LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME - 2021

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        The BBC certainly do - in fact, most of the media do. It is very rare we have BBC on now as they increase risk in my house.... risk of me putting my boot through the screen.
         
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          That was the main man of the splinter group, Insulate Britain - he did refuse to answer initially and then later stomped off the GMB set like a spoilt child.

          Mr Hallam however he said in an interview, quite clearly, that he would block an ambulance with a dying patient inside if he was blocking the road at a protest. That, in my book, is domestic terrorism and should be dealt with as such, but we have a government that are so inept with a police force not far behind (far too busy being political instead of doing their actual job) that they get offered a cup of tea.

          I can guarantee you one thing, if there was an ambulance on blues and twos behind me and these loons were on the road in front, their choice would be very simple - move or get gravel rash.
           
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            The switch sites are actually stating that they cannot give sensible deals at the moment because of the flux in the market - all of their providers are deliberately quoting high to stop people moving it seems.

            This is a good read - Column: European Cargo Cults? Standing On The Shore, Waiting For ‘Energy Cargo’…A Full Circle Of Colonial Irony

            "Nothing against your energy crisis, UK; it truly is a tragedy in the making. The dart of accountability is aimed more at the foreheads of the climate lunatics you’ve let take the wheel. Their boneheadedness is truly breathtaking; it’s like they are standing on the deck of the Titanic staring down at the gaping hole in the side, and declaring that what the ship needs first and foremost is a salad bar."
             
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              Put £25 fuel in car, no waiting and all pumps working
               
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                  Same here, I will refrain from doing so, we don't want a shortage of TV's
                   
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                    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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                    Not so much fun putting your boot through a flat screen TV though is it.

                    I'm getting fed up with the ITV breakfast show as well, impartially isn't around any more.
                     
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                      My power company went bust a few months ago and I was taken over by my second least favourite company - British Gas (actually their newer 'streamlined' :th scifD36: company B.G. Evolve). They asked me to give them a chance (standard letter arrived) and not to switch yet. Luckily it was just before all the others went bust and I was able to get them to agree to keep the fixed term contract I had with my old company. I bet they wouldn't do it now!
                       
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                        My Dad's gardeners did that too, they work hard but sorry I found it very unprofessional and bad practice.....so very rude!
                         
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                          I don't find ours rude in the way he does it. He's a very nice lad and is generally working in the garden nowhere near us. If he sees either of us approaching he immediately takes off his headphones (proper headphones and not the silly little ear buds) to check whether we need anything. Most of the time he's not in sight and gets on with his jobs.
                           
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                            pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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                            A mate I used to work with, had a gardener, a dog walker, and ironing lady,not sure if there were others.

                            When he complained about having to do the odd job at home we had this running joke with him, at the end of every moan we would all chime in, shaking head, "yeah you just can't get the staff any more ".
                             
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                              That's my problem :whistle: :roflol:

                              I sacked the butler because he didn't buttle properly and the scullery maid when we got rid of the scullery. :dunno:
                               
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                                If the fuel forecourts carried an extra 10% fuel, we wouldn't have had this issue in the first place. There would of been none of this, shortage of tanker drivers circulating in the media, but I think that was the plan from the off.

                                How an extra five litres of petrol helped cause the country to grind to a halt (msn.com)

                                I personally think some of these reports are being done deliberately, mainly because they want us to be still in the EU, they will do anything and everything to reverse the democratic vote.
                                 
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