Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 7)
Discussion
A regular annoyance, once or twice or thrice a week.
The Met Office weather app.
Tomorrow the hourly symbol for the whole 24hrs shows <5% rain and a full sunshine symbol am, <10% rain and a white cloud and sunshine symbol pm. Then I scroll down to the written summary which says persistent heavy rain.
The written summary rarely matches the hourly symbols and they frequently totally contradict each other.
The Met Office weather app.
Tomorrow the hourly symbol for the whole 24hrs shows <5% rain and a full sunshine symbol am, <10% rain and a white cloud and sunshine symbol pm. Then I scroll down to the written summary which says persistent heavy rain.
The written summary rarely matches the hourly symbols and they frequently totally contradict each other.
The noise created by most modern tyres on most (rubbish) road surfaces.
In our front garden it's actually hard to have a conversation during the 'school run' due to the oppressive amount of noise. Occasionally there's engine noise, but overwhelmingly it's these huge fat summer tyres fitted to pretty much every car.
Or am I just getting (too) old?
In our front garden it's actually hard to have a conversation during the 'school run' due to the oppressive amount of noise. Occasionally there's engine noise, but overwhelmingly it's these huge fat summer tyres fitted to pretty much every car.
Or am I just getting (too) old?
My wife's freezer obsession.
We have (for four of us living at home) three full sized freezers and a half sized one. They are all rammed. I mean not a spare cubic inch of space.
We rarely eat frozen food.
I had a go at her the other day, so she started to use up some stuff. We got a Waitrose delivery the following week. "Take these down to the freezer - there's loads of room". They were still 90% full (and 100% full after I'd put the shopping in it).
We will be fine if there's ever a zombie apocalypse.
Furthermore, periodically there is a problem. One of the freezers will fail / be left open (because it's overfilled) and all the food (that we will never eat) is lost. My wife treats this like a disaster equivalent to losing one of our pets. She is inconsolable.
Also, my one freezer request is that we always have ice. The first freezer we bought for this house had an ice maker. My wife hated it. When that freezer went to the great junkyard in the sky, she bought one without an ice maker. The one thing that is never in any freezer is ice.
We have (for four of us living at home) three full sized freezers and a half sized one. They are all rammed. I mean not a spare cubic inch of space.
We rarely eat frozen food.
I had a go at her the other day, so she started to use up some stuff. We got a Waitrose delivery the following week. "Take these down to the freezer - there's loads of room". They were still 90% full (and 100% full after I'd put the shopping in it).
We will be fine if there's ever a zombie apocalypse.
Furthermore, periodically there is a problem. One of the freezers will fail / be left open (because it's overfilled) and all the food (that we will never eat) is lost. My wife treats this like a disaster equivalent to losing one of our pets. She is inconsolable.
Also, my one freezer request is that we always have ice. The first freezer we bought for this house had an ice maker. My wife hated it. When that freezer went to the great junkyard in the sky, she bought one without an ice maker. The one thing that is never in any freezer is ice.
Sat in the pub garden and it's quite busy, two bikers turn up on Harleys and ask if they can sit on the other side, no problem I thought but then they spend an hour having the most boring conversation known to man.
Feck me we had 15 minutes on the different uses of vaseline.
Also why do all middle aged Harley riders look like they have dodgy internet history?
Feck me we had 15 minutes on the different uses of vaseline.
Also why do all middle aged Harley riders look like they have dodgy internet history?
AstonZagato said:
Also, my one freezer request is that we always have ice. The first freezer we bought for this house had an ice maker. My wife hated it. When that freezer went to the great junkyard in the sky, she bought one without an ice maker. The one thing that is never in any freezer is ice.
Buy a worktop icemaker, they work pretty well and it means you get freshly made ice that doesn't taste faintly of parsley.AstonZagato said:
My wife's freezer obsession.
We have (for four of us living at home) three full sized freezers and a half sized one. They are all rammed. I mean not a spare cubic inch of space.
We rarely eat frozen food.
I had a go at her the other day, so she started to use up some stuff. We got a Waitrose delivery the following week. "Take these down to the freezer - there's loads of room". They were still 90% full (and 100% full after I'd put the shopping in it).
We will be fine if there's ever a zombie apocalypse.
Furthermore, periodically there is a problem. One of the freezers will fail / be left open (because it's overfilled) and all the food (that we will never eat) is lost. My wife treats this like a disaster equivalent to losing one of our pets. She is inconsolable.
Also, my one freezer request is that we always have ice. The first freezer we bought for this house had an ice maker. My wife hated it. When that freezer went to the great junkyard in the sky, she bought one without an ice maker. The one thing that is never in any freezer is ice.
If you don’t eat frozen foods what are all your freezers full of? Body parts?We have (for four of us living at home) three full sized freezers and a half sized one. They are all rammed. I mean not a spare cubic inch of space.
We rarely eat frozen food.
I had a go at her the other day, so she started to use up some stuff. We got a Waitrose delivery the following week. "Take these down to the freezer - there's loads of room". They were still 90% full (and 100% full after I'd put the shopping in it).
We will be fine if there's ever a zombie apocalypse.
Furthermore, periodically there is a problem. One of the freezers will fail / be left open (because it's overfilled) and all the food (that we will never eat) is lost. My wife treats this like a disaster equivalent to losing one of our pets. She is inconsolable.
Also, my one freezer request is that we always have ice. The first freezer we bought for this house had an ice maker. My wife hated it. When that freezer went to the great junkyard in the sky, she bought one without an ice maker. The one thing that is never in any freezer is ice.
southendpier said:
My Dentist - try and get 1st appointment of the day, cause I'm busy, turn up slightly early and sit there to watch the Dentist roll up 10 mins after my appointment should've started.
Now I see why they have to put a little latency into the system, but it is very annoying if you are fortunate enough to be organised.
It’s more about your time being worthless to these other people.Now I see why they have to put a little latency into the system, but it is very annoying if you are fortunate enough to be organised.
carlo996 said:
Tesla drivers, in fact EV drivers in general. I think EV's make the worst drivers even worse, and the rest just stupid.
Yeah, trundling along country lanes below the speed limit but flooring it from lights, junctions and after bends so you can’t pass them. But slowing to a crawl for bends because they weigh two tonnes. AstonZagato said:
Also, my one freezer request is that we always have ice. The first freezer we bought for this house had an ice maker. My wife hated it. When that freezer went to the great junkyard in the sky, she bought one without an ice maker. The one thing that is never in any freezer is ice.
Why doesn't she like ice, or rather why does she not like you having ice?21st Century Man said:
A regular annoyance, once or twice or thrice a week.
The Met Office weather app.
Tomorrow the hourly symbol for the whole 24hrs shows <5% rain and a full sunshine symbol am, <10% rain and a white cloud and sunshine symbol pm. Then I scroll down to the written summary which says persistent heavy rain.
The written summary rarely matches the hourly symbols and they frequently totally contradict each other.
All the weather apps are pants.The Met Office weather app.
Tomorrow the hourly symbol for the whole 24hrs shows <5% rain and a full sunshine symbol am, <10% rain and a white cloud and sunshine symbol pm. Then I scroll down to the written summary which says persistent heavy rain.
The written summary rarely matches the hourly symbols and they frequently totally contradict each other.
Gone on four different apps and get four different forcasts!!
Just look out the window instead!!
MiniMan64 said:
AstonZagato said:
My wife's freezer obsession.
We have (for four of us living at home) three full sized freezers and a half sized one. They are all rammed. I mean not a spare cubic inch of space.
We rarely eat frozen food.
I had a go at her the other day, so she started to use up some stuff. We got a Waitrose delivery the following week. "Take these down to the freezer - there's loads of room". They were still 90% full (and 100% full after I'd put the shopping in it).
We will be fine if there's ever a zombie apocalypse.
Furthermore, periodically there is a problem. One of the freezers will fail / be left open (because it's overfilled) and all the food (that we will never eat) is lost. My wife treats this like a disaster equivalent to losing one of our pets. She is inconsolable.
Also, my one freezer request is that we always have ice. The first freezer we bought for this house had an ice maker. My wife hated it. When that freezer went to the great junkyard in the sky, she bought one without an ice maker. The one thing that is never in any freezer is ice.
If you don’t eat frozen foods what are all your freezers full of? Body parts?We have (for four of us living at home) three full sized freezers and a half sized one. They are all rammed. I mean not a spare cubic inch of space.
We rarely eat frozen food.
I had a go at her the other day, so she started to use up some stuff. We got a Waitrose delivery the following week. "Take these down to the freezer - there's loads of room". They were still 90% full (and 100% full after I'd put the shopping in it).
We will be fine if there's ever a zombie apocalypse.
Furthermore, periodically there is a problem. One of the freezers will fail / be left open (because it's overfilled) and all the food (that we will never eat) is lost. My wife treats this like a disaster equivalent to losing one of our pets. She is inconsolable.
Also, my one freezer request is that we always have ice. The first freezer we bought for this house had an ice maker. My wife hated it. When that freezer went to the great junkyard in the sky, she bought one without an ice maker. The one thing that is never in any freezer is ice.
Cotty said:
Why doesn't she like ice, or rather why does she not like you having ice?
Well there are two aspects to that.Firstly, I take ice in my gin and tonic. She does not. It is of no consequence to her that there is no ice.
Secondly, ice (or an ice maker) takes up valuable freezer real estate that she could be filling with frozen food that never gets eaten.
hidetheelephants said:
Buy a worktop icemaker, they work pretty well and it means you get freshly made ice that doesn't taste faintly of parsley.
I've rather given up on the idea of ice. But I may well have to buy one, if I ever want to have a few cubes in my G&T. If I do buy one, I can absolutely guarantee, however, that my wife's first comment would be "What have you bought that for? We have freezers".AstonZagato said:
MiniMan64 said:
AstonZagato said:
My wife's freezer obsession.
We have (for four of us living at home) three full sized freezers and a half sized one. They are all rammed. I mean not a spare cubic inch of space.
We rarely eat frozen food.
I had a go at her the other day, so she started to use up some stuff. We got a Waitrose delivery the following week. "Take these down to the freezer - there's loads of room". They were still 90% full (and 100% full after I'd put the shopping in it).
We will be fine if there's ever a zombie apocalypse.
Furthermore, periodically there is a problem. One of the freezers will fail / be left open (because it's overfilled) and all the food (that we will never eat) is lost. My wife treats this like a disaster equivalent to losing one of our pets. She is inconsolable.
Also, my one freezer request is that we always have ice. The first freezer we bought for this house had an ice maker. My wife hated it. When that freezer went to the great junkyard in the sky, she bought one without an ice maker. The one thing that is never in any freezer is ice.
If you don’t eat frozen foods what are all your freezers full of? Body parts?We have (for four of us living at home) three full sized freezers and a half sized one. They are all rammed. I mean not a spare cubic inch of space.
We rarely eat frozen food.
I had a go at her the other day, so she started to use up some stuff. We got a Waitrose delivery the following week. "Take these down to the freezer - there's loads of room". They were still 90% full (and 100% full after I'd put the shopping in it).
We will be fine if there's ever a zombie apocalypse.
Furthermore, periodically there is a problem. One of the freezers will fail / be left open (because it's overfilled) and all the food (that we will never eat) is lost. My wife treats this like a disaster equivalent to losing one of our pets. She is inconsolable.
Also, my one freezer request is that we always have ice. The first freezer we bought for this house had an ice maker. My wife hated it. When that freezer went to the great junkyard in the sky, she bought one without an ice maker. The one thing that is never in any freezer is ice.
Cotty said:
Why doesn't she like ice, or rather why does she not like you having ice?
Well there are two aspects to that.Firstly, I take ice in my gin and tonic. She does not. It is of no consequence to her that there is no ice.
Secondly, ice (or an ice maker) takes up valuable freezer real estate that she could be filling with frozen food that never gets eaten.
hidetheelephants said:
Buy a worktop icemaker, they work pretty well and it means you get freshly made ice that doesn't taste faintly of parsley.
I've rather given up on the idea of ice. But I may well have to buy one, if I ever want to have a few cubes in my G&T. If I do buy one, I can absolutely guarantee, however, that my wife's first comment would be "What have you bought that for? We have freezers".Voldemort said:
Use of the word "smash" in front of burger/s. Please f
k off and die in agony.
See also "sliders" to mean very small burgers.
Smash burgers are not the same as a normal burger.k off and die in agony.See also "sliders" to mean very small burgers.
Sliders are indeed small sandwiches, normally burgers, and a normal thing in America, but I've never seen the term used in the UK.
But a muffeletta, now there's a thing. I've never had one, but I love the name.
AstonZagato said:
Cotty said:
Why doesn't she like ice, or rather why does she not like you having ice?
Well there are two aspects to that.Firstly, I take ice in my gin and tonic. She does not. It is of no consequence to her that there is no ice.
Secondly, ice (or an ice maker) takes up valuable freezer real estate that she could be filling with frozen food that never gets eaten.
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