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Ink loss from my fountain pen. I don’t know why it affects the Parker more than other fountain pens, but without fail, I have to refill the Parker more than I use it. Thinking it’s evaporation, I’ve tried keeping the pen sealed in Tupperware, but the ink still vanishes. At this point, I assume it’s aliens.
I've got a Parker cartridge pen that did this.
'Parrently there's an 'ole under the metal tang clip bit
If you wrap some (insulating) tape around the end of the cap (under the metal tang thing), it slows the evaporation AND makes your nice pen look "industrial", or "shit", if you prefer.
Innit. I’ve no idea (neither does the HR Partner know) how to resolve it really.
Simple. You've called him on his timekeeping with, I presume, evidence that his timekeeping is poor. He's played the victim card which is BS, and called your bluff. It's now up to you to continue with whatever course of action comes next, be it written warning or whatever. He's taking the piss, you've called him on it and now he's taking the piss again. It's HR's job to support you, not roll over and let him dictate how you handle him .
Yeah, I know my organisation was extremely hierarchical and disciplined, but what the hell is the point of a) a process and b) an HR dept/person if the colleague can defeat the process simply by pretending to be upset?
In all of that you'll need a paper trail of your offers to support him throughout whatever is causing him to be late, plus a record of any verbal warnings you've given. If you haven't already been through that process, bite the bullet and start again.
“Fancy” metal-fronted wall light switches.
Error message:
“Speech Recognition Error Speech Recognition could not start because the language configuration is not supported.
The recogniser language must match the language the user interface. Please change the recogniser language in the Speech Recognition control panel under Advanced Options. “
It’s never going to be fixed if you try and “...change the recogniser language in the Speech Recognition control panel under Advanced Options.”
Because it’s caused by the “Touch keyboard and handwriting panel service” not starting.
So. Much. RAGE.
Paying for my 4 pints of milk, “would you like to donate 35p to save the pandas?”
No Tesco, I don't have the spare cash, but as you posted profits last year [checks] of nearly £2.3 billion, why don't you make a donation on my behalf?
people who bag their dogs poo and hang it from a tree
people who use the single portaloos that have a urinal and a regular toilet but still p1ss on seat of toilet
people who bag their dogs poo and hang it from a tree
Genuine responses I've had in challenging this:
1) "I'll collect it on my way back." Liar.
2) "The council employ someone to collect them."
still p1ss on seat of toilet
I genuinely don't understand this. I have, over the years when I was young and (more) foolish, found myself absolutely ratted to the point of barely being able to stand up. Yet I've still always had the presence of mind to lift the seat out of the way before doing my best impression of a carthorse in a pub toilet. Meanwhile, go to the bogs in a supermarket at noon on Tuesday and you have to run the gauntlet across the traps to find the one which is least piss-soaked. WTF is wrong with people? "I don't want to touch the toilet seat because it might be dirty, so I'll cropdust it instead"?
Throbbers who turn their car fog lights on in the rain, thereby creating a blinding glare.
Utter tossers.
Throbbers who turn their car fog lights on in the rain, thereby creating a blinding glare.
So much this. It's even worse if you're on a motorbike with rain all over your visor. Utter ****ers. And it's illegal, but I very much doubt that anyone has ever been done for it.
I thought "Baby On Board" stickers on cars were tossy but the flowery "Twins On Board" I spotted yesterday really made me question humankind.
Was it also powered by fairy dust?
Throbbers who turn their car fog lights on in the rain, thereby creating a blinding glare.
So much this. It’s even worse if you’re on a motorbike with rain all over your visor. Utter ****. And it’s illegal, but I very much doubt that anyone has ever been done for it.
I had this out with someone only yesterday. They cut in front of me and would not switch of the stupid light, despite there being no fog. They happened to to turn into exactly where I was going so we parked up together. The guy stared back blankly as if he he had absolutely no idea what I was talking about. And Highway Code 114 went straight over his head.
Was it also powered by fairy dust?
At least be honest.. A 'powered by Prosecco and Starbucks' sticker would be fair enough.
Sound on film/tv/adverts...
The the sound of a phone vibration notification in the background...
JUST STOP It!
When you drop your campervan off to get serviced at the main dealer and they leave oily marks on the seat bases.
When you point it out to them and they tell you how to remove it with brake cleaning fluid as they're not doing it. FFS
I think I may have posted this before, people who cut corners at junctions. It's just happened again and I'm typing this whilst freshly seething!
Approaching a give way at a suburban t-junction. All 30 mph roads. Me on the minor road intending to turn right, so near the centre line 10 ft from the junction and just about to pull up to the give way lines. Car approaches from my left on the major road and swerves right in front of me, into the side road I'm on. Cuts the corner so he's broadside on, right in front of me on my side of the road causing me to brake hard to avoid t-boning him.
Gormless, slack jawed, gum chewing, mouth breather at the wheel looks at me as if to say "what's the problem" when I give him the death stare. May the fleas of a thousand camels infest his rusty Sheriff's badge. And anyone else who does that. How hard is it to stay on your side of the white lines?
While we're doing road junctions. Folk that don't come to the very mouth of the junction when pulling out of side roads but sit back about a car length.
Kin dangerous!
Saw a bloke last night on the right waiting to turn onto the fast and busy road I was on. There are hedges both sides of the junction and I see him there craning his neck forward to look up the road.
He cannot possibly see what's coming properly from there!
Why? Really, really dangerous.
I think I may have posted this before, people who cut corners at junctions.
I go out of my way to position myself (without risking a collision) so that it's as awkward as possible for them to complete the manoeuvre. Like I'm going to go out of my way to give way to you when you're driving like a Jeremy Hunt. It falls into the Bullying bucket for me, "coming through, out of the way, I'm more important!" and I'm fu- damned if I'm giving the bastards an inch.
Yeah I do that too if I get to the junction first. They always seem to be indignant that you have obeyed the rules of the road and expect them to do so too. Throbbers!
Yeah I do that too if I get to the junction first. They always seem to be indignant that you have obeyed the rules of the road and expect them to do so too. Throbbers!
Supermarket car parks are the worst for this... people take the apex racing line going round corners...despite going at 2 miles an hour....use your fricking steering wheel and stay on the correct side of the road!!!!!
Corner cutting is not so funny when they do it at speed. Had a very close one today.
Until they get T-Boned and act all shocked and say "someone just crashed into me!"
I had a Mrs. Cutcorner on a very busy street in Southampton this week. So busy in fact she caused a complete log jam when the lights changed behind me. So she's stuck diagonally across the road in front of me trying really hard to keep a straight and serious face as I was clearly laughing at her. A little highlight I'd forgotten about, thanks for reminding me.
Probably gets mentioned at this time of year in the past but the greedy farmers who bring out so much mud onto the roads and get away with a wee mud splattered un readable hand scrolled mud on road
I'm expecting the "they bring our food to our table" supporting the farmers lot on here but I'm not talking tenant farmers this is the massive tractors, hedgerow/stone dyke demolishing farmers building getting to build big brand new houses on greenbelt for their own selves not employees
Re: cutting corners, if I pull up to a junction to turn right on my bike ,cars wanting to turn right off the main road seem really pissed off that I'm at a junction stopping them from cutting the corner. It rarely occurs to them to let me go first then I'll be out of the way.
Companies that can't really be arsed.
Looking at a stairlift installed for my parents. Called a local company on Tuesday and they said they'd call me back and confirm a date and time. Saturday morning had been mentioned but no time. Just called them to see where we were and they said 'oh yeah, we've got you booked in tomorrow for some time between 10am and 1pm. The director has got to take his kid to football practice and doesn't know what time it will finish'.
So I put the most of my Saturday on stand-by then? Err, don't think so.
This morning: Fog lights. (that old chestnut). When it's a light mist or visibility is fine, but there's fog in the distance... what the **** do these morons think the purpose of fog lights is?!!?
It rarely occurs to them to let me go first then I’ll be out of the way.
I would hope they don't. What boils my urine is folk inventing new rules of the road and risking causing an accident in the resuting confusion.
I'm totally with you on the "cutting corners" thing though. Even in a car I'm frequently obliged to brake well before the stop line by some numpty cutting the corner in front of me.
On motorway inside lane, people who wait until they are around 1m behind a lorry (or any slow moving vehicle) before trying to overtake. This often leads to them getting annoyed at other drivers who were behind them but are now overtaking them as they pulled out to overtake at a safer distance.
Corner cutters. The streets round where I live are all narrow with cars parked either side, so just one lane really, the amount of people who turn in without looking if the road is clear is astounding, so often I'm approaching a junction only to be faced by someone who has cut across the corner and driven in to the road who looks totally astonished that a car could possibly be there, then looks at you hoping you might just disappear, I just sit there till they back up.
How hard is it to just check the street you want to drive in to is empty ffs, I manage it every time.
I just sit there till they back up.
When I was younger and a bigger git than I am now (imagine that!) I used to carry a book in the glovebox for this reason. You want to wait it out to see who buckles first pal, fill your boots, I've got a thermos and a packed lunch. (I haven't, but that's less amusing.)
I've seen somebody get out of their car and nonchalantly start picking blackberries from a hedge in that situation. Huge respect!
I used to carry a book in the glovebox for this reason.
I knew someone who carried a copy of the highway code just for this purpose.
Work colleagues with whom you share a tiny office and who have the capacity to work from home when it suits them coming in with full cold/flu/covid symptoms because they have a personal appointment later in the day which is easier to get to from work......arggggh 2 days later and I'm covered in cold....
I used to carry a book in the glovebox for this reason.
I knew someone who carried a copy of the highway code just for this purpose.
I love that idea!
When people talking about driving say things like "nearside, offside, inside lane, outside lane, undertaking, slow lane, fast lane" when they're clearly confused and mean "left or right". Then they go on to say the left side of the car depends on how you look at it. No, the left side off a car is always the left no matter where it is in the world or how you look at it. Just like your left and right hands never change or swap around.
Stop with the illogical terminology and just use "left or right"
I go with "first lane, second lane... n'th lane."
have the capacity to work from home when it suits them coming in with full cold/flu/covid symptoms because they have a personal appointment later in the day which is easier to get to from work……arggggh 2 days later and I’m covered in cold….
I don't think that's disproportionate. "I haven't had a day off work in 20 years!!" Yeah, but everyone else has because you've dragged your diseased germ-shedding carcass into the office to be the square root of **** all use, just so you can act superior when you should be in bed with a lemsip rub and a warm glass of horse liniment. Twerp.
Stop with the illogical terminology and just use “left or right”
Port or starboard?
Broadband; I have a frequently dropping out router following a router os update. Zen are being no help other than saying wait for a software fix, but it's not from them as they done make the hardware so it's an indeterminate time. The OS can't be rolled back, so they are following the script blaming everything and fixing nothing.
And they are the best rated provider.
Can't stream music consistently, can't work from home reliably, but keep paying your bills yeah.
While we are there, any replacement service wants at least a 24 month 'contract' where they reserve the right to increase the price of the contract within its term. @#£& it!
I'm moving to a cave and quitting this modern life.
People who are poor at communicating. I get that things may be delayed etc, but bloody well communicate that and don't go to ground
People who are poor at communicating. I get that things may be delayed etc, but bloody well communicate that and don’t go to ground
This is "the fam." Her sister / son / daughter is coming to visit. OK, cool, when? Don't know. So we're sat on our hands for three hours in the hope that someone is going to grace us with their presence at some point. It's just ****ing pig ignorant and I can't be doing with it. You can guarantee with 100% certainty that they'll trap six nanseconds after you've gone "bugger it" and started doing something.
Conversely friends who expect you to drop everything at 20mins notice... wanna do X,X,Z?
No I have plans, how about tomorrow night?
"I don't know what i'm doing tomorrow night yet, maybe, can I let you know tomorrow night?"
No, **** off!
People who u turn on a road but by turning left into a junction then immediately go full lock right to bring them to the give way lines. But do it with traffic turning into the junction so everyone has to brake because you've effectively swung across a road and your arse is now blocking the road.
Mrs BH has the habit of getting to the end of a bottle of milk or water or similar, leaving a thimble's worth of liquid in it and returning the bottle to the fridge. There is simply no use for this amount of liquid but it is seemingly OK to then complain the fridge isn't big enough and we need to buy a bigger one.
This is “the fam.”
Tell me about it. Wedding. Didn't get an invitation of any sort other than a phone call. No idea when it starts or what the expected end time is. We're travelling a long way and I'd sort of like to be able to plan the journey.
Mrs BH has the habit of getting to the end of a bottle of milk or water or similar, leaving a thimble’s worth of liquid in it and returning the bottle to the fridge.
:up-pointing emoji: same here.
A conversation last week:
"If you're going to the shop, we need Blu-Tack."
No we don't, I bought some yesterday.
"Have you hidden it?"
... uh. Yes. Yes I have.
"Why?"
Because I know full well you'll immediately open a new packet and leave the dregs of the old one in the drawer. It's what you do.
"No I don't!"
As a rough estimate right now there will be three or four near-death shampoo bottles, two deodorant bottles, countless cleaning products, half a dozen packets of pasta... I wouldn't mind so much if they were different, like there was a coconut shampoo and a raspberry one on the go and she liked the variety, but they're all the same. There was two half-full cartons of milk in the fridge the other day. Argh.
A bus service that takes bikes but not in all buses. So you have to pedal to the bus only to find "Not a bike bus mate". So now I have to drive to work on a different site, as opposed to bus there ride back. Next bus might be a bike bus but gets in 15mins after start.
Would be less rage inducing if I didn't already now today will be a waste of time.
I would understand ignorance as being inherently rude. If it were not rude it would be unawareness instead.
I would understand ignorance as unawareness, ie 'Ignorance is no excuse under the law' but it has become increasingly used to mean rude.
Similarly, the word precocious. I always thought it meant obnoxious/annoying, but it turns out it means old beyond their years, or more mature than their age would suggest. Of course the two are not mutually exclusive.
Some while ago, there were several days-worth of posts here about the sensible sequence of cutlery in drawers. No firm conclusions as I recall, but at least a tacit understanding that perhaps K-F-S was one sensible option.
Holiday let owners take note; this cannot be right. Come on, spoon, spoon, spoon. WTF?
I know somebody who refers to the inside lane as being on the left, except on roundabouts when it is the inside of the circle, so the right.
proudly showing off on Instagram the 82 quids worth of chateaubriand they had just ordered to their specification…
People who like their steak cooked in the fires of mount doom!!! just why?????
Don't get me wrong, I don't like blue steak, medium rare is where it's at....
proudly showing off on Instagram the 82 quids worth of chateaubriand they had just ordered to their specification
I'm surprised their specification was "I'd like it cooked to resemble a £2.30 Tesco frozen beef dinner" but each to their own I guess.
I like my steak so as a good vet could still save it. That burnt offering is indeed fit to make me disproportionately cross.
This kind of **** wittery.
I mean, I get it, you're not a graphic designer but surely you realise what you've done.
Look at the original image that you sourced for the document you've sent me. Now look at it in your document.
It doesn't look the same does it? No.
Yes I know it now fits neatly in the stupid space you've tried to cram it into. But it looks shit!
Just. Don't. Do. It.
I’m moving to a cave and quitting this modern life.
I'm tempted by this but this forum is one thing I'd miss.
As a rough estimate right now there will be three or four near-death shampoo bottles, two deodorant bottles, countless cleaning products, half a dozen packets of pasta…
Oh, sweet mother of God, I'll be burying these with her under the patio! Just had to pull half a dozen of bottles of fabric softener out the cupboard to find the actual Persil. Given that between a runner, a gymnast and a cyclist every single wash includes sports kit that should not be ruined with fabric softener!
Fabric softener. An entirely unnecessary contribution to chemical pollution of the environment.
I'm working in someone's house, and I turn it around for them as a public service. 🙂
How can I be expected to work in such unforgivable conditions!
Schoolboy error. You want Fairy Platinum for quality, or supermarket own brands for cheap.
(I've been looking into this in some depth recently as The Small really like bubbles and I thought "I can surely do better than that.")
The contents are irrelevant and it's not the first time I've seen the bottle like that.
Someone went to the trouble of designing that, prototyping it, testing it, market research, countless development meetings etc, even put the label on the way in the orientation it's supposed to sit.
And then, this... I feel saddened.
Fabric softener. An entirely unnecessary contribution to chemical pollution of the environment.
Which is precisely why, every time Her Indoors pours 3 capsfull (capfuls?) into the machine, I do my level best to surreptitiously spoon some of it back out into the bottle when she isn't watching
DPD delivering to a business out of business hrs ..... just why?
The realisation while installing its replacement that I probably brought about the premature demise of the power supply in my living room PC by orienting it the right way up but the fan facing downwards when upwards airflow would be much better in that enclosure. FFS.
Use of the word "freshness" when what they mean is a gagging stench triggering allergies whilst polluting and wasting resources. There is no more pointless triumph of bollockery or better proof that we should be doomed for allowing this cack to exist on our beautiful earth.
I'm with you @smiffy
I walked past a shop recently with a sign on the door, "Please respect our perfume free environment."
I love the idea of someone not going in because they're wearing some horrible stink.
Schoolboy error. You want Fairy Platinum for quality, or supermarket own brands for cheap.
(I’ve been looking into this in some depth recently as The Small really like bubbles and I thought “I can surely do better than that.”)
On this topic - people diluting washing-up liquid so what comes out of the bottle is useless runny muck no good for cleaning anything. My teeth splinter with fury every time that happens.
Is that a thing? Who does that?
And surely the solution (ho ho) is to use twice as much? It's heavily diluted as soon as you squirt it into the sink anyway.
people diluting washing-up liquid so what comes out of the bottle is useless runny muck
plus a million for people who do that to shampoo