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People that double post, especially 2 weeks later.
For the drivers with zero spacial awareness, and who enjoy taking up two parking spaces, I think I’ll get some of these printed up…
Something somewhere in this house is receiving alerts and I'm ****ed if I know what it is.
"Bzzt" where, what, do it again you prick.
Vapers thinking it's ok to vape indoors.
Get your lung killing toys away from me please.
Scratch that, I'm totally wrong there... on further thought, a total eclipse of the heart is literally no different to any other eclipse. If your Eyes see one, then by definition your heart will, too, unless your eyes and heart exist on different planets.
So now I am cross, because she could have just said 'total eclipse' instead of wasting words and waffling on about her heart.
What i've found amusing here is that you started out accusing someone of not understanding the concept of a metaphor and have ended up focusing on the concept of a celestial eclipse. Ms Tyler's argument is very much that her heart has been eclipsed... metaphorically.
To quote multi-mediaenglish.com:
The "total eclipse of the heart" lines refer to the lover overshadowing one's life so much that the sun's light is blocked out, plunging the person's heart in darkness.
Something somewhere in this house is receiving alerts and I'm ****ed if I know what it is.
"Bzzt" where, what, do it again you prick.
We have a random beeping that's been on and off for over a year - it sounds like a low battery warning. I swear it's the dishwasher, but nowhere in the manual can I find any reason for it to beep when it's not turned on and it seems to be working fine.
One of these maybe?
Beeping Prank Irritating Noise Maker Small Size and Long Battery Life
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007653482128.html?
Emptying the dishwasher just now, the salt warning light was on so I topped it up, then discovered a small hole in the dishwasher salt bag has dribbled little salt crystals all over the kitchen. Dammit.
We have a random beeping that's been on and off for over a year - it sounds like a low battery warning. I swear it's the dishwasher, but nowhere in the manual can I find any reason for it to beep when it's not turned on and it seems to be working fine.
Our washing machine "beeps" when the detergent tray is getting clogged. Closing the built-in kitchen unit door sets it off
Why don't people cover their mouths when they yawn anymore? It's basics!
quasi religious language that yoga instructors use.
quasi religious language that yoga instructors use.
When my yoga instructor says "You should start to feel an opening in your upper back/hamstring/wherever....."
It's not "an opening", it's pain I'm feeling you sadistic bastard.
We have a random beeping that's been on and off for over a year - it sounds like a low battery warning. I swear it's the dishwasher, but nowhere in the manual can I find any reason for it to beep when it's not turned on and it seems to be working fine.
Back at work I had my own little server room. An alarm started sounding, beep... beep... beep... I'd go into the room and it'd stop. This went on for weeks. It drove me nuts. Sometimes it'd keep going long enough for me trace it more closely, it seemed to be coming from the ceiling. It got to a point where I was up on ladders with ceiling tiles off and my head in the plenum space with a torch trying to trace cables.
I did eventually track down the source. It was a bloody lorry reversing outside.
quasi religious language that yoga instructors use.
When I went to yoga, the instructor kept calling me Booboo. Turned out, I'd accidentally gone to a Yogi class.
More flexible than the average bear....
The yoga instructor asked me how flexible I was. I said "I can't do Thursdays."
(With apologies to Tim Vine.)
British Gas.
They might be the most expensive provider on the market but at least they're utter shits to deal with.
Adjacent to that,
Support departments which can't read.
"I'm contacting you regarding my dead mother's property which I'm completing the sale of today."
"When did you move out?"
Just people who can't read. We have a new project time recording system at work. It should record hours and convert to a labour cost but as the email went:
"We know the per hour rates are not calculating properly so we are using the actual time bookings in hours and days and an estimate for average rate across all job zones of £X/day for now to estimate your project cost
- followed by email exchange
"I've had a look at my projects and I get a different number to you.
"What numbers of hours do you get?
"Oh that's the same as yours.
"So what's different?
"The project cost off the system
"AAARRRGHHHH - any idea given all the info supplied why that might be?
As someone said, never mind count the number of beans in a tin, they could predict all of their interacting spin states probably, but get the lid off?
Passive aggressive close passes.
Not exactly close, kinda borderline, but with nothing coming in the opposite direction on the widest road, at a borderline slow but very steady unwavering speed. Just f off.
Passive aggressive close passes.
Not exactly close, kinda borderline, but with nothing coming in the opposite direction on the widest road, at a borderline slow but very steady unwavering speed. Just f off.
Yep, if there's space, pass me properly.
People who don't pass you when they could, but follow you for miles. Possibly more annoying than close passers - or at least annoying for much longer.
Loose = not tight.
Lose = didn't win.
My Disproportionately Cross here isn't that people get it wrong, but rather that it's so counterintuitive. How is lose a longer word than loose?
I did once leave a smoke detector under the floor boards in a place I rented from an awful landlord.
We have a random beeping that's been on and off for over a year - it sounds like a low battery warning. I swear it's the dishwasher, but nowhere in the manual can I find any reason for it to beep when it's not turned on and it seems to be working fine.
When you get home from a ride to find your other half has watched the next episode of a series you were hoping to watch together this evening.
When you get home from a ride to find your other half has watched the next episode of a series you were hoping to watch together this evening.
"It's OK, I'll watch it again!"
Yeah, but you now know whodunnit.
Dull people on the train that have no volume control, or any understanding of how far sound travels 🙄
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 😡😭😡
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.
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!
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."
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 !
I said this on the previous page. It makes no sense that "lose" when spoken is a longer word than "loose."
No, because:
Water (ie soft) that doesn't work 😖
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.
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 ☹
People that don’t fill up the ski gondola 😤
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
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.
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 🙄
Home printers - absolute shite the whole thing