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L1 HUE not cool driving in the gutter full of water and wet slush when you're the only car on the road and people are walking on the pavement.
Programmer Schoolboy Error Of The Day:
I just closed the development tool, it went “do you want to save changes?” so I said “yes.”
Then I thought “hang on, I haven’t made any changes.”
The bloody cat’s been sat on the keyboard. My code is absolutely bolloxed.
That's what version history is for, it's like having a backup 😉
People who use things only to leave them in a state no longer ready for use:
not charging things
not emptying the vacuum cleaner
not putting consumables that have run out on the shopping list
not fuelling the car
People being surprised they have to get their payment out after queuing for ages to buy something.
Also parking at a fuel pump, doing their weekly shop without actually buying fuel, whist people are waiting to get to a fuel pump.
PIR switches.
Always watching your every move. 🙁
The feeling that I ought to be doing something productive when I'm perfectly content staring out of a window or similar.
Booked a ticket at a big screen cinema .
I thought that as it was an action film,the scenes would bloke out the noise of any nearby feeding frenzy.
Wrong,what an idiot .
I was disproportionately cross at myself for falling into the trap.
The sun making an appearance on Monday morning after heavy rain the entire weekend.
nearby feeding frenzy.
Oh, so very much this. WTF is it that makes people want to go to the cinema and consume what appears to be a three course meal ?
I mean, I like a tub of popcorn and a Pepsi max, but I see people teetering towards their seats balancing several trays of steaming nachos, main courses and puddings, and then proceed to munch and slurp their way through the first twenty minutes of the showing.
(I come from a generation where a meal is a meal, eating between meals was frowned upon, and eating in the street was an absolute no-no)
I cycle commute quite a bit and drive quite a bit and I am generally pretty impressed at quality of other driving on the road, I rarely find a reason to be cross. However, I am currently going out with my daughter in the car she is learning to drive. There is something about a driver with L plates on the road which makes so many other drivers impatient, aggressive and down right dangerous. For the sake of my daughter I try to stay calm but it is testing me.
"Can I get...?" uttered by customers in a retail setting, most commonly cafes/coffee houses.
NO! The person serving can get you whatever you want. You can not.
There is something about a driver with L plates on the road which makes so many other drivers impatient, aggressive and down right dangerous.
You are very much judged on the car you drive, also.
One time I was out, I thought "what the hell is wrong with everyone today?" I was being muscled out of the road in places where oncoming traffic would normally wait behind parked cars to wait for me to pass. Then I suddenly realised, I was in a courtesy Micra whist my Mondeo was in the garage. The difference in other drivers' behaviour was stark.
Back when I had a big Merc, people would actively close gaps when you were trying to pull out. I have a theory that this is why BMW et al drivers have a reputation for never indicating - I stopped indicating in the end as it just tips the bastards off so you can never get anywhere.
Same with motorcycles. I have ridden Vespa and Lambretta scooters for decades. Riding on an A or B road at the legal speed limit and you can guarantee car drivers will overtake.
I also used to ride a motorbike (Suzuki Bandit). On the same roads far fewer cars drivers would overtake.
It's a weird mindset where some drivers view smaller vehicles as slow and have to get past.
You are very much judged on the car you drive, also.
One time I was out, I thought “what the hell is wrong with everyone today?” I was being muscled out of the road
Suddenly, the tendency of cars and vans to cut me up using the wrong lane at a local set of lights makes sense - Fabia rather than Octavia.
You are very much judged on the car you drive
I think you are right. We have had 20mph limits round here for years now. I have never been overtaken whilst driving at or around 20mph. But, when in the car with my Learner daughter, doing the same speed, people will regularly overtake us (even when that means going the wrong side of traffic islands).
Saying "I picked up" as a synonym for "I bought". I suppose it's a stupid Americanism, but it suggests that the purchaser considered the expenditure so trifling that they could just casually acquire an expensive item without concern for the cost, even though it's something that would cause grief to my bank account.
People using brought when they mean bought
It's under where you moved the wood to.
Dropping a nut in the garage
Try putting your head sideways on the floor and looking for it, rather than standing and looking down at the floor. Can also supplement the technique with a torch.
The lack of coat hooks in pubs and restaurants. I've got a nice coat (in fact a few nice coats, get me), I'm quite a tall fella, and I don't want to put it on the back of my chair so the bottom of it drags around on the floor, gets trapped under the chair leg or gets stuff dripped on it as people are carrying drinks past.
Suddenly, the tendency of cars and vans to cut me up using the wrong lane at a local set of lights makes sense – Fabia rather than Octavia.
Happened to my wife when she had Fiesta, she's quite a cautious driver and always sticks to the limits, she would regularly have people pulling out in front of her or driving at her when she had right of way. changed her car to a Honda CRV and problem solved overnight. She doesn't drive any differently but the larger car makes all the difference.
I get it a bit when I'm towing the caravan, people desperate to pull out of a junction in front of you or risky overtakes so they don't get "stuck" behind me. Seems they'd rather get hit with 4+ tonnes than travel a bit slower.
When you're measuring something the same width as your tape measure and it gets stuck in there. :-/
Try putting your head sideways on the floor and looking for it, rather than standing and looking down at the floor. Can also supplement the technique with a torch.
A technique I started to use when CSI started on telly - works particularly well with a bright white LED flashlight. Especially when it’s a metal object.
This is a minor issue, but it’s making me really rather annoyed. I have a Jack Wolfskin tee shirt, perfectly ordinary looking black tee shirt, but it’s made from Polartec 100 fleece. I’d love to buy another one, but it’s absolutely impossible to find one anywhere! It’s very comfortable to wear, it doesn’t get damp and clammy when worn under something like a Buffalo and things warm up a bit.
So why is it that nobody makes a basic tee shirt from Polartec 100? Am I asking for something that’s difficult to produce?
Just so bloody annoying!
If I type slowly it doesn’t do it, but typing quickly I get clickclickclickclicksqueakclickclick argh which one was that?
Just tap each single key quickly and repeatedly for a few seconds going through the querty shizzle until it reveals itself. Then, WD40. Lashings of.
Someone complaining on a work forum about our backdated pay rise being taxed.
Most of you know where I work.
When you start a thread then someone within an hour cuckoos it by slightly altering maybe a word or number and steals your traffic
When you start a forum subject then someone within an hour cuckoos it by slightly altering maybe a word or number and steals your hits.
People who talk about their camera lense rather than their lens by claiming that it’s maybe the American spelling and therefore correct. It’s not.
Very disproportionate.
brown packing tape - the stuff you put on parcels you are returning - it's either crap and lacks any adhesion whatsoever or it's so strong you cannot get it off the roll and on to the parcel you are trying to send.
By picking up every bit of swarf and filing in my shed apart from the elusive ALLOY **** spacer that went ping across the floor.
Cleaning? Heaven forbid.
I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that I make people disproportionately cross. Probably more so in meatspace than online.
People saying alloy when they mean aluminium alloy or some other non-magnetic metallic material 🙂
When you start a forum subject then someone within an hour cuckoos it by slightly altering maybe a word or number and steals your hits.
Ah yes, the "comedy" mimic threads, they're universally shit.
People who talk about their camera lense rather than their lens by claiming that it’s maybe the American spelling and therefore correct. It’s not.
See also, "potatoe."
Ah yes, the “comedy” mimic threads, they’re universally shit.
They're sometimes funny, once. When there's 17 decreasingly amusing versions of the same thing it just becomes a pain in the arse.
Sharing tea making facilities with instant coffee monsters.
Put the sugar in first, THEN the 'coffee', and all with a bone dry spoon so everything don't stick to it, and stop frikkin contaminating the sugar for tea drinkers you absolute insensitive wombles! :-/