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"Cutter" - It's pronounced Qat-Ar you lazy ****ing Yank
I've heard quite a few Americans pronounce it this way. Including at least one who was a regular visitor to Qatar. I've been there fair few times myself and I'm unsure how the locals pronounce it.
Domestic appliance nomenclature pedants
I'm disproportionately cross that nobody has established whoever the **** molly mae actually is, because right now I'm unable to work out whether I should be cross about Amazon advertising her so much, which I might or might not need to be disproportionately cross about.
"Cutter" - It's pronounced Qat-Ar you lazy ****ing Yank
I've heard quite a few Americans pronounce it this way. Including at least one who was a regular visitor to Qatar. I've been there fair few times myself and I'm unsure how the locals pronounce it.
I've been watching a lot of Trump commentating recently as it's utterly fantastic viewing, and they appear to have no awareness of how to pronounce it often doing several different versions in one feature or even sentence.
I don't care how the locals pronounce it, I've simply never heard anyone not even try to pronounce something - they're replacing it with a whole different word. It's lazy.
I've not seen the Molly Mae advert - how do you buy her? Does she come complete or as a kit?
More 'in the way-ness' to follow on from earlier this morning.
Yep, we're packing bags to go for a week in Suffolk, but these don't half get in the way of walking in and out of the spare room. Just put 'em at the side, rather than in the middle of the floor, please?
Supermarket self checkouts.....
They're just another way of making of money by reducing staff levels.
Plus they never bloody work properly and you have to wait for the scarce member of staff on duty to come and way their magic barcode to get it to work again for the next 3 items, and then you have to wait for them to come back.
And why can't I get a discount when I use self checkout - after all I'm doing a job one of your previous employees did....
The otherwise nice lad who sits in the tea room watching stuff on his phone out loud at lunch and chuckling constantly to himself.
Also, people who can't seem to work supermarket self checkouts and constantly make them throw a wobbly.
Yeah and Shrewsbury can ****ing do one too
Wait until you visit Grundisburgh then.
Hours of fun when the US had several air bases in the area. HOURS!
Also, people who can't seem to work supermarket self checkouts and constantly make them throw a wobbly.
Bad workmen blame their tools
Why not just put it in the convenient hole about 4" to the left?
I've already posted this one.
Me: "why do you keep pulling the filter out of the sink?"
Her: "stuff keeps getting stuck in it."
Me: "... what do you suppose it's there for?"
Vacuum cleaner, unless it is actually a Hoover product.
I'm told that the arch-Brexiter James Dyson particularly enjoys it when his hoovers are referred to as hoovers.
Firms that advertise 48 hour tracked delivery and then
a) don’t put the item in the post for several days
and/or
b) (and I think I’m looking at you, Galibier) don’t send you the tracking number
I shouldn't complain too hard about this but there is a sunglasses manufacturer who have sent me (free) spares on asking. The problem is that they agree to do it, send me the tracking number and then don't actually put it in the post until I chase them a week later saying "this doesn't seem to have been dispatched"
Yeah and Shrewsbury can ****ing do one too
It's easy, that one. Salop.
The outer of the laces being cut through by the metal eyelets on my toe tector boots again and again and ..
'Genuine reason for sale'
Well yeah, you want the money innit.
That today's 'headline' news, main item on BBC Breakfast news, is that Gary Lineker is leaving. WGAF. I mean I like him as s presenter, he seemed a nice enough chap on the occasion I met him briefly, but this is not the most important news in the world today.
"Oi! The sign says no cycling"
"Yes, but it's a wide concrete track for farm vehicles and I'm riding at walking pace, so I assumed it wouldn't be an issue"
"You have to get off and walk!"
"Can you explain why?"
"I don't have to explain anything"
You don't think the reason he left is perhaps important?
If you'll excuse by hyperbole......
The slaughter of hundreds of innocent kids. Starving a people to death...
I'd say that was pretty important
The outer of the laces being cut through by the metal eyelets on my toe tector boots again and again and ..
Fettle with a jeweller's file, metal eyelets are a pain
Not a new one to this thread but facebook marketplace. I have an item listed for £25. I receive a message that simply says 10. I might have been more receptive to knocking 60% off the asking price if you'd have communicated with me like I am a human being.
We have a posh china butter dish (inherited, i hasten to add). The lid is a small glazed ball.
Someone has picked up the lid by the small shiny ball using what I assume were slippery/buttery fingers. We very nearly had a broken lid on our butter dish.
Wife tumble dried and shrunk another item of clothing of mine.
Wife tumble dried and shrunk another item of clothing of mine.
I feel your pain. We now have a separate washing bag for stuff that needs extra care.
Latest victim was a PERFECTLY SIZED shirt I was quite happy with. OK it was from an op shop but it was perfect, G-Star Raw short sleeved and I was chuffed it was only $15. Lasted one wash. Too small. Fortunately wife wasn't home as I did indeed get disproportionately cross. Ripped it off, pulled all the buttons off in the process and tore the shirt a little. (Not usual for me to get this angry over essentially not a huge problem).
Meh.
"Wife tumble dried and shrunk another item of clothing of mine."
I find that living alone avoids this kind of upset entirely
I'd drive myself mental if I lived alone mate. I'll just settle with a brief angry explosion and just buy another shirt. Although I am tempted to use her "spending money" to replace it as they seem to be around $150 new. TBF I'm sure I piss her off in numerous ways so all's fair. 😀
Wife tumble dried and shrunk another item of clothing of mine.
This was 100% on purpose because she does not like it.
I've gotta say - either do the washing yourself or wind your neck in about how the washing is done.
Why do tea bag manufacturers go to the effort of cutting them into pairs, but not go the whole hog and cut them into singles?
I inevitably end up tearing one of the bags as I hamfistedly try to separate them.
Is it a profiteering exercise in making people get through the bags quicker?
I have already said this, but I say it again – my wife buys fruit because 'it's healthy', then does not eat it. I have just thrown out some mouldy raspberries (saved half of the unopened punnet by freezing them), binned a whole sliced mango that she never ate, frozen four bananas (she ate one and I have been eating them every day but they are getting very ripe), and I'm trying to eat my way through some strawberries too. So we now have several bags of frozen fruit (mainly strawberries and bananas) but she won't use them to make smoothies as 'they aren't as good for you'.
When I bring up this wastefulness with her, she always comes back with 'but we need to eat more healthily' (we eat very well – almost no processed food, almost all meals cooked from fresh ingredients).
FFS.
Everything to do with the "gov.uk" system.
Today's example - I wanted to check something about my pension I went to gov.uk to look for a phone number and was surprised to see a new option to "manage your pension online". Of course to log in you need to register - no matter that I am registered for umpteen other government service - "Government Gateway" - WTF is that all about ???. To register I need to tell them my NI number, my passport information and my drivers licence information, choose a password, fill in a string of security codes, until eventually I can log in. Hallelujah.
Not quite - "We Cannot Show Your State Pension Details" ? What the? I mean, what the???? So now having wasted that time I now need to revert to plan A and spend the afternoon on hold to DWP listening to a recorded message until my brain falls out of my ear. Cross? Yes. Disproportionate? I don't think so.
Socks with the day written on them. What kind of person gets up looking for their "Tuesday sock"?
Why do tea bag manufacturers go to the effort of cutting them into pairs, but not go the whole hog and cut them into singles?
I inevitably end up tearing one of the bags as I hamfistedly try to separate them.
Is it a profiteering exercise in making people get through the bags quicker?
It's a 'big tea' conspiracy.. They just want to sell these...
https://180andup.com/products/elegant-tea-bag-scissors
The advert that is currently running where a chap tips sugar into his pasta sauce and asks his phone to help him out, eventually making it into some biscuits.
- Scoop the sugar out with a spoon you dick head.
- Now that you have your horrible tomato biscuits what are you going to put on your pasta eh? Ask your ****ing phone that one and stay fashionable!
- All that ruined sauce did not make 6 biscuits. It will have made about 40 of them. Tomato failure biscuits for tea every night for the next 2 weeks or are they going in the bin?
Should have either just scooped it out, or perhaps not put it on there in the first place.
Ring ring.
"Thank you for calling, how can we help?"
Hi. I'd like to pay this bill please.
"Certainly sir. But in order to confirm your identity I first need to ask you a few security questions."
Why? Is there a risk that I might be calling to fraudulently pay off someone else's bills?
Socks with the day written on them. What kind of person gets up looking for their "Tuesday sock"?
Only to discover their partner shrank it in the tumble dryer.....
As tea people, we love elegant and cute tools that make the whole experience of teatime more perfect. These scissors make opening your bags of Yancha or other tea part of that perfect experience.
This kind of bullshit.
I've not seen the Molly Mae advert - how do you buy her? Does she come complete or as a kit?
There's a Jamaica joke in there somewhere.
Everything to do with the "gov.uk" system.
Today's example - I wanted to check something about my pension I went to gov.uk to look for a phone number and was surprised to see a new option to "manage your pension online". Of course to log in you need to register - no matter that I am registered for umpteen other government service - "Government Gateway" - WTF is that all about ???. To register I need to tell them my NI number, my passport information and my drivers licence information, choose a password, fill in a string of security codes, until eventually I can log in. Hallelujah.
Not quite - "We Cannot Show Your State Pension Details" ? What the? I mean, what the???? So now having wasted that time I now need to revert to plan A and spend the afternoon on hold to DWP listening to a recorded message until my brain falls out of my ear. Cross? Yes. Disproportionate? I don't think so.
This all sounds relatively functional for a government procured IT system.
Going to quickly rinse your teaspoon (not a euphemism) in the kitchen sink at work only to have to wait for a colleague washing up 3 loads of Tupperware with OCD levels of zeal.
Would've been better off using Fairy.
A while back I was doing some contracting for the NHS and I spent more time reporting non-compliance issues back to them than actually doing my job... It's the wild west..
I'd get jobs come in such as system x is not doing whatever... And they'd send me a bunch of proof through which is great, but it often contained a lot of PID data... So yes Michael from Winchester, I know all about your irritable bowel syndrome, even though I was only doing app support for blood testing or whatever.