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GB-wide perhaps, not UK-wide alas.
Knowing your way through the "press [1] for..." menu helps
I tried that but whatever the system is the set up does not allow it, it's necessary to wait for the whole message, including the repeat prescriptions options!
Cars that automatically lock their doors.
I can understand this could be useful, but there should be some way to switch it off. I go to the car, I unlock the doors, I put some stuff in the boot. I go back to the house to get some more stuff, and when I get to the car, it's locked again. Drives me nuts.
We had a horrible Renault hire car that went one step further. If you walked near the car it would unlock. Then if you walked away it would lock.
So, I go out for a walk with the keys in my pocket, walk past the car in the street - it unlocks. Now I have to stand a little bit away from it to make sure it locks again.
But worse. I park in a shop car park - leave kids in the car while I walk off to the shop. It locks. But there's movement in the car, so the alarm goes off.
No doubt there were settings to change - but it's a hire car. I'm on holiday. I don't want to learn how to adjust settings on the stupid car. And I certainly don't want to buy one now.
I've probably mentioned it before but the folk that will overtake you as you sit at 70mph then they slow down so are just sitting right in front of you wtf
I've probably mentioned it before but the folk that will overtake you as you sit at 70mph then they slow down so are just sitting right in front of you wtf
Rips my knitting. It happens virtually every time I get on a motorway and set the cruise control. The moment the overtake they get in front and drop to less than 70 which means my car will drop speed to match them. ,
The moment the overtake they get in front and drop to less than 70 which means my car will drop speed to match them. ,
Leaving a nice 2 second gap for someone else to pull out into
Sharepoint access requests or, more accurately, people making Sharepoint access requests
{Someone you've never heard of} wants to access {something you've restricted access to for good reason}
Reason: I'd like access please
You're going to have to give me more than that if you want me to let you in, and there's a box to allow you to do that, but you never fill it in...
Cars that automatically lock their doors.
I can understand this could be useful, but there should be some way to switch it off.
It's a setting on mine, it's under "convenience" or some such I think.
I'm guessing you don't drive a 16 year old panel van. 😄 Settings indeed.
Yeah my Toyota Hiace does this. Does me nut. Surprisingly I've so far not put the keys down inside the van and locked myself out.
Not the big stuff, but frankly embarrassingly trivial crap that just makes your urine boil, then makes it boil twice over from the annoyance of actually being annoyed in the first place. Frankly irrational irritations.
Right now there's two empty pizza boxes stacked on top of the paper/carboard recycling bin. Like... why? What's the logic here? You came so close, you actually made it as far as the bin, it's not full. If you just couldn't be arsed or you didn't know how bins work or something🤷♂️ then you could have put them on the worktop above the bin so that the bin is still useable. But no, they're slotted in betwixt bin and countertop so a) I have to move your shit out of the way to be able to open the bin to dispose of them and b) if I don't notice and opened the bin then it all skitters off into the void down the back of it. Why? WHY? WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?!
And now I'm far more 'kin livid at my own stupid petty self for even caring sufficiently to start this thread. At least the crap has made it into the kitchen rather than being abandoned on the coffee table waiting for the Dog Poo Fairy's day off. Gnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Hulk Smash
What've you got?
people who leave like 1 sheet of paper on the roll instead of just changing it… bro you already did 99% of the work, just finish it 😭 same energy as your pizza box situation, it’s that “almost helpful but actually worse” move that just flips a switch instantly lol
I'm guessing you don't drive a 16 year old panel van.
Settings indeed.
Yeah my Toyota Hiace does this. Does me nut. Surprisingly I've so far not put the keys down inside the van and locked myself out.
I haven't quite been brave enough to test this theory to destruction, but I think it's not actually possible to lock my key inside the car.
people who leave like 1 sheet of paper on the roll instead of just changing it… bro you already did 99% of the work, just finish it
same energy as your pizza box situation, it’s that “almost helpful but actually worse” move that just flips a switch instantly lol
I'd forgotten why I actually started this thread and you're absolutely right.
Putting the air fryer away, but the basket is still in the wash, so I have to take it out again to replace the basket to put it back in again. Alternatively you could've just left it alone for an hour. Ditto toastie maker, why are the plates just rammed in the cupboard loosely taking up twice as much space?
Thinking about it, 80% of my output in this 72-page thread could just be distilled down into hidey-tidy "ramming shit in cupboards rather than dealing with it." It drives me absolutely ****ing mental. I unearthed a half-eaten box of biscuits the other week, like two years past their sell-by date.
I know it's "messy" and I know you don't like that, I probably drive you up the wall as well. But I leave things in plain sight to remind me that I have to sort it out rather than pretend it doesn't exist. Empty bloody envelopes, stuffed in the nearest drawer to "deal with later" (lies) six inches from the recycling bin. WHY?!
Today, people hogging machines in the gym. I get we all need a break between sets, and that's fine. But don't make it 5 minutes and then look aggrieved when someone asks if they're finished.
Don't also then sit on a bench talking to your mate for 20 mins.
Come in, do the work, go home. Some of us have jobs to get back to (says he who's now on STW...).
From this morning:
1) otherwise excellent cafes/restaurants with vaulted ceilings that reflect the noise around the space, so the mainly elderly/deaf clientele have to shout at each other to be heard and repeat.....Put some acoustic baffles up in the roofspace.
2) People who meet up in said cafes so that one of them can go into a soul sucking 30 minute monologue about how long the queue is, how slow the service is, how we are taxed on everything, how public services are underfunded, how now one is using the new food waste bins etc etc.
3) Watching cyclists out in the glorious (albeit chilly) spring sunshine getting the miles in while I'm taking my parents to said cafe to listen to said woman at the table behind before going to parents "favourite Aldi". Stll, my legs will be fresh for tomorrows audax which looks like being wet...
Today, people hogging machines in the gym. I get we all need a break between sets, and that's fine. But don't make it 5 minutes and then look aggrieved when someone asks if they're finished.
Be reasonable - they have a right to update their Facebook, don't they?
I was hogging a croissant trainer ( <- this was a predictive text failure. It's supposed to say "cross trainer" but I think I prefer this version) today. Apparently. I thought I was, you know, training. But I was informed by some busybody that there is a 20 minute limit on use of said machines. Which was news to me.
I think if I was accused of hogging a crosstrainer or a treadmill I'd simply suggest they went for a walk instead if they were that desperate.
But I was informed by some busybody that there is a 20 minute limit on use of said machines. Which was news to me.
There's a guy ay my gym who does 3 hour marathon training runs on the treadmill. He has water, gels and snacks all set up. I have no idea what they think of him.
But I was informed by some busybody that there is a 20 minute limit on use of said machines. Which was news to me.
An obvious solution presents itself, the time limit on them going and ****ing themselves is probably a quarter of that.
taking my parents to said cafe to listen to said woman at the table behind before going to parents "favourite Aldi"
a noble deed indeed! I agree about the coffee shops etc which are like echo chambers, no good for my tinnitus 🙁
The news item that raised the issue of fuel costs and the knock on effect of increased fuel use to power air con now summer is coming. Oh and then these buy a home in the sun programmes "we are going low ball offer because we want to add air con".
Bloody air conditioning, design the building better or open windows.
My class couldn't do our wind turbine practical because we had to give the fans to a pregnant woman to cool her room, open the ****ing windows.
Wasn't like that when it was 12°C in my room, no one rushed to give me heaters.
From Google "
Air conditioning accounts for nearly 20% of total electricity used in buildings globally. It represents approximately 7% of the world's total electricity consumption, with usage in buildings specifically creating significant strain on power systems and causing roughly 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Well perhaps, but, we don't all live in Scotland. Open a window in a Florida summer, you'll probably make the room hotter.
I wonder how much of those figures is poor use of aircon. At my old office they used to set the aircon to 'refrigerate' and fling all the windows open, so the bloody system would run full chat trying to bring the whole of Lancashire down to 16' before breaking down, again. They put a lockbox around the control unit in the end.
Today, people hogging machines in the gym. I get we all need a break between sets, and that's fine. But don't make it 5 minutes and then look aggrieved when someone asks if they're finished.
amen to that - my wife is trying to convince me to join the local poncigym® so we can do some stuff together. Only remotely makes sense if I can use the pool and gym to good effect. Turns out both are spoiled by self-possessed arses so the whole thing is a no-go
It's a setting on mine, it's under "convenience" or some such I think. I've left it enabled because having the key in my pocket is sufficient to unlock the boot or driver's door when I grasp the handle
Mine does that, unless it doesn’t feel like it. Probably if it’s raining or I’m not sure which pocket my key is in.
My colleague borrowed my vehicle and couldn’t find the key, I think it was under the seat or something. He was working away so had to remove the battery and take it into his hotel room at night.
Oh, I've got a new driving one.
Shit lights on cars. No, not the super troopers up front, tail lights. I just followed something French through town, a Citroen I think. The indicators were the size of a postage stamp, I was halfway through "you could have bloody indic- " before realising they had.
Yellow lights in headlights seem to be making a comeback as well.
Air conditioning accounts for nearly 20% of total electricity used in buildings globally. It represents approximately 7% of the world's total electricity consumption, with usage in buildings specifically creating significant strain on power systems and causing roughly 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Why account for the resources for cooling living spaces separately from the costs of heating them? They're both doing the same thing - making living in that part of the world viable.
We take it as normal that we heat our houses for a significant part of the year and see it as a bit weird and profligate that people would use energy to cool them instead. But for a really quite a large part of the world cooling is a much more pressing concern that heating - large swathes of the planet are in zones where you need to do both through the year - with both hotter summers than we're used to in the UK and colder winters.
There are some zones of the world where you don't need to do either but I don't think theres room for all of us - as there are currently considered to be only 13 cities in the world where you can comfortably live year round without either heating or AC. Non of them are in Europe
I'm sorry I must have misread the thread title.
Bloody air conditioning, design the building better or open windows.
Air conditioning is still a heat pump and no one (except Reform) objects to those. Run it off solar panels and all you're doing is shuffling heat around anyway.
When this happens. After you've turned it perfectly, you sanded it beautifully, you've waxed it, looks amazing. You just remove the base, those last little few cuts, and you get a bloody snag.
I'm familiar with that one 👆
Mrs 100th, puts up with a lot, but has mastered the hidey tidy and is a fan of slipping off to do something like clean the bathroom when we're already late.
I feel she surpassed herself this evening. Off on a short holiday tomorrow, been quite stressful with dementia dad and today was a stoater. She's not started packing yet and I can tell already it's going to be a bit stressful. Anyway return home at 5 after a trip to Doc's with dad to find two dumpy bags, 1 compost 1 t top soil, which now needs moved down to the end of the garden.
A little wtf from me and the reply was well it was today or next Monday but I'm off next Monday.
We're/she's still not started packing.
Not for the first time and probably not for the last. Thinking you have executed the perfect stealth snack attack in the car you've agreed not to eat in. Slicing neatly through the illicit Star Bar (duo - obv) with your incisors whilst simultaneously forming a lip seal around it and hoovering up any errant chocolate debris with a practiced inhale. Textbook 👌
Only to realise an hour later, that several chunks of chocolate did in fact escape unnoticed to the vinicity of your crotch. Where they melted leaving incriminating, stubborn and unsavoury looking stains on your keks and fabric car seat.
The person that designs, certain/some, hotel check-in systems...you had one job. When a room is allocated, it should not be beyond the realms of the incredibly mundane, in-built features, that the specific room allocated, cannot then be subsequently allocated to a completely different person as well. Cretins.
Not sure who was more surprised...me, incumbent occupant of the room, or the fella who was more than a bit taken aback by me being in there when he unlocked and opened the door. Glad I had my trousers on.
Whilst on the subject of hotel shiteness... If you say breakfast is served from 06:30, have it bloody ready and let people in to eat at that time, not any random time of your choosing after that whilst having a little conflab round the corner talking about I'm a celeb. Not all of us are staying here for holiday purposes and it's a tight schedule to eat and be at work on time. Gits.
The phrase 'shit the bed?' when you are early into work or something.
For starters, it's a horrible phrase, but also, had I in fact soiled myself in slumber I would likely have a significant amount of cleaning up to do before I would be ready to leave for work.
More likely is that I would in fact be late.
"the family party" are allowed to post propaganda through my door.
Rules being broken.
It's been cool/trendy/fun etc to break the rules, you know 'do your own thing', 'be different', don't be a sheep. But, rules are there for the benefit of others, for safety reasons which some cretins don't understand. So when I see my neighbour driving down our narrow road at speed, chatting on her 'glittery' phone (the sparkle case was shining brightly in the sun), I will be incensed.
Most of us cycle on the road and these phone using morons behind the wheel are an absolute danger.
Doing stuff for family for the last ten days, stuck at various meetings and appointments looking out at the sun.
On the occasional day without letting trades in, filling in applications on behalf of the aged, etc. it rains
Most of us cycle on the road and these phone using morons behind the wheel are an absolute danger.
Indeed.
Coming up next, "but she just appeared out of nowhere, Your Honour."
Most of us cycle on the road and these phone using morons behind the wheel are an absolute danger.
Indeed.
Coming up next, "but she just appeared out of nowhere, Your Honour."
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Amongst other things...
Waiting for singletrackworld.com
Waiting for facebook
Transferring data from cdn.taboola
Performing a TLS handshake with some other forum feature
etc.
...and repeat for several minutes, finishing with a cheeky little 502 Bad Gateway - cloudflare
Oh look theres a car and a half space in front of me so obviously that's there for you to squeeze into without indicating
The UX/UI on 99% of payment machines in car parks. They're just f___g dreadful, which means either I struggle a bit to work out how to use it or, more likely, I get stuck behind an elderly man/woman who has absolutely no clue.
The UX/UI on 99% of payment machines in car parks. They're just f___g dreadful, which means either I struggle a bit to work out how to use it or, more likely, I get stuck behind an elderly man/woman who has absolutely no clue.
Please type in your registration number using this proprietary keyboard layout which is in alphabetical order, rather than something which has been a standard since the 19th Century.
Feel your pain there.
There's a special place in Hell for whoever designed the ones that Swansea council use.
Ready to start? Press the actual physical button under the screen. We could have had the screen with a big "Touch to Start" button on it, but we didn't.
Please type in your registration number using this proprietary keyboard layout which is in alphabetical order, rather than something which has been a standard since the 19th Century.
This is how much it will cost you to park for the period that's in small text in a separate bit of the screen. We could have put the two fields together, but we didn't.
Want park for longer? Use this little button in the top left corner with a '+' on it and no explanation of what it's for. Obviously we could have made a big button in the middle that says "Add more time". Or a selection of buttons for different periods of parking, but we didn't.
Done with that bit? Press the little button in the bottom right corner that has a tick symbol on it. Again, we could have made a big button that says 'Continue', but we didn't.
It is spectacularly bad. I've worked a little bit, and I mean a little bit, in UX/UI teams and even with my comically basic understanding of design I honestly can't fathom how anyone designed it that way and thought "yep, got it, good job me"
Pay on entry carparks - why not pay on exit so that you don't overpay or get penalised for underpaying?
A new entry - the fusebox placement on a 2019 Honda Jazz. It's absolutely brilliant, assuming that is that you can suspend yourself upside down from the steering wheel, your eyes are on stalks, your fingers have lights in the end and your arms have two extra elbows in them.