Random Irritations

[HampshireHog]

Price gouging? As you say, agree to disagree but there’s a sense of entitlement in your post. The supplier of a service decides the price. The customer decides on paying for what they need, and the supplier they use…

You are right there is a sense of entitlement, this country provides affordable healthcare to all and Dentistry doesn’t anymore. The customer doesn’t have choice as in many cases regions NHS patients are not accepted. If GP’s followed suit there would be uproar.

 

[SteveW86]

Amazon bashing on the door at 6:58 this morning

Last minute Mother’s Day delivery?

 

[The Squirrel]

You are right there is a sense of entitlement, this country provides affordable healthcare to all and Dentistry doesn’t anymore. The customer doesn’t have choice as in many cases regions NHS patients are not accepted. If GP’s followed suit there would be uproar.

If the government set a fixed budget for GP services and hard capped both spending and activity, only commissioning enough care to cover about 35% of the population each year (you did realise that’s exactly what they do for dentistry, right?) then yes GPs would absolutely either follow suit or cease to exist.

Hopefully in that scenario you’d be perceptive enough to see that that was a government spending choice rather than blame GPs, call them names and accuse them of price gouging simply because your only personal frame of price reference is government subsidised care where you’re paying a fraction of the cost (or none) yourself directly. Hopefully.

Don’t know why you don’t think that isn’t what’s quietly happening already. My local NHS GP surgery has a 2 month wait for routine appointments, if they get back to you at all. Want quicker? You’ll have to pay. Private GP in centre of town is expanding premises. Private GP services were basically nonexistent outside of Harley Street 20 years ago. Now they’re more than 15% of all scheduled GP appointments (and this proportion is rising fast) with new clinics opening rapidly in all areas.

 

[Sid Rixon IV]

Our club lounge has tables to seat 6 and one big table to seat 10 (plus extra when the room is needed by squeezing up).

Walked in today to see a group of 4 sat at the table for ten with several 6 seater tables available.

Before the "refurb " we had a long table for 8. It was deemed as the domain of a group of elderly, no longer playing, gents. if anyone sat at that table unwittingly, even if they weren't present, there'd be an audible intake of breath from every golfer present.
When they did occupy the table at least two would doze off every minute or so.
I once listened to them discussing mobile phones as one tried to explain to the others where "the Cloud" was.
That worth an entry fee.

 

[Voyager EMH]

I went to go out Thursday night and as I started the car I heard a big bang.
Front tyre had blown but being dark I couldn’t see a lot.
So got up yesterday and had a look and one of the coils from the front suspension has snapped and popped the tyre.
I have been saying for years that as soon as something goes on the car I would replace it so rather than getting the coils/suspension fixed I have scrapped the car. (I have had it 10 years and it was old when I got it).

Having a little look yesterday for a new car and the wife decided she doesn’t like her car much so could she have the nice new car and I have hers?

So now she is looking for a new car and I get hers.

Not sure quite what’s happened there

I think it means you are getting a car for which you know all about the usage it has had in recent years. You are very fortunate to have that knowledge when acquiring a car.
No need to feel "not quite sure".

 

[Lord Tyrion]

A pub near to me has just had a refurb. They had a lot of big circular tables, long bench tables. Small numbers of people on big tables was an issue. The refurb has seen all of those removed and replaced with smaller tables throughout. Those tables can be moved together but it's stopped the hogging of big spaces by only a few people

 

[Bunkermagnet]

I get that some garages have upped their fuel prices and everyone is up in arms, however..no-one is up in arms over the banks raising interest rates and cutting mortgage products when the BoE hasn't made any changes to the base rate.

 

[HampshireHog]

A pub near to me has just had a refurb. They had a lot of big circular tables, long bench tables. Small numbers of people on big tables was an issue. The refurb has seen all of those removed and replaced with smaller tables throughout. Those tables can be moved together but it's stopped the hogging of big spaces by only a few people

Why are you irritated by this unless you are a space hogger?

 

[GreiginFife]

I get that some garages have upped their fuel prices and everyone is up in arms, however..no-one is up in arms over the banks raising interest rates and cutting mortgage products when the BoE hasn't made any changes to the base rate.

People generally don’t feel the day to day impact of that.

Mortgage rates, for most are a moot point until it’s time to renew or take a new product.

Fuel we feel pretty much immediately and consistently. Apples and oranges really.