Ya see, I clearly remenber you pompously pointing out to me on the BBS that you never post on the client's time.

It is that short term forgetfulness on your part that has had me concerned over the last year or so.

I think i might be worth your while getting a check up.

Or at least eat more nuts and fish. Would you do that for me Maz, please.:love:

A shame you forgot the detail, I never claimed that. I own my companies ; all of my time is my own to police.

Anyhoo.

I have the rats today.

My better half should be in the dentist's chair right now resolving something that is beyond urgent. Instead, she is moping in bed.

That means that I will get the brunt of her personal angst today.

I have already broken up some egg shells and laid them around the house and garden.

Ooooh you little fibber.

I paraphrase perhaps, but you said you don't post on client's time.

You know full well I am not going to look across countless threads and post to catch you out. I don't bookmark posts like certain others.

Did they teach ethics at Oxford?

Moral Philosophy, you mean.


Shame they didn't teach you How To Admit You Are Wrong; I haven't been paid for my time now for over two decades.

Being told we have to pay a 3 lukas ($5) invoice that is not due until the end of November otherwise the bank giving the buyer of our apartment his mortgage will decide that we are in debt and call the whole transaction off.

Banks here are the most c#untish I have ever had to deal with and real estate agents jump at the slightest request from them - actually the whole ******* population do. So the banks dont feel any need to address their appalling customer service and abuse of power.

Bastard ******* gout in the ankle. The ****.

Being Wednesday we went for lunch at a local restaurant and were surprised to find a £5.30 service charge on the cost of a bottle of wine that was basically dumped in a bucket of ice alongside us still unopened.

They also believed it was perfectly acceptable to serve the brandy and coffees before the dessert and still happily charge us 12.5% service on the whole meal despite their numerous cock ups.

Yet another restaurant down here that has moved to including service charge on the bill, to cover shit service, knowing most people will just pay the bill.

That just means that you were lying when you 'scored points' telling me hat you don't post on the BBS on client's time.

That's not a good look - making things up to score clever little points.

I had you down as a honest poster - but you might as well be selling baby milk powder to the Chinese.

Can you refuse to pay the service charge?

I had to be escorted out of the branch of one when I was trying to finalise my last sale.

The bank workers live in the same corporative fantasy bubble their bosses have created. They actually don't get why their policies and rip offs are so frustrating to regular people.

And this my friend should be what part of the new constitution should be about.

I think Costa Pete might be able to trump us on a banking abuse story.

Yes, and despite my moaning on here I paid in full knowing that this venue does at least pay all the tips to the staff.

Is the 12.5% in lieu of tip? (Edit: just saw your post above)

I'm always amazed at what restaurants can charge for corkage (is that the right word for when you bring your own wine?). We were somewhere recently and they wanted $25 to pop the cork. Not for us I should add.

Christmas TV commercials in October.

Same here, some may remember the bank wanting up to 20% to process a bankers draft from the sale of our house.

I told the current Mrs Maidstoned that we should get a bank transfer instead as that's free, so that's what we asked for.

Come the day if the transaction there are 6 of us at the Notary for a 10am appointment, the problem was that a representative from the buyers Bank has to attend to authenticate the transfer... in person...at 11am the buyer called her bank to be told the rep was on their way......at 12 they called again to be told the same thing, at 1:30 the notary called the bank to explain they close at 2pm....the rep appeared at 1:45, without any apologies.

Why would you tip the staff if they get the service wrong?
I'm coming to work for you, if you habitually reward incompetence. :p

Is that an admission that you are habitually incompetent ? :supergrin:

Generally not, but I can make a special effort for Blind's loose change.

It’s a deterrent is it not? So it’s not surprising that it’s high.

Peter, I remember you admitting that you lied all the time on here. Of course I can’t be arsed to actually find the post where you said that.

See what I did there?

If a restaurant doesn't have a license I thought byob was encouraged.

It all.depends, many places I have used in the past (usually Thai or other Asian places) don't have a drinks licence and so you are told to bring your own. A few of them (ones I haven't been back to) have charged corkage.

In fairness I was referring to restaurants that did have a license.

In fairness you didn't make that clear...but then neither did hodgeheg.

No I didn't. You are very very fair.

Not that I give a tinker's cuss, but would you and stephe normally write "licence" in this case?

More importantly, but more for another thread, I did not know it was possible to get gout in the ankle. Wolfie must be even richer than he'd previously led us all to believe.

I apologise.

The way the Halifax bank employee kicks the football on the halifax advert that airs 10 times an evening.

Self entitled black cab drivers.

Is there any other sort?

No need to apologise/apologize, unlike everyone involved in the Halifax advert mentioned by Tony Montana.

Half opened packet of Cous Cous fell out of the top cupboard, packet burst and sprinkled millions of its grains every bloody where. Devastation.

Middle class kitchen disaster.

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Any middle class kitchen worth its cous cous surely has a Dyson to deal with such quandaries?

Timbo just leaves it here for the pet cockroaches.

I'm pretty sure there is a thread from the pre-Brexit olden days saying that Dyson products are far too gauche for proper middle class types.

I think that’s what happened, but Mrs Bubbs shewed me away and dealt with it while I rocked in the corner.

... having to look up what Cous Cous is.

Very different to cuscus (this one appears to be eating a carambola):

https://www.australiangeographic.com...uscus-sm-1.jpg

Gout in the toe is for the plebs mate.

in a similar vein, the way the mother runs alongside her son and the black horse after she lets him go without his stabilizers. Her gait is annoying.

Almost makes it pointless taking your own wine doesn't it at that price - unless you brought in a bottle of vinegar purporting to be wine and thus only costing $5. Actually that reminds me of the time a bloke at work used to do booze cruises to France and offered to bring crates back at decent prices. I bought one off him and didn't know any different until a French visitor told me we had a crate of cooking wine.

A bit rich isn't it to charge corkage when you can't provide the alcohol yourself anyway. Maybe they charge £27 for a bottle of 2012 Pepsi otherwise?

I know this sounds incredibly unlikely, but could it perhaps be the case that the johnny crapaud in question was a massively insular snob? Bof!

Apologize surely?

I never apologize.

Yeah, but they didn't.

For the me in the same ad(Lloyds Bank) it’s the smug voiceover

My present employer’s Human Resources department. Lazy and incompetent. I might fire a subject access request over their bows just to see if they are awake.

HR in general, only there to protect the companies ARSE

Our HR reps seem to be promoted every year. Not entirely sure they’ve earned it but they all manage one another and endlessly put each other forward to move up through the ranks.

Everyone who works in HR is a c*nt.
In over forty years of work, I've never been dissuaded from this view. Absolute f*cking bellends.

Camden's new parking app and booking line.
It wasn't broken, you f*cking idiots.

Having my eligibility for the Covid booster questioned

Channel 5's 'All Creatures Great and Small'. F**k me, it's bad.

So well past your sell by date they reckoned it wasn't worth the effort? Or so spritely they reckoned there's more deserving cases?

The Guardian. F**k me, etc..

No idea at all. They asked me at the hospital if I was staff. Ending up having to show them my transplant clinic paperwork.

The price of tickets for gigs these days. F.....

You are ten trillion per cent wrong. You would love it is was in Korean and full of trannies no doubt, you Camden hipster.

I love an old British movie or TV drama. This was just shit.
Unfortunately, the Mrs enjoys this sort of bollocks.

Talk to the hand while waxing your moustache, hipster. It was jolly good indeed. It's even had coloured folks in it to try to keep people like you happy.

In Yorkshire, in the 1930s? Were they chained together?

Charlie Williams was born in 1927, and I know it's the other side of the Pennines but Dixie Dean was a full two decades older.

I was jesting.

Those flags when Arsenal score.

. . . and the anti-climax when the camera zooms in to reveal the fella with the ball isn't one of Gareth's finest :hmph:

Thanks, Al.

I only found out recently that our Charlie was not only the first black comedian of note in the UK but also one of the first black football pros, playing for the then mighty Doncaster Rovers.


I do remember well his famous response to hecklers; "If you don't shut up, I'll come and move in next door to you".

Football Focus did a Cult Heroes thing for all 92 clubs many years ago and Williams was Donny's pick. I can't remember who Palace's one was though, shamefully. Wright, probably, but should have been Austin for his clapping prowess.

Haha, I thought the exact same thing. Shite

Pleased to oblige

Cars in this day and age where the headlights don't turn off automatically when you take the key out of the ignition. Bloody hire car flat battery bollocks

Thinking back on it the wine was pretty bad so may well have been as stated.

Even my 21 year old Mitsubishi has a noise to warn if you've left your lights on

It was in a big multistorey and fortunately the security guy had a car battery and some jump leads for just such occasions, so all sorted in ten minutes with a donation of a couple of pints. Nice people out there :)

Congratulations on almost achieving a sequence of your own posts to rival Peter H.

Mrs Richard is also a big fan of the Channel 5 ACGAS. I have contented myself with tutting along and saying that it isn't as good as the Christopher Timothy, Robert Hardy, Peter Davidson, Carol Drinkwater version, but I have to confess that this imposter has grown on me - partly because (for aficionados of the books) James Herriot actually has a Scottish accent in this version - although that may be the televisual equivalent of Stockholm Syndrome.

Always remember my huge gratitude to the staff at Southampton Airport's short stay car park who could not have been more helpful in similar circumstances a few years ago.

Ditto the lifeguards at Coral Bay, Paphos in 2002 for our Kia 'gizzit'.
I'd turned the lights on to go through the tunnel under Episkopi and didn't turn them off.

Modern taps with ceramic washers.

Why is the lock nut always done up with a comedy off-the-scale torque setting whilst simultaneously being fashioned of peanut brittle?

Even the plumbers I know shrug their shoulders and say "Don't mess about with cartridges, just replace the whole thing".

Fixing a dripping tap is now much harder than it used to be.

Everything has become more difficult than it used to be. Too many people who've been brought up using computers for every little thing are in charge now of running jobs, which they have absolutely no hands on experience of doing.
"The critical path on the computer says, this job should have been completed yesterday."
"Yes, but we've had four weeks of snow."
"But the computer says. . . "

The Trailers on every selection on Netflix and Prime I am finding myself speed reading the description to try and beat the trailer starting.

Another one cannot remember what soppy film we watched on Netflix with Denzel Washington about a kidnapped kid, but the main picture for the film was a ******* spoiler!

Soppy - Man on Fire?

TBH Deciding to produce and put out Queen Latifah as a female version of The Equalizer is pushing things a bit, even for those who couldn't give a toss either way.

Why?

Getting an email from an electronic store that I have bought various things from over the years telling me that I have reward points accumulated that will expire at the end of the year.

I try and log into my account but have forgotten my password, go through a whole process to get a new password, get logged in finally to see I have 213 points, and "just another 37 points needed to get $5 off my next purchase".... FFS!

Welcome to life at Carrow Road.

Very good! :supergrin:

Donald Trump Jnr

The thread title is things that annoy you. Not things that annoy everyone.

He’s like the slimey douchebag bully with a rich daddy in every 80s teen movie ever.

Should she have been a male version instead? Last time I checked she was still a woman albeit fond of comfortable shoes.

I was thinking about this. I would love to see a situation where he comes face to face with Alex Baldwin. Should make that PPV.

I am not personally convinced she has the skills to take out serious bad guys that need equalising.

Unless she is going to 'whatever' them to death.

As I say, it is not my market. I just wonder whose market it is actually aimed at.

"Hi, I'm Jack from Verisure Alarms"...."No worries, we are here to protect"

Finding out my pc is obsolete after les than a year

They are not just sure, they are very sure. You should be proportionately extra scared of bunglers getting in if you replied "I'm alright Jack", because Jack knows...

Really? How so?

Self centred ***** like the woman who sat at the table next to us listening to a personal business message on the loudspeaker of her phone for 15 minutes, ignoring comments and requests from us and staff members asking her to turn it down or off.

Should have blocked her WiFi

Always works