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    Quote Originally Posted by ScousePig View Post
    She's been £800 out of pocket for nearly five months though, which is why she's pissed off.
    This seems like an odd reaction to me, unless she was already annoyed at 'having' to spend £800 in the first place.

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    Well it's £800 she could have spent on something else, but couldn't for 5 months because of someone else's fuck-up/lying. Depends how much money you have and whether it's a lot to you or not, but I can understand it being irritating.

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    £800 could have got you a nice Ralph Lauren Polo.

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    Or a Hermes belt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Migraine View Post
    Well it's £800 she could have spent on something else, but couldn't for 5 months because of someone else's fuck-up/lying. Depends how much money you have and whether it's a lot to you or not, but I can understand it being irritating.
    But it hasn't evaporated, you get it back.

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    Or pay off your credit card debt.

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    Or buy a couple of signed Niall Quinn shirts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Disco View Post
    But it hasn't evaporated, you get it back.
    Yeah I'm not retarded.

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    My point is it would be reasonable to be annoyed that you don't end up getting the furniture you chose or if you don't get a full refund. If you're just annoyed that you didn't have access to the money for however long it was then you have to question the decision to spend it in the first place.

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    I think it's perfectly reasonable that you might have wanted to spend it on something else/some other furniture in that five months, had you known you weren't going to end up getting what you'd paid for.

    It seems we have reached an impasse however, so I bid you good day sir.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Disco View Post
    This seems like an odd reaction to me, unless she was already annoyed at 'having' to spend £800 in the first place.
    It's an odd reaction to be annoyed at paying £800 for something that should arrive within 12 weeks and still hasn't at 19 weeks?

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    What kinda dumbass logic is "You have no right to be upset at constant delays, lies, and nonsense so long as you eventually get your money back"

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    Now you know why Oak Furniture Land charges double.

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    Keep reading.

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    Keep being a pretentious dipshit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Disco View Post
    My point is it would be reasonable to be annoyed that you don't end up getting the furniture you chose or if you don't get a full refund. If you're just annoyed that you didn't have access to the money for however long it was then you have to question the decision to spend it in the first place.
    It's a little thing in life that fucks you off, not a major catastrophe. If we ended up not getting the furniture or the full refund I'd be shitting in their plant pots.

    And she's not annoyed at not having access to the money, she's annoyed at not getting the furniture.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bruhnaldo View Post
    What kinda dumbass logic is "You have no right to be upset at constant delays, lies, and nonsense so long as you eventually get your money back"
    Is anyone saying that?

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    Wow you're fucking dense.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ScousePig View Post
    It's a little thing in life that fucks you off, not a major catastrophe. If we ended up not getting the furniture or the full refund I'd be shitting in their plant pots.
    No I get that, it was the bit about being annoyed specifically at not having the money for a couple of months (which would be the case whatever the outcome) rather than not getting the stuff.

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    Except the waiting went on many many weeks longer than it was supposed to?

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    Quote Originally Posted by bruhnaldo View Post
    Except the waiting went on many many weeks longer than it was supposed to?
    Again, no-one is saying it's unreasonable to be annoyed about the wait.

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    This page fucks me off.

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    Oak Furniture Land.

    Hand made originals or nothing tbf.

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    Their stuff seems too cheap to be anything other than full of cruelty and tears.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Disco View Post
    No I get that, it was the bit about being annoyed specifically at not having the money for a couple of months (which would be the case whatever the outcome) rather than not getting the stuff.
    I worded one of my posts quite badly. She's annoyed at not having the furniture, thus annoyed that she's paid out £800 and doesn't have anything to show for it.

    They phoned earlier, apologising and offering some vouchers. Some of the stuff is in, but they're waiting for the rest. She's giving them until the end of the week before getting a refund.

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    Should've just gone to Ikea.

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    If it's far eastern then lead times are basically pot luck, I get stuff in from Portugal and they're bad enough.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    Should've just gone to Ikea.
    It was between Oak Furnitureland and this place. The difference in furniture was minimal, but the price substantial.

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    Bruhs constant outrage at British people being British is one of the nicer themes on the board recently.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ScousePig View Post
    It was between Oak Furnitureland and this place. The difference in furniture was minimal, but the price substantial.
    And now you know why.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ScousePig View Post
    It was between Oak Furnitureland and this place. The difference in furniture was minimal, but the price substantial.
    Should've gone to DFS.

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    I might have moaned about this before, but fucking 40mph drivers.

    You spend half an hour following them at 40 along a 60mph road, then you finally hit a town and the speed limit drops to 30. You slow down and what do they do? Ride off into the FUCKING distance at FUCKING 40 miles an hour, dribbling into their lap as they go.

    Centre of the town, speed limit goes to 20? 40.

    Troglodytes.

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    Smoke alarm going off for no reason. Cue me doing the dance of all dances to remove a smoke alarm using:

    1. A ladder not quite tall enough.
    2. A man not quite tall enough (me)
    3. On a winder staircase.

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    Sounds like a paraplegia waiting to happen

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    Did I mention I'm not good with heights? It's removed but having to prop the closed step ladder against one of the stairs and then climbing it was a little iffy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    Smoke alarm going off for no reason. Cue me doing the dance of all dances to remove a smoke alarm using:

    1. A ladder not quite tall enough.
    2. A man not quite tall enough (me)
    3. On a winder staircase.
    Apparently the most common causes of them going off like that is either 1) a spider has moved inside the thing 2) and more commonly it's just a build up of dust inside it

    Ours was doing this and we got the hoover out and gave it a clean. You may look like a nutcase if anyone sees you hoovering your smoke detector, but it worked for me. No problems since.

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    I just chucked all of the batteries away.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    Smoke alarm going off for no reason. Cue me doing the dance of all dances to remove a smoke alarm using:

    1. A ladder not quite tall enough.
    2. A man not quite tall enough (me)
    3. On a winder staircase.
    I have recently moved in to a rented apartment. There are two smoke alarms downstairs and one is above the fucking oven. When one goes off it also sets off every other alarm in the house. Including upstairs. So if I cook when my housemate is out and it goes off, I have to run around the house wafting each one like a maniac. What an absolute ridiculous place for it.

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    That's terrible foresight. I'd be removing that every time I wanted something to eat. Hoovering sorted mine out, thankfully. Curse this dusty spider nest.

    EDIT: Actually, if you hold the test button down as it's going off, you'll probably shut it up for ten minutes. If it's the same model as mine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lufcdanny View Post
    I have recently moved in to a rented apartment. There are two smoke alarms downstairs and one is above the fucking oven. When one goes off it also sets off every other alarm in the house. Including upstairs. So if I cook when my housemate is out and it goes off, I have to run around the house wafting each one like a maniac. What an absolute ridiculous place for it.
    Why would you have to 'waft' the ones that haven't been exposed to smoke?

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    Pubs dropping a zero (and sometimes even the £ sign) from their point of sale pricing.

    Prawn cocktail in a jam jar - 5.5
    Burger on a chopping board - 12.5
    Another dish wrapped in pretentious wank 8.5

    Nope, not having it.

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    That's the best use of this thread in about five years.

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    Before I even got to your menu there, I thought to myself 'those are the same fucking places that can't just use plates'. Spot on.

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    Something in the fridge smells, it's none of the food and there are no obvious spills so now I have to empty it and clean the whole thing.

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    Maybe it's a fridge demon

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    I haven't exorcised my white goods recently so you could be right.

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    I read that as white gods and it made more sense.

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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/articl...unroe-bergdorf

    This woman has been dumped by L'Oreal for saying that all white people are racist. She then clarifies later on:

    "When I stated that 'all white people are racist', I was addressing that fact that western society as a whole, is a system rooted in white supremacy - designed to benefit, prioritise and protect white people before anyone of any other race."

    Fair enough, except that she didn’t express that sentiment - which is a much more nuanced one - in her original words. Her original words were 'all white people are racist'.

    She's not got sacked because 'white privilege', but because she's become another example of these people who use privilege theory as a justification for making megalomanic claims to omniscience, where it's somehow appropriate to take general trends across society and make absolute judgments about vast swathes of people on an individual level based on those general trends. Whether or not she should have been sacked, it’s a thoughtless way of expressing herself at best.

    I actually agree with privilege theory. White people are privileged. Men are privileged. Straight/cis people...and so on. These are statements which are statistically verifiable and when applied across the whole of society are completely appropriate at informing social policy and raising awareness. Absolutely.

    Is it appropriate to label every single white person ‘privileged’ though, even if they do have privilege as a result of being white? No, I don’t think so. I think that’s flippant and stupid. The personal is the political, I agree with that, because there’s only one world and both are a part of it – but until we have God-like levels of knowledge and understanding where we know literally everything, we cannot know entirely how the personal and the political relate to each other in every circumstance. Sorry.

    That’s why I’m saying that generalised, blanket statements, while being helpful for informing social theory, are harmful when you use them to make dogmatic judgments about people on an individual level. For example, how about a white male who was raped as a child, and can’t hold down a job because of the anxiety issues which stem from that experience? Yeah he’s a white male, but is it appropriate to put a circle around his entire existence and label him ‘privileged’? How about Baby P? Was Baby P, who was tortured and eventually murdered at the grand old age of 18 months, a ‘privileged white male’? Is that appropriate or not? You shouldn’t use privilege theory to make such crass assumptions about people on an individual level, because you don’t know what an individual person has gone through – doing so is insensitive at best and utterly despicable at worst.

    Of course we can flip this and consider the many people who belong to demographics who are in the ‘oppressed’ category and acknowledge as such, and yet nevertheless deeply resent the idea that them being a ‘victim’ and ‘oppressed’ is the defining feature about them; the entirety of their existence. To give anyone an all-encompassing ‘victim’ label is insidiously disempowering. In all situations, there is more to a person than the fact that they have been a victim of something.

    I wonder about people who think in this way. Do they walk around the streets taxonomising everyone and weighing up the amount of ‘privilege’ that they have, as though it’s some kind of quantifiable commodity? I wonder how possible it is to actually connect with other people on a genuinely intimate and personal level while you’re doing that kind of thing.

    It reminds me of a woman I knew at university who came back from Morrison’s one day proudly exclaiming that she had a nice chat with the checkout cashier because she ‘respects working class people’. I couldn’t (and still can’t) help but wonder if it would ever be possible for her to have a genuine relationship with that cashier while she was seeing them in such a reductive way. Labels are great for spotting trends that can inform social policy or for for intellectualising about ‘society’ in the abstract while you’re flicking through your Guardian or a Sociology journal, but looking at everyone via a category is an impediment to intimacy, genuine listening, and respecting lived experience.

    I can’t help but consider what I see as a remarkable hypocrisy behind the emphasis on ‘listening to lived experience’ while making judgements about people in this way. For as long as you’ve got a taxonomy in your head and for as long as you see people purely as representations of some wider category, you’re more likely to bring your own assumptions to the table which is going to get in the way of you actually listening to them properly.

    While acknowledging all the social issues out there, when you engage with individual people in your life, surely trying your best to build your impression of that person based your actual experience of talking and listening to them is ultimately the most humane and respectful way of going about things? Or am I missing something?

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    The only 'privilege' that exists relates to socio-economic factors, not biological ones.

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    Not sure if I agree entirely with that.

    I do agree that that's the biggest one though. Taken alone, the privilege of me being a white or male is kinda trivial in comparison to the privilege of not needing to work for 12 hours per day from the age of five every day of my entire life in order to barely avoid starving to death. I mean, there's no comparison really. I do think there are other privileges though, relating to the white/male/cis/blah blah type things.

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