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Ebike****ers riding on the heather instead of the track at the Golfie.
If you dislike rocks and uneven surfaces that much maybe mountainbiking isn't for you.
****ers.
Wives* who insist on reading out whole articles from their phones, whilst I'm trying to read a completely different thing on my own phone.
* I only have one, honest I do. More than enough for me...
Bin day yesterday. Put the bins out, drove 200 miles to a friend's funeral, drove 200 miles back diverting round the M1 being closed. Got home to find the bins empty (yay!) but not put away so at past 11pm I have to put them away before putting the car on the drive.
Wives* who insist on reading out whole articles from their phones, whilst I'm trying to read a completely different thing on my own phone.
Putting the TV on, then watching videos on her phone. ****'s sake woman, pick one. *twitch*
Why is the default crisp flavour in your favourite multipacks, when it's sold as a pack of 6 by itself only seemingly available in Salt and Vinegar or Ready Salted in pretty much all shops?
Absolute lunacy. What kind of maniac doesn't prefer Cheese and Onion when they're going on a deep dive of an otherwise multipack flavour?
Same happens with Hula Hoops and Discos.
Make with the Cheese and Onion already!
😡
The postal "service". On arriving home on friday I had a final demand road tax reminder waiting for me . I have yet to receive the usual first reminder and the final demand one was posted by DVLA on 14/05/25 and only arrived at my house on the 25th. Que a rush down to the post office and sending my reply first class signed for to try and get there as soon as possible.
This yesterday
I saw a tiktok or FB or something on how to clear that up and get them all re-sorted using just a couple of magnets.
Which leads to - things that make me disproportionately cross - bloody tiktok 'hacks' making outdoor light fittings out of jam jars, or a wirestripper out of an old drinks bottle and a razorblade, etc. That I know I'll never use, but still watch, going 'ooh, that might come in handy one day' only to when finally someone drops a cases full of different sized screws, I can't FTLOM remember how to do them.
Pedants, nit-pickers and fault-finders. Grr.
(Oh and by the way it's "cue". "Que" is Spanish. 😉)
Roadworks without adequate signage.
I got to the roundabout where the A12 meets the M25 yesterday morning (from the east) wanting to head northbound. Having passed the southbound M25 exit I could only take the exit that put me back on the A12 towards London, the rest of the roundabout had been closed off!
I then had to go a mile or so towards London before I could turn back, head under the M25 for another few miles back the way I'd come before coming back again, taking the southbound exit a few more miles to the next junction then looping back again to finally head northbound. RARGH!!!
On my 2nd approach to the roundabout I was eagle-eyed looking for information signs, there was 1 small temporary digital sign off to one side with so much writing on it you stood no chance of reading it at 70mph.
A picture paints a thousand words (but possibly raises more questions)
People who approach roundabouts & roadworks at 70mph 😉
People who had the ideal opportunity to draw a 3 mile long cock and balls with their GPS tracker and instead drew a snake with a hideous Chernobyl like deformity
People who approach roundabouts & roadworks at 70mph
Sign was a looong way from the junction/roundabout/roadworks 😀
I was on Selfridges website looking at electronics as I need a new pair of headphones. Now I get targeted adverts for Selfridges but for women's clothing including underwear.
I was on Selfridges website looking at electronics as I need a new pair of headphones.
Aye, right. Dirty boy.
Anyway, the ID Mobile voicemail service
You
have
one
new
message
Message
from
0
7
7
6
8
9
4
3
etc
etc
Recieved
on
Monday
28th
March
etc
etc
Just play the muddyfunking message!!!!
You can only do that if you have the V5 in your possession because you need to enter the numbers on it. This vehicle was sold last month so no V5. Postal only.Que a rush down to the post office and sending my reply first class signed for to try and get there as soon as possible.
Or you could just do it online like normal people, 😁
It appears that I may have pressed a 5 instead of a 4. And don't call me Shirley!was posted by DVLA on 14/05/25
rush down to the post office and sending my reply first class signed for to try and get there as soon as possible
You could've just used your time machine again, surely?
Oh - I have one now!
I do a lot of cooking, really enjoy it. Few times a year my in-laws come to stay, or my Mum for example. I like to make them a nice dinner.
I get disproportionally cross when I'm chopping onions or whatever, and I get a wincing "Oooooh, be careful!" from the side - this happens very often. Oh, nah, I think I'll just do this with reckless abandon shall I?
Why is the default crisp flavour in your favourite multipacks, when it's sold as a pack of 6 by itself only seemingly available in Salt and Vinegar or Ready Salted in pretty much all shops?
On the crisps front...
red is ready salted
green is cheese and onion
blue is salt and vinegar
No other colour assignations are correct. I am looking at you, Walkers, the company that used to get this right but no longer does. After I opened a packet of cheese and onion and experienced extreme disappointment.
Oh, nah, I think I'll just do this with reckless abandon shall I?
When visitors are present, I like to impress them by chopping onions whilst juggling both knives and onions*.
* Not actually true.
. I am looking at you, Walkers, the company that used to get this right but no longer does.
Mandela Effect. Walkers has always been the wrong way around, there was never a change.
Waking up for my nocturo-pee at any time after 3:30am because there is absolutely zero chance of getting back to sleep*. I find that 1:30am is the best time.
*Not as bad as not waking up for a nocturno-pee I suppose.
My wife buying fruit because fruit 'is good for you', then having to throw most of it away because she hasn't eaten any of it.
My wife buying fruit because fruit 'is good for you', then having to throw most of it away because she hasn't eaten any of it.
My partner does a weekly shop where she buys two weeks' worth of food. Like, whereTF do you think we're going to put all this? I'll just put these two tins of beans with the other seven we already have, shall I?
Bike shed at work. 2 sheds with 30 odd spare racks with no locks. My lock, used 3-4 times a week fixed to a rack. Someone chucks my lock on the floor, leans their bike against the rack! ooh that winds me up.
What’s almost worse is the owner of that bike went into the shed when I was just about to go home, whipped his bottle out of the cage and was gone before I had a chance to ask why he did it! argh 😡
My partner does a weekly shop where she buys two weeks' worth of food. Like, whereTF do you think we're going to put all this? I'll just put these two tins of beans with the other seven we already have, shall I?
Yeah – we currently have three tubs of ice cream plus about 15 Magnums in our freezer. It drives me mad.
WhatsApp userists that use Send like they use Enter.
Write a short line, SEND
Another line. SEND
Another comment. SEND
Just frikkin compose a single message containing all of your thoughts and send it as a whole will ya ffs! Then I don't get 73 beeps notifying me of a new sentence!
Another one on the food front that drives me mad – my wife will buy some random thing (let's say 'sweet potato', as this is the current thing currently lurking in the fridge) then, when I ask about it, she'll say 'I fancy doing something with sweet potato'. She has no idea *what* to do with it (as I do most of the cooking), it gets left there and forgotten about, then she buys another (yes – we currently have two huge sweet potatoes in the fridge). I could use some in a Thai curry at the weekend, but with the amount we have, I could invite everyone from STW around for dinner 😂
Invite John Doe, he can bring ice cream for dessert.
Today's annoyance - people who weren't taught to either eat or talk. Ramming food into your cakehole then attempting to keep jabbering on is not pleasant for those around you.
Invite John Doe, he can bring ice cream for dessert.
johndoh IS John Doe 😉 It's the nickname vs username thing with the quotes.
STW meetup time! Thai curry and ice cream for everyone round at John's place tonight!
Just frikkin compose a single message containing all of your thoughts and send it as a whole will ya ffs! Then I don't get 73 beeps notifying me of a new sentence!
Same goes for Teams at work
In fact, I'll add people who send a Teams message that just says "Hi". You're getting ignored until you tell me what you want.
In fact, I'll add people who send a Teams message that just says "Hi". You're getting ignored until you tell me what you want
Stick this in your profile: https://nohello.com - won't stop some people, but you can take the moral high ground 🙂
"johndoh IS John Doe It's the nickname vs username thing with the quotes."
Well that's made me cross
Just frikkin compose a single message containing all of your thoughts and send it as a whole will ya ffs! Then I don't get 73 beeps notifying me of a new sentence!
Same goes for Teams at work
In fact, I'll add people who send a Teams message that just says "Hi". You're getting ignored until you tell me what you want.
Now I know why my Teams messages are never replied to!
Photos of bikes or people with bikes on the socials but the bike has been pixelated or scribbled over because it’s ’Top Secret’ or not released yet!
if it’s not for public to see then don’t take a flucking picture of it then. Nobody gives a shit your riding a prototype or for a new team etc. do one.
Right now my patchy lawn is making me cross.
Why is "anytime" one word but "every time" two? I get it wrong every !"£$%^&ing time.
Just add a steel insert to one spline like Novatec, Bitex and others do. It won't cost either the earth or a Strava PB
Could be wrong here but I think Bitex have patented that, and Novatec are just in "getting away with it" territory by virtue of being chinese and much bigger than bitex. For a long time their official channels didn't bring any of the ABG freehubs into the UK.
In fact, I'll add people who send a Teams message that just says "Hi". You're getting ignored until you tell me what you want.
Delivery drivers seem to take this approach now. They reply to my greeting but say nothing further, head down fiddling with their little gadget staring at the parcel between their feet while I just stand there, not very patiently, on the verge of asking "well, what the **** do you want?"
Zyrofisher, it took SRAM about 5 minutes to warranty my cranks back in early Feb but guess who just don't have any in stock. Yep, the UK supplier of all things SRAM. Maybe get them by mid may.
The general public.
How they could vote for that fascist grifters party after the problems brexit has caused, especially given the lies they told, annoys the utter fk out of me.
Although it will be like Trumps voters. Many of them live in poverty and rely on social benefits, but voted in someone who will(and has) cut their meager incomes.
Farage will do the same. Cut social spending to enable tax cuts for the rich, leaving his core voters in a worse situation.
They/he will continue to blame immigrants for all the ills, but will move on to the unemployed and disabled as the next group of scapegoats.
The general public.
How they could vote for that fascist grifters party after the problems brexit has caused, especially given the lies they told, annoys the utter fk out of me.
i think youve misread the title of this thread. your anger is not disproportionate, its entirely justified 😉
Pens. They never work,If you buy a 6pack, one will work, then you can never find it
Trail cams- They work until you put them outside-You spend half an hour to figure where to put them and they wont get spotted, and while youre putting it up and camouflaging it,loads of people appear from nowhere and you have to hide from them. Then, if you remembered to turn it on, and if its pointing the right way,and you have a SD card that works, the batteries wont work. Even though you tested it all out last night. And if they ever did all you ever get is 100 videos of a mouse stealing the peanuts
Oh how i hate batteries
Escaped goats.
Enjoying a sociable pootle at the back of an audax event only to find that the 70 riders in front of you have cleared the cafe control out of cake.
Still, the chips and loaded nachos were absolutely amazing
And I have lost my good watering can. No idea where it went, but it has vanished out the garden, not in the sheds.
Annoying in itself, but I have woken up on a Sunday with nothing planned and realised I need to go to a garden centre to buy a new watering can,. I'm only 56. I'm too young to need to go to a garden centre on a Sunday morning, I'm not ready for this!
"ENDING SOON!!"
Good, perhaps then you'll stop sending me mithering emails on a daily basis. But we both know you won't, don't we.
I always nag my OH to shut the fridge door.
"im just using the butter"
FFS, close it while youre using it, then open it again to return it?
Am I mad? its not a cupboard, youre just wasting energy
Went to a friends house t'other weekend. She had the fridge door open through the whole cooking process, including chopping veg, wandering off to wash a pan, setting the table.
"im cooking".
WT actual F?
^ Agreed ^
It's the same when they open the oven to get the chicken/casserole/roast tatties/whatever out, in order to stir the pot or rearrange the potatoes. Oven door left wide open through the whole process, temp drops 20°, oven then spends several mins getting back up to temp. And repeat. Bonkers.
Good, perhaps then you'll stop sending me mithering emails on a daily basis. But we both know you won't, don't we.
I ordered some prescription riding glasses from Goggles4U and the next day they sent me an email telling me I've been specially selected to get my last chance, twenty four hour only, when they're gone they're gone, additional savings over sale price, mega offer. They've sent me the same mail every day in the two years since. To be honest it weirdly makes me me smile, I think I kind of admire the sheer brazenness of it
Badly-designed hotel bathrooms.
Minimalist, sparkly chrome and LED lights. So minimalist that there isn't a towel rail or even a single hook
Shower tray without a screen and (you guessed it) nowhere to put the shower head when you're not using it. I want a screen so that I can find my way to the loo in the dark without falling over the shower tray; it turns out that is as likely to wake MrsBa as turning the sparkly LEDs on
The washbasin is just that, built without any additional shelves, worktop, etc.
Perfect for two people who have to move every damp thing back to the equally sparse room, thankfully only for a couple of nights
I always nag my OH to shut the fridge door.
"im just using the butter"
Butter? In the fridge?....
Monsters, the pair of you.
Cold plates . I don't get it . Spend time and effort in cooking eg a roast dinner. Place all the carefully prepared and cooked veg , gravy , Yorkshire puddings etc in to stone cold china . Which you then carry to the table and serve on to stone cold dinner plates.
It's not salad , or dessert. Things are available for heating plates and dishes to at least hand hot temperature. Doesn't need to be furnace temperature.
Just spoils the experience imo.
Cold plates . I don't get it . Spend time and effort in cooking eg a roast dinner. Place all the carefully prepared and cooked veg , gravy , Yorkshire puddings etc in to stone cold china . Which you then carry to the table and serve on to stone cold dinner plates.
It's not salad , or dessert. Things are available for heating plates and dishes to at least hand hot temperature. Doesn't need to be furnace temperature.
Just spoils the experience imo.
On that note, people who slice steaks up before serving to make it look fancy... now I've got to eat cold steak, you pillock 🤡
FFS, close it while youre using it, then open it again to return it?
My fridge screams if it notices a temperature drop.
I'm guilty of this to a degree (ahem, sorry) if I'm getting a drink or some such. It's the work of seconds to tip cola into a glass and put the bottle back in.
people who slice steaks up before serving to make it look fancy... now I've got to eat cold steak,
On this note: toast racks. WhoTF thought "we've got this nice fresh hot toast, how can we turn it into stone cold roofing material as rapidly as possible"?
Was there some sort of fetish for cold toast in Victorian days?
Toast is like McDonalds fries, if its not consumed within 60s of being done, it may aswell go in the compost bin, or turn it into crootons if you are posh.
Cold plates . I don't get it
Not that this makes me cross, but as an aside... my dad spent 25-odd years living & working in Hong Kong, before it was handed back to the Chinese govt. He said once that he'd spent a lot of that time (mainly when eating out, obviously) trying to persuade/inveigle/train a number of restaurants into the habit of serving hot food on warm plates. He gave up.
Toast is a tricky one in our house. I like my toast hot enough to melt the butter and not burned. She liked the toast cold enough not to melt butter and considers my idea of toast to be warm bread. I don’t like my toast to shatter…
More in keeping with the thread, when the toaster is slightly too small for the toast and it burns the bit that has slightly folded over.
That and emptying the crumbs from the little hatch incredibly carefully, plonk it on the sideboard, more crumbs. Every single time.
emptying the crumbs from the little hatch incredibly carefully, plonk it on the sideboard, more crumbs.
Keep the toaster on a tray. No more problem, crumbs easy to deal with.
Donald Trump’s random capitalisation of words in his tweets. I can live with (and actually quite enjoy) the fact that he’s destroying the USA and its global reputation, and that the people who voted for him are at the sharp end of his policies. But the unnecessary turning of ordinary words into proper nouns is doing my head in.
KFC adverts...
Clicks "Remember this device for 30 days".
Next day - "who da **** are you?"
More in keeping with the thread, when the toaster is slightly too small for the toast and it burns the bit that has slightly folded over.
The Warburton's toastie loaf is cardinal sinner for this. I lop off the top half inch before toasting. My partner toasts it vertically so the top quarter is warm bread.
Hobson's Choice dialogue boxes.
"Do you want to do this thing?" [yes] | [maybe later]
Where's the£"$%^*(%$ing [no] button?
The incorrect use of aswell. Do you mean as well or a swell?
In the toast neighborhood.
Warburtons 'Thick' Toastie
Thick my arts.
I reckon it's under 10mm. Nothing more than poxy medium to me.
It irritates me that their small toastie and the large toastie are different thicknesses. Pick one.
Why is "anytime" one word but "every time" two?
And everywhere, everything, everybody, everyone, everyday, everyplace and everyday may be used as one word.
Walking up from our local beauty spot late Bank holiday afternoon we see lots of litter. I was so incensed I started to pick up as much as I could (no bag). There was a trail of children's sweet wrappers every 20m or so. There is a river nearby and they'll just blow into the water and end up in the sea. There was even a large carton of chocolate flavoured milk just dumped on a dry stone wall, this was half full. The litter was all snack type rubbish, the type teenagers would buy.
What makes people think this is behaviour that is acceptable anywhere let alone a beautiful wild, countryside area.
And breath.
OK but, sometimes, I go out with my litter grabber and my binbag-onna-stick and collect up a load of litter and come back home feeling incredibly smug about it, so I suppose I should thank the litterers for that mental health boost.
(if they ever stop I'll have to start littering, it's just the law of supply and demand)