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Alternatively, take a carrier bag in your rucksack. When checking out, fill carrier bag, pay, lift carrier bag into rucksack.
Did you read all of that post? 😁
Did you read all of that post?
Yeah but meh.
Trying to lift a full carrier bag into a backpack(especially when it's a roll top waterproof bag that doesn't stretch) is a total pita often.
It's a science to pack it and carry it safely on a motorbike. You have to get it fitting all Tetris-like to maximise the space, not let things get crushed and even think about what you'd like against your back should you take a dismount at 60mph or so. Can of baked beans in the spine anyone?
You can't just go shoving that shit in willy-nilly you know!
Caveat - obviously I wouldn't do this when there are people waiting. I'd take it away in the trolley and pack it somewhere else then.
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That's literally what I just said.
(Also, it was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, I was teasing...!)
Not sure whether I've covered this one before, but 'Make sure the lid of the kitchen bin is closed". Because we don't want flies getting in there, do we?
OK, fine, understood. But ive just logged something wholly impractical about this whilst we were having breakfast. In the space of 2 mins, I had to open (and re-close) said lid 4 times
- To put a tissue in there (which could have been thrown from my stool, tbh, had the lid been open)
- To scrape some toastcrumbs in there
- To knock coffee grounds in there
- To drop her teabag in there.
Obviously there's an argument for 'do all those things in one go' but unless you plan everything ahead like a military operation, that ain't gonna happen. So I'm back and forth across the kitchen several times in short order, opening and closing unnecessarily. Still, I suppose it's good for daily steps, eh?
See also toilet lids. We've definitely done that one.
Taking in parcels for neighbours. I get on well with all of the neighbours. I also WFH so end up taking in parcels now and then. Noticed over the past year or so that not one of them will ever pop around to collect what's been dropped off. I am expected to deliver such. It's a minor thing, but it's starting to become annoying.
Feral kids on trains - I would ask the parents why the gobby little shites aren't in school, but I suspect the parents didn't go to school either.
Dog walker ahead, same direction, dog roaming free.
Ear buds in without hearing anything despite three gradually louder "Hello" at gradually closing range.
If you can't hear, not a problem, but at least watch your dog's body language and be prepared if it goes off on one 😕
I'm heading off for a week of European mtbing. Work is mental in the last few weeks of term (I know, aw shame,) which means I have to sleep have a bit of peace for the first day or two
Anyway, pulling stuff together and Mrs 100th starts to hoover and tidy. Put clothes on bed and it's stripped to get hung out. I gave up and went to the garage to start packing the bike and suddenly she needs her bike fettled, oh and the gravel bb needs a look at.
Come back in and the bag I was taking has been tidied and the bag I hate is out because "I thought you'd rather it.
I love her dearly and she puts up with a lot but dear god. Oh and now she wants to do a 150mile round trip to look at a new car, tomorrow.
Romesh Ranganathan on the radio. I don't understand how someone who has such entertaining live shows manages to make his radio show so incredibly boring.
Romesh Ranganathan on the radio.
Milton Jones on anything at all. Rehashing 20 year old jokes in a tired wacky persona might have been funny once. I suppose.
The guy in the supermarket I'm parked outside waiting to pick my wife up from her hair appointment. It's one of those little supermarkets so why it needs 8 trollies, IDK but it has them lined up outside, relevance to come.
He's doing a restock of shelves and after every box of confectionary is done, he brings a solitary box outside, tears the tape off and flattens it and then puts in a recycling cage. And then off to do another.
I get having eleventeen empty boxes in the aisles of the shop would be a pita, but fgs man, get a trolley in (leaving only 7 available for the use of the 2 or 3 customers that have come in the time I typed this, to buy variously an ice lolly, some milk, and a 4 pack of fake Spanish lager, none of whom needed a trolley.
He's done about 3 miles back and forth and it's really missing me off
Ear buds in without hearing anything despite three gradually louder "Hello" at gradually closing range.
OMG these ear buds drive me mental.
You have to pass really really slowly, kind of creep up on them and when you pass they jump out of their skin and get all angry with you, because you gave them a fright. Wandering along in their own little worlds, oblivious to everything around them.
Then you have to be the one to apologise 😤
The fact that for all the advances in sustainable packaging flour is still shipped in paper (yay) bags that are folded down then glued shut with something that could probably hold a battleship together making it a lottery as to whether you'll be able to open the bag without ripping a hole in it and then having to deal with a trickle of flour that spills out of the hole every time you use it.
What about pasta bags? Made of plastic with the structural integrity of girders in the direction you want it to tear, and wet tissue in the direction you want it to hold.
The pasta bags, so yes to that. In addition the tear often follows the path where the little stick down tab to reseal them goes in theory, but never does due to the tear. It's almost an actual design feature.
Slotted screws boil my piss
For the love of god how did the industrial revolution ever become a thing with their shitty little screwdriver slots folding at the merest suggestion that they might need to be undone. I bet even Isambard Kingdom Brunel turned into Malcolm Tucker every time he tried to take a door off a hinge or needed to hang a radiator. If ever there's a Noble Peace prize going spare it should be given to the man who invented the Phillips screw. Presumably a Mr Phillips. If you're still alive mate, I salute you
Original rant for a club ride on Sunday, that one was for a rider on the local health ride group last night:
Ah right. I thought the same rider was cascading down the groups one by one. Thanks for taking the time to explain to me!
Surely there should be a caveat with No Drop rides if the rider is explicitly told that the ride will be too fast for them....
Joat - added to the above list. Nobody likes a solution to their pet peeves. (Note to self, check out the scissors thing.)
The pasta bags, so yes to that. In addition the tear often follows the path where the little stick down tab to reseal them goes in theory, but never does due to the tear. It's almost an actual design feature.
Scissors, the solution is scissors.
You sound like the kind of person that asks strangers for directions and reads instruction manuals, heaven forbid!
Pasta and rice.
I have two tubs that I fill with pasta and rice (seperatly of course) this gets round the issue of having bags splitting
Isambard Kingdom Brunel turned into Malcolm Tucker every time he tried to take a door off a hinge or needed to hang a radiator.
He certainly would have done if it was a rusty Phillips head cos there's a good chance it would have rounded out and he would have been shafted, whereas with a slotted head and the right size screwdriver he'd still have stood half a chance.
Went for a fairly long ride today, missing the start of the British GP. My OH, was patient enough to wait for me to get home, so we could watch it together.
Apparently the chubby foghorn next door shouted the results and exactly how the race ended to his dad. His dad was 4m away apparently, yet the whole street, and I suspect any passing aircraft got to hear the race summary.
North Yorkshire County Council.
Many things annoy me but one that keeps happening is their inability to secure the paper & cardboard recycling bag after emptying it. Which means is often gets blown away. Which has happened again today.
Now need to go and get another.
I usually try and avoid McDonald's and the like at all costs but have had to go in recently because of work.
You go up to the machine things, make your order and get your number. It processes and then very soon after it pops over to the green, ready to collect side of the display screen.
Only it's not ready to collect. It's only just gone through.
I've got to stand there in this perfect storm of things I generally avoid, positively mocked by the ready to collect sign proudly displaying my number in green, for about 6 whole minutes until it is ACTUALLY ready to collect.
Stop lying to me Ronald! 😡
I don't need it quicker, but just stop lying.
They do this in Screwfix too. They're so eager to send out the ready to collect text that they forget that some people might be ordering from the carpark, who go in when they get the text only to witness the staff going in back to pick what you've just ordered.
Ready to collect my arse.
I bet that's driven by Competitive Corporate Onanism. "80% of orders fulfilled within three minutes!!"
Edinburgh airport, what a shit tip.
£2 for a trolley, wait at oversized bags point then bike bag is dragged through a door at other side of the conveyer, you have to be able to thread a needle blindfolded to get the trolley through the security bollards, passport control is truly shit. It stinks of avgas. Taxis don't go because of the charges. The tram stop seems to be on the other side of Edinburgh and the car parks are paved with potholes and to top it off the reg recognition system to let you out of the car park doesn't bloody work.
went to the cinema for the first time in years and years. Was a pleasant enough experience.
But as the end credits started to roll.... the crowd clapped? eh? what? why the flying funsters are people clapping?!?
Companies, specifically E-on EV charger installation, who once you've made the booking and paid the money and booked time off. Ask for photos 24hours before the appointment. Then say "oh it's not straightforward, so we can't do it".
We'll refund the money in 10working days.
Supermarket loyalty apps and the people who can't operate them and need to stop the shop to work out how to cash some of their vouchers.
They then insist on one-on-one tuition from the cashier, rather than just letting the cashier sort it.
These are the modern equivalent of paper vouchers, proffered incompetently by the same "sorts" who then insist on paying with coins, some of which are supposedly legal tender in some obscure corner of the UK.
Get to the back of the queue, it's lunchtime!
Right there with you here. "But it's legal tender!" is a cast iron shibboleth of a pillock. See also, "I know my rights!"
You don't know anything of the sort, so kindly go **** yourself gently with a chainsaw.
Supermarket loyalty apps and the people who can't operate them and need to stop the shop to work out how to cash some of their vouchers.
They should make the apps faster/simpler to use then. How about it displays the Qr code at all times, rather than buried in menus? Or better still, not charge higher prices to customers not using their app... currently they're pretty much mandating the use of the apps (for people who need to watch every penny).
Or better still, not charge higher prices to customers not using their app... currently they're pretty much mandating the use of the apps (for people who need to watch every penny).
Yes, that's also makes me DC.
I don't have any shopping apps, largely because I don't use those stores unless absolutely necessary
People who can block a disproportionately wide piece of pavement (or, in the case that's most recently annoyed me, airport corridor) by walking not only slowly, which in itself I don't mind, but also walking not quite in a straight line, so it's pretty much impossible to judge on which side you can overtake them
Things that did fit and now for no reason don't.
Back wheel out of road bike-2 seconds.
Back wheel back in road bike- 5 min of increasingly annoyed swearing.
Arrive at destination with pile of crap in boot. Empty it.
Leave destination and multiple attempts at repacking boot needed while trying to be pleasant.
But as the end credits started to roll.... the crowd clapped? eh? what? why the flying funsters are people clapping?!?
Well at least they hadn't all left before the credits appeared. The film ends when the lights come on. Sit in your seat till then. Yes, I do want to see who the second grip's best boy was.
We have 4 visitor spaces in the car park at work. Every day all 4 are filled with employees' cars because they are too lazy to park a bit further away from the door. It makes no difference to me at all, I cycle to work, but it really riles me.
vouchers, proffered incompetently by the same "sorts" who then insist on paying with coins
I'm sure it's unintended because you seem a decent "sort", but that could across as punching down.
Anyone on a low enough income that they are forced to scrabble for vouchers (electronic or paper) and coins to pay for food is probably having a fairly stressful time. They likely have far greater concerns than being held up for a few seconds at at a till.
Not everyone can afford to tap their phone on the card reader without a glance at the amount to effect a quick getaway!
I know it's the disproportionately cross thread, but still....! 😉
It's really hard to buy an ice-cream in Manchester city centre
We have 4 visitor spaces in the car park at work. Every day all 4 are filled with employees' cars because they are too lazy to park a bit further away from the door. It makes no difference to me at all, I cycle to work, but it really riles me.
I get similarly annoyed by people parking in the loading/pull-in layby outside the gym entrance rather than parking in the carpark which is about 10 feet further away. Do you want exercise or not 🙃
Also the disabled bays are always full of builders vans/pick-ups but I think being annoyed about that is proportionate as it does inconvenience people that need them.
The size of parking spaces compared to the size of cars. Most seem sized perfectly for the average 1960s Mini.
Why the 2020s Mini is the size of an ocean going cruise liner is another disproportionately cross topic.
He's doing a restock of shelves and after every box of confectionary is done, he brings a solitary box outside, tears the tape off and flattens it and then puts in a recycling cage. And then off to do another.
That is a man who is doing the bare minimum to get the job done. Why be more efficient, you won't get paid more anyway? So have a stroll, take your time, enjoy the air. Got to respect it.
