The grumpy thread

[Tayne]

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[Guest Leonard Hatred]

I HAT 99% of all music.

[eddyramrod]

I HAT 99% of all music.

 

Add "written after the Beatles discovered drugs" and I'll have to agree! Until then it was actually possible to enjoy what you were listening to.

[Richard]

I think the Beatles discovered drugs when they were still the Quarrymen.

[MrDuke]

Thank goodness! Pompei and Dollywobbler, how refreshing to hear the truth spoken about "music" for a change. Can anyone tell us why Bob Dylan and Morrisey are revered as gods? Actually: probably not, this is Autoshite, where people mostly have more taste.

 

 

Bob Dylan wrote some half-decent songs, but then so did several hundred other people in the 60s. He couldn't sing to save his life, and is one of the few people who have managed to ruin their own songs. I suspect that in the beginning everyone was too stoned to realise how average he was, and by the time they realised in the 70s, he had reached god-like status and it was too late. Also, the first person to state in print that he was pants would probably have been labelled anti-semitic.

 

As for Morrissey, if you don't like him (or The Smiths) then having their appeal explained won't make any difference. I find it annoying when media people drone on about how awesome he is, but at the same time I love his music. I imagine I'd probably hate him as a person if I actually knew him, though. He has written some pretentious chod, but imho he makes up for it with some incredibly good tracks too.

 

But then, wtf do I know? I count Al Stewart and Kate Bush among my personal legends, and still don't 'get' 99% of hardcore/punk from 1990-present. I r srsly uncool, indeed.

[Lord Sterling]

Really saddened to hear that Elisabeth Sladen has died of cancer at just 63. I was a big Dr Who fan as a lad in the seventies.

 

 

Wasnt she in some sort of new show called The Sarah Jane Adventures? I seem to remember she drove a Micra-based Nissan Figaro.

[Barrett.in.the.USA]

California: Stop bloody raining.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

California: Stop bloody raining.

But it never rains in Southern California. I hear it pours though. Didn't anyone warn you?

 

I caught the tail end of an interview the other day on BBC Radio Lincolnshire in which the interviewee was getting all excited about the use of cheap white toothpaste and an old toothbrush for cleaning a myriad of things, including upvc.

 

Rock 'n' Roll radio!

 

I'm late to the party here, but T-Cut takes anything off uPVC. farecla works too, but I'm CONCEARNED that it's a bit aggressive.

 

I ended up trying a variety of chemicals thanks to the many suggestions here and found the easiest/best was a grotty old bottle of Kleeneezee UPVC restorer found buried behind some paints. Actually, it was very much like thinner T-Cut. Garage door now looking much more respectable house doors might be beyond help, it looks like someone's used something abrasive on them before.

 

ALL NEW GRUMP: Expensive part synthetic oil from Halfords opening itself and emptying into car boot.

[Cavcraft]

Big fan of Morrisey, most of his stuff (solo and with The Smiths) is class but The Beatles music REALLY pisses me off. Over-rated crap and John Lennon was a twat, ditto Mcartney.

[M'coli]

California: Stop bloody raining.

25 in the shade in Brighton tomorrow...

[trigger]

^ This is true

[CreepingJesus]

Jonny Marr is a guitar god, therefore, I love listening to the first few bars of (particularly) 'This Charming Man', but promptly throw a shit fit when that gobshite starts up. There are 100,000 reasons why Stephen Morrissey is a whinging diva of the highest order, but #1 is his overinflated sense of his importance.

Bob Dylan's just a charlatan of the first order. Fuck knows why anybody fell for his inane dribblings in the first place, let alone for so long.

My real music grump (and I've kept it to myself, 'cos I didn't imagine anyone would care, bar me ) is the continued fucking "Loudness War". It's come to something, when that hellish Rihanna's awful 'Only Girl In The World', performs the remarkable trick of leaving only her shouty vocal audible, when walking away from the radio, through a busy warehouse. Or through the one remaining speaker on a million-km Daf.

Hats off to the producer, that's a remarkable bit of compress/gain/limit to the nth degree; but it sounds bloody atrocious.

[scaryoldcortina]

Printers. Sometimes they are fine, and work like you expect them to do (ie print stuff) and other times they are made by Canon.

 

I have been given a lasershot LBP-1210 by my dad and in a fit of hopeless optimism I replaced the HP deskjet (works fine, needs ink) on the network server with it.

 

It didn't work This.printer isn't in the CUPS (common unix printing system) driver database, and I don't have a .ppd file either. Huh. Google for answers, find out canon printers are a pain but that there is a set of drivers (aka a special system daemon to manage it and then report to CUPS). Installed them. Restarted CUPS... A printer appears in the "devices" tab... Try to print and.....

 

It didn't work. Bah. Read the manual that came with the drivers, check, recheck... used the troubleshooting tools. Restarted all the print services, switched printer on and off. Tried again.

 

Guess what? It didn't work. Then I realized that the canon tool that registers the printer and its location (usb port or IP address) is expecting an network printer and I'm giving it a USB printer connected to a remote host. The documentation doesn't cover this, the tools don't have help or manpages. Grrrrrr

 

Idea - Now I have the canon drivers, I have a .ppd file for the printer, I can give this directly to CUPS, which IS capable of talking to a remote printer..... another printer appears in "devices" and claims to be available. Printed a test page, got a completed message. Went downstairs to printer, guess what?

 

It didn't work.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

'CUPS' are for drinking tea out of, they are nowt to do with computers. I think thats where you are going wrong.

[Station]

Why does every single one of my auctions which states in massive letters 'I will not send outside the UK', attract the final bidder - from fucking Ireland. Who then pays immediately and I have to refund. Also people who still bid even though there is no photo and the only text is 'THIS HAS BEEN SOLD PLEASE DO NOT BID', and then send a message saying 'wers my item?' a week after.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Also people who still bid even though there is no photo and the only text is 'THIS HAS BEEN SOLD PLEASE DO NOT BID', and then send a message saying 'wers my item?' a week after.

 

Is there a reason to revise the description with "sold do not bid" instead of pulling the auction?

[Negative Creep]

Can you not block overseas bidders?

[Cavcraft]

Also people who still bid even though there is no photo and the only text is 'THIS HAS BEEN SOLD PLEASE DO NOT BID', and then send a message saying 'wers my item?' a week after.

 

Is there a reason to revise the description with "sold do not bid" instead of pulling the auction?

 

Sorry Dave but Pete's right here.

[Station]

I sold the guitar for £850 before the time limit ended (12 hours)? I didn't have time to cancel the auction.

Didn't know you could block overseas bidders, that will help in future I'm sure.

[meggersdog]

Station, go to site map scroll down to selling activities then click on manage bidders.From there you set up buyer requirements.

[scaryoldcortina]

'CUPS' are for drinking tea out of, they are nowt to do with computers. I think thats where you are going wrong.

 

Possibly - I was having a cuppa this morning when my dad rang for a chat, I asked him about the printer, it turns out he's given it to me because it doesn't work and he bought a new one.

[Pete-M]

Morrissey = talentless, endlessly whining, miserable twat who should have grown up 25 years ago, or at least topped himself in a particularly amusing way. I'd happily write his obituary.

 

Bob Dylan = great songwriter, abysmal singer, crap on the harmonica. Writes songs that are, on average, a week too long.

 

 

I prefer Tom Waits to either of 'em..

[Guest]

I had a telly, and it worked well enough for what I wanted, viz. watching the F1 every few weeks in the season. But now we've gone digital, suddenly I've had to fork out £50 for a digital freeview box and I can't get my DVD recorder - bought at some expense a year or so ago - to work. I didn't ask for digital telly, and all it means is that I now seem to have hundreds of channels of shit for morons to watch while they dribble gently out of the corners of their mouths and their brains are eaten away in the same way lettuces are eaten by slugs. Yet I can't pause the live F1 coverage like I used to whenever I wanted to make a cup of coffee or get a beer, and I can't record the races any more. Why is the world just becoming gradually worse?

 

You sound like two thirds of the older generation who ring up at work. Unfortunately for work I want to agree with you.

 

FACT. (you wouldn't steal a car, piss in a policeman's helmet, etc).

 

Council

 

Cuntcil, surely.

 

Instead of CUPS try a GUN. Haul it out into the yard, put a blindfold around its carriage, offer it a cig, and read your list of particulars. Click your heels and shoot the geggerdeggermeggerfegger. Boom-boom-boom, out go the lights.

 

Luckily for the USA, I do not live there. Guns are legal in the USA (as is my understanding).

 

Why does every single one of my auctions which states in massive letters 'I will not send outside the UK', attract the final bidder - from fucking Ireland. Who then pays immediately and I have to refund. Also people who still bid even though there is no photo and the only text is 'THIS HAS BEEN SOLD PLEASE DO NOT BID', and then send a message saying 'wers my item?' a week after.

 

Dave, have you ever had a straightforward transaction on eBay? You seem to get shat on continually.

[mk1_4dr]

I prefer Tom Waits to either of 'em..

 

Absolutely.

 

 

Big Black Mariah is one of my most favourite tracks of eVah.

[Negative Creep]

The tax code sage continues as I'm still on basic 20% rate.So I go and speak to the agency "oh sorry we haven't received notification. We can't ring them I'm afraid only you are allowed to do that". So I get home and ring the tax office "we sent notification last week but it takes 7-10 days to arrive. All your employer needs to do is ring us and it can be changed over the phone."

 

 

FUCKS SAKE

[Guest]

The tax code sage continues as I'm still on basic 20% rate.So I go and speak to the agency "oh sorry we haven't received notification. We can't ring them I'm afraid only you are allowed to do that". So I get home and ring the tax office "we sent notification last week but it takes 7-10 days to arrive. All your employer needs to do is ring us and it can be changed over the phone."

 

 

FUCKS SAKE

 

Agencies are bell ends mate. Your experience validates this. It does seem pointlessly hard if I'm honest.

[Negative Creep]

Being told "oh don't worry you'll get it all back" is really annoying me as well. Yes I will in a few months, but that doesn't help the fact my bank account is now about £300 lower than it should be!

[Albert Ross]

There was I, half way through the last MOT of the day, at 4:30. Cue dopey receptionist.

"How's it doing? Will it pass? The customer is on the phone...."

My response? "I can't tell you until it's finished."

Him "That's no good, I need to tell him now, so he can bring the loan car back".

Me. I haven't inspected all of it yet, I can't tell you a thing until it's finished."

Him. "Are you going to answer my question?"

Me "Are you going to fuck off and let me get on with this test?"

Him. "There's no need to be rude"

Me "There's no need to come in here asking stupid fucking questions that are impossible to answer, when I am under pressure to get this finished before 5. These are hairy balls, not fucking crystal ones!"

Him. "I'm not happy with the way you are talking to me, I have to tell the customer whether it's going to pass or fail"

Me. "This is the first time I have seen this car, I am half way through the inspection. Would you have preferred I looked at it before I tested it, to tell you whether it would pass a full test before I had inspected it? Would you like to test it? Now FUCK OFF YOU TWAT!"

Him. The Boss is going to hear about this!"

Me "Yes he is, From me!"

 

Verdict? It failed, but with PRS (rectification scheme) I tightened up the handbrake lever for free. The Workshop controller couldn't work out why there was a pass and a fail certificate in the paperwork pack. I told him to read the fucking write up I had provided for him. Fucking numpties.

 

The Boss IS going to hear about this. From me.

 

I have cider now. All is well.

[Pillock]

Canon are the least friendly printers to install on anything other than Windows, they're made for the 95% of the population who plug it in and forget about it until it costs them twice the printer cost in ink or toner in about 100 pages time.

 

I set an Epson up on my mum's PC (hardwired ethernet), all good. Turned my laptop on an hour later which connected to the router that my mum's PC and the printer are both plugged into, and it found the printer quite happily. Chuffed with that, according to the instructions it can either be wired or wireless but not both.

 

For work, I have to work out how we can ship a Windows build that supports a good proportion of printers sold in the past 4 years, without installing any drivers. Preinstalled is fine, but the customer can't install any additional ones. This is more tricky.

[Mr Lobster]

Why does every single one of my auctions which states in massive letters 'I will not send outside the UK', attract the final bidder - from fucking Ireland. Who then pays immediately and I have to refund. Also people who still bid even though there is no photo and the only text is 'THIS HAS BEEN SOLD PLEASE DO NOT BID', and then send a message saying 'wers my item?' a week after.

 

You can sort this two ways -

 

1 - Go into your eBay setting and block everywhere apart from UK.

 

2 - On the individual auction, change your postage settings to 'Will Post to UK Only' - that stops anyone outside UK bidding.