The grumpy thread

[5speedracer]

My kindle is dead night before last is used up all its charge. Last night at 18% it just went off. Black screen wouldn't turn on.

 

Left it on charge just in case it was the battery flat but found it very hot today. Took it out of its case and there's a spot on its back a different colour.

 

Took the back off. Unplugged the battery and it started clicking from the chip under the spot when I plugged it back in so it must have over heated while using it and died. They've actually gone up and are now £50, sod that.

£50 ones are good. Also easy to put Google Play Store on for proper Android apps.

 

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[loserone]

You know that feeling you get when you know you shouldn't have bought a car? Yeah got that right now!

 

I've not seen the 405 this year..

[AlabamaShrimp]

They may not do anything useful but is it worth contacting Amazon to see if they will replace it?

Wife's just been on live chat with Amazon for the mast 25 minutes. After repeating herself loads of times that it won't turn on she was told they'd arrange a replacement, then said no hang on out of its 1 year limited warranty so you can have 15% which is sod all.

 

She's moaned and now sent a complaint email. Not so much trying to get a new one for free. It's that at 2 years old, only gets used at the very most twice a week yet it's over heated and died. That's a bit shit really.

[DodgeRover]

I would complain the overheating whilst in bed reading a book could easily have started a fire had you dropped off without noticing.

[dave21478]

Why is Ebay such a massive pain in the cunt these days?

 

I bought a multimeter from some Chinese mega-seller mid December and its still not arrived. I have had a few cut n paste replies from them but its obvious they have done a bunk....their feedback is currently over 300 negative this last month alone and they have no items for sale any more, yet I still have to jump through the hoops sending messages, wait for replies etc and wait until the alloted time has passed before ebay will bother themselves to investigate?

Its not big money or anything, but why the fuck does it have to be so difficult? I cant see any way at all to get a refund via paypal any more, anything there just links back to the ebay resolution center.

[Bren]

Ebay do not care as long as they get fees. From someone.

[dollywobbler]

Oh dear. I really am losing my shit on Facebook tonight. My tolerance levels are at an all time low. Firstly, this is NOT because 'Facebook is crap, generic whinge, better off sitting in a pub on your own' sort of stuff, just because I don't like being added to groups (you aren't actually invited, just added without realising) and I'm also fed up with some folk in a certain group doing nothing but sniping about how others aren't meeting their standards of how to do things. TWATS.

[richardmorris]

Saw this too, facepalmed.  It was the front of the Express though, so not an actual newspaper.

As Jeremy hardy said years ago.... the paramilitary wing of the daily mail.

[robinmasters]

Electric razor's 'blades need replacing' light came on (I did think they were probably past their best). The (non-replaceable) battery on the old one doesn't hold anywhere near as much charge as it used to.

 

New blades are £35. A whole new shaver is £46.

 

It's almost as if these companies would prefer it if you made no effort to keep the old one going and bought a new one.

[SiC]

"The Autoshite official for sale and wanted thread."

 

Where threads get merged and thus completely destroying any sense or meaning they had, leading them to finally being lost and to die.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I would complain the overheating whilst in bed reading a book could easily have started a fire had you dropped off without noticing.

I thought of that straight after she sent it. Will save it for the inevitable reply when they say sod off.

[BorniteIdentity]

"The Autoshite official for sale and wanted thread."

 

Where threads get merged and thus completely destroying any sense or meaning they had, leading them to finally being lost and to die.

 

It's quite simple tho really.  There's a fuck off great wanted thread, and someone started a wanted thread.  It does ruin the flow of the existing thread, granted, which is why a more militant stance is probably called for where the new one is simply deleted without explanation, or locked saying "post it here, doofus".

[The Moog]

"The Autoshite official for sale and wanted thread."

 

Where threads get merged and thus completely destroying any sense or meaning they had, leading them to finally being lost and to die.

Three things

 

A) the thread is pretty obvious, it is also in the links to read before posting. People don't seem to realise this. Yesterday we had 8 different threads wanting or selling a single item

 

B ) I think you will find stuff doesn't go there to do die. Have a look at daihatsu post to see all the responses. It is working and keeping place tidy.

 

C) other option is to lock and tell op to post in that thread. But then we are left with load of locked threads cluttering up place.

 

If it is such an issue I would suggest that you inform those posting randomly that they stop and put them in the right place. It's a pretty simple rule.

 

It won't get moved if it is in the right place

[The Moog]

And I am proper grumpy this morning as still got horrible cold but now lost my voice.

 

With 8 hours of lectures today that isn't a great start .

[Parky]

Why is Ebay such a massive pain in the cunt these days?

 

I bought a multimeter from some Chinese mega-seller mid December and its still not arrived. I have had a few cut n paste replies from them but its obvious they have done a bunk....their feedback is currently over 300 negative this last month alone and they have no items for sale any more, yet I still have to jump through the hoops sending messages, wait for replies etc and wait until the alloted time has passed before ebay will bother themselves to investigate?

Its not big money or anything, but why the fuck does it have to be so difficult? I cant see any way at all to get a refund via paypal any more, anything there just links back to the ebay resolution center.

If your PayPal is linked to a credit card, you might be able to get some joy from your credit card company through a Chargeback...

[BorniteIdentity]

I had gastroenteritis last week - three days off work cost me a lorra lorra lolly (self employed innit).  Anyway, lost half a stone so whatever.  However, now I'm coming down with the most spectacular manflu and I am FUMMIN'.

[Louise2cv]

SNO CHAOS!

 

They are shutting the schools on Anglesey. You can still see the grass poking through the light dusting ffs.

 

If this is what they are teaching kids then we might as well give up now.

[Eddie Honda]

KAOS? WHAT KAOS?

 

Wiped the icing sugar dusting of snow (1cm) off the motorbike this morning at 4.20am and rode to work as usual.

 

Was a bit chilly so LONG JOHNS.

[dollywobbler]

SNO CHAOS!

 

They are shutting the school's on Anglesey. You can still see the grass poking through the light dusting ffs.

 

If this is what they are teaching kids then we might as well give up now.

 

But it's still coming down here, and what the hell is that apostrophe doing there?! I far prefer this to deciding halfway through the day that, now there's loads of snow down, they'll send the kids home in a blizzard.

[Louise2cv]

Autocorrect. Will edit.

[Louise2cv]

But even if it is still coming down, there will not be a blizzard, there will not be enough snow to prevent travel. People need to get a living grip on themselves.

 

You can still see green grass through the snow and it's been snowing for hours. It's forecast to stop mid-morning and there isn't any snow on the roads.

 

If this is too much snow for people to cope with, we might as well give up now. I bet they can all manage to make a snowman or go sledging.

[dollywobbler]

My cold related grump is that our Calor has bottle seems to have frozen. I really don't think it's cold enough for that to happen, but we definitely have no gas this morning, and the bottle was only changed recently. We had to boil tea in the microwave, which is awful.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Is it blue or red calor gas?

[dollywobbler]

Get a friend request from an Austrian with some Steyr-Puch 500s. Minutes later, get a message with an Austrian phone number saying "Please call my father. He doesn't speak much English." WTF? I politely decline. Then I get asked for my phone number so he can call me. I politely decline. Then what about WhatsApp? I politely decline (mostly because I still have no idea how it works) and give up my email address. So, he tries doing a video call through Facebook, while I've got a plumbing engineer here. PISS OFF! What's so bloody urgent that they can't send a sodding email?!

 

Back to gas, red. Went and gave the regulator a few love taps with a small hammer and flow has been restored. Then I saw that it says "protect from rain" on it, and am thinking that we probably should protect it from rain...

[Cavcraft]

Phone calls through Facebook can FRO. They haven’t got my number by the way, it’s done via messenger I think.

 

Forgot my cushioned insole things today, so the planned walk home from work ain’t happening.

[Talbot]

Propane (as opposed to just hitting your thumb with a hammer pain) regulators will freeze up for a laugh. Because there is expanding gas in them, there is an additional cooling effect, meaning they then become the coldest thing around, so any damp at all (either external or internal to the regulator) causes them to freeze up. The balance springs in them are quite light too, so the forces involved in them aren't enough to break even a thin layer of ice.

[dave21478]

If your PayPal is linked to a credit card, you might be able to get some joy from your credit card company through a Chargeback...

French bank though innit?

*Drags on cigarette, shrugs, blows smoke in my face, "Nothing we can do, Monsieur."*

 

It's worthy of a second separate grump but here will do.... All French banks can get fucked. This place is renowned for bad beurocracy but the banks take it to another level.... nowhere else have I encountered such mindless, petty, jobsworth, computer says no, smug, condescending wankers. I'd rather take the hit to my wallet than speak to anyone at my bank, and coming from a tight arsed Scotsman that tells you something.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Their Belgian cousins are exactly the same dude........... lazy useless ar*ebandits that need a fucking flamethrower approach to any request/negotiation. I made an appointment Monday - IN THE BRANCH WITH HER PERSONALLY - turned up 2 days later for appointment with jnr in tow - YOU HAVE NO APPOINTMENT......

The fact munchkin was with me was the only thing that kept me from going over the counter at the useless fat lying thundercunt..........

 

I wouldn't mind too much - but don't get me started on the online shite offered

[Eddie Honda]

We had to boil tea in the microwave, which is awful.

Microwave?

 

You want one of these before a microwave.

 

[Eddie Honda]

Toilet energy saving timer lights. Especially when they are set to go off just after the duration of a long pish.

 

Fucking annoying being plunged into pitch-black darkness when on time and a turd.