The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

Get a crack team of internet warlords together and LITERALLY e-mail him occasionally with a few threats. He'll know they're serious if they make a handful of 'UR MUM' jokes and leave messages like 'DNT FUK WIV ME M8' as the combination of capital letters and 'txt tlk' will worry him.

[chaseracer]

/\/\

 

Aye. That'll learn him.

 

[autofive]

introduce him to some banger racers

 

they can bullshit him to death

[warren t claim]

  On 29/07/2013 at 13:46, colc said:

Phone up Old Bill with his reg number, tell them you've seen him driving in an erratic fashion, and that one of his headlights isn't working. Also tell them that you noticed him parked outside a primary school looking at kids and doing something with  his right hand............

EFA.

[KruJoe]

  On 23/07/2013 at 17:58, watanabe said:

Aunt tried to get a part-ex on my late uncle's Rover 75.

 

 

  On 23/07/2013 at 20:37, KruJoe said:

Jon, is it auto or Manuel?

I have a mate possibly after one, he likes the look of the 75. He's in London though...

 

 

  On 23/07/2013 at 21:05, watanabe said:

Auto AFAIK.

I have to handle this carefully so as not to upset other family.

 

Despite weeks of me telling him not to, matey has gone and spunked and undisclosed four-figure sum on a bloody automatic Renault. Muppet.

So he's out I'm afraid. Good luck with it.

[vulgalour]

The unique way that Royal Mail does things now is baffling.  Priced up sending two parcels as per their website.  Sorted out dimensions and weights and all the rest and it turned out the cheapest way to go about it was to send one item as a small parcel and the other as a large parcel costing me about £8.60 instead of sending them together as one parcel which would cost £8.90.  Fine, that seemed needlessly complicated but not too painful.

 

Get to the PO to find that actually they both class as large parcels and it will cost me £8 to post each parcel.  But, if I put them together they can go as this mysterious entity known as a medium parcel - which I could find no reference to on their pricing website - which makes it £8.90 combined.  Thankfully, there was some sellotape at the desk so the staff member wrapped them together with it and off they go.

 

What I don't get is why it's so complicated now.  The price hike I'm not happy with - artwork used to cost £3 to post but the same artwork now costs me £5 since the pricing structure change - but can at least be explained away as needing to make more money.  This overly complicated rule system with dimensions and weights and separate and combined and all the rest of it just makes it hard work to post things to people and puts me off even wanting to do it.

 

It's almost like Royal Mail don't even want my business.

[Cavcraft]

The Royal Mail was (if you believe the spin) losing money hand over fist. Now, almost by miracle, it's making money again and is a viable business. The latter announcement I'm sure had f*** all to do with it being put up for sale

[SambaS]

[RedSparrow]

Eh?

[SambaS]

I'm invoicing Island Records for my time spent HAVING to listen to The Wanted's song Walk Like Rihanna. Each and every time I hear it.

[RedSparrow]

I must say in my experience thick neighbours must have very small music collections as they always play one song over and over.

[trigger]

Should you really be posting your name, address and bank sort code on the interweb?.

[SambaS]

its okay... what is someone going to do? pay me? 

[Richard]

  On 30/07/2013 at 14:36, trigger said:

Should you really be posting your name, address and bank sort code on the interweb?.

 

I'm glad he did, because there's a £30k bill in the post for putting that bastard song in my head.

[dollywobbler]

Wash out your brain with this very silly Rihanna-featuring-sort-of video by Cosmo Jarvis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we5N6yVKWY0

[TimothyClaypole]

Ebayer's cancelling auctions. 

 

Get all pumped up then they pull the rug from under you.

 

"This listing was ended by the seller because the item is no longer available." - so it was just something to pass the time and spend money on or what.

 

 

 

And the VW ad with the crying kids, if I wanted to listen to kids crying I'd take a RyanAir flight to Bratislava/Birmingham....

[Negative Creep]

  On 30/07/2013 at 16:36, TimothyClaypole said:

Ebayer's cancelling auctions. 

 

Get all pumped up then they pull the rug from under you.

 

"This listing was ended by the seller because the item is no longer available." - so it was just something to pass the time and spend money on or what.

 

 

 

Or he could have just sold it elsewhere

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

  On 30/07/2013 at 14:37, SambaS said:

its okay... what is someone going to do? pay me? 

 

I read a letter in a newspaper where an old woman said she would never give up her cheques in favour of e-bank transfers because she didn't want to give her bank details to strangers. I think she'd never noticed the little numbers on the bottom of her cheques, or even given a moments thought as to how a cheque works. 

[autofive]

ebay sellers often sell elsewhere to avoid the nasty ebay fees

 

moral: if you want something, get in touch with the seller early on and do the deal. dont wait for the end 'to grab a bargain', because there are no bargains on ebay

[purplebargeken]

Never, ever, ever throw away your really knackered camera with the 8G memory card still inside. Fuck, fuck, fucketty fuck.

[purplebargeken]

VA, try these as an alternative to the fuckwits at Royal Mail:

 

http://www.parcel2go.com/

 

They have done me proud on numerous occasions.

[sporty-shite]

106 failed MOT last week. Now, that's not my grump, I fully expected it to, and being as it's 19 years old, it isn't a big surprise. So why the grump?

 

Got a new front pipe to replaced the, frankly, fucked and multiply bodged one that was on it. Not too bad up to now. Then it pissed down for most of the back end of last week. So, finally, today, I could make a start on the MOT jobs, first one being to stop it sounding like a punctured whoopie cushion being sat on by Kerry Katona.

 

So, the pipe comes off, no bother. No seized bolts or snapped studs. I thought, "this is going too well". And it was.

 

The welded-in piece of threaded tube that carries the lambda sensor hed been re-welded in a previous bodge. But, they'd gone a bit skew-wiff and welded in the sensor. Arse. Phoned around, and managed to get one in Warrington. By this time, the car was stripped, and I needed to use it this afternoon, so I took Mrs S's 306, and whizzed off, so I could be back before she went to work.

 

£50 later, I was back. Got new sensor out of box, went to screw it into new exhaust, and lo and behold, there was a big splat of weld on the threads of the sensor carrier, meaning I couldn't get the fucking thing in. By this time, Mrs S was on her way to work, I had a car in bits, and kids to collect from nursery in about 90 minutes.

 

Conclusion: car rebuilt with old exhaust, still sounds like a Z list celebrity with flatulence, and I have to go and get a replacement exhaust in the morning, which I'll have to fit tomorrow night when Mrs S comes home from work, as I'm looking after youngest rascal all day tomorrow.

 

Arsebiscuits.

[Pillock]

  On 30/07/2013 at 14:37, SambaS said:

its okay... what is someone going to do? pay me? 

 

Jeremy Clarkson once had a rant in his newspaper column about how safe banks were, and how there's no risk whatsoever in publishing your sort code and account number.

 

Within the day, someone had set up a direct debit to a charity 

[Richard]

  On 30/07/2013 at 15:53, dollywobbler said:

Wash out your brain with this very silly Rihanna-featuring-sort-of video by Cosmo Jarvis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we5N6yVKWY0

 

That did the trick, I'd forgotten all about Cosmo Jarvis. I still have absolutely no idea who or what Rihanna is and I'm hoping to keep it that way.

[jakebullet]

Evil-bastard-bay's latest cunning plan of adding final value fee to the postage.

 

Marvelous! Royal fail bill is £800 in a quiet month, so why should I pay ebay an additional £80 for doing the square root of bugger all? Arsebiscuits!

[phil_lihp]

  On 30/07/2013 at 13:18, vulgalour said:

The unique way that Royal Mail does things now is baffling. 

 

I've been selling a lot of bike and computer parts lately and can thoroughly recommend Parcel2Go as well, cheaper options than RM, collection the next day from the office and often better insurance etc.  A number of visits to the post office with small, lightweight packages have left me looking at the counter staff with a wide-eyed, open-mouthed look of horror when they cheerfully inform me that the cheapest delivery option is just shy of the amount the item sold for plus my wildly optimistic postage fee.

[TimothyClaypole]

The Post Office I use is now empty when I do go in to get molested.  

 

Good work Royal Mail.

[phil_lihp]

I feel bad complaining about it, any courier really does provide an amazing service getting a parcel of more or less any size and weight to a specific address anywhere in the country within 24 hours (usually) unharmed.  The unfortunate fact though is that Citylink, UPS etc. can pick it up from you, insure it and deliver it within 24 hours for considerably less than the Royal Mail and you don't have to queue for half an hour to do it.

[Richard]

The Royal Mail will be gone soon anyway. It's been put up for sale (they buried that news under some story about MPs' wages) so one of the big couriers will buy it to shut it down.

[cobblers]

Speaking of crazy flipping courier madness, at work we order a load of stuff from Farnell - just electronic components. They're not that cheap really but they are fairly reliable and stock a lot of stuff, but the way they send and pack things is mental.

 

Yesterday I ordered 4 DIP 8 ICs from them (10mm x 8mm each) that cost about 2 quid each.

 

They came in a 36 inch long IC tube, packed in a 26"x12"x9" box. From Belgium, next day UPS delivery.

 

This shit happens twice a week at least, so they must somehow still make money from it, and yet to send the same box within the UK via royal mail would probably cost over £20.