The grumpy thread

[Spiny Norman]

1 hour ago, DavieW said:

Worse still is "tx"

Yes please if we're talking Renault 16.

[andyberg]

Home insurance renewal time. With SAGA coz I am old. Last year £61, this year renewal £183!!! FFS. Along with a letter giving the usual crap about this is the best deal we can find blah blah blah... 

Goes onto compare the market, exactly the same details and SAGA comes up at £47!!! How is this possible? Phone SAGA they say they cannot match the £47??? Why? How come? So I cancel my renewal and take out a new policy. 

It seems every type of insurance renewal involves spending an hour of my time wasted getting new quotes then invariably staying with the same insurance company but having to take out a new policy. I thought there were new rules to stop the insurance companies over quoting for existing customers?

Boils my piss this does 

[High Jetter]

£47 seems suspiciously cheap, especially if for both buildings and contents cover.

[Metal Guru]

3 hours ago, Rocket88 said:

Don’t get me started on the bastardisation of the English language……. “ drives superb “…… fuck off

It’s nothing new. “The boys done great” was a standard football manager quote as far back as the late 60s to my knowledge. ( probably since televised football).

[andyberg]

8 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

£47 seems suspiciously cheap, especially if for both buildings and contents cover.

Contents only

[MikeR]

7 hours ago, andyberg said:

Home insurance renewal time. With SAGA coz I am old. Last year £61, this year renewal £183!!! FFS. Along with a letter giving the usual crap about this is the best deal we can find blah blah blah... 

Goes onto compare the market, exactly the same details and SAGA comes up at £47!!! How is this possible? Phone SAGA they say they cannot match the £47??? Why? How come? So I cancel my renewal and take out a new policy. 

It seems every type of insurance renewal involves spending an hour of my time wasted getting new quotes then invariably staying with the same insurance company but having to take out a new policy. I thought there were new rules to stop the insurance companies over quoting for existing customers?

Boils my piss this does 

F off saga , they are robbing unts , do a shop around and go with a normal insurance company ... And always do a search , I boned the doggie iconed company this way and they had to beat there own quote ! 

[sheffcortinacentre]

Sick of needs fixed, needs clean, etc no you cunt " it" needs " a,to be, ING "

[Spiny Norman]

8 hours ago, andyberg said:

Home insurance renewal time. With SAGA coz I am old. Last year £61, this year renewal £183!!! FFS. Along with a letter giving the usual crap about this is the best deal we can find blah blah blah... 

Goes onto compare the market, exactly the same details and SAGA comes up at £47!!! How is this possible? Phone SAGA they say they cannot match the £47??? Why? How come? So I cancel my renewal and take out a new policy. 

It seems every type of insurance renewal involves spending an hour of my time wasted getting new quotes then invariably staying with the same insurance company but having to take out a new policy. I thought there were new rules to stop the insurance companies over quoting for existing customers?

Boils my piss this does 

They did EXACTLY the same thing to me a few months ago. Last year's premium was about £60, renewal was £150, Comparethemeerkat was £55.

Insurance is a sore point just now, how the fuck can they want £500 to insure a second car? How the fuck am I supposed to drive them both at once? And then you try and phone them... 😠

[beko1987]

I only got my insurance a hair cheaper this year (back in Feb) and the year before I renewed as the price was £4 cheaper than I could find! 

I lost the last of some distant speeding points under the 5 year rule and notched another years ncb up so that probably explains alot of it but I'm not as quick to dismiss the auto renew quote nowadays... 10 years ago I'd laugh and start playing the 'find it much cheaper anywhere else' game but that doesn't work as well nowadays I've found

[dozeydustman]

Guy next door has been doing DIY since 6am.

Another neighbour has chickens. Don’t mind that, I’d love 2-3 hens clucking around in the garden. Except they have a rooster which is non-stop from 4am-is to whenever the sun goes down.

And yesterday afternoon the Saab started making a clonking noise from the rear suspension.

Great.

[beko1987]

Plan to start fixing the suspension at 3am next Sunday? 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

48 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

Guy next door has been doing DIY since 6am.

Another neighbour has chickens. Don’t mind that, I’d love 2-3 hens clucking around in the garden. Except they have a rooster which is non-stop from 4am-is to whenever the sun goes down.

And yesterday afternoon the Saab started making a clonking noise from the rear suspension.

Great.

I had a neighbour in an upstairs flat that had a habit of running their washing machine at about 11PM.  This was directly above my flat's bedroom.

The trick was to go out into the communal area, find the electrical distribution box with all the meters and turn their power off.  Then go back to bed.  The third time I did that - mysteriously - the washing machine never fired up later than 8PM.

There must but an equivalent for you.  Maybe for the rooster you could rehome an urban fox for a period of time...

[dozeydustman]

15 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Plan to start fixing the suspension at 3am next Sunday? 

Sadly I need to get the old house cleared out and gardened by Monday next, FOTU on Saturday, friendly mechanic may have to look. Hopefully it’s just a drop link or something similar.

[beko1987]

45 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

Sadly I need to get the old house cleared out and gardened by Monday next, FOTU on Saturday, friendly mechanic may have to look. Hopefully it’s just a drop link or something similar.

Probably should have added with a BFO hammer to my post... 🤣

 

I've got a similar tale a friend told, him and a few disgruntled neighbors (party's at all hours etc from one house) got together and had need to dispose of some scrap metal, so my friend was up at 7am on a Saturday morning when they knew the party house went to bed at 3/4am and spent 4 hours grinding it up very slowly with a disc a bit too wide to fit in the boot of his fiesta with the seats up 🤣 No one else complained bar party house owner and words were had and mysteriously they stopped doing it every night after that (and got pally with my friend in the end) 

[Markeh]

While out on Saturday evening, I managed to slip over and land on some cobbles squarely on my (rather large but seemingly not well padded enough) arse, so I'm incredibly grumpy at the soreness while moving or sat down as a result.

[Zelandeth]

Fecking eBay sellers.  Still trying to get a refund on a defective part.  Which the seller is now claiming didn't work because it was not the right part for my vehicle.  Despite my having physically checked the parts numbers matched - and the same part having been used on the model from 1979-93.

It's my word versus theirs, and PayPal have sided with the word of the seller, so looks like I'm £200 out of pocket.

[mercedade]

7 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Fecking eBay sellers.  Still trying to get a refund on a defective part.  Which the seller is now claiming didn't work because it was not the right part for my vehicle.  Despite my having physically checked the parts numbers matched - and the same part having been used on the model from 1979-93.

It's my word versus theirs, and PayPal have sided with the word of the seller, so looks like I'm £200 out of pocket.

Have you spoken on the phone with eBay? They're usually much, much better to deal with that way

[Noel Tidybeard]

it seems if you are *cough* over 40 sitting om the floor albeit on a screwfix freebe pad, polytroling all the arch & bumper plastics on a honda civic type-s can make you ache in many, many places

[Zelandeth]

Oh **** you, UPS.

I was literally outside on the driveway when the supposed delivery was attempted, and I can assure you that no UPS van so much as drove down our street.

[iainrcz]

Fitting a new shower screen, the old one was thick toughened glass.

So what did I do with it? Drop it and smash a tile 🙄

[Pieman]

8 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

Another neighbour has chickens. Don’t mind that, I’d love 2-3 hens clucking around in the garden. Except they have a rooster which is non-stop from 4am-is to whenever the sun goes down.

[cobblers]

2 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Oh **** you, UPS.

I was literally outside on the driveway when the supposed delivery was attempted, and I can assure you that no UPS van so much as drove down our street.

Wankers. 

At work I watched DPD drive up, hold his phone out of the window of the van and take a picture of our front door, then speed off. 

then a few seconds later "We missed you" 

[Metal Guru]

22 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Sick of needs fixed, needs clean, etc no you cunt " it" needs " a,to be, ING "

I can see where you’re headed!

[High Jetter]

6 hours ago, cobblers said:

Wankers. 

At work I watched DPD drive up, hold his phone out of the window of the van and take a picture of our front door, then speed off. 

then a few seconds later "We missed you" 

Yeabbut, why, FFS?

[RoverFolkUs]

29 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Yeabbut, why, FFS?

He was clearly running behind schedule, if they achieve a certain number of deliveries (or indeed, simply "attempts") within a certain timeframe then they get a bonus. Probably explains the widespread dangerous driving/parking

[Mrcento]

On 7/23/2023 at 12:51 PM, andyberg said:

Home insurance renewal time. With SAGA coz I am old. Last year £61, this year renewal £183!!! FFS. Along with a letter giving the usual crap about this is the best deal we can find blah blah blah... 

Goes onto compare the market, exactly the same details and SAGA comes up at £47!!! How is this possible? Phone SAGA they say they cannot match the £47??? Why? How come? So I cancel my renewal and take out a new policy. 

It seems every type of insurance renewal involves spending an hour of my time wasted getting new quotes then invariably staying with the same insurance company but having to take out a new policy. I thought there were new rules to stop the insurance companies over quoting for existing customers?

Boils my piss this does 

Same with car insurance.

My particular favourite is multi-car. Which no insurer lets me have at a sensible cost. They just what a ridiculous rate per car that would out way more expensive than just taking a second policy with zero NCB would be.

The absolute bare faced cheek of them is unreal.

If car A costs me £600 a year to insure and i want a multicar policy with a very similar car B, they will want £1400 for car B plus the £600 for car A, a 2 grand policy.

If i take out separate policies with the same company that offered the multicar price, car A obviously costs me £600, but car B, with a new policy and zero NCB applied, can now be insured for around £1000 (still ridiculous and a no for me, but still a saving of £400 v a multicar 'deal'). £1600 together.

But that's not even the best part.... if you go back to the multicar, they will CONGRATULATE you and say WE HAVE SAVED YOU £500 WITH MULTICAR 🤣 vs what exactly?, They themselves have just offered me a deal on 2 policies for £400 less than the policy they are now claiming to be saving me £500 on! a £900 difference between the figures they are pulling out their arse.

They absolutely make it up. Complete con artists.

[cobblers]

You picked the wrong day to double cross me again, dyson. 8 years, nothing but constant aggro. 3 new batteries, filters, brush motors, hours and hours stripping and rebuilding it and it would never work for more than a few weeks at a time. I'm not throwing any more good money after bad. GTF!

[Surface Rust]

17 minutes ago, Nyphur said:

Any chance I can have the battery off you please, if it survived? 😂 

Mine works nicely (scant consolation I'm sure!) bar the battery being a bit tired now.

If you have power tools that run on 18v you can almost certainly get an adapter for your Dyson. 

Someone on here recommended it and as my battery was dying I thought I'd give it a go. Picked up an adapter for my Makita batteries for £13 and it works a treat. 

[dozeydustman]

On 24/07/2023 at 16:39, Pieman said:

When I find the neighbour I may have to borrow my dad’s .22

[cobblers]

1 hour ago, Nyphur said:

Any chance I can have the battery off you please, if it survived? 😂 

Mine works nicely (scant consolation I'm sure!) bar the battery being a bit tired now.

The battery and fan actually still work, as well as they ever did. But I honestly could not allow this cursed beast to sour anyone elses life. It will drive you to violence, as it did me.