Today I'm angry about.....

[Annoyed Grunt]

Car insurance. Not mine, I don't drive anymore, but the lad came up yesterday. Last year his insurance was £350. He just got a letter informing him it's going up to £700. No accidents,no claims and no points on his licence (he drives for living). Why, ffs?

He's looking at options obviously, but how can they do this ?

If you don't mind me asking......where does he live?

[TANGODANCER]

Car insurance. Not mine, I don't drive anymore, but the lad came up yesterday. Last year his insurance was £350. He just got a letter informing him it's going up to £700. No accidents,no claims and no points on his licence (he drives for living). Why, ffs?

He's looking at options obviously, but how can they do this ?

If you don't mind me asking......where does he live?

Farnworth.

[Annoyed Grunt]

Car insurance. Not mine, I don't drive anymore, but the lad came up yesterday. Last year his insurance was £350. He just got a letter informing him it's going up to £700. No accidents,no claims and no points on his licence (he drives for living). Why, ffs?

He's looking at options obviously, but how can they do this ?

If you don't mind me asking......where does he live?

Farnworth.

Guessing the company he is with may have lost a fair bit of money in that particular area and are trying to recoup some of it by increasing premiums.

It's making it hard work trying to sell insurance, when companies keep increasing their prices.

Best thing to do is get online, try the comparison websites.

[CrazyHorse]

Vodafone broadband.
Reading this site today is just like having Norman Collier read it out to me.

[Gooner Girl]

Pissed off at being messed about with by work yet again. I'm begining to hate the place now. I need a new job.

[TANGODANCER]

My garden's afloat and the soft southerners are having tennis in the sunshine..

[Hoboh]

My garden's afloat and the soft southerners are having tennis in the sunshine..

Want a quote for drainage? or put another way, how much do you like your neighbours?

[TANGODANCER]

Binmen.

We play by the rules, put all the right items in the right re-cycle bins, paper, plastic, garden refuse and even all the general rubbish in plastic bags inside the main bin. Stack the bins tidyly in a row outside the house etc, and don't put them out till very last thing night before etc. Is it too much trouble to expect not to have to go and sort ours out from the neighbours where they've been flung back on the pavement any old how ?

Yesterday, the green garden refuse bin didn't get emptied. All the others did, I checked. No doubt it will be claimed to have been too heavy as it was left with the lid up. Not too heavy for me to take it from the back garden, through the side gate, down the path, through the front gate and up to the garden wall. All they have to do is wheel it across eight feet of pavemnet and the waggon does the rest. Can't wait to hear the excuses when I ring up on Monday. Space-wasters the lot of them.

[Burnden Paddock]

Binmen.

We play by the rules, put all the right items in the right re-cycle bins, paper, plastic, garden refuse and even all the general rubbish in plastic bags inside the main bin. Stack the bins tidyly in a row outside the house etc, and don't put them out till very last thing night before etc. Is it too much trouble to expect not to have to go and sort ours out from the neighbours where they've been flung back on the pavement any old how ?

Yesterday, the green garden refuse bin didn't get emptied. All the others did, I checked. No doubt it will be claimed to have been too heavy as it was left with the lid up. Not too heavy for me to take it from the back garden, through the side gate, down the path, through the front gate and up to the garden wall. All they have to do is wheel it across eight feet of pavemnet and the waggon does the rest. Can't wait to hear the excuses when I ring up on Monday. Space-wasters the lot of them.

It's when the wankers leave the bins right in the middle of the entrance to the drive that pisses me off no end.

[Dujon]

Tell your council to update their garbage policies, TANGO. Whilst we only have two bins to sort out at least the trucks that come to empty them don't need 'runners' to feed them; they just poke out an hydraulic arm, grab the bin and dump it into a receiving receptacle. Perhaps that might put a few jobs out of fashion but they, I'm sure, could be employed at the other end un-sorting the otherwise fine citizens' of Farnworth incorrectly placed items.

[bobo the clown]

Tell your council to update their garbage policies ....

TELL your council Dujon ?!?! You've been away from Britain some while haven't you.


Oh, & BP ..."when the wankers leave the bins right in the middle of the entrance to the drive that pisses me off ...". Oh yes. Ooooohhhh yesss !!

[Wandering Willy]

Yesterday, the green garden refuse bin didn't get emptied. All the others did, I checked. No doubt it will be claimed to have been too heavy as it was left with the lid up. Not too heavy for me to take it from the back garden, through the side gate, down the path, through the front gate and up to the garden wall. All they have to do is wheel it across eight feet of pavemnet and the waggon does the rest. Can't wait to hear the excuses when I ring up on Monday. Space-wasters the lot of them.

Leave your bin outside the mayor's house. Be emptied in no time.

[Bijou Bob]

Yesterday, the green garden refuse bin didn't get emptied. All the others did, I checked. No doubt it will be claimed to have been too heavy as it was left with the lid up. Not too heavy for me to take it from the back garden, through the side gate, down the path, through the front gate and up to the garden wall. All they have to do is wheel it across eight feet of pavemnet and the waggon does the rest. Can't wait to hear the excuses when I ring up on Monday. Space-wasters the lot of them.

Leave your bin outside the mayor's house. Be emptied in no time.

This might sound like sarcasm, but while I was working for Salford City not too many years ago, the Leader of the Council's route to work was swept by streetsweeper every day at 7am, just to ensure he stayed off the back of the Director of Environment. It's not what you know......

[TANGODANCER]

Bus drivers turn today. Public Services.

Caught the bus yesterday. Two schoolkids who had been waiting at the stop before I got on there decided to walk back to the stop below. Bus came and they started to run back tothe stop. I showed my pass and said, "Hang on a sec mate, there's a couple of kids running up". He saw my pass though the new "citizen control honestyometer gadget", let the kids get ten yards away then shut the doors and drove off despite my still standing beside him. Wouldn't look at my head-shaking " What a xxx you are" expression as I had to lurch towards a seat with the dog on a lead. Time-tables, you know, and all that. TXXT.

[boltonboris]

It's when the wankers leave the bins right in the middle of the entrance to the drive that pisses me off no end.

Me too.. Are they that feckin' stupid that they don't realise they're putting it in the way of your feckin' car? or are they just bastarding boneidle?

Somebody told me they get £28,000 a year before any overtime or benefits. If that's true, surely somebody with half a pissin' braincell would fancy earning that?

[bobo the clown]

It's when the wankers leave the bins right in the middle of the entrance to the drive that pisses me off no end.

Me too..

Are they that feckin' stupid that they don't realise they're putting it in the way of your feckin' car?

or

are they just bastarding bone idle?

No ..... and, No (well, maybe, yes ... but that isn't the reason for this).

They are, more simply, awkard cnuts who know full well it's a fckg nuisance and do it for precisely that reason.

[Harry Genshaw]

Speaking of bins - something that has really peed me off. The Local Authority I do a lot of work with used to offer what they termed a dual bin collection. Basically, If there were more than 6 in your household you could have two general waste bins. Now the 2nd bins are half the size with a red lid. They want £25 to give you this 2nd bin and take away the other. The bin men wont collect 2 general waste bins if 1 doesn't have the red lid.

I was dealing with a family today that have fostered 5 children from the same family. A couple of these kids have got major issues and until this couple came along all the siblings were scattered to the 4 winds. The council are refusing to provide an extra bin unless they cough up the £25. This couple have just saved the same authority several hundred pounds a week by taking these kids on

[Bruce Rioja]

Somebody told me they get £28,000 a year before any overtime or benefits. If that's true, surely somebody with half a pissin' braincell would fancy earning that?

You must be able to work as part of a team and on own initiative and maintain a good level of physical fitness.... £16,087 - £18,114 a year

[Harry Genshaw]

Somebody told me they get £28,000 a year before any overtime or benefits. If that's true, surely somebody with half a pissin' braincell would fancy earning that?

You must be able to work as part of a team and on own initiative and maintain a good level of physical fitness.... £16,087 - £18,114 a year

+ £300 bonus for every driveway they block

[Hoboh]

Tell your council to update their garbage policies, TANGO. Whilst we only have two bins to sort out at least the trucks that come to empty them don't need 'runners' to feed them; they just poke out an hydraulic arm, grab the bin and dump it into a receiving receptacle. Perhaps that might put a few jobs out of fashion but they, I'm sure, could be employed at the other end un-sorting the otherwise fine citizens' of Farnworth incorrectly placed items.

Nice idea but I doubt many cars would have side windows or car radios left in them