Random Irritations

[Sid Rixon IV]

Ha ha!
Mine this morning switched the light on about 6.
Me: Uurg, what are you doing?
Wife: Switching off my phone alarm so it doesn't wake you later.

 

[Bazz]

Bit of down time in the hotel room before dinner, the last thing they said before we wrapped for the day was "speak to 5 people you haven't met during the evening, and have fun."

Managed one, Italian fella AC Milan fan, spoke about Baresi, Maldini, Van Basten...the baffled looked on his face when I asked if he'd heard of Stevie Bull.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Ice on the roads. Horrible, dangerous

 

[upsidedown]

Ice on the roads. Horrible, dangerous

Even the gritters are struggling

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Incidentally, I was not criticising the council. Northumberland has lots of rural roads and they can not grit them all. They have to prioritise key roads and the country lanes are a free for all. It's the ice itself I despise. I had to come in today and the journey was not fun. I might have left indents on the steering wheel where I gripped it

 

[Imurg]

Around here they only grit roads that buses go down......No bus..No grit...

 

[irip]

My wife!!! I’m off work for a couple of days thought I’d have a lay in. But Mrs M had other ideas 530am, main light in the bedroom goes on, her Shark hair dryer goes on which sounds like a C17 taking off, then proceeds to bang about doing her make up.

I get up to make a coffee and she’s asked “why are you awake”,
My response “it’s hard to sleep through all that noise”
She replies “what noise I’ve purposely been quiet not to wake you”

I wouldn’t mind but she has a dressing table in the girls room to do hair and make up that she literally uses every morning that I’m not here

You horrible man I can’t believe she was almost late for work because of your selfish attitude this morning.

Just preparing you for when she gets home

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

You horrible man I can’t believe she was almost late for work because of your selfish attitude this morning.

Just preparing you for when she gets home

I’ll kindly tell her she was late because she sits down stairs for an hour after she’s ready to prepare herself for the day doom scrolling and it’s not my fault!!

I will be saying as I’ve got my running trainers on going out the door at a safe distance though

 

[irip]

I’ll kindly tell her she was late because she sits down stairs for an hour after she’s ready to prepare herself for the day doom scrolling and it’s not my fault!!

I will be saying as I’ve got my running trainers on going out the door at a safe distance though

I’m convinced we are married to the same woman.
We are meant to be leaving at 10.30 this morning.
She has been on her phone since 08.00
I just asked if she is ready and then she says of course not, why didn’t you tell me the time!!

This is almost a daily occurrence and if I say to her have you seen the time I get of course I’m not a child.

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

I’m convinced we are married to the same woman.
We are meant to be leaving at 10.30 this morning.
She has been on her phone since 08.00
I just asked if she is ready and then she says of course not, why didn’t you tell me the time!!

This is almost a daily occurrence and if I say to her have you seen the time I get of course I’m not a child.

From seeing your previous posts I think we are

Whenever we’re late it’s my fault for not telling her even though she’s the one that plans the timings of things. We’ve got a train booked for 9:03 tomorrow to get to Waterloo for just after 10am. She moaned this morning why have you booked such a silly early time, my response of well you’ve booked an appointment for a jewellery fitting in Selfridges at 10:45 means we need to get there and across to Oxford St to make the appointment she booked! Then get asked why did I let her book it that early

 

[Hobbit]

I’ll kindly tell her she was late because she sits down stairs for an hour after she’s ready to prepare herself for the day doom scrolling and it’s not my fault!!

I will be saying as I’ve got my running trainers on going out the door at a safe distance though

I feel your pain brother. Mrs H sets her alarm for 7:15am for bowling mornings. We leave the house just before 9am. I get up around 8:15am. Breakfast, shower & out in just over 20mins. That said, I’m a non-smoker. She’s usually elected 4 new popes before 9am.

 

[Imurg]

@irip @Lucifer MorningStar
Boys... compared to my Mrs, yours are just amateurs.....
If we're going somewhere with a deadline I have to tell her we need to leave an hour before we actually need to...then we've half a chance of only being half an hour late..
32 years...honestly you get less for murder..

 

[irip]

@irip @Lucifer MorningStar
Boys... compared to my Mrs, yours are just amateurs.....
If we're going somewhere with a deadline I have to tell her we need to leave an hour before we actually need to...then we've half a chance of only being half an hour late..
32 years...honestly you get less for murder..

Fortunately we don’t have an appointment today.
She is still on the sofa looking at her phone.

She likes to ask what time do we have to leave before we go anywhere, I think it’s so she can work out how late we are going to be.

I have told her Monday we are leaving at 09.00.
I have about 30 minutes of work to do so I’ll open the laptop about 09.30 to give me something to do

 

[Beezerk]

Ice on the roads. Horrible, dangerous

I discovered yesterday that my car is absolutely atrocious in the snow, even the slightest hint and it was all over the place. Almost got stranded on the winding hill that goes up to the moors if you’re heading to Whitby from Boro, luckily there were a couple of guys helping push people to the top otherwise I’d have been a dead duck.

I’m after some recommendations for new tyres that aren’t like bloody racing slicks, not necessarily winter tyres just ones with a better tread pattern for year round driving. Car is a new VW Tiguan R Line so the wheels are kinda massive

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I discovered yesterday that my car is absolutely atrocious in the snow, even the slightest hint and it was all over the place. Almost got stranded on the winding hill that goes up to the moors if you’re heading to Whitby from Boro, luckily there were a couple of guys helping push people to the top otherwise I’d have been a dead duck.

I’m after some recommendations for new tyres that aren’t like bloody racing slicks, not necessarily winter tyres just ones with a better tread pattern for year round driving. Car is a new VW Tiguan R Line so the wheels are kinda massive

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I've had Vredestein and Nokian tyres before. Both European makes and their niche was really winter tyres. They now do all season ones as well and are often cheaper than the big name ones.

The Michelin Cross Climates have been the number 1 all season tyre for years so if you see a good deal there, take it. It's lower in this test but I wouldn't read too much into that.

Have a look at Camskill tyres. Terrible website but they have a strong range and good prices.

 

[Red devil]

Managed one, Italian fella AC Milan fan, spoke about Baresi, Maldini, Van Basten...the baffled looked on his face when I asked if he'd heard of Stevie Bull.

Or Andy Mutch?

 

[Orikoru]

An email from TV Licensing saying "We've noticed you've been using BBC iPlayer." - erm, no I absolutely haven't. There's a link telling you how to pay for a TV licence etc but no option to tell them they've got it wrong of course. Is this how they scam people into paying who don't need one?? I forwarded to their enquiries email asking for evidence such as dates and times. Got a form letter pasted back which has links to pages such as why you need a licence etc etc - not at all what I asked for.

 

[Voyager EMH]

Managed one, Italian fella AC Milan fan, spoke about Baresi, Maldini, Van Basten...the baffled looked on his face when I asked if he'd heard of Stevie Bull.

I've heard of him

Anyway, I would have been asking him for his opinion of Jimmy Greaves.

 

[Neilds]

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[Bunkermagnet]

I discovered yesterday that my car is absolutely atrocious in the snow, even the slightest hint and it was all over the place. Almost got stranded on the winding hill that goes up to the moors if you’re heading to Whitby from Boro, luckily there were a couple of guys helping push people to the top otherwise I’d have been a dead duck.

I’m after some recommendations for new tyres that aren’t like bloody racing slicks, not necessarily winter tyres just ones with a better tread pattern for year round driving. Car is a new VW Tiguan R Line so the wheels are kinda massive

All season tyres are the way forward. My van run Conti's, my brother runs Michelin my youngest ran Goodyear. Work well in the cold, and still good in the summer.