Today I'm angry about.....

[InsaneApache]

The House of Lords making rules up as they go along so they won't end up in gaol. One rule for them.......

[Porrohman]

No new topic, but:

Last week our bins got emptied (all four of them). Prior to that it was three weeks since we'd seen any sign of a council waggon. Today is bin day (just the one) and so far there isn't any sign of the drag-em, scoop-em and sling em fusileers who used to roll up at 7-30. I long ago gave up on ever seeing a grit waggon in any roads near us, (more chance of Louis Hamilton driving his Formula One past our house), so hopes aren't high on seeing the car pebble dashers either.

The point of the post? I just got a letter telling me my council tax has gone up by a £100 a year.

I'll just throw in, in the spirit of the thread: Regular post times are a thing of antiquity and courier drivers have a monitoring service that tells them when you're out so they can't deliver goods.

Have a nice day somebody.

Ha Ha regular post times

[Dujon]

[TANGO] You're lucky, round my way we just get the bill in the mail.

A £100 increase is a bit of a hike isn't it? Last year I paid the equivalent of £810 (approx) including our bushfire/emergency service and domestic waste levies. Whilst it's not beyond the realm of possibility I won't be impressed if this year's bill increases by 12% +.

Well, I spoke too early. Whilst it's nowhere near confirmed as yet my local council has just applied for a 10% increase this year. Bastards!

[Raven]

Where do I start today?

Sky's over sensationalised shitty news...Beckham this, Beckham that, ffs if he farted they would have it as breaking news....and don't even mention Kay Burley!

Those electric wheelchairs again, driven by fatties too fecking lazy to walk (one tosser reversed onto me at weekend only a touch but the dickhead was not even looking)

Slow stupid drivers, 30 in a 50 is bloody stupid (and slowing down for corners), as is the same person giving way to traffic every time ...when its your right of way!! (yes it was a woman).

Tractors - piss off from roads at rush hour

now...............breath

[Lord Kangana]

Who's Kay Burley?

[bobo the clown]

A £100 increase is a bit of a hike isn't it? Last year I paid the equivalent of £810 (approx) including our bushfire/emergency service and domestic waste levies. Whilst it's not beyond the realm of possibility I won't be impressed if this year's bill increases by 12% +.

Well, I spoke too early. Whilst it's nowhere near confirmed as yet my local council has just applied for a 10% increase this year. Bastards!

I'd emigrate if I was you !!

[Dujon]

I'm running out of options, bobo.

[superjohnmcginlay]

Why don't you just paint a target on your head?

[thebish]

mooted - muted!!! sort it out!

just now on R5 - discussing the Hull managerial vacancy - apparently Mark Hughes' name was muted

will they stay up?? - well that's (apparently) a mute point... agghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

MOOTED and MOOT - sort it out!

[Puskas]

mooted - muted!!! sort it out!

just now on R5 - discussing the Hull managerial vacancy - apparently Mark Hughes' name was muted

will they stay up?? - well that's (apparently) a mute point... agghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

MOOTED and MOOT - sort it out!

It's true. Someone mentioned Hughes's name, and Pearson said, "Shhh". He was too expensive.

Also, they won't stay up, but no talks about it - hence a mute point.

Where's the problem?

[thebish]

mooted - muted!!! sort it out!

just now on R5 - discussing the Hull managerial vacancy - apparently Mark Hughes' name was muted

will they stay up?? - well that's (apparently) a mute point... agghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

MOOTED and MOOT - sort it out!

It's true. Someone mentioned Hughes's name, and Pearson said, "Shhh". He was too expensive.

Also, they won't stay up, but no talks about it - hence a mute point.

Where's the problem?

Where's the problem?? That's a moot swan.

[KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab]

mooted - muted!!! sort it out!

just now on R5 - discussing the Hull managerial vacancy - apparently Mark Hughes' name was muted

will they stay up?? - well that's (apparently) a mute point... agghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

MOOTED and MOOT - sort it out!

Maybe they just mouthed the words "Mark Hughes" rather than saying it.

[ohjimmyjimmy]

I like the episode of Friends where Joey thinks the saying is a 'moo' point, '...like a cow's opinion, it just doesn't matter...it's moo'

And now im quoting Friends. Somebody shoot me

[Raven]

St Patricks day, why the fuss in England (other than to sell a few more cards, guiness etc), sick of hearing about it, Irish songs on radio etc etc

Oh and anyone who says St Paddys day deserves a punch on the nose



ps. We can celebrate it in our house as the better halfs family are all Irish.

[KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab]

St Patricks day, why the fuss in England (other than to sell a few more cards, guiness etc), sick of hearing about it, Irish songs on radio etc etc

Oh and anyone who says St Paddys day deserves a punch on the nose



ps. We can celebrate it in our house as the better halfs family are all Irish.

It's just a good job that there are a lot of people still deluding themselves that anyone celebrating St. George's Day is racist, otherwise you'd have the same hullabuloo in April as well. Times 100.

Put simply, January has New Year's Day, February has Valentine's Day, May has the football finals, June often has the World Cup/Euros, July/August/September has beer garden BBQs, October has Hallowe'en, November has Bonfire Night and December has Christmas. Pubs need a theme to try and entice people in. March didn't have one. So someone decided that, as long as you acknowledge Ireland, it's OK to make your pub look like a massive snot explosion by festooning it in green and claiming Irish heritage for one day. As long as it shifts beer.

I blame two things - 1) theme pubs, which in turn gave pubs the idea to desperately whore themselves in the name of a theme. 2) Advertising for cottoning onto the fact that they can flog any old tut as long as they slap a theme to the idea and pitch it to whoever's mug enough to fall for it.

[Raven]

St Patricks day, why the fuss in England (other than to sell a few more cards, guiness etc), sick of hearing about it, Irish songs on radio etc etc

Oh and anyone who says St Paddys day deserves a punch on the nose



ps. We can celebrate it in our house as the better halfs family are all Irish.

It's just a good job that there are a lot of people still deluding themselves that anyone celebrating St. George's Day is racist, otherwise you'd have the same hullabuloo in April as well. Times 100.

Put simply, January has New Year's Day, February has Valentine's Day, May has the football finals, June often has the World Cup/Euros, July/August/September has beer garden BBQs, October has Hallowe'en, November has Bonfire Night and December has Christmas. Pubs need a theme to try and entice people in. March didn't have one. So someone decided that, as long as you acknowledge Ireland, it's OK to make your pub look like a massive snot explosion by festooning it in green and claiming Irish heritage for one day. As long as it shifts beer.

I blame two things - 1) theme pubs, which in turn gave pubs the idea to desperately whore themselves in the name of a theme. 2) Advertising for cottoning onto the fact that they can flog any old tut as long as they slap a theme to the idea and pitch it to whoever's mug enough to fall for it.

Just being a dam good boozer then doesn't work?

What would I know, I'm not a drinker but thats what I would look for.

[KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab]

St Patricks day, why the fuss in England (other than to sell a few more cards, guiness etc), sick of hearing about it, Irish songs on radio etc etc

Oh and anyone who says St Paddys day deserves a punch on the nose



ps. We can celebrate it in our house as the better halfs family are all Irish.

It's just a good job that there are a lot of people still deluding themselves that anyone celebrating St. George's Day is racist, otherwise you'd have the same hullabuloo in April as well. Times 100.

Put simply, January has New Year's Day, February has Valentine's Day, May has the football finals, June often has the World Cup/Euros, July/August/September has beer garden BBQs, October has Hallowe'en, November has Bonfire Night and December has Christmas. Pubs need a theme to try and entice people in. March didn't have one. So someone decided that, as long as you acknowledge Ireland, it's OK to make your pub look like a massive snot explosion by festooning it in green and claiming Irish heritage for one day. As long as it shifts beer.

I blame two things - 1) theme pubs, which in turn gave pubs the idea to desperately whore themselves in the name of a theme. 2) Advertising for cottoning onto the fact that they can flog any old tut as long as they slap a theme to the idea and pitch it to whoever's mug enough to fall for it.

Just being a dam good boozer then doesn't work?

What would I know, I'm not a drinker but thats what I would look for.

It should, but a lot of pub owners seem to think not. Pubs near me have been advertising all manner of attractions that don't mentione anything about drinking.One even has a mass conker fight in autumn.

[Worthy4England]

St Patricks day, why the fuss in England (other than to sell a few more cards, guiness etc), sick of hearing about it, Irish songs on radio etc etc

Oh and anyone who says St Paddys day deserves a punch on the nose



ps. We can celebrate it in our house as the better halfs family are all Irish.

It's just a good job that there are a lot of people still deluding themselves that anyone celebrating St. George's Day is racist, otherwise you'd have the same hullabuloo in April as well. Times 100.

Put simply, January has New Year's Day, February has Valentine's Day, May has the football finals, June often has the World Cup/Euros, July/August/September has beer garden BBQs, October has Hallowe'en, November has Bonfire Night and December has Christmas. Pubs need a theme to try and entice people in. March didn't have one. So someone decided that, as long as you acknowledge Ireland, it's OK to make your pub look like a massive snot explosion by festooning it in green and claiming Irish heritage for one day. As long as it shifts beer.

I blame two things - 1) theme pubs, which in turn gave pubs the idea to desperately whore themselves in the name of a theme. 2) Advertising for cottoning onto the fact that they can flog any old tut as long as they slap a theme to the idea and pitch it to whoever's mug enough to fall for it.

Whilst agreeing totally with the commercialism surrounding Paddy's Day etc. I have to say I was probably using it as a general excuse for beer with some tenuous ancestry links, way before pubs turned "green" for the occasion.

[General Mannerheim]

St Patricks day, why the fuss in England (other than to sell a few more cards, guiness etc), sick of hearing about it, Irish songs on radio etc etc

Oh and anyone who says St Paddys day deserves a punch on the nose



ps. We can celebrate it in our house as the better halfs family are all Irish.

It's just a good job that there are a lot of people still deluding themselves that anyone celebrating St. George's Day is racist, otherwise you'd have the same hullabuloo in April as well. Times 100.

Put simply, January has New Year's Day, February has Valentine's Day, May has the football finals, June often has the World Cup/Euros, July/August/September has beer garden BBQs, October has Hallowe'en, November has Bonfire Night and December has Christmas. Pubs need a theme to try and entice people in. March didn't have one. So someone decided that, as long as you acknowledge Ireland, it's OK to make your pub look like a massive snot explosion by festooning it in green and claiming Irish heritage for one day. As long as it shifts beer.

I blame two things - 1) theme pubs, which in turn gave pubs the idea to desperately whore themselves in the name of a theme. 2) Advertising for cottoning onto the fact that they can flog any old tut as long as they slap a theme to the idea and pitch it to whoever's mug enough to fall for it.

Just being a dam good boozer then doesn't work?

What would I know, I'm not a drinker but thats what I would look for.

had to google 'not a drinker' - this pic came up...

[KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab]

St Patricks day, why the fuss in England (other than to sell a few more cards, guiness etc), sick of hearing about it, Irish songs on radio etc etc

Oh and anyone who says St Paddys day deserves a punch on the nose



ps. We can celebrate it in our house as the better halfs family are all Irish.

It's just a good job that there are a lot of people still deluding themselves that anyone celebrating St. George's Day is racist, otherwise you'd have the same hullabuloo in April as well. Times 100.

Put simply, January has New Year's Day, February has Valentine's Day, May has the football finals, June often has the World Cup/Euros, July/August/September has beer garden BBQs, October has Hallowe'en, November has Bonfire Night and December has Christmas. Pubs need a theme to try and entice people in. March didn't have one. So someone decided that, as long as you acknowledge Ireland, it's OK to make your pub look like a massive snot explosion by festooning it in green and claiming Irish heritage for one day. As long as it shifts beer.

I blame two things - 1) theme pubs, which in turn gave pubs the idea to desperately whore themselves in the name of a theme. 2) Advertising for cottoning onto the fact that they can flog any old tut as long as they slap a theme to the idea and pitch it to whoever's mug enough to fall for it.

Just being a dam good boozer then doesn't work?

What would I know, I'm not a drinker but thats what I would look for.

had to google 'not a drinker' - this pic came up...

You're a parent to a young child, and you post a picture of Mr Tumble doing THAT???!!!!