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In recent years, the phrase “wallet inspector” has proved a useful one. On social media, the spectre of the wallet inspector is summoned whenever someone falls for an obvious grift:
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Nowadays, by noticing that Snake is not in fact the wallet inspector, Homer would quickly be smeared on social media as a hard-left conspiracy theorist, and BuzzFeed would be readying an article insisting — against Homer’s divisive comments — that they’d contacted the wallet inspector, and the nerds really are all going to get their wallets back, just as soon as Snake has had time to check their contacts over and ensure there are no irregularities

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On a certain level, you really are an idiot if you’re given to pointing out that “that’s not the wallet inspector.” To point out that this is not the wallet inspector is to show that you cannot be trusted — to indicate that, at the very least, you aspire to an autonomy the world is careful to deny the vast majority of the people who are given any sort of responsibility for running it. But if you dare to hand your wallet over, blankly and without question, the world may well be happy to reward your acquiescence in it tenfold.

OwlFancier posted:

Yes I may have committed murder, but you cannot deny that by doing it five hundred times I demonstrated incredible ambition?

Jakabite posted:

Just had to get a locksmith out because i lost my key on a night out and the landlord’s emergency number just goes to a plumbing company. I changed the lock too, came to about £150 all in all. The LL is uncontactable due to the Jewish High Holidays until Tuesday and I’m going away for a week on Monday so didn’t have much choice but to replace the lock - what are my chances of them agreeing to reimburse?

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Just have a smart front door you can open with your phone, or face recognition.

Jakabite posted:

Just had to get a locksmith out because i lost my key on a night out and the landlord’s emergency number just goes to a plumbing company. I changed the lock too, came to about £150 all in all. The LL is uncontactable due to the Jewish High Holidays until Tuesday and I’m going away for a week on Monday so didn’t have much choice but to replace the lock - what are my chances of them agreeing to reimburse?

DesperateDan posted:

they will probably tell you to do one if it was your fault or not

you got contents insurance?

mine has a separate little policy attached for poo poo like this

NotJustANumber99 posted:

You could probably have smashed and replaced a window for less.

Julio Cruz posted:

the last time I tried to claim on my contents insurance there was a £200 excess and it would have meant losing my no-claims so it would have cost me more money to claim than not to

DesperateDan posted:

my da did this on his car once, broke a tiny little window pane on a rear door thinking it was gonna be cheaper than the main panes or a locksmith

turns out it was the most expensive bit of glass to source on the whole car because it was rarely broken

Microplastics posted:

Always have a spare key buried somewhere

smellmycheese posted:

Brendan Rodgers posted:

Yeah and you should link it to a chip in Elon's skull.

smellmycheese posted:

Reichstag Rishi the Hund Hater

Soylent Yellow posted:

"First they came for the XL Bullies, and I did not speak out. Because it was ripping my throat out"

Jakabite posted:

Just had to get a locksmith out because i lost my key on a night out and the landlord’s emergency number just goes to a plumbing company. I changed the lock too, came to about £150 all in all. The LL is uncontactable due to the Jewish High Holidays until Tuesday and I’m going away for a week on Monday so didn’t have much choice but to replace the lock - what are my chances of them agreeing to reimburse?

Charoclere posted:

Even if it does finally manage to chug into Euston, HS2 is pointless because it doesn't connect to HS1. The only reason HS2 is HS to begin with is so that it could be part of the big continental network, so European businessmen and investors having their "welcome to Britain!" moment being a half-mile trudge down the pavement from St. Pancras means that HS2 failed even before it left the station.

And why did we bother anyway? Outside the statistical anomalies of microstates like the Vatican, the UK is the third-most densely populated country in Europe, behind only Belgium and the Netherlands - England on its own is the second-most densely populated country in Europe. High-speed rail was always ludicrously overengineered for a small and congested country like ours. We could have delivered twice as much capacity for half the cost, and much less environmental damage demanded by the straight high-speed lines carving through the countryside, by laying standard track for normal trains. HS2 was always a political vanity project for both the Labour government that planned it and the Tory government that approved it, and it should never have been commissioned in the first place.

Jakabite posted:

Yeah I suspected as much. loving landlords. They’re going to screw me out of the deposit for putting up my own shelves anyway so I might just keep my final month of rent and disappear when I move, which is soon. I’ll certainly not be paying any fines.

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Meath Court in Hope Gardens is unlike any other place in London. The multicoloured shipping containers are stacked like Lego blocks four rows high and while children live there, it is anything but child friendly. The Dickensian conditions residents are forced to suffer would be enough on its own to shock anyone who took the time to visit the cramped corner of Acton but this would likely turn to horror if you speak to even one person living there.

Drugs, theft, sexual harassment, assault, serious injury, lack of security and violence are sadly not rare at Meath Court, one of Ealing Council's once-lauded experimental housing constructions. Julian Bell, leader of Ealing Council at the time when the estate first opened in 2017 said that it was a “superb response” to a growing housing crisis.

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Jaeluni Asjil posted:

https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/west-london-shipping-container-towers-27746502

Meath Court, Acton/Ealing

Shipping Container Towers

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Mega Comrade posted:

That's a really really bad idea.

As long as you don't need the deposit back quickly there are proper ways to dispute deposits these days. I've fought landlord many times and either got everything back or at least lessened the amount they managed to claim.