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fatso

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  • May 6, 2023
  • #13,406
JAM See said:
Wait in four hours for a parcel.

No parcel.

Then get an email saying "We tried to deliver your parcel..."

No you fucking didn't! Wankers!
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Have you had your parcel yet?

The suspense is killing us!
 

JAM See

Well-Known Member
  • May 6, 2023
  • #13,407
fatso said:
Have you had your parcel yet?

The suspense is killing us!
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I rearranged for Tuesday, then it came today.

As much as I hate to say it, Amazon are by far the best company at delivering parcels (apart from Royal Mail, who are the gold standard as far as I'm concerned).
 
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dutchman

Well-Known Member
  • May 6, 2023
  • #13,408
I returned from town the other day to find Amazon had left a box on the neighbour's doorstep, in plain sight. They would normally ask me to hold it for them but in this case that was obviously impossible. Fortunately the neighbours returned shortly afterwards as there have been many doorstep thefts around here.
 

fatso

Well-Known Member
  • May 6, 2023
  • #13,409
dutchman said:
I returned from town the other day to find Amazon had left a box on the neighbour's doorstep, in plain sight. They would normally ask me to hold it for them but in this case that was obviously impossible. Fortunately the neighbours returned shortly afterwards as there have been many doorstep thefts around here.
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What kind of lowlife steals a doorstep?
 
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dutchman

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  • May 7, 2023
  • #13,410
fatso said:
What kind of lowlife steals a doorstep?
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The same kind that stole my doormat shortly after I moved here!
 
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dutchman

Well-Known Member
  • May 7, 2023
  • #13,411
Morrisons opening between ten and four on Sundays when they could legally open between twelve and six and give people like me a chance to recover from the night before.
 
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ProfessorbyGrace

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  • May 7, 2023
  • #13,412
People who speed up when you’re overtaking them on a dual carriageway.

This numpty (who looked a lot like David Icke) was in a Porsche Cayman, doing about 65; so I overtook at 70, and then he purposely kept pace out of some misguided sense of pride. Obviously piqued by being overtook by a measly Dacia Stepway.

Gave him the eyes and he just swanned off at a ridiculous speed.
 
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Sbarcher

Well-Known Member
  • May 7, 2023
  • #13,413
shmmeee said:
I had an Amazon lady yesterday. I opened the door within ten seconds she was already trying to leave it behind a pot out front. Then said “oh I left some the other day did you find them?” Luckily I did. I WFH and am always in, she never even knocked the door. Just left three packages in plain sight and I found them when I went out to collect the missus.
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Did Amazon leave a card for her?
 
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Sbarcher

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  • May 7, 2023
  • #13,414
Watching a L1 game earlier today and the manager was spitting. No need for him to do that, he’s not chasing around the pitch.
 
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Blind-Faith

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  • May 8, 2023
  • #13,415
The term “game management” which is being used now, let’s just call it what it is, time wasting + cheating
 
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Wyken Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • May 8, 2023
  • #13,416
Sbarcher said:
Watching a L1 game earlier today and the manager was spitting. No need for him to do that, he’s not chasing around the pitch.
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See lots of managers do it, disgusting

I'm not a huge fan of players doing it on the pitch either but at least you can understand why when running around as you say

Sent from my Pixel 6 using Tapatalk
 
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dutchman

Well-Known Member
  • May 8, 2023
  • #13,417
Actors mumbling in TV series.

I subscribe to a service which supplies subtitles for series where none are normally provided and even they are sometimes stumped. The Nevers (Part 2) is a particularly bad example. Turning up the volume doesn't help, the over-loud music and sound effects just wake the neighbours.

In the days of 405-line black & white TV sets with side-facing speakers we could at least understand what was being said.
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • May 9, 2023
  • #13,418
I put good morning Britain on for the first time in years.

It's obsessed with Ukraine and is just like a political broadcast.
 
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ccfctommy

Well-Known Member
  • May 10, 2023
  • #13,419
Radio 2 and it's actual obsession with eurovision.
 
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olderskyblue

Well-Known Member
  • May 10, 2023
  • #13,420
ccfctommy said:
Radio 2 and it's actual obsession with eurovision.
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I changed to Greatest Hits radio when Ken Bruce went there, and it’s pretty good.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • May 10, 2023
  • #13,421
Broadband renewal. It's gone up 35 a month in 2 years. They sent a cheeky renewal link which would renew for 2 years at £73 a month.

Going direct to their site, same thing is £46 a month.

How the fuck does that work? It's so sneaky.
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • May 10, 2023
  • #13,422
Nick said:
Broadband renewal. It's gone up 35 a month in 2 years. They sent a cheeky renewal link which would renew for 2 years at £73 a month.

Going direct to their site, same thing is £46 a month.

How the fuck does that work? It's so sneaky.
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Fuck knows, their cost to serve will have gone up a bit like any other business but it just feels like opportunist price gouging to me. You expect these things to get cheaper over time as the initial investment in the infrastructure is paid off, not more expensive. It got a lot of criticism but the nationalising of broadband provision was a sensible policy for what it is a necessary public utility.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • May 10, 2023
  • #13,423
fernandopartridge said:
Fuck knows, their cost to serve will have gone up a bit like any other business but it just feels like opportunist price gouging to me. You expect these things to get cheaper over time as the initial investment in the infrastructure is paid off, not more expensive. It got a lot of criticism but the nationalising of broadband provision was a sensible policy for what it is a necessary public utility.
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Yeah, effectively I'd be locked into a 2 year contract paying well over what a new customer would pay.

Knobs.
 

Sbarcher

Well-Known Member
  • May 13, 2023
  • #13,424
Sainsbury’s car park where the lines are painted to suit a Fiat 500.
 
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Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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  • May 13, 2023
  • #13,425
Birmingham Airport.

Unless you are off on a package holiday to Gran Canaria, it's fucking useless. Ridiculously expensive, slow, inefficient. Airports can be a hassle, but this one is embarrassingly behind a lot of the others in the UK considering its size. The people who run it are arrogant losers as well.
 
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LastGarrison

Well-Known Member
  • May 13, 2023
  • #13,426
When you buy new shirts and they come with about a thousand of those little plastic clips pinning the shirt everywhere.
 
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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • May 13, 2023
  • #13,427
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
Birmingham Airport.

Unless you are off on a package holiday to Gran Canaria, it's fucking useless. Ridiculously expensive, slow, inefficient. Airports can be a hassle, but this one is embarrassingly behind a lot of the others in the UK considering its size. The people who run it are arrogant losers as well.
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Both Birmingham and East Midlands are shite.
 

skybluejelly

Well-Known Member
  • May 14, 2023
  • #13,428
Instructions , for building a greenhouse .. they make ikea instructions look good
 

Nuskyblue

Well-Known Member
  • May 15, 2023
  • #13,429
LastGarrison said:
When you buy new shirts and they come with about a thousand of those little plastic clips pinning the shirt everywhere.
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I haven't bought a shirt in forever but fuck yeah they're annoying
 

Nuskyblue

Well-Known Member
  • May 15, 2023
  • #13,430
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
Birmingham Airport.

Unless you are off on a package holiday to Gran Canaria, it's fucking useless. Ridiculously expensive, slow, inefficient. Airports can be a hassle, but this one is embarrassingly behind a lot of the others in the UK considering its size. The people who run it are arrogant losers as well.
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So slow, if you turn up late, say about an hour prior to take off you get whizzed through security.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 15, 2023
  • #13,431
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
Birmingham Airport.

Unless you are off on a package holiday to Gran Canaria, it's fucking useless. Ridiculously expensive, slow, inefficient. Airports can be a hassle, but this one is embarrassingly behind a lot of the others in the UK considering its size. The people who run it are arrogant losers as well.
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We flew out of Gatwick twice last year. On one time our flight left late simply because airport staff forgot to put up which gate it was going from and the other the plane had to wait on the tarmac for an hour after boarding because ATC had ‘mixed up the schedule’.

Went on Eurostar this year, much less hassle
 

ovduk78

Well-Known Member
  • May 15, 2023
  • #13,432
WTF is a "super fan"? Some woman who went to a Eurovision semi final is one apparently. So every year she gets excited by a music competition for a week or 2 and will watch it on TV and maybe have a party. What are football fans who go to every game they can & do everything they can to watch games they can't be at on ifollow, sky, illegal streams etc and the team they support is never far from their thoughts?
 

ccfctommy

Well-Known Member
  • May 15, 2023
  • #13,433
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
Birmingham Airport.

Unless you are off on a package holiday to Gran Canaria, it's fucking useless. Ridiculously expensive, slow, inefficient. Airports can be a hassle, but this one is embarrassingly behind a lot of the others in the UK considering its size. The people who run it are arrogant losers as well.
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Went from East Midlands last time. Was way better.
 

Nuskyblue

Well-Known Member
  • May 15, 2023
  • #13,434
ccfctommy said:
Went from East Midlands last time. Was way better.
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Yer, seems more chill.

BHX is just one big queue
 

ccfctommy

Well-Known Member
  • May 16, 2023
  • #13,435
Nuskyblue said:
Yer, seems more chill.

BHX is just one big queue
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I think it took me ten minutes from entering the airport to being at the bar.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • May 16, 2023
  • #13,436
Wrexham.

Sky Sports breaking news that their striker renewed his contract.
 
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Terry Gibson's perm

Well-Known Member
  • May 16, 2023
  • #13,437
Nick said:
Wrexham.

Sky Sports breaking news that their striker renewed his contract.
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Just wait until they are on sky sports live about eight times next year.

There is nothing about the Wrexham story I like or enjoy I hope they have a season of mid table obscurity see how their tv audience enjoy that.
 
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Nuskyblue

Well-Known Member
  • May 16, 2023
  • #13,438
ccfctommy said:
I think it took me ten minutes from entering the airport to being at the bar.
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That's good that. The two times I've gone from east mids it's been exactly that experience.

I swear they make it a ballache at BHX so they can push their priority security tickets
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • May 17, 2023
  • #13,439
Nuskyblue said:
That's good that. The two times I've gone from east mids it's been exactly that experience.

I swear they make it a ballache at BHX so they can push their priority security tickets
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The last 4 times over gone from there it’s been dreadful - even Fast Track was a 30 minute wait.
 

ajsccfc

Well-Known Member
  • May 17, 2023
  • #13,440
The one thing I like about the Wrexham thing is that at least the owners are legitimate and not the usual crypo scammers with a company registered to a shed in their back garden that usually try to latch on to lower league clubs.

(If Ryan Reynolds is hawking NFTs and I've not noticed, I take it all back)
 
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