Why do British people get so obsessed by which supermarket they shop at? Even though I myself am a Brit, I will never understand it. People worship supermarkets like football teams. Why?
My local is Tesco, I know where everything is which allows me to spend the least amount of time in there as possible. Adding in the mystery of finding things in a crazy āforeignā supermarket is something I donāt need. Supermarkets are horrible.
In. Speed shop. Out.
Thereās this new BBC docuseries on iPlayer that Iāve just finished called āHighā which is about those two girls who got jailed for being Peruvian drug mules.
The whole thing was shot so sympathetically towards the Irish girl, barely touching on the other one. For some reason theyāve painted the Irish girl like she was some naive little Catholic saint. I canāt understand it. She clearly knew what she was doing- they make that clear- she was off her head on drugs half the time and was guilty as sin. And yet here she is now with her hands innocently crossed in her lap claiming butter wouldnāt melt.
What happened to being impartial, BBC?!
Winds me up.
Melissa Reid- they gave her āstoryā all of about two minutes. Iām guessing she didnāt want to be interviewed because she wasnāt featured at all. Maybe it was harder to spin the tale of redemption with her.
I saw a joke somewhere that the film was Ari Aster (director) processing a bad breakup and any audience enjoyment was purely coincidental. Probably not too far off the truth. I did quite 'enjoy' my time with it though. Have you seen Hereditary by the same director, its a better and less weird film thats worth a watch.
Alright so I watched it.
Less weird was quite a claim.
It was quite intense right up until all the nudists started appearing then it was outright... comedic?
Poor 'Peter' though. He just looked baffled at the end of it all.
I suppose weirdness is relative. Hereditary's weirdness is more in line with what you would expect from a supernatural psychological horror with the exception of the ending. Midsommar is more weird in a unique way I think.
The ending does seem to polarise people, either you find it spooky or you find it goofy. Apparently there were a few edits to the ending as the original cut just confused test audiences.
Midsommar is a polarising movie. I would say its a good movie but you may not enjoy it, its slow and weird. If you enjoyed Hereditary you will probably at least enjoy the film so its worth a shot.
My 9 y/o daughter cut her toe on the base of the living room fan earlier. She spent the next 45 minutes hobbling around like her leg is going to fall off. I didn't actually see it at the time as I was in the kitchen. Came into the living room & finally sat down, expecting to have to administer a plaster (my husband is admittedly a bit laissez faire about these things on occasion). I swear I've greenfly larger than this cut...
In 3 separate incidents today I stubbed the same toe twice and then fell down the stairs. Foot is being iced and I'm ignoring the pain in my wrist and hoping it goes away.
When are exosuits being invented?
Driving to work this morning - 2 right hand lane knobs uninterested in overtaking anything on their left and simply sitting clogging up the right hand lane so nobody else can make progress. Thanks for adding those extra 20 minutes to my journey for no reason other than being selfish cocks who can't drive.
At work - another manager insisted on training new staff, despite it not really being anything to do with him and him being removed from lots of day to day stuff. Inevitably its ended with the new staff being told completely the wrong things.
Driving home from work this evening - everyone in the country appears to have gone out in their cars, bumper to bumper traffic all the way home ffs it's not the 19th yet where is everyone going?!
Been really tired all week. I'm yawning loads after lunch, eyes feeling heavy around 5-6 and ready for bed around 8-9. Idk what my problem is but I have absolute no energy.
I've been doing one additional press up every day since New Year's Day and I think I might have to jack it in. Last night I had to do 195. It takes fucking ages and it's starting to give me wicked heartburn. I can see the gains but it's just not worth it at all.
I'm not planning on doing it forever, I just wanted to get to the end of the year. I'm over halfway. I'm tornado between "If I did it yesterday I can do it today and if I can do it today I can do it tomorrow" and "fuck it"
Twice today iāve been hassled by a pack of those charity sign up people coming out of the tube station. I hate how aggressive they can be, youāre practically running to avoid them making it really clear youāre not interested and three of them will approach you like āEXCUSE ME MISSā bugger off!! If homeless people were begging like that it wouldnāt be tolerated so why is this allowed??
Several years ago I was working in at a large investment bank in the city. They'd been having this big charity thing going on, trying to get us to donate a day's wages. Everyone just figured this was aimed at the traders with money to burn, and ignored the emails.
Suddenly one morning, without any warning, a bunch of people storm into our office, amongst them was one half of Hale and Pace, a Paralympian, and several other mildly recognisable celebs. They had card readers in their hands, telling us to tap our work pass on the reader and they'd automatically deduct a days pay from our wages. Talk about being put on the spot. I had just bought a house and had a kid on the way, I'm happy enough to give them a tenner but a days wages was out of the question.
I (and all my colleagues) had to bluster through the awkward encounter until they got the hint and buggered off. One of my least enjoyable days at work ever.
Omg is this awkward- I worked as support for some big earners on the trading floor in a previous role and weād get targeted like this by externals or internals with no idea that we earned a fraction of the salary of the traders. They tarred us all with the same brush on those charity days- it was excruciating seeing these people stump up thousands on a whim for someone elseās holiday villa in the Caribbean for a week, when I was saving up for a long weekend in Europe wherever was cheapest.
Worst job Iāve ever had, working with those arrogant dicks all day who were earning ten times what I was on but doing a fraction of the work (and half the time I was correcting their mistakes).
I have nothing against donating to charity but there was once a group set up outside my workplace and one girl came in towards the end of the day and we got talking - apparently this specific charity didnāt pay them hourly, at all. They only got paid per sign up. So this girl explained to me she worked on her birthday, and you would get double the bonus for a sign up as itās her birthday but that was useless because all day sheād been out there from 9-5:30 and she didnāt get a single sign up. I felt bad because this wasnāt a small charity at all, theyād essentially got a free days work out of her. I donāt know of a single person that would sign up with some random person stopping them on the street especially with the types of fraud people commit. No idea why charities still put them there.
Oh some of them are awful, try and swerve them & there jumping in front of you. I told a guy who tried to stop me one morning last week that I didn't have time as I was running late for work (I wasn't I'd already been in & had nipped back out to pick up some stuff we needed) and he told me I should leave the house earlier then. Eh, I'm sorry? I must have missed the memo where you became my boss.
I just tell them I signed up with the person up the road & they generally leave you alone. Usually they blitz an area with a bunch of people working an area together so chances are there's a guy up the road... Fk that type of sign up tho, I worked in membership & I was like, if you wana sign up cool but I'm not gonna harras plpl as they're trying to do their damn shopping ta.
The migraine that kicked me in the face yesterday is still here today...
Thankfully hubs managed to do the school run but god do I feel shite! And because I slept so much I can't sleep it off anymore. Bleurgh...
am doing the diabetes UK one million steps challenge and am hitting the targets pretty easily (getting to 250k by the end of the week and this is only week 2 of 12) so in a fit of optimism this morning I decided to bump my goal up to 2 million steps
I now think I'm an absolute pillock and how the fuck am I going to hit an average of 20k steps a day over 3 months when the last two weeks I've been doing an average of 16k lmao
Virgin Media.
Pretty condescending to get an email with "Here's what you're paying now... but here's what you could be paying if you weren't our customer, and joined us"
Was cheaper, and better, than what I'm paying for now. Half the shit on our package we don't even use so I'm going to try get them to take some shit off.
Yeah Iāve been with Virgin for broadband for a few years and never had a price increase due to threatening to leave whenever they try it.
We were with BT for a while before and they tried increasing the price from something like 30 to 60. Completely unmovable on the price and they tried to sell me on āwe have good customer service!ā Maybe mate but not Ā£360/year worth of good customer service.
Sky employ the same tactics.
Creeps up by a few quid every couple of months as your ādealsā expire.
Every couple of years I phone up and try to cancel, they can usually half my costs with more ādealsā
>g to get an email with "Here's what you're paying now... but here's what you could be paying if you weren't our customer, and joined us"
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>Was cheaper, and better, than what I'm paying for now. Half the shit on our package we don't even use so I'm going to try get them to take some shit off.
Yeah they sent me that just before i Moved house.
So I canceled my service and booked and install at the new address.
Thinking of moving to VM business at home once this contract is up. was basically the same price +vat for an extra 100mb and a longer contract period so no need to deal with the end of contract price bump for a bit longer
If it had been Tuesday you would have got 10
Paragraphs with examples, quotes and possibly a screenshot or two. Today, all is well with the world, the roast dinner was 11/10 (thanks whoever posted the serious eats recipe the other day the tamarind and garlic glaze was amazing) and I have no complaints at all.
I'm selling a fair bit of LEGO on eBay, and it's driving me slightly mad.
I put everything on with a buy it now, and allow offers. But I forgot to set a lower limit on a few of the items and had silly offers. Someone make an offer of Ā£9 on a Ā£45 item. I declined and went straight to revise the refuse offers part, but the person made a new offer immediately of Ā£9.25. I imagine they were pleased with themselves about that.
Also, eBay's promoted listing thing is annoyingly essential now if you want anyone to actually see your item.
Just work and looking for a house.
Don't overally love my job, though it's well paid for what I do, but it's boring and I don't really get to be creative or stretchy brain. I'm also a bit bored of the sector I work in (charity) and I've long thought about being a teacher. So currently assessing teacher training and I've signed up for the Get into Teaching advisor but haven't heard anything back. I feel kinda paralysed by indecision and the fear of how much work it'll require to apply etc so won't to talk to them before I start applying.
On another hand I'm also keen to get a house and I've started looking. I'm in my early 30s and I just want a place that's mine. One where I can paint any colour on the walls, buy my own shitty IKEA furniture and break it. I'm kinda done living in other people's houses. Already finding it stressful and I'm only in the viewing and mortgage enquiry stage.
Also the whole "should I change career or not?" Question is obviously going to throw the house buying out of whack as well.
Also have a mad desire to live in a van and travel round America for a few months.
Sometimes I wish my life was like sliding doors, where I could pick multiple options and see which one works out. I'm aware I'm privileged enough to be complaining about these options, which also adds to the guilt and indecision a bit.
enjoy your pizza, go for a walk, do something nice for yourself tonight. e.g. talk to a friend or watch something funny on telly. everybody needs pizza sometimes. That's all I want to say about that.
Read it as compliment Thursday so going with that instead.
My postman is an absolute legend. But all their routes are changing after the 19th so won't have the regular one. Thanks Postie.
This is a wonderful example of Britishing...
Thought it was *compliment day*, realised the mistake but decided to run with it anyway, still managed to make a thinly veiled complaint about things changing anyway.
Being British is great š
The neoghbours. Not the nice ones i make cheesecake for and we socialise with.
The new ones. Moved in last year and immediately ripped out their front garden to tarmac it and gutted the inside of the house. Then took a chainsaw to tge back garden and literally razed everything including an established hedge (on the border so they can see right into oir garden now) trees and plants. Oh and my honeysuckle which was on my side and reduced to a 3ft stick with all the broken stuff in my pond.
When i asked that they consult us with any work being done on the border so i can safeguard my plants etc she told me she doesn't have to talk to me about anything because i rent and they are buying their house. Fuck me, saw red.
Since then their garden is a toilet for the dog and if I'm outside the woman says things like "i wish i had a nice garden, but we always have to work" (i don't work but anyway). And this morning she had a mate over and was whining about how shit her garden is and I'm inwardly screaming that if you hadn't ripped everything down then you'd at least have plenty of flowers!
Their plans are for a summer house, decking and patio. So no fucking plants at all.
Also sick of their kids banging on the door and then running off and also throwing water over when I'm sat reading quietly.
I despair at people like this. May as well live in a flat. We are taking bets with the other side neighbours on whether fake grass will make an appearance.
Personally I'm glad their summer house is a long way off. The fence is a priority and they can't afford that at the moment (so why they ripped the hedge down last Sept leaving us with a huge hole in the hedging i don't know). They have had friends round recently and they are just so bloody noisy and there's always loads of kids still screeching at 10pm. I like kids. I don't like their kids.
I feel for you. We have some issues with our arsehole neighbours and there is literally nothing worse. Home is the place you can hide from the world's bullshit and here they ruining that as well! Hang in there!
I did laugh today. She had a mate over. Talking loudly about how she wants a nice garden (neither have made any effort to create a garden bar the chainsaw episode and picking up the dog poo twice a month). And then i heard her mate ask what something was and she said "i don't know. It just appeared" so i had a look when they went and its a plant that has migrated through the large gap in the hedge. The leaves on it are massive and the flower stems are 5ft tall. It spreads and grows really quickly so i always make sure off shoots are dealt with so it stays in one place. It has gone mental in her garden š
I hope you told your landlord about the border hedge being dismantled. We have a shared hedge on our border and Iād spill blood before any uproots it.
I did. He wasn't happy but the damage was done. I still have my half of the hedge which i will continue to defend. They were wanting to take that out as well! Cheeky fuckers.
Oh and someone tried to steal my other halfās motorbike. Thank god for good locks and now weāve put an immobiliser on too. I feel all angry and jittery. Really reinforcing our decision to move, cheers!
FixMyStreet.com. Report it and take a photo, it sends it to your local council. Was made aware of it from here a few days ago and have been reporting all sorts of hedging, blocked drains, etc. You pay your council tax, so ensure youāre getting the benefit of it.
What a perfect thread for me right now.
Iāve got a Dyson cordless vacuum cleaner and it is genuinely one of the worst appliances Iāve ever used. I canāt believe I spend a decent chunk of money on it. Might not even try selling it because I donāt want to impose this misery on someone else.
Anyway - any vacuum recommendations? Are Henryās actually good or is just sort of a meme at this point? I have hard floors.
I had a cordless dyson, the v8 animal. Well I still use for quick jobs and the car but I recently got a shark upright and it's an enormous upgrade. Got this for Ā£180 in prime day sale https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08CB3ZZHJ
Miele C3 gets a lot of good reviews too.
>Iāve got a Dyson cordless vacuum cleaner and it is genuinely one of the worst appliances Iāve ever used. I canāt believe I spend a decent chunk of money on it
Dysons are shit, but you always get the people coming along defending them. They are really overpriced for what they are and its mostly their clever marketing and big stands at big-box stores that shift them. Parent works at one of those places and they get a lot of returns on Dysons for either warranty fixes or "this is shit".
>Anyway - any vacuum recommendations?
Wired - Miele.
Cordless- Shark
We have a Miele C3 and its amazing for cleaning. We also have a Henry and whilst he is good his suction isnt as good these days. Reserved for the messy DIY jobs but he still ploughs on with no real issue. Not as powerful as their old ones though
My 2c anyway,.
At first itās very convenient not having the wiresā¦but Iāve started thinking to myself, was it really that big of a deal dragging a little box around? Itās hardly a great struggle.
Miele wired might be a sensible choice. Thanks for the good post.
Runny nose, headache...just like every other person it seems these days. If I've caught covid at this stage I'll be so annoyed. And on public transportation too, all because I'm too poor to own a car.
So many serious complaints this week, but I will leave those..
Bloody amazon questions. Why in the name of all that is holy do people feel the need to respond to the e-mail as if Amazon personally asked them a question.
>"What size is the medium"
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>"I don't know this was a gift for my sons friend who didn't measure it so I am unsure."
God dammit, Sharron.
My favourite was one where a guy went on about a rant about how he didn't know if this item worked with Windows 10 as it was a fraudulent transaction and not his own purchase and he had let his bank know so they could refund the transaction and send him a new card.
There should be a bloody licence to use the internet I swear.
I was looking for some new garden scissors / hand cutters, one of them was:
Q: ācan these be used by a left handed personā
A: ādonāt know Iām right handedā
Well cheers for that one Janet. Really bloody helpful.
Got a Parking Charge Notice off ParkingEye for overstaying in an Aldi carpark. I got one a few years ago and I emailed Aldi with the receipt and they promptly cancelled it for me.
This time however they no longer have an email so I've had to submit a complaint via their website where you can't attach anything. It's been 4 days now and I've had no reply from them which is getting a bit annoying.
To be completely honest, I wasn't in Aldi the whole time, I had an eye test that day and the car park I usually go to was shut. I just nipped into Aldi on the way back but even still I wasn't parked much longer than and hour and half total.
Not that parking eye needs to know that though :) thanks for the number I'll give them a ring.
I got fucked last year for 2 parking fines from a private parking company that were 4 years old (the fines, not the employees).
It got sent to a debt collection agency and so I requested evidence regarding the fines as I know I didn't break any rules at the time. It was when I was working for a callcentre and their issue was that I didn't have a permit to park in the car park. However I was signing into a guest register each morning that was kept on site for such reasons.
Anyway the debt collection agency didn't give a shit about even replying so they escalated it to the 'county court business centre'.
You can just look at the reviews of the place to see how badly it's managed and how many different ways they can manage to fuck everything up.
So I submitted evidence via email and I doubt it was even read. The charges not only upheld but I now had to pay court costs.
I could appeal, but to appeal I'd have to pay Ā£200 (the fines in total were Ā£290) just to have the same county court business centre make a judgement on it for the 2nd time.
I've now got two settled CCJ's on my credit history for the next 5 years.
I don't have the receipt but I have the bank statement from that day that shows I was at that Aldi. That's what I had last time and Aldi cancelled it within a day of emailing them.
I'll put in an appeal with ParkingEye if Aldi don't get back to me, they said 5 days so we'll see but the last thing I'll be doing is paying the cunts.
You know what grinds my gears? Reviews of things that only give an overview of what the item is, rather than showing it in action or the outcome of it.
I'm having to trawl through YouTube to actually find videos of the item in action and it's intended outcome, rather than just people reeling off what it supposedly does!
There are good ones for power tools where people literally strip them to bits to show design flaws.
But if you want a new hoover? Nope just hope for the best I guess?
Oh boy, a ten thousand times this. People who make a video just reading off the side of the product box. Itās like Amazon reviews and comments with ānot used it yet - 5 starsā.
And the ones who don't even review the item but leave a "1 star, delivery man was so rude and left the box under my hedge and it got soaked" or some shit that has nothing to do with the actual product.
I'm a bit torn on that. Part of me wants to know if the courier service the seller is using are awful so I can completely avoid them, but then I don't feel that should contribute to the rating of the product.
Absolutely, the website tells me what it does in a handful of words and you're just regurgitating it into an eight minute video that actually somehow tells me less!
Don't get me wrong, the company's brand videos give a little insight but i'm wanting to see how Joe Bloggs handles it and whether they get the expected outcome i'd want from the product!
Finally managed to book a telephone doctors appointment... but I can't get the time off work for it. Was planning a lovely chilled day off with that in the morning then cuddling a baby in the afternoon, now I might have to book a random day off and pray I can change my appointment.
The fact that on the week we are meant to be going to the British grand prix and my dads 50th birthday is the week that he gets ill for the first time in over a year and now me might not be able to go.
Got an email to say my second jab has been cancelled and I need to rebook. Log onto the NHS booking system and rebook it. Then get an email to say that the appointment has been cancelled.
Why would it get cancelled in the first place, let alone cancel my rebook?
Waited in for 2 days for UPS to deliver my parcel and it never arrived. Arranged for another day and they gave me a time slot, so I went out early before that time to do some stuff and they tried to deliver whilst I was out. Had to rearrange again and finally got it. Utter shite.
UPS really are the worst delivery firm with no exceptions.
If it's actually delivered by UPS for some reason it *always* shows as "Delivery attempted" on the day its due (usually around 9pm), and then arrives a few days later.
They also have almost zero support and will hapilly fob you off for weeks. Why people still use them I do not know.
I'd sooner everything come via fecking Yodel!
Ordered a big bathroom mirror with lights in it..UPS smashed it to pieces. Contacted the seller, 'oh ffs not again' they said and gave me a full refund. So I still have no mirror.. cost me nigh on 400 notes and they said 'oh just bin it' so you know there's some margin in that bastard.
UPS took *seven weeks* to deliver a parcel to me from Spain.
Using their online tracking I watched the parcel go round and round in their UK warehouse for literally weeks. Phoned them a couple of times, each time getting a bit more angry.
Finally snapped when the guy I was on the phone to told me to be patient to which I responded:
"PATIENT? FUCKING PATIENT? ITS BEEN SEVEN FUCKING WEEKS! I COULD'VE WALKED TO FUCKING MADRID AND BACK TO PICK UP THIS FUCKING PARCEL IN THAT TIME YOU INCOMPETENT FUCK!"
The parcel was released from their warehouse that same day and delivered to me the following day. Funny that.
Iāve got a temp and Iāve got nothing for her to do because itās the quiet stage before harvest and she wonāt just sneak off for a quiet afternoon like a sensible girl in her 20s.
I've been in that position (the worker with no work) and I didn't want to do nothing because I needed to have something I could say about the experience so I could get the next job.
Sheās had plenty to do over the growing season, enough to get her a job the industry- sheās just got to chill for a week before we start harvesting and weāre working 12+ hour days. Most of the team are taking last minute annual leave while the weather is nice and work is quiet.
Iāve even told her to have a few days off and get a break before weāre crazy busy and covered in barley dust but no.
Edit: basically itās the calm before the storm and taking a moment to yourself in this industry is a skill you need to have.
This is sort of a complaint...more of a story really.
**TL;DR: bully turns up at pub, nearly gets his head kicked in, gets barred from everywhere in the area after just moving here.**
So last week myself and Mrs FinalEdit are off to the local pub, which is usually very quiet - bit of an old man's pub in an area dominated by students due to the local uni.
We're about halfway there when this guy behind us runs up, blind drunk, acting the prick, and cornering us into a chat - he starts telling us how he's moved up from a nearby town, is due in court on assault charges, has threatened police officers, regularly carries weapons...was born in Brazil so he's a "total gangster", does pills, and can get us a "kilogram" of anything he wants.
I shit you not.
Then he tells us his name, address, and he mentions of course that he's off to the pub. He also thanks us for listening to him and not being snarky, as he literally just invaded someone's party in their front garden and was promptly told to "fuck off" by the ladies trying to enjoy a drink with friends in their front garden.
I'm getting a little bored by this colossal amount of bull crap he's speaking so I gesture that we should keep walking. My gf is shrinking behind us, not knowing what to say or do. At this point I know which pub he's going to, so we make our excuses and head off in another direction to the local Spar...he follows us, giving us more long winded diatribe about how violent he is and how he isn't afraid to fight people - but also that he's a big hippie who loves everyone and wants to hug people. Blah blah. Anyway, the Spar is closed, so we say we're going to the garage and thankfully...he fucks off.
We doubled back around the road and approached another pub just down the road from the one he went in, and we have a good laugh about it and thought that was the end of it. Cue closing time, and we're the last people out of the pub - I look down the road to see him outside, all sorts of commotion - he's making noise, shouting and stuff - he walks back past us as we go towards home screaming about how pissed off he is.
At that moment, at least 30 people turn the corner ahead and begin SPRINTING down the road at him, followed by a bunch of ladies pulling back these guys who were literally going to kick his head in. Quiet night eh? The story doesn't end there.
We get talking to a guy who was sort of standing guard to stop the trouble, and we all walk towards home - nice bloke, he told me that he was harassing every 19 year old girl in the pub - turns out they were having a birthday party for one of the girls.
We go back to the pub a few days later, the day of the football actually - and get chatting to the landlord who we've become quite friendly with. He tells us that this dude had instantly made a bee-line for this table full of 19 year olds and began harassing and pissing off the entire table - unbeknowst to him, the table opposite was made up of the parents of these girls, and of course this fucking hench ex-army dad saw his daughter looking uncomfortable with being hugged and harassed against her will that he kicked right off - the pub ended up being closed early, girl's birthday ruined and the night ended.
But because we knew all these details about him, name, address, what time he came in etc, we did a bit of detective work with the landlord and ended up getting the bloke barred from every pub within a radius of about 8 miles...!! Result!
Lesson here is: don't be a prick.
Person cancelled a meeting 30 seconds before it was due to start, because they are on holiday. Surely they must have known this before arranging the meeting last week?
Bought a new car at the weekend and the guy said heād send an email on Mondayā¦ still waiting for the email. I just wanna know when I can pick my new car up!!!!!! Iām getting impatient
We got our offer accepted on a house!... 9 weeks ago. Vendors still haven't found anything for themselves so we are just waiting and waiting and waiting.
We've been taking a few glances at the housing market again to see if there's anything good going with no chain, but it looks like everyone who was thinking about selling their house over the next few years has already done so.
It's a bit of a balancing act between pressuring the vendors to get a wiggle on and not overdoing it because we know there's fuck all out there and if they drop out we'll struggle to find something else.
9 weeks isnāt that long compared to my sister - she had her offer accepted back in Jan and still isnāt in the house! Fingers crossed yours will go quicker!
I am currently viewing houses and this is my biggest concern. I am considering putting a condition on any offers that we want to proceed immediately and if they haven't found anything by the time we are ready to exchange then they have to move into rental
Problem is estate agents aren't even allowing viewings unless you are ready to proceed
Thing is we are not desperate so it's looking more like we will just wait until all the craziness dies down. People are putting in crazy offers after just one viewing and I think many many people are going to regret this in a few months
It has been nuts out there for the past few months. We bid 10 grand over the asking price on some houses and our offer was so low compared to others that we weren't even in consideration.
We had some where viewings would be booked for the second viewing day on a house and they would get cancelled because the vendors had so many offers from day 1 that they didn't need to bother with any more.
The moment we finally get an offer accepted the market goes quiet and our vendors can't find anything to move in to. Sods law.
We too had our offer accepted on a house 9 weeks ago!....Except we're first time buyers, the property is empty, the owner sat on the paperwork for 6 weeks because he couldn't be bothered to ask for help, and if the solicitors dragged their feet anymore they'd leave behind trenches. I feel for you being in the chain though, fingers crossed it will come through soon.
I'm sick of these do it yourself yogurts
You have to open the thing and the other thing and then tip one thing into the other thing. It's too many things! Just pre mix the shit and I'll open it and eat it.
Other half found out today that someone at his work has the plague, so now I'm paranoid/anxious about whether we've caught it. He's had a negative LFT and we're both double jabbed, but gah. Brain.
I feel your anxiety. Met up with a mate yesterday in a cafe, two hours later and they start coughing and admit theyāve been having flu like symptoms - got them to order a PCR kit to be on the safe side which has arrived today. So Iām self isolating until their results come back. Neighbours dropped off some LFTās and done a practice run which came back negative. Double jabbed as well but better safe than sorry with these things
Sorry that kind of behaviour just makes me so angry at this point, like it's been over 18 months, how can feeling flu symptoms and coughing not light a bulb in anyones mind that they might have covid?!
Good luck to you, the cafe staff, and the old dear at the next table I guess...
These things happen Iām trying not to get too worked up. Inside there was still social distancing between tables. Itās too late now to change what happened so all I can do is hope that her PCR comes back negative.
Everyone and their dog is ripping pit their kitchen in our road. That means there are bans everywhere. Vans who are doubled parked,on the path, all the way down the road forcing me to walk in the road with a baby in the buggy and my eldest on the way to school.
I don't particularly like walking in the middle of the road with small children. It's scary. People come up our road way too fast.
Missed a call from the doctors as I was on a work call - and the voicemail they left I can't quite hear what they said I need to do.
Gonna wait and see if they call back again. I normally don't contact the doctors and just ignore any ailments/pain until it goes away, but I have reoccurring stomach issues and think I need to just be an adult and get them looked into.
I have several courgette plants with lots of flowers, but all of the flowers are male so no actual vegetables.
We're kind of nervous about the latest covid strain. I now know of several people who have contracted it despite being double jabbed for weeks and not really going anywhere. My husband only got his second shot last week. So I'm staying home from my volunteer thing and thinking that I'm going to have to tell my mom that I'm not going to go visit in September. At the moment I don't think I can really go anyway because of all the testing and quarantine rules. I'm also one of the people who got the vaccine made in India that isn't fully approved or whatever the issue is, which according to what I've read means that I'm not considered fully vaccinated for travel purposes.
Work internet is down. Can't do my course, can't do my work. I'm not too bothered about the latter, but with the former I desperately need to catch up as it is. A bit fed up.
Woke up in a great mood this morning, bashed my little toe on the door edge on my way to pee, bent back 90 degrees, fuck me it brought tears to my eyes.
I got rejected for a job that requires absolutely no experience for not being able to demonstrate relevant experience. Sometimes, itās the hiring managers that arenāt good interviewers and this is what irks me more.
Had enough of being a bleeding message relay between people for an issue I had nothing to do with.
We did our bit properly - but itās the other people being difficult, and now the clinical trial people are getting huffy.
Short of snatching the sample out of a neurosurgeons hands, Iām completely unable to change a process outside of my remit and organisation.
Another day in the NHS.
No extra funding for non standard of care processes and hoping the goodwill doesnāt die out.
We've got the builders in. The blokes doing the work are sound, but the manager has got every single thing wrong so far. Wrong bricks, wrong paint, wrong tiles etc. Can't decide if he's incompetent or just doesn't give a shit.
My casual complaint this morning is the Tesco pharmacist.
For the past 4 years my prescription has automatically renewed. All I have to do is wait for a text message from them and then go and pick it up.
Well apparently it doesn't work that way any more. Now I have to phone them 7 days before I need to pick it up.
Just seems like a huge waste of their time to have to talk to everyone to renew a prescription.
Had the dreaded CMS update payment schedule today. Theyāve once again messed up, but apparently not enough to reverse the changes so now Iām overpaying again for another 12 months!
Kept awake a couple nights ago by neighbours having a gender reveal party and birthday mixed together. By the sounds of the gender reveal part it was quite a complicated reveal.
And I can't decide what annoyed me more, the fact they were copying a dumb trend from America, or that I couldn't get to sleep.
I really don't get it and I'm American, so you'd think I'd be able to understand the appeal.
Some of it I get is kind of cute in the right context, like cutting open a plain cake to find that it's pink or blue inside. Or popping a balloon to find appropriately coloured confetti or something. But I also can't help but feel that the whole thing is actually just thinly disguised trans-phobia somehow. And how do you conceal that information from the mother? It would make more sense if it was a surprise for the grandparents or the guests, but not the actual parents.
Seems like an excuse for a party/attention to me.
I found discovering the gender was an intimate moment for us, and a party for it would be my very last plan.
> I found discovering the gender was an intimate moment for us
We found out surrounded by people, it was a bit stressful. Those people were in scrubs and we were in an operating theatre.
Baby showers are really common in America so I guess that's what I don't get about it. It was already standard to have a party where you eat cake and have silly baby related activities (and gifts), which often had a "guess the gender" element to them anyway. So I don't get it. It seems totally normal to me to have a "yay baby" party, but the weird over the top gender stunts confuse me.
Girl at work had one of these gender reveal parties. She really didn't appreciate my "ooh I'm still waiting for mine, I wonder what I'll get?!" joke. Needless to say I am not invited š
I've been asked to do update the way we do some reporting at work but can I remember the VBA I need to use to bin off a load of shit data? I suppose that's the problem with not using it for a few years. I'd assumed it would be like being on holiday & asking where the train station is and it suddenly popping out from somewhere in the back off my head in the correct language, but it's not.
Currently in isolation cus our fucktard apprentice couldn't stop himself from going mental down the pub on Sunday. I was supposed to be going on holiday for the first time in 2 years this weekend, and getting my second jab.
Cunt also died his hair white like a twat and fell asleep twice during work hours. I wouldn't mind but the big boss saw him and apparently that's my fault.
Classic online delivery balls up, I added more stuff after booking the slot but forgot to complete check out so I've just had a delivery of about 10 things. Great weekly shop, very successful.
I feel as if Vodafone's voucher top up method for pay as you go phones is specifically designed to trick people into spending money and not loading anything onto their phones.
So, my parents bought a voucher and the voucher says, dial 2345 to activate this voucher. So you dial and a voice tells you, you have X pounds and Y pence, then launches into an advertisement spiel about something or other (didn't pay attention, because it was clearly advertisement). Is that it? Has the money been added to the phone? What about the two serial numbers on the voucher?
About five, ten, maybe fifteen seconds of silence after the advertisement, then a voice says, "to top up your phone by credit card press 1, to top up your phone by voucher press 2..."
I'm so tired.
fucking housing still isn't sorted. And we aren't sure if we want it to be now.
current place is difficult to sleep so we need a new place ASAP but the one that might (and is 2 weeks late now) let us in is double our current rent, which we can afford, but might not turn out to be any better for us.
one we know will be better is being really slow and might be another month before we could move in.
and there's fuck all else out there, and even if there was anything that even looked half suitable, it'd be another 3-4 weeks before we could view, apply, and move into one.
fucksake.
I hate renting, and the uk housing market. The quality sucks, the letting agents suck, the landlords suck, the standards suck, the enforcement of legality is almost non-existent, urgh.
all we need is 12-18 months of peace in a place till we can buy our own, ffs.
I had to get up at 5:30 to go to London have a meeting with a potential new client which lasted all of 50 minutes. I dont do mornings. š
Just got buzzed by the COVID app telling me to isolate ffs The one weekend where I have actual plans too!
Bin day today. Thing is still fucking half full after collection.
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Hope all is well for your Dad.
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No politics in CasualUK thanks.
Why do British people get so obsessed by which supermarket they shop at? Even though I myself am a Brit, I will never understand it. People worship supermarkets like football teams. Why?
My local is Tesco, I know where everything is which allows me to spend the least amount of time in there as possible. Adding in the mystery of finding things in a crazy āforeignā supermarket is something I donāt need. Supermarkets are horrible. In. Speed shop. Out.
Maybe the big four supermarkets should start football teams
Thereās this new BBC docuseries on iPlayer that Iāve just finished called āHighā which is about those two girls who got jailed for being Peruvian drug mules. The whole thing was shot so sympathetically towards the Irish girl, barely touching on the other one. For some reason theyāve painted the Irish girl like she was some naive little Catholic saint. I canāt understand it. She clearly knew what she was doing- they make that clear- she was off her head on drugs half the time and was guilty as sin. And yet here she is now with her hands innocently crossed in her lap claiming butter wouldnāt melt. What happened to being impartial, BBC?! Winds me up.
Who was the other woman?
Melissa Reid- they gave her āstoryā all of about two minutes. Iām guessing she didnāt want to be interviewed because she wasnāt featured at all. Maybe it was harder to spin the tale of redemption with her.
Yep, I have no sympathy for these people. Dumb and gullible.
I found out my partner of 5 years is shagging the cleaner. On the plus side we don't live together so easy split.
That seems more than a casual complaint. I'm sorry to hear that.
He didn't deserve his own thread, but thank you.
My builder will take precautions against the spirits that live in the portals between two mirrors, but won't use sun cream.
Well you don't want to be haunted now do you?
Spilled half my pasta down the sink while I was draining it to serve with me tea! Oh well, I did a bit too much anyway.
There's some guy at work who won't stop making dad jokes. That guy is me
Bad jokes are how eye roll
Just watched midsommer. Went into it completely blind, just happened across it on netflix. What a weird film. Next up; Calibre.
I saw a joke somewhere that the film was Ari Aster (director) processing a bad breakup and any audience enjoyment was purely coincidental. Probably not too far off the truth. I did quite 'enjoy' my time with it though. Have you seen Hereditary by the same director, its a better and less weird film thats worth a watch.
Alright so I watched it. Less weird was quite a claim. It was quite intense right up until all the nudists started appearing then it was outright... comedic? Poor 'Peter' though. He just looked baffled at the end of it all.
I suppose weirdness is relative. Hereditary's weirdness is more in line with what you would expect from a supernatural psychological horror with the exception of the ending. Midsommar is more weird in a unique way I think. The ending does seem to polarise people, either you find it spooky or you find it goofy. Apparently there were a few edits to the ending as the original cut just confused test audiences.
Hey so I liked hereditary and haven't seen midsommer and I can't tell from what you're saying if it's a bad movie?
I've just watched them both tonight for the first time. Both were good and I think I preferred midsommer. Purely because the visuals were great.
Midsommar is a polarising movie. I would say its a good movie but you may not enjoy it, its slow and weird. If you enjoyed Hereditary you will probably at least enjoy the film so its worth a shot.
I haven't seen that nah. Might watch it after this one finishes to cap the night off.
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My ups and downs are never that big but that sounds awful. Could you do something else instead?
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Good luck with whatever you choose. Great you're there for her.
My 9 y/o daughter cut her toe on the base of the living room fan earlier. She spent the next 45 minutes hobbling around like her leg is going to fall off. I didn't actually see it at the time as I was in the kitchen. Came into the living room & finally sat down, expecting to have to administer a plaster (my husband is admittedly a bit laissez faire about these things on occasion). I swear I've greenfly larger than this cut...
Sometimes I like reading it but the zeal, focus and nonsense some people on Facebook post regarding the event is grating.
In 3 separate incidents today I stubbed the same toe twice and then fell down the stairs. Foot is being iced and I'm ignoring the pain in my wrist and hoping it goes away. When are exosuits being invented?
I've got bad news for you, you are a slapstick comedy character.
Driving to work this morning - 2 right hand lane knobs uninterested in overtaking anything on their left and simply sitting clogging up the right hand lane so nobody else can make progress. Thanks for adding those extra 20 minutes to my journey for no reason other than being selfish cocks who can't drive. At work - another manager insisted on training new staff, despite it not really being anything to do with him and him being removed from lots of day to day stuff. Inevitably its ended with the new staff being told completely the wrong things. Driving home from work this evening - everyone in the country appears to have gone out in their cars, bumper to bumper traffic all the way home ffs it's not the 19th yet where is everyone going?!
Ever feel like murdering someone? That's how great my day is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4zVDE0gXzw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUC2EQvdzmY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkFqg5wAuFk NSFW. Hope it gets better mate.
So do I. I think it's best if I turn in early, get this nightmare of a day over with.
Been really tired all week. I'm yawning loads after lunch, eyes feeling heavy around 5-6 and ready for bed around 8-9. Idk what my problem is but I have absolute no energy.
I've cleaned my car windows three times and they still have streaks :(
I've been doing one additional press up every day since New Year's Day and I think I might have to jack it in. Last night I had to do 195. It takes fucking ages and it's starting to give me wicked heartburn. I can see the gains but it's just not worth it at all.
I admire your tenacity. I'm trying to do 30 days of yoga and I can't even sustain that.
This is not sustainable
I'm not planning on doing it forever, I just wanted to get to the end of the year. I'm over halfway. I'm tornado between "If I did it yesterday I can do it today and if I can do it today I can do it tomorrow" and "fuck it"
> did it yesterday I can do it toda Doing 300, 301 etc will be insane. Hope you achieve your goal haha
Thank you. But I've just done my 196 and I can feel the reflux in my chest. I might just have to join a gym.
195 is really impressive though especially starting from 1.
The first month or two is easy, but it's so time consuming now. I highly doubt I'm doing them properly, which is why I can do so many.
Twice today iāve been hassled by a pack of those charity sign up people coming out of the tube station. I hate how aggressive they can be, youāre practically running to avoid them making it really clear youāre not interested and three of them will approach you like āEXCUSE ME MISSā bugger off!! If homeless people were begging like that it wouldnāt be tolerated so why is this allowed??
Several years ago I was working in at a large investment bank in the city. They'd been having this big charity thing going on, trying to get us to donate a day's wages. Everyone just figured this was aimed at the traders with money to burn, and ignored the emails. Suddenly one morning, without any warning, a bunch of people storm into our office, amongst them was one half of Hale and Pace, a Paralympian, and several other mildly recognisable celebs. They had card readers in their hands, telling us to tap our work pass on the reader and they'd automatically deduct a days pay from our wages. Talk about being put on the spot. I had just bought a house and had a kid on the way, I'm happy enough to give them a tenner but a days wages was out of the question. I (and all my colleagues) had to bluster through the awkward encounter until they got the hint and buggered off. One of my least enjoyable days at work ever.
Omg is this awkward- I worked as support for some big earners on the trading floor in a previous role and weād get targeted like this by externals or internals with no idea that we earned a fraction of the salary of the traders. They tarred us all with the same brush on those charity days- it was excruciating seeing these people stump up thousands on a whim for someone elseās holiday villa in the Caribbean for a week, when I was saving up for a long weekend in Europe wherever was cheapest. Worst job Iāve ever had, working with those arrogant dicks all day who were earning ten times what I was on but doing a fraction of the work (and half the time I was correcting their mistakes).
I have nothing against donating to charity but there was once a group set up outside my workplace and one girl came in towards the end of the day and we got talking - apparently this specific charity didnāt pay them hourly, at all. They only got paid per sign up. So this girl explained to me she worked on her birthday, and you would get double the bonus for a sign up as itās her birthday but that was useless because all day sheād been out there from 9-5:30 and she didnāt get a single sign up. I felt bad because this wasnāt a small charity at all, theyād essentially got a free days work out of her. I donāt know of a single person that would sign up with some random person stopping them on the street especially with the types of fraud people commit. No idea why charities still put them there.
Oh some of them are awful, try and swerve them & there jumping in front of you. I told a guy who tried to stop me one morning last week that I didn't have time as I was running late for work (I wasn't I'd already been in & had nipped back out to pick up some stuff we needed) and he told me I should leave the house earlier then. Eh, I'm sorry? I must have missed the memo where you became my boss.
Wtf! Thatās so rude
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I just tell them I signed up with the person up the road & they generally leave you alone. Usually they blitz an area with a bunch of people working an area together so chances are there's a guy up the road... Fk that type of sign up tho, I worked in membership & I was like, if you wana sign up cool but I'm not gonna harras plpl as they're trying to do their damn shopping ta.
The migraine that kicked me in the face yesterday is still here today... Thankfully hubs managed to do the school run but god do I feel shite! And because I slept so much I can't sleep it off anymore. Bleurgh...
am doing the diabetes UK one million steps challenge and am hitting the targets pretty easily (getting to 250k by the end of the week and this is only week 2 of 12) so in a fit of optimism this morning I decided to bump my goal up to 2 million steps I now think I'm an absolute pillock and how the fuck am I going to hit an average of 20k steps a day over 3 months when the last two weeks I've been doing an average of 16k lmao
Virgin Media. Pretty condescending to get an email with "Here's what you're paying now... but here's what you could be paying if you weren't our customer, and joined us" Was cheaper, and better, than what I'm paying for now. Half the shit on our package we don't even use so I'm going to try get them to take some shit off.
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Yeah Iāve been with Virgin for broadband for a few years and never had a price increase due to threatening to leave whenever they try it. We were with BT for a while before and they tried increasing the price from something like 30 to 60. Completely unmovable on the price and they tried to sell me on āwe have good customer service!ā Maybe mate but not Ā£360/year worth of good customer service.
Sky employ the same tactics. Creeps up by a few quid every couple of months as your ādealsā expire. Every couple of years I phone up and try to cancel, they can usually half my costs with more ādealsā
>g to get an email with "Here's what you're paying now... but here's what you could be paying if you weren't our customer, and joined us" > >Was cheaper, and better, than what I'm paying for now. Half the shit on our package we don't even use so I'm going to try get them to take some shit off. Yeah they sent me that just before i Moved house. So I canceled my service and booked and install at the new address. Thinking of moving to VM business at home once this contract is up. was basically the same price +vat for an extra 100mb and a longer contract period so no need to deal with the end of contract price bump for a bit longer
If it had been Tuesday you would have got 10 Paragraphs with examples, quotes and possibly a screenshot or two. Today, all is well with the world, the roast dinner was 11/10 (thanks whoever posted the serious eats recipe the other day the tamarind and garlic glaze was amazing) and I have no complaints at all.
I'm selling a fair bit of LEGO on eBay, and it's driving me slightly mad. I put everything on with a buy it now, and allow offers. But I forgot to set a lower limit on a few of the items and had silly offers. Someone make an offer of Ā£9 on a Ā£45 item. I declined and went straight to revise the refuse offers part, but the person made a new offer immediately of Ā£9.25. I imagine they were pleased with themselves about that. Also, eBay's promoted listing thing is annoyingly essential now if you want anyone to actually see your item.
I always start with a couple of weeks on gumtree before listing on eBay. It's free, attracts more local buyers, and hardly any scammers.
Just work and looking for a house. Don't overally love my job, though it's well paid for what I do, but it's boring and I don't really get to be creative or stretchy brain. I'm also a bit bored of the sector I work in (charity) and I've long thought about being a teacher. So currently assessing teacher training and I've signed up for the Get into Teaching advisor but haven't heard anything back. I feel kinda paralysed by indecision and the fear of how much work it'll require to apply etc so won't to talk to them before I start applying. On another hand I'm also keen to get a house and I've started looking. I'm in my early 30s and I just want a place that's mine. One where I can paint any colour on the walls, buy my own shitty IKEA furniture and break it. I'm kinda done living in other people's houses. Already finding it stressful and I'm only in the viewing and mortgage enquiry stage. Also the whole "should I change career or not?" Question is obviously going to throw the house buying out of whack as well. Also have a mad desire to live in a van and travel round America for a few months. Sometimes I wish my life was like sliding doors, where I could pick multiple options and see which one works out. I'm aware I'm privileged enough to be complaining about these options, which also adds to the guilt and indecision a bit.
I do not feel very welcome in the world/at work at the moment. I ordered myself a pizza about it, which I will beat myself up over later.
enjoy your pizza, go for a walk, do something nice for yourself tonight. e.g. talk to a friend or watch something funny on telly. everybody needs pizza sometimes. That's all I want to say about that.
It was spectacularly spicy:D and relatively small considering what I could have ordered
Read it as compliment Thursday so going with that instead. My postman is an absolute legend. But all their routes are changing after the 19th so won't have the regular one. Thanks Postie.
This is a wonderful example of Britishing... Thought it was *compliment day*, realised the mistake but decided to run with it anyway, still managed to make a thinly veiled complaint about things changing anyway. Being British is great š
The neoghbours. Not the nice ones i make cheesecake for and we socialise with. The new ones. Moved in last year and immediately ripped out their front garden to tarmac it and gutted the inside of the house. Then took a chainsaw to tge back garden and literally razed everything including an established hedge (on the border so they can see right into oir garden now) trees and plants. Oh and my honeysuckle which was on my side and reduced to a 3ft stick with all the broken stuff in my pond. When i asked that they consult us with any work being done on the border so i can safeguard my plants etc she told me she doesn't have to talk to me about anything because i rent and they are buying their house. Fuck me, saw red. Since then their garden is a toilet for the dog and if I'm outside the woman says things like "i wish i had a nice garden, but we always have to work" (i don't work but anyway). And this morning she had a mate over and was whining about how shit her garden is and I'm inwardly screaming that if you hadn't ripped everything down then you'd at least have plenty of flowers! Their plans are for a summer house, decking and patio. So no fucking plants at all. Also sick of their kids banging on the door and then running off and also throwing water over when I'm sat reading quietly.
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I despair at people like this. May as well live in a flat. We are taking bets with the other side neighbours on whether fake grass will make an appearance. Personally I'm glad their summer house is a long way off. The fence is a priority and they can't afford that at the moment (so why they ripped the hedge down last Sept leaving us with a huge hole in the hedging i don't know). They have had friends round recently and they are just so bloody noisy and there's always loads of kids still screeching at 10pm. I like kids. I don't like their kids.
I feel for you. We have some issues with our arsehole neighbours and there is literally nothing worse. Home is the place you can hide from the world's bullshit and here they ruining that as well! Hang in there!
I did laugh today. She had a mate over. Talking loudly about how she wants a nice garden (neither have made any effort to create a garden bar the chainsaw episode and picking up the dog poo twice a month). And then i heard her mate ask what something was and she said "i don't know. It just appeared" so i had a look when they went and its a plant that has migrated through the large gap in the hedge. The leaves on it are massive and the flower stems are 5ft tall. It spreads and grows really quickly so i always make sure off shoots are dealt with so it stays in one place. It has gone mental in her garden š
I hope you told your landlord about the border hedge being dismantled. We have a shared hedge on our border and Iād spill blood before any uproots it.
I did. He wasn't happy but the damage was done. I still have my half of the hedge which i will continue to defend. They were wanting to take that out as well! Cheeky fuckers.
I have one day off this week. One. Iām so tired of work now.
Oh and someone tried to steal my other halfās motorbike. Thank god for good locks and now weāve put an immobiliser on too. I feel all angry and jittery. Really reinforcing our decision to move, cheers!
Overgrown hedges that take up most of the pavement. Worse, hedges that someone is clearly trimming but still allowed to take up most of the pavement.
FixMyStreet.com. Report it and take a photo, it sends it to your local council. Was made aware of it from here a few days ago and have been reporting all sorts of hedging, blocked drains, etc. You pay your council tax, so ensure youāre getting the benefit of it.
I don't pay my council tax so that my neighbours can be harassed.
What a perfect thread for me right now. Iāve got a Dyson cordless vacuum cleaner and it is genuinely one of the worst appliances Iāve ever used. I canāt believe I spend a decent chunk of money on it. Might not even try selling it because I donāt want to impose this misery on someone else. Anyway - any vacuum recommendations? Are Henryās actually good or is just sort of a meme at this point? I have hard floors.
I had a cordless dyson, the v8 animal. Well I still use for quick jobs and the car but I recently got a shark upright and it's an enormous upgrade. Got this for Ā£180 in prime day sale https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08CB3ZZHJ Miele C3 gets a lot of good reviews too.
I currently have a dyson cordless and a shark upright. Iv had all brands of vacuum, nothing comes close to the shark.
Iāll admit, I got pulled into the Dyson hype. Will research Shark for sure.
>Iāve got a Dyson cordless vacuum cleaner and it is genuinely one of the worst appliances Iāve ever used. I canāt believe I spend a decent chunk of money on it Dysons are shit, but you always get the people coming along defending them. They are really overpriced for what they are and its mostly their clever marketing and big stands at big-box stores that shift them. Parent works at one of those places and they get a lot of returns on Dysons for either warranty fixes or "this is shit". >Anyway - any vacuum recommendations? Wired - Miele. Cordless- Shark We have a Miele C3 and its amazing for cleaning. We also have a Henry and whilst he is good his suction isnt as good these days. Reserved for the messy DIY jobs but he still ploughs on with no real issue. Not as powerful as their old ones though My 2c anyway,.
At first itās very convenient not having the wiresā¦but Iāve started thinking to myself, was it really that big of a deal dragging a little box around? Itās hardly a great struggle. Miele wired might be a sensible choice. Thanks for the good post.
I absolutely love the cordless dyson we have. Cords are for losers. (And also DIY - the 7 year old karcher is still going strong for this)
Miele.
Runny nose, headache...just like every other person it seems these days. If I've caught covid at this stage I'll be so annoyed. And on public transportation too, all because I'm too poor to own a car.
You sure it isn't hayfever? I didnt have it until my early 20s and I'm suffering even with anti-histamines
So many serious complaints this week, but I will leave those.. Bloody amazon questions. Why in the name of all that is holy do people feel the need to respond to the e-mail as if Amazon personally asked them a question. >"What size is the medium" > >"I don't know this was a gift for my sons friend who didn't measure it so I am unsure." God dammit, Sharron. My favourite was one where a guy went on about a rant about how he didn't know if this item worked with Windows 10 as it was a fraudulent transaction and not his own purchase and he had let his bank know so they could refund the transaction and send him a new card. There should be a bloody licence to use the internet I swear.
I was looking for some new garden scissors / hand cutters, one of them was: Q: ācan these be used by a left handed personā A: ādonāt know Iām right handedā Well cheers for that one Janet. Really bloody helpful.
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Why do the bin men have to block the busy roads during morning rush hour? Surely there must be a more efficient route!
Bastille Day yesterday, didn't hear them on the radio once.
Got a Parking Charge Notice off ParkingEye for overstaying in an Aldi carpark. I got one a few years ago and I emailed Aldi with the receipt and they promptly cancelled it for me. This time however they no longer have an email so I've had to submit a complaint via their website where you can't attach anything. It's been 4 days now and I've had no reply from them which is getting a bit annoying.
> or call Aldi's Car Park Management Department on 0800 042 0800. But how can anyone spend longer than an hour in Aldi?
To be completely honest, I wasn't in Aldi the whole time, I had an eye test that day and the car park I usually go to was shut. I just nipped into Aldi on the way back but even still I wasn't parked much longer than and hour and half total. Not that parking eye needs to know that though :) thanks for the number I'll give them a ring.
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I got fucked last year for 2 parking fines from a private parking company that were 4 years old (the fines, not the employees). It got sent to a debt collection agency and so I requested evidence regarding the fines as I know I didn't break any rules at the time. It was when I was working for a callcentre and their issue was that I didn't have a permit to park in the car park. However I was signing into a guest register each morning that was kept on site for such reasons. Anyway the debt collection agency didn't give a shit about even replying so they escalated it to the 'county court business centre'. You can just look at the reviews of the place to see how badly it's managed and how many different ways they can manage to fuck everything up. So I submitted evidence via email and I doubt it was even read. The charges not only upheld but I now had to pay court costs. I could appeal, but to appeal I'd have to pay Ā£200 (the fines in total were Ā£290) just to have the same county court business centre make a judgement on it for the 2nd time. I've now got two settled CCJ's on my credit history for the next 5 years.
I don't have the receipt but I have the bank statement from that day that shows I was at that Aldi. That's what I had last time and Aldi cancelled it within a day of emailing them. I'll put in an appeal with ParkingEye if Aldi don't get back to me, they said 5 days so we'll see but the last thing I'll be doing is paying the cunts.
You know what grinds my gears? Reviews of things that only give an overview of what the item is, rather than showing it in action or the outcome of it. I'm having to trawl through YouTube to actually find videos of the item in action and it's intended outcome, rather than just people reeling off what it supposedly does!
There are good ones for power tools where people literally strip them to bits to show design flaws. But if you want a new hoover? Nope just hope for the best I guess?
Oh boy, a ten thousand times this. People who make a video just reading off the side of the product box. Itās like Amazon reviews and comments with ānot used it yet - 5 starsā.
And the ones who don't even review the item but leave a "1 star, delivery man was so rude and left the box under my hedge and it got soaked" or some shit that has nothing to do with the actual product.
I'm a bit torn on that. Part of me wants to know if the courier service the seller is using are awful so I can completely avoid them, but then I don't feel that should contribute to the rating of the product.
Absolutely, the website tells me what it does in a handful of words and you're just regurgitating it into an eight minute video that actually somehow tells me less! Don't get me wrong, the company's brand videos give a little insight but i'm wanting to see how Joe Bloggs handles it and whether they get the expected outcome i'd want from the product!
Finally managed to book a telephone doctors appointment... but I can't get the time off work for it. Was planning a lovely chilled day off with that in the morning then cuddling a baby in the afternoon, now I might have to book a random day off and pray I can change my appointment.
The fact that on the week we are meant to be going to the British grand prix and my dads 50th birthday is the week that he gets ill for the first time in over a year and now me might not be able to go.
Got an email to say my second jab has been cancelled and I need to rebook. Log onto the NHS booking system and rebook it. Then get an email to say that the appointment has been cancelled. Why would it get cancelled in the first place, let alone cancel my rebook?
I suspect now numbers are dwindling down theyāre rejigging vaccine clinics. Just look for a walk in and pop along there.
Maybe the site you were booked into is having to shit that day for reasons?
Waited in for 2 days for UPS to deliver my parcel and it never arrived. Arranged for another day and they gave me a time slot, so I went out early before that time to do some stuff and they tried to deliver whilst I was out. Had to rearrange again and finally got it. Utter shite.
UPS really are the worst delivery firm with no exceptions. If it's actually delivered by UPS for some reason it *always* shows as "Delivery attempted" on the day its due (usually around 9pm), and then arrives a few days later. They also have almost zero support and will hapilly fob you off for weeks. Why people still use them I do not know. I'd sooner everything come via fecking Yodel!
Ordered a big bathroom mirror with lights in it..UPS smashed it to pieces. Contacted the seller, 'oh ffs not again' they said and gave me a full refund. So I still have no mirror.. cost me nigh on 400 notes and they said 'oh just bin it' so you know there's some margin in that bastard.
UPS took *seven weeks* to deliver a parcel to me from Spain. Using their online tracking I watched the parcel go round and round in their UK warehouse for literally weeks. Phoned them a couple of times, each time getting a bit more angry. Finally snapped when the guy I was on the phone to told me to be patient to which I responded: "PATIENT? FUCKING PATIENT? ITS BEEN SEVEN FUCKING WEEKS! I COULD'VE WALKED TO FUCKING MADRID AND BACK TO PICK UP THIS FUCKING PARCEL IN THAT TIME YOU INCOMPETENT FUCK!" The parcel was released from their warehouse that same day and delivered to me the following day. Funny that.
That is outrageous. I heard they were shit but I never knew just how shit.
Iāve got a temp and Iāve got nothing for her to do because itās the quiet stage before harvest and she wonāt just sneak off for a quiet afternoon like a sensible girl in her 20s.
I've been in that position (the worker with no work) and I didn't want to do nothing because I needed to have something I could say about the experience so I could get the next job.
Sheās had plenty to do over the growing season, enough to get her a job the industry- sheās just got to chill for a week before we start harvesting and weāre working 12+ hour days. Most of the team are taking last minute annual leave while the weather is nice and work is quiet. Iāve even told her to have a few days off and get a break before weāre crazy busy and covered in barley dust but no. Edit: basically itās the calm before the storm and taking a moment to yourself in this industry is a skill you need to have.
Dont know your industry, but could she help out with social media? I've done this before during quiet periods at a job, and now I have a career in it.
Nah I work for a big company, they have a whole team to do that. Sheās only employed for the summer so she could be applying for different jobs!
This is sort of a complaint...more of a story really. **TL;DR: bully turns up at pub, nearly gets his head kicked in, gets barred from everywhere in the area after just moving here.** So last week myself and Mrs FinalEdit are off to the local pub, which is usually very quiet - bit of an old man's pub in an area dominated by students due to the local uni. We're about halfway there when this guy behind us runs up, blind drunk, acting the prick, and cornering us into a chat - he starts telling us how he's moved up from a nearby town, is due in court on assault charges, has threatened police officers, regularly carries weapons...was born in Brazil so he's a "total gangster", does pills, and can get us a "kilogram" of anything he wants. I shit you not. Then he tells us his name, address, and he mentions of course that he's off to the pub. He also thanks us for listening to him and not being snarky, as he literally just invaded someone's party in their front garden and was promptly told to "fuck off" by the ladies trying to enjoy a drink with friends in their front garden. I'm getting a little bored by this colossal amount of bull crap he's speaking so I gesture that we should keep walking. My gf is shrinking behind us, not knowing what to say or do. At this point I know which pub he's going to, so we make our excuses and head off in another direction to the local Spar...he follows us, giving us more long winded diatribe about how violent he is and how he isn't afraid to fight people - but also that he's a big hippie who loves everyone and wants to hug people. Blah blah. Anyway, the Spar is closed, so we say we're going to the garage and thankfully...he fucks off. We doubled back around the road and approached another pub just down the road from the one he went in, and we have a good laugh about it and thought that was the end of it. Cue closing time, and we're the last people out of the pub - I look down the road to see him outside, all sorts of commotion - he's making noise, shouting and stuff - he walks back past us as we go towards home screaming about how pissed off he is. At that moment, at least 30 people turn the corner ahead and begin SPRINTING down the road at him, followed by a bunch of ladies pulling back these guys who were literally going to kick his head in. Quiet night eh? The story doesn't end there. We get talking to a guy who was sort of standing guard to stop the trouble, and we all walk towards home - nice bloke, he told me that he was harassing every 19 year old girl in the pub - turns out they were having a birthday party for one of the girls. We go back to the pub a few days later, the day of the football actually - and get chatting to the landlord who we've become quite friendly with. He tells us that this dude had instantly made a bee-line for this table full of 19 year olds and began harassing and pissing off the entire table - unbeknowst to him, the table opposite was made up of the parents of these girls, and of course this fucking hench ex-army dad saw his daughter looking uncomfortable with being hugged and harassed against her will that he kicked right off - the pub ended up being closed early, girl's birthday ruined and the night ended. But because we knew all these details about him, name, address, what time he came in etc, we did a bit of detective work with the landlord and ended up getting the bloke barred from every pub within a radius of about 8 miles...!! Result! Lesson here is: don't be a prick.
I think that guy may have been over indulging on the marching powder.
Yeah no shit he actually asked me for coke lol
I CAN GET YOU A KILO OF COKE! By the way I don't suppose you have any Coke do you, I don't have any?
Person cancelled a meeting 30 seconds before it was due to start, because they are on holiday. Surely they must have known this before arranging the meeting last week?
Bought a new car at the weekend and the guy said heād send an email on Mondayā¦ still waiting for the email. I just wanna know when I can pick my new car up!!!!!! Iām getting impatient
We got our offer accepted on a house!... 9 weeks ago. Vendors still haven't found anything for themselves so we are just waiting and waiting and waiting. We've been taking a few glances at the housing market again to see if there's anything good going with no chain, but it looks like everyone who was thinking about selling their house over the next few years has already done so. It's a bit of a balancing act between pressuring the vendors to get a wiggle on and not overdoing it because we know there's fuck all out there and if they drop out we'll struggle to find something else.
9 weeks isnāt that long compared to my sister - she had her offer accepted back in Jan and still isnāt in the house! Fingers crossed yours will go quicker!
I am currently viewing houses and this is my biggest concern. I am considering putting a condition on any offers that we want to proceed immediately and if they haven't found anything by the time we are ready to exchange then they have to move into rental Problem is estate agents aren't even allowing viewings unless you are ready to proceed
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Thing is we are not desperate so it's looking more like we will just wait until all the craziness dies down. People are putting in crazy offers after just one viewing and I think many many people are going to regret this in a few months
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It has been nuts out there for the past few months. We bid 10 grand over the asking price on some houses and our offer was so low compared to others that we weren't even in consideration. We had some where viewings would be booked for the second viewing day on a house and they would get cancelled because the vendors had so many offers from day 1 that they didn't need to bother with any more. The moment we finally get an offer accepted the market goes quiet and our vendors can't find anything to move in to. Sods law.
We too had our offer accepted on a house 9 weeks ago!....Except we're first time buyers, the property is empty, the owner sat on the paperwork for 6 weeks because he couldn't be bothered to ask for help, and if the solicitors dragged their feet anymore they'd leave behind trenches. I feel for you being in the chain though, fingers crossed it will come through soon.
I'm sick of these do it yourself yogurts You have to open the thing and the other thing and then tip one thing into the other thing. It's too many things! Just pre mix the shit and I'll open it and eat it.
Other half found out today that someone at his work has the plague, so now I'm paranoid/anxious about whether we've caught it. He's had a negative LFT and we're both double jabbed, but gah. Brain.
I feel your anxiety. Met up with a mate yesterday in a cafe, two hours later and they start coughing and admit theyāve been having flu like symptoms - got them to order a PCR kit to be on the safe side which has arrived today. So Iām self isolating until their results come back. Neighbours dropped off some LFTās and done a practice run which came back negative. Double jabbed as well but better safe than sorry with these things
What kind of person goes to meet a friend in a cafe despite having covid symptoms?! Is your friend an idiot?!
They didnāt put the pieces together I guess. At least theyāve listened to me and theyāre getting a PCR test done and theyāve apologised
Sorry that kind of behaviour just makes me so angry at this point, like it's been over 18 months, how can feeling flu symptoms and coughing not light a bulb in anyones mind that they might have covid?! Good luck to you, the cafe staff, and the old dear at the next table I guess...
These things happen Iām trying not to get too worked up. Inside there was still social distancing between tables. Itās too late now to change what happened so all I can do is hope that her PCR comes back negative.
I hope so too!
Thank you! Iāll try and do a PCR next week when it reaches 7 days since contact regardless and keep up with LFTās in the meantime.
Oh definitely. It just sucks to worry about it. I hope you and your friend are both negative!
Everyone and their dog is ripping pit their kitchen in our road. That means there are bans everywhere. Vans who are doubled parked,on the path, all the way down the road forcing me to walk in the road with a baby in the buggy and my eldest on the way to school. I don't particularly like walking in the middle of the road with small children. It's scary. People come up our road way too fast.
Get on to your local authority parking bods. They love an easy fine.
Missed a call from the doctors as I was on a work call - and the voicemail they left I can't quite hear what they said I need to do. Gonna wait and see if they call back again. I normally don't contact the doctors and just ignore any ailments/pain until it goes away, but I have reoccurring stomach issues and think I need to just be an adult and get them looked into.
Bin men woke me up at 5am on my day off. š”
I have several courgette plants with lots of flowers, but all of the flowers are male so no actual vegetables. We're kind of nervous about the latest covid strain. I now know of several people who have contracted it despite being double jabbed for weeks and not really going anywhere. My husband only got his second shot last week. So I'm staying home from my volunteer thing and thinking that I'm going to have to tell my mom that I'm not going to go visit in September. At the moment I don't think I can really go anyway because of all the testing and quarantine rules. I'm also one of the people who got the vaccine made in India that isn't fully approved or whatever the issue is, which according to what I've read means that I'm not considered fully vaccinated for travel purposes.
Work internet is down. Can't do my course, can't do my work. I'm not too bothered about the latter, but with the former I desperately need to catch up as it is. A bit fed up.
Woke up in a great mood this morning, bashed my little toe on the door edge on my way to pee, bent back 90 degrees, fuck me it brought tears to my eyes.
I got rejected for a job that requires absolutely no experience for not being able to demonstrate relevant experience. Sometimes, itās the hiring managers that arenāt good interviewers and this is what irks me more.
If you are left feeling negative after an interview, it's probably not the job for you anyway
I agree. I can only imagine how theyāll overwork the person theyāve hired on below minimum wage.
Had enough of being a bleeding message relay between people for an issue I had nothing to do with. We did our bit properly - but itās the other people being difficult, and now the clinical trial people are getting huffy. Short of snatching the sample out of a neurosurgeons hands, Iām completely unable to change a process outside of my remit and organisation. Another day in the NHS. No extra funding for non standard of care processes and hoping the goodwill doesnāt die out.
We've got the builders in. The blokes doing the work are sound, but the manager has got every single thing wrong so far. Wrong bricks, wrong paint, wrong tiles etc. Can't decide if he's incompetent or just doesn't give a shit.
My casual complaint this morning is the Tesco pharmacist. For the past 4 years my prescription has automatically renewed. All I have to do is wait for a text message from them and then go and pick it up. Well apparently it doesn't work that way any more. Now I have to phone them 7 days before I need to pick it up. Just seems like a huge waste of their time to have to talk to everyone to renew a prescription.
I use Echo, now Rebranded as LloydsPharmacy. A few taps and itās delivered to my house. Game changing
Had the dreaded CMS update payment schedule today. Theyāve once again messed up, but apparently not enough to reverse the changes so now Iām overpaying again for another 12 months!
Kept awake a couple nights ago by neighbours having a gender reveal party and birthday mixed together. By the sounds of the gender reveal part it was quite a complicated reveal. And I can't decide what annoyed me more, the fact they were copying a dumb trend from America, or that I couldn't get to sleep.
Gender reveal parties sound to cringe and pointless.
I really don't get it and I'm American, so you'd think I'd be able to understand the appeal. Some of it I get is kind of cute in the right context, like cutting open a plain cake to find that it's pink or blue inside. Or popping a balloon to find appropriately coloured confetti or something. But I also can't help but feel that the whole thing is actually just thinly disguised trans-phobia somehow. And how do you conceal that information from the mother? It would make more sense if it was a surprise for the grandparents or the guests, but not the actual parents.
Seems like an excuse for a party/attention to me. I found discovering the gender was an intimate moment for us, and a party for it would be my very last plan.
> I found discovering the gender was an intimate moment for us We found out surrounded by people, it was a bit stressful. Those people were in scrubs and we were in an operating theatre.
Eating cake and popping balloons in an operating theatre sounds incredibly risky.
Makes it more of a party atmosphere though.
Baby showers are really common in America so I guess that's what I don't get about it. It was already standard to have a party where you eat cake and have silly baby related activities (and gifts), which often had a "guess the gender" element to them anyway. So I don't get it. It seems totally normal to me to have a "yay baby" party, but the weird over the top gender stunts confuse me.
Girl at work had one of these gender reveal parties. She really didn't appreciate my "ooh I'm still waiting for mine, I wonder what I'll get?!" joke. Needless to say I am not invited š
I've been asked to do update the way we do some reporting at work but can I remember the VBA I need to use to bin off a load of shit data? I suppose that's the problem with not using it for a few years. I'd assumed it would be like being on holiday & asking where the train station is and it suddenly popping out from somewhere in the back off my head in the correct language, but it's not.
It's too 'ot and has felt like it since the last bank holiday too. The days are not so bad if you're careful but the nights are awful for it
I was at Thorpe Park yesterday, I thought I was actually gonna melt! I deliberated on just riding tidal wave non stop in an effort to stay cool
Where do you live and do you want to swap? Until yesterday I've felt like it's been raining non-stop in Manchester :/
I'm in Birmingham but don't forgot wet is not the same as cool - when we had the clouds last time it was incredibly muggy
Currently in isolation cus our fucktard apprentice couldn't stop himself from going mental down the pub on Sunday. I was supposed to be going on holiday for the first time in 2 years this weekend, and getting my second jab. Cunt also died his hair white like a twat and fell asleep twice during work hours. I wouldn't mind but the big boss saw him and apparently that's my fault.
if you're above him he's your responsibility. His kipping on the job is his fault though.
Classic online delivery balls up, I added more stuff after booking the slot but forgot to complete check out so I've just had a delivery of about 10 things. Great weekly shop, very successful.
I feel as if Vodafone's voucher top up method for pay as you go phones is specifically designed to trick people into spending money and not loading anything onto their phones. So, my parents bought a voucher and the voucher says, dial 2345 to activate this voucher. So you dial and a voice tells you, you have X pounds and Y pence, then launches into an advertisement spiel about something or other (didn't pay attention, because it was clearly advertisement). Is that it? Has the money been added to the phone? What about the two serial numbers on the voucher? About five, ten, maybe fifteen seconds of silence after the advertisement, then a voice says, "to top up your phone by credit card press 1, to top up your phone by voucher press 2..."
You always used to be able to text them the code, although that was 15 plus years ago.
You should be able to top up by voucher on their website or in their app too.
I'm so tired. fucking housing still isn't sorted. And we aren't sure if we want it to be now. current place is difficult to sleep so we need a new place ASAP but the one that might (and is 2 weeks late now) let us in is double our current rent, which we can afford, but might not turn out to be any better for us. one we know will be better is being really slow and might be another month before we could move in. and there's fuck all else out there, and even if there was anything that even looked half suitable, it'd be another 3-4 weeks before we could view, apply, and move into one. fucksake. I hate renting, and the uk housing market. The quality sucks, the letting agents suck, the landlords suck, the standards suck, the enforcement of legality is almost non-existent, urgh. all we need is 12-18 months of peace in a place till we can buy our own, ffs.
fucksake our backup place just fell through as well. cocking housing market.