Why is everything broken?

So why is it that everything seems broken? Even the weather. Nothing works as it should.

[@steveblyth2055]

The only time anything runs smoothly is when they want your money.

[@dereton33]

Even then sometimes not.

[@GARDENER42]

@@dereton33 Like your bin tax...

[@SteveMonk1956]

Sadly the country has gone to the dogs, no one seems to be able to organise anything anymore. It is a disgrace.

[@dereton33]

Sh.t Steve.

[@GARDENER42]

I don't think a change of overlords is going to fix it either.😐

[@EnglishVeteran]

For the first time in my life I am glad I am this end rather than the other end! I feel very sorry for young people!

[@dereton33]

I know what you feel.

[@ivanhoe6366]

Surrounded by incompetence.

[@dereton33]

True.

[@HonestPerspective1981]

The country is hugely divided....men vs women, black vs white, rich vs poor, employed vs unemployed, straight vs gay.....the list goes on. The thing is we are all in this together no matter who you are....its the coming together thats needed. Unfortunately being so divided people need to put their prejudices down for the sake of the country. Looking around it looks like an impossible task for most

[@stenchosmells]

Trouble is most people don’t see the divide and conquer agenda that’s constantly played out and deliberately pushed from the top down, it’s the oldest trick in the book to control everyone. If they keep us fighting each other it distracts us from seeing who the real enemy is !!!

[@dereton33]

An uphill climb

[@HonestPerspective1981]

@@dereton33 Definitely!

[@rob6rr]

Divide and conquer... That's one thing they managed to do successfully.

[@davidmarshall5596]

The Railways used to carry freight until Beeching did his thing & the rest is history, sooo many HGV's now on the roads which their has to be to keep everything/ everyone moving! Plus now there's so many people on this island especially in & around Cities & it's not gonna get any better anytime soon ! Keep up the excellent channel 😊🎉

[@dereton33]

Thanks Dave.

[@juliawigger9796]

I live near a railway line that comes from Southampton docks. I'm surprised since c19 how many freight trains there are now. Very strange.

[@corin6677]

Everything is broken and everything is cheaper quality and you get less for everything you buy & pay for .

[@dereton33]

Agreed.

[@martinwalker3372]

Spot on Al. The roads here around the Midlands are all broken, even the motorways. Roadworks every where, temporary traffic lights and nobody working on the roads either. Not to mention the incredibly heavy electrical vehicles breaking the roads up even more and the pot holes are turning into craters. £60 now for taking the garden waste away and I have now declined their kind offer. What a kerfuffle regarding your 'Toby' box that I'd never heard of.

[@dereton33]

Thanks Martin.

[@Honest_Reviewer.]

What's a Toby box? 😐 I can't stand contractors or companies who can't get their act together. Just shameful!

[@king77703]

The Radius Toby Box is a sealed underground storage box designed for use at boundary and demarcation points in FTTx networks. It is typically located at the customer boundary/kerb and can be connected to the existing network upon Infrastructure installation, allowing quick and easy customer connections 👍

[@dereton33]

Thanks now we all know.

[@711honved]

The country has been terribly mismanaged for decades. Underinvestment, poor political leadership, zero accountability, an exploding population, rewarding failure & not success; are just some of the factors that have seen this country go down the pan!

[@dereton33]

Bang on the nail there.

[@lafemmelaMon]

They have no problems fixing ulez camaras 😢

[@dereton33]

Perhaps they should send them round .

[@lafemmelaMon]

@@dereton33 they won't make enough fixing your problems 😉

[@brendor352]

Lovely to watch your Video, had to laugh at your issues, We have had the same problems, No proper Tradesman anymore, My husband watched your Plumbing Vids for years and loved all the help you gave, God Bless you, Good Luck 👍👍

[@dereton33]

Thanks Brendor.

[@charliekingpin8568]

Your not the only one, it's all MADNESS

[@dereton33]

Busted. Society.

[@loafersheffield]

Managed decline by technocratic elites or just rank incompetence. Either one or the other, or both. The demographic shifts, it has been asserted, are quantitative easing by population. Computer says no! - Anne/Little Britain

[@dereton33]

Thanks Loafer. Keep well mate.

[@jamessky9155]

Eh eh eh.

[@trevorowen6564]

The whole country needs a 'toby box' I think Al!

[@dereton33]

It does seem like one of those things I might like in my front room cabinet, ha ha.

[@RAWRUSS]

I so agree with you. It’s so frustrating trying to get anything done properly and fast. I use to love all this new technology but half time I get so fed up with half it not working properly.

[@dereton33]

Crap isnt it.

[@robertlovell5413]

Frazier from Dad's army got it right year's ago Al. We're Doomed .

[@dereton33]

He sure was on the nail.

[@pointblankracer6274]

Broken Britain.

[@dereton33]

It is.

[@martinlawlor3457]

Smart metres for Gas and Electricity. For us, this was a saga. After nine months they were installed. We are still getting bills which are estimated!!!!

[@6581punk]

That can be down to many things. But having clutter around your meters that are metal will block any signal to the mobile network.

[@dereton33]

Thanks guys.

[@juliawigger9796]

Why on earth did you get a smart meter?

[@davelinkson1]

​@6581punk my smart meter is installed in the garage by a metal car and garage door and never had a problem in 5 years.

[@carlbland68]

@@juliawigger9796 obs they want to be listened to

[@haroldland5834]

Where did it all go wrong? 3 of the main problems to begin with : Immigration on a industrial scale, immigration from the 3rd world, illegal immigration . You would have to build a city bigger than Liverpool every year to accommodate 700,000 that arrive on an annual basis which means everything is overwhelmed or overcrowded; infrastructure, health, housing and of course prisons etc ,etc. They won’t give you a demographic breakdown of the criminals for obvious reasons .I could go on!

[@dereton33]

Thanks Harold.

[@RLJIM]

I found this and a reason I followed your channel, everytime I get some work done at the property something is wrong, so much in fact that I developed a real anxiety of people coming to do any old job including plumbing, it's never been a case where they come out and fit/repair something without drips after, same with cars, roofers etc always had issues after. Great workman are a thing of the past it seems.

[@dereton33]

We are a dying breed.

[@stevensimpson2625]

Spot on same here north east roads are a mess ,think since covid everyone’s gone brain dead 😂

[@dereton33]

Ha ha thanks Steve.

[@davelinkson1]

Yes, I know what you mean, always seems to be problems with things. I've been with BT Internet for nearly 3 years which has been fine, good enough for me, and in that time I had lightening fibre knock on the door saying they want to lay the pipes and wires in my close, (don't know about toby box)it's a private close as such and me and most of my neighbours as far as I know didn't allow them to carry out that work, so nothing was installed, we are happy with what we already have. it's a good job we did,as I heard a few months back that they were going down the pan, so seems like we avoided a load of aggro.

[@dereton33]

I think you did.

[@Rewind787]

Great video Al, all very true. To add to your thoughts of nothing working properly - nothing impressive or exciting seems to go on any more in life. Think back to the 60's when we had Concorde - groundbreaking technology being implemented. The 1930's - the television arriving in the UK. Sending a man to the moon in the 60's etc. All these impressive feats of either technology or brainpower that used to happen in the 20th century, now we have the internet and all the information we could ever want or need on pretty much every subject on the planet, and there's absolutely nothing of any interest going on. Everything is all doom and gloom - especially from the mainstream media. Technology seems to have stagnated the past few years. Every year Apple brings out a 'new' iPhone and a 'new' iPad which is just a rehash of the last year's model and the year before that. Prices of things just seem to go up and up and quality of everything in life keeps going downwards. Anyway, enough moaning from me 😄

[@dereton33]

Sounds about right to me ha ha.

[@thislife1]

I agree, nothing is working properly anymore. And that thing on the computer you mention at 1:05 - I call it "the turning circle". Also for anything going wrong nowadays (usually to do with 'tech' or 'customer service') - I call it "21st Century". And I am often heard saying to my wife - "Why is everything so difficult?!" 😆

[@dereton33]

Life today hah.

[@shadowdancer4532]

I love these little chats Al ❤ love your accent too! I've realised that I'm broken ....because of everyday life!

[@dereton33]

Ha ha thanks Shadowdancer. Dont let them beat you mate.

[@thomascoyne157]

We’re over crowded and nobody‘s got the understanding of the English language and if you speak loudly to them because they’re not understanding, then you’re being aggressive British Gas have changed their computer system on page of goal customers and totally wipe their credit off the existing meters and start off zero and then they have to wait with no communication as to where the money is gone. All the credit has and then when your phone up to think you want to all to your Electric, mind you this is what happens when you’re phoneing Pakistan

[@dereton33]

It` all broken.

[@rainbowtrout9743]

The world economic forum are in charge !!!

[@dereton33]

The banks rule the world.

[@Early100]

£45 per each green waste bin here, my garden is pretty big and we used to pay for 2 bins cos they were £30 each until this year, only paid for one this time, going to put the excess into black bin bags and add it to general household bin and what we can’t fit into that will be getting burned - sorry not my problem, we already pay council tax so it feels like we’re paying twice, not doing it anymore. The whole country is now built against us ordinary folks, everywhere you turn and everything you do is met with obstacles, hiccups or too many rules and regulations, most of it geared around money. We voted reform and are hoping next time the rest of the country will follow. Message to ALL - please DON’T leave derogatory remarks in response to how I voted - it’s still a free country, sort of………for now anyway xx

[@Autonomous1969]

They suspend my green waste collecyion for about two months over Christmas so I put it all in my black bin instead.

[@Free-dv2vm]

Yes and they turn it into compost and cash in too

[@dereton33]

Thanks for the comments guys.

[@lafemmelaMon]

Create a compost bin and make your own compost. Stop paying them.

[@loafersheffield]

No reform candidate in my constituency, sadly.

[@fromanotherera]

Everything has been destroyed by the clown world that has been about since the beginning of the Millennium. I would love to go back to the eighties and stay there. I am homesick....!

[@dereton33]

You and a lot others.

[@waterman576]

Nonsense is the order of the day today, pathetic ist it😢

[@dereton33]

Sure is.

[@jameswyeth8223]

Things were much better in the days before, emails and online etc, you could phone a company and speak to the right department. Some firms don't even have a phone contact number!

[@dereton33]

You just speak to a pc now.

[@Kippaxx61]

Very true al

[@dereton33]

Thanks Chris.

[@AlbieSol560]

I drove across France once, and didn’t see a single traffic cone !

[@dereton33]

Me too.

[@stuart2010ification]

Everyone knows what a Toby Box is (it was the first thing they taught me in school - Jane and John and the Toby Box. A Toby box is a container that a service (fibre optic microducts, mains water, etc.) set into the street or verge for connection to a property. Typically containing a shutoff valve to allow for maintenance at the connected property. Easy.

[@dereton33]

Easy like everything when you know. Bet you never knew about toby jugs. Great ale containers, or women with big ....

[@ningis21]

For just one minute there I thought I was watching Victor Meldrew......Ha.... A good 'un Al.,,,You should phone them up and say I DON'T BELIEVE IT.....

[@dereton33]

I don`t ha ha.

[@neilhatton6018]

“Service” is a rare thing these days. Computers are a nightmare. Roads are a nightmare, I love a moan 😂, love your vids, (not calling you a moaner necessarily) couldn’t agree more, too much traffic. Keep your pecker up!

[@dereton33]

What more can we do, cheers neil

[@FreeWhilly734]

All boils down to the way big companies think and poor managers. They have engineers on salary who they see as a cost so they just use them and they take the micky to get one back on the company... Not my job to work this mess out but I don't care because I'm on peanuts. It's just a system of not my job and I don't care as no one cares about me. Usually the company those road engineers work for don't care to listen to them they've probably tried to change it but no one cares higher up. No idea how you'd change it to be honest other than customers voting with their feet but everyone just goes on price these days so will never change. The only way to get good companies is to reward the good ones with your custom and punish the ones that are bad.

[@dereton33]

Thanks for your comments.

[@oohardivy7571]

Great video, your kind of speaking for the whole nation, it's just the same up north. Keep up the vids !

[@dereton33]

Thanks will do.

[@markdavies794]

Moved into my current house 24 years ago. The area was cabled up by Virgin but as my house was new, it had no cable. Rang Virgin Media and was promised it would be done within 12 months (I can see the Virgin media box from my door). I asked every two years "where is my cable" and was told each time "soon". Openreach came down the street and installed fibre, one of the main boxes is at the end of my drive and as VM was doing nothing, I signed up. Strange that Virgin came down two weeks later and started putting their cables in (the existing ducts had plenty of spare capacity). Anyway my house is at the start of the estate and all the cables went past my house but Openreach started connecting people at the other end of the estate so I had to wait 7 months to be connected. VM emailed me for six months saying my area was now active but it was too late, 23 years too late.

[@dereton33]

Great broken service it seems Mark.

[@ccooper8785]

"Managed decline" is the aim and not a flaw imho...

[@dereton33]

Maybe.

[@franklettering]

*PRIVATISATION* is the problem, the sooner EVERYTHING is Nationalised the better.

[@dereton33]

You could be right there.

[@jameswyeth8223]

Yeah sounds about right Al, 👍

[@dereton33]

Cheers James.

[@alandmorley]

I blame the computer and HOW it is used in the service industry. you can't get rid of people and replace them with a computer. it won't work.

[@dereton33]

Cheers Al.

[@malcolmhouse9547]

Technology will be the death of us

[@dereton33]

You could be right.

[@aevans-jl9ym]

AL,ring up the broadband company and open up a complaint. A similar thing happened to me with my BT full fibre connection it took 5 months instead of a couple of weeks that l was booked in for. Therefore, it was 100%thier fault. They waved installation & equipment cost also like you my contract had run out and compensated me for the extra money l had paid because of that. They then offered me a much cheaper monthly price to compensate for all the trouble they had caused.

[@dereton33]

Sounds like a good idea.

[@topfuelteddy]

Vodafone were brilliant about mine , same scenario, they were 2 months late being able to install the fibre because of a blockage. Got it done eventually and got enough money as compensation to cover it for it's contract length.

[@diydetail8916]

companies hardly use their own staff just sub it out to 'cheaper' contractors and try and automate too much

[@dereton33]

Bang on there.

[@timwhittey4121]

Anyone who is old enough knows that the whole show has been going down the drain for some time. Remember the days when companies were concerned with supplying a decent service to their customers instead of the current lot who spend their time trying to work out ways to get one over on the punters without them noticing? Remember recently when no one could afford to heat their homes so the power companies put the standing charge up so they could sting the punters even when they not using power. Shower of crooks. Europe is in decline too and we won't escape that because as the older voters die off the younger ones will be persuaded by a biased education system to take us back into the EU via the back door.

[@dereton33]

Thanks for your comments Tim.

[@CliffHarveyRCPlanes]

We had a similar story with BT when we moved, Virgin we're brilliant. It's the way of the World Al! The funny thing is youngsters today think it's normal 🤔

[@dereton33]

Ha ha yes I guess if you know no different Cliff.

[@josephbarker6608]

The problem is people just live by the day instead of trying to build a better future for their families, we have let this happen by letting the government do what they like to us without any fightback We need to fight back pronto

[@dereton33]

Yes I always wonder why we just let it happen.

[@metallitech]

Things can be quite scary now. People have to be able to fight their case. I worry about people who can't.

[@dereton33]

Seems a revolution is coming as people have had enough of it all.

[@maverick1243]

Read true history and you will understand what is coming. It will explain everything to you including why everything is being left to rot, on purpose.

[@dereton33]

thanks.

[@maverick1243]

@@dereton33 History is a cycle and so repeats itself. We are approaching the end of this current cycle. The "West" is about to be decimated from within [ civil wars ] therefore there is no point investing in anything because it will all be destroyed, so many things are being allowed to fail and fall into disrepair. The elite will be safe underground so they don't care but they will continue to pretend that everything is ok.

[@gillypoof]

pizza of despair, that's what that internet wheel is called.

[@dereton33]

About right.

[@4_am]

You have to pay for your bin collection separately? So odd to me, in Scotland its in your council tax. Come to think of it so is our water, and you chaps have water meters?

[@dereton33]

Isnt England great. Ha ha.

[@duffdog72]

Councils have had something like 50% cut to funding since 2010 and they are capped at the amount they can increase the tax. So they are using other means to pay for essential services. It's a bit like universities. They have the fees capped at 9k and it costs more than that for every undergrad student. So they cut everything they can and try to make up the difference elsewhere (hospitality, rents, postgraduate fee, international fees).

[@GARDENER42]

Things that don't work: Local government GP services NHS Dentists BT United Utilities British Gas Police Avis car rental (this list is NOT exhaustive) Things which do: Atkinson's builders merchants Aldi eBay (99% of the time) Amazon Small businesses, both online & local Delta Airlines Record Power Tools (not just their tools but their service too)

[@dereton33]

Thanks for the list.

[@neilhatton6018]

Would love to go for a pint or two or three with you mate 😂❤

[@dereton33]

Yeh we would put the world to rights ha ha.

[@jimmyhopkins1]

Love from Ireland . Do you like spice bags classic irish food :) .

[@dereton33]

Never tried it.

[@typhoontim125]

Things are looking up though...those wretched Tories are gone! 👍

[@dereton33]

Yes they are. But what next. Where was the column on the voting paper to vote. None of the above.

[@jonny7491]

The sad thing is these “ manager” are being paid a extremely high wage.

[@dereton33]

Yes same old story

[@loafersheffield]

As productivity and wealth creation grew, the line between investor dividends and managerial (executive) pay and that of labour were reasonable consistent. That was up to around the late 70's early 80's. Now the line has steepened for the former and flatlined for the latter.

[@garnhamr]

the amount of people who order via amazon but don't organize a 'safe place' for the delivery is unreal. people will select 'any safe place' on their account, order something then go out on the day of delivery. never answer the phone or reply to texts, baracade/lock the side gate and still expect to receive their parcel. how long has amazon been operating in the UK? People are morons! JUST GET A PLASTIC BOX OR SOMETHING

[@dereton33]

We have all sorts.

[@michaeldevlin2685]

Al, Oh Al !!! Surely you must have had your doubts. The very name Jurassic suggests something pre-historic. 😅 By the way, I've had Fibre for over a year, and I don't find it any better. I still get little buffering circles.

[@dereton33]

O no I am hoping that would be sorted. Still I want to get rid of the phone line.

[@Derek_Garnham]

a handyman complaining about things being broken?

[@BobWynn]

He's a retired plumber not a handyman

[@dereton33]

Thanks Bob.

[@philipadams5386]

I seriously believe that the reason why services have deteriorated so palpably over the past 10 years is because of DEI employment policies. Many more people in employment are incompetent compared to the number of incompetent people that there were in employment before. And because of DEI policies, it is more difficult to dismiss incompetent people than it was before.

[@dereton33]

Cheers Philip.

[@Vroomfondle1066]

The People need to take back control for themselves - not in the BS Brexit sense of the slogan but it the revolutionary sense. Currently society is structure in such a way that benefits the top 1% - is that something that most people agreed to?

[@dereton33]

Certainly something needs sorting out.

[@Vroomfondle1066]

@@dereton33 A certain victorian gentleman, of German extraction had more than a few words to say on the topic...

[@Liverjohnpoolfc]

Definitely broken Britain

[@dereton33]

Certainly is.

[@deanmyers453]

WOJUS caused this !

[@dereton33]

No idea who they are.

[@sandydogy]

Laughing thinking not just me

[@dereton33]

Ha ha its all of us.

[@kevinbeck6785]

Pay to have your green bins waste taken away, strange how it was free a few years ago and we were all helping, they can kiss my bum Derek i will not pay

[@dereton33]

Cheers Kev.

[@WatfordWobble]

So funny wait till they want you to have a smart meter!!!

[@dereton33]

Not a chance.

[@stevechelt1]

It's not just this country. Yesterday I watched a KZbin video by a German saying the same about the mess in Germany, how it's all gone downhill quickly in not many years. Managed decline as another commenter says.

[@dereton33]

About right Steve.

[@charliekingpin8568]

You could be talking about just about any firm you care to mention ha ha. :(

[@dereton33]

Yes I know ha ha.

[@miker8149]

A lot of businesses don't "forward think/plan"

[@dereton33]

Certainly not.

[@markjohnson8390]

Don't worry Al, now that Labour are in government, it will all be sorted 😂

[@petehiggins33]

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

[@dereton33]

Ha ha sure.

[@alisterwest6987]

​@@petehiggins33maybe but he is correct, just give them a week or two to start the blame game 😂😂😂

[@elainefisher747]

Haha, it would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic. Grow the economy!! Fat chance.

[@dereton33]

A great life we are all having today ha ha.