The grumpy thread

[artdjones]

4 hours ago, Markeh said:

Go abroad with friends, they said. It'll be fun, they said. First holiday abroad in 8 years and first proper holiday abroad without my folks.

Whoever they are, they didn't account for one of said friends completely losing control of a dodgy hired jetski, coming over the line into the swimming section of the beach and crashing straight into me in the process.

I'm fine, other than a sore shoulder, leg cramps from wild flailing to surface again, and a missing week old pair of prescription sunglasses. Fair play to the lad, he's absolutely mortified (and a bit bruised himself - I'm told while I was in the process of trying not to drown, he flew off rather spectacularly) and has offered to replace them when we're back in the UK, and the shoulder will heal. But come on, we'd maybe been in Turkey for 16 hours at this point, hopefully this will be the last of the near death experiences. Although we were on about hiring a car so maybe not!

Maybe this is Him upstairs' way of getting karma on me for the other week's shunt in London.

Don't hire any motorbikes, scooters or mopeds.

[wuvvum]

If anyone was in any doubt that the quality of BBC journalism is dropping...

Platinum Jubilee: Queen 'humbled and touched' by celebrations - BBC News

Quote

The Trotters' Robin Reliant from sitcom Only Fools and Horses

FFS.

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, artdjones said:

Don't hire any motorbikes, scooters or mopeds.

...or women!

[Timewaster]

42 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

If anyone was in any doubt that the quality of BBC journalism is dropping...

Platinum Jubilee: Queen 'humbled and touched' by celebrations - BBC News

FFS.

Trotters van from Only Horses and Idiots?

[Dyslexic Viking]

Tried to give my cat drops in the neck against ticks and as a typical man I did not read the instructions. According to this I should wear gloves that came with it something I did not see. So this with the fact that my cat would not cooperate we are both protected against ticks now.

[Remspoor]

1 hour ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Tried to give my cat drops in the neck against ticks and as a typical man I did not read the instructions. According to this I should wear gloves that came with it something I did not see. So this with the fact that my cat would not cooperate we are both protected against ticks now.

We never wear gloves to give ours the flea treatment. Just wash our hands right away. Give it to them just as they finish their food. They are calmer when licking the bowel.

[Dyslexic Viking]

5 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

We never wear gloves to give ours the flea treatment. Just wash our hands right away. Give it to them just as they finish their food. They are calmer when licking the bowel.

This is a good way to do it will try it next time. Thanks!

[Stanky]

1 hour ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Tried to give my cat drops in the neck against ticks and as a typical man I did not read the instructions. According to this I should wear gloves that came with it something I did not see. So this with the fact that my cat would not cooperate we are both protected against ticks now.

Several years ago, I was applying the tick treatment to our cat while my wife held the cat. The cat was not impressed by the application of the treatment and reared up, pushing the treated bit of neck fur into my wife's face/mouth. She said she could still taste the treatment 2 days later!

[GrumpiusMaximus]

2 hours ago, Remspoor said:

We never wear gloves to give ours the flea treatment. Just wash our hands right away. Give it to them just as they finish their food. They are calmer when licking the bowel.

Whose bowel are they licking?  Just for clarity.

[wuvvum]

With cats it's usually their own.

[barefoot]

Fucking Download Festival.

I live in Castle Donington & have walked up to it for most of the last forty years. This year they've made it impossible to get to on foot. There's some sort of drop off/pick up point over towards Melbourne. Which is via the A453 which is the busy main road past EMA without a footpath. Twats.

[JimH]

I dare say this is discussed elsewhere, however...

I'm a lazy sod. If something is arranged and stays arranged and the lights come on, the credit card keeps working and the cars stay legal then I'm not going to shop round. I can't be arsed to save a few pence flitting from one service to another. I'm also happy to tick the "recurring billing" box if it stops me needing to remember something. I really think I'm the sort of person you want as a customer. Uncomplaining and lazy. 

So why is it that there are some that just take the piss? More specifically why does the RAC always take the piss? I've paid them money for the past twenty years and called them a sum total of four times (not counting the European hiccup but that was paid for separately). On one of those occasions (too embarrassing for words) you were unable to help me so I had to sort myself out but I still carried on giving you money). But no, each year it is the same  - send a renewal notice with an odd "administration and what the fuck ever" charge of between £50 and £60. Every year the person on the end of the line mutters something about introductory discounts not applying anymore and offering to knock it off the bill. I mutter something about if you do that again I'm cancelling it, rinse and repeat. 

Only this year the same thing happens, I go and see what the cover I think I've got costs me on line and I see that the renewal this year is cheaper. Ah well, that's nice. Then you notice on page 2 in quite little letters is a description of your cover which is not national recovery but instead roadside assistance with the promise of a 10 mile tow. Hang on, I've been paying you, or at least assuming I'm paying you to get me home. Forgive me for being a smart arse but if you can mend it then so can I so all I want you to do it recover the twat if it is broken in a need to get it back to the workshop sort of a way. It now appears that when Dearheart called to complain about the spurious admin charge last year they made it cheaper by  reducing the cover. Gee thanks. It turns out that you now want to stiff me £20 more for useless cover than you charge on the internet and if I want the cover I need you want another £35 or so. I know that it is my fault for not reading what I am supposed to read but it still struck me as what my Grandfather would call "sharp practice". It turned out that the AA was having a "Jubilee Sale Now On" so national recovery for two people was £106. 

Why do this? It hardly presents an impression of a company that is going to be around for the long haul of you are constantly trying to nickle and dime people. 

Whinge over.

[MikeR]

Just spent the morning why YouTube did not work on any pc in the house ,but it worked on a hotspot ??? , It all worked yesterday FFS ....

BT had helpfully switched on and updated the child protection gizmo on the BB account ..

[cobblers]

35 minutes ago, MikeR said:

Just spent the morning why YouTube did not work on any pc in the house ,but it worked on a hotspot ??? , It all worked yesterday FFS ....

BT had helpfully switched on and updated the child protection gizmo on the BB account ..

Hey, at least they were kind enough to block something like youtube so when you call up to turn the content filter off you have plausible deniability.

[AnnoyingPentium]

Oh fucking fuck off...

[AnnoyingPentium]

Well something has just shorted and I think it's fried my radio.

[RoverFolkUs]

Fucking Three mobile.... 

Are they taking the piss or what? 

This used to be called the "3 2 1" service, 3p per minute, 2p per text and 1p per MB data. That did me absolutely fine as I am on WiFi most of the time and rarely need to use anything other than WhatsApp or WiFi calling

Then last year they put it upto 10p, 10p, 5p respectively. I was miffed but it still worked out better value for money. 

Now, 35p, 15p, 10p! WTF!? 

They can fuck right off, I was thinking of switching anyway and that's just pushed me to do it! The "Gumtree burner phone" will also have to be changed as I'm not paying that much just to talk to some numpty off there... 

All hassle I could have done without... 

[AnnoyingPentium]

Just now, RoverFolkUs said:

Fucking Three mobile.... 

Are they taking the piss or what? 

This used to be called the "3 2 1" service, 3p per minute, 2p per text and 1p per MB data. That did me absolutely fine as I am on WiFi most of the time and rarely need to use anything other than WhatsApp or WiFi calling

Then last year they put it upto 10p, 10p, 5p respectively. I was miffed but it still worked out better value for money. 

Now, 35p, 15p, 10p! WTF!? 

They can fuck right off, I was thinking of switching anyway and that's just pushed me to do it! The "Gumtree burner phone" will also have to be changed as I'm not paying that much just to talk to some numpty off there... 

All hassle I could have done without... 

Asda Mobile, 4p for calls, texts, data etc. Vodafone in a cheap frock really.

[RoverFolkUs]

7 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Vodafone

That's a problem.

Used to be with them, and this may as well have been the method of communication:

Utterly fucking useless lol 😅

Asda used to be EE, but they changed which is annoying. It's got to be Three or EE in my area really. 

Had a quick look already, ID mobile (who is Three anyway) seem to do a package for £6 a month which should do me. 

Asda might do fine for the Gumtree phone though 

[Rocket88]

4 hours ago, JimH said:

I dare say this is discussed elsewhere, however...

I'm a lazy sod. If something is arranged and stays arranged and the lights come on, the credit card keeps working and the cars stay legal then I'm not going to shop round. I can't be arsed to save a few pence flitting from one service to another. I'm also happy to tick the "recurring billing" box if it stops me needing to remember something. I really think I'm the sort of person you want as a customer. Uncomplaining and lazy. 

So why is it that there are some that just take the piss? More specifically why does the RAC always take the piss? I've paid them money for the past twenty years and called them a sum total of four times (not counting the European hiccup but that was paid for separately). On one of those occasions (too embarrassing for words) you were unable to help me so I had to sort myself out but I still carried on giving you money). But no, each year it is the same  - send a renewal notice with an odd "administration and what the fuck ever" charge of between £50 and £60. Every year the person on the end of the line mutters something about introductory discounts not applying anymore and offering to knock it off the bill. I mutter something about if you do that again I'm cancelling it, rinse and repeat. 

Only this year the same thing happens, I go and see what the cover I think I've got costs me on line and I see that the renewal this year is cheaper. Ah well, that's nice. Then you notice on page 2 in quite little letters is a description of your cover which is not national recovery but instead roadside assistance with the promise of a 10 mile tow. Hang on, I've been paying you, or at least assuming I'm paying you to get me home. Forgive me for being a smart arse but if you can mend it then so can I so all I want you to do it recover the twat if it is broken in a need to get it back to the workshop sort of a way. It now appears that when Dearheart called to complain about the spurious admin charge last year they made it cheaper by  reducing the cover. Gee thanks. It turns out that you now want to stiff me £20 more for useless cover than you charge on the internet and if I want the cover I need you want another £35 or so. I know that it is my fault for not reading what I am supposed to read but it still struck me as what my Grandfather would call "sharp practice". It turned out that the AA was having a "Jubilee Sale Now On" so national recovery for two people was £106. 

Why do this? It hardly presents an impression of a company that is going to be around for the long haul of you are constantly trying to nickle and dime people. 

Whinge over.

Both the AA and the RAC are guilty of these type of shenanigans….

[beko1987]

56 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

That's a problem.

Used to be with them, and this may as well have been the method of communication:

Utterly fucking useless lol 😅

Asda used to be EE, but they changed which is annoying. It's got to be Three or EE in my area really. 

Had a quick look already, ID mobile (who is Three anyway) seem to do a package for £6 a month which should do me. 

Asda might do fine for the Gumtree phone though 

I was on a sim only Id mobile thing for years and it was fine where there was 3 coverage. No worse than EE is now and I imagine I'll be back when my current contract is up. Decent amount of data for the price too

 

[mitsisigma01]

18 hours ago, Remspoor said:

They are calmer when licking the bowel.

How long a tongue has your cat got 😲😲😲

[purplebargeken]

AA...your renewal will be £333 this yrar on auto renewal. Will it really? For what recovering APC's?  Trains? The fuckong Space Shuttle? FRO.

[JimH]

1 hour ago, Rocket88 said:

Both the AA and the RAC are guilty of these type of shenanigans….

Without doubt. I just won't be quite as lazy loyal in future. 

[Remspoor]

28 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

How long a tongue has your cat got 😲😲😲

 

17 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Whose bowel are they licking?  Just for clarity.

You to musk leed very ingesting lives. Seven help those you live with when they make a simple err ore. The price they must pray. 😉

[purplebargeken]

AA have revised the price to 97 quid which is ok.  How odd.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

2 hours ago, Rocket88 said:

Both the AA and the RAC are guilty of these type of shenanigans….

We were quoted something like £240 for our AA renewal this year.  We cancelled it and then bought it again for more than £100 less and it includes more on the policy.  Absolute clowns.

[reb]

23 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Diesel engines peaked around 1994.

The VAG 2.5TDI in my last two Volvos is peak engine in my opinion. Unbelievably economical for what it is when driven nicely, but will go like fuck when asked.

[J W Pepper]

14 minutes ago, reb said:

The VAG 2.5TDI in my last two Volvos is peak engine in my opinion. Unbelievably economical for what it is when driven nicely, but will go like fuck when asked.

The PD engine in my grandpa's VW Bora is the same

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I've been driving a 130PD for the last six years.  It's brilliant and incredibly easy to service.