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wannabeeahack
 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
PostPosted: Mon Aug 09, 2021 8:48 pm 
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Hand car wash both the local outfits have upped their prices 25 % :sad:


everything apart from taxi fares seems to have gone up 25%

obviously the 5 SEISS grants and ARG and 80% furlough schemes, eat out vouchers interest fee loans, heritage and arts/drama handouts etc were not enough

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 10, 2021 9:52 am 
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I got so slagged off cos i said i dont enjoy RIDINF on the trains, "thats not contributing"




Cheapest first

https://www.gcrailway.co.uk/timetables-and-fares/


https://www.svr.co.uk/SEItem.aspx?a=175


https://www.nymr.co.uk/summer-freedom-services


https://www.rheidolrailway.co.uk/tickets-prices/


£50 not even half way!
https://www.festrail.co.uk/


Snowdon railway is reasonable (compared to some) but not going all the way to the summit £26 return)

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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
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edders23 wrote:
Hand car wash both the local outfits have upped their prices 25 % :sad:

Same down here.

Maybe their cheap foreign labour has gone home to never return.

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wannabeeahack
 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
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Sussex wrote:
edders23 wrote:
Hand car wash both the local outfits have upped their prices 25 % :sad:

Same down here.

Maybe their cheap foreign labour has gone home to never return.


Plenty of free dinghies at Dover for them

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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
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Roadworks.

Here there and f****** everywhere. :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad:

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edders23
 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
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Sussex wrote:
Roadworks.

Here there and f****** everywhere. :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad:



oh yes we've had more this year than the last 5 years put together a lot due to BT doing a major upgrade in the town but a lot of gas pipe renewals as well

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Sussex
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Knob head driving a 05 plate Mondeo with a steel spoiler on the back.

FFS if you want a car to go fast buy a f***ing fast car. ](*,)

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Women in the 4x4 their husband bought them..., they passed their test in a micra...

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Regular customers dying.

Bloody nuisance. :sad:

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edders23
 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
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drivers dropping everything immediately after getting a call to say mummy's ill and flying to Pakistan within 24 hours :sad:

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Sussex wrote:
Regular customers dying.

Bloody nuisance. :sad:


Ditto,feel the same.
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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
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drivers dropping everything immediately after getting a call to say mummy's ill and flying to Pakistan within 24 hours :sad:

Absolute ba***** when drivers care more about their mums than the job.

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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
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edders23 wrote:
drivers dropping everything immediately after getting a call to say mummy's ill and flying to Pakistan within 24 hours :sad:


So what would you do in their shoes?

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I wonder who is the biggest whinger on “ gripe of the day?” I don’t know, I just wonder.

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edders23 wrote:
drivers dropping everything immediately after getting a call to say mummy's ill and flying to Pakistan within 24 hours :sad:

Maybe her blood sugar is low :badgrin:

(Bad taste joke alert :oops: )
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