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People proudly posting pictures on SM with the horizon not level and morons queueing up to say "what a beautiful picture" when all I can see is the sea trying to all run down to one side. One this morning was cropped so that the sea intersected the bottom of the frame making it double obvious. Even the BBC did it last week.
Edit: deletedmoronic post about bad weather and bad forecasts.
The sea of (Halloween) tat,soon to be heading for landfill.
People with zero skills or imagination,that pay to have contractors decorate their garden (with lots of tat),in the desperate hope they can win a prize.
The sea of (Halloween) tat,soon to be heading for landfill.
On top of that, the colossal volume of viable food (pumpkins) grown on huge areas of land and shipped across continents using millions of tonnes of fossil fuel, for no purpose other than to slowly rot on a doorstep, then be binned and rot down in landfill.
The sea of (Halloween) tat,soon to be heading for landfill.
the trick is go and forage for sustainable Halloween goodies. I found a wonderful woodland site, where, with a bit of digging you can get an organic, locally sourced skeleton, with a minimal carbon footprint, that can be used to scare the kids and then ground down to add nutrients to my veg patch
Meh, we just use the previous year’s trick or treaters.
Aye reeksy,but (in a few ways) you're not like a lot of folk 😉 😂
People who park in disabled bays when they clearly aren't. I just tell myself that they are clearly mentally disabled, which makes me feel better 🙂
Ditto people who park in parent/child bays, without child.
People who inch forwards over the line bit by bit when stopped at a red light. What on earth it accomplishes apart from wasting fuel I have no idea. Also those who feel the need to move forwards in a queue of traffic when a space opens up in front half a car length long.
Drivers who stop in the cycle box at the lights.
Cyclists who stop 6' the other side of the cycle box, despite the box being empty.
"I will stop at the lights, but I will stop just the other side of the line, to show that I'm above the rules. I know it doesn't benefit me in any way whatsoever, but I just like to advertise to all and sundry that I'm a d..."
Fog. Nothing drives me more mad than drivers in fog, whether it's those with no lights in thick fog, or those with fog lights blazing away when there's a slight mist and 200 yards visibility.
People are so brainless re. car lights! It's like they think night = lights, day = no lights and that's all there is to it. Thick snow heavy clouds pouring rain and fog all at once? But it's 2pm, I don't need lights! Morons.
So many examples where just a little bit of common sense or human decency is required. Makes me furious and despairing in equal measure. It's just on the roads where you see it most obviously.
Boggles my mind how people don't mind behaving like this in public. I mean, I get that some people are selfish, lazy and arrogant. But why advertise it? Little things like leaving your shopping trolley in the middle of a parking bay, or parking in disabled areas, is basically just sticking a giant sign on your forehead saying "I am a selfish, lazy and arrogant cockwomble! Look at me!"
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I need another coffee.
People are so brainless re. car lights!
Folks driving at night with no lights on, cos their DRLs are on.
Oh, and auto-fudging-correct on mobiles.
People who park in disabled bays when they clearly aren’t. I just tell myself that they are clearly mentally disabled, which makes me feel better
Some disabilities are not visible. Able to walk short distances but not long ones is common for example.
so what makes me angry is folk judging others without all the info
🙂
Some disabilities are not visible. Able to walk short distances but not long ones is common for example.
so what makes me angry is folk judging others without all the info
I am well aware of this and try not to always judge. But they'd have a blue badge, no?
When Mr Cool and his friends rock up in his Golf or BMW and pop into Tescoe's for his daily Red Bull or whatever, this is what gets my goat. Generalisations aside, my point is that sometimes it's just obvious.
People who park in disabled bays when they clearly aren’t. I just tell myself that they are clearly mentally disabled, which makes me feel better 🙂
I've often thought, "if you wish to park in this bay and aren't disabled, please notify Big Clive at reception where a disablement will be provided with our compliments."
Ditto people who park in parent/child bays, without child.
I've less of an issue with this. "Parent and Child badges" aren't a thing. Rather it's a symptom of poor car park layout. Because, why are they there?
Because they afford wider spaces? Why not just make all the spaces wider? Cars are getting bigger all the time, parking bays are not and driving isn't improving either. Granted this isn't always practical if the carpark is perpetually rammed but eg Tesco Accrington's car park is huge and three-quarters empty. Even on the run-up to Christmas it never remotely troubles getting filled up. (Aside, there must easily be 20 disabled bays, on a busy day there's about three in use.)
Because they're closer to the door? Well, why do they need to be? What's needed there surely is safe passage across the car park with pedestrian walkways and crossings, rather than just minimising the distance they have to run the gauntlet. At the aforementioned Tesco there's a walkway front-to-back from the door to get to your chosen row but even with all that space there's no way of getting across the rows without walking in traffic.
I've parked in P&C bays before now, meeting the criterion as I was with my mum. Before you all reach for the torches, she was recovering from a stroke and couldn't walk very far so I make no apologies for this. I wonder how readers might feel if I'd parked in a supermarket disabled bay without a blue badge despite her clearly being disabled? There's no provision made for this scenario.
Where / which trust? I’ve never been told that. Are you talking about nursing uniforms or theatre scrubs?
Both. they should never be warn outside and its a disciplinary offense to do so. Disregarded in some trusts but its there. You should never wear your uniform outside of work. Two main reasons - one is infection control and the other is that it can place you in an awkward position if someone has a medical issue while you are in uniform outside - professional accountability
Edit - checked the NMC guidance and its just that - not mandatory but its clear that they want you not to wear uniforms outside of work. Its certainly disciplinary to wear uniforms outside of work in Lothianand I think NHS scotland wide
I’ve less of an issue with this. “Parent and Child badges” aren’t a thing. Rather it’s a symptom of poor car park layout. Because, why are they there?
Because if you can reel in a (hard working) FAMBILY with a parking spot you will retain them and they will spend thousands of pounds over a lifetime
Microsoft.
If I wanted to open spreadsheets or documents in teams or SharePoint I would uninstall Word and Excel!
The design of the tank on the new Royal Enfield Himalayan 450
People who think prefixing their opinion on something with 'as a mother' automatically bestows them with unique wisdom, gravitas and insight.
The design of the tank on the new Royal Enfield Himalayan 450
It's not obvious from the picture, what's the issue?
Microsoft.
If I wanted to open spreadsheets or documents in teams or SharePoint I would uninstall Word and Excel!
And then it goes "but for best results..." and sends you to the full-fat app anyway.
I blame Adobe. That's where the 'browser plug-in' rot set in.
Teams is the worst.
"We've opened this spreadsheet you might want to keep open for an extended period and refer to regularly. What's that? You want to discuss the spreadsheet with someone on teams *sucks teeth* sorry mate can't help you wait another two minutes while it loads in the desktop app"
I am not one to suffer such nonsense so I googled and you CAN change the default opening of files in teams... To browser.
I think I would rather try and get an amstrad to talk to a dotmatrix printer.
It’s not obvious from the picture, what’s the issue?
its still an enfield
It’s not obvious from the picture, what’s the issue?
It is obvious from the picture. You don't see the whacking great ugly bulges?
Black month? 😭😭😭
When people in uniform (cops/mils) pull their jacket sleeves down over their hands.
Put on some gloves you utter shower of shite, you're not 5 and at school.
Cops are the worst for it.
The Covid inquiry.
Probably doesn't help that I have just been listening to Patrick Grant on Desert Island Discs
An excellent episode BTW,with some great tunes,but the part where he talks about the PPE scandal and losing his Dad during Covid.
It had me in tears,and then to an anger level that can't be healthy.
Valid anger, but not not disproportionate!
The ass hats at Direct Line.
No auto renew on my policy, stated as such on the welcome letter and the renewal quote, ***** auto renewed 24hrs before policy ended, no paperwork, nothing, the only reason I know is my credit card account is set to notify me of any charges against it.
Your son not being picked for his rugby team despite other players who haven't made a tackle or entered a ruck in 3 seasons being picked just because they are bigger and fatter and lazier.....
People who, after a lengthy explanation, say "I know"
****wits, the lot of them.
The "singing" checkout woman at our local supermarket.
Keeps on randomly bursting into snippets of song a bit like Lesley Flipping Garrett, heavy on the vibrato like Vic Reeves in the pub singer round.
So annoying.
The constant ‘What waterproof jacket for going out in the rain’ threads
The constant ‘What trousers/pants for riding my bike in’ threads
The constant ‘Why does my Goretex jacket leak’ threads
Overall, I’m impressed when the Apple Watch
This, I believe, is truly in the spirit of the thread title. Watches that don’t have a round face make me angry. Totally irrational and stupid but they do. Therefore Apple Watches can **** right off and I’ll be keeping my Garmin even if it is impossible to purchase a strap that isn’t completely shit.
Greenwash. I am heartily sick of it. Makes me really angry when people are making claims for highly co2 intensive and high energy consumption things being touted as green
People who wait for the gates to shut at the train station barrier before they put their ticket in.
Footballers spitting on the floor of the tunnel heading out to the pitch. Scruffy twastards. 🤬
People driving in the dark with either no lights on or just the DRLs on the front, Ticketmaster, Tyres that just wont chuffing seat even with the Airshot.
Those stupid lunchboxes on the outside of new defenders - every cockwomble who has one should be forced to install a defibrillator in them, then at least they would serve a purpose when parked outside Waitrose
People on bike forums who say a component or something comes in x ‘flavour’.
Twee portmanteau insults.
People that say fud, ruff and rum for food, roof and room.
Footballers spitting on the floor of the tunnel heading out to the pitch.
At what point does the floor of the tunnel become the ground of the pitch? Does it change if the tunnel has one of those retractable roofs?
Does it change if the tunnel has one of those retractable
roofsruffs?
FTFY
I had a dream I was doing that the other day.
Walking round Tesco tanning boiled eggs wouldn't have been my first choice.