The grumpy thread

[dollywobbler]

Arse cakes. In getting the washing machine out, we seem to have generated a leak from the hot feed tap. Now waiting for a plumber and can't even have a brew as we've had to shut the water off! Still seems an awful lot to pack. I hate moving house. Next time I do it, I think I'll just put the entire house contents on Freecycle and start again.

[retrogeezer]

no longer do brochures as they are 'environmentally' friendly

 

hahaha, thats class from a car manufacturer in the far east isn't it!!

[Cavcraft]

Had a look at Freecycle, I haven't looked for ages!

Since when did it become 'Freeloaders', 75% of the ads are people who WANTED things like car cycle carrier, car wheels, an XBox 360, etc.

Surely having any WANTED ads defeats the purpose of the group?

 

 

People always ask for ridiculous things they aren't likely to get. I find the same people asking every week for the same daft things can be relatively easily annoyed by 'advertising' exactly the thing they want on Freecycle and when they reply just say your missus is dealing with it but you think they are first in line. Then just ignore them or posted a 'taken' notice a few days later.

 

Anyhow I don't see the harm in asking for (realistic) things, it's amazing how many people were on the brink of binning tat you could make use of.

[Guest]

Dealing with a COMPLETE DICKHEAD on another site where I am a moderator.

This is from a self-confessed 'newbie to forums' someone who has never before used forums.

 

What the fuck is wrong is people today?

 

The guy is a fucking twat.

 

Has anyone had this problem before?

 

I really don't understand what his problem is. If he's too mongitudinally challenged to click on the link to the eBay ad you supplied, and get the exact location of the car from there, I'm struggling to see why it's something you've done.

 

He might also want to learn the spelling of 'apologise' when trying to appear sincere. Which he doesn't.

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

He'd get a hearty ban on the forum I moderate.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Dealing with a COMPLETE DICKHEAD on another site where I am a moderator. Some twat decides that he doesnt like the way I posted up a car I found on ebay. He assumed it was me who was selling (Which he didnt make clear in his posts) when he ask where exactly the car was, when no one answered he bleated on about the location being a "secret" and being shared only by "privilaged members"

 

He did make an apology, but only to another member he accused of not saying where it was. He continued to bleat on about my post being "not clear" or whatever.

 

I wrote explaining the rules, his reply was childish accusing me of being like a schoolteacher/full of testosterone etc... then he tell me to grow up?

 

This morning I find a new post up about me, (though he didnt actually name me) complaining of the actions I took. He called me 'pathetic' Some of the other mods agreed that he was a prat, who went into a hissy fit, however, they suggested my tone could have been a little more diplomatic.

 

This is from a self-confessed 'newbie to forums' someone who has never before used forums.

 

What the fuck is wrong is people today?

 

The guy is a fucking twat.

 

Has anyone had this problem before?

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Calm down LS, its some dweeb on an internet forum, not real life. Going mental about 'something someone said on an internet forum' is never healthy.

[Guest]

Dealing with a COMPLETE DICKHEAD on another site where I am a moderator. Some twat decides that he doesnt like the way I posted up a car I found on ebay. He assumed it was me who was selling (Which he didnt make clear in his posts) when he ask where exactly the car was, when no one answered he bleated on about the location being a "secret" and being shared only by "privilaged members"

 

He did make an apology, but only to another member he accused of not saying where it was. He continued to bleat on about my post being "not clear" or whatever.

 

I wrote explaining the rules, his reply was childish accusing me of being like a schoolteacher/full of testosterone etc... then he tell me to grow up?

 

This morning I find a new post up about me, (though he didnt actually name me) complaining of the actions I took. He called me 'pathetic' Some of the other mods agreed that he was a prat, who went into a hissy fit, however, they suggested my tone could have been a little more diplomatic.

 

This is from a self-confessed 'newbie to forums' someone who has never before used forums.

 

What the fuck is wrong is people today?

 

The guy is a fucking twat.

 

Has anyone had this problem before?

'

Calm down LS, its some dweeb on an internet forum, not real life. Going mental about 'something someone said on an internet forum' is never healthy.

 

I R AGREES WIV BOLLOX

[Father Ted]

Piss Taking Cock Sucking Insurance Bastards.

 

Wifes car is up for renewall (2007 Zafira)

Current quote with Sheilas Handbags is for £379 inc legal cover.

 

So I nip on every price quote website going and get quotes ranging from £320 to £TheMoonOnAStick - and as usual we get wildly differing quotes from the same company via different websites (Kwik Fit - £408 to £876 )

 

Money supermarket rather kindly have a little facility that rather than you put in what your car is worth ( £8500 from a main dealers forcourt with FVSH and in rather nice condition - which is what it is) - Money supermarket tell me that if the wife mullers it the insurance bods will pay out £5095 - which is what they say its worth.

 

Well - I have trawled Autotrader and there isnt a single fucking one on there the same spec / condition as mine within a fucking lightyear of that price.

 

Where do they get these wild fucking notions from??? I tell ye if the wife does muller it I shall be showing the loss adjuster pages of Autotrader ads for similar cars starting at £7999 for the lowest priced one I have seen toay (just like I did when I mullered the Laguna and they wated to give me £1000 when the nearest thing on Autotrader was £1900)

 

Insurance companies - Cunts with a double barreled sawn off shoved up my arse.

[Father Ted]

Oh, and Direct Line are still cunts.

[Guest]

Oh, and Direct Line are still cunts.

 

Direct Line aren't very nice. 'WE GUARANTEE TO BEAT YOUR RENEWAL QUOTE' ran a letter of theirs when it was close to renewal time on the Citroen.

At the time I was paying £450. Direct Line knew this.

 

I ring up the red phone and their cheapest quote is £1392. 'That's a really competitive quote', the girl down the phone says.

 

'Praps when Satan's skating to work love' I say, and Stephen Fry has an accident.

 

Argh.

[pogweasel]

Direct line wanted an extra forty quid off me this year, probably as Er Indoors cancelled her policy with them. I am too idle to be arsed mincing about comparing meerkats for a better price though.

[Louise2cv]

Phoned the garage again today... on Saturday they were "halfway through the stem seals". I phoned today (at half four) and they "had just got the head off now"

 

It was highly recommended, but I might not go back again.

[myglaren]

I always shop in supermarkets in weekday evenings, they are nice and quiet as all the mouth breathers are at home eating shit in front of X factor/strictly/stenders.

 

Popped into a Nissan dealership in Cambridge on Saturday (Marshalls, a shark infested row of multi franchise showrooms opposite the airfield) and was told by the bird on the desk that they (Nissan) no longer do brochures as they are 'environmentally' friendly . Is this true or just bollocks from this particular chain?

 

Told then my parents will be buying something from a manufacturer who can run to a bit of paper with some information about their £20,000 vehicles.

 

Looks like you can get Nissan brochures here.

Don't they make normal cars anymore? The factory is only two miles away but I have no idea what they make other than the dreadful Joke an Squash'd Kiwi.

[Lankytim]

Popped into a Nissan dealership in Cambridge on Saturday (Marshalls, a shark infested row of multi franchise showrooms opposite the airfield)

 

Ha, I have been to those dealers many times in the past delivering cars on trade plates! Takes ages to get to and its difficult to get back out again so you need to catch a bus. There's a park and ride next door that I used once, even though I didnt have a car and just wanted to catch the bus into town the bastard driver made me buy a parking ticket for my non-existant car before he'd let me get on. To make matters worse I still had to walk 3 miles to get the the train station. I was only 3 miles away to start with .

[autofive]

Phoned the garage again today... on Saturday they were "halfway through the stem seals". I phoned today (at half four) and they "had just got the head off now"

 

It was highly recommended, but I might not go back again.

 

i suggest just turning up unannounced in the morning, and insisting on seeing the manager/owner

 

then kicking off if the job has not been started or progressed

[M'coli]

Phoned the garage again today... on Saturday they were "halfway through the stem seals". I phoned today (at half four) and they "had just got the head off now"

 

It was highly recommended, but I might not go back again.

I think it's time to phone them up and give them the "Pull your finger out of your arse, and don't gie us any o' yir pish!".

[Angrydicky]

Yo wobbler, be grateful you don't work on the checkouts and have to endure those people for several hours at a time (like some people)

 

At least I'm transferring to home shopping deliveries in a week or two so will get to drive a Merc Sprinter luton thing, go places I've never been before and spot loads of great new tat (hopefully). Also far less customers to deal with.

 

Sorry, this should be in the grin thread really

 

thats what i do the merc lutons are a pile of shite and falling apart.... i like the modec electric vans they have... especially for creeping up on jaywalkers and blasting the horn at them...

 

Cool! We don't have any electric vans here sadly, we have a combination of very tired looking 57 reg Sprinters and 08/58/09 plate VW's which are in much better condition.

 

I suspect most drivers thrash the fuck out of them, most have gaffer taped bumpers/side repeaters hanging out/various dents and scrapes.

[eddyramrod]

we have a combination of very tired looking 57 reg Sprinter vans and 08/58/09 plate VW's which are in much better condition.

 

I suspect most drivers thrash the fuck out of them, most have gaffer taped bumpers/side repeaters hanging out/various dents and scrapes.

 

Those aren't drivers, those are the wankers who think they can drive, who keep down the wages of the genuine professionals, while earning us a reputation for being, at best, nomadic and unreliable (theirs by right). And yes, the Merc vans are total crap, never has a vehicle been more misnamed. Sprinter? The equivalent VWs are a whole lot better.

 

Look after your vehicle (even if it is a shitty old Merc), look after your customers as if they were your own, and don't get sucked into racing. By other road users, or by your so-called boss ("Where have you been until now? You only had 44 drops, [spread over a 120-mile route] you should have been back three hours ago. Now just run this little order for me before you go home, don't worry about having done 77 hours this week, it's only Thursday, I'll make it up to you..."). Good luck!

[dollywobbler]

Scary world that supermarket driving. My mate does it - the management seem able to monitor your every move, including revs! Apparently, you are meant to stick within a certain rev range but my mate ignored this one week and got the best economy in the team! I love management when it just foists crap on people and ends up costing more than it would have to just put a 'ooh, he's red lined it repeatedly' switch to deal with the idiots.

[brammy777]

Toothache is back, Im really hoping its a wisdom tooth coming through and not the same one as before (which is incidentally, the one next to it), as I had a filling put in it a month and a half ago. I think it somehow tops an ear infection on the pain stakes.

[Angrydicky]

My best friend is suffering from a heart problem. Basically his heart is beating much faster than it should be and is irregular, also he is getting out of breath very easily. Started about a week or so ago.

 

He's been to the doctor who's referred him to a specialist but it may be four weeks before he's seen. Understandably he's very worried

[brammy777]

My best friend is suffering from a heart problem. Basically his heart is beating much faster than it should be and is irregular, also he is getting out of breath very easily. Started about a week or so ago.

 

He's been to the doctor who's referred him to a specialist but it may be four weeks before he's seen. Understandably he's very worried

 

That is horrible, I really hope they get better soon. Do they have a history of heart problems in the family? I do, and it does sometimes worry me that I could perhaps have issues in the future. Basically my dads body produced too much cholesterol and this greatly contributed to it. I have had tests in the past and they suggest nothing is wrong but I cant help but worry.

I suppose the course of action with your friend may be a pacemaker? But I wonder why it just randomly started doing that.

[eddyramrod]

My best friend is suffering from a heart problem. Basically his heart is beating much faster than it should be and is irregular, also he is getting out of breath very easily. Started about a week or so ago.

 

He's been to the doctor who's referred him to a specialist but it may be four weeks before he's seen. Understandably he's very worried

 

I had a friend who suffered with this. Haven't seen him for some years, which points up how easy it is to lose touch with someone ( ). I remember going to see him in his Liverpool bedsit on Christmas Eve 1995. He was making coffee when he suddenly looked at me and said he felt dizzy. He knew what it was, he'd met it before, and asked me to take him to the hospital (2 miles away, and you try to get an ambulance at 9pm on Christmas Eve...). So that's what we did, and he got his Christmas dinner on the ward. Said it was one of the best Christmases he ever had.

[Albert Ross]

Dicky, that sounds like Atrial Fibrillation. I have this condition, and have done for 15 years or so. Had my first "do" at 29, and the next at 39...... Still here, all controlled by Beta Blockers and believe it or not Aspirin. i used to take Warfarin to thin the blood, but I recovered quickly, so off the rat poison and onto the Aspirin........... I do have to watch what I eat and drink, and also try to exercise, but I fail really well at that. Your mate will probably be fine. It scares the crap out of me when it happens, even though I do know what's going on. The first time it happened, I was driving to work, thinking it was a hangover... I felt ill at work, so I drove back home, and got the bus to the Doctors!!!! He got me into Hospital toute suite. Saved my life he did. Thankyou Dr. Horsefield.

[Cavcraft]

Hey, I did multi-drop, drove like an absolute twat and was paid (quite well) in comissions as well as the usual wage. The biggest problem I encountered was usually HGV drivers who could sit at 40mph forever and a day until you went to overtake them on a single carriage road, where they'd 'mysteriously' find the power to speed up or pull towards the middle of the road. I put it down to them being jealous of being stuck to shit speeds to be honest. It wasn't all of them but a fair few were right sad cases.

 

the thing about multi-drop/comission based driving is you pretty much have to drive like a wanker to earn a decent wage, though that doesn't excuse it. My greatest moment was a duel down the A5 by Oswestry with some wanker in a Volvo (car) who got the 'phone number off my cab door and told my boss I was the worse driver he'd ever seen and he'd been a transport manager for 22 years. I took that as a badge of honour.

[Angrydicky]

Dicky, that sounds like Atrial Fibrillation. I have this condition, and have done for 15 years or so. Had my first "do" at 29, and the next at 39...... Still here, all controlled by Beta Blockers and believe it or not Aspirin. i used to take Warfarin to thin the blood, but I recovered quickly, so off the rat poison and onto the Aspirin........... I do have to watch what I eat and drink, and also try to exercise, but I fail really well at that. Your mate will probably be fine. It scares the crap out of me when it happens, even though I do know what's going on. The first time it happened, I was driving to work, thinking it was a hangover... I felt ill at work, so I drove back home, and got the bus to the Doctors!!!! He got me into Hospital toute suite. Saved my life he did. Thankyou Dr. Horsefield.

 

Thanks for that Albert, most informative. The main problem he has is actually getting seen by a specialist, the doctor said it was urgent, but he still has no idea when he will be seen

[eddyramrod]

What's commission???? All my driving work has been own-transport for wholesalers of various commodities, including timber. The real multi-drop is the playground milk for primary schools, oh boy... 2am start, 74 calls to complete before 0930. In Liverpool. Then up to Preston to reload for morning. Oh yes, and on your way back, this got missed off run 39, can you...? Sure, it's only 30 miles out of my way, oh and they want it before 12? Of course...

 

Commission? Single-time, no premium for dark, and don't be late! Dickensian? Yup! Normal life on a van...

[Angrydicky]

No commission from supermarkets, you get the same wages as someone stacking shelves or pushing trolleys around the car park.

[Cavcraft]

It was sales/service. Started in a Transit then 'progressed' to a Eurocargo, hence my hatred for them. Long hours, arsehole boss, could never do enough to keep them happy but the money was good and some of the time I enjoyed myself.

[Station]

I've been doing this now and then for the past few years. Going to sleep, and waking with an almighty shock. It's a pain in the arse, and the first time this happened, it was a bit un-nerving. Now I just accept it and go to sleep. I once woke up with a shock and ran over to the other side of the room clutching the wall. It takes me seconds to 'recover' now, and I just go back to bed.

Last night I woke up sharply again, it was enough to make my dog, who was asleep by the side of the bed wake up instantly and, er, 'relieve herself'. I used to get stupid panic attacks, but convinced myself these were pointless, but this is like the final lingering mental PAIN IN THE ARSE that I need to get rid of. I don't want to take medication or sleeping tablets, but christ, I need to sort it out.