The grumpy thread

[danthecapriman]

Look through the rubbish for an address and return it.

I’ve looked over the fence and there’s a good chance it’s a used nappy. People really are filthy selfish pricks. I bet she’d be the first to complain if someone did what she’s just outside her house.

[Noel Tidybeard]

There is sometimes a bit of confusion over our address for delivery drivers.

The house we get mistaken for is a grand 6 bed detached house with recent new owners.

 

When our Asda order went there, the owner apparently looked down his nose at the driver and his van and said ...

 

"Do I LOOK like I shop at ASDA?!"

 

I'd love to have been there...

 

 

"actually sir now you mention it you're not the sort we would let in our store!"

[Tamworthbay]

No, your more a Kwik save sort.

[bramz7]

Maybe just mis-spelled Alton?

 

Radio silence in the 5 hours since I messaged them back suggests otherwise!

 

Thankfully the second highest bidder already messaged me to say they'll have it if the winner is a time waster.

[r.welfare]

Bramz7, for your 605 bodywork woes Coventry & Clark on the Worting Road towards Newfound did some good work for me, albeit a long time ago.

[108]

Solution: remain single.

+1

[bramz7]

Bramz7, for your 605 bodywork woes Coventry & Clark on the Worting Road towards Newfound did some good work for me, albeit a long time ago.

Thank you. I suspect I'll have to pay £300-400 to sort it but it's worth it.

[Pillock]

Peak neoliberalism [.......] privatising a natural monopoly [.....] free market adds layers of bureaucracy [....] funnel money to corporations and capitalist pigs [.....] Go to gulag Porky!

 

Not a Nectar Points fan, right?

[SiC]

Complained to letting agent about me shooing their cat out my front garden as I caught it taking a dump.

I had to re-read that, as I originally read it as shooting their cat, not shoo'ing...

[angle]

Why oh fucking why is it apparently easier to buy enough chemicals to wipe out every nun and kitten on this planet than end your broadband contract with Virgin fucking Media.

I phoned up and threatened to leave this morning and in 10 minutes they'd agreed to drop the bill from £53 to £38 a month. They sent through a contract an hour later and seem to have accidentally upgraded us to 100Mb fibre at the same time. Oops.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I'll see what the lads can do. Worst they can do is put stickers on it, and the lorries have CCTV on them in the event of a missed bin. She leaves both her bins out all week at the end of her rear access way, as do all the student houses in the area. Shame I don't live in Kent any more as I'd take home a sackful of the rejects from the dildo factory I collected from on the trade round there (search: creative mouldings gravesend) and put them in her recycling bin. I suppose I could always try and find a dildo factory near Chichester.

 

 

I've walked past that place 100 times and never realised.  That's an absolute revelation.

 

I would say 'bugger me' but that might actually happen...

[DodgeRover]

.The grief they give the greek fella 2 doors up is unbelievable.

There will be instant action if he complains as TPTB will class it as racially motivated, in fact you could phone the council and speak to their anti social behaviour team to give them a briefing mentioning this and ask what the next steps are. Harassment via your letting agency is obvious proof they are having a pop.

[Cavcraft]

Made out first and hopefully last ever journeys with Uber today.

Had we know they operate a ‘drive to kill’ policy (especially towards bikers and scooterists) and and a refusal to obey traffic lights, we’d have got the tube.

[chodweaver]

sick of those damm flying things , so with the cheapo fly zapper dying ,

 

I thought I would raid its kill grid , which fitted nicely around a very attractive to flying things bulb  , powered by a 3.5 K volt flux capacitor ...

 

it would send the dam flying things into another place ...not near me ....  evil laughter  " neeeaahaaaa hhhhhhaaaa ha ha "

 

looking good ...

 

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and the big switch on !!   

 

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o shit O SHIT ..... 

 

lets just see that again  ( with out the bulb )

 

20180821_163617.mp4

 

back to the drawing board .....    the little flying bar stewards can live another day   ......

 

Holy fuck!

[Pillock]

Made out first and hopefully last ever journeys with Uber today.

Had we know they operate a ‘drive to kill’ policy (especially towards bikers and scooterists) and and a refusal to obey traffic lights, we’d have got the tube.

I've only ever caught two Ubers, because O2 Priority had a £10 off code and I've got two O2 phones and needed to go about £12 worth of distance twice.

 

One was terrifying, I honestly thought the brakes were fucked but I just don't think he fancied slowing for corners. The second was a decent driver but just kept giving me death stares.

[Kiltox]

They’re not all that bad - I used to Uber at least twice a week in London before we moved office and only a handful were mentalists.

[New POD]

Most conveyancers are paralegals on £15k a year. The only spanish villa they'll see this summer is on love island.

I stand corrected. Conveyancer thwarted by the need to get a signature off one of the Partners all of whom are on a yacht off the Caribbean.

[dean36014]

Once again my Vodafone SIM card won't work on roaming data in France. Nearly two years they've been trying to sort it, last attempt was another new SIM card and i still can't get roaming data. On my return Vodafone can stuff they're SIM card. I've even bought new phones to see if that was causing it.

[dean36014]

Oh yes. Spent hours on the helpline going through all the phone settings. Then they allegedly find faults there end which will get it working again. Bullshit all the time, it used to work perfectly on previous network, and my girlfriends SIM card will work properly in my phone too, which is on a different network. Just fed up with the hassle of not being able to do simple things without trying to find an open WiFi over here

[beko1987]

One of my criteria for my new phone was under no circumstances would it be anything to do with Vodafone! Horrible company

[Guest Hooli]

 

How the FUCK does the neighbour know who your letting agent is?  Do you have the name and address of the Landlord?  

 

Where I used to live a few years ago we (the locals who stayed long term) kept a basic list of which agents where letting which houses in the street from the signs up. It was needed due to the amount of utter scum they'd put in that made life hell for everyone. The worst house took a land registry search &  a hand delivered letter to the landlord's place to sort the issue, suddenly he found tenants that weren't utter scum who'd sit up all night taking drugs (needles in the street & back alley) stupidly loud music & threats of violence to anyone who complained.

[Pillock]

I agree, Vodafone are horrible.

Talk to me about a discounted O2 SIM on your return

[Datsuncog]

Oh yes. Spent hours on the helpline going through all the phone settings. Then they allegedly find faults there end which will get it working again. Bullshit all the time, it used to work perfectly on previous network, and my girlfriends SIM card will work properly in my phone too, which is on a different network. Just fed up with the hassle of not being able to do simple things without trying to find an open WiFi over here

 

Had exactly the same problem with EE, for years. I would go over the border to the Irish Republic - no signal, no nothing. Ages then spent on hold to customer services after I got home to then be told "oh yes, that's it all set up for roaming abroad now, no problem." Next trip - still no signal. Tried new SIM card, new handset, full reset each time - nothing. Maddening.

 

A theory advanced by one of the techies was that because I'd originally opened the account with Orange way back in 1999, my customer number was short a digit - and so my account had never properly ported across to whatever systems EE use to permit roaming, and wouldn't work no matter what settings were applied. But he couldn't go any further into the system to resolve that.

 

Eventually I just cancelled my contract and went elsewhere. It's been fine with Three.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

….The worst house took a land registry search &  a hand delivered letter to the landlord's place to sort the issue....

 

Best three quid ever spent?

[Guest Hooli]

Sure was.

[Kiltox]

Where I used to live a few years ago we (the locals who stayed long term) kept a basic list of which agents where letting which houses in the street from the signs up. It was needed due to the amount of utter scum they'd put in that made life hell for everyone. The worst house took a land registry search & a hand delivered letter to the landlord's place to sort the issue, suddenly he found tenants that weren't utter scum who'd sit up all night taking drugs (needles in the street & back alley) stupidly loud music & threats of violence to anyone who complained.

You’d think landlords who were willing to house scum would be a bit more clever about hiding themselves

[dozeydustman]

Where I used to live a few years ago we (the locals who stayed long term) kept a basic list of which agents where letting which houses in the street from the signs up. It was needed due to the amount of utter scum they'd put in that made life hell for everyone. The worst house took a land registry search &  a hand delivered letter to the landlord's place to sort the issue, suddenly he found tenants that weren't utter scum who'd sit up all night taking drugs (needles in the street & back alley) stupidly loud music & threats of violence to anyone who complained.

 

 

We had a property inspection last week, got the report back today with "interior maintained and cleaned to a high standard; gardens still have weeds and need final tidying but a massive improvement to move in inspection". The gardens are just one of the many projects I have on the go.

 

Regarding the Greek fella, the Slobs never actually say anything racist to him as he speaks with a local accent, so I doubt they know his name. Have taken parcels in for him in the past and Mr Phillipousis seems a decent bloke. They just don't like anyone else in this part of the road. They are the Tubbs and Edmund of Chichester methinks.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

You’d think landlords who were willing to house scum would be a bit more clever about hiding themselves

Some hide behind offshore companies. Not sure how you'd go about hand-delivering letters there....

[320touring]

Some hide behind offshore companies. Not sure how you'd go about hand-delivering letters there....

Boat or Airplane, I'd wager;)

[chaseracer]

The Feathers pub in Lichfield does an obscenely nice waffle with shit loads of ice cream and cream with oodles of toffee sauce. Bloody gorgeous but £4 so I only have it when the mother in law is paying.

 

I really wish you hadn't told me that...