Topic: The small things in life that really hannoy

[So… Howard Philips]

My walls are so thin that I genuinely look at my phone when the neighbour's vibrates. Oddly though, they had a baby for practically a full year before I even saw / heard / knew she existed - do they keep her in a secret soundproof bunker or something?

Their surname isn't Fritzl, is it?

[Buck Pete]

Their surname isn't Fritzl, is it?

lol. First thing that came into me head.

We're going to hell

[Crosby Nick]

lol. First thing that came into me head.

We're going to hell

Me three.

[rob1966]

Just driving down the dual carriageway and almost crashed into some wanker in a woolly hat carrying a bag of shopping from his local mini mart singing Goldfinger at the top of his voice.

I'm still waiting for the punchline

[Crosby Nick]

I'm still waiting for the punchline

Just had to drop my car off at the garage for major repairs. Up at 5, had 3 hours sleep. The motorway was shut so I couldnt get picked up. Just been striding along the dual carriageway like Alan Partridge. Am sweating like fuck but had to wear a woolly hat as all my hair fell out years ago. Now I get to do a 12 hour day like a navvy. Isnt life a bowl of cherries?

A bit niche!

[rob1966]

Next door are actually paying someone to put Christmas lights up on their house, the fucking lazy bastards. No wonder the pair of them are getting fatter and fatter, they do fuck all except walk the kid to school at a snails pace, they get their shopping delivered, pay to get their ironing done, get fat fuck takeaways delivered.

[Crosby Nick]

Next door are actually paying someone to put Christmas lights up on their house, the fucking lazy bastards. No wonder the pair of them are getting fatter and fatter, they do fuck all except walk the kid to school at a snails pace, they get their shopping delivered, pay to get their ironing done, get fat fuck takeaways delivered.

[rob1966]

My "office" is the front room downstairs and so I see all the vans pulling up.

I'd much rather look at the two who live opposite us anyway

[bradders1011]

A bit niche!

Hands up! Gimme all your petrol!



_{I think that every time I walk into a petrol station.}

[Buck Pete]

My "office" is the front room downstairs and so I see all the vans pulling up.

I'd much rather look at the two who live opposite us anyway

[Zeppelin]

People who say 'decimate' when something has been completely destroyed. To decimate something is to destroy one in ten, so it would still be 90% surviving.

[Crosby Nick]

Annoying pricks at work. Was finishing off a project today, that should have been my side of it done. Instead ‘stakeholders’ (hate that word) have said we need to change what we’re doing which will basically mean starting again and delaying things by a month putting deadlines that can’t be moved at risk. And then they just drop that grenade and bugger off expecting me to sort it.

And the changes are needed because of something they could have spotted at any point in the last few weeks, but they’ve mentioned it today.

So I’ll moan in here before thinking how to do it!

[SamLad]

People who say 'decimate' when something has been completely destroyed. To decimate something is to destroy one in ten, so it would still be 90% surviving.

The meaning / usage has changed since it was used in that way. Currently it does mean "wiped out completely".

[Mumm-Ra]

People who say 'decimate' when something has been completely destroyed. To decimate something is to destroy one in ten, so it would still be 90% surviving.

Well I never, I always thought it meant kill 9 out of 10. Reduce an army to a tenth of its previous size.

It's nowhere near as devastating sounding now 

[afc tukrish]

Well I never, I always thought it meant kill 9 out of 10. Reduce an army to a tenth of its previous size.

It's nowhere near as devastating sounding now 

The other nine bludgeoned the tenth, meant to knock them back into line.

One killing nine might have been... problematic.

As well as a significant resource reduction...

[Crosby Nick]

Well I never, I always thought it meant kill 9 out of 10. Reduce an army to a tenth of its previous size.

It's nowhere near as devastating sounding now 

So if a side have a man sent off and then lose a player to injury they can say they’ve been decimated?

[Elmo!]

So if a side have a man sent off and then lose a player to injury they can say they’ve been decimated?

Think that would be strangely enough "undecimated". Eleven in latin is Undecim so killing one in eleven would be Undecimated if I've got this right.

EDIT: not sure what 2 in 11 is. 

[Jwils21]

25mph in a 20 zone = Points and a Fine
30mph in a 50 zone = Acceptable, no questions asked, go about your day

Conscious that my posts in this whinging thread make me seem like a miserable yet chaotic driver. I may be miserable, but I just wanna be able to drive at the speed limit.

[Jono69]

25mph in a 20 zone = Points and a Fine
30mph in a 50 zone = Acceptable, no questions asked, go about your day

Conscious that my posts in this whinging thread make me seem like a miserable yet chaotic driver. I may be miserable, but I just wanna be able to drive at the speed limit.

No one is stopping you 

[rob1966]

No one is stopping you 

Except the knobend doing 30 in a 50

[Mumm-Ra]

The other nine bludgeoned the tenth, meant to knock them back into line.

One killing nine might have been... problematic.

As well as a significant resource reduction...

See now there's another thing I just learned, I thought you'd decimate someone else's army not your own. Although that makes sense now

What a day this is, it's like I've been reborn

[Brissyred]

The galvanisers gave a cut off date for pre-christmas orders, Friday 26 November.
They emailed me yesterday to bring it forward to Friday 19th which means I have to try and get it all done in 3 days instead of 10, then 2 employees call in sick this morning which means it isn't going to happen.
I now have the fun job of telling numerous customers that their jobs won't be ready prior to the christmas shut down 

[Nobby Reserve]

People who say 'decimate' when something has been completely destroyed. To decimate something is to destroy one in ten, so it would still be 90% surviving.

I had a forum tiff (not this forum) with someone (a 'moderate' Tory, FWIW) who took issue and told me, back around 2015/16, that funding for Local Authorities had been 'decimated' by the Tory Government.

He was insisting I was wrong and exaggerating, and that it was nothing like that bad.

I literally showed him the official figures that detailed how LA funding had been slashed by actually over 10% and the c*nt still wouldn't have it, claiming that 'decimated' might once have meant losing one in ten, but nowadays it means generally devastated or destroyed.

The fucker just wouldn't have it that he was wrong.

[CraigDS]

Kitchen fitters started today. They've managed to trip the electrics 3 times in the space of a few hours whilst I'm trying to do work on the computer 

[afc tukrish]

Kitchen fitters started today. They've managed to trip the electrics 3 times in the space of a few hours whilst I'm trying to do work on the computer 

How about the light fantastic?

[Chakan]

How about the light fantastic?

I laughed a lot more than I should have...

[bradders1011]

Podcasts where the adverts cut in in the middle of a sentence.

[Andy @ Allerton!]

People walking at you.

I'm not the smallest lad, but random people - male, female, old, young seem to walk at you and I have to move out of the way

I'm entertaining the idea of just keeping walking some day. Good luck knocking me out of the way you inbred fuckwits and when you're on the floor it'll be you cryarsing.

[Crimson]

People walking at you.

I'm not the smallest lad, but random people - male, female, old, young seem to walk at you and I have to move out of the way

I'm entertaining the idea of just keeping walking some day. Good luck knocking me out of the way you inbred fuckwits and when you're on the floor it'll be you cryarsing.

Andy from now on..

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/1lyu1KKwC74" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/1lyu1KKwC74</a>

[Son of Spion]

Andy from now on..

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/1lyu1KKwC74" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/1lyu1KKwC74</a>

And, of course, Mrs Andy will be Shara Nelson in the Unfinished Sympathy video.

[BlackandWhitePaul]

No matter what you get from AMAZON you are left with half a ton of cardboard to dispose of.

[Jono69]

No matter what you get from AMAZON you are left with half a ton of cardboard to dispose of.

Unless you sell on ebay then it's handy 

[BlackandWhitePaul]

Unless you sell on ebay then it's handy 

A'hhh ok, thanks for that Jono.

I've not used ebay before to either buy or sell.

How much do a load of empty cardboard boxes go for?   

[Crosby Nick]

A'hhh ok, thanks for that Jono.

I've not used ebay before to either buy or sell.

How much do a load of empty cardboard boxes go for?   

Man United paid up to £80m for one a while back.

[Jono69]

A'hhh ok, thanks for that Jono.

I've not used ebay before to either buy or sell.

How much do a load of empty cardboard boxes go for?   

Might be worth letting me know what you have and then i can list them for sale

Once they sell i will let you know the buyers details and you can send them out

[Tesco tearaway]

No matter what you get from AMAZON you are left with half a ton of cardboard to dispose of.

Simple solution, just order a load of cardboard.

[SamLad]

Podcasts where the adverts cut in in the middle of a sentence.

that kind of thing really makes me very ang.

[afc tukrish]

Man United paid up to £80m for one a while back.

 

[I've been a good boy]

Next door neighbours never coming to collect their parcels, yet I always have to go over to collect mine. Didn't realise I was living next to her Majesty the Queen.

[redbyrdz]

On Rawk, something about the board names in the flagpole corner has changed, and now all the links are in a different place on my screen, and I keep clicking the wrong ones.