The grumpy thread

[Zelandeth]

5 minutes ago, Rust Collector said:

I needed an HD bulb for my Disco 3 whilst on a journey a while back. I bought one in Crawley Halfords, and it was a bit of a faff - I had to take a card hanger to the till, and the girl had to rummage through a random box of bulbs. Then I got shafted for £31.

I've since seen that the Range do the same bulb for about £9, and it's even left out on the shelf for you to shoplift if you like. I will give them a try next time I need one.

Yeah, ours have done the same for years with the more expensive ones which I could kind of understand.  Fact that the entire damned lighting section is behind the tills now just seems like total madness.  How many hours of staff time does that waste them in a week?

I really feel for the folks behind the tills too, they have a crap enough job as it is having to deal with the public, nevertheless now needing to find 3/4 of what they're asking for.  Especially as a bunch of folks - like me - are probably already hacked off from having spent ten minutes walking round the store becoming increasingly convinced they're going blind as they can't find any of the general purpose spares anywhere now.

[Split_Pin]

40 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

other party may turn round and claim you scraped their car.  It's worth reporting and getting the reference

Never thought of that. 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

WTAF is this shite? The individual seems to think it appropriate to wear this getup to a children's charity event. So, so wrong.

Fantastic* example of one the perverted knighthood crew, too. 

 

 

[DavieW]

45 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Never thought of that. 

Similar happened to my wife. She went out for petrol one Sunday at our Tesco local. A while later 2 police turned up at the door asking if she'd been in Tesco because someone reported she'd reversed into their car. She denied reserving into it, they inspected the car, breathalysed her and THEN went to check Tesco CCTV. Never heard another word about it.

[EyesWeldedShut]

1 hour ago, motorpunk said:

A very discourteous courtesy car. 

Bini? Standard issue.

[motorpunk]

9 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Bini? Standard issue.

Yeah. It’s crap but handles so well.

[Remspoor]

7 hours ago, hairnet said:

FRO

Was posting that   knee-cessary?

[Remspoor]

4 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Grump because my wife phoned and said that some cunt had bumped the A4 in Tesco car park this morning and fucked off.

Not anything like as bad as I was expecting, barely noticeable on fact and it's certainly not the first time this bumper has been bumped anyway. Just as well its an old car.

All sorted:

Still looks decent:

The reason she knew someone had bumped the car is because someone else left a note on the windscreen giving the make, model, colour and reg plate of the car that bumped into mine, which was very good of them. I was going to call the police and leave it at that but considering there's no damage done then I'm just going to forget about it.

I bet you have a lot of Roman around in those shoes. 😁

[EyesWeldedShut]

4 minutes ago, motorpunk said:

Yeah. It’s crap but handles so well.

That light covers a multitude of sins - Sprog now drives hers armed with an ELM327 and an iPhone app (MAF glitch) - saves her visiting the old people every other day

[Timewaster]

8 hours ago, purplebargeken said:

Trying to get hold of a useful person at virgin media is nigh on impossible. Useless twats.

I find if your Virgin service is working (and to be fair it usually does), then TOUCH NOTHING, DO NOTHING, CHANGE NOTHING. 

The moment you try and change anything, they fuck it up royally.

I had a virgin mobile on Vodafone. 

They merged with O2 but I don't get a great signal, so they let me keep my Vodafone sim and that was OK.

Then I got a call centre call, promising to half my bill, double my data... all that usual schpeil.

I must have told  them 10 times, it MUST be a Vodafone sim.

Yes, yes, no problem sir. Vodafone sim.

Guess what they sent me?

It took hours and hours on the phone / chatbot etc to sort out. Because I now had a new contract they couldn't supply new Vodafone sims to new customers. 

But I'm not a new customer, and I have a Vodafone sim. You cancelled it!

 

And so on and on and on.....

 

 

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

Was posting that   knee-cessary?

He kneeded to get it out there, though I'm not sure why.

[Split_Pin]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

I bet you have a lot of Roman around in those shoes. 😁

My 'addidas' 4-stripe sliders have covered many miles.

[richardmorris]

11 hours ago, hairnet said:

FRO

Did you mean to post on your only fans account?

[hairnet]

are you the only one

 

[Spiny Norman]

Never in my life have I found it so hard to buy a 'nice' car with what I consider a reasonable amount of cash to burn. I knew this day would come sooner or later the way the market went in the 2010s, but just about  everything I want basically doesn't exist with a petrol engine and I don't do tractors for all sorts of reasons.  Mercedes E class (There are NO petrol W212s on eBay under £7.5k, in the UK, 200+ diseasels), 3 or 5 series BMWs, Jags, most SUVs are at best 80/20 diseasel. I'll end up buying a fecking Focus  or something...

[Split_Pin]

5 hours ago, Spiny Norman said:

Never in my life have I found it so hard to buy a 'nice' car with what I consider a reasonable amount of cash to burn. I knew this day would come sooner or later the way the market went in the 2010s, but just about  everything I want basically doesn't exist with a petrol engine and I don't do tractors for all sorts of reasons.  Mercedes E class (There are NO petrol W212s on eBay under £7.5k, in the UK, 200+ diseasels), 3 or 5 series BMWs, Jags, most SUVs are at best 80/20 diseasel. I'll end up buying a fecking Focus  or something...

If you don't want a diesel just because of ULEZ you could have had my late Dad's 2017 V40. Not sure what your budget is mind, I was looking for £9,500.

[Spiny Norman]

5 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

If you don't want a diesel just because of ULEZ you could have had my late Dad's 2017 V40. Not sure what your budget is mind, I was looking for £9,500.

That Volvo was a petrol? I was sure I saw a 'D' in the ad.
It's nowt to do with LEZ zones, I've been into Glasgow city centre twice in the last 10 years and both times took the tube, I just hate diseasels and even if I didn't I can't have one because I do lots of short journeys which apparently these engineering miracles can't put up with...

It's frustrating that after years of driving 20 year old shitters having now decided I could liberate some cash for something a bit newer less shit everything I like only seems to be available with the engine from a commercial vehicle. It's incredible when you look at some models you wonder if the manufacturer even offered a petrol version besides the 5 litre V8 AMG/M Power/S/R varieties? BMW 5 series or X5, Mercedes E class or ML, Jaguar XF... where are the cooking 2-3 litre petrols?

[Stanky]

3 minutes ago, Spiny Norman said:

That Volvo was a petrol? I was sure I saw a 'D' in the ad.
It's nowt to do with LEZ zones, I've been into Glasgow city centre twice in the last 10 years and both times took the tube, I just hate diseasels and even if I didn't I can't have one because I do lots of short journeys which apparently these engineering miracles can't put up with...

It's frustrating that after years of driving 20 year old shitters having now decided I could liberate some cash for something a bit newer less shit everything I like only seems to be available with the engine from a commercial vehicle. It's incredible when you look at some models you wonder if the manufacturer even offered a petrol version besides the 5 litre V8 AMG/M Power/S/R varieties? BMW 5 series or X5, Mercedes E class or ML, Jaguar XF... where are the cooking 2-3 litre petrols?

Have you looked at Lexuses at all? Plenty of petrol ones of those in 2-3L modes. 

[rattlecan]

2 hours ago, Stanky said:

Have you looked at Lexuses at all? Plenty of petrol ones of those in 2-3L modes. 

Surely the plural must be Lexi 🤣

[DavieW]

Sitting in the Premier Inn restaurant just now and woman at the next table has never stopped talking to her work colleague 😡

Edit -f*ck me,  her food's arrived and she's still yakking. 

[Spiny Norman]

5 hours ago, rattlecan said:

Surely the plural must be Lexi 🤣

Technically since Lexus is a made up word and not derived from Latin I believe the plural should be Lexuses, or possibly even just Lexus since Toyota themselves have said that's the correct plural form of Lexus. But then they also say the plural form of Prius is Prii so what do they know...

Anyway I've considered them but I've never been that much of a fan. It's a type of  car I should like and the RX SUV thing ticks a lot of boxes but far too many of them are gold and have my least favourite interior trim colour combo of beige leather with orange 'wood'. One of the reasons I like BMWs and Mercs is that a lot of them are black, black with black accents, like Hotblack Desiato's spaceship...

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, DavieW said:

woman has never stopped talking 😡

You only just learned this? 🤣

[hairnet]

Keep thinking its saturday

Its been a shit week

[ETCHY]

Selling a house.
Our last house move was 23 years ago. It took just over a month.
Now 23 years later we have also sorts of tech advances etc etc but we've been told it's 3 months minimum..

I mean wtf, why does it now take bloody longer than it did ??!!!

[Metal Guru]

4 minutes ago, ETCHY said:

Selling a house.
Our last house move was 23 years ago. It took just over a month.
Now 23 years later we have also sorts of tech advances etc etc but we've been told it's 3 months minimum..

I mean wtf, why does it now take bloody longer than it did ??!!!

Probably a security thing. It’s so easy to fake documents etc especially when everything is done online. By making it so slow, the scammers don’t bother and try easier pickings like getting granny to tell them her bank details.

[warch]

10 minutes ago, ETCHY said:

Selling a house.
Our last house move was 23 years ago. It took just over a month.
Now 23 years later we have also sorts of tech advances etc etc but we've been told it's 3 months minimum..

I mean wtf, why does it now take bloody longer than it did ??!!!

My wife says house sales in Aus take weeks rather than months to sort out. She thinks the relevant section of the British legal and financial professions have a vested interest in drawing out matters over several months. 

[beko1987]

I spent some time last night perusing used Nissan Quasquais of the diesel manual flavour and wondering if a cheap one would make a nice car that I could afford to run. 

It might, but then I started researching my hdi's issues and have some pointers to look at, so decided maybe another day. 

The only thing my bloody Facebook is full of this morning is adverts for Nissans! It's the only place I get served ads as the pihole blocks the rest, might turn it off for a laugh and see what comes up in the browser! 

Would a £15/1700 quasquai make a good big an car? Need some space for when I've got the kids and I don't want anything I need to be precious about but it needs to be economical and reliable. Saw some pics of the instrument cluster showing between 45 and 52mpg though which I could take

Feel a bit sick for even thinking of a quasquai but they seem to be ageing well and now their not the motability open legged scum mum vehicle of choice (same with the juke but I think that's be too small) and I don't see thousands of them being driven badly everywhere their not so bad... 

[scaryoldcortina]

6 minutes ago, warch said:

My wife says house sales in Aus take weeks rather than months to sort out. She thinks the relevant section of the British legal and financial professions have a vested interest in drawing out matters over several months. 

I think she's probably right, I'm surprised the land registry accepts applications that aren't hand written on vellum!

For example, if you use a conveyancer you can prove your identity by showing them your photo id/passport. If you don't, you need your passport, a passport photo, form ID1 and get said form signed by a conveyancer.

[andy18s]

18 minutes ago, warch said:

My wife says house sales in Aus take weeks rather than months to sort out. She thinks the relevant section of the British legal and financial professions have a vested interest in drawing out matters over several months. 

As long as the seller has their documentation sorted as by the law,you can buy a house here in Bulgaria within a day.

Anyone none EU resident now has to own a company, which then buys the property as an asset.

That's assuming you can get a D Visa in the 1st place now though..

[fairkens]

On 19/04/2024 at 10:45, warch said:

My wife says house sales in Aus take weeks rather than months to sort out. She thinks the relevant section of the British legal and financial professions have a vested interest in drawing out matters over several months. 

Unless it's a massive house everyone involved is working on a fixed fee so what's the incentive?

 

The real reason is the race to the bottom with fees. To make a profit each conveyancer will have hundreds of files. You can only touch so many files in one week so matters sit. Add that to these hellhole conveyancing factories full of people on minimum wage who have no idea what they're doing and you've got yourself a problem.

If you want your house purchase to go quickly and smoothly make sure both you and your seller are paying a proper solicitor hourly rates. You'll be done in a month no bother