https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... -lichfieldOn the night of 19 January, two lorries dumped what is likely to be the largest mound of fly-tipped rubbish to grace a UK public road in recent years on Watery Lane. The waste firm drafted in to claw up the 15m-long pile with diggers said it was its largest clean-up job in 30 years. Nearby businesses lost two days’ trade while the road was cleared. It cost the council just short of £10,000.
Very little gets me angrier. I'd be giving mandatory 10 year sentences for these cunts.inactionman wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 10:05 am God above, I despise these feckers
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... -lichfieldOn the night of 19 January, two lorries dumped what is likely to be the largest mound of fly-tipped rubbish to grace a UK public road in recent years on Watery Lane. The waste firm drafted in to claw up the 15m-long pile with diggers said it was its largest clean-up job in 30 years. Nearby businesses lost two days’ trade while the road was cleared. It cost the council just short of £10,000.
Mind you, this was quite funny
I'd hope beady eyes of the council would now be firmly on matey-boy, and further fly-tipping escapades wouldn't end well for him.Slick wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 10:50 amVery little gets me angrier. I'd be giving mandatory 10 year sentences for these cunts.inactionman wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 10:05 am God above, I despise these feckers
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... -lichfieldOn the night of 19 January, two lorries dumped what is likely to be the largest mound of fly-tipped rubbish to grace a UK public road in recent years on Watery Lane. The waste firm drafted in to claw up the 15m-long pile with diggers said it was its largest clean-up job in 30 years. Nearby businesses lost two days’ trade while the road was cleared. It cost the council just short of £10,000.
Mind you, this was quite funny
Whilst that is very funny, we can probably be sure they all ended up in a river somewhere
Calm down , sugartitssalanya wrote: Mon Jul 31, 2023 10:07 amYou had to stop yourself from typing 'don't get your knickers in a twist', didn't you?!
Obviously shit, but at least it was on a man made surface. Inconvenient, but relatively easy to clean up. Something like this makes me incandescent.inactionman wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 10:05 am God above, I despise these feckers
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... -lichfieldOn the night of 19 January, two lorries dumped what is likely to be the largest mound of fly-tipped rubbish to grace a UK public road in recent years on Watery Lane. The waste firm drafted in to claw up the 15m-long pile with diggers said it was its largest clean-up job in 30 years. Nearby businesses lost two days’ trade while the road was cleared. It cost the council just short of £10,000.
Mind you, this was quite funny
It's an absolute scourge in Scotland. The frustrating thing is I just don't see any attempt by anyone to educate on the issue.sockwithaticket wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 12:13 pmObviously shit, but at least it was on a man made surface. Inconvenient, but relatively easy to clean up. Something like this makes me incandescent.inactionman wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 10:05 am God above, I despise these feckers
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... -lichfieldOn the night of 19 January, two lorries dumped what is likely to be the largest mound of fly-tipped rubbish to grace a UK public road in recent years on Watery Lane. The waste firm drafted in to claw up the 15m-long pile with diggers said it was its largest clean-up job in 30 years. Nearby businesses lost two days’ trade while the road was cleared. It cost the council just short of £10,000.
Mind you, this was quite funny
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czq5nd45p8zo
Flytipping is the big and noticeable version of the UK's littering epidemic. When out and about I'm astonished at how much rubbish there is everywhere. It speaks to a complete disconnect from and lack of care for the shared environment. It's hyper-indidualistic behaviour that I genuinely think it's a symptom of societal breakdown.
Safe to say that 18 months on from those posts she ain't the one who needs to calm down... ya tit.
The feed in Tariff has dropped massively - I only get 5c per Kwh now - when I had them installed a year ago, it was 7cTichtheid wrote: Fri Feb 07, 2025 6:57 am Mate of mine in Oz says his panels produce circa 650 units of power per month. He uses circa 450 units and gets a $270 per month bill.
The energy company pays him 2 cents per unit and charges him 28 cents per unit.
The revolution can’t come quickly enough.
dpedin wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2025 10:11 am It is safe for you all to assume I am a grumpy old bastard however ....... I hate January in the gym when every fecker who has never been into a gym before decide they are going to turn their lives around, lose 5 stone, get fit to run a marathon and get a membership. Shiny new trainers, gym gear that is one size too small and a new pair of headphones on their heads - they are easy to spot. This alone is a pain but I don't mind cause they are at least trying. It is the ones who think it is ok to then sit for 10minutes in between every set on the machine or weight station staring blankly at their phones watching the latest TikTok or Instagram posts that really get my goat! Just as bad is the group of 4 who all use the same machine, stand around yapping and spend 30mins doing next to feck all. I have been going in later in the evening to avoid the worst of them and do my circuit - 30min cycle, 10min stretching, 15min core and then 30 min weights. I do it with little rest time in between to keep the heart rate up. I am constantly asking these folk if I can use the machine whilst they are 'playing on their phones' or chatting with their mates. Most look a little guilty and move out of the way but some will say they've still a set to do so I will stand, watch and wait for them to finish, which really annoys them! Whatever happened to gym etiquette, if I did this when I first started going to the. gym I would have been manhandled off the machine and told in no uncertain terms how to behave in a gym. It will settle down in a few weeks I suppose?
Yup, had exactly this one evening last week. I also stumbled across a school gym club thing one afternoon last week - a bunch of schoolkids who must get free access for an hour or so with an instructor, which is great in theory - every single one of them was sitting on a machine staring at their phones, every single one.dpedin wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2025 10:11 am It is safe for you all to assume I am a grumpy old bastard however ....... I hate January in the gym when every fecker who has never been into a gym before decide they are going to turn their lives around, lose 5 stone, get fit to run a marathon and get a membership. Shiny new trainers, gym gear that is one size too small and a new pair of headphones on their heads - they are easy to spot. This alone is a pain but I don't mind cause they are at least trying. It is the ones who think it is ok to then sit for 10minutes in between every set on the machine or weight station staring blankly at their phones watching the latest TikTok or Instagram posts that really get my goat! Just as bad is the group of 4 who all use the same machine, stand around yapping and spend 30mins doing next to feck all. I have been going in later in the evening to avoid the worst of them and do my circuit - 30min cycle, 10min stretching, 15min core and then 30 min weights. I do it with little rest time in between to keep the heart rate up. I am constantly asking these folk if I can use the machine whilst they are 'playing on their phones' or chatting with their mates. Most look a little guilty and move out of the way but some will say they've still a set to do so I will stand, watch and wait for them to finish, which really annoys them! Whatever happened to gym etiquette, if I did this when I first started going to the. gym I would have been manhandled off the machine and told in no uncertain terms how to behave in a gym. It will settle down in a few weeks I suppose?
I was in the gym with a mate of mine a few months ago who looks like a hard bastard with a strong Belfast accent, but isn't. He went up to a group who had walked off leaving weights everywhere and said "I might look like you dad but I'm not clearing up after you, get them fucking moved" - quickest clean up operation I;ve seenTichtheid wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2025 10:15 amdpedin wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2025 10:11 am It is safe for you all to assume I am a grumpy old bastard however ....... I hate January in the gym when every fecker who has never been into a gym before decide they are going to turn their lives around, lose 5 stone, get fit to run a marathon and get a membership. Shiny new trainers, gym gear that is one size too small and a new pair of headphones on their heads - they are easy to spot. This alone is a pain but I don't mind cause they are at least trying. It is the ones who think it is ok to then sit for 10minutes in between every set on the machine or weight station staring blankly at their phones watching the latest TikTok or Instagram posts that really get my goat! Just as bad is the group of 4 who all use the same machine, stand around yapping and spend 30mins doing next to feck all. I have been going in later in the evening to avoid the worst of them and do my circuit - 30min cycle, 10min stretching, 15min core and then 30 min weights. I do it with little rest time in between to keep the heart rate up. I am constantly asking these folk if I can use the machine whilst they are 'playing on their phones' or chatting with their mates. Most look a little guilty and move out of the way but some will say they've still a set to do so I will stand, watch and wait for them to finish, which really annoys them! Whatever happened to gym etiquette, if I did this when I first started going to the. gym I would have been manhandled off the machine and told in no uncertain terms how to behave in a gym. It will settle down in a few weeks I suppose?
I haven't been to the gym since a bad back spasm a couple of years ago but the ones who used to annoy me were the muscle bound gym monkeys who were too important to put their weights away after using the bench press or the deadlift area.
He provides quite an extraordinary service.Tichtheid wrote: Wed Mar 05, 2025 10:03 am Martin Lewis did a tv prog last night on buying back Nat Insurance contributions & transferring Child Benefit qualification for state pensions.
He did this a couple of years ago just before a deadline and it crashed the gov website. So much so that they extended the deadline. Now the deadline is April 5th for many of these applications and guess what, the website has crashed due to too much traffic. He told them he was doing this programme.
I have no idea what is involved with keeping a site running when they get tens of thousands of views all at once, but is it an impossible thing to do?
People don't want to train dogs because it's a slow boring process and they'd rather be on their phones. People don't even want to have to think about possibly having to train their dogs, but frankly any dog of its lead not trained should be shot in the head, and for the betterment of mankind so to their owner. Seeing as we've now way more dogs than pre pandemic I don't expect this to be come any party's policy soon, and it's not like it'd have been a vote winner pre covid, but certainly the millions of extra inexperienced owners isn't helping, the standard of dog behaviour or the environmentPaddington Bear wrote: Mon Jun 12, 2023 11:06 am Echo on the dogs. Love them but they're not toys, the poor farmers round me lose so many lambs due to predominantly but not exclusively Londoners coming out on day trips and not realising that their pet is still an animal and does animal things. Of course doing that around calves can be very dangerous, there's been a few people crushed to death by cows as a result of the cows being spooked by dogs.
Likewise dogs that jump at strangers. 'He's friendly' well great but I'd rather not have a massive dog I don't know jumping at me and it should be basic etiquette to train it out of them. We're a weird country when it comes to dogs.
Current major bugbear though which I think a lot of you who've been involved in running clubs will identify with - blokes turning up at my cricket club just in time for a warm up, ready to criticise the state of the ground/clubhouse/wicket etc. Didn't see you down here last night/this morning but you're happy to tell me what to do with my time.
I know, I don't even know where to start with this one. What on earth goes through peoples minds, if you can't be fucked to pick it up just flick it to the side of the path.sockwithaticket wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 11:54 am ^
Must admit, as someone generally distrustful of the wealthy, Lewis seems ok. At least he tries to do some good.
Anyway, I bumped the thread because of dog poo. Specifically shit filled plastic bags being left lying or hanging around.
I cannot comprehend someone taking the trouble to pick it up, wrap it up and then tie it to a tree or fling it into the undergrowth. If you're not going to stick it in a bin, just leave the unwrapped shit where it was. It's not pleasant, but it'll biodegrade a lot bloody quicker than if it's wrapped in plastic. Went on a walk yesterday along the River Wey and was really dispirited by how many turd bags there were on the route.
Funnily enough I had an argument with a guy this morning about him having his dogs in the kids playpark by the beach. Signs everywhere saying no dogs, obviously because of the shit and piss but also because a lot of kids are scared of dogs. As I pointed out to him, it is literally the only bit of public land in the entire area that dogs are not allowed, and it's next to the fucking beach! Anyway, he said one of his dogs wasn't very good off the lead and he kept an eye on them to make sure they didn't shit.Rhubarb & Custard wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 1:12 pmPeople don't want to train dogs because it's a slow boring process and they'd rather be on their phones. People don't even want to have to think about possibly having to train their dogs, but frankly any dog of its lead not trained should be shot in the head, and for the betterment of mankind so to their owner. Seeing as we've now way more dogs than pre pandemic I don't expect this to be come any party's policy soon, and it's not like it'd have been a vote winner pre covid, but certainly the millions of extra inexperienced owners isn't helping, the standard of dog behaviour or the environmentPaddington Bear wrote: Mon Jun 12, 2023 11:06 am Echo on the dogs. Love them but they're not toys, the poor farmers round me lose so many lambs due to predominantly but not exclusively Londoners coming out on day trips and not realising that their pet is still an animal and does animal things. Of course doing that around calves can be very dangerous, there's been a few people crushed to death by cows as a result of the cows being spooked by dogs.
Likewise dogs that jump at strangers. 'He's friendly' well great but I'd rather not have a massive dog I don't know jumping at me and it should be basic etiquette to train it out of them. We're a weird country when it comes to dogs.
Current major bugbear though which I think a lot of you who've been involved in running clubs will identify with - blokes turning up at my cricket club just in time for a warm up, ready to criticise the state of the ground/clubhouse/wicket etc. Didn't see you down here last night/this morning but you're happy to tell me what to do with my time.
I saw some young lads in a local park last week hen taking my sister's dog for a walk, they too had a dog, but they had theirs with them on the tennis courts, which I assume they were using because the courts are nice and smooth and they had some skateboards in there with them. The tennis court and the kid's play area are the two non dog areas, even the former bowling green is, due to funding, no longer much of a green and is used by dogs. They too were not receptive to the idea taking dogs onto the court past signs saying no dogs was something they should consider.Slick wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 1:48 pm
"So because you can't be arsed to train your dog it's OK for you to be the only person bringing dogs into the playground? Stop being so fucking selfish." Didn't go down too well.
I've started using Qwant as my search engine. Doesn't store any data on me, results are fine. Think it's powered by Bing somehow, but it's not US owned (French I think).tabascoboy wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 1:30 pm So Google search now often throws up a completely unwanted and often totally misleading "AI Overview" result as the first listing. Google even says "These AI features are still being developed and may not always be accurate or reliable"
So what is the arsing point of adding this when there is no option to remove this? Yes if you select 'More' then 'Web' option it removes it but there should be a setting option to disable this permanently.
However I learned that if you cuss in your search the AI overview won’t appear so like “what the fuck is a frog on a horse” won’t show it. While I'm not eager to have to write dick in every search query it does seem to work 100% of the time so far.
NGL never heard of that one but will check it out. When I tried Google Search just now I didn't get the AI overview, so maybe they were running a short trial period and got fed up with queries like "rugby world cup qualification eat my dick"Biffer wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 1:59 pmI've started using Qwant as my search engine. Doesn't store any data on me, results are fine. Think it's powered by Bing somehow, but it's not US owned (French I think).tabascoboy wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 1:30 pm So Google search now often throws up a completely unwanted and often totally misleading "AI Overview" result as the first listing. Google even says "These AI features are still being developed and may not always be accurate or reliable"
So what is the arsing point of adding this when there is no option to remove this? Yes if you select 'More' then 'Web' option it removes it but there should be a setting option to disable this permanently.
However I learned that if you cuss in your search the AI overview won’t appear so like “what the fuck is a frog on a horse” won’t show it. While I'm not eager to have to write dick in every search query it does seem to work 100% of the time so far.
Oh God we could do a whole thread on objectionable behavior by fellow office dwellers.Insane_Homer wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 9:08 am Both the person who sits opposite me and the now the one you sits behind me are slurpers when they drink their tea/coffee.
Both reported to the school and consider reporting the fake blue badge to the police. Only way these fuckers will understand they're not fucking special.Slick wrote: Fri May 16, 2025 9:59 am We've got a bit of an issue at the school with a hardcore of parents, almost all mums, who insist on driving their kids to the front gates down a small road. It has a big flashing sign saying not to come down and we have had several near misses recently but despite newsletters etc going out and police coming down at drop off to advise, it's still the same people doing it every day. There are parking spots literally within 20m of the access road but they are still too lazy and selfish to actually get out of their massive cars.
Anyway, it pisses me off no end so having approached the headmaster he's supportive of a small group of us trying to do something about it. Yesterday we asked a few of them if they had exemptions to be able to drive down and the first women said she lived in one of the houses and residents are allowed access (true, of course) - she then went to the trouble of parking in someone's driveway and then when she thought we had left drove off.
A second one flashed a totally obviously fake disabled blue badge and said he son is disabled - checked with the school and she made it up. She actually lied about her son being disabled so she could drive down....
I don't know what you do with these people, I just don't think it's worth my time, they are just cunts.
Have the exact same issue , moved there so knew traffic would be bad at school drop off, hadn’t accounted for just how badly driven some of these large Teslas and suvs are. School on a cul de sac so gets carnage when a Range Rover can’t get past a q7Slick wrote: Fri May 16, 2025 9:59 am We've got a bit of an issue at the school with a hardcore of parents, almost all mums, who insist on driving their kids to the front gates down a small road. It has a big flashing sign saying not to come down and we have had several near misses recently but despite newsletters etc going out and police coming down at drop off to advise, it's still the same people doing it every day. There are parking spots literally within 20m of the access road but they are still too lazy and selfish to actually get out of their massive cars.
Anyway, it pisses me off no end so having approached the headmaster he's supportive of a small group of us trying to do something about it. Yesterday we asked a few of them if they had exemptions to be able to drive down and the first women said she lived in one of the houses and residents are allowed access (true, of course) - she then went to the trouble of parking in someone's driveway and then when she thought we had left drove off.
A second one flashed a totally obviously fake disabled blue badge and said he son is disabled - checked with the school and she made it up. She actually lied about her son being disabled so she could drive down....
I don't know what you do with these people, I just don't think it's worth my time, they are just cunts.
