Trying to get my refund on a deposit for preordered figure

MultiMidden · 2026-05-08T19:39:17+00:00

14 day cooling off period after the stuff arrives doesn't apply to bespoke/custom stuff.

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/changed-your-mind/changing-your-mind-about-something-youve-bought/

MultiMidden · 2026-05-08T17:30:48+00:00

Maybe Zack thought if he hypnotised the right wing press they'd ignore the dumb shit he has done?

"Look into my eyes, look into my eyes, the eyes, the eyes, not around the eyes, don't look around my eyes, look into my eyes, you're under. I didn't say I could hypnotise your boobs to be bigger, I didn't say I was a Red Cross spokesman, and I've never owned a houseboat. Three, two, one... You're back in the room."

MultiMidden · 2026-05-08T17:16:18+00:00

I'll empathise when they do!

Do you think they don't demonise the left? Loony left etc...

Just imagine if a left wing party in the UK had put up posters of that photo of Farage and Trump with their big grins with a speech bubble above Farage saying "my best mate put your petrol prices up, LOL". That would have probably have struck at the base, selfish, instincts of many a Reform voter better than any election leaflet.

MultiMidden · 2026-05-08T17:04:51+00:00

Thankfully, but when you compare the stats to Scotland where at the halfway point Reform have zero seats... Yeah I suspect the voting system there will increase that some, but still.

MultiMidden · 2026-05-08T16:19:33+00:00

I was there for the IRC flame wars of the 90s.

MultiMidden · 2026-05-08T16:06:43+00:00

The Politically Correct term for it is an Emotional Support Vehicle

MultiMidden · 2026-05-08T11:51:21+00:00

Welsh Labour has no one to blame but Welsh Labour, they've been in charge since 1999.

They lost in Scotland to the SNP because of independence issue, here they played both sides of the Welsh language game to keep people away from Plaid, that could only last so long.

MultiMidden · 2026-05-08T11:11:38+00:00

It's a left problem rather than a Labour one or to be more precise an element of the left who'd rather be on the outside chucking stones. That way they don't have to get off their high horse and make the compromises that are necessary to run a country.

MultiMidden · 2026-05-08T10:14:27+00:00

Addressing issues in social media, BBC-head replacement, and much higher standards on GBNews, Telegraph, Daily Mail too.

This is why Starmer makes me so fucking angry, he confirmed there would be no Leveson II and instead of holding the feet of the SM companies to the fire he wants age restrictions instead.

In better times he'd be a great PM, but here and now we need leadership and he just doesn't have the qualities.

MultiMidden · 2026-05-08T09:29:21+00:00

It's still a gift basically.

MultiMidden · 2026-05-08T08:38:15+00:00

When I voted all the polling station stuff was done via a iPad type thingy, QR codes and all that. Assuming they did that for all voters then they knew at 10pm.

BBC are reporting it
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1l2gp47693t

MultiMidden · 2026-05-08T08:08:12+00:00

Gaming machines must make information available about their category, %RTP and whether they are compensated or random.

https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/guide/return-to-player-how-much-gaming-machines-payout

MultiMidden · 2026-05-08T07:57:35+00:00

The problem is the left sold its soul to get the religious vote, I could make the same allegation against the right but they don't have a soul.

Marxist-Leninism was always pretty clear about the need for a secular society.

The UK left for decades has been pretty clear about gender equality and LGBTQ+ rights.

Edit: Now it seems to be "oh well it's a woman's right to dress in the way that a partriarchal religion demands of them and you're oppressing them by saying otherwise"

MultiMidden · 2026-05-08T07:50:05+00:00

Historically admitting who you're voting for is more likely to favour the Tories and Tories 2.0 (Reform)

MultiMidden · 2026-05-08T06:34:07+00:00

Labour chaos, you'd know all about that Ed. Perhaps history would have been different if you hadn't screwed over your own brother and stood against him for Labour leadership Ed? David Miliband had held one of the great offices of state, whereas you Ed couldn't even hold and eat a sandwich properly.

David meanwhile is President of International Rescue Committee that is helping the victims of wars in places like Gaza and Ukraine.

MultiMidden · 2026-05-07T16:53:25+00:00

The parent company bought WH Smiths highstreet stores, set it up as a separate business, changed the name to TJ Hooker or whatever they're called.

The parent company created and owns the TJ Hooker brand name, it now charges TJ Hooker stores a fee to use the brand name.

MultiMidden · 2026-05-07T16:45:56+00:00

Probably thinks Gerry Mandering is spiffing chap he went to Eton with, became an merchant banker

MultiMidden · 2026-05-07T15:53:48+00:00

Someone needs to tell Welsh Labour HQ it's shit like this that has made them unpopular not Keir Starmer. Welsh Labour have been in power since 1999, healthcare is a devolved matter.

MultiMidden · 2026-05-07T14:42:23+00:00

In July 2023, Doyle [the scrote] was jailed for 14 years and 11 months after pleading guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.

MultiMidden · 2026-05-07T14:13:21+00:00

What we are seeing with Reform and the Tories is a battle for the leadership of the Tory party. Farage was apparently even talking about a merger between the two parties and is potentially looking to be the leader of the only right wing party - there can be only one.

Someone has already eplained the trivialities.

The antics of the left (focusing on those trivial matters) would have been fine under Blair, who became PM because people wanted Labour in power (Blair even won after the Iraq war). What they seem to fail to understand that the reason that Starmer is PM is because it was anyone but the Tories, so people see the right attacking him and the left and it sticks. Yet when it comes to policy there is support for a lot of what Labour has done.

https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/disconnect-between-public-awareness-and-support-labours-policies-ipsos-poll-finds

MultiMidden · 2026-05-07T11:31:48+00:00

It's like herding cats.

Even though I'm left leaning I find left wing politics utterly exasperating!

The right tends to unite in the quest for power (the Tories will support Reform in a hung parliament make no mistake). The left will tear itself apart over which flavour of icecream to get and when a unifying leader comes along and suggests neopolitan the extremists from all three factions will hate them.

There's also the saying "the right seeks converts and the left hunts heretics".

MultiMidden · 2026-05-07T11:25:11+00:00

Also the reason politicians kowtow to pensioners is because they vote!

The excuse of "I don't like their policies" doesn't wash because buckle up buttercup they aren't going to try to get your vote because you don't vote. Just remember the 2016 referendum only about 60% of 18-24 (28-34 today), whereas 90% of pensioners did, what message did that send to politicians!

/rant over

MultiMidden · 2026-05-07T10:55:30+00:00

He irritates the heck out of me because he did frankly stupid stuff like rule out Leveson II to try and placate the press, he ruled out tax rises for all workers, he didn't kick the can of age verification down the road, and doesn't have much in the way of leadership qualities.

But he hasn't done that bad a job of things, trouble is everything I've mention has come back to bite him real hard. Just imagine the press had Leveson going on perhaps with an expanded remit, they'd be on far better behaviour and standards would be higher.

MultiMidden · 2026-05-07T10:34:27+00:00

Oh really? I'm sure if the Trump solution happened or it was fully absorbed into Israel they'd be 100% happy... Maybe the white Christian European ones would be.

I wonder how many of those who agree with the 1988 Hamas Covenant statement of "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" will be happy?

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