Random Irritations

Town prices, bearing in mind we are an insignificant village on the outskirts of Gateshead. I know why they've done it (to keep out the riff raff from some nearby places) but I fear it may backfire on them with the prices they've set.
Can see their logic but clearly needs significant and sustained footfall to break even. If it gets a good reputation then it may succeed but if everyone thinks its over priced will they not go elsewhere.
 
Town prices, bearing in mind we are an insignificant village on the outskirts of Gateshead. I know why they've done it (to keep out the riff raff from some nearby places) but I fear it may backfire on them with the prices they've set.
Town prices 😱😱. Will it become a destination pub or is there enough of a population locally to keep it going?
 
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Was out drinking in Camden on Friday night, couldn't find my debit card anywhere so I quickly cancelled it on the app thinking I must have lost it somewhere. When I got home I had one more quick look and found it again. Doh.
 
An old one, for some reason irritated more today.
Airport security staff constantly shouting about "ipads".
Tempted one day to leave a (non apple) tablet in the bag just for "bantz"
 
Was out drinking in Camden on Friday night, couldn't find my debit card anywhere so I quickly cancelled it on the app thinking I must have lost it somewhere. When I got home I had one more quick look and found it again. Doh.

Does your bank not do the temp freeze on the app?
 
bought a UA heatgear shirt at Tain golf club yesterday, £50 cheaper than they sell the same shirt in my clubs shop and the club wonder why members are not using the shop so much
 
Town prices 😱😱. Will it become a destination pub or is there enough of a population locally to keep it going?

Not sure mate, the place was rammed all weekend but I imagine that will drop off significantly over time. I heard they will start serving food in a couple of weeks but theres only about 6 car parking spaces outside lol.
The IPA I was drinking was £4.30 a pint, bog standard Heineken was about £3.60 i think.
 
Warning, Pro Cycling rant. (i am ready for the abuse)

Intolerant people. I was marshaling for a triathlon yesterday, i was posted on a corner/junction in a 20mph zone. Wow, the abuse I got!! people coming to me and moaning about the amount of cyclists on the ROAD. It was all done and dusted by 11am on a Sunday. I was called a C Unit by one woman!! she was passenger in a speeding audi with kids in the back! Why the hatred? I know some cyclists are knobs and jump lights, a lot of car drivers are knobs too and they don't get the same level of hatred towards them!
Would society rather these people gave up trying to keep fit, got fat, got diabetes and were a burden to the NHS?

Oh and cyclists ride 2 abreast because it us way safer and advised in the highway code!! Ifs its not safe to overtake when they are two abreast, its not safe to overtake 1!!!

Last one, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ROAD TAX!!!!!
 
Warning, Pro Cycling rant. (i am ready for the abuse)

Intolerant people. I was marshaling for a triathlon yesterday, i was posted on a corner/junction in a 20mph zone. Wow, the abuse I got!! people coming to me and moaning about the amount of cyclists on the ROAD. It was all done and dusted by 11am on a Sunday. I was called a C Unit by one woman!! she was passenger in a speeding audi with kids in the back! Why the hatred? I know some cyclists are knobs and jump lights, a lot of car drivers are knobs too and they don't get the same level of hatred towards them!
Would society rather these people gave up trying to keep fit, got fat, got diabetes and were a burden to the NHS?

Oh and cyclists ride 2 abreast because it us way safer and advised in the highway code!! Ifs its not safe to overtake when they are two abreast, its not safe to overtake 1!!!

Last one, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ROAD TAX!!!!!

People are dumb. Quite a few cyclists on the road that leads to my Club and some of the places people choose to overtake are bafflingly dumb. Quite a few blind bends and blind hills and people are still happy to overtake, or get right up your arse when you refuse to. I wonder how some people even passed a test in the first place, impatient morons.
 
people prattling on about Boris Johnson not being the elected PM - there was some Liebour moron on radio 5 this morning who didn't understand how it worked
 
Rain.... need to cut the grass before heading off on my golf Jolly..... Wife said well you should have done it yesterday, instead of pissing of to play golf:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
Getting a heap of work dumped from a great height that has no semblance to my role or JD and will take a massive effort starting at step 1 to complete and no-one above having any idea of the volume of time and work involved to get anything sorted. Having a crap Monday. Bob Geldorf was right!
 
People who for their own reasoning conisder "tradesmen" to be unskilled and all overcharging. Perhaps we should consider accountants, IT geeks, etc etc all as desk jockeys incapable of a hard days work..

We all have our skills and qualifications, so lets respect what everyone does for a living and appreciate that they will most likely do the job better and in much less time that we could.:)
 
People who for their own reasoning conisder "tradesmen" to be unskilled and all overcharging. Perhaps we should consider accountants, IT geeks, etc etc all as desk jockeys incapable of a hard days work..

We all have our skills and qualifications, so lets respect what everyone does for a living and appreciate that they will most likely do the job better and in much less time that we could.:)
Where I live there is a town FB page. It is full of the usual moaning and rants but it is very useful for tradesman recommendations. Unfortunately 90% of the posts start with 'cheap plumber/electrician/roofer etc required'. They don't ask for good, reliable etc. They want a 5 star service, 5 star skills, 2 star price.

I'm not a tradesman by the way, I'm the bloke who gets one in, has a list of ones who turn up when they are supposed to, do the job properly and with a smile. People have forgotten that skills have to be paid for.
 
People are dumb. Quite a few cyclists on the road that leads to my Club and some of the places people choose to overtake are bafflingly dumb. Quite a few blind bends and blind hills and people are still happy to overtake, or get right up your arse when you refuse to. I wonder how some people even passed a test in the first place, impatient morons.

Yeah cyclist can be a nightmare to get past, took me an hour to overtake this lot today...

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