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Apple Tax. I'm buying an external 1TB SSD for my Mac Mini.
If you’re desperate to use the stupid term “Apple Tax” and you have a Mac Mini you’d be better off talking about the crazy price Apple charges to upgrade the internal SSD. Also it’s frustrating that Apple don’t support USB 3.whatever to allow you to get higher speeds from suitable external SSD (Crucial X10 frinstance).
Motor bike riders in shorts and T shirts . I know its baking hot and your tyres are probably more grippy but riding at around 100mph in a 30mph really isnt on. Your 'loud pipes saves lives' just lets everyone for 1/2mile in every direction know what an irresponsible idiot you are . And the unneccessay clutch pulls and bounce it off the limiter are the work of a compleet douche bag. I suspect he is weeks away from killing himself / someone else / having the bike taken off him / getting banned by the police . but my god its like living on the isle of man TT course when he opens it up through 2nd and 3rd
Great. Another generation that doesn't know the difference between rowing and paddling.
I mean, with the greatest respect, of all the issues that are likely to bring about the downfall of civilization as we know it in the next couple of generations, I don't think this is one of the most pressing
Um, it is in this thread bro 👆🙄😊
Motor bike riders recording their rides and ebikes on Strava, making them public getting KOMs and top 10s, yet despite the obvious motor vehicle speed the Strava auto-flag AI letting them go and leaving it to the community to flag.
unneccessay clutch pulls and bounce it off the limiter are the work of a compleet douche
I miss the days of carburettors and kill switch induced backfires that sound like a gunshot
… That many companies now have a little corporate jingle at the end of their adverts. For decades it was only intel that did this. ****wits.
oh, and in trying to type this post….still this chuffin forum!
you’d be better off talking about the crazy price Apple charges to upgrade the internal SSD.
Good point, although the base model with no upgrades is cracking value for money.
Also it’s frustrating that Apple don’t support USB 3.whatever to allow you to get higher speeds from suitable external SSD (Crucial X10 frinstance).
Also a good point but if you really need > 10Gbps something like a SanDisk Extreme Pro is the way to go.
Just sat through an HR briefing and am once again cross at the bullshit words and phrases they use. Today's replacement for making people redundant was 'Workforce outflow'. Absolute tossers.
This morning's work music playlist.
Clearly put together by the good ol'e boys 🙄
Online recipes. Or rather online pages and pages of waffle with a recipe buried in there somewhere if you can find it. For instance if I'm looking for a recipe for a boiled egg I don't need you to tell me that hens eggs come from chickens which are actually related to dinosaurs and come in many different breeds, or that you first had a boiled egg while visiting Alicante and had it for breakfast while looking out over the blue sea on a spring morning, or that you can choose saucepans made from copper, steel or many other materials. Just ingredients (egg) , method (put it in boiling water for about 5 mins) , maybe a picture and I'm done.
Taxi drivers who have far too many air "fresheners" hanging off their mirror. The one I was in yesterday had six. Six!
Why so many? Did someone vomit in the car? I nearly did. 🤮🤮
Surely being made to listen to Status Quo is something that's covered in the Human Rights act?
Based on a photo submitted to a different thread earlier today. A tube of Shoe Goo which comes in a quantity of 109.4mL. What sort of a quantity is that when it's at home?
The way everyone in my house (apart from me, obviously) hacks at the butter rather than sliding a knife across it, resulting in a pot-holed mess of lumps of butter that is bloody impossible to get nice and thin strips from to butter my bread with.
Leave it out to warm up (about 30s in this heat) and then remould to suit; it's one of my pleasure, lipid based sculpture.
People who buy a cheap supermarket paddle board then go to the river with no PFD, no leash, overload the board, don't inflate it properly then say "it'll be ok" when you point out how silly they are being. I don't care if you drown but you'll spoil it for those of us who paddle safely.
People who spend 15 minutes a the queue for security at the airport but wait until they get to the scanner tray loading area before taking off belt, rummaging through bag for electronics, forgetting they have water and then failing the body scan as they are still wearing loads of jewellery. Made worse when the security lane only allows for one person at a time to load up a tray.
Then repeating process in reverse on the other side of the scanner without removing your tray of crap to free things up for the disproportionately cross people behind them who are still having to put up with your clusterbuggery
I have some sympathy with the airport security faffers as the rules now seem to be completely different in every airport as the rules around liquids and electronics have relaxed to varying degrees an different ones (with surprisingly little signage as you queue up).
Web-browser authenticators ‘Captcha’, using the public to beta-test their products.
Three months later, they’ve ironed out the bugs so that finally, finally you can make a product suggestion to some corporation.
People who buy a cheap supermarket paddle board then go to the river with no PFD, no leash, overload the board, don't inflate it properly then say "it'll be ok" when you point out how silly they are being. I don't care if you drown but you'll spoil it for those of us who paddle safely.
They probably call it an Oar too... 🙄
Hotels where everything is style over substance. I want to wash my hands not play chuffing pacman 😡
Going away for a few days to do some riding in forecast sunshine only to wake up to rain.
I'm having to bring a brewery trip forward till it dries up after lunch.
DX "Deliver Exactly" - but to where? Not my house, no card, no photo of delivery. So much worse than other couriers. Mistakes happen but the lack of meaningful proof of delivery is unacceptable.
I'm having to bring a brewery trip forward till it dries up after lunch.
Wish I had your problems 🤣
with surprisingly little signage as you queue up
Or signage that is in fact inaccurate. This morning I was yelled at in CDG because I was faffing taking my laptop out of my bag, but actually the signage tells you to do so.
The bloke just now in the car park next to the river getting ready to launch his paddleboard and instructing his young daughter to pick up 'the oar', and her replying, 'I love taking the oar daddy'
God forbid you ever see me on teh water, I can't get the words right and always call it pedalling.
Also, the internet has ruined me and "I love taking the oar daddy" sounds disgusting, and yet, perhaps a little intriguing.
Three bike related companies being so collectively disorganised that a simple and non-essential part has taken 6 months to warranty and I've still not received it.
Actually for reasons we need not go into I'm actually ****ing raging.
But there is the square root of hee haw that my feelings will alter or improve.
Have we done neighbours with overly barky dogs? Not "formal complaint" levels, more unthoughtful owners causing nagging annoyance.
I moved in 6 months ago, and we have the house opposite with a pretty yappy dog who gets exited when he's in their front window and something (anything) happens in the road outside - and the lady regularly goes out leaving him there - someone walks past - 2 mins of yapping. Then someone else -etc etc. it's a semi so god knows how their next door neighbours put up with it.
Then there is a house behind whos dog gets exited when something happens in the back garden and he's outside - generally only a few barks then it stops, but nice weather evenings and weekend days are punctuated by a couple of barks every 5 minutes.
First world issues I know, and way below the threshold of justifying doing something about it - just the consequence of living near to "people".
People who buy a cheap supermarket paddle board then go to the river with no PFD, no leash, overload the board, don't inflate it properly then say "it'll be ok" when you point out how silly they are being. I don't care if you drown but you'll spoil it for those of us who paddle safely.
^^ Can I add people like him/her to my personal 'disproportionally cross' list?
You do realise that people have to start somewhere and that those people will learn through experience. Or were you always an expert paddleboarder and everything else that you are good at?
Egg chairs.
You can't sit up straight in them, you can't recline in them.
You need to pay extra for a cover for them. The cover is only dust proof, not waterproof, so you have to buy a SECOND COVER for them.
Your kids pester to have one, then never sit in the bastard thing...
Taxi drivers who have far too many air "fresheners" hanging off their mirror. The one I was in yesterday had six. Six!
Why so many?
Because despite the signs in the car, they've just spent the last 20 minutes chain-smoking before picking you up.
(Either that, or you stink.)
I could have a thread of it's own
Its own. I am starting to think I am one of the last people on this planet who understands the difference between it's and its. It's making me cross.
Sorry its my predictive text thats defaulting to it's. Hopefully, thats improved you're day a little. 😉
Fox relaunching the 20mm front axle after putting so much effort for so many years into killing it in order to flog their inferior 15mm options. ****s!
DX again - not replying to messages and having phone line that's only open 08:30 until 17:00. It's as if they want to make it difficult to get in touch if you have a problem.
Very first world problem, though I now have third world debt
...this makes me cross at the minute - I think the breweries have got their heads together and decided to whack up regular bottled ale prices after seeing how much people will pay for 'artisan' herbal beer in small cans! Used to see loads at the £1.60/bottle price in the supermarkets, now £2.20 seems to be the norm!
I think the breweries have got their heads together and decided to whack up regular bottled ale prices after seeing how much people will pay for 'artisan' herbal beer in small cans! Used to see loads at the £1.60/bottle price in the supermarkets, now £2.20 seems to be the norm!
Think they were £2.90 a bottle. Worth it so far!
This evening I am disproportionately cross because after a few days of cycling and lounging in the sun, the tanline on my left thigh is at cycle shorts level, while on my right thigh it's at swim shorts level.
I guess the bigger question will be if/when MrsMC notices when I go back home.
As if stopping at Leicester Forest services isn't bad enough, having to listen to posh sounding southern types fail to control their wandering toddler by the stairs next to Starbucks just adds insult to injury.
"Rafaella" has consistently refused to "listen to mama" so rather than repeating and not following through on your threats, pick the little cow up before I come and spill hot coffee on you, you jumped up pretentious air head.
Just as soon as I've shoved the phone of the guy next to me down his throat so we don't all have to listen to a TikTok loop at full volume.
having to listen to posh sounding southern types fail to control their wandering toddler
This is a true story, but will likely land for about six people.
I was walking across a holiday park camp site. In front of me, a kid broke free of his mother's grip and ran off. The mum yelled "NO, NATHANIEL!" and I had to go for a bit of a giggle.
Maybe I should just be cross. Cancellation insurance for MTB trip after I bust my collarbone. Yellow Jersey offload that to a company called CSAL. Which I think stands for Can't Sent Alex Money. The form is hilarious, clearly just one in a multi-layered cynical approach to stop people claiming. Once you've filled all 8 pages of that BY HAND, the medical section insists you must get your doctor to verify your injury.
This despite having all that info in letters and images from the fracture clinic. Initially I didn't want to waste NHS time for a pointless appointment but the NHS were ahead of me, requesting £55 for them to waste the docs time on my behalf. I have no issue with this, it's hardly urgent medical care, but the fact CSAL put in their T&CS you can't claim this back but no other documentation from other medical professionals makes me think it's just another block to stop you claiming.
Anyway I shall assuage my possibly overwrought rage / disproportionate crossness by writing a pointed and pithy trust pilot review. After they've paid assuming they do.
In future any insurance I take out shall be pre-validated to ensure CSAL does not appear in any of their T&Cs. I would strongly suggest others to do the same. They don't answer their phone and reply to emails in the time it would take to deliver a message to the other side of the world by elephant.
This is a true story, but will likely land for about six people.
...There must be more to life...
Holds hand up, I'm in the six.
having to listen to posh sounding southern types fail to control their wandering toddler
This is a true story, but will likely land for about six people.
I was walking across a holiday park camp site. In front of me, a kid broke free of his mother's grip and ran off. The mum yelled "NO, NATHANIEL!" and I had to go for a bit of a giggle.
He's probably just as cross as you, but for different reasons, because his 'street name' is probably 'Nate-Dogg' .
Sooo embarassing when you get called your full name by your parents 😉
having to listen to posh sounding southern types fail to control their wandering toddler
This is a true story, but will likely land for about six people.
I was walking across a holiday park camp site. In front of me, a kid broke free of his mother's grip and ran off. The mum yelled "NO, NATHANIEL!" and I had to go for a bit of a giggle.
I have often though thunderchild would be a good middle name
having to listen to posh sounding southern types fail to control their wandering toddler
This is a true story, but will likely land for about six people.
I was walking across a holiday park camp site. In front of me, a kid broke free of his mother's grip and ran off. The mum yelled "NO, NATHANIEL!" and I had to go for a bit of a giggle.
I have often though thunderchild would be a good middle name
Is that from Mad-Max?
I prefer 'War-child' as in the california surfer from hit movie; point break 😆
Having a persistent cough and cold for over a week. Some decent sleep would be nice now.
Is that from Mad-Max?
@mattyfez Nope, War of the Worlds. Nathaniel is the clergyman, being tormented by the Martians who he decides are Devils, and he's on the cusp of giving himself to them when his wife tries to persuade him to rethink.
Of course, yes.. I missed that reference, but I've now got the war of the worlds theme tune in my head, on repeat, no one would have belived it!
The
****ing
Ice-cream
Van.
Absolute
Arsehole.
Scoop
Is
Getting
Rammed
Somewhere
Unpleasant,
Whilst
I
Play
A
Distorted
Match
Of
The
Day
Theme
On
Full
Volume
Until
His
Ears
Bleed.
The flags at Glastonbury. Not such an issue on the telly but it's got to be frustrating being there to see a favourite band only for it to be obscured by a (admittedly made me smile) massive flag saying 'Today is my dog's birthday) or some other random crap
Although we did enjoy the two people who opened up big fans when the camera panned across them onto which was written simply, C**t.
I'm quite surprised it's tolerated really 🤔
having to listen to posh sounding southern types fail to control their wandering toddler
This is a true story, but will likely land for about six people.
I was walking across a holiday park camp site. In front of me, a kid broke free of his mother's grip and ran off. The mum yelled "NO, NATHANIEL!" and I had to go for a bit of a giggle.
As a teenager I lived in an agricultural market town. There was little to do but drink. We would go to a really nice old pub and it turned out that in school/uni holidays there were posh people called Sebastian and Hugo and the like who must have been sent away to fancy public schools. One night a mate and I saw one of them come into our bar, see another and proceed to greet them with "Hiiiiii, Pooey! How the hell's your mother?"
We spat our beer out. And have continued to use the phrase for the last 30 years.
This is a true story, but will likely land for about six people.
Damn. That makes me feel about eleventy hundred years old. As my daughter says - "Dad, you're not the demographic"
Dropping daughter and her friend at Birmingham airport at lunchtime for a post A level trip to Germany, Netherlands and Belgium.
MrsMC says "we could head up tbe M6 from Birmingham and gave a few days in the Lakes while she's away".
Great idea!
Then she says "On the way we need to into Birmingham to pick up something I've ordered that can't be delivered".
Great start to a relaxing break....
the fact CSAL put in their T&CS you can't claim this back but no other documentation from other medical professionals makes me think it's just another block to stop you claiming.
@Alex That sounds like an unfair term in the contract and not enforceable. Did Yellow Jersey make this clear at the outset? I suspect not...
@flaperon- they did not. It's in the YJ policy doc, but hidden on page 17 or something! It would also have been good to find they off loaded cancellation claims to this useless company. Lesson learned for next years renewal, but not much I can do this year. I did query if I could charge the letter, but when they - finally - replied, they just pointed me at the policy text.
Then she says "On the way we need to into Birmingham to pick up something I've ordered that can't be delivered".
Sounds SO familiar!! "We" can do something. "We" can go somewhere. In other words, YOU drive and navigate and park and I'll catch up on my social media.
Humans reflecting on the pronunciation of a certain word but pronunciation of said word aside, they pronounce pronunciation, pronounce-e-ation, instead of pro-nun-see-ation.
What you gonna do. 🫣
Then she says "On the way we need to into Birmingham to pick up something I've ordered that can't be delivered".
Sounds SO familiar!! "We" can do something. "We" can go somewhere. In other words, YOU drive and navigate and park and I'll catch up on my social media.
It's a trap! So often Mrs.10 has a brilliant idea for something we need to do. Only for it to suddenly become something I need to do, as she wants to stay in bed/watch TV/play with her phone. Usually, a 30 mile round trip to a grocery store she likes. Instead of a 2 mile round trip to the same brand of grocery store, because she doesn't like something trivial at the closer location.
Then she says "On the way we need to into Birmingham to pick up something I've ordered that can't be delivered".
Sounds SO familiar!! "We" can do something. "We" can go somewhere. In other words, YOU drive and navigate and park and I'll catch up on my social media.
Well, the good news is we didn't have to go into Birmingham.
The bad news is it's because we were car #2 in a 4 car sandwich. So our week away is canceled.
We all walked away from the scene, which is the main thing. Though my legal adviser tells me I may have a stiff neck tomorrow.
We all walked away from the scene, which is the main thing. Though my legal adviser tells me I may have a stiff neck tomorrow.
Joking (I hope) aside, whiplash is a thing and can take a week or two to properly manifest. I would be very guarded about admitting to being injured or, more importantly, admitting to not being injured.
I was once rear-ended (shush now) whilst stationary, I saw him coming up behind me (I said shush) and knew there was no way he was going to stop so I put my head back on the headrest to try and mitigate whiplash damage. I wound up with both my thumbs bashed up, with hindsight I guess I must have braced against the steering wheel though it was involuntary if so.
I got contacted by (many) no-win no-fee ambulance chasers so eventually thought why not? They sent me to some quack osteopath or some such who asked me loads of leading questions like "did you take painkillers?" - no - "are you sure?" I was nothing but honest, the biggest problem at that point was a loss of grip without pain, I couldn't squeeze shampoo out of a bottle. In the end he gave me a knowing wink and told me he'd write me a 'good report.'
The point I'm getting to here is, my neck was fine... for several days, at which point it was suddenly agony. This, I'm led to believe, is not uncommon with whiplash injuries. Anyone getting out of a car immediately going "ooh my neck" is probably faking it.
Anyway. My "solicitor" put in an insurance claim, told me to reject the first offer and accept the second, which I did. I received my payout and their fees were mentioned for the first time in the entire process which was about a third of the compensation award.
Knowing now what I didn't know then, I could've done it all myself and saved a couple of grand.
Joking (I hope) aside, whiplash is a thing and can take a week or two to properly manifest.
I was an insurance claims manager in a previous life. We've had a couple of calls from the responsible drivers insurers who were keen to check if we were hurt and we were very clear that we had no symptoms "yet". The driver behind who got punted into us was holding his neck by the time we left the scene!
Debating whether to have an easy workout in the gym to keep things moving. It will be nice in the air-conditioning.
Are you sure it wasn't Phll Lynott?
I was the public schoolboy in a small industrial town. It was a lonely existence.
Ridiculous, lazy, minimal descriptions by sellers for something you'd want to know a bit about. Ignore. Move on.
If you can't be arsed to say a little, I can't be arsed to look.
I appreciate a gym needs to test it's electrical system. Shutting down the two basement weight rooms at the same time to do it on a busy Monday morning wasn't the best time to do it in my humble opinion.
I was happy to carry on training by the emergency lighting, as it made me look much better in the mirrors than the usual brutally harsh lighting, but the manager wasn't having it.
I'll pack a candle next time I go.
Reminds me of a time I was staying with my old man on holiday and we went to a reasonably up scale beach restaurant, which was more popular for it's fresh deserts and pastries than anything else.
The entire staff were having a team meeting in the area in front of the bar /counter.. Absolutely no one serving even drinks...
I mean, as manager you just don't do that.. You have 2 seperate meetings with half the staff attending each or whatever.
But no, they chose to pull everyone off duty! Even front of house.
We kind of hung around for about 10 mins during which time several other parties arrived and left when they realised there was no service, and we left shortly after.
No a word from any of the staff that were sat around.
It's a classic but....
People who find following a mountain bike trail too difficult so straight line everything. I know that the builders of the trails at a popular tweed valley hotspot are just going to leave it and build on a quieter hill.
People who advertise an item for sale but can't be arsed to clean the item. You see photos in an advert for the item but can't actually see the condition as it's covered in crud.
People who find following a mountain bike trail too difficult so straight line everything
See also those who apparently take the time and effort to clear a stack of logs and branches that someone has placed to dissuade the straight line merchants it must be more effort to stop and clear that lot than it is to ride the built line.
Professional cricketers (the fielding type) oohing and aahing after every delivery that misses everything or hits the pads with a less than zero chance of ever being out LBW.
See also the absolute prat on Saturday gone, fielding at deep square leg, vociferously (apoplectic with rage when the batsman was not given out by the umpire (me)) appealing for LBW, despite the fact that: the ball pitched outside leg stump...so far outside the leg stump in fact that the wicketkeeper was in another time zone in anticipation, and the batsman middled it onto his pad. Standards are slipping!
See also those who apparently take the time and effort to clear a stack of logs and branches that someone has placed to dissuade the straight line merchants it must be more effort to stop and clear that lot than it is to ride the built line.
This one boggles me, me and one of the other gt fairies spent almost an hour putting log rounds, branches, some big stuff two man lift stuff, and then dirt and plants and leaf litter to make it look less horrible and more natural, onto a shortcut on falla brae <climb> Not even a super fast strava line. It was all gone 3 months later. And it'd have been more work to remove than it was to build.
Straightlines in general are quite understandable, as soon as there's a visible line people are going to ride it without any ill intent, I've been caught out by this myself on trails I've built. And often those first straightlines just come by accident and then get followed. Fact is they're often just the more obvious line and so naturally they get ridden. But the actual act of clearing a blocked line is crazy.
(or the other glentress climb thing "ah hah, the forestry have built a fence blocking this shortcut. I will now ride round the end of the fence" It couldn't be more obvious you're not supposed to do it)
Oh special mention for a riding coach, let's for the sake of argument call this hypothetical coach Barry Andlow, who actually encourage their classes to ride off the trail to go fast.
Livestream editors who don't know the music and cut away from the musician playing just at the wrong moment.
The andrex poo kid advert. I laughed first time, and it's an important subject but I now find myself becoming irritated and I don't really know why.
There is almost nobody in the mountain biking world that can say Megavalanche properly.
It's always, Mega-avalanche. 😂
Idiot neighbour who a few days ago posted in the streets WhatsApp group asking whose car it was that had been parked outside their house for a couple of days. YOU DON’T OWN THE BIT OF STREET OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE YOU CRETIN.
Then yesterday when they went out they bloody dragged their bin onto the road to reserve their space. Hanging is too good.