The LED street lights may be more efficient but I think everything looks dull and dingy. I don’t feel safe out walking at night with them.
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The LED street lights may be more efficient but I think everything looks dull and dingy. I don’t feel safe out walking at night with them.
Yeah they're not my favourite either, you used to get a wee clue when arriving at a junction that a car was approaching from the side as you could see the glow of the lights, now the street lights are the same colour so you don't get that early heads up... really minor issue but every edge you get to be safe is always a help :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Alfiembra
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Originally Posted by Just Alf
Yep. They also don’t light as wide a radius, so everywhere is darker
International weekends :yawn:
Boriiiiiiiiiiing as ****. They lack structure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
Having to wait until 7.45 for the Scotland game is a farce. When do Sunday games ever get played in the evening? UEFA GTF :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
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Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
When it's the final qualifying games and there's countries like Spain where this is when football is played.That said, that k/o time was a total PITA
Dab radio stations switching to dab+ a few stations I listen to have gone and my radios aren't that old.
Kids tv shows. My daughter is about to turn 5 and watches a fair amount of garbage. That’s fine, but there’s a whole lot of shows that teach the worst kind of behaviour. The likes of Barbie is guff but fine, then there’s loads out there like LOL dolls where it’s a kids show but they are horrible and b****y to each other. My daughters attitude and behaviour visibly deteriorates after watching those kind of shows.
It’s difficult to always police as they are deemed appropriate on a kids profile. Why are shows that teach bad lessons and affect behaviours allowed? Or am I just old and grumpy now?
On the plus side, been enjoying watching some retro cartoons with her from my childhood. Danger Mouse, He-Man, Ghostbusters etc.
The amount of screen time that parents allow their kids to have. I know times have changed but letting your child spend every single free minute they have, in front of a screen is ridiculous in my opinion. Not aimed at the above post by the way, just something I have noticed and been told by friends and colleagues with young children.
Christmas adverts on tv, so nippy
Bah ****ing humbug 🤬
Probably going to upset the cyclists, but the use of the word set with everything connected to bicycles, chainset, wheelset, crankset, gearset. It seems that every component on a bicycle is now a set, load of old tosh.
Not just cycling. I saw in a shop window for sale a model railway engine, carriages, track and controller and you'll never guess what the manufacturer was calling that combination of parts!Quote:
Originally Posted by Alfiembra
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Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
YODEL! Ordered a Christmas present for a grandson from VERY, good price and no complaints about them.
Message from YODEL on Monday at 1am saying they have it. Checked the link yesterday and showing not yet out for delivery.
Found it at the front door at 8am this morning, message sent to me at 6:30am saying it had been delivered. They did not follow my instructions on where to leave it, so in full view of the street.
I accepted their offer to do the survey on the delivery, including agreement to publish my reply. I'm sure they will.
Dreams.
I had a dream about some neighbours last night... no, not like that. They were being absolute a-holes in it. Now that I've woken up, I dislike these neighbours even though I have absolutely no reason to. They weren't even the neighbours who are actually a-holes who walk through our garden as a shortcut and let their kids play football in our garden / against our car or the woman behind us who has a really annoying voice. So now I dislike or am annoyed by most of the neighbours, most of which I have no real reason to as it was a dream!
People who dont bury the hatchet and move on, erseholes
I let on to my neighbours new partner one morning whilst I was the back garden (he is early 60s) he totally blanked me, same again following morning, ****ing ignorant fat *******, I told him to go **** himself 🤬
Yodel are particularly guilty of leaving parcels at the front door even after acknowledging your request for a safe place. A lot of their drivers are lazy barstewards. I once had a case of wine delivered on a Friday, while I was away for the weekend. It was on the doorstep when I got back at Monday lunchtime. The box was soggy with rain but fortunately the wine was unscathed.Quote:
Originally Posted by ACLeith
I don't think it's the individual drivers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
Every delivery company, with the possible exception of royal mail, is the same. They clearly overload the drivers with work and make it impossible for them to competently deliver the items due to the huge number of drops they expect them to do.
I wouldn't be too harsh on the individual drivers just trying to make a living but more so the penny penching and greedy businesses behind them.
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Originally Posted by Bridge hibs
I really can't be bothered with stuff like that. If there is an issue then I'd rather just thrash it out and move on as opposed to these people who go in a huff, make snide remarks or talk behind peoples backs. I've always tried to be big enough to both apologise and to accept an apology.
I had a run in with a guy at work a couple of years ago. It was at the tail end of covid lockdowns when tensions were running high in our industry with redundancies all over the place and a near collapse of the supply chain. There was fault on both sides and it was festering so I asked him for a word, apologised for what happened and the fault on my part in it. He was pretty ungracious about it. I got married a few months later and invited everyone in work along to the evening reception as we are a small workplace, he was invited. Of all the people in the building he was the only one not to come and he didn't even acknowledge the invite or send a rejection. 2 and a half years later and he still won't say a word to me and skulks about avoiding me. I can barely even remember the details of what the argument was about.
I just don't get how people have the energy to hold these types of grudges or to get so worked up by another person. I just can't be bothered with it. I say morning when I see him, if I have to go to his department and he's the only one there I relay information to him and so on. I actually think that is what annoys him now, he wants another bust up and if I keep being nice to him then he won't get it but he's too proud to back down and lose face (lose face in his own head that is, I don't give a ****).
Fair point but Yodel must get loads of complaints and bad reviews and should factor in possible public responses into their schedules. It’s counter productive to turn a blind eye to/encourage poor service. On another two occasions I heard the doorbell and as I opened the door, the Yodel driver was revving up and driving away. Even under pressure I would expect a driver to at least wait for a response before randomly dumping it on the doorstep. When I have to complain about this increasing poor behaviour, I’ve stopped contacting/reviewing the delivery company but contact the seller. If enough people did this, they might be more selective in their choice of delivery companies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Since90+2
And parents who cannot take children to a restaurant without immediately allowing them to pull out their phone or ipad and watch whatever. Ipads on the table at a restaurant. And worst of all when the kids don't have earphones and the parents just allow it to blare away (this also happens on flights, trains, buses, at airports etc).Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
You're in a restaurant ffs. Eat and talk.
That really gets on my bosoms! 😡Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibby Bairn
I do understand what you are saying. Ringing the doorbell at 6:30am is not on, of course, but it would take less than 30 seconds to leave it where I asked. If he left my house and just missed the lights at the foot of Easter Road he would sit for a couple of minutes with nothing happening (another Peeve!).Quote:
Originally Posted by Since90+2
Maybe lucky but most deliveries are carried out fine, including when I'm not in. Garbage service is just that, whoever is responsible
I really struggle with folk like that. I'm brutal for not being able to hold a grudge, even when I think I really should.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
I don't know how people have the time in their lives to be that bitter towards other folk, especially when you might not even know what it is you've done to upset them in the first place.
Thats exactly it, his Wife has lived next to us for years and before that shared the house with her parents. She is nice and we have always got on, we have never had issues, I dont play loud music or tv, my gardens are neat and tidy and we dont have noisy kids running aboutQuote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
About 3 years ago she met her new Man, he grafts and does various shifts and to be honest appeared to be a respectable guy and Im the kind who gets on with folk. I was cutting my back lawn and he was pottering about his garden and I said good afternoon or similar and he just looked at me as if I called him a **** (which he is) and he just turned and walked away
Over the last 3 years he has continued to blank me and just recently as I was getting into the car he came out his front door, looked over at me and as you do I gave him the nod but again he just blanked me 🤣
To sum him up, a fat ignorant **** 🤬
I’m sure it isn’t the case here, he just sounds ignorant but remember no one knows what’s going on in other peoples heads. I’ve had severe social anxiety which has made shy away from all interactions with people. I did that because I’d torture myself looking for the faults in what I said with every interaction I’d have so if some spoke to me I’d often put my eyes down and ignore them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bridge hibs
I saw a short vid on twitter the other day of a guy with severe social anxiety going thru a MacDonalds drive through, he’d prepared by writing a script for the interaction which he stuck to his sun visor and rear view mirror. He managed to get through ordering his meal, breathed a big sigh of relief and gave a wee fist pump. It was a beautiful video and shows what most people find easy others can face with fear and anxiety.
Not sure if "social anxiety" or not but my neighbour looks like she thinks I'm going to attack her anytime I say hello to her. She definitely looks away to avoid eye contact if she is in her car or coming out the house. Her hubby/partner seems fine so maybe is just a bit anxious in social situations.
I understand what you are saying mate but to be honest Ive seen him chat to my other neighbour often if he has been out doing his garden or washing his car, strangely enough he does let on to my Wife at timesQuote:
Originally Posted by Oscar T Grouch
Yeah, he is a ****
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Originally Posted by Bridge hibs