MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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Collared doves. Woo,****ing Hoo, Hoo somewhere else at 5am, please
Airlines. Delay you and then put every obstacle in your way to claiming (for your security).
You have literally already got my shoe size and a photograph of them to prove it, so what else do you need?
The cord on the hoover. Our old Dyson died a couple of years ago and was replaced by a Shark. For some reason that she explained at the time, MrsIHN ordered the corded model, not the cordless one. It does my motherfunking swede in, it's always in the way when you're using it, it always gets trapped under doors/furniture/whatever, it's really, really irritating.
Oh, and the fact that a Shark hoover is comically unstable annoys me too.
You have literally already got my shoe size and a photograph of them to prove it, so what else do you need?
Flashy - is that you ?
"The cord on the hoover"
Vacuum cleaner, unless it is actually a Hoover product.
"Cutter" - It's pronounced Qat-Ar you lazy ****ing Yank
I've heard quite a few Americans pronounce it this way. Including at least one who was a regular visitor to Qatar. I've been there fair few times myself and I'm unsure how the locals pronounce it.
Domestic appliance nomenclature pedants
I'm disproportionately cross that nobody has established whoever the **** molly mae actually is, because right now I'm unable to work out whether I should be cross about Amazon advertising her so much, which I might or might not need to be disproportionately cross about.
"Cutter" - It's pronounced Qat-Ar you lazy ****ing Yank
I've heard quite a few Americans pronounce it this way. Including at least one who was a regular visitor to Qatar. I've been there fair few times myself and I'm unsure how the locals pronounce it.
I've been watching a lot of Trump commentating recently as it's utterly fantastic viewing, and they appear to have no awareness of how to pronounce it often doing several different versions in one feature or even sentence.
I don't care how the locals pronounce it, I've simply never heard anyone not even try to pronounce something - they're replacing it with a whole different word. It's lazy.
I've not seen the Molly Mae advert - how do you buy her? Does she come complete or as a kit?
More 'in the way-ness' to follow on from earlier this morning.
Yep, we're packing bags to go for a week in Suffolk, but these don't half get in the way of walking in and out of the spare room. Just put 'em at the side, rather than in the middle of the floor, please?
Supermarket self checkouts.....
They're just another way of making of money by reducing staff levels.
Plus they never bloody work properly and you have to wait for the scarce member of staff on duty to come and way their magic barcode to get it to work again for the next 3 items, and then you have to wait for them to come back.
And why can't I get a discount when I use self checkout - after all I'm doing a job one of your previous employees did....
The otherwise nice lad who sits in the tea room watching stuff on his phone out loud at lunch and chuckling constantly to himself.
Also, people who can't seem to work supermarket self checkouts and constantly make them throw a wobbly.
Yeah and Shrewsbury can ****ing do one too
Wait until you visit Grundisburgh then.
Hours of fun when the US had several air bases in the area. HOURS!
Also, people who can't seem to work supermarket self checkouts and constantly make them throw a wobbly.
Bad workmen blame their tools
Why not just put it in the convenient hole about 4" to the left?
I've already posted this one.
Me: "why do you keep pulling the filter out of the sink?"
Her: "stuff keeps getting stuck in it."
Me: "... what do you suppose it's there for?"
Vacuum cleaner, unless it is actually a Hoover product.
I'm told that the arch-Brexiter James Dyson particularly enjoys it when his hoovers are referred to as hoovers.
Firms that advertise 48 hour tracked delivery and then
a) don’t put the item in the post for several days
and/or
b) (and I think I’m looking at you, Galibier) don’t send you the tracking number
I shouldn't complain too hard about this but there is a sunglasses manufacturer who have sent me (free) spares on asking. The problem is that they agree to do it, send me the tracking number and then don't actually put it in the post until I chase them a week later saying "this doesn't seem to have been dispatched"
Yeah and Shrewsbury can ****ing do one too
It's easy, that one. Salop.
The outer of the laces being cut through by the metal eyelets on my toe tector boots again and again and ..
'Genuine reason for sale'
Well yeah, you want the money innit.
That today's 'headline' news, main item on BBC Breakfast news, is that Gary Lineker is leaving. WGAF. I mean I like him as s presenter, he seemed a nice enough chap on the occasion I met him briefly, but this is not the most important news in the world today.
"Oi! The sign says no cycling"
"Yes, but it's a wide concrete track for farm vehicles and I'm riding at walking pace, so I assumed it wouldn't be an issue"
"You have to get off and walk!"
"Can you explain why?"
"I don't have to explain anything"
You don't think the reason he left is perhaps important?
If you'll excuse by hyperbole......
The slaughter of hundreds of innocent kids. Starving a people to death...
I'd say that was pretty important
The outer of the laces being cut through by the metal eyelets on my toe tector boots again and again and ..
Fettle with a jeweller's file, metal eyelets are a pain
Not a new one to this thread but facebook marketplace. I have an item listed for £25. I receive a message that simply says 10. I might have been more receptive to knocking 60% off the asking price if you'd have communicated with me like I am a human being.
We have a posh china butter dish (inherited, i hasten to add). The lid is a small glazed ball.
Someone has picked up the lid by the small shiny ball using what I assume were slippery/buttery fingers. We very nearly had a broken lid on our butter dish.
Wife tumble dried and shrunk another item of clothing of mine.
Wife tumble dried and shrunk another item of clothing of mine.
I feel your pain. We now have a separate washing bag for stuff that needs extra care.
Latest victim was a PERFECTLY SIZED shirt I was quite happy with. OK it was from an op shop but it was perfect, G-Star Raw short sleeved and I was chuffed it was only $15. Lasted one wash. Too small. Fortunately wife wasn't home as I did indeed get disproportionately cross. Ripped it off, pulled all the buttons off in the process and tore the shirt a little. (Not usual for me to get this angry over essentially not a huge problem).
Meh.
"Wife tumble dried and shrunk another item of clothing of mine."
I find that living alone avoids this kind of upset entirely
I'd drive myself mental if I lived alone mate. I'll just settle with a brief angry explosion and just buy another shirt. Although I am tempted to use her "spending money" to replace it as they seem to be around $150 new. TBF I'm sure I piss her off in numerous ways so all's fair. 😀
Wife tumble dried and shrunk another item of clothing of mine.
This was 100% on purpose because she does not like it.
I've gotta say - either do the washing yourself or wind your neck in about how the washing is done.
Why do tea bag manufacturers go to the effort of cutting them into pairs, but not go the whole hog and cut them into singles?
I inevitably end up tearing one of the bags as I hamfistedly try to separate them.
Is it a profiteering exercise in making people get through the bags quicker?
I have already said this, but I say it again – my wife buys fruit because 'it's healthy', then does not eat it. I have just thrown out some mouldy raspberries (saved half of the unopened punnet by freezing them), binned a whole sliced mango that she never ate, frozen four bananas (she ate one and I have been eating them every day but they are getting very ripe), and I'm trying to eat my way through some strawberries too. So we now have several bags of frozen fruit (mainly strawberries and bananas) but she won't use them to make smoothies as 'they aren't as good for you'.
When I bring up this wastefulness with her, she always comes back with 'but we need to eat more healthily' (we eat very well – almost no processed food, almost all meals cooked from fresh ingredients).
FFS.
Everything to do with the "gov.uk" system.
Today's example - I wanted to check something about my pension I went to gov.uk to look for a phone number and was surprised to see a new option to "manage your pension online". Of course to log in you need to register - no matter that I am registered for umpteen other government service - "Government Gateway" - WTF is that all about ???. To register I need to tell them my NI number, my passport information and my drivers licence information, choose a password, fill in a string of security codes, until eventually I can log in. Hallelujah.
Not quite - "We Cannot Show Your State Pension Details" ? What the? I mean, what the???? So now having wasted that time I now need to revert to plan A and spend the afternoon on hold to DWP listening to a recorded message until my brain falls out of my ear. Cross? Yes. Disproportionate? I don't think so.
Socks with the day written on them. What kind of person gets up looking for their "Tuesday sock"?
Why do tea bag manufacturers go to the effort of cutting them into pairs, but not go the whole hog and cut them into singles?
I inevitably end up tearing one of the bags as I hamfistedly try to separate them.
Is it a profiteering exercise in making people get through the bags quicker?
It's a 'big tea' conspiracy.. They just want to sell these...
https://180andup.com/products/elegant-tea-bag-scissors
The advert that is currently running where a chap tips sugar into his pasta sauce and asks his phone to help him out, eventually making it into some biscuits.
- Scoop the sugar out with a spoon you dick head.
- Now that you have your horrible tomato biscuits what are you going to put on your pasta eh? Ask your ****ing phone that one and stay fashionable!
- All that ruined sauce did not make 6 biscuits. It will have made about 40 of them. Tomato failure biscuits for tea every night for the next 2 weeks or are they going in the bin?
Should have either just scooped it out, or perhaps not put it on there in the first place.
Ring ring.
"Thank you for calling, how can we help?"
Hi. I'd like to pay this bill please.
"Certainly sir. But in order to confirm your identity I first need to ask you a few security questions."
Why? Is there a risk that I might be calling to fraudulently pay off someone else's bills?
Socks with the day written on them. What kind of person gets up looking for their "Tuesday sock"?
Only to discover their partner shrank it in the tumble dryer.....
As tea people, we love elegant and cute tools that make the whole experience of teatime more perfect. These scissors make opening your bags of Yancha or other tea part of that perfect experience.
This kind of bullshit.
I've not seen the Molly Mae advert - how do you buy her? Does she come complete or as a kit?
There's a Jamaica joke in there somewhere.
Everything to do with the "gov.uk" system.
Today's example - I wanted to check something about my pension I went to gov.uk to look for a phone number and was surprised to see a new option to "manage your pension online". Of course to log in you need to register - no matter that I am registered for umpteen other government service - "Government Gateway" - WTF is that all about ???. To register I need to tell them my NI number, my passport information and my drivers licence information, choose a password, fill in a string of security codes, until eventually I can log in. Hallelujah.
Not quite - "We Cannot Show Your State Pension Details" ? What the? I mean, what the???? So now having wasted that time I now need to revert to plan A and spend the afternoon on hold to DWP listening to a recorded message until my brain falls out of my ear. Cross? Yes. Disproportionate? I don't think so.
This all sounds relatively functional for a government procured IT system.
Going to quickly rinse your teaspoon (not a euphemism) in the kitchen sink at work only to have to wait for a colleague washing up 3 loads of Tupperware with OCD levels of zeal.
Would've been better off using Fairy.
A while back I was doing some contracting for the NHS and I spent more time reporting non-compliance issues back to them than actually doing my job... It's the wild west..
I'd get jobs come in such as system x is not doing whatever... And they'd send me a bunch of proof through which is great, but it often contained a lot of PID data... So yes Michael from Winchester, I know all about your irritable bowel syndrome, even though I was only doing app support for blood testing or whatever.
Parents. We have one, at school whinging because her daughter has belly ache every weekend. a) "Not my problem." The child doesn't eat all her sandwiches. b) "don't give her more than I would eat then". Please can we, teaching staff, make sure, personally , that shje eats it all and ask dinner staff to do so. . Just how many adults need to personally check a 9 year olds lunch box? Next day comes. **** is complaining because two adults asked her if she had eaten all her lunch and we were hassling the child! c) "didn't we say this to you you daft woman?" Please let her decide. "We said that as well." Oh yeah and while you are being a pain please stop blocking the road junction outside the school twice a day so you can get away 10 seconds earlier.
Being offered an email receipt instead of paper, usually by a fast fashion company. Doing their bit, yeh right.
Being offered an email receipt instead of paper, usually by a fast fashion company.
Why would you not want this?
I can search through my email in seconds to find a receipt for something I bought ten years ago, or I can spend an afternoon rummaging through scraps of paper. It's nuts. Why do you even need a receipt at all?
Going through supermarket checkouts, "would you like a receipt?" - "yes please." You've bought a pint of milk and a bunch of bananas, do you suppose they're going to be faulty?
"Doing their bit" - how many transactions automatically print out a receipt, the staff go "do you want a receipt?", you answer no thanks and it goes straight in the bin. WTF, how wasteful is that?
Airport security.
if you ask us to remove our belts, please provide some means to hold up our trousers whilst were scanned.
Barky trail dogs.
I love dogs, truly. But can all you wannabe influencers **** off somewhere else while I ride?
I'd like to enjoy the sound of my own incompetence and the forest, not your ****ing out of control Vizla whose gob is on full send.
Some people call it inconsequential anarchy.
Being offered an email receipt instead of paper, usually by a fast fashion company.
Why would you not want this?
Because you don’t want to be spammed until the end of time.
Airport security.
if you ask us to remove our belts, please provide some means to hold up our trousers whilst were scanned.
Haha! yes!
I've had this issue at the US passport/border control. I was wearing a pair of shorts that I had bought years ago and subsequently lost a lot of weight. But I like the shorts and they have plenty of life in them so I use a belt.
I had to stand like a bloody huge A-frame to stop them falling down whilst they frisked me lol
Because you don’t want to be spammed until the end of time.
You are legally required to be able to unsubscribe from those emails - you might get a couple more after unsubscribing because the address list had already been selected for them but if it carries on longer than that you can raise it with their data protection officer or the ICO or request that your data is deleted. Or just set up a rule in your email client to move email from their address to a different folder so it's not sat in your inbox.
Basically anyone getting "spammed" by a legit organisation only has themselves to blame.
Rain on a bank holiday weekend.
Going through supermarket checkouts, "would you like a receipt?" - "yes please." You've bought a pint of milk and a bunch of bananas, do you suppose they're going to be faulty?
My annoyance is when you hit the "no receipt" button and then the alarm goes off as you leave the supermarket due to an unannounced security tag on a bit of meat or something. Mr Security Guard then looks at you like you are a total idiot when you say "No" to his question of "Can I see your receipt". If i'm going to be interrogated for lack of a receipt, then don't give me the option not to have one.
You are legally required to be able to unsubscribe from those emails - you might get a couple more after unsubscribing because the address list had already been selected for them but if it carries on longer than that you can raise it with their data protection officer or the ICO or request that your data is deleted. Or just set up a rule in your email client to move email from their address to a different folder so it's not sat in your inbox.
Oh yay, more admin...
Basically anyone getting "spammed" by a legit organisation only has themselves to blame.
Unless that organisation sells your details to a 3rd party
Unless that organisation stores the address you used and they later get hacked
Petty bureaucracy.
- Got a family funeral net Friday.
- Grave plot was not registered in the correct name 30 years ago.
- Person who should be the owner is the one that we are trying to have planted.
- Revised documents for new owner need to be counter signed by a solicitor and returned to the cemetery so that the funeral can go ahead.
- Person handling this at the cemetery has gone on sick and nobody else can touch it because “it is in her email”.
It’s not as if a delay in the paperwork will mean that we have to postpone the funeral or anything…
My employer cocked up the March pension payment so it arrived very late and in the new financial year
They're American and do not GAF. I can't report them to the Pensions Ombudsman as my company does not have an official complaints process which is a prerequisite for the PO to sort my claim of non-compliance
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Because you don’t want to be spammed until the end of time.
There are many ways around this, not least of which is GDPR UK.
My annoyance is when you hit the "no receipt" button and then the alarm goes off as you leave the supermarket due to an unannounced security tag on a bit of meat or something. Mr Security Guard then looks at you like you are a total idiot when you say "No" to his question of "Can I see your receipt". If i'm going to be interrogated for lack of a receipt, then don't give me the option not to have one.
I kind of take the opposite stance here. I shouldn't need a receipt to prove to some twerp in a hat that I'm not trying to steal a bottle of Gaviscon. Doubly so when half my salary has gone to Tesco and they have a record of every purchase I've ever made going back years thanks to Clubcard.
At work I have a Tassimo coffee machine. It's great, just pop a pod in and hit the button. Come back in a minute for a nice cup of coffee.
Why does this make me cross?
Because I've just retrieved my stone cold coffee from it, having pushed the button an hour and a half ago and promptly forgotten all about it.
Again 😡
Don't you have a microwave?
Pro tip here BTW. If you go direct to Tassimo's website they have a far larger selection than you'll find in a supermarket, and also a recycling programme for the pods.
The term 'banger' to refer to run of the mill generic pop music.
I feel like Colin and Edith did that a lot. I blame them.
My annoyance is when you hit the "no receipt" button and then the alarm goes off as you leave the supermarket due to an unannounced security tag on a bit of meat or something. Mr Security Guard then looks at you like you are a total idiot when you say "No" to his question of "Can I see your receipt". If i'm going to be interrogated for lack of a receipt, then don't give me the option not to have one.Going through supermarket checkouts, "would you like a receipt?" - "yes please." You've bought a pint of milk and a bunch of bananas, do you suppose they're going to be faulty?
While we're on self-checkouts; that monitor showing that they've filmed you. OK, so while I stand here for five minutes waiting for someone to age-verify my beers, why not employ a bit of AI to look at my aged mug and bypass the verification?
France, too busy, too expensive, too abrupt, too arrogant, too intolerant.Btw I live in Spain and love it being the opposite of the above.
France, too busy, too expensive, too abrupt, too arrogant, too intolerant.Btw I live in Spain and love it being the opposite of the above.
Where were you?
I went there, motorcycle trip, last year and found it to be the exact opposite! The people were awesome! The scenery was fantastic, roads were tremendous, food was ace, and didn't think it was expensive at all, and everyone we interacted with was really nice!
I suppose it's a comparison of what we've become used to living in rural Spain where everyone says hello , roads are not battle zones and you don't fear for your life on a bike ride. We've been on a road trip, stopping of here and there around the through Province and the Alps. Once you're off the motorway with a campervan, the road furniture seems to have a morbid dislike for anything bigger than a Clio.
France, too busy, too expensive, too abrupt, too arrogant, too intolerant.Btw I live in Spain and love it being the opposite of the above.
I found Paris and Nice to be like that, but spent a week in Nantes/Clisson last year and it was the polar opposite. Although everyone we spoke to seemed to consider themselves Bretons first and French second.
but spent a week in Nantes/Clisson last year and it was the polar opposite. Although everyone we spoke to seemed to consider themselves Bretons first and French second.
Lol they must have been on holiday then! I used to live in Nantes and its definitely not in Brittany.....I also used to live in Perros Guirec - now that is Breton, I couldn't understand a word of the language but my mate who spoke Welsh was treated as a native!
I used to live in Nantes and its definitely not in Brittany.....
When we arrived the "Les Jeux de Bretagne" was underway near the hotel, and Brittany flags were everywhere, which implies some connection to Brittany.
Just checked Wikipedia which says this, but obvs that's the extent of my knowledge/experience 😀
It is the administrative seat of the Loire-Atlantique department and the Pays de la Loire region, one of 18 regions of France. Nantes belongs historically and culturally to Brittany, a former duchy and province, and its omission from the modern administrative region of Brittany is controversial.
I suppose it's a comparison of what we've become used to living in rural Spain where everyone says hello , roads are not battle zones and you don't fear for your life on a bike ride. We've been on a road trip, stopping of here and there around the through Province and the Alps. Once you're off the motorway with a campervan, the road furniture seems to have a morbid dislike for anything bigger than a Clio.
Haha! yes I can imagine taking a camper down some of the roads we went could be a bit tricky.