Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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Mikey23 wrote:Wives who say... 'If you're looking for a job tomorrow you could just mend the...'
Do you think I've got some magical flipping powers that means I can fix things you can't, and why the heck didn't you tell the plumber while he was actually in the house...
What was he doing in the house exactly? Maybe that's why it wasn't fixed. Maybe something else was 'fixed' instead. Maybe you need 'fixed'. Maybe she's been fixed, but not by you. Maybe there wasn't anything actually needing fixed and that's why the 'plumber' was around. Maybe she's fixed up a job for you whilst she gets fixed (again).seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
madasahattersley wrote:pinarello001 wrote:Mikey23 wrote:Wives who say... 'If you're looking for a job tomorrow you could just mend the...'
Do you think I've got some magical flipping powers that means I can fix things you can't, and why the heck didn't you tell the plumber while he was actually in the house...
What was he doing in the house exactly? Maybe that's why it wasn't fixed. Maybe something else was 'fixed' instead. Maybe you need 'fixed'. Maybe she's been fixed, but not by you. Maybe there wasn't anything actually needing fixed and that's why the 'plumber' was around. Maybe she's fixed up a job for you whilst she gets fixed (again).
Haha classic porn film scenario :P
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oblongomaculatus wrote:This situation.
You're enjoying a lovely relaxed ride in the sunshine on a quiet country road. You haven't seen a car in miles. You feel a bit hungry, so you reach in your back pocket for an energy bar. As you prepare to tear the wrapper open with your teeth, simultaneously three things happen:
1] From nowhere there appears a stream of cars in both directions.
2] The road, which up to that point has been smooth, is suddenly dotted with potholes.
3] A gusty crosswind gets up on what has up to now been a calm day.
Hastily you put the bar back in your pocket, because now you need both hands on the handlebars and all your concentration. The traffic thins out and disappears. The wind dies down again. The road is once again smooth. You wait a couple of minutes, but all is calm, so you reach in your pocket again. As you prepare to tear the wrapper open with your teeth, simultaneously three things happen...
Something along those lines seems to happen on nearly every ride.
Have you ever considered the crazy idea of maybe opening the packet before you set off so you can just reach for it and consume? Just a thought.0 -
jawooga wrote:I'm thinking of buying a wood burner, but I can't find a website of a local retailer who will tell me up front how much each of their stoves cost. It can't be that difficult and/or they can't have that high a turn over of different models that they can't keep the information updated on a website.
Instead they just say "phone or email to get further details and prices". Do they really want me to phone or email and ask for the price of every wood burner that is listed?! <grrrr> I understand it's to get the dialogue going, but really it doesn't do anybody any favours.
Anyway, that's what's irritating me this evening.
No doubt they would say there's so many options it's too complicated. But of course they want you to invest time in finding out the price, thus if you've already invested your time in them you're more likely to make a purchase - or something.
More often what happens is you see them saying "call for a price" and you think it must therefore be crazy expensive so you don't bother, when it's quite possible you could have easily afforded it.0 -
Found a really cheap wood burner for you
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jawooga wrote:When people say
"I'm a little bit OCD" or "I've got a touch of autism".
It's normally to point out a part of their character that they think is quirky, perhaps even lovable, while completely trivialising mental illness. I'd suggest that a. they're likely to be pretty unremarkable in their range of personality traits and b. if they do think they might have a condition, they should think about speaking to a professional.
On the hand, don't you think that we must have come a long way if people feel that there is a bit of that in so many of us? It's surely doing a lot for tolerance.
The older I get, the better I was.0 -
SmoggySteve wrote:oblongomaculatus wrote:This situation.
You're enjoying a lovely relaxed ride in the sunshine on a quiet country road. You haven't seen a car in miles. You feel a bit hungry, so you reach in your back pocket for an energy bar. As you prepare to tear the wrapper open with your teeth, simultaneously three things happen:
1] From nowhere there appears a stream of cars in both directions.
2] The road, which up to that point has been smooth, is suddenly dotted with potholes.
3] A gusty crosswind gets up on what has up to now been a calm day.
Hastily you put the bar back in your pocket, because now you need both hands on the handlebars and all your concentration. The traffic thins out and disappears. The wind dies down again. The road is once again smooth. You wait a couple of minutes, but all is calm, so you reach in your pocket again. As you prepare to tear the wrapper open with your teeth, simultaneously three things happen...
Something along those lines seems to happen on nearly every ride.
Have you ever considered the crazy idea of maybe opening the packet before you set off so you can just reach for it and consume? Just a thought.
Yes, considered and rejected, since I don't know when I start whether I'll need to eat or not, and I don't want it to go stale/hard if I don't. Also, gels, don't want an open one in my pocket. Anyway, the observation was of hazards seeming to appear all at once the instant you take one hand off the bars to do anything. I think it's sod's law or something.0 -
oblongomaculatus wrote:SmoggySteve wrote:oblongomaculatus wrote:This situation.
You're enjoying a lovely relaxed ride in the sunshine on a quiet country road. You haven't seen a car in miles. You feel a bit hungry, so you reach in your back pocket for an energy bar. As you prepare to tear the wrapper open with your teeth, simultaneously three things happen:
1] From nowhere there appears a stream of cars in both directions.
2] The road, which up to that point has been smooth, is suddenly dotted with potholes.
3] A gusty crosswind gets up on what has up to now been a calm day.
Hastily you put the bar back in your pocket, because now you need both hands on the handlebars and all your concentration. The traffic thins out and disappears. The wind dies down again. The road is once again smooth. You wait a couple of minutes, but all is calm, so you reach in your pocket again. As you prepare to tear the wrapper open with your teeth, simultaneously three things happen...
Something along those lines seems to happen on nearly every ride.
Have you ever considered the crazy idea of maybe opening the packet before you set off so you can just reach for it and consume? Just a thought.
Yes, considered and rejected, since I don't know when I start whether I'll need to eat or not, and I don't want it to go stale/hard if I don't. Also, gels, don't want an open one in my pocket. Anyway, the observation was of hazards seeming to appear all at once the instant you take one hand off the bars to do anything. I think it's sod's law or something.
I would think that depending on the distance you are doing you should know if you are going to eat something. I usually know how long I am going out for and how long for so I know when I need to eat. If you are going out and are not sure when you should be taking on energy then you need to rethink your strategy.
I have an energy bar ready to go cos I know at a certain time on my ride I am going to use it as part of my training plan. If you are getting to the point where you are tiring and think you need an energy gel or bar then its already too late.
And if that still doesn't work for you just carry a big bag of haribo0 -
Yes, this is all true, but a bit beside the point, which wasn't that energy bars are hard to unwrap, but that at the precise time I take a hand off the handlebars to reach for one, (or a gel, or to get a bottle from the bottle cage, or to adjust my sunglasses, or to check my route plan, or anything like that) the road gets bumpy, cars appear from nowhere and there's a spate of gusty winds. I wasn't being entirely serious; on the other hand, it does seem to happen like that a lot!0
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Capt Slog wrote:jawooga wrote:When people say
"I'm a little bit OCD" or "I've got a touch of autism".
It's normally to point out a part of their character that they think is quirky, perhaps even lovable, while completely trivialising mental illness. I'd suggest that a. they're likely to be pretty unremarkable in their range of personality traits and b. if they do think they might have a condition, they should think about speaking to a professional.
On the hand, don't you think that we must have come a long way if people feel that there is a bit of that in so many of us? It's surely doing a lot for tolerance.
Good point, well made. To be honest, I'm very lucky that I don't have family or friends who suffer with these kind of illnesses, so I won't pretend to be offended by the trivializing of it more than perhaps I should be. And you're right, it's good that people can talk more openly and with less stigma. But the people I'm talking about who throw it in flippantly are quite irritating.0 -
markhewitt1978 wrote:jawooga wrote:I'm thinking of buying a wood burner, but I can't find a website of a local retailer who will tell me up front how much each of their stoves cost. It can't be that difficult and/or they can't have that high a turn over of different models that they can't keep the information updated on a website.
Instead they just say "phone or email to get further details and prices". Do they really want me to phone or email and ask for the price of every wood burner that is listed?! <grrrr> I understand it's to get the dialogue going, but really it doesn't do anybody any favours.
Anyway, that's what's irritating me this evening.
No doubt they would say there's so many options it's too complicated. But of course they want you to invest time in finding out the price, thus if you've already invested your time in them you're more likely to make a purchase - or something.
More often what happens is you see them saying "call for a price" and you think it must therefore be crazy expensive so you don't bother, when it's quite possible you could have easily afforded it.
Nail on head. Thing is I'm happy to invest some time, I quite like going and looking at wood burners. I just wish they'd tell you the price on the web site, which would only whet my appetite.0 -
Limp handshakes... If you're going to touch me, do it properly 0
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Jack93 wrote:Limp handshakes... If you're going to touch me, do it properly
Handshakes. They're so 1950's.0 -
Aren't they justoblongomaculatus wrote:Jack93 wrote:Limp handshakes... If you're going to touch me, do it properly
Handshakes. They're so 1950's.
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bompington wrote:
Aren't they justoblongomaculatus wrote:Jack93 wrote:Limp handshakes... If you're going to touch me, do it properly
Handshakes. They're so 1950's.
Is that the piece entitled, "First meeting with the marriage guidance counsellor"?Specialized Roubaix Elite 2015
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Keeping up the general theme...
When you stop for a quiet whizz on a deserted country lane. Just get into that weird bib short crouch mode, tackle out and past the point of no return when ... Streams of traffic, crocodile of school children, party of nuns etc0 -
Mikey23 wrote:Keeping up the general theme...
When you stop for a quiet whizz on a deserted country lane. Just get into that weird bib short crouch mode, tackle out and past the point of no return when ... Streams of traffic, crocodile of school children, party of nuns etc
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On Strava.{/url}0 -
Like the way peter Crouch stoops to head a football.
When the council uses that cheap road resurfacing method that results in cars flicking up gravel as they pass you.0 -
Didn't know 'k1cking' was a dodgy word ^ ?!seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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I wrote f l i c k i n g0
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it annoys me when f l i c k i n g becomes *********0
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When I can't find time for a ride the weather's lovely, when I can it's crap - e.g. today.
Purveyor of "up"
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Pulling a lace on one of your trainers when instead of undoing the bow, it produces a hideously tight knot that has to be picked undone. :evil:Purveyor of "up"0
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Personally addressed exclusive deals 'just for you' through the post from well known companies (BT). Yeah right, me and every other ******* in the country....0
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Weather forecasts that say it's clearing up in the evening... It's still hissing down here you muppets and I can't get out on my bike...0
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Purveyor of "up"0
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Is charging people 5p the way to do it though? Is it really going to change the way people think? Don't get me wrong, anything to help, but I really wish we didn't need to do this to get people to use less plastic bags...0
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Wayne Rooney's "hair".
Elton John's "hair".
Bruce Forsyth's "hair".0 -
Mikey23 wrote:Weather forecasts that say it's clearing up in the evening... It's still hissing down here you muppets and I can't get out on my bike...
Or, when they tell you it's going to lash down all day, so you arrange to do other things instead of ride, then all you get is a couple of drizzly showers followed by a lot of evening sunshine...0
