The grumpy thread

[chaseracer]

We went to one last week where they asked for money towards the honeymoon in Mexico "because we've been living together for a while now."

 

Well, good for you. You also each earn more than Domestic Management and me put together, you have sole use of a posh country hotel for the day, and for the reception entertainment you've hired the bloke who sang at Wayne Rooney's wedding. So, FRO - here's a small gift...

[chaseracer]

the couple wanted cash...

 

How's this communicated to wedding guests? Veiled hints or is printed on the invitation? Just curious.

This.

[Spiny Norman]

In the spirit of the GOM thread I just refuse to go to weddings, period.

They usually end in tears anyway.....

[vulgalour]

Don't forget, the leading cause of divorce is marriage.

[Ross_K]

We went to one last week where they asked for money towards the honeymoon in Mexico "because we've been living together for a while now."

 

I'd be telling them: "Get to fuck! Want to know where I went on holiday this year? Fucking nowhere 'cos I was working a second job in my two week's summer holiday from my first job..."

 

Or in the words of Louis CK:

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[dollywobbler]

We didn't ask for money, but we did say we didn't want presents and people could give a cash pressie if they wanted. Was quite touched that some friends grouped together so we got a photo frame with a load of £20 notes in it. That frame now holds our favourite picture from the day.

 

We felt bad asking for presents because we held our wedding on a farm in Devon, which was nice and handy for absolutely no-one! However, it did allow us to have a wedding budget of less than £5000, which is a tiny fraction of what some people spend. The wedding dress cost £200 IIRC so most of our budget went on food, real ale and mead for our guests. I just don't understand why people the need to spend many times that amount and I dread the day I ever get invited to a wedding in the Bahamas or something ridiculous. Getting to Norfolk is expensive enough!

[M'coli]

A good friend - drives ships for a living - said that they didn't require gifts but donations to their drinks cabinet fund would be acceptable. We instead donated to the RNLI, which oddly enough met with approval...

[willswitchengage]

Facebook just made me get timeline

[eddyramrod]

Me too! You will have this "upgrade" whether you want it or not......

[RedSparrow]

Did it to me a few months ago. Seems a bit random when people are selected. There is a firefox add on to block it though!

[jakebullet]

When taking the sister's shit machine for a walk I pass a shiny red rover metro gta. It's slowly been gaining 'customisation' but nothing too terrible. I've even been thinking "what a sensible young man".

 

Until tonight. Matt black yo! Wanker!

 

[RedSparrow]

The kindest thing to do now would be to put it out of its misery. Set fire to it at night.

Seriously though it does sadden me. Not many good gtas left.

[Cavcraft]

PEFs and having to try and gen up on them at my age

[pompei]

PEFs? Que?

[Cavcraft]

Process Engineering Flowcharts, or some such bollocks.

[pompei]

Better you than me!

[cobblers]

Laid underneath my "mates" van with a propane torch aimed at the drivers front caliper bleed nipple which was 100% rounded and 100% seized, as was the brake pipe and everything surrounding it. Caliper is also pretty much seized but hes a tight cunt and won't buy another so I was trying to make it work.

I warmed things up a bit, to no avail. Warmed them up a bit more - still no luck, bleed nipple was seized solid. Warmed them up a bit more and the brake fluid must have boiled which caused the flexy hose to explode fairly violently and squirt boiling brake fluid in my face.

My "mate" was more pissed off that I'd just cost him a fucking £9 flexy hose which was knackered to start with than the fact that both my eyes had boiling brake fluid in them after I had tried doing the useless fucker a favour. Three hours later I can see alright from my left eye but there is probably some gravel in my right eye.

[Guest]

1. Behringer.

 

They're hopeless. I ordered a power supply for a DSP 110 Shark I want to sell. Except their supplier has let me down AGAIN, and they're the only people who can supply it. I genuinely thought the places I went to were taking the piss when they said that they didn't deal with Behringer because they were sketchy, but I'm beginning to believe it.

 

2. Facebook.

 

I've had that timeline cobblers forced on to my profile. And all of the embedded adverts that entails. Net result : It cripples my machine when you try to view anything, and the constant streaming adverts are a massive pain in the arse when they come booming out of my headphones (I don't run my machine with any speakers).

 

3. eBay buyers not paying up. FUCKING HURRY UP, you've had two days.

 

4. American website owner who wants some photos I took and does not understand the concept of 'Get to fuck if you think you're having them for nothing.' He just keeps clogging my inbox up with po faced shit about how he had to work for nothing to get into his industry. Excuse me, shithead - you're not short of a few bob. I am not asking a lot. If my photos draw people to your website and you subsequently make money off that passing trade, you owe me. Either put your hand in your pocket or fuck off. I am sick of minted people pleading poverty the second they want something off me. Like fuck you'd hand the photos over for nothing if it were the other way round. Or perhaps I'm just not a complete skinflint fuckshite who realise that people have to make a living.

[vulgalour]

Tried to get rid of the oil leak on the Princess and made it spectacularly worse. Bodged it to get rid of it, but it's leaking again now. Don't want to remove the cause of the leak because it's already made a start stripping the thread out of the rocker cover :/. Full shite update when I'm not tired and full of Pina Colada.

[Guest]

Laid underneath my "mates" van with a propane torch aimed at the drivers front caliper bleed nipple which was 100% rounded and 100% seized, as was the brake pipe and everything surrounding it. Caliper is also pretty much seized but hes a tight cunt and won't buy another so I was trying to make it work.

I warmed things up a bit, to no avail. Warmed them up a bit more - still no luck, bleed nipple was seized solid. Warmed them up a bit more and the brake fluid must have boiled which caused the flexy hose to explode fairly violently and squirt boiling brake fluid in my face.

My "mate" was more pissed off that I'd just cost him a fucking £9 flexy hose which was knackered to start with than the fact that both my eyes had boiling brake fluid in them after I had tried doing the useless fucker a favour. Three hours later I can see alright from my left eye but there is probably some gravel in my right eye.

 

Tell your mate to go and fuck himself if that's his attitude. It sounds like you're lucky to have escaped with your eyesight. What did the hospital say?

[Spiny Norman]

 

2. Facebook.

 

I've had that timeline cobblers forced on to my profile. And all of the embedded adverts that entails. Net result : It cripples my machine when you try to view anything, and the constant streaming adverts are a massive pain in the arse when they come booming out of my headphones (I don't run my machine with any speakers).

 

Funnily enough they 'upgraded' me today too, so I went a-Googling for a solution and found this....http://download.cnet.com/TimeLine-Remove/3000-11745_4-75714336.html

Seems to be just like a Greasemonkey script that alters the way the browser renders the page rather than the scam ones that are doing the rounds which claim to be Farcebook apps that end up stealing all your private data.

Works a treat on Firefox, supposed to work on Chrome too. IE users and Macfags get what they deserve......

[Guest]

I'm not going to the Gathering now.

 

Just got a fucking parking notice through the door saying that I overstayed my welcome chatting with Pete at the Birkenhead McDonalds.

 

I am fucking furious. I am never, ever, ever, ever, ever going there again. I DON'T HAVE £75 YOU FUCKING THIEVING BASTARDS.

[trigger]

I think Pete's got the same ticket reading his Facebook status, he reckons you don't have to pay as it's a private parking firm?.

[morris_ital_lover]

It's worth making sure you are 100% first but as Trigger says, you don't have to pay private firms seeing as they can only send you and invoice and not an actual fine (IIRC). The parents gathered a couple of "fines" onto their car from a private car park a while ago which are still unpaid... they'll just nag you for a fairly long time.

[Negative Creep]

Chuck it in the bin. It's an invoice not a fine, and all the bullshit they'll spout about court and bailiffs means nothing

[dollywobbler]

Wat - ignore it.

 

Cobblers - tell your friend to piss off.

 

Facebook - I've been on Timeline for months and can't say it's been a problem.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

It might be worth Googling some bits of the letter. There was a thread somewhere (Pepipoo probably) containing the whole sequence of escalating threats for one firm, from the initial 'fine' to threats of court. The intimidating letters will lose their sting if you know what to expect.

 

Edit: It was moneysavingexpert, they have an archive of them built up here: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/sho ... ?t=2214803

[phil_lihp]

As above, ignore the parking letter if it's from a private firm, do not send back any sort of response. Just screw it up and throw it in the bin, there is no legal obligation for you to pay these extortianate 'fines'.

 

I had one because I apparently spent too long in a PC World car park, never mind that during that stay I bought several hundred pounds of computer equipment, I was furious but then I found this site:

 

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/sho ... ?t=2214803

 

Which makes it all crystal clear.

 

I got the exact chain of letters listed for the company on that site, every one got torn up and thrown in the bin, and 18 months plus a car change and house move later I haven't heard another word.

[Guest]

Chuck it in the bin. It's an invoice not a fine, and all the bullshit they'll spout about court and bailiffs means nothing

 

I'll keep the correspondence in a file I have. I've got a spare coloured page divider. I shall entitle it 'TWATS'.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Whenever I get one of these letters, I immediately write back to them saying that I refuse to pay it and they should take me to court and that if they keep sending me stuff, they'll be sued for harrassment. Normally does the trick.