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She's rangers I'm Celtic, she hates papists and I hate the queen. Somehow we make it work.
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ThomasPaine posted:On the topic of deliveries I am getting right hosed off with the postie insisting on handing my packages to my neighbours rather than just giving me a note to pick them up from the depot a 10 min walk from my flat. I’m regularly on the other end of this, since we both work from home we’re virtually always here and so our house turns into a mini-depot for half the street’s parcels. More than once I’ve gotten hosed off with the mounting pile of stuff that people apparently haven’t felt the need to come and collect and had to go out to play postie myself on an evening to get rid of them. Why don’t these people want their things?
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Jan 12, 2023 17:25
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History Comes Inside! posted:I’m regularly on the other end of this, since we both work from home we’re virtually always here and so our house turns into a mini-depot for half the street’s parcels. In my old flat we took in a parcel and I guess the neighbours must have moved out just before it arrived because it sat there for literally months and no one came for it, and they never answered the door when I tried to take it round. After about a year we thought gently caress it let's just have whatever it is, clearly no one wants it. Turned out to be a plug adapter which was pretty boring but we did need one so thanks I guess random invisible ex-neighbour!
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Jan 12, 2023 17:30
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There's at least one courier round here who'll open my front door and pop the parcel inside. Doesn't knock, doesn't ring, apparently doesn't care if I have a gently caress-off Rottweiler with a penchant for human flesh
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Jan 12, 2023 17:58
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Wachter posted:There's at least one courier round here who'll open my front door and pop the parcel inside. Doesn't knock, doesn't ring, apparently doesn't care if I have a gently caress-off Rottweiler with a penchant for human flesh You should probably lock your front door
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Jan 12, 2023 18:04
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Failed Imagineer posted:Chronoposting This, my dear, is the Zybourne Parcel
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Jan 12, 2023 18:08
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ThomasPaine posted:It's just a bit awkward for me but some people will have Neighbours From Hell and it seems dumb that it's just standard practice to trust everyone to look after each other's post all the time like that. Was at the package collection centre years back, and in front of me was some lady complaining on how all her mail is given to her neighbour. Who they are suing at the moment. The postie gave the neighbour a bank statement, so the lady was saying the neighbour is taunting her by reading off dates/amounts and trying to guess she had bought Wachter posted:There's at least one courier round here who'll open my front door and pop the parcel inside. Doesn't knock, doesn't ring, apparently doesn't care if I have a gently caress-off Rottweiler with a penchant for human flesh That happens in my small town of origin with the standard postie. He knows who you are, we know who he is and where he lives, so you sometimes hear him knock then shout though the door saying its only him. And we take care of each other around our way, post given to neighbours is a way to catch up and have a chat.
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Jan 12, 2023 18:14
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happyhippy posted:Was at the package collection centre years back, and in front of me was some lady complaining on how all her mail is given to her neighbour. I'm assuming that's why she's suing, for opening private correspondence?
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Jan 12, 2023 18:14
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Tesseraction posted:I'm assuming that's why she's suing, for opening private correspondence? Haven't a clue. I was there only for mine, she was still there talking to two of them.
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Jan 12, 2023 18:16
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NoneMoreNegative posted:This, my dear, is the Zybourne Parcel
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Jan 12, 2023 18:18
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Failed Imagineer posted:E: EV I am imploring you to use paragraphs. I'm sure you have interesting posts but my brain just slides off that wall of text Yeah, sorry all. Probably shouldn't have attempted a post, bit crispy cos I hosed up meds timing last night.
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Jan 12, 2023 18:19
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Gort posted:You should probably lock your front door I do now
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Jan 12, 2023 18:20
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EmptyVessel posted:Yeah, sorry all. Probably shouldn't have attempted a post, bit crispy cos I hosed up meds timing last night. man I hope I never have to have the kind of medicine that goes "an hour late? enjoy an entire week or vertigo motherfucker"
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Jan 12, 2023 18:25
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happyhippy posted:Was at the package collection centre years back, and in front of me was some lady complaining on how all her mail is given to her neighbour. I miss that our postie seems to be doing a different route so we have a new one who makes me answer the door  Very unfair. But yeah, it's a village of 1,000 people, I know that the postie's son plays for Brora Rangers, & previously played for Cove, both in the Highland League. There's something pleasant about it all. I never lock the door when I go out unless I'm going to be out all day, I'm not sure my parents shed has been locked in decades. It's the one major plus-side of village life, even if it is countered by everyone knowing everyone, & thus being gossipy messy bitches.I always remember that my mum would talk about how nosey & in everyone's affairs her mother was, but then when she died there was a massive turnout for the funeral & everyone was like "she was lovely, so interested in everyone's life!" & I suppose that's village mindset really. I definitely have city mindset of head down, mind my own business.
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Jan 12, 2023 18:27
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???vertigo that's a you problem Meds stop my brain whirring madly so I can sleep, gently caress it up and I basically don't. Also, an hour? lol try 3 or 4 cos brain too busy to spot the time. And people used to wonder why I found speed boring.
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Jan 12, 2023 18:30
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Lol got a letter from NHS ENGLAND telling me my GP will be unregistering me from February as I'm outside the boundary. I live 1 mile away from the surgery! Checks bottom of letter... "and is part of Capita plc". Chalk another victory up to the private sector! I'm sure we should definitely be trusting these big brains to more and more of the NHS.
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Jan 12, 2023 18:32
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EmptyVessel posted:???vertigo that's a you problem tbh I only get vertigo if I stop taking my SSRIs for more than half a week, and then it's in fits and starts
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Jan 12, 2023 18:39
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NoneMoreNegative posted:This, my dear, is the Zybourne Parcel Imagine four parcels on the edge of a cliff. That's your DPD delivery, which has been flagged as complete.
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Jan 12, 2023 18:52
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forkboy84 posted:I miss that our postie seems to be doing a different route so we have a new one who makes me answer the door My local postie pulled out in front of me when i was riding my Honda 90 into work (back in 1996), lucky it wasn't head on but he put me in hospital with a few broken bones. Every time my mum saw him she would say ''there goes that wee baldy bastard'', only time i ever heard her curse in my life. He's still my local postie, the compensation form that bought me my first car and my house. All it cost me was an arm & a leg (broken). 
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Marmaduke! posted:Lol got a letter from NHS ENGLAND telling me my GP will be unregistering me from February as I'm outside the boundary. I live 1 mile away from the surgery! There are big companies buying them all up, the same way capital accumulation affects everything. But since the creation of the NHS, GP practices have been privately owned. They never wanted to become state employees and they had the bargaining power to avoid it. I know the general sentiment is that anyone associated with the NHS is are hero. But they're just people, a lot of them are tories, and would be perfectly fine with you having to pay for their services if it improves their own material conditions. They're part of the class war too, and they can also act in their own interests. Brendan Rodgers fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Jan 12, 2023 |
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Jan 12, 2023 19:00
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keep punching joe posted:She's rangers I'm Celtic, she hates papists and I hate the queen. Somehow we make it work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Q6U0MYNS0
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I tell you what, if you'd asked me what I thought I might gain from moving to Scotland before I did all those years ago, I don't think 'a pretty decent knowledge of sectarian politics and the Troubles' would have featured high on the list, but here we are.
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Jan 12, 2023 20:41
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keep punching joe posted:She's rangers I'm Celtic, she hates papists and I hate the queen. Somehow we make it work. Getting a sitcom jingle in my head after reading that.
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Jan 12, 2023 20:48
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Yodel once lost a ton of topsoil that I ordered when I was landscaping our garden. They tried to say they left it in my safe space which is my blue recycling bin. They did not. The picture of the blue recycling bin did not convince me that it was loving hiding behind it. It still took 3 months to get a replacement.
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Jan 12, 2023 21:16
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happyhippy posted:Getting a sitcom jingle in my head after reading that. I'm getting flashbacks to watching "Give My Head Peace".
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Here most of the little supermarkets (subsupermarkets?) have a parcel pick-up point. If I order something online by default it gets delivered there, where either I ask the person behind the till to fetch it for me or there's a big stack of locked cabinets containing parcels, and you open them with an app or a code. I can pay a bit extra to get it delivered to my house but I have to go shopping anyway so why bother. That seems to work well and presumably cuts down on the home deliveries drivers have to make. I'm sure I've seen something similar in the UK, does nobody use them? e: I don't know if the local Coop would accept a ton of topsoil and I don't think I'd get it on the bus, probably I'd want that delivered home. big scary monsters fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Jan 12, 2023 |
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Mebh posted:Yodel once lost a ton of topsoil that I ordered when I was landscaping our garden. Like, a literal ton? They thought you wouldn't notice?
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At least they didn't try to shove it halfway through your letterbox.big scary monsters posted:Here most of the little supermarkets (subsupermarkets?)
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Guavanaut posted:Ultramarkets.  I always liked the French hypermarchés, they seem so much more exciting and futuristic than the tedious mundanity of the mere supermarket.
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Yeah but then the granny in front of you pays with a cheque
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Jan 12, 2023 21:45
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The French give them carte blanche to do that. Has l'Académie come up with a native term for self-checkout yet?
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ThomasPaine posted:I tell you what, if you'd asked me what I thought I might gain from moving to Scotland before I did all those years ago, I don't think 'a pretty decent knowledge of sectarian politics and the Troubles' would have featured high on the list, but here we are. Well that's what happens when you move to the parts of Scotland with decent sized Catholic populations, Protestants who are loving obsessed with Papists & the Antichrist in Rome they worship.
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Guavanaut posted:The French give them carte blanche to do that. quote:Has l'Académie come up with a native term for self-checkout yet?
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Guavanaut posted:The French give them carte blanche to do that.  
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https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1613652779523874831
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"here's a big fat cheque" "thanks" "..." "..." "so when are you getting back into politics" "lol why would I do that"
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Tesseraction posted:Like, a literal ton? They thought you wouldn't notice? Yep, a literal ton. They didn't check the manifest I guess. Saw it was marked as delivered with a pic and just sent me the pic of my blue bin saying my order was in there. My 1000kg of soil. It was honestly quite funny when I finally got through to them that was the first thing they asked. If I'd checked my safe spot.
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One has to wonder how you misplace 1000kg of soil....
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Tesseraction posted:One has to wonder how you misplace 1000kg of soil.... Used it for the world's largest soil enema
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Schrodinger's post Is the delivery really in the post box? You'll have to wait until you're home to find out!
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