A place to rant about things that wind you up ( keep it clean lol)

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Having to roll back drivers is a pain. They're taking too long to download and apparently I have zero patience.
 
I've only blinking lost my voice, on the week our site visits start too. Driving to Ilkeston for the first assessment on weds so let's hope it reappears quickly
 
A text from my beloved husband as I am waiting for a covid filled train at rush hour after walking up a big hill and crossing 4 busy roads in torrential rain:
"Drove past you outside your work on my way home but couldnt stop because of traffic!"
 
PigglePuggle said:
A text from my beloved husband as I am waiting for a covid filled train at rush hour after walking up a big hill and crossing 4 busy roads in torrential rain:
"Drove past you outside your work on my way home but couldnt stop because of traffic!"
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What a :cen:. That's just rude. Insensitive doesn't cover it.
 
PigglePuggle said:
A text from my beloved husband as I am waiting for a covid filled train at rush hour after walking up a big hill and crossing 4 busy roads in torrential rain:
"Drove past you outside your work on my way home but couldnt stop because of traffic!"
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He better have tea on the go and a cuppa waiting for you.
 
PigglePuggle said:
A text from my beloved husband as I am waiting for a covid filled train at rush hour after walking up a big hill and crossing 4 busy roads in torrential rain:
"Drove past you outside your work on my way home but couldnt stop because of traffic!"
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That is terrible! I hope you give him what for when you get home! He needs to make it up to you BIG TIME! I hope he has a big glass of Prosecco waiting and your dinner ready when you walk in the door.
 
Printer decided to die on me today. I needed to print off 44 valentines for my children's classroom parties on Friday!
 
Being there for people every time they need me for however long they need me, I’m falling apart and they’re nowhere to be seen.
 
Rivervixen said:
Being there for people every time they need me for however long they need me, I’m falling apart and they’re nowhere to be seen.
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I hope you’re ok. Sending you a hug 🤗

Some people are just selfish.
 
Rivervixen said:
Being there for people every time they need me for however long they need me, I’m falling apart and they’re nowhere to be seen.
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I hope you're OK. Take time to care for yourself before you care for anyone else and make sure you're as patient and kind to yourself as you would be to them
 
What's frustrating me today is the thought of the end of covid restrictions I work with vulnerable children that are not yet vaccinated it's already spreading through our class like wildfire and I feel like I'm no longer able to keep our children safe which is the bare minimum responsibility of my job.
 
Sweet Potato said:
What's frustrating me today is the thought of the end of covid restrictions I work with vulnerable children that are not yet vaccinated it's already spreading through our class like wildfire and I feel like I'm no longer able to keep our children safe which is the bare minimum responsibility of my job.
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I'm very sorry to hear that, that is terrible and it can't be easy. Whenever I check the infection graphs for my area here in Germany, the 5-14 age range always has the highest amount of infections and I think it's been that way for a very long time now. I believe school children do have to self test often here, but self tests are not reliable enough in my opinion and clearly something is going on for so many young kids to be getting it. I don't understand why more isn't being done and I'd be really upset if I were a parent or teacher, I'm really not sure what I would do. My mom told me the other day that she would have considered homeschooling my brother and I with how bad it got her part of the US. I don't really blame her, I think I'd be nervous for my child everyday.
 
Rivervixen said:
Being there for people every time they need me for however long they need me, I’m falling apart and they’re nowhere to be seen.
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That's not nice. A friend is a friend through good times as well as bad. If you need to chat, you can always pm me. Have a hug:hug:. Have lots cos one is never enough.:hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug:
 
Its a few years old but I still am very hurt by the way my friend treated me. We had been friends for about 11 years when she had a breakdown. I was there to help her through when she told me that her Dad had "visited" her room at night. I supported her through the Court case and basically I propped her up when her family was falling apart because of what had happened when she was younger. It wasn't just me that helped her it was a group of friends who were all supporting her. After her Dad was sentenced, she dropped me and the group of friends like a lead balloon. I understand that she may have wanted to leave her passed life behind her but none of us heard from her ever again. We do know that she got divorced and left her husband and children too.
 
h.h.lovecraft said:
I'm very sorry to hear that, that is terrible and it can't be easy. Whenever I check the infection graphs for my area here in Germany, the 5-14 age range always has the highest amount of infections and I think it's been that way for a very long time now. I believe school children do have to self test often here, but self tests are not reliable enough in my opinion and clearly something is going on for so many young kids to be getting it. I don't understand why more isn't being done and I'd be really upset if I were a parent or teacher, I'm really not sure what I would do. My mom told me the other day that she would have considered homeschooling my brother and I with how bad it got her part of the US. I don't really blame her, I think I'd be nervous for my child everyday.
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The self tests are OK but not all parents are testing their children and we can't do anything unless the child has a cough or a temperature even when they have other symptoms. And sometimes it takes a few days from starting symptoms to testing positive anyway. Some parents have chosen to home school but I worry about what that does for the child's mental health if they're not able to socialise. I'm just fed up of COVID now but the answer is not to ignore it when it's still out there and it's still dangerous.
 
One of my non-guinea pig pets has recently been in and out of the vets and is currently on an an-allergenic diet to explore a suspected food allergy. My insurance provider has declined to pay out for the allergy tests on the basis that she has a pre-existing... skin condition, as she saw the vet a couple of times for an itch, both on separate occasions and several years ago. They've then gone on to place a bunch of new exclusions on her policy, all skin related and some clearly impossible to have pre-existed for several years without requiring treatment or just healing by themselves, like a burn. This is our first claim since signing up, we have agreed to pay a chunky excess on any claims made, and have a yearly cap on how much we can claim for - and they're still trying to wiggle out of paying.

I won't go into details as we're planning to dispute the claim and I'm generally not one to shame people or places online (although you better believe I will have things to say in a review should they deny our appeal), but I'm more angry than I quite know what to do with right now. I am just trying my best not to cancel our policies in a knee-jerk reaction while I'm still fuming.
 
Betsy said:
That's not nice. A friend is a friend through good times as well as bad. If you need to chat, you can always pm me. Have a hug:hug:. Have lots cos one is never enough.:hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug:
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Thank you so much! Yep if only they’d remember I need them too! :( my forum emojis don’t want to show today for some reason, lots of iPhone huggles back 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
 
poggle said:
One of my non-guinea pig pets has recently been in and out of the vets and is currently on an an-allergenic diet to explore a suspected food allergy. My insurance provider has declined to pay out for the allergy tests on the basis that she has a pre-existing... skin condition, as she saw the vet a couple of times for an itch, both on separate occasions and several years ago. They've then gone on to place a bunch of new exclusions on her policy, all skin related and some clearly impossible to have pre-existed for several years without requiring treatment or just healing by themselves, like a burn. This is our first claim since signing up, we have agreed to pay a chunky excess on any claims made, and have a yearly cap on how much we can claim for - and they're still trying to wiggle out of paying.

I won't go into details as we're planning to dispute the claim and I'm generally not one to shame people or places online (although you better believe I will have things to say in a review should they deny our appeal), but I'm more angry than I quite know what to do with right now. I am just trying my best not to cancel our policies in a knee-jerk reaction while I'm still fuming.
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thats so frustrating 😡
do you belong to a consumer group such as the 'Which?' magazine? it might be worth asking them to help you dispute any claims if you do? also some house insurers help with sorting legal battles if you have legal expenses included on your policy?

would the vet be able to contact your insurers to back up the fact that the alleged 'pre-existing' conditions were only temporary & are of no significant relevance to your pets current suspected allergies? the vets are quite likely to help you with the claims - it's usually in their favour for claims to be paid as treatments can be carried out & they can use more expensive procedures/products/drugs to give a higher recovery rate, they don't want to bankrupt their clients as then they couldn't pay for further treatment in the future(we used to have a dedicated insurance claims/admin person that would fill out the forms, etc. this was in addition to their normal role at the surgery.)

Insurance companies in general are happy to screw-over their customers, they're happy to take the ever increasing premiums, but a payout is like getting blood out of a stone!
hopefully you can get it sorted & your pet heals quickly - speedy recovery xx
 
GPTV said:
thats so frustrating 😡
do you belong to a consumer group such as the 'Which?' magazine? it might be worth asking them to help you dispute any claims if you do? also some house insurers help with sorting legal battles if you have legal expenses included on your policy?

would the vet be able to contact your insurers to back up the fact that the alleged 'pre-existing' conditions were only temporary & are of no significant relevance to your pets current suspected allergies? the vets are quite likely to help you with the claims - it's usually in their favour for claims to be paid as treatments can be carried out & they can use more expensive procedures/products/drugs to give a higher recovery rate, they don't want to bankrupt their clients as then they couldn't pay for further treatment in the future(we used to have a dedicated insurance claims/admin person that would fill out the forms, etc. this was in addition to their normal role at the surgery.)

Insurance companies in general are happy to screw-over their customers, they're happy to take the ever increasing premiums, but a payout is like getting blood out of a stone!
hopefully you can get it sorted & your pet heals quickly - speedy recovery xx
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I don't belong to consumer group but I will absolutely ask the vet if she will lend her voice to ours, thank you for the advice. 🙂 Unfortunately I know you're right about insurance companies, it's just such a shame that none choose to operate with any integrity.

Luckily our blonde one is loving her new feather-based food - small mercies as food is one of her great loves! She's even accepting bits of the same food as treats and in lieu of the odd scrap. She's otherwise well in herself thanks to a course of steroids, and all together this hopefully means that the elimination diet and re-introductory phase won't be too painful for her 🙂

Thanks again to people for their support, I was so upset earlier and I really didn't know where to direct it. It does mean a lot.
 
What is it with letting agents?

We couldn't work out where my gas/electric bills were going, because they weren't turning up here. It turns out that that's because they'd been in the name of the old tenant and then, somehow, ended up in the name of the letting agents. Or the landlord? But it's the letting agents getting the bill for some reason. They don't appreciate this much, for obvious reasons. However, will they get in contact with the current provider so we can switch the names on the bills from my move in date?

...yeah.

They need to email the provider. They don't want to make that effort. Well then, they can keep getting the bills that they can't demand I pay because they can't be bothered to take 5 minutes to type and send an email. I swear it feels like I'm dealing with children. Still trying to get them to send the plumber back out to make sure the leaky pipe is just because the inspection cap is broken and not because there's another blockage. Sheesh. How hard can it be?!
 
I don't know what's wrong with me sometimes.

I got a letter from the council this morning. Well, an envelope - an envelope that contained three separate letters. 7 double pages, 14 pages total. Two, dated from 4/2, one from 10/2. I *think* they're good news, but it's the council, which means I'm suspicious of it. They might have (finally) got themselves together and got things right. Might.

Nah. That can't be right.
 
Lorcan said:
I don't know what's wrong with me sometimes.

I got a letter from the council this morning. Well, an envelope - an envelope that contained three separate letters. 7 double pages, 14 pages total. Two, dated from 4/2, one from 10/2. I *think* they're good news, but it's the council, which means I'm suspicious of it. They might have (finally) got themselves together and got things right. Might.

Nah. That can't be right.
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🙁😅😒
 
Argh. Letting agents rang yesterday to tell me the drains guy was coming out again this morning at 9am. I didn't want the drains guy. I'm 99% sure the problem is the pipes, not the drain. Well whatever, maybe the drains guy can tell them that himself. Didn't get to sleep til gone 2am, had to set the alarm early (6.45am) because I'm a heavy sleeper and it takes a while for my brain to register "oh there's a noise" and then "wait, alarm noise". I still only woke up 45 minutes after it started.

No drains guy. I need a nap. 😒
 
Lorcan said:
Argh. Letting agents rang yesterday to tell me the drains guy was coming out again this morning at 9am. I didn't want the drains guy. I'm 99% sure the problem is the pipes, not the drain. Well whatever, maybe the drains guy can tell them that himself. Didn't get to sleep til gone 2am, had to set the alarm early (6.45am) because I'm a heavy sleeper and it takes a while for my brain to register "oh there's a noise" and then "wait, alarm noise". I still only woke up 45 minutes after it started.

No drains guy. I need a nap. 😒
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I thought you had two little hairless hippo alarms to wake you up in the mornings. 😂

Hope that your leaky/drainy problems get sorted out soon. Although the chances of finding a reliable plumber are about the same as finding a unicorn.
 
YvonneBlue said:
I thought you had two little hairless hippo alarms to wake you up in the mornings. 😂

Hope that your leaky/drainy problems get sorted out soon. Although the chances of finding a reliable plumber are about the same as finding a unicorn.
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Oh I do, but they don't normally start til about 9am (unless I'm up before that, of course) and I didn't want to risk it lol. In the end I fell asleep shortly after that last post and then woke up at 3 :xd: no idea if he turned up or not, only phone call I got was from the support worker (and I told her I had a migraine because I still couldn't get out of bed at 1 heh. Only a little fib.

The plumber's been pretty good so far, it's the letting agents (and apparently the drains guy) who keep causing issues.
 
Blinking coughs. I've had mine for two weeks but the last few days it's ramped up a gear. Of course it has nicely timed with site visits. The one thing you don't want in the current climate when going out to meet people is a cough
 
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