The grumpy thread

[Supernaut]

TV Licensing.

 

HOW DO YOU FUCK UP A WEBSITE THAT BADLY? SERIOUSLY?!

 

Go on, try to load their website in any browser of your choice. It doesn't work. It doesn't time out either, it just sits there loading indefinitely, stuck in a never-ending loop.

 

 

 

EDIT: Oh look, after about 10 minutes of waiting, I've got a "service unavailable" message. Great. Not like I need to renew my TV License or anything, is it? Fuds. I had this last year too.

[Guest Hooli]

Don't bother, it's not worth the money.

[Tamworthbay]

I see where you're coming from. In the same vein, surely there's money to be made in designing one of these things so that doesn't shit the bed every 9 months.

 

I fired up AutoCAD before I remembered that I know shit all about hydrodynamics. Or boilers.

It really is a shame as I am sure that a significant number of people, myself included, would pay more to have something that would last decades and have continued parts availability for anything that did go wrong. But it suits the companies better for it to last just beyond the warranty period sadly. I guess on here we are a pretty self selecting group of people in terms of look after what you have V but something shiny so the masses may want a new boiler every five years for all I know.

[Supernaut]

First sick day of 2017.

 

Feel rough as fuck, and really weak and I'm croaking away.

 

 

However, just managed to renew my TV license. Their website seems to be under much less load right now.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

TV Licensing.HOW DO YOU FUCK UP A WEBSITE THAT BADLY? SERIOUSLY?!Go on, try to load their website in any browser of your choice. It doesn't work. It doesn't time out either, it just sits there loading indefinitely, stuck in a never-ending loop.EDIT: Oh look, after about 10 minutes of waiting, I've got a "service unavailable" message. Great. Not like I need to renew my TV License or anything, is it? Fuds. I had this last year too.

Sounds a bit like me trying to pay the London Congestion Charge yesterday , gave up at about 11.30 . Message just kept coming up "Something has gone wrong" !!!

Tried again this morning , even though it'll now cost £14 instead of £11.50 and the stupid fucking thing won't accept 4 different cards I've tried, is there a number? Is there feck as like, just wait for the fine and appeal.

[Guest Hooli]

Must be the week for websites.

 

Trying to tax the Saab online & it keeps refusing because the car's record has changed within 5 days - odd that when I've just bought it! Had to go to the post office to do it today.

[Rocket88]

Wales. What in the name of all that's holy are the bastards doing. As soon as you go through the M4 toll, the standard of driving plummets. To wit, Jeep Cherokee doing 55 in the outside lane, decides to take Newport turn off. Without indicating, pulls straight across 3 lane of traffic, nearly wiping out 4 vehicles.

Motorway closure near Cardiff........off motorway................no diversion signs of any kind.......blunder around several small, unspecified pocketsof miserable habitation........and end up back on the same roundabout.....................Leave the sheep alone, and do your fucking job properly, Welsh Highways agency.

[xtriple]

Arsehole decorators upstairs. Winows wide open, radio BLARRING shit, power sander for the floors been going since 8:00 yesterday (break for last night then back again at 8:00 this morning) banging and crashing and don't answer the door when you go round to ask - politely - to keep the noise down to a dull roar if possible.

 

The lady next door went round this morning and had a right go: nothing like as polite as I would have been!

 

Also, dentists. Appointment at 12:15 got in rather late and was out again inside 30 seconds! What a waste of time that was.

[Bren]

Organisation doesn't have to recognise the union, m9. Anyone in a trade has a legal right to be a member of one, regardless of what the company thinks. 

I am currently a union member.

We have meetings about the best braziers to stand around to facilitate the resolution of any internecine conflicts.

 

I concur - spent many a long hour deciding which braziers were the most efficient and which donkey jackets were the most stylish.

[beko1987]

I forgot about the massive hole in the road that's on my way home and hit it square on at 40 and my abs light started flashing. Then someone decided that they actually wanted to go straight on at a roundabout from the right hand lane, and only by the kindness of me braking and blaring my horn was their passenger side saved.

 

Hopefully a fiddle with the plugs under the seat tomorrow will fix the abs light...

[Richard]

I think you might be confusing SRS with ABS. Your ABS should automatically reset tomorrow if no actual damage was done. Series 1 Xantias reset the ABS when the ignition is switched on, Series 2 reset when you hit 20mph.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

GSF.

Or rather the dodgy fucker who gave my daughter a pair of £2 headlamp bulbs instead of the £18 Osram Nightbreakers he charged for. Obviously pocketed the Osrams for himself and put £3.84 in the till, cheeky bastard.

I'll be popping in tomorrow , I'm feeling a bit low anyway, seasonal affected disorder or something, so having a theiving little scrote ro vent at will be cathartic. I'm under strict instructions not to get arrested, or at least not charged. I'm quite looking forward to it.

[mrbenn]

GSF.

Or rather the dodgy fucker who gave my daughter a pair of £2 headlamp bulbs instead of the £18 Osram Nightbreakers he charged for. Obviously pocketed the Osrams for himself and put £3.84 in the till, cheeky bastard.

I'll be popping in tomorrow , I'm feeling a bit low anyway, seasonal affected disorder or something, so having a theiving little scrote ro vent at will be cathartic. I'm under strict instructions not to get arrested, or at least not charged. I'm quite looking forward to it.

Liked for the last sentence, not your daughter getting scammed.

[twosmoke300]

I actually enjoy deploying mr angry occasionally ! Especially satisfying when it's some cretin that deserves it !

[DodgeRover]

Wife came in to ask me to look a rear bumper on her car as the paint is cracking.

Yes it is because somebody has driven into it again and buggered off again, both front corners have already had the same treatment in the last 6 months....

Anybody fancy making me some nice alloy ARB winch bar type bumpers for a Lexus RX300?

[DodgeRover]

Nope the front bumper ends have been done while it's been parked outside the house, she would be happy enough to tell me if she hit something.

[beko1987]

I think you might be confusing SRS with ABS. Your ABS should automatically reset tomorrow if no actual damage was done. Series 1 Xantias reset the ABS when the ignition is switched on, Series 2 reset when you hit 20mph.

Was deffo the abs light flashing (unless it flashes that for something else). Normally it flashes because the under seat connectors feel lonely and want stroking. I've hit it before actually and nothings happened, so maybe it's just coincidence

 

Once I'd confirmed it wasn't the omgstop light or summat (wasn't really looking at the instruments, the light caught my eye) I carried on home

[bub2006]

Abs light shouldn't be under seat. That's airbag not anti lock brakes unless I'm missing something

[Cavcraft]

Yes, yes of course I'll knock 25% off the fucking price because it's got less than 6 months MOT. And 'don't ask me what my best price is' doesn't apply to you because you live 45 miles away?

[Mr A Lawrence]

But what IS your best price??

[DodgeRover]

Yes, yes of course I'll knock 25% off the fucking price because it's got less than 6 months MOT. And 'don't ask me what my best price is' doesn't apply to you because you live 45 miles away?

Offer to put on an extra 6 months for asking price+25% paid upfront

[twosmoke300]

Deffo getting abs and srs mixed up mr beko

[Station]

Yes, yes of course I'll knock 25% off the fucking price because it's got less than 6 months MOT. And 'don't ask me what my best price is' doesn't apply to you because you live 45 miles away?

Surely your best price is Vincent Price. No one else can top that one.

[Mr A Lawrence]

Don't forget Alan price.

[cms206]

Today a dizzy cow in a Qashqai managed to make contact with the side of my freshly painted Volvo B7 coach at 55mph no less than FOUR fucking times.

 

 

She came screaming past in the outside lane, cut me up in the middle lane and stood on the brakes. I stood on the brakes and gestured angrily. I then signalled and moved onto the sliproad (A737/M8 split westbound at Glasgow Airport for those who know it) and continued on my way. The van in front of her wasn't speeding up but clearly she then realised that she was in the wrong lane and also wanted the A737 slip... so she tried to cut across again without, it appears, realising that a freshly painted sparkling white 12 metre Volvo coach with LED marker lights along the sides was beside her.

 

What did she then do? She fucked off. No rego, no cameras on the bus, no witnesses.

 

Livid. Fucking livid.

 

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[EssDeeWon]

Still report that to the police, somewhere is a black?/dark coloured? Cashguy with damage down the NS in the area of the A737 slip.

[cms206]

Still report that to the police, somewhere is a black?/dark coloured? Cashguy with damage down the NS in the area of the A737 slip.

I did, crime reference number and whatnot noted and the police are coming out to interview me on Friday morning. I think it was a dark metallic red... to be honest I didn't actually think she'd hit me until I got back to the garage or I'd have chased her.

 

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[Inspector Morose]

Last person to try that stupid trick with me didn't come out so well. The trick is to "contact" with the front wheel. The wheel nuts do a wonderful impression of a shredder and therefore removes the brain dead moron if only for a short while.

 

 

 

 

 

Allegedly.

[danthecapriman]

I did, crime reference number and whatnot noted and the police are coming out to interview me on Friday morning. I think it was a dark metallic red... to be honest I didn't actually think she'd hit me or I'd have chased her.

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Doesn't help much, but she's most probably done a fair bit more damage to her car than the bus which she's now going to need to sort out.

 

A similar thing happened to me on a big busy roundabout a few years ago. Some impatient tit in a 3 series BMW tried using the wrong lane to overtake a queue of traffic then cut back across at the last second. She failed and smashed the whole side of her car into the front corner of my Sprinter. She didn't stop either but she had done a lot of damage to her own car. It was creased panels too not just scuffed paint.

I reported her to the police including the reg number and a detailed description of her as she turned around and looked at me after shed done it!

[cms206]

Last person to try that stupid trick with me didn't come out so well. The trick is to "contact" with the front wheel. The wheel nuts do a wonderful impression of a shredder and therefore removes the brain dead moron if only for a short while.

 

 

 

 

 

Allegedly.

*coughs*

 

 

Worst about it was, that was with wheelnut rings...

 

 

Still burst the marker light. Grrr.

 

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