What pisses you off..? ;o)

[rick a.]

Another year with no NMA gigs in the states. I'm going to have to come over the pond to see a gig or two.

[Master Ray]

Another year with no NMA gigs in the states. I'm going to have to come over the pond to see a gig or two.

Nottingham 2017 is calling you...   

[Pol]

The click and collect service. Seems a good idea until you try and pick your item. Lets see your driving license they ask ( I don't drive n never have) Oh a passport then ( oh wait I don't have one of those those either. So after showing them various forms of I.D including photo I.D I still have to go on the phone and answer various question before I can get my item. Then once you get home one of bottles is broken, doubly crap as it contains 72mg liquid nicotine and its not really the stuff you want on your skin and your kitchen worktop. You phone dpd and after over 10 mins on hold you give up without getting to speak to someone. Merry fckin crimbo indeed

[Wessexy Witch]

Not good Pol.

 

[Shush]

Thats the modern world for you Pol. You need laminated pieces of paper to prove you exist. Not good.

[Bunny]

I guess Pol its the xmas shutdown. I found it interesting no passport...I know you dont drive. Just got me thinking that should I need it, the little book I use once a year is there. I guess its taken for granted that everyone has one. If you dont and dont drive, how on earth do you "prove" who you are and why should a bit of paper/card represent you??
Im probably going too deep. But then pear cider helps 

[Pol]

Think the post office have it right. Show a form of paper ID or even a bank card and there happy. The experience has put me off using the click and collect service ever again.

[Pol]

Got to be this

The Investigatory Powers Act (aka Snoopers' Charter) puts the capabilities revealed by Edward Snowden into the statute books and increases the state's surveillance powers. The act includes the collection of ‘bulk personal data sets’ -- databases of personal information including everything from the electoral register to our medical records to our supermarket loyalty schemes. Even worse, it also collects so-called ‘Internet Connection Records’ -- a record of every single website you have visited in the last 12 months.

Surely we can't let the bastards get away with this, definitely a step too far. What next cameras in our homes, gprs implants. Big brother just got a whole lot bigger

[Master Ray]

Jeez, that's bad.  I suppose privacy should go on the RIP thread...

[Pol]

Another political rant
So May n her fascists are determined to get a  "hard brexit" no single market, no more shared boarders, maybe most worrying no European court of human rights.
Yes I accept we voted leave but shouldn't there be a general election first with all the parties putting forward there vision first. Ok with the state of the labour party and the others the tories would probably still win .
So 8 people have more than 50% of the total wealth

[Master Ray]

OK, I do like my job and the people I work with, but I've got an almost insurmountable workload right now, I'm proper flat out all day long and feel like I'm getting nowhere... a friend, higher up on the 'food chain', leaked to me their schedule and how the work should be divided up in view of the forthcoming restructure... it seems like what I'm doing amounts to TWO full time jobs and possibly a part time job on top... 

You can't complain when you're on an ongoing temp contract, but I do feel like they're taking the piss somewhat, especially as I'm on what most folks would describe as 'less than fantastic money'...

[purplehaze]

Some  thieving scum robbing the oil, actually draining 500 litres of oil from our out side tank for heating leaving none at all when we only had it half filled last Saturday,now we have no heating and no money to replace the stolen oil 300 quid it cost

[Pol]

Definitely not the time of year year for no heating. They must have had specialized equipment to take that amount. Sounds like they are very organised and its not the first or last time they have done it.
I know this doesn't help the here n now but maybe fit movement sensitive security lights n a cctv camera in future . Maybe your insurance can cover it , though I appreciate they take while to pay out if they don't find a loophole to worm there way out

[Master Ray]

Right now, a malfunctioning smoke alarm.  It's been up there for over a decade with barely a peep.  Now it lets out a single squeaky bleep every 30 seconds or so.  Not terribly loud, but annoying.  It's connected up to the mains, so it's ain't the battery dying (which also means I can't rip the bloody thing off of the ceiling and stamp on it).  The 'turn off' button doesn't work. And even if I could 'slide and open' the casing (which seems to be stuck), as the words on the alarm indicate I should do, I wouldn't have the slightest clue as what to do with what I found inside, seeing as 'removing the battery' isn't an option...

Bleep, bleep, bleep... 

[Pol]

You should still be able to change the battery if you can get it open, if not it should be connected to the ceiling via a kinda 3 pin plug, pull it hard (lol) n it should come off.
A couple of items caught my attention in the news, firstly the (d)ss declared a guy a guy fit for work who had no legs saying he could use his arms . Secondly the boss of capita (arsewipes who collect tv licence fee amongst other things) gets 2.8m a year and capita are doing such a bad job ( taking dead people to court for example) that even the kiddie fiddlers at the beeb are saying there out of order. If the capita tv licence enforcers meet there targets they get a annual bonus of 18k
Plenty of good youtube videos on how to deal with tv licence scum . Time to scramble the signal n only those who want the bbc can pay, worth remembering Netflix is cheaper.
Burn the castle  !