Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[Seeker]

Originally Posted by Craig380

It's at times like this I think of Seeker's Biggest Mudflap In The World.

World's Biggest Mudflap™ (patent pending)

[svenrico]

Originally Posted by Bibio

owning a home is an asset and assets are wealth.

its a known fact that if you live on your own you are put in a care home then the council (social work) sell your house to pay for the care. the care prices vary widely and an average is £1500 a week... yes you read right. in Scotland it all started when holyrood said they had found an extra few hundred million to pump into the NHS. what they actually done was turned the care into private sector.

the local councils now have to foot the bill for those that dont have any assets. this in turn is driving council tax up.

the other thing is is you do have a lot of assets that put you in a swanky care home at £3000 a week until the money runs out then transfer you to a shizz hole to rot away.

my advice is spend spend spend before you retire. if you have already retired then spend even more.

if your poor your feked........ and its off to the scumbox along side all the shizz a pizz residents.

I think you could be right, with inflation what will our money be worth in 5 years time anyway ?! On social care etc, my eldest sister died with dementia in a care home and left a share of her will to her younger sister who is now in a care home with the onset of dementia. Her inheritance will be taken to pay for her care fees, when they were being paid by the council because she had no assets. So I suppose she should be congratulated for saving the council money!

[svenrico]

Originally Posted by Craig380

Bloody awful SV 'mudguards.' Roads were wet for 10 miles out of my 90-odd mile ride today and the bike was plastered with crud afterwards.

It's at times like this I think of Seeker's Biggest Mudflap In The World.

Bloody sawn off mudguards ! They should provide a fuller mudguard as an option on bikes. These minimal front mudguards aren't even long enough when you fit a fender extender to them.

[Craig380]

Originally Posted by svenrico

Bloody sawn off mudguards ! They should provide a fuller mudguard as an option on bikes.

Either that, or an on-call valet service to wash the bike down for me when I get home ...

[Adam Ef]

Anyone know how to actually contact anyone that's not a chat loop robot on their site or and automated loop that hangs up on you after reading out the status of a parcel that hasn't moved for a week, that you can read yourself on their site anyway?

[Bibio]

Originally Posted by Adam Ef

Anyone know how to actually contact anyone that's not a chat loop robot on their site or and automated loop that hangs up on you after reading out the status of a parcel that hasn't moved for a week, that you can read yourself on their site anyway?

contact the seller....

or say other when asked or just dont do anything. this usually puts the system into default mode. if its a true no human system then your stuffed. if you say speak to a human on chat bods it usually transfers you to someone real.

good luck.

[Adam Ef]

Noth systems ask you for a parcel number. If you don't give the number it says they can't do anything without the number. If you do give it then it reads you the status that you can read yourself in the tracking page (that hasn't changed for a week). After it's read you the staus it aks if you want to check another parcel. No other option to take anything further with that parcel. If you say no, you don't want to check another then it says goodbye.


I've launched a dispute through Paypal as that's the only way I can actually send a message.. by adding a note in the dispute description. Absurd.

[embee]

Just been on the phone to the District Council. I received a letter regarding council tax discount fraud checks which I immediately assumed was a scam, but apparently it isn't, it's a central government initiative. Chatted to a couple of very helpful council folk.
The wording on the form is appalling. One question is a potential double negative which is tricky to work out what you are supposed to answer (I am no longer the sole adult over 18 living at the address - yes/no). There is a list of options for resident status which doesn't include "owner" (joint owner/tenant/partner - yes/no). There are missing words in sentences, commas where they shouldn't be. The whole thing is very intimidating and a mess.
Apparently the letter form came from above, the local council folk are feeding back that it's a mess. It's not rocket science, who are the numpties responsible for these things? Why don't they just show it to someone else and see what they think first, before sending it out?

[DJ123]

Originally Posted by embee

Just been on the phone to the District Council. I received a letter regarding council tax discount fraud checks which I immediately assumed was a scam, but apparently it isn't, it's a central government initiative. Chatted to a couple of very helpful council folk.
The wording on the form is appalling. One question is a potential double negative which is tricky to work out what you are supposed to answer (I am no longer the sole adult over 18 living at the address - yes/no). There is a list of options for resident status which doesn't include "owner" (joint owner/tenant/partner - yes/no). There are missing words in sentences, commas where they shouldn't be. The whole thing is very intimidating and a mess.
Apparently the letter form came from above, the local council folk are feeding back that it's a mess. It's not rocket science, who are the numpties responsible for these things? Why don't they just show it to someone else and see what they think first, before sending it out?

Because the MP who initiated it had a friend who could do it for 'the best price'.

[Bibio]

Originally Posted by embee

Just been on the phone to the District Council. I received a letter regarding council tax discount fraud checks which I immediately assumed was a scam, but apparently it isn't, it's a central government initiative. Chatted to a couple of very helpful council folk.
The wording on the form is appalling. One question is a potential double negative which is tricky to work out what you are supposed to answer (I am no longer the sole adult over 18 living at the address - yes/no). There is a list of options for resident status which doesn't include "owner" (joint owner/tenant/partner - yes/no). There are missing words in sentences, commas where they shouldn't be. The whole thing is very intimidating and a mess.
Apparently the letter form came from above, the local council folk are feeding back that it's a mess. It's not rocket science, who are the numpties responsible for these things? Why don't they just show it to someone else and see what they think first, before sending it out?

must be the same illiterate numpty who done one i filled in a while ago.