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« on: 11 December 2025, 22:43:49 »
I still miss my Desmond. 
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 10 December 2025, 17:25:02 »Do not use notice plastered over it and he's blanked off the gas meter too.Had the plumber coming to service my boiler earlier, but he didn't turn up.Waited in for service engineer for my warm air central heating unit. Arrived at 1 ish, took it to bits, shoved a smoke bomb up, then condemned it. Bugger.
When I phoned him he said he couldn't come as he was doing another job and wouldn't be able to come round before Christmas.
I'm not having much luck with tradies at the mo.Leaking out into the loft at the flue angled joint with the ridge tile vent. Waiting to hear if they can source the correct flue part. It can stay mild for as long as it likes.
That'll be alright. Just don't go up in the loft when the heatings on.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 09 December 2025, 16:56:39 »Had the plumber coming to service my boiler earlier, but he didn't turn up.Waited in for service engineer for my warm air central heating unit. Arrived at 1 ish, took it to bits, shoved a smoke bomb up, then condemned it. Bugger.
When I phoned him he said he couldn't come as he was doing another job and wouldn't be able to come round before Christmas.
I'm not having much luck with tradies at the mo.
Leaking out into the loft at the flue angled joint with the ridge tile vent. Waiting to hear if they can source the correct flue part. It can stay mild for as long as it likes. 
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General Discussion Area / Re: Christmas Totty Time - NWS
« on: 06 December 2025, 14:00:36 »
Disgusting. Why is my wrist aching?
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 06 December 2025, 13:57:55 »I took the battery out of ours
Hope you have a carbon monoxide detector.
the constant beeping was making me dizzy and giving me a headache
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 05 December 2025, 18:41:14 »Hope you have a carbon monoxide detector.Had the plumber coming to service my boiler earlier, but he didn't turn up.If your boiler is working, why bother with a service? They only clean things up, it can still pack up the minute he's out the door
When I phoned him he said he couldn't come as he was doing another job and wouldn't be able to come round before Christmas.
I'm not having much luck with tradies at the mo.
Well if something did happen it's a handy get out for the insurance company if it hasn't been serviced within the last 12 months, and I'm a bit paranoid about gas, so like to check it's gas tight every year.
Oh, I don't think ours has been done since we moved in.. In 2004.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 04 December 2025, 12:44:29 »Have a nice crusty baguette mate, that'll sort it.Good glad you’re ok, and Nitrous Oxide is Always the right choice️
Entonox is what they used i believe.
Feeling a tad swollen in the back of my throught, slept most of the afternoon, only had coffee and biscuits at the hospital before I left. Not had anything to eat since lunch on time Tuesday, so might manage to lose some weight.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 02 December 2025, 23:49:28 »Feels odd doesn't it. Like pissing broken glass afterwards.Am booked into hospital for a camera down my neck in the morning because doctor has concerns from a chat we had, was booked in at 8am, so whilst on the phone to ask about something to them and it seems they had changed my appointment and no one has bothered telling me.Could be worse Skruntie. Could have been up your Chinese eye or the other side.
Had the camera up the trouser snake a few years ago.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 02 December 2025, 18:27:15 »Am booked into hospital for a camera down my neck in the morning because doctor has concerns from a chat we had, was booked in at 8am, so whilst on the phone to ask about something to them and it seems they had changed my appointment and no one has bothered telling me.Could be worse Skruntie. Could have been up your Chinese eye or the other side.
Joking aside, hope it all turns out well for you.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 01 December 2025, 15:38:00 »
Yes, as DG said, to the corporate,s it's a tax write off. Joe Public is looked on as a cash cow. But they're not the only companies who look to get a certain amount out of their unwitting customers. whether the work is needed or not.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person
« on: 30 November 2025, 20:28:36 »
Old school player, not like the overacting pansies we see nowadays.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Budget.
« on: 30 November 2025, 20:26:55 »That's what i was alluding to in my reply 60 of this thread.Another one I heard from Martin Lewis yesterday evening, pensioners will not have to pay income tax on their state pension, even if/when the pension exceeds the 20% tax threshold, which it will do in 2027.Penson income has always been subject to tax, it's just that the SP has always been less than your personal allowance, so the applicable tax rate is 0%. The SP is always payed as the first tranche of your income.
However, they will have to pay tax on their occupational pension.
What happens at the moment is the amount of your SP is deducted from your personal allowance. So if your SP is (say) £10K, and the 'normal' personal allowance is £12570, then your tax code will be 257 (12570 - 10000 = 2570), rather than 1257. This means any other income provider (work, occupation pension or private pension) will pay the first £2570 tax free, and then deduct 20% on everything above that.
If/when the SP exceeds £12570 it makes no sense for the govt to pay it all out, and then HMRC try to claim it back in tax. It would get really messy for pensioners whose only source of income is their SP. They'd end up filling in self assesement tax returns every year.
There must be some people whose SP already exceeds their PA. Anyone on the pre 2016 system with significant S2P/SERPS could be receiving close to £16K. I wonder how that is treated at the moment?
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 30 November 2025, 20:20:44 »Obviously, your lease company don't mind being ripped off.Are you allowed to say that on here?
You make a good point Ronny, to be fair to this particular lot they seem ok. Also, being on lease I don't have a choice which chain does the work.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 30 November 2025, 15:50:18 »Took it to Kwik fit to cure the hissing noise coming from the NSR tyre.Are you allowed to say that on here?
Thought it might be repairable to look at it, but apparently the hole was too big. So she's getting a new tyre. £323 had I walked in off the street. Thankfully the lease company's paying