The grumpy thread

[wuvvum]

Was going to post a grump here about a laptop I bought on eBay, but compared to Mrs Ramrod's situation it suddenly seems a bit trivial...

[eddyramrod]

Thanks guys, and Wuvvum? Post up and enjoy it! We've had situations like this before, where someone has a big scene going on that makes everything else look tiny, but people keep posting. Don't let me and ashmicro hold you back, you get typing! If it's made you grumpy it's valid.

[fiatdaft]

Hope things get better,and soon.

[Cheggers]

Only me & 14-year-old daughter in tonight...fugging X-Factor

[Cheggers]

Also, we had a bunch of god-botherers knocking on the door earlier...4 of 'em with a little boy aged (I'd guess) 10-12-ish. Guess who they got to do all the talking?? - Not entirely sure why (possibly a mix of emotional blackmail & the corruption of youth), but it wound me up enormously.

[Albert Ross]

I would invite them in and offer them Scotch, that normally gets them running for the hills.

[M'coli]

I would invite them in and offer them a shag, that normally gets them running for the hills.

EFA. Cormorants just don't have the same effect.

[Negative Creep]

Also, we had a bunch of god-botherers knocking on the door earlier...4 of 'em with a little boy aged (I'd guess) 10-12-ish.

I would invite them in and offer them a shag, that normally gets them running for the hills.

EFA. Cormorants just don't have the same effect.

 

 

[wuvvum]

This man flu is really taking it out of me. I fell asleep at the wheel of my Stagea a short while ago and smacked it into a wall. Fortunately I was playing Gran Turismo 5 at the time, but it's still annoying having no energy and not being able to keep my eyes open.

[Guest]

My continued best wishes to Mrs RR Eddy.

 

And on to your scheduled programming. It seems the bereft - of - brain antics of our friends on the VOC forum continues unabated.

 

This is the header I posted for the Bosch Knicks I'm selling. Unlike Shergar, the price is not hidden or masquerading as Pedigree Chum. See if you can spot it.

 

Bosch Knick 180 Spotlights - £150 - Stockport

 

Did you spot it? Miss it? Rewind the tape and try again. One more time sir, this noise sir - 'ahhh!'

 

Bosch Knick 180 Spotlights - £150 - Stockport

 

I then receive the following PM:

 

I like the look of your fog lights, what sort of price would you be looking for for them?

 

 

My reply was delightful, I assure you.

[warren t claim]

Just to make your day better.

http://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-moto ... s/89806000

[Guest]

Just to make your day better.

http://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-moto ... s/89806000

 

Pah.

[chaseracer]

I would invite them in and offer them a shag, that normally gets them running for the hills.

EFA. Cormorants just don't have the same effect.

Either would do the holy huddle a good tern...

 

[wuvvum]

OK, so here's my grump from yesterday. Bought a secondhand laptop off eBay off an Eastern European bloke who seems to have a "home business" selling used laptops. His feedback was reasonably good and the computer seemed like good value, so I hit the BIN button and paid via Paypal.

 

Listing said delivery within a week; when it hadn't turned up after three weeks I emailed him, got a reply saying he'd been in hospital but would send it the next day. Waited another ten days, then emailed him again - no response. I then filed a dispute via Paypal. Still no response, and due to being a mong I got my days wrong and missed the deadline to escalate the dispute to a claim. So I emailed him again through eBay, saying that if I hadn't heard from him within 24 hours I'd be leaving negative feedback and claiming my money back, through the small claims court if necessary. That appears to have suddenly woken him up - he came back and said he still hadn't actually sent the laptop but would do so imminently. I sent a slightly snotty email back asking him to hurry it up - he came back saying he would send it the next morning.

 

That was just over two weeks ago - amazingly, just as I had finally given up hope, the laptop actually arrived yesterday - eight weeks after I'd paid for it. Less amazingly, it appears to have half the amount of RAM he'd stated in the listing, and more annoyingly it didn't come with the charger that he said was included, so I can't even fire it up to check that it works. There is obviously a battery in there as when I press the power on button the LED flashes briefly, but it hasn't got enough juice to actually start the thing. I emailed the seller straight away asking what had happened to my charger - predictably, I am still awaiting a response...

 

It's not just crap buyers who make eBay a PITA.

[Pillock]

Claim the money back anyway as "items not as described". Claim it from Paypal and then take a fuggin' age to send him his laptop back, perhaps package it in just a sheet of paper.

It didn't come from a Newark address did it?

[wuvvum]

It's been so long I no longer have the message from eBay with the bloke's address. I seem to recall he was in Weston-super-Mare though. Can't do anything via Paypal now unfortunately - they won't let you file a second dispute about the same item.

[TimothyClaypole]

You should be able to get his details from the Paypal payment or maybe an address details request from Ebay?

 

Or does he have any current listings?

[Lord Sterling]

Eddy - I'd just like to send my best wishes to Mrs Ramrod and hope she makes a full and easy recovery.

 

Just been working this weekend including all of last week at a warehouse. I'm very tired and my feet/joints hurt, also since I've had the man flu I seem to have retained this coughing which flares up every now and again. (I've had this before and it took ages before it completely went) I sometimes cough so hard that it makes me dizzy, gonna get it checked out at the doctors soon though.

[trigger]

My neighbour who's attached has decided that 7pm is a great time to start smashing his house up, shouting and swearing in the garden and getting quite nasty. Great.

[eddyramrod]

I really don't miss having attached neighbours... Commiserations, Trigger.

 

Meanwhile, and I may have mentioned this before: sneezing. I get far too much practice at this, I must be able to turn professional soon. Why does it always feel like my ribs are cracking? I can go for days, then suddenly, bang, I sneeze for several minutes non-stop. It's quite energy-sapping, I can tell you.

 

And thanks for the support, chaps; those who've missed the move to the standalone thread.

[trigger]

Thanks Eddy, In the end i called the police, they turned up, took her away, she came back, the row started again and now it's gone quiet, Looking at moving now as It happened a number of times before.

 

The trouble is everyone thinks the sun shines out of his arse, He's a painter and she's a school headmistress and they are in a local park committee so everyone thinks they are great, but after tonight, with the whole street hearing the row, i suspect they will think differently now.

[eddyramrod]

The trouble is everyone thinks the sun shines out of his arse,

 

Sadly, these people are always the biggest fuckups, guaranteed. Most of them don't get found out, so at least you've drawn attention to one. Well done.

[retrogeezer]

Just heard British Indy Car driver Dan Wheldon was killed at a the Vegas race....RIP

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Meanwhile, and I may have mentioned this before: sneezing. I get far too much practice at this, I must be able to turn professional soon. Why does it always feel like my ribs are cracking? I can go for days, then suddenly, bang, I sneeze for several minutes non-stop. It's quite energy-sapping, I can tell you.

 

Get yourself some non-drowsy antihistamine pills. Normally just one does the trick.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

I'm grumpy because the fucking idiot who serviced my boiler last week tinkered with something (gas valve?) and stopped it from ever heating the flat again. After I got my landlord to speak with British Gasp homecare (the same people who did the service) 'emergency response', they made an appointment (!) for the next day. The 'appointment' is for 'between 12 and 6'. It's not quite freezing cold yet but I'm rather annoyed. If this happens ever again, I'm off to a hotel, taking the money out of my rent, and they can all get stuffed.

[M'coli]

Meanwhile, and I may have mentioned this before: sneezing. I get far too much practice at this, I must be able to turn professional soon. Why does it always feel like my ribs are cracking? I can go for days, then suddenly, bang, I sneeze for several minutes non-stop. It's quite energy-sapping, I can tell you.

 

Get yourself some non-drowsy antihistamine pills. Normally just one does the trick.

For what? They won't do anything to stop a sneezing fit, especially if it's not allergy related. I understand eddy's predicament here: my nose decides occasionally to have a 2-3 minute sneezing fit that leaves me weak and listless fo the next 10 minutes or so. It's got nowt to do with allergies, much to do with a bike accident when I was 7 and probably some to do with nasal hair that's decided to grow up rather than down.

[retrogeezer]

I'm grumpy because the fucking idiot who serviced my boiler last week tinkered with something (gas valve?) and stopped it from ever heating the flat again. After I got my landlord to speak with British Gasp homecare (the same people who did the service) 'emergency response', they made an appointment (!) for the next day. The 'appointment' is for 'between 12 and 6'. It's not quite freezing cold yet but I'm rather annoyed. If this happens ever again, I'm off to a hotel, taking the money out of my rent, and they can all get stuffed.

 

 

hmmm, thats interesting. A week after our boiler was serviced by BG last year it stopped working due to something with the gas valve.

[scaryoldcortina]

Washing machine. We bought a brand new hotpoint last december, on saturday it stopped working. Totally dead, no lights, nothing. This morning I have spent 58 minutes on hold to indesit customer services because they are experiencing unusually high call volumes (it seems indesit now own/make hotpoints.... that's a bit like discovering that nissans are actually renaults, I would have bought something else). While waiting I used google to find their website, followed the links to "use our online service to book an appointment" where I was given the same phone number I was already on hold to (this is NOT an online booking service guys...) Finally, I spoke to a person who asked me if I had checked the fuse and tried plugging it into another outlet. Surprisingly, I had

 

There is an engineer booked for wednesday (between 8am and 6pm) who will be watched like a bloody hawk to make sure he fixes it properly - it's only got 10 weeks warranty left. I have a feeling it's going round the oval some time next year though.

[CreepingJesus]

Just heard British Indy Car driver Dan Wheldon was killed at a the Vegas race....RIP

'King ell! Last I heard on the radio last night, he'd been airlifted to hospital. RIP Dan Wheldon, at he went out doing what he loved.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Meanwhile, and I may have mentioned this before: sneezing. I get far too much practice at this, I must be able to turn professional soon. Why does it always feel like my ribs are cracking? I can go for days, then suddenly, bang, I sneeze for several minutes non-stop. It's quite energy-sapping, I can tell you.

 

Get yourself some non-drowsy antihistamine pills. Normally just one does the trick.

For what? They won't do anything to stop a sneezing fit, especially if it's not allergy related. I understand eddy's predicament here: my nose decides occasionally to have a 2-3 minute sneezing fit that leaves me weak and listless fo the next 10 minutes or so. It's got nowt to do with allergies, much to do with a bike accident when I was 7 and probably some to do with nasal hair that's decided to grow up rather than down.

 

Fair point, as long as you are sure that it's nothing to do with allergy.