The grumpy thread

[wuvvum]

Public transport.

 

Today is the first day of half term - always a busy time on the trains, with lots of families travelling with kids and suitcases etc.

 

So who the f*ck thought it would be a good idea to dig up the railway between Norwich and London today, thus forcing everyone who would have got on the 10-coach express to Liverpool Street to pile onto the 3-coach Turbostar to Cambridge to catch a connecting service?

 

Things didn't get any better when I got to London (late, as I'd missed my connection due to a signalling fault somewhere near Attleborough). No service on the Circle line, so I got the Victoria line to Oxford Circus, intending to jump on a Bakerloo train to Marylebone. Only when I got to Oxford Circus I found out the Bakerloo line was also being dug up, and there was in fact no way of getting to Marylebone by tube. So I had to surface and take a bus - which is not something I've done in London for at least 15 years - which involved trying to persuade the Eastern European bus driver that my train ticket from Norwich to High Wycombe was valid on the no. 453 bus.

 

The net result was an extremely stressful journey and the seller of the Jag having to hang around at his unit for an hour longer than he should have done. Thankfully the rest of the day's travels went smoothly...

[warren t claim]

Today I've learned that Simonswood test centre in Kirkby is no more. I did my class 1+2 HGV there and Teds Bend has now been consigned to history.

[willswitchengage]

Cunts who end items early. Trying to buy this for a friend who doesn't have internet at the moment and I get home from el pubbo to see "this item is no longer available". Wanker.

[Lord Sterling]

And there I was, thinking I was having a good day

 

Sis_Sterling, being at that difficult age having trouble with a couple of her ex 'mates' or whatever in which I nearly got involved in (couldnt find thes 'mates' though) of course one of the kids coming from a family who think they are the cut-price chavtastic Sopranos or whatever. Fuck off.

[mattblack]

Adverts where the seller lists the car as having a leather interior, when its clearly vinyl. Really? Either you are too dumb to tell the difference or you feel that everyone else might just be a little slow on the uptake, either way I'm walking.

 

BUT ALL OLD CARZ HAZ LETHA SEETS M8 INNIT

[cort16]

Just got the v5 back for the Puma. Another great purchase

 

[willswitchengage]

My Subaru has that written on too. Imho it just means the insurance company would have rather written it off for a car park ding than repair it, although it's obviosuly a bit knobbish if your mr ebay "forgot" to mention it.

[Cavcraft]

Cunts who end items early. Trying to buy this for a friend who doesn't have internet at the moment and I get home from el pubbo to see "this item is no longer available". Wanker.

 

I used to think like that, then eBay winning* bidders changed my mind for me. If you list something and someone is smart enough to ask the right question/s and tip up with cash then surely that's the best way of doing it? I know it's a pisser for bidders but everyone has their chance to put some thought into asking questions to get the answer they want

[willswitchengage]

Messaged him later to see if it was available and turns out he just forgot to add a reserve

 

Bike is unsold-withdrawn due to lack of bidding activity.

 

Also SUMMON THE AS LEGAL DEPARTMENT! A friend of mine just "liked" this http://www.facebook.com/ShiteShirts on facebook, they look pretty lame and pointless though.

[cort16]

My Subaru has that written on too. Imho it just means the insurance company would have rather written it off for a car park ding than repair it, although it's obviosuly a bit knobbish if your mr ebay "forgot" to mention it.

 

 

Yip funnily enough didnt mention it. I got it inside the other day and noticed one of the headlamps was new which I thought a bit suspect.

[willswitchengage]

This New York hurricane thing is actually getting quite serious, it seems.

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/hurrican ... ay-2012-10

 

Let's home Obama and FEMA handle it a bit better than Bush did in New Orleans, could be an election spinner.

[Pillock]

I've been probably f'cked over by work. I've got to run a training session tomorrow with only half the equipment (the Macbook they gave me has a knackered hard drive, most of the cables I need are missing, no speakers to demo audio from etc etc) and I've just checked the paperwork and it's only half-complete so I don't even know what I should be talking about. Literally, there's three occasions where a sentence just stops midway. I've just spent most of my Sunday preparing the rest of the hardware and I have a wonderful feeling it's all going to go wrong

[Lord Sterling]

Ma_Sterling has decided the job in Scouseland isnt for her, the hospital she is working at havent given her a clear contract, are trying to downgrade her position (Band 6 to 5 or something like that) or she loses her job, plus she wasnt told at the time that the hospital itself will be merging with Aintree which is further north.

 

She has now managed, at the last minute to get a job in Kent, so that means more travelling, more money to spend and now I'm finding myself contributing a huge chunk of my wages to help out. I'm happy to help out, in fact its my duty but my savings are seriously dwindling.

[RedSparrow]

How many times?!

 

STOP REPLYING TO SPAMBOTS YOU DIVS!!

 

Yeah?

 

??

[Cavcraft]

Like talking to a wall.

[dollywobbler]

I've just sent a few of my own spam emails to a certain kitchen seller in Edinburgh. See how they like it.

[Guest]

Even more parking invoice arguments. Because they might take me to court on the day of my exams \ coursework assessment, or something.

[retrogeezer]

Wat, just tell your folks you have paid it - end of problem!

[Guest]

Wat, just tell your folks you have paid it - end of problem!

 

Not as simple as that I'm afraid. I've got 3 letters to go from them so there's a bit to go yet.

It's all getting rather hysterical.

[cobblers]

I've arranged for kitchensukdirect or whoever keep spamming us to give highview parking a ring regarding a solid wood kitchen. I'm hilarious.

[Guest]

I've arranged for kitchensukdirect or whoever keep spamming us to give highview parking a ring regarding a solid wood kitchen. I'm hilarious.

 

Superb.

[Cavcraft]

I've arranged for kitchensukdirect or whoever keep spamming us to give highview parking a ring regarding a solid wood kitchen. I'm hilarious.

 

 

[cobblers]

Right, I've got a flipping 50 meg internet connection. Speed-test.net gives me 30meg down. BBC iplayer speed test shows IM GOOD TO GO for massive HD everything, as does youtube speed test. I can download bittorrents at 4mb a second, and my PC is connected with a wire to my router, both of which are months old and MEGA GOOD.

All this and I can't stream even low definition youtube videos or iplayer videos without BUFFERING every few minutes and the eventual "Insufficient bandwidth" and it gives up. I've tried about 4 or 5 different devices, a few routers and all kinds of software and they are all the same. It's driving me up the flipping wall.

[DSdriver]

Ebay mong:

Hi, I have only just spotted that I have bid on this item. It was my little boy who was messing about on my e-bay. I have no idea what this part is supposed to be for and certainly have no use for it.

 

Just pay the 99p you stupid woman.

[Albert Ross]

Re-taxing a car shouldn't be hard should it? Especially a pre-73 motor, as there's no need to wrench open my wallet.... So, I got my MOT sorted last week. Re-insured as a standing thing with FLux. They gleefully sent me an email with all the relevant info. Quick phone call to ask when I get the paperwork so I can go and tax it. "Oh, we don't do that Sir, you can print it off the email".... Find printer under stairs. Realise the Grandkids have used EVERY SINGLE FUCKING SCRAP OF PLAIN A4 PAPER TO SCRIBBLE MICROFUCKINGSCOPIC DOODLES ON! Go and get new paper, and few other things from local supermarket. Spent 8 quid. Filled printer with paper. Installed it on this new laptop (last one got pinched) and hit "print" ..... No fucking ink. Who used it and ran the ink out, without telling me?.... OK, go to local Library, fill out registration forms to use the internet, be forced to be gently patronised about internet usage and dangerous information/porn etc. Endured that, and got to it. Next to me was a sweaty, unwashed bespectacled, half dressed, middle aged moron, who was dribbling and grunting loudly and thumping the keyboard like he was Cozy Powell.... Anyhoo, got the email up, went to "open" the download (as opposed to saving it on a public computer) and print off the 11 pages at 20p each, and it won't do it.....Speak to bod at counter.... "Oh, what sort of file is it?".... Showed him the info on my phone which is opened up and displaying the relevant download. "Oh, it doesn't support that sort of download." OK... do you have a micro USB and HDMI cable so I can link my phone directly to your printer, and just print these pages please? NO... SD card reader? "No, we aren't that advanced".... So I forwarded it to my Wife who is printing it off at work... I can tax it tomorrow! Bloody modern life! Best of it is, the insurance company insist I print off a page of the download so I can sign it and send it back to them!!!!!! Well peeps, "I don't do that!!! You can print it off the email!!!"

 

All of this is because the DOOVLA won't accept that insurance is in force due to the MID data delay. Why can't the Post Office work on electronic advice too? They would be able to see ti on my phone, but they're not allowed to accept that type of information!

[RedSparrow]

Albert, I often have days like that! Like when you feel the entire planet is conspiring against you!

[Vanny]

Dear idiot next door neighbour,

While i understand you spend all day driving a lorry, and are rather dim witted, your poxy boy racer Astra is not in fact 8m long! Why you insist on parking PHYSICALLY TOUCHING MY FUCKING BUMPER every bastarding night i really dont know. You've got 8 bastarding meters to put your shitty Vauxhall in, i've checked, your plastic fantastic minge attractor is only 4.5m long, and that's why between you and that lamp post, if you can actually see it, i assume you're partially brain less, there is enough distance to get a poxy smart car in. But not an actual car. ARGHHHHHH

 

[meggersdog]

Vanny, not a Defender you need a scabby P38 with a winch bumper and incontinent air suspension.The suspension will go down overnight and the weight of the bumper should hopefully crush his POS.

[Pillock]

Right, I've got a flipping 50 meg internet connection. Speed-test.net gives me 30meg down. BBC iplayer speed test shows IM GOOD TO GO for massive HD everything, as does youtube speed test. I can download bittorrents at 4mb a second, and my PC is connected with a wire to my router, both of which are months old and MEGA GOOD.

All this and I can't stream even low definition youtube videos or iplayer videos without BUFFERING every few minutes and the eventual "Insufficient bandwidth" and it gives up. I've tried about 4 or 5 different devices, a few routers and all kinds of software and they are all the same. It's driving me up the flipping wall.

 

I'm guessing Virgin, yeah?

They have some issues with Youtube - they won't admit as such, but basically they throttle streaming video so it just about keeps in front of the bit you're watching - in theory. In practise, it buffers every few seconds. The reason is apparently if they didn't, you'd download the entire video in a few seconds but most people don't watch all a Youtube video, they skip around, so this is wasted bandwidth. What I'm saying here is that it's set up like this on purpose and they won't be able to find any faults.

 

This is all rumour from a guy I worked with who was ex-Virgin, but I have exactly the same issues here - speedtests at 60Mbps, Youtube stutters like Scatman John having a fit. Zip files and torrents download at full speed.

[cobblers]

Yep, Virgin. I've always suspected some funny business like this tbh, becuase half of the time a 480p stream won't work, but if I go up to 720 or 1080 it's fine. Check iPlayer speed test out:

This is immediately after it claimed I have insufficient bandwidth to stream NMTB at all - You can watch the buffers go up and up, then all of a sudden they just end up empty, it's like the connection goes on and off or there's massive packet loss (there's no problems with either)

 

I think I need to try and find a VPN that allows me to have a UK IP to stream iplayer and youtube through to bypass this kind of bullshit, as my only other internet connection option is paying BT for a line, and I'm f*cking miles away from the exchange so I'd be lucky to get a few meg.