Middle class problems?

Indeed.

Would you not agree that there is a distinct difference between pushing the buttons of some of our resident dimwits on here, and outing really disgusting xenophobic and inhumane abuse on group pages on facebook.

You have a group dedicated to ex pats or immigrants of the 'right' kind. Moneyed, white, living in privileged areas and all aid for by wealth they bought with them or the company they work for. And they feel they have the freedom and absolute right to call those that have travelled across deserts and multiple countries 'scum'.

You know the context. These idiots are, almost to a man or karen, are verbal Trump supporters, and have the bare faced cheek to demonise latino immigrants while living and enjoying the benefits of being an immigrant in a latino country - and whilst making no effort whatsoever to interact with the locals here.

They can be found in Spain, Costa Rica, The Caribbean - all over.

It grinds my gears.

Things happen in threes...
 

My wife's car battery takes a dump. Not any old battery, but one you can only get through the dealer.

Got a nail in tyre in my car... location does not lend itself to repair so have to replace tyre. Apparently "special" tyre that is twice as expensive as the normal one. (as an aside I just drove over 300 miles doing 80 mph for much of the time... not good contemplating what could have happened!)

Took my bike in for a inexpensive Level 1 service. Guy calls me, and the gear train is worn and needs replacing, as does the chain and numinous cables that are stretched.

Turning into an expensive few days.

Always in threes HH

When a bit of biscuit breaks off in your tea mid dunk and then you drink it 2 hours later

The likes of Sky and Amazon doing adverts showing how much they care about the environment. Virtue signalling at its worst

‘Virtue signalling’. A term coined online by the ‘alt-right’ - remember them, an attempt to whitewash neo-fascists - during the 2015/16 period reaching an apogee with those appal,I got frog avatar bio pic things. Many on Twitter proven to be Russian bot accounts.

‘Virtual signalling’, is in fact, another term used by hard right for insulting those trying to do good things or trying to convey good things or practices - usually for the good of the collective rather than individual ‘choice’. They, and their supporters, don’t like like that thing .

For want of a better place to put this...

I'm convinced that at a minimum 10% of the population are stark raving nuts!

I was in the fruit and vegetable section of the market this morning, and their was a guy in there who was opening plastic containers of blueberries and poking them or squeezing them, closing the lid than picking up another container and doing the same. It took him about five minutes of doing this to find one he liked. He then moved on to the pre-packed salads, and was search through them, pulling them out the case and checking out the contents.

Guy had nitrile disposable gloves on and was double masked. Wasn't super old either, probably younger than me... just weird personified.

I guess, but I'm not one for a while yet.

Nut the f*cker

I was attempting a "funny", you daft old goat.

Not defending the term one bit but what you've written isn't true afaik.

I thought they used paraffin for that.

Sweet Potato Fries.

It’s a steak…….just serve CHIPS..:wallbash:

‘Sharenting’ and the word ‘sharenting’

Shart is more like it

What the absolute **** is that about?

Pisses me off the new trend of being asked if I'd like to pay an extra 20p towards charity when paying with my card for petrol at Esso, Shell etc **** off, the nerve of it from companies like them.

Sharenting is the practice of parents publicizing content about their children on internet platforms. ... Proponents frame the practice as a natural expression of parental pride in their children and argue that critics take sharenting posts out of context.

A new one for me as well.

The part I have a problem with is how they get credit and publicity for it when they show the big cheque on TV telethons / like Children In Need etc..

I'm not liking a new trend here of the transaction being done on a sort of iPad and they have big buttons for tipping 15%, 18%, 20% 22% and 25% when they give you the device to sign or approve.

The person can clearly see what tip you are adding (not that they couldn't with the old methods)... I find that a bit impersonal and feel pressured to hit the 20% button.

At least with the old signing a piece of paper you have left the building before they see what tip you left.

I am always super generous because I'm weak and I want people to like me.

Correct.

You could be right. They both taste the same to me.

Feck me - 22% and 25% is getting toppy.

I suppose that doesn't resolve structural problems in the industry. Will just lead to restaurant owners reducing basic even more or not offering a wage at all.

What would be useful is information as to what restaurants and bars are paying their staff. Then people can start to boycott them.

The American Dream.

I used to see a fairly young fellow walking around the barrio swigging this stuff, or something equally extreme, from a plastic bottle. He certainly wasn't older than mid thirties.

Getting an offer of triple nectar points the next time I fill up at an Esso garage. Well worth the 3hr queue.

Don't usually use tea bags. When I do and the little paper tag drops into the hot water really pisses me off.

Serve you right for not using PG Tips tea bags. :rolleyes:

Or any other non poncy tea.

Is there a button for "other" so you can leave 10%? Or less for being chancers offering a 25% option?

I don’t recall. I think you can add no tip… some of the ones I’ve seen are not even tipable services.

Twinings. Normally a leaf man.:angel:

Possibly, but I can't help that! They still annoy me!

Very organised of you to start practising already.

But most petrol stations aren't owned by the oil companies - they sell the oil company's products under a franchise arrangement.

Poncy

Thank you. Not a choice I willingly made. :p

Free prescriptions should probably go on a "Things that make you happy even though they're caused by shit things" thread if such a thing exists. I think I save about £600 a year.

Didn't realise that you were past retirement age.

Copying shit jokes is bad enough, but copying *my* shit jokes should be a hanging offence.

24 years since Brass Eye first aired. You'd think by now i'd be able to write "Nonsense" without having to double check that i've not spelt it "Nonce-sense"

Thanks a lot Chris Morris and Phil Collins

In what is virtually a cashless society getting to a M&S Food Hall and finding that they expect you to have a pound coin with you to use a trolley :mad:

Last time you tasted either?

Tasty Jerk seems popular enough to many and is part of my match day routine. There does seem to be some snobbery about it on here.

It was a joke, soft lad.

That might be down to two things.

It being temporarily closed down to health issues in the past - similar to Timbo's kitchen and worktops, I imagine.

And the owner displying pictures of Man Utd on his wall a stone's throw from Selhurst park.

I am sure the jerk is tasty, though. It has been a long time since I had it. Occasionally, I had the other jerk that was next to Doneagles.

I lived at 39 WHL for more than 10 years.

I remember when Tasty Jerk was a breakfast cafe. Simon and Dom used to have whispering meetings in there.

Saying that, I remember when they sold pie and mash on the corner where the Club Shop now stands. That's going back a bit.

You get free prescriptions from the age of 60, six years before your pension.

If you were paying £600 a year, why didn’t you just get an annual prescription prepayment certificate which only costs about £108?

I'm not paying anything - if I was, I would obviously use prepayment. The £600 p/a is the cost of paying for the prescriptions separately (ie I was using a bit of hyperbole).

Don't you have some goldfinches to trap?

Random Italian players crowing about their penalty kicks victory as a two fingered salute against English yoobs - blah, blah, blah...months after the game.

It is graceless, rent a quoting.

Sky and most other utility suppliers.

After all my deals expired Phone and Broadband went from £24 to £41. Did a compare website and Now TV - owned by Sky £22. Phoned Sky to see if they would match and it was sorry no we cannot offer any discounts at all. So I made the switch 48 hours ago.

One text, one email and two phone calls from $ky since all offering a ******* discount. Not matching it but within £3 but ****-em wouldn't stay with them on principle now ******* bunch of twunts

1. Avoid M&S Foodhall
or
2. Buy a trolley token from Amazon (and you will get a nice 12" square box free for future use).

HTH :D

Or just carry a pound coin (or leave it in the car for shopping trips)

My bird trapping skills are limited to magpies and - back in the early 70’s - bullfinches, both using live catch traps.

The goldfinches are safe on our shores.

Why bullfinches? I can't remember the last time I saw one of them (mind you I never had r-n parakeets, jays, g-s woodpeckers, red foxes, goldcrests, stock doves, blackcaps &c. in the garden until moving to London).

Or buy your own trolley and simply strap it to the roof of your car every time you go shopping.

If you have Bullfinches.......Are there Cuckoldfinches ?

I don't understand this and am fairly sure I don't want to either!

Like it. Straight out of Viz top tips.

I think i've answered my own question as they probably died out as they only watched from afar....

Given the petrol shortages... strap your car to the trolley

This was on the orchards in Kent with my cousins to stop them destroying the fruit buds. There were hundreds back then but, like you, I haven’t seen one for a couple of years.

wcb is a bit of a twitterer.

#eh?

You seem to like your birds.

I like birds as well, but I would have trouble recognising one specific type from another.

That's a twitcher not a twitterer isn't it?

oic - did you mean "twitcher" (not that I'm one of them)? Anyway, Blind knows his stuff about our feathered friends more than I do as did/does NtE.

Ya. My bad.

Wasn't a dig BTW.

Hang on... do you get the pound back if you return the trolley to a designated area like they used to (or still do) at the airport?

If not, this is just another example of my observation that you have to pay for everything little thing in the UK.

Yes you do get it back

Where we had a house in Florida, a new Aldi opened up. It was quite funny to see bewildered Yanks trying to get their "cart" without putting a quarter in the slot.

You could make a few bucks by collecting and returning abandoned trollies too! :D

I had someone swear at me once for not giving them the trolley directly and claiming my token back. The stakes are high in the trolley dash

Poor trolley

Shouldn't. that. be. poor. "Trolley".

I'm pretty sure Hedgers would somehow manage to lose his pound coin, the trolley his shopping/groceries and the car.

Surely if your trolley was freed by a token - costing a few pence - and they give you a pound for your trolley then you are almost a quid in?

I see an opportunity there. :)

[Edit: you live in the Land of the Fat now, ignore that, it may well be different.]

Hotel rooms like a sauna with AC that doesn't work. It's October and it feels like I'm in peak summer. Betty swollocks city.

I'm sorry you have such a low opinion of my prowess to survive in this crazy world. :hi:

Take it easy mate. I see on the other thread you have become a psycopath. PM meif you wanna talk.

Is that your workstrop impression?

Are you saying he is the current Trolley?

Trolley is Trolley.

Or if you go to Klan on Line he is Willow.

Had my mad paranoid brother in law around last night. If we had stayed in the EU we would all have been german in a few years. They dont get that being an usland limits your country and we need the EU

I’d quite like to learn German :D

It is a pretty sad state of affairs though that out of 28 member countries, 26 could easily manage to maintain their individual identity and sovereignty, whilst it is only us lily-livered British who would be powerless to resist being subsumed into Germany. That is annoying.

Thank goodness we had the terminally weak-minded to administer our collective cyanide pill

I think a quid for a trolley is pretty cheap although in terms of everyday use, it has limitations. We therefore make a returnable deposit to use them while shopping. Coincidentally, not so many end up in streams and canals nowadays.

Not at all, young Hedgers. You seem to be an excellent fellow but a bit of a Jonah.

Trolley is a state of mind

As is Trolleyed

:)

Manure occupying this werkend's most watchable time slot for those of us viewing in Australia. On a positive note, Wankstain7 isn't playing.

Yep.

I had fairly high hopes that ESPN might have got excited by our style of play under Vieira and covered Palace Leicester as an interesting game to watch. It looks like we will be missing out in Chile.

We had the Monday game, and we will have the Arsenal game. Fairs fair, I suppose.

But I'm having a whale of a time....

We all speak German in our house, like a schnitzel and the Mrs makes an outstanding strudel. Bring it on.

People who pontificate ”aha this is typical of the problems that Vieira had at Nice” when we are losing, and then have nothing positive to say when we bounce back.

The tit in front of me doing helicopter chants at the Leicester fans.

That's shocking.

Disgusting

What a ridiculous ****.

Season ticket holder?