Colleagues, friends and family members asking to be sponsored to do something they enjoy doing... Running marathons, hiking up Kilimanjaro, doing a triathlon, white collar boxing... These are common hobbies these days and not especially difficult or dangerous.. might as well ask to be sponsored to go to Thailand for two weeks or to go out with the wife for a meal.
Not as bad as people asking for sponsorship for something they just SHOULD be able to do, fat guy at my old work was once asking sponsorship for a 3 mile walk.....3 ****ing mile walk!!!!.....anyone asking for a 3k or 5k run or alike gets told to bollocks
A mate looked into the Kilimanjaro hike and basically you’re scamming friends n family to pay for you to do it and very little goes to the charity
Didn't realise that the name monument bridge was so literal. Isn't it about time that tacky shrine to the bloke that I assume died there was removed. Been there, what, a couple of years now? Don't want to come across as a **** but many of us have lost loved ones in tragic circumstances. It's horrendous to go through. But we can't all impose our grief in a public place like that. FFS how long did it take to get a proper memorial the our trawlermen. A small plaque like the one near the river Hull footbridge would be fine.
Not so much a grinds my gears but a puzzling piece of behaviour for which I see no reason. People in supermarkets, shopping using a handheld scanner, who when buying items that need weighing (say, an onion or a banana), will take the sticky label issued by the set of scales and laboriously attach it to their fruit or vegetable, thus crumpling the barcode, before trying to scan it. Why? You can just scan it. No need to make life difficult for yourself.
I don't use scanners, or self service checkouts. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Do they ? I genuinely don't know although I do try and avoid supermarkets sounds a worse idea than self-checkouts
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/new...oman-screamed-help-violent-boyfriend-10057964 pathetic useless sentences like this so this guy first breaches his own bail conditions, then breaks a womans back, hes got previous convictions for assaulting emergeny worker (which should be severe in itself) and other convictions and he gets 3 years it really is a broken **** system
its when they let them out in half that annoys me, people get sentenced to 6 years, then are out in 3 on good behaviour!! wasnt good behaviour that put them in there in first place was it!
I was reading about Angela Crompton, of Ask for Angela fame, strangled then battered to death with a hammer by her husband. Guilty of manslaughter, not murder, because he 'lost control', got 7 and half years, out in 4. Words fail me.
Similar theme. Red Nose Day, afternoon, local well known pub chain in Beverley. Bloke sat on an exercise bike wearing a Hull for Hero's T shirt. Fat woman with him holding a collection bucket, and selling raffle tickets. Then a bus stop, £1 a go. Supposedly for charity, and not Hull for Hero's either. Saw her counting five pound notes in public view, then saw them quietly packing away without announcing who had won what, so I asked. And was told the bus stop was won and paid out. The name and team she said who had won was actually sat with us and hadn't been informed. No-one has been informed. No-one had been paid out. All very embarrassing, especially for them. Then they slipped quietly out of the side door. Fiddling bastards.
Concert ticket prices ,Stevie Wonder in Birmingham this July £266.00 each ,just said to our lass he wont see me coming .
Help! I've recently received this from my solicitor: Fees for applying for a Grant of Probate will be as follows: Grant of Probate only - fee is £575.00 plus VAT together with the Court fee of £300. Alternatively, you can apply for the Grant yourself via the Government website, there will be a Court fee applicable: https://www.gov.uk/applying-for-probate/apply-for-probate I think the fee is extortionate to say the least. I've just had a quick look at this form and it seems pretty easy to complete or am I missing something? Anyone on here filled it in themselves and avoided the cost? Advice appreciated.
[QUOTE="springtiger, post: my wife and her brother paid a solicitor £2k for probate !! Rip off , do it online and save a fortune !![/QUOTE] Thanks for that. I've had a quick look at the form and it seems easy enough to complete so how they come up with a fee of £600+ is beyond me. Perhaps it's to cover more complicated cases but I don't see any major problem with mine. It's almost 3 years since my claim started and I'm still having to jump through hoops. It's a good job that I'm in a no-win, no-fee situation.
