The grumpy thread

[Cheggers]

HMRC have excelled themselves...

 

Last week they wrote to tell me they've been taking less tax off me so far this year than they should have, so they're adjusting my tax code to take an additional £1100 between now and the end of March.

 

OK, a little annoying as it's probably easier to just give them the money but I'm sure they know what they're doing.

 

Fast forward to this morning when I check my bank balance & payslip only to find the new tax code means I'm £1300 down THIS MONTH. The good news is they're way easier to deal with than they used to be and were able to amend my code for future months in real time, but when their advisor says "sorry, I've no idea why we did that", you know you're dealing with an inept organisation.

[wrenchvolt]

My problem is I hate docs and hospitals. Yes It may sound daft but after shit I've gone through and losing me mam young put fear of god in me.

Rehearse what you want to say in your head, drive to the Docs, take some deep breaths, put your head down and march up to the reception. Blurt out rehearsed script and fight through the fear. I know you can do it.

[New POD]

I'm honestly not sure now you mention it. Feeling shite and low moods too ain't helping but yes I guess I should. Happened before and said was an infection but starting again for 3 days.

If it happened once is be insisting on a visit from my Harley street physician. After three days is be booking into a private ward at the priory.

 

Dr Jimmy (and Mr Gin. when I'm pilled you don't notice him)

[New POD]

My problem is I hate docs and hospitals. Yes It may sound daft but after shit I've gone through and losing me mam young put fear of god in me.

It sounds rite daft.

 

Why not do what my mates mother did.

 

Ignore the growing abscess in your foot and the massively high temp due to the infection, until you collapse in the bakers, and get admitted to hospital where 3 hours later your life is saved by having your foot removed.

 

Get to the Docs you spaztastic cock

 

no offence meant.

[chaseracer]

POD, are you from Derbyshire?  You speak fluent Bub... 

[wrenchvolt]

 

Why not do what my mates mother did.

 

Ignore the growing abscess in your foot and the massively high temp due to the infection, until you collapse in the bakers, and get admitted to hospital where 3 hours later your life is saved by having your foot removed.

 

 

New POD is right. You don't have much of a choice.

[iainrcz]

Someone fancy bringing their tools to Oban and stopping my exhaust blowing, it's pissing me right off.

 

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[Parky]

Bub, the previous advice given is absolutely correct. Either do something now or wait until you are so ill you would happily put your face in a blender to take your mind off it. Either way you are going to be enjoying the many years of expertise and training our health service currently offers in order to get well. That’s why you pay them through taxes and NI.

 

Take a bottle of water and a book. I can guarantee there will be fuck all worth reading and the vending machine will only dispense water if you have exactly 97 pence - exact money only. No the shop won’t give change...

 

Either way, get going you big lummox!

[AlabamaShrimp]

I know the yearly insurance thing has come up loads on here before but why does it have to be suck a total fuck up?

 

Got my renewal of a classic policy for the Fiesta the other day £126 with £50 ecxess. That's with a brokers £30 fee but it does include breakdown cover.

 

So to avoid the £30 thought I'd try the Internet. No chance. Anything close had a £150 excess. Footman James was something stupid like £210 and Adrian Flux were again mental but said they knew another place that cold definitely beat it and included breakdown.

Ages on the phone repeating all the same details again.... £160 what a fucking joke. I didn't have a go at the lass on the phone as it's not her fault but she was pissed off too as she says they do it all the time.

 

Rung about my renewal, 'can you do better?' 'no but we can take the £30 off'

So saving a lot of dicking about had I just rung them first, but of course I didn't, has got it me for £96.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

HMRC have excelled themselves...

 

Last week they wrote to tell me they've been taking less tax off me so far this year than they should have, so they're adjusting my tax code to take an additional £1100 between now and the end of March.

 

OK, a little annoying as it's probably easier to just give them the money but I'm sure they know what they're doing.

 

Fast forward to this morning when I check my bank balance & payslip only to find the new tax code means I'm £1300 down THIS MONTH. The good news is they're way easier to deal with than they used to be and were able to amend my code for future months in real time, but when their advisor says "sorry, I've no idea why we did that", you know your dealing with an inept organisation.

Not looking forward to the next Self Assessment (I still do mine on paper), as my gross earnings for 2017/18 are noticeably more than the previous year. More caution needed to make sure I've actually got the money ready to pay the tax.....

[mercrocker]

Pizzing blood in my case meant kidney stones....Didn't feel anything for a few days at first but by fuck I soon did.   Bub, get yerself down the walk-in with a sample, they will soon tell you if there is stuff in there besides the visible blood.   However shit you feel now, being stamped repeatedly on the kidney by an angry buffalo shouting "take that you cunt" for the next 36 hours won't help a bit.....

[bub2006]

Doctors informed and I'm to go there first thing in the morning with a sample. They didn't clarify who's sample so I'd best take one of my own to be sure.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

It sounds rite daft.

 

Why not do what my mates mother did.

 

Ignore the growing abscess in your foot and the massively high temp due to the infection, until you collapse in the bakers, and get admitted to hospital where 3 hours later your life is saved by having your foot removed.

 

Get to the Docs you spaztastic cock

 

no offence meant.

 

 

My Uncle did the same thing and nearly lost his leg.  Lucky bastard got there just in time.

 

Bub, I know you hate going to hospitals.  I think a lot of us do.  But fuck me, if I'd been pissing blood I'd be there in an instant.

 

EDIT:  Good man.

[SiC]

I know the yearly insurance thing has come up loads on here before but why does it have to be suck a total fuck up?

 

Got my renewal of a classic policy for the Fiesta the other day £126 with £50 ecxess. That's with a brokers £30 fee but it does include breakdown cover.

 

So to avoid the £30 thought I'd try the Internet. No chance. Anything close had a £150 excess. Footman James was something stupid like £210 and Adrian Flux were again mental but said they knew another place that cold definitely beat it and included breakdown.

Ages on the phone repeating all the same details again.... £160 what a fucking joke. I didn't have a go at the lass on the phone as it's not her fault but she was pissed off too as she says they do it all the time.

 

Rung about my renewal, 'can you do better?' 'no but we can take the £30 off'

So saving a lot of dicking about had I just rung them first, but of course I didn't, has got it me for £96.

My usual line is to phone them up first and ask "Before I start to shop around, what can you do best?".

[wrenchvolt]

Doctors informed and I'm to go there first thing in the morning with a sample. They didn't clarify who's sample so I'd best take one of my own to be sure.

Sandwich bag with a good tight knot of fourteen stacked half hitches should make a fine receptacle.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Sandwich bag with a good tight knot of fourteen stacked half hitches should make a fine receptacle.

 

 

For goodness' sake, don't try to tie a bowline.

[AlabamaShrimp]

My usual line is to phone them up first and ask "Before I start to shop around, what can you do best?".

I didn't realise that both Adrian Flux and Footman James were just brokers.

 

For the last 3 or 4 years One Call in Doncaster, even with their £30 fee, have been far the cheapest. Their breakdown does have a & 20 excess but even then they've been cheaper.

 

I know it's not always about being the cheapest but when all insurance is basically the same it is.

[SiC]

This year I went with Hagerty. Footman James was more expensive. Lancaster were the cheapest but annoyed me when they tried phoning me constantly at work. Ten times in total! First few I missed as busy, but the later ones I ignored as fed up with them.

 

I ended up going with Hagerty as their price was in-between Footman James and Lancaster but also included breakdown cover (essential on my MGB). Couldn't be bothered to try anyone else. Also the fact they sponsored Dollywobbler Invacar videos was a factor in my choosing too.

[Parky]

Doctors informed and I'm to go there first thing in the morning with a sample. They didn't clarify who's sample so I'd best take one of my own to be sure.

Yeah, don’t turn up with a bit of wallpaper or sofa fabric

[bub2006]

I've some carpet samples. Wonder if it would confuse them if it came back I was pregnant?

[beko1987]

Happily driving along home, listening to people moan on LBC and I suddenly feel like I've been stabbed in my side. Couldn't pull over, so sort of held it with one hand and carried on.

 

Pain subsides, so I light a rolly incase it's my last and carry on. Pain keeps subsiding.

 

Get onto the bypass to get home and this fucking massive wasp crawls up the heater controls. Wtf! Smacked it into the passenger foot well and opened the windows. It crawls onto my lunch bag, and I pick my bag up and flick the wasp out...

 

Fucking hurt, massive red sore bit now, yellow and black twat

 

Also got a pain in the ball of my foot, like there's a spot brewing but I've had a dig around with a pair of scissors and haven't burst anything yet...

[Captain Furious]

From what I’ve heard/read about Lancaster they screw you to the wall if you cancel before the term is up. My mate had to pay some ludicrous cancellation fees which totalled more than the initial premium.

 

Whereas I have cancelled a policy with FJ and had no such shaking down.

[beko1987]

I've some carpet samples. Wonder if it would confuse them if it came back I was pregnant?

Take 2 pots and put whisky in one. Bound to make the doc smile...

 

I had to brave the docs when I had blood in my poo. Turns out I've got piles but it was an interesting day having a stranger being the first person bar myself to stick his finger up my exit only sign...

 

Happily lept and bound into the nurses chair for my annual ear cleaning though! So it's not all bad, they usually have old copies of practical classics in the waiting room too...

[BorniteIdentity]

This year I went with Hagerty. Footman James was more expensive. Lancaster were the cheapest but annoyed me when they tried phoning me constantly at work. Ten times in total! First few I missed as busy, but the later ones I ignored as fed up with them.

 

I ended up going with Hagerty as their price was in-between Footman James and Lancaster but also included breakdown cover (essential on my MGB). Couldn't be bothered to try anyone else. Also the fact they sponsored Dollywobbler Invacar videos was a factor in my choosing too.

I also had this with them. They got my business first time

around as - when I was at the side of the North Circular with a newly purchased Sierra bASe - they were the guys who answered first. When I cancelled they called me about 14 times and had to block them in the end. They’re keen, but not the most competitive.

[chaseracer]

I've some carpet samples. Wonder if it would confuse them if it came back I was pregnant?

 

AGAIN??!!?

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I've some carpet samples. Wonder if it would confuse them if it came back I was pregnant?

 

 

You might laugh but a couple of years ago, a bloke took a pee-stick pregnancy test for a laugh.  Came back pregnant.  Looked it up and asked a professional and said he was lucky because those tests can pick up some forms of testicular cancer.

 

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/08/home-pregnancy-tests-may-detect-mens-cancer/

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Happily driving along home, listening to people moan on LBC and I suddenly feel like I've been stabbed in my side. Couldn't pull over, so sort of held it with one hand and carried on...

 

LBC will do that.  Consider yourself warned.

[Parky]

I've some carpet samples. Wonder if it would confuse them if it came back I was pregnant?

If you take carpet, they will diagnose piles

 

BOOM BOOM!!!

[Lord Sterling]

Wife's become a fucking tyrant on all decisions relating to new house. Decor, furniture, appliances, everything-it's her way, or else I'm being fucking unreasonable. I'm seriously considering taking up golf/lawn bowls/dominoes/anything to get me out of the house regularly. I now know how Richard Bucket and Andy Capp* feel.* Without the domestic violence, obviously.

Robin, I know how you feel mate. Whenever I come to Turkey I can't seem to do anything right. What I wear, how I present myself, how I talk, what I talk about and when is utterly scrutinised. At least I get to leave and live on my own again, however, oddly enough, despite all that, I still would like to live with my wife in the same country and house that I live in.

[New POD]

POD, are you from Derbyshire? You speak fluent Bub...

I was born in Manchester but lived in Hadfield from age 1 to age 5 before movibg to Langley near Macclesfield Forest until moving to Miseryside aged 11.

 

I have spent quite a bit of time in Derby in the last 8 years probably 6.5 years of travelling down to RR on a Monday and back home on a Friday.