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Steve Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺Aug 6, 2025

Why do we need to do this dance every fecking year...

The AA: "It's time for your renewal, everything is more expensive now, so we're going to charge you £380"

Me: "That's 5 times what Green Flag are charging."

The AA: "We can reduce it to £200."

Me: "But your website quotes £140."

The AA: "Ok, we'll reduce it to £140."

Me: "But still nowhere near your competitors' prices"

The AA: "No"

#TheAA #TakingThePiss #LoyaltyPenalty

Matthew Malthouse Nov 10, 2024

I'd bet that went through planning as a garage enlargement. The hole is exactly the size of the door already in the garage it's built around.

It's on the property boundary so without room for a ramp that 9 inch cill says no car will ever see the inside!

So what? A granny flat?

#BadPlanning #BadBuilders #TakingThePiss

Legends and Lotties Apr 29, 2024

Wonder if the person asking this question has a job? "which completely free program for Windows do you recommend for downloading and converting Audible protected audiobooks into .m4b files?" I know they will have all sorts of justifications, but this person isn't prepared to pay someone for there work to help them steal the work of other people! #TakingThePiss

Carol Hughes Mar 26, 2024

Water companies were debt free at privatisation in 1989 AND given a £1.5 billion green dowry by the Government. Since then, they’ve borrowed £60.6 billion which along with income from customer bills has funded dividends and interest payments rather than use to prevent 4m hours of raw sewage discharges last year. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/26/4m-hours-of-raw-sewage-discharges-in-england-last-year-figures-expected-to-show?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #TakingThePiss #Renationalise

4m hours of raw sewage discharges in England in 2023, data expected to show

Exclusive: Environment Agency figures to be released on Wednesday to reveal 129% increase in total discharges on previous 12 months

The Guardian

Andy Scollick Nov 30, 2023

#COP28 Loss and Damage commitments are paltry

🇦🇪 $100 million (🇦🇪 ADNOC profit 2022: $4.9 billion)
🇩🇪 $100 million (🇩🇪 Wintershall profit 2022: $5.9 billion)
🇬🇧 $60 million (🇬🇧 BP profit 2022: $28 billion)

#COP28UAE #TakingThePiss

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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕Sep 19, 2023

@fixatedpersonsunit NB, the "Banksy" quote is actually adapted from "Death, Phones, Sissors" by Sean Tejaratchi published in Crap Hound in 1999:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120314093434/http://www.readingfrenzy.com/ledger/2012/03/taking_the_piss

https://gawker.com/5892332/viral-banksy-quote-on-advertising-plagiarizes-1999-zine-essay

#Banksy #SamTejaratchi #TakingThePiss #Advertising #CrapHound

Reading Frenzy ~ Ledger ~ Taking the Piss

A small press emporium in downtown Portland, Oregon.

Danny Vandal 🥦Jul 6, 2023

Ooof. Deleting your Threads profile kills your Instagram profile too. https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/06/threads-delete-profile-instagram-meta/ #threads #meta #takingthepiss

TechCrunch is part of the Yahoo family of brands

Charming Malcontent Jun 17, 2023

#Bigly
#TakingThePiss
#FatDonnyTimes

🧡Karen a woke Karen 🧡May 18, 2023

Water industry. Effing scandalous we have to keep paying for their greed for the NEXT 100 years. Public ownership NOW

#fatcats #TakingThePiss #ukpolitics

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/sewage-spill-london-water-uk-bills-ofwat-environment-agency-b1081932.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1684398951-1

Britons face rising water bills for 100 years to fix sewage spills

Companies have apologised for not acting quickly enough to tackle sewage spills.

Evening Standard

Mark May 13, 2023

So another app I use massively increases the price. #Evernote has just tried to get me to pay £80 a year. Double what I used too and that was too much. So goodbye. This comes after #Fantastical tried the same trick in doubling the subscription. They're gone too. I am all for paying developers but... 50% plus increases AND a subscription can bugger off #grumpy #takingthepiss