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Really minor annoyances


DaveH said:
Then all the news article comments are people asking, did they have a covid jab?
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No in retrospect and we must bow to POTUS and his health secretary’s profound knowledge, sincerity and honesty in this, these people must have taken paracetamol
 
DaveH said:
People with no consideration.

I went to the tip earlier today, with my car rammed full of a old shed I pulled down. When I got to that section of skips, there was a bloke parked in front of the wood skip and nobody else there. Nowt wrong with that. I parked a reasonable distance behind so he could still unload and I had further to carry my big sections of scrap wood.

When he left, I jumped in my car and started driving forward to take the easier spot. I was on the move and I left my boot open, so it was clear I had a lot of wood to shift. This woman came round the corner and absolutely floored her car, then swerved in cutting me up, just to get in front of the wood skip. I had to jump on my breaks so I didn’t hit her. Proper wheel screech from her and everything. She got out and give a smug superior look before taking 10 minutes to drop in 2 small shelves.

The couple of staff up there stood open mouthed that someone had driven so stupidly just to do that. Then decided to give me a hand unloading my car.
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People who type breaks instead of brakes.
 
why people feels the need to invent things.

Colleague of mine will just waffle a load of shite about whatever subject you’re talking about to, even though it’s obviously bollocks they’re talking.

We were talking about theme parks and zoos and said bloke told us how his parents thought he had been kidnapped at Chester Zoo as a kid and he’s actually just climbed into one of the enclosures to try and play with the elephants and that they actually picked him up and put him on one of their backs.

Was genuinely Surprised he didn’t say he stole a penguin from it and hid it in the shower.

One of the lads calls him Top Drawer, because he’s completely full of shite.
 
Snugster said:
Joined a queue of 1 in a cafe today, great I thought.
Turns out she was ordering for 14 people. :evil:
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Used to leg it up to Sweaty Val's from Pickies on a Friday lunchtime, desperate to get in before the Cowie's apprentice...

..."4 fish lots please, 2 sausages, 6 Pattie lots, 4 pies, 2 mince, 2 steak, 4 cans of coke & an extra bag of chips. Salt & vinegar on 2 of the fish, just salt on the others!"
 
Gentwo said:
why people feels the need to invent things.

Colleague of mine will just waffle a load of shite about whatever subject you’re talking about to, even though it’s obviously bollocks they’re talking.

We were talking about theme parks and zoos and said bloke told us how his parents thought he had been kidnapped at Chester Zoo as a kid and he’s actually just climbed into one of the enclosures to try and play with the elephants and that they actually picked him up and put him on one of their backs.

Was genuinely Surprised he didn’t say he stole a penguin from it and hid it in the shower.

One of the lads calls him Top Drawer, because he’s completely full of shite.
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Reminds me of someone I worked with. But I think those stories exist in his head and he thinks they are true, because he kept coming out with the same ones. One was that in high wind (storm in the late 80s I think) a gust whipped up his sister into the air, she managed to hang onto the guttering of the house and he quickly grabbed her ankle high above his head to stop her flying away like Dorothy to Oz. We all know that famous year right, when thousands of children were just blown away to nowhere?

He used to cycle to work in 10 minutes flat. He lived near me and it was 5 miles away with some killer hills. We pointed out that it was an average of 30 mph and that if he slowed down for the hills he had to be going at over 40mph on the flats to make up. That is faster than an Olympic road cyclist averages. He agreed, and said if we could not manage that then I either needed to increase our fitness or just give up cycling to work as it was probably dangerous being as unfit as me. Then he got strava and suddenly his fitness dropped so he was only averaging 10mph, and on the occasional morning when I saw him, I overtook him on the hills. Very strange.

He was super fit though and would regularly run 20 miles in a couple of hours. Then he joined us for football once and was blowing out his arse after 25 minutes. It was because he had a big tea the night before.
 
DaveH said:
Reminds me of someone I worked with. But I think those stories exist in his head and he thinks they are true, because he kept coming out with the same ones. One was that in high wind (storm in the late 80s I think) a gust whipped up his sister into the air, she managed to hang onto the guttering of the house and he quickly grabbed her ankle high above his head to stop her flying away like Dorothy to Oz. We all know that famous year right, when thousands of children were just blown away to nowhere?

He used to cycle to work in 10 minutes flat. He lived near me and it was 5 miles away with some killer hills. We pointed out that it was an average of 30 mph and that if he slowed down for the hills he had to be going at over 40mph on the flats to make up. That is faster than an Olympic road cyclist averages. He agreed, and said if we could not manage that then I either needed to increase our fitness or just give up cycling to work as it was probably dangerous being as unfit as me. Then he got strava and suddenly his fitness dropped so he was only averaging 10mph, and on the occasional morning when I saw him, I overtook him on the hills. Very strange.

He was super fit though and would regularly run 20 miles in a couple of hours. Then he joined us for football once and was blowing out his arse after 25 minutes. It was because he had a big tea the night before.
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I bet he ate a big tea though to be fair - probably a full buffalo and that was just the starter??
 
Not being able to clear car error codes easily or say what they are.

My car alerted with an engine warning malfunction last night. My dashboard display can show all sorts of information on the full colour LCD screen, but all it will report for engine issues is "Malfunction". The manual says stop driving immediately. The car was working so we ignored it.

I have a ODBII dongle that I plugged in this morning and it was a exhaust temperature sensor warning. The general advice is clear it and if it does it again, investigate more.

Why could the dash display not say that? If I did not have one of these dongles, it would have cost me £50-£100 to take it to a garage, sit about and wait then have someone clear the error and tell me to come back if it does it again. The engine knows what is wrong, the car could just tell me and certainly it was no reason to immediately stop driving and call the AA. It all feels like a con.
 
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