Stuff that makes you disproportionately cross

Teams chat.

It’s a blessing and a curse.

It’s great in so far as I don’t have to drive halfway across the country for a 15 minute meeting.

But as the saying goes, when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.  At my previous employer, easily 40% of my working week was spent on Teams calls the vast majority of which I didn’t need to be in.  Eg, we’d have 9am breakfast briefings which were mostly the handover from the night shift to teams I wasn’t part of.  Then they’d all piss and moan that they didn’t have enough hours in the day to get their jobs completed.  If they’d sent out update emails rather than dragging half of the company into Teams meetings they could easily have turned 15 hours into 15 minutes for everyone else.

Idiot in the house behind us who replaced his grass with fake plastic grass and who now has to regularly spend Sundays jet washing the stale dog wee off of it.

All day! Hummmm. Hummmmm. Hummmm.

This after they were out for 5 hours the night before leaving their dogs to bark in the garden. Is it possible to hammer frozen sausages into AstroTurf?

The self seal on the Weber bag is so finnicky it takes longer to reseal 🤐 than setting up the bbq, cooking and clearing up after.. .. great idea … rubbish design

Top tip from when i still grilled using charcoal, get one of the snap topped storage boxes (IKEA or Smartstore classic  maybe), then add a strip of the self adhesive door/draft seal to the underside of the lid and pop your charcoal in there. Keeps it dry for months, possibly years.

(I’ve never had it last that long though. I used to get through at least 10 kilos a month.)

800 people post to thank them.

Update:

HR post new meeting date.

400 people post to say they’ve booked on it

400 people post to say they can’t make that day

100 people post a link to a list of dates in a couple of months.

300 people post to thank them and say they’ve booked a date.

100 people moan that this cancelled meeting has been handled very badly.

I post to tell them to quit moaning

It goes quiet.

100 people then message me to thank me for saying that.

JUST **** OFF, the lot of you.

This is what Outlook rules are for.

Shoes – specifically lack of a standard in sizing.

You can’t sell a 1kg jar of jam that contains more, or less, than 1kg. So why are you allowed to sell size 10 shoes that are half a size out? There should be standard sized moulds that every size and width of shoe needs to fit neatly for that shoe to be sold.

About 2 weeks ago, the road contractor had a job to do on the main road outside our house. Basically to shore up, and then re-surface around, half a dozen fire-hydrant access ‘lids’ in the carriageway. 3 of them on the northbound side of the road (1st pic) and 2 of them on the southbound side (2nd pic), all within a few yards of a roundabout. So they, quite correctly, got all the permissions to do this, installed a 4-way set of lights, occasionally supplemented by a man with a red/green board, and about 4 days later, after some shuffling around of the cones and lights etc, all was good.

1st pic – northbound side of road:-

2nd pic – southbound side of the road:-

Only they couldn’t be bothered, for the sake of an extra hour or so, and about 45pence-worth of asphalt, to cleanly cut out and then resurface the latest pothole, which lies in the middle of the carriageway pretty much directly between the two sections that they actually did repair. FFS.

Pic 3 – the remaining pothole, ignored by all and still very much there:-

See if you can guess who spent half of last night listening to the passing traffic falling into THAT? And shaking the footings of our house every time they did so?
A perfect example of a lack of joined-up thinking. So much “Not my job, mate”

Shoes – specifically lack of a standard in sizing.

Clothing generally.

My ex griped like daily, “how is this size 14 bigger than this size 16?” or what have you.  These sizes are meaningless outside of that one product line you’re looking at.

My own personal bugbear was shirts, on what planet is “collar size” a meaningful measurement of anything in isolation?  I’m a skinny runt but I spent my formative years in rock clubs, if I bought shirts based on collar size you could get a ringmaster, two clowns and an elephant inside it.

See if you can guess who spent half of last night listening to the passing traffic falling into THAT? And shaking the footings of our house every time they did so?

I’d be seeking out a councillor at this point.

I had similar, a loose grate that went “crash-crash” every time something drove over it.  I went out to see if I could shore it up somehow but the surrounding road was sodded.  Whilst out frobbing about with it I had a string of neighbours come out to me, “oh, we’ve reported this several times over going back months.”

I got in touch with a local MP – by accident as it happened, he’d seen my whinging on Facebook and reached out to me.  He came out the next day and stood at the roadside for 20 minutes.  He said to me, “how do you cope?” to which I replied “I don’t really, it’s driving me round the twist.”  He put a rocket up the arse of the council, it was fixed inside of 48 hours and I was Local Hero for about ten minutes.

People who think half a dozen = 5.

See if you can guess who spent half of last night listening to the passing traffic falling into THAT? And shaking the footings of our house every time they did so?

Tin of yellow spray paint and decorate the pothole with a massive cock and balls. Council will get to that sharpish.

countless signs saying “MERGE IN TURN”.[/quote]

This and NickC’s post are the two things that boil my piss to the point I want to go on a rampage. I’m unsure if I’m disproportionally cross about it or if my level of anger is correct. Use the **** road how it was designed. Drive to the damn merge point, then you don’t block up other junctions. And FFS filter like a **** zipper. Christ, the amount of **** who won’t make me mildly dismayed (**** livid) about the stupidity of society. I think we can all tell how my journey went this morning!

YouTube Auditors. Like an adult version of the most annoying kid at school

on what planet is “collar size” a meaningful measurement of anything

also on @franksinatra point, size 10 refers to the number of barley-corns. Yes, that’s right shoe dimension in the 21st century is based on that well known length; The Barley-Corn*  Makes collar size practically a normal measurement

*a third of an inch, thanks for asking, or about 8.4mm…

Drivers who think they’re doing others a favour when they try to upend priority on the roads and how there’s so often a massive gap behind them that they’ve now instead filled with their stupid **** headlight morse code and simpering petty anarchy.

My Filthy Fuzz friend who spent several years investigating Crash-For-Cash advised never take up such an offer. If they then run into you you’re on a sticky wicket legally as the HC does not upend priority for that moment.

People who think half a dozen = 5.

Lolwut?  Is this a thing?

countless signs saying “MERGE IN TURN”

This and NickC’s post are the two things that boil my piss to the point I want to go on a rampage.

It will come as little surprise to regular readers that I’ve recently been having this self same argument elsewhere on the Internet.  “But, you’re queue jumping!”  No, you’re making the queue twice as long as it needs to be and causing gridlocked foul-ups half a mile behind us due to some arbitrary rule you’ve just $%^&ing made up.  If we were supposed to merge half a mile back there would have been half a mile’s worth of cones enforcing it, and you’d still be whining about it you utter fin du cloche.

YouTube Auditors. Like an adult version of the most annoying kid at school

There was a thread about this recently.  It went about as well as you could predict but the TL;DR consensus was that yes, they’re all thrush.

YouTube Auditors. Like an adult version of the most annoying kid at school

Nothing adult about them. **** is what they are.

You’re making the queue twice as long as it needs to be and causing gridlocked foul-ups half a mile behind us due to some arbitrary rule you’ve just $%^&ing made up.

I had a conversation with a former colleague about this. He said people driving down and merging where they should were causing traffic hold-ups, and if no one did, there would be no hold-up. This ignored two things. First, two lanes were going into one. It didn’t matter where the merge point was. There would still be two going in one. The second and most critical was traffic lights just past the merge point. The lights caused the hold-ups. Even if everyone drove in his ‘perfect’ way, the lights would still go red. And that’s why Jack from Tupelo, MS, is not cited in driver’s ed!

This after they were out for 5 hours the night before leaving their dogs to bark in the garden. Is it possible to hammer frozen sausages into AstroTurf?

There’s probably a Paslode device that can do that!

I really want to retire to France for a few years but every so often catch a program on TV (diy chateau for example) and every person seems to be a brit and all the people that appear are British and the customers and visitors are British. Puts me right off.

We (the expats from round these parts) have been the saviours of many a small South of France village. The Expats join in and help run things, many of the mayors are grateful for the help and life brought back to dying villages. Besides La France Profond means shut!

People who think half a dozen = 5.

Lolwut? Is this a thing?

It is in one of the posts you commented on earlier on the page! As in –

half a dozen fire-hydrant access ‘lids’ in the carriageway. 3 of them on the northbound side of the road (1st pic) and 2 of them on the southbound side (2nd pic)

Sorry, I was just being frivolous.

Friv away, irrational fury is the point of this thread. 😁

I had a conversation with a former colleague about this.

Well, he’s clearly a plum who was born without a Common Sense Gland.  There’s more of them about than one might initially assume.

People who think half a dozen = 5.

Me, apparently, so it seems. I hadnt even realised the comment was loosely directed at me, was far too subtle for my radar 🤣

Car drivers who complain about potholes.

You never see potholes on a tarmac’d cycle track!

I’ve never quite got my head around the notion that the council will attend to a road to fill in potholes, then cover it with speed bumps.  It’d be quicker, easier, cheaper and almost certainly as effective just to rock up with a can of white paint to draw triangles and make the holes a feature.

Local meadow. Very popular with dog walking enthusiasts, including myself.

Council haven’t emptied it for days(probably because it’s one of those bins they can’t drive the van right next to) but, there’s a bin in either direction at the other ends of the meadow under a minute walk.
Nah… Just pile it on top and all over the ground.

It’s better than hanging the shit bag in a tree next to the path

Local meadow. Very popular with dog walking enthusiasts, including myself

I live in the same town as you. Local social media is full of pictures like this, followed by hundreds of comments blaming the council. It wasn’t the council who dumped that shit there!

At least they’ve bagged it up and attempted to get it in a bin. That’s a much higher standard than a lot of dog owners can manage.

It will come as little surprise to regular readers that I’ve recently been having this self same argument elsewhere on the Internet.

It actually does surprise me that you have time to maintain arguments elsewhere on the internet as well as here.

It actually does surprise me that you have time to maintain arguments elsewhere on the internet as well as here.

It’s easier to maintain arguments elsewhere as the standard of argument is usually lower than this forum.

It’s easier to maintain arguments elsewhere as the standard of argument is usually lower than this forum.

No it isn’t.

That’s not an argument. Argument’s an intellectual process. Contradiction’s just the
automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says.

Doctors who tell previously a fit and able 88 year old lady that her blood sugar is high and now has to prick her finger twice a day and has turned into a worried and scared person who hardly goes out now.

She’s 88 FFS🤬

That’s not an argument. Argument’s an intellectual process. Contradiction’s just the
automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says.

No it’s not.

“Common Sense” makes me mad

“Common sense” is not a thing. Everything is learned. What “common sense” is is a mindset used to sneeringly abuse and other people, and an insidious attack on learning and growth. You might think my anger is appropriate, but after many years of quiet disquiet I now automatically file people who use the phrase in my “ignorant ****s” list.

I was very young when I learned that the people who banged on about common sense all the time were usually unpleasant and worth avoiding.  I am not sure if I ever grew out of it.  I know only too well where it gets you in a mountain navigation context.  It is also a good guide to being parted from your bike and gaining some air time.

“Common sense” is not a thing

Strictly speaking it’s a learned behaviour but those spouting about it tend not to recognise this subtlety.

Lack of learning is what enables the young new worker to cross the yard ignoring the walkways and then get crushed by the loading shovel or the reversing arctic (or any of a host of other dangerous things in a workplace).

Those managers that then blame them for a lack of common sense need it explaining with a 4 by clue that this was their failure to adequtely train and inform the worker.

“get crushed by the loading shovel or the reversing arctic”

If they can’t see a polar region reversing then they deserve to be crushed.

if I bought shirts based on collar size you could get a ringmaster, two clowns and an elephant inside it.

Same, i needed shirts in 3 or 4 sizes depending on if i was being a roadie or an MTBer that year. And where i was in my training cycling. The largest size, which fitted closely round my neck had enough fabric round the waist that it could (almost) wrap around twice.

Thankfully i don’t wear ties (ever) and rarely wear a shirt, so i don’t care anymore.

Lack of learning is what enables the young new worker to cross the yard ignoring the walkways and then get crushed by the loading shovel or the reversing arctic (or any of a host of other dangerous things in a workplace).

Well, up to a point, yes. And almost everything can be classed as “lack of learning” but when people use the term “common sense” it’s usually in cases where, for example, a workplace has marked walkways and large vehicles moving around and the young new worker wanders out into the middle of it all and gets squished instead of looking around, recognising the fairly obvious danger and the marked walkways and working it out for himself.

Granted the term can be (and is) over-used, but sometimes people need to be able to adapt to situations by themselves instead of having it taught to them. And yes, I guess the ability to adapt is learned to some extent, but any adult should be able to do this.

I think there is such a thing as common sense, however as above it’s also an over-used and over-simplified term. Generally when someone does something through a lack of common sense, it’s actually just being thoughtless or a lack of awareness. Everyone’s guilty of this sometimes. Some more than others!