Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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Chickenpox. Loads of kids at my kids' school have just had it. In a number of cases it has meant two weeks off school. It's entirely preventable and the cost of parents not working (not to mention lost education) would effectively pay for every child to be vaccinated. This analysis has been done with a recommendation to vaccinate all kids. And yet, they're not being vaccinated.
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Brace yourself for a resurgence in antiVax and spurious links between vaccinations and autism coming across the Atlantic.
The only cast iron correlation is between intelligence and vaccinations, not autism.
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Look on the bright side: never has a medical trial of stopping vaccinations been done to a population of 330 million. There should be some solid data over the ensuing few years.
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And then this pops up... revoke the licence for the polio vaccine? Who's got shares in iron lung manufacturers?
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Film crews. They seem to take up a vast amount of space, do very little and get in my way. Today they had blocked two roads, occupied parking for several hundred metres, closed the pavement one side and were controlling pedestrians on the other side. It's then like a construction site with loads of people just milling around doing nothing. All that to film something in a hotel.
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I do think it is remarkable just how many people there are spending quite so much time doing so little and so slowly.
Also remarkable how close the quality of the average youtuber can get using a tripod and a phone.
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There was some drama being film in the building next to my office in Bristol about 20 years ago. I left the office and had to get across the square to where my sister was waiting to give me a lift. Some production assistant tried stopping me, I pointed out I needed to get to my lift and they said they were about to start shooting so I’d have to wait but I could go and get stuff from the catering area and watch. I said I wasn’t waiting so they’d have to hold off shooting until I’d got through as they had no right to stop me at which point they gave up and let me cross. I’d already spent most of the day watching Nicholas Lyndhurst slamming a car boot about 6 or 7 times with a long gap between each one so had no interest in watching again.
I was an extra in a film (Dream Horse) back in 2019 and had to be on set about 6am in the morning. Got there, hung around eating a breakfast roll and drinking coffee for a while, we then all got called together and they explained what was going to be done, we had a run through of singing the Welsh national anthem and had more coffee / food and were sent to wardrobe. We then got bussed to a social club where they were filming a pub scene, did a few practice runs and several takes before bussing us back to the unit HQ and sending us home. Easiest money I’ve ever earned but so boring and I’d be morbidly obese if I did it day in, day out. Had to wait ages for the film to be released due to COVID and when it was I wasn’t visible despite them having told me exactly where I had to be and what I had to do. It really is a hurry up and wait industry and seems very inefficient.
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Buying a jar of Vegemite. I’m determined to get through it (on toast), but never again. Tastes like Marmite mixed with essence of brussels sprout.
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Just been invited to a play date on Sat. Said this was fine. Now I've discovered it's four hours long and involves secret santa for the kids with a price limit of £5. Not easy finding cheap toys at this time of year.
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Give someone £5.
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There's a Flying Tiger in Spitalfields if that helps.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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I felt like a proper Christmas Scrooge and just paid more to make my life easier.
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The way sellotape sticks on contact to everything including itself and the wrapping paper when you don't want it to and becomes impossible to peel back off the wrapping paper yet when you actually use it to secure the parcel it is unable to remain stuck for more than a few seconds. I even got decent, proper recycleable wrapping paper rather than the shiny / glittery shite as I know it never sticks properly to that stuff but it still does the same. Also, wrapping anything that isn't rectangular and, preferably, more or less flat.
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I just love wrapping stuff as well....
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Asked son, who apparently is very very clever, bordering on genius, to sort his washing from uni. So he filled WM with some sheets, duvet cover, hoodies, pants, socks etc. Idiot didn't fasten duvet cover. Had a huge twisted, inside out and twisted again, Bolas of fabric. No wonder the WM couldn't balance itself and went into spin-buzzy-hop mode.
Interestingly the liquid dosing balls that live on top of the machine were all (3 off) rotating in unison anti-clockwise. The other odd shaped dosing things were levitating about an inch off the top when it went to 1400.
Absolutely no sense. Put his stuff for the 1st load in new tumble dryer as it has a very weird "new machine smell". Hopefully his clothes will rid it.
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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I hope you explained this life lesson to son for future washes.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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Ditto cucumbers and peppers.
Talking of salads, wisdom is also not putting a lettuce in 10 Downing Street.
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I once had Tomato jam. Its probably the best thing I ever tasted. A bit like strawberry but 100x nicer. Weird.
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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Think you need to be a bit more imaginative with your toms.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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I would happily consume a fruit salad of tomato, Cucumber and peppers
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With Carnation Evaporated Milk?
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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Needs a cherry on top
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Was just listening to a tom yum soup recipe that included evaporated milk.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Why do they make the little covers over the screw hole for towing eyes on cars so difficult to get off without mangling the paint on them and the car?
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Knocking over an open 250 ml carton of double cream in a Christmas ready full fridge. Who knew any substance could be thin enough to get everywhere yet viscose enough to stick to everything? Not advised. 😉
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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I have only ever spilled small amounts and yet it seems to go everywhere. S
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To cap it all off, the mince pies were cool by the time I'd cleaned up.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
It’s the same with milk, a tiny amount covers everything and goes into impossible to reach places. You think you’ve cleaned it all up then a few days later the place stinks of gone off milk.
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New car drivers,Uber prius style taxi drivers who can't seem to judge gaps properly and stop and wait for the oncoming cars when there's clearly enough space for 2 vehicles to pass by each other 🤬.
I often find myself saying to myself "your paid to drive on the road you do it for a living FFS"
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