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Apple Tax. I'm buying an external 1TB SSD for my Mac Mini.
If you’re desperate to use the stupid term “Apple Tax” and you have a Mac Mini you’d be better off talking about the crazy price Apple charges to upgrade the internal SSD. Also it’s frustrating that Apple don’t support USB 3.whatever to allow you to get higher speeds from suitable external SSD (Crucial X10 frinstance).
Motor bike riders in shorts and T shirts . I know its baking hot and your tyres are probably more grippy but riding at around 100mph in a 30mph really isnt on. Your 'loud pipes saves lives' just lets everyone for 1/2mile in every direction know what an irresponsible idiot you are . And the unneccessay clutch pulls and bounce it off the limiter are the work of a compleet douche bag. I suspect he is weeks away from killing himself / someone else / having the bike taken off him / getting banned by the police . but my god its like living on the isle of man TT course when he opens it up through 2nd and 3rd
Great. Another generation that doesn't know the difference between rowing and paddling.
I mean, with the greatest respect, of all the issues that are likely to bring about the downfall of civilization as we know it in the next couple of generations, I don't think this is one of the most pressing
Um, it is in this thread bro 👆🙄😊
Motor bike riders recording their rides and ebikes on Strava, making them public getting KOMs and top 10s, yet despite the obvious motor vehicle speed the Strava auto-flag AI letting them go and leaving it to the community to flag.
unneccessay clutch pulls and bounce it off the limiter are the work of a compleet douche
I miss the days of carburettors and kill switch induced backfires that sound like a gunshot
… That many companies now have a little corporate jingle at the end of their adverts. For decades it was only intel that did this. ****wits.
oh, and in trying to type this post….still this chuffin forum!
you’d be better off talking about the crazy price Apple charges to upgrade the internal SSD.
Good point, although the base model with no upgrades is cracking value for money.
Also it’s frustrating that Apple don’t support USB 3.whatever to allow you to get higher speeds from suitable external SSD (Crucial X10 frinstance).
Also a good point but if you really need > 10Gbps something like a SanDisk Extreme Pro is the way to go.
Just sat through an HR briefing and am once again cross at the bullshit words and phrases they use. Today's replacement for making people redundant was 'Workforce outflow'. Absolute tossers.
This morning's work music playlist.
Clearly put together by the good ol'e boys 🙄
Online recipes. Or rather online pages and pages of waffle with a recipe buried in there somewhere if you can find it. For instance if I'm looking for a recipe for a boiled egg I don't need you to tell me that hens eggs come from chickens which are actually related to dinosaurs and come in many different breeds, or that you first had a boiled egg while visiting Alicante and had it for breakfast while looking out over the blue sea on a spring morning, or that you can choose saucepans made from copper, steel or many other materials. Just ingredients (egg) , method (put it in boiling water for about 5 mins) , maybe a picture and I'm done.
Taxi drivers who have far too many air "fresheners" hanging off their mirror. The one I was in yesterday had six. Six!
Why so many? Did someone vomit in the car? I nearly did. 🤮🤮
Surely being made to listen to Status Quo is something that's covered in the Human Rights act?
Based on a photo submitted to a different thread earlier today. A tube of Shoe Goo which comes in a quantity of 109.4mL. What sort of a quantity is that when it's at home?
The way everyone in my house (apart from me, obviously) hacks at the butter rather than sliding a knife across it, resulting in a pot-holed mess of lumps of butter that is bloody impossible to get nice and thin strips from to butter my bread with.
Leave it out to warm up (about 30s in this heat) and then remould to suit; it's one of my pleasure, lipid based sculpture.
People who buy a cheap supermarket paddle board then go to the river with no PFD, no leash, overload the board, don't inflate it properly then say "it'll be ok" when you point out how silly they are being. I don't care if you drown but you'll spoil it for those of us who paddle safely.
People who spend 15 minutes a the queue for security at the airport but wait until they get to the scanner tray loading area before taking off belt, rummaging through bag for electronics, forgetting they have water and then failing the body scan as they are still wearing loads of jewellery. Made worse when the security lane only allows for one person at a time to load up a tray.
Then repeating process in reverse on the other side of the scanner without removing your tray of crap to free things up for the disproportionately cross people behind them who are still having to put up with your clusterbuggery
I have some sympathy with the airport security faffers as the rules now seem to be completely different in every airport as the rules around liquids and electronics have relaxed to varying degrees an different ones (with surprisingly little signage as you queue up).
Web-browser authenticators ‘Captcha’, using the public to beta-test their products.
Three months later, they’ve ironed out the bugs so that finally, finally you can make a product suggestion to some corporation.
People who buy a cheap supermarket paddle board then go to the river with no PFD, no leash, overload the board, don't inflate it properly then say "it'll be ok" when you point out how silly they are being. I don't care if you drown but you'll spoil it for those of us who paddle safely.
They probably call it an Oar too... 🙄
Hotels where everything is style over substance. I want to wash my hands not play chuffing pacman 😡
Going away for a few days to do some riding in forecast sunshine only to wake up to rain.
I'm having to bring a brewery trip forward till it dries up after lunch.
DX "Deliver Exactly" - but to where? Not my house, no card, no photo of delivery. So much worse than other couriers. Mistakes happen but the lack of meaningful proof of delivery is unacceptable.
I'm having to bring a brewery trip forward till it dries up after lunch.
Wish I had your problems 🤣
with surprisingly little signage as you queue up
Or signage that is in fact inaccurate. This morning I was yelled at in CDG because I was faffing taking my laptop out of my bag, but actually the signage tells you to do so.
The bloke just now in the car park next to the river getting ready to launch his paddleboard and instructing his young daughter to pick up 'the oar', and her replying, 'I love taking the oar daddy'
God forbid you ever see me on teh water, I can't get the words right and always call it pedalling.
Also, the internet has ruined me and "I love taking the oar daddy" sounds disgusting, and yet, perhaps a little intriguing.
Three bike related companies being so collectively disorganised that a simple and non-essential part has taken 6 months to warranty and I've still not received it.
Actually for reasons we need not go into I'm actually ****ing raging.
But there is the square root of hee haw that my feelings will alter or improve.
Have we done neighbours with overly barky dogs? Not "formal complaint" levels, more unthoughtful owners causing nagging annoyance.
I moved in 6 months ago, and we have the house opposite with a pretty yappy dog who gets exited when he's in their front window and something (anything) happens in the road outside - and the lady regularly goes out leaving him there - someone walks past - 2 mins of yapping. Then someone else -etc etc. it's a semi so god knows how their next door neighbours put up with it.
Then there is a house behind whos dog gets exited when something happens in the back garden and he's outside - generally only a few barks then it stops, but nice weather evenings and weekend days are punctuated by a couple of barks every 5 minutes.
First world issues I know, and way below the threshold of justifying doing something about it - just the consequence of living near to "people".
People who buy a cheap supermarket paddle board then go to the river with no PFD, no leash, overload the board, don't inflate it properly then say "it'll be ok" when you point out how silly they are being. I don't care if you drown but you'll spoil it for those of us who paddle safely.
^^ Can I add people like him/her to my personal 'disproportionally cross' list?
You do realise that people have to start somewhere and that those people will learn through experience. Or were you always an expert paddleboarder and everything else that you are good at?
Egg chairs.
You can't sit up straight in them, you can't recline in them.
You need to pay extra for a cover for them. The cover is only dust proof, not waterproof, so you have to buy a SECOND COVER for them.
Your kids pester to have one, then never sit in the bastard thing...
Taxi drivers who have far too many air "fresheners" hanging off their mirror. The one I was in yesterday had six. Six!
Why so many?
Because despite the signs in the car, they've just spent the last 20 minutes chain-smoking before picking you up.
(Either that, or you stink.)
I could have a thread of it's own
Its own. I am starting to think I am one of the last people on this planet who understands the difference between it's and its. It's making me cross.
Sorry its my predictive text thats defaulting to it's. Hopefully, thats improved you're day a little. 😉
Fox relaunching the 20mm front axle after putting so much effort for so many years into killing it in order to flog their inferior 15mm options. ****s!
DX again - not replying to messages and having phone line that's only open 08:30 until 17:00. It's as if they want to make it difficult to get in touch if you have a problem.
Very first world problem, though I now have third world debt
...this makes me cross at the minute - I think the breweries have got their heads together and decided to whack up regular bottled ale prices after seeing how much people will pay for 'artisan' herbal beer in small cans! Used to see loads at the £1.60/bottle price in the supermarkets, now £2.20 seems to be the norm!
I think the breweries have got their heads together and decided to whack up regular bottled ale prices after seeing how much people will pay for 'artisan' herbal beer in small cans! Used to see loads at the £1.60/bottle price in the supermarkets, now £2.20 seems to be the norm!
Think they were £2.90 a bottle. Worth it so far!
This evening I am disproportionately cross because after a few days of cycling and lounging in the sun, the tanline on my left thigh is at cycle shorts level, while on my right thigh it's at swim shorts level.
I guess the bigger question will be if/when MrsMC notices when I go back home.
As if stopping at Leicester Forest services isn't bad enough, having to listen to posh sounding southern types fail to control their wandering toddler by the stairs next to Starbucks just adds insult to injury.
"Rafaella" has consistently refused to "listen to mama" so rather than repeating and not following through on your threats, pick the little cow up before I come and spill hot coffee on you, you jumped up pretentious air head.
Just as soon as I've shoved the phone of the guy next to me down his throat so we don't all have to listen to a TikTok loop at full volume.
having to listen to posh sounding southern types fail to control their wandering toddler
This is a true story, but will likely land for about six people.
I was walking across a holiday park camp site. In front of me, a kid broke free of his mother's grip and ran off. The mum yelled "NO, NATHANIEL!" and I had to go for a bit of a giggle.
Maybe I should just be cross. Cancellation insurance for MTB trip after I bust my collarbone. Yellow Jersey offload that to a company called CSAL. Which I think stands for Can't Sent Alex Money. The form is hilarious, clearly just one in a multi-layered cynical approach to stop people claiming. Once you've filled all 8 pages of that BY HAND, the medical section insists you must get your doctor to verify your injury.
This despite having all that info in letters and images from the fracture clinic. Initially I didn't want to waste NHS time for a pointless appointment but the NHS were ahead of me, requesting £55 for them to waste the docs time on my behalf. I have no issue with this, it's hardly urgent medical care, but the fact CSAL put in their T&CS you can't claim this back but no other documentation from other medical professionals makes me think it's just another block to stop you claiming.
Anyway I shall assuage my possibly overwrought rage / disproportionate crossness by writing a pointed and pithy trust pilot review. After they've paid assuming they do.
In future any insurance I take out shall be pre-validated to ensure CSAL does not appear in any of their T&Cs. I would strongly suggest others to do the same. They don't answer their phone and reply to emails in the time it would take to deliver a message to the other side of the world by elephant.
This is a true story, but will likely land for about six people.
...There must be more to life...
Holds hand up, I'm in the six.
having to listen to posh sounding southern types fail to control their wandering toddler
This is a true story, but will likely land for about six people.
I was walking across a holiday park camp site. In front of me, a kid broke free of his mother's grip and ran off. The mum yelled "NO, NATHANIEL!" and I had to go for a bit of a giggle.
He's probably just as cross as you, but for different reasons, because his 'street name' is probably 'Nate-Dogg' .
Sooo embarassing when you get called your full name by your parents 😉
having to listen to posh sounding southern types fail to control their wandering toddler
This is a true story, but will likely land for about six people.
I was walking across a holiday park camp site. In front of me, a kid broke free of his mother's grip and ran off. The mum yelled "NO, NATHANIEL!" and I had to go for a bit of a giggle.
I have often though thunderchild would be a good middle name