The grumpy thread

[Negative Creep]

That will be £160 to supply and fit an alternator then. Could order one an do it myself, but as a daily driver I don't have time to faff around or risk running out of electrcity

[Cavcraft]

To the dickhead behind me in a silver 3 series BMW this morning: when you're driving about 0.5mm from my rear bumper in a 30mph zone on a housing estate, what is going to happen when you swerve all over the road behind me to show you want to get past?

1) I race up to whatever speed suits you.

2) I pull over to let you past as you're obviously FAR more important than me.

3) I slow down from 29mph to 20mph and laugh at you.

 

Option three for me, thanks.

[vulgalour]

If it's one and a half hours after a person said they were going to turn up to collect and pay for a car, chances are they're not turning up, right? We shall see, but I'm not hopeful.

[Negative Creep]

And now I find the local scrappy may well have a matching one alternator

[Mr_Bo11ox]

If it's one and a half hours after a person said they were going to turn up to collect and pay for a car, chances are they're not turning up, right? We shall see, but I'm not hopeful.

 

Is he answering his phone? If not, he's welched out but is too spineless to tell you.

[vulgalour]

Because I'm so IMPULSIVE and RECKLESS he missed out for dicking me around. Found another buyer who offered me what I needed for the Maestro and since I'm not mega attached to it I DON'T CARE~ Never been so happy to get rid of something, perhaps I didn't actually like the Maestro after all?

[wuvvum]

TalkTalk are a fugging shower. Had an engineer out recently to replace a tired router which kept dropping its connection - at the time I made the booking, the TalkTalk rep gave me the usual blurb about if the fault is found with my equipment inside the house the visit will be chargeable etc. etc.. I then specifically asked the question as to whether if the fault was found with the router (as I suspected it would be) the visit would still be chargeable, and was told "No".

 

Got my bill through last night, and surprise surprise there's a £50 engineer charge on there. Cue a phone call to TalkTalk customer services just now - to my surprise, a rep answered straight away, but he said (at least I think he said - his accent was so bad that I could barely understand him) that any fault that involves an engineer entering the property is chargeable, and he couldn't find any record on the system of me being told that I wouldn't be charged for a router fault.

 

I got a bit snotty with him, and ended up being put through to a manager, but that was not a lot of help - he was a lot easier to understand, but he said that the charge is valid and he's unable to waive it - apparently when the engineer installs a router in the house it then becomes my property, and therefore falls under the definition of "my equipment" and becomes chargeable. So obviously the person I spoke to when I booked the engineer was lying to me - but of course I can't prove that. I got slightly snotty with the manager too, and he ended up offering me a month's free broadband - which effectively reduces the engineer charge to about £34. So not about to bankrupt me, but still fugging annoying. I've a good mind to cancel my direct debit, tell them to stick their broadband and go with someone else - except that from what I've read pretty much all ISPs are as bad as each other. Bunch of tossers.

[Ben_L]

The facilities management company that run the site I'm employed on, have decided to turn all the heating and A/C systems off and replace them with a 6 Bar Oil Filled jobbie.

Splendid, if you're sitting on top of it, shite if you're in the next room.

 

Cue a phone call to my manager threatening my resignation it is then. Never been so cold in here, car is frozen over and we're in the middle of the Fen's in Cambridgeshire, so loads of cold wind battering the place.

 

Absolute fucking joke.

[Mr Lobster]

Kids.

 

Eldest child (nearly 3) is heavily into the Pixar Cars film. This is obviously a good thing. However he recently was given a model of one of the cars which when you hit various parts of it shouts stuff like 'Ow' or 'Take That' or 'Fuck Me That Hurts'* so obviously he likes slamming it into things for the full crashing effect.

 

Mere driving it into stuff wasn't enough for him yesterday though, he thought there would be far more entertainment in throwing it at things for full effect.

 

And that is why I no longer have a working flatscreen telly in the living room.

 

Fucksocks.

[freebird]

TalkTalk are a fugging shower. Had an engineer out recently to replace a tired router which kept dropping its connection - at the time I made the booking, the TalkTalk rep gave me the usual blurb about if the fault is found with my equipment inside the house the visit will be chargeable etc. etc.. I then specifically asked the question as to whether if the fault was found with the router (as I suspected it would be) the visit would still be chargeable, and was told "No".

 

Got my bill through last night, and surprise surprise there's a £50 engineer charge on there. Cue a phone call to TalkTalk customer services just now - to my surprise, a rep answered straight away, but he said (at least I think he said - his accent was so bad that I could barely understand him) that any fault that involves an engineer entering the property is chargeable, and he couldn't find any record on the system of me being told that I wouldn't be charged for a router fault.

 

I got a bit snotty with him, and ended up being put through to a manager, but that was not a lot of help - he was a lot easier to understand, but he said that the charge is valid and he's unable to waive it - apparently when the engineer installs a router in the house it then becomes my property, and therefore falls under the definition of "my equipment" and becomes chargeable. So obviously the person I spoke to when I booked the engineer was lying to me - but of course I can't prove that. I got slightly snotty with the manager too, and he ended up offering me a month's free broadband - which effectively reduces the engineer charge to about £34. So not about to bankrupt me, but still fugging annoying. I've a good mind to cancel my direct debit, tell them to stick their broadband and go with someone else - except that from what I've read pretty much all ISPs are as bad as each other. Bunch of tossers.

Talk Talk ARE the worst CP out there, always have been and always will be.

I should know.

[Lankytim]

I;m collecting a Mondeo tomorrow, except the guy i'm collecting it from isn't answering his phone and won't reply to texts. FUCKING HELL.

[dollywobbler]

TalkTalk = FailFail. They're absolutely hopeless. I'm with Plusnet, who seem alright. For a start, they actually managed to get us hooked up with broadband, which TalkTalk couldn't do for several months. I always thought the router was effectively loaned from the broadband provider. They always seem to want it back when you quit. (I've not once sent a router back)

[Negative Creep]

TalkTalk = FailFail. They're absolutely hopeless. I'm with Plusnet, who seem alright. For a start, they actually managed to get us hooked up with broadband, which TalkTalk couldn't do for several months. I always thought the router was effectively loaned from the broadband provider. They always seem to want it back when you quit. (I've not once sent a router back)

 

 

Plusnet have been fine for me. Call centre is based in England and staff are always helpful. Modem did pack up once but they sent a replacement within 24 hours before I'd even returned the old one

[meggersdog]

Just replaced my useless slow old computer with an equally useless one.Loaded up a new version of Linux and now can't load photos onto Gumtree.Stuck 'em up on to a Ubunto One cloud and still nothing.Been trying for over an hour so now given up.

[drum]

I've had similar problems to wuvvum. Talk talk are pish with a capital ish. They sent out a BT engineer but he couldn't find the fault that was/is causing my Internet connection to drop every 2 minutes for about 30 seconds. The call centre communication is tedious in the extreme. I should change provider but I can't be arsed.

[Lacquer Peel]

Just replaced my useless slow old computer with an equally useless one.Loaded up a new version of Linux and now can't load photos onto Gumtree.Stuck 'em up on to a Ubunto One cloud and still nothing.Been trying for over an hour so now given up.

 

I tried Ubuntu on my elderly laptop with obscure hardware recently, and a couple of other Linux distros, they were a bit buggy, I found Debian the best.

Have you tried another browser? Some browsers are a bit funny on Linux, Opera's the most consistent for me.

[meggersdog]

Only seems to be a problem loading pictures on Gumtree,they loaded fine on ebay so maybe if I switch back to windows or like you say another browser just for gumtree.Will give it a go.Thanks Lacquer Peel.

[Cavcraft]

I've just endured a 'comedy' programme entitled 'Great Night Out'. You could enjoy a greater night out by spraying yourself matt black, smashing all the street lights on the M6 then going for a jog at midnight, using as many lanes as possible.

[scaryoldcortina]

Only seems to be a problem loading pictures on Gumtree,they loaded fine on ebay so maybe if I switch back to windows or like you say another browser just for gumtree.Will give it a go.Thanks Lacquer Peel.

 

I sometimes have uploader problems with photo sites on linux (usualy a sloppily coded java app) - look for the "basic uploader" link rather than the big UPLOAD NOW button to do it via html instead.

[Lankytim]

I've just endured a 'comedy' programme entitled 'Great Night Out'. You could enjoy a greater night out by spraying yourself matt black, smashing all the street lights on the M6 then going for a jog at midnight, using as many lanes as possible.

 

Me and the Missus are actually quite entertained by it!

[beko1987]

A couple of minor grumps.

 

First off I was all for buying that high mileage e39 530i that was an the ebay thread a while back. I e-mailed the guy and said I was short on time as I was away from Thursday if he brought it to my work I'd give him the asking price if it checked out. He then replied saying he'd think about it but the price went up 100. I said not to bother but if he still had it when I came back in a week I'd be interested in it for the original lower asking price and I'd come up and see it myself. He replied saying he'd give it to me for the original asking price if I took it today. Okay I said, if you bring it over I'll give you a run home, to the train station or what ever. Silence

Maybe he thought I was going to rob him or something. Understandable I suppose and I'm partly to blame for trying to put the deal together when I didn't have much time. I really fancied having a 530 to scoot about in too when I hear the good things Tayne has to say about his 330 on here.

 

Secondly I bought a rocket cover gasket for the Puma. I planned to fit it tonight and get it mot'd while I was away but the gasket's about 1/4 a cm too wee and pulls out one end as you try to fit the other end into the rocket cover. Possibly putting it in hot water would have done it but I don't have any down there. I tried to fix it in with a little instant gasket but that made it worse. I ran out of time so it's just going to have to wait.

 

Was it a pattern part? None of them fit! Genuine ford ones are under a tenner.

 

If you want, I have my old one in the garage with the rocker cover. Did about 8k, comes with free bits of gasket sealent!

 

If you want to take a punt pm me your address and I'll post it up to you

[michael1703]

I'm with namesco,been with them 6 years and had a good service so far, think its about £11+vat per month

 

http://www.names.co.uk/order/adsl/order_add.php

[meggersdog]

Just replaced my useless slow old computer with an equally useless one.Loaded up a new version of Linux and now can't load photos onto Gumtree.Stuck 'em up on to a Ubunto One cloud and still nothing.Been trying for over an hour so now given up.

 

It has been fiddley but now finally completed.Thank's for the advice guys.I had to copy and paste each J.peg file address individually into a search bar before it appeared where I can download it from.It is the latest Ubunto 12-10 and I'm still learning what apps there are.There are different photo-suites so maybe I have the wrong one.

[Cavcraft]

I've just endured a 'comedy' programme entitled 'Great Night Out'. You could enjoy a greater night out by spraying yourself matt black, smashing all the street lights on the M6 then going for a jog at midnight, using as many lanes as possible.

 

Me and the Missus are actually quite entertained by it!

 

It's a good idea ruined by dreadful camera work and lame acting.

[RedSparrow]

I've always believed that ITV have NEVER made a decent comedy show. The New Statesman was ok but only because Rik Mayall was in it, with anyone else it would have been as shit as the others.

 

Funnily enough I just looked up the show 'Hardware' on youtube. The similarities to Ricky Gervais' spoof sitcom 'When the Whistle Blows' are uncanny.

[autofive]

the funniest sitcom i watched recently was 'dead man weds', although 'the spa' may become funny.

 

ITV is shite - programmes for mouth breathers - and best avoided

[philibusmo]

Rain.

It was meant to be nice today. All week the met office have been talking of a full day of glorious sunshine to rival that found in the Sahara on Saturday. This has kept me going through a miserable week at work where the over-bearing monotony of it all has been really getting to me lately.

The Alfa Romeo needs new upper wishbones, rear trailing arms and rear brake discs and pads fitting. The Rover needs welding in the front arches and the interior taking out, drying and the massive leak found and plugged. The Fiesta could do with having new front and rear shocks and spring fitting as well as removal of the 1100 for its new OMFGOLDSKOOLFORDYO! engine change. The Lancia needs welding all over. The MR2 needs a intermittent charging problem sorting.

I don't have a garage that a car can fit into or a lock up. All I have is my drive. And it is fucking tipping it down.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Talktalk are universally acclaimed as the shittiest of all broadband providers. I'm also a Plusnet customer and I'm also quite happy with them- although they are a bit on the expensive side (I think I pay about £26 a month for line rental & ADSL ).

[richardthestag]

Never really had a problem with talktalk, the free router they provide was a bit shit but then a quick trip to pc world and 20m of my time had that sorted.. I could pay 2xshitload more and get bt with a decent free router. Etc etc

 

When i have had to call them, they were fine

[freebird]

Talktalk are universally acclaimed as the shittiest of all broadband providers. I'm also a Plusnet customer and I'm also quite happy with them- although they are a bit on the expensive side (I think I pay about £26 a month for line rental & ADSL ).

Plusnet is owned by BT.

In truth, Talk Talk have loads of customers because they are cheap.

They are also horrifically bad at what they do and 99.999999% of their customers ive had dealings with couldnt wait to dump them.

Cheaper is not better.