Dull people on the train that have no volume control, or any understanding of how far sound travels 🙄
Posted : 30/03/2025 9:48 am
When you load up your paint/varnish roller and go to apply it in a rolling-type fashion, and it doesn't roll, but skids 😡😭😡
Posted : 02/04/2025 10:00 am
My son's mates. One has borrowed my son's trailer. I was away at weekend, and said mate has returned said trailer with a massive 'drum' of trade waste (oil filters) on the back of it. WTF do I do with that as we don't have a towing hook. There shall be words ! Same mate (I suspect) sat on my ODB II reader and broke the screen - no offer of replacement.
Posted : 02/04/2025 12:02 pm
Topic starter
WTF do I do with that as we don't have a towing hook.
Presumably your son does?
Posted : 02/04/2025 12:31 pm
I try to be fairly chilled about spelling, grammar etc. especially as I live in a glass house and make the odd gaff myself! There is one malapropism though, that for some reason winds me up more than it should. People typing "loose" when they mean "lose". Dunno why it irritates so much but it does!
Posted : 02/04/2025 12:40 pm
ChrisL reacted
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People typing "loose" when they mean "lose". Dunno why it irritates so much but it does!
I said this on the previous page. It makes no sense that "lose" when spoken is a longer word than "loose."
Posted : 02/04/2025 1:18 pm
WTF do I do with that as we don't have a towing hook.
Presumably your son does?
Son's car is off the road that has the towing hook. Said friends turned up, tried to take to the tip, but refused, as commercial waste. It's now back at our house. They have been told to remove it today. It should be at a friend's unit (they moved units last week) but somehow ended up at my house on Saturday - son was helping with the move, but not the towing !
Posted : 02/04/2025 3:37 pm
I said this on the previous page. It makes no sense that "lose" when spoken is a longer word than "loose."
No, because:
Posted : 02/04/2025 7:02 pm
Water (ie soft) that doesn't work 😖
Posted : 02/04/2025 10:13 pm
I try to be fairly chilled about spelling, grammar etc. especially as I live in a glass house and make the odd gaff myself! There is one malapropism though, that for some reason winds me up more than it should. People typing "loose" when they mean "lose". Dunno why it irritates so much but it does!
Losen up buddy, don't take it so serious.
Posted : 03/04/2025 12:37 am
blokeuptheroad reacted
I woke up this morning from a dream where I'd backed into someone at the supermarket carpark, only cracked my bumper but wrecked theirs and crumpled the bonnet enough to crack the windscreen. Damage was a couple of thousand and money is tight right now! I was very relieved when my wife woke me up.
I don't know what makes me more cross though, that I had a bad dream or that my nightmares are so mundane and stupid. I'm a boring old man ☹
Posted : 03/04/2025 10:42 am
People that don’t fill up the ski gondola 😤
Posted : 03/04/2025 10:48 am
My wife - who works in the south facing bedroom - telling me how warm it is in this sunshine while I'm huddled under a blanket working in the north facing bedroom
Posted : 03/04/2025 11:23 am
Topic starter
I woke up this morning from a dream where I'd backed into someone at the supermarket carpark
I moved house a few years back. I occasionally have a dream where I'm in the old house, then suddenly realise "oh shit, I don't live here any more!"
It happened a few days ago, I was dreaming that I was making lunch in the kitchen (potato waffles, detail fans). When I had the revelation I thought "I can't go back through the house, I might get caught, so I'll sneak out the back door." Out in the yard, the back wall was missing. Now, when I lived there there was no back wall, I used to have a garage but I had it demolished and never replaced it with anything. The new owners bricked it up. I had a sudden moment of clarity, "oh, I must be dreaming!" and woke up.
Tune in next week for more excitement.
Posted : 03/04/2025 2:09 pm
When filling out an address or something, trying to select the country in the dropdown box.
United Kingdom? Nope
Great Britain? Nope
Britain? Nope
England? Nope
🤬
Half a minute of increasingly annoyed scrolling later...
Oh there it is! Right near the top with the most common countries, out of alphabetical order 🙄
Posted : 03/04/2025 3:01 pm
verses reacted
Home printers - absolute shite the whole thing
Posted : 03/04/2025 3:18 pm
Topic starter
When filling out an address or something, trying to select the country in the dropdown box.
If you're on a computer, press U on the keyboard. You'll usually get the UK in a couple of taps.
Posted : 03/04/2025 3:30 pm
If you're on a computer, press U on the keyboard. You'll usually get the UK in a couple of taps.
Yeah that's what I usually do, then after confusedly looking through Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates etc and not finding it is when the whole rigmarole starts!
That usually works fine TBF
Posted : 03/04/2025 3:51 pm
Frigging utility companies building up reserves via my bank & direct debits, Thames water over estimated my usage by 40% so I submitted accurate readings, do they plan to reduce my direct debit amount despite me being over 6 months in credit? nope - so now I'm going to pay 6 monthly when billed instead, arseholes.
Octopus have just advised me they are going to up my direct debits by 36%, despite me still being well in credit just after the highest usage period... At least with them I can manually alter it back to something reasonable. Boiler my piss it really does 🤬
Posted : 03/04/2025 8:07 pm
When filling out an address or something, trying to select the country in the dropdown box.
United Kingdom? Nope
Great Britain? Nope
Britain? Nope
England? Nope
🤬
Half a minute of increasingly annoyed scrolling later...
Oh there it is! Right near the top with the most common countries, out of alphabetical order 🙄
Our house number is 6, the amount of websites where I have to scroll past 59 to get to our house when auto filling from postcode 🤬
Posted : 03/04/2025 8:10 pm
Octopus have just advised me they are going to up my direct debits by 36%, despite me still being well in credit just after the highest usage period... At least with them I can manually alter it back to something reasonable. Boiler my piss it really does 🤬
Mine never changes automatically, even when I’m £100s in debit 🤷♂️
Posted : 03/04/2025 10:01 pm
The usability of this new forum sadly
Posted : 04/04/2025 8:03 am
The usability of this new forum sadly
Posted : 04/04/2025 8:04 am
Further to my Fedex one up there ^^^
Sent a package to the USA. Couldn't add some important info to the customs clearance because the relevant box was disabled for some reason on the Fedex website.
Me: Sent an email to Fedex customer service.
Fedex: "Sorry, this email no longer in use, use our contact form"
Me: Use contact form, couldn't attach a 1.5MB file due to size limit even though it said I could (see above). Shrink file size and submit.
Fedex: "send your info to paperwork@fedex.com" (NB. this response received from the email they said was no longer in use)
Me: Sends email where they say
Fedex: "This email address is an automated inbox, only used for Fedex agents requesting extra info for an open support case. You have no open support case"
Me: Tells Fedex they're talking rubbish about paperwork email
Fedex: "send your info to gtsclearance@fedex.com"
Me: Sends email where they say
Fedex: "This email address is for the UK imports team"
Me: Tells Fedex they're talking rubbish (again) about gtsclearance email
Fedex: "Upon further investigations, I have determined that this shipment is being transported to the US. To address your concerns effectively, I recommend reaching out to FedEx US."
Me: 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬
(By this time, the damn package has cleared customs so I give up and hope for the best)
Posted : 04/04/2025 11:44 am
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Frigging utility companies building up reserves via my bank & direct debits
Oh, right here with you on this one. The thinking is (allegedly) that you use more fuel in winter and they average it out across the year to keep your bills constant. The reality is that they're sitting on hundreds of pounds of your money for most of the year and getting it refunded is like trying to plait sand.
British ****ing Gas (to use their full name) have been sat on over a grand of my mum's money for months and months because they cannot grasp the concept that dead people don't use much gas beyond a sudden burst at the crematorium.
Posted : 04/04/2025 1:59 pm
Drum of waste is still on a trailer on my lawn. Unit owner won't take it back as it's technically not her waste, but it came from her property when she moved last week - apparently another 'friend had left it there without her knowledge/permission'. Owner of said waste is now being 'difficult' We have his registration and if it's not collected I'll be contacting environmental health. I could put the barrel in the back of my van and dump it at the unit. But, I'm not putting an oily barrel in my posh carpeted/leather seated van. ****ts the lot of em.
Posted : 04/04/2025 2:17 pm
'friend had left it there without her knowledge/permission'.
Not your problem, sheet out the back of the van, dump outside her unit.
Posted : 04/04/2025 2:35 pm
'friend had left it there without her knowledge/permission'.
Not your problem, sheet out the back of the van, dump outside her unit.
The little luv has threatened to call the cops if it ends up at her new unit - I think she might be in a load of do do if she did, as the 'tenant' of the previous place she is actually responsible, despite her not knowing it was there until they cleared the industrial unit - if they had left it, they would have lost £700 deposit, so she knows she is responsible. All this agro because my son lent a 'friend' a trailer ! Someone is getting an ear full off me when they turn up.
Posted : 04/04/2025 3:14 pm
'friend had left it there without her knowledge/permission'.
Not your problem, sheet out the back of the van, dump outside her unit.
The little luv has threatened to call the cops if it ends up at her new unit - I think she might be in a load of do do if she did, as the 'tenant' of the previous place she is actually responsible, despite her not knowing it was there until they cleared the industrial unit - if they had left it, they would have lost £700 deposit, so she knows she is responsible. All this agro because my son lent a 'friend' a trailer ! Someone is getting an ear full off me when they turn up.
What size drum is this? 205 litre?
If I was annoyed enough I'd probably call her bluff, dump it and tell her to call who she likes.
Posted : 04/04/2025 4:16 pm
Big oil drum, so possibly that big. My son's getting enough shoot of us to get this 'friend' to shift it, but it will be delivered if not gone this weekend, and possibly knocked over at their front door. Got to be careful as my son does work for the business and the drum isn't technically their drum, it was someone else. We don't have his address otherwise it would already be outside his (parents) house.
Posted : 04/04/2025 5:31 pm
When I'm at a till paying for my goods and someone either comes and stands next to me or worse still plonks their shopping on the till.
Posted : 04/04/2025 6:31 pm
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I've lost track. Which one is Palestine?
Dump their shit straight back or report then for fly tipping. "I'll ring the police!" Off you go then.
Posted : 04/04/2025 9:43 pm
When spice jars have similar coloured lids...looking forward to egg on toast after morning dog walk just now. Mistook the smoked paprika for cinnamon 😥 Was chuffing mad in the moment (i may have issues....) but actually didn't taste quite as bad as feared. Wouldn't go for cinnamon eggs by choice again in a hurry. This level of absent-mindedness doesn't bode well for my bike build this weekend!
Posted : 05/04/2025 8:55 am
Was chuffing mad in the moment (i may have issues....) but actually didn't taste quite as bad as feared. Wouldn't go for cinnamon eggs by choice again in a hurry.
TBH you should probably be glad it was that way around. Putting smoked paprika on something you intended to put cinnamon on would probably be revolting 🤢
Posted : 06/04/2025 11:48 am
Topic starter
My partner just tripped over my shoes.
Apparently, "well I'd have put them on the shoe rack if I didn't have to navigate an assault course to get to the ****ing thing" was an incorrect response.
I restrained myself from pointing out that I wouldn't have been able to put them there anyway because the shoe rack already holds 18 pairs of her shoes, 16 of which she never wears. I have daily Salomon approach shoes, Birkenstock sandals, and Supermarket Special slippers. Yet my shoes are the problem when I'm dating a ****ing centipede.
Posted : 06/04/2025 5:39 pm
MoreCashThanDash reacted
Aye, it's my "stuff" that is taking up all the space around the house apparently. Occasionally I am challenged to remove/tidy my stuff, which just reveals how little of the "stuff" taking up space is actually mine. You'd think she'd have learnt by now.
Posted : 06/04/2025 6:08 pm
Topic starter
Aye.
She works from home as a childminder, so the entire house being filled with piles of plastic shit is the new Normal. But then she gets antsy with me because I've left a phone charging cable out... come on now.
Posted : 06/04/2025 6:40 pm
MoreCashThanDash reacted
When businesses let someone who is borderline illiterate post their social media updates.
Posted : 06/04/2025 6:45 pm
Topic starter
When businesses let someone who is borderline illiterate post their social media updates.
Because "be" is such a long ****ing word that it needs to be shortened.
Piss temperature, mid-90s.
Posted : 06/04/2025 6:58 pm
When spice jars have similar coloured lids...looking forward to egg on toast after morning dog walk just now. Mistook the smoked paprika for cinnamon
Was chuffing mad in the moment (i may have issues....) but actually didn't taste quite as bad as feared.
A couple of years ago I bought minced ginger instead of minced garlic. Exactly the same jars. It wasn't until the whole family was halfway through the pizzas Mrs Reeksy had kindly made that I questioned the flavour. Nobody else had noticed!
Posted : 07/04/2025 5:50 am
MrsMC again wanted the alarm set half an hour early so she could crack on with work, and then stayed in bed another 30 minutes.
It's not like I needed another 30 minutes sleep, don't mind me.
Posted : 07/04/2025 8:23 am
Walkers obsession with bells on bikes. Yes I have one, yes I rang it multiple times. Yes you probably need your hearing tested if you felt the need to say "I bet you haven't got a bell".
Posted : 07/04/2025 9:25 am
Walkers obsession with bells on passive-aggressive bullshit towards bikes
Posted : 07/04/2025 10:43 am
Complete lunatics who've left masking/duct tape on wood that's got to be finished for months and months and months.
Any tips for removing metres and metres of thick, sticky tape residue?
I've tried White Spirit, Brush Cleaner, WD-40, Acetone, Screwfix sticky stuff remover, sanding it. Nothing seems to touch it 😡
Posted : 07/04/2025 10:46 am
Walkers obsession with bells on bikes. Yes I have one, yes I rang it multiple times. Yes you probably need your hearing tested if you felt the need to say "I bet you haven't got a bell".
Only thing worse is when they do hear the bell and feel they need to do something. Jump to the left, step to the right, it's like they're dancing the time warp on the cyclepath.
Posted : 07/04/2025 10:46 am
Any tips for removing metres and metres of thick, sticky tape residue?
A bit of heat. Hair dryer should be enough, or hot air gun if go careful.
Posted : 07/04/2025 10:52 am
Any tips for removing metres and metres of thick, sticky tape residue?
A bit of heat. Hair dryer should be enough, or hot air gun if go careful.
Yeah, tried heat too. Just melts it then you move it around with the scraper. 😐
Posted : 07/04/2025 11:01 am
Badly-run pubs/cafes, where all that's needed is a bit of management - e.g pubs that have dirty glasses on loads of tables and staff standing behind the bar chatting or on their phones, or cafes with plenty of staff but no organisation.
Posted : 07/04/2025 11:10 am
Just melts it then you move it around with the scraper. 😐
Is that a cabinet scraper? That would be my go-to (or a plane iron) followed by some stainless steel wire wool.
Oil with the wire wool will tend to lift the adhesive if that doesn't compromise the final finish
Posted : 07/04/2025 11:25 am
