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Phobos said:
If you can see daylight and there’s no window then there’s probably a hole. It doesn’t take a genius to figure it out.
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No, no window, it's just a bog standard attic space in a typical terraced council house.
 
~AyaMachi~ said:
No, no window, it's just a bog standard attic space in a typical terraced council house.
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Then there’s probably a hole. Or your roof is made of clear plastic! I don’t get how people can have issues understanding simple things. You ever think they try to fob you off because you’re female? Hate to say it but seems like a lot of the councils contractors are like this. One time my mom was arguing the point with a bloke about there being mound behind a cabinet (it had also gone above it though there was a gap) they were insisting it was only that one spot. I walk in and then argue the point and what do you know, as soon as I say something they actually look and concede the point.
 
Phobos said:
Then there’s probably a hole. Or your roof is made of clear plastic! I don’t get how people can have issues understanding simple things. You ever think they try to fob you off because you’re female? Hate to say it but seems like a lot of the councils contractors are like this. One time my mom was arguing the point with a bloke about there being mound behind a cabinet (it had also gone above it though there was a gap) they were insisting it was only that one spot. I walk in and then argue the point and what do you know, as soon as I say something they actually look and concede the point.
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To be honest I'm not sure if it was specifically in this case, since it was just my Mum having the conversations, and to be fair, she doesn't let **** slide without a fight; she is a force to be reckoned with. I mean she'll just keep at it until someone listens. She's actually better at that stuff than my Dad, so it's difficult to actually say how the same converation would have gone had my Dad been the one sorting it. My Dad isn't great on the phone. Literally, he'll get a call from telemarketers, and he'll just let them take him for a ride. My Mum on the other hand, takes no prisoners - she'll say on no uncertain terms that "she's not interested", before slamming the phone down. It does annoy me though that women aren't taken as seriously for pointing out exact same things, yet when it comes from the mouth of a man it's like Jesus himself has delivered the truth...

It's just been the incompetence of the council in general, they're just absolutely useless.
 
~AyaMachi~ said:
To be honest I'm not sure if it was specifically in this case, since it was just my Mum having the conversations, and to be fair, she doesn't let **** slide without a fight; she is a force to be reckoned with. I mean she'll just keep at it until someone listens. She's actually better at that stuff than my Dad, so it's difficult to actually say how the same converation would have gone had my Dad been the one sorting it. My Dad isn't great on the phone. Literally, he'll get a call from telemarketers, and he'll just let them take him for a ride. My Mum on the other hand, takes no prisoners - she'll say on no uncertain terms that "she's not interested", before slamming the phone down. It does annoy me though that women aren't taken as seriously for pointing out exact same things, yet when it comes from the mouth of a man it's like Jesus himself has delivered the truth...

It's just been the incompetence of the council in general, they're just absolutely useless.
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Yeah I know what you mean. Sure one persons deductions are as good as another’s unless they start coming out with ridiculous things like “it’s dry in the bathroom because the showers on” at which point I can understand someone going “yeah yeah, whatever”. I just don’t see it as on being like that because of gender. Not being funny but if a person lives in a house then odds are they’ll be able to tell roughly what’s wrong.
 
Phobos said:
Yeah I know what you mean. Sure one persons deductions are as good as another’s unless they start coming out with ridiculous things like “it’s dry in the bathroom because the showers on” at which point I can understand someone going “yeah yeah, whatever”. I just don’t see it as on being like that because of gender. Not being funny but if a person lives in a house then odds are they’ll be able to tell roughly what’s wrong.
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I'm not going to start pontificating about something I know absolutely nothing about to make myself sound clever, and then moan if a man happens to voice his advice on account of being an expert. Firstly becasue I'm only human and I don't know everything, and I have enough confidence in myself to accept that I don't know everything, rather than just make myself look like an idiot by acting as though I do, and second, because gender really has no baring on having knowledge and experience. In the case of our roof, it's glaringly obvious, and my Mum was doing just that: pointing out the glaringly obvoius - she has no trade, no trade knowledge, there's a b****y hole in the roof, and ANY mug can see that! It's just thef act that they seem to draw out the whole affair unecessarily - it's an endless cycle of coming round, taking a look, making notes for parts, not communicating with council depo, sending different people round who therefore have no idea about what's going on so then you have to go through all of the same spiel again so everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet.

It's damn annoying!
 
It really is. It’s also a complete waste of money. If they actually got things done and didn’t completely cheap out on materials I bet they’d find their costs would go down.
 
Phobos said:
It really is. It’s also a complete waste of money. If they actually got things done and didn’t completely cheap out on materials I bet they’d find their costs would go down.
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Agreed! Even so, the budget they do get could go towards useful stuff, like actually improving the roads, instead of just "filling in" potholes at the last minute with the remnants of the previous years budget, just to use it up...
 
~AyaMachi~ said:
Agreed! Even so, the budget they do get could go towards useful stuff, like actually improving the roads, instead of just "filling in" potholes at the last minute with the remnants of the previous years budget, just to use it up...
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Oh I get using up the budget, it makes sense in that if they don’t use it the following years budget decreases. As for the actual pothole repairs. I often think it’d make more sense to fully retarmac a road than to fill in a few potholes leave the cracks leave the rest and wait a couple months then fill in more potholes. Just seems like a really bad plan.
 
Phobos said:
Oh I get using up the budget, it makes sense in that if they don’t use it the following years budget decreases. As for the actual pothole repairs. I often think it’d make more sense to fully retarmac a road than to fill in a few potholes leave the cracks leave the rest and wait a couple months then fill in more potholes. Just seems like a really bad plan.
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This is the thing, towards the end of the years, endless roadworks pop up due to "pothole repair" and it's just pointless. Might as well do a decent job in resurfacing the road, especially if it's a road that's used often and has a ****-ton of holes in it! I mean, you can swerve out of the way of some holes, but not all, and it's not pleasant when you have to drive over the b****y things!
 
~AyaMachi~ said:
This is the thing, towards the end of the years, endless roadworks pop up due to "pothole repair" and it's just pointless. Might as well do a decent job in resurfacing the road, especially if it's a road that's used often and has a ****-ton of holes in it! I mean, you can swerve out of the way of some holes, but not all, and it's not pleasant when you have to drive over the b****y things!
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I completely agree with this. Unfortunately I don’t see it ever happening.
 
You...are an interesting person, Phobos...

One day you're worshipping b00bies, and the next, we can have a decent discussion about how useless the council can be, with some almost big words thrown in to make us seem a bit more like adults...

I respect the diversity, Good Sir!
 
~AyaMachi~ said:
You...are an interesting person, Phobos...

One day you're worshipping b00bies, and the next, we can have a decent discussion about how useless the council can be, with some almost big words thrown in to make us seem a bit more like adults...

I respect the diversity, Good Sir!
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I can't see why he can't do both at the same time...
 
~AyaMachi~ said:
You...are an interesting person, Phobos...

One day you're worshipping b00bies, and the next, we can have a decent discussion about how useless the council can be, with some almost big words thrown in to make us seem a bit more like adults...

I respect the diversity, Good Sir!
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Hey! I do have a serious side too. I just hide it well. I too like the diversity, it stops the world getting completely boring.
 
It also only counts if you genuinelly autoincorect and type things like sulking butts...
 
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