Complaints Box: post your daily moans...

[Carnation]

Use it or lose it (an expression used quite a lot these days)

[Lencoboy]

Use it or lose it (an expression used quite a lot these days)

On a related note, I recall my dad expressing disappointment when our local HMV store closed about 10 years ago, despite him having not set foot in there since about 2006.

I found that rather hypocritical of him TBH.

[Lencoboy]

People who make excuses for those who break laws/rules.

Especially for those who smoke 'on the sly', such as parents smoking in cars with children present, despite it being against the law to do so for almost a decade now.

Even my dad has said to me that especially as times are hard right now, we should be more forgiving towards such smoking parents, plus we get others who typically pipe up with stuff like 'passive smoking never did us any harm as kids', etc.

Laws are usually created for good reason after all, otherwise what's the point?

[Lencoboy]

On Saturday I used the toilet in a petrol station en route to Kidderminster, where me and my dad were involved in a live event, and also purchased sarnies and cans of pop for us both from said garage at the same time. And the toilet was in a bit of a filthy state and almost out of toilet paper, so when paying for the sarnies and cans of pop I picked up after using the toilet I informed the woman behind the till (as the disclaimer notice on the toilet wall urges users to do if they find the facilities in an unsatisfactory state) and she then had the nerve to tut and get all huffy with me as if I had no right to complain about the state of the toilet, and she basically didn't seem interested.

I wasn't even speaking to that woman behind the till abruptly nor vindictively, just basically doing what it said on the notice in the toilet, whose presence in this particular instance seemed rather pointless if the garage shop staff didn't seem to want to know.

But on the flipside, at least that garage didn't do the other extreme by going the whole hog and shutting said toilet to the general public permanently which some other places have been known to do willy-nilly over far lesser instances of being left in a poor state by users, and worst of all, leaving all the prominent signage directing people to such toilet facilities fully intact, which then inadvertently amounts to false advertising.

[Peter A]

I have a flipping cold.

Meh. :(

[Lencoboy]

Claims on another site that certain Right-wingers are disappointed that the perpetrator of the sword attack in north-east London the other day isn't non-White British, young and/or that said incident isn't believed to be terror-related.

Ditto for the perp of the recent tragic events in Sydney, Australia.

Some people are just so one-track minded and have no shame.

ETA: Correction; according to what I've just checked on the BBC site, the NE London sword attacker is actually of Spanish-Brazilian origin (but still not non-White).

[Lencoboy]

Claims on another site that certain Right-wingers are disappointed that the perpetrator of the sword attack in north-east London the other day isn't non-White British, young and/or that said incident isn't believed to be terror-related.

Ditto for the perp of the recent tragic events in Sydney, Australia.

Some people are just so one-track minded and have no shame.

ETA: Correction; according to what I've just checked on the BBC site, the NE London sword attacker is actually of Spanish-Brazilian origin (but still not non-White).

Also whilst on this same subject there's currently a 'Breaking News' video on YouTube from Good Morning Britain asking should we start arming all police officers in Britain following the sword atrocity?

Talk about knee-jerk reaction?

I recall certain people uttering pretty much the same things in the wake of the August 2011 riots that we should start routinely arming all police officers, bringing back the death penalty, bringing back school caning, etc, but thankfully none of those knee-jerk responses actually materialised.

Let's face it, routinely armed police officers in the USA and certain other countries don't exactly deter a lot of the violent crimes committed in those countries. Nor does the death penalty, or the threat of it.