The way that Rachel Riley reaches for a letter on Countdown before the contestant has asked for it.
Finally, someone said it!
Posted : 16/04/2025 10:19 am
Harry_the_Spider reacted
Dear Shops, I don't like shopping and try to do it as little as often, so when I do I like to keep stocked up with various items. While I understand that there are valid reasons for limiting how many packs of pain killers a person can buy, I find it hard to believe that there is a significant number of people trying to harm themselves with a warm soothing lemony drink.
Tried to buy 2 Lemsips and 2 Ibuprofen earlier, assuming that as they're different and can be taken together, that the restrictions wouldn't apply. Apparently I'm wrong.
Posted : 17/04/2025 9:30 am
"Scent boosters" in the washing machine. Why the **** would anyone want their clothes to smell like a cheap brothel? Why would MrsMC think I do?
Posted : 17/04/2025 9:37 am
Dear Shops, I don't like shopping and try to do it as little as often, so when I do I like to keep stocked up with various items. While I understand that there are valid reasons for limiting how many packs of pain killers a person can buy, I find it hard to believe that there is a significant number of people trying to harm themselves with a warm soothing lemony drink.
Tried to buy 2 Lemsips and 2 Ibuprofen earlier, assuming that as they're different and can be taken together, that the restrictions wouldn't apply. Apparently I'm wrong.
I thought it was the pseudoephedrine in Lemsip that means it's restricted - used to make meth.
Posted : 17/04/2025 10:25 am
I thought it was the pseudoephedrine in Lemsip that means it's restricted - used to make meth.
It was actually Beechams Cold and Flu - I was using Lemsip as shorthand, but I guess they contain similar stuff.
Posted : 17/04/2025 10:31 am
Not having planned in the time consuming "emergency" that hits your work tray on the day you are trying to clear stuff before going on leave....
Posted : 17/04/2025 10:36 am
It's the paracetamol in Lemsip/Beechams etc that means you can only buy one pack at a time.
"Scent boosters" in the washing machine. Why the **** would anyone want their clothes to smell like a cheap brothel? Why would MrsMC think I do?
It's only when you start using unscented detergent in the washing machine that you realise that everyone else smells like a branch of Lush.
Anyway mine for today - for tedious work reasons I have to type the word 'queueing' a lot. I never get it right first time.
Posted : 17/04/2025 10:38 am
MoreCashThanDash reacted
It's the paracetamol in Lemsip/Beechams etc that means you can only buy one pack at a time.
Yes, but there's no Paracetamol in Ibuprofen, which is why I assumed you'd be able to buy both together.
Posted : 17/04/2025 10:50 am
Yes, but there's no Paracetamol in Ibuprofen, which is why I assumed you'd be able to buy both together.
I tried that argument when trying to stock up on both paracetamol and Ibuprofen. . Judging by the blank looks from the cashier the policy is simply "no more than two packs of painkillers, oh, and cold remedy while we're about it". It no doubt saves on having to retrain the entire company in pharmaceutical expertise, and the difference between an upset stomach and paracetamol poisoning.
I gave up and walked into the pharmacy opposite where I bought a 96 pack of 400mg Ibuprofen without any form of question or interrogation.
Posted : 17/04/2025 11:23 am
Untertakers all want their cheesy mugshots on every hoarding or advert of any kind
They want to give out that we really care look but know they can charge a fortune
Posted : 17/04/2025 12:07 pm
..goes into Tesco
..picks up some bits and a 4 pack of Guinness Zero and a bottle of McGuigan Alcohol free Sauv blanc
...wanders over to the self-service tills, glancing with a self satisfied smile at the numerous flashing red lights of doom with their accompanying despondent attendant customers being studiously ignored by the overworked staff.
...beep...beep..."I'm sorry we're going to have to check your age on this"
Argggggg whyyyyyyyyyy?
Posted : 17/04/2025 12:39 pm
boriselbrus reacted
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been said before, but middle lane hoggers on the motorway. Drove from Swansea to Worthing on Sunday, the number of people just sitting in the middle lane.... mind blowing.
I've heard people who think the middle lane is the "cruising lane." Like, did you actually pass your test?
Posted : 17/04/2025 1:08 pm
Yes Lemsip. Wasting my time by making me buy two packets, put them in the car then buy two more with the rest of the shopping.
Like somebody wanting to top themselves couldn't go to several shops.
Incidentally a GP told me that in some countries the antidote to paracetamol is blended with the tabs making overdose impossible.
A quick Google finds an article suggesting this for the UK a quarter of a century ago
https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/28/package-paracetamol-its-antidote
Posted : 17/04/2025 1:22 pm
Not having planned in the time consuming "emergency" that hits your work tray on the day you are trying to clear stuff before going on leave....
Tell me about it - I've had nearly everyone on my annoying customer Bingo card in or phone today who urgently needs something printing before Easter. I've only got 'Arthur Cryogenics' and a couple more to go for a full house!
Posted : 17/04/2025 1:23 pm
MoreCashThanDash reacted
Not having planned in the time consuming "emergency" that hits your work tray on the day you are trying to clear stuff before going on leave....
I work for a US company, they don't get Good Friday or Easter Monday as holidays. I'm fully expecting the US offices to wake up and deluge me with work at about 4:50...
Posted : 17/04/2025 1:34 pm
Just had a local bar owner Whatsapp me wanting posters to promote and event on Sat night! 🤦♂️
Posted : 17/04/2025 1:41 pm
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Why the **** would anyone want their clothes to smell like a cheap brothel? Why would MrsMC think I do?
I think she'd be more concerned that you knew what a cheap brothel smelled like.
Posted : 17/04/2025 1:52 pm
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I tried that argument when trying to stock up on both paracetamol and Ibuprofen. . Judging by the blank looks from the cashier the policy is simply "no more than two packs of painkillers, oh, and cold remedy while we're about it". It no doubt saves on having to retrain the entire company in pharmaceutical expertise, and the difference between an upset stomach and paracetamol poisoning.
Ibuprofen isn't a painkiller. It's an anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID).
In any case, this should be programmed into the till rather than relying on cashiers making decisions.
Like somebody wanting to top themselves couldn't go to several shops.
The logic is that it buys thinking time. Yes, you could go to several shops, but by the time you've been to your 9th chemist of the day you might have changed your mind.
Posted : 17/04/2025 1:56 pm
The logic is that it buys thinking time. Yes, you could go to several shops, but by the time you've been to your 9th chemist of the day you might have changed your mind.
Or been hit by one of those stupid drivers who think the middle lane is the cruising lane.
Posted : 17/04/2025 2:04 pm
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..picks up some bits and a 4 pack of Guinness Zero and a bottle of McGuigan Alcohol free Sauv blanc
...wanders over to the self-service tills, glancing with a self satisfied smile at the numerous flashing red lights of doom with their accompanying despondent attendant customers being studiously ignored by the overworked staff.
...beep...beep..."I'm sorry we're going to have to check your age on this"
I've posted this before but, I had this years ago at a Tesco Extra in... Bridgend I think. It was back in the days where licensing laws meant they couldn't sell alcohol after 11pm. I was buying alcohol-free beer and the cashier refused it. I queried it, she replied that whilst it said "alcohol free" there might be traces of alcohol in it. I pointed to the previous item which had scanned perfectly fine, a pot of tomato and vodka pasta sauce. (She offered to get the manager, I declined.)
I'm guessing it's down to product classification, it's an "adult beverage" or some such. There's a logic to age-restricting it as it could be a 'gateway drug' I suppose, kids may be more likely to then start drinking the real stuff.
Posted : 17/04/2025 2:11 pm
I had the painkillers discussion with the wee woman behind the counter in my local shop a while back. "Company Policy" was her hill. But she did agree that it seems a bit pointless when I could quite easily buy the 20 odd litres of vodka behind the counter in one go...
Posted : 17/04/2025 2:22 pm
People who have a dog as their profile pic.
Had a message from someone I rode with on a group cycle tour 11 months ago to see if I was still doing Etape Loch Ness, with a view to meeting up.
It was 11 months ago, and I spent most of that week off the back of the group with my mate who was recovering from knee surgery. As I don't recollect any of the group looking like a black terrier, I have no idea quite who I am agreeing to ride with!
Posted : 17/04/2025 4:06 pm
Anyone, and I mean ANYONE who had a part (however tangentially) in developing Volkswagen 'software'.
At this point I can only conclude it's just a global live art installation.
Posted : 17/04/2025 4:30 pm
fazzini reacted
opening Paracetamol / Ibuprofen boxes or any boxed medicine for that matter only to find the leaflet than no one reads stopping easy pull out of the tablets.
Posted : 17/04/2025 4:36 pm
verses reacted
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opening Paracetamol / Ibuprofen boxes or any boxed medicine for that matter only to find the leaflet than no one reads stopping easy pull out of the tablets
This is the cousin of the USB-A dilemma. It doesn't matter if I think "I always get this wrong" and turn the packet over before opening it, I still get it wrong.
Corollary: my partner doing this, then immediately stuffing the leaflet back into the drawer rather than the recycling bin which is literally half a metre away.
Posted : 17/04/2025 6:30 pm
opening Paracetamol / Ibuprofen boxes or any boxed medicine for that matter only to find the leaflet than no one reads stopping easy pull out of the tablets.
I've always assumed that they somehow figured it out, so you have to at least move the warning letter before suffering any side effects.
Posted : 17/04/2025 9:41 pm
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Vaping in pubs.
In and of itself I don't mind it. I don't smoke but I'm of the mind that if there's anywhere you should be allowed to smoke (despite me personally being eternally grateful for the ban), it's in pubs.
Rather, it's the underhandedness of it. You think you've found a loophole and the rules don't apply to you so long as you hide your cyberpenis under the table inbetween drags.
Plus it's continual, which is a problem in itself. With cigarettes you can smoke a fag and you're done until your next one. With vaping there's no stop signal, it's not possible to have "a" vape, you're just vaping. My electric toothbrush buzzes after two minutes to tell me I'm done, e-cigs need something similar.
Posted : 17/04/2025 10:16 pm
Sorry if it's not quite in the spirit of this thread, but while the paracetamol pack limits/size thing can be annoying, it did cause a significant reduction in deaths by overdose, so the faff appears justified: https://www.bmj.com/press-releases/2013/02/06/43-reduction-deaths-paracetamol-due-smaller-pack-sizes
Posted : 18/04/2025 8:57 am
The packaging around button/coin cell batteries that can only be opened by nuking from space. Or a pair of scissors.
We also managed not to have to be exhorted by Vogue Williams to click-clack the laundry pod box shut, mostly because as plebs we used Aldi's finest
I know that it's about child safety, but parents, just put stuff where children can't reach it like we had to.
Posted : 23/04/2025 11:06 am
Zedsdead reacted
Anyway mine for today - for tedious work reasons I have to type the word 'queueing' a lot. I never get it right first time.
I always get a little bird tweeting in my head whenever I have to spell queue.
"kyoo yooee yooeee!"
(This doesn't make me cross, btw. It's quite helpful actually 😀)
Untertakers all want their cheesy mugshots on every hoarding or advert of any kind
Ditto estate agents.
Posted : 23/04/2025 11:54 am
Vapers cling to their vapes like they are the life giving teat of their mothers. Just put the damn thing down for a moment and you might find life easier with two hands.
Posted : 23/04/2025 1:08 pm
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The packaging around button/coin cell batteries that can only be opened by nuking from space. Or a pair of scissors.
I was once in some poncy tat shop, Lakeland or somewhere else which specialised in shit no-one needs. They were selling cutters specifically for opening blister packs like that. They were packaged in blister packs.
Posted : 23/04/2025 2:30 pm
Next door's dog. They clearly don't like it barking in the house, so it spends EVERY DAYLIGHT HOUR on their patio barking for the enjoyment of everyone else in the street.
It is 1 dBA away from a poisoned pork chop.*
*It isn't.
Posted : 23/04/2025 2:34 pm
DHL delivery who knock on your door with a sponge, chuck in a calling card , quickest pic of your door then race off down the street never to be seen until tomorrow maybe
Posted : 23/04/2025 2:56 pm
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DHL delivery who knock on your door with a sponge,
I have the opposite problem. Despite having a Ring doorbell which is a) illuminated, b) large and c) goes "ding dong" in a big loud voice which would put Leslie Phillips to shame, they still insist on trying to kick the front door in. The door is actually broken from someone pounding on it.
Posted : 23/04/2025 3:36 pm
I just signed up to disney+ and then cancelled again straight away so I wouldn't forget at the end of the month, there were so many "are you sure" screens to click through before I eventually cancelled I wondered if it might renew before I was able to cancel anyway.
Posted : 23/04/2025 8:59 pm
When one part of the car is in the way so you can't tighten the bolt, so you take that thing off and fit the first thing and now you can't refit the second thing because the first thing is in the way, so you take the first thing off again and now the second thing is in the way. Oh but it'd all be really easy to do as long you did it with the engine not in the car.
There is always a massive space right beside where all the stuff is squeezed in together, always.
Posted : 23/04/2025 10:29 pm
jamesoz reacted
The ‘System Test’ 50mph limit for what feels like 200 miles of the M25, between the A21 and eternity.
That and a nice easy direct swap of a control panel, made twice as hard by someone deciding we have a panel in stock, it’s twice the size, the cable entries are in different places but it’ll save getting one in.
On top of 5.5 hours of M4, M25 and A21.
And the bastard Ford/VW infotainment system deciding it won’t play music above mouse fart level. Unlike at 5am when I open the side door and wakes up with full blast Slipnot.
Posted : 23/04/2025 11:11 pm
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And the bastard Ford/VW infotainment system deciding it won’t play music above mouse fart level. Unlike at 5am when I open the side door and wakes up with full blast Slipnot.
Add Seat to that list. I have the Beats Audio "upgraded" sound system and at full volume it's hard to hear audiobooks over road noise. If you go into Settings and go into the menu item where you can limit start-up volume it suddenly kicks in at full tilt. It's clearly some firmware ****tery but it's been back to two different dealers multiple times and they can't sort it. There's a subwoofer in the boot and the subwoofer slider on the graphic equaliser does nothing, the only way you can tell it's actually on is to open the tailgate and stick your ear next to it.
Posted : 24/04/2025 3:00 am
jamesoz reacted
Other ruddy tourists. Me I'm a model of genteel british phlegm. But some of the others? Hangings too good for them.
American man refusing to take his hat off in church. American man pushing his way to the front without a word on a guided tour. Group of Filipinos talking loudly thru the tour.
Couple nationality unknown parking tbeir huge camper less than 10 feet from me despite there being a huge field to choose from
Aussie couple letting dogs off a lead in a national park where dogs are forbidden even on a lead.
Folk climbing on rocks by a sign that say no climbing.
I could go on
Posted : 24/04/2025 4:31 am
MoreCashThanDash reacted
Aussie couple letting dogs off a lead in a national park where dogs are forbidden even on a lead.
Once at a National Park a late arrival parked up at the other end of a campsite to us. There was a bit of strange noise, but nothing too loud. Next morning I went for a wander and it was an old fella in a 4x4 who'd brought his pet goat with him! It was standing on the roof. He'd be lucky if a Ranger didn't shoot it.
Most of the time it's Pommy tourists feeding the wildlife that cause the trouble though 😉
Posted : 24/04/2025 6:31 am
tjagain reacted
Anyway mine for today - for tedious work reasons I have to type the word 'queueing' a lot. I never get it right first time.
I cannot type the word 'insurance' correctly first time. Ever. It either shows up as 'insurnace', 'insuarnce', or 'isnurance'.
I work for an insurnace company 😳
Edit: GODDAMMIT grrrr
Posted : 24/04/2025 8:24 am
Ibuprofen isn't a painkiller. It's an anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID).
In any case, this should be programmed into the till rather than relying on cashiers making decisions.
....and the training course the cashiers all need to go on to be able to know the difference between painkillers and NSAIDs, which are marketed as targeting pain, headaches, period pain, joint pain, muscle pain, headaches, dental pain, and the stupid, stupid, stupid people at the NHS labelling it as a painkiller.......
"Ibuprofen is an everyday painkiller for a range of aches and pains, including back pain, period pain, toothache and symptoms of colds, flu or coronavirus (COVID-19). It also treats inflammation such as sprains and strains, and pain from arthritis."
Posted : 24/04/2025 8:59 am
When one part of the car is in the way so you can't tighten the bolt, so you take that thing off and fit the first thing and now you can't refit the second thing because the first thing is in the way, so you take the first thing off again and now the second thing is in the way.
The "Haynes hand" always used to annoy me - the manual says "remove crotchet bolt to access gangle pin" and the photo shows a hand holding a spanner that's on the crotchet bolt, but when you actually try to do it you'd need an extra elbow or wrist to be able to your hand past all the other bits that are in the way. And then you only have space to turn it about 5 degrees at a time.
And on Haynes manuals - when you quickly check how much work there is in a job that needs doing and think "that's only 6 steps, I'll get it done after lunch". Then after lunch you read it properly and step 1 is "Refer to chapters 1-5 and follow the 287 steps to fully disassemble the back of the vehicle".
Posted : 24/04/2025 9:10 am
ossify reacted
I cannot type the word 'insurance' correctly first time. Ever. It either shows up as 'insurnace', 'insuarnce', or 'isnurance'.
I work for an insurnace company 😳
Many, many years ago we were all given those newfangled computer thingies to use chiefly as word processors. Some took to it more gleefully than others, but in the heady days of WindowsNT and Office 97 the autocorrect function was "teachable". If there was a word you commonly mis-spelled you could go into the autocorrect function and type in your habitual misspelling, then tell the machine the correct version and it would change it each time. This was in the days when all the confidential and sensitive stuff was on a mainframe system, so the Windows computers were all standalone, linked only to a printer.
We had a particularly entertaining Licensing Sergeant, whose job was to ensure the smooth and safe running of all the licensed premises in the district. He made several inspection visits a day to licensed premises and made a report on each visit to the admin department who in turn kept a register and reported onto the local authority. Now, this sergeant was a bombastic character, with a broad Cockney accent, and was gently ribbed about his male pattern baldness (all relevant, I promise)
I was passing his office during a quiet evening shift and noticed he'd left his computer switched on. Never one to pass up an opportunity to ensure data protection I nipped in and accessed his autocorrect function.
A day or two later and I noted he was back in his office "hunt and peck" typing his way through a new report. All of a sudden I heard a yell, in his characteristic voice "Faaarkin'ell, why does it keep doing that?" I poked my head in and asked if all was OK. "No, it faaaarkin isn't. Every time I type my name on the bottom of the report it keeps coming back with Chaz Slaphead "
I showed him how the autocorrect function worked and he was very grateful.
A couple of days later the woman from admin made a personal visit to Chaz's office and enquired as to why all of his recent reports started off with "On such and such a date at such and such a time I visited the licensed penises known as ........."
Posted : 24/04/2025 10:21 am
boriselbrus reacted
Ibuprofen isn't a painkiller. It's an anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID).
the stupid, stupid, stupid people at the NHS labelling it as a painkiller.
Well, to be fair, that is the reason most people buy it. Personally I sometimes use paracetamol and sometimes ibuprofen because they work better for different things, but when you get right down to it the reason for taking either is usually "please just make it stop hurting". Plus of course there is a lot of crossover. For many pains it makes no difference.
TL;DR: It is a painkiller because it kills pain. Who cares why and how 😀
(Yes yes, I know there's a bit more to it. But seriously the reason for 99% of people buying it must be simply "pain". If you want a lot go to the pharmacy. If you want a bit, quickly, go to the local shop/supermarket and don't complain when they only sell you 2 boxes of anything. Based on many cashiers I deal with, I wouldn't want them advising me on medicine anyway...)
Posted : 24/04/2025 10:38 am
NHS Waiting list times.
Or rather the mis-management and incompetence which has led to this...
I need a procedure for something that is getting worse every week. Over 2 years wait list. WTF!?!? Been told the only way to shorten that is if I have cancer.
The system does not work.
Posted : 24/04/2025 10:51 am
'Lunch & Learn' bullsh*t meetings at work. I spend all my day at work, my lunch time is mine, don't stick these BS sessions in to take time off us.
Posted : 24/04/2025 12:09 pm
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