The grumpy thread

[Ross_K]

Post the cunts a box of dogshit. Don't put your return address on the box, obviously...

[ayd]

re Facebook, I get on with Timeline but I do run Facebook Purity to filter out the shite http://www.fbpurity.com/

[Pete-M]

I don't mind timeline either. Google Chrome or Firefox with adblock sorts out most of fb's issues I find, and it kills the ads on YouTube so I find it to be win/win.

[Guest]

I swear to Christ if one more thing goes wrong today they'll be fucking murders.

 

Went to the opticians today. They claimed I was late despite the fact the appointment was booked for 1.30 and I turned up at 1.30. Started giving me some shit about it being at 1.25 and it was 'unacceptable' I was 5 minutes 'late'. Didn't realise Specsavers ran to such a tight schedule.

 

Got a bollocking off the optometrist because it's been 7 years since I had my eyes tested and as a result I now have a bad astigmatism in my right eye. So that's a £10 charge for being told I'm basically blind. I knew that anyway.

[Wilko220]

On a separate grump... the classic car scrapyard photo group on facebook. It was once a group with some interesting photos of rotting classics, the odd contribution from a banger driver of his yard and general classic car paps. Now it gets swamped by a weekly wave of banger trolls who struggle to type without text speak and constantly post provocative photos of what they have raced....

 

The other day I joined this group and had a good look, something I've been meaning to do for quite a long time but had never got around to. I see what you mean. Wish I hadn't bothered really.

[Negative Creep]

Having some prick hit my car is pretty much the final straw, and with so much else that's been going on I now doubt I'm going to RRG. You try and talk to people, no one listens. You try not talking, no one notices. What's the point.

[Des]

Didn't realise Specsavers ran to such a tight schedule

 

You wouldn't believe the pressure speccys employees are under, unreasonable targets and all that bullshit you'd think beyond even Kwikfit.

Horrible grubby, nasty, greedy bunch of shits. Although the franchises are generally ok.

[Ross_K]

I had a similar thing with Vision Express recently. Fuck em, next time I need glasses I'll pay for the test and buy my glasses online.

[willswitchengage]

A colleague of mine today spent the equivalent of my year's wages (gross) on a used Lolvo XC60 today

 

Sometimes forget that real people do buy big and expensive cars like that

 

Oh, and VIRGIN MEDIA! for helping this page take five minutes to load. Hopefully Branson will soon lose his fibre optics like he did his trains.

[RoadworkUK]

Re "private" car parks; i wonder what would happen if, under cover of darkness and heavily disguised, a gang of like-minded folk were to assemble en masse and fill said car park with rotten caravans, with flat tyres and no tow-hooks? It would be immense fun to watch them scratching their heads to figure out what to do next.

[autofive]

.. or if you wrote to all the businesses that use this system and declare you will never again shop there

[RoadworkUK]

....probably a better idea, on balance.

[rml2345]

I dunno Earl, the caravans idea does have some potential. Put a sign down at Dale Farm directing them to the nearest "private" car park.

Job jobbed.

[Des]

I had a similar thing with Vision Express recently. Fuck em, next time I need glasses I'll pay for the test and buy my glasses online.

 

Oh shit don't do that, internet glasses are the cheapest nastiest chinese shit imaginable, at least spaccys bought the Pentax name to put on their cheapest nastiest chinese shit imaginable. Also, glasses need 'fitting,' the lens position is pretty critical, like the distance from your peeper and centering the lenses over your pupils, look what happens when you put a headlamp bulb in upside-down. Use an independent optom, they'll usually match the price of the multiples, generally spend more time on the sight test, but most important, their primary concern is your eyes health, and making it worth the chore of hanging bins off your face by getting your sight perfect.

[Cavcraft]

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Agreed. Well, agreed in as far as when I (frequently) buy glasses from the pound shop they give me a headache after a while and somehow mysteriously seem to lose their actual magnification. I'm just too much of a mingebag to go back to the opticians and buy some proper ones.

[Lankytim]

Having some prick hit my car is pretty much the final straw, and with so much else that's been going on I now doubt I'm going to RRG. You try and talk to people, no one listens. You try not talking, no one notices. What's the point.

 

 

What? Bit cryptic.

[Negative Creep]

Having some prick hit my car is pretty much the final straw, and with so much else that's been going on I now doubt I'm going to RRG. You try and talk to people, no one listens. You try not talking, no one notices. What's the point.

 

 

What? Bit cryptic.

 

 

Some dickhead has left a lovely big scrape on my front bumper just after I put it up for sale. Now I am somewhat miffed and not sure if I'm in the mood for the Retro Rides Gathering

[Spiny Norman]

Use an independent optom, they'll usually match the price of the multiples, generally spend more time on the sight test, but most important, their primary concern is your eyes health, and making it worth the chore of hanging bins off your face by getting your sight perfect.

 

THIS.

 

Just like garages, opticians are at their best when sampled at the 'family business' and of the scale and not the big nationals.

Let's put it this way, if their advertising is anything more than than a small spread in the local rag, stay away.

The bods I go to have two shops in the area, and above one of them they do their own lens grinding to keep waiting times down.

You get a proper eye examination too, not just a sight test.

[pompei]

Couple of years ago I couldn't see a thing out of my left eye. I went to DollandExpress and the 17 year old who looked at my eyes told me I had a 'lazy eye' . Went to a proper optician who told me I had a cataract, which was subsequently removed. Get yourself propertly checked out!

[rml2345]

Couldn't agree more about the opticians thing. I've used a wee firm in the high street for donkeys years and never had a bit of bother. Their optical fella is a Volvo fan as well

[Pete-M]

The chap who did the eye test for my last pair of specs designs and makes the machines opticians use, unfortunately his English isn't wonderful as he's Czech, but he appears to have got it spot on, but that's to be expected really.

 

Unfortunately, the glasses I bought from him a year ago in April I broke recently. They're rimless jobs and I broke the little thing with the pads that sit on the nose. So I needed to get 'em fixed. Trip to my local optician and unfortunately there was bugger all he could do "They don't sell these particular frames in the UK, so there's bugger all I can do I'm afraid". I figured it'd be a worth a shot trying Specsavers across the road. They couldn't help either, but the very pretty optician, Laura, said "Just come in here and I'll give you a free eyetest..." an offer that couldn't be refused.

 

I'm waiting for them to put the finishing touch on a new pair of glasses for me. She's pretty enough to have persuaded me to spend £190 on a new pair. Dammit. If I didn't have glasses I'd not have fallen for her charms...

[AeroNautiCal]

Post the cunts a box of dogshit. Don't put your return address on the box, obviously...

 

And don't leave the dog in the box...

[Spiny Norman]

Post the cunts a box of dogshit. Don't put your return address on the box, obviously...

 

You could put the address of someone else who's pissed you off recently on it though.

Two birds, one stone kinda thing.....

[Ross_K]

I like your thinking.

[John F]

Endless, pointless bitching about "the doctor" that has hijacked the "eBay tat" thread

[skattrd]

I have to disagree on the opticians thing - I've bought mine online for years and saved a fortune. High St. opticians charge me £100+ just for my lenses (I have an astigmatism) my usual cost for a pair of specs was £2-300. The last glasses I bought online cost me £70 all in for a decent make and I bought a cheap pair for reading use for £20. No problems with them at all.

I use the high st. opticians once a year to get my eyes tested, usually when they're doing half price eye tests.

[cort16]

The Rover has developed a leaking sunroof. I didn't notice said leak until I'd sat in the drivers seat and I now look like my pampers man size have overflowed.

[Cavcraft]

Endless, pointless bitching about "the doctor" that has hijacked the "eBay tat" thread

 

'+1'

 

The bloke's just trying to make himself a living and in doing so appears to have actually pleased quite a few people along the way. If he can score really nice cars relatively cheaply* and make himself a few quid then so bloody what?

 

*I expect a lot he bought were advertised elsewhere for a fair bit less and others had the chance to buy them before he did. This also means it's harder for him to sell them at even more money so he's taking a gamble I suppose. Anyhow instead of people moaning about him they be happy he's selling really nice looking cars to a wide® audience and it's they who dictate the final price.

[morris_ital_lover]

Whilst we are talking about the Doctor, he is a scumbag, I told him my old pin code once he then went back in time, mugged me and withdrew my life-savings. Beware of timelords.

[ashmicro]

This is my optician - yes, he really is called Mr Glass!

 

http://www.raglass.com/carrickfergus.aspx

 

Top man, drives an XJ-R.