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I use it, the first summer I tried it it worked an absolute treat - went from popping pills and really struggling to not needing any treatment at all that summer.Quote:
Originally Posted by bingo70
Every year since, I've used it when I first notice the symptoms of hayfever and can then go the rest of the summer unmedicated.
This:Quote:
Originally Posted by hibs#1
http://www.lloydspharmacy.com/en/llo...lergy-reliever
I'll try it but I think you might be winding me up.🤔Quote:
Originally Posted by easty
Would you recommend it?Quote:
Originally Posted by ColinNish
I've got a nasal spray that I got for my ear last year that keeps the worst of it away.but wouldn't mind something a bit better.
I'd definitely recommend it, it was a game-changer for me. :agree:Quote:
Originally Posted by hibs#1
Can't remember if it was the reviews or anything more official but I think they said it's got about an 80% success rate.Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
Yes. It was actually a recommendation from matty-f years ago that brought it to my attention. 😁Quote:
Originally Posted by hibs#1
Cats getting humped.
There is a cat around here that puts it about most nights and the noise is unreal.
I get worried at first as it sounds like a baby crying in the woods or someone with a cold trying to yodel .
You sure it's a cat and not a fox,,,, those buggers sound like babies crying when they get it on!Quote:
Originally Posted by sleeping giant
I hear a pair of toms sometimes outside at night wailing at each other. It's over territorial rights (so I'm told).Quote:
Originally Posted by speedy_gonzales
They do my head in at 3am. :gun:
The Royal Highland Show. Royal pain in the Erse with the extra traffic.
Luxury! You should see what we're having to put up with at the other side of toun this weekend. :sairhead:Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
VIPOO advert
I saw that advert as well and thought it was a spoof.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
How on earth does that work then? Sounds like it's challenging me.
Today's driving genius pushed in from the right hand lane of a 3 lane roundabout. To park and indicate a further change into the left lane before exiting said roundabout in front of me. And no. He hadn't come from the junction on the right. He came in on the same junction as me. Crap BMW too.
Spraying before is supposed to trap the odour! One of the most bizarre adverts I can recall.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete
Load of crap. What happens to the smell released between the sphincter & and the splash? Petrie!Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
I saw this stuff in the supermarket before i saw the advert wondering what the the hell it was. It is in a tiny wee bottle, no more than 50ml i reckon, and it was 7 quid! 😯Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete
expensive way to cover the smell of a poo. 😅😅
Another marketing scam that some folk will, ahem, pay through the nose for. It's not as if everybody else's droppings smell of roses and yours don't. Cheaper to open a window or by an air freshener.Quote:
Originally Posted by ColinNish
Strike a match instead. It works every time and can cover the smell of any movement, posh or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete
Workies digging up a road, put temporary lights up causing huge traffic jams while they sit and read the paper.
Police doing a tour of takeaway shops while working - incredible amount of police motors sitting outside chip shops up my way.
They are allowed a break to eat you know 😁Quote:
Originally Posted by Danderhall Hibs
Of course - I wouldn't grudge that. One fish supper per shift is ample though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wembley67
I'm starting to think they're going round collecting protection money.
Ha, that wouldn't surprise me actually!Quote:
Originally Posted by Danderhall Hibs
Snotty lawyers hoovering about court buildings in their robes/gowns like they're demi-gods.
I would have thought the fact that they're doing the cleaning would be something to be admired :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by snooky
"Fixed that for you" posts.
What's happening in the East of Edinburgh this weekend?Quote:
Originally Posted by snooky
Flute bands replacing the dawn chorus. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by grunt
They certainly clean up, I'll grant you that - in the financial sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by lord bunberry
Grammar police posts.
Gay entertainers who's act seems to consist of nothing more than them being gay. Watched the Crystal Maze last night and Louis Spence made about 10 'jokes' about closets and tight squeezes in the 1st 10 minutes.
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.
There's a dude like that at my work, comes out with absolute shocking statements about fellow workmates but gets away with it as you are allowed to be "catty" when you are outlandishly gay, I pulled him up about it and he tried the homophobe card on meQuote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
That seems to be the way comedy seems to be these days. Black comedians act are based around being black, female comedians, Scottish, Welsh, the list is endless. I suppose it's all down to taste, but I find it can be a bit repetitive and dull at times.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
:agree: I just used gay as an example as it was fresh in my mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by lord bunberry
I don't mind comedians talking about what they know or observe, some great comedians have worked on such a basis. I just don't find exaggerating your own accent, playing up to being posh or a woman or whatever else all that funny unless there is substance behind it. As you say it's just dull and, quite frankly, lazy.
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Originally Posted by Mon Dieu4
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Ive met a few who come out with OTT sexually overt comments, then when called it about it, take offence.
Guy at my work does that. Not so sure it would be tolerated if I was so sexually suggestive in front of my female co-workers.Quote:
Originally Posted by McD
:agree: Sarah Millican springs to mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by lord bunberry
Clary was on some Countryside-type prog on TV recently and his voice-over was full of innuendo. It was just pathetic and tired stuff. I suppose he feels it's expected of him now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
My sister in law does the voice over for that!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
Never mind, it could be worse she could actually have starred in the advert! ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Onceinawhile
As Winnie the Poo?Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
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Originally Posted by Mon Dieu4
You can be rest assured that if it was you speaking like that your feet wouldn't touch the on your way out the door. The gay card gets brandished whenever someone calls them out over comments and its out of order as it can cause one serious trouble for people.
The "minority" card is the favourite one in the pack and it's used by all groups that have been or feel persecuted. Unfortunately, they don't realise it does more harm to their cause if it's used unfairly or without justification.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermit Crab
He was trying the victim card clearly and thinking I'd back down, just told him to grow the **** up and to stop trying to use a get out of jail free card when he'd been caught outQuote:
Originally Posted by Hermit Crab
Scary thing is I never even mentioned sexuality in any context to him whatsoever, he actually said about a friend of mine who is leaving to be a nurse "why would she want to do such a demeaning job and all she'd be doing is cleaning up people's ***** all day"Quote:
Originally Posted by snooky
I asked him who he thought he was talking about and that it was bang out of order on so many levels, everyone else there was doing the whole oh thats him being him, he's such a bitch, I said that doesn't excuse the fact he was being a ****
Hey presto the homophobe card came out to play
[QUOTE=Mon Dieu4;5080796]Scary thing is I never even mentioned sexuality in any context to him whatsoever, he actually said about a friend of mine who is leaving to be a nurse "why would she want to do such a demeaning job and all she'd be doing is cleaning up people's ***** all day"
I asked him who he thought he was talking about and that it was bang out of order on so many levels, everyone else there was doing the whole oh thats him being him, he's such a bitch, I said that doesn't excuse the fact he was being a ****
Hey presto the homophobe card came out to play[/QUOTE]
Thats desperation mate, caught out so trying to save face and turn it around.
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Originally Posted by snooky
Absolutely mate, especially when they are in some sort of trouble at work in a disciplinary or the like.
Women and your DIY.
I've just put up a towel rail and there isn't praise, there's "why couldn't you have done that earlier?"
And whenever you do a certain amount, you don't get brownie points, it just turns into the minimum expectation next time and they'll expect you to do even more.
People who travel on trains with more luggage than they can actually cope with without holding everyone up, bashing people with bags and dragging a ****** enormous case up the aisle taking out anyone and everything in it's path.
People who batter their shopping trolley into my pram without saying anything. Ok maybe I'm a bit big for a pram but anyway!
People who seem to have no hobbies or interests of their own but dismiss everything anyone else does. I met a guy I used to play football with the other day. He's not playing football anymore because it's all politics and *****, doesn't go to ER anymore because it's *****, doesn't go to the pub we used to drink in anymore because it's *****, doesn't see anyone we used to play with because they are all ****ers, I told him what I'd been up to that day and he 'couldn't be bothered with that *****', told him I was going out for dinner and that was 'overpriced and *****', told him I was meeting a mutual friend and was told that would be 'a load of *****' because his girlfriend was 'boring'.
I left wondering what this guy does with his time. Everything was '*****' according to him. It seemed the only thing he got moderate enjoyment from was sitting on his erse drinking cans of lager.
Sounds like he's depressed but doesn't know how to express that to you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
The thought did cross my mind but it seems to be quite a common thing. A lot of people I know seem to be 'not into that *****' despite never having tried it.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
The same with folk that can't see a Twitter or Facebook post go without slating whatever it was about. It's like they feel because they can voice an opinion about everything, they should.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
It's like they can't stand to see folk enjoy something.
Are you talking about me PB? :greengrin I tick all the boxes however, I put it down to being a grumpy old man. :ill:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Dont know if I would class this as a peeve but it does make me angry when you try to have a genuine discussion about it/them.
Im talking about the word 'Obsessed' when discussing certain football teams, we all know the 2 main culprits. It seems to me when you ask some valid points or queries, especially on social media, your met with a response of obsessed as if this is a valid argument of not answering your valid questions. And if you press them to answer they extend it to why do you care so much, stop being obsessed.
I mention it because I had a mate I shared a flat with, he was a constant cynic about everything and everyone, all his enthusiasms were about stuff so niche that nobody could possibly have a counter opinion about because they were so obscure (Brazilian techno dub for music, Korean flute music, nonleague kabbadi for sports or suchlike). Permanent sneer on his face about anything me and my mates got into. Met him recently after 20 years and he revealed that he was clinically depressed during that whole time and always wondered how we never noticed. I just thought he was a miserable **** by inclination, but he was just using it as a defence mechanism, I felt quite bad about it to be honest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
When you just miss a call from someone and you call them back seconds later and they don't answer. That annoys me far more than it probably should.
Surely if you call someone and they don't answer it makes sense to keep an eye on your phone for a few minutes at least?!
People in supermarkets who decide they don't want something they've picked up and dump it on a random shelf. Quite it's often frozen food which will have to be thrown out because they couldn't be ar**ed to take it back to the chiller cabinet.
:grr:
When they close sections of the Edinburgh by-pass (at Lothianburn for instance) and tell you to use a diversion which has traffic signal timings unable to cope with the additional volume of traffic causing major tailbacks.
:ostrich::ostrich::ostrich::ostrich::ostrich: <- Bypass traffic management planners at work
People who turn right too early and completely cut the corner. Happens a lot on side streets when as you approach the junction you have to brake sharp to avoid the front end of your car being smashed.
In the same vein people driving a car who before turning left do a big swing out to the right as if they're driving a long vehicle.
This 10000000% happens at the top of St Clair just at the back of the Famous 5 stand on a daily basis, i see it all the time and the arse who cuts the corner normally are the first to go mental at the other driver as if they are the ones in the wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
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Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
A lot of the streets in Leith are bad for it, probably because they're narrow and it can be difficult to see if anything is coming along the side street.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibee87
I've noticed it's particularly bad at the turn from Easter Road onto Montgomery Street, mainly when traffic is backed up from the lights at the top of Easter Road and folk shoot up the wrong side of the road to take the turn.
Agreed, it happens on pretty much any street off of Easter Road, but I realise they are a bit narrow where as my example is a wide street and no excuse to cut that corner.Quote:
Originally Posted by Future17
As for the Mont street, I am guilty of cutting onto the wrong side and nipping along(I do realise my irony here haha) but its also another peeve of mine the reasoning as to why.........Normally its in the morning and there is a Iceland lorry blocking the road. It says no Loading between xxx time, which to be fair the lorry is not normally loading, but the fact its sat there taking up half the road and forcing cars, but mainly the busses, onto the wrong side. Its a nightmare as cars are coming down from abbeyhill at the same time usually means 1 or 2 cars/a bus can only get through the lights each turn of green, hence why people loose patience and cut along Montgomery street
I do that all the time:greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Dan Sarf
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Originally Posted by hibsbollah
I bet you drink milk out of the carton as well. And then put it back in the fridge.
:fuming:
Didn't even realise I knew you let alone bumped into you recently.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Lazy barstewards in my work who nick the milk i had just bought and put in the basement kitchen fridge and take it up to the 3rd floor kitchen coz they're too lazy to walk across road to buy milk from the shop! 😡
I never understand the dynamics of this. If I've missed a call I wait a few seconds for them to leave the voicemail I'll never check then call back. No answer, even though the phone rings as normal.Quote:
Originally Posted by bingo70
How?!? Typically my wife and mum are the worst at it.
We hardly use the landline now but still pay an outrageous amount for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by lyonhibs
Naw. See, now you're just stereotyping me :grr:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Sarf
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Originally Posted by hibsbollah
Which stereotype exactly? E.g. do you eat baked beans straight out of the tin?
I think we should be told.
:greengrin
In all seriousness, this morning in my local Sainsbury's I selected a crisp multipack from the main shelves, then saw walkers were doing a better deal on the offer aisle and just abandoned the original pack with the walkers, thereby ruining the effectiveness of the display.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Sarf
That's the kind of badass you're dealing with.
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Originally Posted by hibsbollah
Respect.
New parents who think Mr & Mrs Joe Public enjoy listening to their screaming infant in theatres, churches & halls.
Or when the low road to Duddingston is closed but they don't tell you until you're in the park going round the roundabout. Why can't they put a sign at the lights on Dalkeith Road then I wouldn't waste my time and petrol?Quote:
Originally Posted by snooky
See five ostriches above.Quote:
Originally Posted by grunt
When person in front of you takes what you were after in the chippy, especially near closing time when they have stopped frying. :grr:
Pictures advertising food, burgers etc that look nothing like the actual food you purchase. Not a big McDonald's fan but tried the new tennesse stack burger recently, hahaha not even close to the fantastic looking burger on the picture advertising it.
And the fact if you say something about it, you are the one in the wrong!!Quote:
Originally Posted by snooky
My 2 pet peeves are facebook related:
- When someone posts "Happy anniversary to my amazing hubby, hope you have had a good day" blah blah blah even though there are most likely sitting next to each other. Has to be made public apparently...
- Also when there is, for example, thunder and as loads of people post about it, you get the snidey statuses like "yes we know there is thunder, deal with it", those posts annoy me far more than the ones annoying them.
The first one is way too common for my liking, and some people on here probably (in fact definitely) participate in it, but it just frustrates me. :grr:
Security guards eyeballing you the minute you walk into a place.
Are they trying to intimidate me into not stealing?
Ditto ******** shop assistants in fancy shops that wear posh clothes to work and assume this elevates them above their actual customers whereas, in fact, they're shop assistants and I'm the one with the actual money to spend in here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete
The "I don't think you can afford to shop in here" attitude rips my knitting.
On a slightly similar note women, it's always women, who post a picture of the view from their balcony/sun lounger/terrace etc on social media whilst on holiday with a caption like 'how's your Monday?'Quote:
Originally Posted by lyonhibs
**** off. You work in the same job as me, that isn't your lifestyle. You're on holiday you ****ing vain idiot.
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Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
:agree:. You're on holiday, get the f*** off Facebook, plus no c*** cares. :rolleyes:
Folk who put up an umbrella and, for absolutely no reason, believe that they now rule the world, and anybody who dares to be walking on the same pavement as them better be ready to jump out the way or get an umbrella in the face.
Nah don't bother looking where you're going, it's not necessary.
Folk that repeatedly and loudly tap feet in the office. Folk that put the phone on speaker in the office.
Folk walking down the street with their phone on speaker and them talking into the bottom of the phone.
Knuckle crackers. What's that all about?
Swagger walkers
Do you mean like Ian Brown, Mad Ferret style?Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
Not keen on those myself, HOWEVER, I don't know how or why but I can't walk like a normal person, apparently I have a very distinctive walk with a bit of a bounce.
I'm bloody murder at carrying two cups of coffee down the office as the mugs are half empty by the time I get back to the desk.
I'm sure folk think I'm swaggering, but I'm not, honest guv!
Folk who walk like speedy_gonzales;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by speedy_gonzales
Feet on seats on public transport. :rolleyes:
Guys that clear their throat and spit, or empty their nasal cavities in a public loo, and for some reason seem to think nobody else can hear them.
People who use more than one card at an ATM or get a mini statement then mull it over before deciding what to do next.
Death penalty isn't enough for people like that.
People who ask what part of Liverpool I am from. I always reply with "do you know any parts of Liverpool" to which 99% of people who ask me say "no" Why ask then as it makes no difference?
Should be a rule about that - one transaction then rejoin the queue.Quote:
Originally Posted by bingo70
People who refer to others who they work with as "my staff"
Aye maybe if you owned the company ya bam.