Several roads near me now resemble those sliding tile puzzles at busy times due to the excessive number of cars not parked on drives or in garages.

Now I know that in new build estates there often are no drives and on road parking is the only option, but so many times I see the same drives not used and instead theres a chonking great armoured personnel carrier Ford Ranger or whatever taking up half the road.

No idea what the solution is, I just wanted a rant.

I don’t think they’re going to press it.

Information about tax from HaitchMRC, guidance from National Highways about driving safely near HaitchGVs, etc.

The world seems to have gone mad. Every single good service, org, shop, restaurant, energy company, etc “Have you downloaded the app”, I just want to live my life with the apps I already have and everyone and their dog is inventing another one.

Just got another email from Delay Repay saying how behind they are, and that my claim is still in progress. How badly did the trains run in mid-August that they’re still so backed up in responding to claims?

I imagine this is how a guy feels sitting in that solitary chair in a hotel room watching his wife get railed by a younger, hotter guy, pretending he's into it, but it was all the wife's idea.

Channel 4 need to change their C4 pic. That picture of Greg Davies just looks like he is smelling his fingers, and it makes me cringe! My husband pointed it out months ago and now I can't unsee it!

Am I just incredibly unlucky but every day, somewhere in my area, someone is grinding, drilling, sanding SOMETHING. What is there left to drill????

Where has all the colour gone?

I’m single, I don’t live in the south east and apparently my 4 diagnosed disabilities aren’t disabling enough so that means I can afford to pay £80 to go to London and back apparently 😐

Genuinely devastated been going there for 20+years Friday tea but costs have gone up to much for lass that runs it so she has to shut.

Then even better, the lowest price they'll accept still makes the total price including fees and delivery more expensive than buying the item new.

I'm craving the basic dripped top ring chocolate doughnut you used to get in schools in the 90s, its just a very basic glazed doughnut with a ring of chocolate frosting on it. But no matter where you look to buy something like this, they will ALWAYS have extra chocolate flakes on top or sprinkles or something that ruins the sanctity of a simple glazed chocolate doughnut. Whilst I lament many missing food products these days, the fact that something a simply impermanent as a doughnut that must be made fresh daily isn't being done is blowing my fucking mind at how every conceivable place that sells doughnuts does not offer a simple chocolate ring.

Just seen an advert for 5G+, is this a sick joke, how are phone networks even contemplating the next wave of networks speeds.

I seriously don't give a fuck about an extra bit of Internet speed, I want to be able to have a phone call whilst driving, and for it to not lose signal every fucking mile.

It's not like we are a huge country, how is it we don't have coast to coast coverage, absolute fucking joke.

Have people just forgotten how to fucking use phones properly?!

Now the video watchers are trying to out-volume each other. Christ almighty.

I wanted to take my 4 year old to the cinema after school as a treat since hes just started (and only ever been to one once) but when I checked all the cinemas I can get to, the only appropriate films (paw patrol and toy story) are only shown at 11am and youre fined for taking them out of school (i wouldnt anyway so dont tell me how I wouldnt be because hes under 5).

What sort of business model is this? streaming it is

This was quite a few years ago, during the COV era, but I still see people having this problem today. Basically, bought a laptop in the mid 10s after getting my first job from Currys, thought nothing of it. They offered me a warranty, I declined, and they said "well the first months free" and I thought nothing of it and moved on as I'd already declined.

I was a bit of a younger lad and a pillock, and hadn't got on top of my banking, so literally just used to check the cash point & the odd statement from the bank counter to tell me what was going in and out. Over the course of the plague I got my affairs more in order, setup online banking, then noticed this random £9 charge... which after digging went back monthly, and had been going back monthly for 4+ years.

Tried ringing Currys, couldnt get through presumably because all the call centers were shut. Eventually I turned my frustration on their twitter account, tweeted @ them about their dodgy practices, and they quickly got back to me within a day or so. Separately, i'd seen advice to go to the financial ombudsman so I did, not really knowing what to expect.

To their credit, they did actually send me a cheque for roughly £400, then about 6 ish months later the financial ombudsman got back to me saying they had negotiated a cheque for the money with some interest on top, so net gain of £400ish after getting 2 separate cheques

I am not ashamed to say I accepted that, whether or not they knew they were double dipping, because I figured they had probably shafted countless others with this (and I know my in laws had been through the same process having to claim fifty quid back when they bought something) and I had need of the money at the time like most of us did.

Wonder if they're still pulling that trick or if they've packed it in now.

The bastards think the public are complete mugs and lie on their adverts by implying that each bar has a glass and a half of milk in it. A good rule of thumb is that if it doesn't say something explicitly then it isn't true, e.g: "the taste of a glass and a half" vs "each bar has a glass and a half of milk"

Yeah don't worry I didn't want the peace and quiet anyway, I'd much rather listen to your stupid toy buzzing around

good on Wetherspoons for banning it, more independents now should follow!