Things you hate III

Car insurance renewal. So had my renewal notice from "cnutsure" for £565. When I use compare the market, go compare and money supermarket (with identical add-ons to what I've got now) the quotes for "cnutsure" are £380, £384 and £390.

And when I call them to query this, I'm put on hold with "Your business is important to us..." which causes me to put down the 'phone and go with Totally Legitimate Insurance (Cayman Islands) for £379.

 

Had mine renew last week. Quote for renewal up £100 as always. Armed with quotes I called them and asked why a loyal customer with yet another year of no claims, (think I'm at 35 years no claims now), and a depreciating car has £100 added. Nice lady on phone said I can re-quote that for you. I said they either matched the quotes I had or bye bye. She didn't quite match but got close enough.

No doubt it'll be up by £150 next year. It's the game!

 

They profit off of consumer inertia. For everyone like you and B'wood, there are a dozen who probably just auto renew without checking, so they can afford to lose a couple of savvy people by ripping off 12 others.

Same with bank accounts, credit card offers, renewals on other services etc. I left sky when it became apparent that if I were a new customer I could join Sky Q and get a free TV along with discounted subscription. They wouldn't match it for me as a renewing customer so I left.

When my mobile phone contract expired, Vodafone dragged their heels over offering me a deal as good as those advertised for new customers, so I left.

When my bank account introductory interest rate expired and went to 0.25%, I closed the account and moved elsewhere. If we don't do these things, they get away with it.

After being with Admiral since I passed my test 23 years ago, they fannied around with my renewal quote so I ditched them and went with Tesco.

**** these people and their corporate scams.

 

When is your annual renewal to Wfcforums due ?

 

I have a package deal. Buy one subscription, get 812 free.

 

very good !

 

The song "Brown Eyed Girl" by Sir George Ivan Morrison OBE.

Over-rated singer, poppy, nonsense, sing-a-long, song. Heard it way too many times.

A super-mild suggestion of the weakest and puniest little dose of whitey/funky R&B for UKIP members who refuse to listen to any black music.

Was originally going to be called "Brown Skinned Girl" but was changed by a horrified Sir Georgie himself. "That was just a mistake" he coughed and blustered. "It was a kind of Jamaican song. Calypso. It just slipped my mind. I changed the title." Actually yer honour, calypso comes exclusively from Trinidad - a thousand miles from Jamaica. But don't let that stop you in explaining away how you robbed a black music sound, cleaned and disinfected it, made it clean and lovable for the grannies as well as the kiddies and then flogged it back to white people.

Named by The Honourable Alexander "Boris" de Pfefell Johnson as one of his desert island discs and confirmed by the White House as on regular rotation on George W Bush's iPod.

Bip, bop, bip, bop, bip bop, La, la, la, la indeed.

 

Van Morrison is God. You're just wrong. End of.

 

TBF when O2 contacted me (bloke with a thick Watford accent) about renewal I said no unless I got a decent loyalty package at least as good as a new customer. He said he'd find out and called me back with a very good airtime package, a money off voucher for my next phone (from O2) and some sort of ticket deal for any gig at the O2 (I think it's priority booking and a discount) and I think I've got an ipad coming?

 

Holy cow, how much do you use your phone?

 

That's the weird thing - not a great deal. He was quite tickled when I voiced the opinion that apple engineering and software design is "junk".

Plus I've only got to meet him 3 more times behind the "Sht1 & Shovel" wearing a blindfold to suck, what feels like, about a tsp of wallpaper paste through a sausage - which is not something I remember from my T&Cs.

 

Tomorrow I shall be cycling to the office for the first time in a while, please be prepared for this thread to get somewhat bigger.

 

Another weird one involves my parents and that benchmark of all that's wonderful in the world of TV/cable suppliers "Virgin Media". When it came to contract renewal my, quite elderly, parents pointed out that they had to get an engineer round three times to sort out their wireless signal. The salesman apologised and offered the lowest priced TV media package for life is they renewed...

 

Sweden v Switzerland

 

C O L O M B I A

 

James Corben, what a ****

 

Why, what did he do?

 

More like what has he done!

His biggest hit has been the "Carpool Kareoke" and that is a direct rip off from Peter Kay's "Car Share" programe.

 

Even worse than the TV superstar James Corden ? What do you think ?

 

Probably the smuggest person on TV. But is he smugger than the King of Smug - Noel Edmonds?

 

Victoria Coren-Mitchell.

 

I like him, Gavin and Stacey rocked, and anyway, I've a doctorate in smugness. Everything he knows about that he learned from me.

 

It did, and those sportaid/comic relief sketches were brilliant too, but it has all gone to his head since he started hosting his US show. Everything is all about him now, inc "A league of their own" which used to be good but they barely get through 3 rounds in an hour now ...and as for those car insurance ads....

 

Did it? Must have missed that.

 

Fair play, my knowledge of him began with G&S, through the Comic Relief pep-talking a crap England team and then more or less stopped. I didn't even know he had a Late Show till my gf (huge BGT fan) found the Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Take Away. Don't be late now was pretty funny.

 

Not even in the top 5:-

1. Simon 'bloody' Reeve and his awful travel shows. The Sultan of Smug. The Tsar of twatness.

2. Jeremy Vine. Painfully patronising and obviously thinks he's really, really great.

3. Stephen Fry. Funny sometimes, but oh that Oxbridge smugness.

4. Chris Evans. Legz Akimbo in person, but not nearly as funny. Multi-millionaire smugness oozes from every pore.

5. Nicky Campbell. Mister Ego. Self-important, diminutive Scottish twerp. Absolutely bursting with his sense of self.

 

Tennis.

Peak tennis twattery this time every year.

 

Not up to smuggy mcsmugface eddie howe

 

School proms. What an utter load of bollox. Yes, both of my 2 daughters have been through them, the last one just a couple of weeks ago, (luckily she can see through the horse sh*t and got a dress that can be used many times for under £30). One of those American imports that is just completely trashy and undignified. Scumbag parents simply trying to out-do one another, materialism showing it's most ugly possible face.

I've seen post after post on facebook of these teenage monsters dressed up as lambs packed in to stretch limos like animals going to the slaughterhouse. Honestly, it makes me feel nauseous.

I think I just found my no.1 hate in the World.

 

Preach brother.

 

Baby pageants has got to be worse..... https://www.pamspageants.com/

 

Dates of football matches that may be changed after train tickets have been purchased.

Yes, Burnley away, I'm looking at you.

 

Don't remember any sort of school leaving day when I 'graduated' One day all together, next day gone our separate ways.

 

Lady at work who never talks to me, (until she can't get to Facebook), invited me to her "work" baby shower.
"F*** right off" wasn't written in her card.