The grumpy thread

[KruJoe]

That's sad indeed.

My life must be ok if all I have to moan about is the occasional greengrocers' apostrophe or ungrammatical idiom.

Don't worry Trigg, for many years I too was consistently at the bottom of the class in "The Three Rs" [3 R's?]. Whoever came up with that expression was having a laugh anyway!

[Cavcraft]

Restoring

Rusty

Recks?

 

See what you mean!

[warren t claim]

I fucking loath and despise my fucking ex and all she has done and is continuing to do to me. Cunting fucking slag from hell!

[Angrydicky]

Re that Escort, it is possible it could be an anomaly. Some cars refuse to show up on the DVLA, 99% do, but there are a handful that don't.

[retrogeezer]

Re that Escort, it is possible it could be an anomaly. Some cars refuse to show up on the DVLA, 99% do, but there are a handful that don't.

 

 

Thats true, my old Citroen ZX doesn't show up (J511PTF) and never has even when I knew it was on the road. The Escort shows up on autotrader by the way.

 

Brammy, do some door knocking....I could do with some spares!

[lancashireclamper]

I fucking loath and despise my fucking ex and all she has done and is continuing to do to me. Cunting fucking slag from hell!

 

Sorry to hear she's being a pain Warren, going through same kind of thing myself (though thankfully no kids involved) so have every sympathy, in fact, current domestic or non domestic situation is why I didn't reply to your welcome back post the other day, don't get on' t web very often.

Hope things get better soon.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Most call centre staff deal with those as well. Been there, done that, shouted at the management. FWIW most of the monkeys there are restricted in their responses because of company policy. A third of them, admittedly are idiots.

 

That's the whole point. Call centres are DESIGNED to be stupid. It's not the fault of the staff- I would happily pretend to be a complete idiot if I had to work there- but calling in just proliferates their existence. They, not unlike the fax machine, are an outdated technology that should have been killed in 1997 or whenever it was that dial-up internet became viable for the average household.

[ashmicro]

Re that Escort, it is possible it could be an anomaly. Some cars refuse to show up on the DVLA, 99% do, but there are a handful that don't.

 

 

And some of the publicly available data is plain wrong. My motorbike comes up as a Land Rover Discovery, although we've had no issues.

 

Re:call centres of the abroad variety. Put simply, some bright spark goes to a big firm, says I can save you £x in 6 months, if not, you don't have to pay me. Sure as shit, the 6 month savings come up before Joe Public has properly got used to it, bright spark sods off with a big Gregory. (I was there at the beginning with a B igTime firm, if you get my meaning.

 

"This is gonna go to ratshit!" we cried, but to no avail. Turns out we were right.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Re:call centres of the abroad variety. Put simply, some bright spark goes to a big firm, says I can save you £x in 6 months, if not, you don't have to pay me. Sure as shit, the 6 month savings come up before Joe Public has properly got used to it, bright spark sods off with a big Gregory. .

 

The problem isn't the location- although it compounds it when it's all outsourced as the call centre employees know nothing about the company's business. The problem is that the easy questions are answered on the website, and the difficult questions/problems can't be instantly resolved. Ergo, there is no point to having a call centre.

[Alexg]

Legal advice required.

 

I've been doing the long overdue job of clearing the garden today. Front and rear. Nextdoors house is staggered back from ours and so the wall of their property is one side of my garden. They have the guttering drain running down the outside of this wall into my garden down into the floor. I noticed today the soil around this drain was wet and so dug into it for a closer look. It was saturated and smelly. I soon noticed the drain was leaking on the join of two pipes as it enters the ground. I assume this is the neighbours responsibility, or is there some crazy law because its on my land???

[Negative Creep]

The pisshead who lives below me trying to force his way into my room at about 2am this morning thinking it was his room. Eventually went back downstairs, spent a short while swearing at no one in particular then falling asleep on the stairs, where he still was this morning

[autofive]

i hope you wrote 'dickhead' on his forehead with permanant marker pen

[Negative Creep]

I just avoid him but have made the landlady aware. Im rather glad i always keep my door locked at night otherwise it could have gotten a bit nasty. He seems to have made a choice to drink himself to death so i leave him to it

[Cavcraft]

Perhaps you could help his timely demise by accidentally pushing him down the stairs a bit when he's pissed up?

 

In a similar-ish vein a mate of mine was a party and later in the evening spotted some daft bint he couldn't stand lying on the bathroom floor with her trollies down. He wrote 'Mark was here' with an arrow pointing to her, ahem, 'bomb hatch' in marker pen. She avoided him for weeks afterwards convinced that she'd slept with him

[warren t claim]

I'm in a world of trouble in my domestic life.

 

Tonight I kicked the absolute living shit out of someone over what he did to the former Mrs Claim. I'm now drinking heavily whilst wondering if he'll man up and realise he'd had it coming or hide behind his policeman brother and have me arrested and sent down.

 

Just to keep the grump shite related you'll all be pleased to know that it doesn't matter how hard you repeatedly smash someones head into the bonnet of a W124 the car will remain dent free and the paintwork will maintain its deep shine. I'm so glad I own a decent pressure washer.

 

I'm confident that if I tried to administer the same severe beating but using a W210 I'm almost sure I'd be leaving a skull shaped dent for the Merseyside Police forensic dept to make a plaster cast of. Mind you, if I owned a W123 he'd probably be on a slab by now.

 

Grump over. See you in 18 months! Or 9 with good behaviour.

[mk1_4dr]

Fuckin' 'ell WTC, that sounds like serious business. I do hope it all pans out

[warren t claim]

Joking aside I'm actually shitting myself at what I've done. This weekend could not just land me in prison but may finish my relationship with the current Mrs Claim who's totally pissed off with me to say the least. I know she reads Autoshite so "Sorry Hun!".

[warren t claim]

I know we're not judgemental here but I want to say what I did was totally out of character as those of you that know me would testify.

[Barrett.in.the.USA]

Warren I'd probably delete that post if I were you, admission of guilt and all that...

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Barrett is right, and may I suggest that he makes a suitable edit to his own post.

[maxpower]

wtc he might just lick his wounds and see it as one of life's lessons....otherwise the plod would have been hammering on your door by now..

 

claim self defence

[chaseracer]

Psst! Warren! You woz wiv us at a Lada showroom. Aw'ite? Schweet.

 

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

I agree with maxpower but, if I were you, I'd be on the first flight out and stay away for at least 10 days or so.

[KruJoe]

Bloody hell Wazza! He's pissed you off and no mistake. I do hope that blows over quietly.

[warren t claim]

Thanks for the kind words! The site may have been in a bit of trauma of late so it's good to know that we can still air our troubles here and when the shit hits the fan. AUTOSHITE 4 EVA!!!

 

No news yet so my life is still on hold.

[dollywobbler]

Can't be nice to live with, but I wonder if I'm the only one who can't help thinking that thumping someone is never the best move, no matter how tempting (and some people really do ask for it).

[Lankytim]

Just carry on as if nothing has happened and deal with the fallout when/if it arises.

[Cavcraft]

Can't be nice to live with, but I wonder if I'm the only one who can't help thinking that thumping someone is never the best move, no matter how tempting (and some people really do ask for it).

 

Sadly once in a blue moon it's the only answer. Except hitting women, there's never an excuse for that in my book.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Personally, I would never get my hands dirty... If I had to kick the shit out of someone, I'd make sure to leave it to the professionals...

[Pete-M]

Got home from helping El Watanabe with the 305 last night, noticed an eerie silence from when the PC resides. It had died.

 

The dry bearing in the fan had obviously decided to stop the fan for once and for all, frying the prehistoric Pentium and resulting in me having to dig out my old PC from the garage. Hoiked that into the house, chucked some coal at it and it worked. Woo-hoo!, then the screen started to go black every few seconds. Dammit. Video card death.

 

Nipped to the local PC parts suppliers today (where I was happy to discover my old trade account is still live) and bought a new board, chip, and a few gig of ram.

 

I've been sitting here for FOUR BLOODY HOURS getting it back to how I like it, persuading the sound card that XP isn't a bad thing, and generally faffaging about. Eyes are bloody killing me.

 

Anyway. It works as it should, so it's not all bad.