This is starting to turn me into having more racist thoughts when I never even bothered before ffs! Getting sick of it now. Luckily the guy who was involved with getting the plaque had more balls than any of the fkrs in charge today
Saw this on another forum and my response is this.....This is getting beyond stupid ...i am definitely going anti lefty liberal snowflake, i used to be live and let live but these aliens are starting to take the p*ss and need to be stopped! When i used the term aliens i wasn't kidding some of these freaks are from another planet.....we need some good old fashioned Texas style bumper stickers along with the attitude to back them up.
https://www.thetriumphforum.com/threads/a-place-for-your-what-the-fu-k-moments.12134/page-57 Been running sometime now, I posted this up before it was in the media an old comrade informed me
Hi,new here but I love a good rant. As mentioned in my intro post I've just bought a Bonneville America. So I looked to add it to my existing insurance policy because I am keeping my XV1100 Virago. It vibrates over 65 mph but I've grown attached to it. Well you can't add a 2nd bike online, you have to ring. I ring up my insurance company (who are open until 8pm) to add it to my existing policy. Now, I dialled in at 4.30 pm and after listening to various options and crappy distorted music I get through to a human being at 4.58 pm. After going all through the security questions and explaining what I want Steve (who sounds as camp as a boy scout) asks if there were any mods. I admit that the rear shocks have been upgraded to Hagon 2810's. These being superior to the standard and offering greater stability. Well he says I have to ring through to our specialist team for a quote as it's not standard. So I wait about 5 minutes whilst listening to the same distorted tracks. Eventually he comes back to me and says that everyone has gone home at 5 pm so I'll have to ring back tomorrow. Wait a minute I say. You're trading until 8 pm during the week. Not the specialist team he tells me. He does agree to make sure my account is updated so that I don't have to go through the whole process again. Well, I called the next day and after the same crappy music and intolerable wait I get through to Rachna. Now this lady has such a strong Polish or some such East European accent that she has to repeat everything at least once before I get what she's saying. Although by the sound of it her lingual gymnastics make me wonder if she might have been taught English by a non English speaking teacher. I have nothing against any nationality, colour or creed but to have a customer facing job you should at least be able to communicate in a reasonable manner. However, she's on the ball and has all my insurance details up on her screen. Trouble is she won't cut to the chase and tell me the cost without going through her written down notes, which must be aimed at 3 year old idiots. When I get close to wanting to cut my throat or give up on the bike completely in favour of an e-bike or powered scooter she pretty much exhausted her list and I breathe a sigh of relief. So how much then Rachna I ask. Well, unfortunately your existing underwriter won't insure your second bike she tells me. Somewhat taken aback I ask what they consider too great a risk on a Bonneville America. I have no idea what her reply was but I got the impression that no reason was given, which I feel is wrong but what can you do. However the good news is that I can cease my existing policy free of any cancellation fees and take out a new policy covering both bikes. Hmm, I smell something wrong here. Low and behold the cost is more than 4 times what I paid for the original insurance for the XV1100. But wait a minute Rachna love, this is a more modern bike with better brakes, improved suspension, it's even got better lighting and a dashcam to fend of would-be scammers who might make a false claim. Didn't cut no ice with this hardened representative of the insurance world. Oh no. She lashed into me with a load of unintelligible explanations that left me no clearer at all. I politely explained that I would get a quote elsewhere and thanks so much for all your help today. The upshot is that I got a separate quote for the America and combined, the cost of both insurance policies is half of what the lovely Rachna wanted to fleece me for. The only disappointment is that they don't both get renewed together. I hate insurance companies!!
@Golfnut Oddly enough I had a similar experience with my Triumph insurance yesterday. I phoned up deliberately to take out a separate policy for my new 2001 790cc Bonnie on the advice of folks here who largely said they had found multi-bike to be more costly that separately insuring different bikes. The chap who I got through (almost immediately unlike yourself) noticed that my details showed as already being on their system for another bike and he insisted that he put me through to another department for existing policies but assured me that he had done something on the system which should mean that I wouldn't have to go through all the introductory faff again. Well I get through and the woman who answers insists on going through all that faff again, and then asked me to 'hold' for a minute while she chased something up. She came back on and told me that the underwriters wouldn't add the Bonnie to my existing policy as it isn't currently garaged although it is kept in a back garden that can't be seen from the public road on any side, has six foot high fencing and locked gates plus an alarmed disc lock and cover and will soon be chained together with my other bikes. She apologised and then fired me back to the original department where I got a different fellow and had to go through it all again but finally got it insured. Separate insurance for the Bonnie was a mere £118 although I did add on breakdown, clothing and legal cover which took it up to £200 for the year. Seems altogether crazy that they would insure it separately for this relatively small figure but not add it on to my existing policy at any price. I have always considered Insurance to be something that I don't actually really expect to pay out should it ever be need as I have heard so many tales of how they wriggle out of paying if at all possible and so I only have it simply because you have to by law. The one time I discussed claiming on my insurance was when I slid off on black ice back around 1994 and a car which was behind me smashed the bike up. I was told by my insurance broker that it was extremely unlikely that I would receive even half of the value of my bike (I must say at this point that the insurance cost more annually than my little old CB250RS at that time) as my insurer would argue that accidents due to weather conditions amounted pretty much to Acts of God.
I feel your pain, I bought a naked street triple RS. Insurance company are charging me for $5k for minimum accessories/riding gear to the bike. So far I'm good with r the $10 worth of accessories. and another $1000 worth of riding gear that is double coverage on my other bike.
Think I would have got the police helicopter to hover at an appropriate height and drown out the noise of the music, might have spoilt their fun.
Effective - but a bit expensive. Perhaps a couple of fire engines practicing the use of their hoses from range? Getting cold and VERY wet would soon dampen the enthusiasm of these utterly selfish, self-centred and small minded idiots.
Well as a former Cub Scout Leader, if you go about using terms like "as camp as a cub scout", I can see why they would talk to you as if you were a three year old idiot. In fact I would say they were flattering you.
Coronavirus: Above-inflation pay rise for almost 900,000 public sector workers Nurses, of course, don’t benefit from this because we had a three year deal thing going... by nurses, I suspect they mean generalised NHS employees on the AFC pay scale... so after years of pay freeze, we got that pay rise (split over 3 years) which didn’t us bring back in line with inflation and now we are told “Nope, you’ve had yours!” Let’s be clear, I’m glad that dr’s and teachers and other public sector staff are getting a significant wedge, but just feel like we’ve been ignored again Clap, clap, clap! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53478404
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/technology-53480226 George Orwells 1984 really is here! - Whilst on the surface some may think this proposal is a good thing regarding Covid, it is the thin end of the wedge and will be used in the same way the hate speech laws are now imposed. That is, find an acceptable excuse to introduce really authoritarian legislation designed to silence dissenting voices. Hate speech laws were originally introduced following terrorist attacks with the primary aim to stop extremists preaching hate and radicalising people, but they are more usually used now to silence innocent people who dare to question the politics and motives of certain groups or government. Now this "conspiricy theory" online harms legislation is being introduced supposedly to tackle misinformation which could harm gullible idiots, but in the very near future it will be used to silence anything that does not follow government agenda. Isn't anything that does not agree with the status quo a conspiricy theory? Just imagine all the crap that would never be exposed if organiations and people were afraid of being prosecuted for informing about a conspiricy theory. Many conspiricy theories, are total bollox, but many also are in time proved to be true. This legislation IMO is a huge danger to the freedom of everyone, and the thought of it being implemented is horrific. Anyone who thinks my views are an over reaction, try to imagine yourself 15 years ago being told that you could be arrested and prosecuted for saying there are only two sexes, or for calling a biological man a "man" if that man thinks he is a woman, or be sacked from your job and your partner also be sacked from their job for saying something like "all lives matter" - You would think the person telling you those things was a mad conspiricy theorist!
Nurses, of course, don’t benefit from this because we had a three year deal thing going... by nurses, I suspect they mean generalised NHS employees on the AFC pay scale... so after years of pay freeze, we got that pay rise (split over 3 years) which didn’t us bring back in line with inflation and now we are told “Nope, you’ve had yours!” Let’s be clear, I’m glad that dr’s and teachers and other public sector staff are getting a significant wedge, but just feel like we’ve been ignored again Clap, clap, clap! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53478404 Ever watch Adam Curtis’s “The power of nightmares”??? It’s on YouTube and is quite interesting in the respect of what you’re pointing out... and it was in most of our lifetimes https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtPP_-rkrT3CmuUxjezhbewL5C8fcI1Fv
The sombre reality is that public sector pay is funded by private sector wealth creation - public sector ‘tax’ being more of a notional pay abatement to put everyone on a comparable footing. As a public sector pensioner I am acutely aware of coming job losses. We might all need to rein back a bit until the dust settles, even if we think we deserve a leg up. We at least have an income.
I’m a little uncertain what you’re saying Cal, if it’s “We shouldn’t be giving ANY pay rise in the public sector at the moment!” That’s fair enough, my rant is that there IS a Covid based gratuity pay rise... but for only SOME of the public sector workers and not the majority of the NHS staff (Dr’s are on a different pay scheme to nurses, cleaners, engineers, managers in the nhs) Chancellor Rishi Sunak said: "These past months have underlined what we always knew, that our public sector workers make a vital contribution to our country and that we can rely on them when we need them. "It's right, therefore, that we follow the recommendations of the independent pay bodies with this set of real-terms pay rises."
What I am saying is that we are not out of the Covid woods and consequent recession/economic contraction. Until we see the shape and speed of the recovery we should not increase borrowing to pay for pay rises for any public or crown servant. Tax revenues are already unhealthy. Increasing tax will stifle recovery while inflation will rob purchasing power. I think we can all wait 12 months before demanding ‘our turn’. The NHS remains the largest employer this side of the People’s Liberation Army. I need no persuading nurses are undervalued but the NHS is itself part of the reason. That, however, is another issue.
