*OFFICIAL* UKFF RANT thread

[Van Dammer]

Digging up the McCann thing again

 

... would surely cross the line from paedophile to necrophile?

 

As per the public opinion thing, most of the people I work with seem to think she's dead, and while nobody seems to just come out and say "they killed her," there have been a few comments along the line of "they've certainly made plenty of money from her disappearance, haven't they?"

 

Id agree and as I said before, why would a paedophile ring (which the McCanns have alleged it was) take one child when there are three there? Unless of course they were so negligent that she managed to let herself out of the villa and was then snatched. I just dont believe that two well educated parents and their well educated friends think its a good idea to leave three children in a villa in a foreign country.

[air_raid]

The tribulations of getting to the Noah shows this weekend.

 

The rail network pricing system in this country seems completely knackered.

 

I live in Manchester and haven't been had a car for a couple of years so am currently relying on trains to get me around the country. To take in both shows, I obviously need to get from Manchester to Harlow Town (near the Travel Lodge) for Friday, then from Harlow up to Manchester on the Saturday, and since I'm from that neck of the woods and its mama's birthday tomorrow, I'm staying until Monday when I can get a train back up to Manchester.

 

So I starts planning my route, and because the website isnt clever enough to do "travel via" that differs on the outbound journey and the return, and you aren't allowed to book in advance for the apparant savings unless you stipulate your travel time (i.e. no open-ended return), I had the following two choices :

 

1) Get a return to Harlow "via Wolverhampton" that gets me to Harlow in time for the meet and greet on Friday and drops me at Wolverhampton in time for the meet and greet on Saturday, getting off even though I've paid for a ticket valid all the way back up to Manc, and get a single to Manchester on Monday.

 

OR

 

2) Get a single to Harlow Friday. Get a single from Harlow to Wolverhampton Saturday. Get a single from Wolverhampton to Manchester Monday.

 

So I've priced up my options :

 

1)

 

RETURN TO HARLOW VIA WOLVO -

[gadge]

Did you try getting singles to/from London rather than Harlow?

[air_raid]

No, and I've paid for the bastards now.

[Hyperion]

It's always been like that for train tickets, fucking retarded. In theory you'd think if you went 80 miles on a train with 3 change overs, it'd be

[air_raid]

The other thing I dont understand is that with most service industries, like hotel rooms and holidays, you can get cheap "last minute" prices. This is because the operator doesn't want wasted capacity - once that seat on the plane or hotel room is gone, it's gone - so they are prepared to accept something for it rather than just let it go to waste, even if it isnt the full price.

 

With train tickets its the opposite. Turn up two minutes before your train, at the "last minute?" Haha, more fool you. Prepare to be raped.

 

And I've sat on some fairly empty trains over the years, so its definitely not a "demand > supply" situation where they can charge whatever the fuck they want.

[myfrontpage]

I know where you're coming from.

 

I live in Leeds, but go to uni in Hull. I need to be in Hull Saturday night for an awards evening, so I book Leeds --> Broxbourne, Broxbourne ---> Hull. Then yesterday I realised I forgot booking Hull --> Woodlesford on the Sunday. Checked,

[Glenryck Pilchards]

Train tickets are baffling things, the future in-laws landed at Newcastle airport on monday and were about to pay for two

[Kiffy]

Surely you want to go to broxbourne, not harlow?

[Surf Digby]

I am sick to fucking death with Kate and Gerry MCcann.

Now might be the time to migrate then.

 

http://beta.uk.news.yahoo.com/mccanns-ask-...-052458382.html

[Chest Rockwell]

If they get any more than a "thank you for your letter" template response from his secretary then I'll think even less of Cameron.

 

I was actually coming into this thread to say that I watched The Orphanage last night, and it actually made me feel a bit of sympathy for the McCanns as it reminded me that grief can make you pretty nuts, and it's all too easy for us to judge them and try to be rational about this when they clearly are still acting emotionally.

 

But then I read that and it reminded me that they're a couple of entitled bitchy cunts who can just fuck off.

[Ross]

Regarding the trains. That's what privatisation does for you - complicated, non-transparent and inconsistent pricing. It's especially bad for older people etc who don't have access to the internet and just go in person to the ticket office. Everything you book nowadays seems to take such a long time whilst trying to look for the lowest prices etc.

[Kookoocachu]

Fuming

 

I live in a rented house through a housing association who lease the property from a private landlord (they don't own the property).

About a month ago a leak appeared in the middle of my kitchen floor, it's carpet (I don't know what sort of mind fuckery makes someone put carpet in a kitchen but hey ho) so it's not very nice. Called someone out and they couldn't find anything wrong, so said to keep an eye on it and see what it does. Couple of weeks later the patch had got even bigger and the carpet was sodden so called them in again. They couldn't find the cause again, but replaced the waste pipe on my washing machine just incase it was that. Since then I have used my washing machine once and been doing my washing at my mums just to see if the leak stopped. It hasn't.

The leak is now so bad I can't use my kitchen, the carpet is completely sodden and it's taken over pretty much my entire kitchen floor. I'm swimming.

All today I have been battling with my housing association demanding this to be fixed asap. First of all they told me that no one of their plumbers can see me until Wednesday and it took me reminding them that I have a toddler, the standing manky water is dangerous and I can't use my kitchen for them to try and call a private company in. Luckily they have found someone who can apparently get to me by 3pm today (hopefully).

 

I don't understand why they can't see the urgency of all of this. Aside from the fact that the longer it's left the more damage it's causing, this isn't their house! Some poor sod was kind enough to lease it out to the association and if it was me I wouldn't be happy with how they are handling it.

 

I'm fed up I can't use my kitchen and have to try and keep Dyllan away from it. I'm fed up of getting soaking wet feet and trousers when ever I have to go in there and I have to go through the kitchen to get to my front door/hall and stairs.

 

Pissed off

 

UPDATE:

Well that's interesting. The new plumbers found the problem and fixed it all within an hour. Now begins the saga of a new kitchen floor which will probably takes forever as they say the owner of the house should do it rather than the housing assc. Joy.

[FLips]

My best mate is absolutely pissing me off lately. He's lazy as fucking shit and sits about in his room all day playing games on his own, or with his brother. He's followed my footsteps nearly everywhere to the point it's become a joke between everyone we know. I quit college, so he did. I went to a different college to do Media so he followed. He said he was going to York Uni, but when I said I was going to Teesside he followed. I quit Teesside, so he did. He's a pain in my arse.

Anyway, as some of you will know, I left with the aim of becoming a games journalist and have been semi-successful so far, and it came as a shock to all my mates when he didn't try that too.

I've been looking for a job for months now and finally got hired yesterday, so I text him about it and he replied with "I might have too".

 

A bit of a background on this. He worked at Home Bargains years ago because his Aunt was area manager, then he got a job at Barclays because his Mum works there, and he might be getting this job because his Mum is handing it to him. He's never actively searched for a job in his life, he just sits about doing nothing and gets them handed to him. This one pissed me off most though because he left Uni with no aims, and hasn't once looked into starting work and his Mum is like "here's a

[Magnum]

Geordie Shore has now officially started, and is quickly weeding out the cretins on my facebook as they mimic idiotic phrases from the dolts who 'star' in this catastrophe. Favourites so far are 'in there like swimwear', and one charming young lad romantically offering to 'pie everyone else off' so he and one of the girls from the house could 'tash on'.

 

Reading between the lines, MTV have clearly asked them to drop a few 'classic geordie phrases' in there to imitate the way Jersey Shore used terms like 'grenade' and 'creeping'. But trust me, I'm from the north east, and there is NO SUCH FUCKING PHRASE as 'pie them off' or 'tash on'.

 

I'll admit that a Travis Bickle-esque need to find a suitable focal point to direct all my anger and hatred toward curiosity got the better of me and I tuned into the first episode last week. I knew it was going to be bad, but fuck me. They've taken the stupidest people in the north east, kept them in a cage for a month feeding them nothing but steroids and viagra, and then released them into the wild. It seems All Saints has got the deal Ed Hardy got with Jersey Shore here, because all they wear are those stupid low-slung vest/t-shirts, which they lift up every time they talk to a girl to show off their 6-packs. One of the main culprits clearly has the natural build of a smack addict, but due to consuming large amounts of HGH, he now looks like a smack addict with a 6-pack. Another one looks like Gavin Henson would look if you took his brain out, shaved his eyebrows off and drew them back on so he looked permanently confused.

 

Predictably, MTV decided to portray every woman in the north east as instantly moist at the sight of a monosyllabic orange cretin, which will probably redouble the amount of monosyllabic orange cretins stinking up the town on stag parties. It goes without saying that the girls in the house are fucking morons as well, and the fact that all of these idiots are obviously going to breed with each other (too stupid to know how to work a condom, natch) is going to make the film Idiocracy a reality within a generation or two.

 

Still, it's saved me a fortune, because after watching this I never want to go clubbing in Newcastle again.