MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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No, the ones that keep things the same size.
You're no fun.
turns out they have a very low unpublished limit for online finance settlement and I need to revert to bank transfer or cheque.
If I were you I'd remind them of this come renewal time. "I have a very low unpublished limit for online premium payments, could you give me the address where you'd like me to send the cheque?"
Fight bastard with bastard.
Work: Can't stay awake during the day due to late night last minute work.
I’m going to add to mine; the massive long list of shortages
I'm going with pleonasms
I’m going with pleonasms
What a good word. I'm absolutely totally stealing that.
Level 4=3 Lockdown (week 6)
and the NZ governments pursuit of it's covid elimination strategy
Work emailing me whilst I'm on holiday, I do the job I do for below the industry rate so as not to be on call, work long hours or take work home with me.
Foolishly I read them as I think they wouldn't email me unless it was important. For that I'm mildly annoyed at myself.
Found out today that a person at work has had a payout for something that was her fault to start with. (Involves a mobile phone, please ask)
She’s a manipulative shyster who’s unfit for purpose. She applied for & got the job transporting children & adults with SEN’s then complains when a young autistic boy kicks off on her bus & stresses her out.
Biyatch.
1st puncture today for yonks.....actually knob was almost sliced off. Which is mildly annoying to say the least.
knob was almost sliced off. Which is mildly annoying to say the least.
I must say you're taking it remarkably well.
Suicidal rabbits running in front of my bike on my night ride...
Bloody UPS saying parcel cannot be delivered without signature but can only be delivered between 0900 and 1600 when we're at work. So I tick the UPS drop off shop option (which is two minutes from work). Shop was shut so they will only attempt one more time.
I'm going to phone the ups office today and offer the driver £10 to just post it royal mail tracked 24hr.
Loosing used in place of losing.
Waking up for work and realising I have to deep clean an entire coach including luggage lockers in under 3 hours. Solo this is a full day job if the coach isn't in a ****ing shit state.... which this one is.
Not knowing whether NJA won his award last night.
Mildly annoyed that today's weather is a lot better for a day on the beach (in Cornwall) than yesterday's. But we're homeward bound.
Involves a mobile phone, please ask)
Tell us the full story.
My in-laws.
Every time I think they can't get anymore thoughtless and uncaring they manage to surpass themselves.
I'd be happy never to see any of them again, but it bothers me how much they upset my wife.
My (normally fine) immune system is rubbish. What should be a minor cold has turned into a massive achey bastard of a thing.
Not normally a problem, but I'd planned the FNRttC tonight and ride back tomorrow and now I'm not going. Harumph.
Left my glasses at home, so I'll spend all day squinting at my screens until I get a headache.
Clients calling me up for a 'chat' coax info out of me so they can buy the stuff I sell direct.
The blackberry seed that is still stuck.
The crumble was delicious, btw.
Trying to sort Wi-Fi issues with virgin media online chat system, currently an hour into it and now they’re trying to sell me something to get signal in the garden…… No, I just want a reliable signal in the house please! (This is my first ever issue with VM)
Another one with a cold / man flu here, absolutely wiped out and can’t go to the gym today. This is mildly annoying as I’d just joined one close to me and had started to enjoy going again after many years away from them. Suspect there’ll be no cx ride on Sunday either if it continues.
Now, 2 hours, finally getting around to getting a tech out. Have gone past mildly annoyed
After 130 mins told me they booked a tech and logged off without telling me date or time, so now having to go through it all again
Ffs
Trying to work out how I can fit a lupine svto lamp and remote switch on a bloody canyon hover bar. They knew didn't they, when they designed it they had a bloody good German giggle thinking about the frustrations owners would have attaching normal everyday accessories to their fancy advanced handlebar, bloody bastards.
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She drives a council minibus transporting children & adults with special needs. She insists on keeping the bus phone in the front with her even though she knows fine well she can't answer it if she's driving, the passenger assistant in the back should keep hold of it. So the phone rings, she picks it up & hands it behind her to the assistant, allegedly hurting her shoulder in the process. She's actually claimed damages & won.
Everyone knows she's got an agenda to claim her way to retirement, just wish they'd just pay her off & be done with it.
Not being able to suppress mild irritation at being asked to do something so other person does it themselves despite saying okay I'll do it multiple times.
Multi-level bullet points.
The queues at local petrol stations.
Not knowing whether NJA won his award last night.
I only popped into this thread for an update on the NJA award situation.
No news yet?
Finding out that the parcel mentioned earlier doesn't need a signature so should have been put through the door and now won't be delivered until next Wednesday because...
That my bargainlicious Facebook marketplace Specialized Sawtooth's are too wide for my mudguards. 🙁
£10 a pair 700cx45mm anyone?
New guy in work cycles. Couple months ago I mistakenly informed him I was on Strava. My feed is now full of:
His commute to and from work.
On days he does not commute - its his walk to the train station and back.
His evening walk with dog or kids.
Ok, this may not sound too bad - but its typically accompanied with rants a about people he sees not wearing masks properly, or other cyclists not riding correctly.
And each activity has multiple selfie pictures of him pulling faces at the camera as he is riding/walking .. just to remind me what a bearded bore he is.
Spending a week working in American units. Dates all wrong, temperatures in Fahrenheit and daft imperial measures with the odd metric one thrown in for added confusion.
I have strong objections to people measuring 5.75mils. It's 5.75 thousandths of an inch. They need to show some courage in their convictions and use a daft fraction or equally silly new unit like a hair. You can't pick and choose!
My feed is now full of:
His commute to and from work.
Go to Strava/Profile/Following, find the throbber then next to his name is a drop down list - select "Mute". And breathe...
A support partner's inability to get their support desk to actually support any of the people we're paying them to support. We have a new account director with them. He is simply the latest in a sequence of chocolate teapots - about one a year for the last 5 years, by my reckoning.
I'm not putting the word support in parentheses though, because I think my dim view of their support capability is fairly obvious...
Train Wifi - always crap
Cookies
Thepurist - thanks. I quite new to Strava. Is this Mute option available on Instagram?
Staying in the Thatch and 8am the music starts up through the floor.
Neighbour's dogs.
Owners at work M-F and kids at school; enclosed back garden so the 4 dogs bark and whine both indoors and outdoors.
They never get walked so they aren't socialised.
Neighbours think it's ok; I've explained it isn't and that's not just my view - it's shared by the council and RSPCA as I've discussed with them informally.
The tw*t on booking.com who's had my booking for an Edinburgh trip for 7 weeks but only informed me this morning that " the booking should not have been taken" thereafter has gone incommunicado... Lovely, 3 hour drive after concert then😡😡😡😡😡😡
Spending a week working in American units. Dates all wrong
To be fair, their dates are mostly right, it's just that the year's in the wrong place. Year-month-day is the only sensible format and this is a hill I will die on.
I have strong objections to people measuring 5.75mils. It’s 5.75 thousandths of an inch.
WTAF?
Hermes... I even dedicated my own thread to it! 🙂
Cookies. Cookies are mildly annoying me today 🤣
The delays in supply chain for my new frame and fork. I have a whole bike's worth of parts ready that I don't want to put on my old bike as upgrades first.
Myself. I've decided I need a new smart watch to go with swapping to an Apple phone from Samsung.
The fact that I am still having the odd cigarette here and there despite much preferring my vape. Suppose at least I have gone from 20-30 a day to 3 or 4.
My procrastination over doing the food shop as I'm going to have to sit in traffic queues created by 2 rammed petrol stations opposite each other and roadworks
This stinking cold that I've had since Tuesday. No doubt I'll be okay by Monday just in time for work.
🤦
University is annoying me. Aged 43 I've just started University doing a graduate apprenticeship. Except I haven't as I've been thrown off the course one week in. It turns out the HND I did 18 years ago wasn't signed off properly. University don't like that, they think I was dishonest in my application and have ejected me from the course. So now, not only do I not have the opportunity to do a degree, the HND I thought I had isn't real either.
Other than that it's all good.
Parents of my footy teams kids who can't be arsed to watch, let alone cheer them on when they're absolutely beasting themselves to keep a foot in against the league champs. They got the message when me and the other coach shouted at/shamed them to get involved.
Mildly annoying? MILDLY ANNOYING???????
I am a ball of barely suppressed rage!
Actually in reality for the first time in a long time I feel quite settled and content today.
Year-month-day is the only sensible format and this is a hill I will die on.
surely you mean DD/MM/YY which is the only correct way
Not being able to get everything I need from one single supermarket. So I end up spending most of Saturday afternoon going from one supermarket to another.
And don’t get me started on the idiots panic buying petrol/diesel when their car is already 3/4 full. Or a boot full of jerrycans.
surely you mean DD/MM/YY which is the only correct way
No. Logical consistency. HH:MM:SS is correct. Date should follow suit. What's 100 divided by 0.5? Two or Two-Hundred?
This comment is from a man whom I’ve watched wheelie up an A road, constantly jump from pavement to road and had to explain that we would be obeying traffic lights on our ride. Bellend.
Was planning a potentially last dusty trails ride this morning before giving in and fitting mudguards on the gravel bike. It rained overnight....
Daughter has come down with "a cold", 4 days after her best friend tested positive. Waiting on her latest LFT. Out for lunch today with my parents for a multi postponed birthday, A level and now leaving for uni celebration....
browser image browsers that move the next image arrow around.
Kidney stones!
surely you mean DD/MM/YY which is the only correct way
not if you want to easily sort.
That woman in the Amazon advert who wanted to be an engineer.
Why are you using a ratchet spanner like a conventional one?
People jamming the local roads queuing for fuel - still.
The fact I agreed to an 8:45 Monday client meeting, what an idiot.
I have strong objections to people measuring 5.75mils. It’s 5.75 thousandths of an inch.
WTAF?
Well yes, I'm confused.
The second is a gnat's dangler shy of six thou, and the first is over half a centimeter, two rather different lengths all told.
Driving into the office to attend 3 meetings. All of which are with people not in the office so will be WebEx.
BT.
Won't let me report a fault on my 96 year old neighbours phone line, as I'm not the account holder.
The document part in our customer case flow system is playing up today, which makes it tricky reviewing a case with 50 documents to find open, read and return.....
The second is a gnat’s dangler shy of six thou, and the first is over half a centimeter, two rather different lengths all told.
One mil is 1/1000 of an inch, commonly used in aviation as a measure of engine vibration, as aviation is generally imperial based.
@franksinatra that's odd. When I applied, I was told my HNC that I did 22 years previously wouldn't count as they had a 16 year (IIRC) cut off anyway, so I had to start at first year?. Which suited me tbh, as I really wouldn't have liked to have went straight into 2nd year maths.
NoBeer, my HND (that isn't actually a HND) is unrelated to my GA course and not a pre-requisite. I would have got a place on the GA even if I hadn't mentioned it at all. I was starting in Yr 1 so not trying to use it to skip a year. The issue isn't the lack of a HND, it is the fact that I said I had one when I don't.
That's shite mate. 🙁
Mother in law is in hospital with pneumonia. Due to Alzheimer's she keeps asking where she is and why she's there. My other half is in bits with worry whilst also trying to sort out a place in a care home. On top of that we have to deal with my brother in law charging about like a bull in a China shop, he desperately wants to get her house on the market, even though we're not sure when she'll realistically not need it. She's a hoarder and the place is not ready for estate agents etc and we don't have time to sort it out whilst she is around. Getting old sucks.
The idiot who parked their car in my numbered resident's bay.
Turns out a fellow resident (who doesn't have a car) said their friend could park in their bay while they went away on holiday. Cue them parking in the wrong bay entirely and sodding off for a fortnight with the only key for the car. Said neighbour had also forgot that they had told another friend the same thing who has parked in the correct bay and also taken their keys with them on the same holiday as friend no1. So we have a car parked in the carless neighbour's bay and one in mine, both with no way of moving either of them. As parking is at a premium here (1 space per flat, most flats have 2 cars plus currently 2 abandoned ones in the visitor spaces) I have had to park my car blocking the car in in my space. Cue a random person leaving a note on my car about blocking people in!
Idiots.
Finding out 3 kids in my daughters class currently have COVID, but that there is little to no guidance from the Government of keeping kids safe at school, school is doing best it can to keep distancing and control flow of kids through canteen, but opening the one small window in the classroom is not going to keep them safe.
No masks, no filters fitted to aircon etc like they have in Europe.
surely you mean DD/MM/YY which is the only correct way
No I do not, that's shit.
Date is literally the only little-endian measurement we use and it makes no sense. You don't tell the time in seconds, minutes and hours, do you? And it's doubly screwed up when you're providing date and time in the same sentence.
BT.
Won’t let me report a fault on my 96 year old neighbours phone line, as I’m not the account holder.
You just need a copy of her bill, if you've got account details they'll add you as a nominated contact.
Aye, found that out now, but tbh this all kicked off as I was leaving for work, and I had to wait til I got there to do it, as my phone died on saturday, and I don't use a landline.