Don't worry, give it another ten years and the benefit of waking up with all those aches and pains is that you know you're still alive. Trust me on that.

I've learned not to rush putting on a pair of trainers before i go off to work, as that seems to be number one for causing a back tweak.....luckily the back is currently playing ball but usually once a week the back brace gets a run out as well :D

On the Palace web site when they have reports of Academy games they have photos of players in action from the games but never put captions under the photos saying who the player in the picture is.

Very frustrating for anyone not overly familiar with the players.

Ten years on from that it's just waking up.

Knowing you can have a lie in, and are wide awake at 05.00 am.

Especially when you got to bed at 2am. :(

You agree a price, time and date for some **** to do some work for you and they don’t turn up.

****.

Probably queuing for diesel so they can get to people like yourself...having to limit work or let people down is already part of this fuel fiasco for us and it's barely day two.

Father in law just got a cleaner (he needs help now at 89), she did not turn up the first time, and then yesterday she turned up, worked for 25 minutes and charged him 50 bucks.

It's a friends wife, and he was told she was quick...:veryangry:eek:

People buying bottled water in supermarkets.

It's literally thousands of times more damaging to the planet, costs extra and is the same product as what comes out of the tap. Why do people do this?

A polite, “I can’t make it” message, so I don’t waste an hour preparing for him to do his work, would have been nice.

Same here. It’s amazing, tradespeople can’t pick up the blower to do the right thing but once here you can’t get the c~nts off the phone.

That's fair enough mind, we aren't all the same as that though but a bit of courtesy is the least you'd expect.

:D

Literally?

I buy the cheap 17p for 2litres bottled water as it doesn’t instantly clog up my coffee machine with scale. The one that I really don’t understand is the nestle one which is tap water passed under a uv light and “treated”. It then gets a £1.50 price tag slapped in it.

Cheap?

That 17p would buy you 114 litres out of your tap. :)

I’ve met two people who don’t drink tap water, only bottled. I regret never really prying into why they do that, it is very odd and wasteful from my perspective too.

Because they are idiots.

Stick a filter on your tap, job's a good 'un.

£30 at Wickes (pre Brexit pricing) for a self-tapping, er, tap.

Not to mention the unknowable amounts of micro/nanoplastics you would needlessly ingest each time. It's senseless.

The first xmas advert on TV just now. It's September - just f*ck off!!

At my current rate of consumption it would take 4 years to pay that back let alone the fitting, then the cost of the filters. But thanks for the tip.

I don't know anyone who drinks the tap water in Barcelona, even in coffee. It is perfectly foul and they have always had blokes going round with big glass bottles in baskets,

Bah humbug

Does the environmental cost of the 176 plastic bottles, manufactured and subsequently destined for landfill, required to meet your preference, not enter your conscience?

[the target of my ire is the bottled water industry, not you IoW, btw.:)]

If it's like over here because they get seduced by the sexy names they give it. Pump, Fiji Water, A hint of lemon. Also people have to have a bottle of water when they go for their afternoon for 4kms, dehydration is a terrible thing. **** off tap waters fine .

Scott Parker & his ******* tie-clip. What a bell-end.

People who insist on the cheek kiss greeting. It was bad enough before covid

I’m unclear why one would simply use it for a coffee machine if it was installed and persist in using shit water for everything else.

The French never change.

American golf fans “in the hole”. Wankers

And they say it like it’s never been said before. Nothing original, clever or funny about it. And it’s not even fuelled by booze! They are like it from the first tee at 7.05am at the Ryder Cup!

Didn’t realise Piers Corbyn is a climate change denier too. Even heckled his own brother at a climate change event today. What a wanker, just a general all round bad guy.

Watch long enough and you will probably hear, "In the laaaaake!!" Brain-dead tossers.

They're as bad with darts. They think the whole concept is hitting the bull. A player scores a 180 and you'll hear a polite clap. Another thrower errantly hits a bulls-eye while aiming for a 25 and the place erupts.

They don’t do “math” so well.

It's all the erbs they smoke.

No one drinks tap water in Andalucia, unless they want to get kidney stones from all the cal in it. We have our own well, which is fed by the mountain streams. Still use a Brita filter too

British Airways being desperate to expire all my airmiles because I haven't earned any or used any for 36 months.

I had that problem with Virgin a while back. Can't you just spend the smallest amount (I think I donated 1000 miles to a charity or something like that) & re-set the clock?

I can, it's true. I thought to share with my bro or find a charity to share to... but of course there's a fee for doing that.
It's just that you might think that with covid screwing up travel they might be less stringent with sticking to the Terms and Conditions.

They should call themselves Iberia now not British Airways. They have purged almost everything they can using pandemic as an excuse.

They couldn’t wait to bounce me out of silver class after cancelling 5 of my flights

You could buy a one way UK domestic ticket for next year some time, adjust the avios/cash amount to the lowest cash possible (usually £1) and then cancel it later. You'll lose the pound but get the avios back. That will reset the clock, but if you were still worried book the flight for 11-12 months from now and that gives you another year to reset the clock again by earning some points elsewhere before cancelling.

Get a Sainsburys nectar card, link the account and transfer them over and have some 'free' shopping. And then shop around airlines going forwards - you might be surprised just how poor BA are on long haul compared to some

The AA send me a renewal notice late August 2 months ahead of renewal & 15% more than last year (no call outs) and £90 more than a new member would pay for same cover.

Finally get around to calling them today to cancel and they wont take the cancellation call unless within 14 days of renewal (automated questions upfront). I wonder how many people forget given the renewal notice was so far ahead of the actual renewal to deal with it - very shabby.

RAC are the same but normally quite easy to beat down - which suggests there's still plenty of margin for them.

My original renewal proposal was about 10% higher than for the previous year. I got them to agree to honour the price of the previous year & cover me for 15 months rather than 12 months.

When I said his 1st offer wasn't good enough, he asked 'What do you expect me to do?' so I replied 'I expect you to propose your lowest offer' :supergrin:

Do Sainsbury's deliver to Chile? ;)

Actually I spoke with my brother earlier and this might be a possible answer. He's a real points whore so if anyone can work out what to do, he can.

Every year I get the AA up my quote. I just phone them up at renewal and ask what they can do for me? Usually about 25 quid gets knocked off. One thing is never have your policy renew automatically and hint that your looking around at other deals when you call them.
If you swap between companies and use a cashback site the are some really great new customer deals to be had.

Cold calling companies that phone you up pretending that they have legally found your details and then try to sell you solar panels for your roof.
I was half asleep when he called so have arranged for one of their salesmen to visit me next Tuesday at 9.30am.As i was half asleep i completely forgot that i will be at work next Tuesday and that i dont have a roof which i can put the panels on as it is it not technically my roof!

The M25 protesters. I’ve not been affected but this whole thing is causing me to become pissed off and has the reverse effect of what they want to achieve.Especially when they are causing mor pollution with all the gridlock they cause. Climb an oil rig, dump a load of crap outside the companies that cause the problem but this is causing shit for their supporters.

Tasty Jerk not opening on a Monday when there is a game on. Just daft.

They probably had no diesel for the ovens.

Drivers that can't use their indicators (for about the fifth time I've posted it on this thread).

C unts of the highest order.

As clearly these are of no use to such drivers, I have often thought about carrying a hammer in the car so you can, when they next stop, get out and stove in the indicator lamps. If by luck their window is down you could also reach in and rip out the indicator stick.

Employers that ask if you have any holiday booked during the recruitment process and are then astonished when you remind them about it once actually employed.

Another bastard banana bursting in my bag

Amazing alliteration art

Flicking through the channels after the football and I find Amanda f*****g talentless Holden and her weird Nan. Reminds me of a Little Britain character or Eddie Izzard in 30 years time.
There really is some shite on TV.

Or you can stick the claw of the hammer up the miscreant's nose and pull their face off. Harsh but fair in the circumstances.

Oh those were the days, and only 7 years ago

It’s supposed to be a character, it’s the guy from celebrity juice and bo selecta with make up on. But I can understand why people mistake it for a genuine program as it’s so unfunny.

Utterly unworthy utterance. :D

Wanky tweets like this one: messi tweet. They had one of Ronaldo hugging a younger version of himself the other week :jerkit:

Just found out my Medication insurance is going up from $26.10 per month to $92.00 per month! This is just for me... Same again for my wife. We get through a lot of medication between us, so I feel a Spreadsheet coming on!

Absolutely no reason given or fathomable.

Only change I can see is the current plan has a $300 deductible, the new offering has a $0 deductible.

Just seeing the trailers a while back did it for me, Amanda Holden and an obvious Keith Lemon playing the Nan at least gave a warning to avoid that channel at that time.

Wireless motorbike keys

Just rode 40 miles, pulled over and stopped the bike to check satnav only to be to greeted with a message on the dash stating: ‘key not detected, you will be unable to restart the bike’

Shit.

People in gyms who think that the whole place needs to hear their opinions on the vaccine being "genocide"

I find it really scary how many people are believing this stuff. When you look back in history you often wonder, well how on earth did a nation of people believe this or that sufficiently to go to war but then you take some of the more bizarre things that really have traction out there and it's perhaps part of the explanation.

Not sure about anyone else but since the Trump era the news items have become less obviously bizarre and therefore it's becoming increasingly difficult to spot the truth vs fabrication. Just about every issue is bent to a pre-defined viewpoint. I can't imagine how this ever gets straightened out. I don't kid myself that the collective viewpoints of yesteryear were all accurate but I don't fancy future generations chances of working out what's what over the next few decades.

Bleacher report are absolutely awful, if not ******* weird at times.

Their stuff in the American sports is like that on speed.

Think the words you are looking for is social media.Even on here people will refer to Facebook as some sort undeniable news source.

Turnips go unpicked in Lincolnshire but we still pay dole money to people in Lincolnshire.

We? Have you moved back?

I am on a 24 hr ban for bullying.

I was commenting on an Ex Pat group that had some filthpot Chileans and a few immigrant gringos being disgustingly racist towards the Haitians and Venezualans - one of them seems a MAGA and another may be Russian.

They are free to post their filth and I get banned for calling them on it.

So much for Faceaches anti.racist policy.

I will be talking to the groups moderators when I get back on.

Do people in lincoln not have a choice? Lots of jobs in london to fill and lots of people still claiming dole money.
Its the society we have created that people feel they are too good to do any job.

Happened to me once. Now I never travel without a spare fob battery somewhere on the bike.

I watched that a while back. Quite an eye opener. I did'nt spot Percy. To be honest most of the people in it were thick as shit and lazy as buggery. Could have been done knowing the out come ,but I suspect not.

Everything so far this morning:
Coffee machine playing up
Neighbour parked over our shared side access so I can get the bin out (and he's not answering his door) and it's bin day
DPD turn up with massive parcel that the wife ordered but of course she's still in bed so I have to deal with it.
My cat is a prick.

Go back to bed. Sounds like one of those days.

What was telling was the comment by the factory owner. Yes salaries would go up. BUT then automation would be more viable so less jobs. The result of that would be less tax and NI paid and more unemployed. I wonder if that’s what happened ?

Oh Christ. I must be losing it, that's a big whoosh for me.
Still, it was shocking and certainly anything but funny.

Peleton. Again. Still.

Exemption, so absolutely free for me. Save a fortune. :p

Diesel is for the marinade.

The whole of Australia believes Facebook is a reliable news source - apart from my expat brother!!:D

Yeah. We should put those unemployed scroungers on a chain gang and MAKE them pick someone else’s turnips.

Don't all OAPs get free prescriptions?

Can't seem to catch a ******* break at the moment.

Plus, i ******* hate Zoom.

Its an interesting debate. I think if I didn't have a job, I had no dependencies (kids from school etc) I would pick them rather than watching daytime TV. If I got a few quid more all the better. Admittedly this would be the last resort after say 6 months of trying to find something else. Last time I was in a similar situation I took lots of temp stuff from warehouse cleaning to envelope stuffing. Maybe it was easier then as the process was made simple by the un employment exchange, to get back on the dole, when a temp contract finished ( some as short as 3 days) with a minimum of fuss.

I am not of the opinion that all unemployed people are scroungers.

Someone has to pay for all the free covid vaccine service given by the US health insurance companies... errr sorry, US health providers.

Paying tips via a card machine... totally fukked it up and tipped them 5p

Getting a ******* shitty tip from some piss taking tosser :veryangry

:D

My intention wasn't to tip the waiter 5p... I ain't tight.... I gave him the extra 45p in cashola.

You could have made his day and tipped him £5k by mistake :D

That is brilliant can I post in the things that make you happy thread ? :supergrin:

Maybe Peter, some of the nice mods on this good ship will give you a glowing reference so you can get back to sniping at naughty ex-pats. They can assure the powers that you have got absolutely no previous for lobbing insults or causing havoc among the humble posters of a well known football web-site. I'm sure once they realize what a gem of a poster they have in their midst the moderatoras of Chile will welcome you back with open arms.