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Really minor annoyances


DaveH said:
Our draw for big cutlery is full of stuff. Her mam was having a clear out and I think was getting rid of anything plastic. So we got all these big black plastic things that have never once been used. There is a spoon which is an odd shape, like a rectangular block of plastic with an indent in the middle, and it just doesn't work well. Not sure how you can get a spoon wrong, but it is crap. This floppy plastic spatula that does nowt and a tatie masher that is good, but we already had one, and now have two. Why?

The draw jams half the time you try to open it, it is so full now. A few years ago I emptied it and put everything back in long ways so it fit. But someone in the family doesn't get that and you have this mess of stuff piled up in all directions in the middle.

I'm tempted to round up stuff we don't use, put it in a box somewhere and if nobody asks about it in 6 months time, chuck the lot.
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Similar but not minor for me absolutely major how I absolutely detest fuckin tupperware.

Said it before how when I was single I had one sandwich sized Tupperware box and another bigger one sized to take leftovers to work for bait. That’s all I ever needed.

Our lass has shelves, boxes and entire cupboards full of the shite. None with matching lids of course. Once I filled a full size bin bag of the shite and put it in the garage. I said if we haven’t needed it by X date we could bin it off. We never used it and I’m sure she socked it away somewhere then set about slealthily replacing it all so we now have TWICE as much of the stuff. Naturally none with matching lids.

WTF is it with bewers and this ludicrous compulsion for the acquisition of friggin Tupperware? I hate it!😖😖😖
 
Tex said:
Similar but not minor for me absolutely major how I absolutely detest fuckin tupperware.

Said it before how when I was single I had one sandwich sized Tupperware box and another bigger one sized to take leftovers to work for bait. That’s all I ever needed.

Our lass has shelves, boxes and entire cupboards full of the shite. None with matching lids of course. Once I filled a full size bin bag of the shite and put it in the garage. I said if we haven’t needed it by X date we could bin it off. We never used it and I’m sure she socked it away somewhere then set about slealthily replacing it all so we now have TWICE as much of the stuff. Naturally none with matching lids.

WTF is it with bewers and this ludicrous compulsion for the acquisition of friggin Tupperware? I hate it!😖😖😖
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If I am at my mams and I put something in a tuppaware tub I wrap clingfilm over the top. Life is too short to sort through 65 slightly different lids to not find one that fits anyway. Growing up, you would try to take one thing out the cupboard and the whole lot would tumble out. All different sizes and shapes.

We have a cupboard with two types, large and small, both rectangular and both stackable. No other type is permitted.
 
DaveH said:
If I am at my mams and I put something in a tuppaware tub I wrap clingfilm over the top. Life is too short to sort through 65 slightly different lids to not find one that fits anyway. Growing up, you would try to take one thing out the cupboard and the whole lot would tumble out. All different sizes and shapes.

We have a cupboard with two types, large and small, both rectangular and both stackable. No other type is permitted.
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Yeah the whole Tupperware deluge is a frequent occurrence too, to add insult to injury. Let’s call it an exercise to extend the bairn’s vocabulary!

Being as our fridge is stacked to the gills with over twenty Stanley cups filled with water (even though the fridge has its own cold water tap and an automatically refilling cold water jug) I’m left to wonder exactly where the f*ck we would put any of this mountain of Tupperware boxes anyway?
 
Lass in Costa this morning. Typical I have a laptop so I'm gonna use it type. She took the biscuit by bringing a full size Bluetooth keyboard as well. One person taking up a four seater table. Why does the company let them get away with it.

I could have crushed my ginger biscuit I was so mad.
 
Mousehold Mackem said:
Lass in Costa this morning. Typical I have a laptop so I'm gonna use it type. She took the biscuit by bringing a full size Bluetooth keyboard as well. One person taking up a four seater table. Why does the company let them get away with it.

I could have crushed my ginger biscuit I was so mad.
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I’ve seen someone being interviewed for a job in Starbucks. Not to work in Starbucks but to work for the table hogging knackers you speak of.
 
Tex said:
Similar but not minor for me absolutely major how I absolutely detest fuckin tupperware.

Said it before how when I was single I had one sandwich sized Tupperware box and another bigger one sized to take leftovers to work for bait. That’s all I ever needed.

Our lass has shelves, boxes and entire cupboards full of the shite. None with matching lids of course. Once I filled a full size bin bag of the shite and put it in the garage. I said if we haven’t needed it by X date we could bin it off. We never used it and I’m sure she socked it away somewhere then set about slealthily replacing it all so we now have TWICE as much of the stuff. Naturally none with matching lids.

WTF is it with bewers and this ludicrous compulsion for the acquisition of friggin Tupperware? I hate it!😖😖😖
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I have a fondness for Tupperware that dates from a time in my life when what may have been the love of my life used the excuse, to her boyfriend, that she was ‘going to a Tupperware party’ to get out of a date with him. And to see me instead. We ended up together. I didn’t feel bad for him because he was a twat.
 
Mousehold Mackem said:
Lass in Costa this morning. Typical I have a laptop so I'm gonna use it type. She took the biscuit by bringing a full size Bluetooth keyboard as well. One person taking up a four seater table. Why does the company let them get away with it.

I could have crushed my ginger biscuit I was so mad.
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Was Starbucks busy?
 
DaveH said:
The sadists who design the process for changing car headlight bulbs.

Noticed a bulb off last night, half an hour free before work, should be more than enough time. I had to use two different sockets, a torx and a philips, then lift the entire headlamp assembly out before I could access the bulb. Then if you do not have the assembly at exactly the right angle, it does not slot back into the bumper trim properly when putting it back. With a sharp edge or two, I cut my thumb doing it.

It involved removing one bit of metal (with two bolts) that does not make contact with the light, but sits 2cm above it and as far as I can tell, it's only purpose is to make it an absolute fuck on to change a bulb.

Asking Halfords to change a bulb for me seems pretty pathetic, but I doubt my wife could have done this and I would think twice about trying to do it in the dark, when I'm more likely to notice a bulb out.

For safety, these things should be quick and simple, and anyone should be able to do it on the roadside in the dark, in less than a minute. I could in my 1990s Fiesta, why has progress made this a job where you consider going to a garage?


Oh and to continue my grumpy start to the morning, wankers at work who do not put holidays in their diary. I currently have two meetings that I'm shuffling around because every time I move them, someone else says "Oh I have that day off". That is the entire purpose of the diary, and you can even have our holiday booking system send you a diary event so it is one extra mouse click.
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I'm sure I recall reading that one model of Renaults required the front bumper assembly to be removed to access the headlight bulbs. Might have been the Clio. Vavoom indeed!
 
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