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People who don't learn from their mistakes.
Was at our flat t'other day and there was a serious thumping at the door. I went down and answered it, and it was a bailiff, wanting payment for unpaid CAZ fine.
'Are you Mr xxxxx?'
Nope! May I enquire what this is about?
Do you know where Mr xxxx is?
Nope! Have a good day!

Mr xxxx is the step son, and I went into a drawer only to find 2 more Bristol PCNs for CAZ.

Luckily they were both the old style PCN which has procedural errors in them and can be challenged via a tribunal if needs be, which was done immediately.
As for the bailiff, we asked for the judgement to be set aside and re submitted, which I guess will be a £69 hit rather than the £400+ as Bristol council have cottoned on to the loopholes so he'll have to pay!
Daft Prat has 2 cars, 1 is CAZ exempt, the other is a 90s Jag, so he takes the Jag into Bristol, then 'forgets' he has to pay.
Piss well and truly boiled!

Just found out that you can only use the DVLA online registration number transfer tool/service during working hours...

Maybe someone at DVLA monitors / approves them in real-time? Seems a little odd, though.

ChrisW wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 8:16 pm Just found out that you can only use the DVLA online registration number transfer tool/service during working hours...

Maybe someone at DVLA monitors / approves them in real-time? Seems a little odd, though.

Perhaps they turn the office power off at weekends?

Yorick wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 8:19 pm

ChrisW wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 8:16 pm Just found out that you can only use the DVLA online registration number transfer tool/service during working hours...

Maybe someone at DVLA monitors / approves them in real-time? Seems a little odd, though.

Perhaps they turn the office power off at weekends?

Didn't occur to me until you mentioned that but it jut says 'only available 7am - 7pm' - nothing about weekends.

Supermarkets already having easter eggs & hot X buns on the shelves, FFS I'm still eating xmas pudding

MrLongbeard wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 9:07 pm Supermarkets already having easter eggs & hot X buns on the shelves, FFS I'm still eating xmas pudding

Did you BBQ the pudding?

MrLongbeard wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 9:07 pm Supermarkets already having easter eggs & hot X buns on the shelves, FFS I'm still eating xmas pudding

We've not started on the cake yet...it'll be a lunchbox job.

Yorick wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 9:16 pm Did you BBQ the pudding?

Pish, BBQ's are meat only zones

Dodgy69 wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 9:36 pm
We've not started on the cake yet...it'll be a lunchbox job.

To be fair I only opened our today, and when I say 'our's I mean mine as no one else likes it.
I've still got 2 Xmas puds from last year in the cupboard that never got opened

ChrisW wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 8:16 pm Just found out that you can only use the DVLA online registration number transfer tool/service during working hours...

Maybe someone at DVLA monitors / approves them in real-time? Seems a little odd, though.

7 toll 7 im told as i cant apply for a reg doc.

Edit. You since seen that

MrLongbeard wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 9:07 pm Supermarkets already having easter eggs & hot X buns on the shelves, FFS I'm still eating xmas pudding

It's just their way of reminding you to put the sprouts on. You wouldn't want them to be undercooked and spoil Christmas, would you?

Pub wankers!

I've worked in pubs since I was 16, so quite a long time. I no longer have a pub job as my tolerance levels dropped with every passing year after I turned 30!! I'll help out friends occasionally but really don't need to put myself in the position of dealing with fuckwits that drink too much and think they are funny/gods gift/allowed to do what they want.

One of the reasons I don't go down to the next village where all the English are is basically because they drink differently to the French and are far more likely to be offensive pub wankers!!


Tonight I went down to see some mates, they are in a group that is doing a three week tour around here and this is the most local - I didn't get to see the whole gig cos I didn't manage a siesta this afternoon, I'm knackered and the last bus is 15 mins after they started (TBF, they were a bit late starting )


But - before they arrived, I was sat with a mate chatting and a group came over and asked if they could share the table we were at with one of them plonking himself on the chair by me and promptly putting out his hand to start messing with my hair and commenting on the colour.

Now, I only know one person in resort that would do that and I don't like her doing it when she's sober, but for a pissed up tourist to think it's ok to just start playing with a strange girl's hair is just weird. (And yes I know, I'm really strange!)


I'm sure there is an element of overreaction on my part, but, pissed pub wankers do seem to think that they can do what the fuck they want - he didn't even chat to us first or talk about the fact that my hair is a stupid colour. Nope, straight in with messing with it.

I obviously had a face that said "if you don't get the FUCK away I'll smack you one" cos one of the women in the group told him to 'behave' , but, seriously?? WTAF ??


(I suppose it's the same sort of person that thinks it's ok to pat a pregnant womans baby bump when they don't know her - but with added alcohol )

Wife's car bonged a couple of times to say the stability/ABS was unavailable. Read the code and it's the front left wheel speed sensor.

She insisted I took it work and she got my car (for her 4 mile commute compared to my 24 miles).

Well I got half way to work and it threw the fault again. It's quite an interesting car to drive in the wet when it's 3c on summer tyres.

I had now idea how much the stability/traction was working in the background until I didn't have it anymore.

Several times I tried to pull away from traffic lights and didn't go anywhere with the rear wheels spinning, you have to really nurse it.

Fortunately the local MB stealership keep them in stock and they're only £20.

It's if I can be arsed to roll around on the floor in the dark trying to change it when I get home.

KungFooBob wrote: Mon Jan 08, 2024 8:49 am the local MB stealership keep them in stock

Telling

I drove me ol' Bimmer home in the snow a few years back. It was quite slidey, got some proper comedy angles on the MK roundabouts but kept it all together.

'course, it wasn't me keeping it all together at all, t'was the car. When I got out it absolutely stank of hot brakes, you'd think I'd been ragging it on track not driving in the snow at 20mph.

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Mon Jan 08, 2024 8:52 am

KungFooBob wrote: Mon Jan 08, 2024 8:49 am the local MB stealership keep them in stock

Telling

I drove me ol' Bimmer home in the snow a few years back. It was quite slidey, got some proper comedy angles on the MK roundabouts but kept it all together.

'course, it wasn't me keeping it all together at all, t'was the car. When I got out it absolutely stank of hot brakes, you'd think I'd been ragging it on track not driving in the snow at 20mph.

Yet 30 or 40 years ago we were driving our Cortinas and Sierras in the snow with (mostly} no problems. Youngsters just don't know how to drive.

My old E92 330i was great for that, you could get it 90 degrees out of line (well it felt like that) and the thing would save it's self moment before you were going backwards though the barrier.

But the light would be on telling you it was saving your arse, you have to really really provoke the Merc to get the traction light on, yet it must be doing something all the time because its almost undriveable when it's not working.

Saga Lout wrote: Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:14 am

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Mon Jan 08, 2024 8:52 am

KungFooBob wrote: Mon Jan 08, 2024 8:49 am the local MB stealership keep them in stock

Telling

I drove me ol' Bimmer home in the snow a few years back. It was quite slidey, got some proper comedy angles on the MK roundabouts but kept it all together.

'course, it wasn't me keeping it all together at all, t'was the car. When I got out it absolutely stank of hot brakes, you'd think I'd been ragging it on track not driving in the snow at 20mph.

Yet 30 or 40 years ago we were driving our 90bhp cars with bicycle tyres in the snow with (mostly} no problems. Youngsters just don't know how to drive.

FTFY My auld Micra was good in the snow for the same reason.

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:23 am

Saga Lout wrote: Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:14 am

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Mon Jan 08, 2024 8:52 am

Telling

I drove me ol' Bimmer home in the snow a few years back. It was quite slidey, got some proper comedy angles on the MK roundabouts but kept it all together.

'course, it wasn't me keeping it all together at all, t'was the car. When I got out it absolutely stank of hot brakes, you'd think I'd been ragging it on track not driving in the snow at 20mph.

Yet 30 or 40 years ago we were driving our 90bhp cars with bicycle tyres in the snow with (mostly} no problems. Youngsters just don't know how to drive.

FTFY My auld Micra was good in the snow for the same reason.

90bhp was enough then. More bhp just means you can get into more trouble more quickly..

The benevolent computer overlord who lives under my bonnet is there to save me. Blessed are his circuits.

Saga Lout wrote: Mon Jan 08, 2024 10:28 am More bhp just means you can get into more trouble more quickly.

"I need more power to get out of trouble"
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