A Payment A Day Part 5

angelicmary85

Hopeful1 wrote: »

When our LO was younger, we had to stop him from watching Scooby Doo too soon before his bedtime. We realised when he did, he had bad dreams.

We also used to limit the amount of Power Rangers he could watch (my friends did the same) as we found they hadn't quite fathomed the fighting wasn't real and their play was a bit over boisterous!

In general i've avoided Batman, transformers etc as they just seem too 'dark' - not like in the good old days lol

What sort of things does your little girl like to watch?

Hey Hopeful!

She watches The Simpson's everynight with her dad when it's on channel 4 but she's recently started copying the things that Bart and Lisa do (hit each othaer, slapping - that kind of thing) and she's running up to people trying to strangle them like Homer does to Bart...I'm wondering f she should stop watching it!!

angelicmary85

Evening All!!

Green - Those emails are priceless!!

Purple - My pad fir today is another £11.00!

Hope you've all have a fab day! x

LondonAndy

Hi folks, I have turned into an (almost) midnight poster this week, lol.

PAD today is £1 to Crud1 and £174 to HongKong Shanghai Banking Corp.

So £175 please Purple.

PurpleJellyFish

PaD for me today is £7 peeps.

It's almost Friday - yeay :beer:

Paulgonnabedebtfree

Greenbynature wrote: »

This isn't a joke but I found it very funny:

This is a genuine complaint to Devon & Cornwall Police Force from an angry member of the public

Dear Sir/Madam/Automated telephone answering service,
Having spent the past twenty minutes waiting for someone at Bodmin police station to pick up a telephone, I have decided to abandon the idea - and try e-mailing you instead.
Perhaps you would be so kind as to pass this message on to your colleagues in Bodmin, by means of smoke signal, carrier pigeon or Ouija board.
As I'm writing this e-mail there are eleven failed medical experiments (I think you call them youths) in St Mary's Crescent, which is just off St Mary's Road in Bodmin.
Six of them seem happy enough to play a game which involves kicking a football against an iron gate with the force of a meteorite. This causes an earth shattering CLANG! which rings throughout the entire building.
This game is now in its third week and as I am unsure how the scoring system works, I have no idea if it will end any time soon.
The remaining five failed-abortions are happily rummaging through several bags of rubbish and items of furniture that someone has so thoughtfully dumped beside the wheelie bins. One of them has found a saw and is setting about a discarded chair like a beaver on ecstasy pills.
I fear that it's only a matter of time before they turn their limited attention to the caravan gas bottle that is lying on its side between the two bins.
If they could be relied on to only blow their own arms and legs off then I would happily leave them to it. I would even go so far as to lend them the matches.
Unfortunately they are far more likely to blow up half the street with them and I've just finished decorating the kitchen.
What I suggest is this - after replying to this e-mail with worthless assurances that the matter is being looked into and will be dealt with, why not leave it until the one night of the year (probably bath night) when there are no mutants around then drive up the street in a Panda car before doing a three point turn and disappearing again. This will of course serve no other purpose than to remind us what policemen actually look like.
I trust that when I take a claw hammer to the skull of one of these throwbacks you'll do me the same courtesy of giving me a four month head start before coming to arrest me.
I remain your obedient servant
???????

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Mr ??????,
I have read your e-mail and understand your frustration at the problems caused by youths playing in the area and the problems you have encountered in trying to contact the police.
As the Community Beat Officer for your street I would like to extend an offer of discussing the matter fully with you.
Should you wish to discuss the matter, please provide contact details (address / telephone number) and when may be suitable.
Regards
PC ???????
Community Beat Officer

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Dear PC ???????
First of all I would like to thank you for the speedy response to my original e-mail.
16 hours and 38 minutes must be a personal record for Bodmin Police Station,and rest assured that I will forward these details to Norris McWhirter for inclusion in his next Guinness book.
Secondly I was delighted to hear that our street has its own Community Beat Officer.
May I be the first to congratulate you on your covert skills? In the five or so years I have lived in St Mary's Crescent , I have never seen you. Do you hide up a tree or have you gone deep undercover and infiltrated the gang itself? Are you the one with the acne and the moustache on his forehead or the one with a chin like a wash hand basin? It's surely only a matter of time before you are head-hunted by MI5 to look for Osama.
Whilst I realise that there may be far more serious crimes taking place in Bodmin, such as smoking in a public place or being Christian without due care and attention, is it too much to ask for a policeman to explain (using words of no more than two syllables at a time) to these !!!!! that they might want to play their strange football game elsewhere.
The pitch on Fairpark Road , or the one at Priory Park are both within spitting distance as is the bottom of the Par Dock, the latter being the preferred option especially if the tide is in.
Should you wish to discuss these matters further you should feel free to contact me on <???????>. If after 25 minutes I have still failed to answer, I'll buy you a large one in the Cat and Fiddle Pub.
Regards
?????????
P.S If you think that this is sarcasm, think yourself lucky that you don't work for the sewerage department with whom I am also in contact !!!

I could well believe this to actually be true .
Ironically, I get phone calls for Devon and Cornwall police with irritating regularity. A couple of years back, I selected an 0845 number for my window cleaning business. I make nothing from it. In fact it costs me to receive calls. I only took it because there was a possibility of me moving eventually and I didn't want to scramble around after the move informing hundreds of people of my new number. So I just gradually put the new number out over several years and when the move day arrives, all I have to do is point the 0845 at my new number. Events have superceded this and I will not be moving. Anyway, the 0845 number that I selected bears a similarity to the one used by Devon and Cornwall police.
Early on I had a couple of calls from different people going into some odd details indicating something criminal. I just suggested that they phone the police. This was before I realised what had happened with the number. I even had a probation officer leave a message about a named person on my voicemail (though no other details about the person). Serious breach there I think. So far, I have resisted the temptation to pretend to be a copper. Apart from any other issues, it is illegal. However, I did excel myself once. It was about 4 AM and some woman phoned me up to tell me they had found a knife that she thought belonged to some male of her acquaintance. She asked me what she should do. I was so peed off at being awoken that I just said something like "Stab the effing !!!!!!" and put the phone down before switching it off.
So I can see the next complaint from this person being something like
"I phoned the police and they just kept asking me where I lived so they could give a price to clean my windows"

mooomin

Morning all!

£2 from me today please! I won't be posting tomorrow as I'm off up to the Grey Toon to visit my brother and won't be back until Sunday, so in the words of Granny Weatherwax "I aten't dead"

Have a good weekend!

boysma

Hi all

Happy POETS day. Posting and running this morning 3.38 pounds to DH cap one cc today please Purple.

mooomin

boysma wrote: »

Happy POETS day

Certainly is - I finish up at midday today :j then off to Aberdeen to visit my brother.

Does anyone know (This being the thread that gives fast answers!) if you get charged by Holiday Inn when using their wireless access? Trying to decide if I should bother taking my laptop.

Paulgonnabedebtfree

£1.16 from me today

gilligansyle

flying_fresian wrote: »

Certainly is - I finish up at midday today :j then off to Aberdeen to visit my brother.

Does anyone know (This being the thread that gives fast answers!) if you get charged by Holiday Inn when using their wireless access? Trying to decide if I should bother taking my laptop.

I think it varies, the one in Liverpool is free, and I think Edinburgh is, but I have been charged £6.50 an hour in Bristol - was for work though so that may be different.