General Things That Annoy You thread - part 2

Algarveaddick said:

Raith_C_Chattonell said:

Algarveaddick said:

Arsenetatters said:

Carter said:

Thames Water don't know their arse from their ear. Most likely at that time of night it was drainage contractors who might have a Thames water bit of livery on their van especially if ita drain covers they were lifting. That work will hardly ever get something called a NRSWA permit on it as the blokes doing it think that doesn't apply to them, thats how most utilities keep track of where people are on website called one.network. they should have some kind of work management system but in the kindest way possible they pay people who are answering calls from the public the about least they can get away with and funnily enough those people aren't always the brightest stars in the sky. And by the time there is a degree of separation, assuming the drainage subbies are working for them, rhats another link to a chain they won't see. 

Your best bet is to tweet Thames Water and ask whats going on 

Thanks @C@Carter that makes sense tbh. I didn’t realise they contracted out. That means there’s even less chance they’ll bother doing anything about it. They’ve got back to me again and asked me to take a video of them if they come back again. 

Tell them to send their CEO around to do it. The ******* gets paid enough 

Ah but his 'retention' fee is under threat.  

From the Guardian.

In a letter read out at the same committee session on Tuesday, the Thames Water chair, Adrian Montague, admitted he may have “misspoken” when he told the Efra committee last week that large bonuses to be paid to senior bosses out of an emergency £3bn loan were “insisted” upon by creditors.  (Insisted rather than agreed)

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/20/thames-water-chair-mps-bonuses

From where I'm sitting they've got fat on the complete cock up they've made of everything in recent years ... and just put up everybody's water rates by a third to add insult to injury.

At risk of derailing the thread, in case anyone sees this as political, but let's live dangerously.

I think this is something that annoys just about everybody, except the 5% of people who are on this gravy train.

“It was agreed that a retention plan was important to retain the people best placed to deliver the improved outcomes our stakeholders rightly expect during this current period of uncertainty and this was reflected in the term sheet we agreed with our creditors.”

The amount of disconnection from reality in these people's heads is stunning. The same people who have created this shitshow (literally) are supposed to be the only ones who can put it right? 

They must be borderline psychopaths to be able to hear, read  and see the amount of resentment they cause among 95% of the population, and still convince themselves they are due the salaries they recieve, let alone the bonuses. 

  

You are right, not unlike members of our political "class" they do not exist in the same world as the rest of us. And those same wankers on the board at Thames water, severn trent, all of the former national utility assets in fact. They will pop up at another one when enough shareholders get sick of them. Which takes some doing as the big ones have been getting fat on the dividends us mugs are giving them. 

Carter said:

Algarveaddick said:

Raith_C_Chattonell said:

Algarveaddick said:

Arsenetatters said:

Carter said:

Thames Water don't know their arse from their ear. Most likely at that time of night it was drainage contractors who might have a Thames water bit of livery on their van especially if ita drain covers they were lifting. That work will hardly ever get something called a NRSWA permit on it as the blokes doing it think that doesn't apply to them, thats how most utilities keep track of where people are on website called one.network. they should have some kind of work management system but in the kindest way possible they pay people who are answering calls from the public the about least they can get away with and funnily enough those people aren't always the brightest stars in the sky. And by the time there is a degree of separation, assuming the drainage subbies are working for them, rhats another link to a chain they won't see. 

Your best bet is to tweet Thames Water and ask whats going on 

Thanks @C@Carter that makes sense tbh. I didn’t realise they contracted out. That means there’s even less chance they’ll bother doing anything about it. They’ve got back to me again and asked me to take a video of them if they come back again. 

Tell them to send their CEO around to do it. The ******* gets paid enough 

Ah but his 'retention' fee is under threat.  

From the Guardian.

In a letter read out at the same committee session on Tuesday, the Thames Water chair, Adrian Montague, admitted he may have “misspoken” when he told the Efra committee last week that large bonuses to be paid to senior bosses out of an emergency £3bn loan were “insisted” upon by creditors.  (Insisted rather than agreed)

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/20/thames-water-chair-mps-bonuses

From where I'm sitting they've got fat on the complete cock up they've made of everything in recent years ... and just put up everybody's water rates by a third to add insult to injury.

At risk of derailing the thread, in case anyone sees this as political, but let's live dangerously.

I think this is something that annoys just about everybody, except the 5% of people who are on this gravy train.

“It was agreed that a retention plan was important to retain the people best placed to deliver the improved outcomes our stakeholders rightly expect during this current period of uncertainty and this was reflected in the term sheet we agreed with our creditors.”

The amount of disconnection from reality in these people's heads is stunning. The same people who have created this shitshow (literally) are supposed to be the only ones who can put it right? 

They must be borderline psychopaths to be able to hear, read  and see the amount of resentment they cause among 95% of the population, and still convince themselves they are due the salaries they recieve, let alone the bonuses. 

  

You are right, not unlike members of our political "class" they do not exist in the same world as the rest of us. And those same wankers on the board at Thames water, severn trent, all of the former national utility assets in fact. They will pop up at another one when enough shareholders get sick of them. Which takes some doing as the big ones have been getting fat on the dividends us mugs are giving them. 

Always makes me laugh when quotes like" we must pay to retain the right talent for the job"I wonder how many alternative offers these people have had that would tempt them away.Answers on a postage stamp.

A byproduct of having a hen sanctuary is eggs. We get a reasonable amount from the chooks that are young/well enough. 

In the local watching Real Betis v Chelsea with himself. Fella from the village walks in. Can I join you says he. You can but we're watching the football says himself. Oh feck that says he & he goes over to the bar and orders himself a very large pernod.

A few minutes later he comes straight over to me. What's the score, he asks. One nil says I. Who's playing, he asks. Real Betis and Chelsea. It's Betis who lead and its being played in Poland. Anything else? Says I. I went to Chelsea back in the 70's to watch United. George Best was playing and The Cat says he. Oh Peter Bonnetti, says I.
Humph says he as he walked back over to the bar.

Yes, Ireland always reminds me of the UK back in the mid 80's whenever I mentioned I liked football the men always felt the need to make sure I really did.

At least I didn't have to explain the off side rule.......again 🙄

The Nathan Jones Speculation thread. 21 pages of utter junk to trawl through. It's like wading through a stream of shit where the only good thing would be if you didn't drop your keys in it. 

Trigger warnings at the start of movies and tv shows. 

Dave

Probably mentioned lots of times but I'm saying it again as it pisses me off having to pay for a tv licence.
Rip off

I don't begrudge it that much. I'd pay a subscription just for the David Attenborough stuff and the really good drama they are capable of finding. Also, in countries where they have purely commercial TV it is an advert every 5 minutes, the news programming is either rage bait or echo-chambering and both are full of shit. The BBC might be run by left wing pygmies but they are preferable to the purely commercial model 

The state of the roads vrs the amount of road works / temporary traffic lights / complete road closures.

The state roads round my are in, on the Kent / Surrey border are so unbelievably bad. Genuinely can't believe this isn't a bigger issue.

Gribbo said:

The state of the roads vrs the amount of road works / temporary traffic lights / complete road closures.

The state roads round my are in, on the Kent / Surrey border are so unbelievably bad. Genuinely can't believe this isn't a bigger issue.

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