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Y'know what really grinds my gears?

Started by Link Prime, 12 April, 2014, 01:47:44 PM

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Dandontdare

That'll be from last Christmas, delayed by the pandemic

Hawkmumbler

The Sex Pistols. Just. The Sex Pistols. And their enduring popularity in-spite of being shite and having always been shite.

milstar

Quote from: paddykafka on 10 June, 2021, 06:50:52 PM
I have just heard a fucking Christmas advert broadcast on radio. On the 10th of June. In early fucking Summer. I mean, seriously! WTAF?!!!

It's bad enough being subjected to this kind of shite, from the beginning of September all the way through December, without having it foisted upon one so early in the year.

Whilst I would ordinarily be generally opposed to violence, in this instance, I believe that a demise akin to that of William Wallace would be richly deserved by all involved in such an obscenity.

Needless to say, I shall not be listening to that station again for the next month or so, until hopefully the ad in question has run it's course or been removed.

I listened to one radio station, whose name I utterly forgot, but they had an ad which starts with a female moaning, then voice saying:"listen to the radio this and that, it's better than getting laid". Need less to say, that ad didn't last for a while.
Reyt, you lot. Shut up, belt up, 'n if ye can't see t' bloody exit, ye must be bloody blind.

Definitely Not Mister Pops

Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 24 June, 2021, 09:28:51 AM
The Sex Pistols. Just. The Sex Pistols. And their enduring popularity in-spite of being shite and having always been shite.

To be fairrrrrr, being repulsive and shite was their whole schtick. In fact they were so dedicated to being shite and repulsive that they sacked their competent bass player and replaced him with a woman beating junkie who couldn't even play bass. Not even by punk standards.
You may quote me on that.

The Legendary Shark


When people who have been camping here try to slip away without paying and then get all belligerent and shouty when foiled.

Camper: "See my effing van? It's worth more than everything else on this entire effing country bumpkin site!"

Me: "Cool. You should be easily able to pay the forty two quid you owe us then, eh?"

Camper: "Pfah! Nobody carries that much money around with them, you effing effer."

Camper's wife: "Here's £45 - do you have change?"

Me: "Certainly, thank you."

Camper: "You stupid effing [female canine]!"

Doesn't happen very often at all, thankfully, but when it does being polite but firm has (so far) worked well.

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von Boom

Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 24 June, 2021, 01:07:21 PM

When people who have been camping here try to slip away without paying and then get all belligerent and shouty when foiled.

Camper: "See my effing van? It's worth more than everything else on this entire effing country bumpkin site!"

Me: "Cool. You should be easily able to pay the forty two quid you owe us then, eh?"

Camper: "Pfah! Nobody carries that much money around with them, you effing effer."

Camper's wife: "Here's £45 - do you have change?"

Me: "Certainly, thank you."

Camper: "You stupid effing [female canine]!"

Doesn't happen very often at all, thankfully, but when it does being polite but firm has (so far) worked well.
Yep. Happens all the time. How do you think rich people get rich? It's not by paying what they owe.

milstar

Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 24 June, 2021, 01:07:21 PM

When people who have been camping here try to slip away without paying and then get all belligerent and shouty when foiled.

Camper: "See my effing van? It's worth more than everything else on this entire effing country bumpkin site!"

Me: "Cool. You should be easily able to pay the forty two quid you owe us then, eh?"

Camper: "Pfah! Nobody carries that much money around with them, you effing effer."

Camper's wife: "Here's £45 - do you have change?"

Me: "Certainly, thank you."

Camper: "You stupid effing [female canine]!"

Doesn't happen very often at all, thankfully, but when it does being polite but firm has (so far) worked well.

This reminds me on a joke. A student has an exam, so he is required to pull one of the notes in front of his professor, with a question and answer it. The student pulls one and says:"oh, this is too easy, I didn't study hard for trite questions. Not gonna answer this". The professor goads him then into the second. The same thing happens. On the third, he reads it and then admonished, almost whispers:"well, shit".

Quote from: von Boom on 24 June, 2021, 01:53:07 PM
Yep. Happens all the time. How do you think rich people get rich? It's not by paying what they owe.

I firmly believe that poorer people spend more money than rich.
Reyt, you lot. Shut up, belt up, 'n if ye can't see t' bloody exit, ye must be bloody blind.

Jim_Campbell

Quote from: milstar on 25 June, 2021, 05:08:26 AM
I firmly believe that poorer people spend more money than rich.

Being poor is expensive — the oft-quoted "Vimes' Boots" passage by Terry Pratchett is actually spot-on.*

There are lots of studies that show this. Poor people pay more for almost everything — their utilities are often on pay meters, which are the most expensive way to pay for electricity and gas, they only have access to the most expensive forms of credit (payday loans, overdrafts, often unauthorised), even toilet roll.

There was a study on toilet rolls (albeit as a proxy for a wider range of goods) — people on higher incomes buy toilet rolls when the big multi-packs are on special and get a fuckton of 'em. People on low income don't have the cash in their pocket to do that, so buy the more expensive four and two packs when they run out, paying whatever price they happen to be at that exact moment.

It's almost like the entire system is designed to enforce inequality and keep those on lowest incomes firmly in their place. And, yes, that grinds my fucking gears.

*Oddly enough, I was thinking about this only yesterday, as I put on a pair of boots that cost me an absolute fortune — I think they were £180 when I bought them twenty years ago. So, basically, they've cost me £9/year and are still going strong. Good luck getting a £9 pair of trainers or shoes to last much more than a year.
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CalHab

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There's truth in this. In my work I have to deal with landed gentry types every so often. They are typically dressed in old clothes from good shops/tailors, and drive older cars that would have been expensive new. I suspect it would be seen as "gauche" to turn up in a new suit and Bentley. It's one of the many class signifiers they have.

Or it could just be that many of them have little cash, despite owning huge tracts of land. People who bank at Coutts and pay for kids at the "right" school often have massive holes in their roof.

The Legendary Shark


The system isn't set up to benefit you or me, it's set up to benefit those who run, maintain, and profit from it.

As one incident among many indicates, Conservative MP John Whittingdale recently said that "important people" shouldn't need to quarantine under [spoiler]REDACTED[/spoiler]* rules.




*Redacted because, being unimportant, I'm not allowed to talk about it.
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von Boom

Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 25 June, 2021, 06:51:40 AM
Quote from: milstar on 25 June, 2021, 05:08:26 AM
I firmly believe that poorer people spend more money than rich.

Being poor is expensive — the oft-quoted "Vimes' Boots" passage by Terry Pratchett is actually spot-on.*

There are lots of studies that show this. Poor people pay more for almost everything — their utilities are often on pay meters, which are the most expensive way to pay for electricity and gas, they only have access to the most expensive forms of credit (payday loans, overdrafts, often unauthorised), even toilet roll.

There was a study on toilet rolls (albeit as a proxy for a wider range of goods) — people on higher incomes buy toilet rolls when the big multi-packs are on special and get a fuckton of 'em. People on low income don't have the cash in their pocket to do that, so buy the more expensive four and two packs when they run out, paying whatever price they happen to be at that exact moment.

It's almost like the entire system is designed to enforce inequality and keep those on lowest incomes firmly in their place. And, yes, that grinds my fucking gears.

*Oddly enough, I was thinking about this only yesterday, as I put on a pair of boots that cost me an absolute fortune — I think they were £180 when I bought them twenty years ago. So, basically, they've cost me £9/year and are still going strong. Good luck getting a £9 pair of trainers or shoes to last much more than a year.
I deal with wealthy people on a regular basis in my job and almost without fail they try to work some angle to get out of paying a fair price. They are riding in ridiculously expensive vehicles and flaunt stupidly costly watches and jewellery, but when it comes time to pay for the work we've done it's always a fight to get the money from them.

JayzusB.Christ

I hear you.  I used to paint windows for a pub in Temple Bar which, in my experience, charges the highest prices in Dublin, and as far as I can see, is always packed in the evening with tourists and foreign students who don't realise they're being fleeced.

They once commissioned more windows than usual and then complained when my invoice was higher than the last one.  FFS
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milstar

The recent issue of Fantastic Four Life Story 2. But it's not the comic per se, but the notion that some people still believe in justified US intervention in Vietnam (reportedly, Captain America struck down an American soldier to free communist prisoners). Pff. Napalm bombs would disagree.
Reyt, you lot. Shut up, belt up, 'n if ye can't see t' bloody exit, ye must be bloody blind.

Proudhuff

Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 24 June, 2021, 09:28:51 AM
The Sex Pistols. Just. The Sex Pistols. And their enduring popularity in-spite of being shite and having always been shite.

Your mouth is full of wrong  :)
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milstar

Reyt, you lot. Shut up, belt up, 'n if ye can't see t' bloody exit, ye must be bloody blind.