Category: Ranting

  • 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!

  • 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. 🙂

  • 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!

  • 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!

    FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!