trivial things that make you smile,or make you feel good

[leefer]

I never understood how council tax avoidance was so high... When SBC canceled my DD in a fit of incompetence they were right on my case to pay up. Then, when they failed to set it up again the next month, they withdrew my right to pay in installments and demanded £700+ or I was off to court... all of this from their mistake and their inability to take my money.

I fucking hate our council.

Go to court....you will win the case if it was there imcompetance,they did the same to us.

[walcot red]

If our council was that skint surely they could sell that bit of scrap metal in the middle of town?

[wiggy]

Exactly the same happened to me a few years ago. I don't know how, but eventually they let me pay in instalments again. The trouble is there's just no accountability for government incompetence, local or national, and if they're wrong, who cares, they don't, they made the rules and they're judge, jury and executioner. There's no ombudsman, there's no regulatory body (aside from the courts), it's just a cartoon character turning you upside down and shaking the money out of your pockets whether you like it or not.

And I also fucking hate our council - with every cell of my body.

There is a Local Government Ombudsman:

http://www.lgo.org.uk/

[jutty274]

I never understood how council tax avoidance was so high... When SBC canceled my DD in a fit of incompetence they were right on my case to pay up. Then, when they failed to set it up again the next month, they withdrew my right to pay in installments and demanded £700+ or I was off to court... all of this from their mistake and their inability to take my money.

I fucking hate our council.

Go to court, i had a simiular thing with housing benefit, they didn't send me a re newable form for 3 years then told me i owed them 3 years housing benefit. I refused to pay them so they took me to court & lost, they couldn't even tell the court how i was recieving a week, the magistrate asked how they knew how much owed if they didn't know how much i was claiming. The judge ruled in my favor then pointed out that wasn't actually entitled to it anymore & if the council had done there work properly i would have had to pay up.

[Nemo]

Scouting for Italy's Stunners semi final tomorrow.

[DRS]

Good luck nemo.Stick with tried and tested wank fodder.I made the mistake of trying to use a different lady bar one until now.It has backfired

[jutty274]

This game on mousebreaker.

http://www.mousebreaker.com/games/supershotstopper/playgame

Hours of wasted fun but i still can't get past the semi's

[Summerof69]

Ronaldo putting himself down for the potentially 'glory' 5th penalty...but doesn't take one as it's all over before he has chance to.

[Costanza]

He's missed in penalty shoot-outs when taking them early on while he's taken the last penalty before (England?) and won it. What's the problem?

Cristiano Ronaldo is a phenomenal talent.

The shell-shocked Alves missing having previously been sent back by Nani (and the fact that Portugal lost) made me smile.

[DRS]

Better than messi imo

[mystical_goat]

He's missed in penalty shoot-outs when taking them early on while he's taken the last penalty before (England?) and won it. What's the problem?

His team lost the shoot-out.

Such a phenomenal talent should have stepped up earlier and got one in the bag for his side. Hindsight being a wonderful thing of course.

[Costanza]

Personally, I think it's just people trying to find something to have a go at Ronaldo.

He played his part in getting Portugal to the Semi-Finals. He's a phenomenal talent and not taking one of the first four penalties in a (lottery) shoot-out does not alter this.

[mystical_goat]

Personally, I think it's just people trying to find something to have a go at Ronaldo.

He played his part in getting Portugal to the Semi-Finals. He's a phenomenal talent and not taking one of the first four penalties in a (lottery) shoot-out does not alter this.

It kind of does when the motive for him not taking one of the earlier penalties was probably that he wanted the glory of the 5th, and therein lies reason that people don't like him. He's an arrogant, self-involved twat, probably. More so than other footballers. And it's one of the main attributes that separates him from Messi, that Messi has humility and is a team player and Ronaldo is all about himself. I'm not interested in comparing the two normally, just like the Rooney/Shearer thing (although that is even more irrelevant), but in this case it works well. They're both incredible players.

His face at the end didn't seem like someone who was gutted to be knocked out of a competition, it looked like someone who was angry that his supposed moment of glory was taken away from him. And the face of someone who is probably angry at themselves for not, quite literally, taking one for the team.

[Simon Pieman]

Maybe he offered to take what could have been the most crucial penalty because he was the only one who had the balls to do it.

Having watched Ronaldo play in serveral tournaments it's clear he just wants his country to succeed. It's not about him at all, people are just portraying him in that light.

Nani is far far worse at being billy big bollocks.

[Matchworn Shirts]

does fuck all in the big international games...again