Random Irritations

[Bunkermagnet]

We are at the point now where my wife will pay more for certain things, we splashed on a kitchen aid mixer and food processor, two separate items, and they are really solid and should last. She is less keen on the likes of kettles and toasters so i have to craftily up the level each time ?.

If you look at it from another angle, it's made in Britain and is fully repairable. Can you say that about any other toaster on the market?
We keep on being told we need to be more enviromental in our ways and thinking, so how more enviromentally friendly can a toaster me thats built to actually last and be fully repairable (I'm not sure about the cheaper ones they now produce to appease some.)
Many commercial food places use them too

 

[harpo_72]

My wife is gagging to snitch

 

[Bazz]

Hermes driver asked us to take a parcel in for the neighbour which the wife did...expect the address isn't our neighbours but someone over 2 miles away, and Hermes don't answer the phone unless you have a tracking number.

No response to emails, no humans to speak to. What an utterly terrible company.

I delivered it myself.

 

[BrianM]

The return to golf in Scotland thread.
Right now political allegiance hasn’t got a place in the current situation we find ourselves in.
I honestly believe Boris and Nicola are doing their best, the same as the welsh / N Irish personnel.
Do people honestly think they are trying to do a crap job ?
They can’t get everything right, the way some people talk they must be superstars at there own job.

 

[Norrin Radd]

The return to golf in Scotland thread.
Right now political allegiance hasn’t got a place in the current situation we find ourselves in.
I honestly believe Boris and Nicola are doing their best, the same as the welsh / N Irish personnel.
Do people honestly think they are trying to do a crap job ?
They can’t get everything right, the way some people talk they must be superstars at there own job.

Totally agree, what makes me laugh is all the opposition in government keep saying they would have done things different to Boris an co, really with exactly the same advisors that Boris had the opposition would have done it different , the head of the WHO would be the same person ,the top doctors and scientists in the country would have been the same people and yet the opposition have continually slagged Boris and co for not doing it right .just the same as when and if Boris let's up on the lockdown tomorrow it will be seen wrong time to do so .and conversly that if it happens that we shouldn't have done it

 

[Blue in Munich]

No response to emails, no humans to speak to. What an utterly terrible company.

I delivered it myself.

Did you collect the real neighbour's parcel at the same time?

 

[Blue in Munich]

The amount of times Sophie Haworth has pointed out that the BBC programmes she is presenting are practising social distancing. It's like she's on a bonus for mentioning it.

 

[Slab]

People who climb up lamp-posts ?
Why? ?‍

Because its there

(if we didn't want people climbing them we shouldn't have lit the streets)

 

[bobmac]

Upside down Union Flags ?? ?

Union Flag or Union Jack?
Both right it seems

''It is sometimes claimed that the Union Flag should be described as the Union Jack only when flown in the bows of a warship, but this is a relatively recent idea. From its earliest days, the Admiralty often referred to the flag – however it was used – as the Union Jack. In 1902 an Admiralty Circular announced that either name could be used officially. And in 1908 the UK Parliament approved this verdict, stating that ‘the Union Jack should be regarded as the National flag’. ''
Cdr Bruce Nicolls OBE RN (Retd)

https://www.flaginstitute.org/wp/british-flags-2/the-union-jack-or-the-union-flag/

 

[Foxholer]

My 4 sllice Dualit can be adjusted so that it will do 1,2,3 or 4 slices thus saving on leccy

And, more importantly, extending the life of the heating elements in the unused slots!

 

[AmandaJR]

Stinging nettles - more particularly landowners who fail to clear them from stiles and footpaths.

 

[Deleted member 18645]

Still not being able to play golf (47 days now and counting).

 

[rosecott]

Still not being able to play golf (47 days now and counting).

Have you tried lessons?

 

[Deleted member 18645]

Have you tried lessons?

Good idea, I've not won a scratch club championship in six years

 

[Norrin Radd]

Good idea, I've not won a scratch club championship in six years

Stands to reason then ,you need lessons

 

[Italian outcast]

Good idea, I've not won a scratch club championship in six years

Stands to reason then ,you need lessons

Though i'm not yet recognised as an expert coach, could i suggest he may benefit from a 'Stack and tilt' fitting - may help eliminate the flying right fin

 

[bobmac]

Though i'm not yet recognised as an expert coach, could i suggest he may benefit from a 'Stack and tilt' fitting - may help eliminate the flying right fin

 

[patricks148]

Rupert rolling in human sheer hite again, 3rd time in 3 weeks, had to spend a hour chucking a stick in the river to get the worste off. then the skys opened and it hammered it down all the way home, got soaked then had to shampoo him off to make sure

 

[Imurg]

Rupert rolling in human sheer hite again, 3rd time in 3 weeks, had to spend a hour chucking a stick in the river to get the worste off. then the skys opened and it hammered it down all the way home, got soaked then had to shampoo him off to make sure

There's times that I really really want a dog.....and there's times that I really, really don't.....

 

[AmandaJR]

Rupert rolling in human sheer hite again, 3rd time in 3 weeks, had to spend a hour chucking a stick in the river to get the worste off. then the skys opened and it hammered it down all the way home, got soaked then had to shampoo him off to make sure

Human? Grim...

Our two jumped in a very stinky pond so needed a hose and shampoo which sent Daisy into a fit of the zoomies. They both whiff a little pondy still.