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Clothing that's sold on the Screwfix website.
They can't just have a single listing then within that have the various size options.. Oh no. Why not have a separate listing for every single size of boot available?
hey can't just have a single listing then within that have the various size options.. Oh no. Why not have a separate listing for every single size of boot available?
bikeparts.co.uk do this too, e.g. 3 different variants of the same jacket here, different sizes and colours, I absolutely could not be bothered to try and find the right combo in hundreds of different listings.
Getting in a freezing cold vehicle and the freezing cold vehicle operator instantly turns the fans up to full whack despite the engine being freezing so now we have freezing cold air and fumes blowing about too.
Might want to wait until it's warmed up a bit bruv 🥶
Bananas. Last Friday Sainsbury delivered a bunch that were the same colour as the sprouts. They're still inedible.
👆🏻 Yeah, but what about the bananas?
American Pie. Don McLean.
Just popped into my local mini co-op earlier. Massive car park with about 100 spaces as it shares with a pub. Its almost completely empty with about 5 cars in it.
Two parked as follows: 1. Massive range rover w**kpanzer parked in the disabled space right next to the door - driver is fat but not otherwise disabled and no blue badge. 2. Audi saloon (2.8 litre old school type, clearly not even a PHEV) parked in the EV charging bay
I (in my EV) parked roughly in the middle of the empty car park and when I was walking back to my car about 10ft from my vehicle a woman drove up right in front of me and parked in the space next to me 1ft from the side of my car!!! Not only this but she drove in forwards whereas I'd backed in so both our drivers doors were facing each other.....she could barely get out herself. I nearly broke my baguette over her stupid head.
When did gents haircuts start taking so sodding long? I'm sitting on the waiting bench now, and by Christ, there's so much faffing with multiple trimmer lengths and razors. Guh, hurry up, I've got things to do...
Any heater with a thermostat welded to MAX.
Its not really that cold . I dont want to sit in any room at 26c. Honestly , if left on overnight with the room all butttoned up its like walking into an oven, or old peoples home , hospital ward etc.
I dont want to sound off like a sexist mysoginist pig but i truely beleive there are some people who honestly think that a cold room will warm from 12c to 16c faster with the thermo set at 26c. We have sorted out the UK weather now, we get weeks of lovely hot weather in the summer , the winters are not too bad just a couple of months of cooler wet weather so no more global warming please. Possibly the same people who think wearing weather appropriate clothing is beneath them and they deserve to be nice and warm and comfortable in 1 layer all year round. And if they get a puncture on the way home will sit in the car and wait for someone else to change it as it freezing / raining / dark , or all 3 outside the hot box of their rented automobile.
Then when you walk out of the oven back outside it feels like the North Pole even if its 8c . I guess some people just dont understand how things work . Like basic physics.
It'll take more than a haircut.
Its nearly Christmas so my local supermarket is getting busy, so what better time than that to narrow the end of every s*dding aisle to half its previous width with cardboard display cases of more JML seasonal tat.
When did gents haircuts start taking so sodding long?
Wipe round with a damp cloth, and - if I'm feeling flirty - a quick polish 🙂
@singletrackmind - my late mum used to do that before we sorted the heating/insulation. However many times I gently explained that 19 degrees was all the tired old boiler could manage, she'd still wang up the 'stat to max.
My crossness today is not so much that the new office chair wasn't included in that BF nonsense, but somehow I'd convinced myself it would be, and sat (hah) on the purchase for 2 months. Sat on an increasingly broken chair that must have had my teams colleagues thinking the house was subsiding as I gently rocked left and right on a leaking piston.
I did giggle to myself when I wrote it. You're never too old for a "ooooh eeeer" after any double entendre in my opinion 🙂
Middle-aged euphemism?
No, that was
Wipe round with a damp cloth, and - if I'm feeling flirty - a quick polish
The grammatical/punctuation errors I saw earlier in the year on a roadsign which said
Unsuitable for H. G. V's
Just no, twice. Actually, I'm not even sure it had spaces between the letters where I've placed them, so maybe thrice.
Chewing gum spat in urinals ,and the state that (some) males leave toilet facilities in.
Mrs Lawman and her obsession with hidey-tidy. FFS.
Background. She's been having problems making calls on her mobile for a couple of months - intermittently unable to hear the other person, or them unable to hear her. So we spoke to EE yesterday and they suggested a new SIM; sent one in the post that arrived this morning, and I broke it out of its packaging ready to be slotted into the phone when the number had been ported across.
I turned my back for a moment to make a coffee, and she's had a sweep-up of the kitchen worktop.... and the SIM is now irretrievably lost in the kitchen bin. Even if we could find it (which is pretty unlikely) it'll be too polluted by yesterday's coffee grounds, the remains of the dog's breakfast and other assorted detritus to be any use.
"Just stop cleaning up all the f***ing time"
Still, on the plus side, she pays the bill, so that's cost her an additional £1.50 postage charge, not me!
Anyone who thinks that Christmas starts before the 20 something of December.
Anyone who makes liking Christmas their entire personality.
Also.
Anyone who makes hating Christmas their entire personality.
After this past week, the fact that this country does not have assisted dieing.
The teabags that come in a sachet with a little string attached via a staple....
Why?
The GF likes drinking these so called teas which, if we're honest, isn't really tea.
They cost 4€ for 25 teabags of some bullshit named infusion. Magenfein tea (literally Stomach Good), Fenchel-Kümmel-Anis tea (Fennel-Caraway-Aniseed 🤮).... Apart from the fact it's not tea, it really pisses me off the amount of packaging and crap that comes with them.
After this past week, the fact that this country does not have assisted dieing.
your crossness is not disproportionate, its entirely justified.
Mrs Lawman and her obsession with hidey-tidy. FFS.
I've bitched spoken about this before. Bonus points if she then either a) denies all knowledge of ever touching it or b) immediately forgets where she's put something "just for now."
So we spoke to EE yesterday and they suggested a new SIM
Stuff that makes me disproportionately cross: Support calls which result in abject bullshit nonsense like this. I've worked in and around Tech Support for many years, I can smell a fob when I see one. Over the phone.
(I also know that comments like this will invariably have me proven wrong subsequently, so I've just tempted fate. You're welcome.)
They can't just have a single listing
Much like the people who flood the classifieds with multiple listings 😠
Support calls which result in abject bullshit nonsense like this. I've worked in and around Tech Support for many years, I can smell a fob when I see one. Over the phone.
Oh, I know, I know. I've worked as 2nd line around ServiceDesk calls plenty. So that was pretty much my thoughts too, but it just seemed easier to go along with it for the moment and get that step out of the way first. If it fixes it, then great. If not, it'll be into the nearest EE shop next time we're there - but that is 15/16 miles away and we weren't going to make a special trip on a Friday afternoon.
I can't claim any extra points for her denial - she very quickly confessed that she'd tidied up some of the detritus, and she then went ferreting in the kitchen bin, not me. To a large extent it's that obsession with an immediate need to tidy up that makes me cross, especially in this particular instance. Sometimes she's hovering with a cloth, wiping drips and little puddles of of water off the draining board while I'm still putting wet things from the sink onto said draining board.
For two junctions on the M1 tonight the matrix signs were saying " ONCOMING VEHICLE *20*
I pulled into the nearside lane and we were between 30-40mph. We were also constantly being overtaken by people obviously confident they didn't need to worry about any potential danger. Idiots.
Milo & Chip.
Specifically Milo's squeaky voice. If you don't have primary school children who play Minecraft and watch Minecraft videos, consider yourself lucky!
Next door neighbours* Ring doorbell - firstly, who gets a Morrisons delivery at 9.30 on a Sunday, and secondly, why do we all need to get notified by the cheery three note tune?
*our neighbours are great, and I will no doubt be grateful for their Ring doorbell if it films someone going up my drive with one of my bikes!
it just seemed easier to go along with it for the moment and get that step out of the way first. If it fixes it, then great.
The real embuggerance with this is when you go "well, of course I didn't do that, it's bloody stupid" and then they double down and refuse to help until you have.
(Corollary: you do it just to humour them and it bastard well works. Bastards.)
To a large extent it's that obsession with an immediate need to tidy up that makes me cross, especially in this particular instance.
I think I've posted this before but I was once getting a drink, put down a clean glass and by the time I'd retrieved the bottle from the fridge it'd gone in the wash.
I start questioning my sanity over this sort of thing, "wait, didn't I... I'm sure that I just... am I losing the plot?" Is there a term for accidental gaslighting? En gassant?
firstly, who gets a Morrisons delivery at 9.30 on a Sunday
Our Tesco delivery arrives around this time (9pm today). It's a "we'll take whatever time you have rather than pay a premium to specify one when we'll be in all evening anyway" timeslot.
"Black Friday is coming!!"
"Black Friday is here!"
"Check out out Black Friday deals!"
"More great prices this Black Friday!"
"Black Friday is nearly over!"
"Last chance to get a Black Friday bargain!" Well finally, thank **** for that.
a short time passes
"Our Cyber Monday specials!"
Rain in the forecast for the next 5 days. It's officially winter. This is to be expected. Cross seems an over-reaction, grumpy acceptance would seem more appropriate.
Came here to post about Black Friday emails - Rave coffee, I'm looling at you!
Members who post topics or comments without taking a few seconds to read what they've written before posting. When autocorrect or whatever has made an incomprehensible word salad of it. (cf. "looling" above).
As well as being an overly-efficient tidier, Mrs V is also overly-"ready"-to-go-out.
Example... I'm biking all morning, get home and have lunch, nip for a shower before we go to shops. I come down stairs partially dry/clothed to finder her in her coat and boots by the front door. I'm def going to need another 10mins, but now feel panicked, inevitably rush and then forget something before we leave.
TBH, I'm getting better at letting her know she may as well have a seat cos I'm going to be a while. Although resisting the urge to go sarcastically slow is getting harder...
As well as being an overly-efficient tidier, Mrs V is also overly-"ready"-to-go-out.
Example... I'm biking all morning, get home and have lunch, nip for a shower before we go to shops. I come down stairs partially dry/clothed to finder her in her coat and boots by the front door. I'm def going to need another 10mins, but now feel panicked, inevitably rush and then forget something before we leave.
TBH, I'm getting better at letting her know she may as well have a seat cos I'm going to be a while. Although resisting the urge to go sarcastically slow is getting harder...
We have this. Agree a time before you go out on the bike and don't be ready even a moment before 😉
Came here to post about Black Friday emails - Rave coffee, I'm looling at you!
The relentless bombarding of my inbox nearly cancelled an order I was due to put in! I did email them to kindly request they backed off the spam cannon to less than 10 round a day!
Little scrotes trying to steal my van. I hope they ride their Surron without a helmet.
As well as being an overly-efficient tidier, Mrs V is also overly-"ready"-to-go-out.
We had the opposite problem.
Not so much nowadays, but when our kids were very young and toddler-wrangling generally involved activities including "loading an octopus into a string bag" when getting them dressed and harnessed in car seats, I'd be sat in said vehicle ready to go when my better half would declare "sorry just off to the Loo". 10 minutes later she's clearly been kidnapped or knocked herself unconscious on the sink as there is no sign of the door opening, and the kids are now making their impatience grumpily known.
Eventually she'd breeze into the car with a throwaway comment such as "oh I decided to hoover the kitchen" or "Had a crack at regrouting the bathroom"
Count to 10 slowly. And then again. Do not show displeasure with a rally start. And Breathe.
I don't miss those times 😉
My neighbour. Uber cock .
It's been very windy from 0100 and his bin blew over. Playtime for the local fox gang who love abit of bin diving.
I went to work and his rubbish was everywhere, on my drive , the pavement , across the road. It was 0435 so I thought it would be all gone when I get home.
Except it wasn't. He has put his bin back and left all his detritus where I park. A heady mix of beer cans , take away containers , food packaging and waste.
So I donned a pair of gloves , shouted at the wind abit and cleaned up the mess in my drive , the pavement , the road and my across the road neighbour drive as well.
Some people are just scum .
"Unfortunately, a tracking-free version of our full website is currently unavailable."
Bye, then.
My neighbour. Uber cock .
It's been very windy from 0100 and his bin blew over. Playtime for the local fox gang who love abit of bin diving.
I went to work and his rubbish was everywhere, on my drive , the pavement , across the road. It was 0435 so I thought it would be all gone when I get home.
Except it wasn't. He has put his bin back and left all his detritus where I park. A heady mix of beer cans , take away containers , food packaging and waste.
So I donned a pair of gloves , shouted at the wind abit and cleaned up the mess in my drive , the pavement , the road and my across the road neighbour drive as well.
Some people are just scum .
Utter Scum. The way the wind hits our street, the same bins blow over/flap open every stormy day.
Lots of crap ends up in our front garden.
It’s not much effort to weight the lid down, or as I do, put the wheelie bin on its side with the lid against a wall. It can’t blow over or empty its contents.