Author Topic: The Good News / Bad News Thread (Read 399639 times)

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #2250 on:** 23 January, 2017, 08:19:18 am »

BN
Daughter's flat got burgled while she was out celebrating her 21st birthday. Every laptop in flat stolen (4 students, 4 high-end laptops).

GN
She's coping with it remarkably well.

GN
Our house insurance covers her laptop

BN
Cover is only for force-able breakins. Someone left a window open (which is really rare, they are normally incredibly careful to check when they leave the flat) and they told the police the window was left open. So the insurance almost certainly won't pay out.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #2251 on:** 23 January, 2017, 09:01:51 am »

Bugger.

Kim · « **Reply #2252 on:** 23 January, 2017, 02:51:34 pm »

That's standard burgling procedure here in Silly Oak. Wait for someone's housemate to leave a door/window open, then pop in and round up all the laptops/iThings.

Life would be generally much easier if you could take out insurance against your housemates being crap...

barakta · « **Reply #2253 on:** 23 January, 2017, 02:57:05 pm »

Students are a high target group for thieving shits cos prevalence of easily stealable/sellable stuff + carelessness even amongst the most careful households. My colleague who was a student where I worked said he used to see the burglars scouting places out from his bedroom window most days - this was before the active police presence/engagement where he could have tweeted at the plod or called 101 to send someone round to catch em in the act.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #2254 on:** 23 January, 2017, 04:04:26 pm »

They are usually so careful. Walk outside their flat and check, looking down before they head off.

The daft wee ejits told the police that they'd left the window open, rather than saying that they couldn't be certain.

barakta · « **Reply #2255 on:** 23 January, 2017, 04:17:43 pm »

That's what happens when they're brung up to be truthful to authoritah... Or something...

Tim Hall · « **Reply #2256 on:** 23 January, 2017, 10:11:56 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 22 January, 2017, 07:31:29 pm

Quote from: Pickled Onion on 21 January, 2017, 06:26:46 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 10 January, 2017, 02:01:49 pm
More GN: I think I've found an alternative supplier of a higher quality hat.

You know you're going to have to post pictures now...
When it arrives. (Taps foot impatiently)

The hat has landed!

Kim · « **Reply #2257 on:** 23 January, 2017, 10:12:34 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 23 January, 2017, 10:11:56 pm

Quote from: Tim Hall on 22 January, 2017, 07:31:29 pm
Quote from: Pickled Onion on 21 January, 2017, 06:26:46 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 10 January, 2017, 02:01:49 pm
More GN: I think I've found an alternative supplier of a higher quality hat.

You know you're going to have to post pictures now...
When it arrives. (Taps foot impatiently)

The hat has landed!

Unfortunately, the image has not. (403)

Jurek · « **Reply #2258 on:** 23 January, 2017, 10:13:23 pm »

Hat.
Where is?
Disappoint.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #2259 on:** 23 January, 2017, 10:17:59 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 23 January, 2017, 10:12:34 pm

Quote from: Tim Hall on 23 January, 2017, 10:11:56 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 22 January, 2017, 07:31:29 pm
Quote from: Pickled Onion on 21 January, 2017, 06:26:46 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 10 January, 2017, 02:01:49 pm
More GN: I think I've found an alternative supplier of a higher quality hat.

You know you're going to have to post pictures now...
When it arrives. (Taps foot impatiently)

The hat has landed!

Unfortunately, the image has not. (403)

Arse. Poxy dropbox. Give me a minute.
<fx: tappity tap>
What about now?

Jurek · « **Reply #2260 on:** 23 January, 2017, 10:20:11 pm »

That's a serious hat.

Kim · « **Reply #2261 on:** 23 January, 2017, 10:27:21 pm »

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Wu4krJJkkIs&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Wu4krJJkkIs&rel=1</a>
https://youtu.be/Wu4krJJkkIs

ElyDave · « **Reply #2262 on:** 23 January, 2017, 10:29:49 pm »

Nice hat

Andrij · « **Reply #2263 on:** 23 January, 2017, 10:30:39 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 23 January, 2017, 10:17:59 pm

Quote from: Kim on 23 January, 2017, 10:12:34 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 23 January, 2017, 10:11:56 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 22 January, 2017, 07:31:29 pm
Quote from: Pickled Onion on 21 January, 2017, 06:26:46 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 10 January, 2017, 02:01:49 pm
More GN: I think I've found an alternative supplier of a higher quality hat.

You know you're going to have to post pictures now...
When it arrives. (Taps foot impatiently)

The hat has landed!

Unfortunately, the image has not. (403)

Arse. Poxy dropbox. Give me a minute.
<fx: tappity tap>
What about now?

Torslanda · « **Reply #2264 on:** 23 January, 2017, 10:31:44 pm »

Woah! Andrij has morphed into Riggers!

peliroja · « **Reply #2265 on:** 23 January, 2017, 11:56:46 pm »

I can't see it.

Ashaman42 · « **Reply #2266 on:** 24 January, 2017, 06:53:45 am »

Me neither

Tim Hall · « **Reply #2267 on:** 24 January, 2017, 09:08:40 am »

I think it's signed in to Google thing. Why is stuff so complicated. Does this link work?

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPdqp-ncXK56-CYejXlJi69pvEibr9_MZpzgiQzwU48ccMwwt7EH7eVGqdisaWguQ?key=aXR5a3NNbTNmV0lBSFFXaUZJYmVyQ2NUQ01adWhR

woollypigs · « **Reply #2268 on:** 24 January, 2017, 09:13:06 am »

To confuse it more I did see I straight away but didn't know what we're talking as I didn't know what the others couldn't see

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2269 on:** 24 January, 2017, 09:48:40 am »

Hat not showing in thread but link works. That's a coolly serious hat! Like Baden-Powell or Timothy who is not an armadillo from Pigeon Post...

ElyDave · « **Reply #2270 on:** 24 January, 2017, 10:05:14 am »

I could see it, but I can't now

Tim Hall · « **Reply #2271 on:** 24 January, 2017, 10:29:16 am »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 24 January, 2017, 09:48:40 am

Hat not showing in thread but link works. That's a coolly serious hat! Like Baden-Powell or Timothy who is not an armadillo from Pigeon Post...

Didn't Timothy have a floppy hat (hence his original name). The brim on this one is as stiff as a board.

A couple of years ago I caught the ferry from Poole Harbour to Brownsea Island. There's a statue of Baden-Powell in his "Campaign Hat" on the quay. I was wearing my splendid Amazon Tarp hat. A bloke accosted me as we pulled in to Brownsea and explained that his Small Boy had thought I was Baden-Powell ("look Daddy, it's That Man."). To the best of my knowledge I haven't withstood any sieges in any South African towns.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2272 on:** 24 January, 2017, 10:50:51 am »

Squashy, I think, which is not quite the same as floppy, but still probably doesn't indicate a board stiff brim. And I've only just twigged (at least consciously; perhaps it was some subconscious link that brought it to my mind in the first place) that of course you already are a Timothy, hat or no hat!

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2273 on:** 24 January, 2017, 02:22:10 pm »

I see no X hat here.

Jakob W · « **Reply #2274 on:** 24 January, 2017, 05:39:02 pm »

I could see the picture earlier, but now I can't. No matter; out of interest, where might one acquire such a fine piece of headgear?