Moans and Pet Hates - Part 8
03-06-2021, 13:48
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
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Another pet hate of mine are people who smoke in public. Apart from the disgusting way most of them discard their butts, they stand in restaurant doorways so that the smoke blows in - and always to where I'm sitting.
Another another pet hate of mine are people, usually Lib-Dem Remainers, who peel oranges on the commuting train. That smell pervades the carriage for the duration of the journey.
And that damn, poxy, Peloton advert (mentioned in the Ads thread.
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don't worry, we're a dying breed . . . apparently
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Medical evidence does point that way…
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03-06-2021, 14:30
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
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03-06-2021, 17:33
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
Dreadful young women in the redtops and so called "reality" TV with pumped up lips, pumped up boobs and pumped up backsides. Don't they realise how ridiculous they look?
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03-06-2021, 18:05
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
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Dreadful young women in the redtops and so called "reality" TV with pumped up lips, pumped up boobs and pumped up backsides. Don't they realise how ridiculous they look?
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But they look in the mirror and think they're beautiful
Has anyone else noticed the alarming drop in quality of mirrors lately?
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03-06-2021, 18:07
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
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But they look in the mirror and think they're beautiful
Has anyone else noticed the alarming drop in quality of mirrors lately?
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Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the most pumped up of all?
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03-06-2021, 19:45
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
The Vale of Glamorgan council charged a fixed fee of £497.50 for THREE YEARS regardless of how many chairs and tables cafés had outside.
From July, ANNUAL licences will cost from £150 for one or two tables with up to eight chairs, to £750 for 11 tables or more with 40 chairs.
The council says the move is to clear pavements for the old and blind.
But if every café and restaurant pays, the pavements will still be full of chairs and tables!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-57350370
The great rush to charge us more to recoup pandemic losses has started.
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04-06-2021, 09:16
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
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The Vale of Glamorgan council charged a fixed fee of £497.50 for THREE YEARS regardless of how many chairs and tables cafés had outside.
From July, ANNUAL licences will cost from £150 for one or two tables with up to eight chairs, to £750 for 11 tables or more with 40 chairs.
The council says the move is to clear pavements for the old and blind.
But if every café and restaurant pays, the pavements will still be full of chairs and tables!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-57350370
The great rush to charge us more to recoup pandemic losses has started.
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Many councils have found themselves in the financial doodah after the last 12 months. They've seen a dramatic drop in income and at the same time a dramatic rise in the demand for services. They're expected to have a balanced budget - deficits are not allowed. Some of the larger ones have reserves to draw down but many of the smaller one don't.
The Government may come good on the promise to reimburse local councils for the additional expenditure they've experienced but the last I heard for Leeds City Council they are still £10's millions short and don't seem to be holding out much hope of the money ever arriving and as such have had to base this year's budget on what they know they've got not what they'd like to have. Some of the additional work undertaken has been quite impressive all of which has been done over and above what was expected when the last year's budget was planned in late 2019 and early 2020.
I'm not defending Vale Of Glamorgan, but I'm sure they've looked long and hard at ways to increase income. It's a shame they tried to spin the line about keeping pavements clear instead of being honest about it being an income generator!
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07-06-2021, 10:34
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
Street table licence money is mere spittle. The councils know that so I doubt it’s there to lessen budget deficits.
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07-06-2021, 10:51
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
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Street table licence money is mere spittle. The councils know that so I doubt it’s there to lessen budget deficits.
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Maybe so, but having been involved in various meetings regarding budget pressures I know if we can save the odd £500 here and there the council will take it. It's even to the stage where I am that they'd snatch your hand off if you asked to reduce your hours by only an hour a week . Things are pretty bad in local government at the moment and all those small amounts can make a difference.
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08-06-2021, 09:29
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
Winchester council started charging for parking in evening and on Sunday/Bank holidays to pay for work done during CV. All the things that no-one wanted or wants and most now want reversed.
They also claim it's to stop traffic coming in to town and to use park and ride, fair enough but the biggest traffic issue is through traffic and deliveries made on the street side not the back. But no-one really want the alternative of tearing up the countryside for a bypass ("you've got to build by-passes" - HHGTTG).
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18-06-2021, 15:10
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
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We're only talking about the bad cyclists. From my observation they vastly outnumber the "good" cyclists.
I hasn't even started on the red-light busters, riding across pedestrian crossings, deliberately riding on the carriageway despite provided cycle lanes.
Total scourge (except the rare good ones).
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I'm one of the 'rare' good ones; I obey lights, I don't ride across pedestrian crossings and the only time I ride on the carriageway despite the road having a cycle lane is when motorists use that cycle lane as a carpark, many times despite having a drive.
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25-06-2021, 14:53
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
When directors are sending out an e-mail to all staff to thank them for all their hard work over the past year and they thank everyone and totally forget about the I.T. department.
Yes, we are the ones who make sure all your data is backed up, that your internet connection is stable, the ones who crawl through ceilings to trace cables, the ones who setup your powerpoint and AV systems so it all works perfectly on the big night.
But yeah, just forget about us completly.
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Learner drivers........ In fact no, I should say Driving Instructors.
Yes, it's important that your learner does not speed on the roads but it is also important to tell them to put their foot down. Doing 15mph in a 50mph zone is just wrong!
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25-06-2021, 19:46
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
After getting my car washed yesterday, today I popped to my local Sainsbury's petrol station to check my tyres, but no they'e decided to make you pay for it.
So now no place in my town does it for free, so now to get a car pump and guage.
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26-06-2021, 07:31
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
Most garages charge 20p for a timed period, contibutes to the cost of maintaining the pressure system.
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26-06-2021, 08:46
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
My 'local' used to be 20p for air, then it went up to 50p, and now it's £1.
I think the machine now just sits quietly rusting in the corner
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