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it makes nice coffee. It comes with a scoop to measure the coffee so you get a nice non compacted level measure and put it into the filter, press it down and it exceeds the max fill mark. Why? Is it really too much to expect the supplied measure scoop to fit in the filter. Clearly it is but ……
Call to cancel Barclaycard Customer Serviced as I lost my wallet out riding... "just key in the sixteen digit card number"... "I can't I've lost my card and am in a foreign country",... "just key in the sixteen digit card number"... "I can't I've lost my card and am in a foreign country",... "just key in the sixteen digit card number"... "I can't I've lost my card and am in a foreign country",... "just key in the sixteen digit card number"... "I can't I've lost my card and am in a foreign country",... "just key in the sixteen digit card number"... "I can't I've lost my card and am in a foreign country",... "just key in the sixteen digit card number"... "I can't I've lost my card and am in a foreign country",... "just key in the sixteen digit card number"... "I can't I've lost my card and am in a foreign country",... "just key in the sixteen digit card number"... "I can't I've lost my card and am in a foreign country",... "just key in the sixteen digit card number"... "I can't I've lost my card and am in a foreign country",...
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a scoop to measure the coffee
I'm disproportionately cross about always having to use a very much heaped scoopful to make an acceptably strong coffee, instead of a level scoopful.
The chap who sat in his car outside my house at 5.45am today with his engine running and music blaring made me cross. I don't think he expected a wild haired man who had obviously just woken up to knock on his car window. Fair play, he stopped being inconsiderate immediately when I politely asked him to be quiet.
My racist dog.
Just immediately has a problem with certain breeds for literally no reason.
My racist dog.
Just immediately has a problem with certain breeds for literally no reason.
Maybe he does have a good reason. How do you know?
Maybe he does have a good reason. How do you know?
Oh he has a reason. It's called prejudice 🙂
My arms are open to the Labradoodle as they are to the Pointer.
At least until it is confirmed that individually, they are dicks too.
NIN playing the O2 in London FFS!
The Boots website lets you check stock in local stores, and while it does have a small disclaimer that prices may vary, I hadn't expected that having committed my lunchbreak to picking something up from the next town over, it would be £20 more expensive...
The chap who sat in his car outside my house at 5.45am today with his engine running and music blaring made me cross.
I appreciate that taste is subjective, but the people who do this, it's always really shit music. I'd mind less if it was something half decent.
Ice cold toilet seats.
Ok, time for a dump *stifles a scream*
Corollary: warm toilet seats. Why are they unnaturally warm? Argh!
Surely a warm seat means someone else's bottom has been perched on it very recently.
So today is recycling day where I live + there's a well publicised storm sweeping across the country, the result is like some post-apocalyptic scene with rubbish everywhere and recycling boxes and bags all over the roads. Idiots. You can't just wait one week? I wish the council would announce they aren't doing a collection that day in advance or something.
For a while at school I was sent to the lunchtime spelling classes
In fairness, in your example you then misspelled eat so seems like they had a valid point 😉
I wish the council would announce they aren’t doing a collection that day in advance or something.
Stirling council did announce it yesterday, and asked for no bins out.
I, and most of the neighbours, have moved bins into sheltered spots for today. Clearly not everyone as I've just heard a thunk think of a couple of bins blowing over while I popped out with the recycling...
Booking flights.
I'm no longer a regular flyer so I'm out of practice, but when I do need to fly (and take my bike)...OMG, what a palaver.
I'm currently being bounced between two different code share airlines customer service departments to add my bike to ALL the flights...it seems that the main air line (Swiss Air) think I want to fly my bike across the Atlantic and then leave it at the first airport when I get on the connecting flight....idiots!
Premier Inns. If I have to stay in one, I always seem to get a room that’s a Wetherspoons toilet distance away from reception, next to an over enthusiastic door closer.
Then the key card doesn’t work…
Frequent posts on the local bikepark trails Facebook page asking 'Thinking of heading down today. What are current conditions like?'*
I mean, they're surfaced, all-weather trails. If it's been raining they'll be a bit wet, snowing-snowy, windy-windy, icy-icy.... You get the picture.
It's not alpine off piste skiing or owt! 🙂
*Doesn't make me cross as it goes. Just makes me wonder how folks minds work.
Premier Inns. If I have to stay in one, I always seem to get a room that’s a Wetherspoons toilet distance away from reception, next to an over enthusiastic door closer.
Purely guessing but I have a suspicion that chain hotels fill rooms from the inside out to minimise maid service mileage. That said, you can always ask for a quiet room.
Also, earplugs exist.
Premier Inns. If I have to stay in one, I always seem to get a room that’s a Wetherspoons toilet distance away from reception, next to an over enthusiastic door closer.
Then the key card doesn’t work…
I've had cycling weekends away where I've pushed my bike further to and from my Premier Inn room than I rode it in 2 days.
Flashing fourth brake lights on cars, usually black German coupes being driven furiously through town.
Facebook again.
Friend: "does anyone need a [thing]?"
Response: "U selling?"
No, she's clearly taking a poll. I quite often post asking about the desirability of car de-icers or bottle brushes out of curiosity. ****'s sake, some people aren't safe to be left unsupervised.
I've been looking for a [thing] in ages. Does she still have it?
I’ve been looking for a [thing] in ages. Does she still have it?
Can she deliver...?
All the **** copy cat thread titles!!!
Oops
Constant growth in business. Why can't businesses get to a level and just be ****ing happy with it. We have a world of finite resources. Stick your infinite growth up your arse! Not sure if this is disproportionately cross, completely irrational or just plain sensible.
On that note, inflation.
It's just bigger numbers. Nothing actually changes. It's like a video game where you level up, you headshot a bad guy for 150k damage whereas you were doing 10k and you think "ooh," but the baddies are tougher so they still take as many shots as they did back when you were level 1. I worked at the same company for 16 years and was promoted multiple times, had multiple pay rises along the way, but in real terms taking inflation into account I was effectively on almost the exact same salary as when I started.
I genuinely don't get it. What's the point?
Hmm, sorry last 2 posters but surely if you stick infinite growth up your arse then you'll get some extreme inflation 😉
Anyway, my grump for today is for Asda. Checkout machine gave my £2 change in:
£1, 50p, 20p x2, 5p, 2p x2, 1p
Just stop it!
I left my laptop mouse at home this morning, forcing me to use the touch pad all day today.
I’m livid.
People who buy over priced coffee.
What price is overpriced ??♂️
They know who they are 😉
Checkout machine gave my £2 change
Ok boomer...
They have their uses but excessive use of ellipses points to end a sentence does my head in. Very popular on this forum it seems…..
£30.99 a month to watch DH WC.
The delivery guy who drove past me as I walked along, then bumped up the kerb to park half his wagon on the pavement, blocking it entirely about 15m in front of me. On double yellow lines.
Fine, delivery drivers have unrealistic workloads. Fine, there wasn’t any better parking anywhere near, and yes you can stop on yellows for deliveries.
So why block the pavement too? Half his wagon was blocking the road anyway - just park on the road. Leave the pavement clear.
As it was I had to walk in the road to get past his wagon, at which point he opened his door practically in my face, which luckily allowed me to point out my opinion of his parking choices as he stepped out. And I managed to do that without excess volume or excess Anglo-Saxon vocab.
in other news, I found the temporarily misplaced set of keys, in the pocket of the trousers I was wearing last week. So there’s that. Life’s not all bad
People who reply to WhatsApp messages at 0435. You might be awake , no one else is. Or wasn't till 0435 , when your accepting an invite to an event that's taking place in 2 weeks time. This is hardly mission critical and really could have waited a few hours.
The new PIN pads that Tesco have installed at the self checkouts. For some reason, the contactless reader has been moved to between the top of the key pad and the bottom of the screen. Add a plastic cover to stop people seeing what your PIN is and they're almost unusable. In contrast, the old ones were so sensitive that you could just wave your phone anywhere over the top of the PIN pad and it would work every time.
Stuff that makes you disproportionately cross:
Anyway, my grump for today is for Asda. Checkout machine gave my £2 change in:
People who use self-checkouts and then fanny about paying in cash. Take your shit and sod off, rather than despite being given an option to add your bags at the start of the process the sudden concept that you might need to bag your annual shop comes as a complete shock to you at the end. The whole point of the express tills is that they're express. If you have to piss about counting 2p pieces then do it at the regular checkouts where you're keeping Doris in a job, who's also just arrived here from 20 years ago.
My local Tesco has "scan as you go" and "self scan" as the same little group of tills and it is infuriating. I can be in and out with a bagful of groceries in about the same time it takes someone to successfully scan an apple.
People who reply to WhatsApp messages at 0435. You might be awake , no one else is.
People who have their phones next to their bed not set to silent and then blame everyone else when it makes a noise. You can schedule "do not disturb" hours, it's a setting.