The grumpy thread

[trigger]

Don't feel down Warren, here, have a photo of a shite car to cheer you up.

 

[autofive]

I really am at a low ebb and can't be bothered with anything anymore. Pretty much every aspect of my life has turned to 24 carat shit and I'm wondering whether there's actually a way out of this.

 

i know exactly what you mean

 

life has been fairly shite for most of this year and i see no light at the end of the tunnel, i have lost three good friends, my cash is dwindling and the bills keep rolling in

 

stick in there, it will be worth it in the end, however long it takes

[Lord Sterling]

stick in there, it will be worth it in the end, however long it takes

 

I can only echo what others have said. Dont let life beat you fella.

 

This isnt something I wish to share, but....

 

I've got family in Syria some of whom have lost thier homes. Personally I feel so helpless and basically shit about it. I dont know what to do, I want to go thier and help but I dont think that'll work (I'll end up just geting killed anyway)

 

Right now I can only just stick to plodding on at work and giving support where I can.

 

Anyhow, on a lighter note, I have too many car floor mats. How the bloody hell I ended up with that many or why is anyones guess. I have a frightening feeling that I'm going to end up like that newspaper hoarder bloke, except with floor mats.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

I really am at a low ebb and can't be bothered with anything anymore. Pretty much every aspect of my life has turned to 24 carat shit and I'm wondering whether there's actually a way out of this.

 

I'm in a sort of similar situation. Try to spend time on shite and other distractions, that's how I've been avoiding the madhouse!

[vulgalour]

It is confirmed, the guys we passed on the way home that I thought were the ones we'd caught making (lame) attempts at burglary on the house and garage are the same people. They've tampered with the garage padlock rather ineptly. Next thing they'll be trying is the door handles to see if they can sneak in and steal stuff. Ah well, I shall tell the constabulary again as requested now that I know who's doing it, at least I could point them out to the plod if need be. Just as well I'm paranoid about locking everything up.

[M'coli]

It is confirmed, the guys we passed on the way home that I thought were the ones we'd caught making (lame) attempts at burglary on the house and garage are the same people. They've tampered with the garage padlock rather ineptly. Next thing they'll be trying is the door handles to see if they can sneak in and steal stuff. Ah well, I shall tell the constabulary again as requested now that I know who's doing it, at least I could point them out to the plod if need be. Just as well I'm paranoid about locking everything up.

These low-life are "just" criminals: if they want something enough they will find a way to steal it, no matter how many locks and chains you place around your stuff.

 

Then there are the other low-life, the proper crooks: these cunts have legislation behind them, which says that if it's not locked-up/tied-down securely enough then they won't pay out...

[M'coli]

I really am at a low ebb and can't be bothered with anything anymore. Pretty much every aspect of my life has turned to 24 carat shit and I'm wondering whether there's actually a way out of this.

Time, patience, suffering and an inkling of hope have always helped me through these moments of my own life. Good luck in finding what you need to allow things to improve vastly.

[vulgalour]

Oh, I know that if a criminal *really* wants something of mine there's little I can do to stop them. However, I also know that these guys are often disturbed doing their work and really do just chance locks and handles to get away with really quite petty stuff. When they've done with Bolsover they'll move over to Carr Vale again, and then to Clowne most likely, and back again. The Police know who they are, but they need to catch them in the act and/or get hard proof of them having committed a crime, something I'm working on doing if at all possible. I know their pattern, roughly, so I can probably outwit them eventually. I've even had fleeting thoughts of hiding in the garage with a camera at the time they usually make a visit, though I'm more likely to just fit a very loud and very annoying alarm to scare them off. I've got to do enough to catch them in the act and get proof of their ID, but not enough that I get in more trouble than they do. So it's no to electrified garages and bear traps, but possibly yes to trip wires and digital cameras with bright flashes.

[PhilA]

Camera that's hooked up to something that records inside- so that even if they pinch the camera, the piccies are still on a hard disk where they can't get to it.

 

Either that or if they get the doors open, have the Princess facing out, with hydraulic rams to open the bonnet, big cardboard teeth along the edge, headlights on and a very loud carnival-esque ROAR before THEN taking their pictures.

 

That would make for considerably better pictures to give to the Constabulary.

 

--Phil

[Spiny Norman]

I've even had fleeting thoughts of hiding in the garage with a baseball bat/chainsaw at the time they usually make a visit,

 

FTFY.

[TimothyClaypole]

Play them at their own game and rob them first?

[vulgalour]

 

 

Only trouble is, last time I tried reversing on to the drive I hit the house, so maybe not an option. Not to worry, there's always other car heroes I can learn from, and best of all there's no sacred ground within running distance Limo tint all round!

 

But then, knowing me, it'll end up a lot more like this. HONK HONK.

[Guest]

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:

 

Facebook, orange Renault turbine wheels, Natwest, contact lenses.

[eddyramrod]

Warren: whatever it is, it's catching, because I've got it too and Mrs R has a really severe case of it.

We keep breathing, which informed sources suggest is the important bit, but if you find yourself in need of any frustration, see me. I've got industrial quantities, available for export at no extra charge. You will need to arrange your own shipping, however...

 

VA: good luck!

[Guest]

Dear Natwest,

 

Thank you for your soft pedalled bullshit letter threatening my credit rating. I was obviously labouring under the misapprehension that I had a student bank account with you rather than a needy long term relationship.

 

It may shock you to hear that as a student, I don't earn a great deal of money. As a result, students tend to sit in their overdraft for longer than current account holders. You seem to enjoy the itinerant pissing around that comes from arbitrarily moving goal posts. Recently you threatened the removal of students' interest free overdraft facility unless they moved £1k through it every two months. You quickly reversed this in an Olympian feat of backpedalling. Many got the message loud and clear - sod the graduate retention figures, we don't want students as customers.

 

Your first letter advising inactivity on my account was innocuous enough. You wrote to tell me in April that there had been no activity on my account and for some reason, I had to explain why that was. A lot can happen between February and April, can't it? You can quite clearly see I have another account with you, and that my wages \ student loan was going there instead. I was quite clearly earning a living and receiving payments from SFE - were you not able to see this on your computer systems? Oh wait, stupid me - this is RBS we're talking about. The company that had to be bailed out from the taxpayer and clearly doesn't know its own computer system from its own pus filled arsehole, judging by the shit that you spout. I would bore you about the £50 that went missing in your system crash never to be seen again - but let's not get bogged down with the details, eh?

 

Apparently I was supposed to have contacted to you to let you know what was going on. Why? Why is it my responsibility? Nowhere in your terms and conditions does it state there's a minimum time between deposits and activity to maintain a student overdraft. Clearly your departments and branches don't talk to one another - they told me to keep making deposits (of no fixed amount) and to use the account to maintain the overdraft - and that contact with a premium rate phoneline wasn't necessary. I didn't realise you needed my every intention writ large in foot high letters with the aid of a skywriter. As it happens, there's been activity in that account as recently as late July. That's about the time your softly - softly threat letter was generated, and my response now is in light of it arriving on my doorstep yesterday. 2nd class business post is a wonderful thing, isn't it?

 

I really couldn't give a flying fuck if your most recent po faced letter was a generic system response - it shouldn't have come to this. If you keep changing your overdraft terms and conditions as and when you feel like it, people will vote with their feet.

 

That student account was to be used for my student loan. I changed it in light of your first letter and informed my local branch of this, so that there would be activity on said account. Clearly, my local branch is incapable of relaying this development to you. I do not discuss matters of banking over the phone, and never will. You need to understand this about me.

 

When my student loan arrives it will be withdrawn immediately and placed into another student bank account. A student bank account offered by one of your competitors. I don't take threats towards my credit rating lightly, and as one hand clearly cannot talk to the other I thought I'd spell that last point out for you so that we understand each other.

 

Frankly the past 8 years have been a piss take and I will not be using your services in the future.

 

 

Sincerely,

 

A monumentally fucked off Natwest customer.

[Negative Creep]

Desktop has packed up and won't go beyond the boot screen. I guess it's buggered but any ideas off the top of your head?

[phil_lihp]

Any number of reasons, if you hit F8 repeatedly while its booting, do you get some boot options? If so, try Safe Mode. If that works, reboot it and try again. If not, use F8 again and try Last known good configuration. Rinse and repeat.

[Negative Creep]

Post BIOS showed it booted all USB devices, yet I unplugged them and now it's loaded fine. To be honest it is seven years old now, and come payday it may be time to take it round the back of a barn with a shotgun

[messerschmitt owner]

You ALL, yes you! You SAD FUCKERS with the phone moans - fuck right off out of this website and go off to www.allphonesareshite.com and leave us to talk about fucking cars!

 

I don't give a flying fuck what type of phone you may have, what it may do and why it is supposedly better than some other phone! FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!

 

Oh, while you're at it, get some semblance of a life - one that doesn't revolve round a 4x2x0.3inch black/white/pink thing in your pocket!

 

In case you haven't noticed this is a fucking shite car forum!

[HillmanImp]

Unable to use service

Unfortunately, because of the tax class of the vehicle or recent changes to the vehicle record, you are currently unable to apply for a tax disc or declare SORN using this service.

You will need to apply for the tax disc or declare SORN at a licence-issuing Post Office® or DVLA Local Office (as applicable for the vehicle) using the reminder (Vehicle Licence Application/SORN Declaration) or the Registration Document/Certificate together with the Insurance Certificate or Cover Note, MOT Test Certificate/GVT Test Certificate (if applicable) and fee.

 

Fucksticks. Why is that? Have we been caught on ANPR or something? Off to the post office I go then.

[Spiny Norman]

You ALL, yes you! You SAD FUCKERS with the phone moans - fuck right off out of this website and go off to http://www.allphonesareshite.com and leave us to talk about fucking cars!

 

I don't give a flying fuck what type of phone you may have, what it may do and why it is supposedly better than some other phone! FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!

 

Oh, while you're at it, get some semblance of a life - one that doesn't revolve round a 4x2x0.3inch black/white/pink thing in your pocket!

 

In case you haven't noticed this is a fucking shite car forum!

 

Not a bad rant at all MO, I'd give that a 7/10.

 

OK, hands up who clicked that 'link'?

[Spiny Norman]

RIP Max Bygraves.

 

[TimothyClaypole]

Miserly sellers.

 

BMW 2002 on Ebay - "It's rotten wreck for spares but I'm taking the steering wheel off".

 

Transit Forum - "It's an old van but I'm keeping the tax."

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Pulled/sprained a muscle on my back yesterday. Barely managed to sleep, and of course I haven't been able to concentrate enough to get writing a PhD proposal that's due Monday...

[Pete-M]

Brought the Granada home today, it's not a bad old thing.

 

However, rear springs are £50 each for the bugger, and both rears are seriously saggy.

 

I'm beginning to contemplate shifting the old bus on and continuing Jag repairs...

[eddyramrod]

Peter James Insurance.

 

Going to take two old cars from Cyprus to England, thinks oi, better look into getting them insured. Let's see, Peter James gets a good rep on here, where my peers can reasonably be expected to recognise value and service. One googling session later, I'm on the Peter James Insurance website, considerably outside their working hours. Aha, but that's no problem, because there's a little box in which I can type my phone number so they can call me to discuss my needs.

 

It's now the early hours of Sunday, and I'm still waiting.

 

Also: "Going to take two old cars from Cyprus to England." Despite a late flurry of phone activity by a friend of a friend, no sale on the Granada, which I really didn't want to ship.

 

Also: Irish solicitors and legal system. I'm expecting a legacy which three months ago was "due in 6-8 weeks." Nobody can tell me when I'm going to see this money, which is quite a bummer as I'm relying on it to pay for our move. Which is little more than a week away now.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Insurance brokers tend to work 'normal office hours' plus maybe a couple of hours Sat mornings. Don't expect them to ring you before 11am on Monday.

[eddyramrod]

That would be fine if I only googled them today; but it was Wednesday.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Shit! In that case, I'd call them first thing Monday and whine about it!

[Ross_K]

Also: Irish solicitors and legal system. I'm expecting a legacy which three months ago was "due in 6-8 weeks." Nobody can tell me when I'm going to see this money, which is quite a bummer as I'm relying on it to pay for our move. Which is little more than a week away now.

 

The money's resting in their account, in a Father Ted-esque way.

 

Phone the cunts and give them a bollocking.