The little things in life that fuck you off

[Ben]

I've just got it for the first time. Just watching in incognito mode for now, waiting for adblockers to get back ahead of it.

[Gray Fox]

A parcel went out for delivery for me yesterday, but I was going to be out at work during the time slot I got. As weekend delivery wasnt paid for, they were only going to try again Monday. I'd have the same potential issue there so paid to 'upgrade' to today between 12-6. It's still showing as at the depot now.

Been onto their support and we agree that it's still at the depot, but they still say it should be delivered today and that if it doesn't show to then contact support again. Just checked and their support will be closed by then. :moop:

[Don]

This adblock convo above made me discover this DNS hack. Mad I been browsing those stream sites for so many years without it, it seems to lead to a much improved experience. Would recommend.

https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/qnjclm/what_is_the_best_ad_blocker_for_android/

[Ben]

Chrome extension that plays YouTube ads in the blink of an eye. So you're not interrupted, but YouTube doesn't realise so doesn't ping you for using an adblocker.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-adblock-by-friend/ehfcoplbhoohillcmlophcfghpeilfjc/related

[niko_cee]

The warning is back in Chrome, although I've not tried that extension, just using Brave instead.

[Ben]

I actually got the warning once in Brave, but fucked it off and it's been quiet since. Also tested that extension which definitely does the job for those who don't want to switch from Chrome, because YouTube doesn't detect you're bypassing ads because you're technically not, they're just sped up. I suppose the key is to keep everything updated because the adblockers are working hard to get around it.

I saw a comment that having more than one type of Adblocker active is a good way to get caught. For example, people who use uBlockOrigin are able to get round it again as long as they don't have something extra like SponsorBlock running too.

[Spikey M]

Just watch the 5 second adverts lads ffs

[Baz]

Pay £3 a month for Ukrainian YouTube Premium

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I pay £1.25 for Indian YouTube.

[Disco]

No warnings whatsoever and I use it everyday with adblock, either just lucky or another YT extension is messing with it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Just watch the 5 second adverts lads ffs

This has always been my take. Watching adverts is good for you, keeps you alert to what our corporate overlords are trying to drill into our brains with oversized nail guns.

[John Arne]

Pay £3 a month for Ukrainian YouTube Premium

This. I pay just £3 for Premium in VN.

[Ben]

If it's worth the hassle to buy a VPN and register yourself in India, it's worth the hassle to get an adblocker.

[Yevrah]

This has always been my take. Watching adverts is good for you, keeps you alert to what our corporate overlords are trying to drill into our brains with oversized nail guns.

If you watch a lot of YouTube that’s a horrible take.

[John Arne]

The best bit about Premium is downloadable content and continuous playing when you lock your phone. Particularly good if you drive a bike.

[Shindig]

If you watch a lot of YouTube that’s a horrible take.

I do the same but agree it's dumb. Ads at the start of a video is fine. Ads every 5 minutes is agony. Even worse when they have different rollouts for different devices.

Also, just gonna say this from personal experience: Adsense is a con.

[niko_cee]

I'm not really that bothered by the ads in youtube specifically, I'm just too lazy to disable or finesse the ad-blocker and I don't want all the other shit that it keeps out elsewhere.

Just tried that extension and it's nifty. Guess it's better for 'supporting creators' as well.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Dutch and Belgian people. Might as well be talking to robots. Absolutely zero nuance or humanity in any of them.

[Raoul Duke]

Dutch and Belgian people. Might as well be talking to robots. Absolutely zero nuance or humanity in any of them.

The Dutch 100%. Basically a country of autistic people.

The Belgians aren't so bad, generally.

[Giggles]

The Dutch just remind me of South Africans but with no redeeming features whatsoever. As little as the saffers have.

[Offshore Toon]

The Dutch 100%. Basically a country of autistic people.
I've always thought this about Germany. UK is the ADHD kid.

[Spikey M]

Traders taking the piss.

We need a new backdoor as ours has warped. We now have 4 quotes ranging from £350 to £1800 (+VAT the cheeky cunt).

[Ben]

£1800 aka the "can't be arsed with the work but if you pay then fine" quote. My mate quoted £650 to paint a hallway because he didn't have time in his diary and thought it would make the woman go away. She then preceded to BACS the money before he did the job. :cab:

[Foe]

Heading to ‘Mercia today.

We opted for first flight this morning on the assumption first thing would be more reliable and on time. Nope. 40 minute delay on takeoff and a further 10 minute delay on landing. Missed my connecting flight and now have a 5 hour delay. :cool:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Flying to Worcestershire seems a bit extravagant.

[Foe]

Is that a real place or just a variety of crisps?

I’m heading to ‘Bama at the weekend, so I might not last the return trip given I’ve worn my ladies adidas advantage trainers. Alabamans love pink writing right?

[Kikó]

Flying to Worcestershire seems a bit extravagant.

Arf!

[Baz]

I find the rebranding that The Nationwide has undergone unreasonably irksome.
McNulty on the advert too. Mans he’s fallen off. :stamford:

[Jimmy Floyd]

I quite like that advert. Hits the spot.

[niko_cee]

It was more the entirely pointless minor logo/font/capitalising changes which probably cost a fortune for me.

That advert is a bit *partridge shrug*

[phonics]

I bought a new monitor and the whites on this screen are so good that I might have to go find a dark mode skin and install it on this forum before it burns my eyes out.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've just heard the new pop hit by Ed Sheeran, 'American Town'. How does he get away with this shit?

[Gray Fox]

He's just coasting now. He'll be able to live off all of his older hits for quite some time/forever. He can just release any old shit and demand people like it.

[randomlegend]

I'm sure I've complained about this before but cling film is absolutely useless nowadays. Doesn't stick to anything. It also - little known fact - used to hold up fine to going in the oven making it by far the best thing to use when blind baking tart cases, but now it just melts. Probably still made your tarts carcinogenic but whatever.

I suppose on balance not making the earth uninhabitable probably is more important, but it's close.

[Disco]

It is amazing how completely useless it is now and a true failure of modern science that a replacement hasn't been found.

[Yevrah]

If these things were enough to avoid the earth becoming uninhabitable I'd be fine with it, but as it is we're getting the worst of both Worlds.

Mach 3 blades are another thing that just don't do the job anymore, I can see why you'd blunt the blades as I'm guessing they were very handy for an alternative use, but they're just a bit crap now and presumably people who were using them outside of their intended application have just moved onto other means to get the job done. Meanwhile, I'm stuck with strands of hair I don't want.

[Disco]

At least there's an alternative that works though (anything with proper blades). I wonder how much more impact shit cling film has in terms of extra tupperware or those awful ziplock bags than the fish murdering kind.

[CJay]

I'm sure I've complained about this before but cling film is absolutely useless nowadays. Doesn't stick to anything. It also - little known fact - used to hold up fine to going in the oven making it by far the best thing to use when blind baking tart cases, but now it just melts. Probably still made your tarts carcinogenic but whatever.

I suppose on balance not making the earth uninhabitable probably is more important, but it's close.

What way are you using it as part of the blind baking process? Surely pastry in dish with baking beans and Bob’s your uncle? Where does the cling film come into the equation?

[Ben]

Baking paper + baking beans.

[randomlegend]

What way are you using it as part of the blind baking process? Surely pastry in dish with baking beans and Bob’s your uncle? Where does the cling film come into the equation?

You use it between the pastry and the beans instead of the usual scrunched and unscrunched baking paper. It's softer and smoother so doesn't tend to damage the pastry as baking paper can. It's not a big thing, but marginal gains yknow.

Not that it matters now because they've made it SHIT.

[randomlegend]

If these things were enough to avoid the earth becoming uninhabitable I'd be fine with it, but as it is we're getting the worst of both Worlds.

Mach 3 blades are another thing that just don't do the job anymore, I can see why you'd blunt the blades as I'm guessing they were very handy for an alternative use, but they're just a bit crap now and presumably people who were using them outside of their intended application have just moved onto other means to get the job done. Meanwhile, I'm stuck with strands of hair I don't want.

Switched over to a safety razor handle + blades a while ago and never looked back. It definitely is a slightly more involved process but the cost of cartridge razors is ludicrous.

[Baz]

I follow some suicide account on instagram cos of work and they posted something like ‘115 men commit suicide every week’ so I commented that that’s not the accepted language anymore (take their own life) and it’s all gone a bit weird. People liking my comment, but then people replying saying it shouldn’t matter, and the account owner liking all the anti-me comments, but then more people commenting to back me up. Some guy moaning it’s affected his mental health, how the focus has shifted. Like fuck off I was trying to be helpful. I have zero empathy towards anyone, but can’t help fucking trolling.

I also regularly get seven day suspensions from commenting on anything on instagram because I can’t help myself. Thick people and sensitive people deserve trolling, I can’t help that.

[Boydy]

Bought some sweets in case I got any trick or treaters. First group emptied half my stash, the greedy little cunts.

[Don]

Nonce.

[Lewis]

Yeah. Nonce.

[Lofty]

You have to limit them Boyd, you're the adult in the situation.

[Boydy]

Nonce.
Should have stolen their bicycles instead.

Yeah. Nonce.
The kids in your neighbourhood are probably warned to stay away from your door.

[Lewis]

My street is mostly foreigners and deadheads, and it's all flats, so kids would be wise to skip it entirely.

[Shindig]

There's two families in my street but they tend to do the Halloween stuff entirely to themselves. I feel like the door-to-door racquet has died a death.

[Lofty]

It is mega round my way, bought in 64 mini bags of haribo and only 7 remain, non eaten by us. Some little cunts actually managed to jump scare me too by knocking on and then hiding :D

[Ben]

So my new neighbourhood is mental. In a nice way but I was non-stop answering the door since coming in from work. I chortled at my wife for spending £40 on sweets for the kids but they’re actually all gone. Easy 100 kids in total.

Some geezer a few doors down has done his whole house up INSIDE and out as a haunted house and invited the entire neighbourhood round for a tour. Obviously got the ‘Gram in mind when he’s done but fair fucking play, the kids love it. After reading Boydy’s post though, “nonce” could be a possibility however.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

100% a nonce and it sounds like your whole neighbourhood is enabling the sick freak.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I left them a bottle of Cordon Rouge 1969 and four glasses, no takers though.

[Ben]

100% a nonce and it sounds like your whole neighbourhood is enabling the sick freak.

Turns out it’s a yearly thing and he makes a shit ton of money for a dog rescue and rehoming charity. But it results in foreign vehicles clogging up the cul-de-sac, so the good deed is neutralised.

[Disco]

Is there any point to fire alarms anymore? The one in our house just went off and I muted what I was watching and simply waited for it to stop, I genuinely don't know how long it would have to go off for me to walk down the hallway to the panel let alone actually think there was a fire.

[niko_cee]

Presumably their main use would be if there was a fire and you were asleep, at which point you might wake up and realise there was a fire.

Whilst 99.9% of their activations are probably burnt toast or the like they'e certainly not as theoretically useless as car alarms, or, frankly, any other type of alarm.

[Pepe]

I've removed the batteries of all of mine.

[Ben]

I'm sure Amazon or Google will do a smart version, allowing you to control it from your phone like everything else in the house these days seemingly.

As a side note, I'm usually a proper relic with "smart" stuff but Philips Hue is the absolute dogs bollocks for the garden and exterior.

[phonics]

One of my fire alarms goes off if the temperature drops in the house. Annoyingly it's not battery operated it's in the mains and I don't know how to turn it off. It's been beeping for weeks.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Turn it off from the fuse box? Assuming it's on it's own fuse that is.

[niko_cee]

I've removed the batteries of all of mine.

If you were a real freedom lover you'd have shot them all.

[Baz]

One of my fire alarms goes off if the temperature drops in the house. Annoyingly it's not battery operated it's in the mains and I don't know how to turn it off. It's been beeping for weeks.It will likely still have a battery in? Mine are mains operated but still have one of those weird rectangular batteries in each that needs replacing every few years.

[Ben]

The battery is a backup in case your mains electricity fails (ie. a fire).

[Baz]

I follow some suicide account on instagram cos of work and they posted something like ‘115 men commit suicide every week’ so I commented that that’s not the accepted language anymore (take their own life) and it’s all gone a bit weird. People liking my comment, but then people replying saying it shouldn’t matter, and the account owner liking all the anti-me comments, but then more people commenting to back me up. Some guy moaning it’s affected his mental health, how the focus has shifted. Like fuck off I was trying to be helpful. I have zero empathy towards anyone, but can’t help fucking trolling.

I also regularly get seven day suspensions from commenting on anything on instagram because I can’t help myself. Thick people and sensitive people deserve trolling, I can’t help that.

Caught another one today, after commenting #blackface on Davide from Love Island’s Halloween outfit. Had someone accuse me of being a snowflake so I told her to lighten up and she said she can’t when people make jokes that enable the snowflake generation so I told her that was snowflake behaviour and she ‘saw my point’ and basically acknowledged my top trolling.


It’s becoming a bit of a hobby, so probably the wrong thread for it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Can you make a new thread for it all so I don't have to read the posts?

[Pepe]

Or a new forum.

[Disco]

Ours is a central system for the whole house with, actually quite cool, big red alarm bells. There are also separate smoke alarms which are useful because they remind me to close the kitchen door when I'm making toast.

[Shindig]

I've yet to set mine off over here. In my old place I had to dust them out because they'd do that periodic beeping every while.

[phonics]

It will likely still have a battery in? Mine are mains operated but still have one of those weird rectangular batteries in each that needs replacing every few years.

https://i.imgur.com/9FQveWw.png

Those wires dont even clip out so the onyl thing I can think to do is cut the wires which would probably just set off a different alarm.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Mine are mains powered too.

Only set it off once when I made a curry using caramelised cauliflower.

[Lewis]

The wires will unplug unless the landlord has glued them in for some reason.

[phonics]

The wires will unplug unless the landlord has glued them in for some reason.

Just double checked and yes that is literally polyfiller on the wires.

https://i.imgur.com/20NtqnB.png

[Ben]

Probably a liability thing because you could probably void his insurance if you burned the house down and the investigation showed the alarm was disconnected.

[phonics]

I thought maybe I could do something with that little screw bit but no thats stuck under the socket. So I tried to do the socket and thats glued too so I've conceded defeat and just turned the heating on.

[Spikey M]

Just double checked and yes that is literally polyfiller on the wires.

https://i.imgur.com/20NtqnB.png

Does the plastic bit that the wires go into not detach?

[phonics]

Nope tried pressuring it at every angle hoping for a tab or something but no luck. Presuming that things glued to the gills too.

[Ben]

See if you can source an identical alarm, then just cut it off at the wires and put the new one up, there's enough slack there.

[Lewis]

It should detach so it's either glued or you are a weed.

[Baz]

I’d bet on both.

[phonics]

I’d bet on both.

This.

[Jimmy Floyd]

This new 'Beatles' track, like everything John Lennon did post-split, is fucking appalling. Why won't people shut up about it?

[niko_cee]

Heard someone droning on about this on the radio yesterday, and, having heard it, yeah, it's pretty meh. Best that can be said is at least it's just one track rather than a whole fucking album, unlike some other massively past it stars of yesteryear.

[Shindig]

Putting the Beatles name on it was the worst they could’ve done. It’s a Lennon track that doesn’t have the arrangement and production The Beatles are known for.

Free As a Bird and Real Love were handled way better.

[Spikey M]

The way people talk about The Beatles always makes me laugh. It's just pop music, lads. It may have been groundbreaking at the time, but it's shite, let's face it. Yellow Submarine? What? Fuck off you Scouse mongs.

[Alex]

This new 'Beatles' track, like everything John Lennon did post-split, is fucking appalling. Why won't people shut up about it?

To be fair I do think the first solo album he made (by which I mean Plastic Ono Band, I'm not including that avante-garde shit with Yoko beforehand) was genuinely really good. Imagine is alright but (both the album and particularly the title track) is overrated as fuck.

He was a bit of a tosser, let's be honest. He definitely wouldn't have wanted any part of this either. Were he still alive he'd probably be living in a commune somewhere and releasing albums of himself banging dustbin lids together while Yoko speaks in tongues over the top of it or something.

I think this new song, I mean whatever. it's just a very average, inoffensive song. Shinners has it right. It's just an old John Lennon demo dressed up a bit and with "The Beatles" slapped on it. It's daft really, but obviously will be very profitable so I suppose it's a no-brainer to them from that perspective.

We don't really need to be faffing about with the official recorded output and legacy of The Beatles in 2023 though do we? It's completely unnecessary.

[igor_balis]

This new 'Beatles' track, like everything John Lennon did post-split, is fucking appalling. Why won't people shut up about it?

Instant Karma is the only good Lennon solo track, and that was recorded pre-split. Great tune though, fair play to the scouse wife-beater.

[igor_balis]

The way people talk about The Beatles always makes me laugh. It's just pop music, lads. It may have been groundbreaking at the time, but it's shite, let's face it. Yellow Submarine? What? Fuck off you Scouse mongs.

I dunno, I don't LOVE The Beatles, but I think they do just about deserve their reputation. Don't really agree with the "just pop music" thing either. There's plenty of absolutely gash pop music, some alright, some quite good, slightly less good, and very little very good. And The Beatles produced loads of REALLY good pop music. Yellow Submarine is fucking awful though, agreed. As is Hey Jude, which I honestly think might be my least favourite song of all time. The appropriation of the "nah nah NAH NAH NAH NAH" in football chants is genuinely the only good thing to come from that absolute wank, and I reckon I'd rate even the most half-arsed "nah nah NAH NAH NAH, [insert some random league two clogger]" over the original material. But yeah, dunno, Beatles are alright I reckon.

[SvN]

The new Beatles song is alright, probably similar in quality to their 90s songs. Hard to know how I'll feel about it in 6 months, but it's better than I was expecting.

Lennon and McCartney both had some excellent solo songs, but never reached their Beatles heights. McCartney came closest with Ram and Band on the Run.

[Shindig]

Temporary Secretary is kinda class. Paul McCartney trying to do Devo should've happened more often.

[Ben]

I'm a month late registering for my self assessment. I'm not going to get fined am I? :eyemouth:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Currently at the airport as I'm going to Poland.

Went for a shit and there was a queue because only 3 of the 5 stalls has paper. When it was finally my turn the stall I went into no longer had paper, so 2 of 5.

Whilst I was shitting the guy in cubicle one said that it no longer had paper.

Absolute shit show.

[Ben]

Just be thankful you got in before the Delhi flight arrived.

[Shindig]

Looks like I'm working from home today because trains have all been cancelled. The part that fucked me off is this all started last night. Meant that the one bus not on strike had a mammoth queue for it. Then said bus didn't turn up.

10 more weeks of this shite. :moop:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Paid for an extra legroom seat but they've changed to a smaller plane which means I'm in a normal seat.

£20 or whatever down the drain...

[niko_cee]

Surely you would be entitled to be refunded that?

I'm sorry Mr Mahow, I see you have a ticket, but we've switched to a smaller plane and there is now no longer a row 23, so looks like you're fucked.

[Waffdon]

So, did Mahow wash his arse with his t shirt or not bother at all?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

So, did Mahow wash his arse with his t shirt or not bother at all?

My toilet had a full roll thankfully.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Surely you would be entitled to be refunded that?

I'm sorry Mr Mahow, I see you have a ticket, but we've switched to a smaller plane and there is now no longer a row 23, so looks like you're fucked.
I'm going to aim for a refund and a bit extra.

I'm thinking of going down the emotional damage route. Tell them I injured my knee in Vietnam and the squashed seat aggravated my injury. That and it sent me back mentally to Nam and triggered my PTSD.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

In a Polish supermarket right now and it's chaos.

None are allowed to open tomorrow as it's Polish independence day and no shops (other than those privately owned) are ever allowed to open on Sunday.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I was lucky enough to have someone from the Department of Levelling Up ringing the doorbell the other week telling me I've been selected for this: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/english-housing-survey

Reluctantly I agreed to do the interview, so sat there giving her a load of mundane answers for 45 minutes before she eventually fucked off. At the end - lucky me - she told me I'd been selected to have a physical survey done on my flat. Not for any valuation or anything, of course, just for their data. I told her I didn't really want or have time for some agent coming and snooping around my place, so didn't wish to take part. After some begging because 'it's scientific data, we can't ask anyone, it has to be your house' I still said no and she finally gave up and fucked off.

Next thing I know, I get a text saying I've been assigned a surveyor appointment at 10am on 11 Nov. I rang them up and told them I didn't want this and to cancel. They bleated but agreed to cancel, and emailed me to confirm said cancellation. 10am this morning, what happens? Some woman with a fucking clipboard rings the doorbell. Being me, and not a normal person, and also quite ill today, I couldn't be arsed to go to the door and tell her to do one, because she would probably overpower my strength of will with her bullshit. So I sort of played dead for a bit lying in my paracetomol-ridden bed. She rang the doorbell SIX times (she can't have known I was there). Eventually she called my phone and I let her leave a voicemail. She said she was free all day and could rearrange the appointment for any time today. I texted her back pretending that I was at work and saying I'd already withdrawn from the fucking thing.

They're laying siege on my property for data, it's the desperation that does my head in.

[Shindig]

What/who are you hiding in that flat?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Always close the door in their face saying you're busy.

[Ben]

I can’t be arsed reading the link but shouldn’t the Department of Levelling Up be concentrating their efforts outside the London catchment area?

[Yevrah]

I was lucky enough to have someone from the Department of Levelling Up ringing the doorbell the other week telling me I've been selected for this: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/english-housing-survey

Reluctantly I agreed to do the interview, so sat there giving her a load of mundane answers for 45 minutes before she eventually fucked off. At the end - lucky me - she told me I'd been selected to have a physical survey done on my flat. Not for any valuation or anything, of course, just for their data. I told her I didn't really want or have time for some agent coming and snooping around my place, so didn't wish to take part. After some begging because 'it's scientific data, we can't ask anyone, it has to be your house' I still said no and she finally gave up and fucked off.

Next thing I know, I get a text saying I've been assigned a surveyor appointment at 10am on 11 Nov. I rang them up and told them I didn't want this and to cancel. They bleated but agreed to cancel, and emailed me to confirm said cancellation. 10am this morning, what happens? Some woman with a fucking clipboard rings the doorbell. Being me, and not a normal person, and also quite ill today, I couldn't be arsed to go to the door and tell her to do one, because she would probably overpower my strength of will with her bullshit. So I sort of played dead for a bit lying in my paracetomol-ridden bed. She rang the doorbell SIX times (she can't have known I was there). Eventually she called my phone and I let her leave a voicemail. She said she was free all day and could rearrange the appointment for any time today. I texted her back pretending that I was at work and saying I'd already withdrawn from the fucking thing.

They're laying siege on my property for data, it's the desperation that does my head in.

I've mentioned this before, but one of my rules for life is NEVER, EVER answer your door to an unsolicited knock or doorbell ring. It is always, and I mean always, an absolute waste of your time.

[Yevrah]

I should add, that wasn't always the rule, when I bought this place about 4 years ago I used to answer the door and in the space of about a year (before the rule was brought in) I had:

A member of the local council asking for my opinion on LTN's - I told him they were a bad idea, somehow implemented in an even worse fashion. LTN's are still here.

"Have you seen my cat?" I mean, maybe, but it's a fucking cat, you see them all the time and it barely registers. But the little fuckers move quickly so even if I had seen it, say 30 minutes ago, I'm not sure what use that would be to you now. Unless you're asking me if I've petnapped your cat, which if I have, I'm hardly likely to admit to now, am I?

Various people asking for their charity bags back. If you put something through my letter box I don't want, it's going in the recycling/bin with all of the rest of the crap that comes through there. This used to be a student share so I get a lot of shit.

Delivery drivers asking if I can take a package for a neighbouring house and then later....

...The neighbouring house asking for their package

Absolute grifters asking if I want my drive tarmac'd.

The nympho next door wanting to fuck me (as explained in the Rat 2 post). This might have been the one time in my life it was worth answering the door if it wasn't for the fact she had a boyfriend who lived next door too. But had she been single I don't think she'd have done it anyway. Total nutter that one.

And these are just examples off the top of my head in 5 minutes. The list goes on and it's always a complete waste of time.

[Lofty]

Should have just answered the door in your boxers sporting an erection, Jim. You would have been off their list then.

[Yevrah]

Kids inside pubs. What are the parents thinking?

[Baz]

Kids inside pubs. What are the parents thinking?

Parents want pub grub too.

[Spikey M]

And it's frowned upon to leave them tied to the lamppost outside.

[niko_cee]

Made the mistake of going to a large supermarket and then a retail park this morning, forgetting it was BLACK FRIDAY.

Pandemonium.

:face:

[Manc]

Bit racist.

[SincereTheRebel]

All caps too. Cant we all just get along?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Someone please explain salted caramel to me from a business perspective. Is it somehow really cheap? Does it dodge the sugar tax? I don't get it. If it was genuinely the taste we'd have been salting caramel for centuries.

[Spikey M]

While they're at it they need to explain "pumpkin spice" too.

[Disco]

I remain unconvinced that pumpkins are actually edible, no-one has ever made anything nice out of one. The caramel thing is just apple and cheese taken to the extreme, sweet and salty is a pretty classic combo after all.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Pumpkin is lovely.

[randomlegend]

Someone please explain salted caramel to me from a business perspective. Is it somehow really cheap? Does it dodge the sugar tax? I don't get it. If it was genuinely the taste we'd have been salting caramel for centuries.

It just tastes nice.

[Giggles]

Salted caramel is excellent.

[niko_cee]

While they're at it they need to explain "pumpkin spice" too.

This stuff is the worst. My kids hit upon a seam of 'pumpkin spice' lollies in their Halloween hauls [pumkin spice grape, pumpkin spice something else, plain pumpkin spice] and they are all just horrific. They should all be labelled cinnamon death.

[randomlegend]

Miso caramel is the next step up from salted caramel.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Things like pumpkin spice and truffle can be explained as margin aggregators, i.e. sprinkle any old shitty dust on the item and raise the price by 40%. I just can't rationalise salted caramel.

[Giggles]

It's caramel with salt in it that tastes nice, I'm not seeing the confusion.

[-james-]

Buying some stuff off Muji and found out about their baffling shipping costs



https://i.imgur.com/06TdPdN.jpg


First time I've ever had to remove stuff from my basket to get my total below a threshold.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Grading delivery charges by order value is deranged, from a sales point of view (stick with me here, this is some of my most interesting content). You should grade by weight, so that the customer looks at the basket and thinks shit, pardner (he's from Arkansas), I've still got 8kg of allowance at the same shipping price, I might as well pop a table lamp in there while I'm at it.

[Baz]

Jim’s been on the pinot noir.

[John Arne]

Has Matcha flavoured everything reached your shores yet? Fucking awful, dry shite.

[niko_cee]

Went to a 4dx cinema today to watch Wish.

What a load of shite.

So many things to moan about.

3d remains entirely pointless in all situations save ones specifically tailored to make use of it. In normal films it just makes the whole thing a painful blur for the most part, where you're left wondering if you are watching it through some sort of frame rate filter which makes it look like a 60hz screen being broadcast on a 50hz screen a la computer screens on TV broadcasts.

The rest of the 4d shit is obviously a monumental waste of time, although it is funny seeing people having their massive bags of popcorn deposited all over the place. +1 point for that.

Completely removed from the terrible 4dx experience though, the biggest annoyance is the whole Disney 100 shite where they give it the whole "all you need is imagination" spiel before rolling out a suite of purchased content they now lay claim to having created it would seem. Fuck the fuck off with that.

Film's pretty bleh as well.

Parenthood sucks.

[Jimmy Floyd]

My parents solved that problem by just not taking me to those films that I wanted to go to. Have still never seen the Lion King.

[niko_cee]

Me either.

Children are largely indoor creatures now though, sadly. So it's tolerate the shit, or have your house wrecked.

[Waffdon]

My parents solved that problem by just not taking me to those films that I wanted to go to. Have still never seen the Lion King.

This explains so much.

[Ben]

Children are largely indoor creatures now though, sadly. So it's tolerate the shit, or have your house wrecked.

There's a kid on my estate that is outdoors seemingly all daylight hours. I don't know whether it's his doing or the parents', but it's a nice throwback either way.

[Lofty]

Children that aren't being properly parented are thrown outside to fend for themselves. The vet we use for our dog is up the rough end of Preston and last time we went there was a group of young lads no older than 7 with a toddler in tow, roaming the streets, no adult in sight. The same parents who go absolutely mental when said kids fall through ice on a lake etc.

[Baz]

County lines waiting to happen. :drool:

[phonics]

Been banned from Pokerstars for cheating. Didn't cheat. I somehow outperformed the algorithm despite losing money.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yodel.

I ordered a set of dumbbells on CYBER MONDAY and they were supposed to be delivered today.

Was on my PC and it said I was the next stop with the map showing they were a couple of streets away. I then F5'd the page and it's suddenly in the depot and they "missed me".

No note of course because I know they never came to me.

[niko_cee]

The return of the elf on the shelf. :cry:

[Spikey M]

I feel your pain brother. I feel it.

[Ben]

My little one is only 18 months so I've escaped it this year. I can definitely feel it looming though. I hate this type of shit so probably a divorce incoming as my Mrs is a right soppy twat.

[thommo]

Thankfully never indulged in that shite and never will.

Although, in keeping with the thread, yesterday was the school's Christmas Fair. While I appreciate the kids enjoy it all and they need to raise funds as much as they can, it's an absolute money sink. £10 gone in minutes on sweets and tat.

[CJay]

Yep, just don’t take it on. :shrug: My boy’s turning 6 and he’s never mentioned it. And thankfully the school doesn’t seem to indulge it either.

[SvN]

My 4 year old is also completely unaware of the elf. Long may it continue.

[wullie]

4 here too, every day I'm being asked if it's Christmas yet but no mention or interest in the elf thing. I've also got a good scam going where the motion sensors in the corner of each room have a red light so now that's Santa Claus checking for good behaviour, reckon I can stretch a few years of peace out of that.

[niko_cee]

The elf was introduced by a family member as we used to travel to stay with them over the Christmas period most years.

Day 1 was a success. 23 to go.

[Lofty]

The elf is on the TUI advert so it's coming for you non-elfers. I'd deffo just tell my kid it's a load of shit I think, I remember my step dad drunkenly telling me Father Christmas wasn't coming because I was a pillock one Christmas Eve when I was about 7.

[Spikey M]

The elf is on the TUI advert so it's coming for you non-elfers. I'd deffo just tell my kid it's a load of shit I think, I remember my step dad drunkenly telling me Father Christmas wasn't coming because I was a pillock one Christmas Eve when I was about 7.

Thing is, you tell your kid and they go and tell the other kids, who then tell their parents and you become the Grinch that STOLE Christmas. You would probably get assaulted by a raging army of shrieking mums.

[Boydy]

Maybe you should up the ante and hire the Grinch.

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[niko_cee]

There was a Grinch down Brighton Marina a few years ago who was pissing everyone off, upsetting kids etc and had to be told to fuck off in no uncertain terms. Must be a pretty high risk 'job', I'm sure some of them must get battered.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I think I say this every year but when I was a nipper we didn't even get chocolate advent calendars in our family, just got a nice picture of a robin or whatever behind the window, or perhaps a wise man. These kids don't know they're born.

[Lofty]

Ruud Gullit sitting on a shed.

[Ian]

I think I say this every year but when I was a nipper we didn't even get chocolate advent calendars in our family, just got a nice picture of a robin or whatever behind the window, or perhaps a wise man. These kids don't know they're born.

You're younger than me and had a grand piano in your house. Kids aren't spoiled, your parents just thought a tiny shred of sort-of chocolate every day in December was sheer hedonism / for plebs.

Although I've just amused myself with the idea that some grouch from our parents generations might have thought letting a kid have a little wholesome festive picture this morning was spoiling them.

"I never got a picture of a sodding robin. Kids these days don't know they're born!

[Jimmy Floyd]

It was a hangover from my mother's own parents who were always massive post-war austerity people and my mum assumed it should always be like that. I think the worst example was we were only allowed to have chocolate-related breakfast cereal (usually Coco Pops, I guess) once a week on Saturdays, the rest of the time it had to be plain.

[Boydy]

Tbf the cereal thing just sounds sensible from a health perspective.

[Jimmy Floyd]

There you go you see, Boydy knows a good solid protestant upbringing.

[Boydy]

Nah, it's more learning from your own parents' mistakes. I was never a big cereal fan but I was definitely allowed far too much sugar as a child.

[Mike]

The elf is on the TUI advert so it's coming for you non-elfers. I'd deffo just tell my kid it's a load of shit I think, I remember my step dad drunkenly telling me Father Christmas wasn't coming because I was a pillock one Christmas Eve when I was about 7.

We’ve told our oldest that the elves only visit naughty children, as they think they can get the kids blamed because they’re already naughty. Told her that we can’t tell children with an elf about this, because it’s very rude to tell someone they’re naughty. Thanked her for being so good and all sorted.

[Dark Soldier]

Finally happened. Walking the dog, three lads approach me. Prob 16-18. Asked for a light for their joint. No worries lads I remember those days. Handed the lighter back with a lovely "have a good evening old fella"

Am decrepit lads.

[Ben]

Very pleasant lads. Nice to see.

[Giggles]

Just picked up my first doner in 4 months and I had accidentally hit Salad on the options :face:

[Lofty]

I forgot about your salad psychosis :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Into the bin.

[niko_cee]

The Jorja [what sort of fucking spelling is that?] Smith version of Stay Another Day needs to get in the bin.

[Pepe]

Attended my first kid's birthday party. It was ok, but I put my suede jacket in my youngest's stroller while I was there and then when I got it at the end I found a massive tear on it. Seething.

[Don]

Once I'm out of the train station, my office is accessed via a short 5 minute walk through a Westfield Shopping Centre. This is one of London/the world's finest examples of hyper-consumerism. Set in an area of great deprivation which was revived by locating the Olympic Village there and selling off all the land and buildings, mainly to Arab entities. The pockets of poverty remain though and as a result, the centre itself is in the heartlands of ethnic communities and youth crime is rampant.

There rests the context. The scene that played out recently was in relation to the security measures they have had to take as a result of the aforementioned. Namely:

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So they've got airport security set up on a bridge leading up to the shopping centre and they (being a group of private security guards backed up usually by a police presence (7 at last count!)) randomly select people to go through it. As you can tell from that picture, it's about as random as having anus pain after being arsefucked by Ron Jeremy.

I don't actually take the bridge route normally but had to recently and, coming from a football trip away, I was in sports gear and looked like a prime Anjem Choudary so straight into the queue for the metal detector I went.

These are sensitive times in Don-towers with 2 months of daily media consumed about the discrimination and predjudice faced by my Muslim brothers in Palestine and I'd just finished reading Between the World and Me so I kicked up a bit of drama which also involved being given this treatment when I recorded a video of the shambles it all was:

https://phnat.org/2017/07/12/westfield_security_concerns/

I feel like this could be my Montgomery Bus Boycott so stay tuned as I wage my campaign against these cunts and take them down.

[Pepe]

Wear your 3-piece suit next time.

[Lewis]

My colleague ran the security room at the 2012 Olympics, and as part of putting together a local risk register for it he went to meet some ex/out-going local copper. The bloke suggested that they meet outside that shopping centre, and proceeded to wax about all the trouble that the local blacks cause, pointing to a crowd of them approaching the centre and telling him to set his watch. Shortly afterwards this (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-26885573) happened, and my man ended up giving the victim a heart massage whilst his cronies stood around calling him a pussy. He didn't even have to go to court because they had it all on five million security cameras.

[igor_balis]

Couldn't remember how to spell harridon, so googled it on my work computer, but got it so badly wrong it looks more like I was trying to search for "hard on", now our IT department are going to think I'm dyslexic and like looking at willies at work :worried:

[Boydy]

Couldn't remember how to spell harridon, so googled it on my work computer, but got it so badly wrong it looks more like I was trying to search for "hard on", now our IT department are going to think I'm dyslexic and like looking at willies at work :worried:
Do you mean "harridan"?

[igor_balis]

Do you mean "harridan"?
Fuck

[Lofty]

Sold a guitar on ebay, at the last second someone snipes in and wins. No payment straight away so I think here we go, lo and behold they've now messaged me about how they can't pay right away due to it being Christmas and asked a load of questions about it they should have asked prior to bidding :nono:

[Gray Fox]

You don't have much luck with eBay do you.

What's the process when this happens? I've always wondered. Do you get to offer it to the 2nd highest bidder now or do you have to give the idiot a certain time?

[Baz]

Afaik you have to either wait it out or cancel their bid and relist. Can’t opt for the second highest bidder.

[Lofty]

They've now changed their tune and said they can pay immediately if I can guarantee returns which makes me even more suspicious, sounds like they just want the option of looking at it and sending it back.

[Baz]

How’s their feedback?

[Lofty]

100% to be fair although suspiciously some of it is word for word the same from different accounts.

What is concerning me is their original questions were stuff like 'do you have proof of purchase? Do you know when and where it was bought?' Which should have been asked prior to bidding as far as I'm concerned it's a 1990 model guitar of course that was never a given (the answer to both is no).

[Giggles]

Can you just relist it and block them some way?

[Lofty]

Might have to, they reckon they are going to pay now so who knows.

[randomlegend]

They've now changed their tune and said they can pay immediately if I can guarantee returns which makes me even more suspicious, sounds like they just want the option of looking at it and sending it back.

They're going to return it for a refund and you're never going to receive it back.

[Giggles]

They're going to return it for a refund and you're never going to receive it back.

If he sends it to them now after all that then he probably deserves it.

[Pepe]

I would 100% not deal with that person.

[Pepe]

Maybe try Reverb. Don't know if they are any better.

[Spikey M]

Just shove it on Marketplace.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just shove it on Marketplace.

He's already dealing with a Karen.

[Ben]

I've only used it a few times but I've never had an issue with Marketplace. It helps that you can look at their profile and figure them out in seconds.

[Raoul Duke]

What is the guitar, out of interest?

[randomlegend]

It's a stringed instrument, usually wooden.

[Lofty]

What is the guitar, out of interest?

1990 Fender Stratocaster Made in Japan.

[Danny]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qi3JERmk9E

[Raoul Duke]

1990 Fender Stratocaster Made in Japan.

Nice. I recently bought an American Vintage 61 Strat. It's sexy.

One of my missions is to buy a guitar from the same year as I was born.

[Giggles]

My old fella has a Telecaster at home, I don't know much about them but 1952 so presumably US made.

[Spikey M]

I have a Bluey and a Frozen one.

[Giggles]

I have a Bluey and a Frozen one.

A wank would cure that.

[Spikey M]

:D

[Raoul Duke]

My old fella has a Telecaster at home, I don't know much about them but 1952 so presumably US made.

If you really want to know then you can look up the serial number here: https://serialnumberlookup.fender.com/lookup/

If it's a 52 original and in good nick then it'll be worth shitloads. Like in the £50k region :| https://guitarpoint.de/product/1952-fender-telecaster-blond-2/

[Giggles]

It's well minded but he used it for the best end of 50 years and I remember him getting new frets on it at least once so it's probably not worth a big pile.

[Spikey M]

It's made me sad rather than angry, but I've just nipped to the Co-Op for some bread and the guy ahead of me in the queue was buying £56 worth of scratch cards. He explained to the woman behind the till that he's started doing takeaway deliveries for the Chinese next door. £50 for 4 hours work (plus tips) and he uses the money to "make his millions". He lost all of last weeks (£200) at the casino, so this week he's trying this.

She laughed and wished him well, but I think this might be one of the sadest things I've ever heard. He's selling it as a cooky weirdo having fun, but this is just a man at the bottom of a deep, deep hole, isn't it?

[Lewis]

I'd be more 'fucked off' about having to stand there whilst he tells that woman his life story.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's made me sad rather than angry, but I've just nipped to the Co-Op for some bread and the guy ahead of me in the queue was buying £56 worth of scratch cards. He explained to the woman behind the till that he's started doing takeaway deliveries for the Chinese next door. £50 for 4 hours work (plus tips) and he uses the money to "make his millions". He lost all of last weeks (£200) at the casino, so this week he's trying this.

She laughed and wished him well, but I think this might be one of the sadest things I've ever heard. He's selling it as a cooky weirdo having fun, but this is just a man at the bottom of a deep, deep hole, isn't it?

I saw a guy go all in at a blackjack table in Atlantic City a few years ago. He won but after he stated that he was shitting bricks because that was his rent money for the month.

I imagine he's either dead or living on the streets now.

[Shindig]

It's the way those life stories get blurted out without any provocation that gets me.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I was in the WH Smith at the airport recently, trying to buy some throat sweets, and an African man ahead of me in the queue bought £115 worth of lottery tickets. Slowly, methodically, one at a time. I wanted to die on a number of levels.

[Spikey M]

You're probably on TikTok somewhere being mocked as BaldWhiteHeathrowBloke, because if you wanted to troll someone at an airport, that's a genius strategy.

[Boydy]

Evri have shoved a "Sorry I missed you" card in the door but when I go try to use the number on it to track on their website it doesn't recognise the number. Fucking great.

Apparently they'll try again the next two working days but I will also be out for parts of them so they'll no doubt arrive when I'm out those days too and since I can't track it on their app, I have no way of telling them a safe place to leave it. Fuck's sake.

[Ian]

So many delivery companies are just rank. I had so many issues with one delivery from DX that the company who were trying to send me something told me that they'd switched back to Parcelforce rather than deal with them over a lost delivery again.

[Boydy]

Royal Mail are shit now too. I ordered a sim card from Lebara and waited like a week and a half for it. No sign of it so I contacted them and just got them to cancel it. It arrived the next day.

I then ordered a sim card from Talkmobile. It hadn't appeared for two and a half weeks so I contacted them and they were like "it must be lost, we'll send you another". Fine, I said yeah. They cancelled the original lost one. Eventually a Talkmobile sim card came through the door the other day. It's the first one from them that they cancelled.

Probably not surprising given Royal Mail got fined recently for delivery times and they're supposedly prioritising parcels over letters at the minute as they make more money on the former. Fucking annoying though. Renationalise the cunts. Fuck their shareholders.

Also my current phone provider is gonna stop working on January (Plusnet mobile) so I'm going to be without a phone at this rate.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I recently had a Yodel delivery.

Day it was meant to come after a while I was next in line and my driver was close. I then refreshed my page a minute later and it says that my driver missed me (I was in and looking out a window into the front garden) with the item now being at the depot.

Obviously no card was posted through the door as no one ever came.

I guess it never went onto the van, so why lie?

[Shindig]

I've done that song and dance with Yodel before. I wound up going to the depot and picking the package up from there. "Oh, there must've been a new lad on the vans." is their go-to excuse.

[Ian]

Now is it Yodel who became Evri or was that a different one? I know they rebrand like a shit Just Eat dark kitchen every time reviews get too shit even for them.

[Shindig]

Yodel used to be Home Delivery Network or something. Evri are tied to Hermes.

[Ian]

Ah that's it. They've been shite under both guises too.

[Boydy]

Of course it was delivered today again when I was out. Came back to find it just left on the doorstep in the rain. Great service, thanks.

Thankfully the thing inside is okay.

[Gray Fox]

My mum once sent a surprise TV as a present for the kids room one time. It was Evri that it got passed to. She messaged me on the day saying I should expect a delivery. Was pissing it down all day so I was relieved to get back to not find it on the doorstep. No delivery the rest of the day though. Called my mum the next evening to ask when they're rearranging it for to her confusion. She had got delivery confirmation the previous morning.

I checked out front again and nothing there so I got her to chase it up. Went out to take the bins around later that evening and there it was on the inside of the back gate. The cardboard on it was completely sodden from sitting there in the rain for a good 2 days. Fucking useless people.

[Lofty]

Early dart from work and finished for Christmas, thought I might treat myself to a golden arches delivery since it's payday, £7.29 delivery on Uber Eats the thieving cunts.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Just as well the delivery drivers haven't unionised, it'd be £14.99 and they'd only deliver it if they could really be arsed, definitely not at Christmas.

[Lofty]

:D

Ah well, rail fares go up again in 11 days, best start planning my extension.

[niko_cee]

Following on from my travails in the Christmas thread, a different child has just vomited in the car park of a trampoline park 45 minutes drive from home.

FML

In other annoying things, that Klopp peleton advert. Half thought the acting had got to him and he was doing some weird performance thing for the crowd last night when he dropped his ring.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He's a great manager but he's one hell of a strange German.

[niko_cee]

I know there's probably an extent to which gravity dictates that this be the case, but why are the filters on washing machines always designed so as to be so close to the ground that when you have to open them it is nigh on impossible to stop the inevitable flood from going everywhere?

[Baz]

I’ve also thought that :D

[Giggles]

Same thing for the water tray on a tumble dryer. Or why not just have the warning a little bit before it's brimmed?

[niko_cee]

I'd never even encountered a water tray before, although the one on this machine isn't too bad. I assume all previous tumble dryers I've had have been directly vented, does that remove the need? The weird thing is this one is plumbed in [ie it has a waste which goes into the drain] - what is that for if it still has a massive fuck off water tray that is always filling up?

[Giggles]

Yeah the one I have gathers the water in a tray so you don't need the vent at all. I got it second hand for handy money but it's probably only really useful in an apartment or something.

[Boydy]

A condenser dryer is the one with the tray. I have one too.

[niko_cee]

Yeah, I get that, but what is the waste pipe for? I assumed it would take the condensed water directly into the drain, without the need to empty the tray, but apparently not. Admittedly, this isn't my area of household expertise/responsibility and I haven't really made any effort to see if that is possible, it just struck me as something that should happen by default if possible.

[Giggles]

Yeah, I get that, but what is the waste pipe for? I assumed it would take the condensed water directly into the drain, without the need to empty the tray, but apparently not. Admittedly, this isn't my area of household expertise/responsibility and I haven't really made any effort to see if that is possible, it just struck me as something that should happen by default if possible.

I think the whole reason for them is that they're self contained with no need to plumb in any vents or drains for apartments and the like.

[Don]

Dehumidifier crew are pitying the dryer crew.

[Boydy]

Yeah, I get that, but what is the waste pipe for? I assumed it would take the condensed water directly into the drain, without the need to empty the tray, but apparently not. Admittedly, this isn't my area of household expertise/responsibility and I haven't really made any effort to see if that is possible, it just struck me as something that should happen by default if possible.
On your washing machine? I dunno.

Is it something like this? https://www.ahs.com/home-matters/repair-maintenance/what-is-a-washing-machine-drain-pan-and-why-do-you-need-one/

[niko_cee]

No, it's on the tumble dryer. It has a waste hose which I had to divide the washing machine waste to accommodate, only to find it apparently does fuck all. :moop:

[John Arne]

Hands up if your washing machine is in a outside area and so the water just flows into the drain :)

But yeah, why on earth wouldn't in drain through the pipe??

[Ben]

I think some people have the dryer in rooms without the pipe work (eg. upstairs). When we bought our first house the owners had theirs upstairs in the little box bedroom, which was converted to a dressing/laundry room. Therefore a lot of dryers on sale are that condenser type.

[Mike]

Ours has a water tray too, the wife is eyeing up a fancy one to match the washing machine though, hopefully that has a pipe to empty the water out to save me doing it.

[niko_cee]

Well, prepared to be disappointed by the pipe.

[Giggles]

Like his wife.

[Mike]

Well, prepared to be disappointed by the pipe.
My only hope about the whole thing is that it plays a different jaunty tune to the washing machine, or they someone sync up and do a duet.

[Gray Fox]

The Mrs agreed to have her twins younger two kids overnight so she and her fella could have a night out.

The youngest is 6 and I'd bet my house on him having some kind of ADHD. The kid cannot stay still at all. Bouncing off the walls, humming or talking all the time. Cannot be not doing something either. Even when we put a film on for him he'll sort of walk around the room while watching it. He was also up at 5am. Exhausting.

I think the worst part is the parents clearly never say no to him. Of the kids in the house he was the only one opposed to what film was suggested. He gave it the "But I want this film on" and when we still said no, we got a full tears breakdown. The parents are due to pick up soon and I might throw him down the path at them and lock the door behind him.

[Boydy]

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Hang on, there's a fit Famileigh daughter?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Probably gets run through by the brothers and dad on a rota.

[Boydy]

Jesus christ, Jimmy.

[Ben]

TikTok will be the death of our society.

[Jimmy Floyd]

7am as well. What a start to the week.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Jesus christ, Jimmy.

He's not wrong though.

[Yevrah]

He isn't, she'll have an OnlyFans in no time.

[Baz]

Needed something to justify driving around while my lad fell asleep and remembered last weeks snow outing my white car as borderline brown, so went to a carwash. I’ve a shed full of expensive car cleaning products and a karcher but I’m lazy, so off I go. £10 includes a dry with ‘cotton for extra shine’ okay sure. Rip off. Didn’t even clean the windows properly so I’ve just done them myself. Lesson learned.

Although there is a fancy sounding steam clean one a bit further away, but I’m always put off cos it’s on a busy road and I don’t understand where the entrance is. Plus steam = antibacterial? Who needs that.

Will give it another month and try somewhere else. Got my eye on one towards a posh area that might be good, but never seems open.

But at least my son enjoyed the experience of the car being washed by Albanian teenagers, and was asleep 10 minutes afterwards. Top dad out.

[Dquincy]

1749191918573985868

Hang on, there's a fit Famileigh daughter?
Eye, she is tidy. But imagine being taken home to meet her family. Fuck that.

[phonics]

Eye?

Was pedal stool pretending or is he actually retarded?

[Bam]

And he’s a from the South. Talking like an extra in Emmerdale Farm. :nono:

[Spikey M]

Ear ear.

[Dquincy]

Eye?

Was pedal stool pretending or is he actually retarded?
Twas a genuine mistake. Add it to the list.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Not sure where to post this so I'll do it here.

My Grandma died this morning, she was 81 and had dementia but seemed fairly well health wise. It all changed pretty quickly about a week ago when she picked up the flu and it seemed to start a snowball effect which saw her vital organs struggle to cope. She quickly became unresponsive, was unable to eat and barely moved.

My Mum managed to fly out yesterday and got to say goodbye (along with one sister) to her yesterday.

It all just feels so quick how it happened and very much like what happened to my Dad. Was fine then one thing seems to cause everything to spiral massively.

[SvN]

My mother in law died had dementia and died very suddenly too - literally a phone call one morning to say she'd died in the night. I think it's quite common.

[randomlegend]

Sorry to hear that Mahow.

A quick deterioration or sudden catastrophic event is definitely the way to go out though.

[Lofty]

Sorry for your loss Mahow.

My stepdad is 75 and had a few things crop up this week, vitamin deficiencies and bleeding ulcers, can't say it hasn't crossed my mind given his age.