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The word barista. They are just a teenager who can work the machine FFS, not Rembrandt.
It's just the Italian word being used for an Italian originated job.
Do you get equally pissed off by chefs?
Probably been mentioned many times but people tailgating when you're quite clearly stuck behind a bus/lorry/massive queue of traffic and not driving slowly by choice.
I have however found a new game which is to drive towards potholes and then avoid them at the last second, so whoever is driving an inch off my bumper doesn't have time to react. Yes I'm petty but it does improve my mood.
I have however found a new game which is to drive towards potholes and then avoid them at the last second, so whoever is driving an inch off my bumper doesn't have time to react. Yes I'm petty but it does improve my mood.
Which is why I fail to understand tailgating. Seeing the road ahead to avoid potholes us essential on most roads at the moment.
I've just come to the thread to vent about what a shit day i'm having. Patients effing and jeffing, GPs being idiots (mostly to each other) but the fallout generally comes my way, and one of the those days where all the staff seem to have developed learned helplessness over the weekend.
...And it's only two thirty!
Shropshire. So-called "birds". Chemtrails.
I do that too. The best time was when I was driving down a narrow, single track lane with drystone walls on both sides. There was some idiot in an Audi about a foot off the back of my vehicle. I came to a section where one of the walls had partially collapsed and a coping stone had rolled into the road. I normally would stop and chuck the stone back on the verge (it happens quite a lot where I live) but on this occasion I just drove straight over it with it passing harmlessly underneath my Land rover. Laddo behind however just didn't have the ground clearance and there was a lot of expensive noises behind me. I went back along the same road later on that day and there were bits of aluminium and plastic sitting an a large oil stain (looked looked engine oil(black) and transmission oil (red). Probably wrote his idiotwagon off! Schadenfreude time.Probably been mentioned many times but people tailgating when you're quite clearly stuck behind a bus/lorry/massive queue of traffic and not driving slowly by choice.
I have however found a new game which is to drive towards potholes and then avoid them at the last second, so whoever is driving an inch off my bumper doesn't have time to react. Yes I'm petty but it does improve my mood.
Street lights are like Benny from Crossroads now, burglary,vandalism and up to no good folk will get off with their crimes as looking up the street where I live I can hardly see ****u all yet they are allowing cars now to blind us to make up for it
Today, a text from a delivery company saying the package will be here by 12pm and now, at 12:30pm it isn't here and I need to go out shortly.
Err. That's because it's not due for another 11.5 hours. Obvs.
Radio 2 just played a cover version of Chris Rea's 'driving home for christmas'.
How disrespectful is that?
TF?
Our washing machine only lets you override the temperature/spin speed on certain cycles. So say, for example, I'm doing the usual 'everyday wash' cycle, which has a 1000rpm spin, but I want to up that to 1600rpm to get more water out cos it's going to be drying inside on a rack, it won't let me do it. I have to do a separate spin cycle after the wash has finished.
It really pisses me off - you're white goods, you work for me, do as you're told!
My white goods plays a tune when it stops. The Schubert piano thing. But the thing that pisses me off about it is that is stops mid bar, all it would take is a couple of more notes to finish at the end of the measure. But no.
I know i could turn it off, or even change the tune, but that would involve me getting proportionally cross, and who has time for that?
Gift vouchers
They can get in the sea.
I've had for various reasons near on £300 of vouchers "expire" this year, or company gets taken over and news owner doesn't honour them (wave, Bristol). Again, basically money stolen.
They all smell slightly scammy mcscamface.
See also time share.
I work in a building that houses 3000 people. It's the week before Xmas, there will be fewer people in, I get it. But why on earth close the canteen for those of us who are still in covering Xmas?
Catering staff want Christmas too?
The scummy git who snapped the Halfords Advance 1/2 to 3/8 reducing socket then returned it to the shop in its original packaging for a refund no doubt.
The staff member of Halfords who took the return , refunded the cash , but didnt bother to check the product before returning it to the glass cabinet of shineyness in Halfords.
Myself being stupid and acting on faith that the socket adapter i bought at Halfords didnt need checking before leaving the shop car park. #
Having battled the xmas Brussel sprout rush for 20 mins to get to Halfords to purchace said reducer so I could use my torque wrench witha 10mm deep enabling new glow plugs to be installed , to drive 20 mins home. Open box, release some profanities into the ether , back in car for another 20min crawl and play the find a parking space game again. The girl in Halfords was an angel though.
and my car has a new set of glow plugs which all released easily despite having a reputation for snappage ,hence the Torque wrench.
The scummy git part is a bit harsh seeing as whoever it was returned the unusable part for a full refund what did they do wrong ?
Put it back into its original packaging , along with the 3/8 >1/4 adapter then presumably asking for a refund for whatever reason. Rather than showing the staff the busted part and risking ' nah mate , thats been abused , not a warranty job, soz ' from the staff. Despite Halfords Advance kit having a great reputation for replacement parts , maybe he didnt want another one as this one sheared and a 1/2 drive socket was actually required .-or bigger .
Chefs. Just people chucking stuff into saucepans etc.
Gift vouchers
They can get in the sea.
I've finally found a use for gift cards.
I've long held that gift cards are crap. Like, I wanted to get you a gift but didn't know what to get, so I thought I'd just give you the money only make it less useful. Or, it's your auntie giving you a book token so that you don't "waste" the money (I was legit a big reader as a kid, but we had a well-stocked library...)
But. The Girl's bloke is getting a PS5 for Christmas. We wanted to get him a game to go with it as she's bought the bare console rather than a bundle. Aside from the fact that we don't really know what he'd want, it's a digital-only console with no optical drive. Solution, gift card, redeemable for a game or a PS+ subscription or what have you, then he's got something other than an expensive paperweight on Christmas day. Plus a £50 code 'only' cost me £42.😁
We have one of those Karcher WindowVac jobbies, which gets used to clear down the condensation in the bathroom after a shower. It lives in the airing cupboard between uses.
When I stash it away, it's like this
When Mrs Lawman stashes it, it's like this
That gets my goat, that does.
The energy ombudsman for not allowing the dozens of phone calls I've made to be evidence in a dispute
You see you fell into their trap of dealing with them over the phone. There's a reason companies favour this and emails sent via their web site rather than direct from your email address. So they have control over the paper trail or lack thereof!
Once you remember you are dealing with cocky arseholes (this applies across the board IME) and treat them as such it all becomes easier. Only contact them in writing/email so there is a trail and do it via their complaints email. One company I dealt with got caught out not registering complaints as mandated by regulators.
As soon as they delay/**** you about, go straight to the ombudsman, don't discuss it further. Always seek compensation, no matter how small! Because they are all at it and nationalisation has been kicked into the long grass. Leading people a merry dance is treated as a god given right. They often make mistakes, because they are so cocksure, self-righteous and love patting each other on the back about what a wonderful job they are doing dealing with the unreasonable public.
Persons in this household who haven’t understood that cleaning the bog involves application of brush and cleaning cloth, and not just pouring gallons of toilet cleaner into the throne.
just pouring gallons of toilet cleaner into the throne.
Oh yes, here too. We don't possess a bog brush ("I hate toilet brushes", she regularly says) so we get through probably 1.5 litres of bleach a week. The local sewage treatment plant must be delighted about that.
Relaxing?
I hope they bring you some moments of mindful relaxation this holiday season. We’ll publish the answers on Monday December 29 and add a link to them here. Good luck! https://theconversation.com/the-magic-of-maths-festive-puzzles-to-give-your-brain-and-imagination-a-workout-272498
For those of you who do find maths puzzles relaxing, Merry Christmas 😊
We don't possess a bog brush ("I hatetoilet brushes", she regularly says)
im with her on that. i really should post this in the 'things that make you disproportionately happy', but we bought one of those spikey silicone spatula type 'brushes'. just a few quid spent and its a world away from seeing clegnuts on a sh1tty old bog brush. i smile every time i walk into the toilet and see it sat there all clean and sterile. (that may be a lie).
Two lanes out of Eight for water walking at my local pool. I just don’t get it.
Water walking is a disgrace as it is let alone allocating so much space for it. Winds me up every time I’m there for a swim.
Does my nut in
Make em walk to the deep end.
Currently Christmas. Mrs 100th won't sit down. When I do something she micromanages. Hoovering earlier "don't forget the hall", really the space I was standing in vacuum in hand and I need reminding.
We have 3kg of beef (the price of which was our weekly food shop +) and loads of trimmings, including 2kg of pigs in blankets. There's going to be 6 of us. 3 of whom could share a pub lunch main course and still have leftovers. But everything is to be cooked.
It's 2128 and she's got the bloody vacuum out again in a room I did and no one will go into, although she also changed the bed clothes so maybe I'm in there.
I'm considering starting drinking again.
Have a good day tomorrow everyone.
Stuff being left, completely unecessarily, In The Way. In the way of your own place at the table, in fact. I give you Exhibit 1:
Call The Midwife. Everything about it makes me disproportionately cross.
I haves new reason to be disproportionately cross. The Russian doll approach to storage. My wife has a new MacBook. She got a shell case to protect it, fair enough. She also bought a fancy pouch thing to put the shell case protected MacBook in for safety. She also got a new laptop bag to put the pouch in that has the case that protects the MacBook.
STW’s bloody swear filter! Replacing legitimate words with asterisks because its fluffy little mind can’t understand that the name of an English king is actually spelled C n u t! It’s not the first time that an ordinary English word has been censored for no obvious reason, other than, if you squinted at it, it might say something rude.
It’s 2026, are there actually any people on here under the age of consent? 🤐
British/Scottish Gas. They've hassled my parents for 20months over a supply that they themselves removed. All that time I've made complaints and got nowhere. They just send bills.
Got our Tory boy MP involved and 5 days later a letter of apology and a token goodwill payment. (Third such goodwill payment).
Printers, dread the odd occasion when I have to use one as my new laptop seems to hate talking to the thing.
My right knee. That's the good one. After signing up for a running event end March, I've managed to mildly bork it a month into regular running. Obviously it hurt a bit so I carried on and now it hurts a lot.
All adding to the 31 day period of joy known as Dry January.
Happy New Year everyone.
Things that bother me today.
1. Niggling back ache.
2. The new Lucy Worsley thing on TV which is rubbish.
3. Suppliers not sending out free desk calendars this year. Deublin I'm looking at you!
4. The oranges that have started to shrivel in the kitchen, which we are refusing to eat or throw away.
5. Fascists.
Trying to be clever and it backfiring. I ordered a tent and Royal Mail emailed to say it would be delivered on Sat 20th Dec. As it's going to my work address I rescheduled for Monday 22nd when the building would be open. There's no sign of it, RM have somehow lost it. If I'd let them try to deliver on the Sat I have a feeling it would have been out for redelivery on Monday and I'd have received it.
The Americanisation of the UK and importation of culture wars and us/them mentality, the inability to realise you can agree to disagree and the adoption of political stances becoming an extension of personal identity, pathetic
These plate/bowl things have appeared in our house over the past year or two. They make me cross because the edges are too angled and the bloody things don't stack in the dishwasher and take over the draining board as they won't stack their either!
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RE: Stuff that makes you disproportionately cross
This bloody forum too!!!
I feel your pain with those plate things.
We have some that, if not stacked IN EXACTLY THE RIGHT POSITION, foul the spinny arm things so nothing on the top deck gets properly cleaned.
Over complicated plates are ****s.
I keep ground coffee in the fridge at work, in an old Lavazza tin. An overzealous cleaner must have thrown it out over Christmas as I guess the tin was showing out of date.
I discovered this at 10am when I was desperate for a decent coffee.