Seat68 Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 6 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Can I test if there are exceptions to the rule. I was in a traffic jam behind a bad accident a couple of weeks ago, one of those where after an hour people were wandering around stretching their legs and all that. Anyhoo, with the other side of the road still running so cars over there doing 70 or 80mph. I was quite close to one of those breaks in the barrier that was cones and after a while a few people ‘snapped’ the tall plastic bollards off their bases to make enough room to squeeze through and turn back the other way. So that’s what people were doing, from a standing start U turning in to the outside lane of on coming traffic. After a few near misses and screeches of brakes and beeping and my mental maths working out it was my windscreen that would be brain spattered, I phoned the police. My car has some sort of location gizmo so when they pick up the phone the emergency services already know where I am. It was all very exciting, they sent the helicopter out which came over some fields and straight to me, the helicopter observed a few cars doing it and then a police car arrived and just parked itself in the newly created gap. But I would drive to the front of a queue when it feels ‘legit’. Thats a good citizen, alerting them to idiots, merge in turn is the brexit of motoring, it splits families. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 1, 2023 Moderator Share Posted August 1, 2023 12 hours ago, Davkaus said: Another great feeling is flying down a bus lane outside of its hours of operation while everyone else sits in the other lane for absolutely no reason Even better in Liverpool, they did away with all the non-city centre bus lanes but the markings are still there, years later they still look like bus lanes and if you miss the single bus lanes not active signs.... My absolute favourite of these is the one leading to the airport. People in the outside lane doing 30 or below because the 40 repeaters are badly spaced, meanwhile those in the know shoot down at 40 on the inside lane with a big thick white line between the lanes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mozzavfc Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 Trying to move photos from an iPhone onto a Windows laptop, to backup on a Google cloud drive is so unnecessarily difficult. Takes about 10 seconds with an Android phone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 2, 2023 Moderator Share Posted August 2, 2023 47 minutes ago, Mozzavfc said: Trying to move photos from an iPhone onto a Windows laptop, to backup on a Google cloud drive is so unnecessarily difficult. Takes about 10 seconds with an Android phone But surely they are already backed up on iCloud? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 (edited) 8 hours ago, Mozzavfc said: Trying to move photos from an iPhone onto a Windows laptop, to backup on a Google cloud drive is so unnecessarily difficult. Takes about 10 seconds with an Android phone I use an app called simple transfer, it’s brilliant. You can transfer them in the albums you’ve created on your iphone too. 1) Open the app on your phone 2) Open a browser window on your laptop 3) Enter the web address 4) Boom, you can now see all the photos on your phone on your laptop. Select the folder and click download. It cost a couple of quid for the full version but it’s well worth it. P.s. Dont you have the google photos app on your phone? Mine backup to google as soon as the picture hits the photos app. Edited August 3, 2023 by Genie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted August 3, 2023 Moderator Share Posted August 3, 2023 8 hours ago, Mozzavfc said: Trying to move photos from an iPhone onto a Windows laptop, to backup on a Google cloud drive is so unnecessarily difficult. Takes about 10 seconds with an Android phone If you have the google photos app on your phone you don’t even need to move photos to a laptop then to google cloud. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 The mother in law, a nasty, selfish pain in the arse who does nothing for anyone. Putting the sob story on my wife because she can’t get her dog into kennels for a full week so she can’t go on holiday again. They have a caravan in Wales, and they’ve been abroad a few weeks ago. She’s playing the whole mental health thing (she’s on the verge of getting sacked). The dog is a horrible yappy Westie that once bit my lad and would almost certainly try and bite our dog at every possibility. To make it worse the sister in law once mentioned she couldn’t go away because she couldn’t get her dog in kennels and the moms reply was “welcome to dog ownership”. The wife thinks she’ll be a nightmare if she says no so it looks like it’s happening, over August Bank Holiday weekend The second something kicks off I’ll take the dog to her house and just let it out into her garden for a piss 3 times a day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 4, 2023 Moderator Share Posted August 4, 2023 Sorry, your dog was put down under the dangerous dogs act, hope you had a nice time 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 If it's previously bitten your kid, it's time to put your foot down, imo. I wonder just how hard she's looked for a kennel. Why does she need to go at the height of summer holidays, with such little notice? A lack of planning on her part shouldn't become an emergency for you to solve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 Maybe the kennel have room and just don"t want to take just that dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 11 minutes ago, Davkaus said: If it's previously bitten your kid, it's time to put your foot down, imo. I wonder just how hard she's looked for a kennel. Why does she need to go at the height of summer holidays, with such little notice? A lack of planning on her part shouldn't become an emergency for you to solve. She’s a pain, the (step) father in law isn’t interested in going away but he’s whipped like you wouldn’t believe. She’s got kennels booked for Monday to Friday but needs someone to look after the dog for the adjoining the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 25 minutes ago, Genie said: She’s a pain, the (step) father in law isn’t interested in going away but he’s whipped like you wouldn’t believe. She’s got kennels booked for Monday to Friday but needs someone to look after the dog for the adjoining the weekend. Are they gong to the caravan? If so, can't they take the mutt with them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post chrisp65 Posted August 4, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 4, 2023 I know someone that can torch the caravan. DM’s open. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Genie Posted August 4, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 4, 2023 (edited) 53 minutes ago, Xela said: Are they gong to the caravan? If so, can't they take the mutt with them? Nope, she’s gone all bratty and the caravan (which cost about £50k) isn’t doing it for her anymore. They went to Corfu in June and she wants to go to Cape Verde at the end of August / early September. They are not well off, I’ve no idea how they fund her lifestyle. Its a fast moving story and sounds like it’s all kicked off at casa in-laws. Father in law has apparently hit the roof, he considered the matter closed when the kennels couldn’t take the dog for the week. He was furious she’d asked her daughters and grandchildren to accommodate the snappy dog. I bet he’s making up the camp bed in the spare room as I type. Edited August 4, 2023 by Genie 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bickster Posted August 4, 2023 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted August 4, 2023 As you know, we move house at the end of March. We wrote to the old ares council to inform them that we had vacated the property and were no longer responsible for the council tax and gave them our new address. We wrote to the new area council and started paying council tax at the new property. Coincidentally this absolutely coincided with the end of the old council tax year and the beginning of the new. Perfect Yesterday we received a council tax “demand” for April. So today, a day I had booked off I spent the morning arguing the toss in the council office. Computer says no woman was dealing with me. I ended up telling her to inform the council to take me to court as I wasn’t paying it. “Well the court will just side with us anyway” ”Can I speak to your supervisor please” “Why?” “Because you appear to be handing out legal advice and I don’t think you're qualified, supervisor please” The look of horror was worth it anyway Next was the argument about her not believing me but preferring to believe the landlord. I asked her if she thought that was a sensible policy and asked her if she could point me in the direction of where is says that the council will automatically believe landlords over tenants. She actually told me the landlord informed them that we'd left at the end of April. I phone my old landlord who I still get on well with. He just outright called her a liar as he hasn’t even been asked the question in the first place. ”so in your trained legal opinion, do you think you're still going to win in court? Or are you going to get someone higher up for me to talk to?” A supervisor arrives and agrees to at least put their claim on hold until they can clarify the situation. What a waste of my day off 4 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted August 4, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted August 4, 2023 3 hours ago, chrisp65 said: I know someone that can torch the caravan. You're not doing the reputation of the Welsh any good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 2 hours ago, Genie said: I bet he’s making up the camp bed in the spare room as I type. He can move into the caravan. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 3 minutes ago, sidcow said: You're not doing the reputation of the Welsh any good. I’m amazed we’re all (all, UK) so placid these days. 1970’s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted August 4, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted August 4, 2023 1 minute ago, chrisp65 said: I’m amazed we’re all (all, UK) so placid these days. 1970’s I assume you've got that bookmarked with such a quick response Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 4, 2023 Moderator Share Posted August 4, 2023 14 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: I’m amazed we’re all (all, UK) so placid these days. 1970’s Very casual imo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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