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The card number. Been hit by that recently… brain fade and got the number stopped. Took a while to find out I could still use it, but I’m always asked for the number. Need to get to a GBNI hole in the wall. Which is a long way away.
Nothing makes me cross anymore, just dissapointed.
I am pretty sure that I posted about this before but I need to vent again.
Packing.
Brevity with clarity 🙂
Small handgun and a few spare rounds? Something more personal?
Getting back to the blinding headlights it the folk who don't dip until 3 seconds after they have completed getting around a corner and they've blinded you
Surely you see lights illuminating the countryside be prepared to dip these 24 plate tossers SUV probably electric cars lights
Washer dryers, specifically the one at my mother in law's. It's a solution to not having enough space for both but it doesn't dry well and only takes a tiny load for drying. It's not intuitive to use. I'd replace it with a dehumidifier and clothes horse for drying but her memory is going so we need to keep things the same as much as possible.
Newer one; Use the phrase “..give your head a wobble”? Please don’t breed.
Add "go and touch grass" to that list. I'm never quite sure whether you're being told to step away from the keyboard or to go outside, bend over and put your hands on the floor, and brace yourself.
It's equally confusing to anyone who's done psychedelics as to what giving your head a wobble is supposed to mean.
Headlights again ..people that flash to say thanks for stopping at a give way point or priority chicane etc you never bother to acknowledge me in daylight but seem to want to blind me at night why? I will usually acknowledge some road manners by at least raising a roady style twitch of the finger and NOT blinding the oncoming vehicle Mrs g now on my case .. calm down dear you’ll make yourself ill!Tossers the lot of them
I will usually acknowledge some road manners by at least raising a roady style twitch of the finger
Dunno about you but I can't see through other drivers' windscreens at night 😉
Hence a quick flash instead seems polite. Most likely, the people who DO acknowledge you by day are the ones that flash at night instead.
Calm yourself by telling yourself that those who seemed not to say thanks at night really did, but they just waved without thinking properly and you didn't see it. Because, y'know, it's night, and dark. Better for your blood pressure than telling yourself that those who do say thanks are the ones that normally don't... this makes no sense. They're not out to annoy you specifically.
I'm with your Mrs 😉
In a way, this one takes us right back to the first post on the thread. Stuff being left In The Way for no reason. I give you our small kitchen table. It's basically 2ft6in by 4ft, just big enough to sit 4 people at a pinch.
So why leave a glass jar with fairy lights, and a wooden box containing a IKEA plastic plant and 4 crockery vegetables, slap-bang in the middle of it? They serve only to prevent it being used for its designed purpose. FRO.
its a woman thing... Clutter on tables to look nice
Christmas day. My woman placed serving spoons on the table mat reserved for the roast potatoes/veg. Meaning I have to somehow hold said dish in one hand whilst shoving ths spoons to one side disrupting the table display in the process. then ensues a shouting match of said woman telling me to be careful of display whilst the heat from burning hot dish has transferred through oven gloves and burnt my fingers. But its all my fault as I'm a man.....
Twixmas.
Can get in the effin.....
So why leave a glass jar with fairy lights, and a wooden box containing a IKEA plastic plant and 4 crockery vegetables, slap-bang in the middle of it? They serve only to prevent it being used for its designed purpose. FRO.
I'd be more bothered about the shite seemingly stuffed underneath it.
Newer one; Use the phrase “..give your head a wobble”? Please don’t breed.
I rather like the phrase. "gie yer heid a wobble" You will be pleased to know I have not bred and have no intention of doing so
“Twixmas”
it’s still Christmas and will be until 12th Night
@cougar2 I think the "the shite seemingly stuffed underneath it" is .... chairs! Blue, plastic seats, chromed legs, thin cushion on each, actually surprisingly comfortable. And a piece of kitchen roll drying on the back of one of them (the excessive & inappropriate use of which could easily be the subject of a whole separate post in this very thread)
Granted the photo is from a bit of an odd angle, and maybe distorts a bit, but there's nowt else under ithe table normally.
"I'm fine"
You're clearly not. But rather than try and discuss whatever it is you'd rather sit there obviously "not fine", and leave me wondering what I've done now. Even my anxiety has anxiety.
I think the “the shite seemingly stuffed underneath it” is …. chairs! Blue, plastic seats, chromed legs, thin cushion on each
Oh, it's a luridly-patterned cushion! It looked like a pile of stuff. My apologies to you both.
“I’m fine”
I completed this side quest years ago. The correct response is to go "oh, OK" and go about your day. Life's too short to be pandering to the sulking of a grown adult acting like a 12-year old passive-aggressive narcissist.
See also, "if you don't know then I'm not telling you." Well, OK then, that's up to you of course. But if you think I'm going to spend the next 20 minutes racking my brains to compile a list of things I might have done wrong, 90% of which you hadn't even realised, so that I'm even further in the shit then you are very sadly mistaken.
Doorstop filled with dried grain. Yes, it's cheap to make. Yes, it stays put nicely. Yes, the mice love to eat it. No I don't like cleaning up mouse droppings.
Drunk people.
Outside lane of the motorway, goons passing the car in the middle lane doing 1mph more than them or sometimes the same speed….
If I'm talking to you and your phone rings, just bloody ignore it. All the ringing means is someone asking for your attention if you're available and it's rude to effectively say to me "woah stop right there in mid sentence! I've no idea who this is but it's clearly more important!". You wouldn't do it if they were here in person, you'd say "just a moment" or something, so why does using the phone magically make it deathly urgent?
(I'll allow a quick glance to see if it really is urgent)
If I’m talking to you and your phone rings, just bloody ignore it.
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That annoys me too. If you're genuinely expecting something which might be an emergency then fair enough, but as a rule I carry a phone for my benefit not everyone else's. My ex couldn't get her head around this concept, "I rang you, why didn't you answer?" I was busy and called you back five minutes later when I was free, any further questions? Clearly I must be having an affair or something.
I love technology but I dislike the needy immediacy of it. If I want to phone someone non-urgently I'll text ahead to ask whether it's convenient.
It's nothing new either, it's not purely a smartphone / 21st Century problem. I've posted this before but when my grandparents first got a landline installed it was bedlam when it rang. They reacted like it was an air raid siren going off, "PHONE! PHONE! THE PHONE'S RINGING!!" and chairs and tables would be scattered. It ringing off before they got to it was like a death in the family. Who could this have been? What if it was important? Even 8-year old me recognised the folly in this, "well, they'll call again later then, won't they" was not well received.
Probably been done, but folks walking along, so engrossed in the phone in their hand, they cease to have any spatial awareness, any awareness full stop, any humanity. So you want to cross a busy road? Look left, look right, look...no?oh,ok,you just keep watching your phone ya plum. Though, occasionally, it can give rise to a rare comedic moment - woman and man (possibly a couple) both ensconced in their devices...she walks into the the line of shopping trolleys being manoeuvred around the supermarket car park by the exasperated supermarket legend (he's a lovely guy), man glances at her then knee/faceplants the trolley shelter...
For everything else there's Mastercard.
If you’re genuinely expecting something which might be an emergency then fair enough, but as a rule I carry a phone for my benefit not everyone else’s.
Agree! It reminds me of work actuality, rather than email they decided to start using the WhatsApp group for certain messages. So when we're really busy, you know, with work, they then started demanding to know why we hadn't checked the messages. Because I'm too busy working (at the PC), my eyes glued to the screens, checking last minute urgent emails, juggling various urgent rush jobs, and don't have time to check my PERSONAL phone every minute.
The camper van in Tesco car park with "On an adventure before dementia" stickers. Plain offensive.
The word "drone". Does it mean a 135g DJI Neo or a 32,250 lbs RQ4- Global Hawk?
The capabilities are so different, it's like using one word for a RC car and a full size pick up truck. You may have 100 RC cars but only a pick up truck can move a pallet of bricks.
RPA remote piloted airframe
Drone. Out of a Christmas cracker. The next generation Big Track.
People who flash their headlights for any other reason than that allowed by the highway code. Flash away dimwit if you want to give away your right of way just to cut the corner. I ain't moving. It doesn't mean that I can come though the gap or even thank you.
Have we done dog turd bags. Who the hell takes one into countryside? Just kick it into the verge . If you left yours on the Verderers climb today go and pick it up you lazy sod.
Mobile phones. I doubt that 1% of you need to make a life or death, work crucial call at all hours of the day. So leave the sodding thing at home or at least switched off . Or are you so pussy whipped that you must be on call at all times. And you don't need to call from the top of Ben Nevis to say "guess where I am"
Terms like pussy whipped
Oh and reclining seats
My selfish gits of neighbours who had a bright orange bulb in a ball light fitting placed right up to the boundary of our property.
Yes I’ve closed the curtains but that’s not the point. Why is it on anyway, no one is outside (we have an amber rain warning for our area). It shines right into our downstairs and upstairs rooms. It’s just one of a long list of selfish things they do.
And breath.
xx
Loud people in shared spaces.
Have we done dog turd bags. Who the hell takes one into countryside? Just kick it into the verge . If you left yours on the Verderers climb today go and pick it up you lazy sod.
People who kick their dog turds into the verge. Have you ever gone on a walk with young children? They don't always stick to the path and are forever running into the undergrowth by the sides to play. This is what the bags are for - to take it home with you or drop it in a bin somewhere on the way.
Does it mean a 135g DJI Neo or a 32,250 lbs RQ4- Global Hawk?
It makes me cross that I feel the urge to nitpick about the usage of both metric and imperial in the same sentence even though the actual offence does not make me cross and I even do it myself 😉
Royal Mail's form to claim for lost/damaged/late packages. You cannot copy/paste into the fields, you have to type everything. Also if one field fails validation for whatever reason then they reset the form and make you start again. This behaviour can't be an accident - if I were cynical I'd say they do it deliberately to make it difficult for people to make a claim.
(Tip to make it easier: you can't paste but you can drag and drop from a different window!)
It makes me cross that I feel the urge to nitpick about the usage of both metric and imperial in the same sentence even though the actual offence does not make me cross and I even do it myself
Amateur. I do it in the same measurement. "That's a metre and three inches."
"Loud people in shared spaces"
What about Loud music in cars from the '80's by Billy Bremner
Fiery wee Scot with a statue at Elland Rd
Don't think him and Kevin Keegan were best pals
Modern wine glasses.
My parents had a set of wine glasses as a wedding present 60 years ago which they basically still have except one which landed on a stone hearth.
I think we buy a new set every 2 years! The slightest knock and they fracture. We obviously don't put them in the dishwasher yet they still last 5 minutes.
And yes, I have just cracked yet another one drying up this morning.
Control your kids? Anyway, they'll only do it once. Either you'll give them a thick ear or common sense will kick in.
Listening to the plummy voiced young lady in Costa expressing surprise that her and her friends had been unable to access any of the local pubs by the door staff at 10pm on New Years Eve.....
....before going on to say how working at the Blenheim Palace (?) ice rink in the run up to Christmas had made her realise how stupid and entitled customers can be.
Maybe a bit early but when it's the middle of Jan and you still get folk saying happy New year
Can't say I miss the slobbering kiss from oldie relatives growing up as a bairn
And yes, I have just cracked yet another one drying up this morning
Yup, lost one to the exact same thing last night. Wafer thin, it was, with a stem like a straw. Very pretty, but fundamentally flawed.
The proximity of the Saracen banner ad to the links bar with bike, chat etc. links. Which, combined with my fat thumb on a small screen results in me inadvertently spending more time on the Saracen home page than on here.
Well not really, but a lot more more time than I'd like, I've no interest in their products atm. I guess it's deliberate and helps the STW ad revenue coffers, so I bite my lip. But jeez it's annoying, especially when swiping to go back takes another 30 seconds!
And yes, I have just cracked yet another one drying up this morning
We bought some new crockery when we moved house four years ago. The number of pieces which haven't either chipped or completely broken is about 50%. Granted my partner washes up with a hammer but both my gran's old plates and the cheap Tesco ones I bought have a 100% survival rate.
Control your kids? Anyway, they’ll only do it once. Either you’ll give them a thick ear or common sense will kick in.
Yeah because the smell of dog shit is really what makes the countryside special.
The Nigel Farage thread.
Means I keep reading the c**** name all the while.
Has no-one been cross for 3 days? New Year, New You?
I'm disproportionally cross that this thread has been resurrected...
If we've run out of things that make you cross how about things that make you mildly roll your eyes?
An email from an event the wife attended:
Following Saturday evening's live show, some lost property was located at Elstree which we'd love to reunite with its owner.
This particular item of lost property was reported missing on Saturday 28 September, but for GDPR reasons the contact details of the audience member who lost it have since been deleted, so we're now hoping to track down the owner and reunite them with this item.
If this sounds like it could be you we are looking for, please get in touch by emailing....
I get disproportionally cross at the way Lurpak butter falls off my knife before it reaches the bread. Anchor butter does not have this problem.
I have a growing rage at media lovee types pretending to give two shits about the plight of women in Afghanistan like the behaviour of the Taliban v2.0 is something new and out of the ordinary.
What did they think we were doing for 12 years? We literally gave those people blood, limbs, mindals and bodies while trying to train their men (and women) to take control of their nation, to facilitate security and stability to enable the people to live a version of freedom in keeping with their culture, but instead the the men just wanted to smoke drugs, rape boys and shackle their women.
They knew this would happen the minute the big stick got taken away, they'd go back to subjugating their women and visiting harm on those just trying to live their lives.
So yeah, now we have to sit back and watch in technicolour the outcomes of abject political and military failure whilst wet blankets feed on the misery with glee, blind to the irony they were part of the problem.
Anchor butter does not have this problem.
I'd rather it stayed on my knife than came anywhere near food.
Mobile phones. I doubt that 1% of you need to make a life or death, work crucial call at all hours of the day. So leave the sodding thing at home or at least switched off .
I've heard that "mobile phones" can be used to do other things than make phone calls these days?
I have a growing rage at media lovee types pretending to give two shits about the plight of women in Afghanistan like the behaviour of the Taliban v2.0 is something new and out of the ordinary.
I think your ire is misdirected. It wasn't "media lovee types" who thought it was a great idea to go charging into Afghanistan with guns blazing in the aftermath of 9/11, without regard for the inevitable consequences once the testosterone rush had cooled off a bit.
Please don't reply to this email
Why not? Will something bad happen? Will all the emails sent to an email address that nobody monitors clog it up? Oooh, that sounds fun!
To whom it may concern,
I understand nobody monitors this email address, and that my expectations for a response should be lowered, but I'm sure that someone, or something, MUST monitor this account in some way. This is for you, lowly non existent monitor of unmonitored email accounts, I hope you have a fantastic day and escape the drudgery.
^^
It's trivial to send an email with a FROM: address which simply doesn't exist. It's not that accounts allegedly aren't monitored or that they're given to the kid on Work Experience, rather there is nothing to monitor.
I think your ire is misdirected. It wasn’t “media lovee types” who thought it was a great idea to go charging into Afghanistan with guns blazing in the aftermath of 9/11, without regard for the inevitable consequences once the testosterone rush had cooled off a bit.
Instead blame Dyson for the power vacuum.
The taxi driver this morning who, on a narrow terraced street, decided to to stop in the middle of the road next to a space rather than pull into said space. Yes I know taxi drivers can't drive for toffee but a bit of consideration for other road users would be appreciated.
The obnoxious tw*t who, without fail, walks into the (quite small) work gym, and without ever asking, proceeds to set the other radio at the cardio end of the gym to (a) capital dance and (b) maximum volume. This is when one, two or many of us are already quite happily listening to literally anything else, on the first radio in the weights end, which we can no longer do because yours has drowned it out. Dick.
Then he walks into the half I'm/we're in and uses the weights for half an hour. Dick.
I think I’ll just ignore it and see if they file at court to reclaim their zero balance…
Send them a cheque to cover the balance, and charge them for your time.
I found (during a small claims court claim against a debt collection agency) that small claims would happily consider your time to be equally as valuable as the debt collection agency's time.
The particular debt collectors involved charged £20 every time they wrote a letter to you - I simply did the same to them.
(in my case, there was a distinct lack of evidence regarding any supposed debt - given there wasn't actually any debt, they were shysters trying it on - so I ended up with a small cheque for my invoice and they paid the court fees).
Now that everyone in the world seems to have at least one mobile phone, why, when I call someone, do they not ****ing well answer! That thing that's making a ringing noise will be the phone - pick it up FFS! If it's not important I'll text or email or send a carrier pigeon or use some other mode of communication you can just ignore. If I'm ringing, it's because I want an answer NOW, not at your leisure. Aaaaaarrrggh!!!!
IT support folks often say that printers create 99% of their work (other percentages are available). That's just because graphics tablets are not very common. Why can't the manufacturer (and I guess I'm really just talking about Wacom) make a driver that works without complaining, and a Bluetooth tablet that doesn't skip and lag like a kangaroo with a wonky leg?
why, when I call someone, do they not **** well answer! That thing that’s making a ringing noise will be the phone – pick it up FFS! If it’s not important I’ll text or email or send a carrier pigeon or use some other mode of communication you can just ignore. If I’m ringing, it’s because I want an answer now, not at your leisure. Aaaaaarrrggh!!!!
Because whilst that moment might be convenient for you, it isn't for whomever you're calling.
If I’m ringing, it’s because I want an answer NOW, not at your leisure.
Sucks to be you, unless you're volunteering to pay for my phone and contract.
Now that everyone in the world seems to have at least one mobile phone, why, when I call someone, do they not **** well answer! That thing that’s making a ringing noise will be the phone – pick it up FFS! If it’s not important I’ll text or email or send a carrier pigeon or use some other mode of communication you can just ignore. If I’m ringing, it’s because I want an answer NOW, not at your leisure. Aaaaaarrrggh!!!
My phone rings so rarely this days, unless it’s OH or family, I regard it with dread. What bag of bastards is this? I’ll give it a hard stare, in the hope it’ll ring off quickly. If it’s an unknown number it’s frankly 50/50 on the whole answering thing.
If it’s my work phone, it’s a minute past contracted hours and I’ve forgotten to leave it in the van, I’ll carefully ignore it.
Smokers/vapers. Sorry but you're unintelligent scum that need to reflect on what you have in life before you destroy your own health, and others around you.
Now that everyone in the world seems to have at least one mobile phone, why, when I call someone, do they not **** well answer! That thing that’s making a ringing noise will be the phone – pick it up FFS! If it’s not important I’ll text or email or send a carrier pigeon or use some other mode of communication you can just ignore. If I’m ringing, it’s because I want an answer NOW, not at your leisure. Aaaaaarrrggh!!!
It's called being busy. AKA, having responsibilities and a job that requires actual work and not staring at instatok all day. Unless it's between 7am and 7:45am or after 8:30pm I probably can't answer the phone.
Humblebrags about being able to afford Lurpak. 😉
I think some of the responses to my rant about people not answering phones have forgotten the topic of the thread. The thing that triggered me was trying to get through to my pharmacy to ascertain whether my prescription had arrived. It's a local pharmacy, not a mega-Boots. I tried ringing them in excess of 20 times and each time getting a message saying that no one was available to take my call. In the end, I took a punt and walked there, only to find that there were SIX staff milling around and ONE other customer that was just waiting for their meds. Maybe I posted on the wrong thread but I couldn't find one about being proportionately cross ?
The fact that we don't have a proportionately cross thread.
Back OT, the pharmacy in the local surgery.
13 years of using it, at least once a month for ongoing conditions in the family, less than 10 occasions has there been (a) all the stuff ordered (b) it turn up when promised and (c) the promised text message arrive.
Brewery, up, piss, organise, could they not.
I also note, things have become around twice as good since they replaced several staff with a miniature robot warehouse. However, twice as good as flaming awful is still not very good.
I think some of the responses to my rant about people not answering phones have forgotten the topic of the thread. The thing that triggered me was trying to get through to my pharmacy to ascertain whether my prescription had arrived. It’s a local pharmacy, not a mega-Boots. I tried ringing them in excess of 20 times and each time getting a message saying that no one was available to take my call. In the end, I took a punt and walked there, only to find that there were SIX staff milling around and ONE other customer that was just waiting for their meds. Maybe I posted on the wrong thread but I couldn’t find one about being proportionately cross ?
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Not at all, I shall be equally disproportionately cross about the fact that you* have disturbed me, no matter when it is, who you are, or what it's about. How dare you!
* Not you specially.
Mrs F suffered similar problems with our local pharmacy. No answer on the phone, consistently late (the only thing they were consistent with) regularly out of if stock, missing items, and on one occasion some one else's order. Gave up with them late last year and now uses an online pharmacist, perfect record so far.
Over dependence on mobiles - got caught by a technical issue which prevented me from sticking money on mine recently. This was in a country where to access accommodation, get on a bus, pay for certain things requires one. Fortunately being one of the most pleasant places that I have visited, there was always willing help on hand.
More trivially - those wretched QR code menus. They are an utter pain.
I think some of the responses to my rant about people not answering phones have forgotten the topic of the thread. The thing that triggered me was trying to get through to my pharmacy to ascertain whether my prescription had arrived. It’s a local pharmacy, not a mega-Boots. I tried ringing them in excess of 20 times and each time getting a message saying that no one was available to take my call
Your rant was about people not answering mobile phones, not businesses failing to answer landlines.
Over dependence on mobiles – got caught by a technical issue which prevented me from sticking money on mine recently.
You have to "put money" on a phone?
You have to “put money” on a phone?
On some contracts, yes. For example, I am with GiffGaff and have a monthly plan, but some things (such as international calls and texts outside the EU). To access such things, you manually top-up your account and get charged accordingly. I believe you can set it to automatically top-up if you wish.
Although my reaction in this situation was disproportionate, I think it could be considered fairly understandable.
Walking home from work the other evening, as I got to the corner of a street a Deliveroo rider rode around the corner on the narrow path just as I got there and barely missed me. He startled the life out of me and without thinking I reacted with "****ing Hell! Get on the ****ing road! You ****ing ****!" as he rode away (I'm hoping the swear filter does it job properly with that!).
It dawned on me later that as I had my headphones in, what I thought was said at a spoken level was probably shouted pretty loudly.
Although it's bloody annoying when people ride inconsiderately, that reaction is totally out of character for me.
BBC news app sending me notifications that are actually just adverts for their own programs or some irrelevant royal/celebrity update. News app notifications should be saved for proper news. BBC really need to get personalised notification categories switched on.