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Cats who litter their litter tray immediately after you've changed it with new litter.
Drunk or not, people are just awful.
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Originally Posted by Fuzzywuzzy
I agree about the bins, although it’s a tough one. If someone works an early shift and leaves the house at 5am, they need to put their bin out, even if it won’t be emptied til lunchtime. Folk who put them out the night before when it’s windy are just causing hassle though
My bins often get emptied quite early in the morning - I always put them out the night before.Quote:
Originally Posted by McD
Same here, must be near the start of their route.Quote:
Originally Posted by danhibees1875
Yip. Most of my street put the bins out the night before. If we didn't then they wouldn't get picked up. Does cause issues if its really windy though. Not just with rubbish. The empty bins get blown all over the street once they've been emptied and left out all day.Quote:
Originally Posted by danhibees1875
I nearly bought one of these for the bin to be told by the wife I'm creating work for the binmen
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BSDS2M...VYAY0XGE12TAVT
I mean, what they going to do? Get the teamsters on me?
When it was windy recently the bin men laid them flat after emptying them here. Great idea. Also, having 4 separate bins now means they are lighter and more likely to blow over before emptying.Quote:
Originally Posted by DH1875
The lifts in Victoria hospital Kirkcaldy.
I approach the lifts just as the lift door opened. I walk in and turn to press my floor number but there are no buttons inside the lift.
I gp back out and there's numbered buttons outside. I work out that I need to press my floor number outside then go into the lift but when I press a number, a letter appears in the panel above it. You then have to go to that specific lettered lift the whole time hoping you pushed the correct floor.
The whole time I'm thinking , who tf signed off on that as a good design.
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Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
All my in laws from Sachsen are permanently sober, of course.
As you know, people from Sachsen are an example to us all.
Not too dissimilar in terms of extra work to the covers you get for the glass recycling boxes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fuzzywuzzy
We are near the depot and they are usually with us sometime before 6.30 so we need to put them out the night before for the landfill. Recycling and food waste is a lottery when they come.
More annoying is due to the pavements in our street being on the same level as the road, the binmen seem to not bother actually returning the bins to the pavement and just leave them in the middle of the road. If you happen to be the first car in/out of the street after them you have to constantly stop, get out and move the bins so you can get past
Glasgow Queen Street station. Why do they only put the platform on the board 20 seconds before it’s due to leave?
Folk wearing wellies or boots avoiding walking through puddles
Aye, it's a bit like people wearing seat belts avoiding crashes. :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Fuzzywuzzy
Aye or wearing trainers or running shoes, I cant ****ing train and I cant run, maybe I will buy a pair of walkers next time 😀Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
It really bugs me when pundits are allowed on the pitch before the games
What gets me is the reversal of word definitions in my lifetime.
To sanction something when I was young meant to approve it. Now it means the opposite.
I want to know when this reversal happened. The exact date and who authorised this !
It means both, no?Quote:
Originally Posted by pollution
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dic...glish/sanction
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Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
I always thought it was both
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Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
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Originally Posted by McD
My pet peeve for today is when somebody has a perfectly good rant and people go and spoil it, with mere facts!
I’ll always appreciate the time when someone gave me the definition of the word “multiple”.
It meant a lot.
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Originally Posted by Northernhibee
Wrong thread?
:greengrin
I hate food shopping, doing the weekly shop and putting all the items onto the belt, still have a half full trolley and the person behind me starts putting their items up, they had a very small basket and literally 10 steps away was the self checkout, has to tell her to wait till I had all mine up, tutted like I was in the wrong. What I am noticing more and more each day is the impatience of people, everyone is in a rush.
I park my trolley at the beginning of the belt so the person behind can’t load until I’m ready.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jakhog1
Yeah, that was my mistake, that's what will be happening from now on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
***** pancakes.
I make pancakes with my sourdough starter discard every Saturday morning. They soak up syrup, fruit coulis, bacon fat, cream etc. They are big, light and fluffy and leave you full for hours.
Why am I supposed to be impressed by some glorified crepe drowning in artificial lemon juice that is inevitably overcooked? It's just so joyless, rather than being celebratory it would be better suited to being served during Lent with eating it being an act of penance.
Recipe?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
200g flourQuote:
Originally Posted by grunt
Tablespoon golden caster sugar
Teaspoon and a half baking powder
220g sourdough starter
2 eggs
250ml milk
whisk it until it's smooth then add in 75g melted butter. Leave to sit for a few minutes until wee bubbles start appearing on the surface then fry in a bit more melted butter. Should make about 10-12 Scotch style pancakes.
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Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
My wife cleans the dashboard and the monitor screen with antibacterial wipes whilst I’m driving, often when I need the satnav. Inevitably I will miss a turn off as the screen veers off to either side of the satnav when she gets onto the monitor, gets right on my Brad Pitt’s.
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Originally Posted by ErinGoBraghHFC
Never could I put up with that; the papers are on the mantlepiece.....
Alan Carr, so called Comedian, ****ing brutal 😡
I have never heard anything remotely amusing from this guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bridge hibs
Valentine’s Day and all the over the top expensive pish that goes with it. I don’t need a glorified mass marketing ploy to tell my wife how much I love her.
Obviously birthday, anniversary and Christmas isn't enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
Not only the standard "holiday" cash grab, but also custom designed to make single people feel *****. It might be the worst of the lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
Although I do hate how commercial Amazon Prime Day has become in recent years.
Spent less than a tenner on a card and some flowers. Just a hallmark holiday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
Nothing wrong in having a day for people to take time out and remember what they have.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
You are also free to buy into it or not. Last time I looked it wasn’t compulsory to take part (best to check with the wife first tho [emoji1787])
Signing off an email, or worse a text with "Best"
I don't know why it triggers me. More of an irrational peeve, probably
I agree, not a fan.Quote:
Originally Posted by GreenNWhiteArmy
Also… I usually always think when people begin a work email with just my name, rather than preceding with a “hi” or other term, it’s to show they’re higher up and display their level of authority.
Card and a bar of chocolate for me. She was happy, we've never made a big deal of Valentine's Day, never really felt necessary for us.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
I don't really mind the marketing around it and whatever, easy enough to ignore, and each to their own. It's the people who just use it as another excuse to show off that annoy me. People posting pictures of a ridiculous bunch of flowers and a email confirmation of a holiday with a caption saying 'boy done good' on social media.
Same people with all the self awareness of a rock who post pictures of a big pile of presents for their kids at Christmas or the biggest Easter egg in the shop at Easter. That need for validation on social media always seems a pretty joyless existence to me.
“Thanks in advance” is my peeve iteration of this one.Quote:
Originally Posted by GreenNWhiteArmy
Think it winds me up as they have asked you for something then immediately sign off with a presumption that I’ve agreed to whatever they have asked for.
Quite happy to be thanked when I’ve agreed to do it or deliver whatever it is, just not before [emoji12]
Those Captcha things as security to prove you are a human, today it said tick the boxes with all the cars, except one was a bus so I didn't tick it and it didn't accept my response, dickhead
It’s one of the many reasons I chucked social media.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
She got a card and a £6 bunch of flowers from M&S and I cooked her a lovely steak with peppercorn sauce, I do all the cooking anyway so no big deal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
I ran my Wife a bath, first time in years, not the first time she has had a bath in years, shes no a minger 🫣Quote:
Originally Posted by J-C
She just likes a soak her way at her temperature and her bubbly bath stuff, oh and I made the tea
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Originally Posted by GreenNWhiteArmy
I have a childish peeve about people signing of emails with just their first initial: A, P, H, whatever it is.
My reason for hating it is my first initial doesn’t work for that (I), it just looks like a mistype at the end 🤣
I have an issue with initials being used at all. My initials are FW and more than once, folk have assumed the use of them meant forward rather than it meaning me.Quote:
Originally Posted by McD
There was a Viz letter that suggested they change the Captcha things to prove you ARE a robot, as it would be mostly humans using it. Made sense to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mon Dieu4
I'm a thanks in advance sender but generally" if it's not you who?" rather than assuming it's a dead cert.Quote:
Originally Posted by RyeSloan
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I hate the ones that are never ending. Find the cars, done. Now find the bridges, done. Now find the stairs, done. Now find the mountains…. I’ve already given up and closed the tab by now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mon Dieu4
I hate the ones where rather than it being multiple images and it saying “click on the boxes that contain a traffic light” it is just one image with a grid and it says “click in the boxes that contain traffic lights”.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Modfather
There’s often a very small sliver of the item in a box that it doesn’t recognise as being right. Also in the example above, what does it count as being a traffic light? Just the bulbs? The box containing the bulbs? The pole that holds it up?
I prefer the ones where it asks you to slide an image into the correct hole, kind of like a jigsaw. No ambiguity.
That traffic light example is exactly what I thought of when this was mentioned.Quote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
As I understand it that type of captcha works by consensus (i.e., there isn't a correct answer programmed in, the 'correct' answer is whatever most people select). So you're trying to guess 'which boxes would most people say contain a traffic light?'
The son on the new On the Beach advert gets right on my bosoms. 🤬
Adverts using some classic songs and changing their lyrics which just makes them seem dirty now
If that's the same husky wee kid from their adverts last year, then yeah, totally get that!Quote:
Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
The gist of the advert is that they think they're something special because of some kind of priority access? I think the kid is quite good for the role - certainly outshines the other family members. And if you want to punch him in the face then job done?Quote:
Originally Posted by speedy_gonzales
I prefer this holiday advert to jet2 (I think) where everyone is young and ripped and can't walk anywhere without holding on to somebody's hand...
The kid from the Muller Rice advert is similar and would benefit from a slap as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wilson
Annoying little fuds on adverts are highly unlikely to encourage me to invest any £s in the product being advertised.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wilson
Yep "Marmite" characters. That's why I refuse to use Go Compare.Quote:
Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
I say that all the time as an email sign off:greengrin I bet you'd hate me in the workplace.Quote:
Originally Posted by RyeSloan
Starting up the car on a Sunday morning to go for the rolls and Radio Scotland is still on from yesterday. No idea of the programme that's on but it's boring as hell.
The over complication of clothes washing. My missus routine.
Why do we need washing liquid, fabric softener, and wee baw scent booster things? Why can't all those 3 jobs be done with one thing?
Why does my house go through a bottle of fabric softener every 2 weeks when the bottle says it does 50 washes? There's 2 of us. The washing machine is on maybe 4 times a week. :confused:
And they smell rotten, IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by easty
I don’t want to smell like the inside of the factory that produces the stuff.
:agree: usually some accordian eightsome reel p!ish :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
Probably not. But then, I find myself annoyed by almost every radio advert - to the point where I just can't listen to it. I think they are just aimed at everyone who isn't me!Quote:
Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
I think clever advertising went out in the 90s and now they compete to be memorably irritating.
I tend to TiVo non BBC stuff so I can avoid the adverts. Keeps the anger levels manageable. 😊Quote:
Originally Posted by Wilson
Don't upgrade to the newer Virgin box... for some channels you think you are recording something but all it is really doing is taking you the catch up for the programme meaning you can't fast forward through the ads. It isn't on everything but when it does happen it is really annoying. One of the many reasons I would recommend to not upgrade the box or upgrade to the newer software if possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
I'm yet to stumble across that.Quote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
There's 4 of us and the kids are incessantly grubby so the washing machine barely ******g stops. That routine is giving me the heeby jeebies - we shove (almost) everything in at 30 or 40, some "all rounder" laundry detergent and occasionally a scoop or 2 of stain remover and away we go.Quote:
Originally Posted by easty
Also, as mentioned elsewhere, the idea that anything with "Spring breeze" or "Mountain blast" on it as a scent smells remotely as advertised is laughable.
To give the poor sods working there some light entertainment I guess? There's a website/app that tells you what platform what train is going to depart from a good bit in advance and is generally pretty bang on accurate - buggered if I can remember the name though...... :faf:Quote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
Is the verb not to permit etc, but the noun - i.e. a sanction/sanctions - mean a ban/restriction?Quote:
Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
Have never experienced that at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
Ive not got the new one, so cant say what your experiencing, but I have noticed before on my current one if the Mrs has put a series link on and watched then deleted the episode, the same one still shows up from whatever streaming service it was on. I.E ITV hub. So you think its the recorded episode, but its just the catch up one :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
You need to change the settings in the series link from recordings and streaming videos to recordings only.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibee87
I've had a brief look and can't seem to find that option on the 360. I'll have a more detailed look later.Quote:
Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
There was a related peeve that happened last night. We had been out last night and got in at 9.30. My wife wanted to watch the Love Island final which started at 9. It is on a series link. It hadn't recorded. Went onto the channel guide and for some reason every programme on ITV 2 was showing as "No programme" or something along those lines so the series link wasn't picking it up. Also as a result of this it didn't offer the usual "Watch Live" or "Watch from Start" option. She had to wait and watch it on ITV 2+1
The main gripe I have with Virgin 360 (in my case the actual 360 box but others that have upgraded by just updating the software on their existing box have experienced the same thing) is that it simply doesn't work properly with most modern soundbars. It is advertised as working with Dolby 5.1 but if you choose that setting there is a massive audio sync issue that can't be resolved with the audio sync setting as that only allows you to adjust in one direction which is the wrong direction needed in this case. There's 100s of people reported this judging by the various forums but Virgin refuses to admit there's an issue. The result being is you need to have everything as PCM 2.0 which negates the point in having a 5.1 sound set up. Even if you set it to PCM 2.0, Netflix through the 360 is still out of sync.
Can't help you with the 360 as we have a V6 and a TiVo box.Quote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
If you download the Virgin Control app you'll be able to change it to recordings only on there, you certainly can for our 2 boxes.
You could also Try Home-Help&Settings-Settings-Recordings too.
Parents who on public transport don’t bother parenting and just shove a tablet with noisy games or cartoons loaded up on them - without headphones.
An hour and a half on a plane behind someone blasting out Peppa Pig, and the family on the right with some video game on their tablet full blast. Absolutely hellish.
It’s your job to comfort, entertain, chastise, or just look after your kid and if you’re going to make everyone else suffer because you’re too lazy to do your responsibility then have a good long hard look in the mirror.
Nothing wrong with giving kids an ipad on a flight but they should have headphones, same goes for adults watching a movie. I don't mind having bairns around me on a flight they are usually excited and happy and I understand they might cry with sore ears at some point. I'd rather kids than loud lads or couples that want you to hear their hilarious banterQuote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
The lack of headphones is the thing. Kids will make noise, I’m aware of that. Parents thinking it’s acceptable to have cartoons or that blaring around is an almighty pet peeve for me - in fact, it may be in my top three pet peeves. It’s an absence of parenting, it’s teaching a child that they don’t need to care about anyone else around them and it’s so ****ing lazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stairway 2 7
Prepare ahead that you’ll need headphones, headphones explain why it would need to be on really, really quietly or just do without.
Nah I agree it's madness to think it's OK not to have headphones. I'll try and say this without appearing to be BNP as it isn't an insult to the people it's only a gripe for things thread but.. a number of south east Asian dudes on the bus are the same watching Bollywood films and music without headphones, mental stuff ha.Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
Also people talking on facetime or handsfree calls in public. I don't know why you would want to but I suppose it goes to your comment about just a lack of respect for other people.
Best thing I got for flights is good noise cancelling headphones. Can't hear a thing bar the movie I've downloaded, including the wife for a few hours.
My wife went mental at me when we were heading out the door to go catch a train because she saw me pick up my earphones for the journey. She was angry that I wouldn't want to chat for the entire 4 hours (2 hours there and back) that we were on the train. Yet she had hers for a flight down to London. She was too angry for me to question what the difference was between the train and plane. She still brings it up every time we go for a train... and by that I mean even just getting a train from South Gyle to Haymarket.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stairway 2 7
On the noise on public transport, I was on a train between Wolverhampton and Birmingham late at night and I was about the only person on the train that didn't have a boombox blasting out music. I was also one of the few that wasn't wearing a terrorist style balaclava. This was about 15 years ago, so (a) I thought boomboxes had gone out of fashion at least a decade before that and (b) I was shocked at the balaclavas as it wasn't like now when half of Edinburgh's youths seem to wear one.
Standing in Haymarket station. The screens say 'Edinburgh' for east bound trains. Where do they think I am then! Basically I'm moaning about the lack of 'Waverley' on the screens.
Would rather be on a flight that had kids on it than a flight that's got drunken hen parties on it.
Did you see the video of the two guys and a woman on Edinburgh - Tenerife flight?? Oaft!! That looked the flight from hell and surprised they lasted the flight without getting a doing off someoneQuote:
Originally Posted by Stairway 2 7
Aye unbelievable stuff absolute clowns, think there will be a few charges from Spanish police rightfullyQuote:
Originally Posted by Fuzzywuzzy
Some of your wives sound mental.
Parents in a restaurant with their little darling watching Peppa Pig on a tablet with no headphones for over an hour. Chinese Manor House in Corstorphine. Left before I killed someone 🙃.
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Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
They should have married a German.
Quite tempted to play music really loud on my phone with no headphones if there is someone else in the train / restaurant either watching films or on a call on loudspeaker. Doubt I'd have the courage to do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibby Bairn
We spent ages waiting on the tarmac in Tenerife for the police to arrive to arrest some of the aforementioned hen party. They all thought they were funny/smart at the time until they were carted off by the police. Don't think they believed it was gonna happen until it happened.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stairway 2 7
Not what you need after a 5 hour flight.
I’d prefer neither, but I know that’s greedyQuote:
Originally Posted by DH1875
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No commentQuote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
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Gates on the crawford bridge being pulled over on one side during match days. Does my nut in. If I go that way before the game I'll open them. Been a couple of times after the match where they've been pulled over and just makes the flow of the fans a complete pain in the arse.
People who don't read an out of office reply.
My autorespond clearly states I'm out the office, my emails aren't being monitored, aren't being forwarded and if it's urgent to email an alternative address. Don't phone me a day later moaning because I haven't replied to your email.
I hope you add this to your autoreply.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Important information regarding payment of pension from the DWP requested on the phone on 11th December arrived today.
Which bit of important, and needed for my self assessment deadline of 31st January do they don't understand.
Bought a washing machine in November it broke in December. Engineer been out 3 times and still not fixed. Going of my head now. Can they not just replace the ducking thing.
Yes, check consumer rights.Quote:
Originally Posted by DH1875
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Getting a repair, replacement or refund
Bought within the last 30 days - you can get a refund on a faulty product.
Bought within the last 6 months - you are entitled to have it repaired or replaced once. If the item still doesn’t work you should get a full refund.
Bought more than 6 months ago - you may still get a repair or replacement but you will only get a partial refund to reflect the use you’ve got out of the item. You’ll need to prove you didn’t cause the fault which may make it harder to get redress. These rights apply to items bought after 1st October 2015.
Repair doesn’t work? If you have one repair and it doesn’t succeed, you can ask for a full or partial refunding, depending on when the purchase was made.
Replaced with something different? The retailer should try to replace the item like-for-like. This may not always be possible, so if you’re offered something you don’t want you can ask for a refund.
Hope that helps. Citizens advice website.
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/about-us/about-us1/media/press-releases/shoppers-urged-to-use-their-consumer-rights/
What brand is it? I do a lot of warranty work at my work and there are some brands who are ridiculously unhelpful to their distributors and often put them in really difficult positions with the end user. Samsung and Dyson to name but two.Quote:
Originally Posted by DH1875