The grumpy thread

[Pete-M]

Aw dude. That's a bad run.

[VWPowered]

yeah a shame to see a family get wiped like that but c'est la vie sadly

 

all we can do is appreciate what we have and make the most of it..

[brammy777]

Sorry to hear that VWP, I know what you mean, it never seems to stop. I had a phase where two relatives (one being my Dad) died in close succession and it hits, so hard. I can only offer my condolences, sorry.

 

My grump pales in comparison, but Flickr appears to have a fair amount of photo snobs! Im sure some of you know what I mean.....

[VWPowered]

Flickr appears to have a fair amount of photo snobs! Im sure some of you know what I mean.....

[Station]

Lucky to not have lost anyone close (apart from grandparents).

[trigger]

Tesco's car insurance, The robbing bunch of pikeys!.

 

I've been with them for 10 years now so I'd expect some kind of loyalty but my yearly renewal came through yesterday which is more then my one last year, My wife works for an insurance company and gets a good rate with one they deal with in Brentwood who insure through Equity Red Star so I've just rung them up for a quote.

 

They work out £40 cheaper over the year which isn't much but they included a courtesy car, UK and European breakdown cover and the excess is only £100 compared to the £200 Tescos wanted.

 

So i ring Tesco's to cancel half expecting them to better it, The best they can do was £12 cheaper on their original price and 150 clubcard points a month for 12 months! What goods that to anyone?!.

 

So C U L8TZ TESCO.

[Richard]

Tesco's, The robbing bunch of pikeys!.

EFA

[ashmicro]

DirectLine FTW. My fully comp on the Rover 25 with Mum and Li'l Sis as named drivers is £187. Even the S Type is under £300

[trigger]

I'm 30 with a good postcode with 8 years protected no claims on my 2000 VW Passat TDi is still £326.68 P/A!

 

How the hell does that work?!

[Milford Cubicle]

I can't seem to find any decent insurance quotes since I 'lost' a year's no claims bonus.

[warren t claim]

My grump is that despite our strict gun controls a man can still go on a rampage killing a yet unknown amount of people.

 

My sympathies to all involved.

[trigger]

I've just gone to Sky News website to read about, Truly shocking, My sympathies to everyone as well.

[VWPowered]

good quotes those seem to be, my Golf Mk1 1.1 was over £1200 and i was over 25 too

 

my polo here with mods etc and no no claims €200

[trigger]

killing a yet unknown amount of people. .

13 including himself so far plus another 25 more hurt and there could even be more that haven't been found yet.

 

You hear of these stories in America but you would never imagine it in Whitehaven.

[Father Ted]

Direct line are a bunch of cunts.

 

On my not my fault claim did they:

 

1) take my courtousy car off me leaving me stranded miles from home?

 

2) issue me a cheque then promptly cancel it?

 

3) ramp my insurance up something cruel the next year because having someone ram me up the arse at traffic lights and admit liability so that their company settled in full was clearly my fault.

 

The answer to all the above is yes they did.

[Cavcraft]

Direct line are a bunch of cunts.

 

 

Halleluyah brother. Chiselling shitehawks, lying bastards, conning wankers.

 

 

RIP to the 12 people dead in Cumbria. Defies belief some bastard would do something like that, and the shit house took the ultimate coward's way out too.

[Father Ted]

I know all insurance companies will try it on in the event of a claim but when the car got rear ended I endured an age of grief.

To put the tin hat on it the car hire company (that left me stranded) did then charge me £8 a gallon refueling charge because I hadnt refueled the car (the fact that they took it off me at zero notice is immaterial after phoning me up and asking me where I was for "administration reasons").

[Pillock]

I know all insurance companies will try it on in the event of a claim but when the car got rear ended I endured an age of grief.

To put the tin hat on it the car hire company (that left me stranded) did then charge me £8 a gallon refueling charge because I hadnt refueled the car (the fact that they took it off me at zero notice is immaterial after phoning me up and asking me where I was for "administration reasons").

I'd be right onto the ombudsman about that, that just stinks. That should sort Direct Line out, as for the hire car company I'd just hire one of their cars for the day, take it down a dragstrip in second, and then leave it hanging out of their plate glass window.

[Marshall]

Direct line are a bunch of cunts.

 

On my not my fault claim did they:

 

1) take my courtousy car off me leaving me stranded miles from home?

 

2) issue me a cheque then promptly cancel it?

 

3) ramp my insurance up something cruel the next year because having someone ram me up the arse at traffic lights and admit liability so that their company settled in full was clearly my fault.

 

The answer to all the above is yes they did.

They really do take the piss. I was with RAC and changed my car. For the new one they wanted to charge me about double what I was paying which was clearly a piss take. I only had 3 months to run on my insurance and the yearly premium was £320 for the old car. I was charged "short term cancellation rates" so had to pay them £100 ish to cancel the policy!!! I was paying on dd but that took the absolute piss. I checked my policy documents and they were, indeed entitled to charge me that much. The most embarrasing thing is that I have worked in insurance myself for years. But it was all there in the policy documents - All I could do was pay! If I had claimed, of course I would have expected to pay all remaining dd payments to make up the full yearly premium. I Hadnt.

 

Moral of story 1. Dont use RAC insurance.

2. Check fine print.

 

Like I say I work in insurance but even I think there i so much sharp practice its becoming unacceptable in many cases.

[Volksy]

I had an issue with the cancellation charges on an old policy I had, most insurers charge them, however there is a get out clause I found....

 

With a policy I had running on a Fiat Seicento, I then bought a Volvo, went to change it and they wanted something ridiculous to swap it over.

 

What they could do 'to help' was sell me a new 12 month policy, which then meant that they waive the cancellation charges. It was still extortionate, but if you start a new policy, you have a 14 day cooling off period, in which you can cancel with no penalty. You should only be charged for the pro rata rate of cover for however many days you have had the new policy. Which worked out at about a eigth of what the cancellation fees would have been.. Sometimes the system, and insurers greed, can work for you!

[Marshall]

I had an issue with the cancellation charges on an old policy I had, most insurers charge them, however there is a get out clause I found....

 

With a policy I had running on a Fiat Seicento, I then bought a Volvo, went to change it and they wanted something ridiculous to swap it over.

 

What they could do 'to help' was sell me a new 12 month policy, which then meant that they waive the cancellation charges. It was still extortionate, but if you start a new policy, you have a 14 day cooling off period, in which you can cancel with no penalty. You should only be charged for the pro rata rate of cover for however many days you have had the new policy. Which worked out at about a eigth of what the cancellation fees would have been.. Sometimes the system, and insurers greed, can work for you!

That is bloody good thinking. I was offered a new 12 month policy as well. Feel a bit of a numpty now. I shall bear that one in mind though. I hadnt thought of that but it makes sense. Good work Volksy!

[CIH]

That's a "distance selling" rule so only applies over the phone!

[Roc 24v]

That's a "distance selling" rule so only applies over the phone!

and online.

[Cavcraft]

Television (again)...

 

'Guilty' shown on some Sky channel about 6.30am:

 

Basically it's a sort of low rent Jeremy Vile affair presented by a fat transexual looking bint with a melon for a head and THE worse haircut you've ever seen. It's so bad it's comical.

 

Next up a real contender for 'worse programme ever'. 'Sweet 16' on MTV follows horrible, stuck up, whining, precocious little fucking bastards who have more money than manners, taste or decency. Which isn't difficult.

 

Watch as some odious kid screams at their parents because 41,000 dollars is 'NOT enough' for a car.

Watch the horrible twats make their friends beg for tickets to their birthday bash.

Watch the precious, ill-mannered wankers scream/cry/moan/stamp their feet/show off.

 

Watch out for some RLY annoyed miserable cunt from Cheshire pouring accelerants through their letterbox followed closely by some of Swan Vesta's finest mid use items.

[RedSparrow]

Tescos.

Bought a Toshiba tv from them in August last year.

Built in DVD player has got progressively worse and worse, to the point where it would take about 30 attempts to eject a disc. Also it like to turn itself on and off randomly.

So yesterday I boxed it up and took it back to the shop for a refund/exchange.

Denied - I need a reference number from their helpline.

Phone helpline - no I cant have a refund, it has to be repaired.

Ok says I, can I leave it here at the store?

No, they will pick it up from my home.

I get home, unpack the TV, it won't switch on at all now.

They will call me back within 24hrs to arrange a pick up.

They haven't.

 

I have found out that the TV i bought is a notorius POS with lots of design flaws. Odds on they won't be able to fix the fucker.

 

And Cav, yes Sweet 16 is possibly the worst TV programme ever. I actually think showing things like that damage society.

[Father Ted]

1)

eBay - had to end and relist the games boxes again after its blatantly obvious that people are not reading the description - changed the description slightly. Lets see if they really are worth £50!

 

2)

Hospital waiting rooms - about 4 weeks ago I got refered to the hospital for suspected glaucoma picked up in a routine retinopathy screen. So just 4 weeks ago I had a full MOT on my eyes including field testing, vision test, retinopathy, pressure test and a few other things that the opthalmologist did.

Today I sat for 3 hours in pergatory whilst I had all these tests repeated (even though the opthalmologist who has been looking after my eyes for the last 15 years sent all the test results, they had to repeat them because they "were not our tests....") but not as you might guess repeated all in one sitting - oh no.

It was-

Wait in hot smelly waiting room with lots of nontegenarians

Get called - have one sight test, return to waiting room

Wait for another 20 minutes watching Jeremy Fucking Kyle and three chavs

Get called, have my BP taken and get chastised because I havent brought my tablets in - so I reel off what they are (the proper names) whether they are OD, BD TDS or QDS and the reasons why I am having that combination of tablets to the jumped up littel staff nurse).

Return to waiting room - still Jezza, or maybe it was the cash converters adverts I cant really tell he difference

Get called again - this time for a fucking retinopathy (I have just had one, they have the results, but oh no they want another).

Return to a different bit of the waiting room where I contemplate my navel for another half hour.

I then get called for a fields test.

Return to waiting room - finally after the end of time itself get called to see the doctor who measures my ocular pressures takes a family history and pronounces that yes in all possibility I do have glaucoma and its a wonder my eyeballs havent burst out of my head and here have some eye drops.

[warren t claim]

 

Next up a real contender for 'worse programme ever'. 'Sweet 16' on MTV follows horrible, stuck up, whining, precocious little fucking bastards who have more money than manners, taste or decency. Which isn't difficult.

 

Watch as some odious kid screams at their parents because 41,000 dollars is 'NOT enough' for a car.

Watch the horrible twats make their friends beg for tickets to their birthday bash.

Watch the precious, ill-mannered wankers scream/cry/moan/stamp their feet/show off.

 

Watch out for some RLY annoyed miserable cunt from Cheshire pouring accelerants through their letterbox followed closely by some of Swan Vesta's finest mid use items.

I think Sir may enjoy this review of the aforementioned program by a certain Mr Charles Brooker?

 

[retrogeezer]

Toilet cubicles in mens public lavs......why the fook do you have to stand on the seat or wipe piss all over your jeans off the toilet bowl just to shut the door behind you???

 

There is 6 feet of empty floor between the door and the opposite wall, make the friggin cubicle bigger FFS.

[warren t claim]

Fucking hotel search engines.

 

Some hotels have smoking rooms and some don't.

 

WHY NOT LET ME KNOW BEFORE I HAVE TO INPUT MY CARD DETAILS????????????

[Station]

Watched that 'Sweet 16'. Couldn't believe my eyes. Fortunately, when I launched the sofa at the TV, it was still under warranty, so got it replaced.