:agree: Tell that to the kids today and they won't believe you.Quote:
Originally Posted by s.a.m
(source: The 4 Yorkshiremen)
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:agree: Tell that to the kids today and they won't believe you.Quote:
Originally Posted by s.a.m
(source: The 4 Yorkshiremen)
People making up their own 'traditions'.
Not content with destroying the face of the Greyfriars Bobby statue it now seems rubbing the toe of David Hume is also a 'tradition' and lo and behold the whole foot has become discoloured.
I've lived in Edinburgh almost my whole life and had never heard of this nonsense until the effects of what is essentially vandalism became apparent.
Probably already been touched upon in this thread, but nuisance calls seem to be as plentiful as ever, despite laws being introduced. For example, I read that companies, who cold call, now have to reveal their phone number. Some get round this by somehow transferring their number to a local number that tricks you into thinking it's an important call. Some companies appear as International on the display, but it turns out to be a wee lassie from Liverpool.
Obvious spelling mistakes in thread titles on the MB not being corrected
There's an advert in the window of Scotmid on Easter Road advertising vacancies for "Shift Supervisor ,s".Quote:
Originally Posted by O'Rourke3
Did you see the person who was charging their electric car from the first floor flat on the other side of the road? Only in Leith :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Future17
Social media videos proclaiming to show events that they clearly are not with the intention of causing racial tension. No different to 1930's Nazi propaganda.
I trust both the car and the culprit were charged.Quote:
Originally Posted by lord bunberry
Ha ha.Quote:
Originally Posted by snooky
Cheers for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by s.a.m
Very interesting :greengrin:
Get one of these and say goodbye to nuisance calls.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
http://home.bt.com/news/bt-life/putt...11363934197581
I've heard of this phone and might go for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by grunt
While I get seriously peed off with these calls, I find some of them quite funny. On one occasion when I didn't tell the caller to f-off, I let him continue. This Asian voice told me that the warranty on my telly was about to expire. Which telly is that, I asked. Silence, then, ....... Ah, the one in your living room. What make of telly is it, I asked .... Longer silence, then, ......... Eh, Zanussi! ...... f-off ya muppet! :greengrin
The wee knobbly bit at the end of a banana.
Bill Clinton had the opposite problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
I was getting 5-10 nuisance calls a day and got his phone. I've had it for 3 months now and not a single nuisance call sinceQuote:
Originally Posted by grunt
I quite like talking to these people and winding them up.
If I have time and in the mood I do too, especially the ones who call with a distinctly sub-continent accent saying "Hello my name is Philip Smith calling from Windows". I'm either "Whit's wrang wi' ma windaes like - P+D an' that ken - all guid" or adopting a role as a southern Baptist Preacher claiming I will only deal with people who are saved and have been born again to Jee-sus. Ive had one pray with me, where we together requested of the almighty the good health of the sainted Franck and that the chirch of Hibernian thrives. He eventually left the call telling me to f*** off and, a bit oddly, that all my electricity would fail within three days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
If I'm in the mood I partake in this behaviour too, its oddly satisfying! :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
The wee fannies who stay near me, that think it's perfectly acceptable to play football on the field outside my bedroom at half past midnight. Now can't sleep because I got so worked up banging the window in a fit of rage telling them to **** off.
Spellcheck.
I spend more time changing words that have been changed automatically by spellcheck than the time I take to correct the words I actually spell wrong.
The sicko that invented spellcheck must be the same guy that invented automatic indentation and numbering.
He's a dead man if I ever find him.
This is the problem scottish football faces. Anytime young folk do make it outside for a jumpers for goalposts kick around there's usually a grumpy bassa banging on a window telling them to get back to their playstations and ipads :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by #FromTheCapital
Tourists who have no perception of pavement/road/danger/traffic :grr:
fruit flies.
This drives me mad, would they walk out in front of cars in their own country?! :grr:Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
Aye, spellcheck's a pain in the arm right enough, but the guy that invented it died last week. His funfair was hello on Money.Quote:
Originally Posted by snooky
In short yes. Here in Germany for example pedestrians have right of way on most minor roads and crossings that aren't regulated by traffic lights.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibee_girl
I remember when i first went to live in Dusseldorf negotiating the red and green man. Locals took a dim view of walking across the road if it was a red man. Also cars coming at you when its a green man can be a bit scary!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
Groups of 3-4 people walking along side-by-side, slow as ****, forcing me to walk around them. Or people standing in groups in busy streets. Generally just people being lacking self awareness and being obstructive does my nut in.
The tit that was eating a bowl of cereal while he was walking down the road this morning.
Don't care if you Lee Wallace me. I have a strong alibi :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Caversham Green
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Originally Posted by lord bunberry
If I hadn't been taking the bairn to school I would have said something. Never in my life have I thought when I'm running late will I pour myself a bowl of cereal and eat it on the way. :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by sleeping giant
Bellends who think it's acceptable in a public park (literally 100 yards away from a public golf course) to hammer golf balls into the area you're walking your dog in.
3 balls landed about 6ft away from me and the dug.
Fannies.
Moving targets are more of a challenge. :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Craig_HFC
:greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
Would you walk in front of traffic in a foreign country because you'd forgotten which way the traffic was coming from? [emoji6]Quote:
Originally Posted by hibee_girl
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No, I'm not that stupid :smug:Quote:
Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
You Might not be, but its easy done. Especially in amsterdam where I have looked the wrong way thinking its a clear road/path and had little bells furiously chime at me.......but i blame other things :smokinQuote:
Originally Posted by hibee_girl
What you have to remember is that, for a Brit, it's common for us to go abroad and be aware of the change in traffic directions. It's rare for us to travel and NOT have that to deal with.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibee_girl
For most nationalities, though, driving on the left is a very unusual experience... and it's very easy to forget about it if it's the first time you've experienced it.
I still do it all the time when abroad, it's just a natural reaction to look a certain way when crossing the road. Thankfully most tourists resorts have zebra crossing style systems at most junctions for idiots like me.:greengrin When in a foreign city, I just make sure to cross at proper crossings.Quote:
Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
The Olympic running track being blue. Just no need.
Well, if the diving pool is green....Quote:
Originally Posted by Victor Park
Folk that sit on the outside seat on the bus/train and leave the inside seat empty, weirdos!
People that can't cut a block of cheese, you know what I mean, you go to the fridge and it like it's been attacked by a hedge strummer, seriously it's in a block, cut straight down and it's job done
Mmmmm cheese :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Mon Dieu4
Folk that always leave some beer in the bottom of their pint glass and say they never drink the last bit WTF is that about?
Likewise when there's a good mouthful in the bottom of your glass and the minute your head is turned the barmaid takes it away. Happened to me a couple of days ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
Beelin'
This ever-growing obsession about selling out our end, home or away.
Hedge, Joe's less famous brother. 😀Quote:
Originally Posted by Mon Dieu4
UK petrol pumps. Why doesn't the wee latch that keeps the pump running without you having to continuously press the trigger work?
This has troubled me too :agree:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
Good spot
I think it's back pressure that triggers a safety cut off.Quote:
Originally Posted by sleeping giant
If this is a whoosh post - sorry :wink:
There is a little switch on the handle of the pump to hold it open while it fills the car. They don't work :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by snooky
Really tall people who stand at the front at gigs.
Your post has just got me wondering how many other people living in the UK don't realise what the little switch is even for?Quote:
Originally Posted by sleeping giant
All of this "up top" p$$h that commentators keep using! When did it change from up front?
Defenders at the back and forwards up front, simple!
My mate and I were at a gig at the Corn Exchange not long after it opened (would have been either Travis or Blur (who opened the venue, IIRC)) and his view was obscured by a midget on the person in front's shoulders.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
Oh dear! There was a wee guy in front of me at Grandaddy last night who's view was obscured by a 6 foot 5 giant who planted himself 2 from the front. Poor wee guy couldn't see a thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
Along those lines but not quite the same, I sat in a comletely empty train carriage in Jordanhill on a train going in to the centre of Glasgow. A woman got on and sat down beside me and didn't say a single word the whole journey. Creepy. :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
They need to "change it up"Quote:
Originally Posted by Chip shop Joe
Top top players.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danderhall Hibs
Leaves in curry.
The one remote control that always has a missing battery cover.
Every time I pick it up I have to then search for the batteries.
Or loose battery covers that always slip off, sometimes spilling the batteries.Quote:
Originally Posted by sleeping giant
Tape normally does the trick but in my house, that's the start of the pecking about how we need a totally new TV/DVD player or whatever.
Edinburgh trams ringing their bell every 2 seconds for absolutely no reason, when there is no-one anywhere near it.
Sultanas, pineapples or bananas in a curry. In short, fruit in savoury meals. It's just not right!Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
Adverts for Love Honey during Live at the Apollo while I'm sitting watching with the kids .
Deary me
Pineapple on Pizza.Quote:
Originally Posted by Galahibby
Wrong
Disagree on that one, love pineapple on pizza. Hot dog pizza crust on the other hand...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozymandias
If a tram rings it bell in Edinburgh, but there is no-one anywhere near it, does it make a sound?Quote:
Originally Posted by IrnBru22
Yes I agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozymandias
You may love it and that is your right. However, apparently people love Hearts and they are every bit as wrongQuote:
Originally Posted by #FromTheCapital
I agree in general but I must say that bananas dipped lemon juice then smothered in coconut as nice with a really hot curry.Quote:
Originally Posted by Galahibby
WTF really? I couldn't bring myself to try it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
You Scousers have no culture. :greengrin Seriously, it's a classic curry accompaniment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
I can imagine doing it and then you telling me it was a wind up :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
BMW drivers. ****ers
Indeed. A morally abhorrent practice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozymandias
That's exactly what I thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
I've been out for a lot of curries. Not once have I been asked if I'd like a banana, lemon juice and coconut on the side.
You've not been to the right places. :greengrin Here you go :Quote:
Originally Posted by easty
http://www.saveur.com/article/recipe...grated-coconut
To be fair it looks better than it sounds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
Waking up at the crack of dawn on a Saturday morning, when I feel like I could happily sleep until noon during the week when the alarm goes off for work.
She's a lovely lassie though! :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by #FromTheCapital
No sure about that crack though :-DQuote:
Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
When you order a round and the bar person pours the Guinness last.
Headphones that leak noise, no excuse for it in this day and age.
Guy across from me on the bus has ACDC blaring out. It must be close to deafening him because I can hear every word.
Charities to whom you already pay a monthly donation, sending letters and phoning constantly asking for you to increase your donation. Just makes me want to cancel it altogether.
When your working in a bar and someone orders the Guinness last in a big round. :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
People that order tea or coffee in a boozer, I wouldnae go to Starbucks if I fancied a pint!
Agreed, ****ing ****ersQuote:
Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
People who pay by credit card in the taxi. Do these people realise that it takes up to a month for me to get paid for these jobs? No where in the world would a business man be made to wait that length of time.
If you offer the facility then you can hardly complain. Or are you governed by your operator?Quote:
Originally Posted by lord bunberry
I get paid once a month, it's fairly common - think everyone at my work is the same. Same with the last place I worked as well, and the one before that.Quote:
Originally Posted by lord bunberry
Checked with the Mrs, she has to wait a month to get paid for her with as well.
Posts that come across way more smart arse than you meant them to.
I reckon less than half our clients pay within a month of us invoicing them.Quote:
Originally Posted by lord bunberry
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Originally Posted by matty_f
:tee hee:Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
People should take this in the sprit that's it's intended as this isn't a "serious" thread. Of course cab drivers welcome payment in any form and happily to boot...but one month is one hell of a wait. That's a huge contrast to the instant payment that you receive with cash.Quote:
Originally Posted by lord bunberry
One of the black cabs main competitors, Uber, tries to hammer home a laughable message that they are new technology while blacks are old school and inferior. I try to encourage credit card use as contactless payment is as easy as PayPal and every "modern" transaction helps to cut through their lies and slowly make people realise that the only "old tech" in a black cab is the compulsory capping of fares so you don't get ripped off.
:taxi
We are governed by the operator.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
You're correct and I generally don't mind, but on Thursday I was working and it was after 21:00 before I got a cash job. I'd payed out £10.80 in airport fees and guy handed me a £50 note for a fare that was under £10. I had to go to the bank to get some money out :greengrin. City cabs have brought in a new system for their app, where you can store your card details so you don't have to have your card with you when you get a taxi. This is a good idea, but the problem is that city cabs take so long to pay the money to me. If I get one of these jobs at the start of the month, I don't get paid until the 20th of the next month. I didn't even have enough to put an accumulator on the football on Thursday, it ruined my night :greengrin.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete
Why are you going near the airport during the festival? :greengrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by lord bunberry
That's a great feature for the app and to the customer, it puts you on a technological par with the cockroaches that use PayPal. That months wait is a bugger though but it might just have to be a necessary evil that will be made up by more reliable customers that like the app and way of paying.
Cash is king but at least you're getting it mate.