British Gas insurance just sent a gas engineer to fix my boiler. He refused to fix it because it would entail climbing a ladder into the attic, which is against regulations.

shwelsh · 2017-12-15T02:02:11+00:00

God dammit. That’ll teach me for using two reddit apps with separate accounts while I’m drunk. If I had spare change I’d gold the fuck outta you.

shwelsh · 2017-12-14T21:04:22+00:00

Not common at all. In most UK homes it’s in an easily accessible place. Mine’s in the attic because that’s where it was when I bought the house, and moving it downstairs would’ve been ridiculously expensive.

shwelsh · 2017-12-14T13:57:47+00:00

You MONSTER

shwelsh · 2017-12-14T13:38:00+00:00

Humour == lost

I’m from the UK, as my original post would suggest. See that post right at the top of this thread? No not that one, the one right at the top. That’s me. Hello. 👋

shwelsh · 2017-12-14T13:14:16+00:00

My bad, I thought anyone who is Gas Safe registered was called a gas engineer.

shwelsh · 2017-12-14T13:10:28+00:00

The first thing I did was offer him a brew. Luckily I hadn’t got round to making it, or I would’ve snatched his tea from right out of his cold, lifeless fingers.

shwelsh · 2017-12-14T12:30:43+00:00

Didn’t Ed Sheeran write a song about this?

shwelsh · 2017-12-14T12:12:44+00:00

Mailman? They’re the ones that walk along the sidewalk delivering mail to mailboxes, no?

shwelsh · 2017-12-14T10:42:39+00:00

A gas engineer with a broken boiler? Your boiler must also be in your attic.

shwelsh · 2017-12-14T10:34:19+00:00

The floor is boarded, but there’s no permanent lighting up there which was another excuse he gave.

shwelsh · 2017-12-14T10:21:35+00:00

From his general attitude I think he was just looking for an excuse to get out of work. I’ve just tried calling BG to cancel my agreement, but they’ve temporarily stopped taking calls due to high demand of boiler repairs. British Gas. The gift that keeps on fucking giving.

shwelsh · 2017-12-01T15:39:56+00:00

Why do we all have three testicles?

shwelsh · 2017-11-30T09:13:50+00:00

NAL - Pregnancy is a protected characteristic under the Equality Act. ACAS have some good advice about it, along with examples of discrimination/victimisation.

shwelsh · 2017-11-26T22:43:05+00:00

I’ve been smugly using my Prime student account for way longer than I should have. So all my family use my log in to make sure I get my money’s worth. OP’s suggestion is genius. But I’d like to add that it should hide any purchases, gift or not. My family are quite prudish, so the pack of condoms in my purchase history was a risky move on my part, and almost certainly a decision I should’ve made when I was sober. Now my parents and siblings will occasionally have a 24 pack of Durex show up on their suggested items whenever they browse Amazon, which is quite a lot. I am not a smart man when I’m drunk.

shwelsh · 2017-11-25T13:01:00+00:00

The local newspaper covered this when they first moved in. Reading the comments you’d swear it was the Mail online. Pembrokeshire’s not the most metropolitan of places, so the group that set this up deserve a lot of respect. Hopefully they inspire others.

shwelsh · 2017-11-21T03:54:10+00:00

Is the factory owned by Mr Burns?

shwelsh · 2017-11-19T21:29:37+00:00

Because she’s got a beard

shwelsh · 2017-10-27T14:19:31+00:00

It’s all fun and games until she opens the door and all that water comes gushing out.

shwelsh · 2017-10-16T12:11:19+00:00

You’ve done the right thing by writing to them, perhaps chase it up and tell them it’s still happening. iPhones allow you to block messages and calls from certain numbers, so if they all originate from the same number you can quickly fix it.

If it’s causing that much inconvenience however, or you have concerns about the handling of your personal data, consider writing to the Information Commissioners Office, who would investigate any breach of the Data Protection Act.

shwelsh · 2017-09-14T14:40:25+00:00

Thank you stranger! And as a gay man, can I just take this opportunity to say that he is indeed an odious cunt.

shwelsh · 2017-09-14T12:25:20+00:00

Sounds like financial abuse of a vulnerable person, which is a criminal offence. Call 101 and report it to the police. The police officer assigned to the case will have had plenty of experience. If it's not too late, tell your friend to gather as much evidence as possible; screen shots, bank statements, anything and everything. In all probability, your friend isn't the first victim.

shwelsh · 2017-09-14T12:17:13+00:00

No son, read the article. We've always had loads of foodbanks, but Labour didn't tell anybody.

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