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Post by Three Litre on Nov 8, 2020 9:18:06 GMT
What bothers me about the whole thing is
A) How did they get our details int he first place - given the only people we gave any details to was the Police.
B) Why did it not show on any previous Car Insurance Renewals - and then suddenly popped up on the 2019 renewal. Surely on the latter point; they would have asked me about not notifying them in the first place.
The only thing I can come up with is that the Police must have passed our details on to the Insurance Company of either the Car that was hit - or even the Council (to repair the Street Lamp) - and it was one of those two who sold the details on.
Just to add a further tale (not related to the above). A friend showed symptoms of Covid, so self isolated and ordered a Home Testing Kit.
He didn't receive the kit, so contacted them again to find out that they had used a Credit Reference Agency (they said) to check his ID. The Credit Reference agency couldn't confirm his ID, so they didn't send a test out.
Why the hell should that matter? Just send a f*****g test out to the address given regardless.
I read about that happening, bonkers. Stuff the credit issue, send the kit.
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Post by Del Boy on Nov 8, 2020 14:17:40 GMT
Yes, the old bill sell the data too. The classic problem you have there is you tell the caller about the so called accident and ask to be taken off the list but the firm goes through all their data in the package bought from insurers, old bill etc then sells it on to another firm so you get another call. The above carries on happening , perpetual motion I'm still getting calls relating to a 2014 accident that was settled straight away.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Nov 8, 2020 22:22:31 GMT
Extremism - I don't want to make this a political website but good riddance Trump. He gave talking straight, being traditional etc a bad name by being totally obnoxious. Plus we don't need supporters with enough firearms to start a small war. He had some entertainment value but the media just couldn't get enough of him, he must've been in the news every single day of his tenure & it has become very boring. As unpleasant a character as he is we can at least say he didn't invade any countries or do too much warmongering by the looks of it.
Trump may have been narrowly defeated but we've still got the US public, seeing them at rallies, wearing hats with slogans on & waving idiot boards is a scary sight, particularly when you read that it's estimated that several thousand people have died after having caught Covid in areas that have staged Trump rallies.
People are entitled to their political beliefs but what goes on in the US doesn't look like politics to me, it looks like villagers with pitchforks looking for a witch to burn.
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Post by Cartman on Nov 9, 2020 6:34:28 GMT
US governments usually placate and distract at home but create massive problems overseas. Trump, in a way, was the opposite. He caused division at home but didn't seem inclined to get involved in foreign wars.
Strange one, and, yes, I'm glad to see the back of him too
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Post by Sparky on Nov 10, 2020 14:21:24 GMT
US governments usually placate and distract at home but create massive problems overseas. Trump, in a way, was the opposite. He caused division at home but didn't seem inclined to get involved in foreign wars. Strange one, and, yes, I'm glad to see the back of him too Do you reckon we'll be seeing an episode of "Can't Pay..." on Channel 5, where a couple of bone heads and a bloke with a clipboard rock up at the White House to evict him?
I'd tune in to watch that bit at least.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Nov 10, 2020 17:10:07 GMT
I'm still dumbfounded that he was even considered for President. I appreciate that the public are always saying that they don't trust politicians but under what circumstances can you imagine Alan Sugar or the bloke that owns Wetherspoons or Sports Direct being made PM? Like any other job surely the applicants need to meet certain criteria, apparently in the US all you need do is find a billion dollars to fund a campaign & you're away. I find it baffling & it angers me that there are countless grassroots politicians who are not corrupt & work hard for their communities who will never get a chance of running things simply because they don't have the right people in their pockets.
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Post by Three Litre on Nov 10, 2020 19:51:51 GMT
I'm still dumbfounded that he was even considered for President. I appreciate that the public are always saying that they don't trust politicians but under what circumstances can you imagine Alan Sugar or the bloke that owns Wetherspoons or Sports Direct being made PM? Like any other job surely the applicants need to meet certain criteria, apparently in the US all you need do is find a billion dollars to fund a campaign & you're away. I find it baffling & it angers me that there are countless grassroots politicians who are not corrupt & work hard for their communities who will never get a chance of running things simply because they don't have the right people in their pockets. Yep that's the US. I heard JImmy Carter a few years ago saying he could never be president in this day and age because he wasn't a billionaire. And he was a relatively wealthy peanut farmer. Also in the US you don't even need to have experience of politics, at least Ronald Reagan had been a governor of California, you can go from TV show to president.
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Post by Sparky on Nov 10, 2020 20:00:12 GMT
I'm still dumbfounded that he was even considered for President. I appreciate that the public are always saying that they don't trust politicians but under what circumstances can you imagine Alan Sugar or the bloke that owns Wetherspoons or Sports Direct being made PM? Like any other job surely the applicants need to meet certain criteria, apparently in the US all you need do is find a billion dollars to fund a campaign & you're away. I find it baffling & it angers me that there are countless grassroots politicians who are not corrupt & work hard for their communities who will never get a chance of running things simply because they don't have the right people in their pockets. Yep that's the US. I heard JImmy Carter a few years ago saying he could never be president in this day and age because he wasn't a billionaire. And he was a relatively wealthy peanut farmer. President and Farmer...
Nuts isn't it?
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Post by Cartman on Nov 15, 2020 20:24:59 GMT
The only President who wasn't particularly wealthy was Harry S Truman, who was President from 1945-52. He had been a shopkeeper in somewhere like Kansas but his business went bust during the depression, which meant he spent the next 15 years paying off debts.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Nov 17, 2020 19:22:49 GMT
Can you believe the next door neighbours put a Christmas tree up today? In the back garden
People selfishly celebrating Christmas a month too soon in order to cheer themselves up during lockdown go into Room 101.
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