What do you want to vent about today?

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A biker did similar to me this morning.

No idea where he came from but he decided that even on a motorbike screaming out of a bend that 2m distancing was no longer required. Twat!
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duke63 wrote:A biker did similar to me this morning.

No idea where he came from but he decided that even on a motorbike screaming out of a bend that 2m distancing was no longer required. Twat!
the roads were full of knobs yesterday around here
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Perkles wrote:
duke63 wrote:A biker did similar to me this morning.

No idea where he came from but he decided that even on a motorbike screaming out of a bend that 2m distancing was no longer required. Twat!
the roads were full of knobs yesterday around here
The standard of driving round Basingstoke was shocking last week, hoping things have got a bit better this week.

You'd be amazed how many people can't see a chilled sprinter.... I mean, it must be hard to spot at 9 foot tall!

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its everywhere Nutz.

Derbyshire is full of erratic, thoughtless and mindless drivers.

Most of them do a max of 30mph on the country roads and still brake for every corner. Annoyingly I would bet a penny to a pound these are the same highly skilled drivers who can do 50mph past a school in heavy traffic with hazards lurking round every parked car as their ability to read the road and risk assess hazards is exemplary......NOT (swear)
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DBS checks. These feckers have got a licence to print money. I've just completed the registration for what is I think my 4th DBS check in 12 months.

Takes frickin ages as well to get all the documents together and fill in all the details !! :@
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D6Nutz wrote:DBS checks. These feckers have got a licence to print money. I've just completed the registration for what is I think my 4th DBS check in 12 months.

Takes frickin ages as well to get all the documents together and fill in all the details !! :@
Its now a private money making racket.

Wasn't May's husband invloved in this?

When i was a school governor, i think a husband of one of the Labour Ministers was involved at some point too.
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The ease at which my Huawei breaks. It's had 2 new screens and two new backs. The last repair took weeks as they couldn't get the parts. Now the back has broken again and I've no idea how.

I've ordered a refurbished sim free Samsung S10. It'll work out cheaper in the long run than having the Huawei repaired all the time.
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I think you'll get on with the S10. It's ironed out nearly all the niggles I had with my S8 and it's very customisable so you can tweak it til you get it right.
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I looked at the reviews for the s9. They seemed to say it was an improvement in the s8 but nothing ground breaking. I then checked out the s9 v S10 reviews. The only reason not to get the S10 was the price which reviewers thought expensive. The refurb S10 is pretty cheap. Let's hope it's in as good a condition as they say.
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My MiL had the S8, S9, then S10. She forgot she ever replaced the S8 with the S9 as they were exactly the same to use. The camera wasn't noticeably better and the UI was identical. They look very similar too.

The S10 has been proven to be faster for typical use than the S20 by the way (although the S20 is better for high performance applications)

Yeah fingers crossed it's good condition.. I've never bought refurb
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The hard of thinking, some people make me wonder how they get through the day intact..

Today's example got on the bus, read the banner on the seat closest to the cab out loud, then turned and asked me if it was okay to sit there...
It's creased because people have been sitting there (facepalm)
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Stupidity is the standard now.
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Kwacky wrote:Stupidity is the standard now.
Being an ever "tolerant & amenable soul", I used to often state that stupidity is epidemic. :^

The new corrected variant now points out that stupidity is pandemic. (nod)
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* Not aimed at anyone* before anyone gets the hump! well unless you think its you... then yeah get the hump!

Just listening to on TV, reading peoples writings etc! and naighbours views of the world!! over the past few days >>>> so many agenda's getting attached to situations that are going on in the world..... which have no right to be attached, lumped on.... makes me sick.


People talking absolute bollox!
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Its not a vent cos i couldn't care less but.....

The traffic news on the radio just was all for problems caused by the cars queueing at McDonalds drive thrus across the West Midlands..for a shit burger and fries. :D
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My Wife really wants one. We just went to a carpet shop and opposite was a Maccas. The queue was onto the 3-lane main road and blocking the junction before it. Id estimate 35 cars in the queue.

Then on the way home, just off the M5 is another McDonald's closer to us. She was insistent that I stopped. No. I didnt stop. I would had to have stopped on the roundabout. She was not happy.
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I don't think I've been to McDonald's in over a year....at least, I don't recall having done so??
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First world problems.

When the shipping company tell you your delivery will arrive on one day, then that day arrives and they change the delivery date to tomorrow.
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Our Flights to Italy in August have been cancelled today. Makes you wonder what will be left of the airline industry.
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duke63 wrote:Our Flights to Italy in August have been cancelled today. Makes you wonder what will be left of the airline industry.
which airline Duke I have flights booked in August with Jet2
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