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Not sure it gets me disproportionately cross, but footjam tailwhips and nose-manuals/nollies. I like watching bike people do sick stunts and tricks, like seeing people ride their bikes with precision and control, sending big hucks, drop gaps, steps ups, but FJTWs and nose manuals, and can almost say manuals too. However it depends on the person, some riders it seems to come across right, can appreciate the skill involved, whereas other riders.... please just stop ****ing posing and do something else instead.
The website where I get my US politics news not writing "on" before the day. e.g.
Nikki Haley said Wednesday that President-elect Trump knew she did not want to serve in his second administration
Is this standard elsewhere and I just hadn't noticed?
Meanwhile. . . . . some . . . people . . . . . . go mental with. . . . . . . . ellipses!!!!!
And they don't even do them properly…
My neighbours, who seem to think it's acceptable so sweep all the leaves off their driveway so that they then end up clogging all the drains in the street. Selfish gits are far too lazy/important to either pay for a green waste bin, compost them, or take them to the tip.
One of the builders we have in at work who sits in his van at lunchtime with the engine running.
Ok, this might be controversial, but people moaning about the performance of this site.
Sure it can be pretty shonky, and its frustrating, but none of us really understand the technical issues that they're up against, coupled with the fact that its being done on a shoestring budget.
Give them a break.
^ can be a bit frustrating at times, but I agree with the sentiment.
Time taken to find out how to set the B screw on a Shimano GRX RX822 with a 12 Speed 10-51 Cassette. Nowt I could find on the Shimano website but finally found this on the t'internet .
Though there is a difference in performance where on that curve you align the 51t cog. To the right end, the gear change is OKish. To the left gear, change is bang on.
Just need to confirm that to check the chain length for the above configuration it's chain to the 51t cog + 5-6 links.
The fact that word online completely messes formatting on a document. But word downloaded on a laptop no longer works because Microsoft stopped the licences we could use. I only use word for work so in a round about way that stops me working at home
Domino hoo hoo
Oh God yes. Right up there with "Wassssssssssup!" a few years back.
The website where I get my US politics news not writing “on” before the day
File it alongside the weather forecast "calling for" rain, or whatever. Pretty sure that the weather does what it wants, regardless of what you call for.
Irritating adverts generally. Is the idea a bit like 'there's no such thing as bad publicity'? I'd cheerfully take a shotgun to whoever comes up with the cacophonic We Buy Any Car jingles. "Just sold my car..." bang bang.
My Bosch washing machine lying to me. Don't tell me there's only 2 minutes to go when you haven't even started the spin cycle!
Not cross so much as funny...
I mean, they spent £32 million on a house, 'they or thier staff' visited it 11 times prior to completion... I mean really... did they not have an extensive survey done, as presumably one would if spending that sort of cash?
Buying a multipack of protein/cereal bars and finding the bars only take up 1/2 the space inside the packaging.
Not seen the wrap scam before, maybe it's a Pret scam.
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It wasn't actually Pret when I got scammed by this, it was just the first image found on google....it was a similar deli sandwhich type shop in Leeds several years ago, I can't remember the name but it was marketed as a trendy health food type place. I've just checked on google maps and it doesn't seem to be there any more, must have shut down.Anyway..beware when buying wraps!
My Bosch washing machine lying to me. Don’t tell me there’s only 2 minutes to go when you haven’t even started the spin cycle!
Oh yes. My tumble drier said 11 minutes to go so 15 minutes later off I go to empty it... now it says 7 minutes to go.*
I mean, what is even the point of the timer? Each setting tells you the time it'll take to complete, trouble is that it's a load of rubbish because (obviously) it depends on the size of the load, how damp it is, etc.
(*Before submitting this post I took a phone call for 14 minutes. The timer now says 4 minutes to go.)
See also, the ‘wrap scam’….
I give you ASDA a few years ago:
I give you ASDA a few years ago:
The icing on the cake is the 'pizza retailer of the year' award they have very graciously given to themselves, hahah!
Porco dio!
E non si cap isce un cazzo!
Va fa Napoli!
That's easy for you to say.
Our washing machine tumble dryer is a ****ing ****. Minimum drying time is 3 hours and the clothes might still be damp. In the good old days a large load took 80 minutes.
Took me a moment; I initially thought is La Reine a special pizza where the ragu uses no stock? Then I actually read the meme as a whole
Station car park ticket machines out of action so having to pay a 10% surcharge for the convenience of paying on the app.
It's Monday morning. Just **** off.
did they not have an extensive survey done, as presumably one would if spending that sort of cash?
I read that story a few days ago, and initially I did think the same, but actually, it's a bit more nuanced (who'd have thought it!) The previous owners did try to warn them and put details in the sale, but moths aren't vermin, so legally, there's nothing saying you have to report it, and no real comeback. They tried all sorts to fix it, and the moths just keep returning - it's thought the wool insulation may have something to do with it. I do have some sympathy for them, despite the fact that laughing at the woe of millionaires is of course, objectively funny.
Threads that ask for an opinion, say about films and folks just say "It's shit" or "It bobbins" and offer no explanation as to why they think that or why they didn't enjoy it. Pointless contrarianism for the sake of it
Them - Has it got any MOT?
Me-it's in the advert
Them - What's the license plate so i can get an insurance quote?
Me- it's in the advert
Them- Has it got manual gears operated by your foot like a normal bike?
Me- it's in the advert...
@kayak23 We had a similar conversation about a washer dryer yesterday.
What's wrong with it?
Nothing it's in full working order as the ad says.
Is it a washer and a dryer?
Yes as it says in the ad.
That turned into a block him everywhere on Meta by herself.
Cougar – how many pizzas did you buy to set that up?
I swear, both of those were genuine.
Pointless contrarianism for the sake of it
No it isn't.
Our washing machine tumble dryer is a * *. Minimum drying time is 3 hours and the clothes might still be damp. In the good old days a large load took 80 minutes.
I've had several over the years due to space constraints. They're all universally crap, you've got all the worst things about a washing machine with all the worst things about a tumble dryer all in one handy unit. But at least they're expensive.
Snow, or rather, the lack of it.
I like snow. Living in Salford we regularly get forecasts of "THE WORLD IS ENDING, NECK DEEP SNOW IN WEEK LONG BLIZZARDS" for the entire surrounding area and here, if lucky, we might see a couple of flakes mixed in with the rain and drizzle while the rest of the country gets out their snow chains and has happy times building snowmen while snowed in at home.
*Mild* exaggeration perhaps, but it makes me grumpy. Oh the celebrations of the children when we have half a glorious inch that lasts for nearly a whole day! Back when I were young, darn sarf in Kent, we had it proper. My kids have seen nothing like it.
People who don't take their empty glasses back to the bar when they get a fresh pint.
The butchering of hedges by tractors but it's all the 2" bits of hawthorn thrown on to the roads and pavements, not good for cyclists and I'm guessing dogs don't love it much either
The hanging of decorations, accessories, ornaments or whatever off draw handles. Little stuffed, embroidered hearts 'n' shit tied on to drawer handles with ribbons. Now whilst these pointless fripperies are attached to drawers belonging to the perpetrator of this tat-crime, they dangle over drawers belonging to me. So that they fall into my drawer when I open it, making impossible to close it without first performing a tat-ectomy.
The same perpetrator who is biologically incapable of viewing any flat surface in our abode without thinking "every square inch of this needs to covered in chintzy tat".
The same one who requires me to spend ten minutes removing a mountain of cushions from the bed or sofa before I can use them.
Despite this rant, I do really, really like this person. But some days I do find myself perusing the Travis Perkins catalogue for patio slabs.
off draw handles
You're on notice.
Despite this rant, I do really, really like this person. But some days I do find myself perusing the Travis Perkins catalogue for patio slabs.
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My colleague who blames traffic for them being late every day. I'm sure there's a lesson in there they could learn but choose not to.
Netflix & Amazon TV apps that have to be rebooted telling me that there is a fault either with the app itself or the HDMI cable, when my cat sits on the sound bar (either changing the mode or turning the power off) to draw my attention to play or treat or feeding times. Youtube & Iplayer don't have that degree of neediness.
People who don’t take their empty glasses back to the bar when they get a fresh pint.
My approach here is wholly dependent on their pricing. If they're going to charge me seven quid a pint they can come get their own ****ing glasses.
Living in Salford we regularly get forecasts of “THE WORLD IS ENDING, NECK DEEP SNOW IN WEEK LONG BLIZZARDS” for the entire surrounding area and here, if lucky, we might see a couple of flakes
I have a friend in Canada. She thinks our approach to snow is utterly hilarious. As you say, 2mm of snow and the world is ending. Over where she lives, it's considered a light dusting if it's only halfway up the moose.
2mm of snow is far more slippery than 2m on many surfaces.
The hanging of decorations, accessories, ornaments or whatever off draw handles.
Obligatory "argh" aside,
"Dangling shit on other shit" seems to be the new sport here. Tea towels threaded through the handle of every drawer which means that aside from being permanently soggy because they're screwed up, they're in the way of the cupboard below. I shove it aside to then have the cupboard door snatched out of my hand by a $%^&ing child lock which serves no actual purpose beyond a box-ticking exercise as the kids are never in the kitchen unsupervised or indeed at all. So I yeet the stupid damp pointless irritating bastarding thing across the room and then get told off because it's a "fire risk" as it landed somewhere vaguely in the same time zone as the toaster which I can only assume is expected to spontaneously switch itself on and combust a wet towel via pyrokinesis.
I'd go out for a bit of sanity, but getting to my shoes is like running the Krypton Factor assault course. My coat is currently hanging over the back of my office chair because there's no sodding way I'm getting anywhere near a coat hook without oxygen and a Sherpa, so she's got me ****ing dangling shit in places they don't belong now too for gods' sake.
Reckon we'll get a group discount on these patios?
My boss, who is a software developer and should know better, emailing me links like
instead of:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315473950035
I have a friend in Canada. She thinks our approach to snow is utterly hilarious.
It is quite funny... People in the UK tend to think that cars for example, should always drive at the speed limit with no consideration to environmental conditions... And then wonder why they crash or thier RWD car suddenly becomes useless.
People just don't know how to drive, and I suspect that also applies to a lot of other areas of their lives!
I have to say I am guilty of putting cloths on drawer handles as it's so convenient *
*but I'm not silly with it, only one at a time, and that one hangs on the oven door handle unless the oven is on... In which case it hangs on the drawer handleabove the dog food cupboard so it never realy causes an obstruction.
It's all about having a sound logistical operation.
emailing me links like
When I had the keys to STW I used to manually tidy up links like that in posts. There's no need!
People in the UK tend to think that cars for example, should always drive at the speed limit with no consideration to environmental conditions…
Do they?
It’s all about having a sound logistical operation.
It’s all about not having a bloody hook somewhere.
Smelly exercise gear in shared drying cabinet. Absolutely horrible, not talking a bit of BO, but towels that haven't been near a washing machine in a long time, enough to singe your nostrils. Also when putting your gear on a shelf, don't drape it down the cabinet, completely blocking the other two shelves below. And to the selfish person who has put a shelf on the top rung, only enough for your smelly towel. This facility is shared.
LED headlights. Unlike good old fashioned halogen they've taken the 1.5 hour drive to work to melt the frost blocking them.
Having heard yet another of their atonal shouted dirges on 6Music this morning: Sports Team, and all the ****less half-wit "music influencers" who for some reason given them any kind of airtime whatsoever.
They were the ones who released the shouty atonal dirge "here's the thing" several years back. And no, it apparently wasn't a one-off novelty record
Talking of 6Music... their penchant for playing jazz. For some reason the sound of it just winds me up. I know I should follow the hipster crowd and pretend to like it, but it all sounds shite, especially the new stuff.
"Please may you..."
No, may should only ever be followed by I in a question.
Programmer Schoolboy Error Of The Day:
I just closed the development tool, it went "do you want to save changes?" so I said "yes."
Then I thought "hang on, I haven't made any changes."
The bloody cat's been sat on the keyboard. My code is absolutely bolloxed.
“Please may you…”
Yeah, this is oddly common, heard it from enough supposedly educated people to question whether I learned writing right. I think it means "I'd really like you to do something but realise we both know I'm effectively powerless to insist upon it."
"the cat", my eye...:D
Been there, done that (not the cat)
Clicked yes, hang on? What changes? Arse....:(
Took bloody ages to unpick.
Losing friends to online conspiracy wormholes they're never climbing out of
People who are allegedly trying to sell a bike who put up a few pictures, taken in the dark, 3 of which show the same bit of the bike, and don't show any of the drivetrain, and the description doesn't mention what any of the components are. I've had a search for a Fat CAAD for years now, one finally came up and the listing is as described above.
My disproportionate crossness is only slightly reduced by the picture being good enough to see that it doesn't have a Lefty, so I'm not interested anyway.
"Beloved"
L1 HUE not cool driving in the gutter full of water and wet slush when you're the only car on the road and people are walking on the pavement.
Programmer Schoolboy Error Of The Day:
I just closed the development tool, it went “do you want to save changes?” so I said “yes.”
Then I thought “hang on, I haven’t made any changes.”
The bloody cat’s been sat on the keyboard. My code is absolutely bolloxed.
That's what version history is for, it's like having a backup 😉
People who use things only to leave them in a state no longer ready for use:
not charging things
not emptying the vacuum cleaner
not putting consumables that have run out on the shopping list
not fuelling the car
People being surprised they have to get their payment out after queuing for ages to buy something.
Also parking at a fuel pump, doing their weekly shop without actually buying fuel, whist people are waiting to get to a fuel pump.
PIR switches.
Always watching your every move. 🙁
The feeling that I ought to be doing something productive when I'm perfectly content staring out of a window or similar.
Booked a ticket at a big screen cinema .
I thought that as it was an action film,the scenes would bloke out the noise of any nearby feeding frenzy.
Wrong,what an idiot .
I was disproportionately cross at myself for falling into the trap.
The sun making an appearance on Monday morning after heavy rain the entire weekend.
nearby feeding frenzy.
Oh, so very much this. WTF is it that makes people want to go to the cinema and consume what appears to be a three course meal ?
I mean, I like a tub of popcorn and a Pepsi max, but I see people teetering towards their seats balancing several trays of steaming nachos, main courses and puddings, and then proceed to munch and slurp their way through the first twenty minutes of the showing.
(I come from a generation where a meal is a meal, eating between meals was frowned upon, and eating in the street was an absolute no-no)
I cycle commute quite a bit and drive quite a bit and I am generally pretty impressed at quality of other driving on the road, I rarely find a reason to be cross. However, I am currently going out with my daughter in the car she is learning to drive. There is something about a driver with L plates on the road which makes so many other drivers impatient, aggressive and down right dangerous. For the sake of my daughter I try to stay calm but it is testing me.
"Can I get...?" uttered by customers in a retail setting, most commonly cafes/coffee houses.
NO! The person serving can get you whatever you want. You can not.