Unhappy Thread

[Bob G]

Spent today with griping pain and unmentionable smells from the loo.

Too late - you mentioned them.
Sorry you're all having a  time

It sounds very appropriate in Ukrainian too:
Poorly tummy translates to
"Pohano zhyvit"

[emjaybee]

Spent today with griping pain and unmentionable smells from the loo.

Too late - you mentioned them.
Sorry you're all having a  time

It sounds very appropriate in Ukrainian too:
Poorly tummy translates to
"Pohano zhyvit"

Well, as they say, " you're always in the zhyvit, it's only the depth that varies..."

[Trainfish]

Sorry to moan on here, but I'm absolutely fed up with people whinging about the prices of things these days.
£1.50 for tea, £1.75 for coffee, £3 for a slice of cake and £2.50 per hour for parking.
Any more complaints and honest to god I will stop inviting people to my house!





Yes I know this could go in the joke section but I thought it could start its life here 

[TrevL]

Shirley, you could get more for parking, that's cheap.

[Bealman]

Don't you worry. When that big world championship cycling race was on in my town in September, local council banned local residents from making money out of charging for parking outside their place.

Bloody shame that. When the race went past the bottom of my street, they parked across me driveway anyway. Not that it really mattered... the race went past in a flash, then the parkers rakked off.

I wised up to the men's final, though, and stuck the bum of me car halfway out of the driveway 

[steve836]

It always annoys me that people are allowed to race bikes on public roads but not cars. After all roads are financed by motor vehicles so bikes are guests and should behave as such.

[Trainfish]

Roads are actually financed through council tax not VED more commonly known as 'Road tax'. I do agree with your point though. We had the Tour of Britain through Devizes a few years ago and they were definitely doing more than 30mph near me and I hate to thing what speed they were doing in the 20mph zone near the school. Didn't stop at the pedestrian crossing either even though the kids kept pressing the button 

[javlinfaw7]

To be fair the Formula 1 cars at Monaco were also doing more than 30 mph and not stopping for any thing

[Trainfish]

Outrageous!

[dannyboy]

Well it's that time of year again. Yes, home insurance renewal time. I received the renewal quote, did my usual and checked a couple of other insurance companies, telephoned my provider - and got €40 knocked off! Why oh why do I have to contact them to get a bit knocked off? Why don't they just send me the cheaper quote in the first place?  . Yeh, yeh, I know - that's how they work. Still makes me unhappy that I have to do it every year.

Car insurance renewal due in a week or two ..........

[Newportnobby]

Car insurance renewal due in a week or two ..........

And the same will apply i.e. they'll attempt to rip you off.
If I find a cheaper equivalent quote I just call the original insurer to say I won't be insuring with them and tell them I've been quoted cheaper. If they suddenly 'find' a loyalty bonus or some other excuse to match, then I just say 'No' as they tried it on. As you say, I expect their best quote - not what they think I will pay to avoid switching.

[woodbury22uk]

@dannyboy I know what you mean. When my wife died, the insurers put up the monthly premium by £1. We were both on the policy. When the renewal was due it came at some ridiculous high figure. So I challenged it. The sales agent struggled to explain that when we reran the numbers the quoted premium went down to about half of what I was paying when she was alive. Her being female and younger should have kept the premium down anyway. I now have insurance cheaper than for 20 years.

[dannyboy]

Further to my comments in reply #2880

The car renewal quote has come through today by email. The figure quoted does not seem too bad, until you look at it in detail! Included in the cost is a €50 'renewal fee'  . I can not ever recall being charged a 'renewal fee' in the past - has anybody else had to pay a 'renewal fee'? I can understand a change of vehicle, or similar, fee, but this charge is a bit like Tesco charging me to enter their store to get some milk!  . Guess who will probably be changing insurance companies next month?

[Bealman]

My car registration is due in early January - $1000. I am ineligible for a state pension (I've been knocked back twice). Registration costs nowt for pensioners. 

[Graham]

My car registration is due in early January - $1000. I am ineligible for a state pension (I've been knocked back twice). Registration costs nowt for pensioners. 

In the same boat, work all your life pay your taxes, save like we were taught, and then no pension cause you've been good and saved some money