Trivial things you don't understand/mildly annoy you

[Arriba]

Lydiard and coate water next Reg. Volunteers cutting the grass with their flymo stimmers too. Rejoice! Vote conservative !

[Chubbs]

I cannot believe that!

You cannot be serious!

[RobertT]

Lydiard and coate water next Reg. Volunteers cutting the grass with their flymo stimmers too. Rejoice! Vote conservative !

Not sure it matters what colours Councillors are though, it seems to attract some rather odd people.  The complete mess they've entangled themselves with the Superfast Broadband being a prime example.  We have now essentially paid a private company to install not so fast broadband in an area where both Virgin Media and BT are now laying fibre.  Originally they both didn't bid because the Council rolled-up rural provision with the Northern areas around Priory Vale.  Surprisingly, that made little commercial sense to the big players who'd always have more than happily covered dense urban provision.  Given the shambles they'd made of an earlier attempt at Wi-Fi hotspots in the Town, you'd think we'd have people who could learn a lesson, and if not, people who would get held to account.  Nope, they continue to made extremely poor commercial decisions and continue to get away with it due to local voters who can only see Colours on a ballot paper.

[Tails]

Tony Blair

[4D]

Having to pay to park at Coate Water. 

[Nemo]

Tony Blair

It's George W Bush's 70th birthday today. I imagine he's had better ones.

[Reg Smeeton]

Having to pay to park at Coate Water. 

Why is this a problem?  The Tory run council can't afford to keep it open, so it's this or a housing estate. Same with Lydiard.

[Sippo]

I don't mind having to pay, but the prices are ridiculous. Upto 2 hours is £2.00.

What if I only want to go for half hour to walk the dog?

[Reg Smeeton]

I don't mind having to pay, but the prices are ridiculous. Upto 2 hours is £2.00.

What if I only want to go for half hour to walk the dog?

If a regular user, buy a season ticket, £20 until March 31st.  Someone has to pay for the dog bins to be emptied.

[pauld]

If a regular user, buy a season ticket, £20 until March 31st.  Someone has to pay for the dog bins to be emptied.

Maintenance of leisure facilities is part of what we pay our council tax for. But you know that and you're trolling

[Chubbs]

Maintenance of leisure facilities is part of what we pay our council tax for. But you know that and you're trolling

I may be totaly wrong, but isn't that the whole point of the privatisation/leasing of these parks, that it will no longer be the councils responibility to do this? The whole point of doing this is to save the council money, isnt it?

[Reg Smeeton]

Maintenance of leisure facilities is part of what we pay our council tax for. But you know that and you're trolling

£3 of every £100 of CT money goes towards leisure...obviously not enough to maintain the current stock of council facilities, which is why they're looking for other income streams. The council have tried this before, and it fails due to the costs of policing and then illegal parking around the sites. However from their point of view they have flagged up what it's about, so have got their excuses in early when facilities are sold to developers.

[pauld]

I may be totaly wrong, but isn't that the whole point of the privatisation/leasing of these parks, that it will no longer be the councils responibility to do this? The whole point of doing this is to save the council money, isnt it?

Yes it is. And Reg is right that the parking etc is just basically softening us up for privatisation. Which is fucking appalling.

[Flashheart]

As much as I love her to bits, my misses can be a fucking weapon at times.

She's only gone and got herself (and by extension myself) into debt with Thai loan shark maffia types. We've had to move out to a safe place as the increasingly heated threats from various nefarious characters have become too much. What started of as a fairly small loan of about 200 quid 3-4 weeks ago is now about 3 fucking grand. (Yes, 3 fucking grand, in blighty money).

Unexpected postponements/cancellations in our business lead to her not being able to pay the initial debt which lead to her borrowing more to cover the initial loan, the subsequent loans could then not be met... and so forth. Now she (we) owes 3 fucking grand and the deliberately extortionate rates mean they want 200 quid a DAY. We currently have less than that to cover us until more money comes in (hopefully) from deals in the pipeline which might be anywhere from 2 weeks to never. I was unaware of the extent of the situation until it was too late, I told her not to touch it in the first place.

We've had to abandon our business as said maffia types could use it to track us down, leaving yours truly frantically trying to knock up a new site on wix to try to get some money in. What's most frustrating is that we would have been OK without the initial loan. It was not at all necessary. We were a bit short, but we would have got by just fine.

I married a fuck-wit.

On the bright side, the place we are currently staying/hiding in does have a pool.

[EldeneRed]

As much as I love her to bits, my misses can be a fucking weapon at times.

She's only gone and got herself (and by extension myself) into debt with Thai loan shark maffia types. We've had to move out to a safe place as the increasingly heated threats from various nefarious characters have become too much. What started of as a fairly small loan of about 200 quid 3-4 weeks ago is now about 3 fucking grand. (Yes, 3 fucking grand, in blighty money).

Unexpected postponements/cancellations in our business lead to her not being able to pay the initial debt which lead to her borrowing more to cover the initial loan, the subsequent loans could then not be met... and so forth. Now she (we) owes 3 fucking grand and the deliberately extortionate rates mean they want 200 quid a DAY. We currently have less than that to cover us until more money comes in (hopefully) from deals in the pipeline which might be anywhere from 2 weeks to never. I was unaware of the extent of the situation until it was too late, I told her not to touch it in the first place.

We've had to abandon our business as said maffia types could use it to track us down, leaving yours truly frantically trying to knock up a new site on wix to try to get some money in. What's most frustrating is that we would have been OK without the initial loan. It was not at all necessary. We were a bit short, but we would have got by just fine.

I married a fuck-wit.

On the bright side, the place we are currently staying/hiding in does have a pool.

Holy shit flash.

If you don't appear online anymore, shall we assume you're hiding at the bottom of the Mekong?