I’ll try to go slower over it so as not to disturb you 😁Quote:
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I’ll try to go slower over it so as not to disturb you 😁Quote:
Originally Posted by silverhibee
Did I hear monkey noises and a growling lion last night from the zoo about 2.30. :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by easty
It's gone now but thanks for that. :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
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Originally Posted by silverhibee
On their way to the dentist, I believe.
That was my bedroom actually. Role play.Quote:
Originally Posted by silverhibee
Morrisons.
“Market Street”. No. “Fruit and veg aisle”.
Piss off.
Going for a Coffee at a takeaway during the Covid era and the conversation with the teenage girl serving goes like this...
"I'd like a large Americano, extra strong, with some cold milk and two sugars, please".
-- "OK, do you want any milk with that?"
"Yes please"
-- "Hot or Cold?"
"Cold"
...goes away to make coffee, comes back 30 seconds later.
-- "Would you like any sugar?"
"Yes, two sugars, please"
-- "Brown or white?"
"Brown"
...disappears for another two or three minutes.
-- "Did you want it with an extra shot?"
"Yes, that's why I asked for extra strong"
-- "oh is that the same thing?"
"I do believe so, yes"
...and she disappears again, natters to one of her mates for a few minutes, strolls to coffee machine, then eventually comes back with the promised coffee.
I get to the car, take a sip of my unbelievably weak coffee, with hot milk and what seems like six sugars, and vow to myself "never again".
...but I'll probably try again tomorrow.
Yep I'd love to know how many more customers they've attracted with that inventive branding. Utter bollox.Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
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Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
Did this not start with open fridge displays oozing attractive airs to pretend to be something it wasn't ?
It did not last long. In fact, Morrisons is not at all bad for fish and meat.
Multipacks of wrapped individual twirl bars. Eleven in a pack. Prime number.
Either designed for families of eleven or for me to scoff by myself then feel ashamed.
I've been that second paragraph far too many times over lockdown.Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
Time to start wearing a condom! 🤔Quote:
Originally Posted by Onceinawhile
Funnily enough, I've already got 4 kids 🤣Quote:
Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
I was desperate for a decent walk today, and bored of going to the same places all the time, so we walked around the loch at Strathclyde Country Park.
It must be... by far... the most littered of all the places I've ever visited for a day out.
The amount of takeaway cups, cans, crisp packets, beer bottles, etc, just dumped in the wooded areas and in the water was unbelievable.
There are also some picnic benches near the car parks and every one was covered with, and surrounded, by discarded booze bottles and litter from what looked like a rave up the night before.... despite the fact there were loads of empty litter bins nearby.
Seriously, what is wrong with some people that they think it's OK to just dump everything like this?
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Originally Posted by Keith_M
What is wrong with people, that's is really disgusting and sad to hear, funnily enough we were talking about a change of scenery for a walk and we thought of Strathclyde country park, don't think I will bother now after reading that, that's the whole point of a walk is to enjoy the scenery and take in the surrounding area, not much pisses me off but people that have no respect for others and the countryside is the mind of a simpleton
Backseat driving from people that can't drive
I always take an empties bag with me but some of the messes you come across are ridiculous.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
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Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
See, that's so simple and practical.
Times when you really can’t be arsed doing anything but the other half is in completely the opposite frame of mind.
Slow flights of 4 on the golf course. I've no problem with beginners needing 9 or 10 shots per hole, it's the 3 or 4 practice swings before taking those shots that makes me want to scream.
People driving basic cars and vans who desperately try to overtake me as I'm driving a sports car within the speed limit. This never happened in my old car.
Used to be the story of my Saturday morning when I worked full time, now it's the other way round!Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
[QUOTE=matty_f;6502856]Times when you really can’t be arsed doing anything but the other half is in completely the opposite frame of mind.[/QOTE]
Me on a daily basis. It’s even worse if I’ve got a hangover because then it’s like I deserve it.
Depends if you're 1 or 20 mph within the limitQuote:
Originally Posted by stuart-farquhar
I think the point was that people are reacting differently now that he's in a sports car.Quote:
Originally Posted by Killiehibbie
Neither are flash at all, but more people overtake me if I'm driving m wife's car than my own, even though I stick to the same speed.
My GPS tells me exactly what speed I'm going and it's amazing how many people get annoyed about being passed by an old banger they believe to be speeding.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
He's got a point but it definitely works both ways. Our second car is a Toyota Aygo. I use the speed inhibitor and set it to the speed limit according to the satnav, the reaction from Mercedes and BMW drivers at being overtaken by an elephant's roller skate is definitely different to that when we overtake in our other car. The reaction is even more aggressive when we've got the caravan on the back. There's definitely a lot of ***** compensation going on out on the roads.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
I agree. Driving does something to some people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
A few years back I bought an older Porsche Boxster (bought for £5k, sold for the same) as it was a childhood ambition to own a Porsche.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
I was driving on a sunny day with the roof down and distinctly heard a teenager scream "TOSSER" loudly at me as I drove past. Dented the go that :greengrin
Companies who don't reply to or acknowledge emails.
I emailed 2 companies about a similar issue on Thursday last week. One sent an automated reply instantly acknowledging my email had been received and actually provided an answer in the template response. They followed it up with a full email explanation about 50 minutes later.
The other didn't respond at all. I followed up with a phone call this morning and was told I had to use the email contact provided. I explained I already had and was told to leave my details and someone would call or email me back but I should send an email again anyway. Needless to say I still haven't heard.
I've worked in customer facing roles pretty much all my working life and I hate poor customer service. Setting up an automated acknowledgment or even just sending a holding email if you don't have an answer is so simple but seems to be beyond some pretty big companies.
The wee squirt of cold water when I click my showerhead round to the power setting.
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Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
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totally agree, it’s lazy and shows what they think of their customers
on a related note, companies who advertise jobs, you get an auto-reply acknowledging the application, then nothing. Ever. Is it that hard to set up a standard template email to say ‘thanks for applying, we aren’t taking your application any further’?
I’ve applied for 30+ jobs over the last 3 months, and had a total of 4 bother to actually let me know I won’t be going any further
I’m getting really sick of companies taking the pee when your contract with them is up, it seems that nearly all of them are at if. Got an email for my broadband and giving me a renewal price which is slightly cheaper than my current deal. Decided to leave and try one of the ones without a line rental charge, and lo and behold I’ve been offered a better price to stay.
That does my head in as well. People must just accept it though.Quote:
Originally Posted by EH6 Hibby
I don’t understand anyone that sticks with the same company blindly without looking at other options and haggling a bit. I do it with everything. Saved £150+ on my car insurance this year, saved £5 a month on my pet insurance, £6 a month on my broadband, have a better deal on my gas and electricity. None of them are huge amounts of money in themselves but they all add up and all it takes is a few minutes research and a couple of emails or phone calls.
I routinely change providers for these things.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
There are a few reasons:
1) If the incumbent thinks it’s a good idea to penalise me for staying with them for another year and their first move is to screw me on price then I’m totally disinclined to even bother asking them to offer me a better price
2) New customer pricing tends to be the best price regardless and for many insurance products etc. there is plenty of options to get comparable cover elsewhere
3) Topcashback can be available on most of these things. Sometimes this can be pretty significant amounts. For example I got £75 cashback on a £225 insurance policy last year...the £225 was already market leading so getting a third back on that was an unbeatable deal.
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Originally Posted by RyeSloan
That third discount is interesting: I was selling my flat and the insurance was to expire. I only needed three months' worth before selling
and the agent said that if I cancelled there would be a fee of a third of the total annual premium.
I usually change after they’ve tried to do me out of money, but in this case I’ve decided not to, it’s really bugging me though, but I’m still working from home and hoping to continue that at least part of the week if not all, even when allowed back to the office, and I am wary of going with another broadband provider because I’ve had no problems with my current one and I know most of my colleagues have. I’ve heard of lots of issues with other providers in my area, so sometimes it’s best to stick with what you know. The price they’ve given me matched what I would have got going elsewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by RyeSloan
Wilted spinach.
I'd tell it to get to f... But it already has. :confused:
On Twitter when someone tweets about something topical, usually a serious subject. They then reply to their own tweet with something along the lines of 'since you are here why not check out my Herbalife/Nu Skin/Juice Plus deals'.
Using suicides, murder and abuse to promote your pyramid scheme. Classy.
Did STV (Scottish Television) really show the England game instead of the Scotland game last night? Wtf is that all about.
A certain Edinburgh South MP has an ongoing campaign to get Scotland matches (and The Open) back on free to air TVQuote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
The Sky deal is a good one though so I can't see either the SFA or the governments budging. At the end of the day ITV and it's sibsidiaries are a commercial enterprise and will only bid what they think the rights to a certain set of fixtures are worth.
When someone calls you and they don’t get good phone signal. Rather than waiting until later and are in a better area for phone calls or look for an alternative like a text or email they just keep calling over and over again.
Even more annoying when they start to get nippy that you can’t hear them.
No they didn’t do it ‘instead’ they simply didn’t have the rights to show the Scotland game, Sky do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
I suppose they could have put on a re-run of a 1970’s James Bond movie rather than show the England game like they used to do [emoji23]
The term 'bravehearts' when describing a Scottish sporting performance.
It's just so easy. Prior to 1995 journos must have had to work a little bit harder to find a descriptor.
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Ian Crocker is the absolute worst for this.
"It's time for bravehearts" ...every...single...****ing...time..
Oh for the days of Montford, Crampsey and even Archie. Proper journalists.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
My 12 year old was invited to a St Pauli football camp a couple of years back and got labelled with the nickname Braveheart, he hated it.Quote:
Originally Posted by CloudSquall
Forum posters getting fully involved in a debate and then announcing “it’s not a hill worth dying on” for them, when they decide they can’t win, were wrong, or have had enough.
Or posters asking others if it’s a hill they’re going to die on.
Aye just that totally unnecessary phrase that seems to be a new one.
The use of the word "insane" currently fashionable on the internet to describe anything a bit good, a bit exciting, a bit profitable etc.
I've no objection to it's use on mental health grounds. I'm certainly not offended on others behalf. I just think it's ****ing stupid.
“Sick” was always a strange word for meaning ‘really good’ as well...Quote:
Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby
Some f****ing folk
I think it started with "bad" in the States.Quote:
Originally Posted by WeeRussell
The French equivalent is "terrible" which does actually cause confusion.
When the price for postage and packing is more than the item itself, I need a small rubber O-ring its a special size and not readily available so have to go to a specialist supplier. The item costs £2.00, however p+p £2.95 I don’t see how that can be justified.
Maybe it's a seasonal thing? :dunno:Quote:
Originally Posted by WeeRussell
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Or when a number of posters have made a counter argument to the one they made, said poster then goes in the huff and says there's no point posting if there's going to to be a 'pile on'.
Though on a similar vein, anybody that disagrees with anything I post is one of my biggest pet peeves...
I've just noticed your location underneath your username and avatar and burst out laughing again. Who would have known that Hearts losing would cause laughter a full week after the game? :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
Not a hill I would choose to die on, but posters who respect the:rules: inasmuch as they self-censor their swearywords by asterixing out part of the words, but then miscount the number of asterixes required. It's f****ing insane.
Ha ha! Thats had me as well... scratchin' ma heid trying to work it out.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
Mind you, if they have the 1st and last letter you can work it out... all asterisks and I'm flummoxed :greengrin
Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk
Surely you mean you're f******ed"?Quote:
Originally Posted by Just Alf
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Originally Posted by Northernhibee
You're welcome
:greengrin
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Originally Posted by Peevemor
I cannot read anything that has asterisks in the headline.
It's the visual equivalent to nails down a, well, white (?) board.
Yodel. Ordered a scarifier, after two weeks of painful chasing, they admitted they have lost it and I’ve been refunded. The scarifier I had bought is now sold out, great!
Same happened to me with amazon, I suspect they just realised they can get more money from elsewhere because of demand.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Modfather
Screwfix £59.99Quote:
Originally Posted by The Modfather
https://www.screwfix.com/p/wr6002-15...230-240v/296fg
"While you're here....follow me on insta"Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Get that crap directly tae F..
The women at work “sending virtual hugs” every time one of them faces a minor inconvenience in their day and choose to share it with everyone.
My girlfriend’s way of loading the dishwasher. All the heavy duty stuff (pots, pans) on the top shelf and all the glassware and mugs, etc. on the bottom.
Updates that make things worse and online technical support determined to blame anything other than their update.
I’ve noticed more recently that a lot of mail I receive and also text on some web pages are using grey as opposed to black for the colour of the text which with my dodgy eyesight I find difficult to read. Got a letter the other day and the paper was a very pale grey colour with the text on it a slightly darker grey which was completely illegible to me even with glasses. Why???
Change for changes sake. Microsoft teams did an update and moved all the buttons around and they’ve made it worse
Spam e-mails. I look after the "contact" email address for my work, purely since when it was set up 15 years ago there were only 2 of us - the other being my boss (now retired) who wasn't at all computer/email oriented.
I can understand why spammers want to advertise viagra, or get you to click on links for whatever dodgy reason, but recently I've been inundated with emails from made up addresses with fake latin "lorem ipsum" text and nothing else.
What's the point? is there one?
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Originally Posted by CloudSquall
Does anyone actually then go and follow them? I never get that.
:agree: it's a bit like footers advertising iffy football podcasts.Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
:faf: some right bell-ends out there, eh?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
“Tin pot”
“A bit cringe”
“Chronic patter”
That someone though Seaspiracy was a better name than Conspirisea for that particular documentary.
People who eat stuff like graze box nuts at their desk - noisiest random irritant in the office when it returns - should be banned. At least with crisps you know there’s an end on sight. Why do they need to be this load and also can we not invent crisp packets that rustle less? I’m sure there’s psychology behind this all.
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Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Grown adults that still go on about drinking alcohol in that “what am I like” way as if the vast majority of the adult population don’t like a good drink as well.
I saw a thing about crisps a couple of weeks ago. Did you know that the "air" in the bags is actually azote (to keep the crisps fresh), with just enough being added to protect the crisps from being crushed but without each bag taking too much space and risking bursting. Not a peeve at all. Sorry.Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva_Palmeiras
Add to this, anyone that describes a drink a wee bit early in the day as “cheeky”.Quote:
Originally Posted by WeeRussell
Agree.. and a lot of the time it doesn’t even have to be early... just a drink.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
We went for a nice quiet walk in the local woods today. Took my camera and caught a buzzard swoop down and grab a frog which it took up in the trees. Took a good position and got three or four photos that were good, but had a branch in the way. Tried to quietly shuffle a little further down so I could get a clear photo, only for some old bat to loudly go "Oh, what are you taking photos of today then?" and scared it away. When I said a buzzard she couldn't have been less interested.
Noise for the sake of noise spoiling others enjoyment of the nature around us. Absolutely infuriating.
A "cheeky Nandos". Nandos is not cheeky.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
Maybe a "dreary Nandos".
These Just Eat emails you get every Tuesday - "Cheeky up your Tuesday".Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
I emailed them back to ask how I actually do that. Be slightly disrespectful but in a somewhat playful way? Show a lack of politeness in a manner that is amusing or appealing? I honestly have no idea!
Still awaiting their response...
On behalf of Mrs M....
Artificial turf in people's gardens.
Just get some real grass, people!!!!
You/she obviously has never lived in a newbuild. :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
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Originally Posted by Future17
Don't shoot the messenger
:greengrin
Tell her to get her own account then! :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
The Tour de France pelotons using the underpass and pavements at Milton Link at the weekend. Two weeks in a row I've nearly been mown down whilst pushing the buggy.
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Originally Posted by Future17
She'd be banned on the first day...
Always.Quote:
Originally Posted by Future17
I run that way and every single weekend I have to jump out of the way of a group of Chris Froome wannabes who don't seem to realise they are in an urban area rather than the French mountains.
Never any attempt to slow down and an apology is the stuff of dreams. Tbh they are so unconcerned with anyone else I doubt they would notice if they mowed down half the children in Magdalene.
Block!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
Tescos at one point did "duffins" - half doughnut, half muffins.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
After a few drinks I e-mailed their customer complaint line angry that they hadn't called them "muffnuts".
I got a reply the following morning essentially saying that I could call them that if I wanted to.
BrilliantQuote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
Agreed. Some of the looks I've had from them have been as if I'm pushing the buggy across the Champs Elysees.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Also, whilst I'm moaning...
Crossing the Asda car park on Saturday, three cars went straight across the zebra crossing whilst I was waiting to cross with the buggy. After some gesturing on my part, I crossed behind the third car which had stopped due to traffic ahead of it. The driver had his window down and as I glared at him he said, "well if you want to cross, you have to start walking".
Aye pal, I'll just shove the laddie into the road and hope pricks like you are paying attention.:rolleyes:
Maybe a huge whoosh on my part but are you aware its made by the same people behind "cowspiracy"Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Another Pet Peeve posted on behalf of Mrs M....
MEN!
No specific details were given... or are actually required.
I'm sure we all understand :wink:
Someone is going to get seriously hurt down the prom by a cyclist going too fast.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
I just hope it’s the cyclist and not a small kid who is maybe guilty of running side to side or on a scooter.
Doesn’t really matter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby
Cowspiracy works better than conspiracow
Conspirasea works better than seaspiracy