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Cop shows are particularly bad for this but,
Why is there not a single actor on the planet who when handed a cup of coffee can act as though it's full? "Here's your coffee boss" - thanks - immediately tips it to their face with the cup approaching horizontal.
Oh god, I started noticing that a few months back and now can't stop! Every. Single. Time. It's an empty cup! It sounds like an empty cup when they put it down, they hold it like an empty cup, they pretend to drink from it like an empty cup. Arggghhhh!!
I don't get why they don't just half-fill it with water; they could even seal the lid if it helps. But at least that way it would sound full, and they'd hold it like it was full
those weird Ford keys.
They're called Tibbe keys. The Sierra pre-dates them, its run ended in 1993 and Tibbe was 90s tech. Later model Sierras may have had them, I don't know for sure. I want to say the first time I saw that key style was on a Sapphire but I may have made that up. My 1995 Scorpio used Tibbe keys.
With transponders, maybe. But I unfortunately had a mk2 Onion for a bit (it was F-reg, and free) and that very definitely had them. I've never driven a really early Sierra, but the oldest I drove must've been a D-reg and it had them as well.
Actually, come to think of it, I broke at least one Sierra door lock with a Tibbe key - if Tibbe are the ones that were completely interchangeable between cars. We had two, I think it was the later (1992) one.
Travelling on LNER from KingsX to Embra. I was going to get a coffee at the station but I had a few bags so I decided to get one on the train.
“Hot drinks unavailable”.
You can take the train company out of British Rail but you can’t take British Rail out of the train company.
Can you adjust the cupboard?
Gold star to @Cougar! The hinge side of the cupboard is against a wall and I noticed that it was flexing in a bawhair as the door swung closed. I had some spare 10mm dowel which I cut to length to act as a brace between the two sides of the cupboard and it just fits in the space between the fridge and freezer doors so doesn't get in the way. No longer disproportionately cross!
But I did waste a lot of time trying to fiddle with the hinge adjustments before spotting this - it was still snagging even with the hinges as far "in" as they go.
Temu adverts for what look like some kind of women's plastic leggings despite me never having visited the website or looked at anything remotely like women's leggings on my laptop. I could understand the targeted adverts for bikes and hiking boots, they are things I have been looking at recently.
I have a new W11 laptop that requires me to set a PIN (separate to my network password) to lock/unlock it. Fine, I thought, I'll use my usual trick of a phone number from my childhood that I can still remember. But, oh no, it has to be a 12 digit PIN. 12 digits! That's mental.
That's been set up by someone who fundamentally doesn't understand how device PINs work.
They're called Tibbe keys. The Sierra pre-dates them, its run ended in 1993 and Tibbe was 90s tech. Later model Sierras may have had them, I don't know for sure. I want to say the first time I saw that key style was on a Sapphire but I may have made that up. My 1995 Scorpio used Tibbe keys.
One fun fact, you could lock any of those shit boxes with any key. Amusing when one chap has a tendency to leave his keys in the ignition
WTF happened to that post?
my usual trick of a phone number from my childhood that I can still remember. But, oh no, it has to be a 12 digit PIN. 12 digits! That's mental.
Surely you still just use the phone number in question? But twice.
The Locksmith/Alarm company I worked for in the Nineties had a fleet of ford shite. Everything from the Mk3/4 Escorts of shite
The Mk4 replaced the Mk3 circa 1985/86 (I owned one of the very last Mk3s), it's unlikely you had Mk3s as fleet cars in the 1990s.
The 1.8 N/A diesel was an impressively horrible engine
I had a succession of those in company car Fiestas in the 1990s. Can confirm, truly gutless. Driving home up the M65, there's a section of motorway with a sustained but fairly gentle inline, by the time you reach the crest you're doing 60mph with your foot to the boards.
The 1.8 N/A diesel was an impressively horrible engine.
Place I worked for had a Mondeo diesel, 0-60 in a calendar month, but get it up to 70 (eventually), and it would sit there for ever.
They're called Tibbe keys. The Sierra pre-dates them, its run ended in 1993 and Tibbe was 90s tech. Later model Sierras may have had them, I don't know for sure. I want to say the first time I saw that key style was on a Sapphire but I may have made that up. My 1995 Scorpio used Tibbe keys.
The 1.8 N/A diesel was an impressively horrible engine.All with those keys, I think Jags had them too.The key would wear smooth, most of the vans/cars had a different key for every lock after not many miles.
One fun fact, you could lock any of those shit boxes with any key. Amusing when one chap has a tendency to leave his keys in the ignition
A mate's mum had a fairly new Orion and one day a friend visited in a near identical car. His dad went to move one of them and only afterwards realised that he'd used the wrong set of keys.
I also had the misfortune of borrowing a 1.8d Fiesta from my step-dad when i was 18 to do an Easter road-trip in 1997 with mates.
It was weirdly tank-like for such a small car. Hungover AF we got hit from behind by a Cavalier (as in Vauxhall obvs) in the toll queue on the Forth Bridge. The towball made a mess of his radiator. Fiesta looked fine so we carried on driving for several days. Wasn't until we got home we discovered that the car had been twisted.
Leaving a tissue in your jeans pocket when doing a big wash. Every item of clothing is then covered in tiny white flecks for the rest of eternity as they seem almost impossible to remove. Extra points if you absentmindedly said "yes" beforehand when asked if you'd checked your pockets.
Leaving a tissue in your jeans pocket when doing a big wash.
Oh yes, this, all the time. Fortunately its usually MrsL, who's left a tissue up the sleeve of her shirt/cardigan, rather than me. But not always, admittedly. Also, it's not me that gets cross about it, I basically couldn't GAF. That in turn makes her quite cross.
this is the 'disproportionately-cross' thread, right?
Good point, well made.
Also on the subject of cop show cars...
Cop shows are particularly bad for this but,
Why is there not a single actor on the planet who when handed a cup of coffee can act as though it's full? "Here's your coffee boss" - thanks - immediately tips it to their face with the cup approaching horizontal.
Now I'm cross, they insist on using real guns in films for the weight and recoil realism I guess... why not use real coffee in cups, or just water (or Rum if your are Johnny Depp) if the actor doesn't want to get wired on caffeine after multiple takes??
Oh yes, this, all the time. Fortunately its usually MrsL, who's left a tissue up the sleeve of her shirt/cardigan, rather than me. But not always, admittedly.
I check my pockets before committing clothing to the laundry - if it's in the basket then it's been checked, categorised, turned inside-out, socks unrolled etc. and is ready to go. She stuffs clothes in the basket with gay abandon and sorts through it all when loading the machine. So if I'm doing the washing including her laundry...
And people who leave trolleys in parking spaces rather than at least pushing them to the path, let alone the collection point.
I think putting the trolley back in the collection point is a fair judgement on whether you're fundamentally a decent person. There's no reward for doing it, and at the same time, no penalty either, but it's very clearly the right thing to do for other shoppers and the staff that have to collect them. The people that don't do this are so very obviously bad 'uns
My gripe today is entirely self inflicted, I've cut a piece of cheese as a snack (Because; cheese) but it's too large, so I cut it in half, and put half back in the wrapper and back in the fridge...You can tell where this is going without me having to finish the sentence right?
I swear it's calling me like the sirens of ancient maritime stories..
but it's too large, so I cut it in half, and put half back in the wrapper and back in the fridge
That fleeting illusion of restraint and self control? Self delusion. You absolutely knew deep down when you did this, that it was utterly pointless.
There's no reward for doing it, and at the same time, no penalty either, but it's very clearly the right thing to do for other shoppers and the staff that have to collect them.
The presence of a £1 deposit has pretty much fixed the issue of an increasing minority not bothering to put them back.
There's an ever-increasing minority of vapers who seem to believe that since vaping is not smoking, the No Smoking signs don't apply and they can vape wherever they want. Train platforms, just as they're getting onto the train (usually exhaling their ****ing minty vanilla bollocks right into the train carriage), indoors...
If I had my way, the punishment for these antisocial ****s would be instant insertion of the vape right up their arse.
The Mk4 replaced the Mk3 circa 1985/86 (I owned one of the very last Mk3s), it's unlikely you had Mk3s as fleet cars in the 1990s
Yes, I misremembered, mk4, last of the square (ish) design with stupid stubby indicators, multiple earth faults and a hunger for dashboard bulbs.
Manual choke in the nineties! Didn’t even have a fag lighter socket.
The mk5 had much better seats/interior and handled better.
Still awful.
The smell and sound of the 1.8d on cold start, urrgh.
If I had my way, the punishment for these antisocial ****s would be instant insertion of the vape right up their arse
I stupidly said a passenger could vape in a Van a while back, huge mistake.
I was expecting window open, a small bit of vapour wouldn’t be an issue like when my GF was using a vape to give up smoking.
Wrong! It was like putting my face in front of a smoke machine at a gig.
Now I’m cross at myself as I’ve got to tell him, actually I’ve changed my mind cos it’s bloody awful.
And people who leave trolleys in parking spaces rather than at least pushing them to the path, let alone the collection point.
I think putting the trolley back in the collection point is a fair judgement on whether you're fundamentally a decent person. There's no reward for doing it, and at the same time, no penalty either, but it's very clearly the right thing to do for other shoppers and the staff that have to collect them. The people that don't do this are so very obviously bad 'uns
My gripe today is entirely self inflicted, I've cut a piece of cheese as a snack (Because; cheese) but it's too large, so I cut it in half, and put half back in the wrapper and back in the fridge...You can tell where this is going without me having to finish the sentence right?
I swear it's calling me like the sirens of ancient maritime stories..
I think I've touched on this before in this very thread, it's not hard, it takes seconds, but there's a special place in hell for people that have taken the effort to take the trolley back to the trolley bay/thing, only to slam it in sideways like an utter 'see you next tuesday'.
Just..why? ultra-cockism, is the only explanation.
My local tescos this very evening:
If I had my way, the punishment for these antisocial ****s would be instant insertion of the vape right up their arse
I stupidly said a passenger could vape in a Van a while back, huge mistake.
I was expecting window open, a small bit of vapour wouldn’t be an issue like when my GF was using a vape to give up smoking.Wrong! It was like putting my face in front of a smoke machine at a gig.
Now I’m cross at myself as I’ve got to tell him, actually I’ve changed my mind cos it’s bloody awful.
There's vaping to quit, and there's being a twunt...
I have a vape and it has buttons on the side to adjust the power, and belive me, you are 100% correct in that people pumping out huge visible clouds are not quitting, if anything they are making it worse for themselves and every one else who has to endure the candy floss tropical fruit flavours.
If you are just vaping enough as ciggy replacement therapy, you'd barely even smell they are doing it. Ok you might get a teeny whiff of cherry or apple or whatever, but if they are fogging the place up they are just being a nob.
The thing that makes me disproportionately cross today is the quirky cars driven by TV detectives. Started watching Dept. Q last night and it was excellent, other than him being given a 30 year old Sierra as a pool car.
Pretty sure that was deliberate - showing him exactly where he was on the pecking order. And yes, I have watched Dept. Q and really enjoyed it, which is how I arrived at that conclusion.
*I have nothing against Remembrance Day at all, what I do object to is the way it's become a willy-waving contest of how many silhouettes of the fallen (or of tanks and Lancaster bombers) you / your village can put up alongside ever more ostentatious poppy displays.
I’m certain that this year the showing of support is greater than usual is because it’s the 80th anniversary of the end of WW2, and there are very, very few of that generation left, so it’s particularly important, and poignant, that they are shown the respect they deserve.
I was born nine years after the end of the war, my dad died when I was thirteen, and it was a long time before I became aware of just what Remembrance Day is all about, especially as I’ve recently been given details of my family history, in particular one relative who fought in WW1. I have his pocket knife, which I’m certain was already older than he was when he was killed in action.
I posted in an outdoors group on facebook that I was looking for winter hiking trousers and what do folk recommend. Of course I get a reply that says "I wear shorts all year round". That's great, but absolutely no use to me thank you. You may not feel the cold but I do. I would like trousers.
Of course I get a reply that says "I wear shorts all year round".
Presumably from someone who's never been up at 3500ft in January.
Leaving a tissue in your jeans pocket when doing a big wash. Every item of clothing is then covered in tiny white flecks for the rest of eternity as they seem almost impossible to remove. Extra points if you absentmindedly said "yes" beforehand when asked if you'd checked your pockets.
Are we married?
The legal process of moving and the solicitors who charge me a frikkin' fortune to cock it up...
In a 5 minute trip downstairs to grab a coffee and some toast:
The main body of my aeropress is in the still running dishwasher
The butter is full of what I suspect are crumbs from a cream cracker
Blackcurrant and vanilla jam is not as nice as I'd hoped
My bin men.
Every bin day morning I'll carefully place the wheelie bin, handle out on the edge of my front garden, nearest to where I know the lorry stops certain in the knowledge that on my return that evening said bin will be abandoned in the exact centre of my driveway entrance stopping me from getting in.
See also daughter who will invariably walk right past it on her way back from College without giving it a second thought.....
said bin will be abandoned
ours after collection are strewn around the street, I have to go off hunting to locate them, it's amazing sometimes how far they've wandered...
Workboots that shred the laces
The main body of my aeropress is in the still running dishwasher
Eh? That seems overkill. Lid off, push the plunger fully out, pop the grounds in to the bin, then gently pull the back of the plunger tight against the body and rinse the front under the tap. The plunger does the job of cleaning the main body on the way through doesn't it? Anything left behind is added flavour for next time. Or maybe I'm just a grubby, lazy tramp?
Power washers, why can't they invent a hose that works as it should rather than cuddle up with its self
Maybe there is one but bike makers like Karcher and Bosch can't seem to make them
An innate inability to answer the question. Case in point, a few days ago at breakfast time:
Him: Do you want a roll, or a toasted roll?
Her: No, because they're fresh, aren't they?
I was none the wiser after that response.
Sounds like The Small.
Partner: "Put your shoes on."
3-yo: "No."
Partner: "OK, don't put your shoes on."
3-yo: "No."
🤷♂️
Yep, except it's from a 74-yo. Make of that what you will
The main body of my aeropress is in the still running dishwasher
Eh? That seems overkill. Lid off, push the plunger fully out, pop the grounds in to the bin, then gently pull the back of the plunger tight against the body and rinse the front under the tap. The plunger does the job of cleaning the main body on the way through doesn't it? Anything left behind is added flavour for next time. Or maybe I'm just a grubby, lazy tramp?
Nope, you are a fine upstanding sensible human being.
At no point have I ever put any part of an aeropress in a dishwasher.
It's 6.15am. I'm awake early to get a train to work then go out on the piss later. But while perusing the news I read that this incoming storm is going to seriously disrupt journeys later and the train companies have told customers not to travel. (bold is important here)
Ok, I'll just drive and forego the beer. Ticket refund -£5.00 admin fee. Bastards!
The fact we name every bit of mildly bad weather Storm whatever these days.