Random Irritations

[harpo_72]

You sound like you have met my wife if you add to that having an empty dishwasher and still putting her plates on the worktop.

I cook dinner, I pack as I go. But everyone just gets up and leaves their dinner plates on the table .. some excuse about being too busy and yet none of them earn as much as me, so there busy is not fiscally effective ?

 

[GB72]

I cook dinner, I pack as I go. But everyone just gets up and leaves their dinner plates on the table .. some excuse about being too busy and yet none of them earn as much as me, so there busy is not fiscally effective ?

I do the same then my wife takes the plates out and leaves them on the kitchen worktop irrespective of how empty the dishwasher is. Then when I get up to put them in the dishwasher it is always 'I was about to do that'

 

[harpo_72]

I do the same then my wife takes the plates out and leaves them on the kitchen worktop irrespective of how empty the dishwasher is. Then when I get up to put them in the dishwasher it is always 'I was about to do that'

I was about to do that… a well repeated line. Do you get nagged for not doing stuff as well ? and “I was about to do that” or “shall I stop doing this and do that “ is not an acceptable response ?

 

[bobmac]

A husband will always fix that wonky shelf, there's no need for the wife to remind him every 6 months

 

[Patster1969]

Same goes with any mess

My fav is when they open dishwasher find it full of clean stuff and don't bother unloading

Or worse .. find it full of dirty and can't be bothered to press start

We recently bought a new slimline dishwasher as the old one was knackered and there was a really expensive Bosch that had a bluetooth connection & an app, so you could turn it on from the comfort of your sofa. Can anyone tell me why you wouldn't just turn it on when you've loaded it - why would you load it, put the tab in and then go into the lounge to turn it on.
Just sounds like something else to break tbh

 

[Patster1969]

I've very much taken ownership of our dishwasher .. load it after every meal whilst she deals with the girls or goes to rest of an evening

Empty it every morning playing hold back the toddlers .. who have become like the raptures in Jurassic park ...distracting and sneaking up ..

"Clever girl"

I'm the same, the wife can't load it to get maximum efficiency, so she just leaves it for me now

 

[Deleted member 21784]

We recently bought a new slimline dishwasher as the old one was knackered and there was a really expensive Bosch that had a bluetooth connection & an app, so you could turn it on from the comfort of your sofa. Can anyone tell me why you wouldn't just turn it on when you've loaded it - why would you load it, put the tab in and then go into the lounge to turn it on.
Just sounds like something else to break tbh

It's not so much that it's more schedule timer for it to start (like delay start now) but could programme it to always do it so set up once and forever does it

They do kettles you can set to boil from phone again fill up before bed and set to boil when you get up

Loads of things like that

I'd love one that I could disable the buttons and remote for the kids to stop starting

 

[Robster59]

You sound like you have met my wife if you add to that having an empty dishwasher and still putting her plates on the worktop.

We're not married to the same woman are we?

 

[cliveb]

Thing is what they are offering is almost double the price of non fibre, we don't want it at that price neither does anyone else around here tbh.

If City Fibre aren't competitive then fair enough. And digging up the road for a service nobody wants does sound a bit pointless.
Jurassic Fibre is £30pm for 100Mb FTTP, which is all I need. (You can pay more for higher speeds if you want it).

 

[SteveW86]

scammers, just had o2 give me a call on the mobile offering me 40% discount off my bill. Relatively easy signs to pick up on that its not genuine (bar the obvious we want to give you 40% off), but you can see how some people would fall for it.

Anyway, had a good few minutes winding them up giving them fake details that they were asking for.

 

[GreiginFife]

scammers, just had o2 give me a call on the mobile offering me 40% discount off my bill. Relatively easy signs to pick up on that its not genuine (bar the obvious we want to give you 40% off), but you can see how some people would fall for it.

Anyway, had a good few minutes winding them up giving them fake details that they were asking for.

If you haven’t already check out Kitboga and Scambaiter on YouTube. Two different approaches to honking the scammers right off.
Kitboga toys with them by, usually, playing old ladies and then keeping them on the phone for hours and getting them totally wound up.

Scambaiter is a bit more direct, he hacks them and watches them scam others, warns people and then contacts the scammers and uses their reverse proxy to wipe machines and take phone networks down as the scammers work.

Both are entertaining and both are getting it right up the scammers.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

If you haven’t already check out Kitboga and Scambaiter on YouTube. Two different approaches to honking the scammers right off.
Kitboga toys with them by, usually, playing old ladies and then keeping them on the phone for hours and getting them totally wound up.

Scambaiter is a bit more direct, he hacks them and watches them scam others, warns people and then contacts the scammers and uses their reverse proxy to wipe machines and take phone networks down as the scammers work.

Both are entertaining and both are getting it right up the scammers.

Scammers are poisonous, nasty people. Despise them with a passion. I like the sound of the latter paragraph in particular.

We get a number at work, clear and obvious. I've been through a few styles of reply. I'm currently going for the outright shame response, 'what would your mother think, your grandma etc. Would they be proud of you?' I know it's meaningless but it makes me feel slightly better that I might give them 2 seconds of guilt before they move onto the next person.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

People who leave the tiniest dreg of milk in the bottom of the carton. Not even enough to wet a single cornflake on occasions. Simply use it/pour the two drops away and get the next one ready

 

[Blue in Munich]

We recently bought a new slimline dishwasher as the old one was knackered and there was a really expensive Bosch that had a bluetooth connection & an app, so you could turn it on from the comfort of your sofa. Can anyone tell me why you wouldn't just turn it on when you've loaded it - why would you load it, put the tab in and then go into the lounge to turn it on.
Just sounds like something else to break tbh

Careful, you'll get told off for posting stuff like that on here; you'll be old, resistant to change, anti-tech, stuck in your ways.

I'm 100% with you, something else to go wrong that is totally unnecessary.

 

[GreiginFife]

Scammers are poisonous, nasty people. Despise them with a passion. I like the sound of the latter paragraph in particular.

We get a number at work, clear and obvious. I've been through a few styles of reply. I'm currently going for the outright shame response, 'what would your mother think, your grandma etc. Would they be proud of you?' I know it's meaningless but it makes me feel slightly better that I might give them 2 seconds of guilt before they move onto the next person.

The issue is that they are without conscience. They actively prey on the old so doubt they would not scam their own grandmother.

Kitboga makes me laugh, he did one where he pretended to be an old lady called Lou who was a psychic. The scammer was exhausted by the end.

 

[Orikoru]

Our lodger and her boyfriend ordering food from Pepe's* every single time he is round here, so like 3 times a week. I know it shouldn't annoy me because it doesn't affect me at all, but Christ guys, push the boat out and sample something else once in a while! ?

*if you didn't know, Pepe's is basically a knock-off of Nando's.

 

[Deleted member 21784]

Our lodger and her boyfriend ordering food from Pepe's* every single time he is round here, so like 3 times a week. I know it shouldn't annoy me because it doesn't affect me at all, but Christ guys, push the boat out and sample something else once in a while! ?

*if you didn't know, Pepe's is basically a knock-off of Nando's.

Be honest you would be cool with it if they ordered you some

 

[Orikoru]

Be honest you would be cool with it if they ordered you some

Not at all! We only do takeaways on the weekend for a start. And in a world where Nando's exist there is simply no reason to buy a poor imitation of it this often!

 

[Deleted member 21784]

Not at all! We only do takeaways on the weekend for a start. And in a world where Nando's exist there is simply no reason to buy a poor imitation of it this often!

Is it a lot cheaper? I love a good Nandos but the delivery side is shocking

 

[Orikoru]

Is it a lot cheaper? I love a good Nandos but the delivery side is shocking

Not very much cheaper, no. Maybe a quid in it here and there!