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stinkwheel Bovine Proctologist
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Posted: 20:15 - 02 Mar 2023 Post subject: |
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Just got an email today from my supplier and it looks like the government are paying my next two months electricity bill too. I haven't payed an electric bill since October now.
While I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth, it's an incredible waste of public money and is making me question all the whinging that's going on in the news about people not being able to afford their energy bills. I can only conclude that they are normally very wasteful of energy.
I have oil heating so that's where some of the payment/discount/grant/whateveritis came from but my total spend on energy in the last quarter has been significantly lower that ever before, to the tune of hundreds of pounds. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles. |
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Is that oiling your gears or what you're listening to?
I'm thinking both. |
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Posted: 18:49 - 04 Mar 2023 Post subject: |
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Had a cheque in the post from my landlord, not huge - but enough to make me feel better. Compensation for them refusing to fix my back fence (which they then decided was their responsibility, not mine)
Small victories ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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Goigh through pictures that I took yesterday on my cycling trip. This Goldfinch came out nice.
*135mm APSC lens, so I really had to get close.
Also, for this year I switched from 28c to 32c tyres on my road bike, dropping the tyre pressure by 1BAR/14.5psi (both front and rear)... so much comfort, can't even tell any rolling resistance difference. ____________________ '87 Honda XBR 500, '96 Kawasaki ZX7R P1, '90 Honda CB-1, '88 Kawasaki GPz550, MZ 150 ETZ
'95 Mercedes-Benz w202 C200 CGI; MZ 150 ETZ, '98 Mercedes-Benz w210 E200 Kompressor |
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Had a nice day helping out some youngpeople mates buy their first car, they needed a driver (me) for the "support" vehicle.
I eventually got home at 3.30 am, tired and fractious, but with a tray of extremely yummy chocolate brownies as a thank you gift ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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stinkwheel Bovine Proctologist
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Posted: 13:55 - 13 Mar 2023 Post subject: |
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DVLA have gone full retard.
I bought a bike with no V5 earlier in the year. I sent off the requisite forms to apply for a new logbook, I also included a cheque and a completed SORN form in accordance with their instructions.
Some weeks later I received a letter saying it was being processed. Cheque had been cashed. Some weeks after that I received the new logbook. Two weeks later I received a letter saying I had made a SORN declaration but that I didn't need to and the SORN form I sent them was enclosed, stamped as having been received.
On Friday I received a threatening letter stating that I either need to SORN or tax the vehicle or there could be dire consequences.
This oiled my gears because I will derive great personal satisfaction if they take me to court for failure to declare SORN when I have definitive written proof that I have in fact done so but that they decided not to action it. I can show that they received the declaration, wrote me a letter about it and I have the original SORN form with the DVLA stamp on it showing it was received.
I am going to do nothing further about this until such time as I receive a summons, then I'll happily go to court and make a mockery of them. I have fulfilled my legal obligation in respect to offroad declarations and can prove I have.
What would please me even more is if I do go to court and my case can be used by others to illustrate major deficiencies in their SORN recording system. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
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Doing a bit of a Star Trek film marathon at the moment. There's a scene in "The Final Frontier" where an alien is dancing in a bar. Later in the scene revealed to have three knockers "Well, that's ripped off of Total Recall!" I thought but no, Star Trek V came out in 1989 and Total Recall was 1990.
How many other films feature trilateral titties? ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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I thought my daughter would forget Mothers Day, as in Australia it is in May. But I got home this evening to two dozen yellow roses
Also, a consort in America sent me £200, a pencil case and a copy of The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett, such a delightful gift, and I am really enjoying it. ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 1 year, 10 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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