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Van and v70 away to the accident repair centre today. Only 6 weeks since we reported it. V70 written off. The van is being repaired. The hire firm met me at the repair centre with a new transit. Minge bag spec. No air con, no elec mirrors, no blue tooth or dab. You even have to put the lights on yourself ffs.eec8d5a97d827b1c2bb16e8b43bb4671.jpg

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  On 02/09/2019 at 10:08, beko1987 said:

Ah sorry, I thought you were more up north than that! Apologies

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No need for apologies mate, that was a great offer.

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  On 02/09/2019 at 12:26, Lord Sterling said:

What I'll say is; I do this as a real-life job and we are sadly caught in the crossfire between the buyer and the delivery guys.

No, we cannot change our delivery people because its a BATTERY, basically a plastic box filled with acid to be delivered with France, FRANCE. Not the easiest place to deliver anything. Very few delivery people will take batteries and those that will charge a FORTUNE. 

So yeah, for sellers its not as if I can travel to Normandy in France, pick up the battery and hand deliver it personally to a customer in Montpelier. 

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I have Mrs Nextdoors parcel in the hallway , should I wait for the bathroom light to go on and then go and ring the door bell ?

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  On 02/09/2019 at 14:47, Tadhg Tiogar said:

This is one of the reasons why I stopped using public transport in London - a journey that never took less than 90 minutes to cover a distance that could be done in 25 minutes by car.....

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It’s not actually quicker by car where I live. It was the slowness of his driving that was doing my head in, trundling around like he was a bloody float in a parade. I appreciate he’s got a day of driving round in circles but that’s not my problem. 

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  On 02/09/2019 at 15:28, MikeR said:

I have Mrs Nextdoors parcel in the hallway , should I wait for the bathroom light to go on and then go and ring the door bell ?

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  On 02/09/2019 at 13:04, brownnova said:

Sadly I don’t think the seller would want a 7am viewing!! He said he’d let me know if my viewing at 4pm was still on, so far I’ve heard nothing... 

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He got back to me, viewing was on! 

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Thanks for using so many fucking shite coach bolts in the engine bay of the black Toledo. All now replaced with proper stainless steel bolts.

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  On 02/09/2019 at 15:03, Datsuncog said:

Sainsburys.

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Go and collectively fuck yourselves with a rusty spoon, you bunch of spaffwinkling dungpuppets.

Seriously.

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For fuck's sake.  Already?  Felching thundercunts!

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  On 02/09/2019 at 13:04, brownnova said:

Sadly I don’t think the seller would want a 7am viewing!! He said he’d let me know if my viewing at 4pm was still on, so far I’ve heard nothing... 

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So the seller of car 1 got back and said viewing was on! So I viewed... 

Then the seller of the other car I was second on said they’d had a no show and we were first refusal on car 2! 

Hang on this is now a grin not a grump! 

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Some of us like Christmas pudding and mince pies and Christmas cake so have no problem with it being in the shop.

(I don't actually like Christmas itself though, apart from Christmas dinner which I have several times a year)

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  On 02/09/2019 at 17:03, brownnova said:

So the seller of car 1 got back and said viewing was on! So I viewed... 

Then the seller of the other car I was second on said they’d had a no show and we were first refusal on car 2! 

Hang on this is now a grin not a grump! 

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Is one the consecutive Saab?

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I have actually bought 2 Xmas presents , and have eyed up some more .... 

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  On 02/09/2019 at 15:03, Datsuncog said:

Go and collectively fuck yourselves with a rusty spoon, you bunch of spaffwinkling dungpuppets.

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I must remember to put that phrase in the 2019 Adventshite calendar

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  On 02/09/2019 at 15:03, Datsuncog said:

Sainsburys.

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Go and collectively fuck yourselves with a rusty spoon, you bunch of spaffwinkling dungpuppets.

Seriously.

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In the pub on Saturday(Not even into September),there was a sign saying you could book your Boxing Day lunch now ?

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  On 02/09/2019 at 18:44, 155V6 said:

In the pub on Saturday(Not even into September),there was a sign saying you could book your Boxing Day lunch now ?

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I'll keep that in mind, after all it's unlikely that I will have any food left in the house, apart from the rest of the turkey and possibly my bodyweight in Cadbury's Roses

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  On 02/09/2019 at 17:03, brownnova said:

So the seller of car 1 got back and said viewing was on! So I viewed... 

Then the seller of the other car I was second on said they’d had a no show and we were first refusal on car 2! 

Hang on this is now a grin not a grump! 

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I'm looking forward to the "I just bought two cars" thread.

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  On 02/09/2019 at 14:57, Aston Martin said:

M5 northbound there was a young guy hanging off the fucking gantry.

I made eye contact which made it even worse. I called 999 and they said yeah we've had many calls.

I couldn't find anything online so I hope he wandered off and got arrested.

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It's been bugging me, so I messaged on Twitter.

 

"We had multiple reports, but the police couldn't find him"

He is on my dashcam, but I cant upload until tomorrow. From the tiny viewfinder, he was actually on the footbridge that spans the M5... Which goes into an estate.

 

Hopefully the dashcam footage is good enough when I get home.

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When JDM fanbois put "JDM" style plates on to a UK car and it doesn't fit the recess. Pisses me right off.

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  On 02/09/2019 at 17:18, Craig the Princess said:

Is one the consecutive Saab?

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Sadly not, that ones a bit pricey for me... 

  On 02/09/2019 at 20:17, Garythesnail said:

I'm looking forward to the "I just bought two cars" thread.

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Yeah... that actually might end up happening at the current rate of knots... 

 

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3 times I've put some pasta on for mrs D's packed lunch tomorrow.

3 times I've let the pan boil dry because I've got engrossed in Orange is the new Black.

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If the UK is one of the richest countries in the world why is it so shit 

I'm in normandy and it's spotless, no litter anywhere, grass verges cut and tidy, smooth roads without any potholes, people driving cars built in their country , motorways where people allow you to pull out and merge without the need to call you a cunt

independant shops that close at reasonable times presumably so the workers can have a life.

Got kicked out of lidl at 7:30pm because they were closing 

Last week I watched a group of yoofs just drop their McD bags out of the window and drive off in the uk, I can't imagine that happening here.

 

 

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  On 02/09/2019 at 15:28, MikeR said:

I have Mrs Nextdoors parcel in the hallway , should I wait for the bathroom light to go on and then go and ring the door bell ?

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No. Wait. Make her come around, and then play dumb, whilst it's sitting next to you in the Porch. Then insist she provides ID

 

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That is generally due to the fact that the majority of French persons actually give a fuck about their town, village, commune.  Sadly that is quite lacking in a lot of places in the UK. 

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  On 02/09/2019 at 16:55, GrumpiusMaximus said:

For fuck's sake.  Already?  Felching thundercunts!

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I'm guessing that they started putting the Yuletide stuff on the shelves the day after the August bank holiday (I took the pic last Thursday, as it happens). The same way they start piling up Easter eggs and hot cross buns on Boxing Day, and disposable barbeques on Easter Tuesday.

 

I appreciate some people do quite like chomping on fare like this all year round, and that's okay - I'm partial to a mince pie myself - but I just find it a harbinger of the festive greedathon and national orgy of smugly saccharine cutesy ads portraying unrealistic family dynamics, and basically instigating a great deal of unhappiness on many levels.

Not everyone finds it this way, of course - but for me it amounts to a sturm und drang campaign to encourage people to feel deeply inadequate, to which spending colossal sums in supermarkets is offered up as the only possible remedy,

It used to be that shops at least waited until after Hallowe'en before going all C*******s on us (always a big event here in Ireland, and let's not forget the Yanks borrowed it off us - it's not an 'import', even though the Chinese tat that lately accompanies it certainly is). Now the pallets of Cadburys Heroes and Mars Celebrations tubs are already massed by the Tesco doors before the first leaves have fallen, and I feel an ominous sense of dread...

This is why I hated working in retail. It's only ever Easter, Summer or Christmas. That's it. As soon as one goes, the next one piles in, full throttle - no time for reflection or transition. Months and months of build-up, the same loop of Christmas songs playing through the store since 1 November, all snuggly sweet - then you're asked to stay late on Christmas Eve to tear it all down and put up all the Sale signage. Bang. Obliteration. It never happened.

By 4pm on 24 December, all those cloying ads featuring amusing polar bears and snow and sensitive female indie-vocal music completely vanish, to be replaced by shrieking technicolour ads for Thompsons Holidays and the DFS Cunting Sofa Sale Now On.

Buy a fucking Crème Egg on Boxing Day. Buy five. Buy ten. Go on, your kids will hate you if you don't. 

And so it goes...

(I know, I know... I need to chill.)

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  On 03/09/2019 at 09:26, Datsuncog said:

 

(I know, I know... I need to chill)

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No. That was absolutely perfect.

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  On 03/09/2019 at 05:02, Wack said:

If the UK is one of the richest countries in the world why is it so shit 

I'm in normandy and it's spotless, no litter anywhere, grass verges cut and tidy, smooth roads without any potholes, people driving cars built in their country , motorways where people allow you to pull out and merge without the need to call you a cunt

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At a guess, it's because the UK's wealth tends to be unequally distributed. Rich on paper, but much of it apparently held in overseas tax havens, or else generated through a housing market which long ago lost all semblance of reality and has now become a means to tithe individuals and families to banks for life.

Years of cuts to UK public services set against a background of rising demand, make civic niceties such as tidy verges and smooth roads unaffordable. Tax cuts for the increasingly super-wealthy never have the claimed trickle-down effect to the rest of the economy. As a national body, we're in financial ketosis. There's too much wealth leaking out through offshore trusts and other loopholes, than can be replaced through sustainable national productivity (actual industry, rather than financial services moving-numbers-around). At least, that's my hazy reading of it, based on a background in undergraduate economics.

Decades of championing ruthless individualism, while demolishing a sense of community, means that people feel unconnected to their surroundings, environment or neighbours. They're only living here temporarily, while waiting for their true genius to be recognised through Britain's Got Dancing Popstars On Ice or whatever, so they can move into Barbie's Dreamhouse/the Playboy Mansion. Picking up your own litter is for little people and losers, not superstars-in-waiting. I'm not really sure that changing this can be taught through schools, when the behaviour of other adults and traditional/social media outlets seems to constantly affirm it. 

Fuck me, I really need to log off and take a chill pill.

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  On 03/09/2019 at 09:50, Datsuncog said:

Fuck me, I really need to log off and take a chill pill.

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Take the pills, close your eyes and it'll all be fiiiine.

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@Datsuncog that's brilliant.  Thank you.

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  On 03/09/2019 at 09:26, Datsuncog said:

I'm guessing that they started putting the Yuletide stuff on the shelves the day after the August bank holiday (I took the pic last Thursday, as it happens). The same way they start piling up Easter eggs and hot cross buns on Boxing Day, and disposable barbeques on Easter Tuesday.

 

I appreciate some people do quite like chomping on fare like this all year round, and that's okay - I'm partial to a mince pie myself - but I just find it a harbinger of the festive greedathon and national orgy of smugly saccharine cutesy ads portraying unrealistic family dynamics, and basically instigating a great deal of unhappiness on many levels.

Not everyone finds it this way, of course - but for me it amounts to a sturm und drang campaign to encourage people to feel deeply inadequate, to which spending colossal sums in supermarkets is offered up as the only possible remedy,

It used to be that shops at least waited until after Hallowe'en before going all C*******s on us (always a big event here in Ireland, and let's not forget the Yanks borrowed it off us - it's not an 'import', even though the Chinese tat that lately accompanies it certainly is). Now the pallets of Cadburys Heroes and Mars Celebrations tubs are already massed by the Tesco doors before the first leaves have fallen, and I feel an ominous sense of dread...

This is why I hated working in retail. It's only ever Easter, Summer or Christmas. That's it. As soon as one goes, the next one piles in, full throttle - no time for reflection or transition. Months and months of build-up, the same loop of Christmas songs playing through the store since 1 November, all snuggly sweet - then you're asked to stay late on Christmas Eve to tear it all down and put up all the Sale signage. Bang. Obliteration. It never happened.

By 4pm on 24 December, all those cloying ads featuring amusing polar bears and snow and sensitive female indie-vocal music completely vanish, to be replaced by shrieking technicolour ads for Thompsons Holidays and the DFS Cunting Sofa Sale Now On.

Buy a fucking Crème Egg on Boxing Day. Buy five. Buy ten. Go on, your kids will hate you if you don't. 

And so it goes...

(I know, I know... I need to chill.)

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I just hate the mass-marketing and extreme overhype of nearly any celebration that is forced upon you. Easter, Christmas, St Patricks day, Parents days and Hallowe'en are all whacked into overdrive while Mayday (Beltane), other patron saints days, solstices, Burns night etc and many other significant national, cultural or religious observations are put into the sidelines. The origin of a lot of the massive both secular and religious festivals is lost and many kids by the time of secondary school don't know why the above are actually observed.

The world is driven by mass marketing. Have DFS ever had a day when they've not had a sale on? I can imagine the handful of branches of Allied Carpets still have sales on as well. It creates wastefulness in terms of both the punter's money and physical items that need disposal; why buy a new item of furniture when the one in the lounge is only a year old, has loads of life and still doesn't look out of date when you could save your money for a rainy day or a household emergency. Or Roffles.

There's also built in obsolescence, as found in most of our technological devices etc.

  On 03/09/2019 at 09:50, Datsuncog said:

Years of cuts to UK public services set against a background of rising demand, make civic niceties such as tidy verges and smooth roads unaffordable. Tax cuts for the increasingly super-wealthy never have the claimed trickle-down effect to the rest of the economy.

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As a public service worker, I can fully vouch for this. Where I work has suddenly managed to find £X million available to make our depot 'good' for a further 5-6 years, yet the fleet of vehicles we have is ageing, getting unreliable and needing constant maintenance to the point that a routine service is no longer half a day, nearer a day as parts are worn out and need to be replaced and need ordering from a specialist or the refuse body builder, therefor we have to occasionally hire an extra vehicle in at £lots per day. 

The pay increase of 1% last year means that they've got 'no option but to cut a round off', which if they didn't bugger about 3 years ago make one 5-day a week round that was too big into 2 3 days dusting, 2 days as spare crews and just palm a road of 2 from each day onto another nearby crew, they'd save all this hassle.

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