Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

[Mr. Dazzle]

El Pirata of Mayfair is nice if you want some 'London' tapas

24hr Tapas. Only £15 a plate!

https://duckandwaffle.com

[Count Steer]

Depends where you are tbh

In London, it's 4 olives for £12

In Spain it's a plate of olives for 50 cent

Didn't a lot of Spanish bars start off offering free nibbles/tapas (often salty things) to encourage people to use that bar and drink a little more because the money was made on drinks?

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I've heard about that on the mainland but never seen it here.

Probably only happens in small places now, if at all. ie in villages with a couple of competing bars. There was also some story (possibly apocryphal) that the little plates were the right size to sit on top of your glass to keep flies? dust? out of your drink.

[weeksy]

Depends where you are tbh

In London, it's 4 olives for £12

In Spain it's a plate of olives for 50 cent

Didn't a lot of Spanish bars start off offering free nibbles/tapas (often salty things) to encourage people to use that bar and drink a little more because the money was made on drinks?

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I've heard about that on the mainland but never seen it here.

It's a thing in Andalucia for sure.... Every drink you get a plate.... sometimes it's a meat based, sometimes some potatos, etc... usually it's tasty and after 5-6 drinks you're more than stuffed...

[Yorick]

Didn't a lot of Spanish bars start off offering free nibbles/tapas (often salty things) to encourage people to use that bar and drink a little more because the money was made on drinks?

.

I've heard about that on the mainland but never seen it here.

Probably only happens in small places now, if at all. ie in villages with a couple of competing bars. There was also some story (possibly apocryphal) that the little plates were the right size to sit on top of your glass to keep flies? dust? out of your drink.

Yeah, I've heard that.

[Yorick]

Didn't a lot of Spanish bars start off offering free nibbles/tapas (often salty things) to encourage people to use that bar and drink a little more because the money was made on drinks?

.

I've heard about that on the mainland but never seen it here.

It's a thing in Andalucia for sure.... Every drink you get a plate.... sometimes it's a meat based, sometimes some potatos, etc... usually it's tasty and after 5-6 drinks you're more than stuffed...

And pissed

[gremlin]

When you fill up the bike, which when costing £27.50 boils my piss a bit anyway, then go to pay and there's a woman in front with a basket of shopping, who then hands over some scratch cards to redeem, which she then fannies about deciding which new ones to buy with the winnings, then, after all that piss arsing about, asks for a cappuccino when he's the only one behind the counter.

And this is why I use Pay-at-Pump whenever posible.

[Yorick]

When you fill up the bike, which when costing £27.50 boils my piss a bit anyway, then go to pay and there's a woman in front with a basket of shopping, who then hands over some scratch cards to redeem, which she then fannies about deciding which new ones to buy with the winnings, then, after all that piss arsing about, asks for a cappuccino when he's the only one behind the counter.

And this is why I use Pay-at-Pump whenever posible.

That's the best thing about retirement. We've loads of time to piss off annoying folk

[Horse]

'Journalists'



Massive plumes of smoke from wildfires in New Mexico has been caught on satellite images at the exact same moment a dust storm sweeped across Colorado.

[gremlin]

Dealing with Virgin Media.

For the love of God, please....

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Dealing with Virgin Media.

For the love of God, please....

Try spending £3,000,000 with them, the service isn't any better.

[Taipan]

Coping a £66 cab bill for getting my Daughter home. The idiot got pissed out of her nut, left a Hen night/party, got lost and couldn't get a local cab to pick her up! Thank God for iPhones and Ubers!

[Potter]

Being asked to provide bank statements to prove I can afford a house before we're even allowed to view it.

I understand this if you make an offer, but I might view it and it's not at all suitable, and then an estate agent has my personal bank statement for no good reason.

[Taipan]

Being asked to provide bank statements to prove I can afford a house before we're even allowed to view it.

I understand this if you make an offer, but I might view it and it's not at all suitable, and then an estate agent has my personal bank statement for no good reason.

Personally, I think this kind of financial vetting is a good thing. It saves a lot of people from having their time wasted by dreamers and nosey parkers.

[Mussels]

Being asked to provide bank statements to prove I can afford a house before we're even allowed to view it.

I understand this if you make an offer, but I might view it and it's not at all suitable, and then an estate agent has my personal bank statement for no good reason.

Personally, I think this kind of financial vetting is a good thing. It saves a lot of people from having their time wasted by dreamers and nosey parkers.

I'd be interested from a GDPR standpoint, it's a poor excuse for estate agents to say they need highly personal information.

[Potter]

Being asked to provide bank statements to prove I can afford a house before we're even allowed to view it.

I understand this if you make an offer, but I might view it and it's not at all suitable, and then an estate agent has my personal bank statement for no good reason.

Personally, I think this kind of financial vetting is a good thing. It saves a lot of people from having their time wasted by dreamers and nosey parkers.

I get that, but it's laziness, they don't want to meet you and have a chat, they just want to set up an appointment over the phone or online and don't want to do any more work than that. Estate agents charge a fair bit and all they do these days is put an advert on the internet then send out a generic email asking for proof of funds before they can be arsed to do anything.

The money I'll use for the purchase is spread out over a few bank accounts, I'm not sending bank statements for each one just to view a property.

[Horse]

Being asked to provide bank statements to prove I can afford a house before we're even allowed to view it.

They probably thought that, as a non-uk resident, you'd just got off a dinghy at Folkestone

[Potter]

How do they do it in London where every property is north of a million?

We're not talking trillions here, it's three-quarters of a million, to be fair that buys some tidy places in the frozen north but it's hardly drug kingpin crib money, and we haven't decided exactly what we want, so we want to look at a couple of cottages, a couple of new(ish) ones and maybe the odd curveball like a windmill we saw.

I get that people don't want messers but they're putting their house up for viewing, surely they have to accept that some people will be quite undecided and just testing the water. When we've sold we just put up with it, it's hardly the end of the world to show someone around your drum for half an hour.

[Mussels]

Estate agents usually want to push as many viewings as possible to make their client think they are doing a good job. I think they will send you through for a viewing no matter how your accounts look and then look for what else they can sell you or who they can sell your details to.

[Potter]

Estate agents usually want to push as many viewings as possible to make their client think they are doing a good job. I think they will send you through for a viewing no matter how your accounts look and then look for what else they can sell you or who they can sell your details to.

I would have thought so, but it's a flat no - "show us your money or you can't view the house", it was as clear as that.

We really like one of the properties, so we're going to do a drive-by and if we still really like it then I might capitulate, but I don't want to on general principle.

[Yorick]

Estate agents usually want to push as many viewings as possible to make their client think they are doing a good job. I think they will send you through for a viewing no matter how your accounts look and then look for what else they can sell you or who they can sell your details to.

I would have thought so, but it's a flat no - "show us your money or you can't view the house", it was as clear as that.

We really like one of the properties, so we're going to do a drive-by and if we still really like it then I might capitulate, but I don't want to on general principle.

Knock on the door and try to bypass the estate agent.
Will be interesting to get the owner's view on it all.