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Solicitor asking for "proof of funds" for money I was repaying them from a payment he'd paid out to me previously. I guess it's the slow drip drip of incompetence that's really chewed my chips.
abit is not a word.
Being rubbish at swimming. Knowing the solution is just to get some lessons. But instead I'll just bend the water to my will through sheer bloody mindedness. And then getting cross when for the 100th time, that doesn't work. Still not getting lessons tho 😉
alittle
Not a lot allot atolls a lot.
Car insurance.
"time to renew, your quote is £308 - last year it was £400!"
Note - I refused to pay £400 and they dSropped it to about £350. At which point it was comparable with the lowest coming from compare the meerkat and friends. Anyway.
Oh - I notice I've been listed as "no" on homeowning. Fix that.
"your renewal quote is £390, including a £28 admin fee!
would you like to renew?"
Nope... Nopety nope nope nopers.
Comparison website says £230 is the cheapest.
"oh. sorry about that. Give us a moment and we'll see if we can do better..."
wheel on website spins
"Your new price is £230! Would you like to renew?"
Sure, it'll save me entering my details in a second website.
THIEVING SCUMBAG SPIVVY CHANCERS.
I had my renewal through this morning and it's gone down from last year. Only a tiny amount but it's more a celebration that it hasn't gone up. I am guessing turning 50 puts me into a less risky bracket.
Thing that made me cross this morning - mildly misty in Milton Keynes so of course there's drivers with their rear fog lights on, despite being sat in a queue of traffic. Morons.
The opposite of Mister-P's angriness: driving through fog on The Cotswolds this morning and drivers with no lights at all. Twonks!
I had my renewal through this morning and it's gone down from last year.
Mine went down 40% but that's because a) I'm old b) car is boring and c) tipped into 9 years NCB which added 20% to the discount. They did slip in an extra £100 excess the little scamps, but I still can't be bothered to do the whole quidco compare thing.
Thing that made me cross this morning - mildly misty in Milton Keynes so of course there's drivers with their rear fog lights on, despite being sat in a queue of traffic. Morons
It was a bit misty on the M4 this morning, fully expecting fog lights to be on a fair few cars now until next Tuesday.
Except grey cars, they’ll have no lights on at all, probably in lane 2, around 60mph at all times.
calling dvla now, asking me to tell them why im calling them,their robot cant understand a word i say, keeps telling me rubbish, no 'press 1 for tax, 2 for...' etc. 7mins already before i got put in a queue.
And i seriously would not be calling them (or any other gov service) if it was online or i didnt have to.
Just how pathetic can they be? theyre only there to waste your time. 13mins so far. Just because they owe me doesnt mean they can plague me with that nonsense
HOW do we break this phone line monopoly virus armageddon?
Solicitor asking for "proof of funds" for money I was repaying them from a payment he'd paid out to me previously. I guess it's the slow drip drip of incompetence that's really chewed my chips.
It's not incompetence, it's stringent anti money laundering legislation that they have to comply with to the letter or they are f*cked(*)
(* a legal term, ask your solicitor 🙂 )
Waiting for builders
Snobs.
Specifically in this post, coffee snobs. But this is an equal opportunities whinge, they're everywhere.
I'm hitting the Internet to look for pointers on fixing my coffee machine. I found what I needed in the end, but I'd to wade through pages of "that thing doesn't make real coffee" and variations thereof.
Look. **** you. This is the machine I have on the worktop right now and I care not a jot for your judgemental critique of my life choices. I just need to know how to disassemble the thing without destroying it.
Some people won't drink coffee unless it's been hand ground by a Brazilian virgin with a brazilian using an Apple-branded rhodium-tipped burr grinder and beans that have been shat through a pubescent ocelot, twice. And you know what, that's absolutely fine. Others think the height of sophistication is using Gold Blend rather than Lidl Value powdered coffee. And that's fine too. Why does it have to be this way? There's no need.
So at the risk of repeating myself: **** you, **** the horse you rode in on and **** all your ancestors you pretentious, elitist, gatekeeping Caffeine Onanist. IT'S ****ING COFFEE for ****'s sake.
HOW do we break this phone line monopoly virus armageddon?
Be careful what you wish for, it'll be AI next.
drainage grooves on kitchen worktop. just had a new kitchen and paid for the grooves to be put in thinking 'clean lines', no clutter, no need for a draining rack now.
its crap (pic isnt mine btw but very similar). water just collects in the grooves, it doesnt drain at all. or maybe the suppliers/fitters are supposed to have left a gradient and havent, dunno. *shrugs shoulders
are yours any better?
maybe the suppliers/fitters are supposed to have left a gradient
Uh, yes, isn't that how they're supposed to work? It's a draining board, not a collecting board. Get the fitters back out? (That photo does look like aesthetics over functionality TBH)
calling dvla now, asking me to tell them why im calling them,their robot cant understand a word i say
Are you Scottish?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TqAu-DDlINs
People using 'electric' as a noun.
are yours any better?
Nope, they're all shite. We ended up getting a joseph joseph draing rack to sit above it as something relatively simple that drains itself in to the sink.
https://media.4rgos.it/i/Argos/4371766_R_Z001A?w=1500&h=880&qlt=70&fmt=webp
Thing that made me cross this morning - mildly misty in Milton Keynes so of course there's drivers with their rear fog lights on, despite being sat in a queue of traffic. Morons.
Or doing 90mph on the M1 with the fog light on. Wish there were more police: "So you knew it was foggy because your fog light was on, but you recklessly drove far in excess of the speed limit despite this knowledge? You shall be taken from this court to a place of execution where you shall be hanged until you are dead..."
Would it kill Arm Warmer manufacturers to acknowledge that people with long yet skinny arms exist...
While they're at it could they also manage put circumference and length measurements on their products!
Cafés with payment systems that direct you to giving a tip at the point of placing your order and ask your name for your coffee order then expect you to mind read when it's ready...
Maybe the two things are related? either that or they didn't want to shout DICK across their poncy café.
are yours any better?
Yep, cos the grooves are gradiented
Uh, yes, isn't that how they're supposed to work? It's a draining board, not a collecting board. Get the fitters back out? (That photo does look like aesthetics over functionality TBH)
are yours any better?
Nope, they're all shite.
are yours any better?
Yep, cos the grooves are gradiented
hmmmm....... prompted me to email the suppliers and ask whether theyre just supposed look pretty or actually work as they look like they should, awaiting a reply.
what's wrong with Lidl value preferred coffee?
Well, I made it up, for a start. Any similarities with actual coffee are purely coincidental.
My sister
More exactly my sister using the welfare lpa to get a copy of mums will for herself.
Moreso my sister getting a copy of the will and my brother and I being informed after the effect that she asked for, and received, a copy of the will without our prior knowledge or consent.
Families.grrrr. I am actually really rather cross about it.
I don't think anyone should have the will till mum actually dies , and that could be years from now.
Late buses meaning I miss the train and have to wait an hour for the next one.
The multiple notifications I get each week from Amazon exhorting me to "Get Ghost merch before the big concert!" are getting quite annoying. I'd never even heard of Ghost before I started getting these notifications and I've never done anything to suggest to Amazon that I'm interested in them. The Amazon app doesn't bother much much about anything else but I continue to get these Ghost adverts for some reason.
Rail companies skipping intermediate stations to avoid paying delay repay compensation, and only telling you about it once the train has set off.
Then tickets for cancellations not being accepted on rival operators. If LNER could invoice Grand Central the full walk-up price of the ticket then they might be more motivated to run their trains properly.
This is why the roads are permanently clogged, the trains are too expensive and unreliable to use for anything important.
Their suggestion: "catch the next one. In two hours".
Being rubbish at swimming. Knowing the solution is just to get some lessons.
Why bother? I can’t swim, we went to the open air pool for swimming lessons from school when I was younger, it was always overcast and cold, I would stand there slowly turning blue and shivering. I’ve never felt the need anytime during the subsequent sixty years to repeat the miserable experience. In my 71st year I really don’t feel I’ve missed a life-changing experience.
So at the risk of repeating myself: * you, * the horse you rode in on and * all your ancestors you pretentious, elitist, gatekeeping Caffeine Onanist. IT'S *ING COFFEE for ****'s sake.
Tell us how you really feel. 🤣
I very rarely drink coffee at home, when I’m out I always drink mochas; I have been asked by the baristas in one particular coffee chain if I’d like to try their current whizzy new single source, to which I’ve replied, ‘it’s a mocha, it’s going to have a load of chocolate mixed in, I’m hardly going to notice any difference’, to which they reply ‘good point’. 🫠
That’s interesting, a bunch of words have gone bright red! Perhaps they’re embarrassed…
After driving home from a pleasant afternoon walk, a particular type of driver had me grinding my teeth and swearing loudly. A nice fine dry afternoon, main A-road, not especially bendy, and no other cars in front of this particular individual, who’s driving a very recent model SUV. Said individual is crawling along at approximately 40 mph, occasionally dropping down to a bit above 30, applying the brakes in a completely random fashion for no apparent reason, then gradually speeding up to about 50 before applying the brakes, again for no apparent reason.
I kept asking myself, just what is this halfwit afraid of? It’s perfectly possible to maintain a steady speed just by lifting off the accelerator, I have driven twelve miles before now, maintaining a steady speed without touching the brakes once! 🤷🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
That’s interesting, a bunch of words have gone bright red!
Three asterisks will do that. TBH I think it's an improvement.
The fish delivery van that I keep seeing on our street with big decals proclaiming 'Commando's Catch'.
The fish delivery van that I keep seeing on our street with big decals proclaiming 'Commando's Catch'.
What's wrong with that?
What's wrong with that?
It should be "Commander", not "Commando" (ie, a Commander is a sailing rank, and a Commando is special forces). I guess the Commando might be sniping fish whist camo'd up as a mermaid though?
before applying the brakes, again for no apparent reason.
My car (petrol hybrid) has adjustable regen braking, meaning that if you set it to the two most 'brakey' modes it lobs loads of charge back into the battery when you take your foot off the accelerator, which also slows the car quite quickly. As a consequence the brake lights come on every time without touching the brakes; I appreciate that this is infuriating to people behind me. It can be set to the least brakey/regenerative mode, and then they don't come on. The alternative would be a rapidly slowing car in front of you with no indication, which would arguably be more infuriating. Modern cars, eh! Tchoh.
That said, driving at 30-40 in a 60 zone in the first place is annoying, so I'm with you there.
Looking at their logo I'm pretty sure they mean Commando, not Commander 🙂
Looking at their logo I'm pretty sure they mean Commando, not Commander
Hah - I've never been close enough to see the detail! Fair enough – Stand Down Men!
Use of the word 'gotten'. I'm seeing it everywhere.
As a consequence the brake lights come on every time without touching the brakes; I appreciate that this is infuriating to people behind me.
Yeah - I rarely have the more aggressive regen settings on in my car for this reason. However, the bloody thing drives for me and, if it decides I am driving too quickly through a corner, it brakes for me. This is infuriating as, not only do I want to be flashing my brakes at the poor driver behind me, but also braking whilst turning on a damp B road in the middle of winter isn't really the best idea.