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Hoofy
48,533 posts
152 months
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Dusty964 said: I dont get it at all. Now. I live in Dubai. I used to get a fairly steady stream of religious nutters to the door though, mainly at 8.30am on a sunday. I have no problem at all with anyone who is religious- if they gain some strength or happiness from the sky fairies, all well and good. The problem is when people tell me i should be doing the same- I assume there is no law stating that i cant go and knock on someones door to preach to them at unsociable hours- would the same be true if i knocked on someones door at 10pm at night to tell them that they should go to the pub? I had one couple who knocked on my then fiancee's door after i had my accident. We put a prayer card through your door, did you write a prayer? Do you want us to pray for you, you were lucky etc etc, when i said no, they looked genuinely suprised, and added- i will pray for you in private later. Again, i pressed the fact that i didnt want them to, to get the (no doubt standard reply) 'God is good, god is looking out for you' My reply of- 'its i shame he wasnt looking out for me just before the f  king thing exploded' was followed by some strange looks- which were still on their faces at the time the door slammed. 8.30am on a Sunday??? Where the hell did you live? You were a tramp in a tent in a church yard weren't you?
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Dusty964
5,530 posts
60 months
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Hoofy said: Dusty964 said: I dont get it at all. Now. I live in Dubai. I used to get a fairly steady stream of religious nutters to the door though, mainly at 8.30am on a sunday. I have no problem at all with anyone who is religious- if they gain some strength or happiness from the sky fairies, all well and good. The problem is when people tell me i should be doing the same- I assume there is no law stating that i cant go and knock on someones door to preach to them at unsociable hours- would the same be true if i knocked on someones door at 10pm at night to tell them that they should go to the pub? I had one couple who knocked on my then fiancee's door after i had my accident. We put a prayer card through your door, did you write a prayer? Do you want us to pray for you, you were lucky etc etc, when i said no, they looked genuinely suprised, and added- i will pray for you in private later. Again, i pressed the fact that i didnt want them to, to get the (no doubt standard reply) 'God is good, god is looking out for you' My reply of- 'its i shame he wasnt looking out for me just before the f king thing exploded' was followed by some strange looks- which were still on their faces at the time the door slammed. 8.30am on a Sunday??? Where the hell did you live? You were a tramp in a tent in a church yard weren't you? About 9 miles from Milton Keynes. We
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Hoofy
48,533 posts
152 months
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Dusty964 said: About 9 miles from Milton Keynes.
We Well, it's peculiar. Mind you, maybe they do come around at 8.30am but I'm far too sleepy to notice the doorbell!
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Dusty964
5,530 posts
60 months
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Hoofy said: Well, it's peculiar. Mind you, maybe they do come around at 8.30am but I'm far too sleepy to notice the doorbell! 2 dogs and an 8 month old son gernerally meant a lie in was not the norm. You can easliy deter them by getting the other half to answer the door, then 20 seconds later, casually wander through the house, naked. They didnt return for quite some time after that
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Hoofy
48,533 posts
152 months
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Dusty964 said: 2 dogs and an 8 month old son gernerally meant a lie in was not the norm.
You can easliy deter them by getting the other half to answer the door, then 20 seconds later, casually wander through the house, naked.
They didnt return for quite some time after that  Thanks for the tip. I could just open the door naked especially if a JW hotty is calling.
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Tyre Tread
6,355 posts
86 months
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Gaspode said: I understand that it is actually legal requirement that the name or number of your house should be clearly visible from the street?  Care to enlighten us with reference to the legal statute on that one? ETA: Maybe it is where you come from in La La land.
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Rickyy
3,368 posts
89 months
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AstonZagato said: My house doesn't have a number as far as I know. It's never had a number. It pre-dates numbering by a good few hundred years. Ok, numbers or house names! Which brings me on to my next irritation........smart-arses! 
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McHaggis
8,271 posts
25 months
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Tyre Tread said: Care to enlighten us with reference to the legal statute on that one? ETA: Maybe it is where you come from in La La land. Allocations of new numbers are done by the local authority (normally highways IIRC) There is a legal obligation to display your number/name. One local council: http://www.waverley.gov.uk/info/513/street_naming_...And another: http://www.west-norfolk.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=2...And bingo - may not yet be rescinded - the UK or hereby known as LaLa Land... http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/34Towns Improvement Clauses Act 18471847 CHAPTER 34 10 and 11 Vict Sections 64 and 65 - finable by £25 and £20 respectively. 64 Houses to be numbered and streets named.The commissioners shall from time to time cause the houses and buildings in all or any of the streets to be marked with numbers as they think fit, and shall cause to be put up or painted on a conspicuous part of some house, building, or place, at or near each end, corner, or entrance of every such street, the name by which such street is to be known; and every person who destroys, pulls down, or defaces any such number or name, or puts up any number or name different from the number or name put up by the commissioners, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding [F17[F18£25]][F17level 1 on the standard scale] for every such offence. 65 Numbers of houses to be renewed by occupiers.The occupiers of houses and other buildings in the streets shall mark their houses with such numbers as the commissioners approve of, and shall renew such numbers as often as they become obliterated or defaced; and every such occupier who fails, within one week after notice for that purpose from the commissioners, to mark his house with a number approved of by the commissioners, or to renew such number when obliterated, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding [F19[F20£20]][F19level 1 on the standard scale], and the commissioners shall cause such numbers to be marked or to be renewed, as the case may require, and the expence thereof shall be repaid to them by such occupier, and shall be recoverable as damages.
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Tyre Tread
6,355 posts
86 months
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McHaggis said: Allocations of new numbers are done by the local authority (normally highways IIRC) There is a legal obligation to display your number/name. One local council: http://www.waverley.gov.uk/info/513/street_naming_...And another: http://www.west-norfolk.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=2...And bingo - may not yet be rescinded - the UK or hereby known as LaLa Land... http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/34Towns Improvement Clauses Act 18471847 CHAPTER 34 10 and 11 Vict Sections 64 and 65 - finable by £25 and £20 respectively. 64 Houses to be numbered and streets named.The commissioners shall from time to time cause the houses and buildings in all or any of the streets to be marked with numbers as they think fit, and shall cause to be put up or painted on a conspicuous part of some house, building, or place, at or near each end, corner, or entrance of every such street, the name by which such street is to be known; and every person who destroys, pulls down, or defaces any such number or name, or puts up any number or name different from the number or name put up by the commissioners, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding [F17[F18£25]][F17level 1 on the standard scale] for every such offence. 65 Numbers of houses to be renewed by occupiers.The occupiers of houses and other buildings in the streets shall mark their houses with such numbers as the commissioners approve of, and shall renew such numbers as often as they become obliterated or defaced; and every such occupier who fails, within one week after notice for that purpose from the commissioners, to mark his house with a number approved of by the commissioners, or to renew such number when obliterated, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding [F19[F20£20]][F19level 1 on the standard scale], and the commissioners shall cause such numbers to be marked or to be renewed, as the case may require, and the expence thereof shall be repaid to them by such occupier, and shall be recoverable as damages. Well bugger me! Every day is a school day. Apologies to Gaspode. 
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McHaggis
8,271 posts
25 months
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Tyre Tread said: Well bugger me! Every day is a school day. Apologies to Gaspode. If it's any help this has come up a few times and it's a fairly obscure piece of law... I can't find any record of it being used in recent years. Which is surprising as it would be easy money for a council. Pay someone to walk up and down, photograph the houses without one, send a letter warning, revisit and then a fine. They could probably do the first pass via Streetview...
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singlecoil
15,412 posts
116 months
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I'm beginning to find the phrse "I am passionate about (whatever)" a little irritating.
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Hoofy
48,533 posts
152 months
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singlecoil said: I'm beginning to find the phrse "I am passionate about (whatever)" a little irritating. Mm. I guess it depends. If they are trying to get a job as an accountant and say they are passionate about accountancy, I'd be asking if they'd pay to work to prove their passion for it.
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Gaspode
2,705 posts
66 months
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Tyre Tread said: Well bugger me! Every day is a school day. Apologies to Gaspode. No need to apologise, mate, I wasn't entirely sure myself, but I thought I had read it somewhere.
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rohrl
3,938 posts
15 months
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People who put M3 badges on normal 3-series BMW's. Saw one about half an hour ago on the boot of an E90-whatever the convertible is. One exhaust pipe, wheel arches no wider than normal, normal alloys and a wonky M3 badge that wouldn't fool anyone at all. What's the f king point? It makes you look like a complete bell-end who's trying to be something they're not. You've got a nice, expensive car as it is, leave the M3 badges for the M3s.
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DeadMeat_UK
3,053 posts
152 months
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rohrl said: People who put M3 badges on normal 3-series BMW's. Saw one about half an hour ago on the boot of an E90-whatever the convertible is. One exhaust pipe, wheel arches no wider than normal, normal alloys and a wonky M3 badge that wouldn't fool anyone at all. What's the f king point? It makes you look like a complete bell-end who's trying to be something they're not. You've got a nice, expensive car as it is, leave the M3 badges for the M3s. It only them like a bell-end to the type of bell-end that knows E numbers of every BMW and worry (or even know) about what size of exhaust and how shiny the wheels should be ;-)
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singlecoil
15,412 posts
116 months
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It irritates me that by the time I have found my favourite tape measure (I have several), I can't remember what I was going to measure with it.
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tuffer
5,228 posts
137 months
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Number withheld calls, recruitment agencies or marketing agencies are the worst. I will always answer the phone if I am not busy, even if its just to say F off, withholding the number just makes the F off scenario more likely.
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SeanyD
2,736 posts
70 months
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Waiting at a T junction to turn right on to a main road, the number of people who approach from the left indicating right and sit blocking the road waiting to pull into my slip road, for goodness sake flash me out, like I do to other motorists on a regular basis. I have even from time to time given a sarcastic 'thank you' wave for not letting me out, quite often receiving a bemused/confused wave back from them. doh. 
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Willy Nilly
Original Poster
2,962 posts
37 months
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Having a job that has massive seasonal peaks and troughs.
We have one of our annual club nights out tonight. Much drinking and merriment and normally all would be wrapped up work wise for a week or two and my liver could be punished. Sadly this is not the case this year.
At least I have a job though.
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Twincam16
27,438 posts
128 months
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tuffer said: Number withheld calls, recruitment agencies or marketing agencies are the worst. I will always answer the phone if I am not busy, even if its just to say F off, withholding the number just makes the F off scenario more likely. Or call centres in India whose operators get more irate and arrogant the more basic questions you ask them (like 'who are you calling from?' 'what do they do then?' etc), and who just hang up rather than answering or politely declining. Do they actually sell anyone anything?
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