The grumpy thread

[warren t claim]

Internet Explorer is being a twunt - it won't let me post anything or view eBay Motors. I know it's not the sites that are at fault as I've fired up Firefox and they work fine. No idea what's going on there...

 

Firefox it being a twunt to me for not letting me have Adblock+ since I updated.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Firefox just stopped working on my system when I updated to Firefox 6. Once you opened more than 3-4 tabs, it would soon grind down to a halt and you could either spend 40 minutes waiting for it to come back or had to kill it through the task manager. I had to move to Chrome, lose Adblock as well as the luxobargeous Pimpzilla theme.

[scaryoldcortina]

Is there any reason you couldn't all just downgrade to FF5 again?

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Good question. I imagine it would nag you every 3 minutes with a big pop-up saying YOU MUST UPDATE NOW OR ELSE- ALL UR BROZER R BLONG TO US.

[scaryoldcortina]

I use FF5, It's never asked me to update to 6 since I changed the homepage from mozilla to google (first time I used it..)

[M'coli]

I'm on Firefox 3.6.23 - it updated yesterday. I have no problems with it.

[Cavcraft]

Another day, another div.

Someone offers me a deal on my car. Disappears for days, then all of a sudden it's back on. The car he's got is 'mint' (except from a few pertinent questions in his direction it's not) so we stike a deal by e-mail.

'Previous owner was an old bloke, had it ages, blah, blah blah. So he's on his way and I asked him about the V5. 'I only have the green slip'. Told him to hang fire and speak to me before he goes any further.

Told him to text message or ring but no witheld numbers. Guess what? he rings from a witheld number so I ignore it.

Eventaually it sinks in, he calls me back and I question him about the V5 and the previous owner.

I don't know how long he had it but he only had the green slip too'.

 

Deal off, I can't be bothered with people like this.

[RedSparrow]

Downstairs neighbours playing what I call 'retard music' extremely loudly while I am trying to enjoy a nice evening with beers watching tv after one of the hardest weeks of work of my life. Also, why do they play the same track over and over? Do they only have 1 CD single?

 

Fuck I'm getting old.

[tonedepear]

This "indian summer" thing we've been having has been lovely and that, but would it mind awfully fucking off now? I'm knackered, up at 6 for work in the morning, and it's 30+ degrees in my bedroom despite having had all the upstairs windows open all day.

[Cavcraft]

Downstairs neighbours playing what I call 'retard music' extremely loudly while I am trying to enjoy a nice evening with beers watching tv after one of the hardest weeks of work of my life. Also, why do they play the same track over and over? Do they only have 1 CD single?

 

Fuck I'm getting old.

 

Go round, knock on the door and ask them once politely to turn it down. If they fail to comply then just turn up with an axe, smash the door down then completely destroy the stereo with said axe.

[Negative Creep]

This "indian summer" thing we've been having has been lovely and that, but would it mind awfully fucking off now? I'm knackered, up at 6 for work in the morning, and it's 30+ degrees in my bedroom despite having had all the upstairs windows open all day.

 

 

Did make me laugh/sigh seeing the news that people are rushing to the shops to buy summer clothing

 

 

My grump is driving instructors. Yes yes we all had to learn once. But if your pupil is doing 20mph in a 40 zone at rush hour and causing a massive tailback - has it occurred to you she might not be ready for that part yet?

[TimothyClaypole]

Offered to help out at Head Office in the warehouse sorting returned stuff then listing it and making up pallets of it as I got the guy doing it the sack.

 

Did one day and made up about 26 pallets which took the previous guy a week (I'm a work animal).

 

Last week I was told I had to do 2 days there (no one's doing my work back at the shop while I'm there).

 

While this is going on some guy turns up at the shop at random who works at the Head Office supposedly helping us out, basically he just made a complete mess of my area, selling stuff

that belonged to customer orders etc.

 

He turns up a few more times to "help" but at bizarre times ie. 6pm on a Friday night and then found out he was doing it for free.

 

This week I've to do 3 days at HO so with two days off I'll only be doing my proper job 2 days out of 7, I'm on commission so I'm going to get molested target and money wise.

 

I've since found out the manager (female) is "riding him like a donkey"... hmmm putting two and two together I'm getting that constructive dismissal feeling.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Can you have a confidential chat with the manager's manager or HR?

[Craig the Princess]

Can you have a confidential chat with the manager's manager or HR?

 

Go round, knock on the door and ask them once politely to be nice. If they fail to comply then just turn up with an axe, smash the door down then completely destroy them with said axe.

[RedSparrow]

Craig, are you an axe maker trying to drum up business?

[Craig the Princess]

Craig, are you an axe maker trying to drum up business?

 

No, but I am considering a career change!

[Cavcraft]

Can you have a confidential chat with the manager's manager or HR?

 

Go round, knock on the door and ask them once politely to be nice. If they fail to comply then just turn up with an axe, smash the door down then completely destroy them with said axe.

 

[autofive]

just paid out almost 120 notes to tax the cortina for 6 months

[Guest]

Can you have a confidential chat with the manager's manager or HR?

 

Go round, knock on the door and ask them once politely to be nice. If they fail to comply then just turn up with an axe, smash the door down then completely destroy them with said axe.

 

 

+1.

 

On the subject of smashing things up in protest against shit music, I did something similar in my second year at Lancaster (this was before I got ill BTW, although sometimes I wonder if I was all there).

 

I'd had a crap day working on a film project until 1 AM and got in absolutely knackered. I got on with all my housemates famously bar one, and I couldn't get to sleep because the kitchen \ front room and my bedroom were on the ground floor. She insists on playing David Sneddon's [one] single repeatedly at shattering volume with the fire door propped open. I could hear every last laboured syllable and it was driving me mad. I must stress that last part, to be honest. At the first stroke I went in and asked her to turn it down, and asked that [with it being 2AM at this point] she perhaps at least shut the fire door, which muffled quite a lot. I was still reasonably polite at this point.

 

Two minutes later I get back into bed, and at this point the volume shoots back up again. I can hear it as clear as day. With the fire door shut. I climb out of bed and scream abuse at her for being a selfish bitch, and warned her that 'if you don't fucking turn it fucking down I'll fucking well do something fucking horrible you fucking cunt'.

 

Predictably, the volume goes down only to be turned up so loud again (I think it was the eleventh time the track had been played) the speakers in the boom box were clipping and the worktop was oscillating in sympathy to the music. At this point I lose it completely, grab the hammer that the previous tenant had kindly left in my wardrobe and storm into the kitchen landing a direct blow on the boom box as hard as I can. Somehow it withstands this psychotic attack and continues playing. I twat it again and it succumbs. At that point I rip it out of the wall so hard the AC jack in the back of the boombox comes adrift, and I slam it on the floor as hard as I can where it shatters into a thousand pieces. I then pick the remains up and chuck it overhand at my housemate who's in tears at this point. How it missed her and didn't go through the sliding patio windows I've no idea.

 

'I fucking warned you, didn't I', I shout, and grab the hammer off the worktop and walk back to bed, slamming my bedroom door. Indeed, the sight of a 21 year old me wearing nothing but a T shirt beating the shit out of a boombox with a hammer at 2 AM must have been something to behold.

Strangely enough she didn't try playing her axe defying retard music again, as I had to buy my other housemate a new stereo (it turned out to be his).

 

Never mind, eh?

[ashmicro]

Bruce Forsyth. What a greedy old bastard. He's about as entertaining as a misfiring Mini, and as funny as crotch-rot.

 

FUCK OFF AND DIE YOU CUNT.

 

 

 

[Cavcraft]

I like old Brucie

Entertaining, quite witty and still going strong despite his age. Rumour has it he's a thoroughly pleasnt bloke in 'real life' with plenty of time for his fans.

[autofive]

I like old Brucie

Entertaining, quite witty and still going strong despite his age. Rumour has it he's a thoroughly pleasnt bloke in 'real life' with plenty of time for his fans.

 

most of his fans died on the siegfried line

[eddyramrod]

Sorry Cavette, couldn't agree less. I have no time for Brucie, even if you do have to admire his all-round abilities, learned the hard way. But, the rumours I've heard all point to him being a thoroughly UNpleasant bloke in real life, and his "humour" can get awfully vicious and unfunny.

 

Jim Davidson for Prime Minister!

[Guest]

 

It seems that my most of my immediate family have become aircooled VW apologists.

 

My aunt has bought a bay window van. She's always wanted one, or something. On the way home it started burning oil and later dropped a valve. Yes, that sounds like a very well 'reconditioned' engine, or otherwise. Let's say, 'terminally fucked' instead, and be truthful. Then, it jammed in third gear. Watanabe_Father says that's fine, 'because that's the great thing about these VWs, you can get a new engine for them for £2000'.

 

Hang on one fucking second.

 

It can't even do 60 miles without expiring? Can you fucking imagine the fallout that would result if my Amazon did that? Shit, no, I forgot, it's not a VW Camper, which is seemingly exempt from criticism.

 

Yeah, because none of you ripped my Volvo to pieces [metaphorically speaking] and told me it was a worthless piece of shit fit only for the scrapheap, repeatedly. No, that never happened. I can never recall that happening. Or the various 'experts' you invited round to tell me it was a deathtrap and that I should buy an MGB. Clearly, I imagined that as well. Two words for you - dual standards. Why does the cult of aircooled VW have to take my folks? Haven't enough people suffered?

 

I am gutted that she's had it less than a week and it's gone wrong for her. Out of anyone in my family she deserves something to go right. Her other half's an utter bell end (I'd end him given sufficient run up) and my uncle mithers her all the time. She doesn't need another unreliable piece of shit in her life.

 

I would tell her to stick it on a trailer and send it back. Apparently (according to the folks) this is 'wrong', 'negative' , and 'spiteful.' All I can say is that it's a fucking good job I don't know where that dubber twat lives, because it would back on his drive on bastard fire if it was up to me.

It only reinforces what I said at the start. Aircooled VW vans are hideously unreliable, slow, shit, tempremental piles of scrap that don't go, stop or do hills because of their horribly overstressed running gear struggling in vain to push seventeen tons of filler up the road. The appeal of failing to get to your hip and enlightened destination because your overpriced builder's van broke down on the hard shoulder is lost on me.

 

But it's fine, innit - it's a VW! Everyone loves them, you miserable bastard, why do you have to be so awkward? You're allowed to like VWs, if you like other old cars, you're weird, get out of my face you sad bastard. I'm recounting MUFC's score point average in the 1992 season. What do you mean you don't know - are you foreign or something?

 

Great stuff. I'm off to smash my head repeatedly against the sharp edge of a wall. I broke the oven - it didn't seem to have any effect.

[sporty-shite]

TBH, Wat, I quite like VW campers. However, most of the aircooled ones available are hideously bodged pieces of shit, sold to people who have aircooled VW blindness (as described above).

 

I think you're right, though. She should have it back on that twat's drive quicksticks. Then go and start looking for a good one. I'm sure there are some decent people out there (or in here) who could give her an unbiased appraisal of any potential purchase. I know of a good bodyshop in Preston who knows them inside out, who would most likely do a (paid for, of course) independent inspection.

 

In other news, I'm grumpy because I'm back from holiday.

 

I'm double grumpy to have been greeted with some of the worst news I have ever had, on my return.

[Guest]

 

In other news, I'm grumpy because I'm back from holiday.

 

I'm double grumpy to have been greeted with some of the worst news I have ever had, on my return.

 

Oh God. What's happened?

[Pete-M]

TBH, Wat, I quite like VW campers. However, most of the aircooled ones available are hideously bodged pieces of shit, sold to people who have aircooled VW blindness (as described above).

 

When they're not bodged up pieces of shit they're merely strange to drive, slow, cold, and slightly challenging. I do like good ones, don't think they're worth the mental money excellent ones fetch but lots of people don't get Mk2 Escorts and don't think they're worth good money either. so who am I to comment?

 

If I could find a nice one for sensible money I would buy it, and quite probably enjoy it.

 

Usual rules apply. The VW Microbus is in the same boat as the BMW Mini, Audi TT, BMW X5, MX5, Range Rover Sport, Allegro Van den Plas, iPhone, Man Utd or whatever. If you judge them negatively because they're popular and expensive it doesn't actually mean they're shit. Doesn't by any stretch of the imagination mean they're as good as people think they are, but bugger it. Let 'em think it's great, they'll enjoy it more then.

[Guest]

 

Usual rules apply. The VW Microbus is in the same boat as the BMW Mini, Audi TT, BMW X5, MX5, Range Rover Sport, Allegro Van den Plas, iPhone, Man Utd or whatever. If you judge them negatively because they're popular and expensive it doesn't actually mean they're shit. Doesn't by any stretch of the imagination mean they're as good as people think they are, but bugger it. Let 'em think it's great, they'll enjoy it more then.

 

Pete, I desperately want this one to be good. Badly. I'd give massive amounts of my own money to make sure she got a good one. No-one wanted that van to be brilliant for her more than me. No-one seems to get that. I'm not discussing with family any more - they can fuck right off with their dual standards of what constitutes a relevant classic and what doesn't \ isn't acceptable to go wrong with them. I just think the whole situation is a load of shit.

 

And I like the Allegro VdP.

[Pete-M]

they can fuck right off with their dual standards of what constitutes a relevant classic and what doesn't \ isn't acceptable to go wrong with them. I just think the whole situation is a load of shit.

 

Let them play at it for a while. Then they may just notice that you keep the Amazon because you like it, or they'll give in and think you're even more mental than they do now.

 

Old cars ain't easy.

 

It's WIN / WIN

[eddyramrod]

Aircooled VW vans are hideously unreliable, slow, shit, tempremental piles of scrap

 

My brother! Thank goodness, I thought I was genuinely the only person on the face of the earth who felt this way. And I've driven them.

 

What is it about families?

Stepson: 3x Golf, two bought new including the current one; 1x A3, the only non-Golf he's ever owned.

Stepdaughter: after a series of normal, often shite, cars including an MGF: 2004 BMW 530d bought new; 2005 BMW X3 2.0d, also bought new, both black (do people never learn?) and now VW T25 camper.

Sister: relentless spiral of trading-in, mostly small hatches, until Nirvana: two brand-new small hatches. And this is someone who had both a Lada 1200 and a Maestro!

I despair.