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Re: What do you want to vent about today?
Posted: 27 Jul 2023, 16:23
by Kwacky
There's plenty of room on the road.
Re: What do you want to vent about today?
Posted: 27 Jul 2023, 17:10
by StMarks
Kwacky wrote: ↑27 Jul 2023, 16:23
There's plenty of room on the road.
Sorry, but I disagree.
If I park on the road, even tight up against the kerb, the remaining highway is too narrow for a normal car to pass comfortably*. Delivery vans, or the council bin lorry not at all without having to mount the opposite kerb.
As I pointed out, there are two pavements for pedestrians to use, and only one highway. So (in my perverse opinion
) it is preferable to reduce one of two pavements slightly, than to partially obstruct the highway to all traffic.
I rest my case mi-laud...
*Furthermore all the residents of the close are 70+, & the type that crouch their steering wheels, so all obstacles are perceived as more problematic to them.
Re: What do you want to vent about today?
Posted: 27 Jul 2023, 17:23
by Kwacky
No, I get it.
You think elderly pedestrians, likely to be slow and possibly with mobility issues, should be forced to cross the road, possibly in to the path of a delivery van or bin lorry, rather than possibly inconvenience the occasional vehicle.
Re: What do you want to vent about today?
Posted: 27 Jul 2023, 17:51
by StMarks
LOL, no...
I (personally) think that there is more than adequate pavement width remaining in front of my bungalow. Even if any of them used mobility scooters or wheelchairs (which they don't) there is enough space.
Besides which, they are hardly "hemmed in" by my bordering lawn frontage are they ?
Woe betide any coffin dodgers trespassing their zimmer frames on my grass ??
Re: What do you want to vent about today?
Posted: 27 Jul 2023, 20:53
by Frankie
Twats on the road who cant drive in rain and crash on the M25 holding me up this morning!!!! Actually I will rephrase that... Who cant drive full stop... the amount of people I see who cant hold a steering wheel properly, weaving all over the roads, is it any wonder they keep bashing into each other.... Rant finished.... Time for a G&T... a big one lol
Re: What do you want to vent about today?
Posted: 29 Jul 2023, 06:24
by Perkles
The weather
Re: What do you want to vent about today?
Posted: 31 Jul 2023, 06:12
by Perkles
The f weather again
Re: What do you want to vent about today?
Posted: 31 Jul 2023, 09:19
by D6Nutz
Perkles wrote:The f weather again
Shit isn't it.
Mrs nutz birthday today and we're supposed to be meeting a friend at a national trust for the day. Surprise, it's pissing down. Hopefully should stop in a while though.
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Re: What do you want to vent about today?
Posted: 20 Aug 2023, 03:05
by kiwikrasher
Farking cheeky power company c**ts
They are changing out meters to smart meters, that part I was ok with.
They did mine 3 days before the end of a 3 month billing cycle. Luckily I got Jess to take photos of the reads that morning. They pulled the old meters out and then when my bill arrived they had done an “estimate” reading. The estimate was $600 over the cost of any other bill we’ve had, and if I hadn’t got the photos I’d have no proof. Unbelievable that they didn’t do an actual reading when they pulled the old meters out.
Spend a hour on the phone to them and finally got it sorted and waiting on the revised bill. Our normal usage is average 32kW, they’d estimated 63kW.
Re: What do you want to vent about today?
Posted: 20 Aug 2023, 07:05
by C00kiemonster
kiwikrasher wrote: ↑20 Aug 2023, 03:05
Farking cheeky power company c**ts
They are changing out meters to smart meters, that part I was ok with.
They did mine 3 days before the end of a 3 month billing cycle. Luckily I got Jess to take photos of the reads that morning. They pulled the old meters out and then when my bill arrived they had done an “estimate” reading. The estimate was $600 over the cost of any other bill we’ve had, and if I hadn’t got the photos I’d have no proof. Unbelievable that they didn’t do an actual reading when they pulled the old meters out.
Spend a hour on the phone to them and finally got it sorted and waiting on the revised bill. Our normal usage is average 32kW, they’d estimated 63kW.
I’d imagine it’s all deliberate. They should have to provide reading evidence before taking them out.
Re: What do you want to vent about today?
Posted: 06 Sep 2023, 09:25
by Cav
A micromanaging manager taking on literally unnecessary work, and constantly changing priorities while also not having a clue where we are at... The latest priority lasted 8 minutes. 8 fecking minutes before he relays the message through a colleague that work he was taking off me is back on my lap. I just need him to stop interfering.
Re: What do you want to vent about today?
Posted: 10 Sep 2023, 09:11
by Kwacky
The weather.
Me and Frankie should be out on our bikes. Instead it's pissing it down.
Re: What do you want to vent about today?
Posted: 10 Sep 2023, 14:29
by D41
It's raining here too...and I had a mountain bike ride planned with a friend. Although to be honest my hip is annoying me this morning ...it often does when it rains for sor reason, it's a built-in barometer.
Re: What do you want to vent about today?
Posted: 11 Sep 2023, 10:25
by Monty
Kwacky wrote: ↑10 Sep 2023, 09:11
The weather.
Me and Frankie should be out on our bikes. Instead it's pissing it down.
Should have come up to the Peaks. All of those storms completely missed us yesterday, very unusually.
Re: What do you want to vent about today?
Posted: 16 Sep 2023, 16:48
by Perkles
One of my favourite local cycling lanes, once again strewn with McDonald’s rubbish
It really gets to me, we go on about net zero we can’t even put rubbish in a bin
Re: What do you want to vent about today?
Posted: 17 Sep 2023, 17:51
by D41
3 tonnes.......that's how much packaging McDonald's goes through every single minute..!!!
Which apparently amounts to just under two million tonnes per year. Staggering!
Can't really blame McDonald's, they've been taking a decent stab at changing their business practices in order to be more eco-friendly....and at the end of the day it's fast food - you've got to put it in something.
Their menu doesn't help though...everything you buy is packaged separately, and then combined with other, equally separately packaged items...you walk out of there with a big bag, and with very little in it.
Re: What do you want to vent about today?
Posted: 17 Sep 2023, 17:52
by D41
Tastes like crap anyway.
Re: What do you want to vent about today?
Posted: 18 Sep 2023, 08:07
by duke63
In an ideal world they would be held responsible for their packaging littered all over the place. They seem to have plenty of money to advertise on pretty much every TV commercial break.
Re: What do you want to vent about today?
Posted: 18 Sep 2023, 08:16
by Cav
There's been a petition for ages to have McDonalds print car registrations onto packaging so that litter found can be traced back to the culprit but the government (or whomever reviews petitions) reviews it and says "it's not viable".
Re: What do you want to vent about today?
Posted: 18 Sep 2023, 14:55
by D41
duke63 wrote: ↑18 Sep 2023, 08:07
In an ideal world they would be held responsible for their packaging littered all over the place. They seem to have plenty of money to advertise on pretty much every TV commercial break.
I don't see how you can hold them responsible for their product once it's been sold to someone else. I think the most you could realistically expect to happen would be a "Please Dispose Of Responsibly" scrawl on the packaging...if it's not already there (????)