What's Boiling Your Pi$$ Today?

[DD67]

Those prices are nuts, it’s about 1.63 unleaded and 1.78 diesel down my way in the land of the grey pound

This regional pricing is getting ridiculous

I shoved £20 in the Merc yesterday cos the fuel light came on. Admittedly I wasn't selective about which fuel station I used. But it was £1.84

 

[DD67]

I paid £1.85 a litre for diesel at Luss by Loch Lomond last night. Fuel cost in rural areas is turning very nasty. We ain't got no choice as we need to get places. Yesterday we finally had to take our big dog who has had cancer for the last two and a half years down to the vets to be put to sleep and, after paying £130 to the vet plus £200 quid for her cremation and return of ashes, having to pay twenty quid for just over two gallons of fuel was the cherry on the cake of a shite day.

Very sorry to hear about your dog Marty
The rest of the story is just money. And how everything is geared up to remove it from our pockets as quickly as possible

 

[chas]

I paid £1.85 a litre for diesel at Luss by Loch Lomond last night. Fuel cost in rural areas is turning very nasty. We ain't got no choice as we need to get places. Yesterday we finally had to take our big dog who has had cancer for the last two and a half years down to the vets to be put to sleep and, after paying £130 to the vet plus £200 quid for her cremation and return of ashes, having to pay twenty quid for just over two gallons of fuel was the cherry on the cake of a shite day.

Sorry to hear about your dog. I last did 'that' trip to the vet about three years ago and still haven't the heart to get another.

 

[MartytheMartian]

Aye it's a bastard of a journey, especially when, like our big dog, they don't like travelling in a car at all. Thirty odd miles is a long way to drive when you're taking an old friend on their last trip. That's the second of our dogs gone in the space of a couple of months and our last wee dog, a Westie, is fifteen years old and probably not got much longer to go too. No more dogs once he's gone. The wife is trying to keep herself busy doing stuff and all agitated while I am trying to get some peace to de-stress and, as a result, her 'keeping busy' is driving me nuts. My stepson is coming to visit today and, even though it's blowin a gale outside a mixture of sun and heavy rain I reckon I need to get a bike out and fuck off for a while for my own sanity.

 

[DD67]

No more dogs once he's gone.

Mrs DD said that, & it's looking like she meant it

 

[MartytheMartian]

I love dogs, always have and they always seem to love me but it's heartbreaking going through their deaths or, worse still, having to decide when they will die. At least it was quick, I will say that. I don't think she even saw it coming. Came home and my neighbour has just gotten a puppy, a Border Collie with striking pale blue eyes and, when I got out of the car coming back from the vets it came across the garden to me sat down in front of me and just stared up at me and ignored all it's owner commands, wouldn't move until I'd gone into the house.

 

[Foxy]

Wank news, mate. Nowt worse.

 

[Scrappy]

I love dogs, always have and they always seem to love me but it's heartbreaking going through their deaths or, worse still, having to decide when they will die. At least it was quick, I will say that. I don't think she even saw it coming. Came home and my neighbour has just gotten a puppy, a Border Collie with striking pale blue eyes and, when I got out of the car coming back from the vets it came across the garden to me sat down in front of me and just stared up at me and ignored all it's owner commands, wouldn't move until I'd gone into the house.

Dogs are special, and its crushing when their time is up. I'm not an emotional person, but both times I've had to take my dogs to the vet for the last time, it has reduced me to tears.

 

[Don the Don]

Sorry to hear your sad news @MartytheMartian it's why i could not have another I find them better than folk, and as per the fuel robbin bastids are making the most of the situation

 

[MartytheMartian]

I was OK on the way down, just a wee bit of leakage from the corner of my eyes but, waiting outside the Vets (They try to do the job out of hours) a woman and her daughter came out and the woman was breaking her heart and that kind of weakened my defences. I still held up fairly well I think but it's worse today as, over the last few weeks I would wake up in the morning and the wife would already be up but Big Bonnie would be lying tucked in alongside me with her head resting on my leg and it was rough that she wasn't there today.

 

[Don the Don]

Bastid needs shooting "but" can't say too much about Mr Black man i would appear racist

'You had no right': Teen jailed for life after stabbing motorcyclist to death during making of music video

www.msn.com

 

[Steve 998cc]

He should have sentance to hang that was just cold blooded murder.

 

[BAD LUCK DUCK]

Well after spending a shit load to sort the Duckmobile it turns out I gotta spend another £120 on a power steering pump as the spline from the old water pump had sheered off inside it...
I just can't fucking get a break from the bollox life continues to throw at me...
Anyway it's gonna have to wait a week or two...
If it as tits or wheels sooner or later its gonna give you problems as one of my patches on my jacket says

 

[BAD LUCK DUCK]

I was supposed to have an early finish today and was looking forward to it...
As they can't cover the services due to lack of drivers they have now decided to extend all duties where they can...
Total bastards

 

[BAD LUCK DUCK]

Oh and I just found out Polly the cat died..I'm not a cat person as such however I'm kinda relieved for her as she was suffering badly...
It's odd how another cat as suddenly turned up though..It belongs to a farm a couple of miles away..It just sits outside either my bedroom or bathroom window meowing all day and night long the little bastard..I think it's after puss the randy little shit only Puss don't live at mine

 

[DD67]

I was supposed to have an early finish today and was looking forward to it...
As they can't cover the services due to lack of drivers they have now decided to extend all duties where they can...
Total bastards

Don't you have to abide by a tachograph that limits the number of hours you can drive?

 

[MartytheMartian]

I had a mate who was a bus driver who used to do a route that was about a 120 mile round trip and I seem to recall that the buggers only have to limit your driving hours if you are on a route like that where, with local routes they can make you drive as long as they feel like.

 

[BAD LUCK DUCK]

Don't you have to abide by a tachograph that limits the number of hours you can drive?

No...technically they can keep us there 16hrs a day so long as we get a minimum 30min break every five and half hrs and get a 8hr break between shifts...

 

[smib]

Oh and I just found out Polly the cat died..I'm not a cat person as such however I'm kinda relieved for her as she was suffering badly...
It's odd how another cat as suddenly turned up though..It belongs to a farm a couple of miles away..It just sits outside either my bedroom or bathroom window meowing all day and night long the little bastard..I think it's after puss the randy little shit only Puss don't live at mine

You can never have too much pussy

 

[Don the Don]

No...technically they can keep us there 16hrs a day so long as we get a minimum 30min break every five and half hrs and get a 8hr break between shifts...

I think they are taking you for a fool mate, there are rules you know

Drivers' hours

EU and GB domestic rules for drivers of goods vehicles and passenger-carrying vehicles

www.gov.uk

Working time rules: lorry, bus and coach drivers and crew

www.gov.uk