The grumpy thread

[messerschmitt owner]

Why do the fuckwits at eBay think I cannot spell?

 

0 results found for ruardean, so we searched for guardian

 

Just tell me there's fuck all results and stop wasting my bandwidth with your useless suggestions!

[cort16]

This v6 Xantia I was set to buy has lived up to it's French reputation by conking out even before I picked it up probably saving me a shit load of ball ache. Turns out it's got a knackered alternator and given how tightly packed in the motor is I recon you'll need to remove an engine mount to even have a slight chance of getting into it plus I don't recon a 3.0 v6 Xantia starter is going to be available from my local scrappy. I'm getting my deposit back so all ends well other than I don't have a v6 Xantia to scream around in.

[Cavcraft]

Will I take 1/3rd off the price of my fishtank (full of fish and plants etc) and drive on a 50-60 mile round trip to meet someone?

Oh aye, yeah. I'm full of fucking tricks like that. Later on I'll put the whole bastarding thing on a skateboard and pull it up the entire length if the M53 whilst whistling the Dambusters tube out of my not inconsiderable arse.

[Rocket88]

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Couldn't agree more. If I advertise something for sale, the price I want for it is the price in the advert. How hard is this to understand?

[messerschmitt owner]

Will I take 1/3rd off the price of my fishtank (full of fish and plants etc) and drive on a 50-60 mile round trip to meet someone?

Oh aye, yeah. I'm full of fucking tricks like that. Later on I'll put the whole bastarding thing on a skateboard and pull it up the entire length if the M53 whilst whistling the Dambusters tube out of my not inconsiderable arse.

is that my old tank! lol

 

d'you think you could sell it back to me now I've moved - I need entertainment for the cats!

[Guest]

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Couldn't agree more. If I advertise something for sale, the price I want for it is the price in the advert. How hard is this to understand?

 

I used to get this at my recording studio quite a lot [this conversation happened with depressing regularity].

 

Them : How much is it an hour? £20?

 

Me: No, £35.

 

Them : £20?

 

Me: No, £35.

 

Them: Oh, well, I'm sure Studio BLAH BLAH is £20 an hour, that's much better.

 

Me: No, Studio BLAH BLAH is £67 an hour, I checked.

 

Them: So you're how much an hour?

 

Me: £35.

 

Them: Not £20?

 

Me: No......

 

Anyway, an eBay grump. Someone's hacked my account again, and placed a £3k bid on a radio studio mixer. This sure as hell wasn't me, although it's eerie in a sense because it's something I'd plausibly buy given the money (which I definitely don't have). When I was looking for a replacement TV in the New Year, someone bid on a shit 28" flatscreen in a scummy part of Manchester on NYE. It's like these scumbags are trying to act like me in terms of purchases.

 

Changed all the logins and passwords that matter, I'm just glad I spotted the damn thing. 'I' was the winning bidder with a day to go.......

 

I'm getting less and less keen on using eBay now for purchases over £50. A shame, because despite its outrageous fees and steadily multiplying amounts of fuckwit users, it is a useful resource.

[cort16]

You're not using any snipeing software are you wat? I'm not sure they're all that carefull with your e-bay credentials. The only one and only time I was hacked on ebay the only other place I had my details was on a snipeing website.

I don't use it anymore.

[Cavcraft]

Sadly not Canpbell, we've upgraded since then. Typically the tank I have recently bought is too big for her highness so has to go. I think it's a 130 litre job.

[Guest]

You're not using any snipeing software are you wat? I'm not sure they're all that carefull with your e-bay credentials. The only one and only time I was hacked on ebay the only other place I had my details was on a snipeing website.

I don't use it anymore.

 

I do use snipe software, yeah. Changed my logins on it along with my eBay and paypal passwords.

[cort16]

I think that by putting your ebay user and password into another bit of software you're relying on them and not just ebay or you to secure it. If they get hacked or someone decided to have a peek in the database then it's possible they could get your details.

[Guest]

I think that by putting your ebay user and password into another bit of software you're relying on them and not just ebay or you to secure it. If they get hacked or someone decided to have a peek in the database then it's possible they could get your details.

 

Bugger # 1

 

Got a message back from the seller of the desk, he's getting quite stroppy and says that if I bid again he'll hold me to it legally. Thanks, mysterious bidder twat.

However, it appears said h@xx0r has put a shipping address in my list book! Isn't that nice!

 

Bugger # 2

 

Not looking good on the 'Come to Cumbria on Sunday and drive round' front. I haven't been keeping up to date with Autoshite since it turned in a Citroen BX love-in, and as a result didn't get enough time to arrange cover at work. I'll keep trying, but I'm not hopeful.

[messerschmitt owner]

Sadly not Canpbell, we've upgraded since then. Typically the tank I have recently bought is too big for her highness so has to go. I think it's a 130 litre job.

lol

as long as you got good money for the tiddler tanks, I'm happy!

 

Don't worry, I don't want them back - lol

[Cavcraft]

Genuinely gave them away mate, both went to good homes I promise.

 

Pissing exhaust has just gone on the estate. Starting to sound tank-ish now, hoping its just the backbox.

[messerschmitt owner]

Genuinely gave them away mate, both went to good homes I promise.

 

Pissing exhaust has just gone on the estate. Starting to sound tank-ish now, hoping its just the backbox.

Billy, that's all I care about -and if you'd made something I wouldn't be bothered!

[Mr Lobster]

Why is the only cough medicine in the house suitable for toddlers but does nothing for the terrible cough I'm suffering with.

 

On the positive side it is apple flavoured so that's a bonus.

[Albert Ross]

They do Whisky for kids now? Wow.... Junior Alcohol. "Go on Kids, have a wee dram, it'll do ye no harm" said no old Scotsman, ever.

[SambaS]

Can only sleep 3 hours a night recently. Got 3 voices in my head. A right sarchastic bastard, a negative, miserable c**t and someone who tries but fails to keep the other two under control. If I could just sleep that would be something

[SambaS]

And if it's not thoughts it's music. Constantly playing over and over and over. At least it's different ones. I had Peter Gabriel - Biko on repeat in my head for 5 days once.. September '77 Port Elizabeth weather fine. It was business as usual in Police room 619...

[SambaS]

I just want mental solitude. I could be a nice happy person. I've learned the Power of Now, tried meditation, succeeded to a point but nothing lasts. Infact. The happiest I ever am is zoned out working on the cars, unless I'm identified as miserable c*nt or sarchastic basard then it's a chore. Or like this week absolutely fatigued. I realise I hauent even got any real problem. Compared to someone with real problems, but it's subjective. This is my life. Shut up brain let me sleep

[Cavcraft]

Can only sleep 3 hours a night recently. Got 3 voices in my head. A right sarchastic bastard, a negative, miserable c**t and someone who tries but fails to keep the other two under control. If I could just sleep that would be something

 

I'll have a word with her when she gets in from work, sorry about that.

[SambaS]

[Lankytim]

The Saabs new owner is collecting it on Saturday but the parts to fix the Xantia havent arrived yet leaving me without a car to use for work. TIMING FAIL.

[Rocket88]

And if it's not thoughts it's music. Constantly playing over and over and over. At least it's different ones. I had Peter Gabriel - Biko on repeat in my head for 5 days once.. September '77 Port Elizabeth weather fine. It was business as usual in Police room 619...

 

Radio 4 with earphones does it for me. However, you do wake up with some strange sublimanally aquired facts after listening to the World Service whilst your asleep..............

[SambaS]

About an hour after my final rant.... surrounded by the light of day, birdsong sent me to sleep, but wasn't up perticualrly (pertinaciously yes Google spellchecker that is what I meant) early so it's probably going to be the same thing tonight. Unless I drink myself to sleep but that doesn't bode well with doing anything on Saturday.

 

 

What the heck is up with Google spellchecker it used to be quite good.

[Mr Lobster]

Woke up at 3 this morning, couldn't get back to sleep what with all the coughing and that so came downstairs to watch telly.

 

Or actually to see what I could find on iplayer.

 

And I found 'Barely Legal Drivers' (BBC3).

 

So the premise of the show is thus - 2 kids get use of a car for a week fitted with cameras and data logging and what have you, the parents and a retired traffic plod then watch the video and decide whether they should get a prize of a car or advanced driving lessons. With me so far? Good.

 

Aside from the fact that all the drivers are knobs what really annoyed me this morning was this -

 

Parents and ex plod watch videos. Young lad has been driving about, speeding a bit, gets a parking ticket, runs a load of red lights then drives to a hotel, parks up and goes clubbing. Drinks about ninety fancy drinks then after about twenty minutes sleep sets off to drive home.

 

As he's about to drive off, a member of the production team decide they need to breathalyse him and he is twice the legal limit. But lets not forget that he was about to drive off if they had not stopped him.

 

What riles me though is not the cockjockey himself but the retired plod.

 

She views the video - he's on a dual carriageway with a 40 limit and doing 50. She starts barking on that if someone is hit at 30 theres a lot better chance they live than if they are hit at 40 despite the fact that it was a 40 limit (even though he was doing 50) and barely makes an issue of the fact that he was about to drive at twice the legal alcohol limit which from where I am sat is perhaps a rather more serious offence.

 

Anyway, I suspect i'm not in the target demographic for the show tbh what with being over 14 and I suspect anyone who watches it who can actually drive will feel a sense of raising blood pressure.

[philibusmo]

The shit about idiot young drivers on BBC3

 

I'm about a fortnight from my 21st birthday and get tarred with the same brush as every other fucking idiotic 17-23 year old on the road, tweeting, texting, and generally fucking about which then leads to an accident.

 

I saw the trailer for this program a few times and it royally got on my tits. With Police Camera Accident saying that young drivers cause 147% of all Britain's road accidents and kill over 9,000 nuns and kittens per year, this heap of fucking shit and at least one local idiot twatting into something at 50mph in a 30 limit per month makes everyone including insurance companies assume that I will be crashing into literally everything.

 

I have been driving since my 17th birthday on the public roads, and before that on private land. I am yet to have an accident more severe than bumping a high kerb at 0.0001mph, yet I still pay well over £1000 overall on insurance per year.

[Mr Lobster]

It really is sensationalist, cheap telly that's just going for ratings. Does paint young drivers in a bad light which is unfair as I'm sure the majority are nothing like those featured.

[ruffgeezer]

Bleddy mood swings like a mofo at the moment, but it'll pass I know, just struggling to plow through them this week.

 

More importantly, some cunt helped themselves to the ancient Michelin map from the garage I work at's forecourt. WANKERS. It wasn't even in decent nick.

[autofive]

those enamel maps are worth a fortune in europe

[hairymel]

It really is sensationalist, cheap telly that's just going for ratings. Does paint young drivers in a bad light which is unfair as I'm sure the majority are nothing like those featured.

 

my experience is many young drivers drive like wankers on occasion, myself included*

 

*a sense of self preservation kicked in many years ago but i still like a bit of rear action in a snowy carpark