Author Topic: The Good News / Bad News Thread (Read 398899 times)

ElyDave · « **Reply #2950 on:** 27 August, 2022, 05:10:30 pm »

BN: I got very rained on on Thursday, and fell off my bike hurting my knee in the process
GN: None of my luggage leaked at all

CommuteTooFar · « **Reply #2951 on:** 27 August, 2022, 07:33:38 pm »

GN: I had an amazon delivery today
BN: Some items in the 'delivered 'order were missing. Surprisingly Amazon does not have a system response for this problem.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2952 on:** 30 August, 2022, 11:55:52 pm »

Hurrah: new NAS scheduled for delivery on Thursday

Bah: It's being delivered by the useless workshy twats of UPS

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2953 on:** 31 August, 2022, 06:20:43 am »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 30 August, 2022, 11:55:52 pm

Hurrah: new NAS scheduled for delivery on Thursday
Bah: It's being delivered by the useless workshy twats of UPS

You are Liz Truss AICMFP.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2954 on:** 31 August, 2022, 09:55:01 am »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 31 August, 2022, 06:20:43 am

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 30 August, 2022, 11:55:52 pm
Hurrah: new NAS scheduled for delivery on Thursday
Bah: It's being delivered by the useless workshy twats of UPS

You are Liz Truss AICMFP.

No, UPS really are useless workshy twats. See the Shite Courier Thread for details.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #2955 on:** 05 October, 2022, 06:08:06 pm »

Bad news: I need to pay the plumber the thick end of £250 for replacing our dead shower.
Good: HMRC says they owe me a refund for most of that.
(I have no idea how, their explanation is just a pile of numbers but never mind).

ian · « **Reply #2956 on:** 05 October, 2022, 07:45:50 pm »

Reminds me:

Good news: HMRC sent me a cheque for £92 for overpayment last year.
Bad news: I owe HMRC £972 for last year.

I have no idea either (seems I was on an emergency tax code when I started this job, or it might have been the annual bonus, but it's taxes, so c'est la vie).

chrisbainbridge · « **Reply #2957 on:** 25 October, 2022, 11:25:01 pm »

GN. We are on a plane due to fly from São Paulo to LHR.
BN. There was a red light so we returned to the stand and the engineer checked everything
GN. We were cleared to fly.
BN. 13 passengers were scared and refused to fly. So we returned to the stand a second time.

Now we wait to hear if the crew have enough flight time!
We need more fuel having run the engines for 2 hours on the ground.
Hopefully we get more champagne!

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2958 on:** 31 October, 2022, 03:54:37 pm »

Hurrah: I managed to snag the very last one-pint container of semi-skilled milk in Mr Sainsbury’s House of Toothy Comestibles

Bah: It's organic and therefore expensive

hellymedic · « **Reply #2959 on:** 05 November, 2022, 04:46:22 pm »

GN: We have a glut of sweet, rosy, ripe Bramley apples.
GN2: I found the tuits to chop, nuke and mash these for Future use yesterday.

BN: I put my left ring finger in the path of the chopping knife, which I drove down HARD.

GN: Bugger was so blunt there's hardly a mark on my finger from the knife today.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2960 on:** 05 November, 2022, 05:33:07 pm »

Ouch! There goes Helly's late-blossoming career as a concert pianist, I thought. But every cloud has a slivered tining, etc.

hellymedic · « **Reply #2961 on:** 05 November, 2022, 06:49:03 pm »

As I posted, there is scarcely a mark today!
There was a groove from the blade yesterday but that's gone.

D say he can't sharpen my ancient serrated Kitchen Devil.

Giraffe · « **Reply #2962 on:** 06 November, 2022, 05:48:21 pm »

It can be sharpened. I have an old one for use in the garden - the steel is crap if used on Real Stuffs. I don't sharpen the one in the kitchen because anticoagulant and blood.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2963 on:** 22 November, 2022, 10:56:10 am »

Hurrah!	Mr Zuckerberg’s Walled Garden has finally cottoned on to the notion of my not living in USAnia
Bah!	The shitverts are still, well, shit. Yes, Danny D, I'll bear you in mind if I ever find myself in Norwich needing an MOT for the motorcycle which in my case I have not got

Tim Hall · « **Reply #2964 on:** 22 November, 2022, 01:43:58 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 22 November, 2022, 10:56:10 am

which in my case I have not got

Speaking of which, the other week at Scouts I got one of my chums to come along and talk about various things connected with the First World War. He brought along his Rifle, Short, Magazine, Lee Enfield.

At the end of the evening I set the little blighters a question: "Go and find a poem that talks about piling swivels, which in this case he did have"

Ever eager to win a bar of chocolate, some of them managed it. Hurrah.

CommuteTooFar · « **Reply #2965 on:** 24 November, 2022, 11:07:14 pm »

BN: I opened a bottle of beer and a huge fountain of beer shot out of the neck.
GN: It all landed in a foil pie tray I had for dinner so no mess.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2966 on:** 05 December, 2022, 02:17:24 pm »

Hurrah: this month's credit car bill only £15.45

Bah: that means next month's will have the car tyres, the laptop and the car servicing on it

Bledlow · « **Reply #2967 on:** 05 December, 2022, 07:51:32 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 22 November, 2022, 01:43:58 pm

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 22 November, 2022, 10:56:10 am
which in my case I have not got

Speaking of which, the other week at Scouts I got one of my chums to come along and talk about various things connected with the First World War. He brought along his Rifle, Short, Magazine, Lee Enfield.

At the end of the evening I set the little blighters a question: "Go and find a poem that talks about piling swivels, which in this case he did have"

Ever eager to win a bar of chocolate, some of them managed it. Hurrah.

Did you name any other parts?

Basil · « **Reply #2968 on:** 07 December, 2022, 11:39:54 am »

BN. As always, our numbers didn't come up in the Llandysul Lotto draw last week.

GN. I've just found last week's envelopes with our usual numbers and £1 coins in. I'd forgotten to hand them in.

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #2969 on:** 18 December, 2022, 02:09:49 pm »

BN: Evri lost my parcel
GN: I got a refund
GN: Evri delivered it today

hellymedic · « **Reply #2970 on:** 19 December, 2022, 02:48:01 pm »

GN: Evri delivered my parcel at 14.07 today.
BN: Evri sent out email, timestamped 13.32, informing me delivery would be between 13.00 & 15.00.
GN: Delivery was well within time window.
BN: I did not read email as we were eating. D was disturbed at a time when He Must Not Be Disturbed. There was but 35 minutes between email and parcel delivery. I had been watching tracking like a hawk at times I had the laptop out but still missed the vital email..

Giraffe · « **Reply #2971 on:** 19 December, 2022, 06:16:06 pm »

Evri sent email rescheduling to a later time; it was timed for about half an hour after delivery.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #2972 on:** 21 December, 2022, 07:50:31 am »

Can things stop breaking, please?
We are heading south for 10 days tomorrow.
BN Since Friday
- The heating stopped working (fixed it on Sat, but it cost me half the day - all the time I set aside for Xmas shopping)
- Car battery died - bought replacement Mon
- Barn door broke - semi-patched Tues

FFS
GN erm, well, the ferry is running on Thurs.

Basil · « **Reply #2973 on:** 26 December, 2022, 11:58:58 am »

BN. The Boxing Day Hunt and all their hounds have just come through.

GN. It is now absolutely sheeting it down with rain.

Ha Ha.

The Family Cyclist · « **Reply #2974 on:** 28 December, 2022, 05:38:44 pm »

BN - I've been a bit ill over Christmas. In fact and I realise how lucky this makes me but probably the first proper illness in 14 years. I had to miss my youngest daughters birthday treats and have been in bed around 8pm for nearly a week. Isn't covid as tested and has hit me far more then covid did

GN - because of the above I have stopped, rested, watched some crap TV and read loads which usually I feel guilty about as so much to do which there still is but I have actually had to say to myself you need rest so while the gardens not been sorted as had planned over Christmas and the kitchens more of a mess then usual I have actually stopped and rested.