ckn Posted January 26, 2017 Author Share Posted January 26, 2017 One from my commute this morning: Tractors on major trunk roads at rush hour. I'm sure they just do it to be thwaites. I was in three separate queues trying to overtake them this morning. "When in deadly danger, when beset by doubt; run in little circles, wave your arms and shout" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derwent Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 1 hour ago, Griff9of13 said: I had to do mine last week. What a load of total male genitals. I don't know who you bank with, but the one Santander sent me was incomprehensible - I had to phone their help line to get their assistance in filling it out. my Santander business manager told me it's the same for everyone. Muddled through it eventually once I'd worked out the difference between a NFE, NNFE, NFI and FFI ! I’m not prejudiced, I hate everybody equally Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 Dual carriageways that reduce to a single, there's a sign, it says MERGE IN TURN, yes that's what it says, MERGE IN TURN, MERGE IN TURN IT SAYS!!!! And yet.........???? "Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality" - Mikhail Bakunin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark S Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 1 hour ago, ckn said: One from my commute this morning: Tractors on major trunk roads at rush hour. I'm sure they just do it to be thwaites. I was in three separate queues trying to overtake them this morning. I agree with his one. Like all commercial drivers, they have all day to do what they are doing, why at rush hour? It's the same with white van men who obviously have nowhere to be at any particular time so drive at their own pace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckn Posted January 26, 2017 Author Share Posted January 26, 2017 8 minutes ago, Mark S said: I agree with his one. Like all commercial drivers, they have all day to do what they are doing, why at rush hour? It's the same with white van men who obviously have nowhere to be at any particular time so drive at their own pace. On the commercial drivers bit, I'd fully support a government measure to have tiered road fund licenses for non time-bound commercial vehicles, such as container and haulage HGVs. 1900-0700 driving only = 50% discount on current, add in 0930-1630 driving = no discount, 0700-0930 and/or 1630-1900 driving = 100% increase. I think that alone would create the capacity on the current rush hour congestion to give a few years of extra time to fix capacity issues. "When in deadly danger, when beset by doubt; run in little circles, wave your arms and shout" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 2 hours ago, ckn said: One from my commute this morning: Tractors on major trunk roads at rush hour. I'm sure they just do it to be thwaites. I was in three separate queues trying to overtake them this morning. Tractors are one thing; we used to live near a showground that held traction engine rallies, and they can block off most of a country road, while moving with all the alacrity of continental drift. "We are easily breakable, by illness or falling, or a million other ways of leaving this earthly life. We are just so much mashed potato." Don Estelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longboard Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 People who repeatedly sniff/snook up in public but don't blow their nose. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griff9of13 Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 1 hour ago, longboard said: People who repeatedly sniff/snook up in public but don't blow their nose. I sat next to someone on the train the other week who did that all the way from Waterloo to Wimbledon. "it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckn Posted January 26, 2017 Author Share Posted January 26, 2017 HMRC tax voice recognition: My voice is my password. My voice is my password. My voice is my password. 10 minutes later, "your voice authentication has been accepted". *click* Oh for ****'s sake A further 10 minutes trying to get the sodding automated system let me speak to a sodding advisor. Then the sodding voice recognition password thing again. It was this video below... I really was wanting to throw my phone against the wall in frustration. Just at maximum frustration "We're passing you through to an advisor now" "When in deadly danger, when beset by doubt; run in little circles, wave your arms and shout" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mumby Magic Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 4 hours ago, Griff9of13 said: I sat next to someone on the train the other week who did that all the way from Waterloo to Wimbledon. Is that a Paul Simon lyric? Like poor jokes? Thejoketeller@mullymessiah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazza77 Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 21 hours ago, ckn said: HMRC tax voice recognition: My voice is my password. My voice is my password. My voice is my password. 10 minutes later, "your voice authentication has been accepted". *click* Oh for ****'s sake A further 10 minutes trying to get the sodding automated system let me speak to a sodding advisor. Then the sodding voice recognition password thing again. It was this video below... I really was wanting to throw my phone against the wall in frustration. Just at maximum frustration "We're passing you through to an advisor now" Try getting BMW voice recognition to understand "call Siobhan". It's a pain when trying to be hands free and call the wife. ??? 1 Please view my photos. http://www.hughesphoto.co.uk/ Little Nook Farm - Caravan Club Certificated Location in the heart of the Pennines overlooking Hebden Bridge and the Calder Valley. http://www.facebook.com/LittleNookFarm Little Nook Cottage - 2-bed self-catering cottage in the heart of the Pennines overlooking Hebden Bridge and the Calder Valley. Book now via airbnb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckn Posted January 30, 2017 Author Share Posted January 30, 2017 I left for work today not too long after dawn, it was grey and miserable weather as well. A motorbike pulled out of a junction ahead of me without looking, a nice new big black Suzuki, no lights on, black leathers, black helmet. He then turned right at a really iffy roundabout without indicating, right in front of another car who came onto the roundabout and clearly didn't see him. The rant is that motorbikes are the most likely motor vehicle to be in an accident, the rider must know that yet rode in all black kit, without headlights on and without indicating. Using my phrase of last week: slack jawed imbecile. If you know that a good percentage of drivers treat mirrors as vanity tools and don't adjust them or use from when the car was new, and you know that you're all bar invisible then at least do some basic defensive riding and have at least headlights on to make you more visible on a dark morning. 1 "When in deadly danger, when beset by doubt; run in little circles, wave your arms and shout" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnM Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 It could not have been a new big black Suzuki. The rest I agree with. Looking for something like a leaf blower....but for people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckn Posted January 30, 2017 Author Share Posted January 30, 2017 1 minute ago, JohnM said: It could not have been a new big black Suzuki. The rest I agree with. I'm sure it was one, certainly looked like one from behind. "When in deadly danger, when beset by doubt; run in little circles, wave your arms and shout" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnM Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Not sure of the date and the regulation, but for quite a number of years now, you've not been able to switch off your lights. They come without a switch to do so. The guy is still a , though. 1 Looking for something like a leaf blower....but for people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleep1673 Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 (edited) When I was 16 I was issued a cardboard hand written National Insurance number, Now I am 54 and moved house, many times the DWP, and Hastings council want proof of it. The fact I can still remember it should be proof. Pull it up on Your youGov.uk computer and see what you get you numpties Edited January 30, 2017 by Bleep1673 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleep1673 Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 (edited) On 27/01/2017 at 5:00 PM, gazza77 said: Try getting BMW voice recognition to understand "call Siobhan". It's a pain when trying to be hands free and call the wife. ??? then spell it like BMW would spell it "Shevorn", I have the same problem with Niamh, I changed it to Neeve, it works. My ex is now #####, that works too (female Dog) Edited January 30, 2017 by Bleep1673 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark S Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 The fact I had to pay nearly as much tax as Facebook did on some money made through freelance work done in addition to working full time. I don't mind paying it but why should I pay nearly the same amount as a huge company like FB? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnM Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 8 hours ago, Mark S said: The fact I had to pay nearly as much tax as Facebook did on some money made through freelance work done in addition to working full time. I don't mind paying it but why should I pay nearly the same amount as a huge company like FB? You must be dong well! Facebook paid over £4 million corporation tax and goodness knows how much in business rates, insurance premium tax etc inin the UK alone last year, and over $122 million worldwide. Please share your secret! http://www.digitalspy.com/tech/news/a810501/this-is-how-much-facebook-paid-in-uk-tax-last-year/ http://fortune.com/2016/01/31/facebook-corporate-tax/ Looking for something like a leaf blower....but for people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmduck Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 19 hours ago, JohnM said: You must be dong well! Facebook paid over £4 million corporation tax and goodness knows how much in business rates, insurance premium tax etc inin the UK alone last year, and over $122 million worldwide. Please share your secret! http://www.digitalspy.com/tech/news/a810501/this-is-how-much-facebook-paid-in-uk-tax-last-year/ http://fortune.com/2016/01/31/facebook-corporate-tax/ On profits of about $4 billion. Yes, barely keeping their head above water, despite being strangled by the onerous layers of regulation and taxation. They're real workingclass heroes. Don't have my calculator handy but I dunno how any company can stay afloat these days with tax rates up around 3% 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckn Posted January 31, 2017 Author Share Posted January 31, 2017 23 minutes ago, Farmduck said: On profits of about $4 billion. Yes, barely keeping their head above water, despite being strangled by the onerous layers of regulation and taxation. They're real workingclass heroes. Don't have my calculator handy but I dunno how any company can stay afloat these days with tax rates up around 3% Tax rates on profits, remember. If they're really struggling then they won't have much profit to tax. "When in deadly danger, when beset by doubt; run in little circles, wave your arms and shout" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmduck Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 My Rant: SUPERMARKET EGGS I had my own ducks and chooks (and turkeys and geese) for about 20 years. Since I've no longer had them, I've had to buy supermarket eggs. WTF are these things? I used to have incubators and after a week I would take infertile eggs out and eat them. Those eggs, after a week at 38°C and 90% humidity were in infinitely better condition than supermarket eggs. I've seen supermarket eggs that haven't even reached their Use-By date so stale that the yolk falls apart as soon as you crack them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyXIII Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 (edited) 8 minutes ago, ckn said: Tax rates on profits, remember. If they're really struggling then they won't have much profit to tax. AFAIK, they make virtually zero profit, don't they? At least, inthe UK. Edited January 31, 2017 by tonyXIII Chrome playing up again! Rethymno Rugby League Appreciation Society Founder (and, so far, only) member. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmduck Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 5 minutes ago, ckn said: Tax rates on profits, remember. If they're really struggling then they won't have much profit to tax. Yes, you're right. I should have said "income tax rates on net profit" up around 3% I should know better having just had an argument on YT over wording. Some catfight over whether Thunderf00t was correct in calling out Lauren Southern's reporting of the anarchist "Black Bloc" riot in Washington on inauguration day as "anti-Trump." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnM Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 On 1/30/2017 at 1:32 PM, Mark S said: The fact I had to pay nearly as much tax as Facebook did on some money made through freelance work done in addition to working full time. I don't mind paying it but why should I pay nearly the same amount as a huge company like FB? My point really was to find out what Mark S was up to that meant he had paid over £4 million in tax. Want some of that! Looking for something like a leaf blower....but for people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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