One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3

[Flibble]

Jim AK said:

Think the reason for that is that Forged note machines cannot confirm if their genuine.

Not sure why they chose to withdraw the coin mid month, but since when have the likes of Sainsbury's or Shell been allowed to change BoE rules? Especially as other retailers have said their stores will,accept the coin until,the end of the month!

Shops taking cash for a purchase don't have to abide by BoE rules for legal tender, so they're not changing the rules. It's entirely at the discretion of the shop (much like accepting or not accepting £50s).

[Mandalore]

Jim AK said:

parabolica said:

And now you know what it's like trying to use a Scottish note south of the border

My local Sainsburys stopped accepting old pound coins yesterday. There have been signs up in the store for the last 2 weeks stating that company policy was to stop accepting on Saturday 14th; yet still there people there complaining about not being able to use their coins. Used the last of mine last night for my chippie supper.

Think the reason for that is that Forged note machines cannot confirm if their genuine.

Not sure why they chose to withdraw the coin mid month, but since when have the likes of Sainsbury's or Shell been allowed to change BoE rules? Especially as other retailers have said their stores will,accept the coin until,the end of the month!

Think the reason is that - As the coins physically change hands 7 days a week, then 200 days seemed like a nice round sensible figure.
100-150 would likely be too little for some people to plan and 250-300 more time than any partially sensible person might logically require.

Of course, they could have bought a huge jar of smarties and counted the blue ones, to come up with the same number.

Edited by Mandalore on Monday 16th October 09:22

[Jim AK]

Mandalore said:

Have you also considered that all the countries businesses might have to process the physical cash and deposit it with their bank by the final deadline and/or manage their own commercial decisions?

All High Street Banks will continue to accept the old coins today, tomorrow, until whenever.

If yesterdays Knob said he could`nt accept the old coin today he would`nt be a Knob, I would be for trying to use it!

[problemchild1976]

Blown2CV said:

people that talk about Christmas from September onwards. If you don't want to talk about Christmas with them, whilst it is 25 degreed outside, you are miserable/no christmas spirit/lighten up etc and every year more and more people agree with them!! I literally hate these people - there is nothing you can say to them either to convince them what they are doing is a bit OTT. Why would you wish away 4 months when time passes fast enough! Autumn is a perfectly nice time of year to enjoy on its own merits. Once it's Winter everyone will be fking moaning that it's too cold / not cold enough anyway. By the time it gets to the 27th dec everyone will be moaning they've eaten/drank too much... there's just so much noise. Do people have nothing else in their lives to enjoy? That's what jars me the most when "can we not talk about christmas just yet" gets met with accusations of being miserable... i feel i have many many things to enjoy in my life, and your gigantic countdown to the one thing you enjoy in your st life is trying to suppress those things i enjoy.

Another 'brilliant' counter is "oh you're talking about christmas now by complaining about people talking about christmas".

it should be legal to cause harm to them.

trouble is christmas costs lots (food and pressies) so it needs to be spread out

as soon as the kids go back to school they start deciding what stuff they are gonna get

i don't talk about it but i do have the lego advent calendars sorted and a few gifts bought (or they won't be available in December)

xmas is something to look forward to

its not wishing the world away

its like having a go at people in the january cold who say they can't wait for the warmer weather

JJ

[Blown2CV]

problemchild1976 said:

Blown2CV said:

people that talk about Christmas from September onwards. If you don't want to talk about Christmas with them, whilst it is 25 degreed outside, you are miserable/no christmas spirit/lighten up etc and every year more and more people agree with them!! I literally hate these people - there is nothing you can say to them either to convince them what they are doing is a bit OTT. Why would you wish away 4 months when time passes fast enough! Autumn is a perfectly nice time of year to enjoy on its own merits. Once it's Winter everyone will be fking moaning that it's too cold / not cold enough anyway. By the time it gets to the 27th dec everyone will be moaning they've eaten/drank too much... there's just so much noise. Do people have nothing else in their lives to enjoy? That's what jars me the most when "can we not talk about christmas just yet" gets met with accusations of being miserable... i feel i have many many things to enjoy in my life, and your gigantic countdown to the one thing you enjoy in your st life is trying to suppress those things i enjoy.

Another 'brilliant' counter is "oh you're talking about christmas now by complaining about people talking about christmas".

it should be legal to cause harm to them.

trouble is christmas costs lots (food and pressies) so it needs to be spread out

as soon as the kids go back to school they start deciding what stuff they are gonna get

i don't talk about it but i do have the lego advent calendars sorted and a few gifts bought (or they won't be available in December)

xmas is something to look forward to

its not wishing the world away

its like having a go at people in the january cold who say they can't wait for the warmer weather

JJ

Firstly I absolutely HATE the idea that because I don't want to talk about Xmas, that I in some way am a miserable . It is annoying to me and many others, and we should have the right to reject receiving this bks. It's a bit like making a lecherous comment to a woman and then when she gets upset calling her miserable and saying you are only joking!! I am not entirely being serious and mainly I write this, as anything on here, to entertain myself. I very much do not hate Xmas, but it has it's place - and that is December.

You can be excited about something as an adult without going on and on about it like a fking child. Ironically children only go on about it because of the way they have been raised. All roads lead back to parenting. Children do not need to hear about Xmas in September. This happens because adults choose to do that. You could argue that children have no choice and it is unfair. Adults create the commercial opportunity that most people agree they do in fact hate. Kids start deciding what they want in September because adults are doing everything in their power to ensure that they turn out to be hateful spoiled little materialistic sts. Something they could do to the contrary is not start talking about Xmas in September. Spend time with your kids, don't just spend money on your kids.

Of course people need to plan the finances and plan logistics - but these are for most people private affairs. If you're having to start saving in Summer for Xmas then you should really be more apprehensive of it than excited about it. I don't want to hear about peoples' financial troubles - and this has nothing to do with Christmas cheer - I just don't want to hear it. Consumer debt is at an all-time high, just fking be responsible.

Xmas is something to look forward to, but if you start in September you ARE wishing October and November away. These are times you could spend out kicking leaves and collecting conkers, enjoying the occasional sunny days (if we are lucky) and the outdoors before the undoubtedly rainy winter sets in, halloween, fireworks - you know things that don't have to cost a lot but allow you to have fun with the family and not enabling your kids to leaf through a fking argos catalogue circling things. Enjoy the moment you are in, enjoy the time you have and stop latching on to something which is only one fking day. The more you build it up, the further you have to come down when you realise it is just a day, in Winter... one in which you will just end up having to get stuck in traffic jams on an endless relatives tour, or spend hours and hours in the kitchen after spending hundreds of pounds on one meal for everyone. Xmas isn't all fun anyway!!!

the seasons are the seasons and time is what you make of it. Yes on occasion i wish it was warmer when it has been very cold, but i love crisp winter days with the sky bright and the frost. I love going out for runs and walking is best when it's cold. There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing choices... and all that. I don't spend 4 months over Winter whining about wishing it was warm, so i can then whine it's too hot. That is objectively annoying, and i don't want people like that around me!

Life is too short to listen to people going on about Xmas months ahead. It may be too short to also listen to people 'moaning' about it but do you know what - i don't say this to peoples' faces - I don't go on about thinking they must have empty materialistic lives if they only care about is one thing.... i just smile along and let them have their moment. But I do fking wish they would stop it.

[oceanview]

Saw this yesterday and it seemed appropriate for this thread!

[problemchild1976]

people who can't talk without swearing haha

interacting with other humans is about being polite and considerate (face to face, on the internet, on the road)

people don't like hearing about people's weekends and what their annoying brats did that is only actually funny to the person telling the story but people listen and join in and politely laugh.

communication is a 2 way thing

either partake or walk away

getting grumpy is getting grumpy

laughing it off and politely walking away is a better alternative

maybe people should just be doing what the company pay them for

JJ

[Hackney]

The absolute throbber in a Golf this morning.
I was joining a surprisingly quiet M25 anti-clockwise from the M1 around 9am.

Ahead of me on the slip road a car was leaving it late and accelerating in front of a car in Lane one. I’d held back as I saw I might catch up with them both so there was lots of space for me to merge easily onto the M25.

Until Mr absolute tt decided to move from lane 2 to lane one just as he was level with me, meaning som relatively hard braking so I could pull in behind him. Before running out of slip road or hitting him. I flashed my lights at him.

As he was going well below the speed limit and THERE WERE NO OTHER CARS AROUND I could pull into lane 2 and pass him. He looked over and gave me a sort of: where did you come from / what’s wrong with you / why did you flash me you horrible aggressive man kind of look.

I just shook my head. So unnecessary and so easily avoided if he’d had more than one brain cell.

[anonymous-user]

problemchild1976 said:

people who can't talk without swearing haha

interacting with other humans is about being polite and considerate (face to face, on the internet, on the road)

people don't like hearing about people's weekends and what their annoying brats did that is only actually funny to the person telling the story but people listen and join in and politely laugh.

communication is a 2 way thing

either partake or walk away

getting grumpy is getting grumpy

laughing it off and politely walking away is a better alternative

maybe people should just be doing what the company pay them for

JJ

Yeah, what-fking-ever.

[generationx]

Blown2CV said:

...I in some way am a miserable ...

And much more stuff

Ranting post produces fine irony

[Rumblestripe]

Me, probably.

I walk my dog to a stretch of open grass adjacent to a minor road into town. As you approach town the road the limit drops to 40 where there are no houses adjacent to the road (the aforementioned grassy area) and then to 30 as we pass a pub to our right and the houses are beside the road. Nothing tricky or unfair about it. So on these dark mornings it is annoying when you get tosseurs hitting the 30 zone comfortably in excess of 50 (going by engine note and visual estimation)

So yesterday morning I can hear one of these numpties approaching at something like Warp 5, I'm well in the 30 zone with pooch on lead and by my side. As I'm on the unlit grassy area I doubt he even saw me. In my pocket I have one of the those "military grade" LED torches. So, as he passes I raise said LED torch and quickly flash him twice into his rear mirror. He nearly stood it on its nose hitting the brakes. I suspect he'll be worriedly checking his mail for a few weeks for that speeding ticket.

So, I'm probably a "knob" but it fair cheered me up

[Burnzyb]

That is hilarious, knob or not

[AstonZagato]

Blown2CV said:

Angry Christmas Stuff

My wife is super organised and buys all her non-perishable Christmas stuff in the previous January sales (cards, crackers, decorations). And she buys the presents in the summer sales.

But I still found her lurking in the John Lewis Christmas department last weekend. It's like catnip to her.

There are year-round Christmas shops in Germany. Kathe Wohlfahrt's Christmas Shop in Rotenburg was one of my wife's favorite places to go when we lived there.

Edited by AstonZagato on Tuesday 17th October 12:13

[Bobberoo99]

AstonZagato said:

Blown2CV said:

Angry Christmas Stuff

My wife is super organised and buys all her non-perishable Christmas stuff in the previous January sales (cards, crackers, decorations). And she buys the presents in the summer sales.

But I still found her lurking in the John Lewis Christmas department last weekend. It's like catnip to her.

There are year-round Christmas shops in Germany. Kathe Wohlfahrt's Christmas Shop in Rotenburg was one of my wife's favorite places to go when we lived there.

Edited by AstonZagato on Tuesday 17th October 12:13

When we went to Edinburgh in September my wife insisted on going into the Christmas shops on the Royal Mile, and buying decorations!!!!!

[Hol]

AstonZagato said:

Blown2CV said:

Angry Christmas Stuff

My wife is super organised and buys all her non-perishable Christmas stuff in the previous January sales (cards, crackers, decorations). And she buys the presents in the summer sales.

But I still found her lurking in the John Lewis Christmas department last weekend. It's like catnip to her.

There are year-round Christmas shops in Germany. Kathe Wohlfahrt's Christmas Shop in Rotenburg was one of my wife's favorite places to go when we lived there.

Edited by AstonZagato on Tuesday 17th October 12:13

A Christmas shopping area you say?

Do they have any model cars, like say.....for example.....a 2CV?

Its just that we know someone who only seems to get Humbugs or old man socks & Old Spice every year.


And....did I forget to mention Christmas/Xmas in October ?;)

[alpha channel]

The mentioning of Christmas at this time of year grates a little but what grates a great deal is the latest TV missive from Argos - Gifting/Gifting season! with the Argos Christmas catalogue spinning in the middle of the screen.

Gifting FFS! mumble, mumble, PC tts, mumble

[InitialDave]

If we're going to moan about holidays and shopping: Black Friday. The basis for it existing in the US is not applicable here, and it shouldn't be attempted to wedge it into our calendar any more than you would a 4th of July event.

[48k]

Rumblestripe said:

Me, probably.

I walk my dog to a stretch of open grass adjacent to a minor road into town. As you approach town the road the limit drops to 40 where there are no houses adjacent to the road (the aforementioned grassy area) and then to 30 as we pass a pub to our right and the houses are beside the road. Nothing tricky or unfair about it. So on these dark mornings it is annoying when you get tosseurs hitting the 30 zone comfortably in excess of 50 (going by engine note and visual estimation)

So yesterday morning I can hear one of these numpties approaching at something like Warp 5, I'm well in the 30 zone with pooch on lead and by my side. As I'm on the unlit grassy area I doubt he even saw me. In my pocket I have one of the those "military grade" LED torches. So, as he passes I raise said LED torch and quickly flash him twice into his rear mirror. He nearly stood it on its nose hitting the brakes. I suspect he'll be worriedly checking his mail for a few weeks for that speeding ticket.

So, I'm probably a "knob" but it fair cheered me up

Hats off to you being able to target the rear view mirror of a car driving past you at in excess of 50 mph. In the dark.

[Triumph Man]

What literally made me think "knob" was the DRL/headlight combo of the BMW GS that was behind me, in the dark, this morning. What with the darkness, and the auto dim of my rear view making it darker, all I could see was the floating outline of a cock and balls (For those who haven't realised, the new GS DRL/headlight combo looks like a cock and balls when it's all illuminated)

[Zetec-S]

The fkwit biker on the A303 Sunday night, who must have been doing over 100, deciding he couldn't slow for a couple of seconds to allow me to move over after overtaking another car, so decides to pass on the inside.

You (and your pillion passenger) are bloody lucky I checked over my shoulder before I moved across, otherwise someone would probably still be scraping you both off the tarmac.