Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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They are also loud and smelly. But the only practicable option under some circumstances.
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I just hope you haven’t bought any pets🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Like this?
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Things that annoy you? Leaf blowers certainly! Especially so when the leaves are left open to the environment so the wind disperses them again. What's the point? A garden rake and a compost bin is much more suited.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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Is true. I have my residue of pro gardener kit which, now 'retired' as in not billing people but still active, I use mine.
Today in The Gardens the perm guys tried to use their battery powered strimmers to cut down the barsteward bamboo but red light / machine stress lights were flashing. Had I still had my steel head brushcutter attachment, trashed it years back, I would have gone home to collect it. It would have worked well. Rev it up. Oops, seem to have gone Stevo666 stylee... 😉
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The "perm guys" scousers?
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'Tis a very good mower FZ. The bloke who does a lot of our garden work recommended it. We had a crappy little corded electric thing from the previous house which was totally inadequate for the amount of grass we have to cut now and it was on its last legs anyway. So we splashed out, but was worth the investment.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Saw a guy near me last year blowing them all off his drive into the gutter where they then blocked the drains. I thought another elderly neighbour had some kind of dementia when I saw him apparently mowing the footway outside his house. I was on the verge of checking he was OK when I realised he was using it to blow the grass cuttings into the road.
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That's a bit like my dusting technique, which seems more about moving it to somewhere less obvious, when someone's going to visit.
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Yes, that the best recommendation when they rely on the equipment for their jobs.
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I don't get why they don't suck the leaves into the bag and empty that?
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Like Blu Tack and Post-It Notes, it's probably some design project that went horribly wrong, and they ended up coming up with a sales pitch for it.
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I thought most of them have the option to do both? All I can think is they can't be arsed to empty and clean the bag?
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The newsreader on the radio station I listen to always signs off with 'so for now I'm Hannah Cox' - is she intending changing her name later or something?
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Is that not some slang term for some type of behaviour? 😉
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The weather, yet again. Head out on the bike on a forecast good day under cloudless skies.
Clouds roll in within 1/2 mile, and continue. Sun comes out 20 minutes after return. 😡
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You've just got to roll with it.
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That hype begins in earnest tomorrow. Another thing that will annoy me, fans being fleeced to top up pensions.
Any guesses on ticket prices?
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Yeah, there's going to be a lot of demand given how long they removed their diplomats for. I'm not mad for it to be honest.
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Cheapest ones in Edinburgh are £135 (no, I won't be going!)
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Happy with no rain here!
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£30 to see the Undertones tomorrow looking like a bargain...
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
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We'll spend more on beer than getting into the gig for sure.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
The sort of online H&S training videos that not only explain what 'manual handling' is ("It's when you handle things manually") but that you have to watch all of every tedious minute and can't skip before doing the test. FWIW, the video on using PC workstations is currently playing on another tab... but still it's aaaaargh!
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Got 17/20 by guessing, so that's the last time I'll have to do that for school anyway, and the university one at least credits you with not being a total imbecile.
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There is now a whole industry expanding to fill the available space. I had a course on how to use my desk, followed by a 30 minute call on how to sit down comfortably.
It is challenging not to be rude.
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I spent the whole of my first week at the only large company I've worked for doing that type of online 'test'. It felt slightly ridiculous having to do their idea of a H&S test when I already had several construction sector qualifications that tested it to a much higher level. I also had to prove I was safe to drive by doing an online assessment before I could do any driving for work.
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I recently did an ethics course by the Institute of Chartered Accountants which took literally a days worth of time to get through (although could at least do it in several different parts as it was online). All in the name of getting 'Continuing Professional Development' points. Talk about tedious - was tempted part way through to say that Ethics is a county next to Herfordshire and quit the course, never to return. But I stuck with it.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
I had the same with driving. We got a consultancy in to produce a booklet that included things like being insured and using a seatbelt, not using a handheld device etc. I had to sign it. Pretty sure the booklet cost more than the highway code.
I read an article a while ago about the expanding costs of HR. In our company, we now have an army of people thinking up ways to spend their time, waste.ours and and our money.
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