The grumpy thread

[greengartside]

FFS! The twat I sold the Escort to a couple of weeks ago has left me negative feedback on eBay! The bastard! So now I have 95.8% thanks to some fool who didn't even come and have a look at it. I give up, fed up with some people....

[RedSparrow]

Smoking.

 

I usually smoke roll ups, maybe around 8 a day. Whilst in Czech I bought a load of L&M blues, now I am chain smoking the bloody things and it makes me feel shit.

 

Ugh.

[chaseracer]

All we have in this country are the worst parts of uber captilism mixed with some of the worst parts of a Fascist dicatorship.

How very typical.

 

[Lankytim]

FFS! The twat I sold the Escort to a couple of weeks ago has left me negative feedback on eBay! The bastard! So now I have 95.8% thanks to some fool who didn't even come and have a look at it. I give up, fed up with some people....

Just leave a follow up comment explaining what a wanker he is. easy.

[AnthonyG]

Yeah some coppers are bad news, but I bet the kind of people they have to encounter on a daily basis are ten fold the wankerishness of the odd bad rozzer.

Agree 100%.

 

I also agree that the TV cameras probably inflame situations unneccessarily.

[AnthonyG]

 

I usually smoke roll ups, maybe around 8 a day. Whilst in Czech I bought a load of L&M blues, now I am chain smoking the bloody things and it makes me feel shit.

 

 

Funny, 'when I were a lad' L&M were an American brand and quite hard to get, like Kent, Lucky Strike, Parliament etc.

 

Now they are all far more popular in Eastern Europe and Russia - Lucky Strike is virtually dead in terms of US sales, but really popular in Germany and Russia.

 

I guess it's the folk memories of getting proper yank ones through the black market back in the 'bad' old days.

[Station]

When I was skint, my missus gave me a load of unheard of French ciggies. I was heavily addicted and remember taking little puffs and nearly retching, because they were so rank! Quite sad really!

[Volksy]

I was made redundant yesterday. I saw it coming months ago, but I still didn't think to stop working so bloody hard to make the business a sucess.

 

It's crap to get shat on.

[Cheggers]

Sorry to hear that Volksy...Never a nice thing to have happen to you.

[Mr Lobster]

Sorry to hear that mate.

 

Thats partly why I went self employed - fed up of employers who couldn't give a toss and treated their employees as merely expendable units who could easily be replaced and therefore there was no real need to look after them.

[trigger]

Sorry to hear that too Volksy

 

Today is the day that all the hot rods and custom cars desent on sunny old Ipswich for the Nats at the showground, sadly someones weekend hasn't started so well, It's hard to see from this photo but it's a old 50's rod sitting there at the front.

 

 

http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/news/five_ ... 4_1_612815

[155V6]

After reading the article,I reckon it was caused by the black BMX

[trigger]

Maybe it was someone filming a remake of BMX Bandits?.

 

It's not like the Evening start to get it wrong though, The other month after someone got electrocuted and killed after breaking into a power substation the headline read 'MAN CHARGED AFTER ELECTROCUTION'.

[AnthonyG]

Bad luck Volksy

 

Hopefully something better will come along - do you have any plans?

[seth]

I was made redundant yesterday.

Been there and it is indeed crap. Hope something new opens up for you soon.

[eddyramrod]

employers who couldn't give a toss and treated their employees as merely expendable units who could easily be replaced and therefore there was no real need to look after them.

Is there any other variety of employer?

 

Volksy, you have my sympathy, it is indeed horrible to be the (usually only) person still trying. And you still get dumped-on. We never learn.

 

Totally unconnected: my Lexmark all-in-one has just printed about 20 pages with a new "compatible" from Cartridge World and now suddenly decided it doesn't like the CW ink, or something. Of course I'm dealing with important business documents, so I had to put the old out-of-ink Lexmark cartridge back in, and it printed 3 pages no trouble, although not as dark as they could be. So now I'll have to go back to CW with one unused cartridge and one part-used, and complain, then go up the road and spend twice the money on a new Lexmark one. Fuckfuckfuckfuck...

[Station]

Try working for an American corporation, who made $1 billion in 1997, and gave us a bottle of £20 Champagne as they couldn't afford bonuses! BOLLOCKS.

And then they finished us up 50% through a project, claiming there were other positions in the company. When we were out the door, they severed all ties. We didn't get a single email of thanks or sorry from any of the directors (only our own MD was the one to do this). Fuck you THQ! Your games are SHIT.

[Rusty Pelican]

I was made redundant yesterday. I saw it coming months ago, but I still didn't think to stop working so bloody hard to make the business a sucess.

 

It's crap to get shat on.

Sorry to here this , Happened to me three times in two years so i know how you feel

[Volksy]

Thanks for the kind words guys. It's appreciated.

 

I hopefully have a lead on another job, however it will probably mean re-locating. Which is not that big a hardship I guess.

[RedSparrow]

Yeah sorry to hear that Volksy. Hope something comes along for you.

[dollywobbler]

Aye - chance for a clean start and all that. Never much fun when it's forced upon you, but you never really know what's just around the corner.

[ashmicro]

Bad luck there Volksy. Hopefully something decent will turn up.

 

eddyramrod - cut your losses and dump the Lexmark printer. Tesco (bastards) are doing Epson all in ones for £30, and compat ink off eBay is DIRT cheap and good quality. Hornsea Inkjets eBay shop for the ink, seller is called Darren Imeson.

[pogweasel]

So pleased that the water pump on our galaxy decided to throw in the towel in a jam on the m25, whilst fully laden with luggage and kids en route to a minibreak in hampshire. Bastard. guess which shiters spouse had also cancelled the breakdown cover, as we "never used it"...

Still the kids seemed to enjoy a ride in the big truck with the flashing lights (even if the half asleep driver scared the shit outta me...)

[eddyramrod]

eddyramrod - cut your losses and dump the Lexmark printer. Tesco (bastards) are doing Epson all in ones for £30.

Thanks ashmicro, but I think I'm a bit further from Tesco than you are. Might be sound advice though about ditching, I'll start looking in the appropriate places here (if I can read the signs...).

[eddyramrod]

Wilful mis-spelling of someone's already-established name (I know, now you'll all do it... ).

[whitevanman]

guess which shiters spouse had also cancelled the breakdown cover, as we "never used it"...

 

OUCHHH...thats gonna hurt

[Angrydicky]

Anyone else having problems with Photobucket? The website seems to be down

[Richard]

Seems to be working for me.

[Angrydicky]

Yeah seems ok now...strange.

[pandaselecta]

Can i just have a quick rant as one of our customers is trying to con us i think.

 

first of all i dont care if your bath is leaking, its down to using unnamed parts which arent up to EU standards which YOU supplied. NO i will NOT pay for a new carpet. Get a life you miserable old witch

 

Sorry just needed that