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Oh, I got bitten by that one, Three by any chance? Their roaming charges (at the time, in the US) were the best of the four primary carriers but once you'd bought credit you then had to do something on your account to convert that credit to some sort of add-on. It didn't cost any more (I don't think), but if you didn't do the conversion the standard data allowance was miniscule.
EE @Cougar. Doesn’t tell you what fair usage is but showed I had 166MB of roaming data left out of ? and 47GB of uk data out of 50GB.
Forgetting to do my Wordle and blowing a 182 day winning streak.
Forgetting to do my Wordle and blowing a 182 day winning streak.
I did the very same thing 2 weeks ago blowing a 389-day streak 🙁
Work intranet.
Used to have a somewhat usable site.
Recently redesigned.
Now looks like something a 5 year old would reject.
Idiot neighbour who a few days ago posted in the streets WhatsApp group asking whose car it was that had been parked outside their house for a couple of days. YOU DON’T OWN THE BIT OF STREET OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE YOU CRETIN.
Then yesterday when they went out they bloody dragged their bin onto the road to reserve their space. Hanging is too good.
Help them out by lying their full bin down 😉
but I now find myself becoming irritated and I don't really know why.
Cetirizine works for me
EE @Cougar. Doesn’t tell you what fair usage is but showed I had 166MB of roaming data left out of ? and 47GB of uk data out of 50GB.
That's a bit crap then.
It seems there's various add-ons you can get (log in and we'll tell you) but they don't appear to be particularly cheap even then. £3/500MB within the EU and presumably considerably more outside it.
I'm with Smarty, EU data roaming is free (well, it's part of your regular UK data plan) subject to a 'fair use' policy of 12GB/month. Plus of course my number stays the same, which may or may not be desirable if you're on holiday. 😁
Indicators on cars that do anything other than simply flash on/off. Fading, pulsing like Kit from Knightrider, looking like their trying to do morse code, doing silly patterns with LEDs; they can all **** off. Audi/VW are the worst for it. I don't know why this annoys me so much
When those indicators first came out, I thought "that's unnecessary", but then thought "oh but actually, maybe they do a different pattern for hazards, so that you can tell from just one light whether they're about to pull out, or whether they're just sitting there believing that hazards cancel out double yellows etc." But they don't. That's really dumb.
Indicators on cars that do anything other than simply flash on/off. Fading, pulsing like Kit from Knightrider, looking like their trying to do morse code, doing silly patterns with LEDs; they can all **** off. Audi/VW are the worst for it. I don't know why this annoys me so much
I don't care how they flash as long as people use them. Riding home last night I approached a roundabout and had a funny feeling the car approaching from the opposite side was going to do something daft. He wasn't indicating but went 180 degrees around the roundabout and went back the way he came from. Mouth breather of the highest order.
Yeah, that gets me quite badly here in Sweden. People just do not seem to understand how/why indicators are good, especially on roundabouts.
The worst is the 'token blink' monce they have actually turned off, as though to say "See? I did indicate for this exit!".
The worst is the 'token blink' once they have actually turned off, as though to say "See? I did indicate for this exit!".
I was taught 'Mirror - Signal - Manoeuvre', no doubt like a lot of people on here. These days it's 'Manoeuvre - maybe Mirror - perhaps Signal' if you're lucky. Knobs.
Indicators on cars that do anything other than simply flash on/off. Fading, pulsing like Kit from Knightrider, looking like their trying to do morse code, doing silly patterns with LEDs; they can all **** off. Audi/VW are the worst for it. I don't know why this annoys me so much
I'll expand this to indicators that aren't on the corner of a car.
When processing multiple things as you approach a junction, you want the indicators to be on the corner, not embedded within the light cluster somewhere.
While we're on indicators.
We can all generally relate to how insanely bright and dazzling and poorly aimed modern headlights are. Now modern indicators on the other hand. Current trend seems to be making them the size of pinheads.
So many cars from behind, if they bother indicating at all, their indicators are barely visible.
Seen it on buses too where they have a big circle for the tail light and the indicator surrounds it. Really not easy to see.
I think Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre was replaced by look at mobile, puff on vape, f*ck everyone else.
maybe they do a different pattern for hazards
I've been saying this for years. If a car is pulled over with hazards on, and the near-side indicator is obscured, it would be helpful to other road users if it were clear that they are indicating a hazard, not indicating to pull out.
Despite having lots of clear work surfaces in the kitchen to prepare and serve food on, everyone seems to think it is easier to do it on the gas hob, leaving bits of food and sauce behind. Of course, this is much harder to clean than wiping a surface down. But guess who ends up cleaning the hob every time...
He wasn't indicating but went 180 degrees around the roundabout and went back the way he came from.
<pedant> No he didn't. </pedant>
<pedant> No he didn't. </pedant>
<double pedant> If he got 180deg around the roundabout then *went back the way he came from*, you could argue that he didn't go all the way around in a circle – just did 180deg then doubled-back on himself and came back anti-clockwise </double pedant>
😎
Oh balls, he went 360 degrees didn't he. I was so outraged I forgot how degrees work.
He turned 180 degrees by going 360 degrees.
At this point on a hot afternoon, my brain does not want to think about such things. I feel like it risks melting and running out of my ears.
Anyway, here's mine for the day:
Why??? A few garlics together in a bag I can understand (still annoys me!), but individually wrapped? Not only is it a completely pointless waste of plastic, they're also bloody hard to get into. I had to hunt down the scissors.
The charging LED on my earbud case is the wrong way round - it's static when it's charging then flashes green when it's finished.
People who sit in the car, engine running, while their other half is in the shop for 30 mins, presumably because the AC is on. It must play merry hell with their average consumption. Just open the chuffing windows instead, and stop filling my car with your fumes, dickhead
FIFTY QUID for a baseball cap?
https://www.slamcity.com/collections/cap?sort_by=price-descending&page=1
What the actual ****? 😯
Looks like I'll be buying a BNWT Carhartt one from Vinted for a tenner.
Hobson's Choice shit like this:
You appear to have missed off an option here. If you can't bring yourselves to include "I don't work in sales, gwan **** yourself and don't ask me again" as an alternative response then a simple "no" button will suffice.
Airport parking charges. Not only did I have to get up at quarter to five this morning to drop wife and daughter off at East Midlands for them to go on a jolly I wasn't invited on, it cost me £6 for the privilege.
Airport parking charges. Not only did I have to get up at quarter to five this morning to drop wife and daughter off at East Midlands for them to go on a jolly I wasn't invited on, it cost me £6 for the privilege.
There is a free option at most airports, although it's probably worth the ££ for P&Q 🙂 https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/travel/airport-drop-off-charges/
Thinking "christ, there's been a lot of traffic in this thread since I was last here!" before realising that rather than looking at page 88 I was looking at page 1.
Going for an easy "kill or cure" ride yesterday and feeling like it didn't go the way I hoped....
This thread has been going so long I can't remember if this has been done, but FB defaulting to 'most relevant', which is nothing of the sort and hides almost everything you'd like to see.
The Anus driving at 50ish mph on the M25 in lane 3 of 4, who as I passed was clearly looking down at his phone.
He caused a lump of traffic, undertaking, sharp braking, near misses etc, whilst some of that was also poor driving, that utter useless Cyst of a man was the catalyst. I hope he dies early and painfully.
Gavin Emmet’s commentary on TNT’s Moto GP coverage. He’s what my late mum would have called “mouth almighty”. Just. Take. A. ****ing. Breath.
but FB defaulting to 'most relevant', which is nothing of the sort and hides almost everything you'd like to see.
On the web browser bookmark
Dunno about the app, I rarely use it.
Let's try that again.
facebook dot com/?sk=h_chr
This new editor really doesn't want you to paste URLs as unembedded text.
- Tree roots lifting the surface of cycle paths when cycle touring, though I really appreciate trees 🤔
- Bike racks out of sight of cafes but next to where the scrote with his van can get away from quickly
- I’m on a roll, best stop now 😀
"there was literally maybe 20 or 30 cars in the whole car park" (taken from CyB thread)
It's been done to death but literally being thrown about with gay abandon. Literally has no place in that sentence. Stop it please.
Neighbour two doors away filling my green bin when I'd invited my nextdoor neighbour to use it in our absence. She got found out and hopefully will squirm when she politely rolls off the end of my tongue. Kin cheek.
"when she politely rolls off the end of my tongue"
I think I am imagining something very different to you with this sentence.
People who's hobby appears to be moaning about the hobby that they do.
A lot of TDF supporters at the top of the big climbs, muppets.
there was literally maybe 20 or 30 cars in the whole car park
Leaving aside the word 'literally' (not disagreeing, btw) it's the use of the incorrect verb form that makes me cross. Should be 'were' rather than 'was' in this instance, but this problem is becoming increasingly commonplace in Internet journalism too. One example I saw the other day said "...20700 hectares of new woodland was created..." Once you see one example, you realise it's everywhere.