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Sergeant 'pinned down' teenage soldier, inquest told
This. It makes by blood boil. The mitigation for failure to act appropriately in dealing with this incident and others would be laughable if the result wasn't so tragic.
I hope their failure haunt them and that accountability comes knocking soon enough.
I've been on the periphery of such incidents and will always be thankful that my unit did the right thing and made the right decisions to pursue properly and the system worked and jailed and/or discharged ****wits.
These people chose expedincy and convenience over doing the right thing.
Computer updates that give a percentage completed.
Fair enough, but if the percentage zooms up to 97% in 15 seconds, but then hangs at 97% for a minute, it's not really giving me a fair percentage of likely completion.
Well, it is in some ways, but you know what I mean.
"My fur baby has crossed the rainbow bridge"
Two monstrosities in one sentence.
nevermind
Computer updates that give a percentage completed.
Fair enough, but if the percentage zooms up to 97% in 15 seconds, but then hangs at 97% for a minute, it's not really giving me a fair percentage of likely completion.
Well, it is in some ways, but you know what I mean.
It's like reporting you have done 97% of the painting. All you have to do it put the roller down and cut in around the edges
All you have to do it put the roller down and cut in around the edges
Who does that apart from my wife...cut in 1st then roller
Ist coat cut in then roller. Second coat roller then cut in to give the best finish
...we really should have worked out by now how to let people get fuel, go park up and then go to pay.
Or pay in advance, online even, fuel up and drive away to get change/online refund; you don't move your car, you don't get a refund. Saves fuel drive-offs too
"My fur baby has crossed the rainbow bridge"
Two monstrosities in one sentence.
... accompanied by a photo of an animal dressed in a 3-piece suit or pyjamas.
I have the utmost sympathy for someone who's lost a pet, I've probably shed more tears over animals than people over the years. But for ****'s sake, some people just need to get laid.
If the little ****er has got his whistle and flute on, he's dressed for crossing the rainbow bridge when he gets mangled in someone's front wheel. Particularly if he's a little white fluffy effort. Bleeuurrrghhhh!
I don't like change.
Grumpy people on shared use paths that think they have right if west over everyone else.
My fur baby has just as much right to wander about the path as any one else, especially as he looks so dapper in his whistle and flute 😎
With respect, that’s not what the Highway Code says about your fur baby.
Could be, I literally just slung some words together without thinking about what they meant.
The wonders of social media introduced me to ****ernomics this evening - I suspect it will strongly resonate.
The accountant in my (very small) company not letting me sign up to a Cycle to Work scheme! 🤬 🤬
The identikit retail parks across the land. Filled with the same beige fast food drive throughs and shops. Each one, indistinguishable from the next.
Character and individuality is dying and nobody cares.
Filled with the same beige fast food drive throughs and shops. Each one, indistinguishable from the next.
To be fair, even I can tell McDonald's from Next
Recently various digital advertising signs have gone up around the town which seem to project more lumens than a dusk till dawn MTB race start line.
The recent trend, at least around my area, for a photo of the estate agent on property For Sale signs.
It's unneccesary, vain and a pointless Americanism.
Second that - there's one round our way that just brings up a little sick every time I see one of their signs.
I must take a sharpie with me so I can draw some glasses and a 'tache on the next one I see.
When one of these bad-boys rocks up on your street!...
Recently various digital advertising signs have gone up around the town which seem to project more lumens than a dusk till dawn MTB race start line.
Yeah man. There's some massive distracting digital billboards on the M6 between junction 9 and the big RAC building.
So distracting. Not sure how that's allowed on a busy motorway to be honest.
The fact that I can't find neither the Trump nor the Tate thread to post this absolutely disgusting attempted interference
BBC News - US must not interfere in Tate's case, say alleged victims
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c778ldvpn0po
When one of these bad-boys rocks up on your street!...
What makes me even more annoyed is their name which obviously must be ironic. See also various quasi govt departments and thinktanks which have a name which means the diametric opposite of what they are trying to achieve such as The European Research Group and Dept of Govt Efficiency.
The identikit retail parks across the land. Filled with the same beige fast food drive throughs and shops. Each one, indistinguishable from the next.
There's a quote from the former Prince Charles about this from the '90s ... it's been around for a while.
In 2000 I briefly worked on a project under the banner of Design Yorkshire looking at developing principles for distinctive localised retail parks. Brief, because the professor I was working under was arrested for fraud and disappeared overnight.
Wonky number plates, it shouldn't wind me up as much as it does.
Reviewing things you haven’t even opened or plugged in yet. I’m shopping for kitchen appliances and DNGAF about the anticipation or enthusiasm you have for the thing you just bought. Tell me in six months how much you love or hate it when you’ve been scalded or electrocuted cos of a shit design.
Argos also guilty. No Auntie Jean, you can’t give a ****ing five star rating for the gift that hasn’t yet been given.
"Right wing activists"
Surely an oxymoron?
Reviewing things you haven’t even opened or plugged in yet. I’m shopping for kitchen appliances and DNGAF about the anticipation or enthusiasm you have for the thing you just bought. Tell me in six months how much you love or hate it when you’ve been scalded or electrocuted cos of a shit design.
Argos also guilty. No Auntie Jean, you can’t give a **** five star rating for the gift that hasn’t yet been given.
+1 to that. See also:
"Only 2* because the box was broken"
"Changed my mind and returned it unopened, seller gave refund, 5*"
"Changed my mind and returned it unopened, seller didn't respond after 30 seconds, 1*"
"1* it doesn't work because [reason that shows it's clearly a faulty one]"
"1* it doesn't work because [reason that shows I clearly don't know how to use it]"
Is the concept of a product review really that hard to grasp?
Reviewing things you haven’t even opened or plugged in yet.
I get emails from Amazon asking me to review my upcoming product. Based on what, exactly?
That's as annoying as the restaurant I went to where you pay on ordering by app at your table asking me how much I want to tip
Drivers continuing to indicate right as they turn left off a roundabout. The drivers of Milton Keynes are terrible for this, and MK is basically one big roundabout.
Indicating at all is a dying art so at least they're only half twonk.
I'm literally the only person left in the UK that indicates on roundabouts regardless of their size.
People approaching me for directions in the street while holding a phone with a maps app open!
Jaffa Cakes have definitely got smaller.
Jaffa Cakes have definitely got smaller.
"People" (trying to protect their identity) who put some of the washing in the tumble dryer but drape some stuff that could be tumble dried over the radiators, despite there being room in the tumble dryer.
As in, we now have two tumble dried pillow cases and two wet ones on the radiator.
Kayak - I still indicate.
My latest annoyance is; a facebook plea from some country house where visitors with children (it's half term this week), were allowing the brats to pick flowers, dig up bulbs, jumping on picnic tables and chairs and generally treating the gardens like a rubbish bin. Even after being asked by the 'volunteers' to 'please' control their children and pick up the litter. Arrgghh.
from some country house where visitors with children (it's half term this week), were allowing the brats to pick flowers, dig up bulbs, jumping on picnic tables and chairs and generally treating the gardens like a rubbish bin.
We called in at Croome Court/RAF Defford* yesterday, and one of the volunteers said they'd put some things away for half term week.
*worth a stop if you are Worcester way
'm literally the only person left in the UK that indicates on roundabouts regardless of their size.
I'd heard that small people don't need to indicate at all!
People who should know better advertising "magic potion" supplement crap.
I get that podcasters need sponsors, but I wish they would find sponsors that are producing things that are genuinely worthwhile. Most of the crap that Olly Wilkins and his annoying salesman mate peddle is embarrassing and Andrew Neethling is terrible too. FFS even Google's AI says AG1 is nonsense.
I've whinged about this before but it's worth repeating.
Doing the washing up. Ran out of washing-up liquid. It's OK, I think, I didn't buy more because I know there's another bottle in the cupboard.
And I was right, there is. An empty bottle. WTF?
People who open all the upstairs windows "to let some air in".
There's 45mph gusts out there. Doors and windows are slamming shut, curtains are parallel to the ceiling and in danger of coming off their hooks. FFS if you want some fresh air, put the windows on the ****ing latch.
The till staff in Aldi with their headsets on chatting away to their colleagues. I wouldn't be on the phone while at the checkout as it's rude.
Back specialists who claim we can cure the sciatica you are suffering from, just bring yourself and card for a nice chat and a wee bit localised massage maybe a bit acupuncture
Who should be the best chiropractor, sports massage, osteopath ?
When someone doesn't replace the toilet roll when it finished, ahhhh
I missed a memo yesterday. It was evidently "lurch to the left just as you've nearly finished your overtake" day on the M4.
So many people doing it, when the usual thing is to stay in Lane 2 all the way to Wales.
People who open all the upstairs windows "to let some air in".
... with the heating going full chat because it's cold.
I'm cross that the term "****panzer", which was formerly for SUVs, has been pre-purposed specifically for Tesla Cyber Trucks.
You know what boils my piss - these bloody lids that stay attached to bottles! F those guys!
lids that stay attached to bottles
Twist 'em they break off. Just remember to recycle the top as well as the bottle.
You know what boils my piss - these bloody lids that stay attached to bottles! F those guys!
You can rip them off. I like it for the simple reason that they're not going to skitter off under the fridge or car seat.
Related though, I bought a cheap store own-brand bottle of cola that had the tethered cap and the retaining ring was sloppy. Every time you try to pour it'd flap round under the stream so it'd fill up the cap. That was crossmaking.
You arrive in person to see someone for business or whatever, and just as you're starting a sentence, some knobber rings them, usurping you and you have to stand about like a div until they've got off the phone after an age, leaving you time to reflect and add to this here thread.
Maybe not disproportionately cross but I was fuming when I saw a mass balloon release in my local park on Saturday. It's 2025, there has to be a better way of marking someone's life than littering the countryside.
stand about like a div until they've got off the phone after an age, leaving you time to reflect and add to this here thread.
The very last bit of that should make you at least a little bit happy, please? The rest, I'd wholly agree with you.
First day in the office on a phased return after 2 months off with anxiety and depression, and all my colleagues want to ask me what to do on my cases they've been allocated.
Guys, if I knew the answer, I wouldn't have been off!
Pricks reading messages on their smart watch in meetings. Rude ****s.
C5 and the absolute bollocks they keep churning out about the royals. Just the adverts for the programmes make me want to smash my telly.
Maybe not disproportionately cross but I was fuming when I saw a mass balloon release in my local park on Saturday. It's 2025, there has to be a better way of marking someone's life than littering the countryside.
Yeah. I took one for the team recently and went to see the new Bridget Jones film with Mrs kayak23. Was really not happy to see a scene in the film where they release some balloons for the deceased husband/father. Very sad of course, but yeah, not an ideal thing to have in a film I thought.
Bloody NZ sandflies. They may not form clouds like the highland midge but they are persistent and very bitey. Horrid little things. I had my morning coffee walking in circles this morning.
Arrgghhhhhhhhh
People that call non electric bikes "acoustic bikes" and people who call eBikes "eebs". I still have no ideas what the double "e" stands for.
Entirely electric? Evidently electric? No idea.
eebs". I still have no ideas what the double "e" stands for.
We've done this multiple times. It doesn't stand for anything.
Say ebike. Now say it again but leave out the 'ike'.
Any problems, call Sam Pilgrim. 👍
The MOT tester leaving my wipers on intermittent for the entire test today.
Also leaving a 39 year old car idling the entire time. Can’t see how it’s necessary.
Seems like unnecessary pollution and the tester risking a sudden hot shower from such an old vehicle
Surely if the fans come on and off a couple of times and it doesn’t piss coolant, it’s all good.
Youtube. You gits. You sucker me in with the promise of utopian bliss by taking advantage of a free trial of Premium. Now, I'll concede, ad-free YouTube is a thing to be enjoyed. I'll admit to being impressed.
But, no, wait one flaming moment...the second the free trial expires, you now subject me to pre-video ad breaks of a mind numbing, non-skippable, 45 seconds, then, as if that wasn't enough dross, you interrupt my video viewing with another 28 second slot, and further intermittent ad-breaks thereafter. Oh, the horror if it...gits.
Cancelling British Cycling renewal.
No simple link on dashboard, have to phone in or email.
Gold/Silver/Bronze membership has gone since last year's renewal, cheapest riding membership with the discounts but not insurance is going up to £50 for the year... My Bronze was ~£25 iirc! 😮
And while I'm moaning about British Cycling, why are ebike discounts limited to just Tredz from what I can see, but you can get 10% code for non-e bikes at the likes of Halfords and Decathlon?
Has anyone mentioned hotel beds that are made so tightly that you cannot get in to tbem and then when you do manage to untuck it enough to get in the bottom sheet is untucked as well?
Boils my urine as there is no need at all.
This forum. Sorry, STW. New threads don't appear, the pages load no quicker than the old forum, and the new anti-adblock tool is making false accusations.
Yeah. I took one for the team recently and went to see the new Bridget Jones film with Mrs kayak23.
Wandered into the cinema the other week with my wife to see Paddington 3. Ticket checker looked surprised - "oh, you look like the sort of people going to see Bridget Jones". My wife saw the funny side. I didn't.
Candle wax.
That gets right on my wick.
Badly trained dogs.
Well trained ones are fine and don't need a lead even. Badly trained ones are an antisocial menace
😡
"eebs". I still have no ideas what the double "e" stands for.
Electrically essisted bicycle of course.