The Ranting Room

mystic fred wrote: i thought the Grey Room was the new Ranting Room...???

No, its the shed room now

Jim Garten wrote: And another thing - Unsolicited sales calls on my mobile phone! If I want to buy something / change tariff / change company / do or buy anything, in fact... I'll ++++ing well call you! OK? Now..... OFF!

How did my precious ranting room end up on page bloody 24?

I heard it was part of a targetted marketing campaign by manufacturers of erectile dysfunctionality products to help clearly identify their intended market.

OK - I've been away for the weekend and apparently, our gallant boys in Germany failed to return home covered in glory (whoda thought it, eh?).

Now, I'm not going to complain about our not winning the World Cup, I'm not even going to lambast Messrs Goran-Erikson and Beckham for their apparent inability to string a vaguely coherent sentence together... "STOP BLUBBING, BECKHAM - IT'S ONLY A GAME; YOU PLAYED, YOU LOST! GET OVER IT, MAN!".

No - my current rant (if you can call it that) is a continuation of a previous entry on this thread: England flags on cars...

An open letter to the LOYAL ENGLAND SUPPORTER.

So, when England qualify, and go to Germany to represent us in the world's most prestigious football tournament and begin their campaign by winning 3 out of 4 games, you are all patriotic, are you? You all have your little England flags fluttering (usually from your German cars - go figure), and wear your England shirts, do you?

Very patriotic!
Very laudable!
Well done!

However...

When I was driving home from Somerset yesterday, why was it I saw only 2 cars sporting England flags (plus one brave soul sporting a Portugese one ), when on Friday, there were dozens of them...? Forgive me for being a tad cynical, but could it be that your patriotism begins and ends with OUR TEAM doing well? Are our team any the less worthy of support because they lost in the quarter finals? Are they not deserving of your approbation for getting to the last 16 of such a tournament, or is your support (and thus your patriotism) dependant upon success?

If so, do you not think your cavalier and opportunist use of England's national flag is is just a little shallow?

Answers to the usual address... I'll be the one in full body armour with an armed guard.

Jim Garten wrote: Blacksword wrote: In the last ten days, some piece of sh!t has purchased £150 worth of Mobile phone top up vouchers using my card details, reported it to the bank and they've stopped my card thankfully. Nice of them to report it, though... Sorry, Blackie, couldn't resist Luckily I've never (yet) been the victim of these s, but it's infuriating that given the amount I use my card on line, it's probably just a matter of time.

Yes, very charitable of them!
     
I've got to fill out an Indemnity form, and hopefully should get the money back. I'll not be buying much on line anymore.

Todays rant is credit/debit card fraud! I have just become a victim of it!!

In the last ten days, some piece of sh!t has purchased £150 worth of Mobile phone top up vouchers using my card details. Reported it to the bank and they've stopped my card thankfully. I doubt there's much chance of catching the f***ers!

Be careful with your plastic folks, and remember to check your statements carefully.

Just a little rant for now, but one which is heart-felt...

We all know that the World Cup soccer tournament is about to begin... but does every TV advertisement have to reference football? It seems the advertising agencies, in their cocaine fuelled quest for the nation's souls, have gone all out to connect everything from mobile phones, fast food, furniture, after shave, electrical stores to nasty salami type snacks and any other product to which they can find any tenuous connection to this wretched carnival celebration of overpaid under-educated narcissists mincing around a field in the hope of punting the bladder of a pig into their opposition's goal area more times than the opposition does it to theirs - this is of course in between their facials, manicures and obeying the pouting whims of their wisp like wives (or in Wayne Rooney's case, his grandmother).

Believe it or not, I actually quite like football (in the same way as I try to follow Christian values without actually belonging to any of God's 'clubs' - but that's a different rant for a different day), I just don't want David bloody Beckham rammed down my throat 24 hour a day!

Errr...

So to speak.

    

Edited by Jim Garten - June 06 2006 at 03:57

    Thanks for that Jim................the Trisha/Pizza theory makes a lot of sense!

Today despite the sun i am thoroughly fed up. I have tried not to be, I have tried to achieve what I thought might be a bit of a good idea at 7am this morning, but things..........those mysterious "things" have conspired against me............

I have tried really hard to keep things together whilst the boss has been away........today is day 24.......
I decided to cut the grass before I could no longer see out of the window....well Petrol mower....empty gerry can....can't carry gerry can of fuel on Berty.....so PLAN B was wheeled out.....Strim, lots of strimming....no strimmer wire.........I drove for 3 hours and visited no less than SEVEN outlets before I found the strimmer wire. I fitted it and began to strim....and remembering the wise cautious words of the boss I put jeans on to do this despite the hot day.........the strimmer caught a stone.....which in turn caught my shin. I have a disgustingly large hole in my shin (AND my jeans!!!)  and an incredible pain........first aid kit went with the boss......So I cellotape some kitchen towel to my leg, get back on Berty and visit THREE chemists.....they were all closed, at the last one i was told Chemists all close at lunchtime on a Saturday...(WHEN THE DICKENS DID THAT RULE ARRIVE??).......so duff leg, can't face driving further a field to find a blinkin chemist.....and now I have one ugly leg

fed up..........grumble grumble grumble............