What grinds my gears...

[Captain...]

2 hours ago, FoyleFox said:

Being asked at the end of nearly every TV programme if I've been affected by said programme and offering me a helpline.

 

I know we need to be aware of mental health etc, but do we really need announcements after every programme?

 

(It may have been applicable after MOTD for us this season).

If it helps one person once it is worth it. A minor annoyance to you could save someone's life.

[st albans fox]

Wrong thread 

Edited 31 October 2022 by st albans fox

[kingkisnorbo]

Really inane one today. Chocolate bars with hashtags printed on them. Not the wrapper, the actual bar. 
 

Ripped open a Kit Kat chunky and saw one on it. Really got my goat for a moment. 

 

[Milo]

Train and tube strikes on 5/7/9/10 November.

 

Wiped out my my earnings for an entire week. 

 

Cheers.

[oakman]

Pavement hoggers. 3 people in front of me earlier, side by side, ambling along blocking the entire pavement.

[Footballwipe]

It's 2022 and people are still surprised, shocked and annoyed when their bowls of Halloween sweets that they leave outside for kids are just stolen by scroates.

 

Just seems baffling and frankly naive to me that people think this WON'T happen? Of course it will. Kids have been dickheads for decades, it's not going to stop now. I've read multiple (and I mean multiple) posts of people complaining that all their sweets and bowls were stolen from their doorstep. What the heck were you expecting?

[ealingfox]

3 minutes ago, Footballwipe said:

It's 2022 and people are still surprised, shocked and annoyed when their bowls of Halloween sweets that they leave outside for kids are just stolen by scroates.

 

Just seems baffling and frankly naive to me that people think this WON'T happen? Of course it will. Kids have been dickheads for decades, it's not going to stop now. I've read multiple (and I mean multiple) posts of people complaining that all their sweets and bowls were stolen from their doorstep. What the heck were you expecting?

 

Why can't they just be normal and sit at home with all the lights off pretending they aren't in like me?

[taupe]

On 30/10/2022 at 15:31, Daggers said:

Weather apps that tell you what the weather

...is doing now, where you are. I've got windows for that!

[taupe]

7 minutes ago, Footballwipe said:

It's 2022 and people are still surprised, shocked and annoyed when their bowls of Halloween sweets that they leave outside for kids

Is that where we're at now? Just boiled down (sweets?) to the transaction? 

 

Kids: just give us the chocolate

Householder: don't disturb my tele watching, take some and fuk off.

 

Spirit of Halloween 2022 eh?

[Daggers]

1 hour ago, taupe said:

...is doing now, where you are. I've got windows for that!

And all to frequently at odds with reality. It’s like Trump doing a forecast - we had bigly bigly sun last night, the best sun.

[The Bear]

2 hours ago, Daggers said:

bigly bigly sun

So it is... 

 

 

(one for the Mark & Lard fans) 

[Daggers]

Wives who insist on waking you in the middle of the night. Mainly my wife. And not for sex.

[Silebyfox_89]

The mcdonalds lorry driver advert.

[taupe]

Businesses with an online presence that don't respond to emails.

[Stuntman_Mike]

'The' Arsenal 

[Livid]

Placed two online orders one on Friday at midday (same day despatch before 2pm) and one Sunday evening. 
 

Wednesday night and neither have even been despatched yet. 

[Free Falling Foxes]

TV programmes that start at 10pm with a warning that the following programme contains bad language from the start.

It's way past the watershed for crying out loud.

[The Bear]

I had an eBay parcel posted to me last Wed, and it still hasn't arrived.

 

Fookin strikes. 

[RonnieTodger]

Anyone abandoning pets are scum 

[z-layrex]

Openreach bloke took a shit in our downstairs loo.

[Free Falling Foxes]

4 hours ago, z-layrex said:

Openreach bloke took a shit in our downstairs loo.

Interesting conundrum. I visit folks homes as part of my job and on 2 or 3 occasions needed to use their loo for a number two

General opinion is you shouldn't really, but the alternative is you shit yourself.

[Rain King]

4 hours ago, z-layrex said:

Openreach bloke took a shit in our downstairs loo.

We had some decking and other bits done in the garden a couple of years ago.

 

Before he started he asked if he could nip to the loo. Half an hour later he came downstairs and advised us to give it a while before going to the bathroom.

 

Dirty bastard, if we hadn't already been waiting months for the work I'd have told him to get lost.

[kingkisnorbo]

4 hours ago, z-layrex said:

Openreach bloke took a shit in our downstairs loo.

Do forgive me, but what else is he supposed to do? 

[Free Falling Foxes]

12 minutes ago, kingkisnorbo said:

Do forgive me, but what else is he supposed to do? 

I suppose @z-layrexcould 'log' a complaint.

Also, you might be able to use it to negotiate a cheaper deal. (The event, not the log itself. )

Edited 3 November 2022 by Free Falling Foxes

[Captain...]

One of our moving men left an unflushable turd after finishing unloading at the new place, he was in there so long it ticked over into the next hour so the moving company charged us for an extra hour. He also left it in the toilet in the attic conversion which is the spare room. So we didn't even find it for a few days.

 

We did complain and didn't have to pay the extra hour.