Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,640
    You need to got to specsavers FA.
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    pinno said:

    You need to got to specsavers FA.


    Yeh she's more Bo Derek
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,692
    Not sure if I mentioned this one a few weeks ago but the size of potatoes supermarkets are trying to pass off as 'baking potatoes' these days. They're getting smaller than the ones I would boil, I shouldn't be able to close my hand around a baking potato.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,640
    Ben6899 said:

    pinno said:

    You need to got to specsavers FA.


    Yeh she's more Bo Derek
    ...but that's 70's and 80's...
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    edited March 2022
    Also, on the Bo Derek theme, does that make @capt_slog and/or @pblakeney Dudley Moore?
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,090
    Being constrained to school holidays is tolerable, but train companies then choosing this as a convenient time to not run trains is annoying.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,633
    Ben6899 said:

    Also, on the Bo Derek theme, does that make @capt_slog and/or @pblakeney Dudley Moore?

    I'd take his money. And Bo Derek.
    In the '80s. Probably could do with his joke writing skills too.
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    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 62,022
    I think pics are needed to settle this point.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,640
    Stevo_666 said:

    I think pics are needed to settle this point.

    Google her.
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  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    pinno said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    I think pics are needed to settle this point.

    Google her.
    I thought he wanted pics of Dudley Moore!
  • drhaggis
    drhaggis Posts: 1,150
    Breath of the Wild 2 being delayed to 2023. Can't say I'm too surprised, though.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,640
    Stevo_666 said:

    I think pics are needed to settle this point.

    Google her.
    morstar said:

    pinno said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    I think pics are needed to settle this point.

    Google her.
    I thought he wanted pics of Dudley Moore!
    Well spotted.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,983
    morstar said:

    pinno said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    I think pics are needed to settle this point.

    Google her.
    I thought he wanted pics of Dudley Moore!

    Would video do?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h52d0I1VpE
    https://www.facebook.com/unanglaisendiois
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974
    Ben6899 said:

    Also, on the Bo Derek theme, does that make @capt_slog and/or @pblakeney Dudley Moore?

    Dead?

    However, I never saw what all the fuss was about regards Bo Derek, but then again maybe Dudley Moore didn't either.


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 62,022
    pinno said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    I think pics are needed to settle this point.

    Google her.
    I did. I might have to go to Specsavers now.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    Stevo_666 said:

    pinno said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    I think pics are needed to settle this point.

    Google her.
    I did. I might have to go to Specsavers now.
    GOOgle.

    Not Ogle.
    😜
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 62,022
    morstar said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    pinno said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    I think pics are needed to settle this point.

    Google her.
    I did. I might have to go to Specsavers now.
    GOOgle.

    Not Ogle.
    😜
    Another reason to go to Specsavers o:)
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,692
    Tw@ts who where a black shirt and white bow tie to a black tie function to show their individuality
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    British gas website going down most of today.

    Entirely predictable.
    _
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Same for all power companies. Just take a photo of your meter reading.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,640
    If we think that there has been a squeeze on living standards, this is the beginning of something extra-ordinary.
    I noticed the French govt. set a 4% price cap.
    Whilst energy companies moan about the cost of wholesale fuel prices, they are still making huge profit and are profiting from this.
    When you have a millionaire c*nt of a chancellor, then you cannot expect anything more than his token efforts to curb costs to the general public.
    I would bet my life on certain players patting him on the back.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,090
    pinno said:


    Whilst energy companies moan about the cost of wholesale fuel prices, they are still making huge profit and are profiting from this.

    Did you miss the odd one going bust?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,640
    TheBigBean said:

    pinno said:


    Whilst energy companies moan about the cost of wholesale fuel prices, they are still making huge profit and are profiting from this.

    Did you miss the odd one going bust?
    The big players are still there.
    The one's who went bust are tiny fish.

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/feb/06/as-energy-bills-rise-oil-giants-are-poised-to-make-unpopular-profits
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,633
    There are suppliers, and there are suppliers.
    The suppliers of accounts are going burst, the suppliers of the fuel are rolling in it.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,510
    TheBigBean said:

    pinno said:


    Whilst energy companies moan about the cost of wholesale fuel prices, they are still making huge profit and are profiting from this.

    Did you miss the odd one going bust?
    They were little more than brokers though, weren't they? Not sure how we will look back on that particular business model.

    But the point is well made, to distinguish between those that produce, those that produce and generate, and those that produce, generate and sell to the end-user.

    I am never comfortable when a company that is making disgusting profits in one part of their business bleets about costs in another part, because of the prices it charges itself.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,640
    pblakeney said:

    There are suppliers, and there are suppliers.
    The suppliers of accounts are going burst, the suppliers of the fuel are rolling in it.

    This ^.
    ...and a windfall tax at this point couldn't be more appropriate.
    Tell me that those energy companies and share holders wouldn't want to keep the chancellor sweet.
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,510
    pinno said:

    pblakeney said:

    There are suppliers, and there are suppliers.
    The suppliers of accounts are going burst, the suppliers of the fuel are rolling in it.

    This ^.
    ...and a windfall tax at this point couldn't be more appropriate.
    Tell me that those energy companies and share holders wouldn't want to keep the chancellor sweet.
    Tories don't like windfall taxes because it sends a bad message to donors.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited April 2022
    Are oil companies not allowed to make profit?

    Or only when prices are low? Because that really doesn't make sense.

    I find the "oil companies making a fortune off high energy prices" argument really annoying.
    _
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Profits should be within reason when you are providing an essential service.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,510
    shirley_basso said:

    Profits should be within reason when you are providing an essential service.

    Correct, hence the need for regulation that you don't have in many other sectors.

    A windfall tax isn't going to achieve a whole lot though, other than a small short term tax break that will end up benefitting people on modest six figure incomes as much as people on zero hours, like all Tory financial policies.

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