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The term 'banger' to refer to run of the mill generic pop music. It was probably banged out of something, probably someone's ass, and it was more of a dull plop. A more accurate term would be 'plopper'.
I once heard an album described as "all killer no filler."
Because you don’t want to be spammed until the end of time.
There are many ways around this, not least of which is GDPR UK.
Are any of them less hassle than just saying "no" when asked to fill in your email address for an email receipt?
Fopp is the main place I get asked about this and I don't think I need a digital record of my purchases of CDs.
Are any of them less hassle than just saying "no" when asked to fill in your email address for an email receipt?
Perhaps not. But under GDPR UK they're not allowed to pre-tick "please sign me up to your shit" boxes. Of course, whether they abide by that is another matter.
For sites I'm only ever going to visit once and have a "we'll email you the download link" policy, I have a throwaway email address. I only ever log into it for this reason and it's got tens of thousands of spam emails.
For sites which require an email address for no valid reason, I pity the fool who really owns a@a.com.
Dangerous stuff, my mate died from an overdose. His headstone had the prescription "Gav is Gone"
🤣
I did wonder why Gaviscon was security tagged at all. I couldn't see that there'd be a black market, some random bloke in a pub sidling up to you going "psst, want to buy some antacid?" Turns out it's popular with the druggies, it has something to do with the uptake of drugs, increases the potency of heroin or coke or something.
The term 'banger' to refer to run of the mill generic pop music
See also DJs referring to bands as "the mighty x", where x might as well be the local primary school violin class.
See also DJs referring to bands as "the mighty x", where x might as well be the local primary school violin class.
Yes, absolutely Sinful, unless of course they're telling The Story Of The Blues.
Why do all gardening books and TV programs show little old ladies or celebrities pottering around with snips deadheading the odd daff or gently repotting a geranium whilst stroking a cat and drinking a coffee....why do they not show the reality which is lugging 100 wheelbarrows of earth, fighting with brambles inches thick, balancing on a wobbly ladder to trim stupid massive hedges, removing stubborn bindweed, getting cut to ribbons by rose bushes, trying to force way too much foliage into a laughably small wheely bin which you pay extra for and stands empty most of the year but use about 3 times in spring.....
I am using this laptop pottering in the front bedroom "office". When I came into the room I put the window on the latch as there was too much breeze coming through with it open.
MrsMC has just wandered in to ask me to do a job for her later, opened the window, and then went downstairs again. I asked her to come back up and put the window back how I had positioned it for my comfort while I am the sole occupant of the room and apparently I am the bad guy.
Messy wasps.
Wasps.
Actually, I'll expand on that.
The Girl is scared to death of wasps. So when one appears somewhere in the same time zone she'll start panicking and flailing her arms about at it, at which point the wasp gives out the "send reinforcements, I'm under attack" signal and then suddenly there's a dozen of the stripy bastards buzzing angrily about.
Grazed my leg and it's got a bit manky. Not a problem, sluiced it out in the bath and I know for a fact that there's two boxes of hydrocolloid dressings in the first aid crate. And there is... both of which are empty boxes. 🤷♂️
Cue a mad dash to Tesco with a weeping leg before they shut for bank holiday (Tesco, not my legs).
You know the routine. Wire brush and Dettol....
Just get it ahead of those other dirty bastards.
Because it's such a good username, especially in comparison to my dull as ditch water .. .. 😖
Sinuses. AIUI they're just holes in your skull to make it a bit lighter, so why did we evolve a mechanism to fill them with the stickiest mankiest snot that the body can produce? I'd trade a heavier skull & a thicker neck for the joy of never having crappy sinuses ever again.
See also decongestants. The name would imply that they are capable of tackling the aforementioned manky sticky snot, so why have I been completely crammed full of the stuff for the last week?
The Powersheds advert with "here's to all the mountain bike hoarders" with a pic of a wall of road bikes.
Sinuses.
I can relate to that. I spent a night in hospital having had mine scraped out with a spoon. The procedure wasn't enough to require a night stay, but they wouldn't let me home until I could pee. That made me very cross. Disproportionate? Maybe. Having a stranger shove a tube up your todger can affect your perspective.
Imagine what its like doing the tube shoving🤣
Cross, but with a happy ending...
Went down into the basement to rummage for something and could hear a subtle noise that sounded like an electrical cracking/buzzing.. couldn't narrow down where it was comming from.
Ear to the strip light, the electric meter, chest freezer, pipe work etc. and couldn't pin down where it was coming from.
I could feel my stress levels rising until the penny dropped...
The noise was the sound of the bubbles popping in the freshly poured pint of lemonade I was holding, the lack of ambient sound down there made it sound quite loud.
Epic fail. 🙃
Having read the post above I've now got a hankering for a pint of freshly poured lemonade and am disproportionally cross that I have none and the shops are shut.
Tailgating by HGVs. It says 40 on the gantry, I'm doing 44 on my speedometer. Overtake if you want, I don't care, just don't sit on my bumper flashing your lights. It makes me rage.
See also: HGV drivers straddling two lanes in the run-up to roadworks because of a moronic sense of both their own self-importance and how traffic should queue.
Maybe. Having a stranger shove a tube up your todger can affect your perspective.
You have sinuses up your todger?
See also: HGV drivers straddling two lanes in the run-up to roadworks because of a moronic sense of both their own self-importance and how traffic should queue.
I have a fond memory of owning a Triumph GT6 that was so narrow that when a lorry tried to do that to me there was still space for me to go around him. I like to think the driver was disproportionally cross about that.
You have sinuses up your todger?
I'm not the only one wondering about that!
Had to reread DrJ's post several times, trying to work out how on earth someone managed to scrape out his sinuses with a spoon via a tube through the todger. I think I'd be disproportionately cross after that.
You have sinuses up your todger?
I'm not the only one wondering about that!
Had to reread DrJ's post several times, trying to work out how on earth someone managed to scrape out his sinuses with a spoon via a tube through the todger. I think I'd be disproportionately cross after that.
And disproportionately cross-eyed too!
Massive self-important ends of bells that push their way past everyone who patiently takes their turn into roadwork lane closures so they can barge in just at the end and make everyone else who isn't an R-sole and is being courteous add more time to their journey and then have the audacity to complain when people in lorries try to help them not spend their whole lives as dicks.
Had to reread DrJ's post several times, trying to work out how on earth someone managed to scrape out his sinuses with a spoon via a tube through the todger. I think I'd be disproportionately cross after that.
That’s odd. I feel sure I wrote something about being unable to pee. Maybe tj will explain it to you. I’m trying to blot out the memory.
People who when entering the average speed controlled section of the motorway feel that the 50mph isn't marked by where the signs are, rather it only actually starts where the first camera is about 400m further on. More specifically, those that when I slow down in a controlled way so when I reach the signs I'm going at 50mph, feel the need to tailgate me with full beam and horn to express their displeasure. More specifically, those that do it when there's a whole lane next to me where they could overtake me if they feel that the 5s or so* they would save by maintaining their 70-odd mph for the 400m before dropping anchors is vital.
* Also, detail pedants that have to calculate the 5s above rather than just go with a quick guesstimate. It's 5.14s to be strictly accurate.
People who do not understand the "zipper merge" thus creating longer delays and tailbacks 🙂
Zipper merging works if everyone cooperates for the greater good. Not gonna happen in the UK.
People who always try to push this zipper merge thing which we all know is simply an attempt to justify their 'making progress' road dickery approach.
People who always try to push this zipper merge thing which we all know is simply an attempt to justify their 'making progress' road dickery approach.
People who can't follow advice in the Highway Code or from the Police....
Arriving 5 minutes early at the station to find the train (unusually to be fair) is running 6 minutes late.
People who always try to push this zipper merge thing which we all know is simply an attempt to justify their 'making progress' road dickery approach.
Lols
People who bang on about the Highway code which we all know is deeply related to actual reality on the roads. 😊👍
* Also, detail pedants that have to calculate the 5s above rather than just go with a quick guesstimate. It's 5.14s to be strictly accurate.
Peeve: That I had to do the calculation and consider the assumptions, rather than just go with what @theotherjonv said.
When boarding a busy commuter train and the passenger in front of you can't decide where to sit and so stands there blocking the aisle, swivelling left and right like a ****ed robot, as the carriage steadily fills up from the other end.
When boarding a busy tube train & the people in front stop just beyond the doors, oh just move down the aisle will you or that isn't within your capability at least stop blocking the ****ing doors.
That’s odd. I feel sure I wrote something about being unable to pee. Maybe tj will explain it to you. I’m trying to blot out the memory.
Yes, being unable to pee because of blocked sinuses or something... it was very late at night I was overtired and unwell so brain wasn't up to understanding much, hence the confusion and bad reading 🙃
People who bang on about the Highway code which we all know is deeply related to actual reality on the roads
The point is that if everyone did follow the Highway Code, the roads would be a much nicer place and with more efficient driving leading to less congestion and lower fuel consumption.
Perhaps some people would need to drive a little slower, which leads me to my next point: that it's somewhat ironic to complain of someone overtaking you due to 'making progress' when the only real reason for complaining is that they're now in front of you, therefore marginally impeding your own progress 😜
I once heard an album described as "all killer no filler."
Was it the album 'All Killer No Filler' by Sum41 perchance?
Speaking of Highway Code, this reminds me of another thing - dunno about cross but I get disproportionately flabbergasted at the amount of people who seem to find it difficult to drive and tell the time at the same time. There are lots of bus lanes around here that are only active during busy times (mon-fri, 7-10am & 4-7pm) with plenty of repeater signs along their length, and they're almost always empty at any time of day. It's weird to see all the cars swerve into the second lane when the bus lanes start, at 2pm or something.
Driving home from B&Q on a lunchtime or Sunday always amuses me, pootling up Cheetham Hill Road at a steady speed*, merrily undertaking the long queue of traffic sitting pointlessly in the middle lane 🙄
I can understand this happening sometimes, it's the fact that it's just so common which is what amazes me.
*(yes yes, only when safe, clear visibility, etc)
People who always try to push this zipper merge thing which we all know is simply an attempt to justify their 'making progress' road dickery approach.
it's literally what you're supposed to do.
See solid white line and bus lane, avoid it. Sit in traffic for a bit, read the time restrictions, pull across to part time bus lane, which then ends with a full time bus lane, rejoin original lane.
Speaking of Highway Code, this reminds me of another thing - dunno about cross but I get disproportionately flabbergasted at the amount of people who seem to find it difficult to drive and tell the time at the same time. There are lots of bus lanes around here that are only active during busy times (mon-fri, 7-10am & 4-7pm) with plenty of repeater signs along their length, and they're almost always empty at any time of day. It's weird to see all the cars swerve into the second lane when the bus lanes start, at 2pm or something.
As for Zipper merging, there is often a sign too! Use both lanes when queuing, merge in turn etc.
Wait in a long single line and you increase the length of the queue and risk blocking roads further back unnecessarily.
People who always try to push this zipper merge thing which we all know is simply an attempt to justify their 'making progress' road dickery approach.
Now that I'm back at a real keyboard,
Two lanes going to different places, flying down the empty one and carving in at the last minute (unless you're genuinely lost and screwed up) is a total dick move.
Two lanes going to the same place where they merge into one, flying down the empty one and carving in at the last minute is totally fair game because that is what the road is there for. If you were supposed to merge half a mile back, it would have been coned off half a mile back. Leaving unused space is achieving nothing other than increasing the length of the queue, potentially causing wholly avoidable issues back down the line. Well done to anyone who's the type to create a rolling roadblock, they might just have gridlocked a roundabout a mile behind them.
To be fair, this is the 'disproportionately' cross thread, so it qualifies. 😉
And what the chuff is going on with this website? lol
I think it's forcing everyone into one lane...or something?
Anyway i'm struggling to get past an email i've received on a Class Action. At the top it says:
"Confidential and subject to legal professional priviledge"
How am I supposed to trust a legal firm that can't spell!
How am I supposed to trust a legal firm that can't spell!
Plot twist - you don't.
Phishing emails are worded badly for a reason - if anyones dumb enough to reply to it then they know they have found a victim ripe for further fun.
On the off chance it's legit, and an actual typo, then they have serious problems with quality control and you'd have to question how competent they are as a legal firm.
It's definitely legit. It's related to a pension fund class action that i'm registered with... and it's a very big legal firm that specialises in these things. It's not just a typo in the text, either, but within an embedded image (which in my mind means it should have been reviewed even more closely!)
Anyway, we've 'won' $67m ..."This amount includes legal costs and represents a full and final resolution of the claims brought by the applicant and group members." I anticipate my cut will be tiny.
I watched an Ep of Ancient Apocalypse on Netflix, it's obviously stupid - I note here the inclusion of Keanu Reeves as [presumably] willing patsy, but I don't understand* why an organisation like Netflix would promote such obvious bullshit in an environment like we experience today where trust in orthodoxy and science is failing and sliding away. It's at best irresponsible, at worst deceitful. It would maybe be OK if it was labelled as fiction, or pseudoscience, but they promote it as if it's an actual alternate view of ancient history. What next? Sovereign Citizens and the Law? The Truther guide to Architecture?
*well, I do, but you know what I mean.
Desserts! Or shall we call them sticky stuff in tubs? Why are they so damn small? What is the point in something tasty that fits in a sherry glass. Surely that Milky Bar mousse thing I ate last night should be in a 2 litre ice cream tub at least. 500 ml of honey yoghurt FFS. That's a small portion not a family pack. Where is the fun in a fun sized Mars bar or a mini Magnum ice cream? Same actually with pork scratchings. Over 40 years ago I had to wait for a train at some station in Brum and downstairs was an indoor market. A stall was flogging pork scratching from big black dustbins. I bought a carrier bag full for a few pence. By god I was thirsty by the time I got to Gloucester!
Driving home from B&Q on a lunchtime or Sunday always amuses me, pootling up Cheetham Hill Road at a steady speed*, merrily undertaking the long queue of traffic sitting pointlessly in the middle lane 🙄
I can understand this happening sometimes, it's the fact that it's just so common which is what amazes me.
*(yes yes, only when safe, clear visibility, etc)
People qualifying statements so as to avoid starting an argument.
I mean, WTF, this is STW, are you new here? [/rant]
are you new here?
No, which is why I know what to expect 😀
...and yes, I did suspect someone would jump on that anyway for some reason 🤣
When you're introduced to someone and you go to shake their hand, but they do that macho 90⁰ to the handshake hand-grabby shoulder bump bullshit. Clowns.
On that note: serial huggers. It's the first time I've ever met you and I'm Aspie, get off me and get out of my space. Hugs are reserved for close friends.
As for macho handshakes, it's a handshake not a "who can squeeze the hardest" competition.
On the other hand (ha), damp limp fish handshakes are just as annoying.
Reach out to shake and you just manage to grab their floppy fingers, which hang there and slip out of your hand like all their arm muscles just failed. Ugh.
Forum members who you've always thought to be pretty sound posting something that is just 100% dead wrong.
Forum members who you've always thought to be pretty sound posting something that is just 100% dead wrong.
"How to instantly make everyone reading very nervous" 🤣
Same actually with pork scratchings. Over 40 years ago I had to wait for a train at some station in Brum and downstairs was an indoor market. A stall was flogging pork scratching from big black dustbins. I bought a carrier bag full for a few pence. By god I was thirsty by the time I got to Gloucester!
My Nan used to have a pub, one day i went with her to the Cash & Carry and persuaded her to let me have a whole bar card of Pork Scratchings. Like, 48 packets of them.
I'm probably still disproportionately cross I didn't manage to make them last more than a couple of days.
Forum members who you've always thought to be pretty sound posting something that is just 100% dead wrong. but turn out to have dead fish floppy handshakes.
Now that I'm back at a real keyboard,
Two lanes going to different places, flying down the empty one and carving in at the last minute (unless you're genuinely lost and screwed up) is a total dick move.
Two lanes going to the same place where they merge into one, flying down the empty one and carving in at the last minute is totally fair game because that is what the road is there for. If you were supposed to merge half a mile back, it would have been coned off half a mile back. Leaving unused space is achieving nothing other than increasing the length of the queue, potentially causing wholly avoidable issues back down the line. Well done to anyone who's the type to create a rolling roadblock, they might just have gridlocked a roundabout a mile behind them.
And also...
Forum members who you've always thought to be pretty sound posting something that is just 100% dead wrong.
Yeah, I'm thinking this is possibly about my comments. If not then I'll write a bit more anyway
Reading it back(original rant done while I'm trying to get ready to leave for work so possibly wasn't thinking things through fully) it comes across as a bit strong and binary in my view, so I apologise for that. I don't mean to be so black and white.
I think there are lots of different situations on the road and of course 'zipper merging' is what SHOULD happen in a lane closure type situation and not doing it does increase the length of the tailback obviously but I guess that I see so many situations where what people are doing is clearly not zipper merging, it's just blatantly pushing in aggressively. Relatively short queues and as Cougar says, lanes not going to the same place, and then people firing up the other lane and forcing in right at the end.
It's stuff you see every day unnecessarily increasing tension on the roads and the injustice of people being total dicks and being free to do so.
Anyway, late for work again. Never enough time to read things properly on here anymore, so yeah, apologies if I was a wrongun. I got drawn in, in a rush and a grump 😊👍
Anyway, late for work again. Never enough time to read things properly on here anymore, so yeah, apologies if I was a wrongun. I got drawn in, in a rush and a grump 😊👍
Here's a tip ... take the moto and lane filter all the way 🤩
(only kidding)
Beetroot juice. I quite like it and know it supposedly has health benefits, but I don't drink it all that often. So I forget on my subsequent bathroom visit that alarm, panic and a 999 call due to a suspected massive internal haemorrhage is not actually required.
The (dinner plate sized) info screen in the new Mini*.
FFS, minimalist dashboard my Rss , there is no need for that monstrosity, no need at all.
*not my car
I watched an Ep of Ancient Apocalypse on Netflix
My work teammate, who I get on well with, recommended this to me as I, apparently, like "high brow stuff" (I think this is because I watch University Challenge and not Love Island)
A quick Google of it made it obvious that it was complete horseshit, so that's what I told him. "Well yeah", he says "but he makes some interesting arguments". Sigh.
Here's a tip ... take the moto and lane filter all the way 🤩
Motorcycle riders who don't filter when there is plenty of space to do so....... just get off that flipping bike and let me ride it you useless posing ****
Relatively short queues and as Cougar says, lanes not going to the same place, and then people firing up the other lane and forcing in right at the end.
The road into Colne from the M65 is notorious for this (look up Vivary Way on Google Street View). It's a two-lane dual carriageway, the left is straight on and is permanently rammed even off-peak, the right is right turn only and goes to a Mini dealership or something about three people want to visit. After the lights it's single lane so you can't go straight on unless you either push into the left lane or boot it to get the drop on the vehicle to your left when the lights change. The number of vehicles pulling this stunt got so endemic that the two lanes are now separated with bollards.
There's a pre-bollards video on YouTube somewhere of two high-performance cars at the lights. The lights changed, the one taking the piss stood on the loud pedal, the one in the correct lane presumably thought "I'm not having that" and did likewise, they both ended up what looked like a very large repair bill. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Motorcycle riders who don't filter when there is plenty of space to do so....... just get off that flipping bike and let me ride it you useless posing ****
Speaking as a former motorbike rider,
Filtering isn't mandatory and can be difficult to get right. One filtered past me the other day in a "four narrow lanes" part of (I think) the M6. Traffic was slow-moving and he came past at pace, I didn't see him until he was right behind me. If I'd had an extra coat of paint on my door mirror he would have clipped it.
But yeah, I agree, if there's plenty of space then why not use it.
People who paste reams of ChatGP/CoPilot output into threads. I really don't understand why people thing this is helpful as anyone can access that info. It's a useful as Googling something and pasting in a screen shot of the results.
IIRC you can fail your motorbike test for not filtering when safe to do so
The BikeSafe courses run by police motorcyclists certainly encourage filtering when safe to do so.
I nearly always filter when there's opportunity, but occasionally I don't. Even though I'm advanced trained with 25 years of riding experience, it requires eyes on stalks and even more concentration than normal riding. So sometimes I just cba and am happy to chill and take slightly longer to get where I'm going. Especially when I've got my wife on pillion and am fully loaded with panniers and top box. I'm not a courier or commuting, I'm retired and riding for fun, so getting to my destination a few seconds or minutes earlier isn't always my top priority. Stressed out throbbers who can't mind their own business and take exception to this, can **** right off! 😉
You tell me if this is disproportionate
Son had private procedure at a <name-brand> hospital about 6mo ago. Received bill from surgeon, anaesthetist, etc. which was paid. He also had a meal after the surgery, and breakfast the next day, wife had a cup of tea and a cake in the evening while visiting - obvs it was an extortionate sum for what they had but <1% of the total, however this has to be paid direct to the hospital. When he was discharged, no-one was able to take a CC payment, so they said they'd send the bill to my email. Which they did a few days later.
I paid bill through their online portal and emailed them back, referencing the payment request number and the payment transaction.
Last week he (not me) got a letter saying that he hadn't paid the bill and if they didn't have payment in 5 days they would pass to debt collection.
I called them but because the account is in my son's name they wouldn't talk to me. He emailed them explaining it had been paid, forwarded email, etc., and gave me permission to speak to them on his behalf, as per their suggestion. Last part of the email - please confirm by return that payment has been made.
Nothing.
I called them yesterday and they wouldn't speak to me because...... after much back and forward the credit person agreed yes, they could talk to me but they couldn't trace the payment being made, can I provide more details. After actually reading the full email, they then confirmed yes, they do have the details they need, but as it was by now late afternoon and the cash office needs to trace the payment, someone would call me today.
By mid afternoon, nothing. So I call again, again have to explain that I don't need the boy to confirm OK to talk to me, etc. And now it seems the cash office can see the payment in, but can't see where it has been allocated to but it's not this account that's where there's still a sum outstanding. By now, I may be 'disproportionately cross' and point out very politely if they bought something from me and gave me a tenner - if i came home and then binned it, or shredded it in the washing machine, or put it in a drawer and now can't remember where...... that's on me, not on them to send me another tenner because I'm a ****.
I've been promised a call back tomorrow.
And I've also been told that if we get a letter saying that it's been passed to debt collection because we haven't paid within 5wd, to just ignore it. What faith do I have in that do you think.....
And I've also been told that if we get a letter saying that it's been passed to debt collection because we haven't paid within 5wd, to just ignore it. What faith do I have in that do you think.....
Do nothing... let them pass it to debt collection and then ignore them, too.
Hopefully you (your son) will eventually get a court summons.
You then request to the court they throw the case out, citing your evidence the debt is paid, and your evidence that you have already told them it's paid, and them admitting they have the money.
It's the only way they learn.
This isn't my first rodeo either. Here's a slightly amended excerpt from a letter I sent to a debt collection agency who were chasing a non-existent debt.
The Office of Fair Trading Debt Collection Guidance states that in not ceasing collection activity whilst investigating a reasonably queried or disputed debt you are using deceptive and/or unfair methods.
Furthermore, ignoring and/or disregarding claims that debts have been settled or are disputed and continuing to make unjustified demands for payment amounts to physical/psychological harassment.
I found out today I have two identical health insurance policies. I'm not sure how it happened, but I'm certain it's my idiocy. Now I have to try to get the insurance company to refund me one set of premiums. I imagine my chances of success will be limited. But I'm going to try, obviously.
Found out last week that MrsMC and I both have a family membership of the Camping and Caravan Club. Both thought it was the other one. Both thought the other one was cancelling it.
Not camped for a couple of years now....