Pet Peeves IV

[CropleyWasGod]

Not me, I've never met PB and I'm a complete **** on and offline.

Me neither. I'm a complete **** on and offline, and I have met PB.

[Hibrandenburg]

Join the club.

I literally just ****ing started the club.

[Hibrandenburg]

Me neither. I'm a complete **** on and offline, and I have met PB.

You're still in the frame, it's about his opinion of you not yours.

[WeeRussell]

I literally just ****ing started the club.

You can still join mine.

Club before *****.

[CropleyWasGod]

You're still in the frame, it's about his opinion of you not yours.

Yeah, you're right. You are a ****.




:greengrin

[DH1875]

The pop up ads for Diesel (the clothing range) Christmas. Anyone else had it? Sitting on my phone and it just popped up. Mrs gave me a hell of a look and was just about to go on a rant before I showed her what the ad actually was. Let's just say its more appropriate for erm some adult websites than a clothing company lol.

[Hibrandenburg]

Yeah, you're right. You are a ****.




:greengrin

Got a **** certificate to prove it.

:greengrin

[Northernhibee]

The property agency Belvoir.

I don’t know if there’s a reason for the exclamation mark on their signs, but it makes them look like over dramatic fannies.

[oneone73]

The pop up ads for Diesel (the clothing range) Christmas. Anyone else had it? Sitting on my phone and it just popped up. Mrs gave me a hell of a look and was just about to go on a rant before I showed her what the ad actually was. Let's just say its more appropriate for erm some adult websites than a clothing company lol.

No, how do you sign up for it?

[DH1875]

No, how do you sign up for it?

Dont think you do. Just look on the diesel website and wait for cookies to do their thing.

[s.a.m]

*********s on here, when they don't add up to any swearie that I know and I spend ages wondering if it's just me and old age..., or if I'm missing something, or if it's been misspelt.

[lapsedhibee]

*********s on here, when they don't add up to any swearie that I know and I spend ages wondering if it's just me and old age..., or if I'm missing something, or if it's been misspelt.

Thinking you've probably tried to write ********** there and missed out a letter. **.

[s.a.m]

Thinking you've probably tried to write ********** there and missed out a letter. **.

Nope. Definitely *********.

[Jim44]

Not for the first time on this thread, I have to express my dismay at the rapidly, growing numbers in the global species, Pesci faciem.

[overdrive]

Ghost Alexa notifications. My Alexa devices have started announcing that I have a notification and getting the associated green light that signifies that I have a notification. When I ask it to read my notifications it says I don't have any despite it just saying I have a notification. This is now happening every day. I've tried unplugging them all and restarting them to no effect.

[babahibs]

Ghost Alexa notifications. My Alexa devices have started announcing that I have a notification and getting the associated green light that signifies that I have a notification. When I ask it to read my notifications it says I don't have any despite it just saying I have a notification. This is now happening every day. I've tried unplugging them all and restarting them to no effect.

When you have zero idea what any of this means

[Keith_M]

When you have zero idea what any of this means


Alexa is his bit on the side and his Missus keeps deleting her phone messages.

[Pretty Boy]

Hibs fans absolutely losing their minds on social media because the club have changed profile pictures to a pride flag.

Particularly the 50 years old men wailing 'but why don't you have a special day for meeeeeeee?'

[Stairway 2 7]

Brutal. Same gimps that ask why there isn't a white music awards every time the mobos come on.

Maybe pride aren't getting to do enough if they aren't conveying the persecution hate and murder committed against their community each year.

Hope hibby of every orientation enjoy our 3 nil victory today

[McD]

When people still feel the need to post in thread after thread with comments like:

There’s no old firm, rangers died
There’s no team called rangers they died
It’s not rangers, it’s sevco
Don’t call them rangers, it’s the rangers


Aye, it’s been a decade, we all know

[Jones28]

That ****ing Ronaldo jump spin celebration. Fair enough him doing, just someone doing it after scoring for Gillingham in the FA cup.

[sleeping giant]

When I try to hang up after a call on my mobile , my screen is blank and I have to unlock to get back to the call menu. Drives me nuts.

[lapsedhibee]

When I try to hang up after a call on my mobile , my screen is blank and I have to unlock to get back to the call menu. Drives me nuts.

Get similar on mine, but if I hold the phone exactly horizontal the screen magically reappears. Not sure if that's a thing generally. :dunno:

[Hiber-nation]

The BBC weather forecast. Sunny intervals with zero percent chance of rain apparently yet it's been pishing down here for about an hour. How can they get it that wrong?

[WeeRussell]

Get similar on mine, but if I hold the phone exactly horizontal the screen magically reappears. Not sure if that's a thing generally. :dunno:

If that’s the case, I wonder if putting ‘portrait orientation lock’ on would stop the issue?

If you and the OP already do this then just ignore me 😁

[Pretty Boy]

When local dialects or slang is used in a patronising or condescending way by people who don't actually talk like that.

I was walking up Leith Walk this morning for the 1st time in ages and past 3 bars. One was proclaiming they sold 'barry peeve', another declared they wanted 'nae bams' and the 3rd was offering 'bevvies and gid times'. Bevvy seems particularly popular for some reason. I'm not even sure it was in widespread usage in Edinburgh, certainly not where I grew up, I always associated it more with the north west of England.

GTF with that. I know the owner of one of those places and he's from Berkshire. It's nothing to do with being embarrassed by Scots or Edinburgh slang and everything to do with the gentrification brigade and a very watered down cultural appropriation.

[lapsedhibee]

Bevvy seems particularly popular for some reason. I'm not even sure it was in widespread usage in Edinburgh, certainly not where I grew up, I always associated it more with the north west of England.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l5a-dvi9O0

[Scouse Hibee]

When local dialects or slang is used in a patronising or condescending way by people who don't actually talk like that.

I was walking up Leith Walk this morning for the 1st time in ages and past 3 bars. One was proclaiming they sold 'barry peeve', another declared they wanted 'nae bams' and the 3rd was offering 'bevvies and gid times'. Bevvy seems particularly popular for some reason. I'm not even sure it was in widespread usage in Edinburgh, certainly not where I grew up, I always associated it more with the north west of England.

GTF with that. I know the owner of one of those places and he's from Berkshire. It's nothing to do with being embarrassed by Scots or Edinburgh slang and everything to do with the gentrification brigade and a very watered down cultural appropriation.

We goin for a bevvy lad.

[Bridge hibs]

We goin for a bevvy lad.

In the day I think Ive used many variances, going for a peeve, going for a pint, going for a bevvy, going for a few beers, going for a few jugs, going on a sesh, no matter what, I nearly always ended up in the same bladdered, rubberised, paralytic, blootered state the following morning 🤮

[CropleyWasGod]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l5a-dvi9O0

:agree:

Was the required colloquialism when you and I were lads.

Must have gone out of fashion, along with flares and shoulder-pads, before PB and his contemporaries started to wreak their own havoc on fair Edina's purveyors of wines and spirits.

[Keith_M]

This topic has already been mentioned a few times but...


People that are so obsessed with Mobile Phone selfies that they're unaware, or couldn't care, about what's going on around them or the inconvenience/danger they could inflict on themselves or others.

A perfect example of this is the group of Chinese tourists who were repeatedly told to sit down in a Gondola in Venice but were far too occupied with taking Selfies, resulting in the boat capsizing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AxK1A2LKTQ


Fortunately nobody was seriously hurt but the consequences of this kind of behaviour could be tragic.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

The constant use of bigliest on the main forum, file it in the same bin as baller, oh my days and my bad.

[overdrive]

People wearing backpacks but have a lack of spatial awareness. Currently on a tram getting whacked by a backpack on the back of a woman who clearly thinks there’s the entire space between her back and me totally free and not taken up by her backpack!

[Just Alf]

The constant use of bigliest on the main forum, file it in the same bin as baller, oh my days and my bad.I often see "bigliest" used as a swipe at our neighbours view of themselves... which is fair enough :greengrin

Agree with you when used elsewhere though!

[The Modfather]

My wife’s inability to load a dishwasher properly. The amount of times half (maybe a bit of hyperbole) the items need re-washed is infuriating. She doesn’t put any thought into the positions of each item and what might block something else. That and I can only assume she is putting it on the lowest wash setting, which isn’t enough to clean everything.

[Pretty Boy]

Trying to get a GP appointment.

Been phoning since Monday, bang on 8am and the line is just constantly engaged for 2+ hours. Finally got to speak to someone yesterday at about 11.30 and before I'd even finished speaking was told 'there's no appointments left, call earlier tomorrow' and the call was ended. Tried again this morning, engaged for an hour then a recorded message saying 'our routine GP appointments are now full for today'.

It's not an emergency so can't/wouldn't go to A&E but it definitely needs a GP and can't just be seen by a pharmacist or similar.

My dad had similar lately with an inability to get an appointment and that did end up being fairly serious and he ended up in hospital.

[McD]

Trying to get a GP appointment.

Been phoning since Monday, bang on 8am and the line is just constantly engaged for 2+ hours. Finally got to speak to someone yesterday at about 11.30 and before I'd even finished speaking was told 'there's no appointments left, call earlier tomorrow' and the call was ended. Tried again this morning, engaged for an hour then a recorded message saying 'our routine GP appointments are now full for today'.

It's not an emergency so can't/wouldn't go to A&E but it definitely needs a GP and can't just be seen by a pharmacist or similar.

My dad had similar lately with an inability to get an appointment and that did end up being fairly serious and he ended up in hospital.


It’s getting ridiculous. And I don’t blame (most of) the staff


At our surgery, they’ve taken on a new receptionist, who seems to have been told that she must not give out appts, you can be 2nd in the queue, and she will argue the toss with you about not being able to give an appt. I phoned a couple of months ago about my 4 year old daughter not being well for several days, was 3rd in the queue, and after explaining that my daughter was coughing to the point of being sick, was very hot and lethargic, and steadily getting worse, the receptionist said ‘we don’t have a lot of appointments left today, could you phone back tomorrow and we might be able to fit you in’

[Mon Dieu4]

Trying to get a GP appointment.

Been phoning since Monday, bang on 8am and the line is just constantly engaged for 2+ hours. Finally got to speak to someone yesterday at about 11.30 and before I'd even finished speaking was told 'there's no appointments left, call earlier tomorrow' and the call was ended. Tried again this morning, engaged for an hour then a recorded message saying 'our routine GP appointments are now full for today'.

It's not an emergency so can't/wouldn't go to A&E but it definitely needs a GP and can't just be seen by a pharmacist or similar.

My dad had similar lately with an inability to get an appointment and that did end up being fairly serious and he ended up in hospital.

Some of the rules they impliment are mental, I'm well aware that they are up against it but they really don't help themselves, my dad had a blood test taken a few weeks back, he called for the result on a Friday, he got told they were in but they only give test results between Tuesdays and Thursdays and to call back the following week, now it wasn't anything too important but imagine having extra days of a test result hanging over your head due to that's just the way we do it now

[Pretty Boy]

Some of the rules they impliment are mental, I'm well aware that they are up against it but they really don't help themselves, my dad had a blood test taken a few weeks back, he called for the result on a Friday, he got told they were in but they only give test results between Tuesdays and Thursdays and to call back the following week, now it wasn't anything too important but imagine having extra days of a test result hanging over your head due to that's just the way we do it now

I just find the whole call first thing in the morning to get an appointment and when they are gone, they are gone policy bizarre.

I get why that is the case for emergency/urgent appointments, it's been that way as long as I can remember, but I would be quite happy to phone this afternoon when the phones are quieter and book an appointment for sometime next week. Instead I could potentially take an appointment on Monday away from someone who needs it more than me or could go on in this indefinite cycle of just being unable to actually ever get an appointment. Neither are ideal.

[speedy_gonzales]

Re GP surgeries, I moved house 2 years ago and and my surgery of 30+ years (and 2 previous house moves) told me I had to register with a "local" practice.
I wasn't particularly keen on doing this, my previous surgery was like many others posted above, a struggle to get an appointment and a fight to get past the receptionist, but, I had been there for an age and it was a case of better the devil you know.
But, I reluctantly moved to another practice, the first thing they did was invite me in for a general health chat and sign me up to their online portal. There, I can book appointments (so far, excellent availability) and even request prescriptions (repeat or otherwise).
I was totally blown away and surprised more practices don't have a similar setup.

Edited to add this is in Edinburgh, I moved from EH12 to EH13.

[Hibby Bairn]

Trying to get a GP appointment.

Been phoning since Monday, bang on 8am and the line is just constantly engaged for 2+ hours. Finally got to speak to someone yesterday at about 11.30 and before I'd even finished speaking was told 'there's no appointments left, call earlier tomorrow' and the call was ended. Tried again this morning, engaged for an hour then a recorded message saying 'our routine GP appointments are now full for today'.

It's not an emergency so can't/wouldn't go to A&E but it definitely needs a GP and can't just be seen by a pharmacist or similar.

My dad had similar lately with an inability to get an appointment and that did end up being fairly serious and he ended up in hospital.

My experience with my local surgery (been with them for 40 years) is good. Trying to change patient behaviour, I guess.

The front team seem to be trained to triage (or maybe use IT of some kind) so if you are an urgent case you get seen quickly and if not them they fit you in when available.

I had been experiencing headaches last year for 2 weeks (never usually get them) and I was seen within 2 hours, had bloods taken and results same day. Turned out it was nothing serious.

Having pain in my foot after breaking a toe earlier this year. Scheduled for 3 weeks after phoning. Which seems fine.

[lapsedhibee]

Re GP surgeries, I moved house 2 years ago and and my surgery of 30+ years (and 2 previous house moves) told me I had to register with a "local" practice.
I wasn't particularly keen on doing this, my previous surgery was like many others posted above, a struggle to get an appointment and a fight to get past the receptionist, but, I had been there for an age and it was a case of better the devil you know.
But, I reluctantly moved to another practice, the first thing they did was invite me in for a general health chat and sign me up to their online portal. There, I can book appointments (so far, excellent availability) and even request prescriptions (repeat or otherwise).
I was totally blown away and surprised more practices don't have a similar setup.

Edited to add this is in Edinburgh, I moved from EH12 to EH13.

I have similar. Book a telephone appointment online (usually for the next day), GP phones at the appointed time, then if a face-to-face is deemed necessary the GP schedules that very soon or not so soon as appropriate.

The fight-to-get-through-on-a-phone-at-8am approach is completely mental in 2023.

[Jay]

Our GP practice is amazing in the circumstances. We have a building that's no longer fit for purpose, when it rains you dodge round the buckets collecting the dripping water, it only has 6 GP rooms and its now covering our village, 2 neighbouring villages and a whole new village which was built beside us as well as the hundreds of new houses in our village. (Effectively we are just one big town now)Their patient numbers cant be far off doubling in the last 10 years The funding for a new surgery currently isn't happening although there's plans and drawings.
They are struggling to recruit Drs- who blames them? That's not a workplace I'd choose. But they recruited prescribing nurses and mental health nurses. The front team triage you, if you need seen then you'll be seen by the right person. You won't get through on a monday morning, and you have to be patient waiting to get through other times but you'll get there. Prescriptions can be ordered online and go straight to the chemist for collection or delivery.

We could help ourselves though - our surgery posted that 94 appointments were unattended in October. Even though we get text reminders . However there's regular moans on the local FB page about how crap it is :rolleyes:

[c31]

Yeah I got a txt from our practice that 154 appointments were unattended in November, which is just so selfish...

[The_Exile]

Yeah I got a txt from our practice that 154 appointments were unattended in November, which is just so selfish...

I've been saying this for years, that you should have to pay a £5 or £10 deposit when you make an appointment. You get it back after you turn up. As long as the money went back into the practice or something to make patients/staffs lives a bit easier.

[Wilson]

I've been saying this for years, that you should have to pay a £5 or £10 deposit when you make an appointment. You get it back after you turn up. As long as the money went back into the practice or something to make patients/staffs lives a bit easier.

A fiver or a tenner doesn't sound like a lot. However, it still sounds like a policy that might adversely affect the poorest in our society.

[Jay]

I've been saying this for years, that you should have to pay a £5 or £10 deposit when you make an appointment. You get it back after you turn up. As long as the money went back into the practice or something to make patients/staffs lives a bit easier.


It goes against everything the NHS stands for . We just need people to do the right thing and cancel rather than not bother turning up.

[Stairway 2 7]

Tories approve of this policy 👏

[ErinGoBraghHFC]

I understand that sometimes a lorry needs to overtake another lorry, but if it could avoid attempting that at 5.30pm on the M8 westbound on a Friday night that’d be great. Was stuck behind it from Bathgate until Harthill, irritating.


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[Danderhall Hibs]

A fiver or a tenner doesn't sound like a lot. However, it still sounds like a policy that might adversely affect the poorest in our society.

Could take the card details and only charge if they don’t turn up?

[O'Rourke3]

I understand that sometimes a lorry needs to overtake another lorry, but if it could avoid attempting that at 5.30pm on the M8 westbound on a Friday night that’d be great. Was stuck behind it from Bathgate until Harthill, irritating.


Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkAny lorry overtaking any other lorry on the bypass travelling East from Hermiston to Baberton. Only ever creates a tailback.

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[Pretty Boy]

One of my regulars tonight. Bad timekeeping.

I was in Glasgow at a show with the bairns today at the Armadillo. Started at 10.30, doors opened at 9.30. 10.40 and well after the show had started a fair few people still strolling in, no hurry to get seated so blocking the view of people behind them and not giving a toss.

I know people might say 'oh it takes longer with kids'. Give yourself longer then. If I have half an hour to get somewhere and I'm taking the kids you can be damn sure I'm giving myself 45 minutes. Or 'maybe it was traffic'. Funny that all of them had time to get to the food stands and were weighed down with sweets, juice, popcorn and donuts. If you are running late then don't spend 10 minutes getting food to stuff your face.

Does my ****ing head in.

[McD]

Any lorry overtaking any other lorry on the bypass travelling East from Hermiston to Baberton. Only ever creates a tailback.

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Always on an uphill gradient, rarely seem to see Lorrie’s overtaking one another on a down slope

[silverhibee]

Only having one toilet in the house.

[danhibees1875]

I understand that sometimes a lorry needs to overtake another lorry, but if it could avoid attempting that at 5.30pm on the M8 westbound on a Friday night that’d be great. Was stuck behind it from Bathgate until Harthill, irritating.


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The A1 can be a nightmare for that when you get your slither of dual carriageway but the front two vehicles are both big and slow so #2 uses the whole stretch of it getting passed #1 and everyone else is left at the back, following the same 2 slow vehicles in a slightly different order.

The flip side of that is just having enough time to sneak past them and then you've just got open road ahead of you. :greengrin

[Jim44]

Folk who block up the Pet Peeves thread with gripes that belong in the Driving Pet Peeves thread. :greengrin

[overdrive]

This might be controversial on a hibs message board and being a hibs fan but people that try to turn Proclaimers gigs into a Hibs gig. I’m fine with folk turning up in hibs gear and stuff and the odd “Hibees” chant but when it becomes more than that, it kind of spoils the music. There were two guys in front of me in the queue for the toilet between Admiral Fallow and The Proclaimers who were moaning that it wasn’t just wall to wall Hibs chants from the crowd whilst the support acts were on. You’re there for a music concert, not a football game.

Encountered the Everton equivalent of this at the DMAs on Saturday in Liverpool. Folk in full kit, scarves, etc. Lots of Everton chants. Difference being there was a lot of jeering from Liverpool fans when this was happening and bit of handbags not far from us that you don’t really get at a Proclaimers gig with Jambos.

Anyway, another pet peeve arising from the gig on Saturday: people that vape indoors in a public space. It seemed like my wife and I were in the minority not vaping. It was disgusting. Equally disgusting was that a lot of it was “communal vapes” where one got passed round groups of people to take a puff on.

[Hibrandenburg]

Short people with umbrellas.

[Donegal Hibby]

Folk who stand in the entrance of a supermarket having a conversation! .

[WeeRussell]

People interrupting my conversation and barging past me with a basket just because they fancy some onions.

😁

[Hibrandenburg]

People that laugh at the end of every sentence they speak. It's like they think they need their own canned laughter.

[Pretty Boy]

People that laugh at the end of every sentence they speak. It's like they think they need their own canned laughter.

I'm convinced some people do it to try and hide the fact that what they are saying is actually quite nasty.

Woman in my work does it all the time when she's having a dig at someone. She'll follow it up with this false little laugh to try and pretend it's just a joke but it's usually anything but.

[grunt]

Woman in my work does it all the time when she's having a dig at someone. She'll follow it up with this false little laugh to try and pretend it's just a joke but it's usually anything but.
Forgive me for saying this, but your workplace sounds like hell.

[Pretty Boy]

Forgive me for saying this, but your workplace sounds like hell.

Ach it has it's moments.

90% of the time it's fine. I've survived the best part of 10 years and I'm still one of the more recent additions so they must be doing something right. Tbh I think it's that familiarity and the longevity of relationships that causes some of the issues.

[Scouse Hibee]

Costa Corstorphine taken over by laptop users, about 7 of them each on a table for four, this leaves just enough space for about four double buggies a couple of prams and about 12 breast feeding mothers to take over the rest. Gone are the days of a peaceful coffee.

[Fuzzywuzzy]

My missus not appreciating my "quirks". Had two plugs connected to Alexa named plug one and plug two. Got another one and named it maceo.

Her reaction: "who even does that? Youre very special and not in a good way"

[Hibby Bairn]

Costa Corstorphine taken over by laptop users, about 7 of them each on a table for four, this leaves just enough space for about four double buggies a couple of prams and about 12 breast feeding mothers to take over the rest. Gone are the days of a peaceful coffee.

Cafe Vigo opposite. Support the independents 👍

[Hibby Bairn]

My experience with my local surgery (been with them for 40 years) is good. Trying to change patient behaviour, I guess.

The front team seem to be trained to triage (or maybe use IT of some kind) so if you are an urgent case you get seen quickly and if not them they fit you in when available.

I had been experiencing headaches last year for 2 weeks (never usually get them) and I was seen within 2 hours, had bloods taken and results same day. Turned out it was nothing serious.

Having pain in my foot after breaking a toe earlier this year. Scheduled for 3 weeks after phoning. Which seems fine.

I take it all back.

Sitting in the waiting room at 8.05 this morning for a 8.10 appointment. Doctors swan in at 8.11 and 8.17 with their takeaway coffees. Eventually seen by a locum at 8.25.

Stressful being a GP.

[Moulin Yarns]

People who take toddlers to the theatre! All through Wicked at the playhouse tonight a girning child. Fortunately not near me, but loud enough to be heard.

[overdrive]

My wife’s campaign to use as few kitchen items as possible even if it means doing something vile. She’ll cut a lime as a garnish for an alcoholic drink using the same knife and chopping board that’s just been used for chopping onion garlic - usually on some remnants of garlic or onion juice. Tonight she started peeling potatoes over the plates we were about to serve something on, letting the peels drop on them getting the plates all starchy.

[Jones28]

My wife’s campaign to use as few kitchen items as possible even if it means doing something vile. She’ll cut a lime as a garnish for an alcoholic drink using the same knife and chopping board that’s just been used for chopping onion garlic - usually on some remnants of garlic or onion juice. Tonight she started peeling potatoes over the plates we were about to serve something on, letting the peels drop on them getting the plates all starchy.

Oh no no no.

Can’t have that, I’m the opposite. I’ll use steel bowls and pots and everything.

Don’t tell me she cuts lime then onion then goes back to lime?!

[Bridge hibs]

My wife’s campaign to use as few kitchen items as possible even if it means doing something vile. She’ll cut a lime as a garnish for an alcoholic drink using the same knife and chopping board that’s just been used for chopping onion garlic - usually on some remnants of garlic or onion juice. Tonight she started peeling potatoes over the plates we were about to serve something on, letting the peels drop on them getting the plates all starchy.Your lucky, my Wife only ever goes into the kitchen to use the washing machine

She is the ultimate cant cook wont cook because she cant cook and I wouldnt trust her with a knife

[pollution]

We are looking to book next year's holiday and my wife wants to go somewhere she hasn't been before...

I suggested the kitchen.

[overdrive]

Oh no no no.

Can’t have that, I’m the opposite. I’ll use steel bowls and pots and everything.

Don’t tell me she cuts lime then onion then goes back to lime?!

Pretty much. I've stopped taking garnish if she's making the drinks. I don't know if she's noticed that I do have a bit of lime in my gin or rum when I've made them. We even have a small chopping board perfect for just getting out for chopping fruit. At least she stops short of cutting the lime on a chopping board that's been used for meat.

[Bridge hibs]

We are looking to book next year's holiday and my wife wants to go somewhere she hasn't been before...

I suggested the kitchen.🤣

[Moulin Yarns]

My wife’s campaign to use as few kitchen items as possible even if it means doing something vile. She’ll cut a lime as a garnish for an alcoholic drink using the same knife and chopping board that’s just been used for chopping onion garlic - usually on some remnants of garlic or onion juice. Tonight she started peeling potatoes over the plates we were about to serve something on, letting the peels drop on them getting the plates all starchy.

Guess what you are getting her for Christmas

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chopping-Board-Sets-Knife-Friendly-Contamination/dp/B08GM8FP23/ref=mp_s_a_1_8_sspa?adgrpid=120724688307&hvadid=593781686816&hvdev=m&hvlocphy=9046885&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=8051140276815433529&hvtargid=kwd-3010304953&hydadcr=26160_2651823&keywords=joseph+joseph+chopping+board&qid=1702553542&sr=8-8-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9waG9uZV9zZWFyY2hfbXRm&psc=1

[Fuzzywuzzy]

Sellers on vinted - what's the point in selling **** if you can't be arsed posting it?

[Scouse Hibee]

Guy at post office counter being totally clueless about Danske bank notes, they are Sterling notes and perfectly acceptable for me to pay them into my business account. 😡

[Jim44]

In the last few hours I’ve read and heard 5 times …. “ It was very fun.” When I was at school, ‘very’ was an adverb which qualifies a verb or adjective and fun was a noun which was qualified by an adjective. Call me a pedant, but *******ising the English language is not fun. :greengrin

[Hiber-nation]

The stench of bleach that hits you when you walk into some pubs at lunchtime.

[Pretty Boy]

Trying to get a GP appointment.

Been phoning since Monday, bang on 8am and the line is just constantly engaged for 2+ hours. Finally got to speak to someone yesterday at about 11.30 and before I'd even finished speaking was told 'there's no appointments left, call earlier tomorrow' and the call was ended. Tried again this morning, engaged for an hour then a recorded message saying 'our routine GP appointments are now full for today'.

It's not an emergency so can't/wouldn't go to A&E but it definitely needs a GP and can't just be seen by a pharmacist or similar.

My dad had similar lately with an inability to get an appointment and that did end up being fairly serious and he ended up in hospital.

Just to balance this a bit.

Finally got a GPs appointment on Friday past. GP wasn't overly concerned but did think a hospital referral was in order just to have a second opinion and confirm her assessment. Received a letter today saying I am on the ENT waiting list and current waiting times are, on average, 13 days for urgent and 53 days for non urgent. I was told by the GP I would be the latter. I don't think being seen in under a couple of months for an issue that a GP has deemed non urgent is too bad at all when you consider the winter pressure the NHS is under.

[nonshinyfinish]

In the last few hours I’ve read and heard 5 times …. “ It was very fun.” When I was at school, ‘very’ was an adverb which qualifies a verb or adjective and fun was a noun which was qualified by an adjective. Call me a pedant, but *******ising the English language is not fun. :greengrin

'Very' as an adjective (meaning 'true') is older than its use as an adverb – it still appears in phrases like 'the very end' or 'my very best'. The adverb form became more common as usage changed over time (or was *******ised as you put it).

[lapsedhibee]

'Very' as an adjective (meaning 'true') is older than its use as an adverb – it still appears in phrases like 'the very end' or 'my very best'. The adverb form became more common as usage changed over time (or was *******ised as you put it).

Is very an adverb or adjective or something else in How very dare you? :dunno:

[Pedantic_Hibee]

Just to balance this a bit.

Finally got a GPs appointment on Friday past. GP wasn't overly concerned but did think a hospital referral was in order just to have a second opinion and confirm her assessment. Received a letter today saying I am on the ENT waiting list and current waiting times are, on average, 13 days for urgent and 53 days for non urgent. I was told by the GP I would be the latter. I don't think being seen in under a couple of months for an issue that a GP has deemed non urgent is too bad at all when you consider the winter pressure the NHS is under.

Just to counter this PB, I’ve had major issues with my sinuses for about three or four years now and yet am fobbed off with penicillin and nasal sprays. I told the GP the last time that penicillin doesn’t suit me as it encourages me to violently sh*t myself at the most inopportune moments. Again, I was sent away with penicillin. I was referred to ENT about 18 months ago and aside from receiving an acknowledgment letter about six weeks ago to say they knew I was still waiting, I’ve had absolutely nothing.

[Hiber-nation]

Just to counter this PB, I’ve had major issues with my sinuses for about three or four years now and yet am fobbed off with penicillin and nasal sprays. I told the GP the last time that penicillin doesn’t suit me as it encourages me to violently sh*t myself at the most inopportune moments. Again, I was sent away with penicillin. I was referred to ENT about 18 months ago and aside from receiving an acknowledgment letter about six weeks ago to say they knew I was still waiting, I’ve had absolutely nothing.

Jeez that is poor. Had a sinus problem myself, docs appointment in Feb then got ENT appointment in April. Non-urgent. Have to say I was amazed.

[nonshinyfinish]

Is very an adverb or adjective or something else in How very dare you? :dunno:

Technically an adverb I think (because it's intensifying the verb 'dare'), but it's a non-standard construction because 'very' (as an adverb) normally only qualifies adjectives or other adverbs, not verbs.

I think it's correct to describe it as either an adverb or an intensifier, but calling it an intensifier better captures its function in that phrase.

[lapsedhibee]

Technically an adverb I think (because it's intensifying the verb 'dare'), but it's a non-standard construction because 'very' (as an adverb) normally only qualifies adjectives or other adverbs, not verbs.

I think it's correct to describe it as either an adverb or an intensifier, but calling it an intensifier better captures its function in that phrase.

:aok:

[Moulin Yarns]

Folk in front of me at the checkout, total cost £554, scanned £123 worth of vouchers, took forever!!! (Tesco in Perth)

[Fuzzywuzzy]

Maybe I'm just a tight **** or have no understanding of my wife/women in general.

Her pals husbands sister who lives in Spain, has never met, never likely to meet just had a baby. For some reason we had to but a present for them

[Smartie]

Maybe I'm just a tight **** or have no understanding of my wife/women in general.

Her pals husbands sister who lives in Spain, has never met, never likely to meet just had a baby. For some reason we had to but a present for them

We've had a couple of babies within the past 5 and a bit years and I'm actually bowled over by the generosity of people we have the most tenuous of tenuous links to.

I mean, we're enormously grateful but the sheer volume of stuff we have received has been almost overwhelming and the identity of some of the gifters has been truly astonishing.

[Jones28]

The ****ing perfume adverts at this time of year. They’re so stupid.

[WeeRussell]

The ****ing perfume adverts at this time of year. They’re so stupid.

Agreed. They stink.

[Jones28]

Agreed. They stink.

Does anyone look at the JPG advert and think “I want to smell like a sweaty sailor?”

[Keith_M]

Does anyone look at the JPG advert and think “I want to smell like a sweaty sailor?”


I think you've opened a can of worms there.

:greengrin

[Jones28]

I think you've opened a can of worms there.

:greengrin

I think you’ve announced a name of a new perfume 😂

[Jay]

Maybe I'm just a tight **** or have no understanding of my wife/women in general.

Her pals husbands sister who lives in Spain, has never met, never likely to meet just had a baby. For some reason we had to but a present for them

I'm a woman and I can assure you I wouldn't be buying my pals husbands sister who lives in Spain a present. So I think your just tight :greengrin

[Northernhibee]

The ****ing perfume adverts at this time of year. They’re so stupid.

Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy…

[Keith_M]

I think you’ve announced a name of a new perfume 😂



:faf:

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy…

Marc Jacobs? 🤔☺️

[Northernhibee]

Marc Jacobs? 🤔☺️

Aye. It’s perfect. Perfect. Perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect

[weecounty hibby]

Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy…
The power of advertising!! I knew that was Marc Jacobs. Sadly annoying **** works

[Jones28]

Turkey. It’s just ****. It’s a waste of oven space.

I’d sooner have chicken breast.

[Scouse Hibee]

Turkey. It’s just ****. It’s a waste of oven space.

I’d sooner have chicken breast.

Chicken or Turkey, they’re both ****. It’s just a waste of oven space, I’d rather have Lamb & Duck.

[weecounty hibby]

Edinburgh derbies

[WeeRussell]

Turkey. It’s just ****. It’s a waste of oven space.

I’d sooner have chicken breast.

I used to like you. Reported.

[WeeRussell]

Chicken or Turkey, they’re both ****. It’s just a waste of oven space, I’d rather have Lamb & Duck.

You anaw.

[Keith_M]

Turkey. It’s just ****. It’s a waste of oven space.

I’d sooner have chicken breast.


I hate turkey as well. No idea why so many people have it at Christmas.

[Pretty Boy]

I hate turkey as well. No idea why so many people have it at Christmas.

I sometimes buy a turkey leg during the year and make a pot roast thing with it and it's really nice.

I think the issue with a whole turkey at Christmas is that it is such a big bird it's hard to cook it evenly. If you roast it whole then you can end up with the white meat being way overcooked. Add to that a decent chunk of people are so terrified of a bit juice in poultry that they already set the oven to cremate.

I think quality of meat is an issue as well. My father in law works in chicken farming and he gets a few birds a year to raise as a perk of the job. Once he has them they are fed the best of gear and totally free range and the difference in taste between happy, slow grown birds and those cheap Frankenstein things you get in the lower priced ranges in supermarkets is night and day.

[Moulin Yarns]

I sometimes buy a turkey leg during the year and make a pot roast thing with it and it's really nice.

I think the issue with a whole turkey at Christmas is that it is such a big bird it's hard to cook it evenly. If you roast it whole then you can end up with the white meat being way overcooked. Add to that a decent chunk of people are so terrified of a bit juice in poultry that they already set the oven to cremate.

I think quality of meat is an issue as well. My father in law works in chicken farming and he gets a few birds a year to raise as a perk of the job. Once he has them they are fed the best of gear and totally free range and the difference in taste between happy, slow grown birds and those cheap Frankenstein things you get in the lower priced ranges in supermarkets is night and day.

This year we got the butchers to butterfly turkey breast and I got a bag of bones etc to make the soup. Very easy to cook and quicker than a full bird.

[J-C]

I hate turkey as well. No idea why so many people have it at Christmas.

Big large bird that feeds a large family.

[Bridge hibs]

This year we got the butchers to butterfly turkey breast and I got a bag of bones etc to make the soup. Very easy to cook and quicker than a full bird.

I shredded the turkey up, gave the dog some then made turkey, rice and veg soup with crusty bread, lovely

[Pretty Boy]

Queue jumpers in pubs.

I'm not into all this single file nonsense that seemed to take off during covid but I'm also not a total roaster who will skip in front of someone who has been there a lot longer than me. A little nod and 'he/she was here first' used to be pretty customary but it seems a thing of the past now. Admittedly a decent barperson is usually pretty aware of the order for service.

I was in the pub pre match the other night and it was rammed. I got my position at the bar and the barmaid was serving quickly and in decent order. Some guy who was more than old enough to know better just barged his way to the bar and started raising his hand every time she walked past and trying to call out his order. Tbf the barmaid studiously ignored him and kept serving those who had been their longest. A new guy jumped on the bar and when Mr pushy clocked this he was right in there calling his order out and not giving anyone else half a chance to get their order in and not giving the new barman any chance to asses who was first. He knew there was 3 or 4 people who had been waiting longer but he didn't care. Selfish ****.

[Bridge hibs]

Queue jumpers in pubs.

I'm not into all this single file nonsense that seemed to take off during covid but I'm also not a total roaster who will skip in front of someone who has been there a lot longer than me. A little nod and 'he/she was here first' used to be pretty customary but it seems a thing of the past now. Admittedly a decent barperson is usually pretty aware of the order for service.

I was in the pub pre match the other night and it was rammed. I got my position at the bar and the barmaid was serving quickly and in decent order. Some guy who was more than old enough to know better just barged his way to the bar and started raising his hand every time she walked past and trying to call out his order. Tbf the barmaid studiously ignored him and kept serving those who had been their longest. A new guy jumped on the bar and when Mr pushy clocked this he was right in there calling his order out and not giving anyone else half a chance to get their order in and not giving the new barman any chance to asses who was first. He knew there was 3 or 4 people who had been waiting longer but he didn't care. Selfish ****.Yeah that always annoyed me too. More airport related a year or so ago we jumped on a flight to Copenhagen and they called out seats from A to D or whatever to board then all of a sudden two young lassies probably mid 20s just barged through and almost knee capping me with her case in the process

Straight to the front they went with one of them saying along the lines of “**** we will get home at midnight waiting on these ditters” . I love the last laugh though, one of the lassies was checked through but when the gobby ones passport was checked she was refused because her passport was out of date, think she had 2 months or so before expiry and was refused plane boarding

She went awfy emotional and begged to fly but they flatly refused her. I did have some sympathy for her, Im not all that bad 🫢

[Hibrandenburg]

Human pigs. Lady on the train last night eating some kind of seeds and spitting the shells out onto the floor and seats. After stuffing her face with some kind of gunge she then wiped her greasy fingers on the seats before moving to another seat leaving her **** behind her all whilst listening to loud videos on her mobile phone. Utterly minging behaviour and normally I would have said something but I thought better of starting an argument with a woman on her own on a train at night.

[weecounty hibby]

Fireworks! It's 10pm on Hogmanay and that's them started. Dogs now sitting themselves and won't go out later. 10pm!!! Not even close to midnight. Dicks

[Pretty Boy]

Fireworks! It's 10pm on Hogmanay and that's them started. Dogs now sitting themselves and won't go out later. 10pm!!! Not even close to midnight. Dicks

I'm in England so fireworks on TV are from London.

It's pretty impressive and it's in combo with a drone show and the drones are so much better. Probably not practical for private events but for big public displays hopefully that's the future. Pretty spectacular but quiet.

[Hibrandenburg]

Fireworks! It's 10pm on Hogmanay and that's them started. Dogs now sitting themselves and won't go out later. 10pm!!! Not even close to midnight. Dicks

It's been three days solid in Berlin, now it sounds like the Russians are at the door again. Luckily my mutt seems unphased by them, in fact he looks up at the sky and watches the fireworks explode with a look of curiosity on his face.

[McD]

Fireworks! It's 10pm on Hogmanay and that's them started. Dogs now sitting themselves and won't go out later. 10pm!!! Not even close to midnight. Dicks


Back of 9 it started here, total ********s, no need at all

[Jones28]

I used to like you. Reported.

😂

It’s a hill I will die on, anything but Turkey!

[Jones28]

Big large bird that feeds a large family.

There’s an in law related cracker joke somewhere in there.

[Jones28]

Chicken or Turkey, they’re both ****. It’s just a waste of oven space, I’d rather have Lamb & Duck.

Chicken I can do well, Turkey is just *****. The one I had was inedible.

I did not cook it however!

Like you Scouse, I’d have either of your suggestions with a ham or beef on the side.

[Fuzzywuzzy]

Queue jumpers in pubs.

I'm not into all this single file nonsense that seemed to take off during covid but I'm also not a total roaster who will skip in front of someone who has been there a lot longer than me. A little nod and 'he/she was here first' used to be pretty customary but it seems a thing of the past now. Admittedly a decent barperson is usually pretty aware of the order for service.

I was in the pub pre match the other night and it was rammed. I got my position at the bar and the barmaid was serving quickly and in decent order. Some guy who was more than old enough to know better just barged his way to the bar and started raising his hand every time she walked past and trying to call out his order. Tbf the barmaid studiously ignored him and kept serving those who had been their longest. A new guy jumped on the bar and when Mr pushy clocked this he was right in there calling his order out and not giving anyone else half a chance to get their order in and not giving the new barman any chance to asses who was first. He knew there was 3 or 4 people who had been waiting longer but he didn't care. Selfish ****.

Happened to me at the Montford, got hemmed into a corner at the bar, couldn't move and Everyman and their dog got served before me

[Hiber-nation]

The music Sky play in the intervals in the darts. Horrible cheesy dancey pish. And these dancers...why?

[Northernhibee]

Worst of the lot is Julian Clary. Maybe making innuendos and suggestive comments to straight men and simialr jokes to the above was hillarious and edgy in the lates 80s or whenever he appeared on the scene but the world has moved on and it's just tired and ridiculous now.

This is odd as I accidentally stumbled across old posts on here, but he was brilliant on Taskmaster. When off the cuff he was hilarious and one of my favourite contestants that’s been on the show, and wouldn’t normally enjoy his stand up.

Lee Mack was the opposite way round.

[Pretty Boy]

People who get upset about something they have clearly not understood or are wilfully ignorant about.

The number of people losing their minds on social media about this 'new' tax on Vinted, eBay, Etsy etc is madness. It's not a new tax, anyone making more than £1K income has always been required to declare it as income and potentially file a self assesment tax return. Even then there is a higher allowance (£6K rings a bell) if you are selling personal belongings that were never intended for resale and there's even further caveats on that.

The most common gripe is 'oh so I'm going to be taxed twice. Once when I buy my baby clothes and again when I sell it 2nd hand as a loss'. Firstly children's clothes are VAT exempt so you haven't already been taxed at point of purchase. Secondly you would have to be running a commercial scale operation to have to worry about breaching the threshold on a site like Vinted where kids clothes sell for about £2 a t shirt.

I'm more concerned that so many people don't seem to realise they potentially have legal obligations on secondary income. I used to sell on Etsy and was always aware there was potential for my sales figures to be shared with HMRC (the threshold was and continues to be very high). I think the most I ever paid in tax after completing a return with my figures and other incomes was just under £2. It's panic over nothing being whipped up by a social media frenzy exploiting ignorance.

[Bridge hibs]

People who sing Auld Lang Zyne, even Scottish people Ive heard singing it and using Zyne, its ****ing Syne !! (Old Long Since)

Although Ive probably said zyne a few times too 🫣

[overdrive]

My wife's employer's restrictive annual leave policies that get progressively worse. She gets the minimum legal annual leave allowance - 28 days. It started off that they couldn't take leave in late July as it is their busy period (fair enough) and had to use some of it (2 weeks' worth) while they were closed over Christmas (she doesn't mind this that much - plenty of places do it, including my employer).

Then it was "you must use some of it in this specific week in August whilst the office closes down after a busy period". So that's a week of her leave which clashes with my busy period at work.

Then it was "you can't take any leave between January and June as it is busy planning for the busy period in July. You might get the odd single day approved". So there's a chunk of my, admittedly, way more generous leave entitlement that I have to take where we can't go away together.

Now it is "everyone must take leave at the same time - so make that week in August two weeks and since there is one member of staff with a school aged child, you also need to take whichever week the school October holiday is." Great, another week we can't actually go away anywhere together and the one week we can go away together, it will be expensive.

The remaining 3 days or whatever it is she has remaining can be taken as she pleases but if she adds that onto the week in October, to make a slightly longer holiday, I can see the next argument will be "oh but there's a bit of activity planned in November so you need to be in for the rest of October. Oh, and she has to tell her boss which dates she's taking those 3 days on by the end of this week (she was told today). She's really hacked off. I am too.

[Onceinawhile]

People who get upset about something they have clearly not understood or are wilfully ignorant about.

The number of people losing their minds on social media about this 'new' tax on Vinted, eBay, Etsy etc is madness. It's not a new tax, anyone making more than £1K income has always been required to declare it as income and potentially file a self assesment tax return. Even then there is a higher allowance (£6K rings a bell) if you are selling personal belongings that were never intended for resale and there's even further caveats on that.

The most common gripe is 'oh so I'm going to be taxed twice. Once when I buy my baby clothes and again when I sell it 2nd hand as a loss'. Firstly children's clothes are VAT exempt so you haven't already been taxed at point of purchase. Secondly you would have to be running a commercial scale operation to have to worry about breaching the threshold on a site like Vinted where kids clothes sell for about £2 a t shirt.

I'm more concerned that so many people don't seem to realise they potentially have legal obligations on secondary income. I used to sell on Etsy and was always aware there was potential for my sales figures to be shared with HMRC (the threshold was and continues to be very high). I think the most I ever paid in tax after completing a return with my figures and other incomes was just under £2. It's panic over nothing being whipped up by a social media frenzy exploiting ignorance.

6k is either the capital gains tax annual exemption or the Chattel rules you are thinking of.

But yeh, you're correct. This isn't a new tax, anyone trading should be completing self-assessment.

Anyone selling their old stuff on vinted / ebay whatever has nothing to worry about. It seems to have been pretty poor messaging from HMRC / Ebay / Vinted etc...

[Moulin Yarns]

Neighbourhood gatherings. Been living here for 35 years and this became a 'thing' about 20 years ago when someone new arrived.

Don’t get me started on the "you've lived here the longest" Aye and we aren't sociable. Get over it!!

[Bridge hibs]

Neighbourhood gatherings. Been living here for 35 years and this became a 'thing' about 20 years ago when someone new arrived.

Don’t get me started on the "you've lived here the longest" Aye and we aren't sociable. Get over it!!That would drive me nuts, my Brother in law and his Wife bought a new house just up from the Gyle shopping centre a few years ago and it was a constant, next door would just traipse in early in the morning with rolls etc and just help himself to a coffee 🤣

I experienced it a few times after wakening up on their couch after a session in the Carricknowe pub 🤢

[Just Alf]

That would drive me nuts, my Brother in law and his Wife bought a new house just up from the Gyle shopping centre a few years ago and it was a constant, next door would just traipse in early in the morning with rolls etc and just help himself to a coffee [emoji1787]

I experienced it a few times after wakening up on their couch after a session in the Carricknowe pub [emoji1785]Sounds like an episode of Two Doors Down!
:rofl:

[Bridge hibs]

Sounds like an episode of Two Doors Down!
:rofl:

That was just one neighbour, there were others, I think they were just being over friendly, they werent swingers

That I know off 🫢

[LaMotta]

Watching some doughnut now on STV defending XL Bully dogs. She can barely string a sentence together. There isn't a stupider group of people in life that those who can't see how dangerous these dogs are.

[Scouse Hibee]

Watching some doughnut now on STV defending XL Bully dogs. She can barely string a sentence together. There isn't a stupider group of people in life that those who can't see how dangerous these dogs are.

Is she not the one that is saying that people shouldn’t be taking them in if they don’t know anything about handling them?

Personally I don’t think anyone can handle them.

[LaMotta]

Is she not the one that is saying that people shouldn’t be taking them in if they don’t know anything about handling them?

Personally I don’t think anyone can handle them.

She headed up an XL Bully rescue group. Claiming Jack Russells were just as dangerous. The stats for attacks on people and other dogs by XL Bullys are horrendous given how few of the dogs there actually are.

Your point is spot on. The dogs could snap at any point. Suddenly thats a bad owners fault? And if it hasnt snapped yet then the owners are handling them right? Sooner they are banned the better.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

Watching some doughnut now on STV defending XL Bully dogs. She can barely string a sentence together. There isn't a stupider group of people in life that those who can't see how dangerous these dogs are.

Scotland will be a dumping ground for these things until the Scottish government gets it's finger out and bans them here too.

[overdrive]

Scotland will be a dumping ground for these things until the Scottish government gets it's finger out and bans them here too.

They are banning them now.

I had a dream/nightmare last night about getting attacked by two XL bullies. Got my face ripped apart in it :greengrin. Strange in that despite having an extreme phobia of dogs since childhood after being attacked more than once, that's the first time I've actually had a nightmare about a dog attack.

[The Modfather]

They are banning them now.

I had a dream/nightmare last night about getting attacked by two XL bullies. Got my face ripped apart in it :greengrin. Strange in that despite having an extreme phobia of dogs since childhood after being attacked more than once, that's the first time I've actually had a nightmare about a dog attack.

All dogs should be banned and somewhere like Ireland expatriated for all dogs to be sent and live feral. Long live the cat!

[Just Alf]

All dogs should be banned and somewhere like Ireland expatriated for all dogs to be sent and live feral. Long live the cat!What about a Scottish Island? Many seen to thunk they're the answer to some things :greengrin

[Smartie]

What about a Scottish Island? Many seen to thunk they're the answer to some things :greengrin

They'd just need to get St Patrick back in, new job for him.

[LaMotta]

Scotland will be a dumping ground for these things until the Scottish government gets it's finger out and bans them here too.

Think it was those stories in the press that hurried their decision today....

[heretoday]

All dogs should be banned and somewhere like Ireland expatriated for all dogs to be sent and live feral. Long live the cat!

Good idea. I envisage a boatload of them leaving harbour and a crowd of cats on the dockside giving them the cheerio cheerio cheerio treatment.

[Fuzzywuzzy]

Delivery drivers leaving packages on doorsteps. Pricks

Old folk that have the ability to take up a 10ft wide pavement - how the **** do they manage it????

[Moulin Yarns]

Old folk that have the ability to take up a 10ft wide pavement - how the **** do they manage it????

We've earned it you young whippersnapper 🤣

[DH1875]

Feeling guilty when I've no change for the delivery guy despite already paying £4 delivery. How much of that does a guy delivering for just eat get?

[Bridge hibs]

Delivery drivers leaving packages on doorsteps. Pricks

Old folk that have the ability to take up a 10ft wide pavement - how the **** do they manage it????

Rips my knitting but what really pisses me off is zig zaggers, mostly folk on their phones and walking slow as ****, I go into overtake mode and they start ****ing zig zagging, just walk in a straight ****ing line 😡

[Keith_M]

Rips my knitting but what really pisses me off is zig zaggers, mostly folk on their phones and walking slow as ****, I go into overtake mode and they start ****ing zig zagging, just walk in a straight ****ing line 😡


I usually just push them out the way, zig-zaggers or annoying oldies

[Just Alf]

Feeling guilty when I've no change for the delivery guy despite already paying £4 delivery. How much of that does a guy delivering for just eat get?That does me in as well ... prices seem so much more than before covid, makes the 'tip' over and above make the whole thing more expensive by a significant amount.

We used to be happy for a 'just eat' every week, with the odd extra one chucked in the mix depending on work... its getting to the stage its really difficult to justify the cost even week. (2 Mains and a special rice to share = £24 !!! Was the latest )

[Scouse Hibee]

That does me in as well ... prices seem so much more than before covid, makes the 'tip' over and above make the whole thing more expensive by a significant amount.

We used to be happy for a 'just eat' every week, with the odd extra one chucked in the mix depending on work... its getting to the stage its really difficult to justify the cost even week. (2 Mains and a special rice to share = £24 !!! Was the latest )

Phone the take away direct or use their own website if they have one, cheaper than using the Just Eat platform in most cases. Takeaways charge more on the delivery platforms to cover the commission they have to pay.

[The Modfather]

Think I’ve moaned about it before but anyway, twitter links. I’ve never had twitter but whenever someone posts a link on here generally always been able to view it unless it tells me I’m not a subscriber of that poster. Why is it now that I open links it’s a 50% chance it opens ok and 50% it says “sorry something went wrong” and I’ll never know what the tweet was.

Similarly, never been on instagram, but more often than not when opening a link from here it opens but I can’t accept the cookies message that covers the whole page and accepting or declining doesn’t do anything so have to give up.

Yours, a dinosaur.

[Bridge hibs]

I usually just push them out the way, zig-zaggers or annoying oldiesIm too chicken hearted to do that and I end up just tailgating probably with people behind me doing similar, getting sick of doing the ****ing conga every day 😡

[J-C]

Delivery drivers leaving packages on doorsteps. Pricks

Old folk that have the ability to take up a 10ft wide pavement - how the **** do they manage it????

We came home the other day just after an Amazon driver had been in our stair, the package was left just as you walk in and was for our neighbour below us. I handed it to her and she said this is quite a common problem, lazy arsed gets not doing their job correctly, take it to the proper door and knock on it for a reply.

[Keith_M]

People's lack of gratitude when you help them out.


I was standing in a queue for a cash machine today and the old lady in front of me said 'excuse me son, could you check my balance for me?'.

Always willing to help, I gave her a slight nudge and she fell over.


Not a single word of thanks!

:bitchy:

[Bridge hibs]

People's lack of gratitude when you help them out.


I was standing in a queue for a cash machine today and the old lady in front of me said 'excuse me son, could you check my balance for me?'.

Always willing to help, I gave her a slight nudge and she fell over.


Not a single word of thanks!

:bitchy:🤣

[lapsedhibee]

People's lack of gratitude when you help them out.


I was standing in a queue for a cash machine today and the old lady in front of me said 'excuse me son, could you check my balance for me?'.

Always willing to help, I gave her a slight nudge and she fell over.


Not a single word of thanks!

:bitchy:

:greengrin

[heretoday]

Plusnet is down. Unless it's the router but I don't think so.

[Jones28]

Plusnet is down. Unless it's the router but I don't think so.

Me too.

[EH6 Hibby]

Plusnet is down. Unless it's the router but I don't think so.

Mines was fine. I was streaming and on my MacBook at that time. Maybe just certain areas?

[Bridge hibs]

For some strange reason when I pick my nose (right nostril) my upper rear teeth hurt 🧐

[J-C]

For some strange reason when I pick my nose (right nostril) my upper rear teeth hurt 🧐

Sinus problems maybe, all connected.

[Stairway 2 7]

For some strange reason when I pick my nose (right nostril) my upper rear teeth hurt 🧐

Have you got a hook instead of a hand?

[Bridge hibs]

Have you got a hook instead of a hand?

Just fat fingers 🤣

[Hiber-nation]

Sinus problems maybe, all connected.

Yep sounds like it. Dentist couldn't work out why I kept getting niggles in my lower right teeth, turns out it was sinus-related.

[Bridge hibs]

Sinus problems maybe, all connected.

Possibly mate, Ive had sinus issues in the past

[WeeRussell]

For some strange reason when I pick my nose (right nostril) my upper rear teeth hurt 🧐

That must hurt the bridge.

[Keith_M]

For some strange reason when I pick my nose (right nostril) my upper rear teeth hurt 🧐


There's a simple solution to that, if you think about it.

[The Modfather]

There's a simple solution to that, if you think about it.

Only pick the left nostril?

[WeeRussell]

Only pick the left nostril?

Or get his teeth taken oot.

[Keith_M]

Only pick the left nostril?


That's the one :greengrin

[Bridge hibs]

There's a simple solution to that, if you think about it.

Get someone else to pick my nose ?

[Bridge hibs]

Or get his teeth taken oot.

That snot funny

[Keith_M]

Get someone else to pick my nose ?


Time to share my age old wisdom:

"You can pick your friends,
and you can pick your nose,
...but you can't pick your friend's nose."

[Scouse Hibee]

Hot air hand dryers. You go to the toilet in cafe/pub/shopping centre etc and after washing your hands you attempt to dry them!
If it’s a Dyson blade type machine you’re usually fine. Every other standard type either doesn’t go on when you place your hands under it/ goes on after about 10 seconds then it’s off 2 seconds later and then won’t go in again for about another ten seconds. Does my head in.

[Bridge hibs]

My Wife when she butters toast, takes her a bloody week ! She covers every millimetre, Im sure she was a Plasterer in a previous life

I just slap mines on and be done with it

[Keith_M]

Hot air hand dryers. You go to the toilet in cafe/pub/shopping centre etc and after washing your hands you attempt to dry them!
If it’s a Dyson blade type machine you’re usually fine. Every other standard type either doesn’t go on when you place your hands under it/ goes on after about 10 seconds then it’s off 2 seconds later and then won’t go in again for about another ten seconds. Does my head in.


+1

[Jones28]

I wasn’t sure where to put this, it’s not worthy of a new thread but the Alec Baldwin shooting stuff.

He’s now being retried for involuntary manslaughter.

There’s forensics around the gun that indicate the bullet couldn’t have been fired from the gun without the trigger being pulled, but the fact is that the gun contained live ammunition on a movie set.

So why is the firearms guy not being tried for negligence? Or was this some random colt pulled from somebodies glovebox - which it being America is entirely possible.

I just cannot fathom this happening anywhere else and it not being labelled a tragic accident.

[McD]

I wasn’t sure where to put this, it’s not worthy of a new thread but the Alec Baldwin shooting stuff.

He’s now being retried for involuntary manslaughter.

There’s forensics around the gun that indicate the bullet couldn’t have been fired from the gun without the trigger being pulled, but the fact is that the gun contained live ammunition on a movie set.

So why is the firearms guy not being tried for negligence? Or was this some random colt pulled from somebodies glovebox - which it being America is entirely possible.

I just cannot fathom this happening anywhere else and it not being labelled a tragic accident.

From the bbc article, it seems the firearms expert and the first assistant director are/have been charged with offences also

“ Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who was responsible for weapons and ammunitions on set as the film's armourer, faces her own manslaughter charge, as well as a charge of evidence tampering. She has pleaded not guilty and will stand trial next month.
Dave Halls, who was in charge of safety on set as the first assistant director, pleaded no contest last March to a misdemeanour charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon. His plea agreement entailed six months of unsupervised probation in lieu of prison time.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68038106


I have no idea why live ammunition was there, surely there is no need for that at all

[Just Alf]

From what I read at the time, there was no requirement for live ammunition, and none was supposed to be anywhere near the set.

Thoughts at the time were that either a live round got mixed in with the blanks or inert ones at the armour or a 3rd party deliberately swapped an inert shell out for a live one somewhere in the journey from the armourer to the pistol being handed to Alec Baldwin on set.

Like above, I can't see how any of that makes Baldwin the culpable party in this instance?

[RyeSloan]

From what I read at the time, there was no requirement for live ammunition, and none was supposed to be anywhere near the set.

Thoughts at the time were that either a live round got mixed in with the blanks or inert ones at the armour or a 3rd party deliberately swapped an inert shell out for a live one somewhere in the journey from the armourer to the pistol being handed to Alec Baldwin on set.

Like above, I can't see how any of that makes Baldwin the culpable party in this instance?

But are blank bullets not quite distinctly different from a live one?

Whoever loaded the weapon must have been able to tell the difference or simply wasn’t ensuring they were putting blanks in the gun. Even then it’s hard to imagine someone even casually not noticing they are putting a real shell into a clip and not a blank…the look and weight are a total giveaway.

Then there is the fact that surely they can use front venting blank guns in a movie rather than an actual viable weapon!

But as others have said I’m unclear as to how any of this is on Baldwin…he seems as much a victim as the poor person that got shot.

[Hibrandenburg]

But are blank bullets not quite distinctly different from a live one?

Whoever loaded the weapon must have been able to tell the difference or simply wasn’t ensuring they were putting blanks in the gun. Even then it’s hard to imagine someone even casually not noticing they are putting a real shell into a clip and not a blank…the look and weight are a total giveaway.

Then there is the fact that surely they can use front venting blank guns in a movie rather than an actual viable weapon!

But as others have said I’m unclear as to how any of this is on Baldwin…he seems as much a victim as the poor person that got shot.

I can't shake the feeling that there's a Colombo style murder happened here.

[Mon Dieu4]

But are blank bullets not quite distinctly different from a live one?

Whoever loaded the weapon must have been able to tell the difference or simply wasn’t ensuring they were putting blanks in the gun. Even then it’s hard to imagine someone even casually not noticing they are putting a real shell into a clip and not a blank…the look and weight are a total giveaway.

Then there is the fact that surely they can use front venting blank guns in a movie rather than an actual viable weapon!

But as others have said I’m unclear as to how any of this is on Baldwin…he seems as much a victim as the poor person that got shot.

Not sure what happen in this case but in the case of Brandon Lee it was the fact that a dummy bullet hadn't ejected properly and was still in the chamber, then when they put another blank in the chamber to make it look like the gun was firing it effectively turned the original unejected casing into a bullet

[RyeSloan]

Not sure what happen in this case but in the case of Brandon Lee it was the fact that a dummy bullet hadn't ejected properly and was still in the chamber, then when they put another blank in the chamber to make it look like the gun was firing it effectively turned the original unejected casing into a bullet

Ahh interesting thanks…makes sense how that could happen and be accidental.

The reporting in this case seems to quote ‘live round’ though so maybe not the same?

My quick google isn’t definitive tho as maybe ‘live round’ might also cover blanks.

Seems tho that Baldwin is being charged again as he insisted he didn’t pull the trigger and the gun discharged itself after being cocked…testing has kind of proven (the broken the original gun trying to repeat the feat) that the trigger must have been pulled for it to have fired.

[Just Alf]

But are blank bullets not quite distinctly different from a live one?

Whoever loaded the weapon must have been able to tell the difference or simply wasn’t ensuring they were putting blanks in the gun. Even then it’s hard to imagine someone even casually not noticing they are putting a real shell into a clip and not a blank…the look and weight are a total giveaway.

Then there is the fact that surely they can use front venting blank guns in a movie rather than an actual viable weapon!

But as others have said I’m unclear as to how any of this is on Baldwin…he seems as much a victim as the poor person that got shot.You're right blanks and
Real ones are different to look at, I think the issue is they were also using inert bullets which look identical to the real thing (used for close ups when loading a gun etc)

[Moulin Yarns]

Adverts that appear on my Instagram and Facebook after my wife has looked at or bought from them. Just creepy!!!

[Northernhibee]

“Being pished” being an excuse for downright bad behaviour.

An older boy at the game was absolutely bellowing at the team from the first whistle and getting everyone’s backs up. Some guy turned round and told him to shut up or support the team, and his mate kept on saying “go easy on him, he’s pished” only for his well pickled made to start going “you want some” to a much younger, fitter, and rightfully irritated person. If you’re pished, that’s your fault.


II was probably a wee fanny at times when I was younger but I’m also not using the booze as an excuse - I was being a wee fanny and if I handled my booze better I wouldn’t have been as much of a wee fanny most likely.

[Pretty Boy]

“Being pished” being an excuse for downright bad behaviour.

An older boy at the game was absolutely bellowing at the team from the first whistle and getting everyone’s backs up. Some guy turned round and told him to shut up or support the team, and his mate kept on saying “go easy on him, he’s pished” only for his well pickled made to start going “you want some” to a much younger, fitter, and rightfully irritated person. If you’re pished, that’s your fault.


II was probably a wee fanny at times when I was younger but I’m also not using the booze as an excuse - I was being a wee fanny and if I handled my booze better I wouldn’t have been as much of a wee fanny most likely.

100%. Being a dick when you are drunk is still being a dick. And if you are pulled up on your behaviour when drunk then it's probably time to rethink your drinking habits.

I like a drink as much as anyone but if I'm (even more of) an ******** when I'm drunk then that might be explanation but it's not an excuse.

[DH1875]

Adverts that appear on my Instagram and Facebook after my wife has looked at or bought from them. Just creepy!!!

Yeah, especially when its those toy shops 😯.

[Moulin Yarns]

Yeah, especially when its those toy shops ��.

most recent one was What the Crap toilet paper!!!! :faf::faf::faf:

[Keith_M]

I can't shake the feeling that there's a Colombo style murder happened here.


27612

[Northernhibee]

The fuss about Tom Kerridge’s expensive fish and chips in Harrods.

Nobody goes into Harrods for good value. Nobody is going there for other reasons than to boast about going there, and nobody is being stopped from using their local chippy. The Venn diagram of “people going to the chippy” and “people craving fish and chips so dashing down to Harrods” is two circles.

Legit have not a clue why some people seem to have their knickers in a twist about something that matters so little. If people are prepared to pay £38 for fish and chips because it’s in Harrods and a Michelin star chef has put his name to it, then it’s not hurting anyone and why shouldn’t he push his luck a bit?

[marinello59]

My pet peeve is pet peeves. It just reminds me that our destiny from day one is to evolve in to grumpy old men. :greengrin

[Northernhibee]

My pet peeve is pet peeves. It just reminds me that our destiny from day one is to evolve in to grumpy old men. :greengrin

I’ve grown into the grumpy middle aged man role quite comfortably and enjoying it very much…

[Fuzzywuzzy]

One man's pessimist is another man's realist.

'mon the realists!!✊✊

[weecounty hibby]

Bin jockeys. The ones competing to see who can get their bin out earliest. We have a handful in our street. A couple are usually about 3pm the day before pick up. Guess what happened last night to the half dozen bins put out? All over the street. Knobs

[Bridge hibs]

Bin jockeys. The ones competing to see who can get their bin out earliest. We have a handful in our street. A couple are usually about 3pm the day before pick up. Guess what happened last night to the half dozen bins put out? All over the street. Knobs

Im the opposite, I set the clock to get up nice and early and then pace the livingroom all morning waiting on my bin being emptied so Im first to haul it up my driveway, the looks on my neighbours faces when Im first is ****ing priceless especially when my Wife runs out and we do fist bumps followed by a GIRFUY gesture

Even if the dug is in mid poop during his walk he is dragged back to the house if I spot those orange flashing lights of the bin lorry nearby

Christmas and new year play havoc with my anxiety and cause me many sleepless nights as the emptying times vary, to the point Ive emailed my local Councillor many times to address these emptying times

Mon the bin jockeys 🏆😀

[weecounty hibby]

Im the opposite, I set the clock to get up nice and early and then pace the livingroom all morning waiting on my bin being emptied so Im first to haul it up my driveway, the looks on my neighbours faces when Im first is ****ing priceless especially when my Wife runs out and we do fist bumps followed by a GIRFUY gesture

Even if the dug is in mid poop during his walk he is dragged back to the house if I spot those orange flashing lights of the bin lorry nearby

Christmas and new year play havoc with my anxiety and cause me many sleepless nights as the emptying times vary, to the point Ive emailed my local Councillor many times to address these emptying times

Mon the bin jockeys 🏆😀

That's different. Bring in ASAP after emptying is OK. Putting them out almost 24 hours previous isn't. Glad you are the champ in your street tho

[Scouse Hibee]

Im the opposite, I set the clock to get up nice and early and then pace the livingroom all morning waiting on my bin being emptied so Im first to haul it up my driveway, the looks on my neighbours faces when Im first is ****ing priceless especially when my Wife runs out and we do fist bumps followed by a GIRFUY gesture

Even if the dug is in mid poop during his walk he is dragged back to the house if I spot those orange flashing lights of the bin lorry nearby

Christmas and new year play havoc with my anxiety and cause me many sleepless nights as the emptying times vary, to the point Ive emailed my local Councillor many times to address these emptying times

Mon the bin jockeys 🏆😀

😂

[Bridge hibs]

That's different. Bring in ASAP after emptying is OK. Putting them out almost 24 hours previous isn't. Glad you are the champ in your street tho

Ive never really grasped the competitive edge of bin out putting to be honest as its simply a case of down the drive and plonk in front of the fence, even the neighbours don't seem to bother

Bin in bringing though, well thats on a different level and the adrenalin rush is out of this world, so much so my Wife takes my BP multiple times during the morning “wait”

I suppose the challenge is that the bin men never put the bin where I originally put it so at times Ive had to run halfway down the street to retrieve it !! Im always in training and twice a week I do a dry run just to keep hold of my bin jockey titles, although a couple of weeks ago the ****ing bin men almost caught me on the hop as they turned up early and I had to run out onto the street in my boxers, BP cuff still attached 🤢

[stuart-farquhar]

People with hiking sticks in urban areas and stretch their arms to claim more space. I had two of them taking up the whole pavement heading towards me. I stopped walking. They had to pull in the climbing sticks, the alternative was I blootered the ruddy things. And angry old men like me who increasingly look for things to be irritated by.

[Jim44]

My pet peeve is pet peeves. It just reminds me that our destiny from day one is to evolve in to grumpy old men. :greengrin

No evolution where I’m concerned. I’ve always been grumpy (pleasant with it I hope). I’m inclined to frown upon acquiescence.

[Just Alf]

A letter box

A very particular letter box.....

At door of the diggers pub, look over to the exit of the western approach road.... there's a metal fence to your left , 20 feet or so from the junction there's a letter box on the fence... wtf?... why?, for what? :dunno:

Does ma nut in! [emoji1787]

[Keith_M]

My pet peeve is pet peeves. It just reminds me that our destiny from day one is to evolve in to grumpy old men. :greengrin


Being a grumpy old man is my Raisin d'etre.


Oh and I also hate it when people use pretentious phrases they don't even know how to spell.

[Bridge hibs]

Oh for **** sake !! It better be home for Fridays bin jockey championship 😡 27618

[DH1875]

Our bins get emptied around 8AM so most of the street puts their bins out the night before. They are due to get done Wednesday so rubbish everywhere on Tuesday night then.

[Just_Jimmy]

A letter box

A very particular letter box.....

At door of the diggers pub, look over to the exit of the western approach road.... there's a metal fence to your left , 20 feet or so from the junction there's a letter box on the fence... wtf?... why?, for what? :dunno:

Does ma nut in! [emoji1787]Letters?

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[Just Alf]

Letters?

Sent from my SM-G991B using TapatalkAye... but to where :-)

[WeeRussell]

People who claim to be “excited” by something happening at non-exciting work. If a technical update to a financial services application gets them excited, I’d hate to see the state of them if they ever got their leg over.

And the tit that adds “super” in front of it deserves to never get said leg close to over.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

And the tit that adds “super” in front of it deserves to never get said leg close to over.

I'm super excited etc deserves a Kevin Bridges style "Are you aye"?

[speedy_gonzales]

Twitter trolls/bots.
I enjoy browsing through Twitter and follow a few political commentators, sport vloggers and some photography channels. I rarely post, but when I do it's usually to engage with my local councillor or report infrastructure issues to the council (mainly because they respond fairly quickly and don't chase you up for personal info).
Lately I've been harangued by a couple of prolific trolls who keep nipping away with no agenda or salient point to be made.
There's just no need, I didn't initially engage with you, I made my point, now bore off!
I know I could block or "ignore" but maybe I'm to stubborn 🤔

[Jones28]

Badly placed toilet roll dispensers.

If I have to do yoga moves to get at it, it does not belong where it is.

[Just_Jimmy]

Aye... but to where :-)From America

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[matty_f]

Bin jockeys. The ones competing to see who can get their bin out earliest. We have a handful in our street. A couple are usually about 3pm the day before pick up. Guess what happened last night to the half dozen bins put out? All over the street. Knobs

Binfluencers.

[Bridge hibs]

Binfluencers.

Oi, I resemble that remark 🫣

[Northernhibee]

People at comedy shows who think they’re a part if it.

Went to see the one off “Daniel Sloss and Friends” show in Kirkcaldy last night and was sat behind three people. They booed when someone in the audience said they were from England. They booed when Daniel Sloss said he lived in Edinburgh. One of them shouted “carry on” when he put in a pause for comedic effect to allow a particularly awful joke to sink in. They chatted to each other all night with ‘hilarious’ quips. They were ****ing irritating to everyone around them.


They were Glaswegian which again goes back to my regular gripe that Glasgow is the least funny city on earth but still.


On the plus side on the way there we seen two drunk older people try to have a drunken embrace on the street, only to topple like two shop mannequins through somebody’s hedge, landing perfectly on top of each other.

[ErinGoBraghHFC]

People at comedy shows who think they’re a part if it.

Went to see the one off “Daniel Sloss and Friends” show in Kirkcaldy last night and was sat behind three people. They booed when someone in the audience said they were from England. They booed when Daniel Sloss said he lived in Edinburgh. One of them shouted “carry on” when he put in a pause for comedic effect to allow a particularly awful joke to sink in. They chatted to each other all night with ‘hilarious’ quips. They were ****ing irritating to everyone around them.


They were Glaswegian which again goes back to my regular gripe that Glasgow is the least funny city on earth but still.


On the plus side on the way there we seen two drunk older people try to have a drunken embrace on the street, only to topple like two shop mannequins through somebody’s hedge, landing perfectly on top of each other.

I went to Colin Geddis in the merchant city, same thing happened there. Irritating as ****


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[sleeping giant]

Badly placed toilet roll dispensers.

If I have to do yoga moves to get at it, it does not belong where it is.

😄

[Bridge hibs]

Badly placed toilet roll dispensers.

If I have to do yoga moves to get at it, it does not belong where it is.

Just use the walls like most manky *******s do at Edinburgh airport 🤢

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

Just use the walls like most manky *******s do at Edinburgh airport 🤢

🤔

[J-C]

People who use toilets in public places and leave them like a bomb site. I use the toilets at the Western General when I rank there, toilet paper and hand towels on the floor, piss on the floor or over the bowl, filthy gets.

[Jones28]

People who use toilets in public places and leave them like a bomb site. I use the toilets at the Western General when I rank there, toilet paper and hand towels on the floor, piss on the floor or over the bowl, filthy gets.

They’d disgusting, I honestly can’t understand it.

It must take more effort to make toilets minging than it would be to leave them in a reasonable state.

[overdrive]

On the topic of toilets. The urinal at Prahna in Corstorphine. It is placed too high. You can still pee in it but it feels weird. I'm 5ft 9 and I feel anyone shorter might need to stand on their tip toes or aim upwards. One time we went with a group and one guy who is shorter than me had never been to the restaurant before. I warned him before he went to the toilet - he took one look at it and used the cubicle instead. He's a plumber and suggested it was put in by one particular plumber who apparently has a reputation for placing urinals and wash hand basins at awkward heights.

[Pretty Boy]

People calling Bill Foley 'Mr Foley'.

Mr Romanov type chat.

[lyonhibs]

People calling Bill Foley 'Mr Foley'.

Mr Romanov type chat.

And at the opposite end of that scale, football fans that refer to players using their first name only, as if they're pals, especially when watching in the pub.

[Pretty Boy]

And at the opposite end of that scale, football fans that refer to players using their first name only, as if they're pals, especially when watching in the pub.

And players nicknames.

I blame Hibs social media for that one. Cadds, Millsy, Ginto, Geeds.......

It's one of those things that gives me proper second hand embarrassment.

[Fuzzywuzzy]

Wifes folks using my cup. I like my cup, I only use my cup, it's my cup. They drink tea like it's water. They can't clean the cups properly and leave it all tea stained!!!

I've taken to hiding my cup now

[McD]

And players nicknames.

I blame Hibs social media for that one. Cadds, Millsy, Ginto, Geeds.......

It's one of those things that gives me proper second hand embarrassment.



This reminds me of teenage years in the 90s, when every rangers player seemed to have the same pish standard of nickname that got bandied about constantly: goughie, coisty, laudo, robbo, fergie, etc.

And as you say, folk who’d never got within 20 feet of these players talking about them with the nicknames like they’re best mates :rolleyes:

[danhibees1875]

Not sure it's a peeve but not having a button/code which can deactivate the buttons on my TV remote.

My daughter likes to play with the remote if she's watching some TV and invariably it results in pausing/rewinding/muting/changing channel etc which needs undone. I typically faf around removing a battery then give her the remote to play with but a simpler solution would be nice. :greengrin

[The Modfather]

Not sure it's a peeve but not having a button/code which can deactivate the buttons on my TV remote.

My daughter likes to play with the remote if she's watching some TV and invariably it results in pausing/rewinding/muting/changing channel etc which needs undone. I typically faf around removing a battery then give her the remote to play with but a simpler solution would be nice. :greengrin

My daughter did that when she was younger. We learned how to use the sky remote for flipping between HDMI ports or getting into the options menu for the TV. Previously we used to do that through the TV remote and then use the SKY remote for changing channels. We ended up getting rid of the TV remote. She’s either a child prodigy or I’m a dinosaur, or both 😀

[overdrive]

Inaccurate cooking times on food packaging. I know it depends on your oven, etc. but some of them are ridiculous.

Put some garlic bread in the oven the other night. "Cook at 180C fan for 16-20 minutes" was the "from chilled" instruction. We were a bit suspicious of this as our normal garlic bread we buy isn't anything like that timing and neither is it when we buy a part-baked baguette and make our own garlic filling. Looked at it after 12 minutes... burnt. 8 minutes probably would have been right.

Put on some falafel for my lunch today. "Fan 180C for 12-16 minutes". Took it out after 10 and it was rather crisp.

On the other end of the scale, cooked some gnocchi last night that we had froze. "1-2 minutes from chilled, 2-3 minutes from frozen". More like 5 minutes from frozen

[Stairway 2 7]

Inaccurate cooking times on food packaging. I know it depends on your oven, etc. but some of them are ridiculous.

Put some garlic bread in the oven the other night. "Cook at 180C fan for 16-20 minutes" was the "from chilled" instruction. We were a bit suspicious of this as our normal garlic bread we buy isn't anything like that timing and neither is it when we buy a part-baked baguette and make our own garlic filling. Looked at it after 12 minutes... burnt. 8 minutes probably would have been right.

Put on some falafel for my lunch today. "Fan 180C for 12-16 minutes". Took it out after 10 and it was rather crisp.

On the other end of the scale, cooked some gnocchi last night that we had froze. "1-2 minutes from chilled, 2-3 minutes from frozen". More like 5 minutes from frozen

On timings, my washing machine saying it has 2 minutes to go then taking 8. If you need more time pal just say don't have me standing there

[nonshinyfinish]

On timings, my washing machine saying it has 2 minutes to go then taking 8. If you need more time pal just say don't have me standing there

My washing machine is like this:

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/estimation.png

[Stairway 2 7]

My washing machine is like this:

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/estimation.png

😆 brilliant

[overdrive]

On timings, my washing machine saying it has 2 minutes to go then taking 8. If you need more time pal just say don't have me standing there

My washing machine does similar - the display even goes back up. Noticed it said 5 mins to go the other day. Looked two minutes later and it said 6 mins

[lapsedhibee]

My washing machine does similar - the display even goes back up. Noticed it said 5 mins to go the other day. Looked two minutes later and it said 6 mins

Time passes more slowly or quickly according to what speed the drum is spinning at. Something to do with Einstein I think.

[O'Rourke3]

On timings, my washing machine saying it has 2 minutes to go then taking 8. If you need more time pal just say don't have me standing thereJust been listening to a load of old "No such thing ad a fish" podcasts where this came up. Washing machine timings are always an estimate and the changes come about depending on the weight of the load in the machine and the amount of water required for that weight, not the programme. So the spin cycle changes etc.

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[grunt]

Washing machine timings are always an estimate and the changes come about depending on the weight of the load in the machine and the amount of water required for that weight, not the programme. So the spin cycle changes etc.

Things you never thought you'd read on a football forum #4387.

[Pretty Boy]

'I can get it cheaper online'.

An increasingly common phrase in my line of work. I've no issue with online shopping when you know what you want and just click a few buttons. My objection is when I speak to a Customer who I then arrange to go out and meet often more than once, provide them with catalogues, discuss their requirements with them and make recommendations, arrange samples for them, arrange to have a quote prepared, arrange a credit account, arrange spec sheets etc etc. Then after receiving the quote it will be 'I really like the X, Y and Z but I can get it cheaper online'.

So basically you are saying that my experience, knowledge and time is worth nothing? Saving £21 on an order worth several hundred of even thousands of pounds is worth more than the time I gave you. And good luck getting any kind of after sales service from the 2.5 star rated seller on Amazon.

I hear people boasting about doing it in shops too. One of my mates went to a running shop, had his gait analysed, tried about 6 pair of shoes on the treadmill, said no thanks then went home and bought the ones he liked online for a tenner cheaper than the shop. He seemed really proud of himself when in reality he has taken 45 minutes of someone's time with no reward for them at the end of it. That's time they could have spent with a customer actually intending to buy from them.

It's like people want all the perks of personal service with no intention of paying for it. They'll miss it when it's gone.

[Northernhibee]

'I can get it cheaper online'.

An increasingly common phrase in my line of work. I've no issue with online shopping when you know what you want and just click a few buttons. My objection is when I speak to a Customer who I then arrange to go out and meet often more than once, provide them with catalogues, discuss their requirements with them and make recommendations, arrange samples for them, arrange to have a quote prepared, arrange a credit account, arrange spec sheets etc etc. Then after receiving the quote it will be 'I really like the X, Y and Z but I can get it cheaper online'.

So basically you are saying that my experience, knowledge and time is worth nothing? Saving £21 on an order worth several hundred of even thousands of pounds is worth more than the time I gave you. And good luck getting any kind of after sales service from the 2.5 star rated seller on Amazon.

I hear people boasting about doing it in shops too. One of my mates went to a running shop, had his gait analysed, tried about 6 pair of shoes on the treadmill, said no thanks then went home and bought the ones he liked online for a tenner cheaper than the shop. He seemed really proud of himself when in reality he has taken 45 minutes of someone's time with no reward for them at the end of it. That's time they could have spent with a customer actually intending to buy from them.

It's like people want all the perks of personal service with no intention of paying for it. They'll miss it when it's gone.

Absolutely bang on the money.


I used to sell cars (and not all car salespeople are *****, despite my attempts to disprove the theory sometimes) and the carwow sites and the like ****ed it for people like myself who wanted to look after their customers and make sure that they were getting the right car with the right options at the right time.


Would spend hours with people only for them to say “oh, a dealership down in Bristol is offering it at this price”. It pushes people like myself out of the industry (which it did) and not the hard salespeople ***** who give the industry a bad name.


In the end if someone came in and said “I’ll be going on to carwow and be going with the cheapest price” I refused to do anything but give them a price of what they asked for and explained why. People seemed staggered that I wouldn’t give out hours of my time for test drives and showing them round models and the like.


Usually what would happen is someone would be offered a too good to be true price, then come back a month later and say that they had been offered an older version of a model or pre reg or something they weren’t expecting.

[Jones28]

'I can get it cheaper online'.

An increasingly common phrase in my line of work. I've no issue with online shopping when you know what you want and just click a few buttons. My objection is when I speak to a Customer who I then arrange to go out and meet often more than once, provide them with catalogues, discuss their requirements with them and make recommendations, arrange samples for them, arrange to have a quote prepared, arrange a credit account, arrange spec sheets etc etc. Then after receiving the quote it will be 'I really like the X, Y and Z but I can get it cheaper online'.

So basically you are saying that my experience, knowledge and time is worth nothing? Saving £21 on an order worth several hundred of even thousands of pounds is worth more than the time I gave you. And good luck getting any kind of after sales service from the 2.5 star rated seller on Amazon.

I hear people boasting about doing it in shops too. One of my mates went to a running shop, had his gait analysed, tried about 6 pair of shoes on the treadmill, said no thanks then went home and bought the ones he liked online for a tenner cheaper than the shop. He seemed really proud of himself when in reality he has taken 45 minutes of someone's time with no reward for them at the end of it. That's time they could have spent with a customer actually intending to buy from them.

It's like people want all the perks of personal service with no intention of paying for it. They'll miss it when it's gone.

Agree with this completely.

In my previous job I would get customers on the phone with me for half an hour, I would talk them through their requirements, give them advice on various legislation and schemes (farming stuff) and basically having done 99% of the work they would say “but so and so are 45p a kilo cheaper than you”, to which I would say to them that price is not the only factor to consider and so on and so forth.

Needless to say I’ve had a few arguments with folk who think the pennies will all add up to make them millionaires when the reality is that the product saving them money was sub standard and would need replacing a lot quicker, effectively doubling their costs.

[Pretty Boy]

Drunk people when you are sober.

My wife was out on Friday afternoon/evening, day started at 2 and I'd said I would pick her up. Get a message about 8 saying can you pick me up in an hour. Arrive and half the people in attendance are out in the street 'just to say hi'.

Then we get in the car and she starts telling me this rambling story that started with 'you can't tell X I told you this but'. Firstly you clearly can't be trusted with a secret when you have had a drink, secondly I have no ****ing idea who X is. This story went on and on with a lot of repetition, a whole load of waffle about people I have never heard of and have no interest in then ended abruptly with the square root of nothing seeming to have happened. Certainly nothing worthy of 15 minutes of rambling.

Needless to say the whole story was started over again the following morning opening with 'Oh I never told you.....'. Yes, yes you really did.

[Hibrandenburg]

Drunk people when you are sober.

My wife was out on Friday afternoon/evening, day started at 2 and I'd said I would pick her up. Get a message about 8 saying can you pick me up in an hour. Arrive and half the people in attendance are out in the street 'just to say hi'.

Then we get in the car and she starts telling me this rambling story that started with 'you can't tell X I told you this but'. Firstly you clearly can't be trusted with a secret when you have had a drink, secondly I have no ****ing idea who X is. This story went on and on with a lot of repetition, a whole load of waffle about people I have never heard of and have no interest in then ended abruptly with the square root of nothing seeming to have happened. Certainly nothing worthy of 15 minutes of rambling.

Needless to say the whole story was started over again the following morning opening with 'Oh I never told you.....'. Yes, yes you really did.

I hate drunk people even when I'm drunk.

[J-C]

Drunk people when you are sober.

My wife was out on Friday afternoon/evening, day started at 2 and I'd said I would pick her up. Get a message about 8 saying can you pick me up in an hour. Arrive and half the people in attendance are out in the street 'just to say hi'.

Then we get in the car and she starts telling me this rambling story that started with 'you can't tell X I told you this but'. Firstly you clearly can't be trusted with a secret when you have had a drink, secondly I have no ****ing idea who X is. This story went on and on with a lot of repetition, a whole load of waffle about people I have never heard of and have no interest in then ended abruptly with the square root of nothing seeming to have happened. Certainly nothing worthy of 15 minutes of rambling.

Needless to say the whole story was started over again the following morning opening with 'Oh I never told you.....'. Yes, yes you really did.

My wife does this but not drunk, starts talking about people she works beside, I have no idea who these people are but I nod away tentatively listening not caring one jot.

[Jones28]

Drunk people when you are sober.

My wife was out on Friday afternoon/evening, day started at 2 and I'd said I would pick her up. Get a message about 8 saying can you pick me up in an hour. Arrive and half the people in attendance are out in the street 'just to say hi'.

Then we get in the car and she starts telling me this rambling story that started with 'you can't tell X I told you this but'. Firstly you clearly can't be trusted with a secret when you have had a drink, secondly I have no ****ing idea who X is. This story went on and on with a lot of repetition, a whole load of waffle about people I have never heard of and have no interest in then ended abruptly with the square root of nothing seeming to have happened. Certainly nothing worthy of 15 minutes of rambling.

Needless to say the whole story was started over again the following morning opening with 'Oh I never told you.....'. Yes, yes you really did.

My wife was like that last Saturday, came in absolutely steaming and was so bloody obnoxiously loud coming in the house.

She would have been raging if it was me.

And yes then the story spew started and was then repeated to me the next day.

[overdrive]

Folk at the gym who move around with no spatial awareness near resistance machines. I was on the converging chest press machine last night and I had to stop a few times as people wandered into the path of the arms of the machine whilst I was in the process of pushing it out. Same on some of the leg machines.

Whilst we are on the topic of space and gyms, the male changing room at my gym is in front of a lowered area that is often used for circuits classes. For some reason the instructors are now using the open corridor bit between the changing room door and the wall that separates the lowered area for part of the class. I came out of the changing room and almost got hit by someone doing walking lunges whilst carrying a weight.

[marinello59]

Sober people when you are drunk.
Despite being supremely witty and a first rate raconteur after a few will they listen to me? No they won't. Their loss.

[lyonhibs]

Agree with this completely.

In my previous job I would get customers on the phone with me for half an hour, I would talk them through their requirements, give them advice on various legislation and schemes (farming stuff) and basically having done 99% of the work they would say “but so and so are 45p a kilo cheaper than you”, to which I would say to them that price is not the only factor to consider and so on and so forth.

Needless to say I’ve had a few arguments with folk who think the pennies will all add up to make them millionaires when the reality is that the product saving them money was sub standard and would need replacing a lot quicker, effectively doubling their costs.

Buy cheap, buy twice as they say.

[Oscar T Grouch]

Drunk people when you are sober.

My wife was out on Friday afternoon/evening, day started at 2 and I'd said I would pick her up. Get a message about 8 saying can you pick me up in an hour. Arrive and half the people in attendance are out in the street 'just to say hi'.

Then we get in the car and she starts telling me this rambling story that started with 'you can't tell X I told you this but'. Firstly you clearly can't be trusted with a secret when you have had a drink, secondly I have no ****ing idea who X is. This story went on and on with a lot of repetition, a whole load of waffle about people I have never heard of and have no interest in then ended abruptly with the square root of nothing seeming to have happened. Certainly nothing worthy of 15 minutes of rambling.

Needless to say the whole story was started over again the following morning opening with 'Oh I never told you.....'. Yes, yes you really did.

I can almost put up with the tedious repetition of stories throughout a night but my real bug bear is invasion of my personal space by drunks. I am hypersensitive to touch at the best of times so to have an inebriated individual touching me, standing next to me to the point of leaning on me or just being handsy really rips my knitting. So much so that I mostly avoid nights that I know that the drink will be flowing. When I drank it would numb my sensitivity to the problem but now I am teetotal it is a real nightmare.

[Keith_M]

I hate drunk people even when I'm drunk.


I hate sober people, they're just so dull.

[Hibrandenburg]

I hate sober people, they're just so dull.

How would you know :confused:

[Fuzzywuzzy]

Idiots putting their bins out when it's windy. Their crap blowing all over the street. Then not being arsed to pick up their own rubbish because they are lazy twats!!.

On twats, why do the idiot Americans say twot instead of twat.