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Category Archives: Rants
webuyanycar
But wedontpayyouanymoney either. WBAC price for our old VW Golf was £70. Factor in their admin fee (£50) and the petrol to drive it to their location means a final price more like £15. We sold the car on eBay first time for £350 and the buyer comes to collect.
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Truck off
Did I miss the driving lesson where they explain that lorry drivers decide where you can drive and when? Coming to a section of road at the weekend where two lanes went into one I was following the traffic signs placed there by the experts. 800m, 600m, 400m before the lanes join. I’m merrily going [...]
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MotorHolme are driving me mad
Don’t get an instant quote from MotorHolme, not unless you want their automated email bot to spam you senseless for the next 6 days (and counting). There’s no unsubscribe link and there’s no account management page to let you get rid of their incessant spam. Not only that the quote process is pretty damn confusing, [...]
Being a statue is not a real job
I run past the London Eye a few times a week. In the summer there’s an avenue of people being statues between the Eye and Waterloo Bridge. Fair enough, some are quite believable and the kids seem to enjoy the surprise. The other day though I spotted a new one. A chap, oldish, badly spray [...]
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What happened to the MaccyD cheeseburger?
Drunk last night I walked into the MaccyD’s on Oxford St for my regulation two cheeseburgers only to find out that the Oxford St MaccyD’s wouldn’t sell them to me, they only do value meals. What the hell is going on? Still drunk, I politely declined a huge meal and wandered instead into Burger King [...]
Tube lies
Explain this to me. I’m stuck on the Victoria Line because of signal failure at Oxford Circus this morning. When I eventually reach my destination at Victoria the automated annoucement kicks in and tells me that there is ‘a good service on all lines’. Firstly, is the communication in Underground so bad that they don’t [...]
Morbid memorials
I can’t help but wonder as to the new craze of creating make shift shrines to lost loved ones at the site of accidents. I can fully sympathise with the grief and loss felt at the death of a loved one, but to create a shrine at the site of the death seems to me [...]
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The new religion
St. Martin’s in the Fields, the church on Trafalgar Square is undergoing some major works. This morning whilst cycling to work I was surprised to see an enormous advertising hording on the scaffolding of the church. The hording is angled to be clearly visible to everyone in Trafalgar Square and has the new Intel Core [...]
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Learning not to flinch
Since the start of the free newspaper boom in London I’ve become completely immune to people thrusting things at me on the streets. I’m starting to think this could be a serious problem. Normally when someone thrusts something at me, I recoil, but now I’m trained I walk on by with no reaction. What happens [...]