Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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Camera enforced no driving near the schools in Kingston at drop off/pick up times (except those on main roads).
£65 fine.
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That makes sense. We used to walk the kids to primary school, a family on the same road as us would be getting into the car as we left. We'd get the kids there on time, chat to some friends and leave after the bell went. We'd often see the other family rushing to get in as we were leaving, finding a space and parking took longer than walking there. It's often laziness or habit. Parking halfway there rather than trying to get as close as possible would save a lot of time.
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I think it illustrates how many people can't envisage other ways of getting about other than door-to-door in a car, even for short distances, but also how liberating it is when you realise that there are other options, some of which might actually be better, and faster.
If I were in charge of a school, I'd be looking at ways for those who live further out to park somewhere sensible away from the school and to organise walking buses. And I'd 'strongly discourage' those living within half a mile from driving, possibly with the sort of thing that @kingstongraham mentions. Carrot & stick, but maybe not of the Malcolm Tucker variety.
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#waronmotorists
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The number of complete idiots on Facebook discussion pages. I mean those that don't even read or try to read an OP before replying. Are they drunk? Morons. Such a waste of space. Some are amusing but most.... really?!
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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Just saw this. We used to collect a lot of cans and oil from the premises and the owner was friendly and approachable. It was never a 10 minute collection as we would often get into some conversation.
However, would anyone want this property? To get it running as a Hotel (as it was), it would need £350k worth of renovation, start up salaries for at least 8 including a very good head chef (£40-50k per annum) and you will be competing with some excellent, well established competitors.
It isn't a £700k house.
Either that or convert it back to a domestic dwelling and all the costs involved.
Beautiful Ford Bank House hotel near the Bladnoch distillery went the same way. 3 owners in the 11 years we collected there and every owner(s) threw £thousands at it but it never worked. 1 couple put en suite in every room, opened up a small private caravan park with plug in charging next to it, renovated what was a dilapidated cottage to self catering and it still didn't work. Current owners demolished the out buildings and extensions and virtually all of the hotel facilities back into a domestic dwelling at tremendous cost.
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Jetlag
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People getting angsty about Beyonce's new vinyl and CDs not containing all the tracks.
These formats have limited space and it has always been like that.
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Couldn't they have made it a double album?
It may be already, don't know and don't really care, but then a triple or a box set.
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More annoying when I've bought something like the Sinatra - Basie album on CD (it is an absolute banger) and you only get 36 minutes of music.
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Dare say special editions at special prices will follow. Don't people look at what they are buying, or do they just assume?
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In the 30 minutes between hiding chocolate eggs in the garden and the children looking for them, the foxes had eaten two.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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It's why I resigned as admin on an Exeter FB group, as the owner of the group seems to be happy generating traffic by allowing posts that inevitably end up in slanging matches between very angry and ignorant people (LTNs, student accommodation, urban expansion, local government etc.) Life's too short for trying to understand angry ignorant people.
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Any sign of dead foxes yet, or is chocolate not as toxic to them, as it is to dogs?
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Let us know if you see them again - chocolate is poisonous to foxes (same as dogs).
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I did have that thought. TBF I didn't see the foxes take the eggs so it could also have been a very greedy squirrel or birds attracted by the foil. Given the rubbish I know foxes have eaten (and shat out) in our garden, I would hope they can withstand a small amount of milk chocolate.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Is that “Francis A and Edward K”? Great album
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Chocolate only seems to give dogs the shits in my experience. My daughter’s dog broke into a room and ate several large Easter eggs including all the packaging a few years ago. I was clearing up foil infused turds for days.
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I think it can vary a fair amount between different dogs and different breeds. I heard about someone's Labrador downing most of a chocolate cake and getting away with it. But the vets' advice is not to take any chances and get the dog straight in for induced vomiting etc if they do eat chocolate.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Baby had gone through a not so sleeping patch. All fine but I seem to have caught a fevery cold at the same time.
ugh all I want to is sleep. Feel horrendous. If only he could sleep when I’m not walking him about.
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That's because there's not much chocolate in an easter egg.
Dark chocolate is much more dangerous.
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Good excuse to post this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qtm5G9iq9k
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😬 Well that's dragging up some unpleasant memories. Let me know when you get to the point of seriously considering going for a walk at 3am in the rain to get them to sleep.
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May the force be with you Rick.
Look on the bright side, in a few years time, you will have forgotten all the sleepless nights and your kids will entertain each other while you have a nap on the sofa (although you may wake up to find the floor covered in nail varnish like I did yesterday)
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There’s a fair bit in 3 or 4 large ones though. None of that dark nonsense though.
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The phrase "There's nothing worse.". My mind always goes to "something worse".
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Specifically booked flights in the late morning for my family holiday as I’m flying with young children. Even taking extra days off work to go for those flights.
Just been changed to *late* evening flights there and back. One flight a day. Ffs
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Not good.
The counterpart to that has been when I've received an email apologising for a change to a flight time, sending me into a panic about connections later on, and it's only moved 10 minutes.
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Anyone remember Unlucky Alf in The Fast Show?
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Bugger.
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