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Proper first world problem / language evolves / get over yourself stuff for me 🙂
1. Prebooked, preordered, prewhatever - I'm pre-ty sure it didn't used to be the case.
2. Apostrophes used to identify a 'term' that were never 'needed' before.
What about you lot?
Boris Johnson's speech.
Oh and 'preorder' is absurd, its marketing speak to make things sound more exclusive than they actually are....surely 'preorder' doesn't exist, you're just ordering!
Not with you on the apostrophes though! 🙂
my lower back
cut lines on packets of cheese in the wrong place.
The jalapenos I put on my pizza last night.
The fact that my dog's still pulling on her lead despite 5 months of (seemingly ineffectual) training
Exhibit A
The use of the word edit
"This is what a bike edit should look like!"
"Queens of Gnar – Women’s Debut Edit"
Coffee splash damage to one of the paper stickers on the Lego Audi rally car that sits on my desk.
That the £15 pizza I had a couple of nights ago in an (Italian) restaurant was no better than a supermarkets own frozen pizza. Not the posh ones either.
I’ve calmed down since then too.
The fact that my dog’s still pulling on her lead despite 5 months of (seemingly ineffectual) training
Labradors are born half trained, cocker spaniels die half trained.
When you get to a certain age that you've forgotten more stuff about your job than some of the people you're dealing with have ever known...
The guardian reporting that supermarket industry leaders are concerned that photographs of empty shelves could lead to panic buying and more empty shelves. What do they illustrate the story with?
That my car still isn't back from the body-shop. Took it in on 9th before I went away on holiday to have all the underside stripped, wire-brushed, grinded, bit of welding then sealed. It's going to be Saturday now.
Sounds like they are making a proper job of it though!
Medium density fibreboard
The use of the word edit
“This is what a bike edit should look like!”
This. Also "steed", especially "trusty steed".
People who moan bitterly about the evolution of language, apparently completely unaware that the language they are using to moan about the evolution of langauge is itself an evolution of the previous langauge.
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Oh and ‘preorder’ is absurd, its marketing speak to make things sound more exclusive than they actually are….surely ‘preorder’ doesn’t exist, you’re just ordering!
No, pre-ordering is a different thing. Ordering means you expect it to arrive fairly soon, pre-ordering is when you order something that you know is not available yet but it will be sent out when it is. Back-order is when you order something that has been available, and won't be for a while but then will be again sometime in the future. They are sub-types of ordering, but the terms add semantic information.
Today what else is annoying me is work. I have loads to do but I want to be fixing my car.
Mildly annoying me? oh, that fly over there I guess. Perhaps our glorious fool evoking the spirit of kermit.
There's quite a lot that's working at a higher frequency at the moment though.
Pretty much everything today, I am going to ride my bike at lunchtime and see if I can snap out of it.
Currently covid and having to do a few more days of home schooling
That the text on this site has just gone really small...I might need to get some magnifying specs.
What’s mildly annoying you today?
Small body text and overly large quoted text.
I’m pre-ty
The fact you missed a t from the word pretty.
What annoys my consistently is photos of bikers with their leg propped on their back wheel. It's ridiculous and just shows you can lift one leg up. That and the fact they're mindless style over substance sheep!
What’s mildly annoying you today?
Small body text and overly large quoted text.
Changes to the forum that make your previously barely funny comment, even less funny.
Nothing is mildly annoying me today.
I'm ****ing furious with everyone and everything.
@verses Feel your pain. Our 8 months old cocker is exactly the same. It's a full time stressful job. I'm waiting for the nice parts of dog ownership.
A fly that keeps landing on my head, but somehow manages to hide very well when I try and hunt it down.
The cat,she has gone in and out of the house about 10 times today and still feels she has to announce her every arrival during a Teams meetings.
The price of heating oil.
The use of the word edit
“This is what a bike edit should look like!”
But it's a bunch of clips edited together. What are you supposed to call it, a video? A video is one of those big plastic cassettes from decades ago.
I'm mildly annoyed that it's hot and sunny and I'm stuck at work with a brand new, unridden bike sitting in the house.
getting older and a lack of immortality.
That I'm replying to this
Being stuck in teams meetings when I'd prefer to be getting on with some real work.
A 60 minute timeout on a web portal that is not related to activity, so it times out even when I am doing work. It is really, really annoying
15th wedding anniversary ... the Mrs had got me Crystal "style" wine glasses.
Im not that bother, but the amount of different glasses we already have at maison de rose is ridiculous
Edit I should add neither of us really drink, bottle of wine will get opened for sunday lunch and then sit on the work top all week.
Coffee shop selling out of the sandwich I wanted. Ordering an 'artisan' sausage roll as a stand in and foolishly agreeing to have it 'warmed' (nuked with microwaves). Cue greasy pastry hell.
I solicit your thoughts and prayers
people telling me "that's how we've always done it"
Now got to go out and get marine level outdoor sealant for around small perspex windows, and oil based exterior paint, and dark filler,and felt glue, and this and that. Last time I build a dog/cat kennel for someone else as a good turn, be bloody cheaper just buying one.
And it would, seen them for 50/60 quid and im out about 90 thus far.
Eustachian Tube Dysfunction
Work
That Boris is so shamelessly pretending to be a tree-hugging advocate of change.
Stinking cold.
Daughter sent home from school, because she coughed.
Sonder Transmitter frame is £100 more expensive than it was yesterday, and I was going to buy one for my son. Think I'll look for a second hand full suss now!
The fact that my dog’s still pulling on her lead despite 5 months of (seemingly ineffectual) training
@verses @stcolin have you tried a slip lead including using the nose loop? Makes an amazing difference with ours, the only drawback is that people assume he's aggressive because of the 'muzzle' (he's an as soft as shite Cockerpoo).
Actual mildly annoying was two driver incidents on my commute to work this morning. Two a month would be unusual for me, but I had one aggressive a-hole and a SMIDSY this morning.
Because of a poor nights sleep, EVERYTHING!
and it's dark by 7pm
Being pinned against a wall by some foaming mouthed gammon for the second time in three days screaming about the cost of repairing a retaining wall to a church costing enough to build three houses and how the need to pay for an archaeologist was health and safety gone mad (???). When the reality is:
On the costs he is working from the last time he built a house or employed a builder was the nineteen seventies
The wall is getting on for seventy metres long and 1.5m high and there is enough stone and foundations in it for getting on for five houses (but is still going to cost substantially less)
The scheme we are going for costs 70% of the scheme that the engineer he appointed on the basis that he was £50 cheaper than the engineer we recommended and who has since disappeared without leaving any paperwork so we had to go back to the ‘exorbitantly expensive’ engineer and start from scratch
Part of the reason the wall is coming down now is that against advice they cut the trees down, which although over the last eighty years have caused the problem their roots were holding most of the wall and soil behind it in place but now aren’t.
The wall currently overhangs a main road (not exaggerating) so a road licence will be needed which is costing a significant chunk of the costs.
I’m not going to begin to put him right about the need for an archaeologist in a medieval churchyard built on a mound that is pretty certain to be a far older burial site….
Sorry about the failure to use block capitals and bold type but I tried that when I told them not to cut the trees down and it didn’t work
The clowns that are Hermes. Waiting for a CRC order that they’ve been in ‘posssesion’ of for 9 days. I know it’s either stolen or lost (my money is on stolen), but it’s still infuriating. CRC have been informed....