Off Topic A Place to have a Moan about Anything

This is a continually evolving story, Ron. I may yet get out of this one.

The plan always was to go across on Saturday on the ferry. The flight back on Sunday night is the problem: two tickets with two airlines; however...

I went on my online bank account and there is no record of the failed debit card transaction – I will check again tomorrow because often these things are slow to show up. I went on my credit card account and there are three ‘pending’ payments to Air France.

I spent the afternoon watching some domino toppling that, in typical Hull fashion, failed right at the end.

When I got back and downloaded my email, I had got three emails from Air France about tickets with outstanding payments. They have my mobile number – if they want to call, somebody is really going to get it in the neck. I am of the opinion, however, that the credit card payments will expire and I won’t get stung for the money; and Air France will cancel the tickets as unpaid. A shame really as their flight was much more convenient...

 

In that advert, why is it implied that bad breath is considered worse than spitting blood?

Unless you have been in a Bristol nightclub with members of the England cricket team and have not been involved in any affray, surely spitting blood is your body telling you something is amiss. Bad breath could just be that garlic bread you had with your curry...

 

Women comedians (or should I say comediennes?). Has anyone ever found a stand-up woman comedian funny? I can't remember laughing at one, although I admit I don't see much of them because now I switch over after seeing about 2 minutes of one

 

Try Lisa Lampanelli on youtube; Italian American woman who is extremely cruel/rude.

 

No thanks. Don't like crude comedians, nor cruel. I don't think I would like her somehow

 

Is there a bigger waste of space on this planet than Danny Cipriani?

 

err , think so mate , james corden for a start

 

Agree up to a point but Shappi Khorsandi usually makes me laugh. Then ofcourse there was the late great Victoria Wood. Sarah Millican and Miranda Hart just not funny at all imo.

 

****ing ATR need to wake up. It's Friday - Hello. I look at Tomorrow's Cards and it gives me Saturday's so I look at Today's and it give me Thursday's. Thanks ATR

 

Your must be on EU Summertime, Ron? Extremely flexible, not just with the hour.

Have you done the EU Survey on the possible retention of Summertime all the year round?

 

Timeform always recognise that at 1.00 am (French time) it moves on to the next day. It was about 2am when I looked at the ATR site. I've never encountered the problem before, even on the ATR site. Maybe they were doing maintenance

RE the retention of summertime I could never make up my mind about that. But that was when I was indecisive. Now, I'm not so sure. Putting the clocks forward did give me something to look forward to

 

Bad toilet design
This is particularly relevant in certain venues in France. What is it with the French and toilets? Men's public urinals are often placed so that women who go to the toilet have to walk past some bloke having a pee to get to their toilet and/or share a wash basin immediately outside the men's urinals which have no door (or is always left open). Where doors are left open, the urinals are often in full view, rather than having a screen for decency. It is not uncommon to see someone going over to a hedge (for example) to have a pee when it is a short walk to a proper toilet. Some will pee in their garden rather than make the long trek to the bathroom. I find this very annoying and totally disrespectful.

I remember a very long time ago when visiting France, there were urinals in the main streets FFS; disgusting.

Now some "brilliant" designer has come up with modern urinals being installed in Paris, having already installed them in Nantes
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle...d-on-paris-streets/ar-BBM0edP?ocid=spartanntp

FFS Why not just have a bloody Public toilet with Ladies one end and Gents the other end?

It's beyond me

 

Apparently they look like letter boxes. Beware Muslims

 

Still much better than J D Wetherspoons where you need a f****n' map to find the bogs!

 

Pissing in public is a joke. Next they'll have nice, floral, decorated buckets on every city street corner allowing the public crap at will. I can just imagine seeing Ron standing at a corner somewhere in town, waiting for the pedestrian lights to turn green, and some bloke in need of an urgent bowel movement, ambles up, drops his trousers and proceeds to **** in the public bucket. They could even have bidet buckets, how cool would they be?

 

A definite abuse of the honourable bucket?

 

True down here at times as well. So often you find yourself seated miles away from the loo the location of which. after a fairly long walk between tables is finally found, but only after having to negotiate a fairly steep flight of stairs to the basement!

 

Usually on remote control in Munich (and other German cities, towns and villages)!

 

We have descended to the level of lavatorial moaning...

I have been behind trees on a number of occasions on visits overseas when I had no idea where the nearest convenience was located.

Also, I did once try using a plastic bottle because I could not drive cross-legged. Having filled it in about ten seconds I then had to open the car door and water the lay-by because I could not stop. They should make them plant trees next to all lay-bys!

I had to do a number two in a plastic bag once on the back seat of the car with two or three tissues for loo roll. The one episode of littering the countryside to which I would have to plead guilty. Bears in the woods have it so much easier.

 

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