mrpon
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Post by mrpon on Feb 17, 2022 11:57:01 GMT
Jesus don't go! Swansea is awful
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2022 11:57:44 GMT
rhaegyr Don't risk it man. I'm driving down to Glasgow at the weekend which is nowhere near as bad and even I'm not looking forward to it. There's no way I'd be going on a trip like that down your neck of the woods.
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Post by Saul1138 on Feb 17, 2022 12:16:13 GMT
When I look at my emails on the phone or iPad, do they sometimes just come up as, “Message not downloaded from server.” That’s great, but only one of us can do any5hing about it, you bastard machine’s don’t offer a try again option. Wankers that you are. I am going to find John Connor.
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Post by rhaegyr on Feb 17, 2022 12:47:15 GMT
Cheers for the advice all - we've compromised and decided to go Saturday morning instead.
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Post by dominalien on Feb 17, 2022 14:24:45 GMT
When I look at my emails on the phone or iPad, do they sometimes just come up as, “Message not downloaded from server.” That’s great, but only one of us can do any5hing about it, you bastard machine’s don’t offer a try again option. Wankers that you are. I am going to find John Connor. Restarting the e-mail app fixes that for me. Very annoying when it happens.
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Post by LegendaryApe on Feb 18, 2022 7:18:47 GMT
I'm staying home in case the roof goes flyabout, or something pays me a visit via the window something pays you a visit via the window, or someone... I'm all greased up..
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Post by Danno on Feb 18, 2022 11:18:05 GMT
Sweet jesus no
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Post by H-alphaFox on Feb 18, 2022 11:47:24 GMT
I do not accept phone calls from delivery companies as good business practice. Just deliver the thing, a missed call does not constitute a failed delivery attempt you lazy fuckers. Turns out it is perfectly acceptable. Seriously pisses me off.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Feb 18, 2022 12:24:25 GMT
I have to say, the one thing I don't miss about the UK is the delivery companies. They are universally fucking horrendous. I always just accepted it as the way it was, until I moved to another country and they had delivery companies that actually had good service and delivered things properly. Mind Blown. It turns out it's not impossible.
My favorite delivery story in the UK was when I ordered a mobile phone, and the delivery company tried and failed to deliver it 27 times over the course of about 3 weeks. I finally had to walk about 4 miles to the depot and pick it up.
Of course, they had no way to select delivery times, and didn't deliver on weekends or evenings, so they would have just had to keep trying and failing to deliver it indefinitely. You'd think that wouldn't be a cost effective way to run a business, and actually having a phone line or a web page where users could pick a delivery time would be much more cost effective... but apparently not.
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Post by H-alphaFox on Feb 18, 2022 15:04:27 GMT
I can't speak for the UK but before moving to Spain I was oblivious to how difficult it can be. I've never had mail or delivery issues anywhere else but here they are just taking the piss.
Delivery companies call you from Madrid and if you don't answer that's a failed attempt because the driver can't be arsed even turning up and you can't return the call as it's a call centre. When you finally contact them they say we are looking on google maps but your address doesn't exist which is blatant horse shit. Then because you have complained you get put on some sort of list which ensures this carries on every bloody time. That or they just drop it off at a petrol station as a pick up point.
And the mail, sweet Jesus. At our last place they just decided that we aren't going to deliver the mail anymore and seeing as the locals are too stubborn to put in community boxes we had to go into the towns post office just to pick up mail you may or may not have received. 5 years later there are still no community boxes in that town.
When we moved to this town there is no d2d mail but at least they have community boxes so we had to go to the townhall and pay for a key to a box, 4 months later the key arrives. No post for 4 months. And in that time frame the town hall changed the name of our street and number of our house. So before they could confirm that they had, in fact, actually changed our residential address themselves they had to send the police around to confirm that this was the address that they had changed it to. It took 3 months for the copper to show up who looked at the street sign and knocked on the door and was gone in all of 30 seconds.
You then add in the fact the the post office only opens for 2 hours a day here between 12:30 and 2:30pm on weekdays. This can make picking up parcels practically non existent if you work in Alicante. They close over Christmas altogether and often receive tickets to go pick up your parcel in a whole different town. We are still waiting on a parcel sent from Australia before Christmas and only last week received another sent around the same time.
But I'm not one for complaining really.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2022 21:41:50 GMT
I have not had Pizza Hut in years. Had some for lunch today and it is AWFUL. Jesus. I think I'm gonna be sick.
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Post by RadicalRex on Feb 18, 2022 21:50:09 GMT
Don't know how Pizza Hut today is, but the last time I ate their pan pizza some 10-15 years ago, it was just a load of dough with a few ketchup and cheese molecules sprinkled on top.
Last time I went there was with friends 3 years ago, eating what was supposed "normal" (Italian style) pizza. It was like bad discounter frozen pizza, only that it cost twice as much as a pizza from an actual Italian pizzeria.
Why the fuck does Pizza Hut still exist? It's like one of those perfect counterexamples to the idea that competition works
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Post by Sarfrin on Feb 18, 2022 22:14:28 GMT
Princes of the Realm need somewhere empty to lie about being.
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Post by dfunked on Feb 18, 2022 22:19:51 GMT
Pizza express is pretty shit too. Better than pizza hut, but still not great.
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Feb 19, 2022 1:02:13 GMT
No need to get in a sweat about it.
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Post by anephric on Feb 19, 2022 2:53:09 GMT
My missus says she doesn't like pizza, even when I, who has the hallowed blood of a thousand generations of Neopolitans pumping through my veins, has made her fresh pizza with only the finest Italian ingredients.
However, she will still get excited about ridiculously overpriced, soggy, lukewarm, germ-infested Domino's.
Domino's, that tastes of sour grease unless eaten so hot you burn away your taste buds.
Domino's, that, without fail, gives me explosive shits EVERY SINGLE TIME.
That Domino's.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Feb 19, 2022 4:57:12 GMT
So you're saying that Dominos pizza is better than Italian pizza?
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Post by Dougs on Feb 19, 2022 6:22:57 GMT
Urgh, I hate Domino's. So salty, I can feel the dehydration hitting almost immediately.
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Post by dogbot on Feb 19, 2022 7:25:00 GMT
If I was craving pizza and it was a choice between Dominos and getting no pizza, I'd go for no pizza.
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Post by patrick on Feb 19, 2022 8:02:06 GMT
I can just about stomach Dominos in a pinch but the thing that posses me off the most is the undercooked potato wedges. They're a fucking travesty. I know they're not really cooked and basically stuck on a conveyor belt with a heating element above it but how fucking hard is it to cook 'em?
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Post by sport✅ on Feb 19, 2022 9:06:33 GMT
Just came across this article in Google News and for some reason it really pissed me off. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/storm-eunice-bond-girl-valerie-leon-tree-london-damage-b983409.htmlBlimey, an ex-BOND girl was nearly smushed by a tree? I wonder who? Valerie Leon??? Hmmm can't say I recall that name, let me look that up. Right, she was in A Spy Who Loved Me AND Never Say Never Again Still don't recognize the face, time to deep dive into the cast: A Spy Who Loved Me: Valerie Leon (Hotel Receptionist) Never Say Never Again: Valerie Leon (Lady in Bahamas) So the girl photographer who gets her film destroyed by Bond and his buddies in Dr No is a BOND girl? All the female pilots in Goldfinger are BOND girls as well now? Fuckin mental!
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Post by Sarfrin on Feb 19, 2022 20:25:23 GMT
God, self isolation is boring.
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Post by Danno on Feb 19, 2022 20:29:01 GMT
God, self isolation is boring. Wank yourself to death, there's all sorts of freaky stuff on that there interwebs
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Post by cubby on Feb 19, 2022 20:30:00 GMT
Mustard fisting.
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Post by Danno on Feb 19, 2022 20:30:37 GMT
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Post by Danno on Feb 19, 2022 20:31:10 GMT
I love this place.
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Post by cubby on Feb 19, 2022 20:33:47 GMT
Sausage roll frotting.
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Post by Danno on Feb 19, 2022 20:42:37 GMT
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Post by cubby on Feb 19, 2022 20:53:00 GMT
Pineapple spelunking.
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Post by EMarkM on Feb 19, 2022 21:24:19 GMT
Tulip disturbing.
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