The grumpy thread

[sporty-shite]

I tend to find that driving my car straight after brimming it removes the need to worry about fuel pissing out due to it expanding, whether it is winter, spring, summer or fall!

 

Autumn. You are NOT in America.

it's the lyric from a song by Carole King...

 

Ah yes. Let you off, then.

[Spiny Norman]

it's the lyric from a song by Carole King...

 

..or James Taylor, depending on your old shite record collection...

Must say I'm surprised by all this talk of 'filling up'. I'd have thought the true shite-ist still bought petrol by the fiver.

It's been years since I've troubled the top quarter of my car's fuel gauge.

[Bobthebeard]

'Spring' 2013 so far....

Making everyone grumpy. WTF? Stop raining/snowing/freezing now. Come back in November.

[willswitchengage]

Discovering that the car insurance company that I chose due to professing to have British call centres does not not in fact have British call centres.

[Pillock]

I do it to the first click. For some reason, Ford didn't think a proper filler cap was a good idea for a Focus, so it just has this spring flappy thing. Fill it too far and the first left hand bend you get to sees a tenner's worth of fuel down the side of the car.

 

First time I used one of the cars at work I thought someone had pinched the cap but they're all the same, and so is mine. It also doesn't lock the exterior flap so I wonder exactly how many seconds someone could take syphoning out all my fuel.

[Bobthebeard]

Discovering that the car insurance company that I chose due to professing to have British call centres does not not in fact have British call centres.

 

I wonder if the reverse is true? Do some Indian insurance companies have British call centres? Of course they don't. But can you imagine the conversations?

Rajhit... I am wanting a quote for my sisters Hindustani one litre car please.

Shaz.... Thank you sir, can I put you on hold for a moment?

Rajhit.... No no no, I am not wanting to listen to music, I am wanting a insurance quote please

Shaz.... Ok sir, I will transfer you now....( 35 minutes of Justin Bieber )

Shaz.... Hello Mrs Twemelow, am transferring you now

Rajhit.... No no no, my name is Rajhit

Shaz.... Sorry Mrs Smythe, could you tell me the first line of your address, and postcode

Rajhit... Hello.... My name is Rajhit Singh, address is..

Shaz... Sorry Mr Ballsak, could you please repeat your postcode?

Etc.... Possibly the same shite all over the world?

[Cavcraft]

I don't know what you're moaning about. I had to ring HP today and spoke to three separate Geordies (or Mackems, or whatever) and wished I'd been on the line to someone in India as I'd have understood them better!

[Ben_L]

Got to drive the Fiesta from Cambridge to Chepstow and back tomorrow morning... I've been awake since 1200 today and am on a night shift until 0630 tomorrow morning then straight off to Chepstow. Gr4

 

What's the likelihood of the Fiesta actually making it without a fuss?

[TimothyClaypole]

Ebay... I have things for sale with no bids so far (example a £180 sink for £50) yet I bid on something second hand that's FAULTY and it sells for £52.30 when a new one is £65.00

 

 

I must stink of BO on Ebay or something.

[Rod/b]

Has your sink got 20p stuck in it?

 

My grump is - moving house today. Thing is, i don't really want to. I really like it here but they've just put the rent up quite a bit and the compound manager is being a right twat about fixing my a/c so i've not really got a choice.

[loserone]

I don't know what you're moaning about. I had to ring HP today and spoke to three separate Geordies (or Mackems, or whatever) and wished I'd been on the line to someone in India as I'd have understood them better!

 

Depending on where you're talking about, you probably mean the office in Peterlee. When I worked there, they took on a load of local apprentices, and I couldn't understand them myself despite having lived all my life about 15 miles away. I couldn't imagine how they were going to be able to help anyone over the phone, but they received some excellent feedback from those london-types we supported.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitmatic

 

Today's grump? It's a little bit windy, but SPC purchasing is further delayed due to snow in the south.

[John F]

Bloody Windows automatic updates.

 

I've been using IE8 as an Internet browser (and before anyone starts: I've tried others, e.g. Chrome, Safari, etc. but I'm just not keen on them).

 

I was reasonably happy with it, and I'd got it set up exactly as I wanted it to be.

 

Cue a Windows automatic update, which installed IE10 WITHOUT FUCKING ASKING ME. And what a pile of steaming underdeveloped shit it is .

 

It was messing with my autoshite experience© in two ways:

 

- Misspelt words (or words that aren't in the dictionary like chod, badermatic, giffer, etc.) were underlined in red - a feature I finally managed to turn off after trawling the net for about 30 mins.

- Recently-visited threads were not being marked as such, i.e. marked in grey rather than red. No solution to this problem was found.

 

So fuck it. Update reversed, I'm back on IE8

[John F]

Bloody Windows automatic updates.

 

I've been using IE8 as an Internet browser (and before anyone starts: I've tried others, e.g. Chrome, Safari, etc. but I'm just not keen on them).

 

I was reasonably happy with it, and I'd got it set up exactly as I wanted it to be.

 

Cue a Windows automatic update, which installed IE10 WITHOUT FUCKING ASKING ME. And what a pile of steaming underdeveloped shit it is .

 

It was messing with my autoshite experience© in two ways:

 

- Misspelt words (or words that aren't in the dictionary like chod, badermatic, giffer, etc.) were underlined in red - a feature I finally managed to turn off after trawling the net for about 30 mins.

- Recently-visited threads were not being marked as such, i.e. marked in grey rather than red. No solution to this problem was found.

 

So fuck it. Update reversed, I'm back on IE8

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Ten minutes ago I had TWO good shirts. Only TWO shirts I could wear outside without looking like a tramp. I have dozens of 'knockabout' shirts.

 

Now I have ONE good shirt. Because NATURALLY when thinning paint at ten to midnight you'd wear one of the new ones, right?

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Ten minutes ago I had TWO good shirts. Only TWO shirts I could wear outside without looking like a tramp. I have dozens of 'knockabout' shirts.

 

Now I have ONE good shirt. Because NATURALLY when thinning paint at ten to midnight you'd wear one of the new ones, right?

 

[Negative Creep]

Ebay sellers who say they can't combine postage, which they have a right to do, but then send them both in one pack for effectively half the price. Worthy of neutral feedback I think

[Negative Creep]

Ebay sellers who say they can't combine postage, which they have a right to do, but then send them both in one pack for effectively half the price. Worthy of neutral feedback I think

[shedvan]

Hubris.

[shedvan]

Hubris.

[fotorabia]

Becos im being medically evacuated back to Scotland..ive got to sell my 300D which is heartbreaking..but i have to be realistic...and carless for quite a while...tears of an Autoshite clown...

[fotorabia]

Becos im being medically evacuated back to Scotland..ive got to sell my 300D which is heartbreaking..but i have to be realistic...and carless for quite a while...tears of an Autoshite clown...

[Mr Lobster]

Car I'd really like come up for sale, not that expensive either. Common sense says that I really should spend my spare money on the jobs I need to get done on the R4 rather than adding to the fleet.

 

Fucksticks.

[Mr Lobster]

Car I'd really like come up for sale, not that expensive either. Common sense says that I really should spend my spare money on the jobs I need to get done on the R4 rather than adding to the fleet.

 

Fucksticks.

[John F]

Hubris.

 

Been talking to americans on the Internet...?

[John F]

Hubris.

 

Been talking to americans on the Internet...?

[chaseracer]

Hubris.

 

Been talking to americans on the Internet...?

Kudos, man...

 

[chaseracer]

Hubris.

 

Been talking to americans on the Internet...?

Kudos, man...

 

[dollywobbler]

What makes me grumpy this morning is that there's a 'news' story doing the rounds about how a Kate Middleton look-alike is pregnant. This complete non-event annoys me on many levels. I'm completely unbothered by whether the real Kate is pregnant or not - it wouldn't surprise me as she's a woman, and that's the sort of thing they can often do. What she does is up to her, though I despise the way the press bleat on about it as if nothing else is happening in the world. Get over it.

 

But to follow it up with a story about how someone who looks a bit like her is pregnant is taking the fuggin' biscuit. WHY IS THAT NEWS? They'll no doubt be following it up with "Pope look-alike wears silly hat." My conclusion is that news is all bollocks.

[dollywobbler]

What makes me grumpy this morning is that there's a 'news' story doing the rounds about how a Kate Middleton look-alike is pregnant. This complete non-event annoys me on many levels. I'm completely unbothered by whether the real Kate is pregnant or not - it wouldn't surprise me as she's a woman, and that's the sort of thing they can often do. What she does is up to her, though I despise the way the press bleat on about it as if nothing else is happening in the world. Get over it.

 

But to follow it up with a story about how someone who looks a bit like her is pregnant is taking the fuggin' biscuit. WHY IS THAT NEWS? They'll no doubt be following it up with "Pope look-alike wears silly hat." My conclusion is that news is all bollocks.

[vulgalour]

Entrepreneur: How do we get more people to pay for our stuff?

Jaded Success: Dumb it down. WAY down.

 

I did come across the argument that by providing a few single figure IQ stories people would be inclined to read the proper, more interesting news. I have never seen evidence of this actually happening.