Random Rants
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We had one of those yesterday. Every time I hear an American make a disparaging comment about an English fried breakfast I am now going to laugh in their face
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I told you back in December that I thought the "Full English" breakfast was magnificent.
(Not as magnificent as a good cheesesteak, though…)
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ISFS.
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I have to consume extra here to make up for the ubiquitous weak beer that in my country would be considered as Shandy.
Coming from a country that labels 5% beer as "strong ale" - piss off will ya!..
#Team Belgium
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Day = AAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGHHH
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Day = AAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGHHH
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It's POETS day though… so there is that.
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Bought a new dresser the other day, the store delivered it same day. Opened it up only to find out that it had a big ding in the top of it. It's pretty big, weighs about 175-200 pounds. I paid for two moving guys because there was more furniture we bought as well, but two delivery guys made it look easy.
Called the store, they said they would come replace it yesterday evening and cover delivery. Well now that it's on their dime they thought one guy was enough, because it was cheaper that way. So I ended up helping the poor guy move the damaged one down 3 flights of stairs and the new one back up the stairs. Moving heavy furniture wasn't something I planned on doing after all day at work, but I wasn't about to let the guy try to do it himself. This guy was also like twice my age (but he knew what he was doing). If it had just been my girlfriend here she couldn't have helped him and the guy would've been completely screwed and probably would've damaged the furniture even more.
Going to call the store today and give them a piece of my mind because that's just wrong. -
had a whinge at work to a colleague from the uk and i'll have a whinge here as well.
london's congestion charge system is a joke. you have to go online or call up to pay for the charge in advance or on the day itself. what if you, by some unforeseen reason, wouldn't know if you were going to get into the area, or turn down a wrong one way road with no chances of going back? why isn't there a much simpler electronic system that just deducts the money from your account or by some means of a stored credit from the vehicle, be it personal or business account?
having had a hire car in melbourne and sydney spanning 2 different state with 2 seperate state made traffic regulations with toll, the e-tag system is so much easier to use. (even though i hate paying tolls) as a hire car, the amount gets charge to the respective business account, and it then gets forwarded to the customer depending on how much toll road he uses.
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@Broark - yeah that's a dick move on their behalf… When they delivered my first fridge, they did the same... It was 34C°, luckily there was an elevator in that place, but I still helped the lad...
Second fridge they sent two guys... But they looked at the (one flight of) stairs, and said it couldn't be done... "We'll try it, but then you have to sign a paper making it your responsibility if we damage the wall or the fridge..." Fuck off you lazy cunts... Told 'm to leave it in the hall and moved it with a mate - 30 seconds of work all in all... We then had beer...
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The inventor of the string grass trimmer should be lowered head first into a barrel of his own shit.
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Yes, your advances in grilled cheese and ground, processed meat products are the envy of the world ::)
and so are our 52 inch waistlines.
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I actually really like my string trimmer. I bought this a couple of years ago for my tiny front lawn and it works great.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HH4K6XS/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
The only thing that's weird about it is you push it like a vacuum, so I get some funny looks from my neighbors who think i'm vacuuming my front lawn. -
There's an article in Domain, which is a property listings and news service here in Australia, about a house getting a last minute heritage listing before going to auction.
Cue complaints from the property industry. Why? Because apparently it'd be worth $2 million more as a building site, than it is with a house on it.
The article doesn't disclose the address, but from the description given I think that it's this place.
So a large, attractive, 1930s house is worth more as a building site?
Just to make matters worse, the replacement would have probably looked something like this.
The property markets in Melbourne and Sydney are completely crazy. Everything is being sold on the basis of its potential value, rather than it actually is. It's been great for people who bought into it twenty years ago, but there's a generation who've been basically fecked by it.
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It's been great for people who bought into it twenty years ago, but there's a generation who've been basically fecked by it.
Tell me about it. We live in one of the most expensive regions in Germany. I checked for 4 to 5 room apartments a few days ago and they are currently sold around 600.000€ and upwarts if they are newly built.
As people who don't have "ritch" parrents we are screwed and will never be able to own property in the city we live in.
Oh, and don't even get me started about the development of the rents in the last 8 years.
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The property markets in Melbourne and Sydney are completely crazy. Everything is being sold on the basis of its potential value, rather than it actually is. It's been great for people who bought into it twenty years ago, but there's a generation who've been basically fecked by it.
when the bottom fell out in '08 there were a ton of homes in my old neighborhood that faced foreclosure and went under. These were modest, single story rambler style houses with an average price of $200-250k. A company then came in and bought up all the foreclosures and either did a rehab or tore down and built new 2 story McMansion style homes and then jacked the price upwards of $350-400k. I get it, companies are taking advantage of the housing market but I would almost bet that another bubble is going to burst and all those now expensive homes will be worthless. Rents have been steadily creeping up as well.
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@Cole I wanted to buy in 2000, but got wiped out by the aftermath of the Dot.com crash, and then 9/11. The IT industry pretty much shut down in the UK for a couple of years. A friend told me he knew it was bad when the woman he was dealing with for social security had been a DBA for a City bank up until recently. :o
I spent two years working casually for a computer games company in Brighton, then a further 12 to 18 months working on a port of Tempest for mobile phones. Didn't get paid a penny for that, which is a subject for another rant.
It was 2005 or 2006 by the time I was in regular, paid work, and had sufficient salary history to back me up, house prices had doubled, and it was actually cheaper to buy than rent. I expected sanity to return, but both the UK and Australia avoided crashing during the financial crisis, and it's got worse since then.
And rents are really high in London and Melbourne too.
@gaseousclay apparently the house was a target for a developer who flattened a similar property, then tried to sell the empty block on for twice as much. (The listing was pulled a few days later.)
I'm not opposed to development, but there has been a tendency to demolish older houses and either replace them with a McMansion, or an apartment block, which generally don't match the street's scale. Much like the fate of your Rambler houses.
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I'm sure this has been ranted on many times by now, but add my name to the list, September is not going to be friendly to my wallet.
My targets are:
1. Kanreki
2. IHSH-180
3. IHSH-186 (green)
4. SExIH TYPEIIIBSP-14 OVERDYED MODIFIED TYPE III JACKET (been out a while but its been calling me recently)
In my dreams…
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