Rant of the day.

[onesea]

2 hours ago, Simon Davey said:

Just like the ol' days. 

Except the other town is the place to live, second home owners with Range-rovers BMWS Teslas merc’s that don’t know how to park drive over blocking the pavements & car park streets etc.
Standing around isles talking, the Tescos no longer sells the basics just Tesco’s best.  It’s no longer a quick stop.

 

We live in an ex council house with workmen and builders as neighbours.   The difference between the towns is like night and day.

House prices go up 20%+ between the 2 towns on streets back to back.

They are the town that rejected having Argos on the high street as too lower class, recommending they have one in our town instead.  We didn’t get an Argos they got a pound shop.

 

When my daughter is with me some parents won’t let there kids come round because it’s not safe. Yet the statistics say something different.

 

well I guess that’s my rant of the day!

[husoi]

A place without Argos, Aldi or Lidl?

 

That's called paradise

[RideWithStyles]

Ours weren’t to bad years go but definitely changed the last few years, gotten to the point now that most people and businesses don’t want to send out important through PO.

especially bad when they employ a person as a postie in our area that either couldn’t/wouldnt read the the addresses on the mail and randomly put them through different houses or totally different streets…..

[Nick the wanderer]

19 hours ago, husoi said:

A place without Argos, Aldi or Lidl?

 

That's called paradise

Nothing wrong with a Lidl.. Or as we like to call it, L'deli 

[Old-codger]

I love Lidl where else can you do your weekly shop and buy a plasma cutter and a paddleboard all in one go. 

[bonio]

On 30/07/2024 at 13:11, husoi said:

A place without Argos, Aldi or Lidl?

 

That's called paradise

Come on down mate. This place is made for you. 

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

Today we set off on a 28 mile cycle ride which finished by crossing a ferry just down the road from where we set off. Except when we got there ....no ferry. So we had to retrace our route as there's no other crossing for miles.

 

But the consolation was that we went back via a local brewery who do an excellent ale. Except when we got there....and I thought the barman was joking at first.....they had no beer! 

 

 

[Simon Davey]

1 minute ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

Today we set off on a 28 mile cycle ride which finished by crossing a ferry just down the road from where we set off. Except when we got there ....no ferry. So we had to retrace our route as there's no other crossing for miles.

 

But the consolation was that we went back via a local brewery who do an excellent ale. Except when we got there....and I thought the barman was joking at first.....they had no beer! 

 

 

 

Don't bother with the lottery tonight then. 

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

20 minutes ago, Simon Davey said:

 

Don't bother with the lottery tonight then. 

I never do. I never win things. 

 

I did once. I won an electric fuel pump for model aircraft in a club raffle. I didn't need it at the time so it sat on my spares shelf for years. Until the day came I needed it, and then I found it ran backwards.  

[Mickly]

25 minutes ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

I never do. I never win things. 

 

I did once. I won an electric fuel pump for model aircraft in a club raffle. I didn't need it at the time so it sat on my spares shelf for years. Until the day came I needed it, and then I found it ran backwards.  

I know how you feel, the last time I won anything it was 2 tickets to a Leamington FC match, I told the Lady on the phone to donate them to someone else less privileged who might appreciate them more, I was taking the piss but she was very grateful.

[Fiddlesticks]

2 hours ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

Today we set off on a 28 mile cycle ride which finished by crossing a ferry just down the road from where we set off. Except when we got there ....no ferry. So we had to retrace our route as there's no other crossing for miles.

 

But the consolation was that we went back via a local brewery who do an excellent ale. Except when we got there....and I thought the barman was joking at first.....they had no beer! 

 

 

I must have been cycling in your general area... Decided to get the train as far as Chester and ride the 26 miles to work.

Somehow I forgot I'm 50, not 30 anymore.

 

Currently collapsed in a heap at Chester waiting for the train to take me the last 20 miles home.

Edited July 31, 2024 by Fiddlesticks

[onesea]

My rant of a day is this a cycling or motorcycling forum. 

 

He says from a boat that is not a Gin palace and has not been near a tanker all day @S-Westerly

[Fozzie]

Got a rant about silly teams based courses. There was one the other week where I spent 2 hours being told how to deal with members of staff who get cosmetic surgery, and then want to pretend no changes have been made. Likely referring to an incident with a chap who left the company, he had a hair transplant then claimed he never had been bald. Deleted photos off social media of any where he wasn't wearing a hat. I challenged that people like that clearly had mental health issues going on, as people spotting it was inevitable, so they should be reached out to, not tip toed around.

 

Then one of the girls presenting said men are harsher than women about the subject, to which I countered that every time I've learnt a co-worker had their teeth done, or an old school friend had their legs extended, even hearing ex's having botox/fillers, it has always come from girls. Guys tend to be more open with their ribbing, but girls more gossipy. Got told I was generalising and replied "so were you?". Came away from the course thinking how in 6 months, there will be another one arguing the exact opposite of what I was just told. It's the law of over sensitive souls, there's no one way to make everyone comfortable. 

 

And I could write a 3 page essay on the goings on at work. Or rather, what isn't going on. And I drop into the projects sometimes a bit flustered as engineers are refusing to do stuff that is technically not in their scope, but it's so f**king close, and would take so little time, I just despair at the amount of wasted time. 

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

Why do people buy large items on ebay that are clearly marked as collection only and then check to see how far it is to pick up?

 

I had something advertised that I wanted to get rid of. A guy bought it. Then he asked if it was the right size for what he needed. Then he decided he had to travel 270 miles so could I post it?

 

[curlylegend]

We advertised an electric oven that we'd bought but hardly used. Sure enough a guy turned up, had a good look at it then asked if we could plug it in so that he could see it was working. Which I duly did.

While it was warming up he went out to his van and came back with an uncooked chicken and proceeded to stuff it into the oven. He wanted to make sure it could cook a chicken. I asked him if he was going to wait until it was cooked and he replied " Would you mind ?"

At that point I pulled the plug and told him if he was going to cook his chicken there it would be only after he'd bought the oven and made a contribution towards the electricity.

He then asked how much of a discount he was going to get.....

[AstronautNinja]

1 minute ago, curlylegend said:

We advertised an electric oven that we'd bought but hardly used. Sure enough a guy turned up, had a good look at it then asked if we could plug it in so that he could see it was working. Which I duly did.

While it was warming up he went out to his van and came back with an uncooked chicken and proceeded to stuff it into the oven. He wanted to make sure it could cook a chicken. I asked him if he was going to wait until it was cooked and he replied " Would you mind ?"

At that point I pulled the plug and told him if he was going to cook his chicken there it would be only after he'd bought the oven and made a contribution towards the electricity.

He then asked how much of a discount he was going to get.....

Is this actually true? The man came to cook a chicken? did he buy it? Could it indeed cook a chicken? 

[curlylegend]

1 minute ago, AstronautNinja said:

Is this actually true? The man came to cook a chicken? did he buy it? Could it indeed cook a chicken? 

Please ! Would I lie ?   Yes that's exactly what happened.  He did buy it but without a discount and got the hint to pack up toute suite and f*ck off.

[husoi]

Just had a couple viewing the hoose.

 

The guy is on his mid 60s she's not much younger.

Currently living on what they described as very large 4 bedroom house not far from here and want to downsize.

 

Why tf someone wastes my time looking at a large 4 bedroom house, say that they want to build a conservatory because obviously 4 phoking rooms aren't enough for 2 clowns to live in.

And they will have a think about it....

Edited August 9, 2024 by husoi

[Simon Davey]

argggghhhhh....

Feck DPD, delivered my last parcel 500 yards up the road and signed my name to it, so I had to go find it according to the picture. Today, having paid for next day delivery, my new front brake lines have "run into a local issue"!!!

I don't give a flying f*** what the pathetic problem is, just deliver it already.....

[S-Westerly]

2 hours ago, husoi said:

Just had a couple viewing the hoose.

 

The guy is on his mid 60s she's not much younger.

Currently living on what they described as very large 4 bedroom house not far from here and want to downsize.

 

Why tf someone wastes my time looking at a large 4 bedroom house, say that they want to build a conservatory because obviously 4 phoking rooms aren't enough for 2 clowns to live in.

And they will have a think about it....

About par for the course when selling a house. Swear to God there's people who go looking out of sheer nosiness or for something to do in their miserable lives. The time wasters boil my head. Although I do have fond memories of my wife asking one such  lady when her baby was due. Turned out she was a child hater and rather fat. 

[Tinkicker]

4 hours ago, S-Westerly said:

About par for the course when selling a house. Swear to God there's people who go looking out of sheer nosiness or for something to do in their miserable lives. The time wasters boil my head. Although I do have fond memories of my wife asking one such  lady when her baby was due. Turned out she was a child hater and rather fat. 

 

 

Yup.  The missus used to work with a woman whose " hobby" was driving around with her husband,  viewing houses on a weekend.  They had no intention of moving, they just enjoyed poking around other peoples homes.

 

Very odd.

[Tinkicker]

The scene.. One of the new style petrol stations with a sizeable supermarket tacked on to it.

 

The Rant.

 

The brain dead, self absorbed as*holes who are filling their car up in front of you.  They put the nozzle away and walk into the shop to pay for their fuel.  They cannot be arsed to pull forward into one of the dedicated parking spaces and free up the pump for the next customer to use. 

Never mind, the jerk off will only be a couple of minutes.  Deep breath...and relax.

They then proceed to do a big part of their weekly shop.  

You are stuck.  You cannot go forward because the as*hole left his car in the way and you cannot go back because of the cars queued up behind you.

 

15 minutes later, the walking piece of excrement saunters back out to his car with a big bag of shopping,  gets in, F**ks about with something in the car for a minute or so, then drives off..

 

What would the penalty be for getting out of the car and ripping his bushy, metrosexual beard from his smug face?

 

Deep breath... And hold......

 

I am trying hard to become the best person I can be and always attempt to cultivate inner peace and tranquility.  But I face trials every day.. And its usually a smug, metrosexual git with a beard.

Edited August 10, 2024 by Tinkicker

[Simon Davey]

@Tinkicker

It's all about the greed, they'll tell you it's all about your fuel filling experience, but the feckers just want yer money, they're not content with big fuel profits.

Edited August 10, 2024 by Simon Davey

[Ian Frog]

A cheery shout of "Oi mate don1t worry I`ve got all bloody day would probably get you an unwanted lecture from said twat but it`s almost worth it !

Cheers

Ian

[husoi]

Shame the supermarkets don't practice motorways service prices on the useless non motor related crap they sell.