Muc-Off charging £120 for a £15 AliEpress dust blower, just because they've added a bit of pink to it.
It shouldn't annoy me as I'm not forced to buy any of their overpriced tat, but it still does.
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.
Calls for letters to several CEOs, followed by repeat customer service requests for directions to their village green.
The salary of the guy in charge of motorbility.
I don't have a problem with a scheme of sunbsidised vehicle per se, I do think that they should be at the bottom of the rung in terms of cost through.
It's not like he's a captain of industry in charge of thousands of people who manufacture , market and sell products for the world wide market successfully. He gets a 8 fig budget from the government and just had to spend it . On himself.
A former employee of the GP practice has submitted an FOI request. It is entirely malicious and just meant to harass the staff (ie me). I'm not going to comply, but at the same time, the absolutle waste of public money - that should be spent on treating patients, that is going to be spent by employess of publically funded bodies - me, the local ICB the ICO, just dealing with this shit, is insulting. They ought to be ashamed of themsleves
Shops the call themselves "Village".
What about meetings called "Town Halls"? There's no town and there's no hall, it's a department meeting, or just a meeting!
Or "All Hands" ... where's the ****ing ship? 😡
Anyway, came here to say (I don't actually think this is disproportionate, but it makes me ****ing angry) - people at gigs who wait til half way through the band's set and then decide to try to push their way into a decent spot in the crowd. A spot that someone else is occupying. Whether that's a woman or a 60+ year old man. Don't do it. You will get sworn at, I don't care how ****ing hard you think you are! Millenial ****ers
- Any activity described as a "workshop" that doesn't create dust or swarf.
- Those frayed bits the you get on the side of your finger nails.
- BBC News
You may have seen the news of an armoured car robbery in Italy where the thieves used explosives to gain access to the contents of the vehicle. A comment under the news story from a reader was “I said just blow off the doors”. I knew what they were trying to do but got it so wrong.
Looking for a cooker for my mum. Something simple, easy to clean, 6mm cable and 32amp mcb already installed.
White goods online "sheds" publishing wrong information and filters on the same websites that just don't work.
"One oven" and "in stock" filters selected , why are the images all with a double oven?
45 amp supply. No, the manufacturer suggests a cooker switch rated at 45 amps, the supply is 32amps.
Go back to website, it isn't in stock. And repeat.
Give up, ring local shop, delivered free next week. Done
TV reporters shouting questions at anyone. As if anyone's going to stop walking, turn around and come and answer your question. You all just sound like weirdos shouting at clouds, stop it.
A former employee of the GP practice has submitted an FOI request. It is entirely malicious and just meant to harass the staff (ie me). I'm not going to comply, but at the same time, the absolutle waste of public money - that should be spent on treating patients, that is going to be spent by employess of publically funded bodies - me, the local ICB the ICO, just dealing with this shit, is insulting. They ought to be ashamed of themsleves
Presumably it meets one of the reasons to decline the FOI?
Oh sure, but I've already had to call the ICO, I've already had to have a half hour meeting with the data officer at the ICO, and a lengthy meeting with the partners about it...It's such a waste of time and money, and it's done entirely what is was designed to do, cause worry and a day's worth of headache and inconvenience. I've no idea what the final bill would be in terms of cost to the public purse, but it's probabaly into the thousands already. All to satisfy a childish grudge, literally a playground taunt. From a grown adult man.
After holding out for some while, I eventually let my energy supplier install smart meters. About last October, the gas meter stopped working and for 3 months I was only billed for electricity. Then I got hit with an estimated gas bill equivalent to almost a whole years usage. When I queried it, they said 'Would you be happier if we just billed you for what you used in the same period last year?', and obviously I agree that that was a good idea. I also pointed out that the reason we were in this mess was that their fancy meter (ok, I know that technically it isn't theirs) no longer worked. We'll look into it, they said. Then they said they were trying to re-establish contact with my meter - it's completely dead, nothing on the screen, nothing showing on the IHD, so I was sceptical. After several emails asking if I was happy with their service, to which I gave the obvious answer, I got another one asking for pictures of the meter and the surrounding area, which I sent - that was a week ago. Today I got one that said "Unfortunately, we are unable to access the files you attached. Could you please resend the attachments in image format so we can review them properly?" - they were .PNG files, which obviously their mainframe can't read. I've resent them as jpegs and I await the next exciting development.
Likewise i have an electric/gas smart meter that went stupid after a year orso. Reported it and told theyd look into it about a year ago
But Im here today because my Computer, I press shut down, then it takes at least 5minutes showing a blue screen with a twirly bit.
I need it to shut down immediately, and go to bed, or out, not hang around for half an hour watching it twirl to see if it will actually turn OFF. I reckon it went like this since the last major windows update.
And now farcebook is asking for a PIN to restore ny chat history. I dont have a PIN for it, I dont have enough mindsdpace and time to create and remember an ever increasing number of PINs,and I dont want to use the same one everywhere then find Woolworths got hacked so my bank account is half a million in the red.
and its asking for Passkeys everywhere. what is it? i dont even have fingerprint/faceprint technology on my PC
IT must all be a diversionary tactic to steal my attention so i dont know why i went to use the computer now
When, normally Olympics based, pundits talk about how amazing it is that a country, normally ours, has achieved X number of medals, normally gold, in one day. Super Saturday in London 2012, and now Super Sunday in Milan as examples. That is a miracle of event scheduling not athletic ability, stop trying to make it so!
When you are just trying to concentrate on getting something simple updated in a document in Google docs that needs thinking about and some seemingly random formatting thing keeps happening that you then have to put your attention to and you spend ages on the document formatting issue rather than the document itself and can't figure it out and lose the will to live and want to throw the laptop out the window.
Trying to update my CV for a potential new role. I've a list of previous roles, under each one I have bullet points listing key aspects of those roles. Nice and simple, or so I thought.
Trying to add another bit from my current role and every time I tap the bullet point button, it goes to bullet points but also randomly puts a horizontal line above and below.
No amount of trying to select them to delete(they won't select) and fiddling with format settings, borders and shading etc seems to get rid of them. Nothing.
I try copying and pasting another role thinking I would cleverly outwit it and change the text once it's in place. No. Bloody line is appearing again.
Completely random. No idea why. Google and various bits from old Reddit threads are no solution and I'm totally not in the right frame of mind anymore so give up.
I'll come back to it fresh later I suppose 😡
- Proficient with all modern word processing applications
- Proficient with all modern word processing applications
😂 I always thought I was to be fair but some stuff just happens and your head can't 'process' it at the time.
I'm just a humble woodworker.
Uninformed preconceptions.
My wife's just browsing on her phone for a holiday let for the autumn. She found a place, and basically said "It's for 8 people, 2 dogs. It has 2 bathrooms, air source heat pump, solar panels. Oh, that's going to be cold, then"
Why? Why should it be cold based on those factors and/or that description? Have you got something against ASHP without knowing anything much about it, apart from something our plumber said 5 years ago regarding a bad install that he'd been called out to 3 years previously?
- Proficient with all modern word processing applications
😂 I always thought I was to be fair but some stuff just happens and your head can't 'process' it at the time.
I'm just a humble woodworker.
That's his spoil chacker, he meant "proficient with all modern wood processing" 😉
Copy and paste the CV into notepad; that strips all of the cruft out.
Add the amendments and copy and paste from notepad back into the word processor.
Titivate to taste.
Dropping things from my bench.
They hit my foot every £&#@-&_ time and disappear underneath.
Cue 5 mins on my knees with a cue trying to get them out again! How I laugh when it's something flat 😔
Ordering items online, paying, and then getting an email to say that it’s on the way from suppliers. I don’t mind if that’s clear up front but if you need something urgently it’s no good.
For example - I ordered a wing mirror for my motorhome, needed for a holiday. Informed after paying that it was on it’s way from suppliers, I cancelled by email (5 times), purchased one elsewhere, and it still turned up. Returned unopened at my expense on 15th of October. Still awaiting refund, emails and phone calls (all polite) must be in the 20’s now.
So Wingmirror man, Buy it Online, whatever you’re called at the moment, I may be making a visit to Bury with some frozen sausages!
And breath…
@timba put some removable board beneath your bench, it saves a lot of time!
And breath...
It's BREATHE FFS! And it's not just one of you...
"it was on it’s way"
Its way. It's is a shortened form of it is. The possessive form of it is its.
I don't know if this is disproportionately or proportionately cross, but the absolute shitshow that is taking liquid on an aeroplane. I had to fly back to Scotland in October last year. Stuffed my hand baggage with rowies and empire biscuits on the way home. Got to security at Edinburgh to be met with loads of signs saying 'chill tf out! You can take two litres of booze or fizzy juice through security!'
Was in Glasgow last week. You know where this is going. Had met up with pals who'd furnished me with rowies and empire biscuits. And as a wee treat, a bottle of 1901. Brilliant. I can take liquids through security now, so that's coming home to share with the family.
Through security and my bag's flagged.
'You got a water bottle in there?
' 'Nah, just some 1901.'
'Ye cannae take that.'
'What? You can through Edinburgh.'
'Not here.'
'Well can I at least f*cking drink it, aye?'
'Aye.'
Downed in three big gulps, whilst some ancient security harridan whinges at me to hurry up. But Glasgow - all the other passengers were giving her shit for not letting me through with it...
Magpies, big auld ugly beaked nasty achromatic beady eyed brexit-in-kin territorial ass blue hued Ooo look at me feathered pricks
Train stations that refuse to add heating to waiting rooms. It's 3C in the one at York station.
Oh, and this website for not returning you to the last page when you log in.
Team meetings where a stream of performance data/issues are delivered for 1 hour 40 minutes in a dull monotone.
Dialling in from home with my camera off means my face is not conveying how disproportionately cross I am.
"Magpies, big auld ugly beaked nasty achromatic beady eyed brexit-in-kin territorial ass blue hued Ooo look at me feathered pricks"
Magpies are great birds so your crossness is disproportionate and misplaced.
Downed in three big gulps, whilst some ancient security harridan whinges at me to hurry up. But Glasgow - all the other passengers were giving her shit for not letting me through with it...
I read this not knowing what 1901 was, and assumed it was a bottle of Whisky that you'd downed in the queue.
People who like magpies..
😆
The people who are responsible for the felling of all the trees going into Leamington spa, Warwickshire, England, that would have blocked the view of the new rabbit hutch greenbelt estate under construction.
They're getting dangerously near to the world famous penis tree. God, please leave the penis tree alone!
Downed in three big gulps, whilst some ancient security harridan whinges at me to hurry up. But Glasgow - all the other passengers were giving her shit for not letting me through with it...
I read this not knowing what 1901 was, and assumed it was a bottle of Whisky that you'd downed in the queue.
Not going to lie, I'd've done that as well.
Websites and apps that reflow elements.
By this I mean, it shows me content before it's fully loaded, then another element loads so it ****s off somewhere else onscreen. The number of fkn misclicks I've made over the years because of moving targets makes me want to hunt down the developer and it won't be their lawn that's getting the sausage hammer.
The bloody Wallet app is the latest contender. It displays all my cards, then a second later it pops a little box at the top telling me that I need to authenticate, shifting all the card icons down on the screen. So I miss the card I want to open every damn time.
Really though it's a Web 2.0 blight. Back when I was doing webdev you could include positional data with content so you could (say) leave space for images even if they hadn't downloaded yet. Now shit bounces all over the place like an excessively caffeinated lemur.
The lock on the double doors into the garden jammed. It's been increasingly troublesome requiring a “portal activation ritual” involving synchronised and choreographed handle and key rotations. Having already disassembled it and failed to resolve the issue, I proactively ordered and received a replacement OVER THREE YEARS AGO.
Replacing it would have taken 30 minutes or less. Locked closed as it was turned that into a few hours of frantic wiggling, expensive sounding creaking noises and the possibility of exploding oak. Eventually I gave up and my mate turned up with the "electric hacksaw" and ground through the lock. I'm not allowed ownership of an angle grinder because it'd be WCA "bloodied stumps" within 5 minutes.
We completed the repair in the dark, cold and wet of a winters evening.
I am not really cross with myself. Not even disappointed. I know what I'm like. But I am quite cross that the lock would - 90% of the time - sulk in the unlocked position. Except when it properly borked itself.
Getting adverts for something that I googled and then bought.
We needed a new mattress.
We bought a new mattress.
I am being inundated with adverts for new mattresses (mattri?).
Same thing when I bought cordless drill, but that was worse because I was getting adverts FOR THE EXACT MODEL THAT I HAD JUST BOUGHT.
And fascists / the news. Can't be doing with that either.
Our neighbour has been away for weeks. He decides to run the old car, completely polluting our small cul de sac, where the fumes seem to hang in the air for ages and ages. I can't say anything because it's not against the law to idle your engine on your land.
People who refer to themselves as 'parents' of their dog, and, even worse, people who refer to their dog as their 'fur baby'.
It's not a child, it's a dog. And, perhaps, if you treated it like a dog and not like a spoiled child, it wouldn't be so f___g badly behaved.
Signed
A dog owner.
The bloody Wallet app is the latest contender. It displays all my cards, then a second later it pops a little box at the top telling me that I need to authenticate, shifting all the card icons down on the screen.
Humble brag? Check you out with your multiple credit cards 😆
I just have 2.. my UK card and my Spanish one.
Humble brag? Check you out with your multiple credit cards
I never specified credit cards. I'm not about to retire to the Maldives on my Tesco Clubcard, my library card or upcoming concert tickets.
Team meetings where a stream of performance data/issues are delivered for 1 hour 40 minutes in a dull monotone.
Is there a different type of Teams meeting?
This morning, in order...
Traffic lights at roadworks stuck on red.
Forgetting to move my work pass from my old bag to my new bag.
Having to go home to get the pass due to the ridiculous admin nightmare of getting into the office without it.
Bin lorries collecting on roads with cars parked either side.
Traffic lights still stuck on red, causing me to miss the next train.
Having a personality that makes me think a McDonalds breakfast wrap would make it all better.
Standing on a platform in -3 windchill waiting for the delayed 08:50 service and typing shit to random internet strangers
Forum members that live in Australia who insinuate that you don't know how to perform a Google search to get exactly the results you want without them being diluted by lots of vaguely similar but not what you want things, and then you offer to hold their beer for them to demonstrate how to do it and then they've not demonstrated and have either forgotten about it or they realise the enormity of the task ahead and have given up, hoping that it'll simply fade away.
Humble brag? Check you out with your multiple credit cards
I just have 2.. my UK card and my Spanish one.
Humble brag, check you out Jason Bourne
people who refer to their dog as their 'fur baby'.
God yes. I feel I've probably posted that in this thread already to be honest.
See also "crossing the rainbow bridge".
Forum members that live in Australia who insinuate that you don't know how to perform a Google search to get exactly the results you want without them being diluted by lots of vaguely similar but not what you want things, and then you offer to hold their beer for them to demonstrate how to do it and then they've not demonstrated and have either forgotten about it or they realise the enormity of the task ahead and have given up, hoping that it'll simply fade away.
People that want everything, immediately.
... I'm just waiting for the massive bag of top hat thingos to turn up so I can post a photo of them with the details of the Google search, then offer to post one (or maybe 2... or even 23) to you at an incredibly inflated price to account for my extortionate Google consultancy fee 😛
The disappearance of Eddie Stobart branded trucks.
That its rained every single day since I bought my new motorbike - and not just a sprinkle either, the roads are awash.
"New, improved recipe!"
It's not, is it. It never is. You've taken something people liked and made it crap, again. Give it 12 months and it'll be discontinued because no-one's buying it any more, because it's crap.
I popped out to go for a walk this morning. I parked up and there was a car next to me with the engine running. I got back after nearly an hour and the car was still sat there with the engine running, bloke asleep in the driver's seat. I may have accidentally leaned on the horn of my van as I drove off.
people who refer to their dog as their 'fur baby'.
God yes. I feel I've probably posted that in this thread already to be honest.
See also "crossing the rainbow bridge".
As a dog owner and lover, me thrice.
Also add social media accounts/posts 'from the dog' in odd speak.
'Fren' being a prime example.
I can't be doing with animal baby talk either, you can add "forever home" to that list. They're the same people who dress up their Shih Tzu like a Barbie doll and carry it everywhere so its paws don't get dirty.
That said, I am guilty of "cat dad." I shall of course now go and delete my account.
Anyway, today's STMYDC:
"I'm going out in 15 minutes!" sets the heating to High for four hours
Anything referred to as "Curated" that isn't in a museum.
****s.
EBAY postage- they decide the postage method for you- evri or royal mail etc.
Theres no evri shop for miles, and the post office is often closed- so if im going to town i want evri, etc.
I dont get to choose next day, signed for, 48hrs etc, nor package size/cost (sometimes)
And as I just found out, if I want to pay extra for faster delivery eg. at post office, I cant get a refund for the postage which i already paid for
You really have to be careful with this stupid new "Simple" postage thing
I think I've touched on this one before, and Cougar has for sure. People for whom the concept of 'In The Way' is wholly alien.
Yesterday, we bought a new bed for the dog, to replace a couple that have gone totally collapso in the middle. She's brought the new one upstairs into the bedroom, and put a fleece over it to try and keep it reasonably clean; so far so good.
Then, shes hoofed-out the collapsed ones, along with the small duvet that was on top of them, and left them smackbang in the way of the bathroom, airing cupboard and spare bedroom doorways, right at the top of the stairs. In the name of Christ... WHY?
Yes, as it happens 😆
Rather pleasingly, she went into the spare room on the right a couple of moments ago, and duly tripped over the corner of them. Sympathy limited.
That said, I am guilty of "cat dad
Am I still ok to refer to myself as dog entertainment officer?
So long as you keep your bone to yourself.
Mrs 100th away to that there London sends me a group photo every hour or so (they may well be the same photo) then gets upset when I don't reply within an acceptable timeframe.
And then doesn't look at her phone when I say exactly where I'm "illegally" parked and so walks confidently in exactly the wrong direction.
Council pot hole repair folk with their chuck some tar in the hole not even a scrape clean, then " pack it up pack it in jump around" for 30 seconds
Never sweep away the 2" stones lying scattered from the damaged road , no sealant around the edges like was done many years ago and the pot hole without a marker around for everyone to see just 3' away is left to bite a few more tyres and rims
Jump back in the pickup after less than 5 mins
2.30pm big load of unused tar dumped at recycling yard and the next two hours they're paid for a washing and barrier cream hands time, fill in their bonus sheet for the day then Facebook time
Mrs. dove1's word blindness when 'from' is used before a price in an advert. She repeatedly moans at me that the price something is quoted at when she tries to order or book it is more than the advertised price. When I point out the advert states "from £xx.yy" and that a customer rarely gets that price it suddenly becomes my fault!
People who completely fail to plan ahead on narrow roads. Several of the roads around here are barely wide enough in places for two cars to pass each other safely, but most of the time they tend to be pinch points with stretches between that are wider. If you read the roads carefully you can plan for safe passing by slowing down in the wide bit, and allow the car passing through the pinch point to go past you without them having to slow down or take evasive action. I lose count of the number of people who see me approaching and jam all on at the narrowest part of the road, which then means we both have to stop, and I beckon you past me where it's perfectly safe to do so. They then get all pissy because you don't acknowledge how ****ing magnanimous they've been by blocking the road and delaying everybody else, the stupid tossers. Oh, and to the woman this morning that shouted something about my stupid wide car, I'd like to point out that a VW Tiguan is actually 4mm wider than a HiLux.
The Volkswagen Tiguan has a total width (excluding side mirrors) of approximately 1,859 mm
The Toyota Hilux Invincible has an overall width of 1,855 mm
(AI Source)
Mrs. dove1's word blindness when 'from' is used before a price in an advert.
Similarly, people who dont understand the use of the expression 'up to' in advertising (eg '"kills up to 99% of bacteria" or '"removes up to 99% of stains"). While on the subject of advertising, please stop using shitty expressions like "darkens twice as much grey hair" without a baseline ... twice as much as what, exactly?
When things happen to me that make me cross and I think "this is going on that thread", and then when I get around to going on the forum I can't remember what they were.
This https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz6edwg06n1o
The response from people shows they need to watch the bloody film.
The response from people shows they need to watch the bloody film.
Well, indeed!
Foxx commented below a post about the incident on social media, saying, “Unacceptable” and “Nah he meant that shit”.
The whole point is that he didn't "mean that shit". How thick can you get ??
What until they find out what he said to her maj lizzie
Council pot hole repair folk with their chuck some tar in the hole not even a scrape clean
This is the third time that they've done this. Utterly pointless. That stuff will be scattered all over the road within a couple of days, providing a lovely load of marbles just waiting for a cyclist or motorcyclist.
Were attendees not warned before hand? I believe they were.
And the guy with tourettes said other stuff prior.. It's wasn't just the 'racist' thing...
And wasn't he up for an award for a film about the very same subject?
Such a nothing burger.. I mean sure it's a bit awkward but there are adults in the room...what did the black attendees make of it? I'm sure they'd rather not hear it and it was a bit awkward for all involved, but really, that's it IMO.
Context is key with this sort of thing and I'd like to think most rational adults would just cringe a bit and move on in this scenario.
Mrs. dove1's word blindness when 'from' is used before a price in an advert.
Similarly, people who dont understand the use of the expression 'up to' in advertising (eg '"kills up to 99% of bacteria" or '"removes up to 99% of stains"). While on the subject of advertising, please stop using shitty expressions like "darkens twice as much grey hair" without a baseline ... twice as much as what, exactly?
I had to painfully explain why my friend can't buy 100% pure isopropyl alcohol and the highest you can get is 99%.
It is 100% pure but it's also very hydroscopic, so the second you undo the lid it will absorb a little moisture just by being exposed to the air, that will bring it down to 99.99% pure or whatever.
So it's simply sold as 99% otherwise some confidently incorrect idiots will start moaning about false advertising.
Tricky one, the John Davidson one.
Absolutely it's involuntary ticking, but the semi-non-apology and response after is also not right. 'IF you were offended...' - of course black actors will be offended by someone shouting the N-word over them presenting an award, or at them directly after the event. It's entirely possible to be offended and sympathetic to the reason and there should have just been a 'Sorry for the offensive slur but here's why....'
What did he say to Her Maj, and hopefully she told him to **** off back.