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Newer one; Use the phrase “..give your head a wobble”? Please don’t breed.
Add "go and touch grass" to that list. I'm never quite sure whether you're being told to step away from the keyboard or to go outside, bend over and put your hands on the floor, and brace yourself.
It's equally confusing to anyone who's done psychedelics as to what giving your head a wobble is supposed to mean.
Headlights again ..people that flash to say thanks for stopping at a give way point or priority chicane etc you never bother to acknowledge me in daylight but seem to want to blind me at night why? I will usually acknowledge some road manners by at least raising a roady style twitch of the finger and NOT blinding the oncoming vehicle Mrs g now on my case .. calm down dear you’ll make yourself ill!Tossers the lot of them
I will usually acknowledge some road manners by at least raising a roady style twitch of the finger
Dunno about you but I can't see through other drivers' windscreens at night 😉
Hence a quick flash instead seems polite. Most likely, the people who DO acknowledge you by day are the ones that flash at night instead.
Calm yourself by telling yourself that those who seemed not to say thanks at night really did, but they just waved without thinking properly and you didn't see it. Because, y'know, it's night, and dark. Better for your blood pressure than telling yourself that those who do say thanks are the ones that normally don't... this makes no sense. They're not out to annoy you specifically.
I'm with your Mrs 😉
In a way, this one takes us right back to the first post on the thread. Stuff being left In The Way for no reason. I give you our small kitchen table. It's basically 2ft6in by 4ft, just big enough to sit 4 people at a pinch.
So why leave a glass jar with fairy lights, and a wooden box containing a IKEA plastic plant and 4 crockery vegetables, slap-bang in the middle of it? They serve only to prevent it being used for its designed purpose. FRO.
its a woman thing... Clutter on tables to look nice
Christmas day. My woman placed serving spoons on the table mat reserved for the roast potatoes/veg. Meaning I have to somehow hold said dish in one hand whilst shoving ths spoons to one side disrupting the table display in the process. then ensues a shouting match of said woman telling me to be careful of display whilst the heat from burning hot dish has transferred through oven gloves and burnt my fingers. But its all my fault as I'm a man.....
Twixmas.
Can get in the effin.....
So why leave a glass jar with fairy lights, and a wooden box containing a IKEA plastic plant and 4 crockery vegetables, slap-bang in the middle of it? They serve only to prevent it being used for its designed purpose. FRO.
I'd be more bothered about the shite seemingly stuffed underneath it.
Newer one; Use the phrase “..give your head a wobble”? Please don’t breed.
I rather like the phrase. "gie yer heid a wobble" You will be pleased to know I have not bred and have no intention of doing so
“Twixmas”
it’s still Christmas and will be until 12th Night
@cougar2 I think the "the shite seemingly stuffed underneath it" is .... chairs! Blue, plastic seats, chromed legs, thin cushion on each, actually surprisingly comfortable. And a piece of kitchen roll drying on the back of one of them (the excessive & inappropriate use of which could easily be the subject of a whole separate post in this very thread)
Granted the photo is from a bit of an odd angle, and maybe distorts a bit, but there's nowt else under ithe table normally.
"I'm fine"
You're clearly not. But rather than try and discuss whatever it is you'd rather sit there obviously "not fine", and leave me wondering what I've done now. Even my anxiety has anxiety.
I think the “the shite seemingly stuffed underneath it” is …. chairs! Blue, plastic seats, chromed legs, thin cushion on each
Oh, it's a luridly-patterned cushion! It looked like a pile of stuff. My apologies to you both.
“I’m fine”
I completed this side quest years ago. The correct response is to go "oh, OK" and go about your day. Life's too short to be pandering to the sulking of a grown adult acting like a 12-year old passive-aggressive narcissist.
See also, "if you don't know then I'm not telling you." Well, OK then, that's up to you of course. But if you think I'm going to spend the next 20 minutes racking my brains to compile a list of things I might have done wrong, 90% of which you hadn't even realised, so that I'm even further in the shit then you are very sadly mistaken.
Doorstop filled with dried grain. Yes, it's cheap to make. Yes, it stays put nicely. Yes, the mice love to eat it. No I don't like cleaning up mouse droppings.
Drunk people.
Outside lane of the motorway, goons passing the car in the middle lane doing 1mph more than them or sometimes the same speed….
If I'm talking to you and your phone rings, just bloody ignore it. All the ringing means is someone asking for your attention if you're available and it's rude to effectively say to me "woah stop right there in mid sentence! I've no idea who this is but it's clearly more important!". You wouldn't do it if they were here in person, you'd say "just a moment" or something, so why does using the phone magically make it deathly urgent?
(I'll allow a quick glance to see if it really is urgent)
If I’m talking to you and your phone rings, just bloody ignore it.
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That annoys me too. If you're genuinely expecting something which might be an emergency then fair enough, but as a rule I carry a phone for my benefit not everyone else's. My ex couldn't get her head around this concept, "I rang you, why didn't you answer?" I was busy and called you back five minutes later when I was free, any further questions? Clearly I must be having an affair or something.
I love technology but I dislike the needy immediacy of it. If I want to phone someone non-urgently I'll text ahead to ask whether it's convenient.
It's nothing new either, it's not purely a smartphone / 21st Century problem. I've posted this before but when my grandparents first got a landline installed it was bedlam when it rang. They reacted like it was an air raid siren going off, "PHONE! PHONE! THE PHONE'S RINGING!!" and chairs and tables would be scattered. It ringing off before they got to it was like a death in the family. Who could this have been? What if it was important? Even 8-year old me recognised the folly in this, "well, they'll call again later then, won't they" was not well received.
Probably been done, but folks walking along, so engrossed in the phone in their hand, they cease to have any spatial awareness, any awareness full stop, any humanity. So you want to cross a busy road? Look left, look right, look...no?oh,ok,you just keep watching your phone ya plum. Though, occasionally, it can give rise to a rare comedic moment - woman and man (possibly a couple) both ensconced in their devices...she walks into the the line of shopping trolleys being manoeuvred around the supermarket car park by the exasperated supermarket legend (he's a lovely guy), man glances at her then knee/faceplants the trolley shelter...
For everything else there's Mastercard.
If you’re genuinely expecting something which might be an emergency then fair enough, but as a rule I carry a phone for my benefit not everyone else’s.
Agree! It reminds me of work actuality, rather than email they decided to start using the WhatsApp group for certain messages. So when we're really busy, you know, with work, they then started demanding to know why we hadn't checked the messages. Because I'm too busy working (at the PC), my eyes glued to the screens, checking last minute urgent emails, juggling various urgent rush jobs, and don't have time to check my PERSONAL phone every minute.
The camper van in Tesco car park with "On an adventure before dementia" stickers. Plain offensive.
The word "drone". Does it mean a 135g DJI Neo or a 32,250 lbs RQ4- Global Hawk?
The capabilities are so different, it's like using one word for a RC car and a full size pick up truck. You may have 100 RC cars but only a pick up truck can move a pallet of bricks.
RPA remote piloted airframe
Drone. Out of a Christmas cracker. The next generation Big Track.
People who flash their headlights for any other reason than that allowed by the highway code. Flash away dimwit if you want to give away your right of way just to cut the corner. I ain't moving. It doesn't mean that I can come though the gap or even thank you.
Have we done dog turd bags. Who the hell takes one into countryside? Just kick it into the verge . If you left yours on the Verderers climb today go and pick it up you lazy sod.
Mobile phones. I doubt that 1% of you need to make a life or death, work crucial call at all hours of the day. So leave the sodding thing at home or at least switched off . Or are you so pussy whipped that you must be on call at all times. And you don't need to call from the top of Ben Nevis to say "guess where I am"
Terms like pussy whipped
Oh and reclining seats
My selfish gits of neighbours who had a bright orange bulb in a ball light fitting placed right up to the boundary of our property.
Yes I’ve closed the curtains but that’s not the point. Why is it on anyway, no one is outside (we have an amber rain warning for our area). It shines right into our downstairs and upstairs rooms. It’s just one of a long list of selfish things they do.
And breath.
xx
Loud people in shared spaces.
Have we done dog turd bags. Who the hell takes one into countryside? Just kick it into the verge . If you left yours on the Verderers climb today go and pick it up you lazy sod.
People who kick their dog turds into the verge. Have you ever gone on a walk with young children? They don't always stick to the path and are forever running into the undergrowth by the sides to play. This is what the bags are for - to take it home with you or drop it in a bin somewhere on the way.
Does it mean a 135g DJI Neo or a 32,250 lbs RQ4- Global Hawk?
It makes me cross that I feel the urge to nitpick about the usage of both metric and imperial in the same sentence even though the actual offence does not make me cross and I even do it myself 😉
Royal Mail's form to claim for lost/damaged/late packages. You cannot copy/paste into the fields, you have to type everything. Also if one field fails validation for whatever reason then they reset the form and make you start again. This behaviour can't be an accident - if I were cynical I'd say they do it deliberately to make it difficult for people to make a claim.
(Tip to make it easier: you can't paste but you can drag and drop from a different window!)
It makes me cross that I feel the urge to nitpick about the usage of both metric and imperial in the same sentence even though the actual offence does not make me cross and I even do it myself
Amateur. I do it in the same measurement. "That's a metre and three inches."
"Loud people in shared spaces"
What about Loud music in cars from the '80's by Billy Bremner
Fiery wee Scot with a statue at Elland Rd
Don't think him and Kevin Keegan were best pals
Modern wine glasses.
My parents had a set of wine glasses as a wedding present 60 years ago which they basically still have except one which landed on a stone hearth.
I think we buy a new set every 2 years! The slightest knock and they fracture. We obviously don't put them in the dishwasher yet they still last 5 minutes.
And yes, I have just cracked yet another one drying up this morning.
Control your kids? Anyway, they'll only do it once. Either you'll give them a thick ear or common sense will kick in.
Listening to the plummy voiced young lady in Costa expressing surprise that her and her friends had been unable to access any of the local pubs by the door staff at 10pm on New Years Eve.....
....before going on to say how working at the Blenheim Palace (?) ice rink in the run up to Christmas had made her realise how stupid and entitled customers can be.
Maybe a bit early but when it's the middle of Jan and you still get folk saying happy New year
Can't say I miss the slobbering kiss from oldie relatives growing up as a bairn
And yes, I have just cracked yet another one drying up this morning
Yup, lost one to the exact same thing last night. Wafer thin, it was, with a stem like a straw. Very pretty, but fundamentally flawed.
The proximity of the Saracen banner ad to the links bar with bike, chat etc. links. Which, combined with my fat thumb on a small screen results in me inadvertently spending more time on the Saracen home page than on here.
Well not really, but a lot more more time than I'd like, I've no interest in their products atm. I guess it's deliberate and helps the STW ad revenue coffers, so I bite my lip. But jeez it's annoying, especially when swiping to go back takes another 30 seconds!
And yes, I have just cracked yet another one drying up this morning
We bought some new crockery when we moved house four years ago. The number of pieces which haven't either chipped or completely broken is about 50%. Granted my partner washes up with a hammer but both my gran's old plates and the cheap Tesco ones I bought have a 100% survival rate.
Control your kids? Anyway, they’ll only do it once. Either you’ll give them a thick ear or common sense will kick in.
Yeah because the smell of dog shit is really what makes the countryside special.
The Nigel Farage thread.
Means I keep reading the c**** name all the while.
