The grumpy thread

[purplebargeken]

Fucking 48 hour ecg gizmo has died on me. It was only fitted this morning and is just repeating its startup cycle. Back to Luton tomorrow morning then AGAIN!

[cort16]

I've burst my fucking Macbook again. Screen this time at least it wasn't caused by me tipping whisky into it this time.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I know we've had this one countless times before but sodding insurance.

 

From about £90 on classic car to £250ish for the Frontera to change it to business use. All I'm doing is parking it on the street when I've got to get to where I'm going.

 

Why isn't it the person that's insured not the car, would save a lot of messing about.

[privatewire]

DECLARE WAR!

piss in his milk. Start rumours, say he touched you in the toilet or just say to someone that he called them a cunt last week, all work a treat! Then start with the public humiliation, signing him up for junk mail and an Argos catalogue or seven.

War, or at least a start to covert and petty operations has begun.....

[DodgeRover]

Subscribe his mobile number to every insurance and PPI, ambulance chasing service you can find, then write it on the wall in the men's loos too.

[MikeR]

I had someone wind me up on the phone , so I put his number on stickers and did every phone box on the way to work , including a few in  a red light district !

[Sheefag]

War, or at least a start to covert and petty operations has begun.....

 

Time for a PAYG sim and an old phone.

 

https://www.prankdial.com

[Bren]

Sat in A&E at Glan Clywd hospital because my steroids have worn off and I have no spare.

[Craig the Princess]

House round the corner are having a new water main put in as the farm down the road have upped their usage.

 

Being rural Norfolk the farmer types who live there are digging the trenches themselves to save a few quid but have did through the phone cable and knocked out phone line and internet for us and give other houses.

 

BT can't come and fix it until Wednesday ????????????

[Bianconeri]

If it mainly serves food then they should admit the truth & advertise as a restaurant.

 

Pubs should allow dogs & ban kids and their over indulgent half wit parents.

FTFY

[Bianconeri]

I have been asked* to clean the crapheap 500 before it's PXed. It is a loathsome excerable piece of engineering halfwittery and going near it with a well-made* vacuum cleaner will break something and that'll be my fault not FIAT's for skimping on everything.

 

Menwhile the DS is still broken.

[Guest Hooli]

 then write it on the wall in the men's loos too.

 

 

I* never* did this to an utter twat of an ex-boss, nor can I confirm the message in the bog asked for pics & mentioned sucking..

 

He did seem to get a lot of calls that got answered with 'I don't do that at work' and pictures texted he didn't seem to want to show people Oh it was fun being in that office for the next few months.

[DodgeRover]

Have you cleaned the throttle body, ICV and the MAF sensor with appropriate solvents?

[chaseracer]

[Timewaster]

A few years ago BT damaged my line when they were doing work next door. I knew the work wasn't finished so I phoned BT to report the problem and make sure the engineers knew to fix it when they came back. BT told me I'd have to wait six weeks for somebody to look at it and "your engineers broke it" didn't seem to be on their list of tick boxes.

 

I just let them make their six week appointment and spoke to the engineers in the morning. After an initial token denial they ran a new line in about five minutes. I never did hear any more about the appointment that had been made.

They will be there next Tuesday.

[Lord Sterling]

Had a strange one today. Felt rather lazy but went out for a brisk walk and to pump up the front tyre on the Rover. When I got to the Rover, I found a dead pigeon on the bonnet with it's chest cut open and a few wasps/flies flying around.

 

Now, either someone has taken exception to my car not moving, or a cat has found it and dragged it onto the bonnet, but there was no paw prints or nowt so I am wondering...

[Cavcraft]

Cat or accidental death (passing car) is my guess, Mo.

[Guest Hooli]

Satanic sacrifice to the great god Lucas?

[Lord Sterling]

Probably, where the car is parked is on a singke-track back road to a dead end, a former staff carpark for the old Library/Doctors, but there a huge tree nearby where it could have fallen from. I'll keep an eye on the car though.

[Guest Hooli]

Can you swap it with another? If it's seen to move then people won't assume it dumped.

 

Dead birds seems a bit odd as a complaint though, I'd expect something more obvious like scratches & smashed windows.

[Cavcraft]

Can you swap it with another? If it's seen to move then people won't assume it dumped.

 

Dead birds seems a bit odd as a complaint though, I'd expect something more obvious like scratches & smashed windows.

 

What's he going to swap it for, a magpie?

[Guest Hooli]

A frozen chicken!

[dollywobbler]

What's he going to swap it for, a magpie?

 

I did also assume he meant the bird!

[MarvinsMom]

picked up a bloody great chip in the Rovers windscreen this morning.

 

am leaving the car sat at the in-laws this week until the man comes and fixed it, or, if need be change the window,

 

as such,  i have been forced to take the Lexus to work again this week.

 

oh the horror...... the horror......

 

so, silver linings... and all that.

[Guest Hooli]

I did also assume he meant the bird!

 

This is why you write for a living & I don't.

[Lord Sterling]

Dead birds seems a bit odd as a complaint though, I'd expect something more obvious like scratches & smashed windows.

Really?

 

When a dead bird with the bloody contents of its chest hanging out and full of wasps/flies feeding of it are found laying on the bonnet of your car it's not exactly a moment to be smiling and joyous, especially as you have to move it off the car. It's not nice.

 

The paintwork on the Rover is nothing to shout about and there are no obvious dents or scratches. It probably was a cat or it fell out of the tree but as the Rover hasn't moved for so long (battery dead) I did get a few ideas that were a bit over board. Anyway, Rover no longer has a dead bloody bird on the bonnet and the tyre is pumped up again so all is well at the moment.

[captain_70s]

Left work at midnight to this:

 

 

Civic blew it's last headlight bulb, I had a spare. 30 mins spent trying to get fucking spring clip thing to work before the stupid thing fell off entirely so I just wedged the bulb holder in place with the rubber bung thing that's supposed to keep the rain out, seems to work... Having done that I figured I should pop to the 24 hour Tesco and replace the other side as well. Clearly I'd forgotten exactly why I'd given up the first time, the spring clip may as well be welded to the bulb holder, won't budge at all so the dead bulb can't be removed.

 

ALL CARZ IS SHIT.

[twosmoke300]

Only begs the question of how long you have been driving with one bulb out

[Kiltox]

Probably won't pass a MoT if you haven't clipped the bulbs in properly - they'll be unlikely to display the correct beam pattern

 

Appreciate that's a problem to solve in a lit area rather than a dark car park

[chaseracer]

Appreciate that's a problem to solve in the test station car park

 

FTFY