Random Irritations

[Deleted member 1740]

Healthier than red meat, hugely versatile. I'd rather we just didn't let in the rubbish from the US. Let them get their act together and then they can sell their chickens over here. Until then, no thanks.

Without sounding like homer, support your local butcher instead. Any decent butcher knows exactly were there stock comes from.

 

[Deleted member 16999]

Without sounding like homer, support your local butcher instead. Any decent butcher knows exactly were there stock comes from.

Totally agree, except that won’t work when eating out or away from home.

 

[chrisd]

Totally agree, except that won’t work when eating out or away from home.

Buy chicken for home consumption and eat beef when out - problem solved !

 

[Deleted member 16999]

Buy chicken for home consumption and eat beef when out - problem solved !

Chris for PM.......in a non-political way.

 

[chrisd]

It’s not just chicken though Chris, it’s possibly standards across the whole industry.

Best we can hope for is the media are again over reacting as these trade deals haven’t been done yet.

Possibly isn't probably Paul, I'll worry if it becomes probably

 

[chrisd]

Chris for PM.......in a non-political way.

No need for scientific advisors ?

 

[Deleted member 16999]

Possibly isn't probably Paul, I'll worry if it becomes probably

The Amendment voted down was about a bit more than chicken.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-politics-54506185

 

[chrisd]

The Amendment voted down was about a bit more than chicken.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-politics-54506185

I'm not getting political but the Lords are going to vote down everything anti Brexit

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Without sounding like homer, support your local butcher instead. Any decent butcher knows exactly were there stock comes from.

Paul has covered this, I agree with you though. We do buy meat for home consumption from a local butcher. The issue is when you are out and about. What does the pub serve you, the take away, what is in your sandwich, the pie etc. You can only control so much. After that you are reliant on standards being followed.

 

[Deleted member 1740]

Paul has covered this, I agree with you though. We do buy meat for home consumption from a local butcher. The issue is when you are out and about. What does the pub serve you, the take away, what is in your sandwich, the pie etc. You can only control so much. After that you are reliant on standards being followed.

I know and I agree with you.

Lowering food standards is absurd, though are you surprised by anything that this government does?? Theyve got form for lowering standards, You've only got to look at the PPE changes earlier on in the year when they couldn't meet the standards.

 

[Orikoru]

Without sounding like homer, support your local butcher instead. Any decent butcher knows exactly were there stock comes from.

Surely he would tell us to buy our meat from Golfbidder?

 

[Blue in Munich]

The Covid excuse. I spent a lot of time at work calling banks, mortgage companies, utilities etc. 6 months ago, you used to be hacked off if you were in a queue for more than 20 minutes. Since lockdown, the norm has now become an hour or more just to ask even the most basic of questions and if you get your automated selection wrong (they are pretty vague and ambiguous in their descriptions) then you can end up back in the queue again. Our office now constantly has awful Muzak playing all the time as people put the calls on speaker phone so as they can do something else whilst waiting.

An hour would be great; 6 hours & 3 calls to change Mrs BiM's car insurance. They did waive the £25 charge for the phone change, but that wasn't enough to cover the cost of the calls.

 

[Blue in Munich]

Without sounding like homer, support your local butcher instead. Any decent butcher knows exactly were there stock comes from.

Do you know you sound like Homer?

 

[chrisd]

An hour would be great; 6 hours & 3 calls to change Mrs BiM's car insurance. They did waive the £25 charge for the phone change, but that wasn't enough to cover the cost of the calls.

Cant even get through to our credit card company JaJa who have recently taken over from the post office, so Mrs D can't sort out the app and pay her bill. I had no problem with their conversion until I made my first payment on my card and didnt realise that it doesnt show the (should be) nil balance and assumed it didn't go through and have now paid it twice ?

Surely it's not too difficult to show that the payment has been received ??

 

[USER1999]

He has a cat ?

I have two!

 

[Orikoru]

Plusnet, gone down again for no reason. Been on hold for 15 minutes so far so obviously not just us.

Couldn't be fixed over the phone so we await an engineer coming "within the next few days". Coincidentally we are currently having our flooring redone, so currently our lounge has no telly, no internet and no seating available. Should be a fun evening.

 

[harpo_72]

Electrical items that persistently beep tell you they have finished....which muppet thought that was a good idea?

 

[Dando]

My 4 month old washer dryer was due to be repaired for the 4th time today between 7.15 & 10.15am
Got a message at 1pm saying he’d be 10 mins
He’s still not arrived

 

[Beezerk]

Buy chicken for home consumption and eat beef when out - problem solved !

Good idea, but beef curry? Eeeuuuuwwww ?

 

[Dando]

If I remember correctly it did for Bruce Edwards, who was Tom Watson's caddie for his US Open win among others. Also known as Lou Gehrig's disease for the Yankees' player it claimed. Amanda has described it perfectly, hideous disease.

Watching the programme now and it’s heartbreaking