I have been chatting to a new lady for a few days but yesterday she outed herself as a flat earther. That's her done. I don't have time for that nonsense in my life.
Bullet dodged!
That's _they_ want you to think
Has anyone mentioned the advert for "Tik Tock" on spotify yet?
Something about "parental controls for teens, keeping your kids safe, blah blah blah, so they can concentrate on their new hobby of trainspotting"
cue a textbook sound effect of a steam train:
CHUFF CHUFF CHUFF CHUFF
voiceover:
"there goes a class 78 electro-diesel, apparently"
WELL APPARENTLY NOT, MUM. If you got your head out of your phone you might learn something too.
I saw a bus this morning with it's rear fog light on. A BUS
They have to keep it on as they're easily mist.
I saw a bus this morning with it's rear fog light on. A BUS
They have to keep it on as they're easily mist.
🎩👍🏼👏🏻
Auto lights, and the concomitant deskilling that comes with similar. I turn them off as wel
I don’t, and I keep my auto wipers on as well. I find both to be rather handy.
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.
You could do what I do, use an old car registration along with part of the car make or model, using different characters and numbers to obfuscate the words. I just tried it with one of my old car registrations, and 12 characters fell short of the password I’ve used in the past. Easier to remember something like that.
Today's irritation: Companies / organisations whose branding features "Find us on Google / Facebook" but no real identification of their business. Yeah, I'll just search for "The white van in the Sainsbury's car park" or "The coffee shop that was shut when I rode past but might be interesting to stop at if I can ride there when it's open" shall I?
how the wife always manages to find a way to completely fill the bins up within 2 days of them getting emptied. No idea how she does it. She was away in Magaluf a few months ago for a colleagues 50th birthday party for 5 days. I didn't even get the bin half full in that time. She got back, filled it up within a few hours, I emptied it, she'd filled it up again by the end of the next day.
I've literally no idea how she does it, I've even glanced at the contents sometimes and think "yeah yeah, I mean it IS all bin stuff" I've come to the conclusion it must be how she's actually putting things in the bin, like a bad game of tetris. But I'm not gonna open that can of worms by bringing it up.
"the wife"
As opposed to "a wife" I guess.
Or “my wife”?
What would someone else's wife be doing in your bins?
who knows what shennaningans got on while "the wife" was in magaluf.
Anything has to be better than the vomit inducing "wifey".
People showing me pictures of products they're planning to make for someone(plywood furniture in this case) and saying, 'they want £600 for that. It's only 2 sheets of ply' or whatever.
Failing to remember all of the design and development that went into bringing it into reality, tools, equipment, large industrial unit rental, taxes etc etc... 🙄
No wonder it was hard to make a decent wage self employed.
People showing me pictures of products they're planning to make for someone(plywood furniture in this case) and saying, 'they want £600 for that. It's only 2 sheets of ply' or whatever.
A guy goes into a corner shop to buy something. He takes the item the the counter, the shopkeeper says "that will be two pounds 99p please, sir."
"£2.99?" says the customer, "it's only £2.40 in Tesco!"
"Well, go there then," replies the shopkeeper.
"But Tesco is on the other side of town!" wails the customer.
"Then that will be £2.99 please, sir."
Why do important presentations get delivered by the dullest presenter alive.....
I saw a bus this morning with it's rear fog light on. A BUS
They have to keep it on as they're easily mist.
Haar haar
The retro virus infected look of this forum
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Is that what it looks like with ads? Holy mother.
Yep, they've gone for the full adware infested look. All that's missing is some obnoxious music auto-playing at full volume.
There are adverts, that you can't close, stacked on top of adverts. The only one that disappears is the iPlayer one which leaves behind an opaque stripe.
Ha, I came in here to say exactly the same. Well I tried to but the adverts got in the way.
I saw a bus this morning with it's rear fog light on. A BUS
They have to keep it on as they're easily mist.
Haar haar
Very good.
Failing to remember all of the design and development that went into bringing it into reality, tools, equipment, large industrial unit rental, taxes etc etc...
No wonder it was hard to make a decent wage self employed
I attended site to inspect a Fire suppression system a while back. Took roughly an hour, the site manager was moaning that he’d payed enough for a day rate.
A. I don’t get paid whatever he was charged
B. Fine get the plasterer to sign it off then.
The retro virus infected look of this forum
I was thinking of unsubscribing after the deletion of the
Manification of things.
I don't have a "man bag," I have a bag. It's not boysturiser, and if I wore such a thing it wouldn't be guyliner.
I'll give a special pass for chapstick but that's it.
*points and laughs*
Cougar has a manbag!
Manification of things.
There's no such thing as a "Kini" so why is it "Mankini"...
If anything, it's an over-the-shoulder-thong
An acquaintance was describing how their work that day had been to take apart something they had previously installed. They referred to this as a "debuild". WTF.
MrsMC has started agreeing with people by a loud "ABSOLUTELY". Every ****ing time.
Luckily she rarely agrees with me
Oooooh - saucer of cream sir? 🙂
They referred to this as a "debuild".
See also 'Deconstructed' in association with foodstuffs. F right off.
See also 'Deconstructed' in association with foodstuffs. F right off.
This annoys me because it blatantly isn't deconstructed. What you've got there is "not constructed."
See also 'Deconstructed' in association with foodstuffs. F right off.
This annoys me because it blatantly isn't deconstructed. What you've got there is "not constructed."
yeah. 'Deconstructed' is when you drop your mixed kebab on the pavement at 3am after too many Jager-bombs
Boss at work decided most of us need to attend 'hackathons' every week, which is when we get together to waste several hours whilst our workload went unmanaged.
'oh do **** off' was not the response they were expecting...
yeah. 'Deconstructed' is when you drop your mixed kebab on the pavement at 3am after too many Jager-bombs
I wish this forum had 'react' buttons. As a Free Member I can't even Like something.
Pick up the 'Organic' peanut butter in Tesco. It's got palm oil in it! Responsibly farmed and fair trade etc, of course. No thanks.
These two jars cost the same, jar on left yesterday, jar on right 2 weeks ago
Mrs100th has a cold which means I have to have a cold.
These two jars cost the same, jar on left yesterday, jar on right 2 weeks ago
Something in your story doesn't ring true. Jar on the right says "new" but you say it's older than the other. Always read the label.
Jar on the right says "new" but you say it's older than the other.
This is, ahem, hardly new. Half the products on shelves claim to be "new" when they've been around for decades.
Very early finish on Friday, home by 11 due to someone’s error.
Of course by 1pm I feel a bit tired, think nothing of it. Wake up at 3am shivering, flu type thing.
So Saturday overtime gone.
No riding today, can predict I’ll feel right as rain Monday morning.
Being sick at the weekend really winds me up, at least it’s not holiday I guess.
Being sick at the weekend really winds me up, at least it’s not holiday I guess.
I don't know how widespread this is, but at my last place if you were sick whilst on holiday you were expected/encouraged to log it as sick days and get your leave days returned.
Sick pay, above the basic statutory is at company discretion. So zero chance.
Main dealer servicing processes.
As I wrote in the EV thread, my car had a recall last year for replacement of battery coolant, which was done as part of the 3 year service.
It's now having its 4th year, and the automatic system keeps messaging me to agree a pre-authorisation for work including the battery coolant and a price north of £500 as a result. I'm not signing that so they keep messaging me and so on. And when you call servicing, you just get through to the booking system, who can't change the booking.
So, finally I dropped it in today and get the 'you haven't signed the authorisation' and I have to explain it again. Thankfully didn't have to drag out emails from central who confirm that even though the 4 year service says change the coolant, having done it last year means it's good for another 3 years still and warranty etc., isn't affected; the guy on the booking in desk recognises the madness and can remove that.
And >£500 drops to - still £280. Which for an EV sounds high still, even at MD pricing. So we go back to the system and it's full of 'change oil and filter, change fuel filter (diesel), spark plugs (petrol)....etc...' none of which is relevant.
And while I'm at it - pollen filter. My son has allergies so this is done regularly, by me. Unclip the glove box, slide out filter, slide in new one. I even take it out intermittently and knock it clean and vacuum it. It's almost always pristine, is a 5 minute job and even a quality filter is £15 or less.
Removing that from the service - and it's now £215. £65 for a £15 part and 2 mins work.....grrrr.
Google/search engines and their complete inability to accept that sometimes they don't/can't have all the answers and instead give you loads of vaguely related results that you then have to wade through yourself, kind of defeating the point.
Example. I'm looking for these 'top hat spacers ' today for fixing my motorbike mudguard.
I type in top hat spacer and specify all of the dimensions. What do I get? About a hundred other ones that are not the size I want, often with the size obscured on the listing so you have to physically click through all of them only to find it's not what you want.
Look, you can't find what I asked for? That's fine. Just tell me. Don't muddy the waters with a million other wrong things ffs!
^^ I think that's an epidemic in the world as a whole now, nobody will admit they don't know something so they'll either lie or give a suitably vague response instead. Being able to say "I don't know, but I'll find out" seems to be too shameful a thing to say rather than being seen as honest.
For me currently it's the fact that some companies now think it's fine to substitute what you've ordered with an 'equivalent' and then tell you that it's up to you to phone up and reject it. I ordered two new tyres for my car from a pretty big UK chain and they have twice now substituted a completely different tyre (both brand and type of tyre - commuter/economy tyre to replace a performance tyre ordered specifically) because "It's the same price".
Firstly it shouldn't be the same price, you've just changed the price of the tyre you want to sell on your website to match (it's 25% cheaper in comparison everywhere else) and secondly it's not a loaf of bread or a packet of pasta, it's something that is the only contact point between my car and the road so funnily enough I do have a preference.
Bastards
1kg tubs in Aldi and Lidl are still 100% peanuts atm AFAIK
Bastards
97% peanuts I can forgive, although with such a tiny amount of added oil, I'd rather see a better oil than palm oil. I dunno, peanut oil is already built in? 🤔
Mustard, however... I've started buying powder as the pre-prepared stuff is only 21% actual mustard...so it's much better value for money. Its pretty strong stuff though, so use with caution!
People that don't know how to do precise web searches to ensure they only get relevant results 😛
People that don't know how to do precise web searches to ensure they only get relevant results 😛
People that don't know how to do precise web searches to ensure they only get relevant results 😛
😂 Go on then. I want a top hat spacer, 16mm large diameter, 22mm length, 10mm small od with an M6 bore.
I look forward to your demonstration of Google results showing that size and only that size 😊👍
I mean, the hundreds of other top hat spacers (or whatever it is you're searching for) are 'relevant'. They're just not what I'm specifically asking for innit.
Aluminium or nylon?
Put your text back into eBay search and quickly found this which should do the job (i.e. custom size). I find eBay search much better than any other for small parts. Just have to filter a lot of the delivery from China rubbish.
Looking for anything on Amazon I find impossible which along with everything else about Amazon makes me disproportionately cross. YMMV
Probably been done in the previous 68 pages but...
People who flash their high beams to say thanks. I give way to you, you blind me. Doesn't seem like a fair exchange.
People who wait for the train station barriers to shut before they put the ticket in !!!!
People who wait for the train station barriers to shut before they put the ticket in !!!!
People who seem surprised that they need to have their train ticket ready on their phone to exit station barriers. Its the 7.42 train. I see you every day. It shouldn't be a ****ing surprise
Edited to add:
Working from home - MrsMC wanted "a bit of fresh air" so has opened the upstairs windows. Weather app showing a windchill of -3 and a "wintry mix" falling out the sky.
Mustard
I've hated it since childhood. Then, I have a meal which has an interesting tang to it, I enquire what is the ingredient. And I wonder, about tastes changing as you get older and maybe I don't hate mustard any longer.
And then I ruin a perfectly good sausage or burger with the merest dab of disgusting yellow
Time. And. Again.
Aluminium or nylon?
Either, or stainless.
Put your text back into eBay search and quickly found this which should do the job (i.e. custom size).
Yes, I mean I know I could get someone to make it exactly (and I have seen those custom ones on eBay) but that costs a fortune for something which either exists off the shelf or doesn't.
My annoyance is, if it doesn't exist ready-made, then don't show me a hundred related but not the same things just because it's seemingly unacceptable to return no results. That's not helpful. I'd much rather know that what I want doesn't exist off the shelf.
It's not just top hat spacers of course. Do pretty much any search these days for anything and you get pages and pages of things that are related, but not really what you're after.
With the right context, this might throw up something you hadn't thought of, and that's great, but when you need to be very specific, related things don't help you.
I remember in the very early days of googling things in the nineties, it used to be a bit of a game to try and ask 'it' something it didn't know. Impossible now. 😂
London. I mean all of it. But specifically the practice of holding a phone conversation while ordering coffee or the like. I mean how bloody rude is that? When it was my turn, I asked the barista (as that's what everyone serving in a london coffee shop appears to be) if she minded. Apparently not, it happens all the time.
So then I was disproportionately cross that it made me crosser than the person who should be cross.
And £8.72 for a pint.
People who wait for the train station barriers to shut before they put the ticket in !!!!
To be fair, that's perhaps a lack of trust that the stupid thing won't get confused if you feed it a ticket before it appears to be ready.
Over the top update emails about online orders
- We've got your order
- We're processing your order
- We've processed your order
- We're going to dispatch your order
- We're expecting your parcel (from delivery company)
- We've dispatched your order
and then from delivery company
- We've got your parcel
- It's at the delivery hub
- It'll be delivered tomorrow
- It'll be delivered today
- It's on the van
- It'll be with you between 8 am and 10pm (and by with you we mean dumped somewhere within a 50ft vicinity of your house)
- He's stopped for a pasty
- He's just having a fag and a quick piss
- We've delivered your order (but see above)
- HOW DID WE DO?
And that's just the emails, and most of them will also be duplicated in a text message. FFS.
Over the top update emails about online orders
All of this. I ordered 3 things online last weekend. My emails have gone ****ing nuts this week.
Never mind all the spam emails offering me discounts on all the things I clearly didn't need last weekend OR I'D HAVE ORDERED THEM AT THE SAME ****ING TIME!
****ers
This week I have mostly been annoyed by:
- The price of peppers in Tesco.
- Timpson's not wanting to replace the battery in my G-Shock.
- Fascists / The BBC.
People who flash their high beams to say thanks. I give way to you, you blind me. Doesn't seem like a fair exchange.
On the flip side, people who don't acknowledge acts of courtesy - anywhere, not just when driving. Personally, I don't mind a quick flash of the lights - better than being ignored!
People who flash their high beams to say thanks. I give way to you, you blind me. Doesn't seem like a fair exchange.
It also links nicely into another thing that I get cross about, and that's brighter-than-the-sun LED headlights.
When you get/got flashed with bulb headlights the bulb doesn't have time to get to full brightness, so you just get a little, welcome, blip of light. But with LED lights it's INSTANT RETINA BURN.
All of this. I ordered 3 things online last weekend. My emails have gone ****ing nuts this week.
One of the parcels has just been delivered. The seller, Royal Mail have confirmed it's been delivered, both now wanting feedback. On seperate feedback.
I get the G Shock battery problem as well. Timpsons, independent guy and a local jeweller all unable to replace it.
In fairness to Timpson's guy he sent me to the watch repair shop round the corner who swapped out batteries in two G Shocks in 30 minutes for £20 each.
Apparently there is a delicate foil piece in the watch that he didn't want to mess with. Which is fair enough.
One of my other G-SHOCKs has a Timpsosn's "battery for life" policy on it after they did it about 5 years ago. Not sure how they are going to deal with that when the time comes.
"who swapped out batteries"
Replaced.
people who don't acknowledge acts of courtesy - anywhere, not just when driving
Walking to work in the rain this morning, I stopped by the wheelie bins on a narrow path to let a bloke and his son come past. Not a word.
It's fine... No really IT'S FINE!
People who live in terraced houses buying electric cars.
Walked around with the dog on our usual wee before bed route (the dog, not me) and nearly tripped over someone's bloody cable conduit across the path.
I'd say maybe 50mm high. Ridiculous. How does a wheelchair get past that shit bruv?
Move somewhere with a drive or don't get one. I can see this problem getting bigger.
Shops the call themselves "Village".
Has it got a pub, post box, church or perhaps an abandoned water mill? No? Then it isn't a ****ing village.
