I hate

On the April Fools this was a pretty stupid one from the marketing team I think.

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Increasingly pushy chuggers.

Lately I've been wondering why the fuck charities don't just employ a full-time lobbyist or two instead of armies of these jokers. Instead of being yet another thing bleeding the poor dry (they're generally more generous), they could be tackling problems at the source, directly competing against the filth creating so many of the problems with their own lobbyists.

Or better yet, going with the highest ROI there is, and just buying the politicians like anyone else who's actually serious about changing the world to their liking.

Poor people are more generous
More capable of empathy and compassion

Hm, maybe we could have a scheme where politicians are bought 'back' from vested interests with crowdfunding. That'd be a worthwhile charity.

This is why I'm waiting for the mug punters to realise they need to vote like hell for any poor people who stand for election, like AOC in the Bronx or MCM in Brisbane.

They're not mutually exclusive strategies and depending how you define lobbyist, major charities do this.

An organisation like say, UNICEF, will create pilot projects in-country to demonstrate efficacy, then work with government to expand them and drive lasting change.

Even if people avoid the chuggers, I can imagine there is an additional advertising benefit to having a charity logo visible in a public place.

The costs for chuggers are pretty low though. It's largely commission based so if they aren't earning the charity that much they aren't costing that much. Buying politicians is much pricier.

Those situations where you're waiting on some info before you can do your part, and you know it's going to come shortly....but then someone chases you on your part.

Never the end of the world, but it makes you appear reactive instead of proactive.

Also my system changing to US Eng every time there's a weekend upgrade/update.

The other point is that chuggers can raise “unrestricted income”.
Charities get grants from governments or other organisations but often this is restricted in what it can be spent on.

Imagine the political backlash if a charity was given money to feed starving kids but spent it on laptops in an unrelated area of the organisation or maybe funded a support group for trans people in an oppressive state?

Chugging is one way to get funds that can be used across the NGO

The classic: HMRC

received a letter from HMRC to say that I still haven't paid them back the £1100 i "owe" them as per the previous email and if I don't now pay within 28 days they'll get the bailiffs in.

I have received no such previous letter.

I'm PAYE, have sod all savings and no investments, so always mystified as to how this is supposed to happen. I go onto my HMRC account online and can find no reference to me owing anything. Then download and open up the HMRC app which I have never used before. That tells me that HMRC owe me £89.

The app also says that they sent me a message in 2022 to say they owed me just shy of £900 and they'll send me a letter about that. Again, I received no such letter and when I try to claim the refund on the app, the app does....nothing.

So now i've got to ring them up and find out wtf is going on.

So now i've got to ring them up and find out wtf is going on.

Good luck with that!

Exactly.

Similar. Had a call saying I owed them.
I paid then I got two letters one saying I over paid and another saying I underpaid
Called them spoke for 3 hours and yes they owe me but I have to call at a different time to get the money.

I would like to 3 day booze and cocaine bender....

Now why can I picture this so well, wonder if spit the dog was involved in the cat herding.

I once had a propective seller tell me they had another buyer who’s offered the same money as us, and would we like to up our offer? (we’d offered asking price too! Market was mental at this time, and/or we were mugs, and loved the gaff).

I reckoned we were getting played, so I just said ‘nah, take it or leave it’. They left it. Mrs was pissed at me for insisting it was bollocks and we never got that house. Which was banging.

Thing is, we later found out her smarmy cunt of an ex (who had cheated on his LTP back in Germany with her while they were at college in the US) was living in the same development, and whose flat would have basically overlooked our house and little garden.

I feel like I dodged a bullet there. CSB.

Loved the ‘Cheggers tried to grab my pussy’ story Andy.

I would like to 3 day booze and cocaine bender....

Now why can I picture this so well, wonder if spit the dog was involved in the cat herding.

I've just had this I'm self employed and paid what they said I owed before the Jan 31st deadline. Then they owed me money then I owed them money now they owe me money again. One letter not received and another about a month late. Tried all week trying to speak to someone must have rang 10+ times and you can even stay on hold and wait your turn anymore as the line goes dead after about 40 minutes. Then they text me a customer feedback text after every unsuccessful call. The last two lots of feedback I sent were useless cunts and pointless cunts so I hope they take that on board to help them improve their service and user experience as requested.

Easter eggs. Minuscule amounts of chocolate, massively overpackaged and overpriced.

But half price since Monday...

Better than half price when I got a load. £1.06/100g in Sainsbury's which is cheaper than buying a big bar of Dairy Milk from the same supermarket (£1.11/100g).

But half price since Monday...

Where?!?!? My wife went out looking for some for a prize for a school competition and there were none anywhere.

The packaging though!

At least it is mostly card now.

Morrisons Local. I got one of the pile of mini-egg one's on Monday, others have had the lot since as those and only those ones are sold out now. Loads of different other types still.

Having to ask "where are you based" on here because enquiring where someone lives is a bit odd.

It makes me shudder.