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Bodhi

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Going to private firework displays run by firemen. It's probably just the group I'm mates with, but so far we have had:

1) Firework placed in launching tube wrong way round - promptly blowing a 3 foot crater in someone's lawn.
2) Next year - firework placeed right way round.....under a tree. You can probably imagine what happened next.
3) No wooden posts to attach a Catherine Wheel, so a firemen friend decided to turn his wheelie bin upside down and nail it to one of the wheels instead. After 30 seconds of the world's scariest physics lesson, Catherine Wheel detaches and makes its way round the garden.

I value my eyebrows, so have given their display a miss this year.....
 

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Yoots getting sand in their vagina that they are on their last warning for lateness. Apparently people getting fed up with him rolling in late every single day and then playing on twatter all day are big meanies.

He really doesn't understand how close he is to being sacked, its hilarious.
 

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When your own council website uses as its background image a photograph you took years ago and uploaded to Wikipedia (under a creative commons licence), without giving proper attribution to you (as the licence requires).

:eek:
 

Raven

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The top left of your picture, turn it upside down and proceed with instructions.
 

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In an English registered car? I'm surprised they pursued it internationally.

There was a vague threat to English holidaymakers a few years ago that they would but then they said everybody had to travel with breathalysers as well and that didn't last long.
 

Exioce

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French hire car.
I got a ticket in Nevada a few years back, similarly they must have gone to the car hire firm and got my details. That one I just ignored, but heard that the French are pretty persistent and will set debt collectors onto you, so just paid up the €45
 

DaGaffer

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In an English registered car? I'm surprised they pursued it internationally.

There was a vague threat to English holidaymakers a few years ago that they would but then they said everybody had to travel with breathalysers as well and that didn't last long.

There's a reciprocity arrangement in place; most EU countries handle each other's fines. Ireland is an exception because the Garda are too skint to put the tech in (that might have changed now but it was def the case a couple of years ago).
 

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There's a reciprocity arrangement in place; most EU countries handle each other's fines. Ireland is an exception because the Garda are too skint to put the tech in (that might have changed now but it was def the case a couple of years ago).

So why would @Exioce get a letter in frog language?
 

caLLous

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It might've been sent to the hire car company and then they kindly forwarded it.
 

Raven

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It would be computer generated I imagine with just the dates/times/address being entered from a database. They would have contacted the hire company, who would have provided your address, again probably pretty much automated.

We keep getting them for one of our engineers because he has to keep going back to (A supermarket) and ends up having nowhere to park but the customer car park, ends up being there over a period of time and we gets a ticket.
 

DaGaffer

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So why would @Exioce get a letter in frog language?

They share registration info with the DVLA automatically, and the points will go on your licence from the UK end, but you still get the fine from the country of origin.
 

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Didnt hear anything about french speeding giving uk points or tracing fines yet
 

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fucking ill people on my fucking train. go take your disgusting cough and germs somewhere else. like your bed to get well again. you're not 'ard going in to work while sick, you're just pissing everybody off :eek:
 

Raven

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Fuckeen snowstorm combined with rain and chilling sea-breezes.

Sucks to be you. beautiful autumn day here...just right for a long arse drive up the m1...I fucking hate driving.

Using a wanky temp car, fucking astra, my wife's micra has more go.
 

DaGaffer

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fucking ill people on my fucking train. go take your disgusting cough and germs somewhere else. like your bed to get well again. you're not 'ard going in to work while sick, you're just pissing everybody off :eek:

Oh come on, you're heading off to work in an office building that's probably got an air-circulation system; you're getting sick anyway.
 

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Sandwich toaster/grill thingy broke :(. Wife goes to buy a new one this morning, comes back with a large US style Fridge Freezer with Ice maker and a sandwich toaster/grill thingy. A 200 AED purchase turned into a 5200 AED purchase in the blink of an eye :(
 

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There's a reciprocity arrangement in place; most EU countries handle each other's fines. Ireland is an exception because the Garda are too skint to put the tech in (that might have changed now but it was def the case a couple of years ago).

Last time I got stopped in UK I gave the copper my UAE license, he tossed it back through the car window saying, "you gotta be f'ing kidding me!, Slow down!" Then left.
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