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When bike commuting I get changed in the disabled bog and the lock is a separate knob on the the door not a lift the handle one, like the ones I like at the gym. I mean , HELLOOOOO, WTF etc.
having things I MUST put on this thread, but forgetting what it is
Social media influencers
Okay, I've thought long and hard about this... How do you feel now? 😉
On that subject, I might have to unfollow a swedish gymnastics coach I started following, as he wears sliders, which triggers bitter memories of an absolute bellend I once worked with.
The comments on this are too funny!
Can't see/find a link anywhere - which is making me mildly perturbed
Acute pain.
I've had a debilitating sinus headache for what's now passed two days and counting. I feel like I've been hoofed in the face. But I feel guilty about whining about it because I know chronic pain sufferers for whom this is just lifelong background noise.
Still though. Ouch.
A cycling one (it'll never catch on 😀 )
Almost completing a rooty section after the recent deluges on worn summer tyres and thinking, "That went better than expected", bathing in my own adulation, losing concentration and having to dab a foot. FFS!
Printers and the associated software.
Just knew it was going to be HP without reading any further.
Do your future sanity a favour and replace it with a Brother laser.
Do your future sanity a favour and replace it with a Brother laser.
We have a Brother inkjet. It's quite a few years old, but its ability to cling onto the wifi connection has been spotty from the start. Sometimes my wife's laptop is the lucky recipient of "printer proudly available" and sometimes my Mac. Rarely both. I spent a frustrating 15 mins changing it from DHCP to a fixed address using the tiny keypad and demented UI.
10 mins later "Printer? Nah, no one named that round here mate"
Online shops that list every colour variant of ever type of item on the browsing page. Grrr. It's much better to have one example of each item as the photo, and then within its page the options to select a colour.
Fast track at Manchester Airport... There's 4 or 5 lanes to put your bags through xray, but they are so close together there's no where to go other than back through the crowd.
Epic planning fail.
Oh and the USB 'charging' ports on the bar... That supplies such small current your battey actually drains... How does that work? Phone displays it's charging but the battery percentage is going down just surfing the net.
Fast track at Manchester Airport..
Just the concept of this, priced so that everyone thinks "Oh, that could be worth paying" and then to find out that indeed, everyone does think they're worth it, so the queue is in fact just the same as the normal one.
Sticking with airport theme...
Etiquette around luggage belts. If everyone takes two paces back, we can all see the belt and there is still plenty of time to step forward and pick up your bag. But, no, lets all stand right next to the belt, get in the way, block view and then panic and charge through the crowd like a complete nutter when your bag goes past you.
Unboxing videos
That ****ing useless paper that shreds without provocation that they wrap fresh loaves of bread in at the bakery.
Phone displays it's charging
Arghhh! 😉
Tent Boxes - has anyone seen one in use in the wild or do people just love to drive around with them on their roof!?
Actually I misread that 🤦♂️. Correct use of “it’s” on this occasion!
Tent Boxes - has anyone seen one in use in the wild or do people just love to drive around with them on their roof!?
arggh. It’s the same with caravans! I only ever see them being towed on the public highway! So annoying.
Etiquette around luggage belts.
Kids sitting on the side of the carousel. I now have even less space to grab it as granny is pushed in the other side. She doesn't understand the reason my bag is there is first is because I've been using CFH's membership number for 2 years. 😉
People playing the martyr rather than accepting offers of help.
Etiquette around luggage belts. If everyone takes two paces back, we can all see the belt and there is still plenty of time to step forward and pick up your bag. But, no, lets all stand right next to the belt, get in the way, block view and then panic and charge through the crowd like a complete nutter when your bag goes past you
It's fine..... anyone crowded round the belt within the line is just tacitly saying please barge me rudely out of the way when your bag comes.
And if you can land the corner of your case onto their feet when you pull it off the belt, so much the better.
Etiquette around luggage belts. If everyone takes two paces back, we can all see the belt and there is still plenty of time to step forward and pick up your bag. But, no, lets all stand right next to the belt, get in the way, block view and then panic and charge through the crowd like a complete nutter when your bag goes past you
It's fine..... anyone crowded round the belt within the line is just tacitly saying please barge me rudely out of the way when your bag comes.
And if you can land the corner of your case onto their feet when you pull it off the belt, so much the better.
Etiquette around luggage belts.
I treat luggage carousels the same way I do the supermarket trolley, as a test to see if you're a basically decent human. We all agree that everyone should give each other space at the carousel and return the shopping trolley to the collection point. It's the right thing to do, and demonstrates that you're at least aware of shared societal norms . But there's no penalty imposed for just abandoning the shopping trolley in the supermarket CP or standing in everyone else's way at the luggage carousel so you can if you want to, and I will judge you for it.
But there's no penalty imposed for just abandoning the shopping trolley in the supermarket CP
Don't you lose your pound?
The amount of time i spend looking for the new glasses I need to use for screen work - the minute I take them off, they vanish, and only reappear once I've been in at least 2 different rooms looking for them.
New Outlook, I need it to do one job on my work laptop. Send test certificates to an email address.
One poxy job.
Also clowns that think it’s fine that everything is on the Cloud rather than the Laptop.
There is almost never an internet connection I can use or decent mobile signal in the places I go.
How are you using email without a 'net connection?
How are you using email without a 'net connection?
By leaving site? I Send the mail, it’d sit in the outbox or draft, whatever until I had a connection. I might have to resend, no stress.
Current Outlook, unless it has a connection at the time, has nothing in draft or outbox. Revert to Outlook Classic and suddenly all is well. The missing Mails appear.
IT is not my job as you can probably guess.
The current trend for referring to anything removed from something as a delete.
As in, 'I did a fuel evap delete on my motorcycle', or, 'I deleted the side stand switch' or something.
When did we stop simply, taking stuff off?
... this. Look at this bullshit.
The text is arguably forgivable if you don't want the hit of completely redesigning buttons but WTF is going on with the numbers?
Try the unparalleled usability of the V40 controls. Note - all these intuitive buttons are approximately level with your ankles.
Where's the "can I just just buy this shit and leave already" button? No, I don't to subscribe to a newsletter about shoes for ****'s sake, like this is an area of interest for many people? I don't want wet feet and that's just cost me north of a hundred quid so stick your mailing list up your arse. WHY IS "BUY NOW" DIFFICULT? Do you have a userbase who buys slippers on a weekly basis? Well, it's Thursday, best browse for sandals.
"Are you a boy?" is literally the first thing (why?!) on your drop-down form fields, which is an annoyance in itself because it has no bearing on anything. Even if it was tied into the commerce system - it is not - I could be buying a gift.
Actually,
Why are we putting up with this "title" dogshit at all?
Back when I had a work-provided fuel card my signature went via M. Mouse and D. Duck to simply X because no-one cares. What are they comparing my scrawl to?
Why do I/we/anyone need "Mister" as an explicit question on a website? Is the website owner planning on (HEY GDPR!!) searching for all the misters in their database? Why should a shoe shop be interested in a doctorate? Why is this a discrete field on a form AT ALL?
Are you so precious about having gone to school that you need it recording when buying footware? The real reason, of course, is the website going "we've always done this."
I don't have a honorific; I don't want one. I have precisely two names outside of legal documentation requirements. The second you see here on STW, the first is Alan. Several people know me exclusively as Cougar, a few don't actually know my given name at all. I'm not Sir or Mister or (screw Paul Simon) "Al." When call centres persist with Sir after me explicitly requesting them to use my preferred address it makes my shit itch. These are not my names. I'm not being a special snowflake, I just don't recognise them. Would you hear your own name across a crowded bar? Would you pull "MISTER SMITH" out of the ether?
We (rightfully) ask people to respect pronouns. So, the **** is this nonsense? It serves no purpose. Am I at risk of getting confused with Mrs Alan? We're not yet married, though she used to be (and I technically still am) so what title are we hanging on her then? Are we Vaguebooking "Ms Cougar"? Mzz? Christ, WHY EVEN IS THIS NECESSARY AT ALL?! Is her existence defined by mine?
Pointless archaic idiocy. Stop it. "Name" should be a single free-form text field because other cultures exist. Thank you for coming to my TED talk. Lord Cougar III BSc, Esq.
People at work in a big shared workshop putting the golf on the radio for most of the day. Really loud.
The frikkin golf ffs!
Just when I thought you couldn't get more mind numbing than the usual, absolutely appalling selection of commercial radio stations that I have to endure daily.
THANK GOD for Bluetooth headphones.
How do people come to be so self-centred? Amazing.
I have tried fighting aginst thew stupid need for a title cougar. As a result I got letters addressed to "(no title) TJ Again" Yes they really went there and used "no title" as a title.
Who TAF listens to golf?
"He's hit the ball... it's gone up in the air... it's come down again, reasonably near the hole..."
Watching 'sports,' alright I'm not a sportsball fan but I can kind of understand. Audio only? That's deeply strange. Read the back page of the newspaper tomorrow.
Yes they really went there and used "no title" as a title.
Are you kidding me?! That's both mental and hilarious.
it makes my shit itch
Are you sure you don't have worms? Anyway, it gets my vote for the disproportionately-cross post of the week. Although I haven't clicked the like post on it for obscure-irrational-reasons.
Future tense, the proposed uk identity card is just going to be more excess baggage.
besides all of those other store cards, library cards, etc.
cant they integrate these things onto the smar****ch?
To authenticate, when we present our ID via smar****ch, it could generate a photo on the computer screen at the pharmacists, gp, library.
we’ve already given the dvla our mugshot.
Props to Tesco and Waitrose for letting us scan their Clubcard via smar****ch.
and easyJet for putting their boarding passes on our smar****ches.
Lidls and Morrisons are still dragging their heels in this regard.
i notice that for some bizarre reason, the forum has tossed
a bunch asterisks on the word smar****ch.
People who park their cars by the kerb, then walk around the car, out into the traffic, and open a door to either put something in, or take something out. Sometimes that something is a someone, like a child…
I’ve seen it happen several times over the last week. 😖🤬
Because the swear filter thinks you're trying to say the word ****.
i notice that for some bizarre reason, the forum has tossed
a bunch asterisks on the word smar****ch.
People who park their cars by the kerb, then walk around the car, out into the traffic, and open a door to either put something in, or take something out. Sometimes that something is a someone, like a child…
We have three child seats, one up front and two in the back. If you have any ideas which are an improvement on "open door to remove child" I'm open to suggestions.
DC: people with no mechanical sympathy.
How does a car ragging its absolute tits off at 0.1mph not make you think "hm, perhaps I should consider an automatic"? Or maybe a vacuum cleaner screaming the house down might give you pause to contemplate that this may require further investigation?
It's fine and all, but these are addressable issues. I donated a ~£400 vacuum to the Girl, they said months later it was 'broken,' I went and emptied it for them. If you can't operate a clutch 🤷♂️ don't buy a a car with a clutch?