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As a poster suggested, we should have a rant thread in the Sheep Dip so I decided to start one and say I'm furious! Just bought some spaghetti sauce and upon getting home found it'd been opened! And it's an expensive imported brand - not something we usually buy on our weekly shop!

It may seem like a trivial thing but it's just an example of how things are here!!!:curse:

People will open things in the supermarket, sometimes even taste them and not purchase them :banghead:

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that's so annoying!! but I have to say that happened to me in the UK (was REALLY looking forward to having it for dinner, then it was opened and v.v.mouldy!)

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Ahh i have an answer to that, learn to cook... ;)

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Touche :rofl:

Well I do know how to, I just hate doing it :rofl:

Hey? Nobody else wants to have a good old rant? Come on, don't be shy...I know you want to :p

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Hey? Nobody else wants to have a good old rant? Come on, don't be shy...I know you want to :p[/QUOTE]

We just finished unpacking all of our stuff from the move to Milford.
Now our stuff had been in storage for 6 weeks until we found a place.
When unpacking the last few boxes the Geniuses of removal men had packed our Cats Litter tray that was out side (to be disposed of) in a leather bound box - COMPLETE WITH POO !!!!!!!!!! WTF was going through their minds?!?!?!?!

:banghead::banghead::ohmy::ohmy:

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You're getting karma. I didn't think anything could make me smile, let alone grin, today but you have.

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Rant:


My husband is employed. An employee. Works during the day and is paid an hourly rate. So why is it that a customer of the company he works for thinks it OK to look up our number & phone him at home at 9pm last night to talk about his poxy 'project' .

GGrrrrrr :thumbdown:

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That IS annoying! Hope you told him to contact Mr BEVS at work the next day!!

:eek::rofl: Sorry it's not really a laughing matter but it made me laugh! Imported used cat litter :rofl: gives a whole new meaning to the phrase taking the piss :lol:

And why did they wrap it in a leather bound case??

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BEVS I just read your signature...I'm afraid to ask.

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:eek::rofl: Sorry it's not really a laughing matter but it made me laugh! Imported used cat litter :rofl: gives a whole new meaning to the phrase taking the piss :lol:

And why did they wrap it in a leather bound case??[/QUOTE]

I assume they wrapped it in the leather bound case because they didn't want to have to write on the packing form '1 used cat litter tray' instead they could assist me in importing this item of great sentimental value by describing it as '1 leather bound storage box'
Do you think i should write them a letter to thank them - i mean my cat was ecstatic to find it - i guess he thought he must have just misplaced it 6 weeks ago :rofl::blink:

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:lol:

Ooo I definitely would be sending them a humorous piece of gratitude from the cat.

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It's a good thing it didn't cause you any problems with MAF.

Somehow I can picture your cat finding his used cat litter box :rofl: well at least it'll help him settle in faster :lol: Try to take a pic and post it on the Dogs in New Zealand thread - it's for all the pets really :wub:

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You're right BEVS - didn't think about MAF?!
That would have been an interseting conversation - not to mention th $100 to have my cats poo and litter box disposed of and cleaned (hopefully in that order):blink:

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OK, it's not funny but I just can't help laughing ! :rofl: Wouldn't like it if it happened to me. Our packers had the prescence of mind to tell us to take the natural pine cones from our artificial Christmas Tree. Packing a cat's litter tray complete with stink :blink:

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Hubby & I think the packers do things like this for as laugh. There was a thread somewhere about the weird stuff that got packed. I'll try and find it .

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Maybe we should start a "Rate the Remover" thread so we can get a bit of a poll going?:blink:

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It's not a poll but

Please see here

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So we went to renew OH's passport yesterday and to the bank, we left at 8am and got home at 7pm :eek: The traffic was horrendous! Seriously can't wait to leave, this way of life is not fit for human consumption!!

We didn't even get to renew the passport, we were told to come back in 7-10 days, submit the forms then wait another 3 days.

Re: My rant . . . I will never catch a goddam bus again
 

I confess . . . I am never, never going to get a bus anywhere again. If I have to hitch-hike, get taxi's, or damn well walk - then that's what I will do. Years of fear, dread, humiliation, and sheer misery is about to come to an end . . . and I'm never catching a bus anywhere again - and I mean anywhere - for as long as I live.

Yesterday was the final straw when the college drip who sat next to me, slurping from one of those polystyrene cups of coffee, decided to 'accidentally' spill half of the scalding contents into my lap . . ruining my latest novel in the process. He didn't make eye contact, and mumbled a neanderthal sounding grunt which may have been 'sorry' in hyper laid-back student talk. At that precise moment a horrid spliffy, jointy, weedy aroma wafted my way. The guy was spaced out on dope, totally.

I've had numerous previous journeys where I've felt a pair of eyes burning into the side of my face. Then there's the enormous fat woman with an allergy to soap who wedged me into the back of the bus for the entire hour's journey, and it was all I could do to stop myself heaving over her as her 250-pound armpit kept brushing my chin. Had she never heard of palmolive . . . or odour eaters for that matter.

Oh yes, over the years I've smelled a variety of other, equally undesirable scents that other passengers had coated themselves in - including urine, cigar smoke, booze-breath, dog crap, copious amounts of dubious pound shop fragrances - sometimes individually, occasionally all at once. Do you KNOW how many people are drunk when they get on the bus. I would say 15% of the passengers are intoxicated, and they smell like it. And most of them sit next to me.

Besides drunks, I have had the honour of sitting next to bitchy little teenage gay guys who mince about and squeal loudly into their mobile phones, old ladies with whooping cough, girls who can be no older than 12, dressed like complete mini-whores, who put their trainer-clad feet up on the back of the seat in front of them. Plus children whose faces are completely obscured by snot, young white men who think they are young black men using ghetto talk, screaming babies, wet umbrellas shook over me, and a hundred and one other pains in the butt.

No, I'm never getting the goddam bus again . . as long as I live.

Rant over

Re: My rant . . . I will never catch a goddam bus again
 

You moving overe here?? You'll fit right in ;)

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I've already commented on my experience of riding the buses in Christchurch. A very good bus service but the other passengers will be similar to what you've already experienced. The other passengers will probably remember, 'Mr & Mrs sour-face looking displaced without a car' as that was my husband and I !

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:rofl:

Seriously though, is it that bad there?? :eek:

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No its absolutely not, I don't recognise the place that is described in some sections of this forum, please don't believe most of the crap on some of the threads on here, the term whinging poms doesn't come close, seriously!

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Kija. No I don't think it's that bad ! Just the guy that whistles on the bus complete with tremble at the end of the note. Kids with their mobile phone radios at full volume, 'cause we all like the same tunes, right ? Fourteen year old girls being wanna be tarts. A group of kids trying to pay their bus fare with a 20 dollar bill each and getting the ride for free as the driver did not have enough change. I didn't get to ride for free, why did they ? Mums & prams with fidgety children in them. Crotchety bus drivers who claim not to know where a certain road/stop is even though they live in the city and have obviously been a bus driver for years ! Being given dirty looks by the driver as I've managed to use a return ticket within the 2 hour time period (don't ask, it's their idea of a return ticket). You maybe won't get the 'prizewinners' riding the bus that you've experienced !

What would the whinging Ozzies have to whinge about if it wasn't for the whinging poms ? We provide a valuable whinging service but do we get any thanks ? No just have to listen to the whinging ozzies getting their whinging done about the whinging poms !

Oops you're from Notts. NZ probably looks fantastic to you then.

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I browse this site most every day & I see very little 'cr@p' as you put it. What I do read are people's opinions, views and experiences which they are entitled to and may well differ from your own 'cr@p'

FWIW , as a short person, my nose has experienced severe under arm odour on public transport & in crowded places the world over. Both here and in Eygpt as it happens. :p

Not sure that SeeingISbelieving is referring to NZ. I think it's a general diatribe about the woes of travelling on public transport. :D

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.. my last word on the subject.. IMO.. as only a passing visitor nowadays, folks on here helped me immensely when I first got here, lately I see a lot of negativity, folks moaning about this and that, yeah its expensive, yeah the GBP to NZD rate is in its boots, yeah I can't get British this and that, yeah the TV is crap... so what? I ain't in the UK any more, if I wanted all that stuff I'd have stayed there, can you imagine if there was a site where folks who had moved to the UK were slagging it off, I can guess what sort of reaction that would get, and as for folks currently undertaking what I would guess is the biggest thing in their lives to read what is put on some of the threads, it'd scare me witless.. not saying I'm the most optimistic of folks by a long shot but come on.. it's too easy to be a glass is half empty type.. look on the bright side FFS, the TV is crap, great.. get out more then, can't get British this and that, great.. try something new.. can't do much about the exchange rate but I can make my money go further.. grow my own stuff.. the weathers great for it, even in midwinter stuff grows, brew your own beer and wine .. tastes like p**s, but its p**s that you've made yourself, i may have been a bit too direct with my earlier comment but, really, this isn't paradise not by a long shot, but it's not the hole its portrayed to be.. it really really isn't... BTW this is a Rant thread.. so .. Rant over

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I think it's probably just the odours vary depending where you are. Here at the moment I am suffering not from noxious armpits, but the smell of stinky people around me whose clothes either smell fusty of mould and mildew or woodfires.

I don't even have a woodfire, yet our cat comes home smelling of smoke just from sitting outside on the deck. I find that quite appalling, actually. :thumbdown:

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Phew that's a relief to know. We were counting on using buses there until we get a car.

As BEVS mentioned, you can't use the public transport system here in Egypt unless you absolutely have to. Not only is it stinky (the weather is abominably hot here and some people don't use seem to use deodorant), but it's packed - people are literally packed like sardines. It's awful and I feel very sorry for people who have to use buses and the underground, especially women :(

About people's differing perceptions, that is very true because I used to be on a forum for depression and quite a few of the members were from the US (mainly because back at that time Americans were online the most, not because the majority of Americans are depressed). Well having seen how some people live in poor countries (including my own), their grievances tended to pale in comparison, but then emotions are very subjective by their very nature.

We are all different and some people like things others don't and that's fine, in fact it would be boring if we all agreed on the same things :lol:

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Sounds like the UK to me! ive never experienced what your talking about on the buses when ive travelled on them in Auckland or Christchurch! :blink:

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As some of you may know I like fizzy drinks, but as I'm on an (eternal) diet I drink diet Pepsi. So today, a particularly hot day, I was especially looking forward to my Pepsi with lunch only to discover (after drinking it of course :rolleyes:) OH bought the regular kind so I think I've just messed up a whole cycle of my Fat Loss for Idiots diet :thumbdown: Men...can't live with them, can't live without them :rolleyes:

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Rant:

Husband sprayed the inside of our recycle bin dayglo orange.
Why ? :frown:

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:rofl: Maybe he was just bored or wanted to be able to find it in the dark :rofl:

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Why not?

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Is he trying out the colour for a small room?

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:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Or the outside of the house......:eek::lol:

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I think we'd all like to know why? :rofl: