Grumpy Git

Not actually a person, but chocolate manufacturers that now (presumably to save a few bob), don't put a "menu" card in the box, but print the details of each delicacy underneath...................

Result = the contents of the box on your lap, bleeding skinflints! ?

I hope he chokes on his compensation.

Keogh getting slaughtered too.

Love it.

10 hours ago, Eddie said:

Christ, I'm scraping the barrel tonight.

Bloody unwanted Christmas prosecco. Thanks, Vicky.

<reads label>

12%. Thanks, Vicky.

Stop being a misery guts and get it supped. ?

Cheers Eddie, I might just give it a go.

Eddie, they have Tynt Meadow in stock according to their website!

Is this the magical potion you were on about, or is it a "lesser brew" so to speak?

Just now, hintonsboots said:

I heard it is imminent.

48 minutes?

34 minutes ago, i-Ram said:

You are of course correct Sparkle. I am letting my dislike of Gibson get in the way of sound thinking. Tidy player is Roberts. Hopefully he has a good work ethic.

I think Rooney has an eye for a good work ethic, anyone not putting in a shift-and-a-half is out on his arse.

1 minute ago, Boycie said:

Might have if Frank had picked the right team

Don't, please.?

On 09/01/2021 at 19:45, Eddie said:

35% extra on beers. So much for 'free trade'. Basically, we will have to pay 20% VAT on all imports on top of alcohol duty which itself amounts to around 75p per 33 cl bottle of beer.

You'll have to drink good old British beer now like Fosters and Carlsberg.

11 minutes ago, Grimbeard said:

Why would we do that? A very good player for us, who, as far as I can see, did very little wrong.

You are Bobby Zamora and I claim my £500.

4 hours ago, bimmerman said:

Cars are appliances to me, it's my work car as do 25k miles a year+the cheapest thing on the list I could have had! 

A PHEV with a CO2 rating of 50g/km or less is the best bet for a company car ATM.

You get a 10% BIK and the company gets a 100% first year allowance on the cost of the car.

Only better (and cheaper BIK) bet is a pure electric, but a decent one is £60K+

1 minute ago, Monty said:

Agree technology on cars generally has massively improved during my time driving - possibly one of the products that tech has affected the most 

..... and now you have to search through umpteen menus just to turn down the heater.

Touch screens in cars are a death trap.

15 hours ago, uttoxram75 said:

Packaging.

Hard plastic packaging that requires a compendium of Stanley knives to open up at the very real risk of slicing a finger to the bone.

Otherwise known as "clamshell" packaging.

If the inventor was a bloke, I hope he traps his foreskin in his zip every day for evermore.

Unfortunately my business is importing and installing high value industrial inspection equipment from Germany.

It nothing short of a disaster. I'm mid way through a project with a Northern Ireland company who are having a machine built in Italy. It's now easier for the NI company to deal with Italy than with me just over the Irish Sea.

On 31/12/2020 at 13:38, Eddie said:

Just done some calculation - if I import 24 bottles of Belgian beer at 9% abv, I will have to pay HMRC almost £18 in duty - and that's before the increase in shipping costs etc which will be loaded on to pay for the additional administration and paperwork.

Thanks, B-worders.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55530721

2 hours ago, Mostyn6 said:

@Eddie I received this (assuming it’s Dutch) from work in a Christmas hamper. Is it one you’re familiar with? 

Looks like you'd already supped it from the state of the 'photo?

1 hour ago, Eddie said:

Just done some calculation - if I import 24 bottles of Belgian beer at 9% abv, I will have to pay HMRC almost £18 in duty - and that's before the increase in shipping costs etc which will be loaded on to pay for the additional administration and paperwork.

Thanks, B-worders.

They have no idea Eddie, try running a business where 95% of your raw materials are imported direct from Germany.

Never mind at least they can look forward to being served by a Somalian (instead of a Pole), next time they go into Wetherspoons.

16 minutes ago, SKRam said:

That one abandoned and the floodlights at PP V Wimbledon the two abandoned games I’ve seen we’ll sort of seen ..... for a bit 

Yes, I was living in Cambridge at the time. Had to stop half-way back as the wipers were frozen, when I got out of the car in the middle of nowhere, I slipped on my arse it was that icy.

Got back at about 1 a.m.

9 minutes ago, SKRam said:

Derby County v Burnley many moons ago 

I think that was one of the last games I saw at the BBG??

Yous all poets but yous don't know it.

I'll get me coat.

3 hours ago, AndyinLiverpool said:

Adverts that rhyme really piss me off. It's not clever, it's not engaging. Advertising people - stop doing it.

I'd include adverts that don't rhyme too.

On 03/12/2020 at 21:29, Mostyn6 said:

Taking clean and warm pants and socks off the radiator in the morning and putting them on. 

Brilliant, I knew the radiator warmed them up, but I never realised it cleaned them as well.

That's three items a week less to wash. ?

I can't see the point of booking anything at the moment myself!

1 hour ago, Anag Ram said:

What do you think Boris has been fighting for these past few weeks??

Still going to need an import certificate. DHL or UPS, etc. will charge you at least a tenner extra for that little privilege, (and that's deal or no deal folks)!