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I've just got a (genuine) message from HMRC to pay more Self Assessment tax. Fair enough, logged on and it says that I owe £2500, I've paid £2550 and I owe £2500. All on the same statement!
Someone in the office has decided to broadcast Radio 2. It's driving me nuts!
The Weeksy thread - we're all sad it's closed but it's for the best?
FFS! I'm not angry, just disappointed that a bunch of grown ups can't come to some amicable agreement. We're all now going to have to check out a thread on some motorbike forum most of us have no other interest in.
Well done everyone.
The Pikeys across the road seem to be unloading about ten grands worth of ordnance at the monent, how they can afford it I don't know.
My dogs usualy pretty tollerant of fireworks but he's shaking now and I'm tempted to go over and start smashing some peoples teeth out.
You'll have to pry my fireworks from my cold dead fingers... Which are over there on the pavement when one went off.
I didn't think this warranted it's own grammar police thread but imo it is an exemplar of the decline and fall of British society, only joking.
I live abroad and have reached state pensionable age and after several phonecalls to establish my pension entitlement the other day I received a letter confitming my weekly payment. Clearly this is an important document and will be safely filed for possible future reference so why the hell is it printed on what appears to be recycled toilet paper which has already deteriorated in the month it took between it being sent and me receiving it in Spain? Secondly the opening line states "We have decided that you can get a UK State Pension at the weekly amount of £XXX" surely there are better ways of phrasing this other than using the language of getting a coffee in Starbucks much hated by pedants.
Rant over. Hasta luego.
I called a cooker repair place to get a man(*) to come and fix the cooker. The person I spoke to took some details including my postcode. At the end of the conversation she said "so you live at Riverside Park". I said "no, I don't". She said "your postcode is xxxx xxR" I said "no, it's xxxx xxE". She said "oh, you've given me the wrong postcode".
What, in the name of all that's holy, the actual ****ing **** ?? Is it likely that I told someone my address wrong? Or is it perhaps more likely that, for whatever reason, they misheard what I said?
(* other genders acceptable)
What, in the name of all that's holy, the actual *ing * ?? Is it likely that I told someone my address wrong? Or is it perhaps more likely that, for whatever reason, they misheard what I said?
If it makes you feel any better I’ve had a similar argument with the DVLA and local council.
DVLA insisted I’d got the spelling of my own name wrong. A longer conversation than it should be.
Council tax department threats because they had cancelled my direct debit, or something like that.
DVLA insisted I’d got the spelling of my own name wrong.
Now you mention it, my daughter called her uni to tell them that the degree certificate they'd issued had her name spelled wrongly. They insisted that she must have told them the (wrong) spelling and claimed that they could only change the name in the situation that she went into a witness protection programme. Maybe that's my solution, but grassing up the Mob seems a bit excessive just to get my cooker fixed.
(After she persuaded them to check the passport copy she'd previously sent them, they relented.)
My wife putting this back in fridge next to the brand new full one?
"my good lady"
The fact we name every bit of mildly bad weather Storm whatever these days.
The fact that people assume the UK is the only place that names storms and forget that there are many other nearby countries that may be much more impacted by a weather event than we are and so choose to name it, and that name is then used to refer to the same weather event when it impacts other countries.
Edit - not aimed at you MisterP, but your post triggered me in the wake of conversations I'd overheard about the same issue.
What, in the name of all that's holy, the actual *ing * ?? Is it likely that I told someone my address wrong? Or is it perhaps more likely that, for whatever reason, they misheard what I said?
If it makes you feel any better I’ve had a similar argument with the DVLA and local council.
DVLA insisted I’d got the spelling of my own name wrong. A longer conversation than it should be.
Council tax department threats because they had cancelled my direct debit, or something like that.
At one point I had six V5s with wildly different addresses on, no matter what I'd written in the new keeper's field. The only common denominator was the postcode which was at least correct.
Furry motorcycle helmet covers such as...
Mohican ones and suchlike.
Had a bloke wearing one on a group ride this weekend and felt like I wanted to leave the group 😂
Openreach
Had a bloke wearing one on a group ride this weekend and felt like I wanted to leave the group
I've just got a Santa one to go over my cycle helmet as I appear to be involved with 3 different Christmas rides next month.
As above 😉 and how Christmas has become a meme of itself.
Scott Mills.
Scott Mills
Any particular reason?
Scott Mills
Any particular reason?
I suspect this ties into HTS's other thread about R2 being on, in the office.
On reflection it was unfair of me to ask for an explanation. We shouldn't need one.
I got one of these watertogo filter bottles which are £38, since i wanted a waterfilter for drinking water when im out in the jungle/desert/mountains/park etc, so this looks great, walk 10 miles, fill it up from the puddle, pour it into the camelbak, walk another 10 miles to the next puddle, do it again, etc.
But oh no, the bottle is rigid, you have to suck it all out drip by drip, then fill it again. It probably takes 5minutes to suck it all out, longer when its cold.
And the thread on the cap is different to every other bottle in the universe, so you cant just replace it
SO Now i have to buy a real filter!
Thank you for the info @thepurist as I had not considered that at all. I shall be less cross in future and my blood pressure will appreciate it.
"Reject and Pay"
Nope sorry - I'll just bloody well leave rather than accept x1000 cookies from your 'trusted partners'.
"Reject and Pay"
Nope sorry - I'll just bloody well leave rather than accept x1000 cookies from your 'trusted partners'.
Alternatively, prepend "archive.is/" onto the beginning of the URL and let it scrape the contents for you. 60% of the time it works every time.
People who don't care about music 🤣
interesting headlines for a link on facebook-which leads you to a paywall
or Reject and pay.
thanx for the info cougar
The absolute monster sat across the aisle from me who put HP "and" ketchup on his sausage cob.
#noclassin1stclass
been shopping for sofas today. im disproportionately cross that most 3 seaters only have 2 cushions (albeit wider), so the middle person would need to sit on the join. yes theres room for 3 people, so put 3 cushions down!
People getting their clicks living their best strife or not getting their clicks but still generally pursuing a strifestyle.
I might go for somewhat irked but there's not a thread for that.
The BBC Have Your Say comments, I really never know why I peak beneath the stone, often the most ill-informed bigoted load of opinionated tripe you'll read all day. I really hope one day it becomes titled 'speak your brains' in true Brooker fashion
bike companies creating then discontinuing different standards and trying to force everyone onto the latest thing (stopping making stuff for older bikes etc).
often the most ill-informed bigoted load of opinionated tripe you'll read all day
Tell me you never look at the Daily Mail comments without telling me you never look at the Daily Mail comments....
People who point to their brand new 2.5 ton 50k EV and spout off about saving the planet.
I guess 'I took the bus into work today' doesn't have the same ring to it at dinner parties...
The absolute monster sat across the aisle from me who put HP "and" ketchup on his sausage cob.
#humblebrag
People who can't use a clutch and don't buy an automatic vehicle.
People who can't use a clutch and don't buy an automatic vehicle.
And these are usually the same people who can't use a handbrake and will try and hold the car using the clutch at traffic lights, etc. Cue much to-ing and fro-ing as they search in vain for the biting point. Just put the bloody handbrake on!
interesting headlines for a link on facebook-which leads you to a paywall
It should be the law that the first person to read the linked article has to leave a comment saying what is the "hidden gem in Rotherham" or whatever the article is clickbaiting you with.
And these are usually the same people who can't use a handbrake and will try and hold the car using the clutch at traffic lights, etc. Cue much to-ing and fro-ing as they search in vain for the biting point. Just put the bloody handbrake on!
... and then the lights change and it takes them 20 seconds to drop the Creeping Jesus act and actually set off. Without fail.
And these are usually the same people who can't use a handbrake and will try and hold the car using the clutch at traffic lights, etc. Cue much to-ing and fro-ing as they search in vain for the biting point. Just put the bloody handbrake on!
I shouldn't worry too much, they won't have a clutch too much longer. 😁
My dad's (even more) elderly neighbor set her car on fire by slipping the clutch to control speed. She gave up driving after that.
Watching 1981 TOTP on BBC4. Modern Romance are doing "ai-yi-yi-yi-moosy". They have someone dressed as what I think is meant to be a moose. Ha ha ha. But it's got a frickin red nose. It's a frickin' reindeer! It's not ai-yi-yi-yi-reindeery is it?
Yes, use your flipping handbrake and stop blinding me with the brake lights (it's hilly around here).
Latest stupid act to boil my blood - people just deciding on a whim to do a 3 point turn. I see it now on nearly every journey (and I hardly drive much anymore). Any road, lane or track (thankfully not on a motorway or slip road, yet). Don't just stop and do their 3 point turn, not giving a flying fig for any other 'road user'.
In most automatics you need to brake to stop going forward, you can use the fiddly hold control or the parking brake but the impatient person behind you then gets irrate if you are not quick enough to pull away.
^ very much this. I miss driving an automatic that had auto-on & drive-off park brake to avoid having to keep the foot brake on at lights & in queues.
^ very much this. I miss driving an automatic that had auto-on & drive-off park brake to avoid having to keep the foot brake on at lights & in queues.
Auto brake hold usually illuminates the brake lights because it isn't the "parking brake", but an extension of ABS