Member Since: 10 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
Posts: 6754
jambo27 wrote:
Compare this to Estonia where I have E-Residency. I have a smart card reader and a smart card that I plug into my PC. Any documents i need to send are uploaded to a secure folder - i log in and digitally sign with my smart card and thats it. Same process to open a bank account, order utilities, mobile phone contract etc. The provider sends and electronic contract to my folder and I sign it.
Their e-society isn’t perfect but it’s reasonably good and their marketing of it is of course top notch. But every now and then e-this or e-that fails and then the explanations are interesting.
Their tax authority is rather efficient at least for small companies.
For larger companies, particularly (so far) banks, the authorities seem surprisingly relaxed. Just look at the Danske laundering incident.
Disclaimer: I’m also an e-resident of Estonia due to having a few board seats in companies there.
1st Feb 2019 7:22 pm
jambo27
Member Since: 26 Oct 2010
Location: Staffordshire
Posts: 90
Yes I had noticed the banking options there are far more relaxed with the government seemingly happy to promote platform/virtual banks. If I was to tell tax offices in Poland or UK i used a virtual bank for my company they would have a instant melt down because they have no physical branch where they can send letters to demanding to see how much i spent on paper clips in the last 3 years.
1st Feb 2019 8:01 pm
J77
Member Since: 03 Mar 2008
Location: Fife
Posts: 6270
What sort of job is an "English and gender studies professor"?
What's got my goat today?
The sign outside a local charity shop "Working for members of the local diabetic community". I think that translates as "Working for local diabetics".
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3rd Feb 2019 2:28 pm
john watson
Member Since: 10 Nov 2011
Location: lanark
Posts: 970
Overhead gantry signs on the M90 on the way to the Queensferry crossing heading south re congestion ahead. Aye right said congestion caused by the bliddy signs! Crawled to half way across the bridge and hey presto the speed restriction removed and the traffic flowing freely. What are the clowns who put these messages up all about. There was absolutely no reason for the “warning” no accident, no heavy traffic flow joining from the slip roads. Another example of petty little functionaries flexing their “power” to the discomfort of the road users. All causing traffic to back up causing “congestion “ a case of a self full-filling prophesy. As an aside the bridge was a waste of money other than to replace the road bridge which is in danger of falling down. When will the road planners come to the realisation you can build all of the motorway, bridges etc but if you can’t get an exit from them that allows free flow of traffic the money is wasted. Rant over.Once you have defeated the idiots any job is half done. Pity there are so many idiots to defeat.
3rd Feb 2019 3:17 pm
Charliecloud
Member Since: 31 Jul 2014
Location: Tonbridge
Posts: 980
Kin Bin Men
Do I leave them nicely positioned at the end of my drive, Yes. Do they just dump them on the ground in the road after emptying them, Yes . Not the first time and it's getting on my wick!
SWMBO say's not to complain or they will not empty them and say we didn't leave them out!
I suspect that if a vehicle or a cyclist had a collision with one of them, it would be down to the homeowner!!
4th Feb 2019 9:43 am
Batfink
Member Since: 31 May 2017
Location: Isle of Sheppey
Posts: 1522
Numpties who think that because they indicate it gives them the right to just pull out into my lane. Then look all surprised when you either use the horn or flash the lights at them!
As been said before also all the idiots who drive around with just drl's on. If they are not aware of what is or isnt illuminated and seem unable to use a light switch then as far as I'm concerned they should not be driving as to me indicates they will fail to notice lots of other important things when out and about.
2006 TdV6 HSE.
22nd Feb 2019 6:53 pm
Stevepd
Member Since: 06 Mar 2018
Location: Wiltshire
Posts: 392
My wife had the day off yesterday, I returned home from work yesterday and she has had her lips injected with and had her eyebrows shaded and trimmed . She asked what do you think, “you look fecking stupid” - it just came out . There was a bit of uncomfortable silence and she said you haven’t said anything nice, so I said it’s looks lovely but she knows I was being sarcastic.
People who have auto headlights selected and then assume they will switch on when it is foggy!!!
Don't get me going on people driving on just DRL lights at night or in fog. Friggin' Twonks the lot of them!!! ------------------------------
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Daughter in law going to a local MOT centre with a Fiat 500, failing on wiper blades and charging her £49 to replace them, even telling her she could not take it away to fit new blades otherwise they would charge her for a retest, even LR dealers don’t charge that much.
23rd Feb 2019 1:05 pm
RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
Posts: 13553
Report the MOT station. You're allowed to go back the next day for a retest on certain items, which includes wipers:
Quote:
Taking it back for a retest the next working day
You will not have to pay again if you take it back to the same test centre before the end of the next working day for a partial retest on one or more of these items:
access panels
battery
bonnet
bootlid
brake pedal antislip
break glass hammer (class 5 vehicles only)
doors (including hinges, catches and pillars)
door open warning device (class 5 vehicles only)
dropsides
electrical wiring
emergency exits and signs (class 5 vehicles only)
entrance door remote control (class 5 vehicles only)
entrance/exit steps (class 5 vehicles only)
fuel filler cap
headlamp cleaning or levelling devices (that does not need a headlamp aim check)
horn
lamps (excluding headlamp aim)
loading door
main beam ‘tell-tale’
mirrors
rear reflectors
registration plates
seatbelts (but not anchorages), seatbelt load limiter and seatbelt pre-tensioner
seats
sharp edges or projections
stairs (class 5 vehicles only)
steering wheel
tailboard
tailgate
trailer electrical sockets
towbars (excluding body around anchorage points)
tyre pressure monitoring system
vehicle identification number (VIN)
windscreen glass, wipers and washers
wheels and tyres (excluding motorcycles and motorcycles with sidecar)
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2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
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Member Since: 14 Jan 2008
Location: Aberdeen
Posts: 2519
A##e wipe lorry drivers who straddle both lanes in the run up to roadwork so people can’t merge in turn Its not the height of the fall but the sudden stop at the bottom that hurts!!
23rd Feb 2019 9:49 pm
Canburne
Member Since: 15 Jan 2013
Location: Devon
Posts: 2036
+1 ^ they are not even sufficiently qualified to be arsewipes.
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2015 D4 HSE Aintree Green
23rd Feb 2019 10:40 pm
Ent
Member Since: 12 Oct 2007
Location: In the cack
Posts: 6488
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holes who make racism claims out of nothing.
. She asked what do you think, “you look fecking stupid” - it just came out 
. There was a bit of uncomfortable silence and she said you haven’t said anything nice, so I said it’s looks lovely but she knows I was being sarcastic.
