What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[hairnet]

[hairnet]

bike ins is due and theyve quoted roughly same as last year (cnuts)

so money supermarket

3 quotes - all cheaper cheapest one is a third cheaper the other two one was inbetween that and the renewal the 3rd one is existing insurer and 3 quid cheaper than renewal (WTF)

so sent them message to say please do not auto renew (this happened with green flag for breakdown and they were surprised they couldnt as the card details changed)

got a letter off them saying yes we've changed the auto renew (excellent)

but we wwould like to know why youre leaving - if you contact us within a week we guarantee to beat your renewal - too late ive already bought another

is it really that hard for them to work out ffs

 

[reb]

Using a portable TV from @AnnoyingPentiumand a shite RF modulator off of ebay, I am recreating the experience of being skint and watching BBC1 in 1997

[AnnoyingPentium]

49 minutes ago, reb said:

Using a portable TV from @AnnoyingPentiumand a shite RF modulator off of ebay, I am recreating the experience of being skint and watching BBC1 in 1997

IIRC that telly came from @juular originally? It just lay in the boot of my car for yonks. 😂

[Floatylight]

2 hours ago, reb said:

Using a portable TV from @AnnoyingPentiumand a shite RF modulator off of ebay, I am recreating the experience of being skint and watching BBC1 in 1997

A feature of many a teenagers bedroom in my youth, no presets, no remote had to twiddle through the frequency range to find one of the four channels.

Simpler times..

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Floatylight said:

A feature of many a teenagers bedroom

When I got that far, TV was not my main desire! 🤣

[Snipes]

[EyesWeldedShut]

No seen this MOT failure before:

 

[andy18s]

13 hours ago, Floatylight said:

A feature of many a teenagers bedroom in my youth, no presets, no remote had to twiddle through the frequency range to find one of the four channels.

Simpler times..

I remember buying my own TV and VHS player for my room with my 1st official pay packet ..

[EyesWeldedShut]

Just now, andy18s said:

I remember buying my own TV and VHS player for my room with my 1st official pay packet ..

You sound just like my best mate from 1982 - but he went out and bought a BetaMax  

[andy18s]

20 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

You sound just like my best mate from 1982 - but he went out and bought a BetaMax  

The parents had bought a Betamax from Rumbelows and I wasn't that impressed at the time..

[hairnet]

Are we nearly there yet

[auntiemaryscanary]

16 hours ago, Floatylight said:

A feature of many a teenagers bedroom in my youth, no presets, no remote had to twiddle through the frequency range to find one of the four channels.

Simpler times..

I got a b&w portable from Tesco in 1984 when I was in my early teens - a combined birthday and Xmas present.

I shared a bedroom with my 2 younger brothers so the supplied crystal earpiece was deployed whilst I waited for the Channel 4 "red triangle" programmes. And they were always disappointing...

In Mansfield we were in the Yorkshire region but could get a snowy Central which opened up late night delights such as Hitman & Her and Prisoner: Cell Block H.

[auntiemaryscanary]

Aged 17-28 I had long blonde hair. When wet I looked like the Timotei girl washing her hair over the well. I loved it.

My old man hated it. He went from a gentle "When are you getting your hair cut son?" to a full on "Get that BLOODY hair cut!!"

Eventually I started to think do I want to look like Francis Rossi - the oldest rocker in town? 26 years ago nearly to the day I mentioned this to my brother. He immediately marched me to the nearest hairdressers.

The 19 yr old stylist loved cutting my hair and I went to that same hairdressing salon til it closed a couple of months ago.

I went to visit dad. "Never knock on the door son, just come in". So in I marched in saying "Happy now?!" as I chucked my hair remains at him.

My dad's friend and neighbour Dodgy Pete* (named changed to protect the guilty - Pete later served time for selling goods he'd fraudulently obtained) had a legit sideline. 

A week after my visit to dad Dodgy Pete used his legal skills to make this:

My old man proudly hung this on his wall till he died. I occasionally put it on our living room wall (where it is now) but Mrs amc immediately removes it with a "I'm not looking at that horrible thing!".

[Volksy]

Made me chuckle. 

[andy18s]

3 hours ago, auntiemaryscanary said:

 late night delights such as Hitman & Her and Prisoner: Cell Block H.

These were great whilst working nights at a Shell station, always on to make a little background noise.

[beko1987]

Was at my grans today moving some things about in the garden for them. One of the things I moved was a chimney pot from Henry Royce's father's house when it was demolished, my grandad saved it from the rubble apparently!

Its not gone far, it's still in Alwalton 😂

[willswitchengage]

[beko1987]

Ffs why did I buy a smaller car? Would have got the boot closed with the xsara 😂

I now need to dismantle my old double bed. Anyone near ox9 3 want a free double bed frame apparently from dreams? No mattress though 

[hairnet]

Go green

 

Oh wait

[High Jetter]

I bought postage online for a small, light parcel. Dropped it off at local Post Office yesterday (Saturday) at 12:25, to go up to Gateshead. According to the tracking it was delivered today at 12:26 - on a Sunday! WTF?

[myglaren]

Often a postie in the street on a Sunday - discounting the two who live here.

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, myglaren said:

Often a postie in the street on a Sunday - discounting the two who live here.

Never around here though, I thought Sunday deliveries were long gone.

[Yoss]

28 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Never around here though, I thought Sunday deliveries were long gone.

We only do packets on a Sunday, no mail. And we only started doing it because all the other couriers were already doing it. 

[Wibble]

We’ve had Sunday deliveries, felt sorry for the posties tbh, nothing is that urgent to us.

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, Yoss said:

We only do packets on a Sunday, no mail. And we only started doing it because all the other couriers were already doing it. 

Not knocking it, good result for me, expected delivery on Monday at the earliest. Why are you guys working on Sundays, and why is postage cheeper than if I take packet into PO and buy there?

[Yoss]

7 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Not knocking it, good result for me, expected delivery on Monday at the earliest. Why are you guys working on Sundays, and why is postage cheeper than if I take packet into PO and buy there?

I don't personally work Sundays because I'm on a normal delivery. But most new starters have Sundays built in to their duties. 

As for it being cheaper if we pick it up from you (which is what I assume you mean), this is because Royal Mail and the Post Office are now completely separate companies. So if you take a packet to the Post Office they, quite reasonably, take a cut. If we pick it up from you we keep all the money. I believe we are introducing parcel lockers like other couriers do too, to further cut out the Post Office. I've had to deliver leaflets about them but that's all I know, we haven't actually been told anything by management, but that's normal. 

So we have reached the bizzare situation where Royal Mail and the Post Office are in competition with each other. But that's privatisation for you. 

[High Jetter]

15 minutes ago, Yoss said:

I don't personally work Sundays because I'm on a normal delivery. But most new starters have Sundays built in to their duties. 

As for it being cheaper if we pick it up from you (which is what I assume you mean), this is because Royal Mail and the Post Office are now completely separate companies. So if you take a packet to the Post Office they, quite reasonably, take a cut. If we pick it up from you we keep all the money. I believe we are introducing parcel lockers like other couriers do too, to further cut out the Post Office. I've had to deliver leaflets about them but that's all I know, we haven't actually been told anything by management, but that's normal. 

So we have reached the bizzare situation where Royal Mail and the Post Office are in competition with each other. But that's privatisation for you. 

Thanks, it seems a crazy situation but your explanation makes sense. Actually it would have cost an additional 30p to have it collected. I took the packet to the local PO, they scanned the QR code on my phone, printed a label and stuck it on. Cost me £4.29 with tracking and compensation up to £150. Post office would have charged £4.99 1st class or £6.49 signed for - both with only £20 cover.

[loserone]

I hadn't realised that had happened - I posted something from the post office recently.  

 

It's sad in many ways as the post office was the last bastion of a physical government presence in society, a way to deal with DVLA and pensions and post etc and now it's just a shit corner shop with a space for Evri to dump parcels, which means they are doomed.

[myglaren]