The grumpy thread

[twosmoke300]

Do you do private jobs ls ? I'm bidding on a focus at Mannheim Northants morro and was wondering on costs to get it home

[Captain Furious]

Why can't people just say hello when you know them and you walk past them in the street?

What I mean is (without too much detail) I'm on a committee type thing two people from it have both blanked me at lest twice and today another did it as we passed in the street, I was looking in my bag at the time and only saw who it was as they has just passed.

Either I'm a total twat or not middle class enough for them.

The workplace is rife with this, throughout my working life I've encountered people who will happily stand and have a full blown conversation with you one day, only to cut you dead the next time they see you in passing

 

Never have figured it out, nowt as queer as folk I guess.

[Lord Sterling]

Fair enough. I just have about 3-4 drivers from different places turn up each week dropping off cars we've bought from BCA or Enterprise

 

Ah cool. Where you based at then? Do you get chaps wearing Red shirts/fleeces turn up? That's usually the outfit I do work for.

 

Do you do private jobs ls ? I'm bidding on a focus at Mannheim Northants morro and was wondering on costs to get it home

Can do. I've taken Friday's off so can usually do private jobs then.

[Cavcraft]

Fair enough. I just have about 3-4 drivers from different places turn up each week dropping off cars we've bought from BCA or Enterprise 

 

My Viva went to BCA, via WBAC.

[AlabamaShrimp]

^^see I just thought "why would you send a Viva to them?" then I remembered the rebadged Matiz...

[hairnet]

I've have spent pretty much every moment of today trying to ensure I have a fully working laptop for the start of the working week - the hard drive failed in my trusty daily last week.

 

A friend has loaned me a hard drive, and that got the old HP working again. Spent quite a long time getting all the settings how they should be, and installing all the apps I use. Dropbox was not playing ball though. It's pretty critical to my work, but just crashed every time I tried to open it. Spent ages buggering about with settings to no avail. Sod it. There's a version of Dropbox for Linux. I'll try that. Nope. Failed to install it on two laptops.

 

On the plus side, one of those two laptops is Mrs DW's even more ancient Toshiba. It's at least 12 years old, but had been ruled dead due to a beer incident some months ago. Only, it booted up first time. But, it uses Windows XP, and Dropbox refuses to work with it. Ugh. It also seems to point blank refuse to have anything to do with Linux, so I guess this is it. Feels like I've gone back to 2002! I quite like it...

wholeheartedly refuse to buy another pc (more likely laptop) until this compaq with xp dies

 

looking more likely (as you found out) that newer stuff bought to compate (!) with it will refuse to be recognised and tell it to FRO (bought a wireless printer that will only work with my phone)

 

beer thing not happened - more likely to be tea

[Timewaster]

Also -

 

What some supermarket has done - not news

 

What some tool in a soap opera has done - not news

 

Who won a daft talent show - not news

Because most broadcast media have signed up to provide a news service and reading out shit from twitter and heat magazine is much much cheaper than employing proper journalists.

[HillmanImp]

Friggin' Tesco insurance. 

 

I told them last year that I don't want to auto renew but I've just noticed on an email that they are planning on taking £532 out of my account tomorrow compared to the premium last year of £364. Tried ringing them but there is a high call volume so have sacked it off.

 

How is taking money like this legal? Tossers.

 

Anyhow, I've just had a look and the card they want to take it from is kaput as some fraudsters tried buying £3k of tennis lessons in Israel which was slightly out of sync with my spending habits so I got a new card with a different number. Just rung up the card company and they have said Tesco won't be able to get the money so they can do one. 

 

So I look for a new insurance policy on the usual sites and who gives me the best quote. Fucking Tesco, £290. WTF.

 

Its dodgy as fook innit.

 

I am sure people rant about this sort of shit all the time but hell, you're all getting another dose of it tonight.

 

I'd write to my MP but as I've whinged about before, its Phillip fucking Davies so whats the point. Unless I was complaining about women having the vote or the fact that I am annoyed that I cant smoke cuban cigars in a car full of children, i doubt the cock would care.

[AMC Rebel]

Because most broadcast media have signed up to provide a news service and reading out shit from twitter and heat magazine is much much cheaper than employing proper journalists.

Agreed, and hence my mate who is a journo (and a bloody good one) is scraping a living working in PR.

[rainagain]

100% agree - and a great rant to boot.

 

I was wank at all sports at school and therefore hated and ridiculed. Whenever some tool is interviewed about all the great things sport teaches you I have a hollow laugh. All it taught me is I don't like sport.

 

 

The only sport at school I was any good at was rugby. We were forced to take part in PE right up until we left. The teachers were lazy bastards so every week we just played football as this meant zero work for them. They just gave the class a ball and told us to get on with it.

 

I had the fun of standing in a line whilst the two top class assholes chose members for their team. Being shit at football I always had to enjoy the ridicule of being one of those picked last.

 

I started to just skip the whole class until I got busted one day. I was then told by the PE teacher it was people like me that stopped other people being able to take part in PE. What fucked up logic is this? We were made to take PE, no one missed out as they didn't have the choice!

[richardmorris]

Same here really. I was not interested in football and didn't think to feign interest. Rugby was ok, but I was rather weedy so not picked. Sports teachers weirdly weren't actually interested in teaching you how to play sports. They assumed you could to start with. And as for skins / shirts- must be banned by now surely for shear embarrassment.

Getting other kids to pick team members is just an action for them to pick their friends first.

I cycled to school rain or shine and wasn't bad at the cross country as a result but that was only once a year.

 

Well it is the grump thread

[beko1987]

Whwn i insured the goona with our multivariate policy they asked for proof of my ncb... ERM, you should know?

 

Whatevs, I put 7 years and went to bed. Got an email today asking to confirm this... Ffs, you should know! I don't actually know, because I've never been asked. Was going to wait until the xantia goes but I might phone up tomorrow and have a 'discussion'

[dave21478]

I have sacked off my diet. I just cant be bothered.....I dont have the willpower to see it through and I like crisps and cocacola too much.

I had lost about 16kgs, but needed a further 15 or so to be "right", but fuck it......I would just rather be fat, I think.

[Alexg]

Ah cool. Where you based at then? Do you get chaps wearing Red shirts/fleeces turn up? That's usually the outfit I do work for.

 

 

Can do. I've taken Friday's off so can usually do private jobs then.

 

Er, no. They're usually Autoplate or some other firm who's name escapes me.

[Kiltox]

Whwn i insured the goona with our multivariate policy they asked for proof of my ncb... ERM, you should know?

 

Whatevs, I put 7 years and went to bed. Got an email today asking to confirm this... Ffs, you should know! I don't actually know, because I've never been asked. Was going to wait until the xantia goes but I might phone up tomorrow and have a 'discussion'

A third car on a 2 car policy needs its own third NCB, that's why they are asking

[Pillock]

 

 

.

 

Anyhow, I've just had a look and the card they want to take it from is kaput as some fraudsters tried buying £3k of tennis lessons in Israel which was slightly out of sync with my spending habits so I got a new card with a different number. Just rung up the card company and they have said Tesco won't be able to get the money so they can do one.

 

 

You still need to cancel it, otherwise the payment will bounce but they'll still start the policy whilst they dither about pretending to contact you, and then they'll cancel it a few days later.

 

Which means they may think you're liable to pay them for the few days insurance you had plus all sorts of made up administration charges. Oh, and you may have to tell future insurers that you've had insurance cancelled in the past.

[LostnotFound]

Friggin' Tesco insurance. 

 

I told them last year that I don't want to auto renew but I've just noticed on an email that they are planning on taking £532 out of my account tomorrow compared to the premium last year of £364. Tried ringing them but there is a high call volume so have sacked it off.

 

How is taking money like this legal? Tossers.

 

Anyhow, I've just had a look and the card they want to take it from is kaput as some fraudsters tried buying £3k of tennis lessons in Israel which was slightly out of sync with my spending habits so I got a new card with a different number. Just rung up the card company and they have said Tesco won't be able to get the money so they can do one. 

 

So I look for a new insurance policy on the usual sites and who gives me the best quote. Fucking Tesco, £290. WTF.

 

Its dodgy as fook innit.

 

I am sure people rant about this sort of shit all the time but hell, you're all getting another dose of it tonight.

 

I'd write to my MP but as I've whinged about before, its Phillip fucking Davies so whats the point. Unless I was complaining about women having the vote or the fact that I am annoyed that I cant smoke cuban cigars in a car full of children, i doubt the cock would care.

 

 

What annoys me is the way auto renew would be an ok thing without the consistent price gouging.

 

I'm sure auto renewal does work in terms of there being  a few thousand extra cars insured as people might have forgotten to renew / reminders being sent to old addresses as lots of people move a lot these days. But that good is outweighed by the way these people and the seemingly unlimited amount insurance companies are allowed to charge them. It means everyone gets their renewal hiked in the hope you are their jucy pay day. If I've had decent service from an insurance company and the renewal isn't taking the piss I'll happily stay, I'm not one to swap for a tenner to go to someone I haven't head of. But having to ring up to get them to lower the premium to what they'd offer on a comparison website is the opposite of good customer service.

 

On a non motoring front I sacked off 3 mobile a few weeks back and would have stayed if they had offered what they did at the start of my half hour phone call, but I've got so sick of talking on bad quality lines to a call centre who have no understanding of the English language every year just to keep a discount. Just let me do all this shit online ffs.

[Cavcraft]

I like hearing about sport in the news, even when it's not a pastime I follow or especially like (cricket and tennis, for example) as it's good to know our national side is doing well, for example.

There's not much all in the olympics but again great when 'we' win medals and it gives most sports a boost, especially when kids want to emulate their favourite sporting stars. Obvs. not getting pissed and driving etc though.

[Mr A Lawrence]

Health and safety.

 

I know it's a good idea where machines are being operated or on the hard shoulder or up on high things but I'm watching time team on tele right now and their stood in a hole about knee deep in the middle of a field wearing hard hats, well the three doing camera work are but the two further along the hole are throwing caution to the wind and "going bareback"

[Snipes]

Passport renewal.

Bad enough they charge £75 to rubber stamp a little paper book but how the courier is holding it to ransom for their £7. Want Saturday delivery? £7. Want an am or pm slot? £7. Want to redirect to your parent's house? Not an option. Work address? Not an option.

[Kiltox]

Try the £130 to get a replacement in a hurry

[M'coli]

Health and safety.

 

I know it's a good idea where machines are being operated or on the hard shoulder or up on high things but I'm watching time team on tele right now and their stood in a hole about knee deep in the middle of a field wearing hard hats, well the three doing camera work are but the two further along the hole are throwing caution to the wind and "going bareback"

"Bareback"...???     

[richardmorris]

I spent three hours today on live chat with people in India trying to get them to accept that NEST had not set up our pension contribution levels as we had instructed. I had the print out of the confirmation too- scanned it and emailed it too them. But no dice.they refused to accept it wasn't our problem ( which it is now, which is why I have more grey hair this evening than this morning!).

So I had no lunch until 2pm having had breakfast at 5.30 and was on the verge of passing out in hunger.

And it's the last payment run of the year so the HMRC want even more money than usual.

[Timewaster]

Health and safety.

 

I know it's a good idea where machines are being operated or on the hard shoulder or up on high things but I'm watching time team on tele right now and their stood in a hole about knee deep in the middle of a field wearing hard hats, well the three doing camera work are but the two further along the hole are throwing caution to the wind and "going bareback"

H&S has to protect all the workers, not just the ones deemed intelligent enough to make an informed decision.

Therfore we are all treated as idiots.

 

TV have to comply because the pedants may be watching.

[Guest Hooli]

Passport renewal.

Bad enough they charge £75 to rubber stamp a little paper book but how the courier is holding it to ransom for their £7. Want Saturday delivery? £7. Want an am or pm slot? £7. Want to redirect to your parent's house? Not an option. Work address? Not an option.

 

 

Worst bit is it should be free. WTF else are your taxes for if not government services ffs?

[adw1977]

We were forced to take part in PE right up until we left. The teachers were lazy bastards so every week we just played football as this meant zero work for them. They just gave the class a ball and told us to get on with it.

 

I had the fun of standing in a line whilst the two top class assholes chose members for their team. Being shit at football I always had to enjoy the ridicule of being one of those picked last.

 

 

That sounds exactly like my experience of school PE!

[Guest Hooli]

I understood the point of PE, but like most lessons it was designed to make you hate the subject.

[Cavcraft]

Our PE teacher was a right wanker. One of those ex-army types, he had the mandatory bristle moustache and hatred for anyone who didn't 'obey' him. He tried bullying me, but once when he got me by the throat I told him I'd tell my dad and he would come down and knock him clean out with one punch*, so he just left me alone.

 

 

*He'd have done no such thing, he wasn't like that. 

[Guest Hooli]

Our PE teacher was an ex-army twat too. He had a three legged dog he' bring out on the field, that was funny as it'd run about so fast it'd run out of front leg (not a typo) slide on it's belly while still running on his back legs & eventually get back on all three.

[Negative Creep]

Same thing at our school, where we weren't allowed to play football because "it was a poof's game" and had to do rugby all winter.. Of course there is nothing homoerotic about putting your hands up another boy's shorts then rolling around with him in the mud is there?