The grumpy thread

[High Jetter]

^^^ At night, do they 'park' facing oncoming traffic leaving their headlights on too? That riles me even more.

[montytom]

25 minutes ago, crad said:

morons parking with their fucking hazards on outside one stop on the high street where theres double yellows. how about you park in the two big fuck off car parks just up the road, or are you too bloody thick. boils my piss cos all it does is clog up the roads. bloody townies.

I fully agree once the hazards are on it seems they think the rules of the road dont apply to them.

[beko1987]

1 minute ago, High Jetter said:

^^^ At night, do they 'park' facing oncoming traffic leaving their main beams on too? That riles me even more.

Efa. Especially when you can see them a mile up the sodding road and be blind the whole way

[Wack]

I wouldn't want to be on the bottom of the London property ladder in 2021 

[crad]

Just now, Wack said:

I wouldn't want to be on the bottom of the London property ladder in 2021 

its the same in the south east- i've no chance

[Fumbler]

10 minutes ago, crad said:

its the same in the south east- i've no chance

Same here. The best I can do is rent.

[cort1977]

Couldn't find more up to date figures but I'm sure London prices haven't fallen...

[Pieman]

Won't matter when we're all dead by July.

[New POD]

23 minutes ago, Pieman said:

Won't matter when we're all dead by July.

You okay? 

[New POD]

27 minutes ago, cort1977 said:

Couldn't find more up to date figures but I'm sure London prices haven't fallen...

Looks to me like houses in the North are still affordable. 

[bobdisk]

11 hours ago, High Jetter said:

^^^ At night, do they 'park' facing oncoming traffic leaving their headlights on too? That riles me even more.

I turn my main beam on at them, if no one is coming the other way. Sometimes they get the hint.

[jonathan_dyane]

Bloody bastard toothache

[omegod]

I didn't think I could be more pissed off with the government but seeing the farcical food parcels sent out to kids while their Tory chums are skimming off the top I actually felt like crying. Twats 

[Wack]

20 hours ago, New POD said:

Looks to me like houses in the North are still affordable. 

The amount of londoners there are in Warrington I think they've realised that , 650k would buy a very big house up here , not a 3 bed semi 

[omegod]

11 minutes ago, Wack said:

The amount of londoners there are in Warrington I think they've realised that , 650k would buy a very big house up here , not a 3 bed semi 

Time to get the pitchforks out and run the f*ckers out of town ? 

[Low Horatio gearbox]

House sellers who answer every question you ask them except the one about vehicular access to the property and then go silent   😒

 

21 hours ago, Wack said:

I wouldn't want to be on the bottom of the London property ladder in 2021 

 

Having recently left I'll say yes.. in fact  you can prery much discount being able to afford anything if you are a mere mortal without a heathy five figure income and a pile of cash for a deposit.  Because "lhaaaandahhhaaaaan"

[richardmorris]

21 hours ago, Fumbler said:

Same here. The best I can do is rent.

Yep, renting for 25 years now.

[Wack]

19 minutes ago, omegod said:

Time to get the pitchforks out and run the f*ckers out of town ? 

I'll just buy up all the shiny buttons ,they'll soon go 

[Wack]

 

23 minutes ago, Low Horatio gearbox said:

Having recently left I'll say yes.. in fact  you can prery much discount being able to afford anything if you are a mere mortal without a heathy five figure income and a pile of cash for a deposit.  Because "lhaaaandahhhaaaaan"

I've posted this before, I found a Surrey  builders catalogue from 1958 , 

 

The most expensive house on the list is £5350 which according to the inflation calculator is £127,500 in 2020

Those houses would be 800k+ today 

 

 

 

[Low Horatio gearbox]

7 minutes ago, Wack said:

 

I've posted this before, I found a Surrey  builders catalogue from 1958 , 

 

The most expensive house on the list is £5350 which according to the inflation calculator is £127,500 in 2020

Those houses would be 800k+ today 

 

 

 

 

 

Dream on , a detached, 3 bed with garage in Surrey (and no doubt a real garden worth having not "an postage stamp") , that's  getting on for a million quid if not more.

I lived in a less fashionable, east end (just!) suburb and an average 3 bed  end of terrace is  £450 -550k, af the posher end  of town near the forest a semi detached  was 650 -800k beyond the compreshension of my tiny vallies mind to me. Rent in London is also insane

[somewhatfoolish]

1 hour ago, omegod said:

I didn't think I could be more pissed off with the government but seeing the farcical food parcels sent out to kids while their Tory chums are skimming off the top I actually felt like crying. Twats 

I'd like to know by what measurement that's £20 of food. An outrage.

[High Jetter]

Why did they call the bungalow 'Mole' when, I presume, it wasn't underground?

[Mr Pastry]

2 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Why did they call the bungalow 'Mole' when, I presume, it wasn't underground?

The Mole is the Holy River of Surrey.   And does go underground in places.

[Wack]

29 minutes ago, Low Horatio gearbox said:

Dream on , a detached, 3 bed with garage in Surrey (and no doubt a real garden worth having not "an postage stamp") , that's  getting on for a million quid if not more.

I lived in a less fashionable, east end (just!) suburb and an average 3 bed  end of terrace is  £450 -550k, af the posher end  of town near the forest a semi detached  was 650 -800k beyond the compreshension of my tiny vallies mind to me. Rent in London is also insane

My first real exposure to London house prices was 2014 , I had a job as a medical courier 

Went to a house in Ealing , 3 bed detached , while waiting for him to come to the door I was looking at the cars in the street , not one under 50k 

He opened the door and the smell of the 50s hit me , a guy in his 90s who'd obviously lived there for decades 

When I got home I had a look on rightmove,  the semi next door had sold for 1.1m 2012 

Went to a flat and a woman in her mid 80s had a baby grand piano in the front room, they must've taken a window out , she used to be a concert pianist , that's a posh neighbourhood when you're banging on the floor to get the concert pianist to stop playing Bach 

[omegod]

43 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

I'd like to know by what measurement that's £20 of food. An outrage.

It's actually meant to be £30 worth I believe

[adw1977]

47 minutes ago, Low Horatio gearbox said:

Dream on , a detached, 3 bed with garage in Surrey (and no doubt a real garden worth having not "an postage stamp") , that's  getting on for a million quid if not more.

I live in a detached 3 bed house in Surrey.  No garage, admittedly, but it's worth well under half a million.

I know it's still not exactly affordable for most people, but it ain't a million quid!

[LightBulbFun]

slightly* pissed off at UPS

I have a large box of fluorescent tubes im drop shipping for a friend in the US, that I finally got packaged up today so my friend paypals me the money to ship them over

so I go to UPS, go through all the details fill everything out yada yada, go to pay with paypal login it does its thing and goes back to the UPS site where upon UPS's website spits this at me 

but that the paypal thing had gone through, so I now have a pending paypal transaction of £161 which although only pending has been deducted from my paypal balance still 

with no cancel button in paypal for this transaction

im now im down £161 in paypal, and UPS customer support was useless the lady just kept asking for a tracking number (which I obviously did not have) and in the end just told me to contact paypal

but pay-pal says for this sort of transaction to cancel it I have to contact the recipient of the payment, (and It wont even let me open a dispute either)

now I dont think iv lost the £161, from googling the error code UPS: 81291 im not the only one this has happened to with UPS and that eventually paypal will just cancel the Authorisation after 30 days of it just pending

but unless I can somehow proactively cancel the pending transaction thats 30 days im going to be down £161 basically, and as such I cant try again as i dont have the money in my paypal to pay for it

so im not sure what to do now (but I have now made a user account with UPS so if this happens next time I try I will hopefully have a bit more of a record of it)

[richardmorris]

Doesn’t help you, but ups are the very worst for deliveries to work.

[Floatylight]

2 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

I'd like to know by what measurement that's £20 of food. An outrage.

They've been at it for years we just normally don't see what is served to the kids, say what you want about Jamie Oliver but he got turkey twizzlers banned amd a set of nutritional criteria brought in for schools.

(As a side note those criteria don't apply to academies whose heads apparently are able to decide what is best for the kids whereas a head in a maintained school apparently does not.)

In Staffordshire we had one of the best council run school meals services in the Country, @chaseracerand I led the campaign to try and keep it in house sadly unsuccessfully as parents and the public sat silently by.  It was then outsourced to Capita who set themselves up as the experts only to further outsource it to Chartwells (the shower behind these food parcels) as they were the experts.

If you can't tell - yes I'm still bitter (8 years on)

[chaseracer]

1 minute ago, Floatylight said:

yes I'm still bitter (8 years on)

As am I, Steve... 

...though making the deputy* leader shake with anger (because he knew he'd been caught in a deliberate lie) was something of a high point.