astonbuilder
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
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Arriving back at Birmingham airport after a flight of one hour and 45 minutes (itself two hours late) to then actually get through customs pretty quickly (for a change) to then stand and stare at an empty arrival hall but no baggage coming round the belt.......
A few challenges to the useless  standing around soon saw them scurry off and hide.
Challenging the 'lady' wearing the 'Swissport' branded shirt sitting under the 'Swissport' branded desk elicited all regards a meaningful response. When a few other people headed in her direction she picked up the phone and pretended to be talking on it.
According to her she knew nothing about it, it was 'Swissport' we needed to talk to and she couldn't help  The pointing out of what she was wearing and where she was sitting just got the blank stare of a retard in 'response'
Looked them up and called them direct whil in arrivals hall waiting. Just as useless but they'd "look into it" and get back to me via tannoy message.
Gave the telephone number to others waiting so they could also 'remind them they were their to help us' and also looked up Birmingham airport 'help line' (one of life's eternal oxymoron's  ) and got onto them as well.
After one hour and six minutes I noticed that another plane had landed yet the passengers were not picking any luggage off the carousel - mosied over and.............it was ours, had been there about five minutes by then.
Useless Absolute disgrace at that airport - second city? Pah, third-world performance more like. Happens every time.
Four hours later I get texts saying they'd found the problem; short staffed (surely that plane being two hours late was required on a quick turnaround and would have been 'managed' or prioritised somehow - they weren't having a load of flights arriving?) and then "unfortunately" luggage was then loaded to wrong conveyor and had been there all the time (it wasn't, lying )
I'll be trying East Midlands airport next time as I reckon plane-to-front-door time will be quicker if they can get luggage off in less than 30 minutes 
All the times I travel to Europe on business trips, even if I have a carry-on bag I usually stick it in the hold as it's always there on the baggage carousel waiting for me when I've come through customs (and generally no delays there either).
Birmingham bidding for the 2022 Commonwealth Games will be a disaster if relying on this bunch of idiots to get people in and out of the country.....
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UtilityGuy
Member Since: 26 Mar 2016
Location: Northampton
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my goats up today because :
My wife drops her iphone 6 down the bog, fresh clean water, Come out and then hands me the dead phone and the blame for not taking it off her before she went into the public toilets
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| 12th Sep 2017 9:57 pm |
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Hardware
Member Since: 28 Jun 2016
Location: Hiding under the M60
Posts: 13018
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She has a point.  .
Dean
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2011 D4 XS - OBD port protection, RLD spare wheel protector, All LED interiors lights, Timed Climate enabled, iiD tool paired.
2011 D4 Landmark - Stolen from same dealer before I paid for it
2011 D4 GS - Stolen whilst at dealer  ... All LED interiors lights, DRLs, Spare Wheel protector.
1996 300Tdi - Eaten by tin worms
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| 12th Sep 2017 9:58 pm |
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Farmer Chalk
Member Since: 06 Mar 2013
Location: Independent Republic of Kentishshire.
Posts: 4195
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Think yourself lucky man....she could of handed it to you covered in .... 
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| 12th Sep 2017 10:41 pm |
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df_tom
Member Since: 09 Mar 2017
Location: Stuttgart
Posts: 127
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DYR 500010.
Must be in the top ten list of LR cash cows. Tried to refit the front tow eye cover. 4 of them failed on me right on the spot as i had not cleaned off the remains of one of the former ones, i had to take the cover off again.
So, remember: When you have to tow, collect at least 10 quid because you need 7 of those on the front, 2 on the rear cover replaced.
Man.
Should have been mentioned in the manual they twisters are one-time only
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| 25th Oct 2017 6:18 pm |
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Hardware
Member Since: 28 Jun 2016
Location: Hiding under the M60
Posts: 13018
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The Discovery advert on the radio with the kids bringing their pets in to school. WTF has that to do with Land Rovers ?
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| 31st May 2018 5:05 am |
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astonbuilder
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
Posts: 8135
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the ing 'recycling centre' (AKA 'the tip') thjat has summer opening hours of 9.30am to 3.15pm during the working week. As useless as a ing chocolate tea-pot.
Aaah, that'll be why you have to queue for an hour or more at weekends then......
blame no doubt on 'the cuts' or such-like sh*te.......
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| 31st May 2018 7:12 am |
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Someone-Gone
Member Since: 21 Dec 2015
Location: Gone
Posts: 5117
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Resurrected!
My sister in law, by marriage, who was attending a family funeral with the rest of us, she just couldn’t stop her mouth going, talking about everything from the rise and fall of the third reich to Amazons tax status. 
I just walked out of the room, I couldnt stand it a second longer or she would have been joining the deceased in the coffin. 
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| 6th Sep 2018 10:17 am |
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professorpool
Member Since: 19 Mar 2012
Location: Woking
Posts: 3213
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People advertising their Discovery 3 with a D4 grill as a Discovery 4 "without the 3.0 engine crack issues" and wanting twelve large for it. D3 07 SE - still going strong
D3 07 HSE - gone to car heaven
FL1 - gone to Romania
D3 05 HSE - gone to a divorce diet
D1 V8 manual - gone but not forgotten
RR Classic - gone to car heaven
Jeeps, Lexus, X-trails... Too many to name..
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| 6th Sep 2018 10:21 am |
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Discomadness
Member Since: 19 Jan 2015
Location: Caerphilly
Posts: 2256
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Getting up at 6am. Driving forever to get to site in loads of traffic and roadworks to wait for 3 hours for the materials to show up only for the supplier to tell me on the 3rd compliant “they weren’t in stock sorry” when they were ordered last week. should have stayed home and carried on fixing lemon. Absolutely raging. And if one more person says “can you do me a favour mate” on site today I’m going to kick off. Jarrod
Current : D3 2007 HSE - AKA the lemon
-beanie grille
-detango with led bulbs
-club body off rebuild. TWICE.
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| 6th Sep 2018 10:29 am |
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Aerialmark
Member Since: 21 Jun 2015
Location: Burnley (Where the M65 is cobbled)
Posts: 5192
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Manchester airport The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
They just make the best of everything they have.
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| 6th Sep 2018 10:29 am |
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Gareth
Site Moderator
Member Since: 07 Dec 2004
Location: Bramhall
Posts: 26774
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Hotels, that provide a 200 metre steep path up from the beach, with signage saying “Hotel open for non residents” Only to be met with a “No dogs allowed” sign when you’ve worked up a sweat climbing the path to get a beer. 😡
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| 6th Sep 2018 2:48 pm |
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professorpool
Member Since: 19 Mar 2012
Location: Woking
Posts: 3213
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On a similar matter...
I discovered on Tuesday that, since LNER have taken over the franchise for the Eastern routes to Scotland from London from Virgin, they have removed the complimentary massage service from the first class lounge.
The b ds ... D3 07 SE - still going strong
D3 07 HSE - gone to car heaven
FL1 - gone to Romania
D3 05 HSE - gone to a divorce diet
D1 V8 manual - gone but not forgotten
RR Classic - gone to car heaven
Jeeps, Lexus, X-trails... Too many to name..
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| 6th Sep 2018 2:53 pm |
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Rescue01
Member Since: 14 Jan 2008
Location: Aberdeen
Posts: 2516
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People who moan about the stupid things in life that don’t really matter Its not the height of the fall but the sudden stop at the bottom that hurts!!
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| 9th Dec 2018 11:58 am |
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