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You tell me if this is disproportionate
Sorry, no... you want the "Stuff that makes you proportionately cross" thread...
People* shoving coins into rocks at the Giant's Causeway .
Very bad craic indeed.
*probably the same type of throbbers that hang padlocks on bridges
*probably the same type of throbbers that hang padlocks on bridges
Well, not really. Bridges can be replaced - if that ever became really necessary.
I lost my favourite cufflinks, they fell out of my bag somewhere. (I wear cufflinked shirts almost never, but I was attending a funeral.)
Found one a couple of days ago. I've just found the second and now I'm absolutely damned if I can remember what I did with the first one.
My dad told me I was getting a "bit of a paunch". I was disproportionately cross because a0 he and my mum wanted me to take them out for their weekly socialisation at a cafe and b) I am well aware of the situation and did not need reminding!
Well, not really. Bridges can be replaced
Well,yes really. 😀
I lump them all in that needy, attention seeking, small time fly tippers and vandals tribe.
A photo is just not good enough for these citizens, cheap tat has to be left.
and don't get me started on roadside flowers 😉
I've just found the second and now I'm absolutely damned if I can remember what I did with the first one.
Excellent.
So I'm not on my own 🙂
Ordered some shorts online for holiday next week. "UK shipping via Royal Mail!"
And it is. Once RM has received the shipment from $%^&ing China.
My dad told me I was getting a "bit of a paunch".
People that humblebrag. You're the same age as me, I'd be well chuffed with 'a bit of a paunch', I've got a full fatmanfoldover (the man alternative to the muffintop)
My dad told me I was getting a "bit of a paunch".
People that humblebrag. You're the same age as me, I'd be well chuffed with 'a bit of a paunch', I've got a full fatmanfoldover (the man alternative to the muffintop)
To be fair, my dad was being polite and playing it down. He wanted a lift to a cafe....
I may be disproportionately sanguine about this, not sure:
Last ride before going on a week's holiday yesterday, lost my Garmin 810 and won't get to retrace for at least a week. I'm a bit "bah" and a bit "meh"about it
Did a walk this morning, one of the footpaths goes through a nice golf course. Loads of lovely signage to tees, greens, driving range etc. Minimal signage for the footpath. Only needed a couple more signs.
A helpful foursome pointed us in the right direction, assuring us that if we walked in the middle of the fairway we'd be safe from being hit by golf balls.
A helpful foursome pointed us in the right direction,
We've all been there when we've lost control of our balls.
Just been to the cinema.
The Salt Path, as you asked.
Why TF do people have to get up, faff and chat loudly the second the first credit goes up, despite the picture carrying on with atmospheric images and music?
Then, why TF do so many people just leave all their snacking crap on the seats and the floor? Take it into the foyer and bin it you lazy self-centred melts ffs!
Same people who leave dog eggs in trees I reckon. 😡
I've pretty much given up on the cinema, mostly for the reasons you suggest. There's precious little out that I can't wait a couple of months for. Plus, is it just me who misses intermissions?
How was Salt Path? It looks pretty good.
How was Salt Path? It looks pretty good.
It wasn't amazing if I'm honest. Ok. Not amazing.
Not sure what their accents were supposed to be. Stoke? Brummie?
It looked really engaging and emotional in the trailer. Not too sure I felt that but lots of people get stuff from films I don't so I fully expect that others will love it.
I'm not a cinema fan either really but sometimes you have to take one for the team. 😊
Peeling a potato with a peeler and the peel gets stuck in the blades and all you're achieving is buffing the potato until you clear said blockage and the whole nightmare starts again.
I'm not usually one for peeling potatoes but the recipe calls for it.
The frailty and cruelty of life.
My friend went to wake her daughter up yesterday morning, she had passed.
19, going to start uni later this year, a whole new adventure, experiences and opportunities lay ahead, but no, life had different plans.
As well as being desperately sad for them, I'm so ****ing angry at the cruelty of this.
So sorry to hear that RM. How desperately tragic and sad. Very much proportionate to feel sad and angry about it. Shout if you need to bend someone's ear.
Back to trivial stuff, online glasses retailers that don't allow searching by bridge size, arm length etc. I don't want to have to click on every frame to find ones that might fit me!
"tradespeople" who round off every screw they fit.... 😡
A lot of people don't know this one very simple difference...
Peeling a potato with a peeler and the peel gets stuck in the blades and all you're achieving is buffing the potato until you clear said blockage and the whole nightmare starts again.
I'm not usually one for peeling potatoes but the recipe calls for it.
People who think recipes are instructions, rather than general guidelines. 😉
Added sound effects in wildlife films. Looking at you, Springwatch! Oh it's an underwater scene, let's add pointless bubbling noises. Oh it's a tiny bird paddling in a pond, let's add the sounds of a labrador splashing through a lake. Oh it's a spider walking on a table, let's add the thundering footsteps of the entire frickin Riverdance lineup.
A lot of people don't know this one very simple difference...
"People" not knowing the difference I can forgive. "Tradespeople", who are screwing all day long (oo er), I cannot.
"tradespeople" who round off every screw they fit....
Impact driver for everything! Yay! bzzz bzzz bzzz everywhere, then chuck the worn out bit on the floor every 20 screws and grab a new one from your box of 1000. Whatever happened to caring for your tools, and about your work?
I will add driver/bit sets that only come with Phillips bits, despite Pozi screws being far more common.
Torx screws.
Torx anything. **** You Torx! 😡
I will add driver/bit sets that only come with Phillips bits, despite Pozi screws being far more common.
I believe Phillips is more common in the states so it's probably a set that was made for sale over there but somehow found it's way here.
Torx screws.
What's wrong with torx? They are much easier to use and harder to round out. Only issue is they're less common so you have to grab another bit from your toolbox (once you've picked up your glasses and worked out why the bit is spinning). If we were all using torx and someone invented posi they'd be laughed at.
Only issue is they're less common so you have to grab another bit from your toolbox (once you've picked up your glasses and worked out why the bit is spinning)
Having to remove my glasses when bike fettling to determine the head type, hex size, which is the H or L screw....
I will add driver/bit sets that only come with Phillips bits, despite Pozi screws being far more common
And then there’s JES as used by camera companies, so when little screws come loose you have to wait for a new screwdriver from AliExpress.
Openreach, we've fixed your fault.
No, you haven't.
Our engineer did this and fixed it.
Why did your engineer do that? The engineer who diagnosed said it was something completely different. We still have the fault. Shall we hazard a guess as to who's correct?
We'll send an engineer to diagnose the fault.
Why? You've done that, just send someone competent to fix it.
This is now a new fault because we fixed the last one. We have to diagnose the fault first.
aaargh!
What's wrong with torx?
They are rubbish,see Kayak's post .
Socket heads rule* 👍 🙃
Just got a new motorbike ,and almost every fixing is a Torx 😡
*not on wood screws though
RM, it's both sad and cruel.
My condolences to you all
The person or people in my office who cannot open a milk bottle properly and insists on either trying to peel the foil off and tears it or just pokes a hole in it. I'm not sure they're one and the same but they're ****ing annoying.
Even if you've not seen someone do it (I'm assuming they're young and have never had a glass bottle milk delivery) how can you not learn something from seeing it having been done properly with a nice dent in the top?
I know it's ridiculous, petty and very much first world but Grr
RM - So sorry to read you post.
We've had to have various trades round to the house over the last few weeks. They've managed to loosen some of the original quarry tiles on the front door step. Also most of them have parked so badly that neighbours have to come round to ask them to move their vans, so the neighbour can get the car off their drive and lastly the really, really annoying one, is arriving, sitting talking on their phone for ages with the engine running (which is aiming the pollution into our house).
The Trivago advert where the price of the hotel room with a 10% discount is £190.
Who prices a hotel room at £211.1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 ?
Folk that wear glasses or sunglasses on their foreheads just above their eyes.
It's unacceptable.
Folk that wear glasses or sunglasses on their foreheads just above their eyes.
I can't read my phone if I don't lift my glasses up there
The recent plastering of AI shit all over Facebook posts that you can't turn off 😐
And then there’s JES as used by camera companies, so when little screws come loose you have to wait for a new screwdriver from AliExpress.
JIS is really good, to be fair. It's just a better grippier phillips really, much like pozi but with better compatibility (because you should always use a JIS driver on a JIS screw, but the JIS driver works perfectly well on a phillips screw). You used to find it in some mechs, not sure if you still do though. It's a good standard, just one that never caught on here which for us makes it a bad standard.
I mean obviously in the uk most stuff is pozi, and it's pretty great that pozi 2 can work in so many screw sizes. But, taking out screws that have never been touched in 25 years from a shitty rusty subaru, I'm always very happy to find a JIS screw. I think there's also a sort of unintentional quality thing- if you buy a cheap crap screw in, it's probably not JIS. For little micro stuff in the real world after some use and multiple tightenings and removings it's the bollocks imo.
The fact that I just never, ever, ever, seem to manage to not find out the winner of the World Cup DH races before I've had a chance to watch the YouTube highlights.
Yes, yes. Of course it's my own fault, but still.
The Coeliac Tax.
I have here two boxes of cereal:
Tesco rice krispies*, 375g for 79p
Nestlé gluten free rice krispies, 350g for £2.50
What's the difference? The GF ones don't contain malt. That's it. They are both produced in the same factory by Nestlé.
*snaps, pops, whatever.
Okay, I reckon I posted this same complaitn 12 months ago but here goes again.
Dropping daughter at Edinburgh airport this morning for trip to Camp America. Wanted to go in to the terminal with her to see her off. Parked for 35 minutes. £18. Absolutely outrageous. I know there is free 30min parking in the long stay but it is a 10min walk with no bus option, on ropey knackered pavements with mahossive suitcase so not a great option (20mins walking for 30mins parking).
Charging for parking is fair, £18 is ripping the pi$$.
and another thing.
Downlighters in soffits. Fair enough lighting up Edinburgh Castle at night. Its iconic, old and very photogenic. But the same cannot be said for your Barratt semi detached house backing on to the A7 in Mid Lothian. We don't need to see it, the planet doesn't need to use up energy to power it, it adds nothing to the world other than making me disproportionally cross when I drive past at night.
Todays mild annoyance is descriptions of stuff on Vinted. No Mr Seller, if your description says "worn a couple of times but like new" then it is not New Without Tags and certainly not New With Tags.
The recent plastering of AI shit all over Facebook posts that you can't turn off
And yet it doesn't appear under the adverts that it'd be useful on. If it appeared under the clickbait adverts and told you what they were talking about then I'd quite like it.
Bill Bryson's accent
I love his books but I'd never heard him speak before. I saw his audiobooks pop up on Spotify so decided to give one a listen
Absolute nails down a blackboard stuff. I'd end up caving his head in if I had to live with him
Meaningless marketing blurbs really get on my nerves.
This pot of black pepper says "Sundried for deep, rich colour and flavour". No it's ****ing not, it's sundried because it's grown in India or somewhere and sun drying is far and away the cheapest way of doing it. It's black pepper, it's got colour and flavour all by itself, you'd have to work quite hard to get rid of that. In fact it's so finely ground you have managed to reduce the flavour, I'll get a different brand next time thanks.
See also:
"Farm-grown fruit & veg" yeah right as opposed to the normal factory made stuff.
"Hand-picked for exceptional quality" uh, virtually all pineapples are hand picked, you can't really do it any other way.
"eco-friendly packaging" why? Because you used recyclable plastic?
"Recyclable" right, technically correct, except no one actually recycles this because it's really difficult & expensive.
etc etc ad infinitum.
TBF I do make my wife disproportionately cross by going on about this whenever I spot a new one 😁
People in work who take a question as a personal insult especially when the question actually points to an issue and was me trying to allow you to come to a conclusion without me calling you a tube.
People who think recipes are instructions, rather than general guidelines.
Well it depends on what the recipe is for – if it's a curry, a bit less cumin and a bit more garam masala isn't going to alter the result that much. But, if it's a cake, you get 1g too much flour or use a large egg rather than medium and the whole thing goes to shit – baking is like a bloody science lesson.
Edit: And whilst we are on the subject of food – my personal hate (which I have posted on here about twice already) – food waste, and it's happened again – fresh fruit going to waste after it being bought 'because it's healthy' then left to rot at the back of the bloody fridge.
Today's minor annoyance was my cat's decision at 3am that I had slept enough and that the best way to make sure I was awake and alert was to chew on the arm I had carelessly left outside the bed.
I can accept that he likes taking up half the bed, I'm not super-keen on him using me as a chew-toy.
NBD post. oooh, someone has some lovely new bike and they are sharing. Opens thread. Oh, an ebike. what a shame.
(currently laid up with a broken leg, so a touch grumpy, take above with pinch of salt).
This... So you were only thinking of nature when you concocted this smell. Which bit of nature? Pig shit is part of nature, were you thinking of that too?
He gets me! I think this could be a thread by itself.
People in work who take a question as a personal insult especially when the question actually points to an issue and was me trying to allow you to come to a conclusion without me calling you a tube.
So... it was a personal insult? 🤣
Well it depends on what the recipe is for – if it's a curry, a bit less cumin and a bit more garam masala isn't going to alter the result that much. But, if it's a cake, you get 1g too much flour or use a large egg rather than medium and the whole thing goes to shit – baking is like a bloody science lesson.
Our kitchen scales are broken so I have to use cups instead of grams for the bread machine at the moment.
Aaargh! I can't take it. I'm normally really anal exacting about getting it within a couple of g, now using the jug it's a nightmare. 2 cups? Trying to get it remotely level on the line just doesn't work. Shake the mountain level and the flour settles, meaning there's more in the "cup". Can't get anything like an accurate measurement. What's even more annoying is that the bread comes out just perfect 😡
Edit: And whilst we are on the subject of food – my personal hate (which I have posted on here about twice already) – food waste, and it's happened again – fresh fruit going to waste after it being bought 'because it's healthy' then left to rot at the back of the bloody fridge.
This x1000
Also, post big shop, we’ve got some nice fresh Salad, veg etc.
‘I don’t fancy that, maybe a spagbol or curry?’
Grrr
My partners circle of friends who prescribe Arnica to her for pretty much any known malady that gets better by itself.
Also, post big shop, we’ve got some nice fresh Salad, veg etc.
‘I don’t fancy that, maybe a spagbol or curry?’
Hah yes – we had a bag of spinach going to waste last week ('I didn't know it would be so big') ((It's the same bloody size as it always is)). Anyway, I bunged a load into a risotto I was making – it turned out really nicely.
I, like any sane person, would put 'work-based compulsory fun' in this list. However, what's worse than having to attend work-based compulsory fun? That's right kids; having to organise the work-based compulsory fun.
Shoot. Me. Now.
Todays mild annoyance is descriptions of stuff on Vinted. No Mr Seller, if your description says "worn a couple of times but like new" then it is not New Without Tags and certainly not New With Tags.
I particularly like folk who described items as "brand new, worn / used once". Well it's not brand new then is it?
Also, post big shop, we’ve got some nice fresh Salad, veg etc.
‘I don’t fancy that, maybe a spagbol or curry?’
Hah yes – we had a bag of spinach going to waste last week ('I didn't know it would be so big') ((It's the same bloody size as it always is)). Anyway, I bunged a load into a risotto I was making – it turned out really nicely.
off topic, but I recently discovered you can buy frozen spinach that comes in portion sized blocks.
https://groceries.morrisons.com/products/taj-chopped-spinach-450g/109669592
Nice.
I, like any sane person, would put 'work-based compulsory fun' in this list. However, what's worse than having to attend work-based compulsory fun? That's right kids; having to organise the work-based compulsory fun.
Shoot. Me. Now.
You know the answer to this? Is it compulsory then its in paid time. If its not in paid time then its not compulsory. If its not in the job description then you don't do it.
The company is making record profits, can I have a pay rise?
No, but we will put some beer in the fridge so you can enjoy a bottle on friday afternoon
Gee, thanks...
Those ridiculous helmets the pro cyclists wear in time trials. G. T. F.
And, while I'm at it, certain adverts on ITV4 (yes I'm watching Criterium highlights)... Especially Pure cremation, Revitive, and special ire reserved for the All Clear travel insurance couple. <Rage>. Yes, I'm stuck in a crap hotel for work. Yes, the Chromecast doesn't work. Yes I've had one of those days. 🤣🤣🤣
Filtering - or more precisely people who don't get filtering - the practice of combining 2 streams of traffic into 1. The instructions are simple, continue to the end and merge in turn. You'd think it'd be simple but it's amazing how many people can * it up. The worse ones are those that insist on stopping in the feeder lane 100 metres from the merging point so they can push into the other line like it some virtuous thing to do it early. Especially when having finally got passed them that it makes you look like a pushy * when you roll up to the merge point by "overtaking" a load of cars.
Last night I had someone up ahead in the solid line who had effectively stopped and was letting the world go ahead of them. For about 3 minutes! Ok they might have broken down or been otherwise engaged, but it was infuriating to be stuck in the wrong lane whilst numerous people just swanned up the inside.
I've come to realise that it's just people - I ****ing hate other people.
(No idea why that bit above has gone red!)
And, while I'm at it, certain adverts on ITV4 (yes I'm watching Criterium highlights)... Especially Pure cremation, Revitive, and special ire reserved for the All Clear travel insurance couple. <Rage>. Yes, I'm stuck in a crap hotel for work. Yes, the Chromecast doesn't work. Yes I've had one of those days. 🤣🤣🤣
But when your legs hurt, drop off and then you die, at least you've remembered who can help.
Folk that wear glasses or sunglasses on their foreheads just above their eyes.
It's unacceptable.
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
College arrived late this morning and said,"you wouldn't believe I live 10 mins walk from here, it's taken me 20 to drive in".
Folk that wear glasses or sunglasses on their foreheads just above their eyes.
My prescription glasses / sunglasses are for distance (mainly driving), I can't see shit through them close-up. What else would you have me do?
If you're going to be trying to beat your strava time along a busy urban pathway filled with commuters, students, mums and kids going to school and so on, perhaps don't wear headphones and don't be staring at your stem like a Temu Chris Froome, you bellend.
If you're going to be trying to beat your strava time along a busy urban pathway filled with commuters, students, mums and kids going to school and so on, perhaps don't wear headphones and don't be staring at your stem like a Temu Chris Froome, you are a bellend.
I'm painting the ceiling in my new place. It's awkward to do on my ladders, but the "platform" setting on the ladder is slightly too high. I have a stool which is the exact perfect right height, but it's in the attic of my current place, and I can't get into the attic in my current place because the ladders are all at the new place.
Two post duplicate. Much like the two glasses Mr clock expert wears below.
Folk that wear glasses or sunglasses on their foreheads just above their eyes.
My prescription glasses / sunglasses are for distance (mainly driving), I can't see shit through them close-up. What else would you have me do?
Putting them atop your head, a bit like the fella in The Repair Shop who shows off with two pairs cresting his noggin, is perfectly fine (imho)
Putting them just above your actual eyes, as if they were an extra set of mutant eyes, is creepy, weird and just not on (imho)
Fine
Completely unacceptable
Just a few centimetres is all it takes.
People writing notes on post-it notes but never taking the actual post-it note they wrote on, off the post-it note stack.