I rented a small van from a place at Bristol Airport to drive to Swansea. I get there and all they have is a whopping great Transit. I don't want a massive van I say. But sir, it's like any other rental place, sometimes you don't get what you ordered and get a "free upgrade" to a bigger vehicle. And then their policy is to hand it over with a quarter tank of fuel. Meaning it will be an absolute bastard to try and return it with a similar amount. Dickheads!
Quarter tank's a right ballache. Reminds me of when I hired a car in Lanzarote, similar sitatuation with fuel. Went and put a few euros in the night before, but because fuel was so cheap compared to here I ended up nearly filling it. Spent an hour or so just driving round on principle.
I think we've had this before from Moot, but those times when you're eagerly shown something 'hilarious' and have to grin and watch it and 'ha' as best you can. Painful.
It depends who it is that's showing you, but yep I hate that more often than not. Esoecially if the clip is so long the person showing you has to keep saying 'it takes a while but its worth it' or 'keep watching that's not the best bit' or 'AHAHA' at a bit you hope isn't the best bit. Also the obvious 'ask me what I'm laughing about' colleague laugh. Fuck offff, it's just going to be another Philip Schofield thing or someone accidentally hitting themself in the eyes with a firework while Katy Perry sings about fireworks.
For me it's seeing the person eagerly watching me in my peripheral vision, to see my reactions, getting more eager as the clip goes on. I just want to sit and do what I'm doing.
The service at my local Vue cinema must be about the slowest and most excruciating 'service experience' in the world. Every time i go, you pick a queue with only one person/family currently being served and will wait ages whilst they slowly and laboriously do one item at a time.
Daughter and I made a late decision to go see Dolittle last night, got there a little after the 'showing' start time but confident we'd just be missing adverts etc. It took a full 10 minutes to get 2 tickets and a popcorn, after first waiting an age behind a couple with their kid who had the audacity to order drinks with their popcorn, before another queue opened up free and we moved to that one, which still took an age. Ended up missing the start of the film.
Yep. I need to remember to prebook tickets to just collect from the machine...and from now on no more shame about sneaking my own drinks and sweets in.
All my adult life I have never once read an article calling for rents to be reduced dramatically. People are happy to call for rent freezes, or pay rises to temporarily compensate, but seemingly nobody ever had the idea to cut this pointless existence tax in half.
^that, would be such a huge vote loser over here that tent controls are never mentioned, yet where you live rents are far more reasonable believe it or not
"I spent years thinking Yorke was legit Downs-ish disabled and could only achieve lucidity through song" - Mr B
Rent freezes are so pitifully tepid. This trajectory needs to be reversed, not equalized. Why the fuck is this not obvious? 30 years ago my wage could support a family but these days I’m just about affording a single room, and even that gets smaller with each passing year. How is this acceptable? I dread to think how my mental health will be in 10 or 20 years.
As batty as Mrs. Thatcher was, and as divisive as she still is......her belief in home ownership was sound.
I can only speak for over here, but hordes of people I know own their own homes because of the policy of Council Houses being sold to long term tenants. My own parents being one example.
Sadly it is unravelling as most privately owned homes are now falling into landlord ownership (one of my best friends being one of them).
The more cynical of Thatcher's haters might think that was the plan all along. Shrugs.
We seem to be heading toward generations of folk with no assets. A huge step back.