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  On 11/06/2016 at 09:02, quicksilver said:

The Queen's Birthday Honours. Ant and Dec have got OBEs for services to broadcasting and entertainment. Ant and fucking Dec! :shock:

I agree with that. They give me great entertainment. When their on tv the wife watches it, i go and fix the car or wash it. Good for me :)

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Just doing the house move thing myself, hopefully for the last time ever ! Settlement day was Friday. On Thursday the selling agent and I went to the new house and checked it over. If the house is not cleared out and all the buyers agreed requirements met the sale is not completed until done. In simple language the seller does not get paid. That was reported as done to the Lawyer at about 3pm and keys were delivered at 10 am on Friday. Now the work starts...

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Went to the library yesterday and as the librarian scanned my new books out she pointed out that my status had changed ! She explained that because I turned 60 last week I get a reduction in any fines I may incur ! Comes in really useful. NOT !

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People driving around using mobile phones.

 

People coming over on to MY side of the road when there is an obstruction on THEIR side, they breeze through while I am forced to brake and avoid them and the curb. 

 

I can only put it down to so many company car drivers who simply don't give a toss about the ramifications of having an accident.

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I would like to kill the bastard that packed these -

 

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Identical boxes, far from identical contents - Cock!

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I'm never helping anyone move house again.

It is always a balls up.

 

The last time was a panic phone call from a guy who's mates had all given up and fucked off home after 10 hours of graft in the rain and having only moved half the crap.

 

First job was trying to move a piss wet leather sofa that had been abandoned on the pavement and no one could get a grip on it to shift it.

 

I think it was about 4am by the time the house was clear.

 

The time before sounds like cobblers experiences.

Except when we got to the mates house to empty it, he was still a bed and hadn't packed a single thing.

 

In contrast,when I moved last there were 9 of us at one point and I ran out of things for them to carry.

Cost a fortune in the pub that night.

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^^^ Whenever you post something Nyphur, I hear the words in the voice of your avatar.

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Just been round to the house my daughter & son in law rent out.

 

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Bloke let his van run into the wall.

5 police cars and numerous police there waiting for a structural engineer to assess the damage.

Family was out on the street until the place was declared safe, or otherwise.

Was intending servicing the C, rain put paid to that idea, just as well as I wouldn't have been able to go round.  They live forty miles away now, I'm only a couple of miles away.

A few years ago my youngest son was renting that house and the same happened with my C5 estate - killed it :(  No damage to the wall on that occasion, fortunately hit further over where it is stronger and didn't roll as far, lighter vehicle too.

That parking area is very steep and he hadn't engaged the handbrake fully.

 

Was just about to watch "Winter's Bone", bought around Christmas time.

Except it is in French, with French subtitles :(

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It's the same tribal idiocy I keep seeing more and more of, I hate foreigners/ scots/ northerners/ people from the next town/ people from the next area/ people from the next street/ people from the next house mentality.

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Parents of small children - I am sure you think its super cute and hilarious to let your 3 year old answer the telephone but I really, really cant be fucked with enduring silence, giggling and the occasional "hewwo" shrieked at ear splitting volume down the phone. If I am phoning you its to ask you about something you have advertised for sale, not to play audio peek-a-boo with your offspring.

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My daughter just rang to say a woman had revered into the front of her at ASDA . Lady gets out apologising and offers to pay for the damage. What's the bets when I get the car to body shop and get a price . The Lady* doesn't remember or is now convinced my daughter drove into her. I am sick of telling the kids to buy a dash cam and put it in the car. So she crap like this happens you can get it sorted without hassle. My mate was driving his 6 months old £15,000 car last week when a lady came round a parked car and my mate when onto the pavement and further onto a grass verge and the Muppet still managed to drive into the side of him. £5,000 bill and the insurance are saying 50/50 cos she Said that he drove into her and in the absence of any proof he's fooked. I remember him telling me that my dashcam was a waste of money !

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  On 11/06/2016 at 17:55, dave21478 said:

Parents of small children - I am sure you think its super cute and hilarious to let your 3 year old answer the telephone but I really, really cant be fucked with enduring silence, giggling and the occasional "hewwo" shrieked at ear splitting volume down the phone. If I am phoning you its to ask you about something you have advertised for sale, not to play audio peek-a-boo with your offspring.

 

In fact, that reminds me of my customer service days when I wished for an invention that would send an electric shock down the phone line at the push of a button....not enough to cause real harm to the person on the other end, just the equivelant of a remotely sent slap in the face.

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^^ If I had been cleverer I would have made a fortune inventing a device that keeps the phone line open for an extra 10 seconds after they other person hangs up so you get to hear the real end of the conversation.

 

"Thank you for calling ACME is there anything else I can help you with today Sir?"

 

"no that's it thanks"

 

"you're very welcome Sir, enjoy your evening. Thank you Good bye........

 

TWAT!

Fuckin customers want the moon on a stick. Tossers. "

 

"Good evening ACME my name is Giles how may I help?"....

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Trooping the colour and that tarts 90th, I wonder who is paying? Someone who has never worked a day in their life but somehow has millions or the poor old taxpayer again, yup you guessed it...........

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I think the soldiers would be getting their wages anyway.

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  On 11/06/2016 at 17:30, Tamworthbay said:

It's the same tribal idiocy I keep seeing more and more of, I hate foreigners/ scots/ northerners/ people from the next town/ people from the next area/ people from the next street/ people from the next house mentality.

 

It's only Eng-er-land fans who want to fight everybody though. The rest of us get on just fine.

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  On 11/06/2016 at 15:33, EssDeeWon said:

People driving around using mobile phones.

 

People coming over on to MY side of the road when there is an obstruction on THEIR side, they breeze through while I am forced to brake and avoid them and the curb. 

 

I can only put it down to so many company car drivers who simply don't give a toss about the ramifications of having an accident.

 

People don't buy cars any more they buy image, or they want the best image per BLT PMT or whatever it is thats a tax on the company car perk.

 

So the car has to be the right one with the right badge and it has to be fuckin humungus to impress the office/other twats/neighbours/fiends/gold club, and if one has recently had one small child it must be something the size of a Humvee.

Trouble is most of these groups can't actually competently drive anything bigger than a Micra unless they're sitting in the outside lane of a motorway.

 

Hence the trouble you and the rest of us are having.

 

Fuckin beats me how i can negotiate most normal roundabouts with lane control in me artic tanker and stay in lane, yet there doesn't appear to be a single Aldi that can keep in its own lane on the same junction, presumably 30cwt Aldi will bash 44 tonner out the way.

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  On 11/06/2016 at 18:47, strangeangel said:

It's only Eng-er-land fans who want to fight everybody though. The rest of us get on just fine.

I saw the Netherlnds play Germany when I lived over there, the Dutch have very good reason to hate the Germans if they chose to and whilst there is a lot of rivalry it was a very friendly atmosphere in the main square in Rotterdam after the game. I really don't understand the different is to be hated mentality of some English people that follow the football. You don't get it with rugby or cricket or almost any other sport in fact.
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Just come across one of my old scooters on eBay; it's being sold for parts cos some thieving scrote scum nicked it and threw it up the road

 

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It doesn't look badly damaged enough for him to have been killed in the impact, but I can hope.

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Got woken up at 2am by banging and smashy type sounds. Went out to investigate with my 6 cell "it's a torch not a club honest" maglite. No damage to my house or vehicles, so went for a look in the street. Same time as a police car turns up next door, 'cos house on other side had phoned them rather than investigate noises. Turns out somebody had been attempting to smash her door in :(

 

She's said she's going to move, as suspects it's the EX who's just got out of prison. So housing association roulette who we get next :(

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  On 11/06/2016 at 18:52, Tamworthbay said:

I saw the Netherlnds play Germany when I lived over there, the Dutch have very good reason to hate the Germans if they chose to and whilst there is a lot of rivalry it was a very friendly atmosphere in the main square in Rotterdam after the game. I really don't understand the different is to be hated mentality of some English people that follow the football. You don't get it with rugby or cricket or almost any other sport in fact.

 

I don't think that's the case this time, actually.

 

The Russian Ultras have taken this football violence malarkey to a whole new level.

 

The violence in the stadium indicates this.

 

The French fans also seem to be having a dig at anyone they don't like the look of in Marseilles ie. any passing English fans.

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  On 11/06/2016 at 09:24, cobblers said:

Helped my best mate move house yesterday. The house he's moved into has been unoccupied for months cos the woman moved in with her feller. They'd know the moving date for weeks and had been on and on at my mate to try and hurry stuff along.

 

So by about lunchtime funds clear etc and we're expecting to pick the keys up and get moved in, but this useless cow who owned the house was still moving her stuff out at 4:30PM.

 

As we're moving stuff in she's got fucking electricians turning up to take down wanky £30 Argos chandeliers and people off gumtree coming at 6pm to collect furniture that she can't be arsed to shift herself. 

 

By 11PM we gave up and he's still got the van parked outside full of his furniture.

Once the funds have cleared, it's not her house anymore so you should have politely told her to 'jog on'

 

We thought we'd be clever and had the current house bought on the Thursday at 2pm and we'd take the Friday off and move in.

 

It took 3 bloody days to move as we had so much shite!

Posted
  On 12/06/2016 at 07:32, Richard said:

There's football on?

Yes there is, but despite my hatred for the game I find myself for the first time ever taking part in a work sweepstake, and the names and teams were drawn at random. It transpires that I am supporting Sweden in this tournament...&I don't own a Volvo or a Saab.

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  On 12/06/2016 at 07:12, UmBongo said:

I don't think that's the case this time, actually.

 

The Russian Ultras have taken this football violence malarkey to a whole new level.

 

The violence in the stadium indicates this.

 

The French fans also seem to be having a dig at anyone they don't like the look of in Marseilles ie. any passing English fans.

it's been happening for days though, I agree that the others you mention have made things a lot worse but it's been rumbling along before they got involved.
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Going to Europe, being decent and respectful and generally giving Europeans the impression we are a polite civilised society. How dare they

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I know a few people over there right now. Yes England fans throw the odd plastic garden chair or have a couple too many but the Russians have taken it to another level this time.  Our fans actually retreated when the Russians came over that barrier yesterday.

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Went to scrapyard.  I wasn't going for this - but noticed a high spec Fiesta with the same clock as my Puma - so whipped it out and bought it, in the hope that the (admittedly very minor) issue of a couple of missing LCD segments was solved - guess what?  replacement has exact same fault - what were the chances?

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