And I apologise for my part in it genuinely. I’m not taking the piss, I honestly apologise. Four people have taken exception to my breathing, I haven’t tried to wind them up just got laid into for my lack of the grasp of the English language, and I’m a Crybin and I don’t even know what one of them is.

Mate I’m not slightly rattled what is your problem, your the one throwing abusive language not me little boy.

Oops.

See what I mean the guy comes on a thread trolls me then jumps off, you got to laugh.

Or cry.

Someone that Cries a lot and their posts are archived straight to the Bin.

In your case trust me laugh you really think I’m rattled or crying ? I’m merely pointing out you a little boy.

Not that you have ever been party to any of that whiteflight.

For sure.

Do you care, though?

Look all this is doing is winding up people, who want to chat so let’s just leave it don’t call me foul names and agree to disagree, you keep away from me and I’ll do the same for you. And no I don’t want to be your mate.

I someimes take travel insurance out if we are travelling to some country where there is a highish risk of picking up something nasty, getting assaulted, or getiing injured in some form of dodgy transport.

Just for the health costs and repatriation fees.

Whether that turns out to be an utter crock when you are bleeding on some hospital floor, who knows. I suppose I kid myself with peace of mind.

I feel fire insurance might come in handy with the ever increasing drought.

Things that annoy you
 

I must have really cut you deep; we were mates a few minutes ago.

You cry a lot.

Are you just trying to be a wanker or is that your actual self?

Just can’t leave it ok have it your way little boy. Why don’t you go back to your other hobby , you know the one the box of tissues is for next to your keyboard.

Yeah, I get the "peace of mind" bit, but as the original thing if annoyance above exampled, you might (actually this is insurance companies we're talking about - you will most definitely) be fooling yourself.

Fire insurance - would that be possible or would it be voided with some wankery "act of god" clause?

It is me. I search out certain poster who don't do themselves any favours on the BBS. It's one of my hobbies.

I also think it is my duty to help make sure the BBS doesn't become a faceache clone.

You charge around the BBS like a bull(shitter) in a china shop.

You get called out for it. More the fun cause we can imagine the pink rising up your neck.

Every single time.

Make bold statements , for sure. Be prepared to own them when they are critiqued.

Crying? :lux:

Yep, you're a wanker! :jerkit:


You freely admitted on another thread that you have no interest in football and post on here for other reasons. Wanker!

Classic Gormless :lux:

Your turn to have a pop at him. I have a few family jobs to do.

He left a few droppings on the Virus thread, if you could see to them.

He likes to be called White Flight BTW.

I didn't say that. That makes you thick or a liar.

I have an avid interest in Crystal Palace, and I enjoy other football sometimes.

Don't make things up because you are gormless White Flight.

Gormy's not worth the effort. It's all too easy.

But, but, but...

...he is regaling us all with how he once said 'hi' to Eric Clapton at the airport, and thus knows all about him.

I think he believes his own bullshit. Shouldn't we help pull him out of it before he suffocates in the stench?

F*cking hell, it's classic classroom bully stuff!

What a bunch of c*nts you two are.

"Gormless" and now "Whiteflight"?

Any more childish epithets to throw about because that's what real racists do.

F*cking hell, Chile must be a f*cking shithole if the both of you have nothing better to do!!

You really are a couple of wankers!!!

See Peter? Told you it was too easy. It's like a red rag to a bull.

Jeez, in my day delinquents were sent to Feltham, it seems it’s Chile now…

Not bothered but biting like f~ck.

No, it's a wanker:jerkit: gesture to a couple of tossers who live in Chile and frankly should get into their forums rather than being a couple of c*nts on here. :bash:

I passed my test in 77 when I was still in full time education and it was a thing back then. Travel for Education was treated the same as commuting to work and it cost more.

I’m genuinely amazed you have never heard of it, I can’t recall a single policy I’ve ever had that didn’t make the distinction.

Weird. :confused:

But you can get a policy that covers you driving to work, right?

Just pay extra I assume. Is it not covered if you have fully comprehensive insurance?

Ah, Now I remember why I stopped coming on here

WTF? Pete may choose to be a bit argumentative on here but to suggest he has no interest in football is utter bollocks.

I’ve bumped into him at both home and away games for many years, even once since he buggered off to South America.

No interest in football?

Lol

So bump into him again and advise him to stop being a f*cking wanker right now, with pathetic posts and talk about football and Palace in particular, once again!

This one of the quieter days.:D

F*cking hell, I must visit when it gets busy.


Always up for a verbal ruck - must be my inner Irish coming out!

My last comment
The age of the combatants seems to be between 50 and 60
I have visions of them waving their walking sticks at their computer screens
I'm 66 and prefer a quiet life
Night Night

I'm 63 and not dead yet!:D

Haven't you got a certificate hanging on your wall that needs polishing?

Yes it does, for me in my old job to get a parking permit I had to produce my insurance to prove I was covered for commute to work, only then I would be issued.

It is the automatic renewal that catches you out, when they send that email with quotes it looks cheaper than last year and you have to make sure commute to work is included as they normally take it out to make it look cheap but it does not have everything you want

Fully comp does not cover commute to work

I heard of hire and reward, and using your car FOR work, but I have never heard of not being covered to commute.

Same year as me, plus I was living in Stony Stratford Milton Keynes at the time. Used to drive to work on full comp insurance, especially if rostered on the weekend and would drive to 88 Fenchurch St and park in the Office underground car park.... then go to the Palace game in the arvo, in my 71 Austin Cambridge lol!! .

Do not recall any clause re commuting.... Full comp was full comp, got mine through an insurance broker as well.

How many times did you comprehensively study your insurance policy over those years?

My toaster, for two reasons...

1. A slice of bread doesn't fit in. Who designed and tested this? Surely a basic requirement for a toaster

2. It has a toasting setting from 1-7. 1 is lighted toasted, 2 is fully toasted and everything a fraction above 2 is cremated.

Does it have a "To the Queen!" setting?

Yes, it's odd that.

Weirdly, it does

Then all is well :D

Not if I actually want my bread converted into toast though

Don't think I ever read it... Doubt if many under 25s ever bother. I did do a rear ender on the New Cross one way system around 1978 in my upgraded Renault 16TS...again on a weekend shift... But this time back to my flat in Peckham.... No insurance issues.

As I said earlier, my policies always said 'Social, Domestic and Pleasure plus travel to one fixed place of work'. But I went through a broker, who I seem to remember way back mid-70s asked me if I would be driving to work; I said 'yes' (didn't everyone drive to work?), so perhaps it was added.

I thought it was just a throwaway question, but maybe not, as it was always specifically part of my policies. I never realised that it had probably been added.

The subtle difference is to and from work, or for work.

I'm genuinely feeling this - my toaster has developed a very real and very tangible hatred of crumpets, leaving them either basically untouched or turned into hockey pucks. There is no in between unless I stand guard over it, which feels like far too much effort.

I'm umming and ahhhing over buying one of those fancy Japanese Ballmuda steam toasters to replace it which I'm sure won't be a five minute wonder like the rest of my kitchen gadgets.

Set it on 2.

Add me, its always been an option, recall it on the old fashioned written cover notes as tick boxes.

I get a third party to do it.

Yep that's really irritating, I do this half way toast so number 1 on the burn scale and turn the toast around when it pops up as the bottom half of the toaster is emitting more heat than the top, still not evenly toasted. Might go old school and use the grill!

Just googled proper toaster, so adding to the annoyance thread all the Google results are these fake top 5/10/20 advertorial review websites that are nothing more than affiliate links - and advert trackers

Direct Line and Churchill (same company so not surprising) include commuting in their Social, Domestic & Pleasure definition, so it's not explicitly stated.

The boffins that design toasters need to go to their local supermarket and buy a few loaves of bread from popular brands to get the measurements

The boffins that design toasters probably do that to be fair, but the Chinese etc don't have quite the same penchant for Mother's Pride sized loaves

Sorry for another American bashing one but it’s probably a minority: some people pronounce why and when like h-why and h-wen. It’s not at all subtle and sounds like an attempt to sound intellectual

Sounds fine if you’re Irish but doesn’t work with the various American accents imo

Having to deal with people at work that act like children

Having to deal with incompetent management at work. Managers who got where they are through crawling. Managers who've never had quality training, and really don't get what it means to be Managers. Glory hunters who get rich off other peoples efforts.

In my life I've had very few good managers. My current bos is probably the best ever.

And I thought it was just my fecking one. :D

Morphy Richards by chance?

Firefox (again). About 6 months ago after an update all the background for drop down menus went black with white lettering.... I hated it, but after 6 month I'd got used to it.

Yesterday I let it do another update and low and behold the drop down menus have gone back to black letters on a white background.

Now I hate this and want to go back to white on black. Searched the settings inside out (as I did before) and can't find a way to change this.

Why can't these people leave stuff alone FFS!

So you come here :eek:;)

I think the toaster stuff should have a thread of its own, it feels like an old school BBS subject :D

I see old town Eagle on here, did you ever go to the old town boys club above the fire station?

Few weddings there as well.

Yours as well? Even crumpets only require No.4.

And why don't they do a compartment that can take 2 slices + filling so I can do my Cheese and Onion toastie?

They do but they’re a bit bigger and the other way round. Otherwise everything would fall out due to, err, gravity :)

https://www.breville.co.uk/sandwich-makers/

I find they’re not big enough for crumpets and they get stuck when toasting so when late in the morning there is a choice; risk death by using a knife to prod them out or be late? Modern tech solved that one too (turning off the plug also works but weirdly seems more effort than using a tool).

https://www.ebay.co.uk/b/Plastic-Coo...49/bn_17744367

Had a few of those sandwich makers. They are useless. Most only take small loaf size anyway. I meant ones like the sandwich bars have where you lower the sandwich clamped in a wire frame into the toaster. Make great toasties. I want one of those.

Crumpets are fine in my DeLonghi, though.

The dilemma before leaving the house. Will a number 1 suffice or better to wait for a number 2.

Those conveyor belt toasters in hotels are useless too. Minimum of 2 times through whilst everyone queues up behind you, tutting about the smoke after you misjudge the need for a third run

Much maligning of toasters, but has anyone considered the other item in the equation? The bread. Bread with a high water content- the more soft and pliable the higher the water content. This bread will always take longer to toast than a drier bread (or an older soft and pliable slice). Different grains too will toast at different rates.
Another factor is are you using the toaster from cold or has a couple of slices popped out recently? This alone can result in a woefully under toasted slice or equally a burnt husk.

I think you are misjudging the underlying sentiment here with your multiple variables and due consideration.

We all just want our toast and eat it. That we can't is someone else's fault, irrespective of our own input.

That's only because some idiot has changed the speed of the conveyor.

Our Dualit toaster makes toasted sandwiches vertically. It comes with a cage to put the unmade sandwich in so the filling doesn’t fall out - but doesn’t work well with baked beans.

My toaster is fine.

Are you a toaster salesman?:)

I'll settle for a scenario where the slice of bread fits in the toaster

Shouldn’t you buy bread that fits your toaster rather than expecting your toaster to adapt size to fit your bread?

CPFC box office

I should have taken a slice of bread with me when I went toaster shopping instead of naively expecting toaster makers to know how big slices of bread are

So complex that it’s hardly worth the trouble. That’s why I prefer a nice bit of hot crumpet in the morning. :)

The independent consider slot size the first consideration when buying a toaster. A bit like buying a slim fit shirt if you are carrying a few lockdown pounds won’t work well.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.i...881.html%3famp

Russell Hobbs. God, that means they're everywhere :sob:

I think it's more like average adult human purchases clothes advertised as suitable for average adult humans only to discover they were designed for wcb.

kitchen bins. We've got a double bin, left hand side for usual crap, right for recycling. Pedal operated. A couple of months ago, the flimsy plastic "eye" on the inside of the lid snapped off (this is the part that the metal rod that shoots upwards when you tread on the pedal is hooked in to). So now lid doesn't open with the pedal and the only other way to open it is to hook a finger nail under the lid. Yesterday, the right hand one went the same way. Why are things so badly made these days?

I've had a leak on the boundary of my drive for about 3 months. In that time Thames Water have told me that the leak is there side, dug up the isolation Valve, then told me it was my side, turned up again a few weeks later to dig a whole on my side only to stop halfway through because the leak was from their valve, turned up a few weeks after that, dug up their valve, replaced it and refilled the hole only to discover the leak was on my side.

They're here again today, digging up my drive to repair it. I've no water in the house, the kids have emptied all the cisterns, and i need a massive shit.

I personally still miss toasting a nice chunk of bread on a long-handled fork in front of an open fire, with plenty of butter.

I have a knife.
Cunningly, it has the ability to cut bits off that get in the way ;)
Thay way, you also have a tasty piece of uncooked toast to nibble on whilst waiting.

I can only assume you design toasters for a living :supergrin:

Discarded masks in the street everywhere, ffs what is wrong with some people ? Can they not throw them away when they get home ?

Uncooked toast? Is that called bread?:D

I think that's what Aldershot's toaster does.

EFA

It amazes me that people are prepared to spend ridiculous money on a poncy coffee machine to make something you can get better in a café...but **** all on a toaster.

I can only assume it's the lack of man buns and a pretty pinny that puts you off.

Who are these people?