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jim8flog
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I hope you prayed for them as they as it departed.
Orikoru
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Why on earth would you put Alan Smith on commentary for Leicester v Spurs? He played his career for Leicester and Arsenal, you could not have anyone more biased than that. And he's a complete *redacted*.
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The Amber Scum getting promoted to the Football League. 
Slime
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The Amber Scum getting promoted to the Football League.
Oy, my dad used to play for them!
Jamesbrown
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Frankie and benny’s removing all discounts. Use to use a “taste” card for 50% off food. Used to come once a week for a quick meal.
That saving to us ended up being a large tip to the server. Now I’m paying full inflated price for average food and less tip to the worker.
That saving to us ended up being a large tip to the server. Now I’m paying full inflated price for average food and less tip to the worker.
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16.11.1982 They beat Leatherhead 11-1. Thankfully I missed that game.
The Scum are the most hated team in Surrey (and now Devon as I've moved).
When did your Dad play for them? I covered non-league football for many years in the late 70s and 80s.
And my dad played for Tottenham so my dad was better than your dad ???
Slime
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He'd have played for them in the 50's and was probably bigger than your dad.
You may have bumped into him at Pyrford GC. He was a member there for several years before his death in 2011.
My great grand father played for Blackburn rovers.
Who was your dad?
spongebob59
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Energy tariff renewal, currently with BG, best tariff they could offer was £70 a month more, so got a code from a friend and set up a n account with Octopus on a lower tariff than BG's and get £50 cash back too.
Mudball
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Sorry this post is related to the big B and our shambolic new Customs system..
Mrs's surgical loupes need repair. its custom built for her. The loupe manufacturer in the UK organised for it to be fixed. dropped off the UPS package.
7 days later it is still stuck in their Reading warehouse due to Customs clearances needed!!! WTF are we doing to our trade and way we work.
I am on calls/emails to UPS, now been told to speak to their customs brokerage departments. Omnishambles...
This is not to debate if Big B was good or bad, but our new process of doing business with the EU is definitely a very painful experience. Feel sorry for those who have to do this on a daily basis..
Mrs's surgical loupes need repair. its custom built for her. The loupe manufacturer in the UK organised for it to be fixed. dropped off the UPS package.
7 days later it is still stuck in their Reading warehouse due to Customs clearances needed!!! WTF are we doing to our trade and way we work.
I am on calls/emails to UPS, now been told to speak to their customs brokerage departments. Omnishambles...
This is not to debate if Big B was good or bad, but our new process of doing business with the EU is definitely a very painful experience. Feel sorry for those who have to do this on a daily basis..
UPS Customer service is amongst the worst out there. They really are not interested. I do deal with this on a near daily basis, not just UPS, and it has aged me
.I'm surprised it is stuck in the UK. My own experience is that is normally leaves the UK okay and then gets stuck in the destination country, Germany being the biggest black hole out there. Best of luck, and yes you are right, it is painful and I see little sign that imporvement will be along.
Mudball
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UPS Customer service is amongst the worst out there. They really are not interested. I do deal with this on a near daily basis, not just UPS, and it has aged me
I'm surprised it is stuck in the UK. My own experience is that is normally leaves the UK okay and then gets stuck in the destination country, Germany being the biggest black hole out there. Best of luck, and yes you are right, it is painful and I see little sign that imporvement will be along.
Maybe its a new thing.. but they are doing custom clearance in UK. I am assuming, it is bonded warehouse type of thing. So though physically it may be seen as being in Reading, but maybe 'in Germany'. it seems unlikely, i think it is in a blackbox between UK & Germany. It sucks.
It is my first experience of sending soemthing to EU after the split. Usually, i would have got this repaired and back in 10 days... but this sucks big time..
Crazyface
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The Amber Scum getting promoted to the Football League.
We have a winner at last !!!
?????
Crazyface
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CAn you not use another company?
The problem he will have, I've been there, is that it is now in their system. Trying to extracate a box from their network, particularly if it is overseas and subject to paperwork, customs etc, is very difficult. It is possible but not as easy or simple as you might think.
AmandaJR
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Cramp in my toes...ouchey!
Mudball
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unfortunately not.. the choice of courier is down to the supplier of the equipment. So they sent out all the shipping labels etc. all put in place, before sending it out into the ether. UPS is not bad. Have used them plenty of times e.g. when my Bose headphones need to go back to Netherlands a few times. Always, the turnaround has been a week at best. This is my first time post brex.. and it is madness. looking at twitter folks with similar border control issues for business, there are people saying 'get on with it'... i must say, they must not have had to deal with this yet
This is my biggest fear. I told Cust Support if we can get it back, but have been jumping between different operators .. not sure if they have it figured out either..
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Animal friends pet insurance
13th April put in claim for dogs meds (£1111)
Assessor put on hold for few reasons
Two of which being
1. His eye condition didnt know about this? Yes you did you have been paying out for it for 4 years now
2. We need a history from the vets as has been 2 years. Well no you don't actually as it's a repeat Med form which doesn't need that, that's a full claim needs that.
That aside I chased again today they claim still waiting history (finally thing holding up even tho last week said oh we don't need history)
So I called vets myself got the history in 2 mins and sent to insurance myself .. apparently they had called the vets twice last week
Oh ofc you have.
Useless
13th April put in claim for dogs meds (£1111)
Assessor put on hold for few reasons
Two of which being
1. His eye condition didnt know about this? Yes you did you have been paying out for it for 4 years now
2. We need a history from the vets as has been 2 years. Well no you don't actually as it's a repeat Med form which doesn't need that, that's a full claim needs that.
That aside I chased again today they claim still waiting history (finally thing holding up even tho last week said oh we don't need history)
So I called vets myself got the history in 2 mins and sent to insurance myself .. apparently they had called the vets twice last week
Oh ofc you have.
Useless
ColchesterFC
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Local estate agents advertising a property as having "stunning open field views". Yes, the house does currently have views across open fields to the rear of the property, however planning permission has just been granted for 950 new houses to be built on those open fields. The house has also been reduced by over 20k in the last three weeks which to me suggests the buyers are desperate to sell before the building work starts.
SwingsitlikeHogan
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Ten pages of football reporting in yesterday‘s Guardian and not a single sentence about the Scottish Cup Final (and I read of same coverage in the Sunday Times).
That it was won by St Johnstone - a very tightly run football club from a small provincial Scottish city - to make a 2020/21 cup double, the only club other than the OF and Ferguson’s Aberdeen of the early 1980s to EVER have done so - doesn’t seem to merit recognition and that is disappointing to say the least. For an achievement as, if not more, stupendous than Leicester Cities EPL win.
Indeed the generally held view is that what St Johnstone have achieved - the cup double (to go with 5th in the league and European football) - is possibly, perhaps probably, the greatest achievement by a Scottish club EVER and one unlikely to be repeated outside of the OF...well...not worth a mention it appears.?
And of course St Gerrard is Manager of the Year. Yeh right. We all (and the decent OF fans on here agree) know that MotY is Callum Davidson. Share? Not chance, can’t have the manager of a diddy club having same recognition as the manager of the mighty Rangers...?
I suspect that none of the above will be known by the vast majority of football followers outside Scotland. And that blindness simply perpetuates the commonly held view in England that the only Scotttish teams worth their salt are Celtic and Rangers..when in fact there are other teams that play more than half decent football.
Rant over...
That it was won by St Johnstone - a very tightly run football club from a small provincial Scottish city - to make a 2020/21 cup double, the only club other than the OF and Ferguson’s Aberdeen of the early 1980s to EVER have done so - doesn’t seem to merit recognition and that is disappointing to say the least. For an achievement as, if not more, stupendous than Leicester Cities EPL win.
Indeed the generally held view is that what St Johnstone have achieved - the cup double (to go with 5th in the league and European football) - is possibly, perhaps probably, the greatest achievement by a Scottish club EVER and one unlikely to be repeated outside of the OF...well...not worth a mention it appears.?
And of course St Gerrard is Manager of the Year. Yeh right. We all (and the decent OF fans on here agree) know that MotY is Callum Davidson. Share? Not chance, can’t have the manager of a diddy club having same recognition as the manager of the mighty Rangers...?
I suspect that none of the above will be known by the vast majority of football followers outside Scotland. And that blindness simply perpetuates the commonly held view in England that the only Scotttish teams worth their salt are Celtic and Rangers..when in fact there are other teams that play more than half decent football.
Rant over...
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