Things you hate III

Discussion in 'Taylor's Tittle-Tattle - General Banter' started by Otter, Dec 11, 2015.

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  1. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player

    I might possibly have mentioned these before, but scum-sucking, money-grubbing rental agencies. They really are the lowest of the low.

    Sample correspondence from today:-

    "Hi, We're interested in moving to the gaslamp alley area of Sometown and note that your agency has several homes available in that district. I've looked over the website, but can't find any details of fees payable by tenants. As you're no doubt aware, these are shortly to be made illegal in any case (bill at its third reading stage in parliament), but I wondered whether you could advise if you're still charging tenant fees and if so, how much.? Thanks and best regards, Clive Kremlin"

    "Hi Clive,
    Thank you for enquiry and yes we do still charge fees until the Bill has been passed.
    Basically its £100 per person to reserve and usually £250 admin fee when you move in. They start to differ if you need a guarantor.
    Have you seen anything or can I register you to match you with our current available stock?
    I do hope we can help you.
    Kind regards
    Augustus Hogg (Hogg, Pig & Grubber Agency Ltd)"



    "Hi Augustus,
    Thanks for your reply and sorry to hear you're still charging fees right up until the moment they're declared illegal. We're a family, so the fees you quote would come in at nearly £500 for the pair of us, assuming there's no additional fee for the children. You'll appreciate that's a very large sum for regular working people. Although there are one or two houses we like the look of on your site, I'm afraid the fees would put us off. We'll need to look at those homes for let where fees aren't charged, such as Open Rent, for the time being.
    Thanks anyway for your response.
    Best regards, Clive Kremlin"




     
  2. Hornpete

    Hornpete Squad Player

    Feel the pain. We had a boiler engineer attend last Feb. Came right at the end of the day, needed a part, ordered for next day, turned up at 4pm next day as part was to be delivered 9-3pm. Part didn't arrive. Ordered part for day 3 to depot. Engineer went to depot day 3, part got delivered to our house. Fitted part, didnt work, needs to order another part. Fixed after 5th day.

    We were in hotel for 2 nights. But wife had to be home to let in engineer and wait for delivery.
     
  3. Hornpete

    Hornpete Squad Player

    Local woman fly tips rubbish outside recycling centre.

    Council had installed cctv. Post images on Facebook "we'd like to speak to this woman with pink hair, do you know her?"

    Woman complains her image is on Facebook and it's awful hun how they'd treat you like a criminal. She admits is her but says she thought it was ok because everyone dumps rubbish there.

    Local paper and media outlets share and she asks for it to be taken down, she is no criminal and had done nothing wrong of course.

    I'm not that annoyed with her, although i am. I'm really annoyed with the ones defending her saying it is not on for her picture to be used without consent. And for the council for backing down and removing it, and for the usual dumbos saying have the council not got nothing better to do. Despite the council taking action to prevent 50k of fly tipping clean up each year, that i contribute to. Throw the ******* book at her and fine her and people like her who fly tip to reduce my tax bill.
     
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  4. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    You’re deaf?
     
  5. HappyHornet24

    HappyHornet24 Crapster Staff Member

    Something similar happened to us many moons ago when we were sharing our first flat in London. Seemingly out of nowhere, dozens of bees suddenly started dropping down from spotlights in the bathroom ceiling. It was all very horror filmish. As this was pre children and dogs, we simply slammed the door shut and booked into a hotel for the night. Turns out a Queen Bee had got in through a hole in the wall and subsequently died; unfortunately her hive followed her in and then got stuck above our bathroom.
    As for the hornets - despite your, ahem, reassurance, I googled and it turns out that, unlike wasps and bees, hornets are active at night and attracted to light. I know our loft is clear as it was checked for mice and wasps very recently but there's definitely a nest somewhere around our house. One of our dogs is recovering from a little op that required sedation so I had to take him out in the garden on the lead tonight. There were two more of these ******* hornets buzzing around the outside lights. Can't find any sign of their nest though - really annoying as we can't open any windows at night now until it's dealt with.
     
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  6. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    One of my cats was playing with something they’d half murdered in the garden the other day, when I went to have a closer look at what it was it looked like a huge hornet, I’d never seen anything like it. I posted it on a local Facebook group and the consensus was it was an (ex) Asian Hornet. Nasty looking things.
     
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  7. kVA

    kVA Reservist

    Boiler engineers! Pfft, they’re bloody plumbers. I wish the advertisers/British Gas would stop trying to build them up as something their not. They’re not heroes either. Many of them can’t fault find and just swap different parts over several days/weeks until the thing happens to start working again. By the time you’ve paid for all of their guess work you may as have well have fitted a brand new boiler.
     
  8. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Sorry, my bad. Thought they were the same as wasps. I hate wasps and had to do some work on our rockery waterfalls during the hot spell. So many wasps were coming to the pond and waterfalls for a drink I had to do it at 10 at night when they'd gone to sleep. Thought hornets were the same.
     
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  9. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Share her pink barnet on here. Filthy witch
     
  10. domthehornet

    domthehornet Moderator Staff Member

    Road cyclists on country roads, arrogant twunts.
     
  11. PowerJugs

    PowerJugs Doyley Fanatic

    10 hour coach trips.
     
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  12. Carpster

    Carpster Squad Player

    Cheap ass toilet roll. My fingers gone right through the *******. No effin chewing my nails tonight now.
     
  13. PowerJugs

    PowerJugs Doyley Fanatic

    Tip: If you have thin single ply bog roll, get a good length and fold it corner to corner so it forms a V Shape. Then, fold it in half again. Congratulations, you now have a usable bog roll rather than the cheap and not so cheerful roll.
     
  14. kVA

    kVA Reservist

    This thread is really going down the pan.
     
  15. Carpster

    Carpster Squad Player

    The horse had already bolted but cheers
     
  16. PowerJugs

    PowerJugs Doyley Fanatic

    Better late than never?
     
  17. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    11 if some b*ll*nd in an Audi hits your coach near Milton Keynes.
     
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  18. PowerJugs

    PowerJugs Doyley Fanatic

    You have my deepest sympathy. Had to be an Audi driver too. Only way it could be any more typical is if it was a BMW.
     
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  19. Maninblack

    Maninblack Reservist

    Long motorway drives.

    - Today, no fewer than SIX sets of roadworks up to Burnley.
    - One of them was 20 miles long. Why? Just work on a little bit at a time.
    - All with 50mph average speed limits. With precisely ZERO people working on them. Yes, it was Sunday but it should be done in shifts 24/7 to shorten the misery.
    - The one south of MK warns of delays until March 202-effing-2! Only 3,5 yrs of delays and misery to endure until they're done, then.
    - 'Smart' motorways. Another way of slowing traffic down unnecessarily (particularly on the M1 through Luton) generating income for the govt & insurance companies as unsuspecting drivers drift over the arbitrarily changing speed limits.
    - Traffic on the way back. 'Queues' (ie. jams) in all the 50mph areas. I wonder why? Went through Stafford to successfully avoid the queues J15-13 on the M6.
    - Other drivers. The number of middle-lane or 3rd lane out of 4 hoggers defies logic. Utter, utter morons.

    It makes me want to take the clib coach. Maybe not - I last took one in 1979. Still, we won 3-1 away at Burnley, so at least I was smiling as I swore all the way home! :)
     
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  20. Eastcoastorn

    Eastcoastorn First Year Pro

    Everyone has experienced "toilet roll failure"
     
  21. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    Totally agree. The amount of roadworks between London and Burnley was a shocker.
     
  22. The Voice of Reason

    The Voice of Reason First Team Captain

    You could try washing your hands :D
     
  23. kVA

    kVA Reservist

    Audi drivers are the new BMW drivers
     
  24. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Why would taking the coach make a difference? Is it allowed to sail through the roadworks at normal speed?
     
  25. Maninblack

    Maninblack Reservist

    Er... I don't have to drive.
     
  26. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Well, yeah. But it takes just as long. Isn’t it the delay to the journey which is the frustration with roadworks? It is for me. I’d rather be driving because at least it feels you are in control.
     
  27. Maninblack

    Maninblack Reservist

    Marginally less frustrating I suppose. At least if I'm not driving I don't have to concentrate, I can try to read or sleep.
     
  28. Carpster

    Carpster Squad Player

    Noted
     
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  29. Jumbolina

    Jumbolina First Team

    People who post links to stuff they have read in the Sun/Mail and then feel the need to put “apologies for link to XYZ”.

    Bizarre virtue signalling despite the fact they have clearly been reading the site in question.
     
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  30. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    I've often wondered just how much money is lost by the UK workforce and life in general spent sitting idle in traffic.

    Badly timed lights, junctions where just one car turning right causes a tailback, road works without any sort of care for delay.

    If we could get British roads moving better, would the country be richer? Happier too?
     
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  31. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Don’t worry, any money wasted will be recouped in the “Brexit dividend”.


    Well, it’s just as plausible as any other of the lies we’ve been told.
     
  32. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Seven more reasons to hope Burnley go down.
     
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  33. PhilippineOrn

    PhilippineOrn First Team

    Obvious start would be allowing cars to turn left at a red light. It's done in so many other countries to no detriment that I can see.
     
  34. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    I've sat at lights many many times thinking how easy it would be to make slight adjustments that would benefit everyone. Just a few seconds timing difference would mean the end of 2 empty lanes and two with 100 yard queues, but the numties looking after them don't seem to give a sh*t.
     
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  35. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    Conversely I’m constantly frustrated by other drivers at traffic lights, you could get so many more people through if some people were even remotely ready for the fact that the light will go green at some point in the next minute or so. It’s amazing the amount of people you get stuck behind who seem generally suprised about what is happening.
     
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