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

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SkyPipDotBernie said:
Do shop around, even if it's just a quick one. 3k for a slipped tile and rot. That's the trouble, they see you are desperate and prey on you. Check if they have good reviews, whoever doing it. Check a trade can be handy
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Having had a horrible roofer this summer, I have to say don't believe online reviews. Our man is still 5* rated online. You need to see / speak to someone personally who has had work done.
 
I finally got my meds this afternoon!

Except now my kitchen light is busted and needs replacing, and it's one of those strip fluorescents. We're only allowed (lease terms) to replace your standard overhead light bulbs. Oh, and the casing is full of dead flies and moths and wasps because they all got in over the summer and heat+light, and I have to have a light on at all times, and the kitchen light is the best one.
I mean I'd really just like it to be working. I don't actually care much about the bugs.

Edit, gross photo! Yes it still switches on, but it's basically on not-even-emergency lighting. They're not even supposed to have emergency lighting.
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It could just be the starter in the side of the light base. You see the little round plastic part. That thing. They are cheap
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
It could just be the starter in the side of the light base. You see the little round plastic part. That thing. They are cheap
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It and the bulb were both only replaced about six months ago. The starter definitely needed replacing and the old bulb was visibly close enough to done, that he just replaced it without even checking.
 
Lorcan said:
It and the bulb were both only replaced about six months ago. The starter definitely needed replacing and the old bulb was visibly close enough to done, that he just replaced it without even checking.
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I used to replace my own stuff in my old rented flat, stuff like plumbing and lights because the landlord got the cheapest crap possible. But that's if you are handy to do it 👍.

I've gone fully l. e. d now, even lamps, led lasts about 35 years before they go out. And saves power usage alot. Ask if they would use an led strip light if poss. Gives instant full light aswell, none of this flickering start up rubbish lol
 
Another rant. Think bike think biker stickers in cars, how about think car think car driver, bikers not all but alot, undertake, pull out on you, and speed everywhere. 😖
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
I used to replace my own stuff in my old rented flat, stuff like plumbing and lights because the landlord got the cheapest crap possible. But that's if you are handy to do it 👍.

I've gone fully l. e. d now, even lamps, led lasts about 35 years before they go out. And saves power usage alot. Ask if they would use an led strip light if poss
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My last place we had to replace the fluorescent lights, which meant we had to replace those bloody awkward to get (and fit correctly) round ones that they seem to love putting in bathrooms, but that was Mosscare. If there was a way of replacing that strip light on the quiet we'd do it, but the lease and health and safety come first lol, and different social landlords, different rules. All the "standard" bulbs in here are mine and I'll be taking them with me when I leave.
 
Lorcan said:
My last place we had to replace the fluorescent lights, which meant we had to replace those bloody awkward to get (and fit correctly) round ones that they seem to love putting in bathrooms, but that was Mosscare. If there was a way of replacing that strip light on the quiet we'd do it, but the lease and health and safety come first lol, and different social landlords, different rules. All the "standard" bulbs in here are mine and I'll be taking them with me when I leave.
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Its good that they follow health and safety, my old landlord didn't care, it was nice in a way, because he never checked up on me, good job too, I wasn't allowed any pets and had 2 guinea pigs, 2 gerbils lol
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
Its good that they follow health and safety, my old landlord didn't care, it was nice in a way, because he never checked up on me, good job too, I wasn't allowed any pets and had 2 guinea pigs, 2 gerbils lol
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To be fair they send the same electrician round 90% of the time and he's a lovely bloke, but I'm sure he's sick of the sight of me lol. Between the lights, the broken bathroom fan (which wasn't actually broken but he got it replaced AND with a silent one, hallelujah), and then there was having to replace the smoke alarm and the light fitting after that flooding in July when someone mysteriously neglected to tell him I was owed a light fitting...
 
PigglePuggle said:
My house roof broke :( thought the leak was was just a slipped tile and some dodgy guttering... but all the wood frame the roof tiles sit on is rotten... £3k of roof repairs with 6 weeks to go until Christmas... my friend at work said shop around for a cheaper quote but there is water in my bedroom, I want it fixed now!
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Oh dear, poor you just what you don't want in the current weather! Hope you can get it fixed soon!
 
PigglePuggle said:
My house roof broke :( thought the leak was was just a slipped tile and some dodgy guttering... but all the wood frame the roof tiles sit on is rotten... £3k of roof repairs with 6 weeks to go until Christmas... my friend at work said shop around for a cheaper quote but there is water in my bedroom, I want it fixed now!
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Not what you need :( I hope you can get it sorted quick but I agree, do shop around x
 
When random people like to give me career advice for no reason!
Yes I’m almost 28 and I’m working in a crappy cafe. But I never asked you to tell me what I could or should be doing!
It’s so weird, because I AM unhappy in my job and feel a bit lost. But I ALWAYS come across as happy and content.. yet as soon as I say to people where I work they assume they know what’s best for me..
 
Bill & Ted said:
I‘m getting disappointed with them all. Short eat by dates, lack lustre lettuce, empty shelves, wish I could afford to shop at Waitrose!
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My first time in a Waitrose was terrifying. I kept thinking someone was on to me, that security was going to remove me for clearly being in the wrong shop.

Oh, England.
 
Once every 3 or 4 weeks I treat myself (and the piggies!) to an online Ocado shop and get waitrose and other posh foods delivered to my house! Though the posh delivery driver does often look at my terraced peasant house and me in my pyjamas with hay in my hair and wonder how I can afford it :) got Ocado coming tonight to bring fancy mushrooms and asparagus and vegan cream substitute for piggy daddy's birthday dinner! And some fancy salad with fresh peashoots that the piggies are very excited about :)
 
In the continuing medication saga, the on-call GP has decided I needed to go see them. At 2am. In a hospital I'd need to get a taxi to. With money I don't actually have. You know it's a good one when the guy on the other end of the phone doesn't even skip a beat when you're asking "are you &^($ing kidding me?" I hate weekends.
 
PigglePuggle said:
Once every 3 or 4 weeks I treat myself (and the piggies!) to an online Ocado shop and get waitrose and other posh foods delivered to my house! Though the posh delivery driver does often look at my terraced peasant house and me in my pyjamas with hay in my hair and wonder how I can afford it :) got Ocado coming tonight to bring fancy mushrooms and asparagus and vegan cream substitute for piggy daddy's birthday dinner! And some fancy salad with fresh peashoots that the piggies are very excited about :)
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Oh how I miss ordering Ocado!
Don’t have such luxuries anymore now I live in the middle of nowhere in Australia.. can’t even order a takeaway!
 
Lorcan said:
In the continuing medication saga, the on-call GP has decided I needed to go see them. At 2am. In a hospital I'd need to get a taxi to. With money I don't actually have. You know it's a good one when the guy on the other end of the phone doesn't even skip a beat when you're asking "are you &^($ing kidding me?" I hate weekends.
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Unfortunately the medical profession often forget that it’s very difficult for many folk to afford to actually get to hospital/doctors.
There was uproar in Cornwall when someone in an “ivory tower“ decided that cancer patients could be treated daily in Exeter who live in Cornwall. Imagine travelling 240 mile round trip by car to have radiotherapy, especially when local people had raised funds for their own radiotherapy machine in Truro costing 3 million! Luckily it has been “re thought”
 
Bill & Ted said:
Unfortunately the medical profession often forget that it’s very difficult for many folk to afford to actually get to hospital/doctors.
There was uproar in Cornwall when someone in an “ivory tower“ decided that cancer patients could be treated daily in Exeter who live in Cornwall. Imagine travelling 240 mile round trip by car to have radiotherapy, especially when local people had raised funds for their own radiotherapy machine in Truro costing 3 million! Luckily it has been “re thought”
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I mean he did say it's the weekend and everywhere's fully booked out, which is fair enough except I don't want to go in in the first place. Thankfully the place I live can get me a taxi on accounts, but they're expensive (of course) and I'll have to pay it back next week.
 
Sorry @Lorcan sometimes there’s no logic!

I know they sometimes have to do it, but if I come into a shop please don’t ask me if I’d like some help, before I sometimes even have a chance to look for what I want. Is that bad? 😳
 
Siikibam said:
Sorry @Lorcan sometimes there’s no logic!

I know they sometimes have to do it, but if I come into a shop please don’t ask me if I’d like some help, before I sometimes even have a chance to look for what I want. Is that bad? 😳
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No it isn't bad, it annoys me too, I don't mind when they can see you are looking about everywhere, after you have been in the shop a while. But I think it looks desperate for sale when you get asked straight away. Phone shops are bad for this, and curry's... Shouts out I'm on commission.

I didn't know and don't know if anyone else does, but some large shops like wrens kitchens, they have sensor on the doorway counting the amount of customers coming in, I found this out when I had to do a job at a wrens branch, and I got told to walk round the sensor instead of normal through the door, they compare the amount of customers to the sales of that day or week or month, I don't know. Its probably why they jump on youx as soo as you walk into a shop. They have to hit targets.
 
Siikibam said:
Sorry @Lorcan sometimes there’s no logic!

I know they sometimes have to do it, but if I come into a shop please don’t ask me if I’d like some help, before I sometimes even have a chance to look for what I want. Is that bad? 😳
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It's one of the reasons I avoid Lush. Being autistic I really hate being spoken to by strangers and you can't take two steps in Lush now without some keen young salesperson approaching you and asking what they can help you with. Er, you can help by leaving me in peace to get my bearings to begin with...
 
Unfortunately it's now the policy of many of the multi national stores that every customer is approached on entering the store. I hate it, I know most customers do. Staff are watched by management and picked up on it. I worked for Next for 3 weeks a few years ago, I couldn't stand the petty rules and regulations this being the worst one and resigned. One of the worst things about the job was that you were not allowed to leave the shop at the end of your shift without having your bags searched.

The other thing I hate is being asked if you want to buy chocolate at the till, B&M and WH Smith are bad for this. The staff are on minimum wage with a monthly bonus if they reach their chocolate selling target, it's so unfair on the staff. Not to mention dieting customers like me who manage to get round the shop without picking up sweets or chocolate only to get pushed into it at the till.
 
Had an absolute nightmare with mcdonalds tonight 😩. Ordered £22 worth of food, yes I know fat bugger I am... But got it home, no sauces that I def ordered because I done it on the touch screen, went back to get them, came home, food was all cold, went back asked for new food again, they said must bring back food to prove it, but I have receipt, no we must have food back, went home, screamed and had a pot of oats. The end

That money couldn have went to help teas.
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
Had an absolute nightmare with mcdonalds tonight 😩. Ordered £22 worth of food, yes I know fat bugger I am... But got it home, no sauces that I def ordered because I done it on the touch screen, went back to get them, came home, food was all cold, went back asked for new food again, they said must bring back food to prove it, but I have receipt, no we must have food back, went home, screamed and had a pot of oats. The end

That money couldn have went to help teas.
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That thing with the sauces! My daughter always has chicken nuggets and you ALWAYS have to ask them to go back for the sauce, it's ridiculous. Same with milk in your tea - before I had to go dairy free (btw it's the 21st century Mcdonald's, even obscure tiny cafes in the depths of Anglesey have soya milk - some of them anyway) - you would specifically order "tea with milk" and never, ever would they bring milk with your order. :mal:
 
Pigwhisperer said:
That thing with the sauces! My daughter always has chicken nuggets and you ALWAYS have to ask them to go back for the sauce, it's ridiculous. Same with milk in your tea - before I had to go dairy free (btw it's the 21st century Mcdonald's, even obscure tiny cafes in the depths of Anglesey have soya milk - some of them anyway) - you would specifically order "tea with milk" and never, ever would they bring milk with your order. :mal:
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Yea they always forget sauces, I've made a promise, I'm never going to that mcdonalds again. They have done this 3 times. Last time they forgot my main burger of a meal, and strawes for the milkshake, which you can't suck through a normal straw I have at home. It's full of teenagers that just want to chat and can't seem to work whilst doing so
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
Yea they always forget sauces, I've made a promise, I'm never going to that mcdonalds again. They have done this 3 times. Last time they forgot my main burger of a meal, and strawes for the milkshake, which you can't suck through a normal straw I have at home. It's full of teenagers that just want to chat and can't seem to work whilst doing so
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I forgot straws! Yes that's the third thing. Doesn't matter which McD's you go to, we've been to Scotland and Wales and Derbyshire and Yorkshire and here in Norfolk, we always have to send the guy back for
- sauce
- milk
- straws.
You'd think they would get a better system of checking these things before bringing out the order but nope, doesn't happen.
 
I agree on the above. People not washing there hand when they have been to the toilet. Letting go of a door right in your face. Bad language as you walk down the street. Rubbish everywhere.
 
i agree with all the above. People who don't flush the loo or wash there hands. Bad language when you walk down the street. People who try to jump a queue. People who let go of a door right in your face.
 
Sorry my first rant wasn't showing when i did the second but i have added to it.
 
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