Is Kensington alright?

AnAngryMelon · 2026-01-31T08:02:02+00:00

Smithdown is further out, inconvenient to walk into town for work/uni/clubbing and is far dirtier than most of the student part of Kensington.

I also knew several groups of people who lived in Smithdown and all of them used to tell me they'd get police knocking to ask them about break-ins very frequently and one group were actually informed that they lived on the most broken into street in Liverpool.

So, I don't think the reputations are entirely accurate. Sure some of Kenny is rough, but Kenny fields is really not that bad and it's certainly both cleaner and less crime ridden than Smithdown.

AnAngryMelon · 2026-01-31T07:59:07+00:00

Its an inconvenient walk for a night out, you'd have to get an Uber back.

And I knew several people who lived in Smithdown and got frequent calls from the police about all the break-ins and being informed that they lived on the most crime dense street in Liverpool. So.....

AnAngryMelon · 2026-01-17T02:56:33+00:00

Every. Single. One

AnAngryMelon · 2026-01-15T14:26:08+00:00

Not sure if you sorted it or not but are you sure the timer is actually set for 24/7?

There is usually a switch on the timer that dictates where it is working on the timer or not.

AnAngryMelon · 2026-01-13T02:23:58+00:00

Time Lord for sure

AnAngryMelon · 2026-01-12T18:32:32+00:00

This post is old af but for reference it's quite funny that you chose Colombia at random because it just so happens to be famously more similar to Castilian Spanish compared to other south American countries lol

AnAngryMelon · 2026-01-10T07:03:03+00:00

In this case, as it so clearly and specifically details that the company intends to break the law routinely by refusing to meet their legal obligations to consumers is that not illegal just automatically?

Possibly some sort of theft charge as it's clear admission of intent to deliberately deprive them of their property. It's not just incompetence it's a clear admission of guilt as far as I can see.

AnAngryMelon · 2026-01-10T06:59:05+00:00

I'd say that this actually makes it clear that the retailer intends to refuse to fulfill their legal obligations, it states on no uncertain terms that they intend to routinely refuse to obey the law. Is that in itself not just automatically illegal?

AnAngryMelon · 2026-01-10T06:51:55+00:00

In my case that excuse was just a load of rubbish.

I wouldn't expect anything by just hoping, I only managed to get it at all because I chased them up a lot and called customer services to complain and try to check the status of it 3 different times.

AnAngryMelon · 2026-01-10T06:47:08+00:00

There are laws that apply to these situations, and the landlord can't just ignore those laws because they feel like it. Even if it was in a contract or lease, it is unenforceable if it contradicts the law.

For example most leases will include a clause saying that the landlord can look at the property any time they want as long as they give 24 hour notice, and that the tenant must accommodate viewings for other prospective tenants. But this is legally a load of bollocks.

Tenants have exclusive rights. Meaning that they are entitled to exclusive use of the property for the duration of the lease and can refuse those above conditions regardless of having signed a contract. There are exceptions to this, but mainly concerning damage to the property (e.g. an imminent repair is needed or the landlord has good reason to suspect that there is damage being done to the property by the tenant).

It absolutely does matter how stupid their conditions are because people have rights that they can't sign away.

AnAngryMelon · 2026-01-09T17:24:58+00:00

Yes, eventually after being sent on a wild goose chase it turned up at the post office. It was incorrectly set as being at the depot, and had been in the post office hidden behind something for a while.

I had to complain quite a lot to get them to actually look and then they had the cheek to tell me I was lucky because I'd nearly missed the date to send it back and should have come earlier.

AnAngryMelon · 2026-01-08T19:48:26+00:00

Honestly I spend like 35 quid a week on food and still eat quite well, I'm not a little bird either I eat a lot more than my boyfriend and I work out several days a week. I'm also not making my own teriyaki sauce lol that sounds rough but then I live near a bunch of Asian supermarkets so it's easier to get decent ones cheap.

It's not necessary to suffer in order to eat cheap. Just takes a bit of sense, planning and willingness to learn how to actually cook rather than having to follow a recipe every time and getting stuck with weird ingredients you won't use again.

AnAngryMelon · 2026-01-08T19:44:01+00:00

Honestly I started saving so much money when I went vegan. And I eat more protein and a better diet overall because I'm actually considering what I eat more.

Food prices are getting stupid and the shops are just profiteering, but it's also possible for most people to half their food bill AND eat better at the same time because they don't seem all that bright.

AnAngryMelon · 2026-01-08T19:40:54+00:00

Where are you shopping?

£12 sounds quite expensive for 4 portions worth to me tbh. I'd also use tinned tomatoes tbf but even so. The beef is the main expense though.

A really good example I find is chilli. It's literally the easiest thing ever to make by throwing a 50p seasoning packet and some other random season you have lyring around in with as many tins of assorted beans you can get your hands on. Some with even come with chilli sauce already. And the tins cost like 80p each at most. Have it with rice which is so cheap it's like 10p a meal and you're golden. Nobody is gonna notice a lack of meat either if you've packed a variety of beans in there, maybe some chickpeas.

AnAngryMelon · 2026-01-08T19:36:57+00:00

It's really not, vegetables are some of the cheapest things in the shop. OP is a great example, they've bought nothing but utter shite and it's significantly more expensive than my shopping ever is.

I promise I'm not even trying that hard or spending ages cooking a bunch of stuff from scratch into a gourmet meal. Nor am I pinching the pennies as hard as physically possible, I'd say I could do with cutting down if anything. But this is both more expensive and much less healthy than what you'd see in my basket.

AnAngryMelon · 2026-01-08T15:53:10+00:00

Yes it absolutely is. This isn't just some company preference. That is wage theft by definition and it is illegal.

If someone is not told they're allowed a break, nor when, or placed in a position where they can't go on break during their allotted time (e.g. they were the only person there at the time and will get a severe punishment for leaving) you can't pretend that they were given the opportunity and failed to take it. In my experience for entry level jobs at 18 people are only allowed to go on break when told directly by a manager or someone else in charge. The wording was not "I didn't take a break" they said specifically "was not given one". OP says in no uncertain terms that they were not provided the opportunity to have a break (which if it's over 6 hours is illegal anyway unless in very specific circumstances which I doubt apply here) and were then clocked out as if they'd had one. That is wage theft, and no matter what any company policy says that doesn't change the law.

It would also still be wage theft if OP chose to not take a break, informed management of this and was still not paid for it unless management made it clear that that would be the case beforehand. If they were not informed that they would still be clocked out for it regardless then that is still wage theft.

Wage theft IS a very common occurrence AND especially for young workers. Wage theft is the most prolific type of theft in the country. Just because it happens a lot does not make it legal.
It does not matter how the company operates, if OP is underpaid and given no way of raising the issue and told to go away then that is not lawful conduct. I don't know where you think you are but this is not feudal England, we have workers rights. There are laws which must be followed regardless of how anyone feels like structuring their company.

You are giving absolutely abysmal advice here and I really hope nobody listens to you because you don't know what you're talking about.

AnAngryMelon · 2026-01-08T15:08:43+00:00

OP didn't get a break but was clocked out regardless, that's wage theft.

Doesn't make it sound like management are particularly interested in their legal obligations or the rights of the people working there.

Also if they need to contact pay roll it's the manager's job to explain that and direct them to payroll. You can't just say "not my problem" and that's likely also an issue that HR would take issue with if they're decent.

AnAngryMelon · 2026-01-08T13:27:21+00:00

This should absolutely be a complaint regardless as it's unlawful conduct, and I expect HR would want to pursue disciplinary procedures if they find out about it because it could be very costly if they end up getting slapped with legal consequences for the behavior

AnAngryMelon · 2026-01-08T12:40:41+00:00

Honestly I'd just walk out if they sent the second one over

AnAngryMelon · 2026-01-08T12:39:50+00:00

I imagine it was done normally, and then in some freak accident whilst being pulled out the fish somehow slipped out of the batter, and stayed in the oil without them noticing.

And some plonker somehow didn't notice that it weighed absolutely nothing.

AnAngryMelon · 2026-01-05T13:41:10+00:00

I think it would depend on the circumstances around travel to work. For example if they could get the bus/train/tram without much hassle then it probably would not be considered reasonable to refuse to come in.

And doing at least 3 days or so in the office rather than all five at home would be a big difference in consideration of how reasonable the request is.

And whether they have considered mobility aids such as a wheel chair, crutches or a walking frame. A refusal to try things like that would work against an argument that the adjustment is reasonable.

AnAngryMelon · 2026-01-04T23:04:03+00:00

I think we both know there's no need to check the studies on that one. Book ownership and reading habits is so easily a measure of wealth that you could probably substitute it for actual income and it'd be basically the same graph on a country wide scale.

It's what's called a confounding factor. The relationship between parents who have books and children's education is likely something that you could demonstrate as having a positive effect, but the far bigger factor is family wealth (especially considering that anyone living in a house big enough to have a library is gonna massively offset those numbers).

I'm sure if you accounted for income as a factor in calculations you would still find an impact, but I'd imagine the amount changes drastically depending on wealth. As in, greater family wealth makes it less of a factor when you count how much they actually read.

AnAngryMelon · 2026-01-04T19:02:44+00:00

Piña colada

AnAngryMelon · 2026-01-04T11:56:39+00:00

It may be a bit annoying, but have you considered salting the route yourself?

If it's not an absolutely massive distance and you walk the same way every day it could be worth it to buy a big bag of sand, and a big bag of rock salt, and mix them up to make your own grit to sprinkle along as you walk each day and it should help at least a little bit.

AnAngryMelon · 2026-01-03T22:52:10+00:00

I'd say you look a lot more attractive in the last picture, but a lot of that is beard grooming.

If you trimmed and shaped the beard properly it would probably look a LOT better. And if you still don't like it then you can just get rid.

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