The grumpy thread

[dave21478]

Some belmer has an item for sale I want. No price.

 

How much for xxxx?

make me an offer.

no. Tell me a price and if its reasonable I will buy it.

Make an offer and if its reasonable I will sell it.

 

 

Get fucking fucked. 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I hate that. Whatever offer you make, they're not going to take it.

[AMC Rebel]

If I could get a hold of the chap who designed Clio 172 rear calipers and a vice, that'd be superb cheers

Along similar lines, whilst reassembling the MG ZT I'd like a few words with the people who conceived various bits. 

[AlabamaShrimp]

Why is the ice always on the inside

 

 

Maybe it's just cheap crap but the de-icer I've got just turns to some foam shit and the ice comes back. What happened to that de-icer that was so strong it gave you a headache?

[Des]

It got banned for causing headaches.

[sporty-shite]

Some belmer has an item for sale I want. No price.

 

How much for xxxx?

make me an offer.

no. Tell me a price and if its reasonable I will buy it.

Make an offer and if its reasonable I will sell it.

 

 

Get fucking fucked.

ONE POUND.

[dave21478]

I hate that. Whatever offer you make, they're not going to take it.

 

Exactly.

Told him to forget it and he messaged back saying he wanted 350 for it. Salty, but not impossible if it is good enough (its a gearbox btw)

Of course its a super low mileage example fom a lovingly cared-for car. Obviously no proof of that and the photo is just an gearbox lying on the ground....Could be a total bag of spanners inside it, but no way to know.

 

Yeah, no thanks.

[alcyonecorporation]

Exactly.

Told him to forget it and he messaged back saying he wanted 350 for it. Salty, but not impossible if it is good enough (its a gearbox btw)

Of course its a super low mileage example fom a lovingly cared-for car. Obviously no proof of that and the photo is just an gearbox lying on the ground....Could be a total bag of spanners inside it, but no way to know.

 

Yeah, no thanks.

Yeah, this pisses me off as well.

 

JUST TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT FOR IT MAN.

 

It's the chod equivalent of '£competitive' in a job spec.

 

No, lads - tell me what the salary is so I know if it's worth my time applying.

[AMC Rebel]

 '£competitive' 

 

Always means "shit" - but we are hoping to pay even less to the person we appoint.

[fairkens]

Bastard cold

[AMC Rebel]

That woman in the K12 Micra full of kids this morning.  As I was coming up the 2 lane motorway sliproad (empty on my side - long queue on the left for people heading into town), I eased off a little thinking "I bet some git will pull out of that queue without looking" sure enough, Mrs Micra dived out straight in front of me, then put her indicator on (why fucking bother?) .  Having brought me to a grinding halt (well crawl), she got moving and at the top of the hill, slapped her indicator on to squeeze back into the queue she'd left 20 cars further up, holding me up until she could find someone to grudgingly let her in.  I bet she was popular with that queue as she was with me.

 

I know it's minor in the scheme of things but it's just a scummy move in my book - I bet she doesn't try that one on in Tesco or the Post Office.

 

Dang! I was going to be less grumpy this year.

[Supernaut]

Mondays.

 

- Left crank arm fell off the bicycle this morning (my fault, as I'd just fitted a whole new crank set to it at the weekend, put it back on tightly now).

- Civic failed its MOT quite badly, and is burning oil.

- Forgot my headphones (as I cycled to work today) so had to listen to the spoilt brat students on the bus between campuses going "OMG I literally can't even" etc. etc. FUCK OFF!

[AlabamaShrimp]

Fucking dirty bastard that let their dogs shit all over the place and just leave it.

 

Walked my some home from school and went down a the really long short cut* path. Shit everywhere, said to him be careful but of course had to check our shoes when home. Fuck me if I didn't have a small bit in the middle of mine.....

 

I know it won't win me any prizes on here but I hate dogs as they'll just shit anywhere and I hate the dirty that's that let them even more!

[cort1977]

Dog shite also brings me to 'Michael Douglas in Falling Down' levels of rage but it's not the dog's fault it's the bloody owners.

[Pillock]

Email receipts are great, I'm not going to rely on a bit of paper if it's something I might take back. You go and buy summat for a few hundred quid and your consumer rights are based around some heat sensitive paper? Naaah, you're alright thanks.

 

Also, use Google Inbox and it filters promotions into a separate folder, which makes them easy to ignore or even block.

[Louise2cv]

I got in a spot of trouble last time I ranted about dog poo, but much like the pavement it's all over the internet this week!

 

I always always pick up and it makes me so angry that people don't, or do and then leave the bag (what is that?!).

 

I was mega annoyed to step in some dog mess while picking up my dog's mess the other day >

 

I just wish I was brave enough to say something when I see people turning a blind eye to what their dog is doing. I saw a lady stop at the recycling bins over the road, let her dog out of the car and just sit there while it went about its business, but I was too chicken to do anything about it.

 

I did see a woman in town ignore her dog going outside someone's gate, so I chased her with a poo bag and offered for her to take it. See told me in Welsh that she couldn't understand me, so I asked her in Welsh if she would like to borrow and bag for the mess. She then switched to English and said she didn't think he had done anything. Maybe she didn't notice but I'm not convinced.

 

I won't even let my dog wee in a lot of places: on peoples front walls or cars or bins and I even drag him away from traffic cones etc.

[Cavcraft]

That 'make me an offer' caper is tiresome BUT...if you advertise on some websites and say 'who buys spares or repairs cars on here' you usually get a mass feeding frenzy of people outbidding each other.

[DodgeRover]

Fucking dirty battered that let their dogs shit all over the place and just leave it.

 

Walked my some home from school and went down a the really long short cut* path. Shit everywhere, said to him be careful but of course had to check our shoes when home. Fuck me if I didn't have a small bit in the middle of mine.....

 

I know it won't win me any prizes on here but I hate dogs as they'll just shit anywhere and I hate the dirty that's that let them even more!

Cats are worse and the owners think it's fine to just chuck them out and let them shit everywhere....

[AMC Rebel]

I'm not a big fan of any form of animal shit in inappropriate places.  The bastard cats that used to shit in our coal bunker and on our lawn when I lived with my parents weren't my favourites.

 

Nothing like the sweet* smell of catshit when you've just shovelled a load of coal into the bucket to get the fire going, or the lovely aroma of it wafting up from the blades of your Dad's cylinder mower. Some Cat lovers will argue black is white that "they always bury it" even when I'd watched the bastards laying down a big turd and just leaving it.

 

Dog shit on your bike handlebars (I'd left my bike by the footie pitch in the park) isn't any fun - and why do you always have the most intricate patterned soles on when you step in some?

[Mr A Lawrence]

People, especially young uns or z list celebrities that show shock and/or amazement by saying "oh my days"

 

What the actual fuck is that all about??

[Cavcraft]

It's some weird thing where young people are actually allowed to say what old people do.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I'm not a big fan of any form of animal shit in inappropriate places. The bastard cats that used to shit in our coal bunker and on our lawn when I lived with my parents weren't my favourites.

 

Nothing like the sweet* smell of catshit when you've just shovelled a load of coal into the bucket to get the fire going, or the lovely aroma of it wafting up from the blades of your Dad's cylinder mower. Some Cat lovers will argue black is white that "they always bury it" even when I'd watched the bastards laying down a big turd and just leaving it.

 

Dog shit on your bike handlebars (I'd left my bike by the footie pitch in the park) isn't any fun - and why do you always have the most intricate patterned soles on when you step in some?

Its this too. I was banging on the window like some kind of loony the other day at a cat trying to shit in the middle of the garden. And as for that dirty little bugger of a hedgehog!!

[EssDeeWon]

I don't see too much dog shit round this manor but the worse thing, and getting worse is people gobbing everywhere, mainly on the pavements. Little piles of flem everywhere, and the culprits are quite blunt about gobbing in public and right in front of you. Why do people need to keep doing this? It's fuckin disgusting.

[Craig the Princess]

As a dog owner shit left behind really pisses me off, it really isn't hard to collect it.

 

The worst are ones put into little plastic bags then left behind. What the fuck?

[3VOM]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

 

Should be fine....

[Guest Hooli]

I tend to fill in online ones with [email protected]

[beko1987]

Be wary of giving your postcode to shop people at the till...

 

They give the database of postcodes to marketing companies. Said marketing company (if their good like we are) will profile that data, run it through tgi and create a ranked masterfile. If you have several stores nearby itll be filtered by drivetime. If their lucky the data will be clean, however if they are unlucky the data will be awful, and contain fake addresses (easily removed), incomplete postcodes or rude words if it's been an automated capture.

 

This could work 2 ways,

 

Your postcode crops up several times, which means your postal sector could well be chosen for distribution based on popularity.

 

Your postcode sector has a high index, marking it out for distribution.

 

Said file goes over to the client, several people paid more than they should be, one called Terry will go visit the stores head office and drink coffee with their marketing bods and win some business.

 

2 to 3 weeks later, an email will drop into one of 3 mailboxes depending on the distribution method chosen, and availability checked. Maybe, depending on how well Terry does his job, someone called Sam will ask if maybe some versioning needs to be applied due to store specific leaflets. This he knows because he had to run a check on said store versioned leaflets a few days prior to check for asa and rm compliance. Sam will then have to go find the masterfile, which isn't saved in the folder, so has to email Terry, who is at meetings drinking coffee. Eventually said file will surface, and Sam can book the availability and send the file back to Terry to send to the client.

 

The client will say that's great, and a booking will be placed on the contracts system. The cs person will get the schedule wrong, and because there was no defensive programming built into the system, it freezes with a generic email. That Sam chap will get an email about that too, and have to populate the mandatory field on the schedule that has been left blank. Then, the contract will be made, whereby because the stock is being collected from the printer, and fulfilled from another warehouse, other cost lines have been added, pushing the contract onto 3 pages. That helpful Chap Sam will have to take time out from looking at Zafira B bumpers, or suspension spheres to manually adjust it onto 2 pages.

 

The contract will be signed by the coffee drinking marketing bods, the booking signed off with the delivery company that postman Pat does a shit job for, and 3 to 13 weeks later you get a leaflet through your door...

 

I imagine with email addresses the process is even quicker, but the message not as hard hitting.

 

So think twice before putting your postcode down on the till... You may be hindering a shiters virtual chod bothering! He won't care though, as the bloke mentioned above doesn't do that anymore, he can sit back in another part of the office and laugh at nearly all of it (system issues are still his bag though I've been told, but he doesn't mind thst)

[dave21478]

Email receipts are great, I'm not going to rely on a bit of paper if it's something I might take back. You go and buy summat for a few hundred quid and your consumer rights are based around some heat sensitive paper? Naaah, you're alright thanks.

 

Also, use Google Inbox and it filters promotions into a separate folder, which makes them easy to ignore or even block.

 

Granted, if I am buying a telly or something then yes - I have no problem with it, but when I am buying a packet of screws and a paintbrush, they can FRO.

[AMC Rebel]

Be wary of giving your postcode to shop people at the till...

 

They give the database of postcodes to marketing companies. Said marketing company (if their good like we are) will profile that data, run it through tgi and create a ranked masterfile. If you have several stores nearby itll be filtered by drivetime. If their lucky the data will be clean, however if they are unlucky the data will be awful, and contain fake addresses (easily removed), incomplete postcodes or rude words if it's been an automated capture.

 

This could work 2 ways,

 

Your postcode crops up several times, which means your postal sector could well be chosen for distribution based on popularity.

 

Your postcode sector has a high index, marking it out for distribution.

 

etc

 

No, sorry, not really getting that - is there a TL:DR layman's version?

[beko1987]

No, sorry, not really getting that - is there a TL:DR layman's version?

Tl:Dr, postcode - you get posted shit, email - you get emailed shit.

 

I use [email protected] recently I had 'that email address has already been used' so either I've been there before or am not the only one