The grumpy thread

[messerschmitt owner]

BT Bloody Internet

 

Explain to me how, when YOUR exchange goes down, that it can be my router that doesn't work anymore! Tell me how, when you have supposedly fixed the problem with your exchange that my broadband still doesn't work! No I don't have a BT total broadband box, no I don't want to turn my house into an internet hotspot, I just want my internet back at home!

 

Explain to me how you can find no record of my contract with you despite you providing me with internet and broadband since 1998 and religiously take the money every month. Explain to me the logic of 'No we can't give you a MAC code without your account number', followed by, 'we can't give you your account number without you giving us your account number!' You know who I am, I'm calling from the landline number you can see on your screen - the one you know is in my house, the one you know the address of! I'd give you my account number if only I could log on to the internet but I can't access the internet, you fuckwit! That's why I am calling you in India!

 

Well, BT broadband, despite only ever having two issues with your service, I am going elsewhere! Mac code requested by e-mail from work this morning, complaint heading for Ofcom if you don't get your arse in gear and new (cheaper, much, much cheaper) broadband coming soon from elsewhere!

[Cheggers]

When I left BT Broadband for Sky a few months ago, they also claimed to have no record of me as a customer and therefore no way of generating a MAC code. It's amazing how quickly things changed when I contacted the CEO's office asking them to refund my quarterly payments they had taken for the last 10 years when I "wasn't a customer". Tossers.

[messerschmitt owner]

When I left BT Broadband for Sky a few months ago, they also claimed to have no record of me as a customer and therefore no way of generating a MAC code. It's amazing how quickly things changed when I contacted the CEO's office asking them to refund my quarterly payments they had taken for the last 10 years when I "wasn't a customer". Tossers.

That's a useful tip! I'll try that if I don't have my MAC code in the five days they say it will take.

[morris_ital_lover]

University try to charge me for my accomodation, knowing that I will not have any money as the student loan has not come through... My high street bank that might or might not have enough money to sponsor the premiership, informs me that as a result the transaction is cancelled and they want £8 for the pleasure (the day after it turns out they will get a fairly large percentage of the countries deficit for their bonuses) THE BANKS ARE FULL OF UTTER KNOB ENDS. (See fiat 126 thread for inspiraton).

 

m0rris

[eddyramrod]

THE BANKS ARE FULL OF UTTER KNOB ENDS.

 

m0rris

 

You didn't know that already?????

[Tayne]

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[trigger]

My road tax is due at the end of the month on my Bora so i went on the DVLA site to check on the price to be confronted with this.

 

The vehicle details for Trig's car are:

 

Date of Liability 01 02 2011

Date of First Registration 14 06 2002

Year of Manufacture 2002

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1896CC

CO2 Emissions 146g/Km

Fuel Type Heavy Oil

Export Marker Not Applicable

Vehicle Status Licence Due to Expire

Vehicle Colour GREEN

Vehicle Type Approval M1

Vehicle Identity Check (VIC) Marker VIC required

A Vehicle Identity Check (VIC) marker has been set against this vehicle record.

For more information on the VIC marker please visit Vehicle Identity Check

 

GR8 i though as that wasn't there the other week so i rang up the DVLA to find out what was happening, It turns out that when i had my crash last year in my Passat i transferred my P/P plate to my new car, My insurance company then balls up and contacted DVLA to say the Passat had been written off but gave them the private plate number instead of the original number it had gone back on.

 

I've now got to get hold of my insurance company and get them to change it all as the DVLA said they can't do anything about it and then I've been told I've got to go to the post office with all my details (V5, Insurance etc) to get it checked.

 

It's due it's MOT this week as well so i hope i can still get my MOT and road tax whilst it's got a VIC marker next to it...

[pompei]

Bought a Mondeo diseasel this week. I've never sat in such an uncomfortable car, despite power leather seats. I've done about 6 hours in it and my back feels like Giant Haystacks has splashed on it. Looks like the bead seat cover and foam cushion stalls at the Sunday market are going to get some custom.

[chaseracer]

...bead seat cover...

I found an ancient one of these in the back of the shed when I was dismantling it to make way for Domestic Management's new patio. It makes the Blingo look like an Istanbul taxi, but my lower back is much eased

 

Should be in the Grin thread really...

[autofive]

the youtube page of the Tucson shooter Jared Lee Loughner

 

the guys clearly a strange one - and seems to have taken a few lives today

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/Classitup10#p/a

[morris_ital_lover]

Feck me... that is a weird one, didn't look like he expected to last the day (its all in the past tense).

 

m0rris

[autofive]

one of his fav books: To Kill A Mockingbird

[scaryoldcortina]

one of his fav books: To Kill A Mockingbird

 

Yeah, but The wizard of Oz, one flew over the cuckoos nest and Mein Kampf are on the same list.

 

He seems to have missed Catch-22 though.

[autofive]

one of his fav books: To Kill A Mockingbird

 

Yeah, but The wizard of Oz, one flew over the cuckoos nest and Mein Kampf are on the same list.

 

He seems to have missed Catch-22 though.

 

im not sure if oswald or mcVie had a copy of Baum's classic though

[wuvvum]

RUST.

 

What is the purpose of its existence?

 

[eddyramrod]

It's Mother Nature, recycling the materials we've ripped out of her to build our beautiful cars. Simple revenge. We mine the iron ore, she sends moisture to reclaim it.

And this is the good side!

[Cavcraft]

Bought a Mondeo diseasel this week.

 

 

That's all you needed to say. You have my sympathies.

[seth]

I laugh in the face of rust!

 

After crying quietly in the corner for several years.

[Lankytim]

Maestro front crank seals!

[autofive]

miserable greedy landlords wanting 400 a month for a scabby 2 bed street house in the worst parts of town, and 2 months rent in advance

 

i thought property prices were on the decline?

 

it doesnt seem to have a knock -on effect on rental prices

[ashmicro]

Move to Northern Ireland. The arse has fallen out of house prices. My mates sister paid £300k for her house at the peak of the "bubble". It's now worth £170-180k. Ouch.

[Tayne]

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[autofive]

i think your right

 

found a couple for 325 a calender month, one even has a garage - checking them out later today

[Tayne]

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[ashmicro]

 

And that's what, at least partially, buggered the whole lot up in the first place. So many properties were "buy to let" that this greatly reduced the number of properties available to buy. We all know, of course, what happens when supply of anything dries up - prices go up. Thus, in order to maintain business turnover, the wanking sector had to increase the amounts of money lent, frequently lent to those who had no real prospect of paying it back.

 

I blame the French.

[Tayne]

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[meggersdog]

The "dot com" crash in the early 2000s meant there were a lot of investors looking for solid physical things to put money into and, as we apparently have a housing shortage, increased demand pushed prices up.

 

The American banks started loaning money without sufficient security and the rest of the wirld's financial institutions followed suit.

 

I'm not really sure we can blame the French for this one...

 

 

80% of those subprime mortgages were "adjustable rate" fixed for the first year.Whilst in that fixed rate year shouty American salesmen were selling the debts on to greedy bankers in Europe.Once the forclosures started the banks tightened up lending but by then it was too late.

[ashmicro]

Yeah< I was kidding about the French. A mate of mine lived in Atlanta, Georgia about 3 years ago, and I remember him telling me that the banks were practically pulling folks off the street to see if anyone wanted to borrow money. Similarly, at the time my sister worked for an Irish bank, and she told me that they were loaning money first, and only then checking out the pepole they had lent it to. I have another mate who is a building contractor, and he's a reputable chap who hates being in debt. He once showed me a letter he got from a lender (not his own bank) offering him a loan of £1.5 million

[autofive]

i remember at the height of the sillyness going into a high st bank to pay in some cash for my mother (clearly female name on the paying in book) and being offered a loan by counter staff even though i wasnt a customer

 

 

oh and the garage i went to see today was made from asbestos and chipboard with a rusty steel frame and a definate lean i didnt even open the door

[Tayne]

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