The little things in life that fuck you off

[Baz]

Plus they don’t pull apart easily like they used to. As a result I never just have half, I just smash the whole thing up and scoff the lot.

[Kikó]

You could also grow up.

[Giggles]

Are you German now as well?

[Kikó]

Ja genau.

[Lewis]

Easter eggs. I'm sure they've gotten smaller/more expensive etc but that's to be expected, the awful thing about your modern egg is that you no longer get a bag of sweets/chocolates inside the egg they're made/baked into the actual shell of the egg itself. Fucking rubbish and the youth of today (ie my nephew) seem completely unaware of what a downgrade they've been subjected to.

The other bits being separate is an upgrade because you can save the egg.

[Baz]

You could also grow up.
Mr big pasta doesn’t like milk chocolate anymore la-di-da.

[Lewis]

Billy Big Biscotti.

[Kikó]

I'm just not much of a confectionary eater so will judge you all on it.

[AJ23]

People who don't indicate at roundabouts.

How can you forget the basics of your driving test that are so important to make people understand which way you intend to go?

Pure arrogance and ignorance.

Then they get angry with you when they're in the wrong. Finger up. Seething. Growling. So what I do now is I usually put my thumbs up to them and mouth 'Great driving'. No better way to win with eejits, as they don't know how to react to that :happycry:

[niko_cee]

Only really applies to little roundabouts, which are just dreadful things all round [wahey!]. Expecting people to indicate right on a big roundabout until switching to left when they want to get off is a bit auto.

[AJ23]

Only really applies to little roundabouts, which are just dreadful things all round [wahey!]. Expecting people to indicate right on a big roundabout until switching to left when they want to get off is a bit auto.

Agree with that.

[Giggles]

Whatever about the rest, the ones that don’t indicate when taking the first exit need to be beaten to death with their own children.

[Boydy]

You should be indicating on the big ones too. And indicating when changing lanes on the motorway. People who don't fuck me off.

[niko_cee]

Are we talking just indicating for getting off [ok] or the full indicate at all stages job [as you are supposed to] on big roundabouts here? Also, is it really necessary when you have designated lanes for designated exits? Fair enough for motorway driving, but that's just a lost cause with everyone driving in the middle lane at 65mph.

[Jimmy Floyd]

My roundabout seethe is reserved for people who do the following:

Two lanes approaching the roundabout, one to turn left and the other to go straight on/right. The left lane (for first exit) has a queue and the right lane doesn't: death to vehicles that want to go left, but take the right lane and go all the way round the roundabout to jump the queue.

Always vans and 4x4s, obvs.

[Jimmy Floyd]

As for lane indicating, South America was a big eye opener for me. All cars are fitted with indicators but they simply don't use them and instead use the horn, as many times as they need to until a gap appears. It sort of works as its own chaotic highway code, albeit there are way more breaches of it.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Crap hand washing and drying facilities in public toilets.

If you have a separate hot tap, don't set the water temperature to hotter than the sun. If you don't have any hot water at all at least have a hand dryer that blows warm air. Dyson airblades and similar can foxtrot oscar as well, most advanced hand dryer but blows water up your sleeves? Good one.

And don't get me started on the all-in-one water/soap/dryer over the sinks. A trickle of water for a few seconds then soap suds and water getting blown about the place, it's fucking embarrasing. :mad:

[niko_cee]

Those all in ones are clearly a wind up by whoever makes/programs them.

How long should they wait for the soap to come out, sir?

Just long enough for them to think they have their hands in the wrong place and move them.

*Dr Evil finger thing*

[Vanishing Wanderer]

Choking on water or any drink

[Waffdon]

This forum is so fackin slow

[Giggles]

This forum is so fackin slow

If it was in any way busy that would matter.

[Lofty]

Lollipop people on zebra crossings.

[Baz]

Why aren’t all ports USB-C by now? If I want to charge my phone, my daughters iPad and my wife’s Kindle, it’s three different wires.

[Shindig]

Apple loves selling you proprietary cables at a premium cost.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The newest kindles are now USB-C and everything should be moving towards that now.

Apple might wait until late 2024 (the EU ruling is December 2024) because they're knobheads.

[Baz]

Might have to spill something on this one if Amazon ever bloody release a new Oasis.

[Mike]

The newest kindles are now USB-C and everything should be moving towards that now.

Apple might wait until late 2024 (the EU ruling is December 2024) because they're knobheads.

My guess is by then they’ll go to all wireless charging on new products, so they don’t have to do USB-C.

[niko_cee]

They'll do whatever is most awkward for consumers.

[Spikey M]

It's about time we started moaning about the important shit in here. Well played Baz.

My work phone (Apple charger), work tablet (old school Samsung charger) and my Lone Worker Device (I don't even know what the fuck this charger is) are irritating beyond belief. Everything else we have is USB C, but if I need to charge my work gear I need 3 separate and different leads. Unacceptable.

[Lofty]

I've got a Samsung S21 Ultra and it has somehow decided it doesn't like charging directly anymore, only wirelessly.

[Lewis]

Has anyone's Virgin Media telly box suddenly gone shit with all the stuff you have recorded and won't play half the catch-up things? I would ring them but it's all Indians on their helplines and I would rather just not watch anything.

[Lofty]

Yeah mine keeps pretending the internet isnt working.

[SvN]

I've got a Samsung S21 Ultra and it has somehow decided it doesn't like charging directly anymore, only wirelessly.

My S10plus is the same. I've had to charge wirelessly only for about a year.

[Giggles]

USB ports aren’t nearly as durable as lightning ports.

[Shindig]

I've never broken a USB port.

[Giggles]

Two people above have.

[niko_cee]

I find the various USB connectors fail far less frequently than lighting charging cables seem to become 'incompatible' with various Apple devices.

[Ben]

I’ve never had a problem with a genuine Lightning connector, it’s only the Chinese knock-offs that seem to fail. That being said, USB-C all round would be brilliant.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

USB-C is clearly king.

Never had any fail. The old micro usbs though were absolutely bullshit

[Baz]

Tying balloons.

[Ben]

People sending work conversations via Teams as a load of separate messages. I've been bombarded by 27 quickfire messages from someone that could have easily been condensed into a couple of paragraphs in a single message.

Also: Teams.

[Boydy]

People sending work conversations via Teams as a load of separate messages. I've been bombarded by 27 quickfire messages from someone that could have easily been condensed into a couple of paragraphs in a single message.

Also: Teams.
This is probably why igor got fired.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Thing is
Some people
Just think in bursts
Not like a bomb
But, like, machine gun fire
So you sit there
Letting the notification noises hit you
Like bullets
Until you bleed out
And in your dying gasp
You just say
Sure thing
And a thumbs up
Some epitaph

[Baz]

People asking work related stuff on Teams chat can get lost. Send an email so we’ve a trail or whatever. Chat is for chatting about life and amusing observations during meetings.

[Waffdon]

The Teams app is a life saver for WFH when you nip out to do something.

[Lofty]

People asking work related stuff on Teams chat can get lost. Send an email so we’ve a trail or whatever. Chat is for chatting about life and amusing observations during meetings.

If you are not a private company you may want to move that to a non-official channel as those chats can be subject to FOI.

[Waffdon]

They automatically delete after 30 days anyway.

[Lofty]

That might be a custom setting, ours are searchable well beyond 30 days and weirdos have been FOI-ing everything so we don't informal chat on company hardware/software anymore.

[Don]

Teams has a powerful search utility so it seems foolish to not actively direct stuff work into there given the improved group collaboration. Email is archaic and soon to be dead.

[Manc]

People who ask questions on QT that can't speak. Public speaking isn't for everyone. Recognise your inability to do so and fuck off.

[niko_cee]

When capacity is limited something really needs to be done about pensioners trying to scan their weekly shop at the self-scan things in the supermarket [this is probably a local gripe as most UK supermarkets seem to have massive amounts of them and a mix of the scan as you go things and the scan yourself at the end ones].

Over here we need a bouncer to ID people and send them to the conventional checkouts if they're over 60.

[Raoul Duke]

Can use the voter ID card system

[Waffdon]

Subway. Firstly, nearly £10 for a footlong. Wot? Secondly, why have they got rid of so many of their usual subs from back in the day? Thirdly, have you changed their meatballs or do I keep getting meatless version?

[Gray Fox]

Not sure if anyone has been following my PC repair adventures from the computer thread, but in short form, was chucked a borked PC to fix and sell. Managed to fix it after seeing the price on their site was £226 in credit. Took it to store for test yesterday, passed their test but due to having windows on it they quoted me £123 credit. The listing I viewed online was for Linux.

Got home and rechecked the price I'd seen and it was still the same, so I nabbed it for "drop and go." For that they hold the price for 3 days so you have time to either post it or go to your local store. Later the same night they fixed the price so it was only £54 voucher now.

Got back into store today with it in hand. Soon as manager guy saw the system(he was there yesterday too), he comes over and shoos the staffer away and explains to me the price I got was a misquote that I should not have seen and the actual price is £54. I said but in your email it directly states you guarantee the price for 3 days. He says flatly we will not be honouring that price here. Take it up with customer services.

It's still £54 I didnt have before for a thing that was collecting dust so at least that's something I guess.

[Giggles]

You should have smashed it on the floor and walked out.

[niko_cee]

Yeah, quite a circuitous journey to getting utterly mugged off by some total neckbeard no doubt.

[Gray Fox]

I've got onto their customer service, but that they don't have a line I can actually call says everything I need to know really.

[Baz]

Why didn’t you take it home and post it in?

[Gray Fox]

Posties don't do Sundays and bank holidays and then it's beyond the 3 day price 'guarantee'

[Lofty]

Laddo's had your pants down there, why not just switch OS or make it dual boot?

[Offshore Toon]

What company is it? And more importantly, how many reviews do they have on Google/how many reviews would it take it tank their rating?

[Gray Fox]

Laddo's had your pants down there, why not just switch OS or make it dual boot?

I considered keeping it, but it wasn't exactly shit hot when it came out in 2013/14. Thing could barely run recent Linux versions.

See I know that the original price I "saved" was far too high for the machine it is, but dont guarantee it me if you don't intend to honour it.

The store is informed I'd be taking it in so someone could have got in touch to tell me not to bother. Especially as the manager of the store seemed to be expecting me and had his new price on hand ready to go.


What company is it? And more importantly, how many reviews do they have on Google/how many reviews would it take it tank their rating?

It's CeX, so there's little I could do to move the needle there.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Bought some salmon fillets for dinner tonight from Sainsbury's.

They looked fine in the packaging but I just took them out to marinate them and they've been hacked up. It looks like a dog has been at them.

[Offshore Toon]

Buying from supermarkets has always been a mug's game, but more so now than ever. They're all struggling but the shambles that is Coop will be dead within ten years.

Find your local farmer's market and a decent butcher. You'll save time and money.

[Lofty]

A little while ago my wife and I went to view a new housing development nearby, the houses were nice but as per usual the pricing was so far above the existing houses in the area it would have been not worth us trading up on the property ladder to pay more than double the mortgage we have now and a smaller house in square footage terms.

My wife has a decent salary job, better than mine, and her boss has just been told they are getting one of the currently unbuilt new homes through the housing association list :moop: I thought these things were means tested?

[Spikey M]

A little while ago my wife and I went to view a new housing development nearby, the houses were nice but as per usual the pricing was so far above the existing houses in the area it would have been not worth us trading up on the property ladder to pay more than double the mortgage we have now and a smaller house in square footage terms.

My wife has a decent salary job, better than mine, and her boss has just been told they are getting one of the currently unbuilt new homes through the housing association list :moop: I thought these things were means tested?

They are, but they keep building new-builds in the middle of nowhere and the uptake among Social / Council tenants is quite low.

At my place we have waitinglists that would take 30 years in Brentwood and Romford, but we struggle to get applicants for the new builds in Maldon.

The problem remains infrastructure. People don't want to live 20 miles from their support network with no busses or trains and no doctors, shops, etc. near by.

The system is broken.

[Lofty]

That makes sense with regards to location I suppose but still mind boggling how a couple with a joint annual income of around £80k a year, in the north west, are happily waved into houses I thought would be reserved the most needy. Might get my house on the market and get on that list.

She's driving a 23 plate Merc ffs :D

[Jimmy Floyd]

They are, but they keep building new-builds in the middle of nowhere and the uptake among Social / Council tenants is quite low.

At my place we have waitinglists that would take 30 years in Brentwood and Romford, but we struggle to get applicants for the new builds in Maldon.

The problem remains infrastructure. People don't want to live 20 miles from their support network with no busses or trains and no doctors, shops, etc. near by.

The system is broken.

The reason being that the gov/councils love the easy cash from developers but hate spending it on infrastructure. Part of the problem is just pure lack of ambition and vision I think and the way that the upper reaches of the civil service operates.

[Spikey M]

That makes sense with regards to location I suppose but still mind boggling how a couple with a joint annual income of around £80k a year, in the north west, are happily waved into houses I thought would be reserved the most needy. Might get my house on the market and get on that list.

She's driving a 23 plate Merc ffs :D

You still have to qualify, but it's not purely down to finances. There must be some kind of vulnerability.

Also; if they have had trouble renting it to the people higher up the list then I would imagine it's an "affordable" tenancy, which is charged at 80% of private sector rent. That's probably more than a mortgage would cost you each month if you bought it.

Do you know if they're renting or doing "part ownership"? If it's the latter then just lol at them, it's the worst of both worlds. All the hassle of being an owner, with none of the freedom. Nightmare stuff.

[Lofty]

Apparently they have got their mum to write them a letter saying she's kicking them out so they'll be homeless, that'll be the vulnerability.

Again though, if it was me I'm sure they'd just look at my earnings and say 'rent somewhere dickhead'.

[Spikey M]

Use the rollercoaster picture for your application. Top of the waiting list.

[Spikey M]

The reason being that the gov/councils love the easy cash from developers but hate spending it on infrastructure. Part of the problem is just pure lack of ambition and vision I think and the way that the upper reaches of the civil service operates.

Yeah, that and the short-termism of politics. Fixing it today would be an expensive pain in the arse and would probably only benefit whoever is in power 10 years down the road. So why bother? Just keep building on farmland and let the school 7 miles away in the next town build some "temporary" classrooms on the School Playing field. No need for a new school. Problem solved.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They're building a new secondary school in my town at the moment (as in the diggers are in) and let's just say that when said new school was first proposed and the site marked out, I could have attended it.

[Luke Emia]

Apparently they have got their mum to write them a letter saying she's kicking them out so they'll be homeless, that'll be the vulnerability.

Again though, if it was me I'm sure they'd just look at my earnings and say 'rent somewhere dickhead'.

The whole housing situation in this country staggers belief if I am being honest it's mad. 550k net immigration last year(I'm not anti-immigration) but a lot of the problems come from the fact that we build absolutely fuck all to deal with this immigration then wonder why people get pissy when there are no services in this country.

These people should be made to go into private rental though and what beggars belief here is what the fuck have they been doing with that money they earn to not be in a position to perhaps have a deposit and buy their own place.

[niko_cee]

Edibles and kebabs.

DS is Mrs Lofty's boss.

[Foe]

Put in a new boiler last year - has worked fine since.

Got it serviced this morning for its annual service to protect the warranty.

It’s now leaking.

Fuck. Off.

[niko_cee]

First time I had my boiler serviced the mook left some sort of tap open and so all the pressure went out of it.

Had a friend round to look at it thereafter and after showing me how to re-pressure it [I've now nearly killed the valve you have to use a screwdriver to open/close] he said it was of an age that if it was still working it was best to keep service engineers away from it. Think it's coming up for 24 years old now [although I've only had it for the last 7 or 8]. :cab:

[Gray Fox]

I've got onto their customer service, but that they don't have a line I can actually call says everything I need to know really.

After much back and forth with the customer services guy that got back to me, they just will not have it that they've broken their own guarantee.

We're stuck in a circle of them telling me it was a pricing error on their part and the price will not be honoured, and me telling them that that means they've broken their own guarantee. He's apologised and said flat out they wont honour it and I can have a whole £10 CeX voucher as a goodwill gesture.

Argued some more and the last email was in the tone of 'do you want the £10 or not?"

[Shindig]

You should begrudgingly accept and then absolutely raid their £1 DVD shelves.

[Pepe]

Just got an email from Fedex saying that my package (Zelda preorder) has arrived. I check the proof of delivery picture and of course that is not my fucking house.

[igor_balis]

That fucking betfair backstreet boys advert is proper doing my head in at the moment. I was also going to mention the advert where there are some stupid dogs sorta woofing a song (which is so shit I kind of love it), and when I googled it to find a video, I realised it was ALSO for betfair fucking casino. Maybe it's a message from God that I need to deposit my final paycheck from my last job on their website and stick it all on black or something.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WavhkBlDU_g

[Boydy]

NHS dentistry basically no longer exists in Northern Ireland. Last I saw in the news it was 90% of dentists here were no longer taking NHS patients. Is it that bad in England?

Anyway, fine, whatever, I'll go private. I'm lucky enough I can afford it and probably claim back some of it through work. The thing that annoys me here is the number of fucking schemes all these dentists seem to have. They've all got different variations of pay X per month and get Y checkups and Z hygienist visits per year and a certain percentage off any necessary treatments. It's too much choice. I don't want to have to sit down and compile a fucking spreadsheet to see which one is best, I just want to get a couple of checkups a year and a reasonably priced filling if I need any.

On a related note, yesterday I went for an eye test and ordered some new glasses. The health insurance I get with work has dental and optical allowances but apparently the optical allowances don't include the eye tests, only the glasses? How the fuck are you meant to know if you need the glasses if you don't get the eye test?

We are headed down the road of the US with everything being privatised and having to wrestle with these insurance company fucks every time you want something minor and no wonder those lot over there are going fucking postal all the time.

[Spikey M]

We appear to have had a birds nest on our roof, and another bird has decided to take issue with this. There's just been a load of shrieking and squarking and there's now the remains of the nest, a dead chick and 2 somehow still alive on my patio.

I really can't be arsed to box them up and take them to the vets. They'll just kill them anyway, won't they?

What do I do here? Fuck sake.

[Lofty]

There will be local bird nonces on facebook who will have them.

[Yevrah]

Drown the chicks. Burn the nest. Job done.

[Spikey M]

The Mrs has messaged one of Lofty's bird nonces.

[Yevrah]

Disappointed you took the boring/non psychopathic option.

[Shindig]

Or option C, train the bird up for revenge. The blackbirds nesting in my garden have all gone without incident. Legends.

[Lofty]

Sold a GPU on ebay, sent it special delivery. Buyer complaining tracking is wrong, Royal Mail somehow got it tracking the correct item and a previously delivered item qt the same time. No doubt the buyer will use this to claim his item never arrived and want their money back now.

[igor_balis]

This isn't really something that fucked me off, but it's probably just about the right thread to share this shit anecdote.

I will say first that I have done my fair share of absolutely bollocks customer facing jobs where you just wanna GTFO asap, and there's stuff that customers are entitled to do that still break your heart (someone coming in with a massive container of coins 20 mins before the bank shut is one that still haunts me), and I imagine it's exactly how people feel in Spoons when you go in and order a load of food 10 minutes before the kitchen shuts.

I've gone into the petrol station twice this week to grab milk and bread (the other day) and a few beers (tonight), both times a solid 30 minutes+ before they shut, and both times there's been this young woman mopping the floor. Last time, she gave me a proper dirty look when I walked over her handiwork to get to the bread and milk (literally the only way to access them), but I thought nah, I'm probably imagining it. You surely wouldn't start mopping the floor 30 minutes before you shut, and get annoyed when a customer comes in and has to walk over the floor?

Tonight she AUDIBLY TUTTED at me, and demanded that I walk to the till a certain way (down the aisle she hadn't mopped yet). I did go that way, but only cus I only wanted the beer. If I'd needed a massively overpriced bottle of brown sauce or something that was on the aisle she'd mopped, we'd have been at an impasse. Again, like I said, I understand the pain when customers scupper your chances to lock the doors and fuck off 2 minutes after you shut, but I feel like starting mopping the floor that long before you shut is a VERY high risk strategy.

[Lofty]

Start going in 5 minutes before they shut and pacing round the gaff.

[igor_balis]

Start going in 5 minutes before they shut and pacing round the gaff.

honestly, solidarity forever and all that, but part of me thought about doing that. via some kinda stinky pond.

one thing that makes me retain any sympathy is that the owner is a known massive shithead employer - a friend of a friend was on shift when someone filled up their car then just drove off. cunt took the money out of his pay, which I'm sure is very illegal. not sure how matey on the till could do anything about that.

i'd be willing to bet they don't get paid after the shop shuts, but it's still a massively flawed strategy.

[Shindig]

Fuck it. Cleaning is endless. There's no point getting pissy over stuff like that.

[Lofty]

Sold a GPU on ebay, sent it special delivery. Buyer complaining tracking is wrong, Royal Mail somehow got it tracking the correct item and a previously delivered item qt the same time. No doubt the buyer will use this to claim his item never arrived and want their money back now.

Been arsefucked as predicted. Royal Mail said they would investigate, never updated tracking. Buyer got to the end their patience and asked for a refund, I paid their refund and then Royal Mail came back and said 'err we did deliver it, honest, so we will refund your postage but that's it.' £230 out of pocket as it stands :moop:

Going to pursue Royal Mail as it has been their fuck up since the start.

[Disco]

Unless you bought cover with the postage you'll get nowhere unfortunately.

[Giggles]

The main lesson is never use ebay for anything.

[Lofty]

Unless you bought cover with the postage you'll get nowhere unfortunately.

Special Delivery by 1pm has up to £750 compensation. They are trying to say that can't apply as they delivered it, but Special Delivery requires a signature and picture and all I got was the word of some twitter drone, 12 days later.

[Offshore Toon]

Most complaint procedures are designed to instil apathy these days so I'd just call it a day if I were you.

[Shindig]

Nah, just turn up there in person and smash the place like a Kaiju.

[Kikó]

We've been complaining for a few weeks after the wife bought some stuff DIY garden furniture that was absolutely garbage. We were losing the will to live with the faceless drones at Home24 trying to fob us off then giving us the wrong collection details followed by DPD claiming they'd picked it up when they hadn't.

Anyway, long story short, they picked it up today so hopefully we get the refund.

[Pepe]

In those cases just do a credit card chargeback and call it a day.

[randomlegend]

I put a set of table and chairs up on Facebook marketplace for free. Specifically said in the description it was collection only.

I've got some guy getting arsey with me because:
a) he only wants the chairs and I said I'd rather it all goes together as I imagine someone is less likely to take a table on its own.
b) I won't deliver the chairs to him (I don't have a car they'll fit in so I can't even if I wanted to), which is very unreasonable of me given he doesn't drive.

Lol.

[Don]

You should have used Freecycle.

[Ben]

Put it on for a small fee to eliminate the ball bags then when they turn up to collect just give them it for free.

[niko_cee]

Having gone to that effort would you not just take the fiver?

But yeah, free to take ball bags can be annoying.

[Ben]

It's nice to be nice.

[Gray Fox]

Surprised the Mrs with gig tickets for her and her sister to go and see some guy they like in Manchester. Even with Priority they sold out super fast.

There's no late train back here so I got a hotel room for them. 3 days ago they "upgraded" the venue. Pain in the ass trying to move them to somewhere else, but not too far away from the new venue.

They've just messaged to say they've yet again "upgraded" but now it's all the way out by Old Trafford. I've just checked and that sold out pretty much instantly too. Do I bother trying to swap it all about again or are they going to give it yet another "upgrade"

[Dark Soldier]

Its pretty damn easy to get to Old Trafford via Met so I'd just leave it mate.

[Spikey M]

Car insurance renewals trying to rip you off.

Admiral have just tried to double my monthly payment, so I've called them to cancel, only to be confronted by a Yank named Chantal.

I'm assuming she must live here, because the alternative is that they've opened their contact centre in America. Which would be insanity. Because absolutely nobody wants to listen to that accent.

American women :sick:

[Baz]

Tiktok. It doesn’t really fuck me off, just boggles my mind. One of my wife’s mates sent her a video ‘songs that are 20 this year’ or words to that effect, and it had some Kerrang classics blasting out her phone. Except the video was some bloke sat in his bedroom filming himself switching between posing with rock hands, mouthing the lyrics out of sync or pointing at comments he’d added to the video. And seemingly people sit and watch this kind of thing? If it wasn’t an absolute chronic waste of time making that video (I’ll be honest I’d rather read a list of said songs or, even better, a quick medley with clips from each of the music videos), there are actually people who sit and watch someone… doing nothing? Have people really got that much spare time that they’re happy to waste hours of their week watching nonsense on their phones?

I hate people.

[Ben]

I very much agree with your sentiment Baz.

[Spikey M]

TikTok is both an app for kids and an app that no parent should be letting their kid anywhere near. Adults that use it are retards. No offence to Mrs Baz, obvs.

[Lofty]

I thought you'd be all in on Tiktok to be honest, Baz. I still think the theory that it's a chinese weapon designed to cripple western children's attention span has legs.

[Baz]

TikTok is both an app for kids and an app that no parent should be letting their kid anywhere near. Adults that use it are retards. No offence to Mrs Baz, obvs.

None taken, she doesn’t use it. She was just sent a link by someone who does.

I don’t know many who do tbh, but one lad occasionally sends a TikTok link in the group chat and I’m yet to click on one.

[Shindig]

My bus home was shot at. :|

[randomlegend]

I think that might warrant more than being called a "little thing in life that fucks you off".

[Baz]

That’s more of a what will your weekend bring post, among all my onion belt stories.

[Shindig]

I think that might warrant more than being called a "little thing in life that fucks you off".

Yeah but the inconvenience of it. I was seething.

[Spikey M]

Just tell the fucking story you minge.

[Shindig]

Not much to tell. I was on the top deck, heard a smash and then the driver pulled up. The shot went clean through two windows on the bottom deck.

[igor_balis]

I'm on thin ice after my best man's speech but I'm genuinely impressed by how you've managed to make your bus getting shot be such a boring anecdote.

[Shindig]

Blame the safety glass.

[Jimmy Floyd]

In the north east? What was it shot with, a longbow?

[Shindig]

Fuck knows. The hole's not the right size for a stray golf ball.

[Don]

Tradespeople. Been through various builders/plumbers/cunts for various jobs through various channels. The hit-rate for being mugged off is eye-watering.

The latest episode is wanting someone to come move the washing machine from the kitchen into a former boiler cupboard.

This involves:

- Drill hole through back wall to enable electric socket in kitchen
- Drill 2 x holes in side wall to bathroom to run the waste and water supply to the washing machine
- Run new pipework from cold supply under the sink to cupboard
- Cut into sink waste (old school copper pipe) and fit pipework for washing machine and drain off

I got a couple of quotes, 1 guy said £400 after showing him some vids of the job. The other company said £100 call out-fee and then £99 per hour (likely to take around 2 hours after only being explained the job on the phone). I go with the latter, 2 geezers turn up for 5 mins, explain the above with regards to what the job involves and that it's going to need about half a day's work and they'll go away and give me a quote. Quote comes back for £780.

Thought I'd got away with just telling them to do one on the phone but they've just sent me an invoice for the £99+VAT call out.

Our bathroom renovation is getting quoted about £5-7K for labour. The labour won't need more than 1 man so I'm going to see if I can put that sum towards training myself up as a plumber instead. Fucking state of it all.

[Spikey M]

I'd be sending them back a £300 bill for your processing fee.

[Disco]

Say you've told all your friends about their service and the extra exposure really should cover it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Looking like a manlet doesn't help, they know they can stomp all over you.

[Yevrah]

This is definitely Tony Blair's fault, with his mental idea that 50% of people were academically bright enough to go to University and that being a skilled tradesperson was somehow a bad thing. Hence the demand for them now far outstripping the supply.

[Ben]

I'll subscribe to that theory. Any excuse to viscerate that cunt.

[Offshore Toon]

Looking like a manlet doesn't help, they know they can stomp all over you.
As if you've written that.

[Spikey M]

Mahow isn't a manlet to be fair. An Incel gimp, sure, but not a manlet.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Mahow isn't a manlet to be fair. An Incel gimp, sure, but not a manlet.

Probably the kindest thing you've ever said about me.

[Boydy]

This is definitely Tony Blair's fault, with his mental idea that 50% of people were academically bright enough to go to University and that being a skilled tradesperson was somehow a bad thing. Hence the demand for them now far outstripping the supply.
And then we effectively told all the plumbers and other tradesmen we did have from the EU to fuck off home.

[Lewis]

I got a plasterer in the other month to price something up, which I figured I could have done myself but since it was caused by our roof issues I thought I would consult a professional since I would only be paying a small share of it. He said he would do it for his day rate, but, having quizzed me on how 'handy' I was, just wrote me a list of what to buy and what to do with it. Nice one.

[Yevrah]

And then we effectively told all the plumbers and other tradesmen we did have from the EU to fuck off home.

Yep, that has not helped too. In fairness to Blair when he went down the Uni route so hard I guess he thought we'd always be in the EU and could ponce cheap foreign tradesman labour forever.

[Lewis]

In actual reality all of the politicians were falling over themselves not to tell European migrants to fuck off, and ended up allowing twice as many who they thought lived here to settle. A few of them went home during the pandemic and never came back, presumably because their own countries are increasingly wealthy, so if we want to suppress wages going forward we'll have to fish elsewhere.

[Giggles]

Rwanda?

[Yevrah]

We do have the entire Commonwealth we could utilise...

[Don]

Cars, innit. Nothing new but since moving to the heart of the battleground where the symphony of chaos and conflict between motorists and cyclists surrounds me, it's apparent just how much of a sewage humanity finds itself in.

There's petitions, meetings, all sorts about ULEZ this, parking restrictions that, LTNs here, cycling lanes there. A load of gammons/Giggles' feel so strongly about their right to exhaust-fuck their useless combustion engines that it's kept the fucking Tories in place for a poor bunch of cunts today.

The irony is cycling in these parts is a quicker, more efficient mode too. And with e-bikes, it's not even physically demanding.

We must still be decades away from full pedestrianisation and cleaning up these hellhole cities but the fact there's serious waiting lists for cycling storage just shows how backwards we are.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The car is very much a left-right issue isn't it. The right enjoy freedom of the individual to move where and when he pleases. The left prefer some kind of pre-planned utopia with restrictions on such freedoms determined by the self-appointed philosopher-kings. Good luck rolling back the combustion engine.

[Don]

I appreciate my point ironically follows on from a complaint about why generic white man van feels he needs to charge me £99+VAT for attending a 5 minute inspection of my flat and my thoughts and prayers to him and his family as he is one of few who may actually have justification for crying about restrictions on cars but for the vast majority, there simply is no case. No one's actual freedoms are being affected by making their fat unwashed arseholes meet a bike seat.

[Yevrah]

Do you drive Taz? All the alternatives you suggest are awful compared.

[Baz]

Having a car is top.

Having a petrol car is even better.

[Spikey M]

Do you drive Taz? All the alternatives you suggest are awful compared.

Depends. There's little more grim than driving in Central London.

[Yevrah]

That is very true.

[Don]

I drive and own a personal car but I could give it up if appropriate provisions were made. Weather conditions would be a big factor for winter and the likes but during these months, there really is absolutely no reason why car journeys couldn't be replaced by the likes of an e-bike for virtually every single journey. Under my vision, car rental schemes like Zipcar can remain, priced with the appropriate margins to incentivise the dickheads to see the light.

[Yevrah]

Replacing virtually every single journey with an e-bike? Genuinely sounds like hell.

[Kikó]

Public transport and cycle routes are fully integrated in most of Frankfurt and just a much more pleasant way to travel. The Germans still love their motors though so it will still be the preferred way to travel.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I live and work in the suburbs of south west London / Surrey, which is about as well served by public transport as anywhere outside city centres, I would have thought. With that in mind, here's what Google Maps suggests for my commute home tonight:

https://i.ibb.co/QCsY8PW/maps.png

Cycling of course a great option except when you consider that there are no cycle lanes along the route, no shower at the office and it's 15 times more dangerous than driving.

The car is going nowhere.

[Baz]

I drove into Manchester the other day and that was bad enough. I can’t even begin to fathom the level of patience you need for driving in London.

[Pepe]

Bicycles are for recreation.

[niko_cee]

London was fine to drive in but you needed to know your way around. If you start getting sat nav'd down major/durwood routes then it could become problematic.

[Don]

Bicycles are for recreation.

Someone hasn't discovered [e-]cargo bikes and it shows. The school run will be a glorious thing in 20 years.

[Lewis]

I considered biking to work and getting showered there, but the thought coincided with the naval base having its water shut off because of Legionnaires', which is still sort of in place, so nothing ever came of it.

[Shindig]

Walking to work used to be good at waking me up for a shift. I'd sooner do that again than cycle in.

[Lofty]

The 1.7 diesel engine workhorse won't be beat by any dogshit electric alternative anytime soon.

[Offshore Toon]

I cycle most days. It gets you going in the morning and with flexi means I can cycle on lunch or get to the gym quicker. If the weather's shit I usually cba and drive but I'm getting used to showering at work regardless as I tend to get in as early as possible to beat the traffic and rack in the hours whilst nobody is around.

[Pepe]

Someone hasn't discovered [e-]cargo bikes and it shows. The school run will be a glorious thing in 20 years.

I have legs mate, I do not need an e-bike.

[Offshore Toon]

That's probably the main point to make. Ebikes are for fannies.

[Don]

The 'e' was optional, the point was cargo bikes :drool:

[Manc]

The 'e' was optional, the point was children's bikes :drool:

Fixed.

[Spikey M]

My bus home was shot at. :|

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There's alot to unpack in the comments

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Glasses broke last night.

Hinge on the right side seems to have completely given out. Thankfully it's covered by a warranty but I've got to use my shitty old spare pair for some time which have the wrong lenses on them so my eyesight isn't 100%.

[phonics]

https://i.imgur.com/OgY1y9I.png

98% sure that this is supposed to be 28.49 but the fact that it's automatic and I didn't have to do anything about it makes me feel okay.

[Yevrah]

Sky, while ludicrously expensive, is sooo good.

[phonics]

I'm only on the broadband and 28 quid a month for 15mb a sec downloads and 2mb a sec uploads is a bargain compared to every other offering.

[Shindig]

Same here. All you have to deal with is them ringing every six months asking if you want the TV packages.

[Baz]

Sold a magnet on ebay that looks like a Pokémon card. Got left negative feedback because they received a magnet and not a card. :wtf:

Item title says magnet; description says fridge magnet; photo literally says magnet on it. Surely that will be removed, right? I've "requested a revision."

Some people shouldn't be allowed on the internet.

[niko_cee]

Robux.

Obviously the whole shebondle is a massive con, but I hadn't quite appreciated how much of a rort the roconomy was until my daughter was gifted a £20 robux card for her birthday. For some reason her account is in USD, which now seems to be entirely inescapable [no amount of VPNS or being in the actual UK will convince the fucking thing it shouldn't be dollar denominated which, as an aside, has its benefits] so you can't redeem the bastard thing. Neither can you create a new UK account and transfer/gift the accursed things as ROBLOX doesn't allow that, and any attempt to work around it is both a massive pain in the arse and also comes with a 30% tithe for the privilege. Seriously, if I ever come across anyone involved with this enterprise in person I am going to stab them.

[Giggles]

Is that like online Lego?

[niko_cee]

It sort of looks like it, but it's more like junior tiktok with added paedo/stranger danger.

[Shindig]

Yeah, it's more of a platform than something like Minecraft.

[Giggles]

That goes filed under my 'probably too old to ever get it at this stage' thing. A bit like AI and modern "rock".

[Baz]

Some lad in my daughters class told her how great Roblox is so it was the absolute end of the world when I said no to her getting it. Funny thing is I looked into it a bit (asked rllmuk) and had come round to the idea of her giving it a bash, but since school holidays have started she’s not seen that lad and has instead spent time with my cousins lad, meaning comic books became the best thing ever and £9.99 in WH Smith later, she’s been quiet as a mouse reading Looshkin The Maddest Cat In The World. Nice healthy silliness. As much as it pains me that it’s only £6 on Amazon, at least there isn’t Robux tax to follow, so it seems like a worthwhile compromise.

[Lofty]

Isn't it just Habbo Hotel for the iphone generation?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Habbo wasn't as predatory with the microtransactions though.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.

I can't really be bothered to explain in full, but it's the fucking UNSUBTLELTY of it. Fuck off and take your rainy shithouse city with you.

[Lofty]

Post dispute update: I tried to claim for compensation and was denied, they offered me £11 postage despite admitting their faliures. They claimed despite being able to obtain a signature for the delivery the post worker says it was delivered.

I appealed this and they came back reckoning they have all the proof they delivered it including the signature. So now it goes to the Postal Dispute Board but I am hoping the fact they contradict themselves sways things my way.

[Ben]

This is a wife gripe rather than my own.

Her driving licence has expired and she can't renew it online because of some silly glitch with the new Brexit passports which denies DVLA access to the digital signature and photo. So now she's stood in line at the Post Office where she will have to pay more and wait weeks longer to get it.

[randomlegend]

Brexit Britain :cool:

[Spikey M]

On the plus side, we order my sons new one a few weeks back and it was through our letterbox within the week, which is pretty good going.

[Ben]

I renewed mine online a few weeks ago because I did an address change but had to renew as well because I was within six months of the expiry and it arrived in two days. No complaints with the DVLA, even though they're apparently perpetually on strike.

[Spikey M]

My sons was his passport. He's unfortunately not somekind of childhood driving prodigy as far as I'm aware.

[Giggles]

Rest assured, it's not a bit quicker within the EU either.

[Pepe]

In Mexico when you apply for a passport you get it the same day. Same thing if you apply for a Mexican passport in an embassy/consulate over here. They basically print it on the spot.

[Spikey M]

Nobody is faking Mexican citizenship though.

[Gray Fox]

Post dispute update: I tried to claim for compensation and was denied, they offered me £11 postage despite admitting their faliures. They claimed despite being able to obtain a signature for the delivery the post worker says it was delivered.

I appealed this and they came back reckoning they have all the proof they delivered it including the signature. So now it goes to the Postal Dispute Board but I am hoping the fact they contradict themselves sways things my way.

I'm guessing if they say no the next step is to be small claims court?

[Lofty]

I'd have to weigh it up, not sure what costs are involved with small claims court.

[Waffdon]

Nobody is faking Mexican citizenship though.

:lol:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'd have to weigh it up, not sure what costs are involved with small claims court.

Get the Ombudsman in.

[Spikey M]

I'd have to weigh it up, not sure what costs are involved with small claims court.

This may be different for Joey Public, but a County Court Application is £335 at work. You can obviously ask to have them awarded if you win, but in all honesty I'd just take the hit on this one.

[Ian]

Get the Ombudsman in.

One of the very few, very small pleasures of working in a call centre was some arsey twat going "Well I'' be writing to the obudsman" as if the poor sod taking his call gives a single fuck.

[Lofty]

Yeah I think the Postal Complaint Board or whatever their called is the ombudsman for that industry. If small claims is too expensive then it'll have to be arson.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

One of the very few, very small pleasures of working in a call centre was some arsey twat going "Well I'' be writing to the obudsman" as if the poor sod taking his call gives a single fuck.

Probably too busy adjusting his stovepipe hat and shining his hooky stick.

[Gray Fox]

The money side is obviously annoying but the thing that would send me over the edge is them just trying to fob you off for hundreds on their own fuck up. Just admit you fucked it up and pay out ffs.

[Giggles]

Android Auto has decided today that it wants to call everyone via fucking WhatsApp.

[phonics]

I barely know anyone in town as I've only just moved here. Igor has been here 4 hours in which time he's had someone want to batter him, made friends with a drug dealer and had a nice conversation with a convitcted murder.

[Ian]

Please @ Manc for any posts involving Igor so he can call bullshit on even the most mundane of them.

[phonics]

Igor is now bitching that I posted this in the wrong thread so now this is the correct thread to post in.

[igor_balis]

Manc could see my cock in his mother's mouth and come on here and call bullshit when I talk about the shit blowjob she gave me

[phonics]

@Manc (https://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/member.php?u=171) could see my cock in his mother's mouth and come on here and call bullshit when I talk about the shit blowjob she gave me

Apologies for Igors behavior on my wifi. Please Manc don't call my stories lies.

[Ian]

I wouldn't let Igor on my WiFi. Bless 'im.

[Gray Fox]

The cost of half term time holidays.

Kids haven't had a holiday for a couple years but now we're both working we were looking at even a 'cheap' Haven style one for next summer. It's pretty much 3x the cost of going during term time. In fact I'm sure it would still be considerably cheaper to take them out during term time and take the fines risk. Prices way higher than I thought they'd be.

[Lofty]

Any TTHer having my wifi password seems like a step too far, to be honest.

[igor_balis]

Any TTHer having my wifi password seems like a step too far, to be honest.

I only used it to listen to wrestling podcasts in phonics' spare room before I fell asleep.

Worcester is a pretty weird place. Kinda beautiful and historic architecture, classy restaurants and nice pubs, interspersed with manky old bingo halls and shit.

A lot of blokes who really remind me of that viral photo of those lads stood outside Birmingham New Street. I've never seen/heard people loudly revving their stupid boy racer cars as frequently as I did there.

[Spikey M]

The cost of half term time holidays.

Kids haven't had a holiday for a couple years but now we're both working we were looking at even a 'cheap' Haven style one for next summer. It's pretty much 3x the cost of going during term time. In fact I'm sure it would still be considerably cheaper to take them out during term time and take the fines risk. Prices way higher than I thought they'd be.

We get lucky because our kids school combines all Teachers Training / Inset days to give us an extra week off in October, but even then we tend to take them out of school for a couple of days at the end of term to go away.

If we had to take them out for a week at the end of term we would do that too. They only sit around playing games and watching DVD's for the last week of term anyway.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Probably the best thing about not having kids is the ability to go on holiday in the 'other' times.

[Mike]

Be glad you don’t work there. Even before kids I couldn’t go away in term time.
Since going to a 4 day week, it’s much better, we go Monday to Monday over half terms and it saves loads.

[Baz]

Probably the best thing about not having kids is the ability to go on holiday in the 'other' times.Nah. Sleeping and being able to do what you want are the two top dogs there.

[wullie]

I'm with Baz there. I've basically stopped drinking entirely as I can't face the idea of even being the slightest bit hungover, the days where I could just lie down for hours watching TV are long gone.

[Mike]

Nah. Sleeping and being able to do what you want are the two top dogs there.

No soft play for me.

[Gray Fox]

This town is desperately trying to be bigger than it is and have built loads of new housing estates on what was flood plains(that'll be lol down the line). They never bothered to upgrade the roads to go with it.

Early this year they've started works on 2 or 3 of the major roads, but today they kicked it into overdrive and have closed off more roads. They're basically closing off or fixing all of the major roads in the town at once. It's completely fucked the busses and traffic today was a nightmare. If there's ever an accident on our stretch of the M6 it will literally take hours to get from one side of town to the other.

Buses have tried to reroute as best as they can, but this has lead to the stop that takes me home from work being out of action. There isn't another one close either with how they've had to change it. Best part is they expect this work will 'only' last 9 months.

[phonics]

Nationwide Sky blackout. One plus is that I have unlimited data do I wil just 4G it and get 20 quid off my bill for the month.

[niko_cee]

Barney's first day is going to be a doozy.

[Lofty]

Yeah I think the Postal Complaint Board or whatever their called is the ombudsman for that industry. If small claims is too expensive then it'll have to be arson.

They ruled in my favour :cool:

[Gray Fox]

How much are they going to reimburse you for?

[Lofty]

£270.

[Shindig]

Get yourself something nice ... that doesn't need delivery.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Thigh muscles have been tight since Saturday so I bought some deep heat. I've put way too much on though as it feels like my thighs are being cooked.

[Offshore Toon]

You're a nutter. Just get in the bath ffs.

[Spikey M]

Thigh muscles have been tight since Saturday so I bought some deep heat. I've put way too much on though as it feels like my thighs are being cooked.

Is that not what it's supposed to do?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Is that not what it's supposed to be?

My legs are burning. I had to wash the cream off and put an ice pack on.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You're a nutter. Just get in the bath ffs.
I only have a shower :(

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Thigh muscles still feel tight and they're still burning now. Excellent.

[Giggles]

I'd say you'd have some craic getting in and out of a bath anyway.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'd say you'd have some craic getting in and out of a bath anyway.

I'm not that fat.

[Raoul Duke]

Welcome to a) getting old and b) learning about the importance of stretching.

Spoiler: it doesn't get better

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I refuse to stretch.

[Offshore Toon]

You've got to loosen up before. I can't sit still so end up active stretching in between sets without really thinking about it, then if I'm hurting after I'll do boring stretches.

Does your gym have a sauna? Could stretch in there for better results too.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

There is a sauna, I've never been in.

[Ben]

The stretching thing is a funny one. I do it personally but I know powerlifters (like elite level, 900kg total types) who say it's bobbins.

[Manc]

It's a must.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I do like to think of myself at the elite level.

[Shindig]

Yep, although I mostly do it to keep my posture in check.

[Lewis]

I never stretch. I just start my routine from a light weight and work my way into it.

[randomlegend]

A physio of about 30 years experience told me I was the least flexible person he's ever come across :cool:

[Kikó]

I never stretch. I just start my routine from a light weight and work my way into it.

That's generally the best thing to do.

I stretch my hips and lower back before playing football because it's usually the thing that needs focus and the tightest.

[Offshore Toon]

Everyone except Randrew starts light.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I haven't tried starting light.

[Gray Fox]

Took the plunge on the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro on "Amazon renewed." They have it labelled as "excellent condition" and Amazon promise "Amazon Renewed products will be clean and will have minimal to no signs of wear or visible cosmetic imperfections when held 30 centimeters away."

Turned up today, reasonably loose in the packaging with its charger and strap. Strap and charger are clearly 3rd party cheap as possible, but it is stated that is likely and is fair enough.
Screen on it is in great condition, however the outer shell of it is scratched to fuck and it's clear it hasn't been cleaned either. I'd be willing to bet it was scratched like that before it was sent, but I can't know 100% it didn't happen due to the poor packaging.

As it works like a marketplace, Amazon states I have to go through the seller first to give them chance to fix the issue themselves but I don't hold out a great deal of hope considering how they sent it out in the first place. But they're now closed til Monday, so I've essentially got a weekend to play with the thing anyway.

[Giggles]

I got myself a Switch after. Instantly hated it because I had to get a fucking scalpel to open the game slot, but that soon subsided once I got going on Mario Odyssey :drool:

[Baz]

I got myself a Switch after. Instantly hated it because I had to get a fucking scalpel to open the game slot, but that soon subsided once I got going on Mario Odyssey :drool:You gonna get it “soldered” so you can pirate stuff?

[Giggles]

What's the soldering? I need to look that up to see could I do it myself.

[Offshore Toon]

What's that horse avatar Giggles has? The Ireland subreddit has the same one.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

My lovely horse, Father Ted.

[Giggles]

The Ireland subreddit is where I robbed it.

[niko_cee]

I find the rebranding that The Nationwide has undergone unreasonably irksome.

[Lofty]

I am a Nationwide customer but their ads and branding are very irritating.

[niko_cee]

Have youtube disabled their ad-block blocker thing they appeared to be running the other day? Seems to be back to working fairly normally now without having to resort to funky alt-browsers to avoid the THIS IS A BREACH OF THE TERMS OF YOUTUBE warning.