Vent Your Spleen Archive 2001

Below you will find all the entries for 2001 where people have come to Lobby It to complain, moan, whinge and gripe.  Take time to read these complaints, to the complainer they are important issues but nonetheless it makes for fun reading.  When you have read some (or all) of the gripes and moans, complaints and whinges why not Vent Your Spleen yourself and have a good old complain about something that bothers you.
 

~Train Brain~

Must go. They could be onto me.

And, do you have an issue with gays, is this perhaps because you harbour some deep secrets?

I won't ask if you think you are gay, too. It usually comes with the territory.

I strongly suggest that you seek psychiatric help as soon as possible. You are a very disturbed man.

Which is why I must go now! Been on to long. Damn!

Ssshhhh. Mustn't say anymore. Not yet.

We all understand that mankind needs the academics in order to further ourselves, and that in itself is a good argument for students receiving grants for things peculiar to education. But subsidise you for travelling about where you will. I don't think so!

(I don't use the railways myself, by the way. Just don't like to see everyone else ripped off so blatantly.)

6th July 2001

Why do people get pets and then treat them like sh**. If you are going to take on the responsibility of an animal do it with heart. All or nothing, don't just love them while they are small and well, love them when they are old and sick too.

5th July 2001

I think that it is about time that the government put an end to Fox hunting and other cruel and barbaric forms of "Sport" which basically amount to the torture and murder of innocent animals.

5th July 2001

When will we stop being ripped off. Surely the government would make more money in the long term if they reduced the tax on alcohol and took away the need to go abroad and buy it.

4th July 2001

When will we stop being ripped off. Surely the government would make more money in the long term if they reduced the tax on alcohol and took away the need to go abroad and buy it.

5th July 2001

I am so annoyed with the world, I am a 22 y/o disabled male. i got into work yesterday and got promptly thrown off my section! all because in my new revised contract it states that I am not allowed to lift any heavy objects so they made me sweep up for 2 hours! bearing in mind I am well educated, this adds insult to the wound! Is there anyone else that is willing to employ such a person as me??. It really makes me mad, I am branded as as " brain Dead " but the truth is that I have a lot to offer i just cannot use my body to work with I have to use my head!! Can anyone help??

3rd July 2001

Hi, I'm a housewife. I cook, clean, sew, decorate you name it I do it. Don't you think it's about time housewives got paid for what they do, after all if it wasn't for us looking after you boys the world would be in a right state. So come on Mr. Blair pay us some dosh.  Anyway I had better go now or else my hubby will be home and he will see that I have worked out how to use the PC. Bye bye.

2nd July 2001

I agree totally with the chap about rail fares. I have been a student (but am not now)and the cost of the rail fares are extortionate. But this extends into my working life, if governments want to encourage people to stop using their cars, then make the alternatives cheap enough to warrant them doing so.

On the issue of rudeness, this country seems to have some of the least emphasis on good customer service than anywhere in the Western world (well it seems that way). I mean, how often have we all waited in shop queues while the checkout girls discuss the boring soap that they watched on TV last night completely oblivious to the fact that we are waiting to be served.

1st July 2001

I have had enough!!! I could rant on for literally hours about everything to do with the government, maybe I will end up doing so but for now I want to focus on the latest thing: Train Services.

Being nearly 17, and a full time student in school, it is impossible for me to have any sort of an income. In addition, being under 18, I am not eligible for any kind of unemployement benefits etc. Now, being over 16, I am no longer classed as a "child". Therefore, unless I take the time to apply for student rail cards (more on this later), then I am expected to pay the same as someone who is able to get weekly wages or benefits. This is not at all fair. As for the student rail cards. Well a child fare is half the price of a full fare. A student fare is a WHOLE THIRD OFF (yippee, lets rejoice). Now, is it me, or does anyone else agree that if anyone is likely to have their parents pay for their train fare, it is their parents. So why is it, children are able to have the least costing ticket???? They don't pay for it, so there is no excuse for "children don't have much money". Neither do flipping students!!!!!!!!!! This is something which I just can't stand anymore.

Also, how about the train staff? For the above reasons, I have been getting away as a child. Fair enough. Doesn't everyone try? So anyway this woman selling tickets doesn't believe me, and asks my date of birth. I give her a false one (which actually would make me 15) and because she can't count, she kicks up a fuss. I tell her to forget about it, and she decides I am abusing rail staff. After an argument, I walk away. The next time I am forced to buy a ticket off this wretched woman, I ask for an adult single. Now she decides to hassle ME about "weren't you a child before?". Argh! I basically told her not to abuse me, sell me the damn ticket and back off. How come, staff are allowed to treat their customers like S**t, get away with it - yet customers aren't even allowed to use the words "forget it". I just do not understand.

Putting all of that aside, I think train fares are incredibly overpriced to the point it makes me want to upchuck all over their nice friendly staff. I wont disclose information, but lets take a journey which lasts around 10 mins. An adult ticket for this costs just over £3. Another service, from Lancaster to London, lasting a couple of hours, cost £33 (that's a child fare), that is more than upsetting. And its not like here, in the UK, we get decent service either. Its not exactly rare for a train to be late or even cancelled. Something needs to be done about this. I find it cheeky that the rail staff are on strikes. It should be that they are put out of business because nobody wants to use their stupid service. I only use trains because I am near enough forced to. Soon i shall drive, and gone will be the days of HASSLE.

I am sure I will vent some more another day. There are plenty of other things!...

26th June 2001

My niece is off to Australia. On a visa. Before they let her in she has to prove she has two thousand pounds in her bank account. Prove that she knows someone in Aussie. Have a job lined up before she goes and has somewhere to live. She needs to prove that she is of value to the country of Australia before they let her set foot on their land. We should learn a lesson from them.!

26th June 2001

Must go. They could be monitoring.

26th June 2001

.....they have the country in their dusky little hands! I know they do.

It's just a matter of time. you wait and see.

26th June 2001

.....I've sent the message in triplicate in case the first one didn't get through.

26th June 2001

Can someone help me? I have this theory about a conspiracy.......but I'm not sure that someone's not setting me up!

26th June 2001

Can someone help me? I have this theory about a conspiracy.......but I'm not sure that someone's not setting me up!

26th June 2001

Can someone help me? I have this theory about a conspiracy.......but I'm not sure that someone's not setting me up!

20th June 2001

The chap who thinks all those illegal immigrants are coming here for a helping hand is clearly naive. They are NOT here "till they get on their feet". What sort of sheltered upbringing did you have? If you cannot see that these freeloaders are sponging off the good people of this country then you need to actually get out more and see life how it is. I have no doubt that there are people out there who need help and we should give it. But you advocate letting anybody and everybody in, when we can't even run our own schools and hospitals properly because 'we don't have the funds'. People like you are usually referred to as "do-gooders", and you always meddle where you know nothing and you are not wanted. You make me physically sick.

19th June 2001

Homechoice are the most rubbish rip-off ISP in the world!!!!!

15th June 2001

Whatever the reason for 'asylum seekers' coming to Britain most only need a helping hand for a very short while until they get back on their feet. Then they are able to make a valuable contribution back to society. Do you think it's a coincidence that the country that accepts the most immigrants is also one of the worlds most successful, i.e. the good old US of A? Don't believe all the hype in the Tabloids. I mean no headline writer is going to keep his job for proclaiming 'Migrant contibute millions to Treasury' or 'Entrepreneurial Migrants create 1,000s of jobs'. In a greying economy you need all the immigrants you can get! Truck 'em in.

1sr June 2001

Hey! The other guy who mailed in is right. Why should we let everybody in the world come and eat off our table. So we got good food and posh knives and forks in this country. It doesn't mean we want everybody coming round to share our dinner, does it! We are fed up with illegal immigrants (or asylum seekers as they are now laughingly referred to in this country). Why isn't there a politician with the balls to stand up and say what the vast majority of us are thinking? This IS still a democracy isn't it?????

25th May 2001

I had a run-in with BT the other day. It took 11 days to reinstate my phone number after THEY cut it off through negligence. None of the buggers knew what the previous advisor had promised me (and there were six of them) so every time I phoned they started the process over and over again! WANKERS!

15th May 2001

Free housing, free Health, free money. We have residents of this country who are living on the street whilst the asylum seekers receive it all on a plate.

Why are governments so frightened of being seen to be racist? This is not a race issue it is a moral issue, where else in the world do you get given it all for nothing? Nowhere, take a leaf from the book of Australia and make it difficult to get in unless you have something to offer and can support yourself.