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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.
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
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 🤬
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 🤬
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 🤷♂️
The usability of this new forum sadly
The usability of this new forum sadly
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)
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.
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.
'friend had left it there without her knowledge/permission'.
Not your problem, sheet out the back of the van, dump outside her unit.
'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.
'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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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 🤢
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.
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.
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.
When businesses let someone who is borderline illiterate post their social media updates.
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.
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!
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.
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".
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 😡
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.
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.
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. 😐
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.
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
And on the sticky theme; labels that don't peel cleanly off book covers and similar
Also film tops to packets of cooked meats that you a) can't find a tab to pull and b) are ridiculously well-adhered/tear into shreds
Dear Ossify
Thanks for getting in touch.
As per our telephonic discussion...
It might be correct English but you can still FRO
Illustrations of barbers with their arms crossed wielding sharp cutting tools staring down at you angrily. WTF is that meant to make me want to get my hair cut at your establishment?
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.
Very much this. What's worse is that she leaves shoes on the floor as well because of all the ones she doesn't wear regularly! I guess there is no space in her wardrobe and under the bed as those are filled with shoes too.
I've said it before but Trains, pretty much everything about trains. Specifically, ScotRail trains.
- Cancellations without notice, without apology and without alternative transport being provided
- ScotRail app that sells me an off-peak ticket for a journey at specific time, only for conductor to tell me its not valid as that same train is actually a peak time train, apparently it is my responsibility to know that and override the app that wants to sell me a off peak ticket.
- ScotRail app that sells kids tickets at £7 only for conductor to tell me that if I bought kids tickets from him, they would have travelled for £1 each
- Black magic ticketing where, if you are in the know, you can buy a ticket for a longer journey for less money than your intended journey (Tweedbank / Waverley / South Gyle, I’m looking at you)
- Performance measures that list a train as arriving on time if it is within 5 mins of its scheduled time. Arriving 4mins 59secs isn’t on time, its late.
- ScotRail thinking it is okay to boot passengers off a train, late in the day, at the wrong station and telling them to sort their own way home
Airports in general, the queues, checking your passport/boarding pass 4 different times and the people in airports that seem surprised that they have to take stuff out of their bags at security checks or can't carry items in their hand luggage where the rules haven't changed in the last 20 years. Then there's the idiots blocking the aisle of the plane as they get everything out of their bag before putting it in the overhead lockers. Put a conveyor belt in and if they don't immediately sit in their seat they just move past it and get dumped out the back of the plane. Double the price of my ticket if I can not have to deal with idiots and go from the front doors of the airport to sitting on the plane in 10mins.
Anyway. DC for today: when my partner's daughter visits, if she uses the toilet she turns the toilet roll round the wrong way.
There is only one, correct way, which the modern holder patent shows; as explained in this diagram…
I'm cross that the term "****panzer", which was formerly for SUVs, has been pre-purposed specifically for Tesla Cyber Trucks.
Seems fine to me. Compared to the Cyber ShitTruck, all SUV’s are perfectly reasonable forms of transportation.
Ah, yes, I knew there was something bugging me - emails clogging up my inbox that tell me someone has just posted a new topic on Singletrack World Magazine.
I really don’t need to know this, but I have no idea what I might have done to cause it to happen, or what the hell I have to do to stop it happening in future!
Please, stop it! 😖
I'm lucky I live a very easy, and this time of the year lovely, ride to work.
Every so often I have to go to a meeting 20miles away. A bus route with bike buses pass close to both my home and this second work place making it a no brainer to bus there bike back, in fact I can cross country the return journey for extra happiness.
Except it's a gamble as to whether a bike bus or a normal non bike bus will turn up. Last attempt "sorry mate can't take the bike" "dunno if the next bus will be a bike bus"
I drove, I was grumpy, I wrote a strongly worded email.
I have two huge insect bites, one on the ankle and one in the crease of my right knee. Gonna be an itchy 100km ride today.
Busses.
Apologies to anyone who drives a bus.
There are hundreds of potholes in the roads , but you drive the same road multiple times a day and yet you see it as sport , funny, protocol , punishment for the bus wunkerz to hit every single pothole every journey.
This then makes the bus shake and shudder as you repeatedly try to destroy the tyres , suspension, steering , and passenger hearing.
And why can't anyone build a bus that's quiet? I would love to know what dB is the noise levels on some of the busses locally. It is loud enough to give me a headache and kick off my tinnitus. The doors , windows, handles , grab bars and seats all seem to be metal bolted on to metal with zero sound deadening and thought put in to encourage people on to public transport and not some sort of purgatory punishment that makes me rather cross
Btw I had to use a bus for 5 days whilst I swapped the gearbox on the bimmer. Its 20mins of pure hell.