The grumpy thread

[New POD]

Who decides the Metropolitan Police budget?

Would that be the Mayor or the Home Secretary.

 

[Jerzy Woking]

  On 08/08/2019 at 09:27, New POD said:

Who decides the Metropolitan Police budget?

Would that be the Mayor or the Home Secretary.

 

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Home Secretary (incidentally, she is my MP).

However, Khan insists London is getting safer, statistics show that in the capital murders are up,  knifings are up, shootings are up, robberies are up, car theft is up, and so on.  I know that 70%of statistics are made up, but he offered none of his own in a recent TV interview in support of his claims.

[wuvvum]

The man is a complete cockwomble as far as I can ascertain.

[SiC]

Aren't they all? 

Either lying fuckers, grumpy fucker or both. 

Saying that, I would never want to be a politician. 

[puddlethumper]

They are all wankspanners, probably 10mm or less.

[purplebargeken]

Two more stabbings in my area over the weekend, one lad in his 20's refused to hand over his bike, he got stabbed. 6 people arrested following that. 

London becoming safer? Compared to where?? Load of bollocks. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 08/08/2019 at 09:27, New POD said:

Who decides the Metropolitan Police budget?.

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Home Office.

The Met don't do themselves much of a favour, though. Spending at least £2.5m "looking into" the claims of a paedophile fantasist, for a start.

[SiC]

  On 08/08/2019 at 21:42, purplebargeken said:

Two more stabbings in my area over the weekend, one lad in his 20's refused to hand over his bike, he got stabbed. 6 people arrested following that. 

London becoming safer? Compared to where?? Load of bollocks. 

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Maybe against: Yemen? Kabul? New York?

[Kiltox]

  On 08/08/2019 at 21:51, SiC said:

Maybe against: Yemen? Kabul? New York?

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Those places sound pretty tame compared with Ken’s part of London to be fair 

[paulplom]

  On 08/08/2019 at 21:17, puddlethumper said:

They are all wankspanners, probably 10mm or less.

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A 10mm one would be useful though

[purplebargeken]

^^ Ok, 9.5mm

[xtriple]

Just rung up the chemists querying why a delivery of drugs has not been delivered. They are adamant that they were... so I checked and the missing drugs were found where all the drugs are kept still in their wrapper with the date proudly emblazoned thereon - 7/8/19. Delivered at 14:20.

Wednesday was the day I got sleeping pills and I was asleep by 2:00 p.m. so sleep accepted drugs and also gave the dogs Jumbones in my sleep as the wrapper was on the top of the bin. Fed them as well! Wonder what else I did while asleep 'cos I didn't 'wake' up until 2:30 the following morning as far as I am concerned.

[MikeR]

Got my pack of 10 25amp croc clips ...

9 in the packet .... !

But still 7 more than i needed for the price of 1 in the local Ripuoff ...

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[barefoot]

Just tried to buy tyres from tyreleader - card declined by bank. Apparently tyreleader's operations are based in Andorra and international fraud was detected. All sorted now.

[Mally]

Just discovered my 75 will do 38 in a 30 zone.

Should have gone in the Minor.

Awareness course beckons I hope.

[Lankytim]

Taking apart an old Volvo D5 engine for spares and snapped the corner off the cylinder head because I’m a BLOODY USELESS TWAT.

[EssDeeWon]

  On 08/08/2019 at 21:42, purplebargeken said:

Two more stabbings in my area over the weekend, one lad in his 20's refused to hand over his bike, he got stabbed. 6 people arrested following that. 

London becoming safer? Compared to where?? Load of bollocks. 

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Not only London.  Southend is now more or less a no go at any given time with gangs, beggars, muggers, stabbings, car thefts and break ins.

I joined a local crime page on FB recently when I was bored and being nosey, fck me.  Every day numerous posts saying 'son been mugged' 'my car stolen' house broken into' 'drugs raid down my road' and so on, this is every day and numerous posts. Generally depressing reading through it all.   Time to move in the coming months and out of this corner of Essex. 

How do you reduce the homeless numbers in London?  Answer.. Give them train tickets to these towns like Southend to find housing, this is actually happening.  Well done Khan, that's not necessarily the answer though pal.  The highstreet and town centre has loads of these poor buggers in sleeping bags and tents and it seems the problem has just moved from Khans door step to somewhere else.

[Heidel_Kakao]

I had a bit of a disturbing incident in Cedric this morning. I had just parked up at Asda in Dudley when a guy in a white van pulled up next to me, he asked me how old Cedric was and where I got it from, so I said 1969 and Finland, then he asked how much was it worth. Now that's the kind of question I don't like answering especially from random people so I just tried to brush it off and said not too much. I then made to walk off and I had got a couple of feet when he beeped his horn and beckoned me back, so I walked back over and he then said again how much is it worth, I refused to tell him and he then said if I left it there it won't be there when I got back! So I just got back in the car and drove off, no way was I going to risk him doing something to it.

The worst thing about Cedric is stupidly how much I care about it, the 405 I can leave anywhere but I can't even park Cedric outside my house for one night without being paranoid that it won't be there in the morning, when it's safely locked up in the unit I feel much better. I think I may have to look into getting a tracker for it possibly.

[angle]

As much as I'm pretty ambivalent about whether Khan is any good or not, he does get a load of flack for things he doesn't have much control over. As noted above, he can decide priorities for the Met but has no control over how much money they get; similarly, homeless people being moved out of London to Southend or Walsall or whatever is down to councils, not the Mayor. Admittedly his track record on affordable housing is pretty patchy, but you could same the same about Johnson or Livingstone. 

[sierraman]

Why oh why do people insist on using those foul e-cigs that are modified to expel shit loads of disgusting fruity smelling dense smoke. Are they designed just to piss people off? 

[dozeydustman]

  On 09/08/2019 at 16:20, sierraman said:

Why oh why do people insist on using those foul e-cigs that are modified to expel shit loads of disgusting fruity smelling dense smoke. Are they designed just to piss people off? 

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In my case, to give up smoking. I'm virtually on 0mg nicotine now and I'm using it a hell of a lot less each and every day. And I don't use fruit flavours, just menthol. Not had a fag since November last year.

[sierraman]

I’ve no objection to the normal devices, it’s the ones that have been altered to chuck loads of fruity smelling shit out I have a problem with. 

[EssDeeWon]

  On 09/08/2019 at 16:05, angle said:

; similarly, homeless people being moved out of London to Southend or Walsall or whatever is down to councils, not the Mayor.

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Erm you might want to research that.  It is totally down to the mayor of London to provide these folk with tickets out of London. Not the other way round, sorry.

[busmansholiday]

Met Tim Martin (Wetherspoons) owner tonight in my local.

Wondered why we actually had staff behind the bar, somebody cleaning tables and removing empty glasses, and no smokers stood in the entrance.

[angle]

  On 09/08/2019 at 19:02, EssDeeWon said:

Erm you might want to research that.  It is totally down to the mayor of London to provide these folk with tickets out of London. Not the other way round, sorry.

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Erm its not, I'm afraid. Completely down to councils to rehome, Localism Act and Housing Act if you want to research.

(edit - by councils I mean London councils, Brent or Westminster or Croydon or whoever. They're nothing to do with the mayor, though) 

[EssDeeWon]

  On 09/08/2019 at 19:21, angle said:

Erm its not, I'm afraid. Completely down to councils to rehome, Localism Act and Housing Act if you want to research.

 

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So the local councils pay their train fares and invite extra responsibility for housing these homeless from London, ah ok.  

Its not to do with Khan trying to reduce the homeless numbers in London, righto.

[angle]

No, see my edit. It's a London thing, but it's nothing to do with the Mayor. 

[Fumbler]

Despite me fixing the WiFi in our hotel cottage, the internet is incredibly shit, with every page taking ages to load and then being very choppy afterwards. Oh, and it's raining like there's no tomorrow. Nothing like the holidays...

[barefoot]

You're on holiday. Take a day or two off the interweb, it'll still be there when you get back home.

[Wack]

Bring back the stocks, little fuckers