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Sir Sidney Poitier
Aug 14, 2006

My favourite actor


WhatEvil posted:

I had a car insurer - 1stCentral - somehow manage to open 2 separate policies for me on the same car, with wildly different start dates. I spoke to them a load of times wasting literally hours on hold, was assured that it would be closed, that they would stop asking for money, that it was definitely dealt with this time... until I got a letter from them saying that if I did not pay it would be sent to bailiffs.

Made a complaint to the ombudsman and it got sorted really quickly, plus they paid me some money (think it was like £1-200) as compensation for loving me about.

So sometimes they work.

Are they a bunch of useless cunts then? They're showing up cheapest for me and I'm going to have to change my insurance imminently.

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forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


serious gaylord posted:

Rayners hosed then.

Just put out a statement saying she'll step down if shes found to have broken the rules.

Allow me to just say AHAHAHAHAHAHA

That's what you get for being a loving melt who decided to protect her own position rather than raise even an eyebrow in defence of her own former flatmate Rebecca Long-Bailey waaaaay back when she got sacked from the Shadow Cabinet for the most spurious reasons.

The left don't have much at this point, so I am going to absolutely loving revel in watching the soft left fuckwits acting all shocked when the Labour right shank them. Obviously the coup that topples Kieth will be particularly delicious but Rayner will do for my weekly schadenfreude quotient for now.

Skarsnik
Oct 21, 2008

I...AM...RUUUDE!




serious gaylord posted:

Rayners hosed then.

Just put out a statement saying she'll step down if shes found to have broken the rules.

Much like starmer and the covid beer I doubt she'd have said that unless she was pretty confident she hadn't

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

I want to cry out
but I don’t scream and I don’t shout
And I feel so proud
to be alive
unless starmer set her up to replace her with his own dipshit

anyway they should make her pay for the cost of building a new council house to replace the one she took off the list

Ataxerxes
Dec 2, 2011

What is a soldier but a miserable pile of eaten cats and strange language?

serious gaylord posted:

Shes being investigated for election fraud over her house.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68801671

Fraud house, in the middle of fraud street...

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Reveilled posted:

I also mostly lurk unless the conversation turns to things I know stuff about (linguistics, history, insurance), but I just want to say I've considered the thread an invaluable resource ever since the coalition days (when I posted more frequently) and I really appreciate reading the thoughts of the regular posters.

Well now I need to start dropping references to universal grammar, the minutæ of the Miners Strike and how much it would cost to insure my posting fingers.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Skarsnik posted:

Much like starmer and the covid beer I doubt she'd have said that unless she was pretty confident she hadn't

otoh starmer is a lying piece of poo poo who knew the establishment would protect his crap rear end and even hired the civil servant who poo poo all over boris about the same thing

Private Speech
Mar 30, 2011

I HAVE EVEN MORE WORTHLESS BEANIE BABIES IN MY COLLECTION THAN I HAVE WORTHLESS POSTS IN THE BEANIE BABY THREAD YET I STILL HAVE THE TEMERITY TO CRITICIZE OTHERS' COLLECTIONS

IF YOU SEE ME TALKING ABOUT BEANIE BABIES, PLEASE TELL ME TO

EAT. SHIT.


Ataxerxes posted:

Fraud house, in the middle of fraud street...

I'm not the biggest fan of Rayner or other Starmerites but the whole thing seems to basically be just Tory nonsense, she didn't actually benefit from it and more or less just didn't fill out some forms properly:

BBC posted:

The police investigation has been prompted by a complaint from Tory deputy chairman James Daly.

Mr Daly, the MP for Bury North, is understood to have made police aware of neighbours contradicting Ms Rayner's statement that a property, separate from her husband's, was her main residency.

...

The allegations have sprung from claims made in a book by Lord Ashcroft, a former Conservative Party deputy chairman, taken up by Mr Daly, who reported alleged issues to the police.

...

Tax experts have estimated that, while Ms Rayner may not have owed anything in Capital Gains Tax following the sale depending on her residency situation, there are circumstances in which she could have owed as much as £3,500 to HM Revenue and Customs.

...

Ms Rayner says she has taken expert tax advice, which she believes confirms her position that no Capital Gains Tax was payable, although she has resisted calls to publish the advice.

I mean she might have broken the rules but the whole thing is really silly, given the insane grift that goes on in the Tory party.

Private Speech fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Apr 12, 2024

Starbucks
Jul 7, 2002

Your daily cup of fuck you.

Chas McGill posted:

I lurk the thread for political news if I don't feel like doomscrolling newspapers.

I'd to post that Ovo (and all energy suppliers) are pure dogshit oval office parasites. A friend has been served an erroneous bill for a flat she wasn't in and Ovo won't accept evidence like her tenancy agreement for the flat she was actually in...because the tenancy agreement lists a different address to the flat the bill was for :shrug:? Hope the ombudsman is actually useful.

So she doesn’t have or ever had tenancy in the flat being charged for? That’s odd as hell, hopefully. If you get nowhere let me know and will nudge some people I know Ovo way

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

Every time I think about the Angela Rayner council house stuff I laugh out loud. In fact, I'm laughing out loud while typing this post.

But I can't help feeling that the establishment are trying to distract from JCB's Lord Bamford, who happens to owe £500,000,000 to the HMRC, and who quietly resigned from the House of Lords last week and (if the rumours are to be believed) has reportedly absconded....

https://twitter.com/carolvorders/status/1777658619158229495

fuctifino fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Apr 12, 2024

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Surely the JCB man can lay a big enough patio to hide his problems?

Jakabite
Jul 31, 2010

OwlFancier posted:

Surely the JCB man can lay a big enough patio to hide his problems?

Sadly Bruce Lee’s son inherited most of the excavators and is continuing to drive his offspring round in them

franco
Jan 3, 2003

Bobby Deluxe posted:

[side effects]

I take a drug for epilepsy to prevent seizures. One of its listed (very rare) side effects is that it may cause epileptic seizures. Always loved that one lol

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

I want to cry out
but I don’t scream and I don’t shout
And I feel so proud
to be alive
just wait until these people hear about the side effects of some antipsychotics i've seen kids puts on.

Reveilled
Apr 19, 2007

Take up your rifles

Tesseraction posted:

Well now I need to start dropping references to universal grammar, the minutæ of the Miners Strike and how much it would cost to insure my posting fingers.

Aww thanks. I can't insure something priceless though!

HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?
I seem to recall in fun puzzle/management game Big Pharma someone on SA made a drug that induced sleep but also caused nightmares and named it Existential Horror or something. Big seller.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


franco posted:

I take a drug for epilepsy to prevent seizures. One of its listed (very rare) side effects is that it may cause epileptic seizures. Always loved that one lol

Come on side effect of SSRI meds for depression & anxiety is an increased risk of suicidal thoughts, especially in the first 4-8 weeks on them. Combine that with another common side effect, erectile dysfunction, & starting SSRIs can be a pretty bad time.

I do sometimes wonder if they don't just intentionally make medicine with ironic side effects.

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear
thank you kind people who recommended me for thread idiot lord protector

for real this should be a friendly and nice place to post and anyone coming along in bad faith to ruin that vibe will be shitcanned from here on :)

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

I want to cry out
but I don’t scream and I don’t shout
And I feel so proud
to be alive
all hail nuKMT

[assistant whispers in my ear] oh no

Miftan
Mar 31, 2012

Terry knows what he can do with his bloody chocolate orange...

I for one welcome our new northern Irish overlord.

Just Another Lurker
May 1, 2009

crispix posted:

thank you kind people who recommended me for thread idiot lord protector

for real this should be a friendly and nice place to post and anyone coming along in bad faith to ruin that vibe will be shitcanned from here on :)



All praise be to the Denim!!! :worship: :worship: :worship:



Congarats. ;)

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

crispix posted:

thank you kind people who recommended me for thread idiot lord protector

for real this should be a friendly and nice place to post and anyone coming along in bad faith to ruin that vibe will be shitcanned from here on :)

You are the hero this thread sometimes needs*, and I'm here for it. :toot:

I'm glad you have your star

edit: After reading that, I need to clarify in the moderator sense. This thread tends to need very little moderation, but occasionally cunts come along that need crispix'ing. You are already a thread posting hero. Now you are a hero with a hammer.

fuctifino fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Apr 12, 2024

Bobby Deluxe
May 9, 2004

forkboy84 posted:

Combine that with another common side effect, erectile dysfunction, & starting SSRIs can be a pretty bad time.
There's a really common twitter shitpost that goes something like "me: i just feel like there's nothing good in my life and i hate myself.

doctor: here's some pills that will make you fat and not cum

me: perfect"

I could probably find it but (a) twitter and (b) imgur are both arseholes right now.

(More worrying are the anecdotal stories flying around that the loss of sensitivity can be permenent for some people)

E: gently caress yeah double denim

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Following this pattern, everybody who posts in the thread should be IK by the end of next month. And thus we shall achieve communism.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


OwlFancier posted:

Following this pattern, everybody who posts in the thread should be IK by the end of next month. And thus we shall achieve communism.

As a good socialist I could never be Idiot King, for while I may be an idiot I reject monarchy. :smuggo:

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Proposal for the new rank of Idiot Komrade

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Jakabite posted:

Sadly Bruce Lee’s son inherited most of the excavators and is continuing to drive his offspring round in them

I get this reference and it gives me the fuzzy parent vibes, thanks

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
I'll be an Idiot Princess but only if I get to ride a unicorn :colbert:

Umbra Dubium
Nov 23, 2007

The British Empire was built on cups of tea, and if you think I'm going into battle without one, you're sorely mistaken!



Thread needs an Idiot Queen, beautiful and terrible as the dawn, treacherous as the sea, stronger than the foundations of the earth, all shall love her and despair, imho.

josh04
Oct 19, 2008


"THE FLASH IS THE REASON
TO RACE TO THE THEATRES"

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forkboy84 posted:

As a good socialist I could never be Idiot King, for while I may be an idiot I reject monarchy. :smuggo:

it's true, idiot king: connotations of royalty, cloying false modesty, every kings was an idiots

whereas forums moderator: denotes service, no implicit structure of hierarchy, nonspecific air of ancient greece about the whole thing

Chubby Henparty
Aug 13, 2007


sebzilla posted:

Proposal for the new rank of Idiot Komrade

Or in CineD, Idiot Kermode

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes

Umbra Dubium posted:

Thread needs an Idiot Queen, beautiful and terrible as the dawn, treacherous as the sea, stronger than the foundations of the earth, all shall love her and despair, imho.

i've been posting here for years

smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

crispix posted:

thank you kind people who recommended me for thread idiot lord protector

for real this should be a friendly and nice place to post and anyone coming along in bad faith to ruin that vibe will be shitcanned from here on :)



So you got the job?

Soylent Yellow
Nov 5, 2010

yospos

sebzilla posted:

Proposal for the new rank of Idiot Komrade

Idiot Lord Protector.

Would require pemabanning a previous Idiot King in order to grant it, though.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Rarity posted:

I'll be an Idiot Princess but only if I get to ride a unicorn :colbert:

is that the latest release by the bad dragon folx

WhatEvil
Jun 6, 2004

Can't get no luck.

Marmaduke! posted:

How long ago was that though? As an organisation that can hold shifty businesses to account, it's unsurprisingly been pretty neutered in recent years

Yeah to be fair it was in 2016. Might be poo poo now.

Sir Sidney Poitier posted:

Are they a bunch of useless cunts then? They're showing up cheapest for me and I'm going to have to change my insurance imminently.

Well dealing with this issue was a huge and stressful pain in the arse, being chased for £550 I didn't owe them, and then their customer service was a complete nightmare.

There are a load of shocking reviews here: https://smartmoneypeople.com/1st-central-reviews/product/car-insurance?filter=most-recent&ratingFilter=1

So I'd stay away. I ended up going with Admiral - I think they're not on the comparison sites so you have to ring them directly but it can be worth it.

Honestly I think all of the cheapest insurers, and insurers in general, are pricks and have cut customer service etc. to the bone... but 1st Central were particularly bad.

WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Apr 12, 2024

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear

fuctifino posted:

edit: After reading that, I need to clarify in the moderator sense. This thread tends to need very little moderation, but occasionally cunts come along that need crispix'ing. You are already a thread posting hero. Now you are a hero with a hammer.

lol yeah i was just bein silly, i'm not really the Jim McDonald type

it really is just about making sure the few shitheads who routinely make the thread a loving nightmare to read find something else to do with themselves

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

Soylent Yellow posted:

Idiot Lord Protector.

Would require pemabanning a previous Idiot King in order to grant it, though.
Protecting idiot lords was more David Cameron's thing.

Rust Martialis
May 8, 2007

At night, Bavovnyatko quietly comes to the occupiers’ bases, depots, airfields, oil refineries and other places full of flammable items and starts playing with fire there

Miftan posted:

I for one welcome our new northern Irish overlord.

Needs fleg

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crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear

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