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I think I'll just have to live with having to wait a few extra months to get a degree.

 

All because of a silly 10 minute presentation. I'd rather just take the loss in marks and carry on, but it looks like the uni wants to drag it out, etc.

 

Greg: Sometimes it can be a bit hard to catch the tutors - most of them are working session musicians as well as contracted lecturers.

 

/rage.

 

Ben.

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And bearing in mind that pretty much every university professor considers students to be an inconvenience at best. Most of them only do it to have access to university resources for their own research and the universities make them teach students as part of the deal.

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Main Dealers. I just spent 50 minutes trying to pay for my car and get a letter to drive to Bahrain. Every time I went to get something, he would ask for another thing. Then it's pay for this, *comes back*, pay for that *comes back* we need this. *comes back* oh and what about this? *comes back*. Right you need to get the letter yourself.

 

I don't think so buddy!

 

I aint paying all that coin for you to make me go see the police and all the other government people I need a stamp from. Means I have to drive to Khobar after work again, wait until it opens at 4pm and then get the letter for some <i>more</i> money. All this because I want to go visit the US Navy base in Bahrain and buy some new boots. <img src="http://www.arniesairsoft.co.uk/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />

 

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Yeah. Dealers... Annoying.

 

It cost me over £750 to have the locks changed on my car after theives broke into my house and stole the spare key, amongst other things. Had to go to a main dealer, since third-party garages aren't allowed to order locking systems and recode keys and whatnots. Replacement keys cost £120 each, plus the cost of the locks, recoding the alarm system and about 4 hours' labour. It probably didn't take 'em that long...

 

The house insurance refused to pay for it, saying that the car was nothing to do with them. The car insurance wouldn't pay, saying there was nothing wrong with the car. I asked them if they'd pay if I didn't do it and it was stolen, and they said that if the thieves used the key then I wouldn't be covered.

 

Insurance companies.... Scumbgs. At least burglars, robbers and thieves are honest about being robbers and thieves.

 

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You think you hate main dealers?

The South Africans hate them so much they sent that Nissan Main Dealer to Robin island for 28 years (say it out loud, HaHaHa)

 

 

 

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Same here, but I still get cold calls from indian call centres and Royal Mail still deliver general unaddressed junk mail by the box load because they have contracts to do it.

 

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Go down to the post office your post comes from and tell them you no longer want to receive "door to doors" and that will stop all the unaddressed stuff that Royal Mail delivers, the rest (pizza menus etc.) you can do nothing about)

 

 

My gripe is this new site lay out, I really don't like it at all.

 

It reminds me of facebook, I don't like facebook (If you do like facebook, thats great, but I don't at all, though have no problem with people who like it.)

 

 

I'm with you a bit, first I don't like it because it is different and I am to old for change. I fear change...

 

The other thing is that the quotes are all messed up and the PMs are rubbish, also, for some reason there is a load of text in the side bar next to the PMs that make each one about ten times longer.

 

 

 

My gripe for today is my HPI Baja 5B, god it is expensive to maintain, I thought airsoft was expensive.

Damn it isn't.

 

Also.

My lawyer is almost criminally incompetent.

 

My house sale was held up for 6 weeks because there was a page missing from my deed (the one held at the land registry).

He never bothered to ask if I had it (which I did) and as a result our purchase almost fell through.

 

Gah!

 

 

 

*edit*

While I was typing, it seems the quote system seems to be fixed, that makes me look like a buffoon.

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They cause these delays so they can bill you.

 

When I was buying my house, the mortgage company failed to send the money through on time, so there was a delay. I had to pay a penalty fee entirely due to circumstances beyond my control. I tried to contest the issue with my solicitor, and was essentially told to *fruitcage* off.

 

They're all in it together, I swear.

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Naval students. They insist on hoarding their change in their cabins, only carrying around & paying with paper money. Then, at the end of each term ( today in fact ), they decide to bring down all their accumulated change and spend it/ swap it over; as a result I now have about ~£200+ worth of change in my till, more than double the normal amount. Why God why cant they just have proper wallets and an ounch of common sense.

 

And trouble with your baja5b? I thought those were ment to be hardy vehicles? Check out the HPI forums & rc-monster.com for upgrade ideas if you're having specific issues :)

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Today's rant: Being out of work.

 

It just sucks *albartroth*. For a couple of days, not having to go to work is great, it's like an extended holiday. But then problems start piling up. Free time becomes time on your hands - you don't really have anything to do, and the things you could be doing seem like too much effort. You get lazy. The money starts to dry up, further limiting your possible ways to spend your time. Bills keep coming in, but you can't pay them, adding to stress.

 

But why is it so hard to find a job? I spend hours per day (well, some days) searching for vacancies and sending out applications, and I get no reply. Not even a "thanks but no thanks." It's like shouting into the wind, or throwing bottled messages into the ocean....

 

It's all very frustrating.... <_<

 

I was in that situation for almost a year. It sucks.

 

Although, the worst part isn't getting lazy and not having a job. The worst part is when you finally get a job and realize how lazy and slow you've become.

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Thought I'd join in on the rage towards being out of work.

 

I had a job all lined up, had a start date and everything. Also worthy of note, is the fact I didn't really want this job, I was doing it to please the misses and it was good pay. Then, out of nowhere, the job is cancelled 5 days before it is meant to start (It was a fixed contract for at least 8 months with a possibility of extension), and dumb *albartroth* me had signed off from the job centre.

 

So now am back on the jobless ladder, trying to find work. That's the third job, that has fell through on me now, but it is the first one to actually give a start date and then cancel, just before said start date.

 

Thank god I went to watch "Kick *albatross*", that movie cheered me up.

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Its fairly late into the night, I have to be up and about doing all sorts of things tommorow, I got up early this morning, I've done some fairly strenuous exercise, I've had a few beers earlier in the day, so by all means I should be quite tired, but I cannot seem to sleep. To top that off, I think I'm building a tolerance to nytol. Hardly "FML" but this is particularly irritating.

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FFS, I can't stand it when I drop a tiny part of a gun or anything, and no matter how hard you look, it disappears.

 

I was taking my M4 apart, and the bolt catch fell off somewhere(I'm gluing that *fruitcage* on next time)

 

For 30 minutes, I looked throughout the whole garage, even the filed garbage can that was sitting nearby, just incase it somehow flew in there.

Where was it?

Under the wheel of the rolling chair I was sitting on.

 

Goddamn it.

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Trigger happy, the 5B is a tough car on a scale of not tough to tough but it is very heavy.

 

If you imagine some of the things I have done to my guns and then picture the treatment the car gets.

It weighs over 10Kg and I have a marine ported billet 26cc engine with turtle transmission parts.

 

I remember looking about 10 feet up in the air at the top of my buggy and thinking "this will not end cheaply".

 

Anyway, breaking it is half the fun...

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I think I'll just have to live with having to wait a few extra months to get a degree.

 

All because of a silly 10 minute presentation. I'd rather just take the loss in marks and carry on, but it looks like the uni wants to drag it out, etc.

 

Greg: Sometimes it can be a bit hard to catch the tutors - most of them are working session musicians as well as contracted lecturers.

 

/rage.

 

Ben.

Understood. I'm sure if it had mattered enough, you would have found a solution.

 

Although, the worst part isn't getting lazy and not having a job. The worst part is when you finally get a job and realize how lazy and slow you've become.

It's a fact. IBM used to constantly remind management, that NASA studies had proved conclusively, that just 2 weeks out of the work routine, lowered IQ by approx 20 points. :o Only a temporary dip, as they were ususally back within a week. :D

 

Its fairly late into the night, I have to be up and about doing all sorts of things tommorow, I got up early this morning, I've done some fairly strenuous exercise, I've had a few beers earlier in the day, so by all means I should be quite tired, but I cannot seem to sleep. To top that off, I think I'm building a tolerance to nytol. Hardly "FML" but this is particularly irritating.

Try bashing one out, four times on the trot. Works for me. ;)

 

 

Greg.

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The bloody weather! :angry:

 

Part of my business is gardening.

 

First we get decades of mild winters, encouraging folk to get the sort of stuff that really shouldn't be in English gardens.

 

Then we get a proper, basterd cold winter, teaching folk a lesson.

 

Then it rains for weeks on end, so you have to ruin the lawn to save the drowning.

 

& now, drought!

 

Who has to sort it all out?.................. *fruitcage* Superman! :unsure:

 

God help the farmers.

 

Edit: *fruitcage* the farmers! Unlike me, they will get huge EU handouts, to sit on their arses & watch it all rot! :angry:

 

Thankfully, our supermarkets are fiscally smart enough to source our food internationally (very few are prepared to pay 'UK farmed', it's cheaper to grow it elsewhere & fly it in :huh: ), so prices shouldn't go up. <_< ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, but I digress. :mellow:

 

 

Greg.

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Taxes: It's a *badgeress* but without them, we'd all be living in a muddy field.

 

So, TAX EVASION!

 

Every one of you selfish *Ubarflock*, who take pleasure in not paying taxes. From the multi millionaires with offshore accounts, to you, the airsofting scum, who buy from Hong Kong & have the nerve to complain, when you 'get stitched up by customs'.

 

For gods sake, grow up. Realize that every time you fail to pay your dues, the bill goes up for the rest of us!

 

 

& another thing (I'm having a bad day), customer *Ubarflock* who say, 'could you please nip over this afternoon & chop down a little apple tree at the bottom of the garden?'

 

Of course I can madam, has it got a tpo? Do you live in a conservation area? 'Oh no, it'll probably only take an hour or so'.

 

So, on the way there you do a check with the local council to find ti does have a tpo, & is in a conservation area.

 

It's the biggest apple tree I've ever seen!

 

Mmmm. So, we can add about half a day to the hour & 6 weeks, waiting for planning permission. Nice.

 

 

Greg.

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Jesus's grerg, are you having - one hell of - a bad day?

 

When I have a bad day, I either put Ghostbusters or Shaun of the Dead on, instantly cheered up.

 

Side note:- I always get vat'd, never complain about it. Except for the one time I was charged more for delivery, by parcel force, than the item was worth (Though that wasn't airsoft).

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Dude, its a volcano. Don't argue with it. lol.

 

 

 

Today, I am mostly enraged by moving house.

 

 

When did I accumulate so much stuff? Seriously, there is loads of it. I feel an ebay session coming on.

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Taxes: It's a *badgeress* but without them, we'd all be living in a muddy field.

 

So, TAX EVASION!

 

Every one of you selfish *Ubarflock*, who take pleasure in not paying taxes. From the multi millionaires with offshore accounts, to you, the airsofting scum, who buy from Hong Kong & have the nerve to complain, when you 'get stitched up by customs'.

 

For gods sake, grow up. Realize that every time you fail to pay your dues, the bill goes up for the rest of us!

 

 

 

Taxes aint bad and I have no problem paying them. Its just when parcel farce charge you a nice princely sum for the pleasure of handing it to customs is what gets me. For example; new spring.. £7 including delivery from HK while there was a sale on. Not so bad.. comes into the country, gets taxed £1.50 or w/e but parcel farce charged £13.50 for handing it over.

 

They now have a spring in their office with my name on it and can keep it for all I care.

 

What bugs me is the inconsistency. I had a massive parcel with a G&P AEG, 5 mids, batteries, chargers, BB's and an aimpoint sail right through customs, even with taxes it would have worked out over £100 cheaper than from the UK. But then I have a spring, or a pistol hammer, both tiny parcels where the fees are worth more than the item itself.

 

Bah.

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Bloody volcanic ash clouds, I've got to fly tomorrow and this is definitely not cool!

Seriously empathising right now mate.

 

I seem to have been posted to the worst place in the UK for actually getting planes off the ground. Last time I tried to fly south was Christmas, and, oh no, there's *suitcase* loads of snow, planes don't like snow, we'll cancel your flights 3 days in a row and make you stay on a totally deserted camp for that period of Christmas leave, freezing your balls off, totally alone in the empty block.

 

Could such a delay be caused this time?? Surely not, I mean, look at the weather! Glorious sunshine! But no, oh no no, just you wait one *fruitcage* second there sonny jim, a giant *fruitcage* off volcano has just erupted in *fruitcage* Iceland, and the *fruitcage* off cloud of *fruitcage* ash and dust is now pretty much guaranteed to ground all your flights for close on an entire *fruitcage* week!! I saw the news shortly after waking up, and in all seriousness I was thinking 'April fools has long gone hasn't it? I mean, volcanic dust clouds stopping flights? Don't be *fruitcage* silly' but no, no, turns out it's real.

 

Some all-powerful *Ubar* has got it in for me big time. I don't care how I do it, I'm getting posted back to England, because this *suitcase* *fruitcage* sucks **** *fruitcage* big time.

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Today, I am mostly enraged by moving house.

 

 

Tell me about it! I'm moving too and it's a bloody nightmare shifting everything across. Just got myself a new TV though. :) Current one is far too small for the front room of the new place.

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Jesus's grerg, are you having - one hell of - a bad day?

 

When I have a bad day, I either put Ghostbusters or Shaun of the Dead on, instantly cheered up.

grerg? Just how badly can you miss spell a four letter word? :lol: Not that I can spell for toffee, so that makes me feel a lot better. ;)

 

I loove ghost busters. :)

 

In reflection, it wasn't such a bad day.

 

Instead of a small fee for an hours work felling a small apple, I now get to charge for at least half a day, & organizing authorization from the council to do the work. Which will land somewhere in the region of £350, as opposed to £50. :huh:

 

& I'm finished for today, unless there is any more tree 'emergencies', so that ain't bad either. Off fishing tomorrow, tree spotting Saturday & airsoft Sunday. In fact, I'm kind of having a hard time finding an on topic rant today...................

 

Ah, yeah, that 'll do: Folk that tip too much. :unsure: No, hear me out. Sure it's always nice to get a bit on top but: I run my business on a strict, 'you get what you pay for' policy. Customers are given an idea of cost before work starts & then billed for time & labour at the end. This ensures that they don't get ripped off & I don't go out of business, because the estimate was wrong. But when someone gives you more than the bill, as a tip,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, it kind of makes the whole concept a bit dodgy. Yes I know that they are pleased with my work & value me but I value their custom & somehow feel a little odd. & it's just the one customer. It's like they are a serial tipper, normally doubling my bill each time. Which is fine, if it's just a £25 job but a bit disconcerting with a £250er! & arguing is a bit odd: No, you can't give me all that money, I only want,,,,,,

 

Any how, it must be a good day, if the only thing I can moan at, is that. :D

 

My sympathy goes out to any one stranded at an airport today. It must be so frustrating. The sky hear (7 miles from Heathrow) is blue & planes are grounded. How does that work?

 

 

Greg.

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Probably because the cloud of shiz is in the upper atmosphere, up where the planes cruise.

It will rodger the engines nicely, remember, no air filters on a jet engine.

 

 

What is angering me today is my lawyer.

 

I am supposed to be exchanging contracts today. If it goes wrong because of him I will kill him. Slowly.

 

 

Also, moving, I have moved every 2 years (or less) for my entire life.

 

Until now. I have lived in the current house for 7 years and I have accumulated so much unncecessary rubbish that I can barely look myself in the eye.

 

I just offered my mate what ammounts to (conservatively) £3000 worth of airsoft stuff I never use for £500.

Hopefully he'll have the funds to take me up on the offer.

 

I used to be proud of the fact I could move house on 30 minutes notice, now I'm just a fat old man.

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