The angry thread

[colpatben]

I feel like going down to the South Coast and sticking one in their eye if that gives you a clue to who they are. (Not sure if you can mention names on here).

ps, if you see any seagulls, shoot them in the eye with an arrow

Seagulls, Vultures all the same really. Opportunists all.

[Newportnobby]

I recently bought a new car. I went online with my existing insurance company (they drive yellow vans)

Would that be Trotters Independent Traders by any chance?

[The Q]

I've never gone direct to an insurance company but always through a broker. For many years I used a company in Weston Super mare until they got taken over by an insurance company and surprise surprise the rates started climbing by a large amount every year.

So I use a specialist Landrover Broker for the modified landrover.

For the moment, having myself  long since reached a certain vintage, for the car and house, SAGA are the brokers.

[Ian Bowden]

I usually shop around and have quoted rival offers which are usually matched  this year they had me because of the car switch and dates to run concurrent cars  I will just add them to my list and move on. Pity my list of companies I don't like is so big and the others shrinking rapidly

[Newportnobby]

Am I the only one to think that once I hit 60 years young my motor premium has risen every year I survive on this earth? If I was a conspiracy theorist I'd tend to think someone in power has instructed insurance companies to price the oldies off the road as they're as dangerous as the teenagers

[thebrighton]

Both mine and the missus insurance goes up every year but we're just a victim of inflation. Both cars are low insurance groups, we're getting on and both have approx 30 years NCD. As a consequence we attract the insurers minimum premium. Occasionally we'll find an insurer at renewal that has a slightly lower minimum premium but it is always more than the year before. Our renewal was earlier this month and we did have a multicar policy where the multicar discount worked out at 0% as the premium couldn't go any lower!

[daffy]

Am I the only one to think that once I hit 60 years young my motor pruemium has risen every year I survive on this earth? If I was a conspiracy theorist I'd tend to think someone in power has instructed insurance companies to price the oldies off the road as they're as dangerous as the teenagers

It is because, as we here over the age of 60 can all testify personally, are loaded. This quote from a Times article, and the Report it refers to, from February 2017 confirms it:

The incomes of pensioner households have overtaken those of their working-age equivalents for the first time.

The spending power of older people has been boosted by a wave of pensioners who are more likely still to be in work, to own a home and to receive generous pension pots, analysis by the Resolution Foundation for the Intergenerational Commission shows.

The As Time Goes By study, which charts income changes during the past half century, states that low growth for working-age households has coincided with a surge in pensioner wealth.

After housing costs, typical pensioner households are now £20 a week better off than typical working-age ones. In 2001 they were £70 a week worse off than working-age households.

So we, the over-privileged and wealthy senior classes, must simply allow ourselves to be ripped off as much as possible so that we can aid the survival of the poor insurers who are struggling against the tide of an ever poorer working population.

This has been a Tongue In Cheek Production.

[Newportnobby]

All the TV channel weather reports are promising this area Armageddon as far as wind goes for the next couple of days yet the BBC weather website has wind speeds no higher than 19mph. I have no doubt some poor sod somewhere will cop for some foul weather but why do they do this? Is it because they dropped such a huge clanger with Michael Fish in 1987 (?) and the storm in the SE they feel a need to cover themselves against all eventualities?

[RailGooner]

I think the Beebs forecast are much less reliable since they switched from the Met Office to Meteogroup. However, they still continue to broadcast national severe weather warnings issued by the Met Office. Often the forecasts from the Met Office differ to those from Meteogroup - as is the case here.

[dannyboy]

To me, I think it is a question of people protecting their derrieres. If they say there is a storm coming and it comes, they can say "We did warn you". If it is not so bad, they can say "We were lucky there". Just the same as when you walk into a shopping centre for example and see the sign warning of slippery floors, even though it has not rained for 24 hours!

[daffy]

Armageddon?

The weather Armageddon here in Lincolnshire on Thursday looks to be the worst of the week, peaking, so they say, with winds of 46 (knots or mph?) with mainly light rain.
Forecast looks worst for the southwest and south coast with winds in the mid 50s. But, if the forecast is right  it looks like just another UK late Autumn storm. Hope all stay warm and dry and that no damage is caused to persons or property.

And after the wind has dropped maybe I can do the last leaf pick up of the season in the garden.

[Young Bulla]

Just had couple of entertaining days.
  Work mate pointed out an ad for a dog on a gumtree type site for an affordable price, as usual I live nowhere near the seller but my everything spent some considerable time on the phone ensuring it was 'the one'.
Long story short:-
It most certainly was not.
It was a 600 mile round trip to find this out.
I now have four neat rows of puncture marks in my right arm.
Had to drive the 300 miles home with said arm swolen to twice it's normal size through rain and spray thick enough to drop visibility to twenty feet, with the added fun factor of Irish lorry drivers never put their lights on unless its already dark!
I also have a rather sore left arm after the tetanus jab and a rather queasy feeling off the antibiotics.
Oh, and the final kick in the teeth, changed £291 to get 300 euro, changed said Euro back to sterling and got £225.
Not the best of days, back to work tonight.
All the best
Stan.

[NinOz]

Windstorm went through here an hour and a half ago and still blowing.  One of my large gum trees (15+metres) blown down.  Washing line probably a write-off, shed damaged, fence ripped up and mulberry tree now half the size. 
Bush fires up north.  Dust storms last week.  Floods in Sydney.
Hmm, maybe something in this end-of-the-world talk.

[Bealman]

My sister in law hit a wall of water this morning in a flashflood in Sydney and blocked traffic for an hour while they towed her car away. She wasn't hurt, though. 

Been blowing hard all day here in Wollongong, and been in and out of it all day. Hey, it's just water. 

[Newportnobby]

The Beeb's weather site now says 40/41mph winds between 4pm and 6pm today. I may be mistaken but I understood they revamped their forecasting at a huge cost not so long ago but all it seems to have achieved is later warning and inaccuracy. It used to be the dogs wotsits but, hey, that's progress, right? (Sigh)

As for poor Young Bulla - I think that's a day he could have done without