The grumpy thread

[autofive]

the 'lovely man' who was supposed to come tomorrow and buy a scimiatr body off me has to go to london - work related - and so cant pick up until the 4th of july

 

what the fck?

 

i said i wasnt sure i wanted to wait that long, and i might have to chop it up - so he agreed to more money to keep it another 2 weeks, but its space rather than money thats the issue

[retrogeezer]

Some dirty crackhead stole my camera at Putney station today, just after I had taken a few photos too. A bit gutted, considering I had hoped to keep it for a long time, and it was working again. To be fair, I had the chance to ask them if they had taken it, but I just thought the risk wasn't worth it, dunno if they had a knife or what not, but they did look the type. So, now I need genuine camera suggestions again, I have a few days to decide as well.

The most gutting part is the fact I had spotted both a Renault 12 and a B11 Coupe. I'll go back on Sunday however...

 

Jeez, thats pretty bloody crap isn't it, what happened?

 

I've got an old camera I could send you to use for a bit if you are strapped for cash? You can send it back when you get a new one.

[brammy777]

I foolishly left it on the bench and they took it when they sat down next to me, because I got up and realised I no longer had it, and it was nowhere to be seen. Jokes on them though, the battery cover had broken off, so it's worth nothing.

Thanks for the offer RG, but I think I am buying a new one on Saturday and testing it out the day after. I have seen a Fujifilm JZ510 on Jessops reduced by £150 down to £99.95, and it doesn't appear to be on flickrs camera finder. Customer reviews look good, what does everyone else think? Sorry about the off topic nature of this post...

 

Oh and just to depress everyone further, this car has been scrapped, probably around two weeks after I spotted it. And I was so glad to see it as well:

1983 Austin miniMetro Hatchback. by bramm77, on Flickr

[Cavcraft]

Tele-sales callers: FUCK. RIGHT.OFF.

[CIH]

A waste for sure but I won't loose any sleep tbh

 

edit: the Metro

[Guest]

Sample of phone conversation at work

 

Customer: Why can't I buy this TV online?

Me: What TV is it?

Customer : A big one. Full 109p.

Me: No, I need the model number please.

Customer: Panasonic.

 

Eventually five minutes shit themselves into the ether and I dredge the model number out of Clueless Chigwell Claart.

 

Me: OK, this TV can only be bought in store.

Customer: So why can't I buy it online?

Me: Because you can only buy it in store.

Customer: But I want to buy it online.

Me: You have to go into store to buy this TV, you can't buy it online.

Customer: But why can't I buy it online? I have the money and I want to buy it now.

Me: If you go into store you can buy it now, they have one in stock and it isn't reserved.

Customer: But I want to buy it online.

Me (losing the fucking will to live): The website won't let you buy it online.

Customer: Why?

Me: Because it's an in store offer. You can only buy the TV in store.

Customer (incredibly): But I want to buy it online.

 

Me: I've explained it to you every way I can think of, you cannot buy this TV online.

Customer: But there's normally a 'Buy Now' button online, I want to buy it online.

Me: I'm sorry but I'm going to end this call now.

Customer: Why? I want to buy this TV online and I want you to help me buy it.

Me: You have to go into store to buy it. You can't buy it online, I've told you can't buy it online because it's an in store offer and you have to go into the store.

Customer: I don't understand, I just want to buy this TV online.

Me: And I've just told you that you have to go to your local store. I can help you reserve it but you have to go into store to buy it and pick it up.

Customer: So I can't just buy it online then?

Me [cracks the phone against the desk]. Thank you for your call [slams the phone down].

 

That was the abridged version. Jesus man, it was cruel to the point of being abject. I seriously thought at one point that most of the words spoken had had their meanings inverted whilst I was out.

 

The rest of the day wasn't much better, if I'm frank.

 

*Throws the duck's bread into the White Hole*

[Pillock]

I'd have taken all her details, told her it would turn up in three days time, then gone mad with her address and card number on a mail-order hardcore porn website.

[Guest]

I'd have taken all her details, told her it would turn up in three days time, then gone mad with her address and card number on a mail-order hardcore porn website.

 

Actually, it was a bloke.

[Guest]

I quite enjoy calls like that, because I get to bust out my favourite phrase - "Regrettably, that can not be possible" in either a bored or delighted voice. I remember one guy going genuinely mental trying to somehow coax an apology out of me over some corporate matter which was out of my control, but only getting answers along the lines of "I can only confirm how regrettable the situation is" until he hung up.

 

Ideally, I shouldn't be on the phones. Or dealing with any sort of customer, come to think of it.

[Rod/b]

Can I make a suggestion. If anyone here works in a call centre or the like, please post your works phone number here for other members of Autoshite to ring up you or your colleagues and do a bit of "mystery shoppering". It'll be a RITE LAFF.

[Rod/b]

I foolishly left it on the bench and they took it when they sat down next to me, because I got up and realised I no longer had it, and it was nowhere to be seen. Jokes on them though, the battery cover had broken off, so it's worth nothing.

Thanks for the offer RG, but I think I am buying a new one on Saturday and testing it out the day after. I have seen a Fujifilm JZ510 on Jessops reduced by £150 down to £99.95, and it doesn't appear to be on flickrs camera finder. Customer reviews look good, what does everyone else think? Sorry about the off topic nature of this post...

 

Looks good to me. It's a Jessops-only spesh so reviews are thin on the ground, but that Revoo site has a fair few good reviews on it. http://www.reevoo.com/p/fujifilm-finepix-jz510 I've just asked Mrs d/b to get me this for my 34th next month.

[Guest]

Can I make a suggestion. If anyone here works in a call centre or the like, please post your works phone number here for other members of Autoshite to ring up you or your colleagues and do a bit of "mystery shoppering". It'll be a RITE LAFF.

 

Ha ha, NO.

[meggersdog]

Who gets bronchial pneumonia in June ? Me,that's who.

Last week I felt proper ill,head-aches,lack of energy,not sleeping and generally run down.I was quite busy too so inbetween phoning the Dr's for a cancellation and having a lay down I paid a mate to do my work for me.Finally got a cancellation on Wednesday.Blood test results came back inconclusive so the Dr sent me to hospital.Four hours of more inconclusive blood tests,ecg scan,blood pressure etc they finally sent me for an x-ray."ooh,you're very poorly we are going to admit you" no shit and "there's a problem with your liver too,do you drink ?" No I don't but seeing as I gave the Dr a sample of very dark piss two days earlier I could have told them that.Anyway I had a nice room with tv and ensuite wetroom.Apart from having to remove the drip myself and sorting the nebulizer they looked after me.

Came out yesterday feeling better but still not 100%,medics said it could take a month or more before I am fully fit.Nice.

[theorganist]

Sorry to hear that Meggersdog, glad you are on the mend.

 

I believe that Pnuemonia can be around inside you for a while. My father had Aspirative Pneumonia in April and the Doctor reckoned it may have been caused by a bout of Vomiting he had in late December/early January time!! He does have medical issues that do cause occassional vomiting, however.

[eddyramrod]

 

If that worked, you should be seeing the white Merc estate off KruJoe's thread. So my grump is about...

HYPOCRACY!

Royal British Legion sticker, lovely, well done whoever put it there... but on a German car? Oh puh-leeeeeeeeze!

Every time there's a big football event on too, you see them: St George crosses stuck or painted on... BMWs and Mitsubishis. Er, yeah. Really British cars, and yes, I know you pretty much can't buy one any more. But if you're going to show allegiance, do it properly and buy a Marina.

[ProgRocker]

Really British cars, and yes, I know you pretty much can't buy one any more. But if you're going to show allegiance, do it properly and buy a Marina.

 

Agreed! but I have a dilemma - is my Sunderland built Nissan Almera a British car or a Japanese car?

[eddyramrod]

Good question! I'd say it must be about as British as your Halewood-built Ford Escort, and we have plenty of those among us...

[trigger]

Oh dear, I stuck a Remembrance Poppy sticker on both my BMW 1602, VW Passat and my VW Bora, does that make me a hypocrite or is it all about the bigger picture of showing your support for past and present war heros?.

[eddyramrod]

I'm looking for a "deeply disappointed" emoticon but failing to find it. Sorry Trigger, total fail. And nice as it obviously is (we were even in the same issue of PC!) you're still at it with the Opel! I understand you want to show solidarity, respect, gratitude, call it what you will, but what you put the sticker on can either reinforce it 100% or devalue it by the same amount.

 

Don't, anyone, let this stop you buying the Poppy stickers and displaying them on your cars. Just make sure they're the right cars.

 

Anyway, all of this is just a matter of opinion and I don't really expect to influence anyone very much. Just thought I'd say something as Joe put the photos up... (good luck with the sale, mate).

[tonedepear]

Oh dear, I stuck a Red Cross Poppy sticker on both my BMW 1602, VW Passat and my VW Bora, does that make me a hypocrite or is it all about the bigger picture of showing your support for past and present war heros?.

 

+1

 

I had a British Legion sticker in the back window of my golf(nazi!), merc(nazi!), most recent 2 citroens(surrender) . And I sold a nissan micra (kamikaze!) to my best mate who's in the RAF and just recently back from Afhanistan. Should I be worrying that if the authorities find out he's driving a japanese car (made in Swindon, but that's hardly the point) they'll court martial him for it? Should I be wopping Iron crosses and swastikas in the back window instead?

 

*flounces out to start own forum*

[trigger]

[theorganist]

Generally we think of ALL those who die in conflicts on Remeberance Sunday including those on opposing sides, not just British soldiers who died in the two world wars.

 

Anyway there isn't so much choice nowadays if you want to drive a British car!

[trigger]

Is there any main stream born and bred British cars left these days?.

[eddyramrod]

Understood, Organist....

Trigger: I don't believe so.

 

Just as a footnote: my stepson is serving in the Royal Navy. He's on his third car now and like his first, it's a Golf GTI. I really should have met his mother years earlier..............................

[theorganist]

Is there any main stream born and bred British cars left these days?.

 

Not that I can recall l! maybe some born and then adopted!

[warren t claim]

Oh dear, I stuck a Remembrance Poppy sticker on both my BMW 1602, VW Passat and my VW Bora, does that make me a hypocrite or is it all about the bigger picture of showing your support for past and present war heros?.

 

My Mercedes was owned by a former RAF pilot and I've never taken his Royal Air Force and British Legion stickers off.

 

Does that means that there's a rich seam of hypocrisy running through the pair of us? It never crossed my mind to take them off as I support our forces and I do wear my poppy with pride on Remembrance Sunday.

 

Should I remove them?

[eddyramrod]

Should I remove them?

 

Yes, and immediately stick them on a Humber Sceptre instead!

[warren t claim]

Should I remove them?

 

Yes, and immediately stick them on a Humber Sceptre instead!

 

There's a Humber Super Snipe festering away in the factory next to where I work. Should I stick one to that? Can I put the other one on an abandoned FD Victor that's also down the road?

[theorganist]

A sad sight I saw and forgot to mention a couple of weeks ago.

 

On the estate where I work was the obviously burnt out shell of a Hillman/Chrysler/Talbot Avenger on the back of a recovery vehicle, presumably on the way to a scrapyard.

 

No doubt this had likely been someones pride and joy. I was on the way to work and it made me feel very sad .

[eddyramrod]

Organist, +100!