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The LLPG will contain a unique number for a property but it’s not something you’d use on an envelope or add to your Amazon account.We have them over here, only really need them for things like planning permission, plot dimensions, addition of services etc. They are all completely unique across the country. Street names and house numbers aren't. (Postcodes are, but cover a large area).
So there is only one "Mert 6:28" in the entirety of Sweden. There are 9 houses with my street name and number, there are 1100 houses in my postcode. So you need a lot of detail to identify the house. The short code is easy to check, easy to read and unique.
"Heritage" style brass door knobs that use a grub screw. I've got to go and find an Allen key now; Allen keys didn't exist in Victorian times, FFS!Errrrrrr, the first recessed head screws were invented in the 1850s...
The woman in the car park at a beautiful beach in South Wales (hot weather) in a flashy Merc with the engine running constantly while she just sat there, and sat there, and sat there.
Luckily I was able to restrain myself from smashing her car to bits with a rock and just left instead. 👍
The woman in the car park at a beautiful beach in South Wales (hot weather) in a flashy Merc with the engine running constantly while she just sat there, and sat there, and sat there.
Luckily I was able to restrain myself from smashing her car to bits with a rock and just left instead.
Yeah, it seems to be a popular pastime - folk sat in cars, engine running, tapping away on their phones. Turn the bloody thing off!
Flags. ****ing stupid flags appearing everywhere. And the knobs that put them there. "I hate foreigners. That's why I bought a flag made in China innit blud"
Boxes that get upset if you leave a trailing space in the field you type.
"That is not a correct email address" . I haven't finished typing it yet you stupid arsing whateveryouare!!
Oh, and people who call the police "cops". It's one of those Americanisms that just sound wrong in an English accent. See also "asshole", "goddamn" and "butt".
It's like when Americans use the word "pub". I don't know why, but it never sounds right.
Etymology of copper/cop:
"The term "cop" for a police officer derives from the older slang term "copper," meaning "one who captures" or "arrests". This slang for "to seize" came from the Latin verb capere, via the Old French caper. "Copper" for policeman appeared in 1846, followed by the shortened form "cop".
The number of people driving on motorways in lanes 2 and three thinking they have no obligation to pull left into lane 1, even when it's clear for long distances. Especially pronounced on 4 lane sections. This is not the USA. This is not a highway. Pull the **** over and help everyone get the free flowing capacity we've all paid billions in tax for.
Especially annoying when an extra lane has been added at huge expense and with great disruption, only for 90% of people to use exclusively lanes 3 and 4, and leave two empty lanes. I had this misfortune to need to drive south of Lancaster on the M6, against all my principles, at the weekend, so became refamiliarised with this.
Thing with the USA is, in my experience, the system there is "drive in whatever lane you like, and try another one if you want to go faster"... And I find it much more relaxing.
It's annoying in Australia as well. I think the novelty of additional lanes means people avoid the left-hand lane! I think some people think that by driving in the middle lane there's more time to spot animals hurling themselves into the road.
A recent Shimano XT front mech has irritated me today. Fitted it fine but then needed to adjust the high and low limit positions. With a screwdriver? Oh no, it's a 2mm Allen key now, apparently. Who thought a tiny grub screw-a-like gubbins with a 2mm socket was a good idea. Grrrr
MrsJ announcing "the vacuum cleaner's knackered".
No it isn't. The battery may have run out. Especially if you didn't put it back in the charging bracket last time you used it. The dust bin thing may be full and need emptying. A simple task requiring no strength or skill. Or possibly the filter is clogged, requiring replacing it with a clean one from the cupboard, or as a quick fix just banging the old one on the side of the kitchen waste bin. None of these things are outwith the set of stuff she is able to do. But it's easier to yell at me.
Why do celebrities never do anything? I mean they have all the money and all the time yet you never see them doing any real hobbies or anything that remotely requires dedication and skill or anything that makes you think wow that looks like it would be amazing. Shopping, Bobbing around on a Jetski or buying an expensive car every few months and parking it outside a Mayfair restaurant doesn't count....This makes me dis proportionally cross because if I had all the time and all the money I'd definitely run out of time and money before I ran out of interesting things to do!
Why do celebrities never do anything? I mean they have all the money and all the time yet you never see them doing any real hobbies or anything that remotely requires dedication and skill or anything that makes you think wow that looks like it would be amazing. Shopping, Bobbing around on a Jetski or buying an expensive car every few months and parking it outside a Mayfair restaurant doesn't count....This makes me dis proportionally cross because if I had all the time and all the money I'd definitely run out of time and money before I ran out of interesting things to do!
Probably because the celebrities who do have hobbies or skills are not the attention seeking dickheads the media love to portray. I believe a certain metal band frontman has recently medalled at the World Fencing Champs in his age group.
Anyway, I grabbed this mornings washing in off the line as it had dried just before it started raining. Despite the rain, and the forecast of more rain this afternoon, MrsMC has put another load of washing on, I shouldn't worry about whether it gets dry.
Pistachios are my favourite nuts but why can't they be shelled like peanuts
The fact you always get the ones still closed up tight with just enough slit for a Stanley blade to prise open carefully not to gash your thumb
After vanilla it has to be the best ice-cream flavour
As if people on here don't know what an XT front mech is. Unless the senility is kicking in.
As if people on here don't know what an XT front mech is. Unless the senility is kicking in.
Only us old folk remember front shifting
Holiday accommodation with 3/4 size dishwashers.
I believe a certain metal band frontman has recently medalled at the World Fencing Champs in his age group.
He's also a qualified pilot and a semi-successful author.
Though, "medalled" makes me disproportionately cross.
Hidden price tags on clothing.
Why can't all price tags on Tshirts, jumpers and jackets etc be attached in a way they can be easily seen? I seem to increasingly have to feel like James Herriot and shove my hand deeper into the insides of clothing just to see how much they cost. Is it because shops are getting more embarrassed at how much they are trying to charge for them.
I enjoy social media, I enjoy watching people do rad shit on bikes. But, there's one guy that insists on doing rad shit on a gravel bike, wearing lycra. Just stop it! Ride the right ****ing bike and wear ****ing baggies. FFS. He's a good rider, but just chooses the wrong ****ing bike every ****ing time!!!!
DC: Web sites which insist that you use their app instead, only for the app to be a front-end wrapper for the web page you were just sent away from.
Les Gets this weekend. The commentary
I know it's a tough job, I know you can't please everyone but the constant re-stating of the venue name is as irritating AF> Araxa Brazil, Par Arinsal Andorra, Les Gets Haute Savoie... we know where the programme is coming from FFS.. and multiple references to MVP this weekend all race long.....
Oh I miss Rob W.
FedEx Express. The Ex in FedEx stands for express. How can you have express express?
FedEx’s scheduled delivery times. Or should I say wild guess period? Always pushed back just before they expire; they’re an absolute shower. In comparison, DPD text me a one hour window for deliveries (and even the driver’s name) and they’ve not yet failed to achieve it. The Royal Mail are equally good with a two-hour slot, so it’s not impossible or unusual.
I recently bought a Windows 11 PC having used Ubuntu at home for years. The amount of distracting clutter - current weather conditions (I have actual windows), stock market prices, news that I'd rather avoid - I had to disable was insane. And it's still there, I just logged in and it was trying to get me to do a quiz about the news... **** off!! I can distract myself if I really want to, I don't need help.
And mentions their PIN number.
I have ranted about it before, but here we go again. Buying fruit does not make you healthy. Eating the ^&*$ing fruit, rather than leaving it to become inedible then throwing it away is generally considered better for you. Ohh, then you add a bunch more fruit to the shop because you 'want to eat more healthily'. So $%@£ing wasteful.
Ah yes, the Gym Membership model.
Siblings. My sister is 4 years younger than me, doesn't work, is overweight suffers from malnutrition, has had a stroke, is on statins and in two weeks her car has gone from clean to the footwells full of sweet treat packaging.
When asked she's claims to be losing weight and eating better. This is not helpful to my aging parents who's health is starting to fail.
"Sorting out" the recycling bins and doing it badly so that it takes twice as long to properly sort out.
I now have to take random bits of wood and costume jewellery out of the finite space to get to the cans that haven't been crushed and the individual pots with lids on so that we can get more than a day's worth in there.
Crush the cans, stack the similar sized empty pots and chuck the lids in separately. Make a tip-trip pile out of the stuff that isn't mentioned on the handily annotated bags. Simple 🙂
Errrrrrr, the first recessed head screws were invented in the 1850s...
Probably, although William G. Allen-Hex-Keye wasn't born until 1881, well into the Victorian-era, and didn't graduate from uni until 1904 (in the Edwardian-era)
In comparison, DPD text me a one hour window for deliveries (and even the driver’s name) and they’ve not yet failed to achieve it
For balance, DPD are shite round my way. I reckon one in four or so deliveries don't make it on the alloted day. "That's OK", you think, "they'll bring it tomorrow" but no, instead they mark it as delivered then lose it for up to a week before it magically appears back at the sender. I've even tried getting them to deliver to a local post office but exactly the same thing happened with that one (and the staff said it's pretty common).
If I get any clue that a purchase will be sent DPD I'll generally start looking for alternative couriers as part of the sale or else look at other sellers
Holiday accommodation with 3/4 size dishwashers
If you need a full size dishwasher on holiday you are holidaying wrong!! 😜
Procrastinating for a year and a half about tightening a hard-to-reach tap fitting under a sink and eventually buying a special tool, which turns out to not work (once the packaging has been opened), only to find out that an 11mm deep socket that was in the shed the whole time does the job perfectly.
It's me i'm cross with. But really I should be cross with the plumber that didn't do his job properly in the first place.
Contract renewals - broadband this time.
Current term coming to an end, Plusnets 'special offer' is
Flying, crawling things
You've got the entire fkn planet to fly and crawl on, what's so special about my shins and arms? It's not even like I'm drinking anything with sugar in it. Bugger off.
Probably because the celebrities who do have hobbies or skills are not the attention seeking dickheads the media love to portray. I believe a certain metal band frontman has recently medalled at the World Fencing Champs in his age group.I used to do model trains as a kid and when googling about getting a new set a few years ago i found that Rod Stewart, Pete Waterman, Neil Young, Frank Sinatra, Daltrey, Springsteen, Clapton, Phil Collins, Ringo Starr and a few others are/were all *well* into it. Some even doing their own modelling rather than buying and playing.
I'll probably google again this week, wince at the prices and then not do anything...
Now, remembering the title of this thread.
Threads with a title such as, Anyone ridden a bike, Anyone gone on holiday, Anyone read a book.
I manage not to reply with, "Aye probably a few million people at least", just.
Surely, "looking for advice on....."
Sorry, but it just rips ma knittin'.
Names on Coke cans.
Enough now.
Unnecessary road features -
White lines painted on roundabouts or whathaveyou suggesting that the area is not for use when it's obviously somewhere that should be used.
Those fences on the central reservation coming up to roundabouts that block the sight line of oncoming traffic. Forcing you to an almost standstill and increasing journey times, wear and tear and pollution from slowing down/speeding up.
Both seen (kind of) at the newish Innsworth roundabout on the A40 east of Gloucester.
Multipack confectionary being smaller than their single purchase equivalents.
Coffee / pasta / rice packets that rip vertically, dumping their contents all over the floor.
Unnecessary road features -
Those fences on the central reservation coming up to roundabouts that block the sight line of oncoming traffic. Forcing you to an almost standstill and increasing journey times, wear and tear and pollution from slowing down/speeding up.
Is this not quite deliberate and aimed at avoiding the 'A Pillar' blind spot issue where a motorist can not actually see a cyclist / motorbike who is moving at a speed where they are continuously in that blind spot? Forcing the motorist to slow right down then brings the cyclist / motorbike into view.
So yes, somewhat annoying but actually safer for you as a cyclist.
Those fences on the central reservation coming up to roundabouts that block the sight line of oncoming traffic. Forcing you to an almost standstill and increasing journey times
username checks out 😉
and as above - I think they are put there deliberately to make you slow/stop, rather than a quick side glance & gun it.
Those fences on the central reservation coming up to roundabouts that block the sight line of oncoming traffic.
The sign on the exit from McDonalds between Otley and Ilkley that reminds you to look out for traffic whilst the very same sign completely blocking the view of oncoming traffic as soon as you stop at the give way line. Unfortunately it's too new to be on streetview to grab an image.
If you know you know. Well I don't know wtf is it?
I propose this:
IYSKBCR - if you should know but can't remember <memory prompt here>.
nb thanks Couger for inspiration 😉 I shall do reverse image search shortly...
Bummer stickers that claim the driver is a wolf or lion among sheep. Especially when seen with church and/or dementia don related stickers.
Multipack confectionary being smaller than their single purchase equivalents.
Ah yes, "fun size." Who has fun with a Mars bar? The only application I can think of here would necessitate a regular sized one at least.
So yes, somewhat annoying but actually safer for you as a cyclist.
In XKCD fashion, "there's a Tom Scott video about this."
(There's also a follow-up video from after they fixed it.)
The buttons disappearing from the bottom of the page that took you back to Overview.
Anyone from Apple standing up and saying "it's our best/thinnest/lightest thing ever" You're unlikely to release something that's worse than the previous thing or "new Apple thing it's a bit meh".
Local news talking about a car "breaking the 200 mph barrier". What barrier is that then? The speed of sound is a barrier because of physics and shock waves but 200 mph is just a number on a speedo, there's no actual "barrier". Is there another barrier at 201mph or 250 or 273.6?
See also lazy reporting about many other barriers eg stock market prices, football transfer fees etc etc etc
Anyone from Apple standing up and saying "it's our best/thinnest/lightest thing ever" You're unlikely to release something that's worse than the previous thing or "new iPhone it's a bit meh".
Apple has been dining out for years on:
Today: "This new thing is exactly what you already have, only bigger!" - "yay, fantastic, that's just what we wanted!!"
Tomorrow: "This new thing is exactly what you already have, only smaller!" - "yay, fantastic, that's just what we wanted!!"
25 years later, people are still dropping a grand every other year on an iPod that can make phone calls. It's not just aluminium, it's battleship aluminium, they make rockets in this colour of grey don't you know. Granted both phones and nukes are equally ****ed if you drop them four feet, but that's what aftermarket Peppa Pig cases are for.
Other people's dishwashers, currently staying in a holiday cottage and it's impossible to keep glasses from falling over. The cereal bowls won't stack next to each other and the cutlery box is far too big. You could get about 50 small plates next to each other, but that's about it. I dread the day my own dies because I have loading it down to a fine art and worry I won't be able to find an equivalent.
The entire world for some reason starting to pronounce the letter "u" as "oo", not "you".
"people are still dropping a grand"
Spending. I assume people who are dropping are also the types to be "pulling the trigger"
"people are still dropping a grand"
Spending. I assume people who are dropping are also the types to be "pulling the trigger"
Difficult to disagree here to be fair, my apologies. I shall desist forthwith from adding another steed to my quiver.
"Where's my favourite really expensive and highly fragile glass which I just took my eye off for literally about 10 seconds?"
"Oh, I put it in the wash, underneath the 9 pint cast iron farmhouse pan."
Gets a STW ban for swear filter avoidance
Supplier: We'll deliver this item to you on Friday. It is with our courier
Fedex: We are awaiting your parcel
24 hours later
Fedex: We are awaiting your parcel
*engage chatbot to enquire politely about the delay
Fedex chatbot : We are waiting your parcel.
Check with supplier: Still here, Fedex van has driven past a few times.
You have one job....
2 minutes after I post
"Hi it's Fedex here, we've got your parcel and shall be delivering on schedule, aren't we great?"
Now I'm disproportionately cross that I wasted crossness on something I didn't need to be cross about.
"people are still dropping a grand"
Spending. I assume people who are dropping are also the types to be "pulling the trigger"
Not to mention my pet hate which is “picking up” something, suggesting a casual approach to buying something that may cost several months salary.
Outwith - I fail to see the need for such a word and I hate it as a word. It feels all backwards.
I assume people who are dropping are also the types to be "pulling the trigger
Also likely to use other military-esque phrases, euphemisms and the such like.
I'd very much like to drop something on them of the HE variety.
We were away on holiday in Scotland while the whole "put up flags and spray the roundabouts" thing started. We got back to find ourselves bemused by the flags lining the roads near our area.
Immediate reaction was: Why are they all at half-mast?
Followed quickly by: Why are most of them upside down?
They've obviously been put up by someone on a not-long-enough ladder. If you're going to put up flags on the lampposts, get hold of a cherry picker and do it properly! The whole thing just looks kind of sad, as it is. Upside down and half-mast? Is this some kind of subtle commentary on modern Britain and a sly dig at the right-wingers? Or just a bunch of local anti-immigrants patriots? It annoys me every time I drive past.
Here's a news article which shows them clearly. In both photos, they're upside down. 🤦♂️
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czd0mdzze21o
Edit: Oh, also, bbc, Union Jack should be capitalised.
people are still dropping a grand"
Spending. I assume people who are dropping are also the types to be "pulling the trigger"
Nah. I have to disagree. Dropping a grand ( or whatever amount) is pretty ok, as it makes a modicum of sense.
Pulling the trigger however is a ****erism of the highest order.
Edit: Oh, also, bbc, Union Jack should be capitalised.
Isn’t it a Union Flag unless it's on a ship?
Isn’t it a Union Flag unless it's on a ship?
No, I used to think that but it's been ok to say Jack for quite a while without it being on a jack staff.
https://www.flaginstitute.org/wp/uk-flags/the-union-jack-or-the-union-flag/
People who just post a link to a YouTube video with no word of explanation. You think I’m going to invest my time clicking that just to see if there’s something interesting or entertaining without some indication that we’re on the same wavelength? I think not.
Names on Coke cans.
Enough now
If seeing your name on a coke can hacks you off, spare a thought for my friend Matt White who can no longer visit B&Q
Elon Musk stirring up racial hatred at the Tommy Robinson rally.
Take a good look at your own cultural background before interfering with other peoples way of life.
When one person has enough net worth to change the lives of pretty much every person crossing the channel for the better , and not even notice. I find it repulsive that the same man can try to stir up as much hate as he can by saying 'Fight back or Die'
Yeah , because that Afghan family who helped the UKAF by working as cleaners and interpreters are being pursued by ISIS really want to be beheaded and the UK turned our backs on lots of locals who saved our servicemans lives during the invasion.
Makes me rather cross, like the local FB lemmings wanting to meet up in the pub for a post rally report from those who who went as they couldn't attend.
Stupid burgers. Like,
... what's the ****ing point? Are you going to pick it up and eat it, this being the entire raison d'etre of a burger? You are not. Unless you're Diana from V you're going to have to take it to bits - sorry, "deconstruct" it again anyway. Surely what you want there is a big plate and cutlery.
Elon Musk stirring up racial hatred at the Tommy Robinson rally.
Wrong thread mate, it's proportionate and completely understandable to be angry about this.
I've just seen my first Christmas commercial on TV. In September.
The temperature controls buttons the the VW T-Roc that I've just been driving. Never mind the fact that they are touch sensitive rather than proper buttons (I'm guessing that's already been done). But why do the arrows on the right hand side point the wrong way? Make it colder should be pointing down and make it hotter pointing up. They've managed it on the left side but then tried to make it symmetrically opposite on the other side. Except it's not symmetrically opposite becuase they're different bloody colours! And to top it off the up/down bit on the image is completely irrelevant because it's whether you touch it on the left of right that changes the temperature. Shit ergonomics/anthropometrics/whatever it's called that cause dangerous and unnecessary distraction.
