The official let off steam thread

[mr wilks]

Sunny Bank holiday Saturday having to take someone to Manchester airport at midday :x i only agreed when asked months ago as no idea it was a bank holiday

Bank holiday Sunday christenings i feel obliged to go to when i didn't even have my own 2 christened :x
More wasted hours i will never get back !

Business pal who continually says " leave it with me dude , i'ts sorted " then fahoooook all happen's :x

Mystery scratches that appear on my car when it hasn't even moved for a week :x

Combination microwaves for being so foookin complicated

Sounds like it's time you went for a drive Andy - f**k 'em all

Straight back from airport i'm off in the Z trial running a drive with a few Zedders next month

 

[Simo]

U

 

[Jasey]

Currently, the weather. Get the car out to wash it, sun comes out and simultaneously it starts pissing down. What's that all about ? Bollocks :x

On the upside it must be like being back in Scotland for you

 

[stevo///m3]

While I'm at it. I pull up behind a guy in a car at the petrol station. I get out to fill. He stays in the car. I finish go in and pay and he's still in his car. Didn't look like he was on the phone or talking. He gets out as I walk past back to my car and starts to fill up. I think fine. I'll reverse out and there a P.O.S car right up my arse with no one in the car! I wait,wait,wait. Car Infront has finished paid back in his car and spends what feels like an eternity probably picking what bloody enya album he wanted on out of his hand bag!

Chill fella! Grab a beer, watch the footy, just make sure you're supporting Madrid and you'll be a winner!
Stevo

 

[Simo]

O

 

[SpiketheBike]

While I'm at it. I pull up behind a guy in a car at the petrol station. I get out to fill. He stays in the car. I finish go in and pay and he's still in his car. Didn't look like he was on the phone or talking. He gets out as I walk past back to my car and starts to fill up. I think fine. I'll reverse out and there a P.O.S car right up my arse with no one in the car! I wait,wait,wait. Car Infront has finished paid back in his car and spends what feels like an eternity probably picking what bloody enya album he wanted on out of his hand bag!

Many years ago on holiday in Menorca, we were staying on a little side road. One morning a van pulls up to unload, blocking said Road . One by one cars pulled up behind. Drivers turned engines off. Got out and chatted, had a fag, stretched yada yada. That's the way we should be here.....


Yeah... Right... ROFLMAO

 

[Ewazix]

AS a first time tax self assessment user I knew it was going to be tricky! but it's 8loody painful
First I register for on line SA and wait several days for a UTR.
Then I set up the account for User ID and password and wait several days for an activation code.
Then I activate the account only to find the used ID /password wouldn't work and the account got locked out.
I call helpdesk, advised to reset password but have to wait 2 hrs to use the system
I reset password (part by email)
Then I have to set up full online services with an access code sent to my mobile after a wait.
Finally I start the Self Assessment form, half hour in the system crashes and will not let me back in.
I call helpdesk, they say it's a tech problem and it's escalated, they will call back (yea).
No call so I set up 2nd password, it didnt work.
Try again later now it does.
But every time you log in the system has to send you a new access code to mobile
System boshes again so I have to set up 3rd password,
Log in again so need a new access code to mobile.
Hey now it works works and form is continued.
Parts of the online form have no explanatory notes so I have no real idea what is being asked for, so two more calls have to be made for assistance, in between the system times me out so need new access code to mobile!
Role on several hrs - I finish the form but think the calculation is clearly wrong, it's trying to charge me tax that's already being recovered by slashing my PAYE tax code so I'm being fleeced twice for the same tax.
I call the helpdesk who confirm that it appears i am already paying unpaid tax through tax code because they jumped the gun in Oct/Nov, but now I must submit the return and pay the tax (twice) they will sort out double payment of tax in due course. great! They ask me to submit and call back in 72 hrs when they will be able to confirm that's the case.
I log back in, so need new access code to mobile, and submit, and look forward to the next chapter.........
I'm totally mentally drained! To be fair the staff were great and gave me info I needed, easy because they had it all on screen! ....... so why TF am I filling out a form to tell them what they already knew?
Rant over nline2long:

Twelve months have past and I still twitch when I think of last time, I can't put it off any longer ....... it's self assessment time again!

Criminally inefficient, one-sided bolx :soapbox:

 

[Anonymous]

Ok, went to B&Q tonight, walked through the main doors..............................Oh for fooks sake, Christmas decorations for sale already. It gets earlier each year! By the time Christmas comes I've lost all my spirit as it is coming out of both ears. At this rate Easter eggs will be on the shelves by the end of next week!!! Baa Humbug!

Just asked a manager @ B&Q, Easter bits and bunnies on the way,

 

[Anonymous]

Is it just me, I have just seen that Pauline McC has been moved down to London AGAIN. She was flown down by the RAF, given large police escort at both ends of the journey WTF!!
I know she has this sh***y disease but she should have stayed in Sierra Leone, she's a walking time bomb
How much is all this costing and why can't she be treated in Scotland.

Because YE English moved the treatment centres to ENGLAND

 

[extrablatt]

why TF am I filling out a form to tell them what they already knew?

Because now when they discover it's wrong it will be your fault and you will get another bill.

The worst part is when you receive the dreaded brown envelope from HMRC. You'd have thought the switch to Real Time Information (RTI) would have helped them know your tax code and fix underpayments straight away. Yet no, I still receive periodic notices that my employer got the tax code wrong and wasn't properly taxed on employment benefits from my P11D. And then it all goes pear-shaped again the following tax year just when you thought they were up to date

Somehow I suspect overpayments through PAYE still happen but then I can't be asked to deal with the delightful SA process...

 

[Geezah]

Some arsehole dog owner has allowed their dog to crap right outside the pavement door to my daughters flat. The ignorance, arrogance and selfishness is truly astonishing.

We don't own dogs because we don't want to deal with their shite. This dog owner clearly should be have been smothered at birth.

I have been branded an animal hater in the past when this happened before. The connection is.........?

 

[greg1953]

Cycleways....is there a bigger waste of money than building cycleways alongside roads ? we have loads around here and do cyclists use them ? do they hell, they ride amongst the traffic risking being maimed by big trucks & careless drivers completely ignoring a perfectly good cycleway.
Not really a rant but more of a puzzlement.
Greg

 

[Number5]

Cycleways....is there a bigger waste of money than building cycleways alongside roads ? we have loads around here and do cyclists use them ? do they hell, they ride amongst the traffic risking being maimed by big trucks & careless drivers completely ignoring a perfectly good cycleway.
Not really a rant but more of a puzzlement.
Greg

I couldnt agree more. I pass them every morning cycling through roadworks when there is a perfectly good cycle path running parrallel to the road which they cant be bothered to get on. But.. make sure you give them 2m clearance and total respect.

I wonder what they would say if a pedestrian walked up the road in their way rather than use the pavement ? :wkr:

 

[Anonymous]

People who say 'my bad'... Sorry? Your bad what? What are you 14? Do you wear a baseball cap backwards?

No? Speak English then dickhead!

+1

+1 and many more I suspect,

 

[raymond.harper]

Some arsehole dog owner has allowed their dog to crap right outside the pavement door to my daughters flat. The ignorance, arrogance and selfishness is truly astonishing.

We don't own dogs because we don't want to deal with their shite. This dog owner clearly should be have been smothered at birth.

I have been branded an animal hater in the past when this happened before. The connection is.........?

Get a small camera set up. Film the fouler and then post on the local Facebook. Just about every town has a local facebook page full of well let's say a normal slice of life .

 

[Ewazix]

why TF am I filling out a form to tell them what they already knew?

Because now when they discover it's wrong it will be your fault and you will get another bill.

The worst part is when you receive the dreaded brown envelope from HMRC. You'd have thought the switch to Real Time Information (RTI) would have helped them know your tax code and fix underpayments straight away. Yet no, I still receive periodic notices that my employer got the tax code wrong and wasn't properly taxed on employment benefits from my P11D. And then it all goes pear-shaped again the following tax year just when you thought they were up to date

Somehow I suspect overpayments through PAYE still happen but then I can't be asked to deal with the delightful SA process...

You're right....... I think! :trampoline:

I've just finished the dreaded self assessment thing (only two system crashes and one help-line call required- I was more organised this year) and it's telling me I'm owed nearly £1k having been done up the PAYE channel so to speak. But why do I suspect it's a cruel joke, tax rebates don't happen to me :|

 

[firebobby]

Is it just me, I have just seen that Pauline McC has been moved down to London AGAIN. She was flown down by the RAF, given large police escort at both ends of the journey WTF!!
I know she has this sh***y disease but she should have stayed in Sierra Leone, she's a walking time bomb
How much is all this costing and why can't she be treated in Scotland.

Because YE English moved the treatment centres to ENGLAND

Like I said, she should have been left in Sierra Leone, no one made her go there
The Scots could have stuck her on some remote island

 

[Anonymous]

Is it just me, I have just seen that Pauline McC has been moved down to London AGAIN. She was flown down by the RAF, given large police escort at both ends of the journey WTF!!
I know she has this sh***y disease but she should have stayed in Sierra Leone, she's a walking time bomb
How much is all this costing and why can't she be treated in Scotland.

Because YE English moved the treatment centres to ENGLAND

Like I said, she should have been left in Sierra Leone, no one made her go there
The Scots could have stuck her on some remote island

Ah the joys of helping other people FOR FREE,
English Syndrome = bring it down to your level til you feel better

 

[firebobby]

Because YE English moved the treatment centres to ENGLAND

Like I said, she should have been left in Sierra Leone, no one made her go there
The Scots could have stuck her on some remote island

Ah the joys of helping other people FOR FREE,
English Syndrome = bring it down to your level til you feel better

Bloody right

 

[Anonymous]

Like I said, she should have been left in Sierra Leone, no one made her go there
The Scots could have stuck her on some remote island

Ah the joys of helping other people FOR FREE,
English Syndrome = bring it down to your level til you feel better

Bloody right

Just what I thought