WAMT....what annoyed me today!

Not today but from Sunday afternoon the local biker who spent 2 hours tinkering with his bike revving the nuts off it in his garage and then testing it for all of 400 yards up the road before repeating. I'm sure throwing wheelies is obviously an important part of the testing process to see that it's in tune
 
Gremlin said:
Luckily I have loads of elastic bands in the van so was able to keep the mirror in place, despite it being half shattered
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How come you haven't chucked your elastic bands on the pavement like the posties do around here? It must be part of the job training surely. ;)
 
nilagin said:
How come you haven't chucked your elastic bands on the pavement like the posties do around here? It must be part of the job training surely. ;)
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Cos I'm not normal, thought you realised that by now
 
So I have a payment plan, £59 to be paid 28th of each month

Last months payment of £59 was paid on the 23rd, some 5 days early.

Today I get a message saying I am late with last months payment and to call.

So I call and explain that the payment was made on the 23rd.

The chap on the end of the phone say's "You cant do that Sir, you have to make payment on the 28th or our system wont count it as your regular payment"

Much discussion ensues with this chap insisting that I am not allowed to make the payment before the 28th.

I mean WTF!!

I am now waiting for someone other than a drone to call me back
 
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Keith W said:
Much discussion ensues with this chap insisting that I am not allowed to make the payment before the 28th.

I mean WTF!!
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WTF indeed!
You should get a discount for early payment, not grief!
 
Windows Bloody 10 :banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::mad:
 
The people where I live, most miserable, boring, tight, ignorant, bad mannered, humourless bastards I have ever had the misfortune to meet
Oh and ugly as s*** too, bit porcine looking and very round faced with it, look like they have been created by Dr Moreau.

Soon as the missus retires we are off elsewhere, for all my joking about oop north the people are far nicer than here, wouldn't be hard though.
Friendliest people I have ever encountered have been in the West Midlands, places like Dudley, Kiddy and Bromsgrove.

The countryside here is flat as a pancake, dull as dishwater too, you can stick your big skies where the sun don't shine.
Never snows either, few years back when the country was covered in the stuff only green patch on the aerial photo was Cambridgeshire
 
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tijuana taxi said:
Oh and ugly as s*** too, bit porcine looking
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Don't beat about the bush Rich, say what you really mean :D

My "Area" is norfolk / suffolk / cambs ( plus a few other bits and pieces)
I quite enjoy riding round these areas TBH :)
Most of the people I meet are friendly enough, although some places are a little isolated, and here, I do expect them to whip out a banjo and start playing :D
 
Trying to arrange an ultrasound for my other half. GP referred him last week, received the letter with instructions of how to book it online with a choice of two locations. Great think I......wrong. No appts available, full stop, not one at either place. Telephone call to said "private company" who now do the organising of said scans. Hello, trying to book an ultrasound for my OH online and it seems that there are none available? Yeah that's right we don't gave any. WTF? What do you mean you don't have any? No we don't it could possibly be 18 weeks! But if you keep checking online one might come up. So if it's 18 weeks and we can't book one how will we ever get to the top of the list? FFS. Ah I get it, perhaps the patient just expires before the appt becomes available.

The good old NHS that is not underfunded.
 
Maggie52 said:
Tell me about it. Looking at paying for it, don't want to leave it for possibly 18 weeks. Too long to ignore the symptoms. :(
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Go back to your GP

If your GP is worried enough and feels it is urgent then they can get you a scan that day if necessary and certainly sooner than 18 weeks
 
Maggie52 said:
Tell me about it. Looking at paying for it, don't want to leave it for possibly 18 weeks. Too long to ignore the symptoms. :(
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Its a bloody shambles when it comes to that :(
I doubt its in the same league, but when my son was a lot younger, he had an infected in-growing toe nail, painful as hell I would imagine,
I took him to the local surgery, who confirmed what we already knew, you are in luck they said, we can do "these minor procedures on site"
Bloody brilliant I said! are you going to do it now?
No you need to make an appointment at the desk, said the Dr.
OK I guess that's fair.

Back to reception, the earliest appointment will be 8-12 weeks, we'll write to you!
WTF are you expecting him to suffer for at least another 2 months?

I phoned the "Sports clinic" as they have a chiropodist Yes we can do that for you tomorrow!
It cost about £100 from what I remember, & included a follow up visit a couple of weeks later.

It must have been 2-3 months later ( as predicted) that the surgery called to say they had a cancellation, and you can come tomorrow.
I'd forgotten all about "that" appointment" by then..
And just voiced my displeasure at the lack of compassion shown to a child,
and the fact that we had to pay ( not that I actually objected to paying of course) for something that should have been free.

I hope you get sorted a lot quicker than the predicted times (y)

But it does come to something when we end up paying for something that we have been paying for years via our contributions :(
 
Keith W said:
Go back to your GP

If your GP is worried enough and feels it is urgent then they can get you a scan that day if necessary and certainly sooner than 18 weeks
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Will be ringing GP on Monday but there is just no sense of urgency anymore. If we have no luck then private it will be.
 
Cobra said:
Its a bloody shambles when it comes to that :(
I doubt its in the same league, but when my son was a lot younger, he had an infected in-growing toe nail, painful as hell I would imagine,
I took him to the local surgery, who confirmed what we already knew, you are in luck they said, we can do "these minor procedures on site"
Bloody brilliant I said! are you going to do it now?
No you need to make an appointment at the desk, said the Dr.
OK I guess that's fair.

Back to reception, the earliest appointment will be 8-12 weeks, we'll write to you!
WTF are you expecting him to suffer for at least another 2 months?

I phoned the "Sports clinic" as they have a chiropodist Yes we can do that for you tomorrow!
It cost about £100 from what I remember, & included a follow up visit a couple of weeks later.

It must have been 2-3 months later ( as predicted) that the surgery called to say they had a cancellation, and you can come tomorrow.
I'd forgotten all about "that" appointment" by then..
And just voiced my displeasure at the lack of compassion shown to a child,
and the fact that we had to pay ( not that I actually objected to paying of course) for something that should have been free.

I hope you get sorted a lot quicker than the predicted times (y)

But it does come to something when we end up paying for something that we have been paying for years via our contributions :(
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Exactly, there is no sense of urgency as you have described. Your son was expected to live with the pain for perhaps 8 to 12 weeks, regardless. It pees me off good and proper, as you say, you work, pay your contributions throughout your working life, you expect a better service. I'm not blaming the NHS, I was a registered nurse and have seen it from the other side. I just get bloody angry that the services are so underfunded yet the government dismiss this entirely.

The sad thing is, this is going to get a whole lot worse.
 
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private company
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And this is the main problem, to many private companies making profit from the NHS.

Just one small example of private companies making profit out of the NHS £2.9bn spent every year by hospitals in England on temporary personnel to alleviate chronic understaffing has enriched private employment firms while denying the NHS vital funding.

Its amazing how many of our MP's have ties to private healthcare firms. Here's just a few.

William Hague
Philip Hammond
Jeremy Hunt
Oliver Letwin
Francis Maude
and that's just the better known ones.

A smarter man than me hit the nail on the head when he accused ministers of damaging the NHS, blaming the Conservatives in a passionate and sustained attack for slashing funding, weakening the health service though privatisation, demoralising staff by curbing pay and cutting social care support, and he said the reorganisation of NHS England into 44 regions, with the aim of running each as an “accountable care organisation” was a variant of the US system of “health maintenance organisations (HMO).”

He added: “It is reasonable to expect the powerful US HMO companies such as Kaiser Permanente and UnitedHealth will be bidding for the huge contracts to run these ACOs when they go out to international tender.”
 
You can't trust the Tories with any public services. They ruin them and sell them off to their mates.
 
Preparing my dinner for tonight, just thought it needed a bit of salt.

Went to add a bit of salt and the bloody top came off spewing masses of salt into my dinner :mad: :(
 
Someone lifting the lid off the crock pot to "have a look" how the contents were doing.
It's a glass lid, you t***t, and you know how much the temperature reduces when you do that.
 
Being at the Revival, trackside. taking photos at the start line. Photographers lined up at the picket fence, but we all manage to get a view... Then as I am panning my view is obstructed, iPhone on an iamasefiebsorbedtw#t stick sticking out about 3-4 feet beyond the fence, so anyone within 25-30 has an iPhone obstructing their view... no-one says a thing apart from me who talks loudly enough telling them what I think...

At least there were no iPads this time

Then, during the air display at the Freddie March Spirit of Aviation paddock watching the air display some French tv crew parked within my personal space, cue profanity upon profanity into the microphone followed by the state of my bowels and fragrant farts, that usually liberates the space around me.
 
omens said:
Yup. It's a fancy german tap with a built in filter. It was cheaper at Amazon by £200 than elsewhere. I posted a question in the item listing and one person confirms it comes with a UK plug. But mine didn't.
There's nothing in the listing to show it's anything other than UK. The price of the tap has gone up £50 since I ordered it. Certainly the instructions show it runs at 220-240V.
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So having returned the item, it took about two weeks for a refund. I looked around and found another website that had it in stock and was cheaper than amazon. I emailed them and they confirmed it should have a UK plug. Great! I thought, let's order. Now I get an email telling me I have to wait three weeks. :mad:
 
Bloody rain, picked up my new car at lunchtime, and within half an hour it rained, it's now filthy and splattered with dried rain spots as I never had time to give it a good wax and sealant. Didn't even get a chance to take a photo. :(
 
nilagin said:
Bloody rain, picked up my new car at lunchtime, and within half an hour it rained, it's now filthy and splattered with dried rain spots as I never had time to give it a good wax and sealant. Didn't even get a chance to take a photo. :(
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#1stworldproblems...
Just be thankful you aint in Florida ;)

Enjoy your new toy :thumbs:
 
Rude and inconsiderate people whilst I was out shopping.

First a woman on a mobility scooter runs into the back of me, when I turn round she gives me a filthy look and say's "you should watch where your going" err... hello!! You ran into the back of me!!

Then I had to play guess the direction dodgems with some woman in front of me that had her face stuck in her phone who kept swerving into my path ever time I tried to pass.
 
Cobra said:
#1stworldproblems...
Just be thankful you aint in Florida ;)

Enjoy your new toy (y)
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Yeah, I suppose you are right.
I'm breaking the car or Darth as it has been named, in gently for a while before I really enjoy it. It will be staying in Normal mode for a while before I sample Sport, Track or Drift modes. (y)
I'm trying to convince my workmate to by a white RS so his can look like a Stormtrooper, :LOL:
 
Returned something to a company, who refunded me but minus the delivery costs

Called them up to ask for the rest of my money which they refused, I explained that under distance selling regulations they are legally obliged to refund me all of my money inclusive of delivery costs, they still refused.

Luckily I had paid via paypal so I gave them a call and within 5 minutes I had my money back in full.
 
The paypal guy said the money would be in my paypal account within the hour, 4 hours latter and there is no sign of it.

It better turn up or I will be seriously annoyed.
 
Keith, the Distance Selling Regulations no longer apply in UK law. The Consumer Contracts Regulations - which came into force in the UK in June 2014 - now apply when buying online.

The seller can state in terms and conditions their rules on postage (unless the item was faulty). If those terms are displayed and state that postage isn't refundable, and you missed them, he's not obliged to refund it.

If it's not stated, then the seller must refund the postage.
 
viv1969 said:
Keith, the Distance Selling Regulations no longer apply in UK law. The Consumer Contracts Regulations - which came into force in the UK in June 2014 - now apply when buying online.

The seller can state in terms and conditions their rules on postage (unless the item was faulty). If those terms are displayed and state that postage isn't refundable, and you missed them, he's not obliged to refund it.

If it's not stated, then the seller must refund the postage.
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Sorry that's what I meant.

The seller has to return the basic cost of postage whether the goods are faulty or not, you have a set time in which you can change your mind about a product and return it.

In my case the jeans I bought said one size on the label but were obviously not the right size in reality as I could not get the legs fully over my calf's, therefore the goods were not as described/faulty which entitles me to a full refund of cost and P&P

Still no sign of the money paypal said they would sort out
 
Well still no refund this morning from paypal.

Gave them another call and the chap I spoke to was very apologetic and said the refund should be in my account by this afternoon.
 
1,001 student families all trying to find their way round town with little or no idea where they're going. And the halfwits themselves wandering around on the road rather than the pavement. I'm told they're only 1/2 points because they're too easy to hit... Next week is pavement pizza week as they all spend their loans on getting as p***ed as possible before tapping up the bank of mummy and daddy for food money.
 
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