Rant of the Day v2.

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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

#1521 Post by ricardian » Sat May 18, 2019 9:26 am

After a long design process here is the new BT logo.
Why did it take so long?
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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

#1522 Post by Magnus » Sat May 18, 2019 9:32 am

Today's rant comes to you courtesy of SWMBO. My brother has asked if I fancy a lunchtime pint. :)

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#1523 Post by Capetonian » Sat May 18, 2019 9:32 am

The firm of 'consultants' who would have been paid vast sums of money for managing this 'project' must be laughing out loud.

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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

#1524 Post by ricardian » Sat May 18, 2019 10:22 am

I've just heard that the model railway show organised by Market Deeping Model Railway Club that was due to take place today in Stamford has had to be cancelled because two 15 yr old vandals broke in overnight and completely destroyed all the model railway layouts and associated locomotives & rolling stock as well as the various trade stands. Years of work by dedicated modellers destroyed in minutes - in one case an 'O' gauge layout that took 10 years to create plus 20 years worth of hand-built rolling stock & locomotives. The police have apprehended the culprits but I suspect that their "punishment" won't be too heavy-handed
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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

#1525 Post by ricardian » Sat May 18, 2019 12:39 pm

Newspaper report (with photographs) of the aforesaid vandalism at Stamford, such devastation.
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#1526 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sat May 18, 2019 1:05 pm

The plot of Forsyth's 'The Veteran' springs to mind.

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#1527 Post by ricardian » Sun May 19, 2019 5:36 pm

An interesting report on the real reason why women have to work longer before getting their pension.
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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

#1528 Post by ExSp33db1rd » Mon May 20, 2019 5:16 am

The police have apprehended the culprits but I suspect that their "punishment" won't be too heavy-handed
Off with their heads.

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#1529 Post by CharlieOneSix » Mon May 20, 2019 1:58 pm

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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

#1530 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Mon May 20, 2019 3:28 pm

Re:Market Deeping Railway Club.
Sir Rod Stewart has donated £10,000.
£50,000 in other donations has come from around the world.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/0 ... ons-flood/

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#1531 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon May 20, 2019 8:56 pm

Just had an email from the Tax man (genuine this time) telling me there was a nessage. Took over an hour to log in. Verify my email address - the one they had was over 20 years out of date (remember they just sent an email to my current address).

I updated my address. Then they sent a check message to my old phone number that we left 18 months ago. They had our new number.

Eventually got through. The message was the same as a hard copy sent last month. Pillocks.

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#1532 Post by OFSO » Tue May 21, 2019 5:10 am

I have been trying to get HMRC to send correspondence to my UK address since 1st Jan 2018. No, they send it to Spain, an address they only used for my state pension when I lived there full time. Half the post got lost, chucked away by the postmaster as uncollected. I posted last years return on time, recorded delivery. Heard nothing, where did they send any correspondence ? Naturally HMRC pensions do use my correct UK address, just the tax people use Spain. I have now written to their DG. See if she can get them to use the correct address... As you say, pillocks.

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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

#1533 Post by 4mastacker » Tue May 21, 2019 2:26 pm

BBC getting its priorities wrong again. A major industry (steel making) is on the verge of going down the pan, our national future is undecided and what is the main item on the TV news?? Jamie feckin Oliver's food simulator shops going into administration.

I've eaten at one of his places and the food was worse than the sludge produced at Crwt-y-Gollen Army camp.
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#1534 Post by Capetonian » Tue May 21, 2019 7:02 pm

I feel sorry for Jamie Oliver's employees but the so-called restaurants and that sandwich shack at LGW N were a disgrace to the word food.

I understand that he did some good work for underprivileged kids, which is very commendable, but gastronomy is better off without him.

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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

#1535 Post by G-CPTN » Tue May 21, 2019 7:06 pm

Capetonian wrote:
Tue May 21, 2019 7:02 pm
I feel sorry for Jamie Oliver's employees but the so-called restaurants and that sandwich shack at LGW N were a disgrace to the word food.
I understand that he did some good work for underprivileged kids, which is very commendable, but gastronomy is better off without him.
Do you think the 'standard' was inflicted from above?

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#1536 Post by ribrash » Tue May 21, 2019 7:44 pm

The Telegraph reports that a bank and a supplier are going after him as he provided personal guarantees.

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#1537 Post by G-CPTN » Tue May 21, 2019 9:48 pm

Jamie's Italian outlet in St Albans closed permanently in January 2018 after largely mediocre reviews from 1224 cuctomers, having reportedly lost £9.9 million in 2017.

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#1538 Post by 4mastacker » Wed May 22, 2019 7:48 am

One is car-less today. Took me Honda to the dealers yesterday to have the Auto-start checked - it had stopped working ....again, indicating there was insufficient charge in the battery. Stupid woman on the service desk said it was because I had the radio on whilst I was driving!!! ~X(

Told her a 250 mile drive up the motorway should be more than enough to re-charge the battery...........and cook a three course meal if it was fitted with an oven.

After spending sometime with the service manager explaining what had happened since their last attempt to fix it, he said they would put it on the diagnostics and I should have the car back later that day. Received a phone call late on yesterday afternoon,.."Err, your battery isn't taking a charge. Can we keep the car overnight so we can give it a continuous charge to see if that works?"

Why not just change the (expletives deleted) battery??? Is it because it's still under warranty and therefore they can't wring lots of quids out of me for a replacement?

I took the opportunity to have a chat at another Honda dealer when I was with junior daughter sorting her car out and the guy said it needs a replacement battery. He nearly pi$$ed himself laughing when I told him about the "excuse" of having the radio on when I was driving, adding "FFS, that's the kind of thing that get's us a bad reputation".

Have told Honda if it isn't properly fixed this time, there'a good chance we will be entering Sale of Goods Act and Provision of Goods and Services Act territory. "Reasonable expectation" is a good phrase to have to hand.
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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

#1539 Post by Woody » Wed May 22, 2019 8:22 am

Apparently MrsWoodys pink sweatshirt is not a colour, but white, when washing :((
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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

#1540 Post by Magnus » Wed May 22, 2019 8:24 am

I take it that the Woody scanties are now a delicate colour?

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