The grumpy thread

[Guest]

I think the problem with Sundays as a kid was the available amount of activies versus the length of the day. You were alright if you had some new Speccy games (or knew someone who did), but the chances of that happening every week were minimal.Sunday remains a thorn in my side even with the current "Sunday Trading" compromise - due to having to work Monday-Friday, I tend to tinker with cars on a weekend. Which is all well and good until I realise I need a part, tin of primer, tube of instant gasket or something. Then I realise it's Sunday, look at my watch and have to abandon it as the motoring discount places will be shut. Usually when I'm in the mood to get a load of stuff done - FRUSTRATING.Wish I could work Sundays and have one of the weekdays off instead, I'd happily turn up to the office if it was open. Empty roads, no one around to bother me, it'd be bliss.

[Mr Lobster]

Wish I could work Sundays and have one of the weekdays off instead, I'd happily turn up to the office if it was open. Empty roads, no one around to bother me, it'd be bliss.

Which is exactly why I do like working some weekends. takes me 1/2 hour less to get to work and I get the days off through the week and somehow feel a lot more motivated to get stuff done on a weekday.

[Mash]

To the daft bint in the Fiesta who started having a heart attack when I 'jumped the queue' and used a pump nobody else was using, understand you are not driving a Hummer and that the nozzle will reach to either side of your car. Either that, or keep calm when someone who does understand this drives around you. She was still there after I'd put 33 quid in, queued, paid and returned to my car. And still didn't use the pump!

That's actually quite unusual as in a Fiesta you normally have the advantage. Like the majority of Japanese and old British cars (designed for RHD markets) Fezzys have the filler on the left and a good 80% of other cars are on the right. I can usually jump the queue in my Accord and did so the other night - I also got a bemused look from the lass in the Punto who was still filling up when I set off!

[Guest]

Idiot bitch has got in touch, and this is brilliant. I was expecting her goldfish to have died or Vishnu to have smited her from getting out of the wrong side of the womb, but oh no:

I don't appreciate you sending me abuse, my brother was bidding for the tickets on my account and didn't realise what he was doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I responded in kind:

I don't appreciate you pissing me around, but there's nothing we can do about that now is there? Nice one.So that excuses what happened does it? Believe me, if you think that's abuse you got off bloody lightly. Because of you, I waited in all morning and subsequently couldn't sell the ticket on, as I was waiting FOR YOU to respond. I suggest next time you tell your brother to get his own sodding eBay account if he wants to idly bid without following purchases up. You're lucky eBay doesn't allow negative feeback any more, because you'd be knackered about now.I was hoping you'd apologise for doing me out of £165, but as that isn't going to happen (since you think I'm giving you abuse, Christ knows why I might be angry at you) we'll just have to sack it off and I'll report you to ebay for wasting my time.Could you not have just got in touch with me yesterday morning and said you didn't want them? I might have stood a chance of getting a second chance offer from the next highest bidder. That would have been the courteous thing to do.Anyway, it's done now and yet again I'm left with a shitty taste in my mouth from dealing with idiots on eBay. If you don't understand why I'm annoyed then you and your brother should stay off online auctions.PS: Nice trick with the phone by the way, it must be great not having to deal with the outside world when you fuck things up.

What a fucking arseache.And it goes on.

What you on about nice trick with the phone????????????????????????? Your wasting my time now sending me these messages, please leave me alone, Creamfields has passed now so get over it, and by the way my brother had a fab time!!!!!!!hide

So as a parting shot.......

Let's see smart arse. You posted a number up to contact that didn't accept oncoming calls. Hence, a nice trick. You don't have deal with any problems because no one can get in touch with you. It's quite a good one that, I must try it.Just out of interest (because I've had a pop now, and I've said all I want to say) why did you let your brother bid on your account knowing full well he wasn't going to pay? If my brother did that, I'd brain the little shit.Creamfields was good on the Saturday wasn't it? I got in for free because I know the bloke who owns the land, and a geet laugh for five hours or so. It's the best way to get over some time wasting prat who has no idea what he's doing.The reason I was pissed off with you (and I really can't believe you don't get this) is that you didn't fess up and contact me (say at about 8.30 on the Saturday) that your brother had fucked up and didn't want the ticket. Why couldn't you have done that? It would have taken you what, 5, 10 minutes, and everyone would have known where they stood. A misunderstanding, but that's it. Why wait? Obviously you've got no fucking manners, but that goes with the territory I suppose.By the way, the notion of ME wasting YOUR time is fucking hilarious, the irony! I like to give things back.Have a good one and that, just stay away from my auctions unless you're actually going to buy something (I won't bore you about a bid being a binding contract, there's too many big words you wouldn't understand).That's it, I won't bother you again.

Should I fuck this one off now? Or should I just let you lot fuck her auctions up for a bit? Or should I post an unpaid item, strike? Or report her to eBay?

[pogweasel]

Hmm. I'd be battering them up with an unpaid item at least. We still need that phone number BTW.

[retrogeezer]

Get an unpaid item claim in straight away, otherwise she can leave you a neg with no comeback. She will then have to go through the unpaid item procedure etc, you get your money back and she can't leave feedback in certain circumstances.

[pompei]

Certainly, unpaid item strike. No hesitation. Like you say, not only is she fundamentally dishonest, she shows no contrition. Just say sorry, cow.

[Guest]

Get an unpaid item claim in straight away, otherwise she can leave you a neg with no comeback. She will then have to go through the unpaid item procedure etc, you get your money back and she can't leave feedback in certain circumstances.

I can't file an unpaid item strike until September 5, that's 7 days after the auction. The option is locked out until then unless anyone knows better.Trouble is, will the [justified] abuse I sent her count against me? Do I stand any chance of getting the money off her?I've never had this happen to me before on eBay and I've been on there as a buyer since 2002 and selling since 2005.

[Mr Lobster]

Ebay won't let you file an unpaid item claim until 7 days after auction end, thats just how it is unfortunately. Whatever you have written shouldn't count against you - it's an automated system so it's not like anyone looks at it.As for that phone number. Well, obviously I can't recommmend it but I do know of a circumstance where *somebody* programmed his fax machine to ring *someone* at about 4am. Obviously when the phone got answered the fax knew it wasn't taking to another fax so would hang up and redial five minutes later. Bet that was annoying....

[Guest]

Now it's the Amazon's turn to boil my piss.It went in for some, erm, 'work' at my local trusted garage because I haven't got the time ATM.Fucking stupid useless fucking garage rushing the fucking job not putting fucking underseal on the bloody MOT patch fucking not bleeding the fucking brakes properly fucking master cylinder fuck fuck fuck spongey pedal £160 down fucking bastard clacking bollocks.Why's the pedal still spongey? Why haven't they done the fucking wheel bearing? AAAAAAAAAARGH.

[Guest]

Now it's the Amazon's turn to boil my piss.It went in for some, erm, 'work' at my local trusted garage because I haven't got the time ATM.Fucking stupid useless fucking garage rushing the fucking job not putting fucking underseal on the bloody MOT patch fucking not bleeding the fucking brakes properly fucking master cylinder fuck fuck fuck spongey pedal £160 down fucking bastard clacking bollocks.Why's the pedal still spongey? Why haven't they done the fucking wheel bearing? AAAAAAAAAARGH.

Apologies about that, I had to vent to cheer myself up.This garage have really gone down in my estimations now. They did an iffy job on my mum's 206 CC when it needed new discs and pads. They squeal like fuck three months after being fitted.Now this. After the episode with that idiot flid on eBay I am seriously losing my faith in humanity.How the hell do you make brakes worse by changing a gubbed master cylinder? Did they just not bleed the bastard? Now I'll have to argue with them, 'because old car brakes are like that' (no, they're fucking not), they won't be able to get it back in straight away, and I'll have to drive it back to fucking Conwy with spongey brakes, which is NOT what I want to do to be honest.And that patch for the MOT, fuck me, I wasn't expecting anything amazing but it's just a bare plate! Not even a spray of Hammerite or anything. Underseal? Right. That's going to last....ooh....two seconds round where I live.Their problem is that they've taken on way too much work, and instead of doing things properly like they used to, they're rushing things.It did at least get through an MOT, but I'm fucked if I'm using them again, it can go back to the bloke I know in Littleborough who's never put a foot wrong. I stopped using him and going to this local place on the recommendation of Scottish Andy, and the fact that my bloke spent an age moving premises and its monster aggravation getting cars back and forth from there. If it gets done right I've decided that I don't care.It went to the local place because I don't have the time to sort it out at the moment. The MS was dying, but not fucked. If they say they can't look at it before Saturday, and I get my bleed kit out and it hasn't been done properly.........I'll be fucking furious. I haven't got a lot of patience with anything right now, and I don't need some bloody wrencher cutting corners when I'm paying top dollar for some work.

[mk1_4dr]

Jon, dude. I wish I wasn't quite so far away. We need a place somewhere centralish for a few of us to meet up and work on cars. Be that bleeding your brakes/changing your master cyl, working through the list on escRot or what ever. Between us, we has the stillZ to not be ripped off.'tis arse that qualified mechanics can't do the simplest tasks to a decent standard

[garethj]

I bought a Mityvac brake bleeding kit a few years ago for my motorbike, it makes bleeding brakes a doddle and a 1 man operation. None of this faffing about with spare tyres onto the reservoir which won't fit - just pump the handle and it sucks out the air.Recommended, and makes bleeding the brakes a quick job. Go around all the bleed nipples the day before with some plusgas and you're away.

[ChinaTom]

The quality of the journalism in specialist marque mags. Why do they write like bloody 9 year olds? I quite like reading about different switch designs and positions for rear leccy windows, and the sources of cheap obscure parts for 420G's; but I don't give a mozzie's nutsack about what you and your wife had for fucking breakfast at your mate's house. It doesn't interest me to the tune of the £7 I have spent on this publication (I am in an airport) that you didn't get out of bed until 10 o'clock because you can't manage an 8 hour drive without dying of tiredness. Unlike you, I do not guffaw at the thought of more than 2 glasses of wine. Why start a sentence with the words "after a delicious home-made quiche lorraine"? (and while we're at it "in the eyes of this scribe" gets my goat and reams it with no cream too).My goat received its final brutal rogering this morning when I read about some chap who has fitted a massive fuck-off V12 at a cost of over £20k into a car worth about tuppence. I am treated to a column inch about "a lovely jam sandwich". FFS!!!!!!!!! In what way can a jam sandwich be column-worthy? Jesus bastard shit. Editors! sack these dull diarists and employ someone who puts the car as the focus of the article, not their own "ooo's and aaah's" at life outside their own cul-de-sac. Well, it appears that the editor of this publication is in fact about 9 judging by the photo on the editorial. A mere "Whipper-snapper" would be the correct term for that office no doubt.OK, now for a 13.5 hour flight in economy class.Which is probably why I am a little intolerant with triviality at the mo.

[OwdChina]

Ahh, I take it that your at Hong Kong airport then Tom. That place makes me grumpy also, but only until i get to the duty free for a stock of Golden Virginia for my stay at home. Used to work out about 2.50 for 50g. Pack the hand luggage full of it, cheers me up a treat ! Kev.

[Guest]

Jon, dude. I wish I wasn't quite so far away. We need a place somewhere centralish for a few of us to meet up and work on cars. Be that bleeding your brakes/changing your master cyl, working through the list on escRot or what ever. Between us, we has the stillZ to not be ripped off.'tis arse that qualified mechanics can't do the simplest tasks to a decent standard

Dave I had them on the phone today and they claimed to have bled it completely. If that's the case then the pedal's miles out of adjustment or 'something needs doing at the back'.Translated: We did the front but we couldn't be arsed with the back because the bleed nipples looked a bit rusty. And they can't get it in now until the 14th. I explained that I needed to take the car back to Wales and wasn't happy driving it with the brakes the way there were and was simply told 'Well we can't fit it in, too busy'.So I'll have to myther Scottish Andy, which I didn't want to do. He has a bleed kit like you describe gareth. We'll soon see what's wrong anyway......

[Des]

So how has your car passed an MOT with spongy brakes? You could always inform the garage that they have a few hours opportunity to put your car right before you seek the opinion of VOSA.

[Guest]

So how has your car passed an MOT with spongy brakes? You could always inform the garage that they have a few hours opportunity to put your car right before you seek the opinion of VOSA.

The brakes passed the efficiency test, but the pedal has a mile of travel before it picks up and bites. I won't be getting heavy handed Des because they were lenient in other ways for the MOT. The reason I'm annoyed is that I've laid out money for a job that's incomplete.I realise on that eBay bollocksathon I came across as a bit of a shouty nutter, but it will get sorted.

[Guest]

The battle of the eBay spastics continues. I'm just keeping this one stewing for a bit before I twat her and her idiot sibling with an unpaid item neg. She's also blocked from my auctions in the future. But I haven't told her that.

I didn't see these messages until Sunday so i didn't know what he had bid for.Obviously it wasn't free for you to go to Creamfields cause you had a ticket you didn't sell!!!!!!Trust me i won't ever be buying from you.

Here's my slightly calmer response:

Natasha, you don't know what I did and didn't do.How do you I didn't go to Creamfields for free? As I said, I know the farmer who owns the land as I used to store some equipment with him - we're good friends. A word to the organisers was all it took.This ticket was spare. You're daft letting your brother use your account like that, you really are.I still haven't had an apology from either of you for messing me around as I nevertheless waited for you to respond. By contrast the buyer for the other ticket paid and got in contact with me by 8 AM the next day - do you see the difference?Can you really not understand why I was annoyed? You don't deserve the 100% feedback you've got.One call from your brother or yourself could have sorted this out, yes it would have been a bit awkward to 'fess up but then it would have been sorted. Job done, everyone's happy.Hence why when I tried to ring you to bottom the matter out, and got a message that your number didn't accept incoming calls, I hit the roof. I had no way of contacting you.As I said, get your brother to get his own eBay account, then when he pulls stunts like this you won't be getting abuse off people he's pissed about.I've calmed down a bit since last time, I just hope someone pulls the same thing on you in the near future so you won't be so dismissive of comeback. That way, you'll know how utterly infuriating it is.

[retrogeezer]

You are just getting dicked around by this Natasha....she 'won' another creamfields ticket for £150 - thats why you didn't get paid. She probably didn't answer the phone as she was already at the site!

 

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170376470566 27-Aug-09 28-Aug-09 15:02:31 £150.00 1 SATURDAY CREAMFIELDS TICKET (STANDARD) 2606natasha (*) sut1962

 

110428882187 28-Aug-09 29-Aug-09 01:01:30 £165.00 Creamfields Ticket Saturday 29th August 2606natasha (*) teabagthrottle

[trigger]

Yep totally agree, She's bid on two tickets and won the first one and then fucked you over with the second.

 

Goofbay is your friend when trying to find out info like this.

 

http://www.goofbay.com/ebay_tools.html

[Guest]

You are just getting dicked around by this Natasha....she 'won' another creamfields ticket for £150 - thats why you didn't get paid. She probably didn't answer the phone as she was already at the site!

 

1 - 2 of 2 total.

 

170376470566 27-Aug-09 28-Aug-09 15:02:31 £150.00 1 SATURDAY CREAMFIELDS TICKET (STANDARD) 2606natasha (*) sut1962

 

110428882187 28-Aug-09 29-Aug-09 01:01:30 £165.00 Creamfields Ticket Saturday 29th August 2606natasha (*) teabagthrottle

Cheers for that lad, that's going down on the feedback form as well.

[Guest]

Modern phones. Been lent a phone as my old Z7 has lost its aerial somewhere. I made a coathanger aerial style thing out of a paperclip and some rubber bands, but it was only partially successful. Anyway, why isn't there a "ring ring" noise to choose from? It's all dopey tunes. There's one that sounds a bit like Ceefax music, but that's just not good enough I'm afraid.

[garethj]

The brakes passed the efficiency test, but the pedal has a mile of travel before it picks up and bites.

So are they spongey or is it a long travel before it bites?Does the travel improve with the handbrake on a couple of clicks? If so, it could be the rear brake shoes need adjusting. I'm guessing it's discs on the front and drums on the back of the Amazon.When doing the brakes you should adjust first, then bleed second. Adjusting drums right is easy but you need the wheel in the air, tighten the adjuster up until the shoe is just touching, then bang the brake pedal down a few times to centre the brake shoe. Then readjust until it's touching, bang down the barke pedal etc etc. After doing this 2 or 3 times the shoe should be just touching the drum in 1 or 2 places (because they're never completely round).Do the other wheel, bleed and you're done.

[pompei]

Things that beep and go bing. Last night had the oven, the washer and the microwave all chiming at me. This morning the Fuhrer's car binging the Fasten Seat Belt thing whist trying to do a tight manoeuvre. One bleep is enough - don't try and imitate an alarm clock.

[Mr Lobster]

New Citroens and the 'economy mode' setup.I am currently dumping in excess of 1000 miles per week onto a new Berlingo. Occasionally I find myself sat in it waiting for something or other with the engine off but still wanting to listen to the radio, charge my phone or whatever. But this apparently is not allowed so after five minutes the screen flashes 'Economy Mode Active' and switches all the electrical gubbins off. The only way to get them working again is to restart the engine.So I sit there, just waiting, but with the engine running just so I can listen to the radio.Thats not very fucking economical is it Citroen?

[Pillock]

Maybe the dealer can disable it for a low-low-low price of one hours labour to plug in a cable and press a button?Obviously if it's a hire car, that's not much good though!My old Vectra used to turn the stereo off after 30 minutes, but it came back on without the key being used. Similarly, one of my mum's cars (I presume a Renault since she had three Meganes in a row) used to flash up 'save' or something on the display, you then had 15 seconds to press a button on the head unit and it'd keep playing.

[seth]

People dying. I'm right pissed off about that right now.

 

A few weeks ago a very talented man who gave up so much of his time for nothing to help myself (and others) learn a now unusual trade died following a year or more long battle with cancer. I spent many days at his workshop when starting up my business and he was a constant inspiration and was always on the end of the phone if I got stuck with something. In fact I spoke to him just three days before he died and he was still being positive as always and passed on a tip even though I wasn't asking about work. At 62 he went before his time.

 

Last week a relative on my wife's side of the family died. He was in his 80's but certainly went after his time. He survived when millions of others were killed and I found his humble, soft spoken manner amazing after reading about the truly terrible experiences he had suffered. A proper old fashioned engineer too - fountain pens were his thing. His passing made the news in Scotland as he had done much good community and eduction work in his later years.

 

Today I logged into the "Farina Forum" for the first time in a couple of months as I've got a steering box issue I wanted to ask about. First thread I see is about a funeral. One of the active club members from Luton was killed a couple of weeks ago while on his way to a Mini gathering. A drunk driver hit him. I'm in shock. This chap was a similar age to me, had a young family and was just such a good guy. I'd met him on numerous occasions - he even came to one of the Henlow R-R pub meets. What a waste.

[M'coli]

You are just getting dicked around by this Natasha....she 'won' another creamfields ticket for £150 - thats why you didn't get paid. She probably didn't answer the phone as she was already at the site!

 

1 - 2 of 2 total.

 

170376470566 27-Aug-09 28-Aug-09 15:02:31 £150.00 1 SATURDAY CREAMFIELDS TICKET (STANDARD) 2606natasha (*) sut1962

 

110428882187 28-Aug-09 29-Aug-09 01:01:30 £165.00 Creamfields Ticket Saturday 29th August 2606natasha (*) teabagthrottle

Cheers for that lad, that's going down on the feedback form as well.

Now, the fact that her account's been used to win 2 separate auctions for tickets means that it wasn't an accident that this had happened. Is this enough evidence for a Small Claims case, considering that eBay is supposed to be binding?

[Volksy]

People dying. I'm right pissed off about that right now.

Totally agree. I just found out that an old freind of mine was killed in a Motorcycle Accident last week. He worked for me for a couple of summer seasons, as an outdoor instructor working with disabled children. He was an inspiration, and through his work helped a huge amount of children and young adults gain confidence and experience things that they would never have the opportunity too otherwise. He will be missed dearly, and at 25, was taken far too young.Rest in peace Ryan.