Rebecca Adlington won 3 gold medals.. Not Mansfield!

As i have mentioned in a previous blog entry, i think rebecca has done amazingly well and she should be proud of her achievements for the rest of her life. Im sure she has a promising career in sport and on TV etc and i wish her all the luck in the world with it.

What really gets to me (and probably her) is that Mansfield seems to want to ride off the back of her success and rise from the ashes into the spotlight! Im sorry mansfield, but surely thats something Mansfield should achieve by itsself? If Mansfield brought up and trained some great swimmers who all went on to win at something like the olympics, then great - well done mansfield! But that aint the case is it. As far as im aware Becky Adlington didnt even train in Mansfield as the facilities were not good enough - iirc she said she now trains in Nottingham.

I live in Mansfield, i was born here, and have been raised here. We once had things to be proud of, the brewery.. err.. the brewery.. and now all we have to be proud of is a young girl who totally off her own back (with the help of friends and family of course) has trained and gone on to become the most successful female swimmer in great britain. We can only be proud that she was born here though. Not that Mansfield made her the olympian star she has become!

Anyway, rant over - let becky have all the spotlight as she deserves it.

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Another 123-Reg Nightmare!

Once again, 123-Reg have shone through and have fucked up good and proper. We must have 35/40 domain names in our 123-Reg account, some ours, some are our clients - all important.

Anyone who has visited my blog before may remember the earlier entry about the 123-Reg auto renewal issue that we had. They basically automatically renewed a domain name we didn’t want renewing. If they were gonna automatically do it then why send us emails every week telling us to renew it?

Anyway, following on from that same issue, we basically got our money back from the bank, then it got sent back to them, and then we got it back again. They have now totally shut our 123-Reg account down, we cant access any domain names to make changes, we have two sites we cant publish as we cant edit domain name details.

They even told Dave they had deleted our account!

We are waiting to hear back from the people up high apparently, and the only way to contact them is by email. They are probably on their sun lounger in the Bahamas replying to emails on their blackberry. Tossers.

We’ll update you as things progress!

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The Wheelbase Motor Project - Nottingham

I was sat watching the news and eating my dinner with Gem and Bonnie, when something about the “Wheelbase project” came on. It showed a grass track nova that had been “done up” to be used in grass track, banger style racing - COOL!!

The wheelbase project is;

“an innovative project based in Nottingham working with young people aged 14-25 years old who are at risk of crime and social exclusion”

The kids who they interviewed on the news were all boasting about how they “dropped out of school” or used to “always get into fights” - one kid even confessed to setting his teacher on fire…

HOLD ON A MINUTE

So let me get this straight, these kids have dropped out of school becasue they were dragged up rather than brought up, and in payment for being a wart on the arse of society they get to play about with cars instead of sitting in a boring classroom listening to some boring teacher drone on about boring subjects that are, well, boring?!

Well thats it then!

KIDS! If you want a career in the motor trade or you just cant be arsed to work hard at school, all you have to do is set your teacher on fire, smash a few school windows and kill any farm animals your school may keep! Simple! And as a reward you will be able to tinker about with cars, build grass track racers and even race them!

WHAT THE FUCK?!

These kids chose their own path, they chose to be scumbags, so why waste money on them? Yeah sure, a few of them have reformed, a few of them no longer wish for all their teachers to be dead, but that doesn’t change the fact they once did, and it certainly doesn’t make all the things they have done wrong, right.

About ten years ago me and my mate timmyroob went on something very similar, called “The Wheels Project” - you never know, the wheelbase project could be a spin off from that? And we spent our entire 6 weeks holiday visiting scrap yards, making a off road buggy and learning to drive a transit van round a field.

All sounds like fun doesn’t it? Well we had to pay (cash money) to go on it, and the miscreant that was on it with us was one of these oxygen thieves, and he got to go on it free.

I remember it boiling my blood back then, and today seeing that the Wheelbase project is set to roll out nationwide - well lets just say boiling point has been reached, and its bubbling over the sides.

I cant possibly be the only person in the world that finds this both unfair, and a complete piss take. Genuine hard working kids get nothing like this and have to PAY OUT OF THEIR OWN POCKETS to do cool shit like this, but little bastards that set teachers on fire get it free.

Its bullshit!

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Big Brother 9 Starts Tonight - oh joy !!!!!

oh the joy !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Cheeky Bloody Electricity Company!!

Right! Bit of a rant coming up!

Basically before Bex left we got a letter from the electricity company, saying our current direct debit of x amount was not enough, and they recommend that we change our direct debit, as it was not covering the amount of electricity we were using.  Without giving it a second thought I left it at that.  Now I’ll admit to one thing, I hardly ever pay any attention to my bills, and as long as there is a direct debit set up making sure the bills are covered, and that I have enough money in my account to cover this I leave it at that.  Anyway, by chance I happened to notice my Electricity bill whilst looking for something else in my file of bills and random things.  Basically over x amount of months I’ve managed to get myself nearly £300 in credit with them!  The cheeky thing is they dont send you letters telling you!  They just sit there watching your money fill up! Cheeky twats! Anyway I decided enough was enough, and that I wanted to lower my payments and also wanted the money back, as it would serve a better purpose in my bank account rather than theirs!  Rang them and explained that I’ve been paying far too much over how ever many months it’s been, and that I wanted to lower my payments.  All OK according to the bloke, but lets see how easy it is to get them to part with my money! Hmmmm.  Anyway that was on Monday.  Thursday I walk through the door, and they had sent me a bloody letter.  Claiming that as part of their REGULAR REVIEW of my account, THEY have come to the conclusion that x quid a month is far too much, and that they suggest Y quid a month instead! Which just so happened to be the same amount that I TOLD THE ON THE PHONE I wanted to pay! :?  So do they only review peoples account if they ring up and want money back?  Also I’m due another bill later this month, so not gonna chase my money, until I know what they next bill is, and how much I’m in credit with them!  IF it’s a substantial amount, and it takes forever to get the money out of them I’ll just visit uswitch.com, and change my supplier!  I just couldnt believe the cheek of the letter!!

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Big Brother 2008

Well it’s that time of year again! Almost summer which means another fucking dose of BIG BOTHER!  God I hate this show!!!  Specially as I was pretty much forced to watch it for 3 years :lol:  Anyway I can not stand this program, and am boycotting Channel 4 and E4 for the next however many weeks till its over!

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Do you like complaining? Ranting and raving?

Do you do any of the above on your blog? If so, then join the fightfightfight network, and share your rants with the world.

We bought the domain name a while ago for use with a similar idea, but it was forum based. It was a big hit with people, and the site poddled along for a while.

Due to a lack of time we couldnt keep moderating the forum, so have sat on the domain name until something else has been thought of to fill its boots.

Both dave and myself are avid complainers, we love to moan when things are not quite right, push the boundries of customer service and see what we can squeeze from the local and national businesses we deal with as we go about our lives.

If your a blogger, and you like to rant, then make a special category for your rants and give us the link. We’ll add it to our site, and you will be sharing your rants with a much wider audience!

Get heard!

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Im dreading full time driving

I haven’t driven a car on the road all day every day for some while now, although i do drive my girlfriends car every now and then. Unfortunately, i have noticed that when i DO drive on the roads by myself, i get very angry and the incompetence of people on the roads. People randomly braking, not using indicators - and just general bad drivers.

I was coming off a roundabout the other day, when some prick in a fiesta st overtook me doing a stupid speed, i stayed clear so that he wouldn’t kill me in the process. After 3 sets of lights, i caught up with him (and i was doing the speed limit!) So i gave him some “parked in the boot” action and followed him up the road. He went to turn off, and i stopped at the side of him and suggested he wind his window down so i could call him a prick.

He drove off. Of course.

When will these losers learn?

Will it take a death? Or should i say more deaths?

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Sales Assistance - Mansfield - Avoid !!!!

Thought I would blog about this as I am (or was) severely annoyed at these guys. A few days ago I took a car into them to get valued with the hope that they would buy it. A guy came and had a good look around the car and within ten minutes sent me into see the owner.

He had a brief chat with me and soon told me that he would be looking at buying the car for £5500 if not a little more (baring in mind that the car if sold privately would be sold for at least £6995). Anyway, I was happy with the price and said that I would come back with the owner of the car in a few days.

We called them up just to confirm all this and was told to come down before 1700 a day later. So, the car was given a quick clean and taken down to Sales Assistance (What a waste of time). Upon arrival, we went straight into the manager office, the keys were given to one of the guys who took it out for a test drive. Whilst the guy was out, the manager started to tell me how he now wants to give no more than £4500 for the car and cannot remember giving me a price of £5500 plus. Now, I know for sure that the car is worth alot more than that and would be put on the forecourt for at LEAST £6995. He went on to tell us all the normal car salesman bullshit about how the car is not that desireable, blah blah blah….

Anyway, I decided to take a walk back outside to get the keys ready to leave. What did I walk outside to find? Two guys stood with the bonnet up revving the tits off the car, baring in mind that the car had not been running long, so was more or less cold, and could have caused some damage to the engine. I was in shock.

I asked the manager if they always do that to which he just turned his back and kinda shrugged and totally ignored the question. Shortly after that we took the keys and left, pretty pissed off.

So, the story goes, if you are going to sell a car, don’t go to Sales Assistance, in fact, I wouldnt buy a car from there after how we got treat.

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BT

For over a year now I have had an issue with British Telecom. Firstly we set up a business telephone line and broadband service which at first seemed ok. As soon as the bills started coming in is when the problems began. In the past year we have been billed twice for periods paid for on previous bills, charged various fees that we were not made aware of, over-charged on phone calls and lied to by customer services on various occasions. Not only this, everytime a complaint is lodged, I have been promised a call back, and not once has this happened.

BT Internet was also provided and from day one we had problems with the router, to which we complained straight away. They have tested the line on various occasions, sent us a new router but still we had the problem. Throughout the working day the router would reset itself upto ten times a day, sometimes even more. When it eventually flicked back to life the PC’s would have to be reset as there was normally an IP conflict.

For over a year, this caused a massive interruption to the business. It is only now that we have managed to get away from BT, even though they have threatened us with more charges for leaving a contract early, even though the broadband was on a one year contract, they now claim that it was a two year contract. We have had no choice but to make an official complaint but as usual we have not heard a whisper. Now onto the house phone line. A phone line was ordered online, a call from BT came through asking for a deposit. This was paid and an installation date was given. So, the day that they were coming we called to see where they were.

To our amazement, they had a problem. For some reason they had cancelled the order and not told us and had no explanation, the only thing they could tell us is that the engineer would not be coming out today and a new order must be placed. After being on the phone for over an hour, being passed from person to person and probably from country to country we get put through to the sales department who decide to keep us on hold for even longer. By this time, enough was enough. We hung up and filed a complaint through their website.

Why does BT have the whole country over a barrel?

Why is everyone forced to have a BT line and put up with the useless call centres and systems they have in place?

If only something could be done?

Maybe if enough people pulled together the Government could do something?

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