The phone is better right, so you laptop must be well behind!
Iâm not convinced. Some of the âunreadâ emails are from Thursday last week. Iâm not seeing any emails from the weekend, yesterday or todayâŚ
Iâm hungry.
I also just walked into the kitchen and realised that I never ate what I cooked for lunch.
I think thereâs a definite correlation/causation link here.
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Kids!!!
Come to flat sit this morning for a plumber visit at Little Miss Crazyâs as they had a complaint of leaking bathroom to the flat below from the bath.
Washing basket and storage drawers blocking the bath panel which will block access.
Why oh why do the current generation seem to lack basic sense?
(I wonât use the phrase common sense anymore beacuse if sense was common the majority would appear to have some 
)
Did you move it for them as that mightâve been the plan.
Nope, made her other half do it before he left for work.
They couldnât afford my rates for manual labour
Couple of points:
1: This is a pretty minor thing to be grinding about
2: Little Miss Crazy was, presumably, raised and taught by you?
Agree but itâs just another in a long list of things Iâm noticing amongst the younger generations. Seems to be somewhat of a trend.
She was never into cadets so as I was away mostly looking after other peopleâs kids this ones definitely on Mrs Crazy
Having to live in smaller properties because of significantly increased prices in real terms compared to their parents generation. Smaller properties meaning storage canât always be put in places that doesnât cause an inconvenience? If we want to access the meter/fuse box cupboard we have to move the sofa, if we want to access the stopcock we have to move the laundry hamper. Itâs just life and you deal with it. Takes 30 seconds if that.
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A massive part of it is a lack of exposure to various tasks and scenarios while growing up. Itâs not the fault of the person that doesnât know something for not knowing it.
Society as a whole has failed to impart the necessary life skills.
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We buy any car bunch of clowns
Online quote ÂŁ4170 turn up expect a bitnof haggling as theyâll find somethingâŚbarely walked around the car and said âyeah mate it looks good, Iâd be happy to offer ÂŁ3400â
Couldnât explain why it dropped ÂŁ600 just by turning up having spotted nothing wrong or reason to deduct anything
Hope you told them to jog on.
They deserve the same degree of contempt as employers who wonât declare the offered wage of a job upfront.
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Iâve had the same with both my and Mrs BFs old cars. Quoted a good price. Showed up and knocked 30% off the online valuation.
In one case it was because I needed a new tyre⌠Fair. So knock ÂŁ80 off. Donât knock ÂŁ800 off. Mrs BF was because âit needs a good cleanâ - a ÂŁ1500 clean apparently!
Clowns.
It did give us a benchmark for selling privately on FaceBay though⌠Well⌠A benchmark plus 15% to account for haggling!
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I absolutely did!
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If I remember rightly, wasnât he also the only regular cast member who didnât serve in WW2? (Because he as too young, not for any other reason).
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The chap who played Walker wouldâve been too young as well.
Bill Pertwee was an Air Cadet but refused for regular service due to a medical issue.
On the flip side the guy who played Pvt Godfrey was in both wars, fought at the Somme in the ranks and was an officer in the BEF looking after journalists.
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Canât believe these FOIers are for realâŚ
Dear CIO-FOI-IR (MULTIUSER),
I am not going to provide Mr Daly esq with my ID. This is a sensitive document and given the unlawful approach taken to this reply, I cannot trust Mr Daly esq with my documents. I would instead like to complain that Mr Daly esq has broken the Civil Service Code as the response does not meet the integrity value as it does not follow the ICO guidance or the law.
Those investigating Mr Daly esq should remember that a request can be made by someone who lives in the UK or overseas and I do not need online social media profiles or similar. I also donât think my name is a pun. They should also revisit the ICO guidance Mr Daly esq refers to (so knows about but selectively ignores) and this decision notice: https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-takâŚ
Please read paragraph 19 onwards of the decision notice ~ many of the points raised are similar. On what grounding has Mr Daly esq decided he is âsatisfiedâ on legitimate grounds not to comply. The ICO is clear that the default approach to forename and surname absent a pun is to accept at face value. The superficial explaination and oppressive approach trying to block an ICO complaint comes when I have asked about points on FOI times (which the MOD repeatedly misses) and the level of diligence on searches (which I have questioned now on two replies). It seems like an all too useful strategy to try and stop sharing issues now being discussed in online forums about the state of the Air Cadets.
If this is not addressed, I will ask the ICO to take the same approach as they did in the decision notice and investigate the MOD and Mr Daly.
Yours sincerely,
Bryan Basiljet
Link - ACLC 2024 Accomodation - a Freedom of Information request to Air Cadet Organisation - WhatDoTheyKnow
His letter, though somewhat interesting in tone, does have a point though.
The official comms are that there were challenges in securing accommodation but none of the released emails suggest this. So have HQ been deliberately telling porkies to CFAVs?
I suspect that theyâve checked CFAV records, canât find his name, so have concluded that itâs a pen name and now want to find out exactly whoâs asking the questions by, legitimately, requesting him to prove his entitlement to ask the question.
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Does being a âtax payerâ not count?
I thought thats why we have FOI access?
Its our money and thus we have a right to know wgat the Govt are doing with itâŚ
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