The grumpy thread

[Guest Hooli]

Liked for the dogs being rescued of course.

 

 

Not liked for the RSPCA, too many times I've seen them talk bollocks & lie to get a conviction. They even do it on tv! I saw some program they were in where they claimed a dog was suffering in a car. The car was parked in the shade with the windows partly open & when they dropped a temp sensor inside it was massive* 20c inside the car. The only reason the dog was looking distressed was because some stranger was too near it's car.

 

Oh the dog had a big bowl of water in the car too ffs.

[Ghosty]

Had to return my new folding bike to Decathlon after a week, as one pedal bearing was playing and the seatpost was bent somehow, meaning it wouldn't go in properly.
Tried to explain to them it was faulty, but they wouldn't take it back without charging me for the tyres and chain as it 'wasnt in saleable condition'. The bloke didn't even look at it properly, then I said I wanted to make a phone call to get some advice, and he fucked off and didn't come back. After 10-15 minutes one of the till staff asked if I was alright and went to get the shift manager, didn't even have to ask she just went and did it, good on her.
He reitetated the first guys stance, also tried to tell me they had a legal right to repair it and wouldn't accept that the bike was unfit for purpose as the seatpost was replaceable?
Wouldn't even replace the pedal as they deemed the play on the pedal axle normal?! Was it fuck. Again he didn't even look at it properly.
He couldn't accept that it wasn't really my concern that a faulty bike wasn't in a condition to be resold, either. 'well you've used it' he said, well it's bloody meant to be used, and if a fault develops in a week it's clearly not fit for purpose is it??? He tried to compare it to things like returning a torn tent which was just fucking daft.
All they'd offer me was a replacement seatpost or a partial refund.
Shift manager wouldn't budge and kept trying to use the vague returns policy to his advantage while I'm trying to pick holes in it, but then went off to 'let me think about what I wanted to do', came back and I got a full refund again without even asking.
Whole thing took about an hour - fuck Decathlon.

[Guest Hooli]

They sound like a bunch of cunts, glad you got the refund in the end.

[clayts450]

These sorts of places have no concept of the rights consumers have and try to wing it all the time. It really should not take an hour to get a refund, FFS. Probably in their 'training manual' to encourage* you to buy something more expensive.

 

Tossers.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Went into Halfords the day before yesterday (I know, I know) just to get some new headlight bulbs for my car.  One needs replacing.

 

Anyhow, they were mis-labelled on the shelf.  So when they tried to charge me a higher price, I argued it with them.  I said to them that they could go and check if they like but was quite happy to be proven wrong.  They put it through but fuck me they weren't happy.

 

Think I may have caught them at a little game there.

 

Won't go back to that one.  Thanks Halfords, Canterbury.

[DodgeRover]

  On 26/06/2018 at 18:26, BorniteIdentity said:

Eh? My post about shirtless men has been deleted because I used the B**x*t word? Had my tongue been further in my cheek, I’d have looked like John Hurt’s elephant man.

 

I used the word [REDACTED] as a metaphor, not a literal term, as quite obviously a process can not have a scent. At no time did I express a political opinion, or deride those held by others.

 

It’s a sad day if we can’t have a bit of satire.

 

And yep, I could have raised this privately with a moderator - but seeing as nobody dropped me a line, I’m not sure why I should begin the correspondence. After all, one or two moderators even liked my post.

 

So, a grump about a grump. That’s quite meta.

I didn't find it funny I just read it as a dig at those who you believe would have voted that way and dress in a different manner, however maybe I was blind to the satire, anyway locally a lot of the shirtless chavs are from foreign climes too.

I didn't report it though.

 

I did like the following post about how we all voted (whichever way) for what we believed would be best for us/ the country/ our children

[BorniteIdentity]

  On 26/06/2018 at 19:58, DodgeRover said:

I didn't find it funny I just read it as a dig at those who you believe would have voted that way and dress in a different manner, however maybe I was blind to the satire, anyway locally a lot of the shirtless chavs are from foreign climes too.

I didn't report it though.

 

I did like the following post about how we all voted (whichever way) for what we believed would be best for us/ the country/ our children

I would argue that someone who is only wearing a pair of shorts whilst shopping is not dressed at all.

 

I digress.

 

If we can’t take the piss out of ourselves at times like this, on a forum like this, we are utterly buggered.

[cort1977]

  On 26/06/2018 at 19:50, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Went into Halfords the day before yesterday (I know, I know) just to get some new headlight bulbs for my car.  One needs replacing.

 

Anyhow, they were mis-labelled on the shelf.  So when they tried to charge me a higher price, I argued it with them.  I said to them that they could go and check if they like but was quite happy to be proven wrong.  They put it through but fuck me they weren't happy.

 

Think I may have caught them at a little game there.

 

Won't go back to that one.  Thanks Halfords, Canterbury.

Had similar yesterday at Lowes (like B&Q but better value).  Part was labelled '$10 off' on the shelf, came up at the pre-discount price at the till.  Girl on the till could not have been less interested despite me politely asking her to check it.  Gave up in the end and went and found another older staff member who sorted it out in the end. 

 

Point of my dull story is that there is likely no dodginess afoot, just utter lack of interest from the staff.  I can see how it is a dull job and all but when i worked in retail (safeways so must be a long time ago) even i would bother my arse to help a customer in that situation and i was the worst employee in the store.  Seems like people just give less and less of a shit these days.

[cort16]

I once saw a portly guy in his 60’s topless, totally oiled up in short shorts sun bathing out the back of his Nissan micra in Glasgow, Asda govan’s car park. Doesn’t get more glamourous.

[Guest Hooli]

A lot of the creatures sunbathing in their front gardens around here would get rolled back in the sea by greenpeace if I wasn't so far from the coast.

[cobblers]

  On 26/06/2018 at 19:47, clayts450 said:

Probably in their 'training manual' 

 

I worked at Halfords for about 4 years and my training consisted of absolutely nothing at all.

I turned up as a spotty 18 year old lad, was given a tshirt and set to it.

 

The only training anyone across the two stores I worked at had was the bird who fitted baby seats - but I wouldn't had trusted her to secure a bag of shopping let alone a child.

 

Closest thing to training we got was from one of the store managers -  how to write stock off and then sell it using dozens of wiper blade fits instead so he got his bonus.

[New POD]

  On 26/06/2018 at 19:43, Ghosty said:

Had to return my new folding bike to Decathlon after a week, as one pedal bearing was playing and the seatpost was bent somehow, meaning it wouldn't go in properly.

Tried to explain to them it was faulty, but they wouldn't take it back without charging me for the tyres and chain as it 'wasnt in saleable condition'. The bloke didn't even look at it properly, then I said I wanted to make a phone call to get some advice, and he fucked off and didn't come back. After 10-15 minutes one of the till staff asked if I was alright and went to get the shift manager, didn't even have to ask she just went and did it, good on her.

He reitetated the first guys stance, also tried to tell me they had a legal right to repair it and wouldn't accept that the bike was unfit for purpose as the seatpost was replaceable?

Wouldn't even replace the pedal as they deemed the play on the pedal axle normal?! Was it fuck. Again he didn't even look at it properly.

He couldn't accept that it wasn't really my concern that a faulty bike wasn't in a condition to be resold, either. 'well you've used it' he said, well it's bloody meant to be used, and if a fault develops in a week it's clearly not fit for purpose is it??? He tried to compare it to things like returning a torn tent which was just fucking daft.

All they'd offer me was a replacement seatpost or a partial refund.

Shift manager wouldn't budge and kept trying to use the vague returns policy to his advantage while I'm trying to pick holes in it, but then went off to 'let me think about what I wanted to do', came back and I got a full refund again without even asking.

Whole thing took about an hour - fuck Declathlon.

 

 

I've had my bike 28 years and got it from Hawk Cycles.  A couple of years ago I had to replace the rear wheel, sprocket and chain and brake pads.  

They still make the same bike, but it has alloy wheels instead of chrome plated steel.  About 140 quid.  

[DodgeRover]

  On 26/06/2018 at 20:12, BorniteIdentity said:

I would argue that someone who is only wearing a pair of shorts whilst shopping is not dressed at all.

 

I digress.

 

If we can’t take the piss out of ourselves at times like this, on a forum like this, we are utterly buggered.

I missed the out shopping bit, fair enough.

[cort16]

I’m already thick and I’m getting thicker .

I went for petrol and couldn’t remember my PIN number . Luckily I had some cash on me so I could bay some by cash and the rest by contactless .

I’m putting it down to alcohol based brain fever from the weekend .

[sierraman]

Everyone has opinions, if somebodies views doesn't agree with yours then agree to disagree. That's the adult way to go about things, you put your point across and its a debate, that's the end of it. There isnt a winner or a loser. You don't go running off crying to the moderator if someone had said something you don't like.

[Des]

^^ Spot on, are you not all the same weirdos under the skin, the second anyone argues politics they're being played, it's a crazy world out there, Audis are being spotted driven respectfully of late, using indicators and staying in lane, the world is changing, try talking politics with yourself of 20 years ago or 20 years hence, shouldn't be much common ground, fuck me these wasp stings are still fucking stinging better pop another bottle of medicine.

[captain_70s]

  On 26/06/2018 at 22:48, sierraman said:

Everyone has opinions, if somebodies views doesn't agree with yours then agree to disagree. That's the adult way to go about things, you put your point across and its a debate, that's the end of it. There isnt a winner or a loser. You don't go running off crying to the moderator if someone had said something you don't like.

 

Alternatively, when somebody says something you don't like threaten legal action and fuck everything up for the forseeable future after you've left the site.

[alcyonecorporation]

Long day at work. 

That isn't the grump. I accidentally ran a duckling over yesterday morning and still feel terrible about it. 

I go to work via the side entrance to an industrial estate which is fed off a fast dual carriageway that intersects with a 50 mph main road out of town. From the main Parkway I had a chode in an Audi FlangeTrendPremiumLine tailgating me really aggressively; the only place I got away from him was the roundabout exit. As I slow for the junction and he's lighting up my dashboard with his DRLs. He does this all the way to the second roundabout leading to the industrial estate, which is near a large public water park. 

I'm barely up to 20mph heading into the business park and Audi boy nails it to close up the gap that was created by another car crossing the roundabout between us. 
As I get further into the estate a mother duck and 6-7 ducklings waddle across the road. I slow down but can't go around them because of a bus taking on passengers more or less parallel to where the ducks are crossing. 

Audi boy hammers into a dip in the road so violently his DRLs flash up in my mirror on the rebound. I'm still slowing down (but don't want to stop completely lest he follows me in) enough to watch the duck and ducklings arrive safely on the other side of the road. They begin jumping up the kerb and head for a bush facing a large car park.  

 

My eyes are drawn to the sudden flash in the mirror - and as I look back towards the road, the smallest, weakest duckling - at the very back - has lagged behind the rest of them and is staggering across the bit of tarmac in front of my car. 

I slow down even further, almost to a stop - and watch Audi shit-for-brains really lose his temper. I think he was late for work. I jink the wheel as a precaution and strain my neck upwards to see if the duckling cleared the front of my car. It disappears out of my eye line. 

Too late. Just before I came to a stop (with Audi numbnuts blowing his gasket), I hear a muffled 'thump' under the nearside front wheel. Had I stopped dead, Audi boy would have rear ended me and I'd have probably flattened the lot of them in front of a crowd of bus passengers. 

As Audi boy peels off I notice a tiny green-yellow patch of feathers squashed hard into the road. 

Poor little sod. I nearly pulled over and spewed. 

[yes oui si]

  On 27/06/2018 at 00:33, alcyonecorporation said:

Long day at work.

 

That isn't the grump. I accidentally ran a duckling over yesterday morning and still feel terrible about it.

 

I go to work via the side entrance to an industrial estate which is fed off a fast dual carriageway that intersects with a 50 mph main road out of town. From the main Parkway I had a chode in an Audi FlangeTrendPremiumLine tailgating me really aggressively; the only place I got away from him was the roundabout exit. As I slow for the junction and he's lighting up my dashboard with his DRLs. He does this all the way to the second roundabout leading to the industrial estate, which is near a large public water park.

 

I'm barely up to 20mph heading into the business park and Audi boy nails it to close up the gap that was created by another car crossing the roundabout between us.

As I get further into the estate a mother duck and 6-7 ducklings waddle across the road. I slow down but can't go around them because of a bus taking on passengers more or less parallel to where the ducks are crossing.

 

Audi boy hammers into a dip in the road so violently his DRLs flash up in my mirror on the rebound. I'm still slowing down (but don't want to stop completely lest he follows me in) enough to watch the duck and ducklings arrive safely on the other side of the road. They begin jumping up the kerb and head for a bush facing a large car park.

 

My eyes are drawn to the sudden flash in the mirror - and as I look back towards the road, the smallest, weakest duckling - at the very back - has lagged behind the rest of them and is staggering across the bit of tarmac in front of my car.

 

I slow down even further, almost to a stop - and watch Audi shit-for-brains really lose his temper. I think he was late for work. I jink the wheel as a precaution and strain my neck upwards to see if the duckling cleared the front of my car. It disappears out of my eye line.

 

Too late. Just before I came to a stop (with Audi numbnuts blowing his gasket), I hear a muffled 'thump' under the nearside front wheel. Had I stopped dead, Audi boy would have rear ended me and I'd have probably flattened the lot of them in front of a crowd of bus passengers.

 

As Audi boy peels off I notice a tiny green-yellow patch of feathers squashed hard into the road.

 

Poor little sod. I nearly pulled over and spewed.

I've hit a duck, two pigeons, half a dozen pheasants, a partridge, a barn owl, two foxes (result) and a few stoats in the last couple of weeks alone - you get used to it.

[yes oui si]

And about a billion flying insects.

[Cavcraft]

  On 27/06/2018 at 04:37, yes oui si said:

I've hit a duck, two pigeons, half a dozen pheasants, a partridge, a barn owl, two foxes (result) and a few stoats in the last couple of weeks alone - you get used to it.

 

How's hitting a fox (or any animal) a 'result'? Nothing whatsoever to gloat or sound blase about. 

[sierraman]

A chicken farmer would consider it a result.

[Tetleysmooth]

It's the bigger things you've got to worry about hitting on the road.

When I was a shunter in Beckton, East London, a driver from our Crick depot used to come in for loads regularly.

Didn't see him for a while. Turns out his son was driving to work one night, and a horse jumped the hedge straight in front of him.

Smashed through the windscreen of the car.

Result: the lad was paralysed for life.

 

Deer are getting a big problem now as well.

[yes oui si]

  On 27/06/2018 at 05:23, Cavcraft said:

How's hitting a fox (or any animal) a 'result'? Nothing whatsoever to gloat or sound blase about.

Because they're vermin, and the fewer the better.

[New POD]

  On 27/06/2018 at 06:00, Tetleysmooth said:

It's the bigger things you've got to worry about hitting on the road.

When I was a shunter in Beckton, East London, a driver from our Crick depot used to come in for loads regularly.

Didn't see him for a while. Turns out his son was driving to work one night, and a horse jumped the hedge straight in front of him.

Smashed through the windscreen of the car.

Result: the lad was paralysed for life.

 

Deer are getting a big problem now as well.

I shall drive slower today. thanks.

[andy18s]

  On 27/06/2018 at 00:05, captain_70s said:

Alternatively, when somebody says something you don't like threaten legal action and fuck everything up for the forseeable future after you've left the site.

I don't want to know Any details but have things that far on here?

[Cavcraft]

  On 27/06/2018 at 06:13, yes oui si said:

Because they're vermin, and the fewer the better.

 

Bollocks.

[Pillock]

Except people don't agree to disagree, they just go on and on and on and on getting more and more personal and throwing insults around. That is not agreeing to disagree.

 

The "no politics" is pretty simple.

[yes oui si]

  On 27/06/2018 at 06:43, Cavcraft said:

Bollocks.

Great debate there. Salient point well made and supported by evidence. Top notch. Well done.

[DodgeRover]

  On 27/06/2018 at 06:37, andy18s said:

I don't want to know Any details but have things that far on here?

Sadly yes.