WAMT....what annoyed me today!

Had a delivery earlier. Two thin cardbord envelopes about 12" x 8". For my wife. No car on the drive so I assume the delivery chap thinks no-one's in. The first I know is the letter box banging. I go into the hall to see the two bent envelopes on the carpet. I opened the door just in time to see the delivery driver..not RM..drive off.. Not as bad as having a computer thrown over the side gate as I've seen on Youtube but the evelopes are creased. No idea what's inside until my wife gets back home. :rolleyes:
 
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WAMT was reading about RNLI volunteer crews being abused by some members of the general public for rescuing 'migrants' in the English Channel....
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The abusers might think twice about this in case they ever need rescuing themselves. Mind you, I've never met anyone to do with the RNLI who would ever think that way, which is the difference between people who risk their lives to help others and "people" who are full of venomous hate.

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Coming toward the end of a fixed energy deal with Shell Energy we are paying £104 a month for gas and electricity, and will be £100 in credit at the end of the current agreement.

Based upon the same level of energy consumption they are wanting £146 a month to renew.......
 
My GP practice.

I made a request online this morning for a prescription, I don't mind doing it online which is just as well because they don't accept requests over the phone.

Late this afternoon I noticed two missed calls on my phone from private numbers and a couple of voice messages, these were from a doctor at the surgery. As the surgery was still open I called to find out what they wanted, it turns out a doctor had called to discuss my prescription request. New to me but fair enough I thought.

I asked to make an appointment for another call for tomorrow which they said could be arranged but they couldn't give me a time, not even a one hour slot. It turns out their policy is to provide a day but not a time. When I asked what patients who aren't allowed to carry a phone at work are supposed to do the receptionist couldn't give me an answer. There are of course many other scenarios that won't work with this system but I couldn't be arsed.

Feeling quite put out at this point so I said OK then I'll make an appointment to come to the surgery and speak a doctor, they aren't doing face to face consultations :/

I made an offer to stand outside and shout through an open window but it was declined.

So, the only way I can get the medicine I need is to set aside a day to sit by the phone.

I miss the days when I knew my GP and he knew me.
 
Mr Bastable said:
My GP practice.

I made a request online this morning for a prescription, I don't mind doing it online which is just as well because they don't accept requests over the phone.

Late this afternoon I noticed two missed calls on my phone from private numbers and a couple of voice messages, these were from a doctor at the surgery. As the surgery was still open I called to find out what they wanted, it turns out a doctor had called to discuss my prescription request. New to me but fair enough I thought.

I asked to make an appointment for another call for tomorrow which they said could be arranged but they couldn't give me a time, not even a one hour slot. It turns out their policy is to provide a day but not a time. When I asked what patients who aren't allowed to carry a phone at work are supposed to do the receptionist couldn't give me an answer. There are of course many other scenarios that won't work with this system but I couldn't be arsed.

Feeling quite put out at this point so I said OK then I'll make an appointment to come to the surgery and speak a doctor, they aren't doing face to face consultations :/

I made an offer to stand outside and shout through an open window but it was declined.

So, the only way I can get the medicine I need is to set aside a day to sit by the phone.

I miss the days when I knew my GP and he knew me.
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I’ve had similar problems both with GP and Hospital. Although they all use email and sms they can’t organise themselves to communicate with patients that way but insist on phone or snail mail :(.
 
I've given up with bloody GPs, they're a waste of space. :mad:

I'll either wait for emergency treatment when I collapse and end up in hospital or the coroner can find out what killed me.
 
Got the car washed earlier in the week. Flying ant day(s) here at the moment and being 10 miles (as the shy-talk flies) from the coast means that the gulls are enjoying the feast... Can't see any deposits but it's a white car!
 
Nod said:
Flying ant day(s) here at the moment
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And here, but I find that a good helping of Neurotoxin prevents them from getting off the ground (y)
 
I witnessed the largest flying ant 'departure' I have ever seen from our garden.

Unfortunately we do get some ant nests in our garden every year and once every so often the flying ones appear in smallish numbers.

However, this afternoon I looked put of our kitchen window and saw glinting in the sunlight numerous insect rising from somewhere on the ground. I finally spotted where they were originating.......out of a gap in the side patio! They were swarming out and taking flight, in all it went on for about 15 minutes with about 50-60 visible through the window at any one time. I can only surmise the count was maybe in the low 1000's o_O
 
Cobra said:
And here, but I find that a good helping of Neurotoxin prevents them from getting off the ground (y)
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Is that control over the counter or limited to industry workers?
 
Box Brownie said:
I witnessed the largest flying ant 'departure' I have ever seen from our garden.
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I thought I'd killed all the nests in my garden over the last few weeks or so,
But there was still half a dozen nests trying to evict the Alates :(
 
Litter. There are some Moorhen chicks on the local dam and I've been heading out early in the morning to photograph them. This morning I counted two beer bottles, 5 beer/pop cans, a baby's bottle, 10 crisp packets, 6 ice lolly wrappers and a small gas cylinder (from a camping stove, perhaps?) all floating in the dam. There is a bin not 20 yards from the dam entrance. I hooked most of the rubbish out with my tripod and disposed of them. The two beer bottles were too far out for me to reach. Maybe I need to fetch a small fishing net along with me as well as my tripod, camera and assorted other camera gear :(
 
WAMY - We ordered a new bed(frame, mattress & mattress protector) from Bensons in June with a delivery date of 27th July. Got a text on 23rd to say that it would be delayed. A phone call later and a new date of 6th August was booked and we were assured that it wouldn't be delayed again.

Yesterday morning, I got a text to say that they would be delivering between 7am and 1pm so all good. Then I got a phone call to tell me that the mattress protector is out of stock so will be delaye. It was all ordered 6 weeks ago,you'd think that, on an already delayed order, you'd think everything would be in place. :rolleyes:
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
Or perhaps just cut their hands off? :rolleyes:
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I know you are joking but it’s interesting to reflect that if at some much later date you are, say, a candidate for election you would probably be forced to withdraw on the basis of this joke!
 
Sky said:
We need to start publicly flogging people that drop litter. :mad:
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I was thinking more like stocks or pillory.......folk can bring their own (to take back home afterwards ~ the responsible thing to do!) rubbish to throw at the miscreants.

The above on the basis that until it/something affects them personally they will not learn :banghead:
 
Box Brownie said:
I was thinking more like stocks or pillory.......folk can bring their own (to take back home afterwards ~ the responsible thing to do!) rubbish to throw at the miscreants.

The above on the basis that until it/something affects them personally they will not learn :banghead:
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I don't know what the answer to litter is but I agree, many who drop litter will not stop until it has a direct impact on them.

We live close to an area used for Sunday football(at least it was before COVID19 and probably will be again soon) and have often wondered if all the rubbish dropped by supporters and the teams on one weekend was collected and then tipped in the goalmouths the following Sunday it would make a difference.

Dave
 
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Tringa said:
I don't know what the answer to litter is but I agree, many who drop litter will not stop until it has a direct impact on them.

We live close to an area used for Sunday football(at least it was before COVID19 and probably will be again soon) and have often wondered if all the rubbish dropped by supporters and the teams on one weekend was collected and then tipped in the goalmouths the following Sunday it would make a difference.

Dave
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None at all :(. But if they were informed that they would be banned from playing there next week if more than a certain weight of rubbish were left … ? Or would the supporters of the away teams, if any, bring rubbish to drop?
 
Tringa said:
I don't know what the answer to litter is but I agree, many who drop litter will not stop until it has a direct impact on them.

We live close to an area used for Sunday football(at least it was before COVID19 and probably will be again soon) and have often wondered if all the rubbish dropped by supporters and the teams on one weekend was collected and then tipped in the goalmouths the following Sunday it would make a difference.

Dave
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Creative thinking required.......

Those who run the football meeting collaborate with the land owner(council?) and all collected litter is indeed put in the goals to push home the point and "educate" the participants!

All it needs is the will on all parties part to start the change!
 
Box Brownie said:
I witnessed the largest flying ant 'departure' I have ever seen from our garden.

Unfortunately we do get some ant nests in our garden every year and once every so often the flying ones appear in smallish numbers.

However, this afternoon I looked put of our kitchen window and saw glinting in the sunlight numerous insect rising from somewhere on the ground. I finally spotted where they were originating.......out of a gap in the side patio! They were swarming out and taking flight, in all it went on for about 15 minutes with about 50-60 visible through the window at any one time. I can only surmise the count was maybe in the low 1000's o_O
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Had the same here yesterday late afternoon, there were hundreds of them swarming in the grass getting ready to fly, it looked like the whole lawn was moving. I think our lawn must be one huge ants nest judging by the amount there were. We had a lot more swallows than usual zooming around and bats flitting around at twilight, they must’ve had a real feast.
 
Litter
We have about a dozen lakes most surrounded by parks.
The oldest, an ex-clay pit, part of it, is a SSSI.

I've not been there in a very long time, but the reports and images coming in on my local hub of fly tipping, fires and just general rubbish
being left behind is a total disgrace :(

It seems also that some groups have set up home there, in tents.
Maybe its just for the summer, the cold weather will tell.

One woman recently asked if part of a large group if they wouldn't mind moving so she could pass the narrow path, lake on one side, brambles on the other.
She was given a black eye, fell to the ground and suffered several cuts, grazes and bruises.
And yes the images were posted openly.
Its not their hands I'd cut off.
 
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I know you are joking but it’s interesting to reflect that if at some much later date you are, say, a candidate for election you would probably be forced to withdraw on the basis of this joke!
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Actually I was being sarcastic but the "roll eyes" emoticon doesn't seem to have been enough to make that clear.

One measure that has been considered is an alteration to the Control of Polution Act 1974 which would require the organisers of all events to post a bond large enough pay for any conceivable mess left following their event. If the place wasn't left clean and tidy the bond would be forfeit and passed to the local council to cover their clean up costs. Needless to say, this is only popular with the councillors who need to pay for the clean up and the local residents who have to live with the mess.
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
Actually I was being sarcastic but the "roll eyes" emoticon doesn't seem to have been enough to make that clear.
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Yes, I probably should have said ‘not serious’ :(. However, I was not commenting on you specifically but making a general point. People are being castigated many years for things they may have said or written as juvenilesor in comedy skits and so on. With the internet it can only get worse. Of course some people never change it seems eg Boris ;).
 
Ghost said:
Litter. There are some Moorhen chicks on the local dam and I've been heading out early in the morning to photograph them. This morning I counted two beer bottles, 5 beer/pop cans, a baby's bottle, 10 crisp packets, 6 ice lolly wrappers and a small gas cylinder (from a camping stove, perhaps?) all floating in the dam. There is a bin not 20 yards from the dam entrance. I hooked most of the rubbish out with my tripod and disposed of them. The two beer bottles were too far out for me to reach. Maybe I need to fetch a small fishing net along with me as well as my tripod, camera and assorted other camera gear :(
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I have a few theories about the way young people will discard litter when there's a bin close by. Might be right,might be wrong.

They won't walk 10m to a bin because of what theire friends might think. A sort of peer pressure but a peer pressure NOT to do something. I have to say that I've also seen teenagers walk to a bin in the street..just that once... and they were 14/15 year old girls. I also think that too many people don't feel they are part of society or their local community for one reason or another and therefore care nothing for it or deliberately 'disfigure/deface' it. It's maybe a rebellion against authority too.

Is it related to poverty and low intellegence ? You don't see discarded opera tickets or concert tickets . Compare litter outside Waitrose and a Tescos ? Where's there's a KFC, McDonalds etc then nearby there'll be the packaging. In supermarket car parks..Morrisons, Tescos, Asda..you can always find a pile of cigarette ends that someone has relieved their vehicle of. A question I ask is. What are their homes like ? Tidy or untidy ? As they deposit their litter on the streets and elsewhere then tidy,I assume.There was a thread on smoking in outside locations not long ago ..ban smoking in outside places was the title.. I've just had a look at it and there was only one mention of the litter aspect re cigarette butts but to be fair it was about the smoking itself and the effect on other people in the vacinity but cigarette butts are the most common form of litter and yet one in ten smokers don't consider the butt-end to be litter when discarded.A crisp packet or a polystyrene box ( fast foods) have nothing on a cigarette butt with it's vast array of toxic chemicals including arsenic. Rain washes them into the drainage system and can end up in a marine environment yet 22% of Brits think it's ok to throw one into a drain. Amongst smokers that number goes to 52%. Unknown to most people a cigarette end (the filter) is the most common form of discarded plastic. It's made of cellulose acetate.

We'll never fine ourselves out of this situation. Like drink/drive..it requires societal pressure. It's considered anti- social to drink/drive. It's frowned upon. The other more obvious way is to inculcate an anti-litter mentality in school children..right from the start...5 years old.
 
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I know you are joking but it’s interesting to reflect that if at some much later date you are, say, a candidate for election you would probably be forced to withdraw on the basis of this joke!
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I liked this post, no chance of me running for office so being serious about it won’t harm my chances, if we can’t this can we bring back the birch?
 
JohnC6 said:
I have a few theories about the way young people will discard litter when there's a bin close by. Might be right,might be wrong.

They won't walk 10m to a bin because of what they're friends might think. A sort of peer pressure but a peer pressure NOT to do something. I have to say that I've also seen teenagers walk to a bin in the street..just that once... and they were 14/15 year old girls. I also think that too many people don't feel they are part of society or their local community for one reason or another and therefore care nothing for it or deliberately 'disfigure/deface' it. It's maybe a rebellion against authority too.

Is it related to poverty and low intellegence ? You don't see discarded opera tickets or concert tickets . Compare litter outside Waitrose and a Tescos ? Where's there's a KFC, McDonalds etc then nearby there'll be the packaging. In supermarket car parks..Morrisons, Tescos, Asda..you can always find a pile of cigarette ends that someone has relieved their vehicle of. A question I ask is. What are their homes like ? Tidy or untidy ? As they deposit their litter on the streets and elsewhere then tidy,I assume.There was a thread on smoking in outside locations not long ago ..ban smoking in outside places was the title.. I've just had a look at it and there was only one mention of the litter aspect re cigarette butts but to be fair it was about the smoking itself and the effect on other people in the vacinity but cigarette butts are the most common form of litter and yet one in ten smokers don't consider the butt-end to be litter when discarded.A crisp packet or a polystyrene box ( fast foods) have nothing on a cigarette butt with it's vast array of toxic chemicals including arsenic. Rain washes them into the drainage system and can end up in a marine environment yet 22% of Brits think it's ok to throw one into a drain. Amongst smokers that number goes to 52%. Unknown to most people a cigarette end (the filter) is the most common form of discarded plastic. It's made of cellulose acetate.

We'll never fine ourselves out of this situation. Like drink/drive..it requires societal pressure. It's considered anti- social to drink/drive. It's frowned upon. The other more obvious way is to inculcate an anti-litter mentality in school children..right from the start...5 years old.
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Very true - lower class areas/shops have more litter.

Another 2 aspects I think are travel & bins. Many places have too few bins or they are overflowing. Not an excuse but Disney is a great example, they worked out people would not want to travel more than x to a bin so they put loads in Disneyworld. I also think today (as opposed to 40 years ago) people travel less and the phrase dont s**t on your doorstep is true. In your village you are more likely to take rubbish home/bin than in a different village (cant remember where I read this).
 
sphexx said:
I know you are joking but it’s interesting to reflect that if at some much later date you are, say, a candidate for election you would probably be forced to withdraw on the basis of this joke!
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And that is one of the things wrong with politics / views these days - humour does not exist and we expect our people to be like robots.
 
cambsno said:
...and we expect our people to be like robots.
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It's possible that some people do. I think most people in most places are just too busy to pay attention.
 
More of an irritation than a real annoyance ..

My pond pump is due for replacement, the expected life running 24/7 is 3 years.
And true to form, as per the last one, its on its last legs 3 years and a couple of months after I bought it.

Amazon £59.99 next day with prime
Manufactures web site £49.99 inc. delivery in 3-4 days.
That's OK I can wait and save a tenner.
Or so I thought...

I had an email today, they are out of stock from the manufacture,
it seems they were "over subscribed" when I ordered, and yet there we 10 available showing.

Amazon still have them next day delivery.
So in reality, am I paying a tenner for delivery, or is the company making an extra tenner selling through Amazon?
 
.and the latest entrant in the Selfish Parker of the Year Award is...

Van parked on pavement in village street TZ70 P1030814.JPG

(had to help a wheelchair user pass it via the road) :mad:
 
JohnC6 said:
I have a few theories about the way young people will discard litter when there's a bin close by. Might be right,might be wrong.

They won't walk 10m to a bin because of what they're friends might think. A sort of peer pressure but a peer pressure NOT to do something. I have to say that I've also seen teenagers walk to a bin in the street..just that once... and they were 14/15 year old girls. I also think that too many people don't feel they are part of society or their local community for one reason or another and therefore care nothing for it or deliberately 'disfigure/deface' it. It's maybe a rebellion against authority too.

Is it related to poverty and low intellegence ? You don't see discarded opera tickets or concert tickets . Compare litter outside Waitrose and a Tescos ? Where's there's a KFC, McDonalds etc then nearby there'll be the packaging. In supermarket car parks..Morrisons, Tescos, Asda..you can always find a pile of cigarette ends that someone has relieved their vehicle of. A question I ask is. What are their homes like ? Tidy or untidy ? As they deposit their litter on the streets and elsewhere then tidy,I assume.There was a thread on smoking in outside locations not long ago ..ban smoking in outside places was the title.. I've just had a look at it and there was only one mention of the litter aspect re cigarette butts but to be fair it was about the smoking itself and the effect on other people in the vacinity but cigarette butts are the most common form of litter and yet one in ten smokers don't consider the butt-end to be litter when discarded.A crisp packet or a polystyrene box ( fast foods) have nothing on a cigarette butt with it's vast array of toxic chemicals including arsenic. Rain washes them into the drainage system and can end up in a marine environment yet 22% of Brits think it's ok to throw one into a drain. Amongst smokers that number goes to 52%. Unknown to most people a cigarette end (the filter) is the most common form of discarded plastic. It's made of cellulose acetate.

We'll never fine ourselves out of this situation. Like drink/drive..it requires societal pressure. It's considered anti- social to drink/drive. It's frowned upon. The other more obvious way is to inculcate an anti-litter mentality in school children..right from the start...5 years old.
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When challenging the kids at the school where I worked about dropping litter (area of high social deprivation), they seemed to think they were keeping cleaners busy & gainfully employed. :rolleyes:
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
(had to help a wheelchair user pass it via the road) :mad:
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I have this every single time I go out. I can't remember the last time I managed to travel anywhere without having to backtrack until I find a drop kerb so I can get around or cross the road at least once.

I'd be banned if I were to describe here what I'd like to do to these drivers. I nearly got arrested last year in one incident . . .
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
.and the latest entrant in the Selfish Parker of the Year Award is...

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(had to help a wheelchair user pass it via the road) :mad:
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I’ve probably posted it before but they do that on my road (A class ) even though there are no parking restrictions, seems just force of habit :(.
 
Strangely there was one posted very similar to that on my local FB hub.
What is it with Ford pickups?
 
Cobra said:
Strangely there was one posted very similar to that on my local FB hub.
What is it with Ford pickups?
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There are a lot of them? ;)
 
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