number of companies is tin foil hat? And BDS wasn't aimed at traditional terrorist organisation, they are legal companies but involved in illegal/ immoral activities in Palestine, e.g Hewlett Packard and Group 4.

 

There are a hell of a lot of people who fundamentally disagree with the way many large multinationals operate so why would they give free advertising however large or small?

 

Or perhaps it's just an internet conspiracy to piss you off by using facefuck and twatter.............

I'm just a simple, old-fashioned capitalist, so let's agree to disagree like gentlemen.

 

PS: I suspect most users of Facefuck and Twatter on here don't do it for reasons of social conscience

 

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[EssDeeWon]

Seemingly a homeless couple settled round here somewhere in a tent, minding their own business and just trying to get by.

They went out for a while, came back and some shitbags destroyed the tent and all the contents and kicked it round the place.

I'm not entirely sure karma actually exists, but if it does the twats who did this will get a fucking good shoeing one night and end up on the streets themselves.

 

FFS that really is sad.  The sort of people that would do that are the sort of people I wouldn't mind running over!

[richardmorris]

For some reason the coop is on a self destruct course,  alienating customers is about par for the course.

Pity i really liked the coop, we had a proper supermarket round the corner with coop furniture store and travel agents instore, gone cos always more staff than customers, now an Asda and its bloody teeming with customers.

Our family has boycotted the coop since 1982. My granddad bought a new suit there for his retirement do on the next weekend. He died of a massive heart attack the day after suit was bought without wearing it (aged 61). My grandmother wished to return suit and buy a black dress and coat for the funeral but they wouldn't hear of it. Within their right, but not good on the service front.

 

As an aside, she also had a bit of a fight to get the carriage clock for his retirement gift as he technically hadn't completed forty years as he died a week short. I think if it hadn't already been at the engravers then we'd never have seen it.

 

Anyway, I've bored enough for one night having had far too much to Drink on a Monday. That's the problem with starting at 6am. You're all done by 9pm!

[Tamworthbay]

Seemingly a homeless couple settled round here somewhere in a tent, minding their own business and just trying to get by.

They went out for a while, came back and some shitbags destroyed the tent and all the contents and kicked it round the place.

I'm not entirely sure karma actually exists, but if it does the twats who did this will get a fucking good shoeing one night and end up on the streets themselves.

Fucking arseholes, I have a really good tent or two, two or four man ones. If they need one, let me know and I'll get it sent up to you.

[doobietoo]

2 mins after cleaning this morning:

 

 

Sigh......Why do I bother....................

 

It is to stop you licking it !!!

[Cavcraft]

That's very nice of you Tamworh Bay, I'll pass the message on.

[omegod]

That's below human Cav, poor fuckers probably didn't have much in the first place, might be an idea to contact a homeless service in Chester as they should have outreach workers who could come and speak to them and offer some help.

 

Liverpool council fitted an anti homeless slope to a doorway some guys had been sleeping in over the weekend, it's been rightfully smashed up 

[gm]

I don't think it's all B&Q's, my local one still has a couple of human till operators.

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The lass on the till at my local b&q is bloody lovely, shame I am twice her age and usually dressed like a tramp in my diy clothes

[Timewaster]

I think there is a no-help desk but no actual tills at the local B&Q

 

Since a screwfix opened in our town I haven't been near the place.

[gm]

to be fair to b&q, the 'mix your own paint' guys couldn't have been more helpful last time I used them, nice to deal with folk who do a decent job and care about the customer

[omegod]

I think there is a no-help desk but no actual tills at the local B&Q

 

Since a screwfix opened in our town I haven't been near the place.

 

I'd heartily recommend Screwfix near me for eye candy alone, I would happily shake the hand of the branch manager and congratulate him on his recruitment strategy. 

[twosmoke300]

The lass on the till at my local b&q is bloody lovely, shame I am twice her age and usually dressed like a tramp in my diy clothes

Ffs don't comment on her attractiveness on here !

[Louise2cv]

Oi!

 

I apologised about that.

 

 

 

No hard feelings I hope?

[dollywobbler]

Nope, nor is it dry on my lovely boots 

 

Can you get a stick and write Autoshite in it?

[cobblers]

My house was wired by complete nobheads over the last 60 years, there's fuckin wires going all over the place, diagonally across walls then back up from long since plastered over sockets etc etc. I've mostly rewired it apart from three lights and two sockets now.

Anyway I've just been sorting the living room - Every room need gutting so I'm doing one at a time and running new electrics as I go. I ran new wiring for the lights and sockets up to the consumer unit, and got rid of the old stuff.

The room had two sockets, One ran in 2.5mm ish aluminium wire diagonally down the wall to the skirting to an old bakelite chocblock, then back up under the plaster in rubber flex to a surface mount socket. This lot was on a 30A fuse on the wylex wooden fuse board.

Other socket was run off the upstairs lights. I can't work out how tho because the wire drops down under the floorboards.

Talking of the upstairs lights  - the landing lights don't work anymore because they used the neutral off the old downstairs feed (which I've just got rid of) and the live off the upstairs.

[DodgeRover]

Common practise in years gone by to pinch the neutral on the stairs lights when using a 2 way switch. It's fine until you fit an RCD

[twosmoke300]

Oi!

 

I apologised about that.

 

 

 

No hard feelings I hope?

 

Ha ! None at all but I knew you would be circling !

[taxi paul]

Seen a cheapish x reg honda civic. I rather like them and thought it would do for general running round. It's a 1.4. So put it through go compare and it's £700 fully comp. Feck me all the 2.0 cars I have had arrived cheaper. Is the 1.4 some sort of sports thing I don't know about.

[twosmoke300]

I take it this is old x reg(82) cos they didn't make a uk accord in a 1.4 in 2001

[twosmoke300]

Did you just edit that ?

[strangeangel]

My house was wired by complete nobheads over the last 60 years, there's fuckin wires going all over the place,

 

I can only sympathise... this place is just about 50 years old, yet it seems that every incompetent spunk trumpet in the northern hemisphere has taken their place in line to have a crack at our wiring.

 

It's OK to fuck about with things you don't understand, just not stuff that can kill you (and any subsequent owners) dead

[taxi paul]

Sorry I changed it . It's a civic . Sort of rover 45 shape. Just seemed an honest advert with good mot history. An 2.0 accord is cheaper to insure.

[stephen01]

Leave the avatar though - not enough hairy fannies left in the world.

 

really? they make me sad..