Things Cat Trialvilly Annoy You (part whatever) *MOD WARNING IN OP*

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Tell them someone you were in contact the other day has tested positive for Covid.

You need, at least, a days “notice” before someone is visiting. A mate can drop in but you wouldn’t have to do much if they do.

Yeh.... just flush the King Edward down the pipes.

How difficult is that.

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

Well I just found out he's coming tomorrow so I don't have to deal with him or his nosy wife for another day.

You gonna tackle that stain before they come?:pac:

With all the advances in technology, it's still so difficult to play classic late 90s games like Championship Manager 1997/1998 or the original Grand Theft Auto on a regular Windows 10 laptop - without having to download / install emulators etc that may not work.

My bar thing with the bookmarks and open tabs keeps mysteriously disappearing... Occasionally it comes back to stay, but then it goes away after awhile, and I have NOOOOO idea what combination of keys does either.

Also chromebooks need more keys - no capslock key is a pain when typing documents... I can change a few keys around, but then the switching of one function to another messes with other essential key functions. ...and no bloody delete key!

The designers really need to type on chromebooks awhile before deciding what functions go with what keys... hmmph!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:mad:

There seems to have been an explosion of people spelling metres as meters since the lockdown.

We are not in f*cking America.

All those annoying covid19 related buzzwords/phrases.
'the new normal'
'bringing us closer by being apart'
etc, etc

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Ah stop. I have had to insist on reading e-mails trainees are sending to customers in advance because of poor grammar. Should of, done instead of did, US spellings of words, incorrect spellings of words

Fighting a losing battle Rig

The ‘done’ and ‘seen ‘ lads, the ‘so’ sentence starters,the ‘like’ merchants have us beaten.

I have thrown in the towel anyway.

Tired feet

Every time yesterday I put on the cooker it tripped the power. So the landlord is called over and puts on the cooker, nothing.
I had pulled it out to have a look and must have "fixed" the problem.

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Watching US cop films/TV shows.

The suspect is heading East ..

He is on the South West corridor heading North.


Who the fook takes a compass with them inside a building. I'm looking out my window & not sure which direction it is.

its a bit easier when the streets are laid out in grids

New Home wrote: »

Warm it up with a hairdryer, it'll peel off much more easily.

can I do that with the chromebook too? will it reveal a real laptop under the paint?

Autosport wrote: »

Tired feet

Was that the final and least successful of the Happy Feet film franchise?

Ppl:
So far this week, a youngster had a go at me for standing outside of the general q, as per the shop's instructions.
The liaison person in my job's bank, treated me like covid-mary BUT treated me to a list of how much harder I was making her job by not having internet banking , imo doing the job I pay fees for.
Yesterday, a guy pulled into a carpark from behind me, he had to know that I couldn't have seen him until he was within mm's of hitting me.

I'll be lucky to survive this week it seems.

It was my first day back in work yesterday since the lockdown and while I was delighted to get back to (covid-compliant) normality, I am still TA'd at an incident that happened.

One of work colleagues is terminally ill and called in yesterday to hand in his keys and have a catch up. While he is in remarkably good spirits considering his prognosis, there was still a sort of a "goodbye" theme to the visit. I don't live in the same town as him and wouldn't be the best at visiting people when they are dying (don't like to impose myself on burdened families) so not sure if I will ever see him again. Which is obviously more than a TA.

Which brings me to my TA: there is a committee that oversees the running of the place, and one of the more prominent members of said committee is a retired construction "magnate" with all the people skills of Trump. He called in during the visit for a completely unrelated matter, and proceeded to completely let on that he didn't know this fella from Adam. Was very rude in essentially brushing him off as a stranger even though my work colleague would be very well known in similar social circles and would have had his own business in town for years beforehand. I could tell that my work colleague was a bit offended by his lack of manners, but being the gent that he is, used it as an excuse to head off. It has been playing on my mind ever since.

This same committee member essentially treats me and the other staff members like we are all his minions and barely has the nicety to remember our names (even though there are only four of us max on the staff). God I hate people who think that their **** doesn't stink.

on the days I have the most going on, my body chooses to be the sickest - thanks for the support (shakes fit at self) :mad:

The lifespan of Fresh Milk during the summer.

Found a pristine copy of Herbie Hancock's Columbia albums box set on Ebay. Photos from the seller showed it in immaculate condition.

Arrived today. My heart sank when I saw the packaging he had used - brown paper and a thin layer of bubble wrap.

All corners dented and one side with a gouge mark.

Partial refund offered but he was genuinely surprised when I pointed out that the set didn't have a chance of arriving unscathed in such flimsy packaging. For a set like that the corners need to be doubly protected with bubble wrap wrapped very tightly and placed in a hard cardboard box so that it can't move around in transit.