Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)
Discussion
Zelda Pinwheel said:
The air races at Popham this weekend.
I KNOW everyone's entitled to indulge their hobbies.
I KNOW that living near an airfield, one has to live with people indulging their hobbies.
But the freakin' air races this weekend are annoying beyond reason, not least because our house seems to be a corner of the circuit
Most of yesterday was practice, Race at 3ish
Race today at noon.
NNNNNNEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW overhead every 5 minutes.
How often do they happen, do lots of people come to see them? any value in renting your house out for the weekend and go for a trip when it happens?I KNOW everyone's entitled to indulge their hobbies.
I KNOW that living near an airfield, one has to live with people indulging their hobbies.
But the freakin' air races this weekend are annoying beyond reason, not least because our house seems to be a corner of the circuit
Most of yesterday was practice, Race at 3ish
Race today at noon.
NNNNNNEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW overhead every 5 minutes.
gowmonster said:
How often do they happen, do lots of people come to see them? any value in renting your house out for the weekend and go for a trip when it happens?
Unfortunately it's not on the scale of any Redbull air race. seems to be a fairly small circuit, and only maybe 4/5 planes at any one time. If it were a Redbull-size, i'd be down there myself watching!Zelda Pinwheel said:
The air races at Popham this weekend.
I KNOW everyone's entitled to indulge their hobbies.
I KNOW that living near an airfield, one has to live with people indulging their hobbies.
But the freakin' air races this weekend are annoying beyond reason, not least because our house seems to be a corner of the circuit
Most of yesterday was practice, Race at 3ish
Race today at noon.
NNNNNNEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW overhead every 5 minutes.
Start a campaign to get it banned.I KNOW everyone's entitled to indulge their hobbies.
I KNOW that living near an airfield, one has to live with people indulging their hobbies.
But the freakin' air races this weekend are annoying beyond reason, not least because our house seems to be a corner of the circuit
Most of yesterday was practice, Race at 3ish
Race today at noon.
NNNNNNEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW overhead every 5 minutes.
gowmonster said:
Zelda Pinwheel said:
The air races at Popham this weekend.
I KNOW everyone's entitled to indulge their hobbies.
I KNOW that living near an airfield, one has to live with people indulging their hobbies.
But the freakin' air races this weekend are annoying beyond reason, not least because our house seems to be a corner of the circuit
Most of yesterday was practice, Race at 3ish
Race today at noon.
NNNNNNEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW overhead every 5 minutes.
How often do they happen, do lots of people come to see them? any value in renting your house out for the weekend and go for a trip when it happens?I KNOW everyone's entitled to indulge their hobbies.
I KNOW that living near an airfield, one has to live with people indulging their hobbies.
But the freakin' air races this weekend are annoying beyond reason, not least because our house seems to be a corner of the circuit
Most of yesterday was practice, Race at 3ish
Race today at noon.
NNNNNNEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW overhead every 5 minutes.
Zelda Pinwheel said:
The air races at Popham this weekend.
I KNOW everyone's entitled to indulge their hobbies.
I KNOW that living near an airfield, one has to live with people indulging their hobbies.
But the freakin' air races this weekend are annoying beyond reason, not least because our house seems to be a corner of the circuit
Most of yesterday was practice, Race at 3ish
Race today at noon.
NNNNNNEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW overhead every 5 minutes.
Lucky git....I KNOW everyone's entitled to indulge their hobbies.
I KNOW that living near an airfield, one has to live with people indulging their hobbies.
But the freakin' air races this weekend are annoying beyond reason, not least because our house seems to be a corner of the circuit
Most of yesterday was practice, Race at 3ish
Race today at noon.
NNNNNNEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW overhead every 5 minutes.
The toaster. It has a life of its own.
You can set the dial to 'how brown you want your toast'.
It never does the toast enough, so you pop it back in again and before you know it, its like an episode of 'Backdraft' in the bloody kitchen.
The dial seems to make no difference to the true 'brown-ness' of the toast. Annoying? - very.
You can set the dial to 'how brown you want your toast'.
It never does the toast enough, so you pop it back in again and before you know it, its like an episode of 'Backdraft' in the bloody kitchen.
The dial seems to make no difference to the true 'brown-ness' of the toast. Annoying? - very.
bomb said:
The toaster. It has a life of its own.
You can set the dial to 'how brown you want your toast'.
It never does the toast enough, so you pop it back in again and before you know it, its like an episode of 'Backdraft' in the bloody kitchen.
The dial seems to make no difference to the true 'brown-ness' of the toast. Annoying? - very.
Sounds like the "continuous toaster" we have at work. It's one of those conveyor belt jobbies like you get in hotels and it is appallingly non-deterministic. The problem is that it switches its elements off when they get to a certain temperature. If your bread is passing under the elements when they are on then you get toast. If they are off you get warm bread and need to go round for another pass. You can set the dial to 'how brown you want your toast'.
It never does the toast enough, so you pop it back in again and before you know it, its like an episode of 'Backdraft' in the bloody kitchen.
The dial seems to make no difference to the true 'brown-ness' of the toast. Annoying? - very.
At home, though, I have a decent toaster with electronics, sensors, LCD display, etc. It makes consistently good toast because it takes the estimation out of things and it controls the temperature and time precisely.
So maybe you need to replace your toaster?
ClockworkCupcake said:
Sounds like the "continuous toaster" we have at work. It's one of those conveyor belt jobbies like you get in hotels and it is appallingly non-deterministic. The problem is that it switches its elements off when they get to a certain temperature. If your bread is passing under the elements when they are on then you get toast. If they are off you get warm bread and need to go round for another pass.
If only it was that simple. Every one of those damn things I've ever used has a very standard modus operandi: Put bread in for one pass - comes out warm and barely brown.
Put bread through again - comes out black.
FFS.
In no particular order:
Gormless idiots filming rock concerts, so all you can see is a row of phones in front of you. Just live the moment and stop being twaats
Call centres - enough said
High street banks with their new touchy feely lay out where you walk in and are met by a hopeless 'meet & greeter' who is just out of school/was stacking shelves in B&Q 2 weeks before ..and knows absolutely nothing about banking at all ...hopeless (plus no counters anymore)
Hipsters and media types walking round London with their ironic clothing combos
Loud gits on their mobiles on the train
Chris Evans and his matey try too hard style..truly irritating
Everything about the BBC - too much reality programming, nimby PC news, overpaid execs with their noses firmly in the expenses snout bag, two newsreaders to present the news on a ''kin sofa ( bring back Kenneth Kendall et al)
People trying too hard on Linkedin and posting cliched, business philosophical claptrap, corny sayings etc etc
People who use the phrase "I just wanted to reach out.."
People glued to their mobiles all day...hiding in them....:too wimpy to engage with life around them, or perish the thought to actually make fleeting eye contact with someone around them on the street / on public transport
Crap politicians. (Usually lefties) who use nimby phrases like " we need to engage in a dialogue with this/that part of the community about some bollllux or another.." Toe curlingly PC
Gormless idiots filming rock concerts, so all you can see is a row of phones in front of you. Just live the moment and stop being twaats
Call centres - enough said
High street banks with their new touchy feely lay out where you walk in and are met by a hopeless 'meet & greeter' who is just out of school/was stacking shelves in B&Q 2 weeks before ..and knows absolutely nothing about banking at all ...hopeless (plus no counters anymore)
Hipsters and media types walking round London with their ironic clothing combos
Loud gits on their mobiles on the train
Chris Evans and his matey try too hard style..truly irritating
Everything about the BBC - too much reality programming, nimby PC news, overpaid execs with their noses firmly in the expenses snout bag, two newsreaders to present the news on a ''kin sofa ( bring back Kenneth Kendall et al)
People trying too hard on Linkedin and posting cliched, business philosophical claptrap, corny sayings etc etc
People who use the phrase "I just wanted to reach out.."
People glued to their mobiles all day...hiding in them....:too wimpy to engage with life around them, or perish the thought to actually make fleeting eye contact with someone around them on the street / on public transport
Crap politicians. (Usually lefties) who use nimby phrases like " we need to engage in a dialogue with this/that part of the community about some bollllux or another.." Toe curlingly PC
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Edited by Wiltshireman on Sunday 29th May 22:54
Edited by Wiltshireman on Sunday 29th May 22:55
Wiltshireman said:
High street banks with their new touchy feely lay out where you walk in and are met by a hopeless 'meet & greeter'.....
Especially when the queue is out the door and there's only one person working on the counter, and the 'meet & greeter' can't actually do anything to help serve customersminiman said:
If only it was that simple. Every one of those damn things I've ever used has a very standard modus operandi:
Put bread in for one pass - comes out warm and barely brown.
Put bread through again - comes out black.
FFS.
YES ! That's my point. Drives me nuts. Its a conspiracy.Put bread in for one pass - comes out warm and barely brown.
Put bread through again - comes out black.
FFS.
bomb said:
miniman said:
If only it was that simple. Every one of those damn things I've ever used has a very standard modus operandi:
Put bread in for one pass - comes out warm and barely brown.
Put bread through again - comes out black.
FFS.
YES ! That's my point. Drives me nuts. Its a conspiracy.Put bread in for one pass - comes out warm and barely brown.
Put bread through again - comes out black.
FFS.
Little Darlings, their footballs and "It's only a car". In a way, the parents are correct, it is only a car but why should it be damaged to the detriment of the driver's vision simply because they cannot either control their kids or be bothered enough to take them to the park.
This won't buff out of the windscreen. My daughter will be gutted, it's her car!
This won't buff out of the windscreen. My daughter will be gutted, it's her car!
Impasse said:
Little Darlings, their footballs and "It's only a car". In a way, the parents are correct, it is only a car but why should it be damaged to the detriment of the driver's vision simply because they cannot either control their kids or be bothered enough to take them to the park.
This won't buff out of the windscreen. My daughter will be gutted, it's her car!
I cannot believe that was a football. A knackered wiper blade for the whole of last winter, maybe.This won't buff out of the windscreen. My daughter will be gutted, it's her car!
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