The grumpy thread

[wuvvum]

My printer has packed up. It's one of those Epson all-in-one printer/scanner jobbies that I paid about £40 for, so going on what was being said the other day about cheap printers it's probably to be expected, but it's still irritating as it's only 6 months old and hasn't really been used that much. It's making all the right noises but isn't pulling the paper through. I'm on a Ryanair flight over to my parents' for Christmas first thing Tuesday morning, so I've got to remember to print my boarding passes out at work tomorrow or I'll be dry bummed for a £40 "printing fee" by Mr. O'Leary's evil minions.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

don't they have electronic boarding passes?

[Lord Sterling]

My printer has packed up. It's one of those Epson all-in-one printer/scanner jobbies that I paid about £40 for, so going on what was being said the other day about cheap printers it's probably to be expected, but it's still irritating as it's only 6 months old and hasn't really been used that much. It's making all the right noises but isn't pulling the paper through. I'm on a Ryanair flight over to my parents' for Christmas first thing Tuesday morning, so I've got to remember to print my boarding passes out at work tomorrow or I'll be dry bummed for a £40 "printing fee" by Mr. O'Leary's evil minions.

 

Something I do days before I go abroad is print all the necessary documents a few days before as printers like to pack up at the last moment, if it works, great if not I can pop to the local library and print the docs for about 20p a sheet or something thereabouts.

[Guest]

Hello. If anyone wants me in the next week or so don't bother trying to get hold of me via Facebook. I've binned it for the time being (at least I think I've binned it) because I can't be arsed.

 

Things are very bad at the moment and I can't be bothered reading an endless stream of how well people have done on modules this year \ how great they are \ how busy they are \ etc etc. The past few months have been a load of steaming shit and I've just got some very bad news that really is the cherry on a cake made of excrement. I was supposed to go and meet the Scouse Team Of Excellence last night up in Birkenhead, but after what I got told (followed almost straight away by another, unrelated denoument) I really didn't fancy driving. I had to wait until today to see if the news was as bad as it suggested, and it is.

 

I don't know if I've actually deleted my FB account - they try their damndest to stop you from killing it. I had multiple tabs open when it said it was on the delete track. If someone could check for me that would be excellent.

 

As I say, get me on the phone, via PM here and so and on and so on, just not Facebook. I'll probably go back to it, just not right now.

[Cavcraft]

I don't do FaecesAche and all that sort of jazz but whatever your bad news is Jon I hope it's something that can be overcome.

[trigger]

I hope everything is ok Jon, I've just checked for you and it looks like you have deleted it successfully.

 

The page you requested was not found

[M'coli]

Wat, you've disappeared from my friends list and a search can't find you either.

[Guest]

I hope everything is ok Jon, I've just checked for you and it looks like you have deleted it successfully.

 

The page you requested was not found

 

It won't actually get deleted until early January, and I can get it going again if I log in. I'll see how it goes. It's actually the easiest way to talk to people on my course, I just can't be fucked with their endless wittering at the moment. They're leaving me for dead marks wise and I can't figure out why.

 

This for example. This is apparently a steaming pile of shit barely worth a 2:2. To get this straight after what I got told yesterday was not very pleasant.

 

 

I'm going to complain about the mark I got.

[Craig the Princess]

It won't actually get deleted until early January, and I can get it going again if I log in. I'll see how it goes. It's actually the easiest way to talk to people on my course, I just can't be fucked with their endless wittering at the moment. They're leaving me for dead marks wise and I can't figure out why.

 

Things can turn round quickly, I met up with my uni mates last week. One on my best mates at the time in the first year finished well below me and had to do some retakes. He now has a PhD and is working at UCL and I, well I almost killed myself with cynaide at the end of year 2(Chemistry degree) then dropped out. But he doesn't own 2 Austin Ambassadors so I win

[jakebullet]

The spackers at www.mytyres.co.uk are now on my shit list. Ordered 4 snow tyres on rims for the idiot sister.

 

First piss take is £10 per wheel delivery + 1 week wait 'cos it turns out they're coming from Germany.

 

Arrived today, but... directional tyres and I've got 3 nearside, 1 offside. Phoned their don't help line, got India who tells me it's a "manufacturing fault" and I must report it by email only. Prolly going to end up being out of pocket paying the local tyre place to swap one round.

[cort16]

I've ripped the arse right out it with the booze and have now a mild fracture of my drinking bone. It's not even Christmas yet!

I feel like shite so I'm going to go home and go to bed with a bag of frozen sprouts on my head.

[Guest]

Bit late on this on but sorry to see mk1_4dr's Escort a couple of pages ago. Glad your ok - hope it fixable.

[wuvvum]

The ice last night appears to have got into the offside headlight of the Innocenti and separated the glass from the reflector - said glass promptly fell on the floor and smashed. I'm currently attempting to stick it back together (have given up on the shitty liquid "superglue" I bought from Tesco and am using a tube of Loctite all purpose adhesive which is doing a much better job), but what are the chances of it passing an MoT with a patched-up headlight lense? I have a feeling tracking down a replacement headlight would be a royal PITA.

[outlaw118]

Is there nowt else that will fit....I'm thinking Fiat obviously, and you've probably already thought of that.....

Just had a search on t'bay for "Autobianchi headlight" and came up with 2 chrome rings from septic-land....

[TimothyClaypole]

My printer has packed up. It's one of those Epson all-in-one printer/scanner jobbies that I paid about £40 for, so going on what was being said the other day about cheap printers it's probably to be expected, but it's still irritating as it's only 6 months old and hasn't really been used that much. It's making all the right noises but isn't pulling the paper through. I'm on a Ryanair flight over to my parents' for Christmas first thing Tuesday morning, so I've got to remember to print my boarding passes out at work tomorrow or I'll be dry bummed for a £40 "printing fee" by Mr. O'Leary's evil minions.

 

Google - Epson Service Centres and they should sort you out with a replacement with no trouble.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

The ice last night appears to have got into the offside headlight of the Innocenti and separated the glass from the reflector - said glass promptly fell on the floor and smashed. I'm currently attempting to stick it back together (have given up on the shitty liquid "superglue" I bought from Tesco and am using a tube of Loctite all purpose adhesive which is doing a much better job), but what are the chances of it passing an MoT with a patched-up headlight lense? I have a feeling tracking down a replacement headlight would be a royal PITA.

 

Here you go WUV

 

http://www.ebay.it/itm/Fanale-anteriore ... 0362335694

[wuvvum]

Nice one Boll. Don't know what its chances would be of making it over from Italy intact, but I've whanged it in my watch list, and if my expert repair looks like it's going to fail (which it probably will) I'll hit the BIN button.

[Lankytim]

Bought three packs of Castrol GTX from Asda direct last week (£20, reduced to £10, BARG!). Went to collect and they'd lost it. "Are you collecting car petrol?" Mongtards. Left empty handed. They promised to ring to let us know when we could collect. After a few days of oillessness I rang the help line to chase it up who then got in touch with the store who said i'd already collected it . After setting them straight they got in touch with the store again who now said they'd found it and it was ready to go. Went to collect tonight and, you guessed it. "sorry we can't find it" . Apparently they had a spillage last week and a load of it got wrecked. After 20 mins of faff they eventually found some on the shelf. Turns out its for sale IN STORE as well as online. So I could have just walked in and bought the frigging stuff first time around. I then had to wait another 10 mins for the thing to get authorised by the manager, who never appeared despite being called over the tannoy about a million times. Got the oil eventually, and a £5 voucher by way of an apology.

 

ASDA DIRECT IS SHIT.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

What a shower of dog bummers, I reckon i'll pop into Asda in Crewe and see if I can take advantage of this offer though.

[pompei]

I'd be tempted to loosen the top as you walk from the aisle to the door, leaving an oily trail behind

[Lankytim]

They are only 4l bottles, rather than the usual 5, still a good deal though. 10/40 and 15/40 flavours. Should cover 99% of shite motors. Its a tenner each, not tenner for 3 packs!

[cobblers]

This 4l bottle malarchy seems tight, most stuff I've owned has taken 4.something litres, and they arent v12 supercars, just crap <2.0 hatchback stuff.

[Parky]

Thats a good deal that - its £13 in Costco which is usually darn cheap for that sort of thing.

 

Tesco Direct is shite too, sometimes you have to brace yourself for arseache when getting the bargs I find.

[retrogeezer]

What a shower of dog bummers, I reckon i'll pop into Asda in Crewe and see if I can take advantage of this offer though.

 

They still have full synthetic oil in Home Bargains for a tenner, usually the Nantwich store has it and the GJ retail park one sometimes does. It's good quality stuff but i can't remember the make off the top of my head.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Last time Home Bargains had oil in, it was Gulf-branded, so I'd say quite good stuff. However, my local one has morphed into a giant Chinese Christmas tat emporium, and there are only about 3 non-seasonal items in the entire store.

 

I am torn between using the shower of shit that are ASDA to get some GTX or just forgetting about it and buying more of the Morrisons own-brand stuff that's currently in the engine (also a tenner for 4 litres but that's just the regular price). Being an SL, it should be more than good enough for pre-2000 chod...shouldn't it?

[Negative Creep]

7 hours overtime at work netted me a total of £26 after tax. Also, it was so cold on sunday my door locks were frozen, something I'd previously considered to be a myth

[Negative Creep]

Went to my weekend job's Xmas meal. It was one of those things where you get there and instantly realise you have nothing in common with them and thus feel completely out of place. The incident on my last shift where I went to the correct road but in the wrong town (the name of the town was not on the instructions but I didn't check it, so a 50/50 thing IMO) was brought up about 5 times in front of everyone. Being a rather loud and boisterous group you could also tell everyone else in the restaurant was getting annoyed by it and no one would leave, even after the staff switched the lights off. Since you can't be seen to be the first to leave, you have to wait for someone else to decide to call it a night.

 

So it was a pretty crap night and has left me thoroughly pissed off. Food was good though.

[autofive]

WHY COULDNT YOU BE THE FIRST TO LEAVE?

oops caps lock

[eddyramrod]

I'd be tempted to loosen the top as you walk from the aisle to the door, leaving an oily trail behind

 

Yeah, that'll really piss-off Asda head-office types, won't it? You know who it will piss off? The minimum-wage cleaner whose job it is to sort out all the spills on the sales floor before anyone slips and breaks something. I know. I used to be that cleaner, in Tesco. You could eat off my floors.

[Cavcraft]

Regarding works piss ups: You might not be able to pick who you work with, but can chose who you drink with. Backheeled many Christmas parties or (previous) works outings in the past as I'd rather have nailed my weapon of mass construction to the bog door and painted my knackers with radioactive waste than spend a few miserable hours in the company of snivellers, cliques and boring bastards.