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Because the swear filter thinks you're trying to say the word ****.
I know, it's a load of old bollocks.
Cockermouth, sexist swear filters.
Mrs TJ used to work in advice work and took on cases under the sex discrimination act as it was then. a new computer system was installed. She could no longer access the sex discrimination act to check details as "sex" was caught in the systems filters
Because the swear filter thinks you're trying to say the word ****.
I know, it's a load of old bollocks.
Quite the opposite, actually.
After yesterday, parents at university drop off days. We've all had an early start, a long drive, and are dealing with a variety of emotions. There is not enough car parking, spaces are narrow, lanes are tight, and we are all carrying way more stuff than our darling children will need in the 10 weeks before Christmas, so don't be a dick and kick off at uni staff who are stopping you going the wrong way round their one way system! And don't get me started on families who bring 2-3 car loads of people to add to the chaos, who stand around blocking the walkways snd stairwells. If we can manage with one car and one parent, so can you.
From this morning, why does the time of day and the changing daylight have to affect how well I can see the hairs growing in my ears? Was convinced I'd kept on top of this unpleasant phenomenon with my early morning check, but just noticed this lunchtime that while my left ear is smooth, I can probably plait the tufts that are suddenly visible in the right.
I'd understand it if they were 3. If they're of an age where they're studying for a degree then (disabilities aside) walking for a quarter of a mile shouldn't be a problem and absolutely won't be a concern when that's how far the nearest pub is, which rather negates the 'drop off' problem.
It's hardly the primary school run, they're 18. My university drop-off was grifting through back streets to work out where I could reliably park my own car. The **** are people driving their adult children to the school gates for? Boot the bastards onto the nearest train with a cheery "see you at Christmas!"
The whole point of university is breaking free of apron strings. A mate of mine's lad started in Liverpool this term, he texted his dad this weekend to say he'd just stolen a nice pint glass. Dad couldn't have been more proud.
That many people suddenly forget how to pronounce 'by' when referring to timber sizes.
Example. 'Two be one', 'Two be Four ', 'Three be Two'.
Nothing 'BE' anything.
Happy to be corrected but surely it's just something that's evolved from gruff builders mumbling their orders in timber merchants? 😂
Say BY, or forever feel the force of my 4 be 2 against your face!
Timber's ****ed anyway. "I'd like a length of four by one" - certainly sir, how long? - "three metres." What?
IT'S NOT EVEN INCHES. It's inches prior to shrinkage as the wood dries out. The problem here is that when you say "one" you really mean "two centimetres."
picture the scene......just back from a couple of weeks on crete, spending a few days at our favourite beach. a real 'locals' beach, relatively undiscovered, got a lovely feel to it. lovely shallow sandy beach, dont charge for sunbeds, the local ducks come and have a nosey at you then have a paddle in the sea, kittens come over to see you too so we buy them kitten biscuits and feed them on the sunbeds. the local oldies all come and bring their chairs, sit in a circle under the trees yapping away and drinking raki, the old grandmas go out to sea in their white sunhats and you can hear them cackling away so i like to try and have a yap with them to improve my greek. we're friendly with the local lifeguard, theres a 'seatrack' slide for the disabled to come and have a dip..... sound idyllic?
its been like that for years and we love the peace and quiet of the place. can you guess whats coming? couple of days ago we came back from lunch to find a family of 6 or 7 stereotypical inconsiderate english @rseholes on the sunbeds in front of us. bluetooth speaker blaring out sh1t music, kids screaming, the 'young uns' downing bottle after bottle of mythos getting louder and louder.
totally spoilt the atmosphere, i was laid on the sunbed 'disproportionately cross', thinking how the f did you find this beach, why have you stayed, why dont you just f off!!
now back home and im still rankled by it 😀 thoughts have turned to buying a red 'lifeguard' shirt and red shorts so if it happens next time i can pretend to have some authority and tell any inconsiderate w@*kers that musics banned from the beach, they need to turn it off 😀
i think i need help 😀
Dear Mr Sainsbury,
On my way to work I thought "I fancy having a banana later", by "later" I meant perhaps mid-morning or with my lunch, not in 7 days time! Could you see fit to selling some bananas that are likely to ripen within the current working week?
Yours disproportionately crossly,
V
Trapdoors in scaffold towers. If I catch my patch pocket on the door catch one more time, aaaargh!
2lt milk bottles that leak from the lid when you lie them on their side in the fridge.
This didn't happen previously.
Now it happens.
Also, the new "Full Shop" self service checkouts in Tesco. I don't mind using self service to by a lone green banana, but I'm buggered if I'm going to used one for the weekly shop.
Queues at the staffed checkouts were doubled last night, because nobody wanted to use the new unmanned ones.
I am disproportionately* cross that my new extremely capable MTB has not turned me into a trail shredding, jib-tastic riding God as displayed in all videos of said bike. My crossness is somewhat mitigated by the fact that it is the colour of a fire engine and therefore the fastest one available.
*although not surprised.
Trapdoors in scaffold towers.
🎵Don't you open that trapdoooooooooor. Cuz there's something down there, gna gnuh, gna gnuh.🎵
Carry on.
I am disproportionately* cross that my new extremely capable MTB has not turned me into a trail shredding, jib-tastic riding God as displayed in all videos of said bike. My crossness is somewhat mitigated by the fact that it is the colour of a fire engine and therefore the fastest one available.
*although not surprised.
I upgraded my £400 acoustic guitar quite a few years ago to a rather nice £1200 one. Whilst strumming cowboy chords does sound a lot nicer, imagine my dissapointment that I still can't play like James Taylor or Joni Mitchel.
Who the hell lies milk bottles down in a fridge?
My god, we're surrounded by savages.
Who the hell lies milk bottles down in a fridge?
My god, we're surrounded by savages.
I'd there a punch line? Hehe..
Although I once managed to leave a bottle of soy sauce on my fridge shelf, lid not quite on properly and it toppled over when I closed the fridge door...
It made quite a pungent mess!
YouTube content creators who don't know what the difference is between a screw or an Allen headed cap bolt . Be useful for once and say it's a 4mm Allen key that you need at this point
Who the hell lies milk bottles down in a fridge?
Hello!
Not glass bottles, obviously, just the plastic containers. And only if the door pocket is effectively full with other stuff that's already had the lid loosened - like a 1pint glass milk bottle, a carton of fruit juice, another plastic milk carton, bottle of lemonade etc. Which it usually is.
My Plex media server presents the Buckingham Nicks album as being by Fleetwood Mac, despite there being no mention of FM in the MP3 tags. Took me ages to find it.
Things that made me disproportionately cross at the weekend:
(The hills are for everyone, but after an excellent day of rock climbing at a popular Scottish hill...)
1. Drones being flown around the summit
2. Content creators creating content (makeup, cleavage, phone tripods, self-preening)
3. Kids, with adults, throwing stones off the side. Being handed bigger stones by older siblings.
4. Live fag ends dropped on the ground.
5. More drone pilots trying to catch "heh isn't my drone cool" attention.
6. Dog shit in bags.
7. Human shit in trees.
8. Soiled toilet paper littering the path sides.
9. Car tent campers taking up three spaces.
10. Car campers sitting in the car, engine running, swamping the place with diesel fumes.
10 things - so maybe not disproportionate. ARGH.
Upgraded my Mac to the latest version to match the phone. Most of these upgrades are a bit of an improvement but the email client now has changed both the location and image of the 'send' icon. From where it was for about ten years. Arguably it's more logical and in line with what you see on the phone, but I'd going to spend the next few weeks desperately hunting for it.
See also writing last year in the date box on cheques in January. For anyone old enough to remember 😉
6. Dog shit in bags.
This can't be true. All dog owners scrupulously clear up after their pets. I read it on Facebook.
Rip off Britain!
At least it's not artisan sourdough, it'd have more holes than bread and you'd waste half a tub of premium quality margarine trying to butter it 😉
Toilets in theatres. Been to two theatres this week, one built in 1860s, the other 1960s, neither of them had anywhere for inevitable interval queues to form. It was in the lap of the gods whether I was queuing for the gents, the ladies or the ice creams
I'm not a spelling pedant (well, actually I am), but I have to say, seeing [url=?????]"Wordl"[/url] all over this forum over the past months is irritating the **** out of me.
the email client now has changed both the location and image of the 'send' icon. From where it was for about ten years. Arguably it's more logical and in line with what you see on the phone, but I'd going to spend the next few weeks desperately hunting for it.
Does ctrl+enter not send? (Or whatever the Mac equivalent is)
Well b*gger. CMD-SHFT-D so not exactly intuitive (new mail is CMD-N for example) but I can't believe I never checked if there was a shortcut.
I think you can probably work out how I feel about that 🙂
I'm not a spelling pedant (well, actually I am), but I have to say, seeing [url=?????]"Wordl"[/url] all over this forum over the past months is irritating the **** out of me.
Where are you seeing it? I only see it at the bottom of the forum where they're linking to their Wordle-spoof puzzle?
Another week, another load of fruit that my wife says is 'good for her' thrown in the bin just in time for the next batch to be delivered.
amazon sign-in. think i posted a while back asking for help for my wife with 2FA, got sorted somehow and the problems back again but i cant remember how we sorted it last time grrrrrrr......
shes logged out of amazon, knows her password, tries to sign in but it says get a code from authenticator. theres no code in authenticator, we look to see how to get amazon in authenticator but you have to sign in to your account to get a QR code. but she cant sign in because...... 🤬
EDIT: oh and to troubleshoot, it says to enter the OTP sent to her phone. but the OTP never arrives even tho the phone number is correct. she can log in to account on phone, and we've tried disabling 2FA but to do that you have to enter the OTP sent to her phone. but...... 🤬
Rode my Fire Engine Red MTB in dusty conditions with a couple of mates. Trying to find a reason to be DC, maybe because it's dark and soon the trails will turn to sh!t. But I also have beer so I'll have to give the grumpy old man the night off.
@sadexpunk - I had a similar issue with LinkedIn. With great trepidation contacted support and actually it got sorted pretty quickly. Once I'd swerved the FAQ bots.
Well b*gger. CMD-SHFT-D so not exactly intuitive (new mail is CMD-N for example) but I can't believe I never checked if there was a shortcut.
I think you can probably work out how I feel about that
🤣
Generally speaking, I consider the mouse to be a selection tool. The keyboard is usually faster, sometimes considerably so.
One that does irk me is a lack of consistency. Like, some messaging apps will have Enter for a new line and modifier-Enter to send, others have it the other way around for some unholy reason. Facebook is a particular arse for this because if you're writing a new post it's Enter for a new line, yet if you're writing a comment then Enter sends the reply.
Push plates on doors never seem to be where people push. Either that, or people who defiantly push doors open anywhere but the plate 😊
Ps. Yes the door is manky af, but it's in a big workshop with welders etc knocking about.
It's a lovely day, I am increasingly attempting to swap money for time, and as I work for myself this should be easy. However my diary is full of teams meetings leaving the only way to interact with the outside is by looking at it through the window 🙁
Especially annoying as you don't know how many days like this we'll get before it all goes to the poo of the rat.
"Either that, or people who defiantly push doors open anywhere but the plate"
I so wanted to point out your spelling of definitely then realised you had used defiantly correctly. This made me cross.
That it takes a few minutes of waiting outside in the road for a 38 character text message to come through... just so I can login into a website on my desktop PC.
Yet a BBC weather page will load up in a few seconds while outside in the middle of the road without WIFI and only a weak/slow/basic mobile data connection.
Where are you seeing it? I only see it at the bottom of the forum where they're linking to their Wordle-spoof puzzle?
If you post a web URL it appears in the middle of it. Don't tell em it's meant to be spelt like that?! Holy bumholes.
now for the http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/po15
Well that one didn't do it 🙄
How about
Now for the [url=www.bbc.co.uk/weather/po15]weather[/url]
Nope, O I dunno then! :S
Support systems that insist you go through their FAQ page before allowing you to actually talk to someone. Who then tell you that the solution to your problem - that is apparently quite common ("yeah we get that one a lot") is straight forward, but not in their FAQ....
thats 40mins ill never get back