Random Irritations

[Jamesbrown]

Popped to Starbucks on way home having found out it opens at 6.
Not often I go, and not often I check how much things are.
Drank my coffee, recent transaction notification on watch.
£4.05…. Jesus.

 

[Neilds]

M and S renaming midget gems to mini gems as calling them midget gems is a hate crime against little people! World has gone truly mad

 

[Deleted member 25172]

M and S renaming midget gems to mini gems as calling them midget gems is a hate crime against little people! World has gone truly mad

Only a matter of time until one of “them” come along to tell how silly you are to get annoyed by such thing. But yes, it is mad.

 

[Hobbit]

Popped to Starbucks on way home having found out it opens at 6.
Not often I go, and not often I check how much things are.
Drank my coffee, recent transaction notification on watch.
£4.05…. Jesus.

I paid €3.50 a few days back, but it also included a bacon sandwich.

 

[Dando]

Last night my eldest asked for a lift to work as her car needed to go into the garage.
She’s been off for 5 days but didn’t think to take it on one of those days

 

[Patster1969]

Yep. And now he's had to lie about breaking quarantine rules to cover up the fake test result.

The German media are on to it. They've spotted the serial number on the QR code for his positive test is out of sequence.

Someone told me that his wife had explained that they had refused the vaccine due to it being connected to the transmission of 5G

 

[chellie]

Last night my eldest asked for a lift to work as her car needed to go into the garage.
She’s been off for 5 days but didn’t think to take it on one of those days

Did you give her the lift? Public transport, taxi?

 

[Dando]

Did you give her the lift? Public transport, taxi?

she had to be in work for 10 and wasn't ready until 9.15. Of course she also needs picking up

 

[backwoodsman]

M and S renaming midget gems to mini gems as calling them midget gems is a hate crime against little people! World has gone truly mad

Not saying its not daft to change the name, but interested to know where one read the "story". As I suspect the story is a corruption of whatever facts are out there (if not in fact total blox)

 

[Hobbit]

Not saying its not daft to change the name, but interested to know where one read the "story". As I suspect the story is a corruption of whatever facts are out there (if not in fact total blox)

It’s been picked up by the English speaking Spanish press. Not one of the best sources here but the story is out there.

 

[Neilds]

Not saying its not daft to change the name, but interested to know where one read the "story". As I suspect the story is a corruption of whatever facts are out there (if not in fact total blox)

It is all over all the usual media outlets, complete with quotes from the campaigner who pressed for the change so I suspect it is true - unfortunately

 

[chellie]

she had to be in work for 10 and wasn't ready until 9.15. Of course she also needs picking up

You're softer than we are then.

 

[chellie]

Trying to read our gas and electric meters. They are smart ones but not recognised by our current supplier. They are a PITA and I am not sure if any of the readings I've done are right

 

[Deleted member 16999]

It is all over all the usual media outlets, complete with quotes from the campaigner who pressed for the change so I suspect it is true - unfortunately

Totally agree the World has gone mad.
This is completely true, M+S agreed to the change 10 months, but the “new” rebranded packets have only just hit the stores. The woman behind it Dr Erin Pritchard a University Lecturer(who suffers with Dwarfism) raised the point with many stores during Dwarfism Awareness Month, Tesco’s are expected to rename there’s as well.

Dr Pritchard has acknowledged it would not be able to rename items no longer in production like the MG Midget or the Daihatsu Midget minivan.

Here’s a link to a twitter post from her today, please read the comments:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1481559409872486400

 

[RichA]

Only a matter of time until one of “them” come along to tell how silly you are to get annoyed by such thing. But yes, it is mad.

By "them", do you mean people who couldn't care less what name a supermarket gives to a crap sweet? If so, I guess I'm one of them.
At least the campaigner had a genuine reason to be irritated that wasn't entirely random.
Is it another quiet news day today?

 

[PJ87]

Trying to read our gas and electric meters. They are smart ones but not recognised by our current supplier. They are a PITA and I am not sure if any of the readings I've done are right

Do you have a in home display still? It should still talk to the metre as it's not the bit the company speak to.. ours went dumb but you could still read the metre readings from it

 

[Deleted member 25172]

By "them", do you mean people who couldn't care less what name a supermarket gives to a crap sweet? If so, I guess I'm one of them.
At least the campaigner had a genuine reason to be irritated that wasn't entirely random.
Is it another quiet news day today?

Took a little bit longer than expected I do have to admit, but I did have you on the short-list.

 

[chellie]

Do you have a in home display still? It should still talk to the metre as it's not the bit the company speak to.. ours went dumb but you could still read the metre readings from it

Ooh no idea where it will be. Will have to look. Thanks.

 

[srixon 1]

Totally agree the World has gone mad.
This is completely true, M+S agreed to the change 10 months, but the “new” rebranded packets have only just hit the stores. The woman behind it Dr Erin Pritchard a University Lecturer(who suffers with Dwarfism) raised the point with many stores during Dwarfism Awareness Month, Tesco’s are expected to rename there’s as well.

Dr Pritchard has acknowledged it would not be able to rename items no longer in production like the MG Midget or the Daihatsu Midget minivan.

Here’s a link to a twitter post from her today, please read the comments:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1481559409872486400

Next years Christmas panto.

Lady of no Colour and the Seven Mini Gems.

When will it all end.

 

[PJ87]

Ooh no idea where it will be. Will have to look. Thanks.

If not I have signed up to an app called bright

My smet 2 it sends the data to bright for me to see

They support smet 1 not sure how it works but might be worth looking into