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People who sit in the car, engine running, while their other half is in the shop for 30 mins, presumably because the AC is on. It must play merry hell with their average consumption. Just open the chuffing windows instead, and stop filling my car with your fumes, dickhead
I suspect this one is more to do with the fact that all the "safety" shite in modern cars resets itself to default ON every time you turn the car off and start it again.
So the driver has gone through 5 minutes of turning of all the lane departure warning, speed limit warning, auto brake, driver fatigue warning crap and they don't want to repeat that once they've driven 3 minutes down the road to sit outside the school waiting for little Penelope to finish for the day.
So I suppose what makes me disproportionately cross is:
people driving 3 minutes down the road on the school run
car manufacturers loading up their vehicles with all this "safety" stuff
the whole concept of "the school run"
Being stopped and fined €150 for not having a Slovenian Vignette. I suspect if we’d come into the country via the motorway, we’d have seen the signs, and bought one online (we have two back to back for Austria), but as it was generally buggered, we weedled our way from Villach to Ljubljana via a series of back roads. Literally 30 seconds after setting foot on the motorway on the outskirts of Ljubljana we got pulled. Riled me hugely, especially given the confrontational approach adopted by the local plod.
All these folk on YouTube who think they are amazing showing basic trade work they've learned but still use the term level up when they are talking about something being perfectly vertical ie plumb
Level means level across a horizontal surface
Maybe not many go to college or night school to gain City and Guilds and learn a bit more about their trade
My spirit level has a transverse bubble for checking vertical planes, I thought most did. What would you call that? "Perpendicularing up" doesn't exactly trip off the tongue. Square up?
(Also, surely "levelling up" implies a vertical surface; there is no "up" on a horizontal plane, you're simply levelling it...)
When I just want to look at a photo in the Google Photos app and it wants me to turn on auto backup so badly that I have to turn the switch off and then confirm it twice to get it to go away. I use Dropbox to sync photos, and no amount of making it more annoying to keep your app not doing it as well is going to make me want to use it. Quite the opposite.
Think of a plumb bob that was how it was done until a spirit level was commonly used
Plumb and level one is horizontal as in sea level/water level and plumb is vertical
Fair.
(I have a plumb bob. Far more useful than a ghostbuster for tasks such has hanging wallpaper.)
(Also, surely "levelling up" implies a vertical surface; there is no "up" on a horizontal plane, you're simply levelling it...)
One side is low. You bring it up to level it.
Levelling up innit.
Washing up though...
Those curly trees you get in pots mainly outside new builds.
Dicks.
Those curly trees you get in pots mainly outside new builds.
Dicks.
If your dick looks like that, you'd best get it checked out.
When I just want to look at a photo in the Google Photos app and it wants me to turn on auto backup so badly that I have to turn the switch off and then confirm it twice to get it to go away. I use Dropbox to sync photos, and no amount of making it more annoying to keep your app not doing it as well is going to make me want to use it. Quite the opposite.
google gallery?
like a flywieght photos, without all the backup baggage
People who sit in the car, engine running, while their other half is in the shop for 30 mins, presumably because the AC is on. It must play merry hell with their average consumption. Just open the chuffing windows instead, and stop filling my car with your fumes, dickhead
I suspect this one is more to do with the fact that all the "safety" shite in modern cars resets itself to default ON every time you turn the car off and start it again.
Nah, dicks have been leaving their diesel chugging away outside the school gate since diesels were a thing.
People, especially event organisers who build a jump on pristine singletrack over a freshly fallen tree instead of cutting the tree out thereby changing the character of the trail and making it unrideable for some.
^ also annoyed about levelling up.
Think of a plumb bob that was how it was done until a spirit level was commonly used
Plumb and level one is horizontal as in sea level/water level and plumb is vertical
"Plumb" is just an abbreviation of plumbum, the Latin for lead, aka Pb in the periodic table
Sea level is a height to take a measurement from and varies dependent on where you are and the water level is higher on the west coast of the US than it is on the east coast. It's correct to level up from east to west 🤣
With a degree of aplomb, I'm going to suggest vertical. Abbreviated to either "verting" or "perping", which forms satisfying schoolboy fart jokes ⊥
It's annoying that horizontal doesn't have a suitable abbreviation
My own failure to buy new headphones over the weekend after mine gave up the ghost at the end of last week. I'm having to listen to office drivel when I could be in my own musical world.
The datum in UK for sea level is taken from Nookie down in Cornwall and all the ordnance bench marks on prominent buildings, bridges etc and I'm guessing all the heights on OS maps are taken from there. Plumb is perpendicular or 90° off the level
Nookie down in Cornwall...
Another satisfying schoolboy joke 🙂
I don't think I want to hear your joke about satisfying schoolboys.
People who don't know (wilfully or otherwise) that the Post Office and Royal Mail are two different things. Just stood for ten minutes behind a woman at the post office counter giving the poor chap grief about why the RM parcel collection point is closed.
"Angry rant rant rant..."
"We're not the same organisation madam"
"Angry rant rant rant"
"We're not the same organisation madam"
Ad nauseum for 10 minutes, before she finally stomps away muttering to herself...
Saying it'll take ' X calendar days '
What other kind of days are there? 🤔
Working days Vs calendar days? If you order a product today you could get it in 5 working days which would be 7 calendar days.
Working days?
Just stood for ten minutes behind a woman
I've just got back from the doctors where I was stood behind a bloke at "patient check-in." After several minutes of him trying and flailing to tap literally four buttons on a screen I was hunting around for the impatient check-in.
Working days?
That's meaningless in itself. "It'll be five working days." But you said that three weeks ago? "Yes, I only work Tuesdays."
(maybe 😁)
Threads titled " bored, plenty of money, no responsibilities, should I retire?"
That sodding Very Pay advert. It's ruined watching Canal Boat Diaries...
(well when I forget I've recorded it so I can skip the annoying ads, so, really, I'm raging at myself 🤬)
Boomers: punctuation marks don't have a space before them. It's bad when it concerns a question mark or similar, but makes me apoplectic when it's done before a comma or full stop , as I demonstrate here.
(Disproportionately and irrationally cross).
inconsiderate ****wipes on bikes with excessively loud pipes roaring through my small town at 6.30 every sodding Sunday morning during the summer
punctuation marks don't have a space before them. It's bad when it concerns a question mark or similar, but makes me apoplectic when it's done before a comma or full stop , as I demonstrate here.
Hmmmm, I use a space for question and exclamation marks just because I think it looks better. I don't mess with commas, stops or colons though - I'm not a monster !
Boomers: punctuation marks don't have a space before them. It's bad when it concerns a question mark or similar, but makes me apoplectic when it's done before a comma or full stop , as I demonstrate here.
(Disproportionately and irrationally cross).
God yes. Why do they do it?
Bought a shed. Came in two boxes. Neither of which contained all the small parts and fitting hardware. Spent an hour doing a full audit against the parts list to show what was missing. Then entered into a dialogue with what a chatbot that had delusions of customer service.
Eventually "missing parts to be shipped" email turned up. A week after that so did box one of two with many and varied shed parts we already had had delivered. But no small parts. After a repeat of chatbot experience, box 2 of 2 now being shipped. Which again I expect will be missing the requisite parts.
On the upside, I'll soon have enough bits to build a small warehouse.
My dishwasher stopped working 3 hours before a dinner party . I was somewhat miffed. Most middleclass answer on this thread?
I've got a vision of Tj doing come dine with me from Leith
Lentil and neep soup for starters
Fish fingers on toast with salad cream n rocket to dip as Nisa had no capers or creme fraiche
Banana angel delight with real banana chunks
But the dishwasher packed in, Tj was nowhere to be seen leaving his guests hungry and arguing as he flooded the kitchen floor as was mopping up with the towels he'd just washed that day
Needles to say his low scores meant he never got the £1000 that was going towards his next trip to the Southern hemisphere
Mrs 100th buys batteries when she thinks we need them but always buys AAA and because don't need them they sit in the kitchen drawer, currently 23 AAA batteries in there. I do need 4 Ds and 6AAs though.
If nobody is going to acknowledge quotation marks as being an exception to their rule about punctuation and space I might get disproportionately cross about that!
Hmmmm, I use a space for question and exclamation marks just because I think it looks better.
Nuke from space just to be sure? 😉
Hmmmm, I use a space for question and exclamation marks just because I think it looks better. I don't mess with commas, stops or colons though - I'm not a monster !
<eyelid twitches in rage>
Stainless steel screws, which, after a couple of years outdoors, leave an orange streak.
3 hours before a dinner party .
Subtle trolling there, very nice 😉
I think it's normal in French to use spaces sometimes. Not that that's relevant here.
Windows 11 - giving me a notification that 'do not disturb' is enabled.
I don't think they have quite grasped what 'stop giving me notifications' means 🤬
Stainless steel screws, which, after a couple of years outdoors, leave an orange streak.
Depends on the stainless grade, the environment and the material that you're fastening. An acidic wood or a salty environment is more of a problem, 316/A4 grade is the way to go here but it's annoying that they aren't as easy to find locally as A2
Push-fit connectors on ceiling lights. WTF is the problem with a screw terminal?
And I now need to take the thing down again to see why it isn't gripping the cable
And then I read the one-star reviews that I should have read before ordering the effing thing, and now I'm going to read through the online instructions for every possible replacement (it has to have a "look" apparently) to find one with screw terminals
And now I've got to trek to return this one and collect the replacement from an outlet with "screw" in the name
The one redeeming feature is that the returns process is painless and I can grab a coffee too 🙂
McDonalds "side missions". It's not a mission, it's an offer trying to get you to buy more crappy food.
Mrs 100th buys batteries when she thinks we need them but always buys AAA and because don't need them they sit in the kitchen drawer, currently 23 AAA batteries in there. I do need 4 Ds and 6AAs though.
People who still buy disposable batteries rather than rechargeable ones.
@timba I agree and I buy my own screws carefully depending on the duty.
It's more the randomness in bought products i.e.
- Double glazed doors and windows screws in the open/close mechanism itself as well as the fixing screws
- Summerhouse
- Shed
- Garden tools
- etc...
Sometimes I'm motivated to change them, sometimes not.
It's more the randomness in bought products
That would make me cross too!
"People who still buy disposable batteries rather than rechargeable ones."
Items that require a specific type of battery and state they cannot be rechargeable, but you know......
Items that require a specific type of battery and state they cannot be rechargeable, but you know...
Yeah, I almost wrote that. I have some devices with similar requirements, but they're not the norm.
You spend months/years looking for the perfect cycling shoes/jacket/shorts/etc and when they finally wear out and you're looking for replacements, you discover that they're no longer made,.and you have to go through the whole process again.
I'm looking at you Shimano, and your discontinuation of the ME5/ME7 spd shoes.
Probably been done in the previous 4500 replies but it's the folk who overtake if you are sitting at a steady 70mph only to once pass slow down so you have to too or then overtake them absolute bellends
28 years ago we bought a patio table and chairs with cash given to us for our wedding. The parasol snapped a few weeks ago. Thinking well that's had a good innings, checked out a replacement from the same UK company who were happily still trading.
Removing the remains of the old one proved to be difficult until I found the right size socket to act as a drift. I then spent a hot hour cleaning up the inner surface of the existing table where the parasol goes through.
Attempted to fit new parasol. A hammer may have been involved. No way that was going through my beautifully prepared hole (!). Out with the socket and gently (ish) tapped back out. Measured the diameter of the old parasol, measured the new one, measured the hole.
After only TWENTY EIGHT YEARS they've only gone and changed the OD of the parasol tube. By 2mm. Obviously I could have measured them before I customised the new one so we can't send it back, but I'm still cross about it.
Luckily my mate has a lathe...
After only TWENTY EIGHT YEARS they've only gone and changed the OD of the parasol tube. By 2mm. Obviously I could have measured them before I customised the new one so we can't send it back, but I'm still cross about it.
Luckily my mate has a lathe...
Probably been forced upon them - sounds like the difference between 1.5" and 40mm.
The holly tree in my front garden.
Nast spikey bastard.
People who still buy disposable batteries rather than rechargeable ones
"Rechargeable" - can be recharged. OK, but "disposable"? Of course either can be disposed of. Everything can be disposed of, one way or another. So why do they call them "disposable" as if it's some sort of opposite to "rechargeable"?
Probably been forced upon them - sounds like the difference between 1.5" and 40mm.
I don't come to this thread for rationale explanations 🙂
Anyway I'm going to ring them up later. If they have an ACD explaining they are dealing with an unusually high level of calls, I shall be back here !
"Rechargeable" - can be recharged. OK, but "disposable"? Of course either can be disposed of. Everything can be disposed of, one way or another. So why do they call them "disposable" as if it's some sort of opposite to "rechargeable"?
You're right-ish. The problem with "disposable" is not that it means single-use and then dispose, it's that it encourages morons to chuck 'em in the general waste
@didnthurt I have a pair of ME5 shoes in size 45 looking for a new home. Long shot but they might be your size. Never worn and boxed. I have them on facebook marketplace for £40.
After only TWENTY EIGHT YEARS they've only gone and changed the OD of the parasol tube.
I'm not sure as there was ever a "standard." There are two holes with metal tubes in my yard left by the previous house owners, I wanted to use one to mount a rotary clothes dryer. Turned out that both tubes are different diameters and I had to compare multiple airers to find one which would fit with one of the existing tubes rather than the supplied mount.
The holly tree in my front garden.
Nast spikey bastard.
Pfft.
I have a Berberis and a Pyracantha in the garden.
Internally routes cables. It must be listed more than once up above.
You spend months/years looking for the perfect cycling shoes/jacket/shorts/etc and when they finally wear out and you're looking for replacements, you discover that they're no longer made,.and you have to go through the whole process again.
I'm looking at you Shimano, and your discontinuation of the ME5/ME7 spd shoes.
Spotted Lake were doing my beloved CX238s at half price, so bought them while they still had my size and width. Reckon the original pair will do another year of service before I need them, so I should be ok till I'm 60
Stainless steel screws, which, after a couple of years outdoors, leave an orange streak.
The clue is in the second half of the name.
Its not stainnever steel.
After only TWENTY EIGHT YEARS they've only gone and changed the OD of the parasol tube.
I'm not sure as there was ever a "standard." There are two holes with metal tubes in my yard left by the previous house owners, I wanted to use one to mount a rotary clothes dryer. Turned out that both tubes are different diameters and I had to compare multiple airers to find one which would fit with one of the existing tubes rather than the supplied mount.
Next time I'm reluctantly dragged to a garden centre I'm taking the calipers 🙂 I dunno why I assumed they'd be the same other than mk1 eyeball. It's not like I've not been exposed to "MTB" standards! But it would have been fab if it has been say 20mm not 2. Probably wouldn't have noticed then.
Reply To All replies on mass emails, especially those that are single word replies like "great". Did you think everyone needed to see that?
Reply To All replies on mass emails, especially those that are single word replies like "great". Did you think everyone needed to see that?
Should be the sift criteria for redundancy programmes.....
Reading training material that i wrote *20 years ago* being reused in the wrong context, so it doesn't make any bloody sense anymore!!!
Strongly worded email already sent.
Reading training material that i wrote *20 years ago* being reused in the wrong context, so it doesn't make any bloody sense anymore!!!
Strongly worded email already sent.
Oh that reminds me, people presenting me a document I wrote as though they had written it!
Clearly they have never read said document or they would have noticed my name on it!
They are almost always using it to justify the opposite to what it actually says!
Listening to the lad on the train dumping his girlfriend by phone because she "goes around in short shorts and with her tits hanging out."
Though at least I'd recognise her if she comes to meet him at the station
Seems a bit unfair. She could be swanning around naked covered in her own shart.
Fockin Liz Truss - talking utter tosh with a MAGA hat on - or maybe i should be sympathetic cos she's clearly lost it......
Nah she is fully evil
The 'Num lock' key on PC keyboard, what is the point?
I often need to use the number pad for work and I regularly hit Num lock by mistake due to my sausage fingers. I haven't yet found a way to enable the Num lock to be permanently on without access to BIOS (I don’t have access to BIOS on work computer).
If it's a regular full-size keyboard, pry off the keycap (or wedge a bit of card underneath it).
Anyway I'm going to ring them up later. If they have an ACD explaining they are dealing with an unusually high level of calls, I shall be back here !
I emailed them instead and
"Due to the fantastic weather we're currently experiencing, our team is receiving an exceptionally high volume of enquiries. As a result, responses may take a little longer than usual.
Please be assured that we are working hard to get back to you as quickly as possible and truly appreciate your patience and understanding during this busy period."
They have made un-evidenced assumptions regarding my "patience and understanding" 😡
When you get the “Who agreed to that?” / “What, you want a holiday?” spiel from your boss.
Comedy gold.
Err...thanks for the info, subtitles!:
The 'Num lock' key on PC keyboard, what is the point?
I often need to use the number pad for work and I regularly hit Num lock by mistake due to my sausage fingers. I haven't yet found a way to enable the Num lock to be permanently on without access to BIOS (I don’t have access to BIOS on work computer).
Speak to your IT dept?
When I worked support years ago, I used to love doing little quality of life jobs like that, made a nice change from 'why is the printer not working again" 😊