|
Author |
Message |
Polarbear |
This post is not being displayed .
|
Polarbear Super Spammer
Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Karma :
|
|
Back to top |
|
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
waffles |
This post is not being displayed .
|
waffles World Chat Champion
Joined: 04 Oct 2009 Karma :
|
|
Back to top |
|
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
Sister Sledge |
This post is not being displayed .
|
Sister Sledge World Chat Champion
Joined: 17 Aug 2018 Karma :
|
|
Back to top |
|
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
- |
This post is not being displayed because the poster has bad karma. Unhide this post / all posts.
|
- Super Spammer
Joined: 22 Oct 2013 Karma :
|
Posted: 10:44 - 24 Sep 2018 Post subject: |
|
|
The ONS.
My retired parents go away to Tenerife in the winter for weeks at a time, so I go around to check the house once a week or so.
The Office for National Statistics have chosen their address for a random "interview" about how the country is doing. It's not compulsory, but they turn up day after day uninvited until they catch you to waste half an hour of your time.
Last week there were 3 letters waiting and 2 calling cards. I phoned the mobile number on the calling card and left a message explaining they were away for weeks yet, so they were wasting their time.
I've just popped in today and there are 2 more letters telling them to contact the ONS and 4 more calling cards. I didn't leave a very polite message this time, but did get a response.
The woman on the phone was trying to drum into me, how the ONS is so important for the country and they would try again in 3 months time, whether my parents wanted to take part or not. We got into a conversation about how ONS research is flawed anyway, so a waste of time. She asked for an example, so I mentioned the deliberately low reading "official" ONS immigration figures which didn't count people who say they're not staying for over 6 months. That did the trick!
It may not be compulsory, but you don't get the option of opting in, they just turn up day after day, badgering you until they catch you in.
At least the clip board idiots in town centres can be dodged. ____________________ TZR250 2MA road, TZR250 1KT road, TZR250 2MA race, TDR250, YZF-750R Boost colours.
Jaguar S Type 3.0 V6 Sport R, VW Transporter T5 GP LWB Shuttle 140ps DSG. |
|
Back to top |
|
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
waffles |
This post is not being displayed .
|
waffles World Chat Champion
Joined: 04 Oct 2009 Karma :
|
Posted: 18:31 - 24 Sep 2018 Post subject: |
|
|
This is more of a petty thing but it is irritating me anyway.
Lots of posts on Facebook about stolen bikes, have you seen this bike, found this abandoned bike outside my house etc. But a large number of them can't spell the word 'stolen'.
My bike has been stollen. Now, to me, stollen is that bread-y cake-y thing you have at Christmas time with the dried fruit and marzipan in it topped with icing sugar. And I know that having your bike nicked is awful and feels like a punch in the gut but my laptop's autocorrect changed stollen to stolen every time I typed it in for this post, if I do it on my phone it highlights my shitty spelling and with a double tap I can put it right.
(Frantically proof reads my post to ensure that I haven't made any spelling errors!)
EDIT - I had no idea that the ONS actually did interviews with people face to face, I presumed that they used data generated from YouGov and the like. ____________________ Theory test - 19/8/09, CBT - 11/10/09, MOD 1 - 16/8/10, MOD 2 - 27/10/10
Past rides Yamaha XT125X, Triumph TT600, Honda XR250
Current rides Suzuki GSXR 600, Honda MSX125 |
|
Back to top |
|
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
dydey90 |
This post is not being displayed .
|
dydey90 World Chat Champion
Joined: 01 Oct 2013 Karma :
|
|
Back to top |
|
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
hellkat |
This post is not being displayed .
|
hellkat Super Spammer
Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :
|
Posted: 19:57 - 24 Sep 2018 Post subject: |
|
|
I just bought myself a packet of dark chocolate digestives and they're all stuck together, the bastards.
____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
|
Back to top |
|
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
Pete. |
This post is not being displayed .
|
Pete. Super Spammer
Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Karma :
|
Posted: 20:01 - 24 Sep 2018 Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
Back to top |
|
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
hellkat |
This post is not being displayed .
|
hellkat Super Spammer
Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :
|
Posted: 20:15 - 24 Sep 2018 Post subject: |
|
|
I have struggled womanfully on and opened the whole packet (down the side seam) ... its ALL welded together.
So I've had to eat it in the same manner as a corncob, except topways, instead of row by row.
I feel like Fred Flintstone when he gets that huge dinosaur rib that tips his car over
There may or may not be chocolate on either side of my mush. I've not got a mirror handy. ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
|
Back to top |
|
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
thx1138 |
This post is not being displayed .
|
thx1138 World Chat Champion
Joined: 06 Oct 2005 Karma :
|
|
Back to top |
|
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
Sister Sledge |
This post is not being displayed .
|
Sister Sledge World Chat Champion
Joined: 17 Aug 2018 Karma :
|
|
Back to top |
|
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
chickenstrip |
This post is not being displayed .
|
chickenstrip Super Spammer
Joined: 06 Dec 2013 Karma :
|
Posted: 21:12 - 24 Sep 2018 Post subject: |
|
|
thx1138 wrote: | hellkat wrote: | I just bought myself a packet of dark chocolate digestives and they're all stuck together, the bastards.
|
smash them up with a rolling pin, or meat tenderiser if you have one, mix with sugar and melted butter, stick it in a pie dish, bake it for about 8 minutes
then you have a dark chocolate biscuit tart base |
Or base for a cheesecake. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
THERE'S MILLIONS OF CHICKENSTRIPS OUT THERE! |
|
Back to top |
|
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
Skudd |
This post is not being displayed .
|
Skudd Super Spammer
Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Karma :
|
|
Back to top |
|
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
chickenstrip |
This post is not being displayed .
|
chickenstrip Super Spammer
Joined: 06 Dec 2013 Karma :
|
Posted: 21:49 - 24 Sep 2018 Post subject: |
|
|
Skudd wrote: | Everything is getting on my Chippy Tits today. Just breathe the wrong way and I will slaughter you like an ISIS chimp. |
Spelling! ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
THERE'S MILLIONS OF CHICKENSTRIPS OUT THERE! |
|
Back to top |
|
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
Polarbear |
This post is not being displayed .
|
Polarbear Super Spammer
Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Karma :
|
Posted: 12:12 - 25 Sep 2018 Post subject: |
|
|
I'm off to dispatch a chicken.
It's my mates chicken, he is away and his missus is wailing like a banshee because it's just sitting there and not moving so he has asked me to off it.
I have never offed a chicken but I gather you just pull it's neck.
I am however going over fully tooled, .22 air rifle, hunting knife and an axe.
The chicken will be history ____________________ Triumph Trophy Launch Edition |
|
Back to top |
|
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
Freddyfruitba... |
This post is not being displayed .
|
Freddyfruitba... World Chat Champion
Joined: 20 May 2016 Karma :
|
|
Back to top |
|
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
hellkat |
This post is not being displayed .
|
hellkat Super Spammer
Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :
|
|
Back to top |
|
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
Polarbear |
This post is not being displayed .
|
Polarbear Super Spammer
Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Karma :
|
Posted: 15:26 - 25 Sep 2018 Post subject: |
|
|
The chicken is ne more, it is deceased, dead, popped it's mortal coil etc.
It was pretty well dead when I got there and the sight of me bearing down on it with weaponry Arnie would be proud of, was the final straw. I didn't have to do anything.
Funniest thing was my mates wife. She was plucking up courage to wring it's neck herself. Dutch courage. About a 3rd of a bottle of Gordons courage.
She could hardly stand, let alone catch and dispatch a chicken, ____________________ Triumph Trophy Launch Edition |
|
Back to top |
|
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
Ste |
This post is not being displayed .
|
Ste Not Work Safe
Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Karma :
|
Posted: 15:35 - 25 Sep 2018 Post subject: |
|
|
So you didn't get to use your axe? |
|
Back to top |
|
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
Riejufixing |
This post is not being displayed .
|
Riejufixing World Chat Champion
Joined: 24 Jun 2018 Karma :
|
|
Back to top |
|
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
Polarbear |
This post is not being displayed .
|
Polarbear Super Spammer
Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Karma :
|
|
Back to top |
|
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
owl |
This post is not being displayed .
|
owl World Chat Champion
Joined: 21 Oct 2016 Karma :
|
|
Back to top |
|
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
dydey90 |
This post is not being displayed .
|
dydey90 World Chat Champion
Joined: 01 Oct 2013 Karma :
|
|
Back to top |
|
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
Polarbear |
This post is not being displayed .
|
Polarbear Super Spammer
Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Karma :
|
|
Back to top |
|
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
Skudd |
This post is not being displayed .
|
Skudd Super Spammer
Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Karma :
|
|
Back to top |
|
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 215 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
|
|
|