The grumpy thread

[goosey]

Picked my car up yesterday after having a new windshield fitted and now I have a random  white line that doesn’t seem to come off on the inside of the screen as well as a bunch of sticky tape marks and smears 

yeah I know it’s a company car, stop crying  about it etc but they could’ve at least cleaned the effing thing after they finished 

[motorpunk]

Just now, sierraman said:

Just run in for a German car that is. Run forever those BMWs 🤣

😁

[adw1977]

8 hours ago, loserone said:

There is something wrong with you, they ARE awful.

I drove a friend's Crossland recently and it was awful.  So little power, screaming its tits off in 4th to get up a hill on a dual carriageway (5 speed box).

Handbrake that was a right battle to release, not helped by the button being on top instead of on the end.

I also had the pleasure of being a rear seat passenger and the rear seat is just a flat bench with a backrest that's too upright.  Still more relaxing than having to drive the wretched thing.

[beko1987]

20 minutes ago, adw1977 said:

I drove a friend's Crossland recently and it was awful.  So little power, screaming its tits off in 4th to get up a hill on a dual carriageway (5 speed box).

Handbrake that was a right battle to release, not helped by the button being on top instead of on the end.

I also had the pleasure of being a rear seat passenger and the rear seat is just a flat bench with a backrest that's too upright.  Still more relaxing than having to drive the wretched thing.

Sounds like the Meriva it replaced, but worse! 

[St.Jude]

Insurance companies. Specifically, Adrian Flux.

Like every other idiot in the country, I stand by anyone who does me a good turn. When I got the RAV4, and it came out with daft money to insure, I managed to get it on a cheaper policy. From the RAV4, and the Corolla before it, I never ever ever had a problem.

Until today when it came time to take the RAV4 off the insurance (should've done it earlier, but y'know - optimism) and put the new whip on there (Land Cruiser for those playing at home). They took great offence at this having 8 seats, and wanted to know why I got a car with 8 seats. "I wanted a Land Cruiser and they don't come with less" was the only polite answer I could think of, instead of the default "Because I want it". Anyway, current insurer won't touch it because it has too many seats so I'd have to cancel it. The new policy was with Aviva want £630. Which is high, as I was getting quotes of £370. 

It's at this point, the sheer bullshit blinded my eyes and I was left with bewilderment. I have to pay about £140 to cancel the policy as I pay monthly, irregardless of the fact this month's instalment left my account today. Asking the same "why should I pay to cancel when the insurer doesn't want it?" got me nowhere. Although, the kicker with it all is that if I go to Aviva through Adrian Flux - because they keep their commission and get £30 for the privilege of all of this - I would only have to pay £80 to cancel. 

Where's the kicker? Oh - if I add the Land Cruiser to the multicar policy we have with the Peugeot and the Merc through Aviva, it's £380. So even if I pay the £380, and the £140, it's still £110 cheaper than paying the £80 to Adrian Flux to get the £630 rate from Aviva.

So now I've gone from years of having no problem with Adrian Flux, to screaming at idriveaclassic every time the advert for it comes up. The moral of the story is that you really don't know how good someone or something is until you need to do something with them. That's when the rubber hits the shit from the fan. 

[artdjones]

1 hour ago, St.Jude said:

Insurance companies. Specifically, Adrian Flux.

Like every other idiot in the country, I stand by anyone who does me a good turn. When I got the RAV4, and it came out with daft money to insure, I managed to get it on a cheaper policy. From the RAV4, and the Corolla before it, I never ever ever had a problem.

Until today when it came time to take the RAV4 off the insurance (should've done it earlier, but y'know - optimism) and put the new whip on there (Land Cruiser for those playing at home). They took great offence at this having 8 seats, and wanted to know why I got a car with 8 seats. "I wanted a Land Cruiser and they don't come with less" was the only polite answer I could think of, instead of the default "Because I want it". Anyway, current insurer won't touch it because it has too many seats so I'd have to cancel it. The new policy was with Aviva want £630. Which is high, as I was getting quotes of £370. 

It's at this point, the sheer bullshit blinded my eyes and I was left with bewilderment. I have to pay about £140 to cancel the policy as I pay monthly, irregardless of the fact this month's instalment left my account today. Asking the same "why should I pay to cancel when the insurer doesn't want it?" got me nowhere. Although, the kicker with it all is that if I go to Aviva through Adrian Flux - because they keep their commission and get £30 for thek privilege of all of this - I would only have to pay £80 to cancel. 

Where's the kicker? Oh - if I add the Land Cruiser to the multicar policy we have with the Peugeot and the Merc through Aviva, it's £380. So even if I pay the £380, and the £140, it's still £110 cheaper than paying the £80 to Adrian Flux to get the £630 rate from Aviva.

So now I've gone from years of having no problem with Adrian Flux, to screaming at idriveaclassic every time the advert for it comes up. The moral of the story is that you really don't know how good someone or something is until you need to do something with them. That's when the rubber hits the shit from the fan. 

The only country worse than the UK for this type of thing is Ireland. I've recently been trying to get classic insurance on a 1.1 Peugeot 205. Most companies won't cover 205s for some reason, and one company will cover it, but only for shows and runs, you're not covered for driving to the local shop, or any normal use. At the moment I'm waiting for a club membership to come back, so I can check out their scheme.

[iainrcz]

The old procrastination is here today.

I need to cut the grass, and I'm sat wasting time hoping it rains so I don't have to.

I've been meaning to look for a better phone and broadband deal too, and yup, can't be fucked with that either.

[junkyarddog]

16 minutes ago, artdjones said:

The only country worse than the UK for this type of thing is Ireland. I've recently been trying to get classic insurance on a 1.1 Peugeot 205. Most companies won't cover 205s for some reason, and one company will cover it, but only for shows and runs, you're not covered for driving to the local shop, or any normal use. At the moment I'm waiting for a club membership to come back, so I can check out their scheme.

Try Abbeyautoline they are up in the north but cover down south too. 

I was having a problem insuring a 1991 car,they did it no problem. 

[MarvinsMom]

todays grump,  what the hell has happened to the summer?

its dull, its grey, and its cold.

its more like October or November, not bloody August!!

[cobblers]

9 hours ago, St.Jude said:

Insurance companies. Specifically, Adrian Flux.

..........................................................................

So now I've gone from years of having no problem with Adrian Flux, to screaming at idriveaclassic every time the advert for it comes up. The moral of the story is that you really don't know how good someone or something is until you need to do something with them. That's when the rubber hits the shit from the fan. 

They did similar with me - I sold a van, cancelled a fully paid up policy. They incorrectly decided that I owed them money for doing so.

Never actually told me about this, before selling the "debt" on to what they claimed was a third party debt collection agency some months later.

First I hear about it is getting a letter threatening court action. Couldn't get them to admit their clear mistake - they are setup 100% to take money off people, and anything outside the ordinary is simply impossible for them.

[wuvvum]

The master switch for my power shower has packed up.  Not the end of the world - I've been out and bought a new switch for less than a fiver - but there's no clue on the fuse box as to which circuit breaker the shower is on.  So I'm going to have to turn the power off to the whole house, which means waiting for a weekend as by the time I finish work there isn't enough daylight left and I don't fancy wiring the new switch in by torchlight.   Until then I'm going to have to manage with the little "shampoo spray" thing I bought ages ago which fits over the bath taps, and which is completely hopeless.

[High Jetter]

Turn one off at a time until shower has no power?

[wuvvum]

Shower has no power anyway as the switch is buggered...

[High Jetter]

There will still be power to the buggered switch. Obs, a mains tester is needed here. Or, shut the house down tomorrow.

[mintwth]

Could go for a reverse approach....

The shower won't be on the same circuit breaker as the lights. Flip/pull breakers till you find which are the lighting rings.

Leave the lighting rings on and everything else off, then the shower *should* be safe to work on.   

[mitsisigma01]

On 8/15/2021 at 8:53 PM, MikeR said:

today I found the "FLIP" button had been set , so if the phone is face down ...it dont  ring !!!

Is this an iPhone thing, my Mrs says hers doesn't ring properly either 🤔🤔

[New POD]

On 18/08/2021 at 10:11, Wack said:

I've posted this before

Some years ago I got the train home after not buying a car , got to Crewe and rail replacement home , there was a guy with a clipboard directing passengers to various buses when this woman in front of me laid into him , she looked about 60, solicitor maybe.

I've paid for a first class ticket , I shouldn't have to get on a bus, you've broken the contract , you should provide taxi's for first class passengers

He was nothing but professional, explained it would've been on the website when she booked, they have to do track maintenance etc but she was having none of it

Then very rudely she said ,which bus do I want for Runcorn

He directed her, this bus goes to Runcorn madam, she stomped off and got on

As it pulled off I noticed the illuminated board had about 6 towns on it with the last stop being Runcorn

Next bus pulled in and he starts calling for passengers

Any passengers for Runcorn, Runcorn only on this bus please

I looked at him and started laughing and he gave me a wry smile, she'll never know  but it probably made his day

 

 

Runcorn Station. Some years back, I had a 6 month contract in Hemel Hampstead. 

Every other week I choose to travel by train. 

The first train from Liverpool at silly o'clock in the morning leaves before the miseryrail commuter train, leaves Southport, so it's either get a taxi into Liverpool, or drive to Runcorn. And leave the car in a multistory car park. 

So, there you are standing waiting with all the other dickheads for the first train to Euston, and there's a shop and snackbar. Which opens one minute after our train is due. I mean what the fuck. 30 people would have bought a bacon sandwich, and coffee, had it been possible. 

 

[Wack]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

Runcorn Station. Some years back, I had a 6 month contract in Hemel Hampstead. 

Every other week I choose to travel by train. 

The first train from Liverpool at silly o'clock in the morning leaves before the miseryrail commuter train, leaves Southport, so it's either get a taxi into Liverpool, or drive to Runcorn. And leave the car in a multistory car park. 

So, there you are standing waiting with all the other dickheads for the first train to Euston, and there's a shop and snackbar. Which opens one minute after our train is due. I mean what the fuck. 30 people would have bought a bacon sandwich, and coffee, had it been possible. 

 

Can't say I'm surprised , have you ever met management of anything

[MikeR]

5 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Is this an iPhone thing, my Mrs says hers doesn't ring properly either 🤔🤔

its on Android ...

I have just done a cache clear on phone , messages , whatsapp   , cleared all the permissions , to try and get the phones to work properly .

mine was also refusing to squawk , it was only the fact my exercise band buzzed alerted me to phone calls !!

[MikeR]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

Runcorn Station. Some years back, I had a 6 month contract in Hemel Hampstead. 

Every other week I choose to travel by train. 

The first train from Liverpool at silly o'clock in the morning leaves before the miseryrail commuter train, leaves Southport, so it's either get a taxi into Liverpool, or drive to Runcorn. And leave the car in a multistory car park. 

So, there you are standing waiting with all the other dickheads for the first train to Euston, and there's a shop and snackbar. Which opens one minute after our train is due. I mean what the fuck. 30 people would have bought a bacon sandwich, and coffee, had it been possible. 

 

the cafe next to the rooms used by contractors at my works was like that , the cafe had a captive market on its door step , would not even stay open or open up a bit early to cater for the contractors , so they fucked off and stayed else where .

[Floatylight]

3 minutes ago, MikeR said:

its on Android ...

I have just done a cache clear on phone , messages , whatsapp   , cleared all the permissions , to try and get the phones to work properly .

mine was also refusing to squawk , it was only the fact my exercise band buzzed alerted me to phone calls !!

On my Samsung the volume buttons don't alter ring volume, if you click a volume button you see three dots at the top of the slider click them and a mixer shows up with 4 sliders, one of them is ring volume.

[MikeR]

15 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

On my Samsung the volume buttons don't alter ring volume, if you click a volume button you see three dots at the top of the slider click them and a mixer shows up with 4 sliders, one of them is ring volume.

I have the mute toggle button and the sounds menu on my Faultorola  , the  best thing the phone does is survive being lashed across the room for being shite .

[anonymous user]

16 minutes ago, MikeR said:

the cafe next to the rooms used by contractors at my works was like that , the cafe had a captive market on its door step , would not even stay open or open up a bit early to cater for the contractors , so they fucked off and stayed else where .

You should try the seaside towns around here. Multitudinous cafes along the seafront, they nearly all shut at five.

Haven't been for a few years, but Barry Island was terrible, all but one of the cafes closed for the winter and didn't open again until Easter, didn't matter what the weather was like would never open any earlier. I used to deal with some of the traders, whenever you spoke to them it was always the worst year they'd ever had. (Hard to take that seriously when the person telling you is sat in their new 7 series BMW). 

I went down a few years ago on New Year's day to take the dogs on the beach, a lovely bright, crisp day. The place was packed, but just the one cafe open (and that one was a lovely 1960s period piece inside).

[Wack]

People really are selfish cunts , not one stopped to help him apart from the truck driver 

https://fb.watch/7v5QhgGi46/

[chadders]

19 minutes ago, anonymous user said:

You should try the seaside towns around here. Multitudinous cafes along the seafront, they nearly all shut at five.

Haven't been for a few years, but Barry Island was terrible, all but one of the cafes closed for the winter and didn't open again until Easter, didn't matter what the weather was like would never open any earlier. I used to deal with some of the traders, whenever you spoke to them it was always the worst year they'd ever had. (Hard to take that seriously when the person telling you is sat in their new 7 series BMW). 

I went down a few years ago on New Year's day to take the dogs on the beach, a lovely bright, crisp day. The place was packed, but just the one cafe open (and that one was a lovely 1960s period piece inside).

Round here a lot close for the winter and go to their villas in Spain.

[MikeR]

18 minutes ago, Wack said:

People really are selfish cunts , not one stopped to help him apart from the truck driver 

https://fb.watch/7v5QhgGi46/

yep , got the T shirt  , its F'IN dangerous to try and help or even help yourself  . my advice would be to put the hazards on , and walk to safety , sit back and watch the resulting jam , thinking you twats would not be in that if you had a bit more sense ....

 

34 minutes ago, anonymous user said:

You should try the seaside towns around here. Multitudinous cafes along the seafront, they nearly all shut at five.

Haven't been for a few years, but Barry Island was terrible, all but one of the cafes closed for the winter and didn't open again until Easter, didn't matter what the weather was like would never open any earlier. I used to deal with some of the traders, whenever you spoke to them it was always the worst year they'd ever had. (Hard to take that seriously when the person telling you is sat in their new 7 series BMW). 

I went down a few years ago on New Year's day to take the dogs on the beach, a lovely bright, crisp day. The place was packed, but just the one cafe open (and that one was a lovely 1960s period piece inside).

Southport to a T , nowt opens till 11am , then shuts bang on 5 or earlier , if it stays open its a pub or club !

[Talbot]

22 hours ago, St.Jude said:

Asking the same "why should I pay to cancel when the insurer doesn't want it?" got me nowhere.

It should have got you everywhere.  If you choose to cancel a policy, you end up with early termination costs.  If your insurer cancels a policy because they cannot insure the replacement car, then THEY have cancelled it, and you should get your money back on an on-risk time basis (IE no early termination costs)

[St.Jude]

50 minutes ago, Talbot said:

It should have got you everywhere.  If you choose to cancel a policy, you end up with early termination costs.  If your insurer cancels a policy because they cannot insure the replacement car, then THEY have cancelled it, and you should get your money back on an on-risk time basis (IE no early termination costs)

I gave up long ago trying to work out insurers. I just try to stick to not dealing with shites like this who will screw you for what little cash you've got while simultaneously throwing money at everyone to say how great they are.

It's £124 now, knowing full well I can go my whole life without giving them a penny more for the rest of my life.

[reb]

Changing the lower suspension arms on the 205, driver's side first, was a proper fight to get it off despite not being on that long really. New one on, it won't sit straight in the subframe so the bolt won't go through, I've tried hitting it with a (soft) hammer and levering it about and it still won't sit straight. Bloody cars.

Edit: as so often is the case complaining about it meant the next go at it it went in just fine. I suppose by thinking about it to explain the problem it can give you a new angle on it.

[Parky]

Lockdown here has brought a surprising number of arseholes out of the woodwork.  It’s incredible how one case has been tracked to identify about 21 cases in the community and absolutely the right thing to lock down for a few days to nip this in the bud.  But fuck me, you’d think people had been asked to sacrifice their first born to some bloody Pagan God.  

At the Covid centre I diplomatically removed a chap who was spouting anti vax crap which culminated in him revealing he had read the works of some Nobel prize winning French dude (he couldn’t remember the name, or couldn’t pronounce it anyway) who claimed that the vaccine will kill (in his expert opinion) at least two thirds of recipients within two years of administration.  

When I played the game and said “If Government and Big Pharma want us all dead, who is going to pay the taxes and generate the sales for big Pharma operations?  Isn’t killing all your clients bad for business?” He just responded with “you would say that, you’re a paid up shill and you might as well be hung for treason and murder and believe me we’ll be back for you”  Wouldn’t mind so much but I am a minimum wage temp and I leave next week anyway.  

Another woman moaned about being told what to do by Government.  I asked her what she thought of seat belts, her response being “no, you aren’t catching me out with your logic”.  

Honestly I don’t think the world will end through a pandemic or a war.  I honestly believe the ignorance and stupidity of the few is going to condemn all of us to a horrifying and utterly preventable end.

What does distress me is I used to be quite right wing, gradually became more lefty and lately I am finding myself wanting to put these people in a a small room with 400 hungry weasels which I am pretty sure is more likely to be a Priti Patel thing rather than a Green Party policy....