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"treat it with the caution/suspicion it's driver deserves"
Its. Its. ITS. There is no apostrophe in the possessive form of it.
On house numbering. People that can't grasp the concept that it's sequential. By a quirk (2 big properties - a school and another on the other side of the road), the houses opposite us are numbered in the 90's and we're in the low 100's.
More than a few times we've had people at the door asking where 120 is, because we're 121 and yet 120 isn't opposite. See them opposite..... 92, 94, 96, 98, then a school....maybe follow on from them and after the school will come, I don't know, 100, 102 and so on?
I even had a driver one time had got the parcel out and seemed miffed he couldn't leave it with me. Presumably they thought 120 was a Brigadoon like entity, only visible to locals at specific times
It's never takeaway either.
Someone in the vicinity of my house putting a cardboard box on my doorstep with my recycling.
Except the box wasn't collapsed and it was full of polystyrene and plastic packaging.
In a further riveting instalment of "ParasolGate", the new part arrived, bolted in without issue and we unfurled our mighty 3m erection. I am disproportionately cross because the LEDs which I confidently predicted would be "about as much use as equipping a fish with a hang glider" have proved to be only just on the disappointing side of magnificent 😉
Out of shot is me looking for some custard to help down the large humble pie I appear to have in front of me.
Oh and while I'm here, I've mostly made peace with the reality of bot-based customer service, but Admiral's chatbot is clearly still from the 90s. It's a rubbish front end for the FAQs available on their website.
Recognising this they provide a link to a "live" chatbot. Which takes you to the same place. But because they are a sharing and caring customer focussed company, you can still ring them up. Assuming you're happy to wait "because while your call is important to us, we are experiencing a high level of demand, you could try our chat bot" at 8p a minute.
I am not. No way I'm rewarding such poor customer service (original issue: change something on policy you can do through the app only to be told they need more info and you have to waste a few days of time trying to get hold of them) when the policy is due to change in a month or so.
Quidco compare, here I come. That'll learn 'em 😉
The LLPG will contain a unique number for a property but it’s not something you’d use on an envelope or add to your Amazon account.We have them over here, only really need them for things like planning permission, plot dimensions, addition of services etc. They are all completely unique across the country. Street names and house numbers aren't. (Postcodes are, but cover a large area).
So there is only one "Mert 6:28" in the entirety of Sweden. There are 9 houses with my street name and number, there are 1100 houses in my postcode. So you need a lot of detail to identify the house. The short code is easy to check, easy to read and unique.
"Heritage" style brass door knobs that use a grub screw. I've got to go and find an Allen key now; Allen keys didn't exist in Victorian times, FFS!Errrrrrr, the first recessed head screws were invented in the 1850s...
The woman in the car park at a beautiful beach in South Wales (hot weather) in a flashy Merc with the engine running constantly while she just sat there, and sat there, and sat there.
Luckily I was able to restrain myself from smashing her car to bits with a rock and just left instead. 👍
The woman in the car park at a beautiful beach in South Wales (hot weather) in a flashy Merc with the engine running constantly while she just sat there, and sat there, and sat there.
Luckily I was able to restrain myself from smashing her car to bits with a rock and just left instead.
Yeah, it seems to be a popular pastime - folk sat in cars, engine running, tapping away on their phones. Turn the bloody thing off!
Flags. ****ing stupid flags appearing everywhere. And the knobs that put them there. "I hate foreigners. That's why I bought a flag made in China innit blud"
Boxes that get upset if you leave a trailing space in the field you type.
"That is not a correct email address" . I haven't finished typing it yet you stupid arsing whateveryouare!!
Oh, and people who call the police "cops". It's one of those Americanisms that just sound wrong in an English accent. See also "asshole", "goddamn" and "butt".
It's like when Americans use the word "pub". I don't know why, but it never sounds right.
Etymology of copper/cop:
"The term "cop" for a police officer derives from the older slang term "copper," meaning "one who captures" or "arrests". This slang for "to seize" came from the Latin verb capere, via the Old French caper. "Copper" for policeman appeared in 1846, followed by the shortened form "cop".
The number of people driving on motorways in lanes 2 and three thinking they have no obligation to pull left into lane 1, even when it's clear for long distances. Especially pronounced on 4 lane sections. This is not the USA. This is not a highway. Pull the **** over and help everyone get the free flowing capacity we've all paid billions in tax for.
Especially annoying when an extra lane has been added at huge expense and with great disruption, only for 90% of people to use exclusively lanes 3 and 4, and leave two empty lanes. I had this misfortune to need to drive south of Lancaster on the M6, against all my principles, at the weekend, so became refamiliarised with this.
Thing with the USA is, in my experience, the system there is "drive in whatever lane you like, and try another one if you want to go faster"... And I find it much more relaxing.
It's annoying in Australia as well. I think the novelty of additional lanes means people avoid the left-hand lane! I think some people think that by driving in the middle lane there's more time to spot animals hurling themselves into the road.
A recent Shimano XT front mech has irritated me today. Fitted it fine but then needed to adjust the high and low limit positions. With a screwdriver? Oh no, it's a 2mm Allen key now, apparently. Who thought a tiny grub screw-a-like gubbins with a 2mm socket was a good idea. Grrrr
MrsJ announcing "the vacuum cleaner's knackered".
No it isn't. The battery may have run out. Especially if you didn't put it back in the charging bracket last time you used it. The dust bin thing may be full and need emptying. A simple task requiring no strength or skill. Or possibly the filter is clogged, requiring replacing it with a clean one from the cupboard, or as a quick fix just banging the old one on the side of the kitchen waste bin. None of these things are outwith the set of stuff she is able to do. But it's easier to yell at me.
Why do celebrities never do anything? I mean they have all the money and all the time yet you never see them doing any real hobbies or anything that remotely requires dedication and skill or anything that makes you think wow that looks like it would be amazing. Shopping, Bobbing around on a Jetski or buying an expensive car every few months and parking it outside a Mayfair restaurant doesn't count....This makes me dis proportionally cross because if I had all the time and all the money I'd definitely run out of time and money before I ran out of interesting things to do!
Why do celebrities never do anything? I mean they have all the money and all the time yet you never see them doing any real hobbies or anything that remotely requires dedication and skill or anything that makes you think wow that looks like it would be amazing. Shopping, Bobbing around on a Jetski or buying an expensive car every few months and parking it outside a Mayfair restaurant doesn't count....This makes me dis proportionally cross because if I had all the time and all the money I'd definitely run out of time and money before I ran out of interesting things to do!
Probably because the celebrities who do have hobbies or skills are not the attention seeking dickheads the media love to portray. I believe a certain metal band frontman has recently medalled at the World Fencing Champs in his age group.
Anyway, I grabbed this mornings washing in off the line as it had dried just before it started raining. Despite the rain, and the forecast of more rain this afternoon, MrsMC has put another load of washing on, I shouldn't worry about whether it gets dry.
Pistachios are my favourite nuts but why can't they be shelled like peanuts
The fact you always get the ones still closed up tight with just enough slit for a Stanley blade to prise open carefully not to gash your thumb
After vanilla it has to be the best ice-cream flavour
As if people on here don't know what an XT front mech is. Unless the senility is kicking in.
As if people on here don't know what an XT front mech is. Unless the senility is kicking in.
Only us old folk remember front shifting
Holiday accommodation with 3/4 size dishwashers.
I believe a certain metal band frontman has recently medalled at the World Fencing Champs in his age group.
He's also a qualified pilot and a semi-successful author.
Though, "medalled" makes me disproportionately cross.
Hidden price tags on clothing.
Why can't all price tags on Tshirts, jumpers and jackets etc be attached in a way they can be easily seen? I seem to increasingly have to feel like James Herriot and shove my hand deeper into the insides of clothing just to see how much they cost. Is it because shops are getting more embarrassed at how much they are trying to charge for them.
I enjoy social media, I enjoy watching people do rad shit on bikes. But, there's one guy that insists on doing rad shit on a gravel bike, wearing lycra. Just stop it! Ride the right ****ing bike and wear ****ing baggies. FFS. He's a good rider, but just chooses the wrong ****ing bike every ****ing time!!!!
DC: Web sites which insist that you use their app instead, only for the app to be a front-end wrapper for the web page you were just sent away from.
Les Gets this weekend. The commentary
I know it's a tough job, I know you can't please everyone but the constant re-stating of the venue name is as irritating AF> Araxa Brazil, Par Arinsal Andorra, Les Gets Haute Savoie... we know where the programme is coming from FFS.. and multiple references to MVP this weekend all race long.....
Oh I miss Rob W.
FedEx Express. The Ex in FedEx stands for express. How can you have express express?
FedEx’s scheduled delivery times. Or should I say wild guess period? Always pushed back just before they expire; they’re an absolute shower. In comparison, DPD text me a one hour window for deliveries (and even the driver’s name) and they’ve not yet failed to achieve it. The Royal Mail are equally good with a two-hour slot, so it’s not impossible or unusual.
I recently bought a Windows 11 PC having used Ubuntu at home for years. The amount of distracting clutter - current weather conditions (I have actual windows), stock market prices, news that I'd rather avoid - I had to disable was insane. And it's still there, I just logged in and it was trying to get me to do a quiz about the news... **** off!! I can distract myself if I really want to, I don't need help.
And mentions their PIN number.
I have ranted about it before, but here we go again. Buying fruit does not make you healthy. Eating the ^&*$ing fruit, rather than leaving it to become inedible then throwing it away is generally considered better for you. Ohh, then you add a bunch more fruit to the shop because you 'want to eat more healthily'. So $%@£ing wasteful.
Ah yes, the Gym Membership model.
Siblings. My sister is 4 years younger than me, doesn't work, is overweight suffers from malnutrition, has had a stroke, is on statins and in two weeks her car has gone from clean to the footwells full of sweet treat packaging.
When asked she's claims to be losing weight and eating better. This is not helpful to my aging parents who's health is starting to fail.
"Sorting out" the recycling bins and doing it badly so that it takes twice as long to properly sort out.
I now have to take random bits of wood and costume jewellery out of the finite space to get to the cans that haven't been crushed and the individual pots with lids on so that we can get more than a day's worth in there.
Crush the cans, stack the similar sized empty pots and chuck the lids in separately. Make a tip-trip pile out of the stuff that isn't mentioned on the handily annotated bags. Simple 🙂
Errrrrrr, the first recessed head screws were invented in the 1850s...
Probably, although William G. Allen-Hex-Keye wasn't born until 1881, well into the Victorian-era, and didn't graduate from uni until 1904 (in the Edwardian-era)
In comparison, DPD text me a one hour window for deliveries (and even the driver’s name) and they’ve not yet failed to achieve it
For balance, DPD are shite round my way. I reckon one in four or so deliveries don't make it on the alloted day. "That's OK", you think, "they'll bring it tomorrow" but no, instead they mark it as delivered then lose it for up to a week before it magically appears back at the sender. I've even tried getting them to deliver to a local post office but exactly the same thing happened with that one (and the staff said it's pretty common).
If I get any clue that a purchase will be sent DPD I'll generally start looking for alternative couriers as part of the sale or else look at other sellers
Holiday accommodation with 3/4 size dishwashers
If you need a full size dishwasher on holiday you are holidaying wrong!! 😜
Procrastinating for a year and a half about tightening a hard-to-reach tap fitting under a sink and eventually buying a special tool, which turns out to not work (once the packaging has been opened), only to find out that an 11mm deep socket that was in the shed the whole time does the job perfectly.
It's me i'm cross with. But really I should be cross with the plumber that didn't do his job properly in the first place.
Contract renewals - broadband this time.
Current term coming to an end, Plusnets 'special offer' is
Flying, crawling things
You've got the entire fkn planet to fly and crawl on, what's so special about my shins and arms? It's not even like I'm drinking anything with sugar in it. Bugger off.
Probably because the celebrities who do have hobbies or skills are not the attention seeking dickheads the media love to portray. I believe a certain metal band frontman has recently medalled at the World Fencing Champs in his age group.I used to do model trains as a kid and when googling about getting a new set a few years ago i found that Rod Stewart, Pete Waterman, Neil Young, Frank Sinatra, Daltrey, Springsteen, Clapton, Phil Collins, Ringo Starr and a few others are/were all *well* into it. Some even doing their own modelling rather than buying and playing.
I'll probably google again this week, wince at the prices and then not do anything...
Now, remembering the title of this thread.
Threads with a title such as, Anyone ridden a bike, Anyone gone on holiday, Anyone read a book.
I manage not to reply with, "Aye probably a few million people at least", just.
Surely, "looking for advice on....."
Sorry, but it just rips ma knittin'.