Are you doing it right?

what do you do that other people (idiots) don’t do properly?

This.

Toothpaste tubes, really? that complicated?

Everything.

Putting the top back on !

Drive, especially at roundabouts

Plastering

stacking the dishwasher

Keeping all the benches in the workshop clean, tidy and, most importantly, in line with the edges of the machines with all the jobs/tools on the benches also in line.
I think I may have a little bit of OCD at work (but the machines are running – put your phone down and tidy up FFS)

Make tea.

Stacking wet dishes on the drainer.
Lifting the front door handle up upvc, extra bolts jobby) before locking it.
Try to be correct with threadlock, grease and anti-seize but there seem to be differing schools of thought on what is right. I must be right according to some of them.

I found out recently from the other forum I lurk on[/url] that some people will always (where orientation of the bricks allow) build lego so that as many as possble of the tiny lego logos moulded onto the tops of the studs are all the same way round. 😯

Closing doors – turn the fricking handle.

Handbrake buttons.

Tolerance studies & disc spring calcs seem to have eluded my colleagues several decades back.
🙂

Doors again, but opening them. Turn the handle until the catch disengages, then push the door open. Don’t lean on the door with all your weight and then turn so the door explodes open waking everything within a 1 mile radius.

effing teenagers!

IanMunro – Member
Handbrake buttons.

This.

Washing up properly…. seriously how can you clean dishes hygenically with a minging washing up bowl. Pre-wash (rinse all the crap off) too… so you don’t turn the dishwater into hospital canteen soup.

Doors….. dooors ….dooooooooooooooorrrrrsss yip the exploding door thing, yip the not pushing handle up to engage the draught seals properly and yip the slamming on the catch…

ours is currently totally f’ked and requires a complete overhaul according to the maintainence chappie on friday as its had years and years of abuse to the point the whole frame is loosening… Not all our bloody teenagers BTW thank gawd we’re in rented at the mo.

Cycling related one – front brake hose. Goes up the inside of the fork leg, not the outside. Similarly rear brake hose round stays if applicable.

Hang on…..washing up, stacking dishes, not putting the tops on things?

How long have you all been seeing my wife?!?!?! 👿

about a week, she said that you’d not been doing it right!

Switch lights off

Handbrake one is controversial. I always use the button like I was taught, but have been told that the correct way is to crank it on through the ratchet, clicking and all. There was definitely a spate of Vauxhalls having issues with handbrake not locking on properly which was linked to using the button when putting the handbrake on: it would appear to be on, you walk away from the car and some time later “click” and off it goes. Also, if we’re not supposed to use the ratchet, why is it there?

Being stationary in a queue of traffic:
Y’know that handbrake thing?
Try using it instead of dazzling the person behind with your brake lights.

At the bar:
Many, many years ago, there used to be a quaint old custom that people waited to be served at the bar in the order in which they arrived.
I’m trying to bring this seemingly alien concept back into general usage.
Not really going that well, tbh.

stacking the dishwasher

Amen Brother

apj – Member
Handbrake one is controversial. if we’re not supposed to use the ratchet, why is it there?

Same as the door handle comment. Yes you can close a door without turning the handle but it’s so much nicer if you do. The ratchet is to allow the brake lever to lock in more than one position to accommodate pad/shoe wear and cable stretch.

I can’t say I’ve ever heard of the Vauxhall issue.

Being stationary in a queue of traffic:
Y’know that handbrake thing?
Try using it instead of dazzling the person behind with your brake lights.

Hmm, I have a problem with that – my car (auto) has automatic engine shut off but I have to have my foot on the brake pedal. I often assume people are annoyed about it, but I can’t do anything about it, other than kill a few more polar bears by leaving the engine running.

stacking the dishwasher

i must admit that after having friends roung, i drunkly phoned her to thank her for clearing the dishes, but also berate her for her not having pre-rinsed them and not having stacked them properly.

since then she hasn’t even bothered to clear the plates away…. 😕

Mood lighting in rooms you’re not even in ffs! And the door handle thing…….and loading the dishwasher efficiently….and stacking shite in my garage that hasn’t been used in five years and won’t be used int the next five years……and intolerance

stacking the dishwasher
handbrake buttons

Both.

FFS sort it out. It is NOT that hard.

I blame the clitoral effect.

Starting a powerpoint presentation in front of 100+ waiting people.
It is what F5 was designed for.
Having a presentation that needs web access to work…
It is what downloading and saving things was invented for.
Needing to go back a slide, requiring you to exit the presentation, start it again and hunt through your (too many) slides to find the previous one.
Learn that the arrow keys work, not just space bar / what the other button on the remote does.

It amazes me how many people feel the need to
a) present
and
b)look like plums in front of lots of people, especially in light of how much they get paid to present on a daily basis.

Focus manual says we’re all wrong on our use of the “release button”….

Had a boss who did the exploding door thing: was quite handy as you could hear him coming.

Here’s mine: using voicemail to leave a message for the person you’re trying to call, rather than disturb a colleague saying “I tried calling Dave and it went to voicemail, can I leave a rambling message with you for him?”. No.

putting CDs back in their cases and not leaving the door open so that the bl**dy cat comes upstairs mewling and meowing ‘cos it doesn’t like its current brand of food…

what’s wrong with the hand brake button? I’ll find out what it is before saying what I do.

What particularly bothers me about everyone else though, is light switches. Is just as easy to turn it off as it is to turn it on and yet people struggle with the former, I’ll add… unless I’m in the room in which case they’ll always turn it off.

what’s wrong with the hand brake button? I’ll find out what it is before saying what I do.

Are we all agreed that the handbrake button is only pressed to release the handbrake?

I’m still not sure what the accepted answer is but I push the button to put the handbrake on.
Using the rachet is for people with thin arms.

I’ve remembered another one anyway.

Sickies. We’ve all pulled one, right? Nope. I never, ever have.

Call me a fool but as far as I’m concerned, if I can’t walk or spend more than five minutes without expelling noxious fluids, then I should stay at home but if I can see, perambulate and carry out simple activities, I’m going to fulfil my contract.

if I can’t walk or spend more than five minutes without expelling noxious fluids, then I should stay at home

Ah related to this: people that come in when ill and make everyone else ill. If you think folk will catch what you’ve got, stay home!

mucus troopers, those folks may well be on deaths door, hacking and spluttering their germs on everyone else. Spreaders of colds and flu, bound by some righteous honour and belief that the world would stop turning if they spent a day away from work. Stay at home, get better and stop infecting everyone else!

Choosing* the correct lane on the motorway.

*You don’t actually have to choose there are pretty simple rules for the lane you should be in

Drawers.

a) Closing them. *wait*, I’ll stop you there, “nearly” closed is NOT closed.

b) Things that are inside them should be COMPLETELY inside them, not mostly inside with a little bit sticking out. (This includes all varietes of female underwear.)

This also applies to airing cupboards.

– Calling in sick when I’m sick.
– Realising there’s no virtue in working hard for the sake of working hard, but there can be meaning in work.

But most importantly, shutting the fridge door when I take the milk out to make the tea. WHY DO PEOPLE INSIST ON LEAVING THE DOOR OPEN WHILE THEY ADD THEIR MILK? IS IT SO HARD TO OPEN AND SHUT THE DAMNED DOOR TWICE?