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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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What services have astounded you with their complete lack of accountability recently?
Alt: most annoying Christmas record? Driving through to town earlier, Wonderful Christmastime came on the radio. It made me want to rip my ears off.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 18:33, 214 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Alt: That fucking women's choir one is driving me menkle.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 18:37, Reply)

Every time I ring them to check on the progress of my claim I'm told it's with the processing team. When I asked to speak to someone there I was told I couldn't. Today I've been told that my claim has been transferred to clerical, which basically means there's been a system crash on my claim and they can't process it by computer. But they still can't look at the file and tell me what the fuck's happening.
This evening I have written a strongly worded letter of complaint, which I shall send off as soon as I can get it printed. Cunts.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 18:42, Reply)

next step would be an MP's letter; they generally shit themselves when they come in.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 18:54, Reply)

I don't mean have to use it in the respect that they're claiming job seakers in a big mansion not really caring of the money comes in or not, but I mean actually having to chose between end-of-shelf-life tins of tuna or some kind of heating. I've seen their incompetitants make people's lives pure and utter unadolterated hell, a torture to live. I bet they're actually resoncible for a relative percentage of suicides in the UK.
www.coll3ctive.co.uk/general/wildheart-baby/unemployment/
www.coll3ctive.co.uk/news/politics/paulypops/my-take-on-benefits-and-the-dwp-60-percent-success-rat/
I've tried and failed 3 times in my life to get on benfits, and I thank them for being so shit at their job, because it's given me the resolve to never be in a position to need them... worst case I'd actually skip country.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 19:22, Reply)

They've had a bill of mine for over a year, yet never contacted me about it, and they've now passed it onto a debt company. One furious phone call later, and the Debt Company will now 'never contact' me again.
Alt: Probably Mistletoe & Wine. I'm mildly fond of 'A Spaceman Came Travelling', as it's probably the least played of all of them.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 18:42, Reply)

And that one by Mawiah Fucking Cawey.
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However, that doesn't take away from the fact she's an irritating bitch.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 19:01, Reply)

coz I fucking hate it, I hate the way it's in every shop when you are trying to find something to buy for christmas presents amongst all the toss which is manufactured each year. I hate the way it is clearly mocking my pain and impotent hatred. I hate its smug wankerish tone metaphorically dressed in its fucking christmas jumper with a mug of hot chocolate while I drag my tired bones and tatty carrier bags around fairy-light covered shops of despair, where underpaid, over-stressed shop assistants and their glazed eyes roam over the meaningless chintz and tinsel of another fucking waste of resources and the fake smiles of a modern fake ceremony to Mammon and ridiculously high expectations.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 18:47, Reply)

I'm in a good mood tonight. You can probably tell.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 18:50, Reply)

what else do you hate?
I hate Ikea
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 18:51, Reply)

I'm off to a mate's 40th later so I want to enjoy it.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 18:56, Reply)

Probably because it makes the Irish quarter of me roll its eyes and says "for fuck's sake" a lot.
"Stop the Cavalry" makes me chuckle because it reminds me of this.
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davidguy.brinkster.net/goaste/itreallyischristmasyouknow.php
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 19:14, Reply)

I'm very grateful that I've not been subjected to local radio this year.
However - watch the video for the Shakin' Stevens one. At the very end he chucks a snowball with full force at a kids knackers. You've got to watch carefully but it happens.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 19:11, Reply)

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1381698/Shakin-Stevens-banned-for-drink-driving.html
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 19:20, Reply)

I've just mugged a blind woman and stomped her guide dog to death but I have certain standards.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 19:16, Reply)

You'd have to endure the whole thing just to see that tiny amusing moment.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 19:24, Reply)

And it's actually Shakey himself who gets it in the nads. That makes me feel a whole lot better.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 19:36, Reply)

All the old original swing/blues ones by old crooners. Lovely stuff. Oh and I heard Silent Night by Sinead O'Connor on Radio 2 on the way home today which I rather liked.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 19:17, Reply)

When ringing up when my router died. Forced me to try all their "fault finding" measures despite the fact I told them I'd tried my router at another house (broken) and another router at my house (working)
Then sent out a fucked router and finally after Mrs Cow unleashed the power of COW down the phone at them a very quick replacement router for the replacement router
Alt:
ALL SHIT
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 20:21, Reply)

Is that you sitting on my shelf downstairs with flashing lights and wires?
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 20:55, Reply)

It's still sitting there.
Easy mistake to make, though.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 20:58, Reply)

Fuckwits.
As for Wonderful Christmastime, I read yesterday that Macca personally cringes when he hears it but makes about £400k/annum in royalties from it.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 20:38, Reply)

As The Charlatans onced asked, just like that.
Alright Guv?
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 20:54, Reply)

Been tiling a bathroom floor today, Indian slate 800*600. I was just waiting for it to dry prior to sealing when I posted earlier hence the delay in responding.
It's looking good!!!
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 21:47, Reply)

I bought him one a while ago and his mum says he never takes it off.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 21:05, Reply)

Not only is he an expert in all hip-hop, he's a catalogue model.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 21:10, Reply)

None of this gangsta shit.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 21:12, Reply)

Old Skool hip-hop like Gary Byrd and Grandmaster Flash and stuff?
He's one cool boy.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 21:16, Reply)

And yes, I am 'down'(s) with the urban 'hip hop' scene, and have modelled professionally in the past.
My favourite Christmas songs are the entirety of the album Christmas by Low.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 21:25, Reply)

I don't always applaud your taste in music but I love Low.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 21:36, Reply)

Go and listen to their version of Surfer Girl, then have a listen to their version of Blue Christmas.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 21:38, Reply)

I know Low and what they do, and love them even more because they're born-agains who don't push religion.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 21:40, Reply)

I was obsessed with I Could Live in Hope for quite some time.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 21:42, Reply)

That brought us The Stooges, Devo, more recently The National and seminally Pere Ubu.
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But that's a band with a shaky history.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:07, Reply)

My nan remarked that my cousin's new toy "reminds me of a vibrator". Oh how we laughed. Great, if not slightly gross days.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 21:31, Reply)

And tomorrow promises to be equally as busy. Happy Fucking Christmas.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 21:31, Reply)

Up there with Fiona Bruce's eyebrow, Nigella's arse and Monty's homosexual tendencies.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 21:43, Reply)

She looks exactly like my aunt did when she was the same age. All kinds of wrong.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 21:45, Reply)

But she's profoundly avrage
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 21:48, Reply)

Not because she's ugly, she just looks too much like my aunty init.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 21:51, Reply)

The clock is ticking...
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 21:51, Reply)

Er, I mean thinking.
Actually no I don't, it's been a very long day and I'm halfway through my first beer in a week.
God, Okocim Mocne (7%abv) never tasted or felt quite so good!
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:00, Reply)

I had a little drinkie after work. Any one miss me? No? Fuck you then.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 21:46, Reply)

I roll up here when I'm pissed and at no other time.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 21:49, Reply)

Cos yer me best mate. Eh?
Lend us a tenner, like?
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:12, Reply)

spend it on some decent beer eh? Not that Lager shite.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:14, Reply)

It'll just get spent on drink, or summat ;)
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:20, Reply)

And tabs, if yer smurk!
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:26, Reply)

I stopped smurking a week back and I'll stay stopped until new years
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:28, Reply)

Best thing I ever did was packing in teh fags.
Well, 2nd best I you count marrying the present mrs 69!
And apparently smack can be quite more-ish, according to Jimmy Carr.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:33, Reply)

I can basically smoke for a bit and quite at will now. so I'll stay off them over christmas so as not to upset my mum and then skoe when I drink at new years and then probably quite again because they do me no good.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:38, Reply)

It's taking a break, is all.
Just give the buggers up, you'll thank yourself for it ;)
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:45, Reply)

a battered piece of potato. Apart from the fact it was basically a variation on a chip (meaning you had chips with a slightly different chip) they were called 'smacks' meaning you would order 'smack and chips'
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:34, Reply)

There's at least two chippies I can think of where that might get you something else.
Only two? Actually there's a few more than that, but I did "live" in Liverpool for a bit and I did work in west Cumbria for a while... Make of that what you will.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:42, Reply)

It'll be spent on Sainsbury's "right good wine for £2.99".
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:21, Reply)

And failed.
Which must mean it's bedtime for me.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:31, Reply)

Stainsburies
Home of reet good wine for two ninety nine!
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:30, Reply)

Stressco, Stainsbury's, Spazda and Moronison's.
I'll let you work out what Costcutter is.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:34, Reply)

So when I'm buying out of date sausage I can, like, so relate to Rswipe.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:37, Reply)

What's the most annoying song?
Oh, shit, taking it seriously and being a cock ;)
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:23, Reply)

Although the last time I heard it my housemate came in pissed and put it on the tele with the volume at 100. Tainted my feelings for it slightly.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:34, Reply)

also want ons (I don't know how they are spelt) which, it turns out had mince pie mincemeat in it
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:22, Reply)

Mincemeat won tons, wales is fuckin' klassy and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:27, Reply)

unnervingly nice, but you know it's mostly msg
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:30, Reply)

I'm having fish and chips but I have no space left, full of beer
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:32, Reply)

but I want to eat fish and chips, too now. And something cakey. Not sure I could though. Since the dust shakes, I've had less ability to eat
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:35, Reply)

I was only going to do them for a week or two, but they are so much easier than making/buying real food...oops
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:42, Reply)

Between them I can at least tell which direction I'm going.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:46, Reply)

I don't really like mirrors
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:47, Reply)

Trousers growing is a good thing, you'll be a sleek dolphin yet.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:49, Reply)

Actually they sleep in a quite interesting way, 1/2 of their brain sleep 1/3 of the time, the other 3rd another half of the time and they are full awake the remaining third.
I may have made this up but it's a good system.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:52, Reply)

possibly marginally less of a house whale. NOt sure, but the milkshakes do not seem to have brought the boys to the yard
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:46, Reply)

I had half a can of rice pudding, straight from the can. sorted
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:45, Reply)

Eating food that ought to be eaten hot cold is WRONG and the most alarming thing ever for me.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:53, Reply)

i used to eat all day breakfasts from the can, then?
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:56, Reply)

I used to work with a woman who would buy fish and chips at lunchtime, put them in her desk and eat them at 16.50.
Disgusting. I shagged her once too. What was I thinking?
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:01, Reply)

20 stone at a guess.
She had an arse that only Helen Keller could read but she was VERY obliging.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:08, Reply)

I don't need to, and wouldn't, stoop that low.
And even if I did, I wouldn't admit it.
I don't talk about my charity work.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:19, Reply)

I think I might have mild Ambrosia.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:48, Reply)

Mud , "Lonely This Christmas", every time its faux Elvis impersonation comes on, I want to jump up and shout "YEAH I KNOW...", cause the lead singer looks like Andy in the wheelchair from Little Britain.
Band Aid's "Do they Know it's Christmas" and both its remakes
Shakin Stevens "Merry Christmas Everyone"
"Here Comes Santa Claus", don't know the artist.
"Santa Baby" by Eartha Kitt
"Winter Wonderland" by Peggy lee
As for my Xmas Faves, I've always liked-
John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Happy Christmas(War Is Over!)
"I Believe In Father Christmas" by Greg Lake (of Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
"In Dulci Jubilo" by Mike Oldfeild
"Ring Out Solstice Bells" by Jethro Tull
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:44, Reply)

Although I heard him doing a JAMC cover the other week which was wrong.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:50, Reply)

He's got a good voice but you can't do that without the William Reid growl.
Oh I'm so proud to share half of my surname with JAMC.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 22:57, Reply)

Here www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C2cgDYgyjM
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:03, Reply)

And I'm not a young man.
I was when I saw JAMC in Glasgow in '86.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:11, Reply)

Rollins was great in Black Flag. He's a tedious old cunt these days.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:15, Reply)

I hope your new job sucks balls.
And, err, anyway, my name is dead cool.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:18, Reply)

In more ways than can feasibly be counted by a flid like you.
So four.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:20, Reply)

Although the acoustic Low session was the best.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:17, Reply)

"Good As Me" more like.
( , Fri 23 Dec 2011, 0:07, Reply)

How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?
One, you heteronormative, cisgendered, patriarchy-supporting chauvinist.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:18, Reply)

Which is the mark of a fliddy autism.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:22, Reply)

He'll only attempt to compare my reaction speed with my ejaculatory rapidity.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:22, Reply)

WELCOME BACK!!!!!!!!11!!1!1!lol!!!!1!!111!1lol
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:23, Reply)

And did you write to Santa this year?
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:26, Reply)

Such is the beauty of a messageboard.
And I couldnae gie a silver-plated fuckaroonie if you are freefair or not.
kthnxbai
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:27, Reply)

They could have grown cabbage, but we wouldn't let them.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:21, Reply)

I thought this the other night but I'm definately driving tomorrow, and I'm at Ma TD's on Saturday so happy Xmas all.
x
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:32, Reply)

the students in my department stopped lessons Tuesday and my last lesson was this morning in which one student turned up.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:37, Reply)

and some other shit to do, and I might be moving house, but mostly YES. Tomorrow I am going to stay in bed until I want to get up, not when I have to. First time in a couple of months
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:44, Reply)

I'm guessing I'll be in work till about 8 tomorrow, and the way things are shaping up, I'll likely be working between Christmas and New Year as well.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:53, Reply)

So it makes sense to work.
I'm just trying to work out a healthy work-life balance.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:56, Reply)

I'll take some time off in the new year though.
Just trying to find a convenient time to have a week away.
I fancy sitting in the sun for a week and reading books.
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:59, Reply)

plan your book list now
I think I have to sleep now. For as long as I like mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
night
( , Fri 23 Dec 2011, 0:03, Reply)

He rules.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpzPdS_gHzA
( , Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:50, Reply)
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