Stupid little things that bug you

The bastardisation of the easy to say greeting "hello", or even simpler "hi", into "Hiya". Even worse when said in such a way the H seems to disappear and it becomes "iya".
 
laserblue said:
Anti social slobs who get a shed load of food from a fast food drive in, drive to a car park, retail park or lay by to eat it then then throw all the cartons, cups, wrappers and uneaten food out of the window and drive off.
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The seagulls here disagree with you ... ;-)
 
Bill Walker said:
Sounds like tax avoidance to me.

I wouldn't use any business that demanded cash.
But that's just me. I pay my fair share of tax, why shouldn't they?

Obviously not in the UK but cash is dying in Oz. Maybe I couldn't live without cash in the UK but it's very easy here.
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Typically a card machine company will charge 1.75% per transaction. In a business with an annual turnover of say £250k they’ll be paying £4375 to the bastards every year. Multiply that by say 20 years of work and they will be £87500 worse off! Ask your local barber next time you’re in if he would prefer to have £87500 in his bank or have it in fucking Barclays/Worldpay/Square’s bank accounts instead. And that’s just one business. Multiply that by two million small businesses and….you get the picture.
 
laserblue said:
Anti social slobs who get a shed load of food from a fast food drive in, drive to a car park, retail park or lay by to eat it then then throw all the cartons, cups, wrappers and uneaten food out of the window and drive off.
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I've noticed a lot of negative changes in the last ten years moving into where I now live. Litter is one of them, the pavement I live on is filled with it regularly.

Possible explanation is that as people have died, those moving in who have fled the M60, or elsewhere, brought this attitude with them.

Or it's just the complete lack of care from school kids. I feel shame when I do it by accident, I don't get how they feel nothing.
 
People in the media using the first names of athletes and celebrities. It suggests a familiarity with the person that the commentator does not have, and it elevates the athlete/celebrity, who is often minor, to a plane they do not deserve. Elvis has left the building.
 
I might have posted this before lol.

I live in a cul de sac and ever weekend we get a constant flow of cars coming down it thinking it's the road to the rec.
It's NOT try going down the next road (10yds away) which has a bloody sign and an arrow saying REC !!
 
Why do c*nts working for the beeb feel the need to film and shame folk on minimum wage who have made a genuine mistake? The lad made a mistake and apologised and this nonce decides to call the lad an "idiot" and post it online. W*nker

 
JOGAMIGMOG said:
Typically a card machine company will charge 1.75% per transaction. In a business with an annual turnover of say £250k they’ll be paying £4375 to the bastards every year. Multiply that by say 20 years of work and they will be £87500 worse off! Ask your local barber next time you’re in if he would prefer to have £87500 in his bank or have it in fucking Barclays/Worldpay/Square’s bank accounts instead. And that’s just one business. Multiply that by two million small businesses and….you get the picture.
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I would happily pay the transaction fee added to my bill rather than agree to his demand for cash, shops like Aldi add it onto your bill, doesn't stop people shopping there....it's purely tax avoidance imo.
I don't blame them avoiding tax, but I don't want to help them do it. :)
 
Bill Walker said:
I would happily pay the transaction fee added to my bill rather than agree to his demand for cash, shops like Aldi add it onto your bill, doesn't stop people shopping there....it's purely tax avoidance imo.
I don't blame them avoiding tax, but I don't want to help them do it. :)
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If they’re avoiding tax then that’s a different matter altogether and they’re putting their entire livelihood at risk in doing so. Doesn’t alter the fact that there’s billions of pounds lost to the U.K. economy each year in card fees, money which these businesses could have used for the benefit of their customers or other businesses.
 
JOGAMIGMOG said:
If they’re avoiding tax then that’s a different matter altogether and they’re putting their entire livelihood at risk in doing so. Doesn’t alter the fact that there’s billions of pounds lost to the U.K. economy each year in card fees, money which these businesses could have used for the benefit of their customers or other businesses.
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Bang on. If you get cash as a business, declare it and pay tax on it, so what.
If you then pay your staff in cash, with them paying the relevant tax, so what !

The Government, which ever one is in power, make you believe cash is always a fiddle.
Bollocks.
They need the banks to make millions, they need everyone in line like supplicant rats.

@Bill Walker all I saw in Sydney especially the suburbs were small business wanting, asking, for cash. Banks charge too much, fuck 'em.
 
Blue Mist said:
Bang on. If you get cash as a business, declare it and pay tax on it, so what.
If you then pay your staff in cash, with them paying the relevant tax, so what !

The Government, which ever one is in power, make you believe cash is always a fiddle.
Bollocks.
They need the banks to make millions, they need everyone in line like supplicant rats.

@Bill Walker all I saw in Sydney especially the suburbs were small business wanting, asking, for cash. Banks charge too much, fuck 'em.
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The banks want their 'pound of flesh'.
 
JOGAMIGMOG said:
If they’re avoiding tax then that’s a different matter altogether and they’re putting their entire livelihood at risk in doing so. Doesn’t alter the fact that there’s billions of pounds lost to the U.K. economy each year in card fees, money which these businesses could have used for the benefit of their customers or other businesses.
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Yes that's fair enough but you also have to face the fact that billions are lost to the treasury each year in the UK due to tax avoidance and a large part of the tax avoidance is the cash economy.
And those billions could be spent on things like the national health service or schools or better roads or public transport.
It's the same here I'm building a house at the moment and I'm sick of tradies asking me if I want to pay cash or through the bank. Obviously if I pay cash it doesn't go through the books.

Anyway I don't want to steer the thread away from its purpose by turning it into a sort of political thread, I think I started it I saying it bugs me when people insist I pay in cash when I haven't carried cash for over five years and I don't want to start queuing up in a bank to get cash or using an ATM.
I usually tell them I'm happy to pay a bit extra for the transaction fee like I do with Aldi but they don't want to know.
 
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