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| 90 Dreamer Member Since: 13 Jul 2019 Location: Oop North Posts: 2052   
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Pricks, deserve to get their assets (no doubt they wont own any) all seized and vehicles crushed.........
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7th Jan 2020 10:09pm |
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| ickle Member Since: 22 Jul 2010 Location: South Vendee Posts: 1728  
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Rant!
For the third time in 3 years the tw4ts at EDF have doubled my DD despite being nearly £300 in credit! 'Oh it must be for the cold period' - but I'm £300 in credit? 'Oh I can drop it a bit for you if you'd like' - no leave the DD as it was, return my £300 to my account and open a complaints case please OK I've done all that for you can I close the complaints case now? - NO! get someone to ring me as to why for three years in succession you've doubled my DD despite ALWAYS being in credit! Chuffing money grabbing cretins - if they can have several hundred quid of each customer in their account at all times that's some serious wedge they can play with! Rant over. |
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8th Jan 2020 7:28pm |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3337 
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51045282
Well there we go. Marks and Spencers have been going to the dogs for years and they have just realised what their problem has been before Christmas. They have ordered too many skinny trousers which they haven't sold 
The reason I do not shop in store any more is that my local shop in Norwich (a reasonably large shop in comparison to most) seems to have too much stock of the 28'/30" waist trousers and jeans. All the nice shirts are slim fit. There are no 'normal bloke of around 50 years old' sizes to be found. Now I have asked in store why they seem to always be out of my size. The answer is that I can always order them online. So what is the point of the shop. To stock clothes which most normal sized people can't actually get into? I only know one Guy who would fit in that 28"/30' trousers or slim fit shirt look . He's 22 and wouldn't been seen dead in Marks and Sparks. Looks like my once favourite go-to store, John Lewis is having similar retail problems. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51045320 We went to the local store in Norwich to buy a new hob. Been looking online, but wanted to see one in the flesh. Again, the JL in Norwich has a reasonably large floor area. It also has an out of town warehouse to compliment the store for large item pick ups. We went looking for a JL branded induction hob. There were sliding drawers where the hobs should be, but only around six on display and not the one we wanted. Many of the drawers were empty. I asked whether they had one we could see. They didn't, and we were taken to a computer where we were shown the same image on the JL website that we had been looking at at home. Don't bother trying to look at a Fridge in store in Norwich either. They don't stock fridges, although the Cambridge store does. That's useful 
I really feel for the staff on the floor. It's not their fault when it all goes wrong. I do wonder whether these brands are simply trying to get rid of their high street stores. It's not as if the shops are empty. Both companies shops are packed to the gunnels with stuff, it's just not the stuff I want to buy. |
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9th Jan 2020 1:41pm |
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| diesel_jim Member Since: 13 Oct 2008 Location: hiding Posts: 6037 
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Any shop that sells Dickies & scruffs work trousers gets my vote, and dickies or military type boots.
She's always moaning I'm wearing stuff like that.... "ready for any eventuality" i reply.... far better than wearing flip-flops! |
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9th Jan 2020 6:29pm |
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| Huttopia Member Since: 23 Feb 2016 Location: West Midlands Posts: 1968
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Flip flops are good for any eventuality, especially the ones with bottle opener built in!
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9th Jan 2020 9:52pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 16874 
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Wow, nobody's been grumpy since the onset of Covid! Who'd've thought it?
So there's a couple of things that have been bugging me greatly lately. So the first is the apparent inability of anybody now to start a sentence WITHOUT the word "so". So the second is the persistent use of "12am" or "12pm" instead of "12 midnight' and/or "12 noon". So does nobody realise now that 12am and 12pm are actually both the same time and are in fact both midnight? So I know that getting irritated by these is nobody's problem but mine, but, by heck, it sure is bugging me. |
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25th Jul 2020 9:00pm |
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| bm52 Member Since: 04 Apr 2010 Location: Kent Posts: 2189 
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25th Jul 2020 9:05pm |
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| Huttopia Member Since: 23 Feb 2016 Location: West Midlands Posts: 1968
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With you on So front.
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25th Jul 2020 9:16pm |
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| diesel_jim Member Since: 13 Oct 2008 Location: hiding Posts: 6037
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Or people who say 2400h......
Or 6.30am in the morning.... Or people who pronounce the word "somethink" where did the fkin' K come from? Or are off to go laning on Salisbury plains....since when did it reproduce and become plural? |
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25th Jul 2020 9:21pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 19568
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It’s the same thing where people keep writing the word Women as in multiple instead of Woman single that always gets me.
🙄 They’ll say “I was talking to a Women the other day and she said...”. Diesel$ Live$ Matter. ⛽️🛢️👨🔧🧰⚙️ RED, WHITE & BOOST! 🇬🇧 |
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25th Jul 2020 9:29pm |
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| shropshiredefender Member Since: 05 Jun 2017 Location: Shropshire Posts: 832  
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The short form of you are is you're not your.
The proof is not in the pudding it's in the eating. I could go on but life's too (not to) short.  Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right. |
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25th Jul 2020 9:37pm |
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| diesel_jim Member Since: 13 Oct 2008 Location: hiding Posts: 6037
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Nah..... it's two short
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25th Jul 2020 9:44pm |
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| shropshiredefender Member Since: 05 Jun 2017 Location: Shropshire Posts: 832
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right.
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25th Jul 2020 9:49pm |
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| VVS210 Member Since: 12 Nov 2016 Location: Hampshire Posts: 953
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OMG, that's like 1000% true...
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25th Jul 2020 10:09pm |
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