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My roads a nightmare for parking (a rant for another day) but the roads areound about are all reasonably safe and unrestricted. Stick a for-sale sign in it and you can park it on the grass at the bottom of linley lane indefinitely. Everyone else does, anyway.

 

Now you mention it, about 50% of the streetlights round me don't work either.

 

I've left my car unlocked a good few times and no-ones been in it. That said a patched up window is more obvious to casual scrote passers by.

 

Whereabouts do you live? It sounds like a right scrote-box*.

 

*no offence!

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Thinking Shell was dear (M56 Chester Services) was a fucking rip off at £1.39.9 per litre on the way to holiday. Compared to seeing fuel at £1.31.9 around Lincolnshire, I nominate myself for 'dickhead of the month' for not fuelling up before we left this afternoon and being obliged to pull into a BP garage by the M180.

 

Take a bow, you sea polluting, thieving shitbag bastards:

 

£143.9 for 'ordinary' unleaded and the pump 'did that thing' where it goes a penny over. :evil::evil::evil::evil::evil:

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I got stuck at that M56 place a couple of years ago. I was pissed off I had to pay the £5 extra for the tank. How do they justify putting extra cost on because it's in a service station?

Is it harder for the wagons to fill it up, meaning it costs more? Or the government puts extra tax on service station fuel. or or or or or or or ... :roll:

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  tonedepear said:
My roads a nightmare for parking (a rant for another day) but the roads areound about are all reasonably safe and unrestricted. Stick a for-sale sign in it and you can park it on the grass at the bottom of linley lane indefinitely. Everyone else does, anyway.

 

Now you mention it, about 50% of the streetlights round me don't work either.

 

I've left my car unlocked a good few times and no-ones been in it. That said a patched up window is more obvious to casual scrote passers by.

 

Whereabouts do you live? It sounds like a right scrote-box*.

 

*no offence!

 

I live in the lower part of the city centre- just behind the Leadmill. The area actually is quite clean and safe, but there is no parking for residents so I'm forced to leave the Accord on a very dark alley behind a disused DIY store.

 

By contrast, the Scorpio gets the LPG parking-permit so it can park under the glow of bright streetlighting while benefitting from the vigilance of literally hundreds of people living in the 'executive apartments' on one side and the student halls on the other.

 

Incidentally, this explains the panic I was experiencing while I was looking for a car. It hadn't been that hard to guess that it would eventually come to this.

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The excuse is they pay big rents on motorway services, but the real reason is they know daft people like me forget to get fuel elsewhere so have to get dry bummed by their pump charges.

I did have a can of juice in the boot but bollocks to stopping on the hard shoulder to re-fuel.

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The thing with motorway services is that the state gets a cut by auctioning off the land, and the landlord wants his money back when renting it out. However, my impression is that their prices are very reasonable nowadays- 139.9 is only 3-4p more than what you'd pay in my local BP or Texaco. That's like a 2.5% premium- I'd say worth it for the convenience. I remember when unleaded was about 80p, they were 10-12p more expensive!

 

In fact, the other day I stopped at a services that sold LPG and the price was identical to the one place selling LPG within a 5 mile radius of where I live (or about 3p more than the cheapest 'going rate' for which I drive 6.5 miles out of town and back)! :shock:

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  Luxobarges_Are_Us said:
  tonedepear said:
My roads a nightmare for parking (a rant for another day) but the roads areound about are all reasonably safe and unrestricted. Stick a for-sale sign in it and you can park it on the grass at the bottom of linley lane indefinitely. Everyone else does, anyway.

 

Now you mention it, about 50% of the streetlights round me don't work either.

 

I've left my car unlocked a good few times and no-ones been in it. That said a patched up window is more obvious to casual scrote passers by.

 

Whereabouts do you live? It sounds like a right scrote-box*.

 

*no offence!

 

I live in the lower part of the city centre- just behind the Leadmill. The area actually is quite clean and safe, but there is no parking for residents so I'm forced to leave the Accord on a very dark alley behind a disused DIY store.

 

By contrast, the Scorpio gets the LPG parking-permit so it can park under the glow of bright streetlighting while benefitting from the vigilance of literally hundreds of people living in the 'executive apartments' on one side and the student halls on the other.

 

Incidentally, this explains the panic I was experiencing while I was looking for a car. It hadn't been that hard to guess that it would eventually come to this.

 

Ah, I know those student halls well, from my more successful lothario days! :lol::oops:

 

if I were you I'd be tempted to park it somewhere up city road near the bright lights of texaco or thereabouts? It won't be 100% safer, but it'd probably be a bit safer. And if you have a bike you can stick in the car it's downhill all the way back from dropping it off.

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In defence, your honour, I was knackered and still am.

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Talk Talk offer 'broadband' and telephone for £10 a month. It's cheap, and it's SHIT. Definitely has to be poverty spec, bottom of the range 'broadband' in the UK?

 

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If you want uber shit broadband Tiscali would be your best bet. Absolutely and utterly useless.

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An engineer explained why their internet is up, slow, or nothing at all is that 'it just does that' - there is no cure. It's at my mum's house, and she's happy with it. I couldn't deal with it personally.

 

Also, having to install Itunes, Quicktime, software updaters, and a shit load of other crap just to return my IPod to factory settings, I hate both of them.

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I think Tiscali is now owned by Talk Talk...

 

We went for the Talk Talk £15.99 unlimited broadband a few years ago, got a snotty letter from then the other day saying we were exceeding our 40gig download limit :shock: so will be charged £5.00 more per month. Tried to call to discuss but it's impossible as you always end up being put through to a scripted 'Internet service providings' drone.

:roll:

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TalkTalk is fucking shit. I don't know ANYONE who has a good word to say about it. Their voice service sucks the fat one. See if you can get BT Infinity, here's mine on Speedtest:

 

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Limit at the minute is 40 meg, but I an reliably informed that the equipment will take 100, and the blanked off extra sockets on the VHSDSL modem-router bears that out.

Posted

I moved to Be about 6 years ago from Tiscali. Yes, it's £22 a month but I get 24MB (actual always >8MB) and unlimited downloads. No '40GB limit' when they claim unlimited.

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Workplace "appraisals". Just an exuse for the management to tell you how shit they think you are. Don't communicate enough, don't network enough, you have been seen leaning back on your chair e.t.c. e.t.c JUST PISS OFF. Maybe I don't want to communicate with people because I don't like them, and they don't like me. simple

 

"but we have every confidence in your abilities and you can deffo make a level 5" ...... they have rankings now you see, 1 being shit and 5 being 100% brilliant. Its all about cock sucking nowadays. I was actually told to look busier when waiting for the photocopier when other members of staff are around to get my score up, which is hovering betwen 2 and 3 ATM. 100% BOLLOCKS. :evil::evil::evil:

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Today I'm grumpy because I finally decided to scrap the Accord. They have fucked the ignition lock, so it'd be more fiddling and even more keys etc so I'll just get someone to collect it and rid me of it. :evil:

 

  Lankytim said:
Workplace "appraisals". Just an exuse for the management to tell you how shit they think you are. Don't communicate enough, don't network enough, you have been seen leaning back on your chair e.t.c. e.t.c JUST PISS OFF. Maybe I don't want to communicate with people because I don't like them, and they don't like me. simple

 

Haha. I had once been threatened with disciplinary action because I 'didn't solicit feedback' from the people who I had to deal with (things like me sending an e-mail to a local manager saying 'can you have a look and tell me whether you've got the elf-n-safety training docs for your team?' and him replying 'yes'). Of course, this was nothing to do with me having called my boss's boss a 'thief' after she wanted us to produce and sign some research findings produced by someone else. Admittedly, they did get some interesting 'feedback' from me!

 

  Lankytim said:
"but we have every confidence in your abilities and you can deffo make a level 5" ...... they have rankings now you see, 1 being shit and 5 being 100% brilliant. Its all about cock sucking nowadays. I was actually told to look busier when waiting for the photocopier when other members of staff are around to get my score up, which is hovering betwen 2 and 3 ATM. 100% BOLLOCKS. :evil::evil::evil:

 

Tell them that photocopying should have been outlawed by 1999 anyway, so somebody who can still stoop low enough to bother with it should be considered a model worker.

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  ashmicro said:
TalkTalk is fucking shit. I don't know ANYONE who has a good word to say about it. Their voice service sucks the fat one. See if you can get BT Infinity, here's mine on Speedtest:

 

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Limit at the minute is 40 meg, but I an reliably informed that the equipment will take 100, and the blanked off extra sockets on the VHSDSL modem-router bears that out.

 

Am I right in saying your upload speed is 3 times my download speed? I appreciate just being on the internet, but when Talk Talk brag about their lightning fast broadband which is only just a bit faster than dial-up ... ? How are they still going?

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I guess some people believe the bullshit advertising. I'd rather pay £18.50 to BT for something that works brilliantly than whatever TalkShite charge for something that is rubbish. My sister was with TalkCrap, and frequently if I phoned her number nothing happened, and their internet sped was up and down like a whore's knickers when it did actually work. She got out of her minimum contract by threatening to sue them for breach of contract. The sneering bastard on the other end of the phone asked for her solicitor's name and my sister said "I don't have one. I am a solicitor, as is my husband who works for HM Treasury." (bending the truth a little, he does some work for HM Treasury, but hey, she's a lawyer!)

 

As I said, I have never spoken to anyone who had anything but contempt for them, and I too wonder how they stay in business.

 

NTL were rubbish too, so much so that someone set up a website called nthell.com, Virgin are a bit better.

 

AOL is very variable.

 

Sky, o2 (Be), and another that I can't remember seems pretty ok - o2's customer service is very good, and free to call. I only left Sky because they kept phoning me to ask if I wanted their Sky calls package and it was pissing me off.

Posted

The roof on my e28 is very flakey so to make it a bit more presentable I thought I'd attempt to put a satin black vinyl wrap on the roof. First off ebay cocks sent me 1.5x1.5m rather than the 1.5x2m I'd ordered so it was shorter than the roof of the car. When I finally did go to put it on it wripped within 30 seconds even though I had the roof has a good covering of water. £20 well spend then. What a lot of cock. On the plus side a heroic friendly painter blastic it with metallic black and it looks great until I can get it done properly.

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I'm with BT. If they go bust, who the fuck's going to repair the lines - the shylocks that have forced them out of business? I don't fucking think so - they'd pass the buck and the state would have to pick up the ball and run with it.

Posted

I'm with Virgin. Other than their truly atrocious billing system if you don't pay by DD, and the Indian call centres you get shoved through to at peak times, it's fine.

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My mate's just sent me a link to the photos of us doing the 3 peaks last weekend, but they're hosted on "Snapfish". To view them, I need to register, but having read the T&C, I'm not fucking going to. Partly because the T&C are shit, but also because I shouldn't have to register with some website to see some pictures, while me and my other mate have put ours somewhere that you don't have to fucking register to fucking view them. Not fucking happy.

Posted

Just tell your mate to post them somewhere half decent, WTF is he bothering with 'snapfish' for.

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new member introduction reward perhaps?

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I found what seemed to be an abandoned dog last Monday. He is not chipped, had fleas, was not toilet trained. Been trying to rehome him all week.

 

Finally found somewhere to take him today and am off round to meet them tomorrow to see if they are suitable but the little git has got under my skin and I don't think I can give him away now. He is now toilet trained, knows his name and the fleas are treated. He can walk off the lead and comes back when called by his new name (Kato). I want a dog one day and when I do get one bet it won't be as well behaved as this one. I suspect I might have a few years of financial woes and early mornings ahead.

 

I might have to sell some cars to pay for someone to look after him when I am away.

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  HillmanImp said:
I found what seemed to be an abandoned dog last Monday. I don't think I can give him away now.

 

:D:D:D

If he's as loving as my little Memphis, you can't give him away now!

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She's really made herself one of the family. Wouldn't want to be without her now.

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We went to South Shields a few years ago, to pay a charming chap for his 'hound pup, rather than see her flogged to death on the flapping tracks/breeding circuit. Now, the Tyneside Terror* is a great galumphing over-enthusiastic pain in the arse, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Her litter mates and mother were also rescued by a circle of friends, so it all worked out well; but it never fails to make my blood boil how people can treat any animal like that.

Also, fuck the Dogs Trust. We used to donate to them, until their patron, celebrity vet Emma Milne, recommended euthanasing 'hounds en masse. In her column, in their magazine. Way to go with helping all the little pooches, hen. Arsehole.

 

*Not her actual name. She answers to anything, as long as there's infinite patting and Bonios in it... :roll:

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We tend to take on rescue dogs just before the chop -dangerous or uncontrollable (-allegedly). Latest- brought into the house by 4 coppers holding him with metal pole collars, took less than 6 weeks to be totally trustworthy -off the lead, anywhere with anyone.

Stella (reassuringly expensive) & Amstel are great company, hugely expensive- but I'd never give them up now. They do get right under your skin. Good luck with your decision -there's no easy answer.

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Well he is making any move easier by leaving a turd in the kitchen (blaming Volksy's sister for that by feeding him loads of food yesterday :wink: ) and then peeing on the lounge carpet just after I opened the conservatory door but suppose I can't expect perfection after a week.

 

Am going to see how much it will be to have him walked each day whilst I am at work.

Posted

I adopted my ex's dog (she couldn't be bothered with walking or anything else) and I loved that thing, but I was then given the boot. I miss the dog the most.

I love dogs, but I doubt I'll ever have another one.

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