The grumpy thread

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I just got this question asked on my car auction through eBay

 

as doncaster is quite a way from wer i live an i would like to c

more b4 i came an looked at it ?

 

Sorry but Doncaster's quite a long way from where I live too, also the auction closed eight days ago. You can't ask questions on closed items can you?

[trigger]

and a swimming pool full of gold coins like the intro to Ducktales.

 

Brilliant!

[Pillock]

That's nothing, on mine they put my nationality as Rhodesian. I phoned them up and they said they'd sort it, a few weeks later I heard nothing so I called again. Eventually I got through to a manager, it turns out that due to there being no way on the system of changing the nationality, they weren't able to do anything about it! I just ignored it, but it all escalated when I was pulled over one night and ended up facing deportation to my "home" country. Luckily there was no way for me to return as it no longer existed, what with it being Zimbabwe since the 1980s. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I became an asylum seeker and now I live in a 50-bedroom house with a plasma screen and a swimming pool full of gold coins like the intro to Ducktales.

 

Twat. I've just spat cheap Co-Op white wine all over my laptop.

Roffles.

[Pillock]

VIRGIN RANT

 

Ok Virgin, so you market this product called a Super Hub. It's a cablemodem, and wireless router all in one. In fact there's no way to avoid it, it's the only option you provide. Except as I think I mentioned on Facebook, this Superhub is about as "Super" as a sexually transmitted disease.

Four or five times a night, it'll just drop wireless connection. I didn't worry too much, despite the fact that power-cycling it made it work sort of suggested it was a router fault I knew that my PC would be blamed by your "support" staff. Then I noticed my phone dropped connection at the same time. Then, I bought a boxed laptop home from work, and within the hour all three devices lost wireless at the same time. Aha, that proves it's the hub at fault, any sane human being can see that. Oh, how I overestimaed the Virgin Media first line support......

So we did a few tests, changed a few settings. Still drops connection. So you pass me through to this technical department.... who inform me that it's a chargeable service?! WTF? "Because it's likely to be a problem with your equipment, not ours". Great, guilty until proven innocent. I explained about three devices behaving the same, including an hour-old laptop but no job, your guy had his flowchart and BY JOVE he was sticking to it. At one point he was offering to install new drivers on my fucking mobile phone as it certainly wasn't your superhub at fault.

 

Despite a 64-page thread on your support forum about how shit the superhub is.

Apparently all I can do is shell out for a new router, and put the superhub into dumb modem mode.

 

I'd go elsewhere, but the speed on BT copper is shite here, Virgin probably know that so they can treat me like crud.

[Albert Ross]

I just got this question asked on my car auction through eBay

 

as doncaster is quite a way from wer i live an i would like to c

more b4 i came an looked at it ?

 

Sorry but Doncaster's quite a long way from where I live too, also the auction closed eight days ago. You can't ask questions on closed items can you?

 

Send him to my house, I can show him a number of cars, but only talk to him in Klingon. Sounds like an utter twunt. And... "wants to see more b4 he came and looked at it"? HOW THE FUCK CAN THE IMBECILE DO THAT THEN?

[dollywobbler]

Pillock - could well be a line fault. We got the whole "well, if it's a fault with your equipment, you'll get charged" line with our Plusnet service. Chap turned up, found a fault in the wire between the pole and our house, replaced it, replaced the telephone socket I'd mangled trying to access the test port. Result? No charge and internet three times faster than it was! Unfortunately, it still keeps dropping out occasionally, but it's so fast* we don't really care.

 

*Sometimes up to 3.2Mbps!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

My mate, who I havent seen for about 8 years, rings me up every freakin year and asks if I want to join him at the Stoneleigh kit car show. I ALWAYS have some other fuggin thing goin' on that I can't get out of, but this year he's rung up and lo and behold its a long weekend, I can go. I can't wait to get snapping some of the shiteheaps and mental cases that you see at these kit car shows. I text him to see what time we're meeting up tomorrow. "AH soz, trouble at t'mill, cant do it!" WHAT!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Super Hub. It's a cablemodem, and wireless router all in one. In fact there's no way to avoid it, it's the only option you provide.

I have a SuperHub. You won't be surprised to hear it operates in dumb modem mode, hooked up to my old (flawless) Buffalo router. The Superhub would timeout when a wireless connection was attempted, and no amount of fiddling with the settings would fix it. However I already owned the router so it wasn't a problem, just a minor irritant.

 

Otherwise I've no complaints about Virgin, with the Superhub we were upgraded from 20 to 30 meg and the monthly cost dropped too. Speed is superb.

 

Other people I know on TalkTalk, BT and O2 are all complaints. My sister can't get more than 5meg from her 20meg O2 connection, and the less said about connecting to TalkTalk...

 

Send him to my house, I can show him a number of cars, but only talk to him in Klingon. Sounds like an utter twunt. And... "wants to see more b4 he came and looked at it"? HOW THE FUCK CAN THE IMBECILE DO THAT THEN?

Maybe he can travel through time, but Doncaster is still a long way away.

[Pillock]

Pillock - could well be a line fault. We got the whole "well, if it's a fault with your equipment, you'll get charged" line with our Plusnet service. Chap turned up, found a fault in the wire between the pole and our house, replaced it, replaced the telephone socket I'd mangled trying to access the test port. Result? No charge and internet three times faster than it was! Unfortunately, it still keeps dropping out occasionally, but it's so fast* we don't really care.

 

*Sometimes up to 3.2Mbps!

 

It's the wireless dropping, not the internet - it just revokes all the IP addresses it's dished out and needs a reboot. Anything wired (like my PS3) keeps the connection fine, and the TV keeps working so it can't be a line fault. When it's running I get 29.97Mb on a 30Mb connection so I can't argue.

 

It was more the fact they passed me blind to a chargeable service!

[Guest]

Pillock - could well be a line fault. We got the whole "well, if it's a fault with your equipment, you'll get charged" line with our Plusnet service. Chap turned up, found a fault in the wire between the pole and our house, replaced it, replaced the telephone socket I'd mangled trying to access the test port. Result? No charge and internet three times faster than it was! Unfortunately, it still keeps dropping out occasionally, but it's so fast* we don't really care.

 

*Sometimes up to 3.2Mbps!

 

It's the wireless dropping, not the internet - it just revokes all the IP addresses it's dished out and needs a reboot. Anything wired (like my PS3) keeps the connection fine, and the TV keeps working so it can't be a line fault. When it's running I get 29.97Mb on a 30Mb connection so I can't argue.

 

It was more the fact they passed me blind to a chargeable service!

 

If they cold transferred you the person who did should \ will get fucked over in their quarterly review. Well, at my last place I would have done.

[Guest]

Urrgh, bank charges.

[Cavcraft]

He'd have to travel back in time to visit Doncaster.

[Barrett.in.the.USA]

Despite running a mega virus scan and supposedly getting rid of all the shit on this laptop, it still wont let me run firefox as it's 'unsafe' so I'm stuck using this ancient version of IE that isn't supported by most websites anymore.

 

Not a huge PITA really but it's not my computer and I don't want to be responsible for fucking it up just because I spent 15 minutes looking at pictures of chubby hispanic ladyboys*

 

 

 

*other comedy niche fetishes are also available

[Richard]

Sometimes you can fix problems by creating and using a new profile. http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Profiles Don't delete the old one right away, you might be able to recover your favourites etc.

 

Otherwise you could try installing Wyzo. Its another version of Firefox but the computer doesn't seem to mind having both installed.

[ashmicro]

The BBC, namely Adrian Van Klaveren, controller of Radio 5 Live.

 

Normally of a Sunday ante meridien, I enjoy having a read at the papers and listening to the sport review, and now and again the rather lovely Kate Silverton is on.

 

This morning: Stephen Fucking Nolan. Yet again he's on ranting about something he knows little or nothing about, ignoring points made by callers, misunderstanding texts and emails, and generally being an annoying cunt.

 

Prior to the birth of this fat bastard, his was a level of cuntishness thought to be only theoretically possible. Loads of my mates think he's great, especially for highlighting obesity. My retort is that Hitler was very nice to his dog, but one admirable attribute didn't stop him being a total CUNT.

 

 

[Cavcraft]

R.I.P English...

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MERCEDES-SPRINTER ... 33675c44f3

 

What a complete and utter fucking twat.

[Timewaster]

R.I.P English...

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MERCEDES-SPRINTER ... 33675c44f3

 

What a complete and utter fucking twat.

 

THAT!ADVART MAYKEZ! PURFICTSENTS! TO MEI DUNNO! WOTYRPROBLUM! IS!

[Guest]

Hitler killed his dog "Blondie" in the bunker, to test whether the cyanide pills would work for him and Eva. So much for his membership in PETA.......

 

Was this before or after 'spaghetti with a light sauce' ?

[autofive]

Thinking of a personal bunker of your own? Don't do it, man. Stay above grade.

 

bunkers are required.

 

i have built several - for commercial and personal use - but i dont have one of my own, yet

[revolting peasant]

[Station]

Revolting Peasant, are you going to sell it to him, (u fik bithc you)?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

What a cripple. Just give him a number off any 'carandclassic' advert, they use those privacy numbers which cost a fuggin fortune to ring up. Or an '0901' number from a personal ad out the paper.

[Guest]

I am not entirely sure if this should be a grump or a LOL.

 

From: sha-bi

To: leyland-sherpa

Subject: Other: sha-bi sent a message about 1999 FORD TRANSIT 80 D SWB BLUE Spares or Repair #300552114266

Sent Date: 28-Apr-11 23:41:58 BST

 

Dear leyland-sherpa,

 

can i av ur fone plz?

 

- sha-bi

 

 

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From: leyland-sherpa

To: sha-bi

Subject: Re: Other: sha-bi sent a message about 1999 FORD TRANSIT 80 D SWB BLUE Spares or Repair #300552114266

Sent Date: 29-Apr-11 08:09:26 BST

 

Dear sha-bi,

 

Did you mean 'may I have your telephone number please'?

 

- leyland-sherpa

 

 

To: leyland-sherpa

From: sha-bi

Sent: 30-Apr-11 23:47

 

Dear leyland-sherpa,

 

no! i meant wot i said in d 1st place u fik bitch!

- sha-bi

 

INCREDIBLE!!!

 

ys bro da fone luks lyk a frd transit an u can by it 4 da price at top

[mk1_4dr]

Surely, sha-bi is one of us having a chuckle, no-one is that thick or aggressive for real , surely....

[TimothyClaypole]

He's an ice cream man with a beer garden looking at his purchases.

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

Surely, sha-bi is one of us having a chuckle, no-one is that thick or aggressive for real , surely....

 

Reading their feedback left for others, they're definitely thick.

[Lord Sterling]

House Bills - Joined up with a heating and electricity provider a couple of years ago on a monthly agreement, £30 a month for gas, now somehow they have decided that I am using £48 in gas? Because if this I am apparently in debt with them. Fuck off, no I'm not, where the hell do they get thier figures?

 

Sky broadband have also taken it up on themselves to "upgrade" our internet to a more expensive package, they decided that we are downloading more than an "agreed amount" we didnt "agree" to this as we were told it would be unlimited broadband.

 

Fucking greedy arse companies. I sometimes yearn for the simple life

[Mr_Bo11ox]

House Bills - Joined up with a heating and electricity provider a couple of years ago on a monthly agreement, £30 a month for gas, now somehow they have decided that I am using £48 in gas? Because if this I am apparently in debt with them. Fuck off, no I'm not, where the hell do they get thier figures?

 

from reading your meter

[revolting peasant]

[Richard]

I don't see a link.