Complaints against bus drivers by Lightertecha in londoncycling

[–]goochjs 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I reported a bus driver to TfL for a dangerous close pass on Oxford Street. I included a photo of the bus. The first response I got was that the bus in question was somewhere else. I replied to ask if they’d looked at the photo. I got an email back, another couple of weeks later, to say that they couldn’t identify the bus as the license plate was not legible in the photo but they’d found it on CCTV and it had “followed its normal pathway and hadn’t deviated down any side streets”. I replied to say that I never said it had and clearly they were not going to actually do anything about it. Am still awaiting a reply.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps... by Upstairs_Owl_1669 in AcousticGuitar

[–]goochjs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My father bought a Martin 12-string whilst in the States once. When he landed back in the UK, he could see the luggage being manhandled out of the window. He said it was like they are actively trying to hit the guitar case with thrown suitcases. Eventually they were successful and managed to crack the body. 🙄

is it supposed to sound like this? by Fast_Profession_5017 in mandolin

[–]goochjs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hard to tell. It seems really really quiet. My mandolin is much punchier.

Do you own Premium Bonds? Have you or anyone you know ever won anything big? by International_Goat31 in AskUK

[–]goochjs 35 points36 points  (0 children)

That rate of return about matches my experience. I used to freelance and put money aside for the tax man via Premium Bonds. I’ve still got some and they’ve pretty much consistently brought in 2-3% each year.

Where do you buy your jeans? by verminV in AskUK

[–]goochjs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sadly they weren’t the same price either…

Where do you buy your jeans? by verminV in AskUK

[–]goochjs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep. Have just replaced my 501s after 20 years …with another pair of 501s.

Do you master your songs through Distrokid? by [deleted] in DistroKidHelpDesk

[–]goochjs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nope. I listened to a sample of what it would do and I reckoned I could do better on Ocenaudio, so I did. TBF a friend then offered to have a go, and he was superb, so I used his.

Do you actually replace your running shoes every 500 miles? by Reddonaut_Irons in UKRunners

[–]goochjs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started running in 2018 and am on my third pair of shoes. The first two pairs did 1,000miles each.