The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

In a similar sort of vein, has anyone ever had someone ring up about an item you're selling and say 'Yeah, I'm a right timewaster, I'm just pissing about really and will probably let you down'?

I only ask because whenever I offer to deliver something and state clearly I want the fuel costs up front, no excuses and no exceptions, I always get at least one knob rocket that says 'Yeah, just bring it round to me I live in (usually a minimum of 50 miles away) and I'll give you all the money then. I'm dead honest and don't mess about'.

Obv. these kind of chancers are roundly ignored though.

[autofive]

i just had some prick in america ask me what my 'last price' is on something i sold last week. I was happy to tell them my 'last price' was the price i sold it at, and as they had hung on until the end of the auction hoping to get it cheap they lost out.

 

think i might put "timewasters and americans need not apply" on my ebay ads in future.

[Wilko220]

I think "Dino Karaoli" can be added to the Facebook cocks list too...

[autofive]

I think "Dino Karaoli" can be added to the Facebook cocks list too...

 

LIKE

[Guest]

I left the AS Facebook group. It really isn't worth the effort. I had some great pictures lined up and everything - including the recovery of my Wirral shite - but I can't be arsed with it. Far too incendiary.

 

Don't worry, the rest of the grump will be along in a couple of seconds.

 

Firstly, work. I liked that job. Note the use of the past tense. Now they want to cut 2/3 of my hours back down to weekends. Given that I had to go through a horrible consultation to get said shift in the first place, I am not prepared to take this lying down. The fact that they won't discuss it with me and have strung the issue out for nine days is not helping things.

 

Secondly, Uni - again. I appeared as a phone guest on a radio programme that reviewed happy students were with their courses. Reluctantly [from not wishing to be made the poster child for the University to go after] I went on and described the [many] things that went wrong during my degree. I wasn't vicious [i could have been had I wanted], but didn't pull any punches either.

 

We complained as a group before, with little success, and tried to get things changed. Now the director of the school is after me for a formal chat because the Vice Chancellor regarded my comments as a series of official complaints. I am not prepared to speak for the rest of the students on my course - frankly, I did it as a favour to the producer because he was short of guests. Also, what's the point of me going to the head of year now - what good will it do? I \ we won't get what we wanted, the time has passed. There's only one thing I want off that place, and that's my degree certificate - and then to be left well alone.

 

I don't want to engage with people right now. I'm sick of them.

[SambaS]

[warren t claim]

Two Sambas? Lucky man!

[Wilko220]

I think I admit defeat as far as the Facebook group goes. One or two trolls you can maybe do something about, but the sheer wave of cretinism on there is pretty hard to fight against!

[retrogeezer]

I can't believe that I can't virtually give my Bluebird away....... a decent solid reliable car and no-one wants it. Just crazy.

[Lankytim]

Like I said in the sale thread, i'd have it if you end up getting desperate and are considering the scrap route. No need for another car ATM, i'd just stick it under a cover on the drive or something.

[retrogeezer]

Someone half interested on the blue forum Tim but it really is in the way here so a pm may be forthcoming in the coming week.

[Lord Sterling]

Fucking MG-Rover forum seems to be full of self-opinionated twats who think they know about world conflicts and religions and pass off thier baseless opinions as fact.

 

I've got family in Syria living day to day not knowing whether they will make it to the next day or not. Myself and old_man_Sterling are worried sick and feel useless and then you get these twats cheering on the very people who pose a threat to my families safety.

 

Oh yeh, and - Blonde woman in the Black BINI convertible, What is your problem? - Actually, it makes me laugh to see just fuming she gets when she sees me trundling down in the Micra. She's tried to bully me off the road twice now. Strangely enough, I find it rather amusing.

[Spiny Norman]

It's hard to believe the Syria you see on TV nowadays is the same place you saw only a couple of years ago on that Top Gear Christmas special in the Middle East. Damascus looked beautiful in that, it must be horrible for the folk stuck in the middle of the shit that's going on there just now.

[Lord Sterling]

It is SH. I've not been there for at least 10 years. I had a chance to go in 2009 when I stayed in Kuwait for a few months, but FATHA_Sterling couldnt find a cheap enough ticket. We bith regret that decisiin now. I could have had a chance to see my uncles, aunts and cousins and really see the place again. Myself and ole_Dad_Sterling cannot go back now at all. One of Fathaz mates went back early in the conflict to help his family and got shot dead by a sniper

 

Soz 2 Autoshitez peeps about this not being car related....

[vulgalour]

Bodges only last so long... I think the exhaust may have started to blow on the Princess again. We all know how much I enjoyed fixing that before, I swore it would go to a garage when it needed doing again.

[hairymel]

Soz 2 Autoshitez peeps about this not being car related....

 

Mo,

 

most of the gom/p and antidote posts are not really car related, and tbh i feel they (and A/S in general) are like a night in your local with old mates - you can say what the fuck you like and as long as no beer is spilled everything is good*.

 

much of the stuff here just has nowhere else on the intertubes to go , and that is one of the reasons why autoshite is such a nice place to be

*unless you rattle can a car matt black

[maxpower]

 

Oh yeh, and - Blonde woman in the Black BINI convertible, What is your problem? - Actually, it makes me laugh to see just fuming she gets when she sees me trundling down in the Micra. She's tried to bully me off the road twice now. Strangely enough, I find it rather amusing.

 

Must be a micra thing as mrs maxpower had same problem today with some bint driving a merc kompressor, tail gating her with horn blaring

and as the missus has just started driving after 12yrs as a passenger you can imagine how shook up she was, but not as half as shook up when she got out of her car at the lights and told the bitch to come out of her car

As usual they take the cnuts stance and stare straight ahead and pretend you are not there.

 

now the daughter is taking driving lessons and even a mong threatened her instructor!! wtf is this world coming to?

[Cavcraft]

It's a small car thing. My lad gets it quite a bit in his Corsa, and I do if I drive small cars. I think the wankers who tailgate/try and force their way through etc assume because you're driving a small car you've either just passed your test or are elderly or something so they think you won't react.

 

I'm going to get a sticker made for the back of my car that says 'The closer you get, the slower I go' because I always decrease my speed when there's some nil-witted tosspot behind me trying to make me break the speed limit.

[trigger]

I notice more people pull out in front of me or tailgate me more when I'm in the Alto then any other of my cars. Wankers.

[outlaw118]

Agreed. It's a small car thing, an automotive dick (or clit) waving exercise. Driving the Moose (slightly tatty '99 Volvo) people actually seem to stay out of my why, as invariably their car is newer and better* than mine, but driving Mrs_Outlaw's Fiesta (08 reg, SHINY) people just seem to think they can pull out, tailgate or whatever.

I get it a bit in the work van too, because it's signwritten, it's an excuse for people to carve me up or whatever, thinking that "If he reacts I'll phone the number and complain".

Well, go ahead, I've got news for you sunshine, my boss doesn't really give a shit.

 

Oh, and Billy:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/THE-CLOSER-YO ... 43b2baed04

[HillmanImp]

Whilst I am still logging on every now and then, I seem to have lost a lot of my car mojo at the mo and can be arsed posting anything interesting or witty or informative (although some will probably say I never did). Will be back once it returns.

[RedSparrow]

Yeah, it does get a bit dry. I find myself just posting 'nice car M8!' type posts 90% of the time now I am shiteless. What a loser.

[TimothyClaypole]

Ebay idiots, "I'll be over today mate" - that was 4 days ago. Someone wanting to check the colour match on something (new) that's 80% cheaper than in the shop, 3 days and counting and one buyer who's kept quiet for a week despite it being collection only.

[Guest]

Lost most of my hours at work. Grossly unfair and utterly crippling given that I went through a horrible consultation to get them in the first place.

 

Expect a massive purge of crap for sale in the next few days - after all I've got the time!

[chaseracer]

Jon, how many people affected? Others too, or just you? What consultation was there, and how was the decision made? If your hours alone were cut - or if your hours were given to someone else - that's potentially unlawful.

 

Happy to help/advise if you need it.

[Cavcraft]

Whilst I am still logging on every now and then, I seem to have lost a lot of my car mojo at the mo and can be arsed posting anything interesting or witty or informative (although some will probably say I never did). Will be back once it returns.

 

Everyone goes though that at some point, just part of life I suppose. I'm doing that thing at the moment where I type a message out then just think ahh, bollocks, I can't be arsed now, then don't bother.

[messerschmitt owner]

Whilst I am still logging on every now and then, I seem to have lost a lot of my car mojo at the mo and can be arsed posting anything interesting or witty or informative (although some will probably say I never did). Will be back once it returns.

 

Everyone goes though that at some point, just part of life I suppose. I'm doing that thing at the moment where I type a message out then just think ahh, bollocks, I can't be arsed now, then don't bother.

Billy could you impart this wisdom to the people on the Facebook group and then those of us who don't book our faces won't have to hear the whinging from those who do.

[Cavcraft]

Yeah, but I'd type the message out then not post it!

[messerschmitt owner]

Yeah, but I'd type the message out then not post it!

I was going to type a funny, witty reply to you, but I couldn't be bothered!

[Guest]

Jon, how many people affected? Others too, or just you? What consultation was there, and how was the decision made? If your hours alone were cut - or if your hours were given to someone else - that's potentially unlawful.

 

Happy to help/advise if you need it.

 

Sorry, I should clarify. I got the [extra] hours because of the consultation. I was only working 18 hours a week at that point, and got considerably more hours after going through the consulation. I signed a contract for these hours. Now, because of an issue I can't go into, they want to get rid of my weekday shift and give it to someone else, because they can't rearrange the shift in any other way.

 

Unfortunately I'd only had these hours for 2 weeks, and then the problem emerged when I went away on placement. Quite horrible to have a decent amount of hours then getting bumped back to having next to sod-all after an amazing placement. I can't go into specifics about what this problem was, other than it was a very subjective reason, and in my line of work, the client is king [this sounds foul but I assure you it isn't, before WTC makes some shite quip about Fred the Weatherman].

 

I can't survive and pay bills on 12 hours a week, and I get the feeling they wanted this to happen and could have sorted it had they really tried.

 

I'll PM you the specifics, because there is something fishy in the flaps of fairness this eve.