BenM2023

joined 2 years ago
[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My wife is an introvert. It took 7 years of very innocent twice a year meeting at camp and someone else shoving us together for us to think about becoming an item. Been married for 8 years now (together for 13). Sometimes these things just happen. Top tip is not to try too hard.

[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

After a few years there was XPizza tool... Allowing MIT guys to order pizza from their workstation....

[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Ah that ditty with similar lyrics, by Infected Mushroom, is now running through my head...

[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Where's the bloody bog?

[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Yeh I have noticed something similar.

I have to refresh home/local/all when I visit them to get all new posts. Default sort is new for all of them (iirc)

Occasionally there is 1 new one at the top of the feed.

I thought I was dreaming.

[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Yeh, the oya got smudged/erased on the gold plate.

[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Vger ... Star Trek the movie called and wants their name back!🤪

[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Yup. Exactly that. Us poors can work harder to earn enough so that we also can live in nirvana.

[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Nah they aren't shit, they are just poor traditional school fiction with added magic...

School fiction is a genre that has existed for ever and is always no better than "meh" imho. The Potter books are definitely at most meh but not as bad as shit.

[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Funny Autoincorrect...

[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Hmmm there are quite a few of these... Ok these are UK/us mostly.

America: fanny - backside

UK: fanny - the other side (!)

America: rubber - condom

UK: rubber - something you use to erase pencil marks.

UK and others: Durex - Condom brand

Others: Durex - sticky tape

US: Suspenders - things for holding trousers up

UK: Suspenders - things for holding stockings up. Used with a suspender belt and with, or without, other underwear...

USA: Pants - leg coverings e.g. blue jeans

Most of the UK: Pants - things you wear under your blue jeans (unless ”going commando”)

[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

IANAL however.... Your daily storage rate is way too low. It will cost you more to get what they owe you than you will get out of them.

Send them a letter changing the rate to £250 a day and stating payment terms of 30 days.

You have to be (legally) reasonable, so give them 14 or 28 days to get something sorted, after which the new rate will apply.

You should send them (snail mail and email) invoices every week reminding them of their ongoing commitment to paying you.

They may not pay you, in which case you have to go through small claims (Google it) or sue them to get the money they agreed to pay you (by not removing the vehicle after you gave them a reasonable time to comply) the former costs you time and effort the latter cost time effort and money.

In my experience, once invoices for significant sums start adding up to being a PITA for them, things will happen. Once the car is gone you have to decide if it is worth your time and effort to chase down the invoices. Hint - it probably isn't.

I got rid of incompetent bailiff companies this way (they kept buying a debt that someone had taken out using my address as theirs and the original loan company didn't check)

tl;dr - you have to make it worth their while to make you go away whilst being cool, collected and, above all, reasonable.

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