Rant and Rave

[Deleted]

Oh Glam how horrid, I hope dr May is looking after you! The poor Glammobile, Mechanic Richard will have a look and keep Jeremy and his hammer away from it ;D Hugs to you!

[Wyvern]

I know I've only been here a few days, but Glam, I hope you're OK, and I'm very sorry to hear about the poor Glammobile

[Mayfayre]

My torrent worked... heventually! I now have Amphibians II on a fully functioning DVD, even if the volume is a bit low! ;D

Printer still refusing to play though

[glam]

thanks peeps for all your nice comments

[Deleted]

How are you Glam?

[inky]

At the end of the day (to quote a cliche) it's only metal and bits. They can be replaced. People cannot.

[glam]

I know, my sister has just explained the beautiful place that is car heaven. I'm ok although that hands a bit sore and getting a touch bulbous looking

[Wyvern]

Aww... well, I'm sure the Glammobile will be happy there.

If she sees a little yellow moped called The Electric Banana, I hope they say hello. Been nearly 15 years and I still miss the little monstrosity!

[Mayfayre]

Glam. I'd go get that hand checked out if I were you! Glad the rest of you is OK.

[Wyvern]

Not sure if this counts as a rant or just a bit of confusion.

Dave is marketed as a "bloke's channel", isn't it? All the marketing blurb talks about it having a specific demographic of men of a certain age (that I can't remember because the press release really annoyed me). So why would Dave have ads for pregnancy tests (admittedly, they were the hi-tech gadgety ones, but even so, blokes are never going to be able to use them) running back-to-back with ads for "feminine wash"?! Maybe the ad people are a bit more clued up on who actually watches TG these days... Why can't they admit that women like watching too?!

Talking of Dave, and TG on Dave in particular, am I the only person to be really irritated by those Halford's things? It's always a bloke doing all the fixy stuff, the one female member of staff gets to fit a baby seat! Grrrr...

(and yes, Glam, if the hand keeps being sore and swollen, get it checked out!)

[mansonmaniac]

That Halfords advert seems kinda sexist in my opinion

[Wyvern]

Yeah, I've just noticed another one that really irritated me, the one where the guy's fitting the carrier on top of the car and says something like "the wife says we need one of these for the sales" and both blokes laugh... grrr...

But unless he's going to use it straight away, I hope blokey buying it remembers to un-fit it when he gets home, cos otherwise he's just added a bunch of dead weight to the car and also stuffed up the aerodynamics, so his fuel consumption's going to go up. Actually, I hope he forgets and leaves it on... serves the sexist so-and-so right!!!

[inky]

wyvern said:

Yeah, I've just noticed another one that really irritated me, the one where the guy's fitting the carrier on top of the car and says something like "the wife says we need one of these for the sales" and both blokes laugh... grrr...

But unless he's going to use it straight away, I hope blokey buying it remembers to un-fit it when he gets home, cos otherwise he's just added a bunch of dead weight to the car and also stuffed up the aerodynamics, so his fuel consumption's going to go up. Actually, I hope he forgets and leaves it on... serves the sexist so-and-so right!!!

That's a brilliant rant wyvern ;D especially the second paragraph

[fussycat]

glam said:

I know, I cried on a policeman, and my mum, amd my dad and my brother and a nice random man who stopped to help.

A woman ran into the back of me a couple of years ago I ended up comforting her as she started crying. Then my O/H got me home, and I burst into tears too!

[Wyvern]

inky said:

wyvern said:

Yeah, I've just noticed another one that really irritated me, the one where the guy's fitting the carrier on top of the car and says something like "the wife says we need one of these for the sales" and both blokes laugh... grrr...

But unless he's going to use it straight away, I hope blokey buying it remembers to un-fit it when he gets home, cos otherwise he's just added a bunch of dead weight to the car and also stuffed up the aerodynamics, so his fuel consumption's going to go up. Actually, I hope he forgets and leaves it on... serves the sexist so-and-so right!!!

That's a brilliant rant wyvern ;D especially the second paragraph

Thank you, but many people do it much better than I do

For example... uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1mIg6dmzcYU&feature=related

[inky]

I've just spent two hours working out how to use windows movie maker, made a vid, put the music on and was just doing the last of the transition effects when the chuffin' PC threw a wobbler, froze up and I lost the whole thing Anyone got a hammer......

[Spud's back!!!]

Here you go

tool of the pikey


Jillian xx

[inky]

Just gone back into movie maker and it had saved the main part ;D All I need to do now is find a trillion more pics and I'll be sorted

[Mayfayre]

Wyvern I hate the Halfords ads as well. Not just because they're sexist, they're really irritating when you see them for the trillionth time!!

Very small rant while I'm here - these new plastic openers for cartons don't allow you to drink out of the carton without tipping the contents all over yourself, the table, chair & carpet. I now have apple juice in my hair.

On a + note, my printer now prints DVDs. There's a micro-switch type of thingy that detects the DVD tray that wasn't working. My ex pulled the printer apart, gave it the evil eye & it's working again. He's good like that. ;D

[glam]

The Glammobile is now officially dead and according to the insurance only worth £350

*pets lips and sulks sowhat*

[lew]

.......Bloody insurers, glam they are totally useless, try for more, if it's been a good car, they'll try and wiggle out of anything

[fusker]

The Halfords ads drive my crazy - the women are either obsessed with the sales shopping, having a child seat fitted whilst preggers or flirting with the guy fixing the teeny scratch on her car (which apparently she thought was enough to break the engine she knows so little about motors)

[Wyvern]

Aw, Glam, bloody insurers. I know the feeling though - when the Banana died they gave me less than I paid for the new exhaust I'd just fitted about a fortnight before the accident

Have a go though, you might be able to push them up. Ask what criteria they based the assessment on. If it's purely on book price, you probably won't be able to encourage them up, but if they've taken other things into accout, you might be able to argue for more.

And in other news, I think I'm going to write to Halfords as it's now obvious that I touched a little nerve there and as it's not just me they've p*ssed off they deserve to know

[Deleted]

Ah ha I understand!! THose sodding Halfords adverts, better than the SatNav one they had previously with an annoying theme tune.......grrrr

[lew]

Go for it wyvern and then tell all ;D

[Wyvern]

Here is an extract from the email I just sent to Halfords. There are a couple of blatant lies in there, but I felt that they helped the cause...

Please be aware that I'm not a sandal-wearing politally-correct lentil-muncher, but your sponsorship ads are stuck in the 1970s when it comes to the portrayal of women. It appears that women working in Halfords are only good for fitting baby seats for other (pregnant) women, while men get to be condescending about a scratch on a dozy girl's front wing (not that I blame him, it's not like a tiny scratch is going to make her car suddenly explode halfway round the M25) or laugh at another girl's taste in music, or get to make a joke about their wives needing "one of these for the sales" regarding the carrier they're fitting to a car (driven by a bloke, I notice) when they should probably be advising the driver to un-fit the carrier when he gets home unless he wants his fuel consumption to increase... even the kid on a pushbike gets the full blokey treatment. Admittedly, the guy who wants paint for his Mini seems to be unaware that computers could possible hold a list of paint colours, but even so, it's hardly a fair representation.

I recognise that (if polls in things like Heat magazine are to be believed) there are women out there who watch "Top Gear" because they have "things" about the presenters, but I'm not one of them*. Amazingly, a lot of the blokes who watch it don't actually know that much about cars (just like a lot of the women, who'd have thought it), but a lot of people watch it because they find the programme entertaining. And a lot of the women who watch it know more about cars than stereotypes would suggest. I can change a spark plug or a wheel, check my oil, top up my radiator, washers and brakes, like many people. I can also change rather more major bits given time, a Haynes manual and a socket set (and occasionally a hammer...). I have stripped and rebuilt motorbikes, though admittedly not for a few years now. I'm hoping to strip and rebuild a car over the summer if my meagre student finances allow. And unlike a lot of "Top Gear" fans, I've been watching since well before the revamp. I remember when Jezza had hair, and I remember James May presenting the first time round. I remember when Tiff Needell reviewed motorbikes and Quentin Willson was bombing around on road tests. I'm not, in a nutshell, watching "Top Gear" because I lust after Richard Hammond**; I'm watching "Top Gear" because I'm lusting after the cars, and being entertained while doing so.

*Lie
**Another lie. OK, I admit it. But not as much as I lust after Mr May.

[Deleted]

Fantastic! Those lies add to the cause! I hope you get a reply!!

[Wyvern]

Just had an automated response, and apparently it can take up to 7 working days to investigate my enquiry. So a week or so from now, expect empty platitudes...

[lew]

Wyvern.....very good and I'm scared and I don't have anything to do with Halfords ;D

[wolfenkin]

Well done Wyvern. ;D

Quick rant: Why does bloody hotmail have to keep freezing on me.