I hate

Tbh I wouldn't have assumed not wanting to throw away at least half of something was particularly golf club.

But it sounds like I know what I need to do.

Just go to a proper local greengrocer.

Even the fancy, locally grown, organic ones I bought from unicorn (reason for GC) have been shitty, bad weather maybe?

Fresh and Fruity (yes, shit name) in Sydenham has been consistently good for garlic. I haven't been in a couple of months though.

Musty Cloves, isn;t she a jazz singer?

Top tip, they're just round the corner.

Booking.com

Had a serviced apartment this week. Owner cancelled through message refusing to cancel booking on their end. Sent screenshots to customer services “we aim to get back to you in 24 hours”

Meanwhile I’m £900 out of pocket with another £500 for a hotel.

Thundercunts all round.

Booking.com are unremittingly awful.

We nearly had to sue them for a very stupid amount of money over a ridiculous cancellation / failure to confirm débacle.

Total ladle faces.

I’ve went through credit card now and they’ve refunded.

But it’s the principle of them being fucking useless and me having to do all these extra steps for no fucking reason.

Sadly I’m in Thurso and tourists have ravaged the airbnbs so no alternative.

I hate that Route B is better than Route A. It absolutely shouldn't be: Route B is Holloway Road, Balls Pond Road, Graham Road, Mare Street and Morning Lane.

Route A follows a Quiet Route. But there are two problems with it: the speed bumps are not remotely bike-friendly - they should be smooth for riding over, or speed cushions for cyclists to navigate around; and some of the cycling on the Quiet Route is genuinely stickier than the driving on Holloway / Balls Pond... and that is quite the accolade.

Btw: happy to have alternatives suggested for Kentish Town -- Olympic Park.

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Someone behind me in the office just loudly exclaimed, '6 months to Christmas' in a tone of genuine excitement.

Monday morning punishment for them:
Packing tape them to their chair in the stairwell, shove 'cans' on their ears playing Poundshop style Crimbo cover versions and force-feed them mince pies (preferably iced variety, cos their gross).
Leave them til Friday.

A case for when homicide is acceptable, doubly so if the target uses "XX sleeps till Christmas".

Presumably also less risk of being violently mugged on route B.

Yeh presumably!

HMRC again. Sorry for the rant.

I've now been sent a letter from a Debt Collection Centre about an outstanding balance.
I received a letter from HMRC a couple of months back about it saying its in regards to self assessment. It said I could check the details and pay the amount via the app. The apps says I don't anything. So there is no means to pay. I try to call numerous times, but there is no answer and system just cuts you off, there is no queue.

So I sent them a message via the app. There has been no response to my message.

So I call the debt agency and they are able to give me a different number to call, which I am able to get through on. They do some digging and apparently its not about self assessment, but rather a difference in the company car I had and the one they thought I had in 2018-19. Which is the first time I have heard about this. They said they sent a letter in 2021, but I never received it.

Fucking annoying as;

1) I always updated my HMRC account when I changed car as I know my employer were rubbish at doing it.
2) Like i said, this is the first i had heard about it, 5 years later.
3) I have spoken to HMRC in 2019 about another dispute (when they said I got paid twice in July and twice in December 2018, even though my payslips and bank account said otherwise. They wouldn't back down and I had to pay it. I spoke to them again in 2021 as we also had a dispute when I got a redundancy payment. At no point did they say I owed any other amounts. They have records of these calls.
4) They make it impossible to contact them and then don't respond when you actually manage to
5) The info in their app and their system for letting you pay any amount doesn't show you owing anything. So I couldn't it any way.
6) Was told on the phone, the only way to dispute the claim, even though I was on the phone to the HMRC at the time, that they have an app and an online account is to write them a sodding letter and put it in the post.

HMRC is jokes.

A few years ago (but not many) I got a tax bill. And on the same day another letter to say they had miscalculated and I owed a lot (thousands) less. So far, so good.

But no. They said I needed to pay the wrong amount and they would refund the difference. My suggestion that I just paid the revised amount broke their minds and a lengthy sub-Kafkaesque discussion ensued with the parting comment that I needed to pay what I owed otherwise I might incur costs for late payment.

At this point, I deployed Dr Mole, a friend from school (he is neither a doctor nor a mole but he is super laid back and an accountant). He got them to issue a revised bill but not without considerable cost to his mental health (which I offset with HPA).

Obviously CSB but I feel your pain

I said “6 months to stressmas” to myself this morning

People who cook outdoors.

I hope you get fucking salmonella.

#worldwidehate

Top draw! 🤣

There is of course the outdoor cooking thread on here where this hate could be better vented.

Ideally with a PID controlled fan to help maintain a constant temperature

Gotta keep the hate constant. Bluetooth control too.

WiFi too.