Wasn't White city used as Wembley had a Greyhound meeting that day? Very strange decision if thats right.

This country constantly voting for the tories and expecting anything other than dogshit public services

I have the 'Nextdoor' app installed and on Tuesday, the hospital in my town posted an alert that A&E was extremely busy with 160 patients waiting (at 2pm on a Tuesday). Cue lots of discussion in the comments. I couldn't believe how many tory voters were out in force defending the government against any comments that had the temerity to suggest that they are (and have been) doing an awful job.

Is it like the Brexit thing where folk have to stubbornly defend their choices because they can't admit that they may have made an error in judgement? Blinkered doubling down, no matter how daft that choice is now looking?

They’re in denial…. They know deep down Brexit was a mistake. The Tories I know… think they are doing a great job, because they are wealthy and the Tories have a history of looking after them. I don’t blame rich people for being Tory. It’s the working class Tory that I can’t understand.
I’ve got a mate who works in a supermarket - rabid Tory. He earns 17p above minimum wage…. His union (he has since left) helped him out when his employer tried to make him work more nights. His dad is on benefits. I just can’t get my head around why he bums Tories

EDF energy decidrd to take £400 from me as they have estimated my bill and think I am.in debt to them. Having smart meter fitted today if he turns up today. Who can affird £400 a month???

People ending sentences with no? Implying a question has been asked. Who started that shite?

Cancel your direct debit. Tell them from now on you'll read the meter every month (and I would do this even with a smart meter) and pay bills based on those readings only when they arrive. I go a bit further and calculate what I owe and pay them that. My supplier is Octopus and I've referred them to the ombudsman for overcharging me, threatening me with debt collectors when I refused to pay the excess, billing me on (over)estimates when I've supplied readings, and using dubious rounding practices when they bill so everyone pays a few pence more than they owe. I don't trust any of the bastards.

My supplier tried the same game with me so I blocked it on the basis that I would not be able to go to my own funeral and could not eat anymore.

theres something passive aggressive about it too. Like implying that its an obvious answer to a stupid question.

Do you think that those typically voting tory use public services, for the most part?

Therein, lies your answer.

Aren't you just repeating what he said, no?

Australians I think, no?

Yes, it's definitely condescending in it's use.

It's a no-no, no?

If, and I guess it's a big If, you have a two-year-old bill then access to your current reading then you can work out if you have been charged correctly over those past two years. It's basically impossible to overcharge if you have that information. You just take the figure on the meter from two years ago and the current figure and that is how many kwh's you have used from that point. Then you work out the charging rates in between those times... they generally only change at the most every 6 months.... more likely only twice in that time. It will all be available online.

Easier said than done, but you actually do have control over your billing and can verify your own figures.

Yeah. That's what I did though it's a much shorter period for me. They eventually reduced the bill but didn't admit they were wrong or even apologised so I escalated.

Correct. Wembley refused to change the dates of the dog meet.

Think that always seemed to be a London thing, ending a sentence with a question. Notice a lot of the youngsters end their sentences in 'yeah' as if challenging you to argue against them.
Not sure if it's dying out but for many years Londoners would end a sentence with, "d'ya know what I mean?" Sometimes this had the name 'arry on the end.

Why should it even have to come to that though???

Or 'innit used to be big.

Very popular around our way in the 70's. Was the influence from the West Indian community. Then it sort of made a comeback amongst the youth in the 2000's and people were saying it was a new way of them expressing themselves although the working classes of London were using it forty years previously.

I thought it was a BBS Spanish ex-pats thing? :cool:

Init.

So what,'s your name ?
So my name's John ..no.

At present the word like has to be used for every other word by my daugthrr. She also tries to shorten ever word. It is hardwork trying to talk to her sometimes

Have you tried replying to everything she says with 'whatever or bovvered'?

Glass Revolving Doors
(i) People gatecrashing your segment.
(ii) The modern automatic ones you can't touch as they'll stop revolving. What a source of frustration.

I point out to my kids that using "like" in a sentence that they are using it to compare something with something else...so I ask them what exactly is it like, or do they mean it is?

My kids don't talk to me much now, which is a win win for me.

John Lewis at Bluewater is guilty of both of these!

This.

Brixton Academy is my favourite venue and have been numerous times over the years and never seen anything even remotely similar happening.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63996981

Bloody hell - a thousand ticketless fans turning up to a 5,000 capacity venue.

I'm not a massive fan of the Met, but thought it would be difficult to blame on Babylon, however:

"They were searching people who didn't want to be searched".
How very dare they ! Especially when an estimated 1000 people turned up without tickets. The nerve of it !

Police turned up after 22.00 , when do concerts start these days ?

Trying to get into events without a ticket seems to be the current trend of the brainless. I saw lots of footage from the Wireless festival in the Summer of huge groups rushing the barriers/security. Such selfish and entitled behaviour. I hope those injured in the crush are ok.

The Welsh bloke that presents the Friday afternoon show on Five Live. Ellis something-or-other. Unspeakably awful.

The Euros last summer too.

There seems to be a dangerous sense of entitlement that people should be allowed in whether they have a ticket or not

Quote:
Journalist and author Jason Okundaye, who was also outside the venue at the time, said "there was absolutely zero communication" from Academy staff.

He added he went home after observing the dangerous conditions, saying: "Outside the venue was so unsafe, still slippery conditions because of the earlier snowstorm, freezing cold, a confused crowd and aggressive police dogs making the risk of a huge crush likely."

Dogs were in attendance at the venue, multiple videos showed, but the Met Police said no police dogs were used in its response.

Police added one person had been arrested for assaulting an officer.

What earlier snow storm? Is that referring to the 2 inches that fell 5 days previously?

Oh dear God they haven't given him and the other one a prime afternoon slot have they? Radio 5 is going downhill. Tony Livesey seems like a broadcasting legend compared to most of the others on now.

The investigation will be a short one. Selfish, ****wit, ticketless fans don't take no for an answer and try to force entry into music venue.

Not sure why I'm getting all these aircraft landing and take off videos on my Facebook home page.

Not sure they are real and not taken from a simulator or video game.

Some are really suspect.

Algorithms

Start sentence with ‘basically’

Add ‘like’ between every other word as self soothing affectation.

Add ‘super’ before any word to add some form of misguided ‘cuteness’

End with ‘like’ for no reason, as it safer than not.

Every kid I overhear. The is concept is to sound not convinced of what you say, not using incisive vocabulary. It stems from the ‘Valley Girl’ accent from the West Coast of the US in the ‘70s, and hasnt gone away.

I see what you did there. :p

OMG INNIT !

Radio advert about scratch cards. The woman asks the guy if he scratches bit by bit to build up the tension. She then does this disgustingly annoying, ‘Wooooooo….woooooooo’, rising up in tone each time.

I’d like her to have a winner and rip up the card in front of her face.

Similar to this we were buying furniture a few years back and after every question, such as first name, surname etc for the order form the sales woman said "AMAZING" as if she'd just won the lottery, it done mine and the Mrs head in.

Can't blame the woman really though as it was from the retail park that stands on the site of the old Gallstone Ground, so maybe it's like the Bermuda Triangle and turns everyone into cunce that enter it.

plus 'literally' with heavy emphasis on the last syllable.then another 'I was like' then 'Amazin'
more importantly Wayne Andrews gave it his best and I remember Selhurst erupting once when he did score

Being on hold 50mins and counting to United lost baggage department.

This is to find a bag that we've already been waiting 3 days for... after my son's flight from NYC-Miami was delayed to the extent that he missed his connecting flight and his subsequent journey here took 48 hours.

Is there any airline on the planet that's worse than United? I have long held the opinion that they are utter utter dogshit at what they are supposed to do.

Without being Maidstoned Lite, I suggest you need to completely re-address how you interact with social media.

You are like someone's grandma that has just discovered it.

Missing literally and whatever...probably paedo and douche, as well.

I read that the whole event started at 19.00 with the live segment at 21.00. What I can't make out is whether these people outside had tickets but had already been bumped by freeloaders filling the capacity or just simply didn't have tickets in the first place.

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Probably about 30 years ago I had a habit that when someone was talking to me, every now and then I would say 'sure" to let them know I understood what they were talking about. Very common in the States.
I should have known better but when back in London I'd still be in the habit. It took me a few conversations where someone would get offended or defensive for me to remember that growing up, if you thought someone was exaggerating or telling a porkie you'd come out with a long drawn out sarcastic 'Shhurre" or a, "yeah shhure."

More rozzer-blaming: https://twitter.com/fufuisonme/statu...17719749906432

This is a shame.


Do white people have to protest separately?

I think the saying, "Are you sure?" used to be a bit of a saying in England before I left. Hard to put into context or to spell it out how it was said but it was said dripping with sarcasm.

News article on the subject:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/17/busin...trp/index.html

I am sure there are many airlines worse than UAL, I am surprised they are this bad. It is almost like BA. Hope you didn’t get charged for the call, which is adding insult to injury.

Did it get sorted in the end. My cousin who flew from Budapest to Bangalore in August via Scare France, got reunited with his luggage after 3 months. Strikes was the reason given to him and no compensation.

I was offered this when I was in New York recently, and I did ask a lady behind the counter if she gets any money from my tip and she refused to answer, so I paid in cash and tipped her. I also avoided ‘card charges’

That robotic voice off the 'Just Eat' adverts :hmph:.

They finally answered after 80 minutes.... and it was a call centre in India. The woman could not help us because the baggage ticket number was "not in the system". Later yesterday, Jnr did receive an email stating that they were still looking for the bag, but I have the distinct feeling he will never see it again.

I'm sure you can find worse airlines than United if you look hard enough and travel to, should we say "less developed" areas of the world than the USA, but for a "main stream" airline, from my experience, you would struggle to find a more incompetent one. Shitty old planes (certainly on domestic USA routes), miserable tired unhelpful staff and a general inability to take off and land according to schedules (see shitty old planes).

Just Eat.

O2 Have previous.

Happened at this years C2C with serious numbers gate crashing but thankfully no casualties.

Some years ago I stupidly flew United , after 5 hours sitting on the runway at Heathrow due to their utter disorganisation, we finally took off to San Francisco only to be told they had forgotten to load food and drinks. 14 hours on a plane with water and a large bar of chocolate to feed the wife and I.

Depends how big the bar was, surely?
https://live.staticflickr.com/4110/4...f0d90ede_z.jpg

Myself...Don't ever take the spring wire holding the rubber door seal of a washing machine off, without the thought of how the **** you're going to get it back on first.

Thank you for holding, your call is very important to us :)

It sure does look like United have gone down.

Hope your son’s luggage does arrive eventually in one piece

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It sure does look like United have gone down.
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Wishful thinking

Are you sure?

If you knew all that......

I didn't book the flights did I.
I was told by the Mrs to leave them to it. So I did.

I rest my case... :rolleyes:

Miriam Margolyes. What an absolute c~nt.

Agreed, she's not one of my faves. Vulgar

Cu*tess1

Is or has ?

I have seen your post on her before.

Don't ever watch the Graham Norton episode that has Stephen Fry fawning all over her every word. I reckon you'd smash the TV.

"There are no words.......words words words"

Thank you.

I did think I'd posted about her before but had just read an interview in the Times that made me want to set fire to everything ever.

Exactly this

Just waiting to see if WCB puts Margolyes in the guilty fancies chat

Yep. Similarly: "Wow, just wow", followed by lots of other comment.

Also, I'm noticing things aren't just resonating with people, but people are now resonating with things:

e.g. "I'm resonating with what you just said."

Arriving at the station today to find it closed without notice until Jan 3rd due to staffing overtime ban. The thing is - its an unmanned station.

I think it was the Argentinian manager yesterday who said (in Spanish), "I'm speechless" then proceeded to ramble on for 5 minutes!

Disclaimer: this didn't, nor doesn't annoy me, just passing comment.

There is no such thing as a speechless Argentinian.

So it would seem!

Not annoying as such but there isn't another thread on the Brixton Academy incident. I've only just read that another woman has died - this time a security guard. The other one was a mother of two who had tickets. Such a waste of lives.

Wise words from the Mrs. We learn through many frustrations that instead of heading their parents advice, our kids often do the polar opposite. Or they ask our advice about something they have already gone and done - as if expecting approval.

FWIW as you are much older than me, I will heed your advice and never book with United. Thanks Pops.

Hold up, I thought you were leaving them to it. It looks an awful lot like your are changing their nappies and using the wetwipes after they have made a big mess.

A genuine annoyance - getting close to an impotent rage. Our neighbours and friends had their house burgled last night. They are 86 and 89. They don't have very much. The scummers stole jewellery and a couple of old TVs. They even stole some sheets, and a beer that was in the fridge.

How do you sort these people out without getting killed or doing prison time yourself. I am a measly, lanking twat but I really want to do some feckin head stomping here.

We have been with the old couple most of the day and my wife is over there now. Setting up neighbourhood watch now and meeting with the mayor etc.. Our mayor is pretty anti-government on this kind of shite. A government that are obsessed with human rights for arseholes. Our police here are exactly like Chief Wiggum. I have seen them queueing at food trucks more often than I have seen them patrolling the streets.

Yeah burglary is genuinely one of the most despicable crimes there is.

And the goalkeeper.

Yes, it probably was him thinking about it.

The flight bookings… that’s what they were left to themselves to do.
As for helping to retrieve the missing bags? What would you do if it were your kids?

Being told Happy holidays every five mins in the USA You say happy Diwali Happy Hanukkah and Eid Mubarak why can’t you say Happy Christmas ?

I doubt my kids have the get up and go to find the airport.

Anyhoo they'll never learn if you are constantly holding their hand. Your tetchy guilt trip doesn't work on me. Though something to pass the time with the call hold on loudspeaker I guess.

Thank you for your sage advice Peter. It is most comforting.

Do you mind if I continue to be annoyed if a service provider puts me (or anyone) on hold for 80 minutes? That being the reason for the original annoyance before your parental consulting services barged their way into the issue. I wouldn't want to fall foul of another PeterH designated misdemeanour.

You can. Even Merry Christmas.

As it is Christmas...

But in 2023, please remember to check in with me first. Then we can avoid all this unpleasantness.

Has the Daily Mail hacked your account? I've said happy Christmas to a few people already this year and afaik I'm not in jail yet.

I assume it’s because thanksgiving exists, and the WASPs decided to start lumping it and Christmas in together as one ‘holiday season.’ The Jews, Hindus and Muslims are innocent parties in this ordeal who are entitled to have their holidays (which are also far less secular and more important than Christmas is to Christians) considered separate. Not that you’ll get arrested and thrown in jail if you say happy Christmas, though.