Random Irritations

[Jamesbrown]

Muppets at the end of our road dangerously parking on the corner of a junction so you can't pull out safely.

People parking in general in the town I live has blew my mind. Infact it’s one of the top if not the top contributory factor of us moving.
I grew up on a terraced street so have always parked considerately if parking on the road. It’s a shame to move but it bugs me massively. I can’t live near people who can’t park properly. Several neighbours I give the cold shoulder to because I judge on their parking.

 

[HampshireHog]

Not sure I understand all of your words, but at first reading I understand enough to think about working out the rest and giving it a go. I have no idea at all what ‘Create a routine’ means in this context and how I’d do it, but I understood and especially liked the words at the end…’and resolved our connectivity issues’.

A routine just chains commands together. I defined mine in Alexa as

 

[GreiginFife]

Muppets at the end of our road dangerously parking on the corner of a junction so you can't pull out safely.

We get this almost every day. Not only parking at a junction on a blind they do it on both sides of said junction.

Despite a serving police officer living in the street (who has seen this happen several times), it seems that I am the only one that will say anything to these idiots. Initially politely but as the days pass that politeness wears very thin.

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Apart from a lemon drizzle cake a ginger cake is the ONLY cake worth eating

Whilst I do love a nice ginger cake, you can’t beat a slab of rich fruit cake with salted butter on it

You just can’t and anyone who disagrees is just a wrong un

 

[pauljames87]

Whilst I do love a nice ginger cake, you can’t beat a slab of rich fruit cake with salted butter on it

You just can’t and anyone who disagrees is just a wrong un

Fruit cake is acceptable

However it doesn't beat ginger cake , or a good lemon drizzle

 

[GB72]

Fruit cake is acceptable

However it doesn't beat ginger cake , or a good lemon drizzle

There in lies the issue in the words 'a good lemon drizzle'. So many are too sweet and lack that sharp lemon that is needed to make it really good.

 

[TimShady]

Curve ball from me would be that lime is a much better overall flavour but lime drizzle cakes are far too rare.

 

[Piece]

We get this almost every day. Not only parking at a junction on a blind they do it on both sides of said junction.

Despite a serving police officer living in the street (who has seen this happen several times), it seems that I am the only one that will say anything to these idiots. Initially politely but as the days pass that politeness wears very thin.

It's now got to the stage of polite-but-firm laminated notices being left on these cars. Sometimes, the offending car is a commuter car who can't be arsed to pay station fees and instead happy to park dangerously and put people at risk. Waiting for the day that a lorry manages to take out the side of said car.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

A routine just chains commands together. I defined mine in Alexa as View attachment 49747

This looks and sounds just the job…except I don’t use Alexa - though I have a Google mini colocated with, and on the same wireless network as, the printer. Can I use that in the same way.

I guess the screenshots you’ve given are reached from the ‘home’ page of your Alexa (if there is such an thing), and that I might be able to do similar from my Google Home? Though to be honest I don’t know if what I‘ve just written above makes any technical sense whatsoever

 

[BiMGuy]

Needy people who need activities for their birthday to go on for multiple days.

Anything past a simple “happy birthday” is too much in my opinion.

 

[Orikoru]

Muppets at the end of our road dangerously parking on the corner of a junction so you can't pull out safely.

There's a road near me where you pull out at a tee junction and the road bends away from you both ways - I swear there are always medium-sized vans parked on the corner on both sides! So you pretty much just pull out when it feels right and hope you don't die.

 

[Alan Clifford]

It's now got to the stage of polite-but-firm laminated notices being left on these cars. Sometimes, the offending car is a commuter car who can't be arsed to pay station fees and instead happy to park dangerously and put people at risk. Waiting for the day that a lorry manages to take out the side of said car.

We have cars that park too near a roundabout. I guess they don't want to walk an extra 10 yards to the bus stop.

When the council decided to paint some yellow lines around the estate, I asked them to put some near the roundabout. They didn't

 

[Pants]

It's now got to the stage of polite-but-firm laminated notices being left on these cars.

A self adhesive sticky label (size to suit your irritation) with a polite or otherwise message on it stuck on the windscreen works wonders.

 

[Slime]

There in lies the issue in the words 'a good lemon drizzle'. So many are too sweet and lack that sharp lemon that is needed to make it really good.

If it has lemon in it ................................ it must be awful!
It must be made with chocolate and covered in thick double cream.

 

[GG26]

Woken up with a sore throat AGAIN. I know people say you get ill more after you have kids but this'll be three colds in two months I think. Ridiculous! Where is my immune system at??

When my daughter started school, I was off sick 10 times in one year. I wouldn’t have been off that many times in the 15 years since.

 

[pauljames87]

There's a road near me where you pull out at a tee junction and the road bends away from you both ways - I swear there are always medium-sized vans parked on the corner on both sides! So you pretty much just pull out when it feels right and hope you don't die.

Just wait until she starts school, it's a walking sickbay

My wife works in eldests class ... so I get sick all the time

But today she's sent 7 kids home with chicken pox

 

[HampshireHog]

This looks and sounds just the job…except I don’t use Alexa - though I have a Google mini colocated with, and on the same wireless network as, the printer. Can I use that in the same way.

I guess the screenshots you’ve given are reached from the ‘home’ page of your Alexa (if there is such an thing), and that I might be able to do similar from my Google Home? Though to be honest I don’t know if what I‘ve just written above makes any technical sense whatsoever

Yes, Google also has routines, you should be able to create the same type of thing.

 

[ADB]

Taking out a bag of frozen peas which someone has opened and then put back in the freezer upside down

 

[Voyager EMH]

Taking out a bag of frozen peas which someone has opened and then put back in the freezer upside down

Pea all over the floor did ya?

 

[pauljames87]

Taking out a bag of frozen peas which someone has opened and then put back in the freezer upside down

That's what freezer clips were invented for