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There is something about a driver with L plates on the road which makes so many other drivers impatient, aggressive and down right dangerous.
You are very much judged on the car you drive, also.
One time I was out, I thought "what the hell is wrong with everyone today?" I was being muscled out of the road in places where oncoming traffic would normally wait behind parked cars to wait for me to pass. Then I suddenly realised, I was in a courtesy Micra whist my Mondeo was in the garage. The difference in other drivers' behaviour was stark.
Back when I had a big Merc, people would actively close gaps when you were trying to pull out. I have a theory that this is why BMW et al drivers have a reputation for never indicating - I stopped indicating in the end as it just tips the bastards off so you can never get anywhere.
Same with motorcycles. I have ridden Vespa and Lambretta scooters for decades. Riding on an A or B road at the legal speed limit and you can guarantee car drivers will overtake.
I also used to ride a motorbike (Suzuki Bandit). On the same roads far fewer cars drivers would overtake.
It's a weird mindset where some drivers view smaller vehicles as slow and have to get past.
You are very much judged on the car you drive, also.
One time I was out, I thought “what the hell is wrong with everyone today?” I was being muscled out of the road
Suddenly, the tendency of cars and vans to cut me up using the wrong lane at a local set of lights makes sense - Fabia rather than Octavia.
You are very much judged on the car you drive
I think you are right. We have had 20mph limits round here for years now. I have never been overtaken whilst driving at or around 20mph. But, when in the car with my Learner daughter, doing the same speed, people will regularly overtake us (even when that means going the wrong side of traffic islands).
Saying "I picked up" as a synonym for "I bought". I suppose it's a stupid Americanism, but it suggests that the purchaser considered the expenditure so trifling that they could just casually acquire an expensive item without concern for the cost, even though it's something that would cause grief to my bank account.
People using brought when they mean bought
It's under where you moved the wood to.
Dropping a nut in the garage
Try putting your head sideways on the floor and looking for it, rather than standing and looking down at the floor. Can also supplement the technique with a torch.
The lack of coat hooks in pubs and restaurants. I've got a nice coat (in fact a few nice coats, get me), I'm quite a tall fella, and I don't want to put it on the back of my chair so the bottom of it drags around on the floor, gets trapped under the chair leg or gets stuff dripped on it as people are carrying drinks past.
Suddenly, the tendency of cars and vans to cut me up using the wrong lane at a local set of lights makes sense – Fabia rather than Octavia.
Happened to my wife when she had Fiesta, she's quite a cautious driver and always sticks to the limits, she would regularly have people pulling out in front of her or driving at her when she had right of way. changed her car to a Honda CRV and problem solved overnight. She doesn't drive any differently but the larger car makes all the difference.
I get it a bit when I'm towing the caravan, people desperate to pull out of a junction in front of you or risky overtakes so they don't get "stuck" behind me. Seems they'd rather get hit with 4+ tonnes than travel a bit slower.
When you're measuring something the same width as your tape measure and it gets stuck in there. :-/
Try putting your head sideways on the floor and looking for it, rather than standing and looking down at the floor. Can also supplement the technique with a torch.
A technique I started to use when CSI started on telly - works particularly well with a bright white LED flashlight. Especially when it’s a metal object.
This is a minor issue, but it’s making me really rather annoyed. I have a Jack Wolfskin tee shirt, perfectly ordinary looking black tee shirt, but it’s made from Polartec 100 fleece. I’d love to buy another one, but it’s absolutely impossible to find one anywhere! It’s very comfortable to wear, it doesn’t get damp and clammy when worn under something like a Buffalo and things warm up a bit.
So why is it that nobody makes a basic tee shirt from Polartec 100? Am I asking for something that’s difficult to produce?
Just so bloody annoying!
If I type slowly it doesn’t do it, but typing quickly I get clickclickclickclicksqueakclickclick argh which one was that?
Just tap each single key quickly and repeatedly for a few seconds going through the querty shizzle until it reveals itself. Then, WD40. Lashings of.
Someone complaining on a work forum about our backdated pay rise being taxed.
Most of you know where I work.
When you start a thread then someone within an hour cuckoos it by slightly altering maybe a word or number and steals your traffic
When you start a forum subject then someone within an hour cuckoos it by slightly altering maybe a word or number and steals your hits.
People who talk about their camera lense rather than their lens by claiming that it’s maybe the American spelling and therefore correct. It’s not.
Very disproportionate.
brown packing tape - the stuff you put on parcels you are returning - it's either crap and lacks any adhesion whatsoever or it's so strong you cannot get it off the roll and on to the parcel you are trying to send.
By picking up every bit of swarf and filing in my shed apart from the elusive ALLOY **** spacer that went ping across the floor.
Cleaning? Heaven forbid.
I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that I make people disproportionately cross. Probably more so in meatspace than online.
People saying alloy when they mean aluminium alloy or some other non-magnetic metallic material 🙂
When you start a forum subject then someone within an hour cuckoos it by slightly altering maybe a word or number and steals your hits.
Ah yes, the "comedy" mimic threads, they're universally shit.
People who talk about their camera lense rather than their lens by claiming that it’s maybe the American spelling and therefore correct. It’s not.
See also, "potatoe."
Ah yes, the “comedy” mimic threads, they’re universally shit.
They're sometimes funny, once. When there's 17 decreasingly amusing versions of the same thing it just becomes a pain in the arse.
Sharing tea making facilities with instant coffee monsters.
Put the sugar in first, THEN the 'coffee', and all with a bone dry spoon so everything don't stick to it, and stop frikkin contaminating the sugar for tea drinkers you absolute insensitive wombles! :-/
People who put sugar in tea. Monsters. ?
Joking aside, I'm right there with you. I'd rather have sugar-contaminated coffee than coffee-contaminated sugar.
Started taking half a sugar when I stopped putting milk in.
Black tea is lovely with a little sugar taking the sharp edge off.
It is not however improved with the addition of instant coffee shrapnel.
People who put sugar in tea. Monsters. ?
Joking aside, I'm right there with you. I'd rather have sugar-contaminated coffee than coffee-contaminated sugar.
I gave up milk in tea years ago and started adding a cheeky half a sugar which replaces that slight sweetness milk gives you.
Makes it taste nice, unlike unwanted instant coffee shrapnel.
Universal Credit messages my self-employed wife: "You need to come in to the jobcentre to have a meeting about accepting your commitments, your appointment is at xxx"
My wife: "I'm working"
UC: "We've rebooked the appointment for a different day at XX"
My wife: "I'm at work then. Here are my working hours, I also can't come Friday afternoons close to sunset"
UC: "We've rebooked the appointment again, it's on Friday at 3:50" (sunset is 3:56)
My wife: (Wednesday evening) "I can't come then..."
UC: (weekend) "OMG you missed your appointment the world is ending you're in serious trouble, give us a good reason or else"
My wife: "I can't come on Fridays close to sunset for religious reasons and perhaps check your messages, it is the only way we have of contacting you after all"
UC: "We've rebooked the appointment for a different day at XX"
My wife: "I'm working then..."
UC: "Oh wait, you don't actually need an appointment because you are in paid work, forget about it"
Me & my wife: "!@#%!***£!!!"
Me: feeling smug that I'm working from home so I don't have to scrape a the thick layer of ice off my car.
MrsMC: can you move your car so I can get mine out? (She can't drive my manual car)
Also, the lunchtime presentation about gaslighting has been cancelled.
People who feel the need to stop and have a long and involved conversation after they've put the milk in their drink at the milk, sugar and biscuits table, completely impervious to any polite requests to get out of the f'ing way so that others too can get to the table.
a cheeky half a sugar
In what way is a small amount of sugar "cheeky". What in the wide, wide world o' sports does that actually mean ??
My wife: “I’m working”
UC: “We’ve rebooked the appointment for a different day at XX”
Gawd.. I had the same thing quite a few years ago... I was on jobseekers allowance after a lay off and had found a new job.
I call them to cancel my benefits.. "you'll have to come into the job center at XX.."
Errm I can't... I'll erm, be at work?
"if you don't attend your benefits could be cancelled"
OK.. Sounds like it will work itself out then?
Ffs.. Lol..
“you’ll have to come into the job center at XX..”
I find the whole process so dehumanising. It was the same when I was first job hunting in the 1990s and little has changed. It's like they think you have nothing better to do.
Gawd.. I had the same thing quite a few years ago… I was on jobseekers allowance after a lay off and had found a new job.
I call them to cancel my benefits.. “you’ll have to come into the job center at XX..”
Errm I can’t… I’ll erm, be at work?
“if you don’t attend your benefits could be cancelled”
OK.. Sounds like it will work itself out then?
I signed on when I lost my job and got another job a couple of days later. I got in touch to get it all cancelled and all I could get from them was the armageddon they would release if I fraudulently took any of their money, but nothing about how I stop the process. In the end I popped into Abergavenny JC+ and spoke to a human who said bank the cheque, and the next one if it arrives, because there was actually no way of intervening in that workflow in the first month! My not turning up to sign stopped it for month#2.
I have an amazon kindle, I really like it. But I also have paper books. I just finished reading a paper book, switched back to the kindle and suddenly I got a notification "Congratulations on your 3 day streak! Keep it up!" ** there has literally not been a day since I was a teenager when I didn't read a book, go * yourself.
Also everything about the Universal Credit system is designed by psychopaths. Had all the stuff above, now in the middle of "we think we've overpaid you by about £20 so you have to give us statements for every bank account, credit card, savings account, investment, also your paypal, plus proof of how you pay your rent and council tax and electricity and gas, back to the start of your claim, and provide on demand details of any transaction on any of those accounts for all of that period.". All on a system that's specifically supposed to handle people who are unwell. Like, I can pretty much handle it but obviously a lot of people just couldn't.
(A few years back while I was between jobs they made me go to a group meeting thing, in which some poor tired out manager dude sat in front of about 15 people and tried to help/convince/force/inspire people back into work. And it was just kafkaesque, there was a dude there who could barely speak because of anxiety, a guy who'd worked in one job for 40 years til his entire industry ended and now had no useful skills at 60, a bunch of ****less kids just playing the system (one in pyjamas of course), a couple of single parents just doing their best, and me just to cap it off going "yeah I have a degree and useful experience so I'm pretty sure I'll get a job as soon as I really put any effort in but also I have a redundancy settlement to live off". Like it was built to destroy people.)
The last time I had to sign on was in 1986 when the Job Centre was a hideous place, decorated in that government cream and green with a thick coating of tar from the fog of tobacco smoke that was a permanent feature. The staff were behind glass to protect them from attack.
I had to go back with our Ukrainian guest a couple of years ago, and I was pleasantly surprised at how much more civilised the place appeared to be. I soon discovered that despite those appearances, it was a place of shattered dreams (that was the staff) and Kafkaesque nightmares for the clients. And no jobs to be seen. The utter waste the whole thing represented made me cross, but I suspect not disproportionately.
Yeah, that's an extra level of sadness for the whole thing, pretty sure everyone I've ever dealt with at the job centre is a good person doing their best who has empathy and wants to help people and then one day they woke up and realised they work in the sorting office of hell. And tbf I used to do some hiring in a previous job and I don't think I'd hire anyone that had spent any time working in that system. And it's completely adjacent and equivalent to the job we did, in theory, so the exact same people could just as easily have stepped into my job by some quirk of fate instead of the soul crushing machine.
Previously I had to go to one that was in a fairly shitty area and it was the whole deal, armoured glass and security on the door and people getting frisked and all the seats bolted down so that you couldn't throw them and you couldn't get in til the exact moment of your appointment because of course you were a threat that would destroy things but if you were 10 seconds late you couldn't even get in the door and got written up. It wasn't far off the experience of visiting someone in jail. Now I'm in a fairly nice area and it's just a completely normal office, still has a security dude but it's a big fat bloke who looks like he'd die if he ever had to deal with any stress. And that itself is just completely ****ed, the difference in experience that people have on day 1, you get postcode lotteried into being treated like a person or an enemy
But I really mean it about the kindle.
pretty sure everyone I’ve ever dealt with at the job centre is a good person doing their best who has empathy and wants to help people and then one day they woke up and realised they work in the sorting office of hell.
Our local job centre wasn't too bad - being a quaint market town it wasn't too bad.
The staff ended up feeling sorry for a good mate of mine though. They just couldn't figure out what to do with him, so he got given the keys to the place and they paid him to come in every morning and clean before they opened!
I'm aware that this is going to make me sound like my dad, but **** it. Driving standards.
Since when did everybody (else) decide it was ok to sneak one or two cars through an actual red light? Since when did it become standard not let peds cross the road - I was flashed at from behind this morning for letting a couple of school kids cross a busy road? when did we all decide that we're not letting folks out at junctions? Or blocking side streets if we're waiting in a que of traffic? Folks ignore the keep clear instructions painted on roads, yellow boxes seem anathema to most folks. As for basic stuff like speed limits, indicators, tailgating; clearly only an amateur would pay any mind to any of it.
Bah! mutter mutter, grumble grumble...
I’m aware that this is going to make me sound like my dad, but **** it. Driving standards.
You can add "why does everyone seem to think their vehicle is 16 foot wide?" to your list. So many times I'm stuck behind someone who won't drive through a gap, even though something like a tipper lorry has just gone through it in front of them.
Bicycle serial codes hidden away on the bottom bracket.
It’s a disincentive to actually register the thing.
especially with the added weight of e-bikes.
Why not embrace the uniqueness of your bike and just get the manufacturers to laser engrave the number onto the top tube.
Looks like you need a new one ….
It's a nice idea, but probably easier just to change the car.
It's been a while since I signed on. My memories of it resemble nothing like what the tabloids have always portrayed it to be. A utopian land where you get paid more to not work and wallpaper your house in flat screens. My experiences were thoroughly depressing and demeaning to say the least. The money given, a pittance you could barely get by on. As far as I can tell it hasn't changed and is still amongst the lowest standard of support in the EU!
Poe's Law.
Circlips – little bastards.
They're designed specifically to fly off suddenly and become lost forever due to their tiny size.
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As to the coffee in the sugar bowl. What is worse is people who take a spoonful of sugar, then put it in the cup and stir it, then decide to put the now wet spoon back into the sugar, so you get brown hardened lumps.
Circlips – little bastards.
Known here as "Ping****its" after the noise heard when removing them.
For those annoyed at people who dawdle in supermarkets... I've gotta try this:
Fesshole @fesshole@mastodon.social
As students, my bestie and I used to go around the supermarket putting really expensive luxury items into people's unattended shopping trolleys. Then we'd watch whether they removed them at the till or politely paid for them because they didn't want to make a fuss
Could go crazy and dump an air fryer or a no-brand telly or something in there for extra giggles!
Could be an interesting sport!!
Yeah, it's a common student prank is that. We used to do it with things like KY Jelly and Anusol.
When your employer refers to roles in the Change team as "Firelighters".
That's going to be a very disappointing calendar...
I have probably said this before, but glass bottles dumped in the road. I got out of my van on Sunday morning in Bristol and someone had obviously been having a little party during the night and they had left an empty vodka bottle in the road. Littering boils my pee anyway but if they'd thrown it on the grass verge it would have been slightly more considerate. It blows my mind.
When your employer refers to roles in the Change team as “Firelighters”.
What the hell in the world of batshit cooperate buzz word bulshittery is that...
I'd start referring to them as arsonists just to make a point.
Management speak in general. We're going to go through a lot of changes for the next 5 years so we're all to do a managing change course. As part of that I'm in the "imperfect manager" group. Got the book read part of the foreword and the dedication on inside cover. I expect the B ark invitation any minute.
What utter codswallop.
I’d start referring to them as arsonists just to make a point.
With the emphasis on the first syllable.
Management speak in general.
Years ago, like late 90s, I worked for a civil engineering company. It was in many ways a very strange culture. The MD was a man who had taken to IT like a duck to petrol.
We were in a meeting one time, my colleague was providing an update about how we'd replaced a router or updated the firewall config or something, the MD suddenly exploded going "why do we have to have all these jargon terms that no-one understands!" My colleague shot back "well that's what it's called, would you prefer 'the thingie'?" Then after the Uncomfortable Dust had settled, the MD changed the subject to talk about 60mm t-piece reducing flanges or some such.
Car crashes.
Not the crashes themselves, terrible for all involved but the clean up.
Presumably someone is tasked with coming along and picking up the written off car(s).
So why do they always seem to leave a huge bumper, undertray, numberplate and smashed bits of plastic in the verge/side of the road?
Take all of it ffs.
My own inability to plan ahead. It's my girlfriend's birthday this weekend and I know she'd like some face stuff as it's expensive and she's running low. There's been a jar of whatever it is in my bathroom for a couple of weeks and I took no notice of it. Now it's not there I have no idea what said product was so can't buy her a new one. Mister Pillock!
Sitting in a small 'coffee bar' waiting for my wife to finish her interview. I'm sitting on a bar stool in the window, to people watch obviously, and there is no bar to put my feet. The choice is to squeeze them on to the small bar of the stool, causing my ankles to press against the stool leg, or let them dangle in the air like a toddler swinging on a chair!
Don't get me started on the flimsy plywood 'table' that bends downwards every time I lean on it to put my over priced and very sub standard coffee down
To add to that....myself. Why can't I make a decision. Looking for a new laptop, my current one is 9 years old and has a cracked case, plus who doesn't like new things ?
But can I make a decision? 3 times I've been in to look at physical items and I still walk away without buying. Then I start looking at other things, or a tablet, or a MacBook, but still don't buy anything!
Colleagues who ordered a McDonald's for themselves and didn't feel the need to ask the other members of staff if they might have wanted anything.
They both then decided to take a nice unscheduled break , waft the smell of sausages and egg muffins around while the other members of the non inclusive breakfast club picked their work .
Tossers
Continental hotels.
Would it really kill you to provide a usb A and C socket?
Probably higher up most people's wish list than a shower cap .
Probably higher up most people’s wish list than a shower cap .
I'm always disappointed now when there isn't a shower cap as I like to take them home for protecting rotors whilst washing and lubing my bike (which happens around twice a year).
I’m always disappointed now when there isn’t a shower cap as I like to take them home for protecting rotors whilst washing and lubing my bike (which happens around twice a year).
They're also handy to cover the bowl when you're proving dough.
Web 2.0 page rendering.
Ie, a web server provides content which the browser immediately displays, before the page layout is fully formed. So you're presented with an article you think "ooh, that looks interesting" and then the page reflows and it ****s off the screen somewhere never to be seen again. Or, you think "I'll just click on this" and then the page goes "surprise!" three picoseconds before your finger falls and you click on something else entirely.
Or, you think “I’ll just click on this” and then the page goes “surprise!” three picoseconds before your finger falls and you click on something else entirely.
Shouldn't this be in the issues with STW sticky thread 😉
But yes, this, many times over.
My mouse has an extra thumb button on the side, which is mapped to "go back a page" on internet browsers. I will never intentionally click this. From time to time I accidentally click it but always without fail I will click it and still have it clicked, and realise my mistake, and I then have to keep my thumb pressed down on that button to stop it going back a page.
Yes I'm sure I could turn this off in its software, except its software is now an app that doesn't work on my PC and when you contact them they say "yes, there is a known issue where the app doesn't work sometimes, we don't know why LOL, have you tried reinstalling windows or buying a new mouse?"
Colleagues who ordered a McDonald’s for themselves and didn’t feel the need to ask the other members of staff if they might have wanted anything.
Had a similar experience when during a regatta, the boat owner(Jeff)- when the work was to be done at the end of the race, bu66ered off and came back 1 hour later nonchalantly reading a sailing mag and eating an icecream
It was summer, hot and we'd all done considerable work and did he ask if anyone else wanted an icecream ? Did he fk
Pissed me the fk off so i stormed up to the shop, bought enough for the entire crew and handed them round.
All took except Kevin, who said he didnt want one.
You're ****g taking it i snarled as i thrust the icy confection in his direction. Principle had become invoked, and everyone one was getting one whether they wanted it or not. Or there would be hell to pay lol
Eating House or Eatery.