What has P*ssed you off today?

[LC0112G]

In the case of the flights, did you not have to prove you actually took the flight to be entitled to the compo?

No. And how could you take a flight if it was cancelled?

Surely you had to be booked on the flight?

Booked - as in paid for a ticket - Yes. To get the 99p fares, you were travelling hand luggage only, and checking in online 30 days before departure. Therefore, the airline has no way of knowing if you had actually turned up at the airport for the flight or not. I mean, if you live close to the airport, why would you go there if the flight got cancelled more than (say) 1 hour before scheduled departure time?

[STEMO]

In the case of the flights, did you not have to prove you actually took the flight to be entitled to the compo?

No. And how could you take a flight if it was cancelled?

Surely you had to be booked on the flight?

Booked - as in paid for a ticket - Yes. To get the 99p fares, you were travelling hand luggage only, and checking in online 30 days before departure. Therefore, the airline has no way of knowing if you had actually turned up at the airport for the flight or not. I mean, if you live close to the airport, why would you go there if the flight got cancelled more than (say) 1 hour before scheduled departure time?

Yes, of course, I should have realised that.

[Doctor Gollum]

More importantly why would you ever fly with Ryanair...

Me, flying out from Malaga. Key requirement is middle of day flights. My days of getting up early or arriving at 11 pm are done. Whoever has the decent time gets my money.

That's no excuse. Even Vueling would be better

[TheBoy]

Egay sellers listing their shit as Fast and Free delivery, when they CBA to post it promptly.  I mean, they are clearly thick, as most postal services clearly show on tracking when it's been accepted into their network, be that the postoffice or Evri shop...

As a seller, if you CBA to go out to post, then don't list it as a fast and free delivery. It really isn't difficult.  I know, I know, the dog ate their homework, or granny died again, blah blah.


Full marks to a ching chong chinaman seller though - ordered via ebay late last week, dispatched from China promptly, arrived yesterday.  That said, I have another I ordered a couple of weeks ago from China, and thats been sat at East Mids airport of over a week, so guessing thats now lost, though not the sellers fault.

[STEMO]

Egay sellers listing their shit as Fast and Free delivery, when they CBA to post it promptly.  I mean, they are clearly thick, as most postal services clearly show on tracking when it's been accepted into their network, be that the postoffice or Evri shop...

As a seller, if you CBA to go out to post, then don't list it as a fast and free delivery. It really isn't difficult.  I know, I know, the dog ate their homework, or granny died again, blah blah.


Full marks to a ching chong chinaman seller though - ordered via ebay late last week, dispatched from China promptly, arrived yesterday.  That said, I have another I ordered a couple of weeks ago from China, and thats been sat at East Mids airport of over a week, so guessing thats now stolen, though not the sellers fault.

Fixed

[TheBoy]

Chiltern oppsing Railways. Useless tossers

With great fanfare this morning, they launched their "new" trains, and wasting money on disco lights and tat. This afternoon, the useless idiots ar cancelling everything at short notice because all their trains have faults.


"New" = new to Chiltern, but second hand

[STEMO]

Merseyrail did the same and all their trains were brand new

[Mr Skrunts]

Tesco support centre - placed an online order for a gift card - never usually an issue - this time, no cards, no email and no one on the end of the phone to speak to.

[Mr Skrunts]

and cant email the company or phones them that does the card transaction - or Tesco's them selves

Tesco contact saying  - - Captcha is required

[TheBoy]

Merseyrail did the same and all their trains were brand new

But some rail fanatic botherer who keeps stalking my on youtube works for the train operator in Liverpool, and reckons their service is brilliant.  But then he is an HS2 fanatic as well, so clearly deranged

[TheBoy]

Chiltern. Again. Not the trains this time.

Their poxy compo claim form* doesn't recognise the ticket number, so asks for various reference numbers without stating what numbers they are.  Useless oppswits.


*I really aint interested in the money, it's peanuts. It costs them far more to process the claim than the value of the claim.  I'm happy to waste an hour each time they cancel trains purely as a matter of principle.

[TheBoy]

Whilst talking about Chiltern, I'm confuddled by their rolling stock strategy.

Class 165's, built around 1990, never refurbed, and generally utterly oppsed.  Still used extensively on the Chiltern Mainline (Lon-Brum), and the only trains Chiltern have that can run Lon-Aylesbury line due to track sharing with the Underground.

Class 168's, built around mid 90s, refurbed in late noughties, running through another refurb programme from mis 2024, though proceeding very, very slowly.  Non refurbed ones aren't in bad condition, and the refurbed ones seem to have similar (poor) reliability issues.

Loco hauled Class 3's, built around 50 years ago, but fairly new to Chilterm, probably around 15yrs? Extensively refurbed when brought into Chiltern service, and in good condition - these are the ones being phased out by the "new" trains they launched yesterday.


Wouldn't it make more sense to start to replace the old, knackered, utterly shagged 165s?  With something that can run on the mainline and the Aylesbury line.

[Auto Addict]

Samsung online shop

[TheBoy]

Samsung online shop

Oh, my Samsung TV pisses me off every single time I use the bloody useless piece of shit.  Putting Samsung on my shit list. So I avoid their shop like the plaque.

Which puts me in a dilemma, clearly this Neo 95 needs replacing because it's a piece of shit. But if you rule out Samsung, there is 3 parts of nothing else to choose from, grrrr.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Getting home to cold wet weather after 7 weeks of sunshine in Thailand.     

Oh and keeping the railway thread going.... South Western Railways, whose service has become utterly shite since they were nationalised last year. My train terminated at Salisbury today due to a 'signalling fault' and had to sit on a cold windy platform for an hour waiting for the next train that was going down to Exeter.   

I suspect that 'Signalling fault' means the civil servants who run the railway now, were having a LGBTQ alphabet soup meeting or something instead of running a railway!