Malaysia's second choice right-back, iirc.
Malaysia's second choice right-back, iirc.
Originally Posted by CJay
Sir Jony Ive's red noses making a seriously play for shittest designed thing in all of human history [usurping the now ubiquitous paper straw]. It appears to be mostly plastic as well so what is the fucking point of it? Not suitable for under 7s, and last about 10 minutes in the hands of any child. Genious stuff.
Genious, indeed.
Last winter we didn't take the kids to see Father Christmas as Covid shut the gaff the day before we were going. So my Mrs started banging on about going to Lapland UK next Christmas and soppy bollocks here said "yeah, if you want."
So the tickets were released today (Yes lads, in March) and she's gone on and booked. £430.
On the plus side there was 165,000 people in the queue when she last looked, so there will be men up and down the country mirroring my seethe today.
Fleecing cunts.
Lapland UK?
That looks so shit.
Should have just told the little fuckers Santa isn't real.
https://portal.laplanduk.co.uk
Basically going to see Father Christmas with some Ice Skating and a Build-a-bear chucked in. Kids can't just sit on a sweaty nonces knee in a shopping centre these days. Everything has to be an event.
Good luck Spikes
That looks so shit.
No Yev, it's "magical", but more importantly some mums on the school gate went last year so...
That looks so shit.
Good grief.
£430
This is the dark side of the feminist revolution.
I felt less violated when that old cunt bounced a can of Coke off my bonce.
£430
I could've got 12 bottles of wanky soy sauce for that.
I will never mock that pepper mill again.
If there are/were 165k other mugs in the queue can you not just scalp the tickets to someone?
Even at £430 though still better value that this shit which is just one of the most inexplicable things I've ever been to. Sort of went on the understanding that you'd get the pumpkin as part of the ticket price, but no, it's just a ticket to go into a muddy field and select an overpriced pumpkin. There were thousands of people there.
None of us had such pleasures and experiences growing up and it really shows. Great to see us collectively breaking the trend and setting our children's futures onto the correct path. Are these events LGBTQ+ inclusive too?
They're useful for teaching kids extreme levels of cynicism from a young age.
I thought you meant actual Lapland and £430 seemed quite reasonable.
That'd be more like £4300, or probably more, so on a par with going to Center Parcs.
I've not been skiing for 10 years so can only imagine how insanely expensive that has got.
It was suggested in our house we go there. I’ve suggested not.
I feel I’ll have a less successful attempt at preventing Disney at some point.
Wait til you get there and they're charging £5 for a Freddo, Spikey.
Could’ve probably gotten tickets to actual Lapland for that 😄Last winter we didn't take the kids to see Father Christmas as Covid shut the gaff the day before we were going. So my Mrs started banging on about going to Lapland UK next Christmas and soppy bollocks here said "yeah, if you want."
So the tickets were released today (Yes lads, in March) and she's gone on and booked. £430.
On the plus side there was 165,000 people in the queue when she last looked, so there will be men up and down the country mirroring my seethe today.
Fleecing cunts.
Purple Bricks.
I know they’re cheap but everything is so fucking slow due to having to communicate online and not have an agent picking the phone up to mediate. They seemingly couldn’t care any less that I want to buy one of their advertised houses.
Just the £1800pp for two nights for the real Lapland. Spikey’s missus is smart.
Weren't they nearly bust not so long ago?
I can see why.
Yeah, I'm sure they entered administration like ... last month.
It'll only take one of the Range Rover mums at the school gate to go this year and she'll start working on me.
Because they have taken their cut when the owner put the house up for sale they have no real need to sell the house. Thus they don’t give a shit.
What do you need from them? My buyer just put in an offer which came direct to me and we communicated on there. They were merely the platform for communication and once we agreed a price it's an immediate memorandum of sale or whatever so no delays from them at all. Any delay is surely from the seller themselves, no?
Having said that, I was offered some dodgy as fuck sub-letting arrangement with an optional buy clause at the end of the period by some Albanian as soon as my listing went up on there which the agent even piped up to say it's nonsense and I should reject it (no shit, mate).
And just yesterday, I got this email:
The address of sender seems fishy (noreply@mail.purplebricks.co.uk) and reply to address is (reply-fec816787461057b-160_HTML-73331088-510004492-17@mail.purplebricks.co.uk) so thinking it's a scam but it's so good that I'm gonna run it past them tomorrow to check. If it is a scam, that points to a serious serious data security leak for them to have provided my email and associated transaction data to these fuckers. Will ask chatgpt if I can milk some compo out of it.Complete Anti-Money Laundering checks to progress your property sale
Hi Don
We’re required by law to carry out checks on all those selling or buying a property through Purplebricks.
We know you might have already carried out Anti-Money Laundering (AML) checks for us. However, we’re now undergoing some additional and repeat checks to verify what we hold on file.
Why do we need to redo these checks?
Completing these checks will help us to progress your property sale. It’s also to make sure we’re compliant and we continue to uphold the highest standards.
A Purplebricks representative will call you at some point this week to carry out these checks.
What to expect on the call
The Purplebricks representative will introduce themselves and ask you to confirm some personal details to make sure that it is you we’re speaking to.
We’ll likely need to run two checks:
an Anti-Money Laundering check carried out over the phone
a check carried out through an identity verification app called Credas
After the call, we’ll send you a link with instructions on how to download the Credas app and complete the check.
We’ve designed the process to be secure and easy to use, enabling you to verify in a few minutes. You won’t need to pay anything extra for these checks.
What you’ll need to hand
You’ll need a form of ID to do this – for example, a passport, a driving licence, or your National Insurance number. The simplest form of ID to use is a passport.
Thank you for helping us to protect the integrity of the conveyancing process and to stay true to our role as a transparent, secure and customer driven estate agent.
In the meantime, if you have any questions please email pbsupport@purplebricks.com.
Best wishes,
The Purplebricks Team
Well that's the problem. Most people are useless/uneducated when it comes to this so having a regular estate agent who can pick phones up and usher it along is a lifesaver.
So after my strop, our offer has been agreed. Purplebricks are alright.
I've just spent £420 on parts to build myself a custom keyboard mate.
I reckon that should cheer you right up.
William Hill’s customer service. It’s apparently impossible to reach. Left my phone open for the live chat for two hours on two separate occasions and didn’t get through. Also William Hill in general as I deposited 100€ there to bet who’s going to be our next pm. Only when I got to place the bet I was greeted with a 14€ cap on that market. Still, getting 10/1 instead of 3/1 that was the only other price I found is good, even if I won’t nearly as much money if it comes through.
What's happened to the hot one?
Don’t think her party is winning the election. It’s pretty close at the top though.
Mugs. We ended up with a 5'6" manlet when we could have had a Ginger Growler. Learn from your neighbours mistakes.
The council had our street resurfaced the other week due to general wear and tear. It’s not a busy road so wasn’t even in bad shape but I wasn’t complaining. Now we’ve had a letter through the door today informing us the gas company are going to rip it up for eight weeks to replace the old metal pipes with plastic ones, so not even urgent works.
Do these fuckers not communicate?
Fucking typical.
We have had exactly the same here, so no, I assume not. We currently have the High Speed Internet mob laying their cables here too, which is a massive pain in the arse. Their current position necessitates 4 way temporary traffic lights and it's painful, because 2 of the 4 roads see maybe 2 cars an hour as they're small cul-de-sacs full of pensioners, but they still get 60 seconds of green each cycle. Consequently people are just going through the red light and having to either reverse back or mount the pavement when they meet oncoming traffic.
The local Facebook group has had some top quality moaning on it though, so it's worth it.
March is (at least around here) the time when every road in sight gets dug up as councils, and whoever else is responsible for these things, look to dump all their remaining budget before the end of the financial year.
Same here and I believe everywhere.
We regularly apply for Discretionary Housing Payments from various Councils for tenants that have arrears due to unfortunate events (job losses, death of a partner, etc) and we often save the more questionable ones for February and March as the Council will just dump their budget in any old shit to use it up.
They've had the cheek to put up Council Tax by 5% too.
5.4% overall here because 9.8% rise to the fucking Police Commissioner. What a fucking racket that thing is as well.
I make a point of always being behind on my council tax just so I can get my moneys worth in reminder letters.
I receive the same letter twice on the same day every single year from Aberdeen city council.
A great way of using up budget, literally just doubling up.
The lengths they go to in trying to remove my single person's discount are impressive. Six letters telling me it will come to an end as I haven't provided evidence that I'm still the sole occupant, then six more reversing the previous six after they finally catch up with their admin.
Easter eggs. I'm sure they've gotten smaller/more expensive etc but that's to be expected, the awful thing about your modern egg is that you no longer get a bag of sweets/chocolates inside the egg they're made/baked into the actual shell of the egg itself. Fucking rubbish and the youth of today (ie my nephew) seem completely unaware of what a downgrade they've been subjected to.
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