The grumpy thread

[dozeydustman]

^ Re. your "Rank" above, the actor that played Zammo in Grange Hill delivered a parcel to a company I was working for in central London in 2001. One of my workmates asked if he was Zammo & he said yes.

 

 

Believe he owns a key cutting and locksmiths shop now.

 

An old colleague of mine from up in Kent - his sister was dating Erkan Mustafa for a short while. She wanted to be his friend, Ro-land.

[xtriple]

Re the diesel above, the noise sounds like an idler/tensioner or alternator up the creak and I second the 'check for boost leaks' post above.

 

But, to be utterly clear, I know the square root of fuck all about diesels.

[w00dy]

So the Espace is likely sold and since I haven't used it in a week or so (it's at the back of the drive), so i thought I'd get it out and use it a bit. To get to it I first needed to move the Probe which blew the brakes as soon as i started it up. I was going to take it out of action anyway since there are a few jobs to do and I want to avoid salty roads, but the entrance to the drive is very steep and the handbrake was one of the jobs I needed to sort. 

 

It's going to be fun* getting it out now.

[Noel Tidybeard]

The proton has just turned up on a low loader. Bet the neighbours love me. Is it a common occurrence to go and buy a spares car to find out it may become the main car instead?!

 

 

yes if your name begins with "D"

[Datsuncog]

FFS.

 

Further to yesterday's grin, I went out to the Forester this afternoon to discover there's now a five-inch hairline crack in the full-length glass sunroof, from  the rear o/s corner towards the centre. It definitely wasn't there a month or two ago, when I last gave the interior glass a good polish.

 

I don't know whether it's been there for some time and I just haven't noticed (quite possible); whether it was hit by something blowing about this morning in all the high winds; or whether it's somehow related to me over-tightening the NEW BARGAIN roof bars.

 

I checked the tension on the bars again and I don't think they're over-tight, but the crack is there - and I suspect it'll cost me rather more than £18 to fix.

 

Fucksticks.

[Tamworthbay]

Twat at RAC tried to convince me an 80% increase over two years was down to inflation, I know things haven’t been great economically the last two years but I must have missed inflation jumping to 40%.

[MrDuke]

...asked if he was Zammo & he said yes.

 

 

 

Bloody hypocrite.

[Richard]

Tricia Yates had a window company in Dundee, I think she might be dead now though.

[chaseracer]

yes if your name begins with "D"

 

Oh bugger.

[dozeydustman]

Tricia Yates had a window company in Dundee, I think she might be dead now though.

 

 

She had breast cancer a couple of years ago and has a mastectomy, but is still with us AFAIK

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

 

A guy on pistonheads bought a fully restored 911S only to find it's a parts bin special, not even an S and they guy doesn't want to give him his money back

 

 

 

 

Link?

[clayts450]

Link?

 

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=1776232

[Tamworthbay]

She had breast cancer a couple of years ago and has a mastectomy, but is still with us AFAIK

*liked for her still being around, not for having cancer

[loserone]

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=1776232

He bought a car without seeing it and without paying for an inspection? What an idiot!

 

Wait..

[richardmorris]

Wine grump.

 

I ordered an expensive case from naked wines at the weekend for Christmas. Box arrived on Saturday but the box was all whites not mixed.

I told them straight away but took until Monday for a reply as weekend. Told me to put 6whites back in th box and they’d collect today and swap with reds. Ok, but that still leaves me three reds down on the mixed case of 18. Plus out of pocket as the whites were cheaper.

Did YODEL collect today? Guess.

 

I’ll give them 12hours from now until i tell them to forget it and to cancel my account. I’ve already done this with giordano wines who also use yodel.

Laithwaites and Sunday times took my comments on board and stopped sending me cases via yodel.

 

Now I write it all down, I had four wine companies sending me cases...... hic.....

[Captain Furious]

I signed up to a mega (no really it was good) Black Friday deal for the new iPhone. I know it’s probably the antithesis of autoshite but I am a bonafide apple worshipper so tough.

 

I am reasonably certain that it said “order in the next 2h 47m for next day delivery” when I pulled the trigger, now I’m here nearly 6 days later and the order status is still “waiting for stock”

 

Ffs if you don’t have it then don’t fucking say that you have.

[Pillock]

Can you cancel? I might be able to get you a decent deal on O2 (assuming you're on about a phone on contract, and not just buying it outright). Let me know model/storage/data allowance and I'll ping you a price.

[Captain Furious]

Im presuming I can cancel any time within 14 days due to distance selling regs.

 

Appreciate you checking but I’d be surprised if o2 could get anywhere near it tbh (no other network were even close) however the basic details are as so

 

iPhone XS 256GB Space Gray

Vodafone “red entertainment” package

Free Spotify premium

80GB Data unlimited calls and texts

£37 a month

£270 upfront

 

I’m hoping I got them confused with the other company I was looking at who were quoting 5 days delivery, it says I have passed the credit check so I’m probably just being impatient, but I’m a bit of a magpie and need my shiny new phone like...now

[Fumbler]

Eco Committee: We must save the planet and not save money. We've had a major gas leak and we've had to use kettles and electric heaters. On Saturday and Sunday there was a total outage because the load was too high. The meter was megging for mercy. This is while we're on the last week of a Switch Off Fortnight to "help save the planet" Personally I think we should focus on saving money but oh well planet planet and more planet.

 

The chair of the committee was ill for a few days so didn't know much about the power cuts. I told her about it and the fact that in the space of 4 days we've used more electricity than the last 2 weeks and subsequently popped the main infeed to the building. I am not factoring in the oddball size wires used which nearly burned under the load.

 

Her response is "Well what do you want me to do about it? cancel the whole thing?"

 

I said "No no no. We can't get any figures from this because we will have burned more money in 4 days than in 2 weeks. We need to do it again."

 

She then left for a meeting. Her general mantra can be summed up as this:

 

The power went out completely for two days. We've had total failures before where we couldn't use any energy. (She is forgetting that we single handedly overloaded the system by using unsafe amounts. The power company did not cut us off because a tree fell over or anything.)

We have no gas and therefore no heating or hot water. That will save money and the planet. (It would save money if we didn't need hot water or heating and just froze instead. Unfortunately, being mammals, we require heat to sustain our body temperatures. The cost for electricity in this 4 day period will be more than the cost of gas used for the same period of time.)

I am more concerned about the planet and our effect on it. It's your future, not mine. (My future consists of saving money and improving the economical situation, while having some environment saving measures on the side. This one tiny institute is more environmentally friendly than the two Axa offices a mile down the road. And the shopping centre. And the academy that is 400 yards up the road.)

 

The main mental block for her is that I'm arguing the financial side whereas she wants to save the planet at all costs. On a site as big as this that won't work. It never has.

[rainagain]

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=1776232

It’s so pathetic that they aren’t allowed to name and shame. Someone made a good point about how crap watchdog and google reviews would be if they followed the same rules

[Pillock]

 

 

Im presuming I can cancel any time within 14 days due to distance selling regs.

 

Appreciate you checking but I’d be surprised if o2 could get anywhere near it tbh (no other network were even close) however the basic details are as so

 

iPhone XS 256GB Space Gray

Vodafone “red entertainment” package

Free Spotify premium

80GB Data unlimited calls and texts

£37 a month

£270 upfront

 

 

Lol you're right, £79.50 with 100GB which I can get down to £61 but no lower, and that's with free Netflix rather than free Spotify. Unless you went longer than 24 months on the contract.

 

In fact you're only paying £1160 over a 24 month deal, the offline RRP of that handset is £1100 or so so Vodafone are bordering on mental doing that deal!

[Captain Furious]

Yeah that’s what I figured, oh yeah I got £42 on top cashback too so in actual fact it’s cheaper than just buying the handset outright.

 

Hopefully it comes off and I’m just being impatient, because I haven’t had a new iPhone since my current 6S and I’m really quite excited about it!

 

Cheers for looking anyway

[wuvvum]

Eleven hundred pounds for a fucking telephone?

 

 

Fuck me...

[Captain Furious]

£1149 to be exact. But it’s my one guilty pleasure

 

Ok it’s not I have loads of guilty pleasures, but this contract is actually an absolute steal.

[xtriple]

I am skint, properly skint, and even knowing that it's Christmas and people expect presents and such like and disasters can and do happen, I still ordered yet another watch last Friday! An expensive watch that I don't need and may wear a few times and then leave it in the watch box or I may wear it often (when it then doesn't look like quite such a stupid idea) but only time will tell (see what I did there?).

 

Of course I worked out my finances to the absolute limits using 'man maths' and a dodgy calculator and reasoned that I could indeed, afford it. Just.

 

Since then, Fridge freezer has packed up and now, the cooker has gone on strike in sympathy with its fallen comrade   Of course, I can't afford a new cooker. Worse, the watch has not as yet turned up so I don't even know how big a fool I am.

 

I suspect, a very large one.

 

Pray for me lads/ladies 'cos if anything else goes wrong in the next week or so, I shall be canvassing around you all for a place to spend Christmas.

 

What a tool!

[AnthonyG]

Return/Cancel the watch purchase?

[Timewaster]

Return/Cancel the watch purchase?

Then set to selling some of the other watches that by your own admission you never wear?

 

I know a man needs his gadgets and toys, but he needs a fridge too.

[alcyonecorporation]

"Well, I'm sorry you feel that way."

 

'No you're not.'

[Angrydicky]

"Well, I'm sorry you feel that way."

 

'No you're not.'

Translation: I think your complaint is completely unreasonable, and you're starting to piss me off.

May have been used once or twice with particularly unreasonable customers I've spoken to at work, usually after they threaten to sue/try to put a claim in for labour etc.

[plasticvandan]

It's wet,cold and windy,another trip to work on the 30 yr old 2 stroke MZ awaits.Been looking at getting a small van or something,sour love an old A35 to bomb around in but ££££ but I did some maths last night and worked out that including fuel,tax and insurance,doing around 8-9000 miles a year,it costs me £900 a year to run.I'm not rich by any means,but have to think why bother running anything else!