El Zen Posted August 1, 2021 Share Posted August 1, 2021 9 hours ago, KentVillan said: Horses I know. The sexy bastards. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted August 1, 2021 Moderator Share Posted August 1, 2021 On 30/07/2021 at 17:56, Xela said: Yeah i'd never buy leasehold again. I mean, I understand why they have it for flats, but for houses, thats just purely for greed. My house (126 yrs old) is leasehold. £1.26 a year. The cost has never changed in that 126 years. The problem is a modern one. I think as well that there’s a right to buy the lease if all ressies of a block want to. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted August 1, 2021 Share Posted August 1, 2021 31 minutes ago, blandy said: My house (126 yrs old) is leasehold. £1.26 a year. The cost has never changed in that 126 years. The problem is a modern one. I think as well that there’s a right to buy the lease if all ressies of a block want to. Yep, we ‘nearly’ bought a leasehold as our first house. It was 100 years old, had 899 years left on the lease, and was some similar amount of money like £1.08 or some such which I think equated to a guinea in old money. The problem is successive governments rejecting their basic function being to shelter the people they represent, and instead, passing that basic responsibility over to privateers who’s legal duty is to make profit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted August 1, 2021 Share Posted August 1, 2021 Trying to watch the Olympics, sky sports news and last nights UFC whilst keeping up with VT, frikin impossible, F1 soon too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted August 1, 2021 Share Posted August 1, 2021 23 hours ago, trekka said: Amazon and the amount of packaging it uses. I ordered a few bits yesterday. One item turned up with the postie, another item just turned up via Hermes, and the other 2 items are due by the Amazon driver later on today. I had 3 parcels from them delivered by 3 different people on the same day last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted August 1, 2021 Share Posted August 1, 2021 3 minutes ago, Genie said: I had 3 parcels from them delivered by 3 different people on the same day last week. I've had this, ridiculous. I have couple of pals with their own businesses and its a well known fact that amazon's ridiculous use of cardboard and their buying power makes it difficult for other companies to any get. Tip... had this twice now, if you bought a low cost item that you want to return, stop the process as fast as poss, had a notification quickly to say keep the item and you're purchase has been refunded. No big deal but feels nice to get one over on da man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted August 1, 2021 Share Posted August 1, 2021 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Phil Silvers said: I've had this, ridiculous. I have couple of pals with their own businesses and its a well known fact that amazon's ridiculous use of cardboard and their buying power makes it difficult for other companies to any get. Tip... had this twice now, if you bought a low cost item that you want to return, stop the process as fast as poss, had a notification quickly to say keep the item and you're purchase has been refunded. No big deal but feels nice to get one over on da man. I’ve found if you go on the live chat and tell them an item is faulty they often refund it and don’t bother asking for it back. Also, if you buy something from Amazon warehouse and then go on live chat to tell them it’s not quite as described they’ll throw another 10-30% discount at you to keep it. I bought a “used - like new” laptop but it was missing the manual in the box. I got an extra £80 discount when I messaged them about it. Edited August 1, 2021 by Genie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted August 1, 2021 Share Posted August 1, 2021 5 minutes ago, Genie said: I’ve found if you go on the live chat and tell them an item is faulty they often refund it and don’t bother asking for it back. Also, if you buy something from Amazon warehouse and then go on live chat to tell them it’s not quite as described they’ll throw another 10-30% discount at you to keep it. I bought a “used - like new” laptop but it was missing the manual in the box. I got an extra £80 discount when I messaged them about it. Damn no likes left. That's great, thanks for the tip. I bought an expensive screen cover for my old S9+ once and it was a nightmare to fit and I ended up with it being unusable,.was gutted £30. I boxed it up carefully and return/refund went through, felt a little guilt but reminded myself how the uber rich have almost almost all the money in the world and slept like a baby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 1, 2021 Moderator Share Posted August 1, 2021 Yorkshire Day... get to fook 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted August 2, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted August 2, 2021 On 31/07/2021 at 12:37, trekka said: Amazon and the amount of packaging it uses. I ordered a few bits yesterday. One item turned up with the postie, another item just turned up via Hermes, and the other 2 items are due by the Amazon driver later on today. Not defending them but I'm fairly certain there's an option to have all your items included in one delivery, therefore less packaging, if you don't mind it taking longer. Otherwise they send them out as and when they're ready hence why it comes in individual shipments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 1 hour ago, Stevo985 said: Not defending them but I'm fairly certain there's an option to have all your items included in one delivery, therefore less packaging, if you don't mind it taking longer. Otherwise they send them out as and when they're ready hence why it comes in individual shipments I think that’s only if you order them at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 When you book a ticket for a gig and receive ticket and information about the event, only for the cancellation email to be in your 'other' folder and you waste your evening going to an event that isn't happening. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 2, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted August 2, 2021 8 hours ago, Stevo985 said: Not defending them but I'm fairly certain there's an option to have all your items included in one delivery, therefore less packaging, if you don't mind it taking longer. Otherwise they send them out as and when they're ready hence why it comes in individual shipments I always choose that option, but they just ignore it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ismail-villa Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 On 31/07/2021 at 12:37, trekka said: Amazon and the amount of packaging it uses. I ordered a few bits yesterday. One item turned up with the postie, another item just turned up via Hermes, and the other 2 items are due by the Amazon driver later on today. So many times when I've ordered something that's tiny, yet comes in a massive box with all the paper inside it too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 (edited) Summer colds . Feel like cutting my nose off. Edited August 3, 2021 by Rugeley Villa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 2 hours ago, Rugeley Villa said: Summer colds . Feel like cutting my nose off. eat more garlic and turmeric, and chilli. You'll never get a cold then. easier just to have a curry every night really 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 People who slag off musicians or bands because it's "edgy". Nickelback are releasing a new album. It was reported on FB by Kerrang, Planet Rock and Absolute Classic Rock. All three pages had hundreds of replies saying the same boring shit (e.g oh no please dont, or haven't we had enough with COVID etc etc) Utter spunktrumpets. If you hate a band, why bother reading and commenting about them? I can't stand Def Leppard but I don't go in threads about them to tell everyone how wank I think they are. BTW I don't own a single album by Nickelback, but don't think they're as bad as the internet sheep try to have you believe. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted August 3, 2021 Moderator Share Posted August 3, 2021 20 minutes ago, rjw63 said: If you hate a band, why bother reading and commenting about them? I can't stand Def Leppard but I don't go in threads about them to tell everyone how wank I think they are. Yes you do. You just did 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 2 hours ago, rjw63 said: eat more garlic and turmeric, and chilli. You'll never get a cold then. easier just to have a curry every night really I like a curry as much as the next man, but once a week is pushing it . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted August 3, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted August 3, 2021 8 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said: I like a curry as much as the next man, but once a week is pushing it . If you have enough curries in a week, you don't have to push it. It'll just come flying out. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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