The grumpy thread

[Negative Creep]

What a hectic few weeks. Apologies to all those who PM'd me in that time, I haven't had the time to come on here, and sort of forgot about it. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I am pretty much out of work and I have been making many trips to the job centre and sorting out JSA, which is a right pain. So many forms to fill out, and my last payslip was backdated to the middle of January, meaning it was way above what I had declared what I was earning, which got me a few sour comments at the job centre. And apparently I have to send them off yet again, despite me receiving a letter stating I had been approved for JSA now. It doesn't feel good getting this money, and I have been applying for every job I could do. Annoyingly, there is alot of people doing exactly the same as me, even getting a reply for the email I sent off is something nowadays. Tell you what though, some of the attitudes of people who go to the job centre make me fume, how someone who makes no effort whatsoever into looking for full time work can sit back and complain about not getting any dole money is beyond me. But enough of that ranting, it's good to be back. I see I have alot to catch up on...

Don't worry, I won't drag up dead threads.

 

You have my sympathy Brammy...I had a spell out of work about 18 months ago and the whole JobCentre experience was hell on earth. I remember walking in for the first time and the mong behind the desk asked me what I wanted to claim - he seemed quite taken aback when I said I'd rather find a job and not have to claim anything - they really should call it a JobSeekers Allowance centre rather than a JobCentre. I had to go to the JS once every couple of weeks to prove I was still alive (they didn't seem to give a toss whether I was actually looking for work or not), and it was by far the most depressing, soul-destroying part of being unemployed. The only visit I truly enjoyed was the one when I got to tell them I'd found a job without their "help" and that I'd hopefully never have to see them again. When the mong found out how much I'd be earning in my new role, he looked at me like I'd just curled one out in his lunchbox. Stick with it, you'll get sorted soon enough!!!

 

 

I'm in the same boat and it's horrible. They can't offer any advice at all - to be honest I'm completely lost with what to do for a career and how to use my qualifications but there's no one to talk to about it. Fell awful having to claim it but all you need to do is fill in the card stating what you are doing in looking for work, for which you could make up anything.

 

I won't be too harsh on the people that work there however, just imagine the type of scumbags and abuse they must put up with

[dollywobbler]

If there's anything I've learnt Mr Creep, it's that people who try to help you decide what to do just f*ck it all up for you. Which is why I ended up trying to do an engineering BTEC after school rather than something I was actually good at and had an interest in (like, English perhaps!). I've spoken to various careers folks over the years and it's often just left me even more confused about where I stand.

[M'coli]

Can't you just say it is worth £1500?

 

 

That's what I did when picking up the MR2

We didn't think of that at the time!

[eddyramrod]

Tattoos on women? I'm firmly in the "DON'T DO IT!!!" camp. If it's any consolation, I apply the same standard to men.

[Cavcraft]

Don't be dissin tattoos, you INKIST BASTARDS

 

Oh, and don't feel guilty about claiming dole either, especially if you've worked previously and paid taxes. Not everyone believes that all people out of work are benefit scroungers.

[ashmicro]

My friend asked me to make a DVD of her wedding tape. "No probs" quoth I. "What sort of tape is it?" I further enquired. "mini DV" she said. So she left the tape round. I then discovered that my camcorder is fucked, giving the "C32:11" error of death. So I borrowed a mate's cam, only to find out that the FireWire card in my monster PC is buggered as well. My cam was hardly used, and is 5 weeks out of warranty. Fucksticks.

[warren t claim]

RIP Gary Moore.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Moore

[fotorabia]

Don't be dissin tattoos, you INKIST BASTARDS

 

Oh, and don't feel guilty about claiming dole either, especially if you've worked previously and paid taxes. Not everyone believes that all people out of work are benefit scroungers.

 

Im heavily tattooed..its a Sth Pacific thang y'all...so any Anti Inkists forget about coming to NZ cos we re the heaviest tattooed country on the planet..and the cross over between European -Maori is a really interesting cultural phenomena..its brought the two cultures together..and Im also jobless at the mo..so im a right reject..but Im topping up the bank with my retro dealing..so i can survive..

ive had the whole sleeve done since this was taken..and i still got 2nd prize for best Non Polynesian tribal at the Auckland Tatau TaMoko Tattoo Convention 2001

[Richard]

The fact that nobody names their children "Norm" or "Norma" any more, thus rendering my name a laughingstock for use by sitcom TV and slasher flick writers. I'm thinking of starting a "Save the Normans" forum, but nobody would be arsed..........

 

 

[messerschmitt owner]

The fact that nobody names their children "Norm" or "Norma" any more, thus rendering my name a laughingstock for use by sitcom TV and slasher flick writers. I'm thinking of starting a "Save the Normans" forum, but nobody would be arsed..........

ha ha

 

My first name is Ronald - think yourself lucky you've not got a namesake that's an effing McDonalds clown!!!

[M'coli]

The fact that nobody names their children "Norm" or "Norma" any more, thus rendering my name a laughingstock for use by sitcom TV and slasher flick writers. I'm thinking of starting a "Save the Normans" forum, but nobody would be arsed..........

ha ha

 

My first name is Ronald - think yourself lucky you've not got a namesake that's an effing McDonalds clown!!!

He's not the biggest clown ever to have the name Ronald:-

[messerschmitt owner]

I hadn't forgotten him, or the 'head-bashing' criminal either ...

[Angrydicky]

I'm just so utterly depressed about Torsten's lovely A35 being stolen. And I went to have a look at that Triumph Mayflower Trigger spotted, just to find it would only run on three, belched out clouds of blue smoke (the seller claimed he'd fitted another engine to it and the blue smoke was oil in the exhaust from the old engine burning off) and the clutch had no action at all, you had to rev the guts out of it to make it move just a few feet. And it needed a bare metal respray.

[trigger]

I didn't know you was going to go and see it, Shame it's knackered, Mind you it has sat there a long while.

 

I'm depressed about the A35 too, It's made me worried about my two old cars now

[dollywobbler]

Security measures are well worth it I think. Pretty easy to nick old stuff.

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

We need scaryoldcortina to knock out some more trackers.

[Cavcraft]

Haven't really used eBaY much recently and it would appear I missed the rule changes that now must include a new law where you're not allowed to show decent pictures and include things like interior shots.

Oh, and avoiding pertinent questions seems to be the way as well

[trigger]

I'm a bit sad as I've heard a friend was in a car crash yesterday in his "new" 1980's VW Camper.

 

Driving along a country road a lady coming the other way lost control on a corner, came over his side, hit the O/S front (luckily his VW is LHD), ripped his wheel off and pushed him into someones garden, Everyone is ok but he's gutted, although he's glad it wasn't any of his other old VW's (He has a split screen as well as a 60's Beetle and a Variant.).

 

I've not seen his camper but heard it was a really nice one and now it's wrecked due to some women not paying attention.

[eddyramrod]

now it's wrecked due to some women not paying attention.

 

And that's the way so many lovely cars die, not to mention the people involved. Mrs Ramrod and I have both lost cars to women who were putting on makeup or whatever instead of looking where they were going. My car didn't matter, it was a cheap nasty Orion, but it cost me several months off work and the compensation takes so long to come that you can only get out of debt by selling your house. Her car was the pale green Proton I've shown you before, which we had almost paid for and would probably have owned all the way up to leaving the country had it not been smashed 7 years before.

 

I was hit by a 2002 Clio; I often wonder what would have happened had I decided not to go to work in the Orion that day, as the alternative would have been my 1980 Buick Century Limited which had chromed girders for bumpers, and a proper heavyweight chassis. I suspect I would have carried on blissfully unaware that I had a frog shopping trolley hanging off my towbar...

[Cavcraft]

Is there anybody in the Western Hemisphere selling a Vectra C or E46 Beemer who isn't a knobhead?

[cobblers]

Is there anybody in the Western Hemisphere selling a Vectra C or E46 Beemer who isn't a knobhead?

 

You're really looking for the exception to the rule with those two motors, and while the e46 atleast isn't a terrible car, they attract the type of cocknock who buy one for the "status", and as such these people are a bit dim and probably easily angered.

Still, at least you aren't after an e36 316 with msport badges already stuck slightly wonkily on the back.

[sporty-shite]

Is there anybody in the Western Hemisphere selling a Vectra C or E46 Beemer who isn't a knobhead?

 

It's a longshot........

[Marshall]

Gary Moore is dead R.I.P.

[Cavcraft]

Dim and easily angered you say? Sounds like my missus has more relations than I thought.

 

To be fair for the budget I'm working to (circa £1500) I can't expect too much but someone selling one who has a brain shouldn't be too much to expect I'd have thought. Wrongly, it would appear.

[chester drawers]

Collect daily from body shop “aâ€Â. Set off fiscally bereft but mildly cheered by the prospect of waxing some nice new paint. Eight or so miles later oil pick up pipe decides now would be the ideal time to block. Again.

 

Break tooth. That’ll be cheap to fix then.

 

Still no answer from the landline and two mobiles of body shop “b†/ MOT station which appears to have permanently closed whilst in possession of my shite. Make enquiries at neighbouring businesses: “There’s been a fall out round there – not seen him in weeksâ€Â.

 

FFS

[scaryoldcortina]

We need scaryoldcortina to knock out some more trackers.

 

the autoshite v1.0 car tracker is still in development.... but it is something I am working on. In fact, my silence all day yesterday was because I was knee deep in C. Soon as I get the hang of Nokia serial protocol and find a working battery for a 5110 then a prototype should happen. Then it will be possible to send the car a text message and get a GPS fix as reply. Estimating less than £40 in bits (including the phone) and easy to build. Watch this space.

 

The logger I made works fine, but it's no good if the car goes missing because you need access to the SD card to find out where it is, it's more of a "where did you go?" gadget than "Dude, Where's my car?"

 

I'm really pissed off to hear about the A35 as well.

[Guest]

Is there anybody in the Western Hemisphere selling a Vectra C or E46 Beemer who isn't a knobhead?

 

I hear there's a nice E46 Touring in Leatherhead.

[Cavcraft]

Any details please Jon? Cheers.

[fotorabia]

Ive just found out that friends of ours in Nelson..his daughter Rose..25..was the woman who got shot dead by deer poachers in Taupo in October.The guy has been jailed for manslaughter..i heard about it when i was in Scotland when it happened..its Mums best mates partners daughter..but we ve only just been told..awful just simply awful..

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... 03&ref=rss

 

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4291676 ... lt-service

this has made me cry..

[chaseracer]

My friend asked me to make a DVD of her wedding tape. "No probs" quoth I. "What sort of tape is it?" I further enquired. "mini DV" she said. So she left the tape round. I then discovered that my camcorder is fucked, giving the "C32:11" error of death. So I borrowed a mate's cam, only to find out that the FireWire card in my monster PC is buggered as well. My cam was hardly used, and is 5 weeks out of warranty. Fucksticks.

How old is it? Could be a 'fitness for purpose' issue here. Don't let the retailer fob you off with excuses - your contract is with them, not the manufacturer.

 

http://whatconsumer.co.uk/how-long-should-it-last/