Pet Peeves IV

[nonshinyfinish]

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I can help!!

Someone told me to buy these for this exact problem and they have changed my laundry life

https://www.amazon.co.uk/wash-nets/s?k=wash+nets

Why not just close the duvet cover?

[Wembley67]

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Why not just close the duvet cover?

Still gaps where things can squeeze in like socks etc 😁

[Pretty Boy]

Maybe one for the holiday peeves but flight prices from Edinburgh.

Looking at flights to Rome in October and we can fly from either Edinburgh or East Midlands (my father in law is going with us and that's his nearest airport). 2 adults and 2 kids from Edinburgh on the Family Plus fare from Ryanair is £1396. Same fare from East Midlands with slightly better flight times (for me anyway) is £598. I get it's a slightly longer journey and higher demand in Edinburgh but 57% cheaper from a relatively nearby UK airport?

It was the same when booking our summer holiday. We saved over £850 flying from Newcastle rather than Edinburgh. Even factoring in a tank of fuel for the car, parking and a 1 night hotel stay we are still almost £600 better off for the pretty minimal inconvenience of a 2 hour drive.

It's across the board. I was booking a couple of flights for work recently and because I wasn't paying I didn't give a toss about the cost but Edinburgh to Dublin was £80 more than Heathrow to Dublin and Edinburgh to Nice £125 more than Luton to Nice.

[JimBHibees]

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Maybe one for the holiday peeves but flight prices from Edinburgh.

Looking at flights to Rome in October and we can fly from either Edinburgh or East Midlands (my father in law is going with us and that's his nearest airport). 2 adults and 2 kids from Edinburgh on the Family Plus fare from Ryanair is £1396. Same fare from East Midlands with slightly better flight times (for me anyway) is £598. I get it's a slightly longer journey and higher demand in Edinburgh but 57% cheaper from a relatively nearby UK airport?

It was the same when booking our summer holiday. We saved over £850 flying from Newcastle rather than Edinburgh. Even factoring in a tank of fuel for the car, parking and a 1 night hotel stay we are still almost £600 better off for the pretty minimal inconvenience of a 2 hour drive.

It's across the board. I was booking a couple of flights for work recently and because I wasn't paying I didn't give a toss about the cost but Edinburgh to Dublin was £80 more than Heathrow to Dublin and Edinburgh to Nice £125 more than Luton to Nice.

We used to always fly from Manchester Birmingham and Liverpool for family holidays 2 kids and saved a fortune by doing so. Usually early July prior to English school hols.

[pollution]

Edinburgh flights have increased prices quite dramatically in the last two years in particular.

After Covid there was a huge backlog of people wanting holidays and so airlines ramped up their prices. Ryanair admitted that last summer

they had increased their fares too much but this year demand has increased again and so have all airlines' fares from Edinburgh.

As for domestic fares : it's a joke. Fly to Orkneys or Shetland ? Ha ha tough. £400 return if you're lucky.

[BILLYHIBS]

Cancelling automatic payments on PayPal

Why do they make it so difficult or even set it up without permission?

[Mon Dieu4]

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Cancelling automatic payments on PayPal

Why do they make it so difficult or even set it up without permission?

Funny you should say that, took me about 10 minutes to work out how to do it earlier this week, nothing intuitive about it at all which is clearly what they are after

[BILLYHIBS]

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Funny you should say that, took me about 10 minutes to work out how to do it earlier this week, nothing intuitive about it at all which is clearly what they are after

Plenty of YouTubers giving advice but everybody’s set up seems to be different?

Got there eventually

Just getting ready for the usual double annual payment to hibs.net 😀

[SteveHFC]

The amount of train delays down south this week.

Had to do Edinburgh-Newcastle-Manchester on Monday then Manchester-Preston-Edinburgh today.

[DH1875]

Know it's been covered before but ticket prices for shows. Or more to the point booking fees. Bad enough getting hit with £160 for two adults and two kids to go see Paw Patrol Live but to then add in £30 booking fees is an absolute P take. Service fee £21.60. Venuse fee £6.80 and handling fee £2. £190 to go watch 75 minutes of Paw Patrol on stage......

[ErinGoBraghHFC]

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Know it's been covered before but ticket prices for shows. Or more to the point booking fees. Bad enough getting hit with £160 for two adults and two kids to go see Paw Patrol Live but to then add in £30 booking fees is an absolute P take. Service fee £21.60. Venuse fee £6.80 and handling fee £2. £190 to go watch 75 minutes of Paw Patrol on stage......

Handling fees annoy me the most. Handling ****in what? It’s an e-ticket most of the time these days. Ridiculous.


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[BILLYHIBS]

Daily Mail online

A total rag taken over from NOTW imo constantly looking for stories non stories gossip click bait and the Daily Mail plus option why pay for stuff that is widely available elsewhere?

I know I never look at it now

Just one of the many once proud newspapers scraping the bottom of the barrel

Who cares what happened in the Chase Strictly Love Island or Big Brother?

[Hibrandenburg]

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Daily Mail online

A total rag taken over from NOTW imo constantly looking for stories non stories gossip click bait and the Daily Mail plus option why pay for stuff that is widely available elsewhere?

I know I never look at it now

Just one of the many once proud newspapers scraping the bottom of the barrel

Was it proud before it supported Hitler? Can't remember it printing anything to be proud about since.

[BILLYHIBS]

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Was it proud before it supported Hitler? Can't remember it printing anything to be proud about since.

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[overdrive]

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Daily Mail online

A total rag taken over from NOTW imo constantly looking for stories non stories gossip click bait and the Daily Mail plus option why pay for stuff that is widely available elsewhere?

I know I never look at it now

Just one of the many once proud newspapers scraping the bottom of the barrel

Who cares what happened in the Chase Strictly Love Island or Big Brother?

I was indirectly in the Daily Heil this past week. I was involved in the stunt done by Republic during the Garden Party where we tried to recreate the Hollywood sign in Holyrood Park with “Not my King” spelled out on a hill in view of the garden party. I’ll be the first to admit it could have been slightly better/bigger (it wasn’t something we could rehearse). Daily Heil article said it was illegible in the garden party and nobody paid attention to it. We then came across a photo somebody at garden party took, that shows it was legible (could have been been better) and everyone in shot looking at it and pointing).

As an aside Holyrood Park rangers were absolute a holes. Seriously implying we’d be shot by the snipers on the palace roof. Got the police on us who told us to ignore the rangers and to crack on.

[Northernhibee]

When you’re in a lift and someone dashes over when the lifts are closing, only for them to hold it for an absolute age to let the rest of their party shuffle along to it.

Just wait for it to come back down again and don’t hold up other people unless you’re all there.

[Hibrandenburg]

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When you’re in a lift and someone dashes over when the lifts are closing, only for them to hold it for an absolute age to let the rest of their party shuffle along to it.

Just wait for it to come back down again and don’t hold up other people unless you’re all there.

And then go up or down one floor.

[Northernhibee]

Was having breakfast this morning and heard our front door gently close. We have a shoe rack outside for wet shoes and the like and found a woman out there going through them, shoes strewn across the floor.

Gone absolutely ape**** at them and now having to work from home waiting for police to arrive.

Not how I wanted to spend half past six this morning.

[Pretty Boy]

Adults who still use email accounts they must have made up sometime in 2001 (at least I hope that's the case and there aren't people 30+ who set these up last week).

Been sifting through CVs this week and a couple of the emails are ridiculous. Obviously I won't post the actual addresses but think [email protected] or [email protected]. WTF? How long does it take to set up a sensible email account using the likes of Gmail or Proton Mail for the purposes of conducting actual grown up business?

[The Modfather]

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Adults who still use email accounts they must have made up sometime in 2001 (at least I hope that's the case and there aren't people 30+ who set these up last week).

Been sifting through CVs this week and a couple of the emails are ridiculous. Obviously I won't post the actual addresses but think [email protected] or [email protected]. WTF? How long does it take to set up a sensible email account using the likes of Gmail or Proton Mail for the purposes of conducting actual grown up business?

Not quite the same as your point, but I was buying a shed and had to give my email address for delivery. The young-ish guy was almost in shock that I had a Hotmail address (minus the daft names). I hadn’t ever thought anything of it given I’ve only ever had one email address. Always a bit of a shock to realise you’re now a dinosaur.

[Wembley67]

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Not quite the same as your point, but I was buying a shed and had to give my email address for delivery. The young-ish guy was almost in shock that I had a Hotmail address (minus the daft names). I hadn’t ever thought anything of it given I’ve only ever had one email address. Always a bit of a shock to realise you’re now a dinosaur.

Agreed, my mate still uses a Blueyonder one and also went as far as registering around a dozen variations of his name @blueyonder just because - how short sighted we were back then

[BILLYHIBS]

No WiFi at Easter Road

No hot running water at Easter Road

Tannoy too loud at Easter Road cannae hold a conversation

Sorry just thinking about tomorrow’s game and the new season

[matty_f]

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Adults who still use email accounts they must have made up sometime in 2001 (at least I hope that's the case and there aren't people 30+ who set these up last week).

Been sifting through CVs this week and a couple of the emails are ridiculous. Obviously I won't post the actual addresses but think [email protected] or [email protected]. WTF? How long does it take to set up a sensible email account using the likes of Gmail or Proton Mail for the purposes of conducting actual grown up business?

I have a Hotmail address related to Indiana Jones from when I was a teenager - never sees the light of day on anything grown up I need to do!

[hibsbollah]

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I was indirectly in the Daily Heil this past week. I was involved in the stunt done by Republic during the Garden Party where we tried to recreate the Hollywood sign in Holyrood Park with “Not my King” spelled out on a hill in view of the garden party. I’ll be the first to admit it could have been slightly better/bigger (it wasn’t something we could rehearse). Daily Heil article said it was illegible in the garden party and nobody paid attention to it. We then came across a photo somebody at garden party took, that shows it was legible (could have been been better) and everyone in shot looking at it and pointing).

As an aside Holyrood Park rangers were absolute a holes. Seriously implying we’d be shot by the snipers on the palace roof. Got the police on us who told us to ignore the rangers and to crack on.

:notworthy:

[overdrive]

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Adults who still use email accounts they must have made up sometime in 2001 (at least I hope that's the case and there aren't people 30+ who set these up last week).

Been sifting through CVs this week and a couple of the emails are ridiculous. Obviously I won't post the actual addresses but think [email protected] or [email protected]. WTF? How long does it take to set up a sensible email account using the likes of Gmail or Proton Mail for the purposes of conducting actual grown up business?

I had to persuade my ex-wife to get a more professional email address in her mid/late 20s than the one she had been using since a teenager that implied she modeled for lads mags. I didn't fancy that being associated with our mortgage application.

Similar to the funny references people put on bank transfers. My mate runs a letting agency and he says it is rife when he's checking people's bank statements for affordability. "Bum fun money", "cocaine purchase", etc.