Pistonheaders and their First World Problems.

[Blown2CV]

Bapple said:

I have to get new passports for both myself and my son for the family around the world trip at the end of the year and I just can't be bothered to fill out the forms.

do it online takes about 2 minutes.

[patmahe]

Blown2CV said:

Bapple said:

I have to get new passports for both myself and my son for the family around the world trip at the end of the year and I just can't be bothered to fill out the forms.

do it online takes about 2 minutes.

I see a thread coming in December complaining how the passport office are a shower of useless coconuts and how they won't process an emergency passport for you.

[SturdyHSV]

I have to press a button to fold the wing mirrors in on my daily, so journeys frequently begin or end with disappointment depending on where it's parked.

It's no better at home either, I'm waiting for a firmware update for my Sony speakers to allow the Chromecast functionality to work with the Google multi-room grouping. At the moment I have to use the Sony app for multi-room, which means I can't also include the Chromecast audio dongle in the lounge. This is a source of unrelenting woe.

[Guvernator]

SturdyHSV said:

I have to press a button to fold the wing mirrors in on my daily, so journeys frequently begin or end with disappointment depending on where it's parked.

I'll go one better, I have a Audi S5, heated leather sports seats, 101 way adjustable electric memory seats, tilt\slide electric sunroof, cruise, sat nav, climate, you can programme the internal lights to do a million different things. It even has a TV function so you can watch freeview and DVD's in the car! If it was put up for sale I could almost legitimately use the oft overused words fully loaded....accept I can't because it doesn't have electric folding wing mirrors.

What fking numpty specs almost every available option on a car and then cheaps out on £200 for electric folding mirrors? I am shamed on an almost daily basis as I get out, have to fold my wing mirrors BY HAND and watch the Corsa owner parked next to be smugly fold theirs in with a press of a button. It keeps me up at night I tell you.

[.:ian:.]

Blown2CV said:

.. still get invites to their annual boat parties...

Is that a typo?

[Europa1]

Blown2CV said:

nigelonich said:

The rooftop pool at the Hotel in Nice is busy today.

are you in the gay one? I stayed there for work a few years ago (agency booked it not me, and I didn't realise till I arrived!) and still get invites to their annual boat parties...

You must have made quite an impression then...

[McAndy]

McAndy said:

I have to wait until Friday to go and see the car I've put a retainer on as the dealer couldn't get it prepped by Wednesday as originally agreed.

I now have to wait until next Tuesday!

[ambuletz]

fk. the tilt lock has stopped working on my Ikeae Markus chair, and I don't have a car to go ikea to bring it back. st. only bought it a year ago. there must be way to fix it surely..

[Bluedot]

The only biscuits left in the biscuit tin here at work are Ginger Nuts.

[SturdyHSV]

Guvernator said:

SturdyHSV said:

I have to press a button to fold the wing mirrors in on my daily, so journeys frequently begin or end with disappointment depending on where it's parked.

I'll go one better, I have a Audi S5, heated leather sports seats, 101 way adjustable electric memory seats, tilt\slide electric sunroof, cruise, sat nav, climate, you can programme the internal lights to do a million different things. It even has a TV function so you can watch freeview and DVD's in the car! If it was put up for sale I could almost legitimately use the oft overused words fully loaded....accept I can't because it doesn't have electric folding wing mirrors.

What fking numpty specs almost every available option on a car and then cheaps out on £200 for electric folding mirrors? I am shamed on an almost daily basis as I get out, have to fold my wing mirrors BY HAND and watch the Corsa owner parked next to be smugly fold theirs in with a press of a button. It keeps me up at night I tell you.

That does sound frightfully awful, I think you should have one of the servants bring you a gin and tonic, you poor, poor bd!

[Guvernator]

SturdyHSV said:

That does sound frightfully awful, I think you should have one of the servants bring you a gin and tonic, you poor, poor bd!

Perhaps I should just get one of them to follow me around and fold the mirrors in for me. They might have a bit of trouble running to keep up when I'm "making progress" though

[SystemParanoia]

Bluedot said:

The only biscuits left in the biscuit tin here at work are Ginger Nuts.

This is a human rights violation!

[monzaxjr]

I've got a septic bk. It's leakier than my old Dolomite ever was. someone put me out my misery!

[Astonowner]

Tell you what really hacks me off. When I want to push the loud button on my Aston Martin, if I'm in first gear I cant see the button because of the gearstick so I have to move my head to see it and push it to makes a loud noise come from my exhaust!!

Poor design if you ask me!!

[hairyben]

My B2C coffee machine goes through a rinse/shutdown cycle after a couple of hours of inactivity. The trouble is this reminds you its there and makes you think "oh I'll have a coffee" but of course now you have to switch it back on and wait for its power up/rinse cycle.

Ideally it would beep or something 5 minutes before it shuts down

[f1nn]

The DVLA are taking an age to process the V5 for my car and I can't transfer my registration until they do.

The Sky Q app isn't as reliable as the old Sky go App on my IPad.

[M3ax]

hairyben said:

My B2C coffee machine goes through a rinse/shutdown cycle after a couple of hours of inactivity. The trouble is this reminds you its there and makes you think "oh I'll have a coffee" but of course now you have to switch it back on and wait for its power up/rinse cycle.

Ideally it would beep or something 5 minutes before it shuts down

My Nespresso machine has stopped working. At least you'll eventually get a coffee.

[Malachimon]

My first world motoring problems:
Manual gearboxes are dying out
New cars look too similar to each other
Too much unneeded safety equipment
Too heavy
Not enough chrome
Too much fake carbon fibre, I need real stuff
Rubbish stock radios fitted to most cars

Basically just give me a classic car with a good modern radio in it and I'm a happy bunny

[anonymous-user]

I've just got home. I want a coffee. I've got 2 coffee jars full of money holding various doors open but no coffee. FML.

[CoolHands]

The church a approx 50m away has bells that ring on the hour every hour. It's an ok sound not too intrusive.

But

Their clock or whatever controls it is wrong. So it is ringing now, at 5 to - it's always early. Annoying.