Rant thread

[Robin Evans]

Yup... last night and again this morning...."Its holiday season aga8n dear. All the bloody Brits will come down here and spoil it" said one old fella to his equally visceral missus..... just loud enough for us to hear....

 

[gingerjon]

53 minutes ago, Robin Evans said:

Ex pats who sneer cos you're holidaying on "their" turf

To be fair: residents of fair and lovely coastal towns who get angry that other people want to enjoy the seaside in the sunshine.

[tonyXIII]

47 minutes ago, Robin Evans said:

Yup... last night and again this morning...."Its holiday season aga8n dear. All the bloody Brits will come down here and spoil it" said one old fella to his equally visceral missus..... just loud enough for us to hear....

 

I wonder what the real locals (the French) make of those bloody Brits who've moved down there to live and spoilt God's own Departement?

 

[Bob8]

1 hour ago, Tongs ya bas said:

Fear not: they will be back in the UK soon. We had a referendum to sort out the immigrant problem, and it will surely work both ways. And did this really happen to you?

Which is why I got an Irish passport.  So you are shot of me for good.

[Tongs ya bas]

5 minutes ago, Bob8 said:

Which is why I got an Irish passport.  So you are shot of me for good.

I've been feverishly searching my ancestry for any hint of a get out possibilty, but got no further than Staffordshire. If only my mam had had a love affair with a Canadian airman or something when she was in the land army

[Bob8]

6 minutes ago, Tongs ya bas said:

I've been feverishly searching my ancestry for any hint of a get out possibilty, but got no further than Staffordshire. If only my mam had had a love affair with a Canadian airman or something when she was in the land army

I am not sure that would help you get an EU passport

[JohnM]

2 hours ago, Robin Evans said:

Ex pats who sneer cos you're holidaying on "their" turf

I see they got my emails! 

[Tongs ya bas]

2 hours ago, Robin Evans said:

Yup... last night and again this morning...."Its holiday season aga8n dear. All the bloody Brits will come down here and spoil it" said one old fella to his equally visceral missus..... just loud enough for us to hear....

 

I bet you wanted to say summat

[Tongs ya bas]

59 minutes ago, Bob8 said:

I am not sure that would help you get an EU passport

No but maybe a Canadian one. 

[Phil]

Mouth ulcers 

[Tongs ya bas]

6 minutes ago, Phil said:

Mouth ulcers 

Great name for a punk band 

[jayemm]

Wimbledon fortnight. Grunting female tennis players. Tennis commentators talking bulls hit. Tennis. 

[ckn]

My NHS lease car goes back tomorrow so today I got it all nice & clean, paid for a good clean inside and out.  Driving away from the car wash a seagull decides to dive-bomb my car, hitting the windscreen outside the range of the windscreen washer blades.  Foul sodding animals that should sod off back to the sea where they belong.

[ckn]

My car has just been handed over to the leasing company.  The pickup driver asked me to do a signature on his phone that I have read the damage appraisal and agree to pay for all reasonable repairs.  He said that he couldn't show me the damage appraisal as it had already been sent.  He then got a bit stroppy when I refused to sign, wondering why I didn't trust him.  Someone I haven't met before taking away a £46,000 car and he's sent a "damage appraisal" before I can read it then doesn't get why I won't blindly sign away that I accept it.

He re-did it from scratch and only put minor road-stone chips consistent with the car's mileage.  That I accepted and signed.

Sometimes I really wonder about people...

[Mark S]

22 hours ago, ckn said:

My NHS lease car goes back tomorrow so today I got it all nice & clean, paid for a good clean inside and out.  Driving away from the car wash a seagull decides to dive-bomb my car, hitting the windscreen outside the range of the windscreen washer blades.  Foul sodding animals that should sod off back to the sea where they belong.

I bet you wouldn't say that to his face? Have you seen the size of the Gulls in Edinburgh? 

[Mark S]

The sheer amount of commercial vehicles on the road at rush hour. If the motorway has been shut they should be made to park up until it's clear, not drive through villages and towns clogging the road up even more than they do.

[ckn]

22 minutes ago, Mark S said:

The sheer amount of commercial vehicles on the road at rush hour. If the motorway has been shut they should be made to park up until it's clear, not drive through villages and towns clogging the road up even more than they do.

A solution I thought about may be to make it commercially unfavourable for non-time sensitive HGVs, such as container loads, to be on-road during busy and business hours.  e.g. tax HGVs at 200% tax for a pass that allows them to drive at 0730-0930 and 1630-1830, 100% for 0930-1630 and 0%-25% for 1830-0730.

[Bedford Roughyed]

1 hour ago, ckn said:

My car has just been handed over to the leasing company.  The pickup driver asked me to do a signature on his phone that I have read the damage appraisal and agree to pay for all reasonable repairs.  He said that he couldn't show me the damage appraisal as it had already been sent.  He then got a bit stroppy when I refused to sign, wondering why I didn't trust him.  Someone I haven't met before taking away a £46,000 car and he's sent a "damage appraisal" before I can read it then doesn't get why I won't blindly sign away that I accept it.

He re-did it from scratch and only put minor road-stone chips consistent with the car's mileage.  That I accepted and signed.

Sometimes I really wonder about people...

We get so many issues with car hire firms claiming damage.  We now expect a damage claim on every hire!

[Bedford Roughyed]

44 minutes ago, Mark S said:

The sheer amount of commercial vehicles on the road at rush hour. If the motorway has been shut they should be made to park up until it's clear, not drive through villages and towns clogging the road up even more than they do.

Wide loads taking 2 lanes of the motorway should be banned in the daytime.  Also lorries banned from the outside 2 lanes on 4 lane sections.

[Shadow]

5 minutes ago, Bedford Roughyed said:

Wide loads taking 2 lanes of the motorway should be banned in the daytime.  Also lorries banned from the outside 2 lanes on 4 lane sections.

 

23 minutes ago, ckn said:

A solution I thought about may be to make it commercially unfavourable for non-time sensitive HGVs, such as container loads, to be on-road during busy and business hours.  e.g. tax HGVs at 200% tax for a pass that allows them to drive at 0730-0930 and 1630-1830, 100% for 0930-1630 and 0%-25% for 1830-0730.

If only there was a completely separate network of transport infrastructure that connected all the major towns and cities as well as docks and airports. A network that could take all this freight in containers on specially designed transporter trucks. Imagine if a single driver could transport 30 or more containers without inconveniencing the public. Such a thing would never catch on.

[ckn]

1 minute ago, Shadow said:

 

If only there was a completely separate network of transport infrastructure that connected all the major towns and cities as well as docks and airports. A network that could take all this freight in containers on specially designed transporter trucks. Imagine if a single driver could transport 30 or more containers without inconveniencing the public. Such a thing would never catch on.

That'd involve investment in the rail tracks.  For example, from Felixstowe, there's a single set of tracks for about 15 miles until it gets to the main lines, that means one in, one out at abysmally slow rates.

[graveyard johnny]

On ‎04‎/‎07‎/‎2017 at 2:03 PM, Tongs ya bas said:

Great name for a punk band 

alternative ulcer

[Billypop]

On 7/4/2017 at 9:47 AM, Billypop said:

People who don't know when it's appropriate to use "You and I" and when "You and me" is correct. Including that annoying man on the Gladstone Brookes advert who gleefully uses "You and I" when it should be "You and me". Here's a tip for those who can't work out which is correct....take the "you" away and see which of "I" or "Me" sounds right. I bet you wouldn't say that companies have sold PPI to "I', would you? Yet this fool happily chirps that they've sold PPI to "You and I". Grrrrrr. 

Referring to aboriginal/indigenous Americans as "Native Americans". All US presidents have been Native Americans. That's because they were born there, that's what native means.

While I'm at it, it's and its confusion.

It's is a short form for "It is". Its is for anything else.

Should of and would of both get my goat, as does starting a sentence with "So".

Please don't get me started on the overuse of "like". Grrrr!

[Robin Evans]

Could of would of...... should be punishable by public flogging....

[Tongs ya bas]

2 minutes ago, Robin Evans said:

Could of would of...... should be punishable by public flogging....

Of when it should be have boils my gonads. But I do get annoyed when people go on about Americanisms contaminating our language. This has been happening for hundreds of years. Without Americanism we wouldn't have words such as scientist and blizzard, which we consider to be english. Also some 'americanisms' aren't, 'gotten' for instance. They are old English words which have been returned to us. I like a lot of American words and phrases anyway: 'shooting the breeze' is a particularly nice one.