Things you hate IV

Ban?

 

You have no soul.

Aha ha ha.

 

I thought it was "It's written in the stars, we catch angels"....which is also more poetic

 

Tony Blackburn's dog ?
Even had a layne named after him.

 

Take it from me, you shouldn't sleep in the kitchen.

 

I hope you at least brushed your teeth ?

 

My dishwasher has asked me to stop calling her otherwise she ll call the police .

 

Trying to get Eurovision tickets. Ticketmaster are f***ing useless. I had 5 of us on the job of trying to secure a pair, all 5 of us got errors and no tickets. Not even close.

 

Any joy in the end?

 

Unfortunately not. My youngest daughter who is almost pro level at getting tickets for anything also failed. She got through to the site very quickly and even then only the expensive ones were left.
I shall watch it whilst chatting on the shoutbox as normal.

 

Shame, I know you were looking forward to going.

 

Dealing with Snorbens 'types' - I *thought* I sent a short message informing people of a whip-round for a soon to be departing coach but apparently I *actually* sent a request for essays on ontological relativism. The c**ts.

 

Would be funny if we woz all the same.

 

People often moan about getting Glastonbury tickets, but they give you a good half an hour (last years sale for this years festival actually went on for well over an hour, due to some technical issues) to keep trying and to get through. They could make it like Ticketmaster and sell out instantly. but I think they genuinely want to reward a bit of effort and persistence my prolonging it. It’s massively oversubscribed, so naturally people miss out and then moan and say they want a queue system or like it is with Ticketmaster, but there is absolutely nothing worse than sites like Ticketmaster when they literally all selling out instantly the moment they go on sale.

 

Well myself and probably a million others who would like to go. The issue here is that the venue is quite small for such a popular event and the staging also takes away a lot of the space available meaning ticket numbers are quite low compared to the amount of people interested in going. My daughter who's up there at Uni has been to the venue for concerts and says how intimate it feels.
Hotels are sold out and have been since it was announced so I assume there's a lot of disappointed people with hotel rooms and no tickets. I'd already arranged to stay over at my daughters place so no big deal to cancel that.

Despite the above I'm pleased it's at a smaller location and away from London.

Funnily enough just this week the Uni announced graduation dates which coincide with the Open, (which is at Royal Liverpool). Another bunfight to get a hotel room under £400 for the night . FML.

 

I used to think Alone, by Heart was a song about Cartography

'I never really cared about longitude.'

 

Shoo-in for the Latitude Festival then?

 

eurovision

bunch of second rate failed musicians trying to force bland europop on the public

they need to get proper jobs

 

Ban?

 

Yes, Eurovision should be. I second your motion.

 

GTF outta here.

 

Ban ?

 

@mods!

 

5.15am airport drop-offs.
They tell you to get there 3 hours early for international flights, so I dropped her off 2 1/2 hours before her flight thinking it might be a bit tight. She's through bag drop and security in 10 minutes. The ****ers charged me £5 for the privelege too!

 

If that's at Heathrow then it's a virtually unenforceable PCN look it up. If at a certain airport in the 3rd 4th world then you had to deal with the barriers...

 

Annoying phrases in used car adds. “Rare car” err no it’s not in the slightest . “Best colour combo” yes, in your opinion only.

 

There is a Mercedes Ad that features a woman in an improbable suit looking sagely at Mercedes cars. The key message of the ad is that there is one price. Doesn’t even claim it’s a good price.

So, if you have the money to buy a Mercedes, you can have one, is the revelation.

 

Liked for “improbable suit”.

 

Wasn't lu*on, I will do everything possible to not fly from there, not only because of where it is.
Yes, just looked up Heathrow drop off charges and penalty notices from APCOA , (on MSE), and will not be paying it. Many Thanks.

 

I think it’s calmed down a lot from last year and all the staff shortages and that advice more relates to back then, than generally what is happening now, although it did take me over an hour to get through T5 security in December, and they were threatening you with an additional hour wait if they pulled your hand luggage for additional checks, luckily that didn’t happen. Two of the flights I took last year did also necessitate getting there early as far as how long it took to get the through security, but then due to the staff shortages they were both delayed by a few hours anyway so we needn’t have bothered.

 

I think you're right, things are much better now, (and it's not a school holiday).

 

Call me sad, but if I’m going on Holiday at least, I hate rushing and like to get something to eat and get a drink or two and then possibly pick a few bits up after, so I find two hours total a bit too stressful anyway. Would always prefer to have at least two hours at the point of getting through security.

 

My son got 'done' dropping us off (for our 5* Nile Cruise - dod I mention that I recenbtly went on a 5* Nile cruise) and I ordered him to send Coupon-mad's 44 word reply to them at the bottom of her post. Not a version of it, nor a summary of it but the exact wording c&p'ed. He got a threatogramme about 10 days later stating some ludicrous shyte along the lines of "We have thoroughly investigated your written appeal and have decided to take no further action...."