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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #525 on: 06 January 2016, 04:15:05 am »
I'm getting pretty fed up with People who knock your door asking for charity donations.I want to tell them to  Fuck off.
Had a woman today asking for a donation for the Local sperm bank.


By God did I give her a mouthful. :D

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #526 on: 06 January 2016, 08:32:58 am »
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #527 on: 06 January 2016, 09:15:42 am »
Landlords who don't evict aggressive customers.

Two pissheads out last night looking for trouble, one of the lads was carrying a knife and had pulled it on someone who had been drinking with them. When they left one forgot his coat, rather than wait for them to return I suggested the bar manager (female) take his coat out to him as there was less chance of a confrontation if a woman went out to them.

According to the manager this makes me a pussy, focin idiot couldn't see how a man going out could potentially cause an issue. This lad was pushing people around her bar from the moment he walked in and she had done nothing to try to diffuse the situation, only served them several more beers before they finally went (like that was going to help)

Not focin happy


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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #528 on: 06 January 2016, 10:30:36 am »
 :agree

When I relocated from Newbury to Kettering I took a stop-gap job in a busy village pub, and because I am "of a larger build" than most people that the landlord and landlady used to insist that that I evict the trouble makers (mostly pissed up farm workers). What used to annoy me is that it soon became a game to these idiots and more and more I was constantly "escorting" people out through the fire exit using their heads to open the doors. What pissed me off that the landlord knowing that i would sort the problem started to get really aggressive with the troublemakers and when they kicked off he would be nowhere to be seen only to pop up again like Mr Ben's shopkeeper once the problem had been dealt with.

I got sick of it and when I started demanding that they get a doorman or at least increase my wages to cover what I was having to deal with, I was laid off.... funny that. Last I heard the pub had got so rough and the landlord could not cope and had given up the tenancy. But I really don't get why people go to pubs purely to start trouble as it ruins everyone's evening.
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #529 on: 06 January 2016, 12:16:05 pm »
I'll never forget an evening, years ago now.  We had been in our first house for about a year and thought we would give the local pub a go.  Despite living in Sittingbourne all my life I had never been to this pub, but I'd never heard anything bad about it.


We were having a drink, playing some pool when a drunk chap comes out the toilets and rolls across the pool table mid game.  I simply said, "hey mate, no need for that, we're in the middle of a game" and that was it.


He's squaring up, his mates come over (BIG mates, proper BIG mates), my mate stands up and there is lots of "you want it" from the 3 chaps now in front of us.  One other says "leave it lads, we've only just got out, don't want to go back just yet"  I'm shitting it, coz I am far from a fighter and not built to fight plus these guys look battle hardened.


Anyway,  managed to calm it by talking my way out of it and the 4th guy calmed his lot with the prison talk.


The land lord came over but stood well back and not once said anything or did anything.  Once it was all ended he went back behind the bar and not even an apology of any sort.


We never ever went back!
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #530 on: 06 January 2016, 12:32:21 pm »
:agree

When I relocated from Newbury to Kettering I took a stop-gap job in a busy village pub, and because I am "of a larger build" than most people that the landlord and landlady used to insist that that I evict the trouble makers (mostly pissed up farm workers). What used to annoy me is that it soon became a game to these idiots and more and more I was constantly "escorting" people out through the fire exit using their heads to open the doors. What pissed me off that the landlord knowing that i would sort the problem started to get really aggressive with the troublemakers and when they kicked off he would be nowhere to be seen only to pop up again like Mr Ben's shopkeeper once the problem had been dealt with.

I got sick of it and when I started demanding that they get a doorman or at least increase my wages to cover what I was having to deal with, I was laid off.... funny that. Last I heard the pub had got so rough and the landlord could not cope and had given up the tenancy. But I really don't get why people go to pubs purely to start trouble as it ruins everyone's evening.

I've found over the years that it's rarely people who go for just a few beers that mainly start trouble, but the ones who are bugled up to the eyeballs on the devil's dandruff, and then also mix it with booze.
I've seen many a placid man, and woman, turn into complete and utter wankers when they're off their heads.
The even more annoying thing is that they don't even appreciate the fact that they're being complete arseholes either.

It pisses me off as well when I read newspaper articles about people in court that have done heinous crimes but it's always alcohol that gets blamed because it's an easy excuse, but there's hardly ever any mention of drug using.
The criminal liars tend to keep that one as quiet as possible in court to paint a rosier profile of the accused.  :rolleyes
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #531 on: 06 January 2016, 12:54:54 pm »
For some people alcohol just flips a switch and they turn violent. 
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #532 on: 06 January 2016, 01:51:46 pm »
For some people alcohol just flips a switch and they turn violent.


But people like that are just cnuts in the first place.
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #533 on: 06 January 2016, 05:18:12 pm »
Some of the worst are those people who you don't see in the pub for weeks or months, who then turn up one evening having seemingly decided to drink 8 weeks worth in one sitting :rolleyes.

I've packed up going out new years eve now because it attracts all the once a year drinkers who hog the bar and act like they own the place.




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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #534 on: 07 January 2016, 03:00:42 pm »
faulty tyre valves

off to a meeting at the ozzy and fuel the bike up, been a while since I've rode so go to put air in the tyres starting with the rear. Puts me little dog leg adapter on and air starts leaking out the tyre......being a daft foccer I think that if the machine can get it in quicker than the valve is letting out then eventually I'll get 42 into the rear.......WRONG :'(

IT KEPT PISSING OUT.

tried the front incase it was a dodgy adapter but inflated to 36 no probs so I decide its the rear valve, cut me losses at 4 psi in the rear, rang the ozzy and said I'll be at least an hour, rode the short distance home (too far to push) at 4 mph keeping an eye on things and got home ok. I'll see if I can fit the car foot pump and get air in that way before shooting down the tyre place to sort a new valve


if I haven't got enough on me plate? :\
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« Reply #535 on: 07 January 2016, 06:48:06 pm »
Agrees with YamFazFan on the headlight bulb replacement issue. my box is a MR2 Spider and I have to anticipate a head lamp failure about 4 months in advance so I can go on a strict diet to lose about 1\2 lbs per finger to get anywhere near the bulb holder let alone release the F-----g thing, and my fingers seem to be about 2 inches shorter that the gangley sod who designed the car.
To replace the side lamp bulbs a Toyota engineer said the easiest way is to remove the front bumper and front panel to get to the bottom headlamp shell fixing screw remove the shell to replace the bulb.
Seems like an easy option Doh! :'(
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #536 on: 07 January 2016, 07:29:13 pm »
Agrees with YamFazFan on the headlight bulb replacement issue. my box is a MR2 Spider and I have to anticipate a head lamp failure about 4 months in advance so I can go on a strict diet to lose about 1\2 lbs per finger to get anywhere near the bulb holder let alone release the F-----g thing, and my fingers seem to be about 2 inches shorter that the gangley sod who designed the car.
To replace the side lamp bulbs a Toyota engineer said the easiest way is to remove the front bumper and front panel to get to the bottom headlamp shell fixing screw remove the shell to replace the bulb.
Seems like an easy option Doh! :'(
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #537 on: 07 January 2016, 07:32:46 pm »
faulty tyre valves

off to a meeting at the ozzy and fuel the bike up, been a while since I've rode so go to put air in the tyres starting with the rear. Puts me little dog leg adapter on and air starts leaking out the tyre......being a daft foccer I think that if the machine can get it in quicker than the valve is letting out then eventually I'll get 42 into the rear.......WRONG :'(

IT KEPT PISSING OUT.

tried the front incase it was a dodgy adapter but inflated to 36 no probs so I decide its the rear valve, cut me losses at 4 psi in the rear, rang the ozzy and said I'll be at least an hour, rode the short distance home (too far to push) at 4 mph keeping an eye on things and got home ok. I'll see if I can fit the car foot pump and get air in that way before shooting down the tyre place to sort a new valve


if I haven't got enough on me plate? :\


Do you not change the valves every second time or every time you change the tyres?

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #538 on: 07 January 2016, 10:31:59 pm »
Agrees with YamFazFan on the headlight bulb replacement issue. my box is a MR2 Spider and I have to anticipate a head lamp failure about 4 months in advance so I can go on a strict diet to lose about 1\2 lbs per finger to get anywhere near the bulb holder let alone release the F-----g thing, and my fingers seem to be about 2 inches shorter that the gangley sod who designed the car.
To replace the side lamp bulbs a Toyota engineer said the easiest way is to remove the front bumper and front panel to get to the bottom headlamp shell fixing screw remove the shell to replace the bulb.
Seems like an easy option Doh! :'(



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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #539 on: 07 January 2016, 11:18:23 pm »
new tyres not so long ago, so imagine the dealer fitted new valves...........never had an issue before but today the rear just wouldn't have it
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« Reply #540 on: 08 January 2016, 08:25:24 am »
I would double check if the dealer changed the valves  because many do not unless you ask them to. Valves perish like tyres and eventually crack near the rim..


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« Reply #541 on: 08 January 2016, 03:36:05 pm »
I helped a damsel in distress the other week, she'd got a flat tyre on a dark rainy night and didn't seem sure on how to change the wheel. Apparently she'd had a slow puncture and some local garage had repaired it? When I arrived on the scene she was struggling to remove the wheel trim and tbh it wasn't easy when I took over, whoever fitted it must have put some force behind it as they had not lined the trim up and had sheared off the valve, no shit, it wasn't there. Focin cowboys, it must have been flat when she drove it away! Way I see it is you've got to tell them exactly what you want, may seem patronising, but at least you know it's hopefully been done correctly.
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« Reply #542 on: 08 January 2016, 07:35:31 pm »
I know someone that spent an hour or so hunting for an Allen key to remove a wheel trim when they had a flat..... they were 'decorative' Allen heads moulded onto the cover and it just pulled off like any other :lol


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« Reply #543 on: 09 January 2016, 01:17:49 pm »
Oy! Frostie you cheeky Foccer. lol
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #544 on: 09 January 2016, 01:46:11 pm »
Oy! Frostie you cheeky Foccer. lol
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« Reply #545 on: 10 January 2016, 06:56:00 pm »
LMFAO. love the sticker

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #546 on: 11 January 2016, 07:31:15 pm »
Smart Motorways (M42 for example!) - now you've got three lanes of trucks all doing 55.9mph and one outside lane with some cars/vans coasting at 65. Hows that supposed to improve congestion  :evil :evil

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #547 on: 11 January 2016, 09:11:34 pm »
Drivers, who having said and waved goodbye to the passenger they have just dropped off, then sound the car horn 'goodbye'...about half a dozen times...at 6am... >:

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #548 on: 12 January 2016, 12:03:21 pm »
twats who jump amber lights when they're miles away and easily have time to stop but don't
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #549 on: 12 January 2016, 04:39:57 pm »
twats who jump amber lights when they're miles away and easily have time to stop but don't

Amber? That's for lightweights.
Bus drivers round my way will only jump full on red lights and nothing less.
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