The grumpy thread

[andy18s]

30 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Worth going to an in-store help desk and camp out until they get bored looking at you.

Surely just filling a trolley and walking out is how it's done these days?

[Blunderguts]

11 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Seems it must be somewhat dependent on the system in question.

I just out of sheer curiosity tried it here and it worked fine.  Firefox last updated this morning according to the logs.  This is on a Linux host though, so no idea how different things might be with regards to the inner workings of the browser.  My curiosity didn't extend as far as rebooting into Windows and no doubt having to install a couple of dozen updates, to see if it was working as well.

It's doing the exact same thing on my Android tablet.

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Worth going to an in-store help desk and camp out until they get bored looking at you.

I tried that in Comet once when they wouldn’t refund me something with a three year guarantee because I didn’t have the box. Who keeps a box three years ffs?

I just stood by the entrance telling people not to buy anything because they don’t honour guarantees. No one turned away or even asked me about it. More interested in the instant gratification of spending £2k on a telly.

Any way my wife getting more and more embarrassed dragged me away.
 

[warch]

Not absolutely sure whether this should be in the other thread, because I'm perversely enjoying people losing their shit about this. 

I live right next door to a level crossing on a railway line into Wales (sadly about a mile outside God's own country so I don't get free prescriptions or Bara Brith). Anyway Network Rail decided that the level crossing needed completely ripping out and replacing, quite a major task even on a single track line. They started the works last Friday which obviously involved closing the crossing and the road that runs over it (until Wednesday when they can finish off the resurfacing).

Oh the drama... The village Faceache page is chocka with people whinging about not been able to get through, not been able to take their kids to school or get to work. There are still two ways out of the village on either side of the crossing, and a five/ten minute detour will get anyone where they need to go. Or they can use the booted bony things on end of each of their legs should they need to go somewhere in the other of crossing (which is open to foot traffic).  The irony with this is that amongst the only people not moaning are the two families that live directly next to the crossing where all the noise (night works) was going on*.

I'm not going to mention that they got to close the road again in a few months time to replace the tracks as well...

*The noise used to really annoy me, but happily I invested in a set of super duper noise cancelling earbuds for me and mrs Warch. Not cheap at 6 quid a pair (although you can pay ten times that) but absolutely gamechangingly effective at cancelling out things like Stihl saws, tracked machinery, reversing beepers and concrete breaking right outside my bedroom window at three in the morning.  

[Westbay]

8 hours ago, Spiny Norman said:

Believe me, I've tried. I don't have all the information they need for the claim and of course I'm not going to get it from Asda.

Have read of this :-

https://www.gov.uk/make-court-claim-for-money

 

[comfortablynumb]

BBC news is pissing me off.

Massive floods a bit further south than me, fortunate for me, but I feel for the poor sods whose lives are turned upside down from it, having had a relative flooded I have some idea of the toll it takes.

What do the BBC go on about?

A football match has had to be cancelled 

Fuck off. Just fuck off 

I'm becoming more and more in the Guy Martin camp that there's a conspiracy to force football down peoples throats to stop them realising how much shit theyre in.

And what did George Orwell say in '1984?'

 

TL:Dr I fucking hate football 

[Rocket88]

14 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

BBC news is pissing me off.

Massive floods a bit further south than me, fortunate for me, but I feel for the poor sods whose lives are turned upside down from it, having had a relative flooded I have some idea of the toll it takes.

What do the BBC go on about?

A football match has had to be cancelled 

Fuck off. Just fuck off 

I'm becoming more and more in the Guy Martin camp that there's a conspiracy to force football down peoples throats to stop them realising how much shit theyre in.

And what did George Orwell say in '1984?'

 

TL:Dr I fucking hate football 

You think you’ve got problems, my other half supports Scunthorpe….

[Pieman]

5 hours ago, warch said:

Not absolutely sure whether this should be in the other thread, because I'm perversely enjoying people losing their shit about this. 

I live right next door to a level crossing on a railway line into Wales (sadly about a mile outside God's own country so I don't get free prescriptions or Bara Brith). Anyway Network Rail decided that the level crossing needed completely ripping out and replacing, quite a major task even on a single track line. They started the works last Friday which obviously involved closing the crossing and the road that runs over it (until Wednesday when they can finish off the resurfacing).

Oh the drama... The village Faceache page is chocka with people whinging about not been able to get through, not been able to take their kids to school or get to work. There are still two ways out of the village on either side of the crossing, and a five/ten minute detour will get anyone where they need to go. Or they can use the booted bony things on end of each of their legs should they need to go somewhere in the other of crossing (which is open to foot traffic).  The irony with this is that amongst the only people not moaning are the two families that live directly next to the crossing where all the noise (night works) was going on*.

I'm not going to mention that they got to close the road again in a few months time to replace the tracks as well...

*The noise used to really annoy me, but happily I invested in a set of super duper noise cancelling earbuds for me and mrs Warch. Not cheap at 6 quid a pair (although you can pay ten times that) but absolutely gamechangingly effective at cancelling out things like Stihl saws, tracked machinery, reversing beepers and concrete breaking right outside my bedroom window at three in the morning.  

The only time I had cause to complain about road closures was when different companies/services managed to put roadworks with temporary lights simultaneously on all four sides of the estate I live on, which meant at peak times you couldn't get out of the estate.  

[Zelandeth]

Yeah, it's a bit wet.

 

Good couple of inches in the garage.  

Have a pump in place to attempt to keep it under control when round 2 hits us later.

[comfortablynumb]

When I used to tanker for Anglian water @warch,there were a few people who would come out at night and complain about the noise the tanker made ( they're not quiet)

Usual response was ' that's fine, I can stop no problem, so long as you don't mind your living room filling with raw sewage!'

Most people saw it my way 😆

[Pieman]

53 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

BBC news is pissing me off.

Massive floods a bit further south than me, fortunate for me, but I feel for the poor sods whose lives are turned upside down from it, having had a relative flooded I have some idea of the toll it takes.

What do the BBC go on about?

A football match has had to be cancelled 

Fuck off. Just fuck off 

I'm becoming more and more in the Guy Martin camp that there's a conspiracy to force football down peoples throats to stop them realising how much shit theyre in.

And what did George Orwell say in '1984?'

 

TL:Dr I fucking hate football 

It has however cheered me up to see that said football match is AFC Wimbledon and they now have a dirty great sinkhole in their pitch.

Shouldn't have built over our stock car stadium then should you, you twats?

[dozeydustman]

As if a previous owner of the Saab chewing the heads up on the break disc retaining screws was bad enough, the discs are also rust welded to the hubs. I gave up after 30 mins with my heaviest hammer as the bearing is now a bit grumbly. I could heat and quench but that really would finish off the bearing. At least my pads and discs are correct.

I moved the Citroen and it promptly blew its exhaust.

I’ve just spent £40 on more suspension bits for the Kia, £60 on a pair of front bearings for the Saab and now I need an exhaust for the Citroen.

Arsebiscuits.

[lisbon_road]

7 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

As if a previous owner of the Saab chewing the heads up on the break disc retaining screws was bad enough, the discs are also rust welded to the hubs. I gave up after 30 mins with my heaviest hammer as the bearing is now a bit grumbly. I could heat and quench but that really would finish off the bearing. At least my pads and discs are correct.

I moved the Citroen and it promptly blew its exhaust.

I’ve just spent £40 on more suspension bits for the Kia, £60 on a pair of front bearings for the Saab and now I need an exhaust for the Citroen.

Arsebiscuits.

Years ago, I couldn't get the discs off a Sierra.  In the end, I tried cutting through the flat disc area with a hacksaw - which is easy as the cast iron is easy to saw though.  This stress relieved the discs and they fell straight off.  Honestly, a lot easier than it sounds and better than sledging them - which I had tried and didn't work.  

Stating the obvious, you want to make sure you don't saw through something else at the same time.  

[omegod]

14 hours ago, Spiny Norman said:

I've accepted I've lost the money but any ideas how one might theoretically 'hurt' them to the tune of about £50? If I see one of their vans parked up I'm quite tempted just to tan the windscreen but they've probably got cameras in them...

Find a local shoplifter and order your Christmas meat and booze  

[dozeydustman]

17 minutes ago, lisbon_road said:

Years ago, I couldn't get the discs off a Sierra.  In the end, I tried cutting through the flat disc area with a hacksaw - which is easy as the cast iron is easy to saw though.  This stress relieved the discs and they fell straight off.  Honestly, a lot easier than it sounds and better than sledging them - which I had tried and didn't work.  

Stating the obvious, you want to make sure you don't saw through something else at the same time.  

This is something I was considering, either a hacksaw or the angery wheel of death, but as the bearing is grumbling and it’s combined with the hub as knock-out assembly, I can just knock out the bearing with the disc attached. 

[warch]

9 hours ago, warch said:

Not absolutely sure whether this should be in the other thread, because I'm perversely enjoying people losing their shit about this. 

I live right next door to a level crossing on a railway line into Wales (sadly about a mile outside God's own country so I don't get free prescriptions or Bara Brith). Anyway Network Rail decided that the level crossing needed completely ripping out and replacing, quite a major task even on a single track line. They started the works last Friday which obviously involved closing the crossing and the road that runs over it (until Wednesday when they can finish off the resurfacing).

Oh the drama... The village Faceache page is chocka with people whinging about not been able to get through, not been able to take their kids to school or get to work. There are still two ways out of the village on either side of the crossing, and a five/ten minute detour will get anyone where they need to go. Or they can use the booted bony things on end of each of their legs should they need to go somewhere in the other of crossing (which is open to foot traffic).  The irony with this is that amongst the only people not moaning are the two families that live directly next to the crossing where all the noise (night works) was going on*.

I'm not going to mention that they got to close the road again in a few months time to replace the tracks as well...

*The noise used to really annoy me, but happily I invested in a set of super duper noise cancelling earbuds for me and mrs Warch. Not cheap at 6 quid a pair (although you can pay ten times that) but absolutely gamechangingly effective at cancelling out things like Stihl saws, tracked machinery, reversing beepers and concrete breaking right outside my bedroom window at three in the morning.  

It gets better. Some septuagenarian Daily Male in the village has been around to photograph the progress on the level crossing  (9.45 and still no one on site!) for his own self aggrandisement on social meeja. Luckily I'm no longer on the village Facebook page because my response would be some along the lines of;

No you worthless old git, there isn't anyone on site because they were there all weekend in the pissing rain rushing to finish the job four days ahead of schedule including past 3 o'clock this morning when you were fast asleep. They can't reopen the road because the resurfacing crew isn't available until Wednesday  (information volunteered by the bloke from Network Rail) and they can't put road plates over the railway line in the meantime because (and IANA train driver) the trains probably wouldn't like it.

[Remspoor]

5 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

I'm becoming more and more in the Guy Martin camp that there's a conspiracy to force football down peoples throats to stop them realising how much shit theyre in.

I bet you don't get free tickets, do you? 😉

[jakebullet]

I'm on a terrible caravan holiday. There's grade 1 scum next door.

No smoking sign? That only applies to tobacco not weed.

One is a shirtless moron wearing shorts n flip-flops cos the ladies* love a bit of gut hanging out. They've done preloading and just gone out. Mr gut has accessorised with a cagoule n his gut still hanging out. Be fighting them off with a shitty stick.

Can't wait till the 2am Jerry Springer fights.

[warch]

1 hour ago, jakebullet said:

I'm on a terrible caravan holiday. There's grade 1 scum next door.

No smoking sign? That only applies to tobacco not weed.

One is a shirtless moron wearing shorts n flip-flops cos the ladies* love a bit of gut hanging out. They've done preloading and just gone out. Mr gut has accessorised with a cagoule n his gut still hanging out. Be fighting them off with a shitty stick.

Can't wait till the 2am Jerry Springer fights.

Have they attached an air conditioning unit to the side of your caravan yet?

[Wibble]

7 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Yeah, it's a bit wet.

 

Good couple of inches in the garage.  

Have a pump in place to attempt to keep it under control when round 2 hits us later.

And me and my team won’t be around to help the poor flood victims in future, thanks to blind/short sighted insurers. Good luck everyone!

[108]

8 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

And what did George Orwell say in '1984?'

Young Mr. Orwell was years ahead of the game. 
 

See also: Ministry of Truth etc.

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, jakebullet said:

I'm on a terrible caravan holiday. There's grade 1 scum next door.

No smoking sign? That only applies to tobacco not weed.

One is a shirtless moron wearing shorts n flip-flops cos the ladies* love a bit of gut hanging out. They've done preloading and just gone out. Mr gut has accessorised with a cagoule n his gut still hanging out. Be fighting them off with a shitty stick.

Can't wait till the 2am Jerry Springer fights.

Scale of 1 to 10, how does it compare to being at home?

[Split_Pin]

13 hours ago, warch said:

Stihl saws, tracked machinery, reversing beepers and concrete breaking right outside my bedroom window at three in the morning.  

Count yourself lucky*

My house backs onto one of the busiest railway junctions in Central Scotland and there has been an ongoing programme of approximately twice weekly works, entirely between the hours of midnight and 5am, for the entire 13 years I have lived here. In addition to the Stihl saws, hammering, throwing big metal things into a skip from far away, blaring radios, loud conversations, flicking torches, my absolute favourite is the big hissing machine that blasts stones out of it and peeps it's horn as it perpetually moves 3 feet at a time.

Thankfully I love railways and this is necessary noise, as opposed to some fanny blasting music at 3am so its never bothered me, but not everyone's the same like that.

[Split_Pin]

I've had a spectacularly shite day, everything has gone wrong but the centrepiece has to be my car insurance company.

I'm with 1st Central for all 4 cars and I've recently renewed my policy for the red A4. I've got my 20 years' no claims bonus on it and this year the price came down, very surprised. Shortly after renewal, I get a request from them to provide additional evidence. The tone of their correspondence suggested they didn't believe something I'd told them.

So I supplied my driving licence and a DVLA check code to authorise them to check my driving record. A day later I get an email telling me that my premium is going up by £132 because I got an SP30 in June. Now I know I have never had a speeding fine and I checked the DVLA myself and it confirmed that everything was clean and tip-top. I phoned them up and the woman insisted I had a speeding endorsement.  I got a bit ratty at this point and suggested they check their records again. I gave them a fresh check code and she put me on hold for half an hour. She eventually came back and confirmed it was an error and my licence is clean. After putting me on hold for another twenty minutes, she finally came back and said no change to my premium.

I thought that this was such a spectacularly shit customer experience that it must be a scam but I had already logged into my account which confirmed that documents were outstanding. 

They couldn't run a bath.

[reb]

2 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

I've had a spectacularly shite day, everything has gone wrong but the centrepiece has to be my car insurance company.

I'm with 1st Central for all 4 cars and I've recently renewed my policy for the red A4. I've got my 20 years' no claims bonus on it and this year the price came down, very surprised. Shortly after renewal, I get a request from them to provide additional evidence. The tone of their correspondence suggested they didn't believe something I'd told them.

So I supplied my driving licence and a DVLA check code to authorise them to check my driving record. A day later I get an email telling me that my premium is going up by £132 because I got an SP30 in June. Now I know I have never had a speeding fine and I checked the DVLA myself and it confirmed that everything was clean and tip-top. I phoned them up and the woman insisted I had a speeding endorsement.  I got a bit ratty at this point and suggested they check their records again. I gave them a fresh check code and she put me on hold for half an hour. She eventually came back and confirmed it was an error and my licence is clean. After putting me on hold for another twenty minutes, she finally came back and said no change to my premium.

I thought that this was such a spectacularly shit customer experience that it must be a scam but I had already logged into my account which confirmed that documents were outstanding. 

They couldn't run a bath.

I was with 1st Central a few years ago and I got the impression that they barely actually exist.

[BorniteIdentity]

I am with 1st Central and - other than being cheap - I’m pretty confident they have nothing going for them. 

[Rustybullethole]

7 hours ago, lisbon_road said:

Years ago, I couldn't get the discs off a Sierra.  In the end, I tried cutting through the flat disc area with a hacksaw - which is easy as the cast iron is easy to saw though.  This stress relieved the discs and they fell straight off.  Honestly, a lot easier than it sounds and better than sledging them - which I had tried and didn't work.  

Stating the obvious, you want to make sure you don't saw through something else at the same time.  

Like that. Wish i'd thought of it when I chose to turn the stuck fuckers on my transit into very sharp high velocity shrapnel with a club hammer. 

[jakebullet]

11 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Scale of 1 to 10, how does it compare to being at home?

A Len Goodman SEVEN!

It's a blend of CND but with the other sides weed smoking (though they're not cutting a tiny lawn for 3 hours while monged out).

There's also a hint of new students, wow we can get pissed at any time of the day.

They're also doing the mindless chav things. Shirtless shouts he's not eating fucking wholemeal followed by the thud of a sliced loaf landing on a random caravan roof. Fortunately not mine.

[Bfg]

On 23/02/2015 at 13:18, Jazoli said:

Yes this, I was amazed the other day to be pointed to my Google location history, because I have been using an android phone for the last couple of years there is a track of every single movement I have made going back 2 years, frightening.

I received the following email just today, saying they can find (ie., track) your phone from other devices, even if it is offline . . .

Although intended to be helpful, I feel this is invasive.  They did this without my knowledge or consent. I have opted out, but really I do not trust that it'll make any difference.  If I now only have the option to turn it off, that says they had turned it on !  ..perhaps in a software update.   And could, and probably will, by default do so again.

As I'm not a criminal, nor a terrorist this ought not concern me, but... because my phone number is in the public domain, ie., I give it out to friends who save it in their contacts, and I give it to businesses who then give it to couriers.. what scammer, id thief, or other criminal element doesn't have access to it ? 

Within a day or two anyone, whoever doesn't already have it will know my home address. Within a week they'll know where I shop, and where I am during most of each day. And the next time I go to an event, or some distance away, or am away overnight or for a weekend - they'll know my home is empty. That doesn't sound like a service I'd want to subscribe to.

 

 

Even if you turn off offline finding - the risk is gone ?  nope. . .

 

[Pieman]

24 minutes ago, jakebullet said:

(though they're not cutting a tiny lawn for 3 hours while monged out).

Thank you, you just reminded me of this.