Room 101

[Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,219]

1 hour ago, En Passant said:

 

Like, say, Judith Chalmers?

Same as it ever was in some ways.

 

Being of a similar vintage I do actually agree with you though. But, since I refuse to watch any TV news at all finding the whole thing too dumbed down, laborious, populist and indeed vox-pop'd I'm less exposed to that variation than many.

Judith Chalmers used to give me the horn.

[An Fear Beag 1,535]

I'm with you on Vox Pops - can't stand them. I don't watch much TV, but listen to a lot of current affairs on radio, and if there is one thing guaranteed to get me to turn off, its the words "we sent a reporter out onto the street to ask the public what they thought of ......"

Fuck that shite - if I want to know what some ignorant gobshite on the street has to say about something, I'll open up my window and ask him/her. I listen to your program to hear people with some sort of expertise on a subject - you know,  to try and learn a bit about what the fuck is happening. Not to hear the rantings of someone with nothing better to do with their lives than to stop on the street and talk to reporters. 

[En Passant 3,743]

12 minutes ago, Toast said:

 

I don't watch it either, but this sort of thing is plastered all over the BBC News site every day, masquerading as news items.

 

Oh the website is as bad, but you can at least skip most of it much more rapidly and focus on the occasional informative one, some of the 'long read' items are well done (when they don't fanny about with the HTML trying to make it look like a fancy slide show).

The Guardian is a bit better overall but as ever has its own unavoidable agenda, I have nothing against minority groups of any creed, sex or colour but boy does the graun bang on about them as if there were no others on this isle.

Everything else is behind a paywall or junk or both. Meh.

 

Ultimately, sure, 'influencers' are mostly a bunch of fame seeking self-opinionated ass-hats, but at least anyone can be one rather than just those from the bbc/journalistic backgrounds of old. Says more about the followers really and I don't think that's changed much to be honest.

[TQR 14,408]

Every single car insurer in the world, and all the renewal quotes they can shove up their balloon knots with considerable vigour.

 

Last year’s premium: £1,220. The quote I get for this year? £1,823. Then after an excruciating wait and eventual conversation with a charming but very, very Welsh man it’s back down to £994.

 

Dicks.

[En Passant 3,743]

Most of getting older sucks the big one. Car insurance however....

 

I feel your pain, my renewal the bastards put it up by 25 quid and couldn't be talked down to match the confused or meerkat or w/e it was sites.

£185 comprehensive, protected no claims, some legal cover thrown in and a windscreen doodad.

Thinking of getting a Ferrari, how much more could it be? 

 

In seriousness, never, ever renew anything these days, loyalty went out the window, yes its a pain to change energy supplier, house insurance, car insurance etc etc every feckin year, but you snooze, you lose and they know it.

In no seriousness whatsoever, dump the posh leased Audi was it? And get out of Essex. You're being undercharged for that place .

 

 

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3 minutes ago, En Passant said:

I feel your pain...

£185 comprehensive, protected no claims, some legal cover thrown in and a windscreen doodad.

You cunt! 

 

There’s no dumping the RS3 and certainly no dumping Essex; the extra costs are worth not being surrounded by people with funny accents tearing me to shreds simply for being ‘from Essex’. Domestic racism innit 

[En Passant 3,743]

8 minutes ago, The Quim Reaper said:

You cunt! 

 

HTH.

 

9 minutes ago, The Quim Reaper said:

RS3

 

Any sympathy I may have had. Lost.

Nice car, excelllent acceleration, fun to drive, had some Audi's and BM's myself.

Trouble is, if it's not speed camera's or cops, then it's some old fart in a Nissan Micra, you get past that and 100 yards farther on, there's another one, ad-infinitum. It takes the fun away.

Drive maybe somewhere in Scotland (there's one or two of them around here) and maybe, but Essex? Or most of England? You simply cannot use it.

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9 minutes ago, En Passant said:

Nice car, excelllent acceleration, fun to drive, had some Audi's and BM's myself.

Trouble is, if it's not speed camera's or cops, then it's some old fart in a Nissan Micra, you get past that and 100 yards farther on, there's another one, ad-infinitum. It takes the fun away.

Drive maybe somewhere in Scotland (there's one or two of them around here) and maybe, but Essex? Or most of England? You simply cannot use it.

Cheers, I love it, it’s a gentleman psychopath. Fucking true though, all you get here is the occasional traffic light Grand Prix when old Bill aren’t about...

 

The New Forest has some nice roads, ditto Northumberland...trouble is, I picked this fucking thing up 2 months before lockdown 1 so I’ve been driving about with blue balls for a year 

[En Passant 3,743]

2 minutes ago, The Quim Reaper said:

Cheers, I love it, it’s a gentleman psychopath. Fucking true though, all you get here is the occasional traffic light Grand Prix when old Bill aren’t about...

 

And therein lies the (your, used to be mine) problem. You are paying whatever (depreciation, or 4/500 quid a month lease, whatever), for a quick blast a few times a month. Do the sums, that's some fackin expensive 5.5 sec (or w/e) giggles right there. I'm not knocking it, I still look at 0-60 every single time I buy a car, but I've been there, I can't use it, or if I did the way I wanted I'd be locked up, probably with good reason.

 

If, and only if, it makes you smile anyway? Sure. But know why you're doing it. 

 

12 minutes ago, The Quim Reaper said:

The New Forest has some nice roads, ditto Northumberland...trouble is, I picked this fucking thing up 2 months before lockdown 1 so I’ve been driving about with blue balls for a year 

 

This too, but when you start driving 'to' places, just to use the car.....not using it as transport from A to B with intrinsic fun? Well, see above.

 

I was 25 once. Really not having a go. But it's costly.

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9 minutes ago, En Passant said:

5.5 sec

I beg your fucking pardon?! 

 

 

Fully aware stats are dull but as you point out I’m paying for them so they’re getting milked  It does still make me smile. The energetic warble of the TNT under the bonnet woos me every time I have a moment of common sense.

 

Pre-Covid I went to Brands Hatch quite regularly on their run-what-you-brung free-for-all days. Still waiting to go with this but the few times I have stretched its legs tell me that first one is gonna be a good day.

[En Passant 3,743]

22 minutes ago, En Passant said:

(or w/e)

 

so 5.5 or 1.5. Or indeed 3.7. 

 

The prosecution rests. (the prosecution has been there and done that and got the certificate). 

I've not said anywhere it was wrong. Just know why you are doing it.

Put it another way, how many more seconds do you have to slog away at a job that if you don't actively hate it, you probably don't much like it, to save a few sec in a car (only it isn't really, because no matter how fast you get to 60, you still got to slow down for the micra)?

 

That was ultimately the sums for me, but as admitted, I'm no longer 25, nor do I disparage you for being so and wanting and doing exactly the same as I did.

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Oh yeah, I know all this, but...nope, I’ve got nothing, not until behind the wheel at least. As you’ll know though, it does tend to make even the shittier journeys slightly less of a chore. Some make the sacrifice, some don’t. There’s no right and wrong, as you say. Unless you have an expensive shit car. Someone at work spent £26k on a Nissan Joke, sorry, Juke. They should have their license revoked and their laptop seized.
 

Just wish that insurers didn’t try taking us all (increasingly, the younger you are) for cunts. Insurance shopping is so fucking demoralising.

[En Passant 3,743]

8 minutes ago, The Quim Reaper said:

Someone at work spent £26k on a Nissan Joke, sorry, Juke. They should have their license revoked and their laptop seized.

 

You were right the first time.

Absolutely nobody, ever, who bought a Juke (or that other one, a cashcow, sorry kashkai, no, wait quashquai? oh fs however you spell it) has a vague notion of how to drive.

Worse, these are the perennial middle lane sitters that turn a three lane road into an effective two lane one.

Or even (I swear this is true) sit in lane 3 on an empty 4 lane motorway.....

As ever we agree more than disagree Mrs Weaver.

 

9 minutes ago, The Quim Reaper said:

Just wish that insurers didn’t try taking us all (increasingly, the younger you are) for cunts. Insurance shopping is so fucking demoralising.

 

There is, sort of, a reason though.

[Windsor 2,233]

My upstairs neighbour has decided to host an illegal party/gathering on a Monday night in the room directly above this grumpy fuckers bedroom.

 

If it’s not over by midnight this could be an expensive night for her and her guests...

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8 minutes ago, Windsor said:

My upstairs neighbour has decided to host an illegal party/gathering on a Monday night in the room directly above this grumpy fuckers bedroom.

 

If it’s not over by midnight this could be an expensive night for her and her guests...

Don’t wait! They’re Covidiots, they’re cunts. Report.

[Dying Probably 579]

19 minutes ago, Windsor said:

My upstairs neighbour has decided to host an illegal party/gathering on a Monday night in the room directly above this grumpy fuckers bedroom.

 

If it’s not over by midnight this could be an expensive night for her and her guests...

 

Do it now. Fuck 'em.

[Boudicca 702]

You aren't too far from me by Highlands measures surely. Did you grass them? I'd have did it based on music choices tbh.

 

I was absolutely delighted that my da buying the Daily Mail became an actual crime at one point and himself getting a police escort home multiple times. If only this was law forever.

[Windsor 2,233]

21 hours ago, Boudicca said:

You aren't too far from me by Highlands measures surely. Did you grass them? I'd have did it based on music choices tbh.

 

 

I didn't grass them. This time...

I just slammed my bedroom door really really loud to let them know I was furious. Which seems to have worked as things died down fairly quickly after that.

 

Clearly I'm a scary Mo-Fo.

 

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People in a group chat you’re not all that invested in posting a thumbs up emoji after every single other post.

 

Thanks, what a notification that makes for, you dimwitted arsehole.

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,689]

Henry Hoovers. They may suck harder than Gillian Taylforth on the A1, but they handle about as well a Dalek going up a ladder. I don't like its cheery grinning face either, so I removed it.

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50 minutes ago, harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy said:

Henry Hoovers. They may suck harder than Gillian Taylforth on the A1, but they handle about as well a Dalek going up a ladder. I don't like its cheery grinning face either, so I removed it.

<pedant mode> Henry & Hoover are 2 different brands </pedant mode>

 

Get a Miele, much better than either (and only twice the price).

[Bentrovato 1,089]

5 minutes ago, time said:

<pedant mode> Henry & Hoover are 2 different brands </pedant mode>

 

Get a Miele, much better than either (and only twice the price).

Nilfisk Rainbow D2 vacuum cleaner beats them all.  

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,689]

6 minutes ago, time said:

<pedant mode> Henry & Hoover are 2 different brands </pedant mode>

 

Get a Miele, much better than either (and only twice the price).

Ah yes, I was meaning hoover in the generic vacuum cleaner way, but forgot to uncap it. I’m never buying another vacuum cleaner again so the point is somewhat moot. 

[Toast 16,155]

8 minutes ago, time said:

Get a Miele, much better than either (and only twice the price).

 

Last for ever, though.  My upstairs, er, vacuum cleaner is a Miele that I inherited over 20 years ago, and I am pretty sure the previous owner bought it second-hand.

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7 minutes ago, Bentrovato said:

Nilfisk Rainbow D2 vacuum cleaner beats them all.  

Can't say I've ever used one. I ordered one of these for work a few years ago, purely because I like anagrams.