The grumpy thread

[CreepingJesus]

My tailgater bugbear is right outside my house. The council reduced the main road from NSL to 40mph a few years back, it's very well signed. And yet, peeps insist on sitting 4.015 nanometres off my back bumper. When I pull into the middle lane to turn in...they just carry on at 40.

What on earth was the possible need to put us both in a dodgy position, when you'd no intention of going any faster anyway? Haven't you heard of the 2 second rule? Do you mind if I wrap a copy of the Police Roadcraft Manual round a brick for delivery?

The rest of the time, it's the 50 everywhere brigade. I want to get past them on the NSL bits, but can't. When I behave myself on the 40's, they gradually pull away.

Oh, and on a purely personal note - I may just be only the agency guy, but when I say there's no water in the header tank, and mayonnaise on the filler, I'm not being difficult. I can spot a goosed head gasket, and when the mechanic boots the arse off it round the yard, 'testing' trailer ABS; don't act surprised when it expires in a cloud of smoke and steam!

[garethj]

  watanabe said:

Pog, it's only because you have some standing here that I don't type what I'm actually thinking right now.

Pog? Nah, he doesn't

 

ChinaTom says wise words too. Wat, if you want to vent then go ahead, but if you want some advice I'm sure there's plenty on here who've been through similar. F'rinstance, you think the Amazon is like a limb to you and it needs to stay, but in my years of owning cars I can definitely say you'll always be able to find another car.

 

Did we explore the Citroen + gallon of unleaded + box of matches fully?

[Richard]

In fairness I think Pog was trying to say much the same thing as ChinaTom.

[garethj]

  Richard said:

In fairness I think Pog was trying to say much the same thing as ChinaTom.

He does, I agree.

 

I've had my first cup of coffee and a bit more time, so....

 

Wat, a psychothepys, physiosyk, head doctor would probably tell you to look at it another way to help a bit.

 

  watanabe said:

The fact remains that I AM FUCKING ENTITLED TO A BASTARD LOAN FOR MY TUITION FEES. I should not, not, absolutely not have to sacrifice everything that I have to meet this.

As most of us know, the system is fucking me over whilst supporting the mouth-breathers who get their 40 Rothmans and 42†Plasma all paid for.

 

  watanabe said:

I self funded for three years at Lancaster on for my health to fail me. I asked the SFE \ SLC for precisely JACK SHIT in my first and second year.

 

Because I still have debts, I need their help and I am fucking INFURIATED that they refuse to support me. It's a bloody loan anyway, they'll get it back plus a shitload of interest from me. Why I am I being denied it? All I am asking for is what I am entitled to. That's it.

But I found a way to do 3 years at Lancaster by self funding. To be honest, 3 years at University is like 18 months of solid parties and knobbing women so it was still worth doing, even without the qualification, life experience, learning about stuff and looking good on my CV. I tend to leave the knobbing women off my CV.

 

  watanabe said:

I have already explained (many times)why I cannot let the Citroen go at the moment. The Celeste is being picked up by its new owner on Sunday.

I’ve got a newish Citroen, which despite giving me wankers cramp through the steering wheel, is still a newish car which is nice. Perhaps I bought it for the wrong reasons, but you live and learn, and nobody just buys old shitters for their entire lifetime. Not without a bus timetable in their pocket anyway.

 

The Celeste has almost gone, so that's a relief. They say that the two best days with your car are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.

 

  watanabe said:

The Volvo is going nowhere. I'm sorry, but I fought tooth and nail to get it restored and I'm not letting it go. Not when there should be funding to help me. No. Not happening in a million years.

I’ve gone through a lot to get the Amazon restored and it means a lot to me. I’d like to keep it, but I’ll see what I need in future, rather than just what I want. No silver spoon in my mouth so I know I’ve got to work and sacrifice for what I get.

 

  watanabe said:

I'm that fucking sick of the sight of everything and everyone at the moment I'm ready to rip someone's throat out.

It’s really not a good time now, so it’s a fucking good time to change.

 

  watanabe said:

As this topic seems to be unpopular in here, this is the last I will say on the matter.

It’s better than just reading about head gaskets and rust all day, innit?

 

 

 

Or less waffly:

 

You're lucky:

-to be alive and in reasonable health

-to be in a position to have a job to pay back debts

-to know that this isn't permanent, you just think that way because you just think that way.

-you have access to friends on here (including me) who will gladly take you out for a pint (just so long as you don't bleat on like a sheep about how miserable you feel)

 

Here's what a mate does the odd time he feels low - walk down any High Street and look at everyone you pass. How many look happy? How many of them would you trade with? Most of them are prolly old, ugly, encumbered with screaming offspring, walk with a limp or are Scousers. Still feel miserable?

[Lord Sterling]

  Polystratus said:

Shame your not nearer I could have arranged a loan car a Mk3 Escort estate though.

Thanks Poly, that very kind of you to offer.

 

Hotmail - Whats going on here? This new version of hotmail has rendered Hotmail useless, I cant open up and read my own e-mails and I know lots of people have all of a sudden just found this out.

 

Why cant people just leave things alone, eh? Stop all this "updating" nonsense and leave things to run as they are.

[myglaren]

^^Just logged in to take a look. It isn't that bad but is different every time I go there, which is admittedly only a couple of times a year - there was a birthday greeting in there - over six months old, and the rest was spam, which is mainly why I don't bother with the hotmail account anymore.

 

Abandoned the BBC website last week, the changes wrought have rendered it unusable. It was perfectly OK before that.

[Mr Lobster]

  myglaren said:

Abandoned the BBC website last week, the changes wrought have rendered it unusable. It was perfectly OK before that.

Not just me then I liked the old BBC site, easy to navigate and read the news. Now its gone all trendy I can't be bothered working my way around it.

[whitevanman]

Yup me too with the BBC website...not as intuative as it used to be

[maxpower]

But I found a way to do 3 years at Lancaster by self funding. To be honest, 3 years at University is like 18 months of solid parties and knobbing women so it was still worth doing, even without the qualification, life experience, learning about stuff and looking good on my CV. I tend to leave the knobbing women off my CV.

 

if i had known knobbing women was so rife in british education i would have swotted like a twunt

 

though i would do a copy of cv with the knobbing left on just incase they started recruiting for the next "john holmes"

 

tailgaters:

 

i had one the other day on single road coming out of local asda.. admittedly i was ploding along daydreaming as i knew traffic ahead was chocka (roadworks) when he starts blaring his horn and waving his grubby hands at me.. i was so scared it affected the car which for some reason slowed to 15mph we got to roundabout i gave him the "evil stare" and he just roared off in his pimped up astra ...wanker!

[MrDuke]

WAT:

 

I, for one, would gladly swap places with you right now. Seriously.

 

I started writing a long post out last night, explaining some of the reasons why, but then realised I just sounded like a sad tosser, so forgot it. Let's just say that after a week of being me, you'd be running back to your own life in tears. I imagine there's plenty of people right here, on this slice of interweb, who have things even worse than me, as well.

 

Life sucks, and watching complete twunts' lives sucking a lot less just makes things unbearable sometimes, but it's all about perspective.

 

Like someone said, go for a walk down the High Street at the weekend and have a good look around. If it's anything like my nearest one, you'll be feeling like a superhero after about 5 minutes. After 10 minutes you'll be wanting to kill people again, though, so be careful

 

You've just had one door slammed in your face, but there ARE still loads of other doors to choose from - you might not like the colour or shape of them much, but what can you lose by trying them? One day you might find yourself with only 1 or 2 options left, and you'll be genuinely gutted that you didn't grab life by the balls when you could, trust me on that at least.

[Father Ted]

Meeting at work today.

 

My job is officially fucked over.

 

Still, on the bright side - interview tomorrow

[Guest]

It's all in hand Mr Duke. I think the majority of my anger stemmed from the fact that the rules had changed and that nobody, anywhere, from the HE advisers I spoke to the SFE people themselves, told me about it beforehand.

 

I'm still convinced the rules were changed on the QT as none of them knew when the transition was effected. I've asked for the date of change in writing under the FOI.

 

Had I known this was the case, I would have gone about applying differently. After the third or fourth time on the phone (unbeliveably, the same idiot girl from Monday answered the first time, so the phone went down and the SFE number was recalled) a helpful bloke suggested that I didn't supply enough evidence as to why I didn't finish my course. Since last night I have been on to my GP, student support at Lancaster and my therapist from 5 years ago - all of which are happy to supply evidence. I am also going to rewrite my account of the previous year's study and word it very carefully indeed. The appeals team have a 3 week turnaround so there's still hope yet.

 

I was completely gobsmacked at SFE's decision on Monday. Now that I'm over the shock, I can see I have some options. I have just had my role at work (on a new team) made permanently back office with regular hours and no weekends. If it came to it, I would be prepared to do another year there + bar work +eBay dumpathon.

 

I'm not the best off on AS. Neither is my hand a brilliant one. But I realise now that things could be far worse.

[Guest]

In unrelated news:

 

1. Buyers on the VOC forum are officially thick as pigshit.

[RedSparrow]

I have no money. Like literally minus £1500.

I owe my mate £200 for a trip to Finland next week.

And I have just booked a trip to Berlin in September.

The only way I can stay sane nowadays is to get out of the country as much as possible!

 

Plus the repairs to the Triumph which I will be paying for (as mentioned earlier on here) due to my forgetting to renew my insurance will cost me about £200.

 

This week I turned down work because I got drunk instead.

 

What is happening to me?!!

 

Ah well, fuck it.

[M'coli]

Wat, good luck. As far as cars goes, you have 2 that can be treated as a commodity - the Amazon and the C4. There is a part of the course I am currently studying that is entitled,

 

"The Time Value of Money".

 

Basically, this time next year, the Amazon will be worth roughly the same as it is worth now. The same can't be said about the C4. So sell the C4 and buy a 6-ish year old Accent or similar if need be! Keep the Amazon as your last resort - if you HAVE to sell it when needs must, make sure it will be when you cannot regret the descision to do so.

[Station]

I hate to sound like an arsehole, but everything apart from illness, death, homelessness and maybe a few other things I can't think of are trivial. I got bored of getting pissed off over other people's decisions.

 

Has anyone used the new Google Images yet? Jesus, what a horrible experience. Why can't they leave things alone???

[whitevanman]

  RedSparrow said:

I have no money. Like literally minus £1500.

I owe my mate £200 for a trip to Finland next week.

And I have just booked a trip to Berlin in September.

The only way I can stay sane nowadays is to get out of the country as much as possible!

 

Plus the repairs to the Triumph which I will be paying for (as mentioned earlier on here) due to my forgetting to renew my insurance will cost me about £200.

 

This week I turned down work because I got drunk instead.

 

What is happening to me?!!

 

Ah well, fuck it.

take this the way it's meant...£1500 down and 2 trips to go on..............turning down work to spend money.......trust me you ain't THAT hard up I'd swap my circumstances for yours anytime

[eddyramrod]

  Lord Sterling said:

 

Hotmail - Whats going on here? This new version of hotmail has rendered Hotmail useless, I cant open up and read my own e-mails and I know lots of people have all of a sudden just found this out.

 

Why cant people just leave things alone, eh? Stop all this "updating" nonsense and leave things to run as they are.

I'm not the only one then! A bit of warning or consultation would have been nice... "would you like us to change your inbox to this?" "Do you mind if you never reply to any of your important business emails ever again?" Fucking tossers. I can read my incomings, but reply? Not a hope, "the page cannot be displayed." Well what fucking use it it then?????

 

I don't normally use such language in public. Thanks msn!

[whitevanman]

I have a major gripe at the moment....PEOPLE

 

that's all folks

[myglaren]

  eddyramrod said:

  Lord Sterling said:

 

 

Hotmail - Whats going on here? This new version of hotmail has rendered Hotmail useless, I cant open up and read my own e-mails and I know lots of people have all of a sudden just found this out.

 

Why cant people just leave things alone, eh? Stop all this "updating" nonsense and leave things to run as they are.

I'm not the only one then! A bit of warning or consultation would have been nice... "would you like us to change your inbox to this?" "Do you mind if you never reply to any of your important business emails ever again?" Fucking tossers. I can read my incomings, but reply? Not a hope, "the page cannot be displayed." Well what fucking use it it then?????

 

I don't normally use such language in public. Thanks msn!

Mine seems OK. I sent a message to one of my Gmail addresses, then sent it back, then replied to that but it said that that address wasn't in my contact list (where I got it from in the first place) it said it had gone but it never arrived, tried again and it worked.

 

ETA: The first reply came in half an hour after the second one, must have gone on a bit of an excursion.

[Inspector Morose]

[Guest]

With regards to life, my advice is to make the most out of what you enjoy and try your best not to take anything else very seriously.

 

Take today for instance, there was some Email at work from the higher-ups full of doom and gloom, about potential mergers and job losses and all this balls. I was too busy using Autocorrect to change all references to "The Leader" to "The Dear Leader Kim Jong-il" and adding loads of Clipart tanks/soldiers to worry about its actual content. Will this leave me in a daft position if it all happens? No, it'll leave me in the same place as everyone else, but I didn't have to worry about it happening.

[Guest]

  Hirst said:

With regards to life, my advice is to make the most out of what you enjoy and try your best not to take anything else very seriously.

 

Take today for instance, there was some Email at work from the higher-ups full of doom and gloom, about potential mergers and job losses and all this balls. I was too busy using Autocorrect to change all references to "The Leader" to "The Dear Leader Kim Jong-il" and adding loads of Clipart tanks/soldiers to worry about its actual content. Will this leave me in a daft position if it all happens? No, it'll leave me in the same place as everyone else, but I didn't have to worry about it happening.

Yes, my account notes at work are making less and less sense.

 

E.g. 'The customer complained that something happened. A pithy response was generated by the system. Rosebud.'

[Albert Ross]

Fuck me Hirst, you are seriously barmy. Welcome aboard. Do you ever hear voices/get images in your head, concerning instances where you got fucked off by idiots somwhere.....? I do/did. Ahem.

 

[RedSparrow]

  Albert Ross said:

Watching that has damaged my mind.

[Albert Ross]

Here. Take one or two of these. If problems persist, come and see me in a week.

 

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Z-lGYG6rLCo/SF_mt ... ate%2B.jpg

 

http://ccmv.fotopic.net/p57292915.html

 

 

Yes, they are the same vehicle. I am currently dribbling. From where, that's a secret.

[Lord Sterling]

  myglaren said:

  eddyramrod said:

Re: Hotmail problems,

 

I'm not the only one then! A bit of warning or consultation would have been nice... "would you like us to change your inbox to this?" "Do you mind if you never reply to any of your important business emails ever again?" Fucking tossers. I can read my incomings, but reply? Not a hope, "the page cannot be displayed." Well what fucking use it it then?????

 

I don't normally use such language in public. Thanks msn!

Mine seems OK. I sent a message to one of my Gmail addresses, then sent it back, then replied to that but it said that that address wasn't in my contact list (where I got it from in the first place) it said it had gone but it never arrived, tried again and it worked.

 

ETA: The first reply came in half an hour after the second one, must have gone on a bit of an excursion.

Hotmail are distributing thier new broken system in clusters by area. Some people have had access problems for the past week or so. Hotmail last worked fine for me a couple of days ago.

 

  Station said:

Has anyone used the new Google Images yet? Jesus, what a horrible experience. Why can't they leave things alone???

Exactly. I'd imagine in the light of current so-called "Improvements" Google, Hotmail and their ilk are just trying to justify their existance. They dont seem to understand that not everyone who uses computers are 'techies'

 

Happily though, Google Images, like most 'normal' systems have a link which you can click to return to the 'basic' version (see bottom of page on google images) should you not wish to use thier improved versions. Something Hotmail left out/couldnt be bothered to do, which has resulted in the loss of many users from what I've seen.

 

In other Grumpy news:

 

My boiler decided to spew out water today and leak all over the carpet/wooden flooring. Thankfully though, Birmingham City Council actually managed to send someone within the hour. Must be a record.

[Inspector Morose]

Lord, if you're really stuck and need four wheels to earn cash, You could borrow the Merc from me. Just a thought. I'm in Halesowen.

[Lord Sterling]

Thank you Metrobi! I'm often in Halesowen aswell (I live literally a stones throw). At the moment I'm not too desperate, but, I will keep you in mind.

 

If you need a hand with anything, let me know anytime.

 

Cheers mate,

[Inspector Morose]

No worries.