Sheer Greed - Fuel
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Matt Vinyl
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- Location: Lost in the outback, Bryan
Cheese-Us Christ!!! This is just getting out of hand. I'm starting to get so miffed with this bloody country!
I work my ass off 5 days a week at the office (programming / SQL / report generation / Keeping the DH and local PCTs happy) and earn a bloody good wage for working on the 'fringe' of London. I'm lucky to see £150 a month 'cash on the hip' after all the outlay on:
-Rent
-Council Tax
-Car Payment
-Gas
-Water
-Electric
-Diesel (Grr!)
-Food
-Other Household Essentials
-Baby Clobber
How On Earth am I ever meant to:
-Save for a deposit
-Afford a mortgage
Considering my missus has three kids (OK, one is old enough to work now, and earning her crust, which is helping us a bit) and we've little Charlie who's 5 months old now, we'd need a three-bedroom gaff, and average prices around here are upwards of £200k. And that's for a dump!
I'm not going to go down the well-trodden 'foreigner / benefit' road, but it does really get my goat when I see some of my neighbours 'enjoying' their lives and not even going to work.
Rant over. lol
I work my ass off 5 days a week at the office (programming / SQL / report generation / Keeping the DH and local PCTs happy) and earn a bloody good wage for working on the 'fringe' of London. I'm lucky to see £150 a month 'cash on the hip' after all the outlay on:
-Rent
-Council Tax
-Car Payment
-Gas
-Water
-Electric
-Diesel (Grr!)
-Food
-Other Household Essentials
-Baby Clobber
How On Earth am I ever meant to:
-Save for a deposit
-Afford a mortgage
Considering my missus has three kids (OK, one is old enough to work now, and earning her crust, which is helping us a bit) and we've little Charlie who's 5 months old now, we'd need a three-bedroom gaff, and average prices around here are upwards of £200k. And that's for a dump!
I'm not going to go down the well-trodden 'foreigner / benefit' road, but it does really get my goat when I see some of my neighbours 'enjoying' their lives and not even going to work.
Rant over. lol
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Matt Vinyl
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- Joined: Wed May 11, 2005 6:56 pm
- Location: Lost in the outback, Bryan
Fuck this shit, I'm cycling to work now, it's the principle of the thing.
£1.14/£1.15/litre unleaded. I'm developing a gravitro-neutro-blah-blah-bullshit thing for my car to harness the earth's gravitational field and convert it to energy. Seriously some people are using refined vegetable oil to run specially converted diesel engines. Hmmmmm.
Of course cars are very much a neccessity for the fruit machine game if you want to escape from your city/town centre.
i) You leave a bike outside a pub, some bastard will nick it, or an essential unlocked/locked part such as a wheel or the saddle.
ii) You can put £1s in the water bottle, but they hit capacity at about £300. Also would you take a water bottle into a pub? Would you leave it outside a pub? Have you tried pedalling down the A14 with £200 in your back pockets?
iii) Doing a services run is a right pain in the arse on a bike. You really have to pedal hard in that fast lane, I mean FUCKING hard, absolutely mental. I was going hammer for tongs down the M1, I'd just got back up past Toddington Northbound, destination Northampton Tenpin and I've overtaken a dawdler in a Fiat 500 in the slow lane, then a big tanker is going about 40mph in the middle, so I razz onto the big ring, top gear and I'm pulling out, flat out when a flippin' Vectra comes right up my arse flashing its lights etc, swearing. I turned around and shouted "I'd like to see you pedal faster" which I think was a fair point. Having an engine is cheating - who do these people think they are?
iv) Eventually someone in car with loads of flashy lights, wearing a high visibility uniform and helmet stopped to give me a lift. Well I thought they were going to, they were really friendly, asked me my address, who I was, we listened to the radio for a while. I think it was the evening session with Jon Peel as it was really wierd, just like some bloke going 'beep booop' 'Go ahead Sarge' every so often. Probably on some wierd record label. Anyway they gave me a token or something for £60 and escorted me to the next roundabout, so it wasn't a complete waste of time. I pedalled onwards, but it got a bit dark near Northampton, so I pressed on for the Travelodge at Watford Gap. Turned out those bastards in the flashy light car had 'fined' me £60 for the 'priviledge' of driving me up to the next junction. Clowns. Rip off taxi firm, think they were called Police cabs or something like that.
Advantages
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i) I carry two spare inner tubes, so even if locals do slash my tyres, I have two spares!
ii) It's wierd cycling to pubs to play fruit machines, I can comitt notechanger fraud until the sky is blue, no one bats an eyelid.
iii) No expensive fuel costs, no tax, no MOT requirements.
iv) You actually WANT the drink you buy, by the time you get to the pub.
v) A good way to get healthy and exercise at the same time.
vi) I can loaf up, drink my half coke and watch the BFK emptying Honomopolypoly without him suspecting a thing. I mean who is going to notice someone clad entirely in lycra, wearing a hemet, with £300 protruding from their person standing about one foot behind them?
Who needs petrol? Come on, more solar panels please. For free please HM Government. You give them greedy junkies their methadone day in, day out, give us a solar panel please. And free dental treatment. And free vegtable oil. And more express bicycle lanes for fruitystreakers in a rush.
£1.14/£1.15/litre unleaded. I'm developing a gravitro-neutro-blah-blah-bullshit thing for my car to harness the earth's gravitational field and convert it to energy. Seriously some people are using refined vegetable oil to run specially converted diesel engines. Hmmmmm.
Of course cars are very much a neccessity for the fruit machine game if you want to escape from your city/town centre.
i) You leave a bike outside a pub, some bastard will nick it, or an essential unlocked/locked part such as a wheel or the saddle.
ii) You can put £1s in the water bottle, but they hit capacity at about £300. Also would you take a water bottle into a pub? Would you leave it outside a pub? Have you tried pedalling down the A14 with £200 in your back pockets?
iii) Doing a services run is a right pain in the arse on a bike. You really have to pedal hard in that fast lane, I mean FUCKING hard, absolutely mental. I was going hammer for tongs down the M1, I'd just got back up past Toddington Northbound, destination Northampton Tenpin and I've overtaken a dawdler in a Fiat 500 in the slow lane, then a big tanker is going about 40mph in the middle, so I razz onto the big ring, top gear and I'm pulling out, flat out when a flippin' Vectra comes right up my arse flashing its lights etc, swearing. I turned around and shouted "I'd like to see you pedal faster" which I think was a fair point. Having an engine is cheating - who do these people think they are?
iv) Eventually someone in car with loads of flashy lights, wearing a high visibility uniform and helmet stopped to give me a lift. Well I thought they were going to, they were really friendly, asked me my address, who I was, we listened to the radio for a while. I think it was the evening session with Jon Peel as it was really wierd, just like some bloke going 'beep booop' 'Go ahead Sarge' every so often. Probably on some wierd record label. Anyway they gave me a token or something for £60 and escorted me to the next roundabout, so it wasn't a complete waste of time. I pedalled onwards, but it got a bit dark near Northampton, so I pressed on for the Travelodge at Watford Gap. Turned out those bastards in the flashy light car had 'fined' me £60 for the 'priviledge' of driving me up to the next junction. Clowns. Rip off taxi firm, think they were called Police cabs or something like that.
Advantages
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i) I carry two spare inner tubes, so even if locals do slash my tyres, I have two spares!
ii) It's wierd cycling to pubs to play fruit machines, I can comitt notechanger fraud until the sky is blue, no one bats an eyelid.
iii) No expensive fuel costs, no tax, no MOT requirements.
iv) You actually WANT the drink you buy, by the time you get to the pub.
v) A good way to get healthy and exercise at the same time.
vi) I can loaf up, drink my half coke and watch the BFK emptying Honomopolypoly without him suspecting a thing. I mean who is going to notice someone clad entirely in lycra, wearing a hemet, with £300 protruding from their person standing about one foot behind them?
Who needs petrol? Come on, more solar panels please. For free please HM Government. You give them greedy junkies their methadone day in, day out, give us a solar panel please. And free dental treatment. And free vegtable oil. And more express bicycle lanes for fruitystreakers in a rush.
There should be a surname tax based on scrabble.
An English name like Smith should pay 10%(1 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 4) % tax on their income.
Mr Shabnaz should pay 19 (1 + 4 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 10) %
and Mr Mankiewicz-Bolkowlski should pay 53%(3 + 1 + 1 + 5 + 1 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 3 + 10 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 5 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 5 + 1)
Anyone on benefits should just be given food vouchers.
An English name like Smith should pay 10%(1 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 4) % tax on their income.
Mr Shabnaz should pay 19 (1 + 4 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 10) %
and Mr Mankiewicz-Bolkowlski should pay 53%(3 + 1 + 1 + 5 + 1 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 3 + 10 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 5 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 5 + 1)
Anyone on benefits should just be given food vouchers.
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aaamusements.co.uk
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JG wrote: iv) Eventually someone in car with loads of flashy lights, wearing a high visibility uniform and helmet stopped to give me a lift. Well I thought they were going to, they were really friendly, asked me my address, who I was, we listened to the radio for a while. I think it was the evening session with Jon Peel as it was really wierd, just like some bloke going 'beep booop' 'Go ahead Sarge' every so often. Probably on some wierd record label. Anyway they gave me a token or something for £60 and escorted me to the next roundabout, so it wasn't a complete waste of time. I pedalled onwards, but it got a bit dark near Northampton, so I pressed on for the Travelodge at Watford Gap. Turned out those bastards in the flashy light car had 'fined' me £60 for the 'priviledge' of driving me up to the next junction. Clowns. Rip off taxi firm, think they were called Police cabs or something like that.
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thecannonball89
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Cardinal Sin
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trayhop123
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ive said this in another post, if you simply have to drive, (like me) get a small engine car. im in a 1 litre peugeot 107, you may pass me like im not moving down the motorways but mine runs forever on a tenner.
thers no point us moaning about it, we cant make a difference to the prices they charge.
i know its a rip off but just make the change of engine and get on with it.
thers no point us moaning about it, we cant make a difference to the prices they charge.
i know its a rip off but just make the change of engine and get on with it.
Little discipline = BIG issue
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