S.S.R..
Striker
Think I've posted in this thread before, the phenomenon of something you see all the time immediately ceasing to exist the moment you require it.
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Think I've posted in this thread before, the phenomenon of something you see all the time immediately ceasing to exist the moment you require it.
Hawkings Boots
Striker
Youghurts that splurt everywhere when you open them
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Shops where the card machine badgers you to donate to charity
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Shops where the card machine badgers you to donate to charity
Oh yeah. This still
AmblerThorn
Midfield
Irritating agreed. In fact it's just rude to automatically ask for a donation to a charity with no information on what it is or does
Hawkings Boots
Striker
I suspect it enables the company to proudly proclaim they have donated £x to charity and get some sort of tax benefit when none of the money has actually came from them
DaveH
Striker
My daughter took one on a flight, that she picked up in the airport lounge. While we were sitting there the top started to go dome shaped and look like it was going to explode. I told her to open it very carefully and just let a tiny bit of air in first to level the pressure. She didn't heed the careful bit and it was over her, up the cabin walls, everywhere.
This has the double whammy of continuing to annoy the wife. Last spring I pulled some retro computers out the loft that I had picked up over the years, with the intention of getting them working and selling them. All had internal batteries that leaked. And none of them work with modern monitors.
What I wanted was a video scalar unit which can convert old retro signals and display them on a modern monitor. There were loads about in the summer. I promised to sort them out over the next few weeks, waited until the end of the month for pay day. Not one suitable to be found anywhere.
Meanwhile we have a few dismantled old computers dotted about the place and a manky old CRT monitor on that has been on the bedroom floor for months.
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c032745y
Striker
Dogs will do that. By the same token, dog poo bags. Firstly, they're gossamer thin therefore a bastard to separate wearing gloves & it's usually windy, whipping them about. Take glove off, recover poo, usually with glove in mouth (never mix that up!) Try to put glove back on with poo bag, dog lead & walking stick (dodgy knee) all to be juggled. As a modicum of success is achieved, glove half on, stick still balanced on forearm, psychotic little maniac you're desperately trying to control decides to launch himself at dog/cat/bird/crisp packet.Went to catch the bus this morning , just one of them stops with a sign post no shelter . Heres a lass picking up her dogs shit bang next to the pole .
Fair enough for picking up but she cant clear the ground fully and who lets their dog shit next to where they know people will be standing
does to some things , plates, stainless but not to pyrex I've found
Geras
Midfield
They only do it if you let them . Dont let them sniff bus stops they wont shit next to them. This wasnt an uncontrollable bull mastiff by the way .
c032745y
Striker
When mine, only a little fella mind, goes into shit waddle/crouch, he's not for shifting. To be fair, imagine what it would be like as you settled yourself into peristalsis & some bugger dragged you off! Not nice...
I get fair warning as mine walks backwards and forwards 8-10 times in a line first.
Geras
Midfield
Well to be fair dogs are ok but their shiting comfort comes pretty low on my hierarchy when it comes to standing next to their shite while i await my bus . Soz like , its just not on
Agree there. It's stressful enough at bus stops, listening to some whopper threatening to whack their kid if they don't stop crying, a scrote jogging on the spot with one hand down his pants, without dog shit in the equation. That's before you add in that the timetable is purely a rough guide only.
Dan..Dan..Dan..Dan
Striker
That day they changed the spelling of yoghurt and never told anyone. I think lose was changed the same day.
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I dislike the word panties.
Like when you're reading a book and it says something like "he slowly removed her panties" and you think yeah whatever. If if said "he ripped her knickers off" it would sound more saucy.
Like when you're reading a book and it says something like "he slowly removed her panties" and you think yeah whatever. If if said "he ripped her knickers off" it would sound more saucy.
I miss the annual Bad Sex in Fiction award.
"I'd like you to help me get to the restaurant I'm going to on time. Here's the wrong name for the restaurant and the wrong time for the booking. How's your crystal ball working?"
BiG
Winger
I’ve just synced my new iPhone with the humongous amount of music and audio book I have on my laptop. The Apple Music app (fka iTunes) has mixed up all the album artwork so that my phone and my car ‘infotainment system’ screen shows me the cover of ‘The Cure - Essentials’ whilst it’s playing a track of an album by Roy Orbison etc etc.
It’s extremely off-putting listening to a biography of Winston Churchill whilst being presented with a portrait of Annie Lennox.
I’ve googled and it’s a common problem. It’s annoying.
Also: the term ‘infotainment system’ is a minor annoyance.
It’s extremely off-putting listening to a biography of Winston Churchill whilst being presented with a portrait of Annie Lennox.
I’ve googled and it’s a common problem. It’s annoying.
Also: the term ‘infotainment system’ is a minor annoyance.
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"Oh" instead of "zero". It's a number, not a f***ing minor expression of surprise or disappointment. People who ride their brakes, shit drivers the lot of them.
Not walking in single file on busy paths in National Trust sort of places. We go to Cliveden for a walk frequently at this time of year as it has good paths. Often you'll see a group of people heading towards you, sometimes with pushchairs, and/or children and dogs on leads, taking up the whole width of the path and it seems that it doesn't occur to them to walk in single file or even 2 abreast so that other people can get past. Unless this is a Southern phenomenon.
