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  On 02/12/2020 at 09:01, beko1987 said:

Unexpected £95 bill would leave me begging to mummy, and I know their sorting their finances so they can survive until they die so would feel bad about that. 

Bet when you change the pads next their a shitter brand than you had to fit... 

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I'm a little surprised the garage changed them without asking, like you say £95 ( or any amount) can hurt some people. 

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Thames Valley tried to pot the black with me one night when I had my Puma, I've always been positive, they tailed me for miles running me through every system they had I expect. Then shot off when I passed them all. 

I may have shot onto the bypass legally but fast to test them, could see him screaming round the roundabout after me (made fucking sure to be under 30, then nailed it to 69 and stayed there...) 

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  On 02/12/2020 at 10:25, cort1977 said:

While I have had many stops by the police (although not this millennium) the number of times they have been a bit arsey is outweighed massively by the number of times they have said things like 'we'll put you down as doing 76' or 'OK, but get that fixed ASAP' and let me go. 

It's a tough old job, they are human, some of them are wankers, some have bad days, but most are just trying to do their job like all of us.

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I've been pulled twice and the attitude test got me away easily both times (sidelight out one night, changed it infront of him and had a chat and one night in my yoof if he had been 5 minutes earlier I'd have been done for many things... Luckily I was pulled just for being in the middle of nowhere and blagged it

Having a girl in the car helped... Sadly I wish what she said ever came true. Wasted a whole year there...

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  On 02/12/2020 at 10:37, wuvvum said:

It does seem to vary depending on whereabouts you are.  The closer you get to London and other major cities the more attitude the police seem to have.  I've had quite a few dealings with Norfolk Constabulary over the years, from both sides of the law, and I've almost invariably found them to be polite and professional.

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Yes that's true.  Being white and sounding middle class as I do is also a massive help I suspect.

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  On 02/12/2020 at 11:14, stephen01 said:

 like you say £95 ( or any amount) can hurt some people. 

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We thought about that whilst driving for 25 miles at 11pm to the out of hours vet. 

Some people don't have a car, and a taxi would be ??  Plus ££££* for the initial consultation at midnight. Plus £££* for the (final) treatment. 

*I think the total when they invoice will be £300.  

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  On 02/12/2020 at 11:31, cort1977 said:

Yes that's true.  Being white and sounding middle class as I do is also a massive help I suspect.

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Starting the conversation with "Gentlemen, how can I be of assistance?" In a home counties accent always helps. 

I once got stopped for overtaking on a bend.  I could see across the fields, the whole road for about 1/3 mile. The road is 15 foot above the field and no hedges. I never went over 50 mph in a 60. To overtake an old dear in a Micra doing 20 mph. 

I had to laugh when they suggested my overtaking them might scare them.  And they might crash. 

I take your point. But if they are that unaware of the cars around them, and clearly failing to keep up with the traffic maybe you should be looking at when they ladt had thier eyes tested. 

16 years later I think they might have had a point. 

 

Not

 

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I once got stopped due to an altercation with another motorist, ready for the inevitable bollocking or whatever, the copper searched the cars found a big bag of weed in the other car. Told me to go away pretty much, I’m assuming because he’d dropped on the other car having the drugs on board couldn’t be arsed with dealing with me. 

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So sorry to hear about your dog mate. Truly awful :( 

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Sir owns a Saab therefore it it assumed that Sir has sophisticated tastes and 95 of the Realm is but a trifling matter.

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  On 02/12/2020 at 01:52, New POD said:

It got worse.  Just find got back from taking the cat all the way to the *nearest out of hours vet in St Helens only 35 mins in the car.  I found her in the corner of the garden, both rear legs had failed. About 10:40.  She's been put to sleep now.  Prognosis was it would be pointless trying to fix her.  17 or 18 years old.  

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And Today, less than 12 hours later my sister in law was out for a walk with my mother in law and MIL collapsed.  She's back home now. But FFS. Anything else. 

Oh yes.  Great Nephew aged 1, had a series of mini seizures, in Ohio, 3 weeks ago. 

I believe Depeche Mode wrote a song that sums it up for me. 

Still at least @MikeR had the all clear from the cancer last week so not all is shit in the world. 

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Spent hours last week inputting all my accounts onto the much-lauded (and free) Wave cloud accounting system. Dead snazzy, but then I realised some of the advertised features didn't work. 

It got worse. Yesterday, all non-US and Canada customers basically got told to GTF with no notice at all....

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Fuck you very much. The alternative (Zoho) is a year's free subscription, but the general consensus amongst Wave users is that it's shit.

Does anyone here use Brightbook ? Looks promising.

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I don't understand why anyone would want their business accounts at risk in the cloud. 

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  On 02/12/2020 at 11:52, New POD said:

Starting the conversation with "Gentlemen, how can I be of assistance?" In a home counties accent always helps. 

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How may I be of assistance?

 

Oi mistah, can I get...?!

A can is something you water your petunias with.

 

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  On 02/12/2020 at 22:53, High Jetter said:

I don't understand why anyone would want their business accounts at risk in the cloud. 

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Got mine on an excel spreadsheet.  One tab for each month. One tab for invoiced amounts and Vat, one tab for expenditure One tab for salaries/paye/nic, one tab for every pay slip, one tab for every invoice, one tab for every expences claim I've made. 

Then multiple Pdfs in a folder.  Folder stored on 2 laptops and an external hard drive and every document emailed from a gmail account to an outlook account (so it's also in the cloud - which is just someone else's big computer in a building in Derby (probably)

My turnover is not at a level where I'd have to do it on software, but there's a list here of approved free software.

 https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/making-tax-digital-software?_ga=2.183294446.957716299.1606970407-888914354.1576912492

 

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I have use sage for many years and I don’t find it a user friendly piece of software at all but chose it initially as it seemed almost an industry standard and accountants seemed to like it . 
Fast forward about 6 years , one wife and two book keepers later in back to doing it my self . Finally got the hang of it , books more up to date and less mistakes than ever before then the accountant drops the bombshell 

 

“ As of next year we won’t be supporting Sage customers “

 

Fuck fuck fuck 

Xero is what they recommend but I hate change for changes sake.

 

 

 

 

 

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Carparts4less dropping the ball with their customer service,

I now have my sons Suzuki Jimny stuck on my drive partly dismantled in need of a rear wheel bearing- and it’s supposed to snow this weekend 😤

 

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  On 03/12/2020 at 06:56, twosmoke300 said:

Xero is what they recommend but I hate change for changes sake.

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My accountant recommended that too but why would I want to pay each month when I have perfectly good Sage - 2 versions - bought and paid for? I just send in the .pdf reports from Sage and he does the rest.

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A really insignificant grump, but the "arty" perfume adverts on TV are really getting my piss boiling. Worst of the lot is the one for Daisy. Arrrgggghhh!

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I'm writing this, because some of you might have a telly.
You may or may not regularly take TV choice magazine. 
As you may know, at xmas, the publishing schedule of said mag becomes a little frantic
And the regular on-sale dates ie. every Tuesday go out of the window. 
One minute it's issue 49 as normal, then issue 50 - on sale Sat 28 Nov, Issue 51 - on sale Thur 03
And the bumper xmas special - on sale Tues 08.
So there I was, all up to date and then this morning Thur 03,
Obviously I had ordered issue 51 as part of my Sainsbury's delivery
But the young lad brought me issue 50! 
And it goes without saying, that I already have a copy, annotated & tucked by the side of the set.
 
'Listen Mate', says I, 'this is no good'.
'This is next week's telly guide, I don't want that'
'I want the week after's!'
You'd think I'd asked for the moon on a stick, the lad's gob dropped open...
 
He shrugged and said, 
'Watch a lot of telly do you?'
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'Is this still available?' from someone who saw an advert for my car. In the window of the car. 

Someone offering me £575 for a bike that was £695 no offers, who then later said they could 'pay a bit more' and then when questioned offered £450. I asked them how that worked and they just replied 'like I said earlier I haven't got the full price'.

Still plenty of random questions followed minutes later by '????' at 3.00am etc, they just get blocked.

 

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  On 03/12/2020 at 12:06, barefoot said:
I'm writing this, because some of you might have a telly.
You may or may not regularly take TV choice magazine. 
As you may know, at xmas, the publishing schedule of said mag becomes a little frantic & the regular on-sale dates
ie. every Tuesday go out of the window. 
Suddenly it's issue 49 as normal, then issue 50 - on sale Sat 28 Nov,
Issue 51 - on sale Thur 03
And the bumper xmas special - on sale Tues 08.
So there I was, all up to date and then this morning Thur 03,
Obviously I had ordered issue 51 as part of my Sainsbury's delivery
But the young lad brought me issue 50! 
And it goes without saying, that I already have a copy, annotated & tucked by the side of the set.
 
'Listen Mate', says I, 'this is no good'.
'This is next week's telly guide, I don't want that'
'I want the week after's!'
You'd think I'd asked for the moon on a stick, the lad's gob dropped open...
 
He shrugged and said, 
'Watch a lot of telly do you?'
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I didn’t know people still bought TV guides, mind. 

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  On 03/12/2020 at 14:17, Out Run said:

I didn’t know people still bought TV guides, mind. 

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But without one, how would you know that on 18th Dec it's the Full Monty - on ice?

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Car is due for the Spanish equivalent of a MOT (ITV). Went to start the car but it failed.

Garage came out this morning said the glow plugs are weak and either a relay or the fuel pump (in the tank) is no longer working.

The car has left the house on the back of a truck. Do not know when I will get it back in these Covid times. The truck coming out to collect the car is a service is included in all insurances here.

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  On 03/12/2020 at 17:10, Remspoor said:

 The truck coming out to collect the car is a service is included in all insurances here.

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When my Fiats front suspension started making odd noises, the bloke at the car dealers said to ring my insurers to get it to him via the breakdown service. 

Should have done that when my motorbike suffered a dead battery.

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In fairness to the coppers they can't all be bad. Especially the ones in a traffic car that I was too half asleep to notice and tried to race through town in a van that turned out to have no MOT. 

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  On 03/12/2020 at 12:06, barefoot said:
I'm writing this, because some of you might have a telly.
You may or may not regularly take TV choice magazine. 
As you may know, at xmas, the publishing schedule of said mag becomes a little frantic
And the regular on-sale dates ie. every Tuesday go out of the window. 
One minute it's issue 49 as normal, then issue 50 - on sale Sat 28 Nov, Issue 51 - on sale Thur 03
And the bumper xmas special - on sale Tues 08.
So there I was, all up to date and then this morning Thur 03,
Obviously I had ordered issue 51 as part of my Sainsbury's delivery
But the young lad brought me issue 50! 
And it goes without saying, that I already have a copy, annotated & tucked by the side of the set.
 
'Listen Mate', says I, 'this is no good'.
'This is next week's telly guide, I don't want that'
'I want the week after's!'
You'd think I'd asked for the moon on a stick, the lad's gob dropped open...
 
He shrugged and said, 
'Watch a lot of telly do you?'
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Lol you sound like my mum, her year would literally be ruined if the radio Times stopped being printed (she only buys it at Xmas...) 

This is despite their humax freesat box having a wicked EPG that puts the sky shit to shame

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  On 02/12/2020 at 12:47, New POD said:

Still at least @MikeR had the all clear from the cancer last week so not all is shit in the world. 

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That's excellent news.

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Found out yesterday that my chod friendly MOT tester of the last 4 years was retiring and today was his last day. I saw him so often we have become friends :-) so this afternoon I drove the 30 miles over to thank him, shake his hand and wish him well for his retirement. Got to find another chod friendly tester now.....

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  On 04/12/2020 at 20:32, Saabnut said:

Found out yesterday that my chod friendly MOT tester of the last 4 years was retiring and today was his last day. I saw him so often we have become friends :-) so this afternoon I drove the 30 miles over to thank him, shake his hand and wish him well for his retirement. Got to find another chod friendly tester now.....

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Could he not suggest someone who might be trustworthy?

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