Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

pblakeney

It's a paradox. If you read it and think it's shite then you can add to the shite and be guilty of doing so. If you enjoy it then you won't participate. Everything newsworthy annoys me.

briantrumpet

orraloon said:

Para mi there's 250+ unread posts on that thread. Is it entertaining to read or is it just shite?

At least it's got its own thread. No, it's going round in circles, just like most of the riders manage to do.

rick_chasey

American colleagues who think we’re all interested in their national holidays but pay no heed to any others from around the globe.

Yes I’m sure Juneteenth is very important over there. Thanks for the 700 word email explaining how important it is and that we shouldn’t expect anything from you that day.

Didn’t stop you demanding work on the jubilee weekend did it? Hmm?

Pross

Considering your views on the jubilee and royals I would have thought you'd have been working anyway.

pinno

orraloon said:

Para mi there's 250+ unread posts on that thread. Is it entertaining to read or is it just shite?

I'm trying to make it as entertaining as possible but the square pants keep pi$$ing on my chips.

Pross

Being out at 3am for the second time in a week to pick my daughter up from a college trip

pinno

Being up again at 3.50am to open the door for the cat.

(who has yet to learn how to use the cat flap).

rick_chasey

Is it called Mog?

First.Aspect

pinno said:

Being up again at 3.50am to open the door for the cat.

(who has yet to learn how to use the cat flap).

Cats really do not understand that 5.30 am is not breakfast time, just because it is sunny outside.

pinno

rick_chasey said:

Is it called Mog?

That's irrelevant. He is top of the food chain.

pinno

First.Aspect said:

pinno said:

Being up again at 3.50am to open the door for the cat.

(who has yet to learn how to use the cat flap).

Cats really do not understand that 5.30 am is not breakfast time, just because it is sunny outside.

Well, he pestered me relentlessly as he was hungry at 6am and I have run out of his preferred meaty pouches.
Then he went out and came back with a mouse. I think he wants to play swapsie.
Now, my dog would understand 'gone' and 'No more' and 'finished' and accept it but a cat, that's a different matter.

rjsterry

pinno said:

Being up again at 3.50am to open the door for the cat.

(who has yet to learn how to use the cat flap).

Oh he/she knows how to use the cat flap. It's just more entertaining to get you up. Ours have gone as far as ineffectually pawing at it as if to demonstrate that it's broken. And then when they think you're not looking they hop through quite happily.

rjsterry

First.Aspect said:

pinno said:

Being up again at 3.50am to open the door for the cat.

(who has yet to learn how to use the cat flap).

Cats really do not understand that 5.30 am is not breakfast time, just because it is sunny outside.

I suspect they understand, but enjoy being annoying.

rick_chasey

pinno said:

rick_chasey said:

Is it called Mog?

That's irrelevant. He is top of the food chain.

Whoosh

First.Aspect

rick_chasey said:

pinno said:

rick_chasey said:

Is it called Mog?

That's irrelevant. He is top of the food chain.

Whoosh

Not read it. Bit advanced for me.

orraloon

Shouldn't that be 'Mogg the Entitled Pr*ck'?

pinno

rjsterry said:

First.Aspect said:

pinno said:

Being up again at 3.50am to open the door for the cat.

(who has yet to learn how to use the cat flap).

Cats really do not understand that 5.30 am is not breakfast time, just because it is sunny outside.

I suspect they understand, but enjoy being annoying.

A study was done on cats. They read 50 random words to the cats and 1 of the 50 words was the cat's name.
Unlike a dog, the cat's response to hearing their name was a twitch of the tail, an ear movement and at very best, a glance.
So they came to the conclusion that cats know their names but don't care.

Munsford0

when I peel the seal off a new bottle of milk but it sneakily leaves the final layer of invisible plastic behind. Comedy gold I'm sure but trivially annoying when I'm bleary-eyed and trying to make the first cup of tea of the day.

Munsford0

And agreed on the pointless waste of plastic selling frozen peas in packs with semi functional ziplok closures. We just use a clothes peg.

rick_chasey

Munsford0 said:

when I peel the seal off a new bottle of milk but it sneakily leaves the final layer of invisible plastic behind. Comedy gold I'm sure but trivially annoying when I'm bleary-eyed and trying to make the first cup of tea of the day.

Boring boring I have moved to using the milkman and glass bottles and it is has dramatically reduced my plastic waste.

Pross

On top of the very late night, getting to bed at 3.45, having to drive 250 miles today and my car's air con deciding to stop working.

pblakeney

rick_chasey said:

Munsford0 said:

when I peel the seal off a new bottle of milk but it sneakily leaves the final layer of invisible plastic behind. Comedy gold I'm sure but trivially annoying when I'm bleary-eyed and trying to make the first cup of tea of the day.

Boring boring I have moved to using the milkman and glass bottles and it is has dramatically reduced my plastic waste.

I was offered this service recently.
Unfortunately I have memories of warm milk on a summer morning.

rick_chasey

Meh, I have a south facing house and I've had no problems. They don't come every day. 2-3 times a week, so you will have empty bottles lying around.

Munsford0

pblakeney said:

rick_chasey said:

Munsford0 said:

when I peel the seal off a new bottle of milk but it sneakily leaves the final layer of invisible plastic behind. Comedy gold I'm sure but trivially annoying when I'm bleary-eyed and trying to make the first cup of tea of the day.

Boring boring I have moved to using the milkman and glass bottles and it is has dramatically reduced my plastic waste.

I was offered this service recently.
Unfortunately I have memories of warm milk on a summer morning.

Neighbours of ours have milk delivered in glass bottles. For some reason they leave it out in the sun all day at the end of the drive, despite driving past it several times. I'm wondering if they do it just to say look at us, we can afford a milkman. Would go along with their effing enormous, ostentatious house which is lit up like a bloody christmas tree 24-7, and hiding behind automatic gates at the end of a drive flanked by individually illuminated specimen trees.

rjsterry

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

pinno said:

rick_chasey said:

Is it called Mog?

That's irrelevant. He is top of the food chain.

Whoosh

Not read it. Bit advanced for me.

It's a gritty crime thriller.

rick_chasey said:

Munsford0 said:

when I peel the seal off a new bottle of milk but it sneakily leaves the final layer of invisible plastic behind. Comedy gold I'm sure but trivially annoying when I'm bleary-eyed and trying to make the first cup of tea of the day.

Boring boring I have moved to using the milkman and glass bottles and it is has dramatically reduced my plastic waste.

Have you done the embodied carbon assessment on the manufacture and transport of tonnes of glass?

rick_chasey

Nope. Intuitively given the bottles get used over and over it's less wasteful at the very least. Nor are they having to produce plastic over and over again. The milk cart is classically electric and moves at the speed of a snail (once got caught behind it) so I can't imagine the carbon emission are that big.

The bigger issue is the quantity of milk I consume over a week - that itself will probably be the biggest challenge from an emissions and climate change impact.

surrey_commuter

rick_chasey said:

Nope. Intuitively given the bottles get used over and over it's less wasteful at the very least. Nor are they having to produce plastic over and over again. The milk cart is classically electric and moves at the speed of a snail (once got caught behind it) so I can't imagine the carbon emission are that big.

The bigger issue is the quantity of milk I consume over a week - that itself will probably be the biggest challenge from an emissions and climate change impact.

40 years we returned glass bottles, now I am assured it is better to smash them into a million pieces and start again

webboo

My experience of having milk delivered to the door step in recent times, is that the milk goes sour a lot quicker than milk from the supermarket. Despite putting it in the fridge soon as it’s been delivered.
So you end up throwing it away, quite wasteful despite good intentions.

rick_chasey

webboo said:

My experience of having milk delivered to the door step in recent times, is that the milk goes sour a lot quicker than milk from the supermarket. Despite putting it in the fridge soon as it’s been delivered.
So you end up throwing it away, quite wasteful despite good intentions.

You’re not at my level of consumption.

webboo

I never claimed to be, just pointing out my experience which is probably nearer the norm.