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I was enjoying that pipe-game thing on the LG until it went tits-up. I'll have to hurry up and get it fixed I think.

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When buying a digitiser, make sure that you order from someone who ships from the UK, or at least somewhere in Europe. I ordered one last week and, being my usual idiot self, hadn't actually bothered to check shipping times and it turns out it's being shipped out of Guangzhou and "it'll only take 12 working days". Unless the customs people are having a slow day at work and decide to open the package and use a mountain of paperwork to record and justify a 93p charge in VAT.

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F*cking marvellous!

 

Whilst changing the face on the slim Nokia phone that my uncle gave me, I managed to severe a small cable that ran from the 'on' button because the screen cover was bonded to the phone not the cover, now it wont switch on at all. Brilliant :x:x:evil:

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  Negative Creep said:
Get a HTC Desire Z - touch screen and a qwerty keyboard. Dismal battery life aside I really like mine

I had a HTC Desire, dunno if it was a mk1 or a mk2, i hated it so i sold it on Ebay.I now have a Samsung Galaxy II GT 19100S (ffs :roll: , it's a 3 door sport model :lol::D:) ) I like it, lots. It's never locked up and it's pretty useful unless you are in the sunlight. Then like all (not so) smart phones, super amoled or not it's fecking useless. Unless of course you want to maim someone with it.

My son has an i phone 4 and he says my Samsung is better, made me smile. I hate buying them because once you make a choice your stuck with it for at least a year, unless you can flog it and make enough to pay for the rest of the contract and are prepared to use an old phone or buy a cheap model thereby getting really free minutes.

 

Incidentally, i sent my old Nokia N95 to Envirophone, they quoted me £100 but because they didn't receive it within a month of giving me the quote i got significantly less monies....tossers :(

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  Negative Creep said:
Plus you can marry an angry bird, which is worth £3,000 a month in bills by itself

 

EFA, me old tater.

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  Team Blitz said:
Why do some of you people dick around with your phones so much? Skins, games, sim cards (whatever THEY are...), different plans, and so forth and so on. Don't you value stability and sureness in your lives? I know I'm getting screwed on my plan and that my phone is for an OAP, but fark it, I don't have to fill my brain with all this addle and crepe they rest of you forcefeed into your lives. It's JUST a GD MF-ing phone FFS! Talk on it, then hang up, then it rings, then talk on it, and then hang up. WTF is so complicated that you need to constantly dick with them?

 

Honestly.......

 

And then to tell all of us about your dickings......... FFS

 

:mrgreen:

Personally because i can use mine in the wife's BINI to play music, she does not have a cd player. I can use it as an alarm clock (like most i guess) a torch and i can see exactly what Jensen Button was doing on the track in MacHaterland at 11:00 this morning, the speed the revs the lap times etc ( i can't see into his girlfriends knickers with it tho' :oops: ) :D

I can also read emails, buy things from most places including Ebay whilst on the move, assuming i'm not driving of course. It has an 8mp camera which means i don't gotta buy one of them, it has shat nav too (i guess that's for all the Audi and BMW drivers) It also has an application which enables me to watch 'stuff' on the BBC i Player.

It does not have as much radiation as an iPhone so it's not gonna kill me soon but then the schmoking might. :D:)

Oh and it's pretty good at being a phone too :wink::D:D:):)

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In other words, because they are not really phones anymore- you can do everything short of preparing a fry-up on them.

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  Luxobarges_Are_Us said:
In other words, because they are not really phones anymore- you can do everything short of preparing a fry-up on them.

 

And SONY even had a go at that, with their exploding battery shenanigans....

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It was a good try...Give it a couple of years and you'll be able to do it on most phones on the market.

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Haha! I know where Norm's coming from. I went to a Verizon shop in Noo Yoik and asked them could they get me a phone that took a SIM card as well as working on CDMA. The bloke just looked at me. "Hey man, what's a shim card?" I got a BlackBerry 8830 World Edition in the end. NY was class, loved it. A woman I got talking to in the hotel could say "turbo diesel" and make it sound sexy.

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Time to dust off this little gem for the N Millionth time.

 

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I'm a component type of guy too.

 

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And the three screens are connected to one computer, CSI stylee

 

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This is "Andrew's room" that my wonderful girlfriend has given me/allowed me to make a mess of/drill holes in for cables, and my little niece who is 2 and a half loves to have a look and press buttons.

 

"Hat Hat Hat, Uncy Andrew Hat!" Who could refuse?

 

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I had to hold it up as it was falling down over her eyes and scaring her. "oooh lights out!"

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Iron Maiden CD?

Instant win.

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She really is adorable!

 

Norm, your attitude to technology isn't at all unreasonable. Problem is, if the photo/audio/spredsheet/alarm clock/whatever quality on a phone is decent enough for most people (which it is and more-or-less has been for a few years now), the unique device approach will only work if you want high-end stuff, because the run-of-the-mill products will become less and less popular and eventually get phased out.

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Just to clarify, the hat on my niece is from The Police Service Northern Ireland, or PSNI, THE finest police force in the world. And yes, it is mine.

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Why didn't they call it "Northern Ireland Police Service" then?

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Well, the Royal Ulster Cnstabulary was fucked up in an appeasement to Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness and Irish America. I could swing Tony Bastard Blair, and I'd love to punch his wife IN THE FACE. And then shoot her 4 times just to make sure she is dead. Fucking bitch.

 

I'd love Sara Palin to be the US boss woman. Or dig up Ronnie Reagan. Palin would get a severe shagging.

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  ashmicro said:
Just to clarify, the hat on my niece is from The Police Service Northern Ireland, or PSNI, THE finest police force in the world. And yes, it is mine.

 

Erm ... having lived there as a student (1988-92), I couldn't comment honestly :roll: They do get their man though, even if it is the wrong one.

 

I can say the cells at both Coleraine and Antrim Road police stations are ... erm ... interesting. :mrgreen:

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"leggit! it's the NIPS"

 

That's all I was thinking TBH.

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What did you get nicked for? Section 5 Public Order? If you're gonna be a twat the peelers will nick you

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  ashmicro said:
What did you get nicked for? Section 5 Public Order? If you're gonna be a twat the peelers will nick you

 

OK :oops:

 

Belfast was for protesting against student loans. It wasn't me that chucked the brick at the police, but we all got nicked.

 

Coleraine :oops: For being naked whilst tied upside down on a surfboard. Which was on top of a stolen van. That was being driven down Portstewart high street. Or so I was told - I don't remember a thing except that we'd won the all-Ireland universities table-tennis tournament and were celebrating on Portstewart Strand.

 

Just to note that I'm now a pillar of society; university lecturer, charity chairperson, etc.

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Has the Atwell-Wilson Motor Museum closed down? I remember recently there was a few of their cars appear on ebay after the owner died and now the website appears to be under construction for a new wedding car hire business?.

 

I was thinking about popping in on the way to Cornwall in the morning but I don't think I'll bother now.

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I'd shag Sarah Palin until her teeth fell out. I just love strong women, so much so that I asked a girl out (she accepted) just cos she looked like Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider, right down to the plaited hair. She turned out to be a bit brain dead, but the sex was amazing.

 

I now have a girl who never ceases to amaze me. She's incredibly clever (13 A's at GCSE and 5 A levels at A, double first in Law from Queens University), she never asks me for anything and she's a petrolhead. The fact that she's drop dead gorgeous doesn't hurt, either. Katie is really quiet, happy to just stay at home, just the two of us snuggled up on the sofa. And then I saw her in action, in court representing The Crown. She took a lying defendant apart, and then she made his solicitor look 2 inches tall. The defendant was found unanimously guilty, and sent down for 4 years. Fantastic! She is nothing short of amazing.

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Oh for f*ck sake. I've been touching up my SD1 trying to find it's crumbly bits and found a right rot fest at the lip of the inner arch where it meets the outer arch.

Part of me said, "ah sod it you've welded enough on this thing no-one will see it. Just leave it, it'll be fine". The annoying bit of me said. "Now, now young man you must make this hulk of BL produced re-cycled melted down russian submarine completely rust free and do the job properly".

To fix it I had to chop out a pretty healthy outer arch. I fired up the grinder and got chopping only to find some bodging twat had welded a new outer arch over the crusty old one without first cutting out the grot. So although there's grot it's irrelvant grot. I'll take out anyway but I could have done that without mauling the side of the car.

 

So it now looks like this. I need to weld it back on for friggin nothing. Nice one.

 

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In better news the other side, which was once a void of rust and fresh air is now looking much more arch like. Inner arch repaired, sills repaired and on, new wheel arch fabricated from a generic wheel arch repair kit. I think I looked at too many oldbus/tonybmw type threads on RR as I used to be a bit offended by the use of filler but the truth is unless you're properly shit hot you needs a bit of glen millar to make up the shape and it is all still new metal underneath after all.

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  trigger said:
Has the Atwell-Wilson Motor Museum closed down? I remember recently there was a few of their cars appear on ebay after the owner died and now the website appears to be under construction for a new wedding car hire business?.

 

I was thinking about popping in on the way to Cornwall in the morning but I don't think I'll bother now.

 

I think it's possible, someone commented on one of my pictures of the museum with the hint that he'd just bought a car like the one in the picture and there can't be many of these about:

 

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FSO Polonez by synx508, on Flickr

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Absolutely amazing. Tried to log on to internet banking today, fucking site locked me out after 3 attempts, I had to re-register and now had a 3-5 day wait for my new password to come through by Royal-fail. Why all this? because my fucking CAPS LOCK was on. I promptly gauged the key out and threw it somewhere.

 

Ebayer Sellers - I made a purchase on ebay off this guy in Belgium, no problem there, he asks me to pay the winning amount + P+P which comes to 51 Euros, I promptly do so, but a couple of hours later I get 'refund' email from paypal, the seller has refunded me my money because I have to pay 53.08 Euros due to Paypal's charges. Now because the money has been refunded as so, its gonna take at least a couple of days before it registers in my account. I dont know why the guy just didnt ask me to send him the extra 2.08 Euros to cover the charges, would have been a whole lot more easier :? Now that I've been locked out of my own internet banking site it might be a little longer :x

 

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