The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

Another 'plus' for the don't find cars for people game. Lad at work drove me fucking insane with requests for cheap runners, found him stacks for sale and was going out sometimes three times a week with him. Everyone had some 'big' problem like lack of CD player, tyres near the limit and trivial shit like that on sub £300 cars.

 

Oh, and then there are those that know you get the odd cheap runner in so you tell them you have a (insert make and model here) with tax and test for £150 or whatever. So they then ask 'how much did you pay for it?' and if you tell them they expect you to sell it to them for that much or less.

 

My stoock reply is if you won a brand new Bentley in a raffle would you sell it to me for the price of the ticket? No you wouldn't, so fuck off.

[warren t claim]

Another 'plus' for the don't find cars for people game. Lad at work drove me fucking insane with requests for cheap runners, found him stacks for sale and was going out sometimes three times a week with him. Everyone had some 'big' problem like lack of CD player, tyres near the limit and trivial shit like that on sub £300 cars.

 

Oh, and then there are those that know you get the odd cheap runner in so you tell them you have a (insert make and model here) with tax and test for £150 or whatever. So they then ask 'how much did you pay for it?' and if you tell them they expect you to sell it to them for that much or less.

 

My stoock reply is if you won a brand new Bentley in a raffle would you sell it to me for the price of the ticket? No you wouldn't, so fuck off.

A worse and more annoying situation is when I used to buy the odd car at auction and sell it in the paper. Someone would see the ad and turn up to tell me they saw me buy it at auction and they will only give me what I paid for it! Cheeky cunts! When prompted as to why they didn't bid for it themselves the answer would always be "It might of been knackered so I didn't want to take a chance but I know it's OK now!".

[Timewaster]

Selling houses.

Estate agent

The solicitor

Nothing happens.

 

I feel your pain - a shower of utter Bastards the lot of them!

 

My last (still painfully recent) brush with an estate agent led me to believe that they have absolutely no concept of the truth, morality or integrity and will say absolutely anything to buy themselves another 5 minutes of precious bollock juggling time.

 

You would think they would do whatever they could to speed things through so they get their extortionate fee, but no - they sit on their arse while your world is turned upside down.

[Father Ted]

Zafira B

 

Today one of the tailgate struts went pop, tailgate landed on my head.

Rude words were spoken.

 

New pair sourced on the bay of E - anyone know how the fuck I get the old ones off? BFO hammer seems favorite option at present....

[Vin]

 

Selling houses.

Estate agent

The solicitor

Nothing happens.

 

I feel your pain - a shower of utter Bastards the lot of them!

 

My last (still painfully recent) brush with an estate agent led me to believe that they have absolutely no concept of the truth, morality or integrity and will say absolutely anything to buy themselves another 5 minutes of precious bollock juggling time.

 

To quote Al Murray - "You never see elderly estate agents - which is proof that it is possible to die of shame...."

[warren t claim]

Oswestry.

[Lord Sterling]

Oswestry.

Lol!

 

Care to share? Not been there myself, even though I once lived in Telford

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

 

Try again

 

 

[cobblers]

Messers.

 

"Oh yeah definitely want to swap"

"can I come monday"

"no, needs to be sunday"

"ok, I'll take all the stereo out and prep it for you, you sure, cos its a big job!?"

"yeah"

 

 

I spend all day saturday taking out the stereo kit, running about for new wing mirrors and doing all the little jobs you do before selling a car. I almost even swapped the insurance over. Thankfully I decided not to bother and just dayinsure it on my phone when we exchanged v5s.

 

I send the guy a message on saturday night to confirm the time I'd drive 150 miles to meet him. No reply.

 

Sunday morning I get "The gf has made me do diy mate sorry it'll have to be another day"

Which of course means "I've changed my mind"

 

I'll have to spend most of a day putting all the kit back in, but I suppose it's spurred me on to do those jobs I've put off for ages.

Should have been a bit more cynical, but the last load of buyers have been pretty reasonable.

[ashmicro]

Goddamn Carphone Whorehouse. I ordered an BlackBerry 9700 from them, which duly arrived. Via Basra, if the state of the box was anything to go by. Duly opened, phone is faulty (won't recognise any SIM).

 

Twas picked up by their "agent", and a new one was delivered today, also in a bashed up box. This one doesn't work either. Well, unless you count just vibrating. Nothing else. Power on BZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. Maybe I made a mistake when I contacted Ann Summers to order a phone...

[Station]

Zafira B

 

Today one of the tailgate struts went pop, tailgate landed on my head.

Rude words were spoken.

I think the worst pain is banging one's head on a tailgate. I managed to dig up a thread from 2002, where I did the same:

 

http://www.migweb.co.uk/forums/off-topi ... etrol.html

 

It was a green Proton with saggy tailgate lifters as well.

[greengartside]

 

Try again

 

 

Is that last one in fucking arabic?

 

Fuck me, do I hate those bastard Capcha boxes. The worst ones are the £^$£%£% ones, at least with the word ones you could guess the word and 9 times out of 10 it would be correct.

[Station]

They're actually scans from old newspapers and typing the words in is confirmation that the OCR had difficulty reading!

 

These are funny:

 

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photosh ... -paint.php

[retrogeezer]

Zafira B

 

Today one of the tailgate struts went pop, tailgate landed on my head.

Rude words were spoken.

 

New pair sourced on the bay of E - anyone know how the fuck I get the old ones off? BFO hammer seems favorite option at present....

Normally there is a little metal springy thing that lifts up and then the ball joint bit just pops off..

[Father Ted]

Zafira B

 

Today one of the tailgate struts went pop, tailgate landed on my head.

Rude words were spoken.

 

New pair sourced on the bay of E - anyone know how the fuck I get the old ones off? BFO hammer seems favorite option at present....

Normally there is a little metal springy thing that lifts up and then the ball joint bit just pops off..

Both of them were too messed up with escaped oil and my head was a hurting yesterday to really be bothered looking. 3 years old and just out of warranty! I mean blood hell, I had a Fiesta that was 12 years old and had done Starship mileage when I got shot that never had any issues like that.

[DCLane]

 

Try again

 

 

Is that last one in fucking arabic?

 

Fuck me, do I hate those bastard Capcha boxes. The worst ones are the £^$£%£% ones, at least with the word ones you could guess the word and 9 times out of 10 it would be correct.

They also seem to have run out of English words so have moved on ...

[dollywobbler]

Goddamn Carphone Whorehouse.

I'm looking to get a new phone. You've just reminded me to avoid them at all costs. Not the first time I've seen someone say what you said!

[trigger]

I bought a phone years ago from CPWH, Never again, I was constantly getting phone calls from other companies offering me insurance deals that i didn't want, It turns out Phone Whorehouse forwards your details on to 3rd partys, This lasted a year before i complained to them and got it stopped.

[cobblers]

Carphone warehouse and phones4u are both a huge pain in the arse to deal with, and don't often give you a better deal than just going with the network operator straight off.

And as above, they dick you about with insurances, selling your number on and just generally make thinks awkward in almost every way conceivable.

 

Unless of course you are sadistic and thinking of going with three, in which case best of luck, you sick puppy. O2 seem "fairly reasonable" because their call centers are in the UK and you generally don't end up speaking to a complete nob. Orange and Tmobile seem to fall somewhere in the middle.

[trigger]

I'm with Vodaphone and have been for a few years now, They seems pretty decent but they don't give a very good signal range, I'd be tempted by 3, I know quite a lot of people with them who rate them and they have up there game over the last few years with better signal strength and prices..

 

Plus i get discount so I'm told as Hutchinson who own 3 also own Felixstowe docks where i work.

[eddyramrod]

 

Try again

 

 

Is that last one in fucking arabic?

 

Fuck me, do I hate those bastard Capcha boxes. The worst ones are the £^$£%£% ones, at least with the word ones you could guess the word and 9 times out of 10 it would be correct.

They also seem to have run out of English words so have moved on ...

There's no point in using English words any more, all the English-speakers are leaving the country!

 

And why, when I phone up my UK credit card company (ok, from Cyprus ) do I end up speaking to someone in India????

[whitevanman]

There's no point in using English words any more, all the English-speakers are leaving the country!

 

 

As would I if I could find somewhere better to take me................

[Drive-By]

I wish people would get their cars waxoiled and undersealed if they are going to run cars through the salt

 

makes every nut and bolt a a right flappin task to free off in one piece

[Tayne]

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[dollywobbler]

That has been done Tayne! We were chatting with the people who would be our neighbours on Sunday (very odd - randomly bumped into the owner of the house of Saturday, went back on Sunday and randomly bumped into the neighbours who currently live in Leicester and are building their dream house next to our new house!) and they said "only Orange works here." Fantastic. We're both on Orange!

[trigger]

Twatting ebay again.

 

My mate rang me up in a flap earlier, His BMW E36 as a few bald tires that need replacing urgently and a local garage has quoted him nearly £300 to replace them which he can't afford so he's asked me to find some new wheels with tyres as it's cheaper.

 

I've just found a set of M3 type alloys in my town and won them for £160 best offer. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWNX:IT 15 minutes later i get a phone call, the knob has already sold them and has asked me to cancel the transaction so he doesn't get charged.

 

I did chuck a few fucks into him, and I've now got to find some more wheels for him

[Mr Lobster]

won them for £160 best offer

So the seller accepted your offer then rings up and says he has sold them. So why accept the offer then? What a cockjockey.

[trigger]

It seems to have automatically accepted the offer, I always thought that you bid your offer then wait but i entered £150 first which was immediately rejected, then placed another of £160 which was accepted straight away.

[boobydoo]

So-called "customer service" thats just bloody annoying.

 

Bought a new suit and cufflinks today at Marks & Spencer.

 

Camp bloke on till:

 

"Would you like a bag?"

 

"Err..yes please" (Like I'm going to hoik a new suit round a town centre in the rain)

 

"Would you like a suit bag?"

 

"No, normal one is fine."

 

"Would you like the hangar?"

 

"OK" (Give a toss.)

 

"Would you like the jacket left on the hanger?"

 

"Don't mind."

(Don't give a f**k)

 

"I'll put the hanger in the bag. Would you like the trouser hanger?"

 

"No." (losing will to live).

 

"Would you like the cufflinks in the same bag?"

 

"Yes"

 

"Do you want the receipt in the bag?"

 

 

Finally get away, leave the shop...the alarm goes off, everybody stares.

The twat has forgotten to take the security tag off.

 

Grrrrrrr....

[Guest]

That's what happens when you go to Marks and Spencers for a suit! Go to a proper suit shop, the sort where they have cravats and panama hats in the window.