The grumpy thread

[John F]

Bet she had no end of volunteers to help her scratch them.

 

Her boyfriend sorted her out... the skipper asked him if he had any experience with deco sickness symptoms, his reply was "No, but I've got lots of experience with her tits" .

[alcyonecorporation]

Me: "Hello!"

 

Mother: "There's this dreadful echo on the line / it's a bad line / you're breaking up etc"

 

Me "This is like groundhog day, we have had this discussion every week for the last 10 years. Your phone is faulty, get another, I will even pay for it!"

 

Mother (talking over me incessantly because of course she can't hear me) "It's not my phone that's faulty, it's yours. I'm not getting a new phone, nothing wrong with this one. Hello???"

 

Me: "But I've had four mobiles and 3 different landlines in the last four years, and you had this problem with all of them. It's clearly your phone that's faulty."

 

Mother: "No, you're breaking up."

 

Me: " I can hear you fine, so it's definitely not...."

 

Mother: "Hello?"

 

Me: "Did you hear anything I sai-?"

 

Mother: "No, there's a terrible echo on the line. WHAT?"

 

 

And so on, every week. I'm going to have to go round there and burn her phone and bury the ashes in concrete to make sure it doesn't come back!

Out of interest, who pays the phone bill?

[doubleyeller]

Out of interest, who pays the phone bill?

Well if she rings me then it goes on her bill

And if I ring her it goes on my bill.

 

I pay my bill

She pays her bill.

[madrat]

Sky Insurance 'oh yes, we specialise in young and newly qualified drivers'. Ten odd minutes later of questions/being put on hold/questions/being put on hold and 'We can't quote you for that, sorry'.

When I was a bus driver a company came to a depo saying they could get up a deal on our car insurance as we were professional drivers, out of the 35 drivers there, I think they managed to better 2 quotes, they left with very red faces. 

[alcyonecorporation]

Well if she rings me then it goes on her bill

And if I ring her it goes on my bill.

 

I pay my bill

She pays her bill.

Hey, so long as the forum ain't paying.

[twosmoke300]

Ref Captain Furious post on ecp, I really don’t understand why a lot of you still bother with them . Useless service and mainly shoddy parts

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Fairly major flooding around here and some of the local rivers have burst their banks, including the stream two fields away.  We're not going to have a problem but why is it that people in small petrol cars think they can go racing through the floods like they do?  If I get caught behind an AA van on the way to work tomorrow, I'm going to be seriously pissed off...

[doubleyeller]

Fairly major flooding around here and some of the local rivers have burst their banks, including the stream two fields away.  We're not going to have a problem but why is it that people in small petrol cars think they can go racing through the floods like they do?  If I get caught behind an AA van on the way to work tomorrow, I'm going to be seriously pissed off...

 

 

I don't see what the size of the engine has to do with it.

 

If the air intake is at the top of a small engine, they may get away with it. 

 

If it's at the bottom of a thumping great V12, then they won't

[Captain Furious]

Ref Captain Furious post on ecp, I really don’t understand why a lot of you still bother with them . Useless service and mainly shoddy parts

I was drawn in by the 50% discount and same day delivery and foolishly allowed myself to believe

 

Patience expired in the end though, I never even made it as far as customer service, after 2 hours waiting, including 35 minutes at least in “queue position 1” and 15 mins past going home time.

 

It would be easier to just buy a car that’s on the list of models they do fit

 

Needless to say they are now shitlisted (and probably I am on their system too)

 

[clayts450]

ECP are so crap they sent me an apology when I have never even complained - got this email on 22 April

 

Anyway, their excuses for more shite than normal follows below

 

 

HTH

[chaseracer]

^ "Tamworth."  Hmmmm.

[richardmorris]

Me: "Hello!"

 

Mother: "There's this dreadful echo on the line / it's a bad line / you're breaking up etc"

 

Me "This is like groundhog day, we have had this discussion every week for the last 10 years. Your phone is faulty, get another, I will even pay for it!"

 

Mother (talking over me incessantly because of course she can't hear me) "It's not my phone that's faulty, it's yours. I'm not getting a new phone, nothing wrong with this one. Hello???"

 

Me: "But I've had four mobiles and 3 different landlines in the last four years, and you had this problem with all of them. It's clearly your phone that's faulty."

 

Mother: "No, you're breaking up."

 

 

 

 

Me: " I can hear you fine, so it's definitely not...."

 

Mother: "Hello?"

 

Me: "Did you hear anything I sai-?"

 

Mother: "No, there's a terrible echo on the line. WHAT?"

 

 

And so on, every week. I'm going to have to go round there and burn her phone and bury the ashes in concrete to make sure it doesn't come back!

 

 

Just buy her one?

[doubleyeller]

Just buy her one?

 

Yeah but then she'd refuse to use it, because "What a waste when we've got a perfectly good phone already!" etc. You can't win.....

[madrat]

Ref Captain Furious post on ecp, I really don’t understand why a lot of you still bother with them . Useless service and mainly shoddy parts

I've never had a problem with them

[DodgeRover]

Put another dollar in(said the BSAC stick-in-the-mud).

Pay and Dive Instantly

 

Pay and Die Instantly

 

I'm PADI qualified, my other half is BSAC & PADI

 

I wasn't at all impressed with how dumbed down everything was between doing my first PADI open water then doing Rescue or Deep diver later, yes computers are marvellous but you still IMO need to know the mechanics of things.

[Tamworthbay]

^ "Tamworth."  Hmmmm.

Could be worse, could be Cannock. It’s Dordon anyway not Tamworth, to be fair it’s hard to type in part numbers with webbed fingers

[madrat]

Yeah but then she'd refuse to use it, because "What a waste when we've got a perfectly good phone already!" etc. You can't win.....

Accidentally drop it, repeatedly.

[The Moog]

 

 

Pay and Dive Instantly

 

Pay and Die Instantly

 

I'm PADI qualified, my other half is BSAC & PADI

 

I wasn't at all impressed with how dumbed down everything was between doing my first PADI open water then doing Rescue or Deep diver later, yes computers are marvellous but you still IMO need to know the mechanics of things.

Absolutely agree. My open water was horrific - chuck you in and not die. That was Thailand.

 

Luckily advanced, rescue diver, deep etc were ace with much better instructors.

 

Missus Moog is an Instructor with 2000 dives and I have a mere 500 - although working on it.

[dozeydustman]

Going to London today. Currently on a very busy commuter train. Air con not working properly, no ventilators to open, full of commuters. Nothing unusual but at least it’s on time.

 

Why do they let people with non-folding bikes on packed trains? Can’t they add an extra car to the unit as a luggage van, particularly as it passes through Gatwick

[bramz7]

I think a lot of TOCs don't let non folding bikes on certain routes at peak times, but good luck booting someone off who flouts that.

[AMC Rebel]

Me: "Hello!"

 

Mother: "There's this dreadful echo on the line / it's a bad line / you're breaking up etc"

 

Me "This is like groundhog day, we have had this discussion every week for the last 10 years. Your phone is faulty, get another, I will even pay for it!"

 

Mother (talking over me incessantly because of course she can't hear me) "It's not my phone that's faulty, it's yours. I'm not getting a new phone, nothing wrong with this one. Hello???"

 

Me: "But I've had four mobiles and 3 different landlines in the last four years, and you had this problem with all of them. It's clearly your phone that's faulty."

 

Mother: "No, you're breaking up."

 

Me: " I can hear you fine, so it's definitely not...."

 

Mother: "Hello?"

 

Me: "Did you hear anything I sai-?"

 

Mother: "No, there's a terrible echo on the line. WHAT?"

 

 

And so on, every week. I'm going to have to go round there and burn her phone and bury the ashes in concrete to make sure it doesn't come back!

 

I had to do this with my parents' phone.  And their TV.

[dozeydustman]

TBH Bramz I can’t be bothered it’s a 12 car train with a conductor who appears not to be bothered. Eased off a lot since we stopped at Gatwick but you’d think for services from London to Protsmouth or Southampton via Gatwick would have adequate luggage facilites for the airports and ferries. 1 rack per carriage that holds about 3 handbags isn’t enough

[clayts450]

38 mins hanging on for my surgery just now as they operate this ridiculous system where you ring on the morning to get an appt that day - needed an age-old prescription review as my chitty informed me this was due. 

 

"You are in queue position 20" etc etc

 

Finally get through, explain I need a prescription review. Am told it is not due for another 10 months, so can go to pharmacy to pick up and that they have downloaded the next one.

 

Yes, but it says prescription review due 24/4/18.

 

I can see that but you're fine for the next 10 months.

 

I'd rather not risk it if you don't mind as I've had problems in the past.

 

Yes but you can go to the pharmacy and pick it up

 

I get that, but the slip tells me the review is due 24/4/18.

 

Eventually, after much to-ing and fro-ing they arrange a telephone call to me tomorrow morning. But then remind me...

 

You can go to the pharmacy to pick up your prescription.

 

Thank you for your help*

 

Betting that if I go to the pharmacy tonight to pick up they say - no we cannot dispense this as your review was due on 24/4/18 ?

 

NHS fucked.

[Kiltox]

TBH Bramz I can’t be bothered it’s a 12 car train with a conductor who appears not to be bothered. Eased off a lot since we stopped at Gatwick but you’d think for services from London to Protsmouth or Southampton via Gatwick would have adequate luggage facilites for the airports and ferries. 1 rack per carriage that holds about 3 handbags isn’t enough

Southern?

 

There’s barely even 1 rack per carriage! Absolutely stripped to the bone to squeeze as many people in as possible. Horrible things.

[madrat]

38 mins hanging on for my surgery just now as they operate this ridiculous system where you ring on the morning to get an appt that day - needed an age-old prescription review as my chitty informed me this was due. 

 

"You are in queue position 20" etc etc

 

Finally get through, explain I need a prescription review. Am told it is not due for another 10 months, so can go to pharmacy to pick up and that they have downloaded the next one.

 

Yes, but it says prescription review due 24/4/18.

 

I can see that but you're fine for the next 10 months.

 

I'd rather not risk it if you don't mind as I've had problems in the past.

 

Yes but you can go to the pharmacy and pick it up

 

I get that, but the slip tells me the review is due 24/4/18.

 

Eventually, after much to-ing and fro-ing they arrange a telephone call to me tomorrow morning. But then remind me...

 

You can go to the pharmacy to pick up your prescription.

 

Thank you for your help*

 

Betting that if I go to the pharmacy tonight to pick up they say - no we cannot dispense this as your review was due on 24/4/18 ?

 

NHS fucked.

To much admin in NHS, 90% of the problems are caused by this.

[Kiltox]

To much admin in NHS, 90% of the problems are caused by this.

I heard Hooli was to blame for every single problem

 

*lights fuse and runs*

[Guest Hooli]

You're welcome!

[wuvvum]

TBH Bramz I can’t be bothered it’s a 12 car train with a conductor who appears not to be bothered. Eased off a lot since we stopped at Gatwick but you’d think for services from London to Protsmouth or Southampton via Gatwick would have adequate luggage facilites for the airports and ferries. 1 rack per carriage that holds about 3 handbags isn’t enough

Nah, they're trying to force everyone onto the Gatwick Express (at triple the price) so they're not going to make things easy for airport passengers.

[mercedade]

Have had CBT in the past, didn't help so was referred to a counsellor - my mum has been through the same system as she has OCD and said it was rubbish too, until she got more specialised help that I never managed, the CBT girl just had me sent to a general counsellor that latched on to the wrong things. Just kept going in circles so he discharged me as didn't know what to do. I need help higher up but can't get anyone to understand that.

Actual full-on therapy appears to be hard to get here.

 

It's not that it's tougher here than anywhere else, you've just got to get through the various stages of 'triage' (apols, I'm reading this on the 1st May, so I don't know what's happened in the meantime) in the right way.

 

Healthy Minds require persistence, but they are the right way to get into the service you need. And, as with everything else in this world, your experience with whoever picks up the phone on a Tuesday might be very different to that with the person who does it on Wednesday.

 

Keep at it - you're fighting a collapsing voluntary sector and a health system scrambling to pick up the pieces.

[Datsuncog]

First of the month; which means a trip to the main Post Office in Belfast to finally get L'il Thunder taxed...

 

 

I know Northern Ireland's still stuck in the 1950s in many ways, but I reckon it's an utter piss-take that I can't just tax the damn thing online - car is on an English plate, registration details never left Swansea, insurer is a big company based in Leeds - but the fact it's being registered to an NI address precludes me from using the DVLA online portal as a new owner. Fuck knows why.