Rant of the day

I'll just leave this one here
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...urhjYUfnTaMbAR7r8IfJ35EpOODlOFjJFVfjMRFyu4VGA

 

The sooner we're out of the EU the better.

 

I look like Buddha if that’s anything to go by

 

23:00 it all started with some amazing fireworks...

03:15 and the thump thump of v loud music is still banging out loud.

No idea where it’s coming from.

We live in the Surrey countryside don’tchaknow? Shouldn’t be allowed!

 

Car salesmen. What planet are they from?

Time to replace my Focus and I test drove a newer model yesterday from a large local independent place. Really liked the car, just what I wanted, but it was all spoiled by the salesman talking incessantly the whole time telling me things I kept telling him I already knew and showing how things I already have on my old car worked. SHUT UP. Back at his desk he scribbles numbers down, seemingly at random, on a sheet of paper while badly explaining how credit works, even though I told him several times I am an accountant and know exactly how it works. In the end I had to stop him and say "just ell me the cash price to change". He looked startled and just took my trade-in from the sticker price and began to rattle on again. Stopped him again and stood up. Told him my offer, put three printouts on his desk from Autotrader with similar cars all for three grand less than his price, told him to think it over and call me, and walked out. This morning I have woken up to find a three page email from the guy explaining how I was wrong about everything and he was right and that his price.... I stopped reading it after the second line.

Won't be going there again.

 

Demand to speak to the Sales
Manager and kick off (politely with them). Has worked for me before.

We were getting a Sharan to shift the family, dogs and accoutrements from A to B. It was the wife that was making the decision but the salesman only ever spoke to me, even when she asked a question. I kept telling him that the Mrs was the one he needed to convince. In the end he actually got stroppy and claimed we were wasting his time and were we going to buy the car or not. The sales manager gave him the biggest bollocking I’ve ever seen in front of us, and gave us the car at cost as an apology. The silly little tit still registered the car in my name and not the Mrs’ name - resulting in more compensation.

He didn’t work there for long. Sexist little twat!

 

Have a look at CARWOW
Although I didn’t get a car through them I used a dealer on their site to get a good deal
Then I asked said dealer to email me a copy of the deal so I could show my wife
I cut off the dealer details on the printed out deal and walked into my local dealer and said BEAT THAT
They said that they could match it
But I said I wanted them to beat it otherwise I would get my car from the carwow dealer
I got the same deal as the carwow dealer but got the first three services at half price and a very nice jacket

 

Apologies, first, for stepping in late to this particular RotD and for resurrecting this part of the thread. However, as a cat lover/owner and (perhaps counter-culturally) a longstanding member of RSPB I have to, at very least, offer a rebuttal to Callumity's assertion that the sad truth about songbird decline is predation by domestic cats.

I've been a member of the RSPB for decades and I can recall at least two occasions in the past where extensive, formal surveys have been carried out by RSPB - and other wildlife organisations - into the numbers of birds taken by domestic cats and the impact and correlation on changes in general wild bird populations. None of the surveys that I've seen has concluded that the domestic cat is either a primary or even significant causal factor in acknowledged decline.

This is what the RSPB currently states

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-w...-garden-birds/are-cats-causing-bird-declines/

and is very much in line with what I recall of other surveys in the past.

I don't like it AT ALL when our cat catches wild animals, but I reconcile that dislike with some respect for what Darwin might have said about "survival of the fittest" and the sad truth that natural selection does help to improve the overall strength of the species' gene pool. And, yes, I fully accept that there is an imbalance in the "natural selection" element of domestic animals predating unprotected wild species, but that imbalance, as far as anyone can tell with the results available from the fairly extensive research carried out to date, is not either a primary or significant cause of bird species population decline.

I hesitate to countermand Cal's "sad truth" but the evidence that I've seen doesn't support the assertion.

 

If I go into a dealership with my wife - and the sales person ignores her presence - I will walk out. However - I have also thanked a salesperson that has fully included my wife's questions and showed her respect. This goes toward their NPS score - alas some people still ignore the females when it comes to vehicles. This really makes me cross

 

This is indeed something I have tried. Annoyingly though they have totally left out an entire trim level in the Focus range and is if course the one I'd want. Some of the deals I have gotten so far (for a brand new car) have only been just over the screen price of the used car the idiot salesman tells me is a fantastic deal...

 

Well, I'm sure that I will be (mis)construed as a "whiney baby" by the lot of you who live every day in The Land of Rain. But I love you guys and feel comfortable sharing my true feelings. So here's my rant today.

Why the heck does it decide to rain like the dickens on the one day of the week that we have a group ride planned? And the only day this week that I've been able to ride? And the first day it has rained in nearly a month? I'm sad. My Speedy is sad. And Miss Annie is sad. She stepped onto the porch, took one look, and immediately high-tailed it back into the house. But, hey, all the desert plants have their little faces upturned towards their first natural drink in a long time.

I know I should be grateful that we here in the DESERT are getting rain today but tomorrow when I'm at work would have been nice. Yes, first world problems for sure. I am very grateful that I don't live in the Bahamas. Time to make another cup of coffee and enjoy a leisurely morning with the Sunday newspaper. There's always a silver lining.

 

It's called sod's law over here Sandi.

 

Nah
It’s called Feckin typical British weather
Haven’t had my NUDGER out once this year without it Feckin raining
Gotta rally this weekend coming and pound to a penny it’ll Feckin rain at least once during the 3days I’m away
Probably on the way down there

 

Got to agree Dilli, I've just been into Yorkshire for a few days and yep you got to believe it, it rained every day.

 

About 15 years ago, I lived in north Florida for about a year or so . I didn't ride motorcycles at the time but did a lot of bicycle riding and racing. Seems I rode in the rain nearly every time I went out. Even if I headed, say, west because it looked clear and sunny to the west and it looked dark and rainy to the east, by the time I got home I'd be soaked to the bone every darned time. It got so I'd just toss my kit into the washing machine, hose down my bicycle, and stuff my shoes with newspaper the moment I got home. I even bought a 2nd pair of cycling shoes because the next day the ones I'd ridden in wouldn't be dry. Because nothing seemed to dry there due to the unbelievably high humidity. I'm happy to live in the desert now.

 

I did the job for a friend in Tas years ago by drilling a 3/4" hole as described but filled it with Glysophate ( full strength Roundup), took about three months before the offending tree had to be felled. Not my friends tree but it was dropping odd branches on his land and the owner wasn't interested in doing anything about it.

 

Feckin Christmas stuff up in Tesco already, just yesterday I pop in and there are two bays full of Christmas chocs
Four months to go and they have this crap up

 

Sainsbury's the same

 

Clucking tanker, I hope I get to meet him

 

Just seen this on BBC News.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-en...r-cyclist-who-headbutted-pedestrian-to-ground
FFS what is wrong with some people?