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It's our turn for the wretched wife's family to 'have us' for Christmas dinner, so, like last time, they won't cook for shit and made everyone pay £46 each for a shit Christmas Dinner at a revolting 2 for £10 chain. That's not including the drinks.
Brilliant, however I've refused to go to somewhere as awful as that again, I'd rather pay more for quality (lol) like a Best Western or a Hilton (£50 and £65 respectively). Not sure how that'll go down with the savages.
"Ooooh they do a lovely carvery"
Die.
I assume the slippers gimp works from home?
Yeah one of those. They have 'special nights' where they serve up various cuisine versions of absolute dogshit for a fiver a head.Quote:
Originally Posted by randomlegend
The BW is actually £60 a head. That's verging in to why the fuck are we bothering with this shit territory. £120 for a hotel chain tea? Fucking hell.
I wear slippers when I'm at home and in the office.
For fuck sake.
What's wrong with wearing slippers?
In the office it's just plain awful, unless you're alone there.Quote:
Originally Posted by SvN
Though I spend 75% of my working day in my socks.
Socks without shoes are as bad as slippers.
There's about 3 or 4 people that wear slippers. Why wouldn't you if your feet are stuck under a desk for 90% of the working day?
It just seems filthy.Quote:
Originally Posted by SvN
Socks are worse than slippers. If you're going about in socks all day then putting your shoes back on you're just getting the inside of your shoes dirty.
I'm only in the socks driving which is around 6 hours of each day, and the car is kept immaculate because of this.Quote:
Originally Posted by John
Has anyone ever tried breaking with their left foot? Surprisingly difficult to do it smoothly.
Yeah when I was practicing for karting.
Right Hemisphere: Engage left foot braking
Right Hemisphere: Ok that's maybe a bit too much pressure
Right Hemisphere: I know, we'll press it harder now, going to go through the windscreen
Right Hemisphere: Press it fully, come to a complete stop
Left Hemisphere: Nice work
FUCK. I'm not convincing the brother in law, he's a pseudo-snob as well (lives on da finance bro) but he's just been sacked. I reckon that's his true reasoning for favouring the cheap shit place but he's using the 'soft play' line instead (it has a kids play area :sick:). I'm screwed gents, £46 a head for another absolutely wank, banterless Christmas dinner. Fucking hell.
Some girl on Facebook has just posted a Timehop or FB Memory from a few years back saying 'Waaa I look sooo good here! Need to get my arse in gear!!'. And yes, she probably was bang on BMI wise but there's little she can do about her face, which looks both then and now, like an equine afterbirth.
I wouldn't give a fuck who invited me or what obligation I was under, like hell would would I eat any hotel dinner on Christmas Day.
Once again I was put on the spot in front of them all, and feeling the pressure of being publicly outed as thinking they are a bunch of absolute philistines after rejecting the idea of going on holiday with them because we have 'no money' then spending loads of it on the house (lol), I bottled it. Pure and simple.
Offer to cook it :henn0rz:
I did, but then it turned out the brother-in-law's sister and mum and dad are now coming as well. That would make 11 people. Fuck that.
If you're going to keep trying pretending to be posh, you need to stop this 'tea' nonsense.Quote:
Originally Posted by Magic
Ordered something from the US last Sunday. It hit Middlesex on Friday morning, last scanned about 10am. Annoyingly it's been handed over to Yodel. They haven't even bothered to collect it yet. Expected due date was yesterday too. For fucks sake.
Almost got ticketed there by an attendant not even in the city centre! Unreal we can afford to pay these cunts Sunday rates yet have to close libraries etc. Another good SNP job well done. Arseholes.
We should really start adapting those "Thanks Obama!" gifs for you.
Fire alarm has started beeping in the office, presumably because it needs a new back up battery. I tried switching it off at the mains before doing anything with it, only to discover that the only switches I can get to apparently do nothing...
I can barely reach the thing anyway as there's no ladder in the building, so I'm not all that keen to start fucking around with arms outstretched, but the noise is becoming insufferable already.
If you were an engineer you could sort that.
I'm an officer and I can't even office.
I don't think you're supposed to be able to just turn off a fire alarm, that would be something of a design loophole.
Yeah I can understand your frustration, Magic. People who get tight about food are weird. I understand not wanting to splurge every time you fancy going for a meal, but going for a £45 Wetherspoons or similar Christmas dinner instead of a £60 decent place...I don't get it.
I have a friend from home who has a very decent job and a cheap rent so is hoarding money. He's always going for city breaks and spends about £50-100 on nights out every week. But when we're all back home and us ladz arrange to go for a curry or something and I suggest going to an actually decent place that costs about £15, he gets really funny, says 'I don't want to spend that much', and insists on us going to the shite curry house that does £8 for starter, curry and rice, and it is always a bit rubbish. If he was just really tight in general, or was consistently saving money I'd be cool with it, but because it is such a specific anomaly I can't help but get really irritated by it.
That's what the back up battery is for, but the general guidance is to switch it off at the mains before opening it up. It's probably okay to change the battery without doing that but I'm not sure enough to risk it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Disco
Generally I've found these are the sort of arseholes that'll have nice cars, latest phone, nice clothes, finance to the Max etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by igor_balis
Scouse getting the first neg in on the new board. Seething.
Someone on my fb news feed just posted this:
http://viralwomen.com/post/reasons_w...s_antifeminist
Possibly one of the worst things I've ever read.
It's awful but isn't that pretty much a standard article these days? There's always someone waiting to become outraged at the next opportunity.
That's a very offensive thing to say.
Someone's just tried to buy £830 worth of clothes from mrporter.com using my credit card. Thankfully Tesco blocked it.
That whole selfie thing. Fucking hell.
Horrible vacuous people taking photos of themselves at every opportunity, people with little better to do online mocking them for it and the outrage brigade ready to pounce, slipping into their offended outfit to explain why it all REALLY MATTERS.
What a world we live in.
I bet he was gutted, must have taken a long time to choose £830 worth of clothes. Surely he'd have had to put his address in for delivery?Quote:
Originally Posted by Magic
I imagine £830 is about four items on Mr Porter.
Yes, I had a look. £335 for a pair of trousers. :harold:
I'm glad Tesco Bank can see I'm a viciously tight cunt from my transaction history to call buying some expensive clothes 'fraud'.
:D
My bank does it with me all the time.
Any deviation from my normal spending patterns results in a call from their fraud department and at best the card being suspended and at worst outright cancelled.
They did the latter when I took £300's worth of Baht out when I was in Thailand and it cost me the best part of a tenner calling the buggers to explain that doing so wasn't necessary and they needed to reinstate it or I'd be fucked if I needed any more cash.
They blocked my credit card when I tried to pay for my hotel in Jamaica too. After 24 hours travelling to get there, I was far from impressed.
I've got to expect a call at some point tomorrow, but I've no idea whether I can still use my card or not.
Indeed.
I wouldn't mind it so much if there was a way to give them a heads up before you travel abroad so that they at least subject the transaction to some scrutiny before deciding it must be bogus, but they stopped asking for details of future foreign trips in advance over a decade ago and whenever I've phoned up since to tell them I'm leaving Blighty for a bit they think I'm fucking mental and then proceed to cancel my card when I get there anyway. :mad:
We were 3 weeks into our USA trip when they decided to block our card because we used it in Vegas (on our 3rd day there). Made no sense at all.
Online banking, at least with Halifax, has a little section for you to tell them when and where you're travelling too.
I've never had a problem with my cards.
Did you notify the bank you were travelling? We always have to do it here. I never use my card abroad, but I always notify in case something happens my prepay one.
Have you notified them that you'll be going to Ukraine?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mahow
Are you still going to Ukraine, Mahow?