What grinds my gears...

[Izzy]

People who don't listen.

Either constantly interrupting, butting in, or finishing your sentence. STFU, it's not always about you.

Why not listen to understand sometimes rather than always listening to reply?

[Daggers]

14 minutes ago, Izzy said:

People who don't listen.

Either constantly interrupting, butting in, or fi...

...nishing your sentence.

 

 

[The Bear]

29 minutes ago, Izzy said:

People who don't listen.

Either constantly interrupting, butting in, or finishing your sentence. STFU, it's not always about you.

Why not listen to understand sometimes rather than always listening to reply?

What? 

[Daggers]

5 hours ago, The Bear said:

What? 

 

It wasn’t about me so I gave up bothering to read it.

[Izzy]

4 hours ago, Daggers said:

 

It wasn’t about me so I gave up bothering to read it.

Me, me, me, it's all about me.

 

Anyway, that's enough about about me. What do you think about me?  

[leicsmac]

10 hours ago, Izzy said:

People who don't listen.

Either constantly interrupting, butting in, or finishing your sentence. STFU, it's not always about you.

Why not listen to understand sometimes rather than always listening to reply?

Can sometimes be a neurodivergent thing (finishing sentences), but then sometimes just being a dick, yeah.

[Daggers]

[jgtuk]

My local recycling centre won't take any building materials, or anything to do with DIY without charging, it's run by a waste management company no longer the council.

I've noticed hotspots where people are fly tipping more often than ever and it must be costing huge amounts for the council to clear it.

 

Hardcore & Rubble, DIY Construction, Waste, Soil
£2.00 per bag* (£20 per trailer)
One bag per customer free (up to 20kg)
Includes items such as breeze blocks, bricks, ceramics, concrete, tiles, flagstones, gravel,, slate, soil, sand, stones and tarmac.

Wood and timber £4.00 per bag (5kg – 20kg), £30.00 per trailer load
Less than 5kg free of charge
DIY or construction wood includes fitted furniture, doors and kitchen cabinets; fences, sheds, flooring and decking

Asbestos (Bonded asbestos only).
£12.50 per bag or sheet. Asbestos must be double bagged/wrapped in plastic
Residents advised not to break into smaller pieces or cut/saw it.

Plasterboard £12.00 per bag or sheet or £30 per trailer
Plasterboard should be dry and not mixed with other materials

Gas canisters £6.00 each up to 10kg
£11.00 each 10kg – 20kg
£35.00 each larger than 20kg specialist gas canisters.
Completely empty gas bottles only.

Tyres (Motor Vehicles & Motorbikes only) £4.00 eac.h Commercial and agricultural vehicle tyres will not be accepted. No charge for bicycle tyres

Plastic Windows £3.00 each. With or without glass. Single pane window only (double charge for multiple pane plastic windows)

Plastic Door orDoor frame £3.00 each. With or without glass. Single door or door frame only (double charge for double door)

Bath or shower tray £3.00 per item Single bath or shower tray only (plastic, fibre or composite)

Insulation Material £3.00 per bag or bag equivalent.
Products such as mineral wool and fibreglass insulation

Roofing Felt £3.00 per bag

Plastic downpipe gutteringor fascia £3.00 up to 5 pieces, £6 up to 10 pieces

 

Just had a council tax increase of 9.34% too 

Edited 21 August by jgtuk
SP

[Free Falling Foxes]

1 hour ago, jgtuk said:

My local recycling centre won't take any building materials, or anything to do with DIY without charging, it's run by a waste management company no longer the council.

I've noticed hotspots where people are fly tipping more often than ever and it must be costing huge amounts for the council to clear it.

 

Hardcore & Rubble, DIY Construction, Waste, Soil
£2.00 per bag* (£20 per trailer)
One bag per customer free (up to 20kg)
Includes items such as breeze blocks, bricks, ceramics, concrete, tiles, flagstones, gravel,, slate, soil, sand, stones and tarmac.

Wood and timber £4.00 per bag (5kg – 20kg), £30.00 per trailer load
Less than 5kg free of charge
DIY or construction wood includes fitted furniture, doors and kitchen cabinets; fences, sheds, flooring and decking

Asbestos (Bonded asbestos only).
£12.50 per bag or sheet. Asbestos must be double bagged/wrapped in plastic
Residents advised not to break into smaller pieces or cut/saw it.

Plasterboard £12.00 per bag or sheet or £30 per trailer
Plasterboard should be dry and not mixed with other materials

Gas canisters £6.00 each up to 10kg
£11.00 each 10kg – 20kg
£35.00 each larger than 20kg specialist gas canisters.
Completely empty gas bottles only.

Tyres (Motor Vehicles & Motorbikes only) £4.00 eac.h Commercial and agricultural vehicle tyres will not be accepted. No charge for bicycle tyres

Plastic Windows £3.00 each. With or without glass. Single pane window only (double charge for multiple pane plastic windows)

Plastic Door orDoor frame £3.00 each. With or without glass. Single door or door frame only (double charge for double door)

Bath or shower tray £3.00 per item Single bath or shower tray only (plastic, fibre or composite)

Insulation Material £3.00 per bag or bag equivalent.
Products such as mineral wool and fibreglass insulation

Roofing Felt £3.00 per bag

Plastic downpipe gutteringor fascia £3.00 up to 5 pieces, £6 up to 10 pieces

 

Just had a council tax increase of 9.34% too 

No wonder fly tipping, people dumping their rubbish - inc building waste - next to public litter bins and folk leaving items outside their homes for others to collect, are all on the increase.

[boots60]

11 minutes ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

No wonder fly tipping, people dumping their rubbish - inc building waste - next to public litter bins and folk leaving items outside their homes for others to collect, are all on the increase.

Going through Evington the other day, I managed to re-furnish most of my house. Picked up 2 mattresses, a sofa, a fridge freezer, a TV in need of slight attention & some pieces of timber ideal for making shelves.

 

Who needs Ikea?

[bovril]

14 hours ago, Izzy said:

People who don't listen.

Either constantly interrupting, butting in, or finishing your sentence. STFU, it's not always about you.

Why not listen to understand sometimes rather than always listening to reply?

Listening well appears to be a dying art. 

[LFEFox23]

People who always turn the conversation into / about them!

[jgtuk]

28 minutes ago, boots60 said:

Going through Evington the other day, I managed to re-furnish most of my house. Picked up 2 mattresses, a sofa, a fridge freezer, a TV in need of slight attention & some pieces of timber ideal for making shelves.

 

Who needs Ikea?

Our centre takes household items, furniture, electrical appliances etc so no excuse for dumping this stuff, the building materials thing is our local issue 

[String fellow]

4 hours ago, LFEFox23 said:

People who always turn the conversation into / about them!

Some folk rabbit on, making almost impossible to get a word in edgeways. They're worse than the interrupters and the sentence-finishers. They also use to body language as another way to force you to remain there as the person they're talking to (or rather, talking at). One of my neighbours is like that, meaning that careful timing is required, to make sure my trips to the shops aren't delayed by half an hour, as they bang on about whatever their current issue happens to be. And if the topic of the day is local gossip, my neighbour will speak very quietly, so that they won't be overheard - even if it's obvious that nobody else is within earshot!   

Edited 21 August by String fellow

[bovril]

1 hour ago, LFEFox23 said:

People who always turn the conversation into / about them!

Social media has turned us into narcissists 

[ozleicester]

[The Bear]

Really loud people in pubs.

 

Cackling at full volume, shouting over each other, getting over excited about the slightest bit of humour in the conversation........ Just tone it down you bunch of loudmouthed tossers. We can barely hear each other have a normal conversation at the other side of the room FFS. 

[bovril]

10 minutes ago, The Bear said:

Really loud people in pubs.

 

Cackling at full volume, shouting over each other, getting over excited about the slightest bit of humour in the conversation........ Just tone it down you bunch of loudmouthed tossers. We can barely hear each other have a normal conversation at the other side of the room FFS. 

God yes. Incredibly annoying. We're the worst country for it definitely. 

[Danno]

13 minutes ago, bovril said:

God yes. Incredibly annoying. We're the worst country for it definitely. 

We’re definitely not 😂

 

Try Spain, Italy or the US 

[bovril]

2 minutes ago, Danno said:

We’re definitely not 😂

 

Try Spain, Italy or the US 

Italians are loud but they don't shout in pubs. Plus a lot of dining is done outside anyway which is better.

 

Not been much to Spain and never to the US. Can imagine Americans being bad but they don't tend to drink as much in my experience.

[leicsmac]

On the above topic, UK drinking culture by comparison to a lot of places.

 

An evening or a day steadily having a few drinks and relaxing vs. Getting as shitfaced as possible as fast as possible with often violent results.

[lcfc278]

Not sure about anyone else but I think that the binge drinking culture in the UK has definitely toned down a little over the last 5 - 10 years. Early to late noughties (hate that word) it was rife across the UK with nightlife in most cities teaming, nowadays I don't think it's anywhere near as bad as it was - think 'Booze Britain' days. May be just me though.

[grobyfox1990]

23 minutes ago, lcfc278 said:

Not sure about anyone else but I think that the binge drinking culture in the UK has definitely toned down a little over the last 5 - 10 years. Early to late noughties (hate that word) it was rife across the UK with nightlife in most cities teaming, nowadays I don't think it's anywhere near as bad as it was - think 'Booze Britain' days. May be just me though.

Yeh prob agree. But I still find it odd that British people aim to get drunk at a variety of events. Like a British wedding, guests turning up in cheap online dresses and off the rack M&S suits looking like a FTSE 250 compliance dept away day, downing old beer from a beaten up keg in a rain-drenched rural field all day.

Horse racing

Funerals

Gigs (prob more acceptable but drinking horrendous plastic £7.25 carlsberg at the venue, yuck)

Work xmas parties

 

I say this having drank 17 pints of the best lager you will ever try at one of the days during the Euros, so football is exempt.

[RoboFox]

Wait, you guys can afford to go to pubs? 

[Zear0]

2 hours ago, lcfc278 said:

Not sure about anyone else but I think that the binge drinking culture in the UK has definitely toned down a little over the last 5 - 10 years. Early to late noughties (hate that word) it was rife across the UK with nightlife in most cities teaming, nowadays I don't think it's anywhere near as bad as it was - think 'Booze Britain' days. May be just me though.

Minimum alcohol pricing has made a massive difference to the utter chaos that was that era. Remember every bar during that time would have roulette games that would amend your order. In Bishops, my double vodka coke got an upgrade to a six shot for the same price and I didn't even ask for it (still sunk it). 

 

Used to come home with change from a twenty. Nearly had a heart attack when I check my bank account following a night out nowadays.