Topic: The small things in life that really hannoy

[Jingle wils 21 thrills]

There's so many dopey twats by me who sit at Junctions like they are asleep I no longer let people out as can't be arsed with them.

I’ve had two near misses in two days on the same mini roundabout, in neither case did the other driver even hold up a hand of apology after making me slam on

[Santas robbed me shorts]

I’ve had two near misses in two days on the same mini roundabout, in neither case did the other driver even hold up a hand of apology after making me slam on

I doubt either thought they were in the wrong

[Sven can I open my pressie]

It's really driving me mad recently how every game we play a commentator has to say something about Joe Gomez never having scored a goal. Like give it a rest! He's not the only player to play for a club to never score a goal! On the stream I watched today yer man said that Gomez had "famously never scored". FFS!

[Santas robbed me shorts]

It's really driving me mad recently how every game we play a commentator has to say something about Joe Gomez never having scored a goal. Like give it a rest! He's not the only player to play for a club to never score a goal! On the stream I watched today yer man said that Gomez had "famously never scored". FFS!

Flavour of the month. If we are twatting someone and get a pen, we need to give it to Joe. Its pretty bad though when even our keeper has scored a winner In fact all 3 senior keepers have either scored in open play or in a penalty shootout

[Sven can I open my pressie]

Flavour of the month. If we are twatting someone and get a pen, we need to give it to Joe. Its pretty bad though when even our keeper has scored a winner In fact all 3 senior keepers have either scored in open play or in a penalty shootout

If he scores an own goal does that count?

[RedDeadRejection]

Buying clothes in Matalan for my 7 year old girl and seeing t-shirts designed to be short with tiny shorts.makes me think capitalism is a right nonce. Weird.

[Santas robbed me shorts]

If he scores an own goal does that count?

Carra must be our leading scorer by a mile then

[Santas robbed me shorts]

Buying clothes in Matalan for my 7 year old girl and seeing t-shirts designed to be short with tiny shorts.makes me think capitalism is a right nonce. Weird.

I'm so glad we had boys.

[Statto Red]

United away, should have battered them both times last few weeks & ended up getting a point, today we had 28 shots [they only had 9 shots] we ended 2-2, our players couldn't score in a brothel.

[Lee1-6Liv]

Being woken by Santnder app asking me to authorise payments to a water company in California so have spent the last 20 minutes cancelling my card.

[red-nosed reign-debs]

Finding an adult vine weevil amongst all my plants in the conservatory 😡

[bradders1011]

"Subway Rewards is changing!"

"Clubcard is changing!"

"Hotels.com Rewards is changing!"

Every loyalty programme is changing from being actually rewarding to giving you a tiny amount of points that never grow to anything useful.

[PaulF]

I'm so glad we had boys.

Is that so you could buy them short tee shirts and tiny shorts?

[Santas robbed me shorts]

Is that so you could buy them short tee shirts and tiny shorts?

I'd be like Alice Cooper, any boy turning up at my house to see my daughter would be greeted with a shotgun

[Nitramdorf]

Seems to be harder and harder to mow the lawn because of the rain lately. I keep building myself up to it, then it rains.

[SamLad]

I'd be like Alice Cooper, any boy turning up at my house to see my daughter would be greeted with a shotgun

open the door with hedge clippers in your hands, stare at them while nodding a "I know what you're after, yer bastard" while working the shears.

[Santas robbed me shorts]

Seems to be harder and harder to mow the lawn because of the rain lately. I keep building myself up to it, then it rains.

Get artificial grass, all we've got to do with our back lawn is give it a wash as its a bit dirty from all the soil that's been washed out of the raised borders and down the garden. The front needs a mow, but that's only small.

[red-nosed reign-debs]

Seems to be harder and harder to mow the lawn because of the rain lately. I keep building myself up to it, then it rains.

Fuck it off mate till it eventually dries, no point stressing over something you've no control over.

We're seriously considering asking the farmer if we can borrow a couple of sheep for a few days 😂

[Santas robbed me shorts]

Fuck it off mate till it eventually dries, no point stressing over something you've no control over.

We're seriously considering asking the farmer if we can borrow a couple of sheep for a few days 😂

Mow and fertilise at the same time, I like your thinking

[red-nosed reign-debs]

Mow and fertilise at the same time, I like your thinking

It'd be like a 5* luxury holiday for the sheep though as there's fuck all grass left in the fields due to the crap weather.

[PaulF]

I 'invested' in a robot mower last year.  It's done a great job when it's dry enough.

[Lee1-6Liv]

My dads nursing home in Cork sending his clothes on a 300 mile round trip to Dublin to get washed.

[Santas robbed me shorts]

My dads nursing home in Cork sending his clothes on a 300 mile round trip to Dublin to get washed.

That's nuts

[Sven can I open my pressie]

I had a hospital appointment for ENT this morning, I've been waiting since last November for it. When I got to the Outpatients check in I was told that the clinic was already full even though I was 20 minutes early. They gave me another appointment for June. So now I've to wait another two and a half months for an appointment and then god knows how much longer to get a hearing aid. FFS!!

[StuffedAndTrussedByrdz]

I had a hospital appointment for ENT this morning, I've been waiting since last November for it. When I got to the Outpatients check in I was told that the clinic was already full even though I was 20 minutes early. They gave me another appointment for June. So now I've to wait another two and a half months for an appointment and then god knows how much longer to get a hearing aid. FFS!!

What? When are you supposed to turn up for your appointment, a day early? How do they know the same thing won't happen again in June?

[PaulF]

I had a hospital appointment for ENT this morning, I've been waiting since last November for it. When I got to the Outpatients check in I was told that the clinic was already full even though I was 20 minutes early. They gave me another appointment for June. So now I've to wait another two and a half months for an appointment and then god knows how much longer to get a hearing aid. FFS!!

Pardon?

[Sven can I open my pressie]

What? When are you supposed to turn up for your appointment, a day early? How do they know the same thing won't happen again in June?

That’s what I’m worried about especially as the appointment is for 11am. I’m going to ask for a 9am one as there’s a better chance of getting in before it fills up again. Might go to specsavers to get a hearing aid so I don’t have to wait.

[BlackandWhitePaul]

If ever a couple of insufferable bastards needed hanging it's these 2.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-68781680

[Always in a pub barney on christmas eve]

Got a new laptop for work today. It's a touchscreen job, but the screen doesn't detach. Stupid.

[A weatherfield winter wonderland]

I’ve hopefully got an internal interview coming up. Had one a year or so ago and made loads of interview prep notes…must have saved it down to the desktop because I didn’t want to save to any shared drive and have changed laptops since then. So will have to start from scratch.

On another note - formulaic, competency based interviews.

[Boston always unofficial]

Huw Stephens on 6 music and not just his accent.

[Mumm-Ra]

Got a new laptop for work today. It's a touchscreen job, but the screen doesn't detach. Stupid.

It would never occur to me that it might

Just tried mine and it doesn't detach either

Surely all the blood and guts of the computer is under the keyboard anyway

[RedDeadRejection]

I’ve hopefully got an internal interview coming up. Had one a year or so ago and made loads of interview prep notes…must have saved it down to the desktop because I didn’t want to save to any shared drive and have changed laptops since then. So will have to start from scratch.

On another note - formulaic, competency based interviews.

Had one last week. Prepped answers that I thought they'd ask. Such as company info and their morals. Then proceeded to get asked some completely irrelevant ones about "describe a time" nonsense.

[Santas robbed me shorts]

Nipped in the office to print some stuff off, I can hear a very loud Manc talking to customers on the phone, taking orders and he keeps calling them pal, I hate the way Mancs call you pal anyway, but in a business environment, its so unprofessional.

[A weatherfield winter wonderland]

Had one last week. Prepped answers that I thought they'd ask. Such as company info and their morals. Then proceeded to get asked some completely irrelevant ones about "describe a time" nonsense.

Annoying. Mine is internal so at least I know what to expects you just have to spend a while thinking it through so that you know what to say.

Roles a grade up don’t come up that often where I work. And when they do, a lot of people go for them. This one is in the smallish team I’ve worked in for a few years now. I know that in theory I’m best placed for it. I’ve done the work before, worked in this area, know it well etc. But if I give one answer where I don’t give a clear example of what they ask for, score badly on it and then they just go off scores I could miss out on it.

There’s no room for just a general chat or questions about what I could bring to the role etc, just a very formulaic structure.

[Santas robbed me shorts]

Annoying. Mine is internal so at least I know what to expects you just have to spend a while thinking it through so that you know what to say.

Roles a grade up don’t come up that often where I work. And when they do, a lot of people go for them. This one is in the smallish team I’ve worked in for a few years now. I know that in theory I’m best placed for it. I’ve done the work before, worked in this area, know it well etc. But if I give one answer where I don’t give a clear example of what they ask for, score badly on it and then they just go off scores I could miss out on it.

There’s no room for just a general chat or questions about what I could bring to the role etc, just a very formulaic structure.

Whatever happened to will this person fit with the team and can they do they job? Why you end up with so many gobshites in roles they have to place being

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Why is this in so many biscuits?

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/mcvities-penguin-milk-chocolate-biscuit-bars-x14

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/mcvities-club-mint-chocolate-biscuit-bars-x7

[SamLad]

being unable to discuss football without getting dragged into a political free-for-all.

[SamLad]

why are there so many movies these days based around supernatural stuff?  overdone, boring and lazy copycat film-making imo.

[Buck Pete]

Had one last week. Prepped answers that I thought they'd ask. Such as company info and their morals. Then proceeded to get asked some completely irrelevant ones about "describe a time" nonsense.

I'm currently out of work due to redundancy and have been having a few interviews.  Fuck me, it's defo a client's market at the moment. With 20-odd years, of experience, its tough work even getting through the gatekeepers.

These competency questions are soul-destroying shit.  I just cant do them.

Heaven forbid how many hiring managers are getting sucked in by smart arses who can memorize a ton of competency answers made up of complete lies.

In all seriousness, I'm getting pretty down about it all.  Had an interview on Thursday for a Cybersecurity Project manager.  As far as I knew it was not competency based.

First question.  "Describe a time...."

fuck off.  Just got me 80 quid jobseekers so it's all just fucking great.

There’s no room for just a general chat or questions about what I could bring to the role etc, just a very formulaic structure.

Whatever happened to will this person fit with the team and can they do they job? Why you end up with so many gobshites in roles they have to place being

Spot on fella's.