>>31556
>Fella, I'm sure everybody here would vouch for you and all of your co-denizens and lodge a complaint and request on your behalf while you're at work during the office hours. Other channels than this are open, e.g. Discord. The Census is serious work, so why should you be fined for the incompetence of the government?

Oh I'm sure that'll work out fine for me.
>It says here, how many jammy dodgers do you have the cupboard?
>Where do you keep your secret rice?
>Now for the economic questions, how big is your telly?

Anyway I managed to get on the webchat today and had a few jokes with a Scottish lass about housing these days. That was okay I guess but I'd still rather not have to socialise if I can avoid it. Had I not done this then they might've sent someone with a clipboard, unannounced and gasping for a brew that turns into watching afternoon gameshows.

I'd also like to complain that national data collection of all things shouldn't be devolved

>>31569

The oven trips the downstairs lights breaker, that's as far as I've gotten - it could be a few things, likely none of them particularly good.

It's not an issue, I can get someone in to do it right, but it pisses me off that people can't just do their literal job half decently.

It's also possible I'm an idiot and it's a normal, fine job they did.

>>31571

Now that I think about it, it's probably tripping one of two main RCDs that the smaller breakers share (like the lighting ring). I didn't think about it too much because I was too busy being annoyed that the oven wasn't isolated, but that makes sense. It likely does mean >>31569 is right about how the lights are spurred off.

>>31572
Actually I forgot all about RCDs.
In most installations you'll find that several different circuits are all commoned onto a single RCD (due to the cost and space of having a separate RCD on every circuit.)
Ovens do tend to trip RCDs pretty easily because eventually moisture works its way into connections and shorts to the metal case which trips the RCD but not the breaker.
So if it is only the RCD tripping it's no big deal, its no danger of killing anyone or starting any fires, its just an inconvenience as long as the RCD is working the way its meant to.

The electronics in breakers have got much better now so it's common on new installations to see combined breaker and RCDs, and its no longer allowed to have a lighting circuit sharing an RCD with other circuits, although circuits that meet the old standards are still fine to leave in place unless you have any major changes need doing.

Greenpeace managing to get into the critical part of an airfield to paint a plane green is going to give me a shit load of risk analysis paperwork to do. Yet again the french have ruined my day.

'Game changer' in the context of selling novelty food products. Normally in the context of some tat you can pick up at some bargain shop - even M&S is getting in on it now which just shows how far we have fallen as a nation.

SAMSON

POTATO WEDGERS.

>>31407
Is that a mistake people make like calling a drawer a draw, or is just weird Gen Z chonky boi babble? Cheeky burgerino and a side of wedgers, etc.

I can't really describe it, but you will notice it if you hear someone say it.

People saying Caucases instead of Caucasus.

>>31052
>If I'm reading Rightmove properly, he bought a house ~100m away from a fairly large primary school in 2015.
Were the laws about blocking people's driveways different in 2015?

>>31052

The thing about the recent trend of driving children to school was more general than a direct defence of the man whose driveway you blocked.

>>31053
He could have got out if he really wanted to. Moving to a house near a school and getting frustrated about parking is like moving near a church and then complaining about the bells ringing.

>>31050
Come on, lad. You are the cunt in this scenario.

>>31056
I think we both were. Heigh-ho.

>>30588

Don't you dare compare rats to vermin like estate agents lad. That's just below the belt.

>>30590

I apologise to you and to the rest of the rat community.

The one I'm dealing with right now literally does not read my emails.

"Hi, I've sent the deposit, please confirm you have this. I also have filled in the form you wanted, please find it attached as well as the utility bill you requested."

>"Hi,

>Please send the deposit to this bank account <>. Please also >complete the form and return it along with a utility bill."

"Hi, I have already sent the deposit, utility bill and forms, please confirm you received them"

>"Hi,

>I've received the deposit. Please send the first month's rent."

"Hi, I have now sent the first month's rent. Please confirm."

Message too long. Click here to view the full text.

Is it legal for my letting agent to release my phone number and email address to third party maintenance companies?

>>30721
Depends - a specific third-party maintenance company who is involved in the maintenance of the building you're in - yes it is. Under GDPR this would qualify as "performance of a contract".

To a bunch of non-specific third-parties who then sell/market to you, no it is not.

>>30644
>>30643
Prices are given in dollars - seems to be a blatant copy-paste from an American source to me.

>>30645
Also "clerk" rather than "cashier", "authorization", etc.

>>30645
That's probably why he prefaced it with "A quick google..."

>>30644
>Christ, I'm actually old enough to have used one of those machines.

I had to use one in a Little Chef about six or seven years ago.

>>30647
Yes, but the otherlad(s) were complaining about the Americanisms.

I actually think they can be pretty handy to convey the tone in which I want some lass to read my awkward messages.

>>30435

Yeah, they're essential for talking to birds so they know when you're joking, or else they will genuinely just assume you're some kind of serial killer. The British sense of humour doesn't translate well to text unless the person reading it is quite sharp.

>>30432
> If only they knew emoji originated in Japan...
What difference would that make? Many of them see Japan as an example of a model society.

>>30430
Genuinely upsetting.

MSN Messenger winks were really just as egregious. To remember using these after school with mates.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqGJUKaaLU4

been sweating my ass off all week welding in this heat. but 3 hours before i leave the fucking weekend rain starts again FML.

My nemesis hath returned once more and with him always seems to follow the sweary season on britfa.gs

Let us remember to repeat this mantra "is this person actually an insufferable cunt or is it simply too fucking hot"?

I want it to be winter again

>>30078
Give it a couple of months.

>>30078
Days start getting shorter in less then 4 weeks. ITZ COMING.

>>29457

My ex still calls emergency vehicles "nee naws" as in, oh, pull over, here come the nee naws.

It was sort of funny but mostly very odd.

>>29458

I was just thinking their cultural literacy must be as impressive as whoever thought [word redacted because I just got banned for an hour for posting it] was a good name for Woolworths kids beds. It's not like when you used to see accidentally goatse-looking logos and think oh well, the designer's just oblivious to memes. That was a bit enviable.

>>29460

Maybe someone at Cummings just thought it was finally time to address the company name with a little nod.

>>29456

>>27716
I used to read a trade mag called Computing. They had a long-running gag about "black women with routers". And it was true, almost without fail every advert for a router used to have a very happy-looking black woman holding it.

It's called a quarterly.

No, it's definitely monthly.

It's four weekly.

https://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/store/back-issues/practical-fishkeeping

It's mainly for the benefit of WH Smith. Nobody likes buying old magazines, so releasing the "November" issue in September extends the shelf life. Also, international subscribers feel like they're getting the latest issue even if it takes six weeks to arrive by surface mail.

The cover date is for the newsagent, not you. It's the date when they're supposed to withdraw the issue from sale. Typically a monthly magazine will publish either 12 or 13 issues per year (the latter usually includes a Christmas issue). In this case, the November issue goes on sale from 25/09, and will be removed from the shelves around 01/11, by which time the December issue should have turned up.

Tip the police off that the house is being used to sell drugs. Scum like that always have drugs anyway so the rozzers are bound to find something nickable.

Bear in mind that snitches get stitches and now you've screamed at them they'll probably blame you for anything like that. I know it's obvious advice but keep your head down, save what you can and fight tooth and nail for a better job that lets you move far, far away.

Is this the first time you've actually had to encounter the great unwashed? Your options are either to join in with them or do what everyone else in the country does by getting as far away from them as possible. You will not change their behaviour.

I find I'm okay with it if I just think of it as an ongoing drama that I catch snippets of.

Just plug stuff in, lol.

I've seen far, far more "moral imperative etc." about I, Daniel Blake than anything Hollywood has ever made.

>>28817

The problem with Ghostbusters 2016 as an example is that it's pretty difficult to argue that the political agenda didn't get in the way of it being a good film. That film was fucking shit, and it wasn't shit because it had women instead of men. It was fucking shit because they were clearly more bothered about subverting expectations and forecasting shipping than they were about writing a good script or hiring actresses who could actually carry a joke.

At best it made no impact at all and everyone has just forgotten about it, but at worst it's had a negative impact for the people it was trying to help.

If I wanted to watch Ghostbusters but not Ghostbusters then I'd watch Evolution. It's a very underrated film.

>>28784
>I'm posting this pre-emptively to moan about all the moaning. It's coming, you can tell.
And come it did. Well done, OP.

>>28820
I wasn't addressing why it was shit, but I still think you're wrong in your reasoning on that matter. I can't be arsed going through it though, you'll just have to imagine me being all smart and long-winded.

Too hot to talk about Ghostbusters 2016. Too bloody hot.

I need to stop doing deep-dives into bigoted teen eskimo Tweeter. Shit's too retarded.

>>28565

I'm learning to be obsequious in Mandarin. It probably won't save me from the forced labour camps, but it might earn me an extra bowl of rice while I'm there.

>他做到了！ 杀死叛徒！

>>28567
You turncoat bastard, I'll have your hide before I take their rice!

>>28567
我的气垫船装满了鳗鱼

The cyclist today who saw an older lady crossing the road at a t-junction and approached it at near full speed, purposefully moving so his path was aligned with hers so he could go 'Watch it!' before cycling straight out of the junction and nearly being sidelined by a taxi with right of way.

I am a huge, huge fan of getting more people to cycle but some London cyclists can be a little bellicose at times and misunderstand their commute to work for the first stage of the Tour De France.

I feel like that ought to have some consequences like forgetting to close a bold tag, but I can't think how. Everything is now a quotation forever.