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I blame the addition of camel sperm to their shaving cream.Quote:
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Recruitment consultants on LinkedIn messaging you saying they’ve read your profile and think you would be suitable for a role they are working to fill but it is a way more senior role than anything listed on your profile.
Recruitment consultants.
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Originally Posted by Pedantic_Hibee
Sitting at the football and everytime I stand up , my belt gets stuck on the back rest.
The now common practice of shop assistants asking if you want your receipt. They’re obviously trying to save money and I suppose they are easing the carbon footprint but it’s in the interest of both retailer and customer that receipts are kept to help deal with any issues arising from the transaction. I always take receipts. I’ve often found errors on the receipt and usually, when I return to the shop to return or exchange goods, the first thing they ask is ‘do you have your receipt?’.
I like the fact that M&S automatically send you your receipt digitally if you use your Sparks card.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
This is about situational awareness for me, if I'm buying a can of red bull, no I don't need a receipt, if I'm buying a computer or TV, yeah I'll take one. At least they are always offered.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
I was going to post similar.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gatecrasher
I’m talking more about a trolley load of goods and not a casual one off item. I regularly see folk in supermarkets making purchases around £100 and declining a receipt. Occasionally when checking a receipt I’ve found irregularities like items being pinged twice and prices not in keeping with the displayed shelf price ( especially Lidl and Aldi ). Anyway I always accept my receipt.Quote:
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There’s also certain goods which trigger the alarm at the exit. Clothes and electronics being obvious ones, but also things like powdered baby milk, where having your receipt to prove you did actually pay for it when the security staff want to check is helpful
The ****ing weather !! Not this lovely weather of course but the dreich and miserable pissing it down of rain weather that we recently had.
Wanted to give the back lawn its first cut, rain, rain and ****ing more rain. I then became ill and more ill and didnt have the strength to tackle it and low and behold, we had good weather.
Then I got better and planned to get out and cut it the next day, ****ing surprise, a week of pissing it down 🤬
Today, I managed to cut my grass, then ****ed my back 😣
Im hiring a sheep mower !!
A neighbour of mine has a robomower, my grass is a bit like the alps otherwise it would be a good idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bridge hibs
Its actually quite a small lawn mate and not worth the expense, it just grows so bloody quickly, might rip it up and lay some very slow growing grass instead 🫨Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
We’ve got two patches of grass, both probably about 8sq/m each. I decided, in my wisdom, to dig up one side so we could get decorative chips. Genuinely only about 50/60mm down as well as cutting out a border on the other side and I swear to god I have filled at least 60/70 rubble bags of soil and grass, each weighing upwards of 40kg each.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bridge hibs
All this just to save me cutting one side of grass. I did the last trip to the tip today and I am in ****ing bits.
Re Lidl, if you use their app (worthwhile doing) you can opt in to digital receipts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
Yeah, don't underestimate the volume of turf sods.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedantic_Hibee
After the wet winter I decided to cut a path through my lawn as we were dragging mud through the house when coming in via the back gate. I cut out about 6 square metres to a depth of about 50/70mm.
I put all the waste in to a builders bulk bag then scratched my head as to how I was getting rid of it. Like you I used smaller rubble sacks and have numerous trips.
Back-breaking stuff!
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Originally Posted by Bridge hibs
https://www.rhs.org.uk/lawns/chamomile-lawns
Camomile Lawn, quite memorable for those of us of a certain vintage. 😲Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
Official incompetence. Signed up this morning with the Dartford Crossing payment system, run by the UK Government, as I'll be to and fro across the crossing during the summer. The email confirming my account has a typo in the return email address. How has someone not noticed this and corrected it? I saw it straight away.
It's definitely not spam/scam? I only ask as a few years back I was sorting out ESTA's to visit America and during the process I noticed the website/email address didn't look quite right. Turns out it was a scammer that had a very similar site name.Quote:
Originally Posted by grunt
No. I'd just opened a pay-as-you-go DART account so I don't get caught out and fined (like last time!) for using the Dartford Crossing without realising there was a charge to pay. The email I'm talking about is the official email from DART explaining how the charge works, what it will cost, etc.. It's a lengthy email dealing with all nature of charges, discounts for locals, and in the second paragraph it advises users to make sure that you put their email address into your contacts so emails from them - which might be alerting you about charges or fines - don't get treated as junk and ignored. And they've misspelled their own email address.Quote:
Originally Posted by speedy_gonzales
The glass in my wing mirror randomly fell out the car and shattered this morning. Utterly bizarre. Happened on the driveway, probably shouldn’t have driven but was taking my daughter to her dance class when it happened. Wonder what happened 🤷
Haar.
I’ve had this happen too I’ve got heated mirrors and always forget to switch them off once they’ve cleared so was wondering if over time the adhesive that holds the mirror to the mounting plate eventually breaks down and let’s go.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Modfather
Crumbly cheese. I don’t want cheese that won’t slice properly without falling apart. It seems even the more expensive and extra strong cheese can be unstable in texture.
I think they are just trying to build up a database of emails that they can send more ***** too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
In some countries it is illegal not to issue a receipt at point of sale. Italy has finance police who can ( and do) check with customers.
The fact that there’s now another tier to prime. Watching Fallout last night and it had adverts. Another £3.99 (I think) to remove them. That’s poor.
Reading pet peeves and having no idea what they mean.
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Originally Posted by HibbyDave
I came across this in Rome years ago where I was teaching at the time.
As I left the trattoria a man in a suit approached me and my first reaction was to keep going in case it was a scam.
Behind him were two policeman who stiffened to attention in that crisply polite but efficient manner of armed police.
All was ok, as I had my receipt and I noticed the owner watching from his restaurant.
Apparently, it was and still is a crackdown on tax evasion in a country where paying tax is voluntary....
Adverts and on platforms like Netflix, the previews being so much louder than the programmes themselves
Power outage in may, seriously?!
Not really a peeve more anger at a serious issue. Wanton vandalism.
Every other day now I seem to read something on social media about people vandalising community assets. Local football clubs seem to get it particularly badly. Pitches churned up by motorbikes, artificial pitches burnt, changing rooms trashed etc etc. I read the other day about Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway being firebombed. Seriously what can a bunch of guys preserving a heritage line and building a model railway have done to deserve that?
I could almost understand, if not condone, if it was bored and frustrated kids but the guys charged with the latter offence are both 32. That's not that much younger than me and I can't imagine ever getting the urge to go and burn down a railway ticket office or dig up the goalmouth at the local park to spoil the bairns games at the weekend.
I remember taking my kids to a park in Clermiston and some ****bag had smeared dog ****** all the way down the chute.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Wft goes on in their heads ?
It used to be razor blades stuck in seams of the chute in my day.Quote:
Originally Posted by sleeping giant
Portobello outdoor baths always had rumours about that on the chutes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
Not local to me but some group shared this to my Wife, nails glued to a chute and a swingQuote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
****ing absolutely disgusting and doesnt bear thinking about the damage that could do to an unsuspecting kid 🤬
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Sounds like wee need something like nation service to extrude the enthusiasm out of todays youth!!!
Hear hear! Get them square bashing, peeling spuds and smoking senior service.Quote:
Originally Posted by c31
Just like the good old days.
The annoying wee bird that has moved in to the back garden and seems like it’s chirping away 24/7. :rolleyes: :greengrin
Ah, the good old days of falling off the chute and monkey bars onto tarmac and beamingQuote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
Maybe time to tell her she can move back into the house again!Quote:
Originally Posted by silverhibee
Aye, the good old days. I spent 3 days pretty much in a coma in Leith infirmary after coming off the big chute at inverleith Park in the 1960s. Probably explains a lot. 🤣Quote:
Originally Posted by Fuzzywuzzy
Rip off A.T.M at Edinburgh Àirport will cost you £2-50 to withdraw cash.
Same at Glasgow. We had to get cash out as the pay point failed in Boots. The only place that sold GF food for the Mrs.Quote:
Originally Posted by staunchhibby
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Folk starting messages/posts/tweets etc with "I mean".
Stop it.
My mate Iain does that, I think that he just can't spell. 🤭Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
Missing a bit when shaving. Having a feeling not finding anything, then going out just to find a bit. So ****ing annoying!!!!
I done that when I shaved my head, forgot to get my Wife to check the back. Got to the bus stop and felt something flapping at the back of my head, felt it and it was a big ****ing divot, I was mortified, thankfully I was wearing a skid lid all day 🤬Quote:
Originally Posted by Fuzzywuzzy
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Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
Burgers with melted cheese inside them. I like a burger made with cheese in the actual burger. I didn’t know my wife had bought a kind with a hollow middle and melted cheese in it. Almost scolded myself when the liquid cheese flowed out. A good idea in theory but the reality isn’t great. A mess to eat.
Considered this one myself. There’s so many ways to open social media posts that get on my tits that I probably shouldn’t be on social media 😁Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
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People who write “have” as “of”.
Folk who don't leave a folded end on sellotape.
Getting a tear in one end of the cling film and not noticing until someone else in the household has decided to use it several times despite this...Quote:
Originally Posted by NORTHERNHIBBY
Similarly, after you push the two end bits in to hold the cling film in place, the cardboard falls apart at both ends making the cling film almost impossible to use properly, also when the wee jagged strip comes away making the tearing virtually useless.Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
My wife putting the used egg shells back in the box. She claims it’s because she uses them to stop the snails/slugs from eating the plants. Which is fine, but we already have a food bag full of crushed egg shells. It always looks looks like we have more eggs than we actually do.
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Originally Posted by The Modfather
Jason Leitch. He's my current pet peeve.
Jacket potato
It’s a ****in baked tattie.
Nostalgia ****posting on social media.
People sharing idealised pictures of years gone by and giving it 'oh look how wonderful it all looks'. In a fair number of instances what they really mean is 'oh look how white it all looks'. In most of the others it's by people too young to have experienced such times so they are presenting some romanticised view that conveniently omits the grinding poverty, life expectancy of about 60, squalid living conditions and so on.
And don't even get me started on the people sharing pictures of gigs in the 1960s with captions like 'look at this, not a phone in view, back when people just lived in the moment'. Yes, because you didn't ****ing well have phones then. You spend your time now using social media to check in at the supermarket and share lost dog posts from Australia mate, I'm 99% certain if you had a phone at a gig back then you would have had it out.
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Best thing I’ve ready today and very accurate. Cheers for cheering me up a bit mate[emoji1787]
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On that topic; spudulike.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
Who the **** goes out for a baked tattie?!?!
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Is it only me who sees that word, and thinks of Harry Enfield and Kathy Burke?Quote:
Originally Posted by ErinGoBraghHFC
Spuh-joolikeh :greengrin
Links that don’t open in the app. They send you to the App Store where you already have the app installed. When you click open it forgets the link you’re trying to open and just opens the app at the homepage. A general moan as quite common, but on the back of someone sending me a link to Google maps.
Having just come back from London, I'm reminded of one of my all time major peeves: people walking while reading their phones and not looking where they are going.
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This reminds me of being in a pub last Thursday and there was a deliveroo guy waiting by the kitchen door. Who orders a pub meal to be delivered??
Good chance you can have that with a gluten free filling, so I would. Who the hell goes to Burger King is more to the point - wheat tolerant idiots.Quote:
Originally Posted by ErinGoBraghHFC
Ok, wasn't sure where to post this but I think this little story qualifies as someone's pet peeve. Hope you all don't mind this slightly OT post.
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Nearly half of all aircraft noise complaints in Australia last year were filed by a single person, who complained 20,716 times
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The same is true of Heathrow. 80% of noise complaints come from just 10 people.
Spudulike was great and I regret it's demise.Quote:
Originally Posted by ErinGoBraghHFC
My first home wasn't far from what I think was their first shop and my mum and dad used to get them all the time when I was tiny. It was a proper 70s / 80s staple.
When I was a kid and after we'd moved out of Edinburgh we used to quite often go back there, get baked potatoes and sit as a family and eat them in the car next to the Meadows.
The demise of the baked potato as a credible, healthy fast food is bad progress imo.
I used to live across the road from The Tempting Tattie in Jeffrey Street and it was an absolute treat. No idea how good it is now (assuming its still open) but the tatties were superb back in the early 80s.Quote:
Originally Posted by Smartie
Not visited the place for about 20 years but, they were certainly very good back then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
I used to enjoy when the Friday night treat tea was from Bigger Bites in Abbeyhill when I was young. Haggis on the baked potatoes was my go to and something I’d still buy nowadays if there were any baked potato shops around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Smartie
Taylor Swift.
No, not the actual person, but the endless articles in the Media about her, her tour, her fans, where she's staying, and on and on and on.
Do we really need to know that she's staying in a luxury hotel, that her fans are buying disposable cameras for her visit to Edinburgh... her favourite toilet paper?
OK, I made that last one up, but it's only a matter of time before the DR tells us that it's definitely not Andrex.
Where is she staying?Quote:
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HERE
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Got me!
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Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
As rants go, that one is absolutely top notch.
Love it!
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What is this new need for grown ups discussing politics suddenly having this need to give everyone a cringy nickname. I know it was a very American thing with the obvious example of 'Sleepy Joe' Biden.
Even started to see this coming through on some of the Holy Ground threads.
And me, is it a pitch or school view though?Quote:
Originally Posted by grunt
Have you ever read "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
It's a pretty good antidote to the "everything is pish nowadays" brigade which points out that objectively, most things are actually better.
When she has a bowl of crunchy nut cornflakes she pours the milk in then purposely leaves the bowl for about 10 mins to let the cereal go mushy.
Colds that come from nowhere.
Had a busy-ish week but nothing too outrageous.
Yesterday morning felt alright when I woke up, tired but no more than usual. Then about 11am out of nowhere the snot arrived. I’ve just gotten over a bout of shivering that could have broken concrete.
'Sensationalist' style headlines in newspapers that bear no relation to what's actually in the article,
e.g. 'Doidge names what Hibs men were shocked by over David Gray's coaching'
And what was it that they were so shocked by? Uhm, apparently that he was quite good at his job.
I mean wow, whooda thunk it!
Snap, runny bloody nose with enough snot to fill an elephant's trunk.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
Boggin eh?Quote:
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Feel like I’m shaking it quite quickly but realistically it’ll be Wednesday before I’m fit to do anything other than flop around the house.
I cut the grass this afternoon and feel wiped.
Sounds like a wrong 'un!Quote:
Originally Posted by easty
I don't feel tired or ill in any way, just a nose full of snot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
Costco!!!! Popped into Costco at 10am, to be told that ‘individual’ members could no longer gain entry till 12pm nowadays. I was generously told that I could go to the Customer Sevices counter on a one time only basis for permission to shop before 12pm. Went in to find a queue of around 25 folk waiting for ‘the white smoke’. Decided not to join the peasants in the queue but dumped the trolley to have a wee look around and take in all the ‘privileged’ corporate and small business members filling their trolleys. As far as I could see, the vast majority of shoppers were Joe Bloggs individual customers like myself. I can’t really understand why they’ve gone down this road.
There’s always been earlier entry for Business members. Maybe they are just enforcing it now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
Ok, fair enough, but I would have thought that, given the needs and expectation of Business members, I would have expected the place to be full of them, but I would hazard a guess that 95% of the customers at 10.15am were individual members who presumably had to stand in an enormous queue for a long time. Bottom line is that I now know that it’s afternoon shopping only from now on. I hope their policy doesn’t apply to the petrol pumps. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by marinello59
For as long as I can remember, Trade and Executive card holders were allowed in 2hrs before "individuals" during the week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
I actually upgraded to the individual executive card a few years back, it's an extra £40ish, I didn't do it for the extra hours (would never use them) but the 2% reward/cashback actually pays for my membership.
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coincidently, they had a little pop-up stall in Livingston centre two weeks back, i got in to the costco near ikea a few times with my daughter a few years back when she was dating a dude in the army and borrowed his card, i was aware it was, imo, a bit elitist the criteria for membership so i thought i would enquire if it had changed, army was the one i recognised along with a few others but i'd already thought nothing had changed so i just politely departed, i think it costs a few quid even just for the little pop-up stalls in the centre so i wonder if they got enough new members to make it worthwhile, any other time i passed they were just talking to themselves.
I’m not in the store all that often but it’s mainly for butcher meat which I think is excellent. I regularly buy petrol there. That pays for the membership.Quote:
Originally Posted by speedy_gonzales
Six by Nico and everything related to it. Make it go away.