All ye oul wans and oul fellas out there! Wakey wakey, rise and shine!

Jellybaby1

Apathy birthday tooo yoooooo
Apathy birthday tooo yoooooo
App-AH-tee BIRTHday dear BrensBenz
Apathybirthdaytoyou!

Have a nice day y'all!

Samaris

looksee wrote: »

I just wonder though, why do these random people (including people calling to the door wanting to clean your gutters/ sell you tickets for stuff/ whatever) think that you are either willing or able to just drop whatever you are doing to attend to their uninvited wants? If you want to communicate with me, send me an email, pop a note through the letterbox, or some other non-invasive strategy. But don't expect me to change direction in mid activity to accommodate you

Hah, we had one of those today. Maybe he was on the level, and claimed he'd done the windows for "lady of the house" a few months ago. But I don't really like door-to-door touting, even if I was going to entertain the idea, and he blinked way too much.

Anyone else find they trust people less if their eyes are constantly fluttering?

Edit: Also, happy birthday, Brensbenz!

Rubecula

I want to cry
Government dept. want to take me to court .... and they want to take my driving licence off me too.

Samaris

Rubecula wrote: »

I want to cry
Government dept. want to take me to court .... and they want to take my driving licence off me too.

Eek! O.O That all sounds fairly alarming!

Jellybaby1

Rubecula wrote: »

I want to cry
Government dept. want to take me to court .... and they want to take my driving licence off me too.

Aw no Rube. You don't need this. Rotten treatment. Get thee to a solicitor. Hope things go your way.

Rubecula

It is a real pain, and I live in the back of beyond too.

BrensBenz

Rubecula wrote: »

I want to cry
Government dept. want to take me to court .... and they want to take my driving licence off me too.

All is not lost! I know a place (ahem) with more laws and regulations than you can shake a stick at but without the resources to enforce them. In fact, this place has laws that are impossible to enforce and they have an online industry advising their citizens on how to circumvent the laws that can be enforced. They're also very good at refusing extradition requests on the most microscopic technicalities. Go west, young man! You'll be grand so ya' will.

Rubecula

If I go west from here I will end up in Ireland lol

Jellybaby1

Rubecula wrote: »

If I go west from here I will end up in Ireland lol

You'd more likely just fall into the Irish Sea!

BBDBB

and be done for swimming without a licence

Jellybaby1

Mock not.........it could happen yet! Although the pewer 'ould Greeks seem to be on the verge of losing their savings, we are also losing our savings, except in a more sly and secretive way. If someone gets wind of 'swimming licences' we'll all have to get one, whether we swim or not, just like the new 'Communications licence' they are introducing instead of the TV licence. Grrrrr! There won't be much inheritance left for the childer after all this.

Samaris

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Mock not.........it could happen yet! Although the pewer 'ould Greeks seem to be on the verge of losing their savings, we are also losing our savings, except in a more sly and secretive way. If someone gets wind of 'swimming licences' we'll all have to get one, whether we swim or not, just like the new 'Communications licence' they are introducing instead of the TV licence. Grrrrr! There won't be much inheritance left for the childer after all this.

Oh, is that the latest, the "communications licence"?

Huh, I Just looked it up there. Cheek of them as regards "evading paying TV licence". We're currently "evading" it by -not having a TV-. Don't watch it, don't want one, don't have any interest in RTE. Sure, I get my news off the internet, but we already pay for internet.

*irritated raspberry sound*

Jellybaby1

It seems it doesn't matter whether you have a TV or not, if you have internet, you're in the loop, if you have a radio, you're in the loop, if you have a screen of any kind, you're in the loop.....even sun-screen........dammit......we'll have to get a licence for that too! We're giving them too many ideas, time to shurrup now! Grrrrrr again.

BrensBenz

I would be delighted to be shown I'm wrong on this - I haven't had a lot of time to study Irish tax ideas - but I suspect that, rather than spend time designing a payment system which might or might not work here, our lads in the Dail asked themselves: "What do the Brits do?"

A UK TV license is required if, in your UK property, you have ANY DEVICE which is CAPABLE of receiving TV signals AS THEY ARE BROADCAST. So, if your compewher, or tablet or phone or whatever is CAPABLE of receiving live TV, pay up!

They care not a jot if you tell them that you "never watch TV" - your equipment is CAPABLE.

And the "delay" in broadcast and receipt of signals to and from satellites does NOT mean the signal isn't being received "live".

In my last flat in the UK, I had no TV but I did have a laptop CAPABLE of receiving TV. However, as I had no broadband connection, or even a land line - which was easily verifiable by the absence of direct debits on bank accounts, records at telecom companies, etc., I was exempt. However, it was my responsibility to prove my case - waiting with head in the sand until they visited was not an option.

Jellybaby1

But their (UK) TV programmes are worth paying a licence for. Can't say the same for RTE.

Rubecula

Be nice if we could get RTE over here. Used to pick it up on the old TV aerial, but not in modern times.

Jellybaby1

You can have it, Rube! The other Irish TV channel is TV3 which I would dip into more.

Rubecula

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

You can have it, Rube! The other Irish TV channel is TV3 which I would dip into more.

Last time I saw that I was in Ireland

Jellybaby1

Y'll just have to visit more often then.

Rubecula

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Y'll just have to visit more often then.

Love that idea. Just wish I knew any surviving relatives there.

0lddog

http://www.irishtv.ie/

Kinda Craggy Island TV - at least theres none of that foreign stuff on it

Rubecula

Channel 191 on Sky over here is mostly Irish tv

BrensBenz

Os&Os,

Have you tried your new post code yet? http://www.eircode.ie/
It was being ridiculed on radio today (well, that's what we do!) but it looks quite clever.

Apparently, except for the names of the addressees, 30% of Irish addresses are not unique, e.g.

Sean agus Maire,
Long Road,
Ballmucky

and
Seamus agus Aine,
(At a completely different house)
Long Road,
Ballmucky.

My address is one of the 30% - we've been here 33 years and, like everyone else on this road, we are numberless.

There are, of course, glitches but, now that I know my "eircode", I can include it when ordering online and maybe, just maybe, it will help to reduce the amount of lost mail, late deliveries and courier vans and ambulances doing U-turns in the middle of roads.

OldGoat

Sorting codes = increase in logistics efficiency... eventually.
I'm happy to see it finally introduced even though I know it will be a number of years before they are fully integrated into everyday life and my satnav.

Jellybaby1

BrensBenz wrote: »

....My address is one of the 30% - we've been here 33 years and, like everyone else on this road, we are numberless.....

Ah, one of the posher addresses, then? Sly way to show off Brens! :rolleyes:

BrensBenz

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Ah, one of the posher addresses, then? Sly way to show off Brens! :rolleyes:

Yeah, right! We're the fourth Bungalow Bliss house, down the "Dual Carriageway" (ditch - dirt - grass - dirt - ditch) after the Boggy Lane. Real posh!

Jellybaby1

Y'don't know you've been born mate! :P

Pulsating Star

BrensBenz wrote: »

Os&Os,

Have you tried your new post code yet? http://www.eircode.ie/

ah, very good, at last I have a number.

Live on a little rural lane and always have to talk delivery folk to the door. I will put it on my next Internet purchase and see if they use it rather than phone me.

Rubecula

Are post codes new to ROI?

Alice1

Pulsating Star wrote: »

ah, very good, at last I have a number.

Live on a little rural lane and always have to talk delivery folk to the door. I will put it on my next Internet purchase and see if they use it rather than phone me.

Well, yes and no. Dublin did have postcodes (of a sort) like Dublin 4 or Dublin 15 etc. However, we now have all new all singing proper grown up postcodes. Oh tis all very excitin'

looksee

I was arranging for a pick up from UPS today and said - do you want the postcode? He said in amazement Ireland has postcodes? Yes says I, since yesterday. Oh, says he, but there is no provision on the computer for it. So we decided to go the old-fashioned way

Jellybaby1

Or to put it another way.......they decided to do it the Oirish way........same old same old! Sure we can't be havin' all dem fancy post code numbers, after all, we'd much rather let the delivery van get lost, and waste all that petrol so they keep puttin' the cost of delivery up and up and up......which they'll do anyway!

Samaris

So, apparently, these new Eircodes are assigned randomly by house, and are not sequential. So you get a very general area code and after that it's chucking dice in the air. Is it just me, or does that spectacularly fail to make them particularly useful?

Once you're in a general cachement area, you're better off just using the address!

To give an example: 142 Pikachu Tce., Cork could be T19 K230, and 143 Pikachu Tce, Cork could be T19 X436.

Seriously, it's not like every other country in the world hasn't managed this. It's not like they were innovating a totally new system here.

Jellybaby1

Yes Samaris......it doesn't make sense. Y'know, I love Ireland, its my home, but more and more I feel a terrible sense of doom.

Rubecula

SHRIEK :eek::eek::eek:

Remember a few months ago my new car was written off in a freak accident involving a boat?

I had to get a new car to replace it ....

Last night I was involved in a motoring accident.

What a silly beggar I am. tut tut tut

Samaris

Rubecula wrote: »

SHRIEK :eek::eek::eek:

Remember a few months ago my new car was written off in a freak accident involving a boat?

I had to get a new car to replace it ....

Last night I was involved in a motoring accident.

What a silly beggar I am. tut tut tut

Oh god, that's unlucky! A freak accident involving a -boat-? O.o That does sound like a fairly freakish occurrence. I'm sure it was commented on somewhere in the thread, but what happened?

Also, far more importantly, everyone alright?

Jellybaby1

Rubecula wrote: »

....Last night I was involved in a motoring accident. ...

Whaaaat! Hope nobody was hurt!

Alice1

Rubecula wrote: »

SHRIEK :eek::eek::eek:

Remember a few months ago my new car was written off in a freak accident involving a boat?

I had to get a new car to replace it ....

Last night I was involved in a motoring accident.

What a silly beggar I am. tut tut tut

I think maybe a push bike would be safer for you!

Rubecula

Samaris wrote: »

Oh god, that's unlucky! A freak accident involving a -boat-? O.o That does sound like a fairly freakish occurrence. I'm sure it was commented on somewhere in the thread, but what happened?

Also, far more importantly, everyone alright?

only two injuries ... my nerves and my pride lol

Accident earlier in the year was a boat falling off a tralier and destroying my car :mad:

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Whaaaat! Hope nobody was hurt!

No injuries JB, it was only about 10 mph, but my car is badly damaged.

Alice1 wrote: »

I think maybe a push bike would be safer for you!

Sadly Alice, I am not able to ride a bike these days

Jellybaby1

I wouldn't like to be you having to go to the insurance company....again! :eek:

looksee

Ah Rube, sorry to hear that, hope you are ok

Rubecula

I am fine but the car is broken

Jellybaby1

Time to get a tank, Rube!

Rubecula

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Time to get a tank, Rube!

Oddly you are not the first to say that, my kind generous workmates said the exact same thing.






:pac:

Jellybaby1

Well, at least it would be unbreakable, and more importantly so would you, in a tank! On top of that.....nobody would argue with you, if you had a tank. You really need a tank. Get a tank, do! And when you do......giz a jaunt in it!

OldGoat

An old Volvo is probably the safest car on the road.

OldGoat

Just back from a loooong weekend in London. I am culturally overloaded.
Got to see the Alexander McQueen exhibition in the V&A... haute couture designer whose flame burned bright. For a clothes horse like me it was a joy to wander for hours on end in awe at the concepts he produced.
I then went for the classics and spent a day wandering the National Gallery where I re-awakened my love for William Turner. He was doing impressionistic paintings before the Impressionistic movement caught the publics attention.

The rest of the weekend was lost in drunken revelry and debauchery. :cool:

Rubecula

OldGoat wrote: »

The rest of the weekend was lost in drunken revelry and debauchery. :cool:

Same as normal then really eh? :cool:

OldGoat

Rubecula wrote: »

Same as normal then really eh? :cool:

""To thyne own self be true"

BrensBenz

OldGoat wrote: »

The rest of the weekend was lost in drunken revelry and debauchery. :cool:

Reminds me of George Best's answer when asked where his fortune had gone. "I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."