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Why is "anytime" one word but "every time" two?
And everywhere, everything, everybody, everyone, everyday, everyplace and everyday may be used as one word.
Walking up from our local beauty spot late Bank holiday afternoon we see lots of litter. I was so incensed I started to pick up as much as I could (no bag). There was a trail of children's sweet wrappers every 20m or so. There is a river nearby and they'll just blow into the water and end up in the sea. There was even a large carton of chocolate flavoured milk just dumped on a dry stone wall, this was half full. The litter was all snack type rubbish, the type teenagers would buy.
What makes people think this is behaviour that is acceptable anywhere let alone a beautiful wild, countryside area.
And breath.
OK but, sometimes, I go out with my litter grabber and my binbag-onna-stick and collect up a load of litter and come back home feeling incredibly smug about it, so I suppose I should thank the litterers for that mental health boost.
(if they ever stop I'll have to start littering, it's just the law of supply and demand)
"I'm going to bed, can you do the washing up for me?" Sure. Both items? We get through more washing-up liquid than petrol.
Especially if you do everything twice.....
Can I add people who delete duplicate posts and make my comments look daft
the fact that contractors for well funded housing development companies are allowed to dig up perfectly good road surfaces to put down services and when they have 'finished' the road looks like its been re-laid by Del Boy and Rodney. Not only does the resulting patchwork quilt of tarmac trenches and patches look awful but it obviously splits apart a couple of years later resulting in massive potholes we have to pay for. In a sane world (like say the Netherlands) the road has to be put back in a better condition than it was before or the company gets a massive fine....grrrrrrr
linking into the sobriety thread, the fact that guinness zero is (slightly) more expensive than yer common and garden guinness. would have been nice to drink a bit less alcohol and feel the benefit in my pocket as well as my body.
The fact that pi is not a whole number. Ruddy irrational nonsense. 3.14159265 my arse
linking into the sobriety thread, the fact that guinness zero is (slightly) more expensive than yer common and garden guinness. would have been nice to drink a bit less alcohol and feel the benefit in my pocket as well as my body.
Was reading the other day somewhere that the alcohol free process is more expensive, though this was written by a brewer justifying the price of his alcohol free beer.
No duty on it tho. It should be cheaper. Alcohol free gin is the same price as real gin
Can I add people who delete duplicate posts and make my comments look daft
Isn't this a bit like "do these jeans make my bum look big?" No, it's your fat arse that's doing that, love.
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Screaming children. How can something so small make so much noise?
We're currently experiencing a full-on meltdown from a 2-year old which could be heard from low Earth orbit and why? Because it's naptime. My ears are bleeding and my over-ear headphones are broken.
Is the pub open yet?
American Pie
I absolutely hate the fact that the phrase will now always be associated with a series of awful bratty low brow US movies generating a sexist guffaw and not the beautiful album I've just listened to (for the umpteenth time) by Don McLean.....and American Pie isn't even the best song on the album
Listening to American Pie, it's a genuinely terrible song that drones on for far too long, is far too pleased with itself with lazy rhymes and coded lyrics that refer to things and people from more than a half century ago. Turns out that the jester is Bob Dylan (another total arse) and the King is Elvis...How would we have ever figured it out? At least Carly Simon has never said who it is who's so vain...
And really, at the end of the day it's a pitiful reactionary whiney song about how Don doesn't like it that music moves with the times, and that hippies have ruined everything. (at least he got that right)
'Pleasing patina that adds character to this rare item'
No,no it doesn't , you're just too lazy to do a proper restore job,done a half assed Google search,and it looks like it was dropped out of a plane.
At least Carly Simon has never said who it is who's so vain...
I thought it was Warren Beatty
Sitting on a cold wet campsite in Northern Spain when the UK is basking in sunshine.
It has been variously through the years; Warren Beatty, Mick Jagger, Cat Stevens and David Bowie. Simon herself has said that the song isn't about 'a' man, but men in general.
Still a better song that American boring Pie
****stan and India having their little war. There are enough problems in the world at the moment without this, and when you've razed yourselves into dust you'll look towards the Himalayas and see China sauntering towards you, and *then* you'll actually have something to worry about.
I'm not a fan of violence but I really want to put the leaders of both countries in the same room and then slap them repeatedly around the head with a dead salmon until they've grown up a bit.
Edit: I just want to make it absolutely clear that it's not me choosing to do that ridiculous censoring.
Edit: I just want to make it absolutely clear that it's not me choosing to do that ridiculous censoring
Is it making you dispropotionately cross?
No, I just don't want people to think that I have something against one and not the other when, as I said, they've both equally entitled to the wet fish slap.
Finding riders from all over the world that have joined every Strava club know to humankind, despite at least some being clubs for riders in a very localised area. When I come across them, I go to their profile (which often takes ages to load because they have joined hundreds of club) and they join my blocked list.
If I'm looking at my local clubs activity list, often looking for inspiration for a route, I don't want to know about your rides in India; Brazil etc.
Me: Explains what I’m going to do for a customer to fix their issue.
Customer: OK, please can you also [repeats back verbatim what I’ve just told them I’m going to do] *copies in their boss*
Tried to book a hotel for November.
Credit card expires in Sept, so computer says no.
Requested a new card and explained why.
New card arrived with new number, new CVC but same date 🙄
Explain situation to bank, they tell me only way to get a new card is to cancel my old one and send another. Various scheduled payments fail due to card being cancelled.
New card arrives. Guess what ****ing date it has on it.
Explain to their online chat people. Their solution? Book my wife's 50th birthday trip several months early instead...
Being blessed with knackered sinuses.
I appreciate it's hardly terminal cancer, but when it flares up it hurts like hell. Currently feels like someone has rammed an ice pick through my right tear duct.
Ow.
People who call eBay "the bay of e" and the like. So ****ing tedious.
(See also "Faceache", "Book of Face" etc.)
Leaf blowers.
WTF? Using fossil fuels to pollute the atmosphere whilst blowing leaves from one place to another place… not to mention the noise pollution for hours on end as some fectard keeps going at the same area where a slightly moist leaf has stuck to the paving slabs.
Drivers who don’t know the width of their car.
Driving through a local town the other day with a Transit and a Micra in front of me. A delivery van parked on the side of the road causes a slight narrowing of the road. The Transit drives through the gap quite easily but the Micra driver decides their car is too wide and slams the brakes on. Despite several vehicles coming the other way stopping to allow the Micra to go ahead, the driver wouldn’t move for a good 5 minutes.
Eventually Micra driver edged through the gap at about 0.0000000005mph with a good 1.5m clearance.
A minor inconvenience in the grand scheme of things but it made me disproportionally cross.
Leaf blowers.
WTF? Using fossil fuels to pollute the atmosphere whilst blowing leaves from one place to another place… not to mention the noise pollution for hours on end as some fectard keeps going at the same area where a slightly moist leaf has stuck to the paving slabs.
People who don't know that leaf blowers can be powered by electricity....
We're they blowing them into the road , so the magic tarmac elves who roam the streets at night could collect them to use as bedding and avoid the leaves blocking the drains causing localised flooding?
People who not only still look at twitter, but post links to it in forums.
Just pack it in!!!!
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MrsMC has been away for a weekend with friends. I gave the car a good wash before she went to get rid of the ladt months accumulated dust and pollen.
She appears to have parked all weekend underneath a tree full of incontinent seagulls who'd been out for a few Guinness' and vindaloos. Which has baked on in the sunshine.
People who call eBay "the bay of e" and the like. So ****ing tedious.
(See also "Faceache", "Book of Face" etc.)
I think it's acceptable, once.
People still write things like "Micro$oft Windoze" despite not having touched it since WFW 3.11. Pass the needle and thread, my sides have just split. Bore off back to your iMac.
'Selfies'. Still.
The word alone makes a little bit of vom come out. Absolutely sick to death of seeing people's gormless faces spoiling the view in photos. Why do we need to see your idiotic face every time you post a photo you colossal frikkin div?! Stop being so self obsessed and/or stop thinking you have to conform to this horrendously vacuous habit of current times. Showing me the view? Lovely. Showing me your miserable, stupid looking grille alongside the view? GTF! The fact you took the photo is evidence enough that you were there ok! Arriving at a beautiful spot only to see two terminal ****wits huddled face to face with arm extended into the air and a ridiculous grin on their punchbags for faces.
Stop it. Please. Just stop it.
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Thread should be renamed to things that make you an intolerable ****. For me, it's being forced to listen to shitty bone average music from which there's no escape. Its cycling everywhere. Oh look the weather is nice let's force everyone else to listen to dull arse crap ache balls music. Oh I want to go to the ship to buy some came here listen to this warbling bastsrd homogenous tune.
Weather forcecasts for rain that suddenly change.
Showers were expected in Hampshire from ~2100 and then went out to 2300+, so planned to ride early evening when it's a bit cooler, but out of nowhere we are now expecting rain from ~1830... Four forks snake!
Weather forcecasts for rain that suddenly change.
Showers were expected in Hampshire from ~2100 and then went out to 2300+, so planned to ride early evening when it's a bit cooler, but out of nowhere we are now expecting rain from ~1830... Four forks snake!
Just look here and see what the clouds and wind are actualy doing... https://zoom.earth/maps/radar/#view=53.06268,-1.73111,8z
People that ridiculously over exaggerate stories to make a point.
Also; people that get shitty when I stop to allow people to pass parked cars SAFELY. Which means without having passing each other at 60mph relative speed and 0.00001 micron clearance between wing mirrors.
In seriousness. I hit a cat a because it ran out from between parked cars, and it made me think what if?
I then didn't hit a kid another time that just stepped out from between cars because I had slowed down and was allowing a decent distance between me and the line of parked cars, even if it meant oncoming cars had to slow and wait. It's saved me on the bike from being doored too. I make no apologies, my safety and the safety of a vulnerable road user come above 'making progress'
People that ridiculously over exaggerate stories to make a point.
Also; people that get shitty when I stop to allow people to pass parked cars SAFELY. Which means without having passing each other at 60mph relative speed and 0.00001 micron clearance between wing mirrors.
In seriousness. I hit a cat a because it ran out from between parked cars, and it made me think what if?
I then didn't hit a kid another time that just stepped out from between cars because I had slowed down and was allowing a decent distance between me and the line of parked cars, even if it meant oncoming cars had to slow and wait. It's saved me on the bike from being doored too. I make no apologies, my safety and the safety of a vulnerable road user come above 'making progress'
Assuming you are getting disproportionately cross about dove1's disproportionate crossness above 😉
Exaggerating for effect or not, I certainly come across that kind of driver fairly often. Of course every driver should go through gaps like that safely, that goes without saying. But there's a difference between going at an appropriate speed and stopping entirely, thinking your car won't fit when it clearly can. And it's often a tiny car like a Micra or Aygo or something, stopping at a gap which you could fit a Transit through.
I get that not everyone is great at judging distances. But seriously, if some of these people are that bad then they shouldn't be allowed to drive in public. I wouldn't trust them to be a safe driver in other circumstances.
(And yes I am talking about the extreme cases such as, literally, Aygos and Micras through Transit size gaps. Obviously there are many more cases when it's better to play it safe, unless ofc you're a driving god like me 😁)