The grumpy thread

[autofive]

got a speeding fine (plead guilty by post), today i get the letter and find im being charged 15 quid 'victim surcharge' - the only victim here is me

 

bastards

[Tayne]

I'd write a letter disputing that.

There's no way they could prove there was a victim and wouldn't want you to prove that in court so they should* back down.

[M'coli]

Photonicinduction has deleted his account and his videos!

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Also, I am in Czech for a couple of job interviews. English teaching. First one is tomorrow and I am quite badly prepared. I still have time to get a demo lesson together but I know I will just cobble it together at the last minute. I am my own worst enemy!

 

Good man, can you let me know what it involves? I'm tempted to do the same thing.

 

Well I did the TESOL course a couple of years ago. Took about 7 months. Most EU countires want you to have a degree in English too but in Czech and Slovakia they don't mind if you don't. I am amazed, seems to be a lot of potential work here for an English person. There are teachers here but most seem to be Americans or Australians. The Czech would much rather have an English English teacher. In fact I already have a couple of potential students lined up if I move over here. I would probably do a few sessions a week for one of the companies I have applied for and then do the rest in private lessons.

 

My impression is that most people in rural CZ and pretty much all over SK are rather skint... What's the going rate for this kind of thing? Can you make a living from it without having to eat discarded shoes?

[RedSparrow]

Well yeah you aren't going to get rich and bring a load of cash back to the UK. But is you live here you can earn equivalent of about £300 a week which means you can live pretty comfortably indeed. They all want to learn English at the moment, it's a good time. Plus I have some TOP SEKRIT ALAN SUGAR STYLE BUSINESS IDEAS.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

As you said, £300 a week is quite a decent income down there.

 

Let us know how you get on!

[RedSparrow]

They offered me a job! Starting in Feb. Should really be in the happy thread but meh.

I thought I was fucked when they made me do an English grammar test that apparently takes their students 5 minutes. I didn't have a clue about most of it. But they were happy with the demo lesson I did and offered me a contract!

[eddyramrod]

Pleased for you, well done! Now good luck for the actual work.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Marvellous! We await PITCHERZ of local shite (and possibly local talent, too ). Are you planning to buy yourself a nice little Estelle?

[TimothyClaypole]

He'd be fired for never being at work if he starts taking pictures of the local talent...

 

And I've got his first shite picked out, 1st on the list, Skoda 100 :

 

http://autobazar.autovia.sk/skoda/

 

£58.08

[RedSparrow]

If all goes well I would quite like a Rapide...

 

And yes. It makes you realise how hideous the young ladies who believe themselves to be attractive in the UK actually are.

[cobblers]

I've got a few old radiators outside the house I want rid of. Can't be arsed taking the to scrap myself, and every day a bloke in a transit tipper (who is not a bad bloke) drives down the road shouting "any old iron"

 

He does this at about 30mph, so even if I'm waiting next to the bloody door, by the time I've got outside to shout him back, he's halfway down the street and out of earshot. This has happened 4 days in a row now.

[messerschmitt owner]

leave them at the front gate - they will disappear ... although my scrap men ask to take stuff like that!

[pompei]

In Hull and Grimsby they still come round with horses and carts.

[TimothyClaypole]

Have van and licence, will travel for scrap.

[Guest]

Off work with a bad back - how does the shit on daytime telly pass as entertainment?

[Cavcraft]

Off work with a bad back - how does the shit on daytime telly pass as entertainment?

 

It's actually better than it used to be-assuming you like antiques that is.

Talking of antiques if you want to get REALLY pissed off with daytime telly try tuning into 'Loose Women'. If you haven't felt like lobbing a brick through the screen with five minutes then you need to see a shrink.

Ditto Alan 'Smug Bastard' Titmarsh.

[Negative Creep]

The worst thing are the endless PPI/personal injury parasites. The Injurylawyers4u ad, which makes me want to throttle kittens.

 

On a tv note, the BBC have also cancelled Mongrels. Tossers.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Failing that, you can try the internet.

[Guest]

Failing that, you can try the internet.

 

If it wasnt for youtube I would be the nuthouse by now.

[The Moog]

On a tv note, the BBC have also cancelled Mongrels. Tossers.

 

Nooooooooooo that was a quality show ...

[Spiny Norman]

On a tv note, the BBC have also cancelled Mongrels. Tossers.

 

Nooooooooooo that was a quality show ...

 

Arse biscuits!

That was one of the best shows on the box, seems they've canned it for poor viewing figures. Maybe if they hadn't stuck it on BBC3 at OMG o'clock more people might have spotted it...

[warren t claim]

Failing that, you can try the internet.

 

If it wasnt for lobstertube I would be the nuthouse by now.

 

Fixed that for you.

[Guest]

Failing that, you can try the internet.

 

If it wasnt for lobstertube I would be the nuthouse by now.

 

Fixed that for you.

 

 

What! - with my back?

[eddyramrod]

I've had a few phone calls on my pickup-for-sale. Most lose interest when they realise it isn't 4x4. One called yesterday and wanted to see it today. I'm still waiting, needless to say. Can't believe I've still got that thing, it's stupidly cheap for what/where it is. Oh, and I've had at least three calls on the X1/9, wish I'd bought a fleet of them!

[warren t claim]

I've had a few phone calls on my pickup-for-sale. Most lose interest when they realise it isn't 4x4. One called yesterday and wanted to see it today. I'm still waiting, needless to say. Can't believe I've still got that thing, it's stupidly cheap for what/where it is. Oh, and I've had at least three calls on the X1/9, wish I'd bought a fleet of them!

 

Why don't you just tell them it IS a 4x4? You would of probably left the country before they find out.

[M'coli]

Hardly a proper grump, but here goes - I haven't done any welding on the Imp in the last fortnight, and today I popped in to do some. At first I wondered how my mask had water in the lens and hoped the roof hadn't also leaked onto the welder itself (the roof does have a leak but well away from where the welder/mask were.

Oh no, it it wasn't water. It was cat piss!!

[Station]

Trying to sell something on ebay with a newish account and newish paypal account.

It's a long, convoluted process and something will always go wrong resulting in having to go through a lengthy robot helpline before speaking to a person who doesn't fix the problem.

 

Paypal is holding 200 quid of my money and it's not letting me have it because it can't/won't authorise my account.

 

It wants me to add another bank account,

It wants me to confirm tracking numbers of parcel delivery companies it doesn't recognise,

It refuses to deposit money into account for verification purposes,

it obviously has took it's charges from the money it is refusing to give me - also it won't let me use the money to pay for shipping, money I don't have which is the reason why I sold these fucking things,

Automated helpline promises another helpline which is just another automated helpline - it then offers a phone number which is just a speaking automated version of the previous automated helplines - fucking dogshit appalling. Leaving the premium rate phone call to run through it's options for 15 minutes puts you through to a human being (possibly one of the 10 that works for the ebay/paypal operations), who is as much use as the automated 48k computer helpline after I've gone at it with a big fucking hammer and then done a great big steaming shite into it's smoking electronic components.

 

Why has no-one else stepped in and produced a better business model than ebay? There can't only be one successful online auction site (apart from ebid which is hardly a competitor), the gap is huge for someone to offer anything which would be an improvement on paypal/ebay?

I refuse to use ebay after this, it's a big load of messed up bollocks even in the simplest of cases.

[cort16]

There was supposed to be someone coming to see the Alfa tonight at 7 .

Theyre still not here and no call or text. If youre not going to show then send me a text! Now I can't go out and buy more cooking sherry as if they turn up the mrs will be in on her own.

[cort16]

I take it back they turned up and bought it. I took a bath on this one folks but that's the nature of these old knackers.

It's a good job too as I brought the Volvo down the road tonight and it's sculking around the corner. Now I can put it on the drive.