Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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Making an assessor's submission on the D of E website. You type it all in, press submit, and it just reverts back to the welcome screen - no spash screen to say 'successful submission', just looks like you've pressed a wrong button and lost everything. Eventually you get an email thanking you for the submission, but it doesn't include your submission reference statement, so it's adviseable to write the reference in Word and save your own copy for reference.
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'Pinno is full of censored' won't work.
https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=EDF+offer+code&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
https://discountcode.mirror.co.uk/discount-code/edfseanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
I guess they don't make offer codes too obvious to reduce the risk of fraud?pinno said:'Pinno is full of censored' won't work.
https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=EDF+offer+code&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
https://discountcode.mirror.co.uk/discount-code/edf
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
People at buffets, when there's a queue behind them, taking ages to decide how many slices of cucumber to take, whether they like the colour of the tomatoes, whether they prefer the mushroom or bacon quiche, and what they are going to do that evening.0
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Getting hooked by a scam caller, pretending to be someone from X organisation. Barsteward had some of my info, read it out to me, and I gave him my new address details but when he asked me to 'confirm' bank account info the very belated mental alarm went off at last.... Fxxx! Stupid me.0
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Same people who walk through a busy door and stop immediately inside, completely oblivious.briantrumpet said:People at buffets, when there's a queue behind them, taking ages to decide how many slices of cucumber to take, whether they like the colour of the tomatoes, whether they prefer the mushroom or bacon quiche, and what they are going to do that evening.
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Almost got some dudes bank details earlier, he worked it out at the last minute - very annoying.- Genesis Croix de Fer
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we have done this before and I am sure we were unanimous that only a savage (or farmer) would eat at a buffetbriantrumpet said:People at buffets, when there's a queue behind them, taking ages to decide how many slices of cucumber to take, whether they like the colour of the tomatoes, whether they prefer the mushroom or bacon quiche, and what they are going to do that evening.
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pangolin said:
Same people who walk through a busy door and stop immediately inside, completely oblivious.briantrumpet said:People at buffets, when there's a queue behind them, taking ages to decide how many slices of cucumber to take, whether they like the colour of the tomatoes, whether they prefer the mushroom or bacon quiche, and what they are going to do that evening.
Argh, yes. If I'm behind them, I just ask them to move, with an ironic 'please' at the end.0 -
The same ones who stand still on travellators. It always happens in the local supermarket, they stand there gawking out the window and if you walk past them they sometimes 'come to' and wonder why they're standing stillpangolin said:
Same people who walk through a busy door and stop immediately inside, completely oblivious.briantrumpet said:People at buffets, when there's a queue behind them, taking ages to decide how many slices of cucumber to take, whether they like the colour of the tomatoes, whether they prefer the mushroom or bacon quiche, and what they are going to do that evening.
This was one of mine when this thread first started
The older I get, the better I was.0 -
capt_slog said:
The same ones who stand still on travellators. It always happens in the local supermarket, they stand there gawking out the window and if you walk past them they sometimes 'come to' and wonder why they're standing stillpangolin said:
Same people who walk through a busy door and stop immediately inside, completely oblivious.briantrumpet said:People at buffets, when there's a queue behind them, taking ages to decide how many slices of cucumber to take, whether they like the colour of the tomatoes, whether they prefer the mushroom or bacon quiche, and what they are going to do that evening.
This was one of mine when this thread first started
Assuming they aren't crowded, yes. But I do like the counter-intuitive study of crowded escalators...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/why-everyone-should-stand-still-on-an-escalator0 -
Quick summary:briantrumpet said:capt_slog said:
The same ones who stand still on travellators. It always happens in the local supermarket, they stand there gawking out the window and if you walk past them they sometimes 'come to' and wonder why they're standing stillpangolin said:
Same people who walk through a busy door and stop immediately inside, completely oblivious.briantrumpet said:People at buffets, when there's a queue behind them, taking ages to decide how many slices of cucumber to take, whether they like the colour of the tomatoes, whether they prefer the mushroom or bacon quiche, and what they are going to do that evening.
This was one of mine when this thread first started
Assuming they aren't crowded, yes. But I do like the counter-intuitive study of crowded escalators...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/why-everyone-should-stand-still-on-an-escalator
Faster people need more room than slow one's who need less room to be slow, so the slow one's go slower because of the faster one's and the average is slower than if there were only slower one's and no faster one's.
Soon scientists will be using computers to calculate the exact time everyone should set their alarms and when people leave their houses so that we can all got to work slowly in a measured and staggered fashion.
Then all we need is conveyor belts, our own personal mark on the conveyor which we join at a predetermined time and go at a set rate. The system will be proper f.ucked if one person is late so massive penalties for missing the conveyor time slot would need to be imposed - directly taken from the culprit's bank account. We should all really have a bar code tattooed to our foreheads. It would make administration much easier, then those b.astard criminals who abuse the system won't get away with it.
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Over 90 minutes stationary on this train. Almost 2 and a half since I got on. Supposed to take 50 mins.
Country is falling apart.
Good news is we’re now turning back to get a bus 🙄🙄0 -
Dear reader, the entire line is cancelled and they won’t put on enough buses for the train.
So they’ve dumped me in the middle of nowhere with no way to get home0 -
What a shambles.rick_chasey said:Dear reader, the entire line is cancelled and they won’t put on enough buses for the train.
So they’ve dumped me in the middle of nowhere with no way to get home
BTW after seeing the average pay of railway workers, they don't get any sympathy from me. They're doing better than I was.
The older I get, the better I was.0 -
The rail unions seem intent on assuring their own demise by forcing people to not rely on them.0
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Glorious.
At least when they strike they don't have a chance to screw up0 -
I am gambling whether to get the direct train to Kings X which it says is still running0
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I read that as not putting on enough buses for new passengers wanting to make journeys.rick_chasey said:Dear reader, the entire line is cancelled and they won’t put on enough buses for the train.
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announcement at the station they dumped us at was "make your own way home we can't help as we don't know whether the buses will even arrive".TheBigBean said:
I read that as not putting on enough buses for new passengers wanting to make journeys.rick_chasey said:Dear reader, the entire line is cancelled and they won’t put on enough buses for the train.
So they’ve dumped me in the middle of nowhere with no way to get home
Anyway, I have returned home via a taxi. Only 5 hours from when the original train set off. FFS.
F*cked my day too. Only reason I went in was for back-to-back meetings before 11:30.0 -
Heading home from London today. Had a later train booked but thought did it, get out while we can. Seems to have been a wise move. But we’ll never do the later journey to prove that.0
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Modern bike design.
As a recreational rider and not a pro tour rider, I don’t want internal cabling at the headset. I think it looks lovely and slick but not worth the maintenance headache.
However, I always carry the following with me that Pros don’t.
Pump, tool, tubes and repair stuff.
Why can’t I select a bike from a broad range with well thought out integrated storage solutions as opposed to adding assorted after market storage. None of which looks especially good.
Surely the vast majority of recreational riders need this.
Also lighting. TT bikes need rear lights. Spend thousands on an aero dream machine and then add a light to it.
It’s a stupid dynamic.1 -
The market is set up towards people who want to look like a pro as they are more likely to spend silly money. My next bike is going to be a custom built titanium job if I ever get around to saving up the readies.morstar said:Modern bike design.
As a recreational rider and not a pro tour rider, I don’t want internal cabling at the headset. I think it looks lovely and slick but not worth the maintenance headache.
However, I always carry the following with me that Pros don’t.
Pump, tool, tubes and repair stuff.
Why can’t I select a bike from a broad range with well thought out integrated storage solutions as opposed to adding assorted after market storage. None of which looks especially good.
Surely the vast majority of recreational riders need this.
Also lighting. TT bikes need rear lights. Spend thousands on an aero dream machine and then add a light to it.
It’s a stupid dynamic.0 -
Simila
Similar view here.Pross said:
The market is set up towards people who want to look like a pro as they are more likely to spend silly money. My next bike is going to be a custom built titanium job if I ever get around to saving up the readies.morstar said:Modern bike design.
As a recreational rider and not a pro tour rider, I don’t want internal cabling at the headset. I think it looks lovely and slick but not worth the maintenance headache.
However, I always carry the following with me that Pros don’t.
Pump, tool, tubes and repair stuff.
Why can’t I select a bike from a broad range with well thought out integrated storage solutions as opposed to adding assorted after market storage. None of which looks especially good.
Surely the vast majority of recreational riders need this.
Also lighting. TT bikes need rear lights. Spend thousands on an aero dream machine and then add a light to it.
It’s a stupid dynamic.
I understand why the market is that way but it is stupid to have all bikes catering to this niche.
I have never understood the mindset of putting a pump and spares in your jersey so the bike looks pro either.
Remind me when you last saw a world tour pro with a pump and spare tube in their jersey pockets.0 -
Definitely pump in pocket, other tools in bottle cage holder. Keep the bike looking pro
Saddle bags are an abomination. Maybe it's an age thing?0 -
Why would I want anything in my pockets that I don't need when I'm moving?shirley_basso said:Definitely pump in pocket, other tools in bottle cage holder. Keep the bike looking pro
Saddle bags are an abomination. Maybe it's an age thing?
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