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The BBC's ongoing war on the beef industry and showing misleading headlines that are actually about practices on another continent and bear almost nothing in common with UK industry. 


 
Posted : 04/11/2025 8:01 am
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People in supermarkets who can open the fridge / freezer doors but not close them again.  It makes me wonder what their homes look like.


 
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People in supermarkets

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People in supermarkets who can open the fridge / freezer doors but not close them again.  It makes me wonder what their homes look like.

Corollary: people in supermarkets who open glass freezer doors in order to see what's inside.

 


 
Posted : 04/11/2025 1:18 pm
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When you have a conversation with your other half about how chilly it is working in your north facing room even with a blanket over your legs, then come back home after taking elderly parents to a hospital appt and find that they've opened the window wide "to let some fresh air in".

I open the ****ing window at night when I'm not working in there, just stop ****ing interfering.


 
Posted : 04/11/2025 1:24 pm
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Being asked your opinion on something that you have no opinion on, and, when you finally give your opinion you end up in a row because the person who asked for your opinion already has their own opinion, which they absolutely have no intention of deviating from.

 

Example:

“What do you think of this as a present for X?”

“I don’t really know, yeah, they’ll like it I guess.”

“Why? It’s very expensive for what it is. Am I the only one who cares about cost?”


 
Posted : 04/11/2025 2:03 pm
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at 5pm.

*I have nothing against Remembrance Day at all, what I do object to is the way it's become a willy-waving contest of how many silhouettes of the fallen (or of tanks and Lancaster bombers) you / your village can put up alongside ever more ostentatious poppy displays.

Saw a VW Transporter with a bloody massive poppy attached to its grill this weekend. I think he's letting us know he's remembering extra hard. 


 
Posted : 04/11/2025 2:14 pm
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" I think he's letting us know he's remembering extra hard. "

 

Pub near where I work. Their remembering game is strong. The poppy themed wheel trims on the railings are an extra nice touch.

 

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The BBC's ongoing war on the beef industry

People who think the BBC has an agenda.


 
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" I think he's letting us know he's remembering extra hard. "

 

Pub near where I work. Their remembering game is strong. The poppy themed wheel trims on the railings are an extra nice touch.

 

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At what point does it look gawdy and overdone? 

I ****ing hate this time of year. Even as a veteran. 

 


 
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Posted by: smiffy

The BBC's ongoing war on the beef industry

Why do they have beef, with beef? 

 


 
Posted : 04/11/2025 3:27 pm
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"At what point does it look gawdy and overdone? 

I ****ing hate this time of year. Even as a veteran. "

 

That display is all year round. There's a battalion of silhouettes advancing across the grass verge opposite.


 
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They're very remembery in Brinklow, Warwickshire. 

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Posted : 05/11/2025 8:00 am
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I've just tried to renew my driving license online. Means getting a new GOV.UK One login. After 3 cookie acceptances, one security code to e-mail, one code to text message then a request to download an app, I thought, **** it I'll just go to the post offices, (which costs £7.50 extra!) 

Except none of my local post offices offer the service because they need to take a photo. 

What a monumental pain in the arse. Maybe I'll just risk getting the fine*

*Well no, I'm an honest citizen so I'll find my way through it, but I'll bet plenty wouldn't. 


 
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With my squinty eye sight it looks like they are all walking pygmy goats.

 

Anyway... Back to the OP.

 

The thing that makes me disproportionately cross today is the quirky cars driven by TV detectives. Started watching Dept. Q last night and it was excellent, other than him being given a 30 year old Sierra as a pool car.


 
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I've just tried to renew my driving license on. Gave up after 3 cookie acceptances, one email security code, one text message security code and then a request to download a Gov.uk one login app. This was before I'd even got to the driving license site! So I thought, **** it, I'll just go to the post office for an extra £7.50 🤬 but none of our local branches offer this service because they have to take a photo in store. 

What a ****ing monumental pain in the hoop. I imagine many people simply don't bother. 


 
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People who leave their shopping list in the trolley after they've unloaded it. And people who leave trolleys in parking spaces rather than at least pushing them to the path, let alone the collection point.


 
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That the school in our street has to put traffic cones on the zig zags* and double yellows beside the entrance.

And still,the selfish,needy thickos will try drop offs at the gate.

There is ample(free)parking a three minute walk up the street.

*I can just imagine the fuss if they were fined and had three penalty points dumped on their license.

 


 
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New one for me, or maybe new variation on an old one. When you switch internet provider (in this case the setup was done very efficiently, bang on time, with no more than an hour downtime between providers) but the boxes they provided don't work properly. So you call up support, and they say: 

"I'm sorry, the installation order hasn't actually been closed yet, so you don't have an account number and I can't give you any support".

WTAF!!! My internet is (intermittently) right there! Clearly I'm connected and on your system! And it's your effing hardware that's making it intermittent - just tell me how I can disable this damn box and use my own network hardware!!


 
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"I'm sorry, the installation order hasn't actually been closed yet, so you don't have an account number and I can't give you any support".

Frustrating as it may be, in and of itself this does make sense.  Any given organisation may have different internal structures of course, but back when I worked for an MSP moving a customer from Installation into Support was a formal process requiring Acceptance Tests and a knowledge transfer.  A botched install should and would be rejected by Support.  Having worked in roles on both sides of this particular fence, I'm confident in saying that any attempt by Installations to go "we can't get it working so we'll hoof it into Support anyway and make it their problem" would have been met with my "so you ****ing think so" face.

Support's role is to field "it used to work and now it doesn't" type issues, there's nothing they can do if the problem is that the fibre is still on a roll in the boot of a Transmissions engineer's van.  That said, what the Support tech should have done here is say "I can't give you any support directly yet, but I'll raise this as an issue with the Installations team" rather than just fobbing you off.  It might not be in Support yet but it absolutely will be somewhere.

In your particular case, the handover could include some form of connectivity testing which requires specific results from a known CE endpoint (ie, your ONT or ISP-supplied router); using your own hardware could skew these results assuming it worked at all.  Our day-to-day deployments would include an end-to-end performance test prior to final sign off; if there was a mismatch between the two ends, say the server was running version 2.67 of the performance tool and the client 2.61, then the results would be unreliable.  The dead last thing Installations want is for either Support or the customer to be silently sodding about with things whilst the project is still in flight because Known variables suddenly aren't.

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it's your effing hardware that's making it intermittent

I'd be interested to hear how you diagnosed that.

I'd expect that most front line 'tech' will have no means of diagnosing anything which isn't on their if-this-then-that scripts.  Speaking with your first point of escalation to someone actually technical and providing a self-diagnosis of "I know with cast-iron certainty that it's a faulty router but I don't know how to go about setting up my own" would (quite rightly) be met with some degree of scepticism.  


 
Posted : 05/11/2025 12:31 pm
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Also,

Granted we shipped Cisco and HPE kit rather than Middle Of Lidl routers, but it is very rarely a faulty router.  It's a quick fix for Support, we'll send you out a new router if only to rule out that possibility (though of course the possibility of two faulty routers in succession is highly unlikely but non-zero).

When the warehouse was getting overrun I had my team bench-test a load of returned routers.  Out of an entire pallet-load, there were maybe three or four which were actually faulty (excluding those RMAed from a recycling / waste disposal company, but that's a whole other story).


 
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The thing that makes me disproportionately cross today is the quirky cars driven by TV detectives. Started watching Dept. Q last night and it was excellent, other than him being given a 30 year old Sierra as a pool car.

Two different Sierras, amazingly (or not, they are '80s Fords) without those weird Ford keys.

 


 
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The Pikeys across the road seem to be unloading about ten grands worth of ordnance at the monent,  how they can afford it I don't know.

 

My dogs usualy pretty tollerant of fireworks but he's shaking now and I'm tempted to go over and start smashing some peoples teeth out.

 

 


 
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Also, 30 years ago was 1995. Sierras were two years out of production by then. 


 
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those weird Ford keys.

They're called Tibbe keys.  The Sierra pre-dates them, its run ended in 1993 and Tibbe was 90s tech.  Later model Sierras may have had them, I don't know for sure. I want to say the first time I saw that key style was on a Sapphire but I may have made that up.  My 1995 Scorpio used Tibbe keys.


 
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The Pikeys across the road seem to be unloading about ten grands worth of ordinance at the monent,  how they can afford it I don't know.

My dogs usualy pretty tollerant of fireworks but he's shaking now and I'm tempted to go over and start smashing some peoples teeth out.

My greyhound is fairly distressed by similar behaviour. I truly hope one of them loses some fingers or an eye. 

 


 
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Posted by: mattyfez

The Pikeys across the road seem to be unloading about ten grands worth of ordinance at the monent,  how they can afford it I don't know.

My dogs usualy pretty tollerant of fireworks but he's shaking now and I'm tempted to go over and start smashing some peoples teeth out.

My greyhound is fairly distressed by similar behaviour. I truly hope one of them loses some fingers or an eye. 

 

 

Thankfully (for them) they seem to have run out now, so I won't be up on attempted murder charges in the morning.

 


 
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I've just tried to renew my driving license on. Gave up after 3 cookie acceptances, one email security code, one text message security code and then a request to download a Gov.uk one login app. This was before I'd even got to the driving license site! So I thought, **** it, I'll just go to the post office for an extra £7.50 🤬 but none of our local branches offer this service because they have to take a photo in store. 

What a ****ing monumental pain in the hoop. I imagine many people simply don't bother. 

Haha yes that's what happened to me although I was luckier and the post office within a short bike ride distance away was able to offer the service.

 


 
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Thankfully (for them) they seem to have run out now, so I won't be up on attempted murder charges in the morning.

... at 9:15pm on November 5th?


 
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Posted by: mattyfez

Thankfully (for them) they seem to have run out now, so I won't be up on attempted murder charges in the morning.

... at 9:15pm on November 5th?

 

It's OK, I've calmed down now lol, the dog is sleeping and I'm listening to a bit of radio 2 whilst trash talking on the internets.

Normal service has resumed 😎 

 

this is the 'disproportionately-cross' thread, right?

 


 
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Also on the subject of cop show cars... when they take out the rear view mirror for head on shots of the occupants, and then put it back in for forward facing shots. Or, in the case of Dept. Q, put it back in digitally. Badly. 


 
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this is the 'disproportionately-cross' thread, right?

 

Good point, well made.

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Also on the subject of cop show cars...

Cop shows are particularly bad for this but,

Why is there not a single actor on the planet who when handed a cup of coffee can act as though it's full?  "Here's your coffee boss" - thanks - immediately tips it to their face with the cup approaching horizontal. 


 
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Not locking their computers. I can't nip to the brew machine without having to enter a million character password to get back in.

 

Also, laptops that are never pugged in.


 
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On that note, I have a new W11 laptop that requires me to set a PIN (separate to my network password) to lock/unlock it. Fine, I thought, I'll use my usual trick of a phone number from my childhood that I can still remember. But, oh no, it has to be a 12 digit PIN. 12 digits! That's mental.

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it's your effing hardware that's making it intermittent

I'd be interested to hear how you diagnosed that.

Eventually, plugging ONT directly into my pre-existing router, and cutting the ISP-supplied modem/router out entirely. Putting their modem into bridge mode made it inaccessible either directly or through the router; and for about 5 minutes every 2 hours, it stopped supplying internet to anything in the house, despite both ONT and modem saying they had internet. 

Probably not defective (as in broken) hardware, but clearly something in its firmware was not behaving in a sensible manner; even when compared to something like a Virgin box. 


 
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Cop shows are particularly bad for this but,

Why is there not a single actor on the planet who when handed a cup of coffee can act as though it's full?  "Here's your coffee boss" - thanks - immediately tips it to their face with the cup approaching horizontal. 

Oh god, I started noticing that a few months back and now can't stop! Every. Single. Time. It's an empty cup! It sounds like an empty cup when they put it down, they hold it like an empty cup, they pretend to drink from it like an empty cup. Arggghhhh!! 

I don't get why they don't just half-fill it with water; they could even seal the lid if it helps. But at least that way it would sound full, and they'd hold it like it was full

 


 
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those weird Ford keys.

They're called Tibbe keys.  The Sierra pre-dates them, its run ended in 1993 and Tibbe was 90s tech.  Later model Sierras may have had them, I don't know for sure. I want to say the first time I saw that key style was on a Sapphire but I may have made that up.  My 1995 Scorpio used Tibbe keys.

With transponders, maybe. But I unfortunately had a mk2 Onion for a bit (it was F-reg, and free) and that very definitely had them. I've never driven a really early Sierra, but the oldest I drove must've been a D-reg and it had them as well. 

 


 
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Actually, come to think of it, I broke at least one Sierra door lock with a Tibbe key - if Tibbe are the ones that were completely interchangeable between cars. We had two, I think it was the later (1992) one. 


 
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Travelling on LNER from KingsX to Embra. I was going to get a coffee at the station but I had a few bags so I decided to get one on the train.
“Hot drinks unavailable”.

You can take the train company out of British Rail but you can’t take British Rail out of the train company. 


 
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Can you adjust the cupboard?

Gold star to @Cougar! The hinge side of the cupboard is against a wall and I noticed that it was flexing in a bawhair as the door swung closed. I had some spare 10mm dowel which I cut to length to act as a brace between the two sides of the cupboard and it just fits in the space between the fridge and freezer doors so doesn't get in the way. No longer disproportionately cross!

But I did waste a lot of time trying to fiddle with the hinge adjustments before spotting this - it was still snagging even with the hinges as far "in" as they go.


 
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Temu adverts for what look like some kind of women's plastic leggings despite me never having visited the website or looked at anything remotely like women's leggings on my laptop.  I could understand the targeted adverts for bikes and hiking boots, they are things I have been looking at recently.


 
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I have a new W11 laptop that requires me to set a PIN (separate to my network password) to lock/unlock it. Fine, I thought, I'll use my usual trick of a phone number from my childhood that I can still remember. But, oh no, it has to be a 12 digit PIN. 12 digits! That's mental.

That's been set up by someone who fundamentally doesn't understand how device PINs work.


 
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They're called Tibbe keys.  The Sierra pre-dates them, its run ended in 1993 and Tibbe was 90s tech.  Later model Sierras may have had them, I don't know for sure. I want to say the first time I saw that key style was on a Sapphire but I may have made that up.  My 1995 Scorpio used Tibbe keys.

My 89 Sapphire had those keys.
The Locksmith/Alarm company I worked for in the Nineties had a fleet of ford shite. Everything from the Mk3/4 Escorts of shite, 1990 Transit unpopular to Sierras and Mondaoes (spelling??). Put me off Fords for years.
The 1.8 N/A diesel was an impressively horrible engine.
 
All with those keys, I think Jags had them too.
 
The key would wear smooth, most of the vans/cars had a different key for every lock after not many miles. 
One fun fact, you could lock any of those shit boxes with any key. Amusing when one chap has a tendency to leave his keys in the ignition 

 
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WTF happened to that post?


 
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my usual trick of a phone number from my childhood that I can still remember. But, oh no, it has to be a 12 digit PIN. 12 digits! That's mental.

Surely you still just use the phone number in question? But twice.

 


 
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The Locksmith/Alarm company I worked for in the Nineties had a fleet of ford shite. Everything from the Mk3/4 Escorts of shite

The Mk4 replaced the Mk3 circa 1985/86 (I owned one of the very last Mk3s), it's unlikely you had Mk3s as fleet cars in the 1990s.

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The 1.8 N/A diesel was an impressively horrible engine

I had a succession of those in company car Fiestas in the 1990s.  Can confirm, truly gutless.  Driving home up the M65, there's a section of motorway with a sustained but fairly gentle inline, by the time you reach the crest you're doing 60mph with your foot to the boards.


 
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1990 Transit unpopular to Sierras and Mondeo. Put me off Fords for years.
The 1.8 N/A diesel was an impressively horrible engine.

Place I worked for had a Mondeo diesel, 0-60 in a calendar month, but get it up to 70 (eventually), and it would sit there for ever. 


 
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They're called Tibbe keys.  The Sierra pre-dates them, its run ended in 1993 and Tibbe was 90s tech.  Later model Sierras may have had them, I don't know for sure. I want to say the first time I saw that key style was on a Sapphire but I may have made that up.  My 1995 Scorpio used Tibbe keys.

My 89 Sapphire had those keys.
The Locksmith/Alarm company I worked for in the Nineties had a fleet of ford shite. Everything from the Mk3/4 Escorts of shite, 1990 Transit unpopular to Sierras and Mondeoes (spelling??). Put me off Fords for years.
The 1.8 N/A diesel was an impressively horrible engine.
 
All with those keys, I think Jags had them too.
 
The key would wear smooth, most of the vans/cars had a different key for every lock after not many miles. 
One fun fact, you could lock any of those shit boxes with any key. Amusing when one chap has a tendency to leave his keys in the ignition 

A mate's mum had a fairly new Orion and one day a friend visited in a near identical car. His dad went to move one of them and only afterwards realised that he'd used the wrong set of keys.

I also had the misfortune of borrowing a 1.8d Fiesta from my step-dad when i was 18 to do an Easter road-trip in 1997 with mates.

It was weirdly tank-like for such a small car. Hungover AF we got hit from behind by a Cavalier (as in Vauxhall obvs) in the toll queue on the Forth Bridge. The towball made a mess of his radiator. Fiesta looked fine so we carried on driving for several days. Wasn't until we got home we discovered that the car had been twisted.   

 


 
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1990 Transit unpopular to Sierras and Mondeo. Put me off Fords for years.
The 1.8 N/A diesel was an impressively horrible engine.

Place I worked for had a Mondeo diesel, 0-60 in a calendar month, but get it up to 70 (eventually), and it would sit there for ever. 

MK1?

1.8 turbo diesel. Glacial.

Googled it, 88bhp, no wonder it was so slow 😁


 
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Leaving a tissue in your jeans pocket when doing a big wash.  Every item of clothing is then covered in tiny white flecks for the rest of eternity as they seem almost impossible to remove.  Extra points if you absentmindedly said "yes" beforehand when asked if you'd checked your pockets.


 
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Leaving a tissue in your jeans pocket when doing a big wash.  

Oh yes, this, all the time. Fortunately its usually MrsL, who's left a tissue up the sleeve of her shirt/cardigan, rather than me. But not always, admittedly. Also, it's not me that gets cross about it, I basically couldn't GAF. That in turn makes her quite cross.


 
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Posted by: mattyfez

this is the 'disproportionately-cross' thread, right?

 

Good point, well made.

Posted by: Harry_the_Spider

Also on the subject of cop show cars...

Cop shows are particularly bad for this but,

Why is there not a single actor on the planet who when handed a cup of coffee can act as though it's full?  "Here's your coffee boss" - thanks - immediately tips it to their face with the cup approaching horizontal. 

 

Now I'm cross, they insist on using real guns in films for the weight and recoil realism I guess... why not use real coffee in cups, or just water (or Rum if your are Johnny Depp) if the actor doesn't want to get wired on caffeine after multiple takes??

 


 
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Oh yes, this, all the time. Fortunately its usually MrsL, who's left a tissue up the sleeve of her shirt/cardigan, rather than me. But not always, admittedly.

I check my pockets before committing clothing to the laundry - if it's in the basket then it's been checked, categorised, turned inside-out, socks unrolled etc. and is ready to go.  She stuffs clothes in the basket with gay abandon and sorts through it all when loading the machine.  So if I'm doing the washing including her laundry...


 
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And people who leave trolleys in parking spaces rather than at least pushing them to the path, let alone the collection point.

I think putting the trolley back in the collection point is a fair judgement on whether you're fundamentally a decent person. There's no reward for doing it, and at the same time, no penalty either, but it's very clearly the right thing to do for other shoppers and the staff that have to collect them. The people that don't do this are so very obviously bad 'uns

My gripe today is entirely self inflicted, I've cut a piece of cheese as a snack (Because; cheese) but it's too large, so I cut it in half, and put half back in the wrapper and back in the fridge...You can tell where this is going without me having to finish the sentence right?

I swear it's calling me like the sirens of ancient maritime stories..


 
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but it's too large, so I cut it in half, and put half back in the wrapper and back in the fridge

That fleeting illusion of restraint and self control? Self delusion. You absolutely knew deep down when you did this, that it was utterly pointless. 


 
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There's no reward for doing it, and at the same time, no penalty either, but it's very clearly the right thing to do for other shoppers and the staff that have to collect them.

The presence of a £1 deposit has pretty much fixed the issue of an increasing minority not bothering to put them back.

There's an ever-increasing minority of vapers who seem to believe that since vaping is not smoking, the No Smoking signs don't apply and they can vape wherever they want. Train platforms, just as they're getting onto the train (usually exhaling their ****ing minty vanilla bollocks right into the train carriage), indoors...

If I had my way, the punishment for these antisocial ****s would be instant insertion of the vape right up their arse.


 
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The Mk4 replaced the Mk3 circa 1985/86 (I owned one of the very last Mk3s), it's unlikely you had Mk3s as fleet cars in the 1990s

Yes, I misremembered, mk4, last of the square (ish) design with stupid stubby indicators, multiple earth faults and a hunger for dashboard bulbs.

Manual choke in the nineties! Didn’t even have a fag lighter socket.

The mk5 had much better seats/interior and handled better.
Still awful. 
The smell and sound of the 1.8d on cold start, urrgh.


 
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If I had my way, the punishment for these antisocial ****s would be instant insertion of the vape right up their arse

I stupidly said a passenger could vape in a Van a while back, huge mistake.
I was expecting window open, a small bit of vapour wouldn’t be an issue like when my GF was using a vape to give up smoking.

Wrong! It was like putting my face in front of a smoke machine at a gig.
Now I’m cross at myself as I’ve got to tell him, actually I’ve changed my mind cos it’s bloody awful.


 
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And people who leave trolleys in parking spaces rather than at least pushing them to the path, let alone the collection point.

I think putting the trolley back in the collection point is a fair judgement on whether you're fundamentally a decent person. There's no reward for doing it, and at the same time, no penalty either, but it's very clearly the right thing to do for other shoppers and the staff that have to collect them. The people that don't do this are so very obviously bad 'uns

My gripe today is entirely self inflicted, I've cut a piece of cheese as a snack (Because; cheese) but it's too large, so I cut it in half, and put half back in the wrapper and back in the fridge...You can tell where this is going without me having to finish the sentence right?

I swear it's calling me like the sirens of ancient maritime stories..

 

I think I've touched on this before in this very thread, it's not hard, it takes seconds, but there's a special place in hell for people that have taken the effort to take the trolley back to the trolley bay/thing, only to slam it in sideways like an utter 'see you next tuesday'.

 

Just..why? ultra-cockism, is the only explanation.

 

My local tescos this very evening:

 

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If I had my way, the punishment for these antisocial ****s would be instant insertion of the vape right up their arse

I stupidly said a passenger could vape in a Van a while back, huge mistake.
I was expecting window open, a small bit of vapour wouldn’t be an issue like when my GF was using a vape to give up smoking.

Wrong! It was like putting my face in front of a smoke machine at a gig.
Now I’m cross at myself as I’ve got to tell him, actually I’ve changed my mind cos it’s bloody awful.

 

There's vaping to quit, and there's being a twunt...

I have a vape and it has buttons on the side to adjust the power, and belive me, you are 100% correct in that people pumping out huge visible clouds are not quitting, if anything they are making it worse for themselves and every one else who has to endure the candy floss tropical fruit flavours.

If you are just vaping enough as ciggy replacement therapy, you'd barely even smell they are doing it. Ok you might get a teeny whiff of cherry or apple or whatever, but if they are fogging the place up they are just being a nob.

 


 
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Posted by: Harry_the_Spider

The thing that makes me disproportionately cross today is the quirky cars driven by TV detectives. Started watching Dept. Q last night and it was excellent, other than him being given a 30 year old Sierra as a pool car.

Pretty sure that was deliberate - showing him exactly where he was on the pecking order. And yes, I have watched Dept. Q and really enjoyed it, which is how I arrived at that conclusion.


 
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*I have nothing against Remembrance Day at all, what I do object to is the way it's become a willy-waving contest of how many silhouettes of the fallen (or of tanks and Lancaster bombers) you / your village can put up alongside ever more ostentatious poppy displays.

I’m certain that this year the showing of support is greater than usual is because it’s the 80th anniversary of the end of WW2, and there are very, very few of that generation left, so it’s particularly important, and poignant, that they are shown the respect they deserve.

I was born nine years after the end of the war, my dad died when I was thirteen, and it was a long time before I became aware of just what Remembrance Day is all about, especially as I’ve recently been given details of my family history, in particular one relative who fought in WW1. I have his pocket knife, which I’m certain was already older than he was when he was killed in action.


 


 
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I posted in an outdoors group on facebook that I was looking for winter hiking trousers and what do folk recommend.  Of course I get a reply that says "I wear shorts all year round".  That's great, but absolutely no use to me thank you.  You may not feel the cold but I do.  I would like trousers.


 
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Of course I get a reply that says "I wear shorts all year round".

Presumably from someone who's never been up at 3500ft in January.

 


 
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Leaving a tissue in your jeans pocket when doing a big wash.  Every item of clothing is then covered in tiny white flecks for the rest of eternity as they seem almost impossible to remove.  Extra points if you absentmindedly said "yes" beforehand when asked if you'd checked your pockets.

 

Are we married?

 


 
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The legal process of moving and the solicitors who charge me a frikkin' fortune to cock it up...


 
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The way that Cher pronounces Memphis.


 
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Silicone in plumbing jobs 


 
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In a 5 minute trip downstairs to grab a coffee and some toast:

The main body of my aeropress is in the still running dishwasher

The butter is full of what I suspect are crumbs from a cream cracker

Blackcurrant and vanilla jam is not as nice as I'd hoped


 
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My bin men.

Every bin day morning I'll carefully place the wheelie bin, handle out on the edge of my front garden, nearest to where I know the lorry stops certain in the knowledge that on my return that evening said bin will be abandoned in the exact centre of my driveway entrance stopping me from getting in.

See also daughter who will invariably walk right past it on her way back from College without giving it a second thought.....


 
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said bin will be abandoned

ours after collection are strewn around the street, I have to go off hunting to locate them, it's amazing sometimes how far they've wandered...


 
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Workboots that shred the laces


 
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The main body of my aeropress is in the still running dishwasher

Eh? That seems overkill. Lid off, push the plunger fully out, pop the grounds in to the bin, then gently pull the back of the plunger tight against the body and rinse the front under the tap. The plunger does the job of cleaning the main body on the way through doesn't it? Anything left behind is added flavour for next time. Or maybe I'm just a grubby, lazy tramp?


 
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Power washers, why can't they invent a hose that works as it should rather than cuddle up with its self

Maybe there is one but bike makers like Karcher and Bosch can't seem to make them


 
Posted : 12/11/2025 12:12 pm
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An innate inability to answer the question. Case in point, a few days ago at breakfast time:

Him: Do you want a roll, or a toasted roll?
Her: No, because they're fresh, aren't they?

I was none the wiser after that response.


 
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Sounds like The Small.

Partner: "Put your shoes on."

3-yo: "No."

Partner: "OK, don't put your shoes on."

3-yo: "No."

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Yep, except it's from a 74-yo. Make of that what you will


 
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Posted by: pocpoc

Posted by: MoreCashThanDash

The main body of my aeropress is in the still running dishwasher

Eh? That seems overkill. Lid off, push the plunger fully out, pop the grounds in to the bin, then gently pull the back of the plunger tight against the body and rinse the front under the tap. The plunger does the job of cleaning the main body on the way through doesn't it? Anything left behind is added flavour for next time. Or maybe I'm just a grubby, lazy tramp?

Nope, you are a fine upstanding sensible human being.

At no point have I ever put any part of an aeropress in a dishwasher.

 


 
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It's 6.15am. I'm awake early to get a train to work then go out on the piss later. But while perusing the news I read that this incoming storm is going to seriously disrupt journeys later and the train companies have told customers not to travel. (bold is important here)

Ok, I'll just drive and forego the beer. Ticket refund -£5.00 admin fee. Bastards!


 
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The fact we name every bit of mildly bad weather Storm whatever these days.


 
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