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You're right, it IS amazing how badly informed some people are - I wonder if they're the same people who don't bother to read/listen to what other people have to say but simply trot out their "answer" to a question which wasn't asked.. Of course Council Tax doesn't buy anyone a free service to...

Give some creep a little bit of power, especially over someone he envies, and he turns into a jobsworth on the spot....

Ja - I voz only following orders ...😎 Keep abiding by stupid rules and they'll never change!

It IS just a cup in a bin - and you're missing the main point: just when did the tail start wagging the dog in the UK Rubbish Wars? You pay the council for this "service" but you're expected to follow whatever diktats they choose to impose on you, presumably to fit in with what results in the...

I have to admit that the first thing to cross my mind on reading the initial rant was that perhaps the "culprit" was from another area and had no idea what the bin colours denoted. They probably thought that "in a bin is better than on the pavement", and in a sane world they'd have been correct...

I use some French-made adapters, which enable me to connect my large collection of Parkside batteries to various other makes of tools. They also do "vice-versa versions" but I've found Parkside batteries to be pretty long-lasting and the 3-year warranty makes them a great alternative to the...

I've heard that before - my housemaster spent many fruitless years trying to beat it out of me....... 😃

Isn't that the first rule of absolutely everything?

Typical! You kids today don't know how lucky you are...... 😎

The guy who used to do our roof maintenance/gutter clearing is no longer available. He'd climb out of our skylight and clamber about without a qualm, despite it being a 30/40 foot drop onto concrete tiles all round. The reason for his non-availability is that some barsteward hired him for some...

He can't remember or can't sweat or something like that......

It's amazing what people will do for money..... 🙄

I've been using Nespresso pod machines for over 20 years; my original one is still going strong, as are the subsequent ones I've added to the collection. All the refillable pods I've tried have been rubbish - avoid them. The pods are okay price wise, I'm currently using Jacobs ones @ c10p/12...

Surprisingly enough, not really - just some light fleeces. The Boss prefers the cold and years at boarding school inured me to it.....

We have AC as our primary heating/cooling, with wood burners on each floor as back-up heating. In the main kitchen we have two Fantasia fans as well as AC. It gets hot in the summer here and COLD in the winter: the "dangerously high" temperatures that the UK Met Office is currently warning about...

Some colonial dialect, I believe....😉

Based on what's there to be seen, there doesn't appear to be any element of belief involved - it's simply a question of arithmetic. However it seems that hearsay evidence of skulduggery is admissible in this kangaroo court, so I'd venture to suggest that that's where "belief" comes into it...for...

I'm scratching my head here: they're showing Trustpilot ratings for them as a company, reasonably enough since their Trustpilot average is 4.7/5. The Rutlands site also shows reviews for individual items, presumably where they have been reviewed. Looking at a random selection I can't see any...

You appear to be confusing Trustpilot with Amazon (or should that even be "Which?") Trustpilot shows how satisfied customers have been with the supplier - by their very nature they can't show reviews of every one of the hundreds, possibly many thousands, of items a supplier stocks. Your...

I use Banggood quite a bit. I'm not in the UK but I always buy from one of the Banggood EU warehouses and CS is always pretty good if you have a problem (eg a 90cm cutting map folded in half to fit into a courier packet 😱). They'll usually ask to see a photo of the packaging and any damaged...