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

[Wossname]

Royal Mail again.
I think they have a cushy number going with with eBay sellers. Package gets sent to me by normal courier but once I find out it is rubbish and needs returning I get a prepaid tracked 48 label which I have to drop off at a post office, no letter box and no collection unless I pay extra.

Royal Mail get a lot of business from people that wouldn't use them and sellers get a load of stuff not returned because it's too much hassle.

Edit: Went online to pay for collection and found it is free for that one, good result but a shame it wasn't mentioned before.

Side note but Royal Mail has just been pulled up in the courts because they had been prosecuting (and in some cases jailing) sub post masters for fraud when it was actually a fail in their own Horizon electronic systems causing the errors.

Not sure who exactly was responsible but as the sub postmasters got jailed it only seems fair if the bosses of RM got the same.

That was the Post Office, not Royal Mail. They're different. Apparently the ceo of the PO at the time got a CBE for services to the PO....

[demographic]

That was the Post Office, not Royal Mail. They're different. Apparently the ceo of the PO at the time got a CBE for services to the PO....

Oops and there was me standing there with my torch and pitchfork at the ready casting aspersions at the wrong person.
Be right.

[Saga Lout]

Mrs S_L was supposed to be coming home from China today. I ordered the COVID tests for her, I filled in the passenger locator form for her on Wednesday night and emailed it to her daughter to print it. At Shenzhen you check in before boarding the ferry to Hong Kong airport, she wasn't allowed to check in because she didn't have the email receipt for the COVID tests. That was 8:00 AM today in China, 1:00 AM here so I was fast asleep. I woke up at about 4:30 to the sound of the answerphone beeping. By then it was too late.

So a 400+ mile trip back to Nanning and try again in two weeks time.

The daft thing is the information about the COVID tests is on the passenger locator form but that apparently isn't good enough.

[Trinity765]

No riding challenge that I can complete, no jokes in the joke thread and no (St George's Day) Friday thread. I want to log a complaint


Guess I'll have to ride for the sake of riding, post a picture in "the last time...." and make myself laugh....again

[McNab]

Royal Mail again.
I think they have a cushy number going with with eBay sellers. Package gets sent to me by normal courier but once I find out it is rubbish and needs returning I get a prepaid tracked 48 label which I have to drop off at a post office, no letter box and no collection unless I pay extra.

Royal Mail get a lot of business from people that wouldn't use them and sellers get a load of stuff not returned because it's too much hassle.

Edit: Went online to pay for collection and found it is free for that one, good result but a shame it wasn't mentioned before.

It's free until the end of next month. When they introduced their collection service in October last year it cost 72p. I guess people weren't using it enough. I've used it a few times, it works well.

Probably because they haven't told anyone about it. I only found out when someone on here mentioned it.

[Saga Lout]

Royal Mail again.
I think they have a cushy number going with with eBay sellers. Package gets sent to me by normal courier but once I find out it is rubbish and needs returning I get a prepaid tracked 48 label which I have to drop off at a post office, no letter box and no collection unless I pay extra.

Royal Mail get a lot of business from people that wouldn't use them and sellers get a load of stuff not returned because it's too much hassle.

Edit: Went online to pay for collection and found it is free for that one, good result but a shame it wasn't mentioned before.

It's free until the end of next month. When they introduced their collection service in October last year it cost 72p. I guess people weren't using it enough. I've used it a few times, it works well.

Probably because they haven't told anyone about it. I only found out when someone on here mentioned it.

My postman delivered a leaflet, I kept mine. Maybe you discarded yours unread thinking it was junk mail.

[gremlin]

On behalf of Mrs. Gremlin, and because it made me laugh: customers.

She just took a phone call from an irate facilities manager from the school they are working in. He's complaining that her engineers left with job not completed, now they're going to have to come back, it's an inconvenience blah, blah, blah....

She explained to him that the part of the job that wasn't finished was the installation of a wall-mounted cabinet and the reason it wasn't installed is, despite her having received assurance from him that it would be, the wall hasn't been put up yet.

Apparently he was a little sheepish after the facts were laid bare.

[Cousin Jack]

On behalf of Mrs. Gremlin, and because it made me laugh: customers.

She just took a phone call from an irate facilities manager from the school they are working in. He's complaining that her engineers left with job not completed, now they're going to have to come back, it's an inconvenience blah, blah, blah....

She explained to him that the part of the job that wasn't finished was the installation of a wall-mounted cabinet and the reason it wasn't installed is, despite her having received assurance from him that it would be, the wall hasn't been put up yet.

Apparently he was a little sheepish after the facts were laid bare.

Silly engineers. They should have installed the cabinet anyway, then the school could have installed the wall on the cabinet. Simples.

[gremlin]

The Oscars.

A nauseating self-congratulatory, self-indulgent ego-fest of people who, in reality, do little of worth, but who feel they deserve accolade from those outside their privileged world.

[Mussels]

The Oscars.

A nauseating self-congratulatory, self-indulgent ego-fest of people who, in reality, do little of worth, but who feel they deserve accolade from those outside their privileged world.

Pretty much and they can't even be trusted to do that objectively.

[Mr. Dazzle]

The Oscars.

A nauseating self-congratulatory, self-indulgent ego-fest of people who, in reality, do little of worth, but who feel they deserve accolade from those outside their privileged world.

Always strikes me as slightly less pointless than the Met Gala though. People dress up in crazy outfits to raise money for the museum of crazy outfits It's like that (apocryphal?) factory which made just enough anti aircraft equipment to defend itself from air attack.

[demographic]

The selection of different types of head on ironmongery screws.
Pozo, Philips, Allen, Torx and sometimes Slotted.
Often a couple of different types on items that come in the same box.

Just pick one and don't take the piss.

[Taipan]

This: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nor ... e-56846218

So, despite there being police enough to close roads off for the funeral, they couldn't get enough evidence to get a conviction.....

Jikes. They did it here recently Blocked the main roads with their cars and horse boxes. Most of which were on double yellows. There were three buses backed up because they couldn't get through. Then the horses and traps came out and held everyone up on another road as they rode down there. Not one cop or traffic warden to be seen despite numerous calls. They act with impunity. We lost.

[Rockburner]

I walked into the kitchen today to make a cup of tea and several cupboard doors were left open.
Have we got a poltergeist or just a lazy twat who can't be arsed closing cupboards.

IIRC you have a teenage son, do you not?

[slowsider]

I walked into the kitchen today to make a cup of tea and several cupboard doors were left open.
Have we got a poltergeist or just a lazy twat who can't be arsed closing cupboards.

It could be a poltertwat...

[Yambo]

The selection of different types of head on ironmongery screws.
Pozo, Philips, Allen, Torx and sometimes Slotted.
Often a couple of different types on items that come in the same box.

Just pick one and don't take the piss.

I've been doing a lot of work on my boat to make it more 'user friendly' and it seems that everything I remove to get at something or that I am going to replace will be held on by

a) less fixings than what were called for (so, 3 screws instead of 4 for example)
b) normal steel screws and sometimes nails - inevitably rusty
3) all different heads on what screws have been used.

I've tried hard not to get too wound up about it but it has certainly got a bit tedious. I secure everything with stainless steel fixings and with all the same heads where possible - Philips #2. Occasionally I'll pick up some screws in town and they'll be pozis but if they're all for the same job them I'll use them because it's easier than going into town to replace them. I guess I'm a bit anal about it but if a jobs worth doing it's worth doing right I think.

[DefTrap]

I prefer torx head screws but (a) why do they seem so hard to come by? (b) why are they 50+% more than anything else?

[gremlin]

Had a new boiler and tank fitted as the old combi died. Did my research, read Which? discussed with CH bod who concurred, and bought a Worcester Bosch. Shiny, new 8000 model with a funky display, all singing and dancing.

5 weeks later and I'm washing like a Romanian gypsy as the fecking thing has developed a fault, so no hot water or heating. He's just been back round, baffled, called Worcester Bosch and they're equally baffled and are sending one of their bods on Thursday, with a range of parts to fit that may be faulty.

Until then, I'll be warming a nice, warm cardy and boiling saucepans of water to wash naked on the front lawn*.




*I could wash in one of the shower rooms indoors, but then what would the neighbours have to talk about?

[Saga Lout]

Until then, I'll be warming a nice, warm cardy and boiling saucepans of water to wash naked on the front lawn*.

*I could wash in one of the shower rooms indoors, but then what would the neighbours have to talk about?

Those suburban housewives need something to liven up their dull lives.

[Saga Lout]

Dog shit. You're supposed to pick it up, you selfish bastards.