People who sit in the car, engine running, while their other half is in the shop for 30 mins, presumably because the AC is on. It must play merry hell with their average consumption. Just open the chuffing windows instead, and stop filling my car with your fumes, dickhead
I suspect this one is more to do with the fact that all the "safety" shite in modern cars resets itself to default ON every time you turn the car off and start it again.
So the driver has gone through 5 minutes of turning of all the lane departure warning, speed limit warning, auto brake, driver fatigue warning crap and they don't want to repeat that once they've driven 3 minutes down the road to sit outside the school waiting for little Penelope to finish for the day.
So I suppose what makes me disproportionately cross is:
people driving 3 minutes down the road on the school run
car manufacturers loading up their vehicles with all this "safety" stuff
the whole concept of "the school run"
Being stopped and fined €150 for not having a Slovenian Vignette. I suspect if we’d come into the country via the motorway, we’d have seen the signs, and bought one online (we have two back to back for Austria), but as it was generally buggered, we weedled our way from Villach to Ljubljana via a series of back roads. Literally 30 seconds after setting foot on the motorway on the outskirts of Ljubljana we got pulled. Riled me hugely, especially given the confrontational approach adopted by the local plod.
All these folk on YouTube who think they are amazing showing basic trade work they've learned but still use the term level up when they are talking about something being perfectly vertical ie plumb
Level means level across a horizontal surface
Maybe not many go to college or night school to gain City and Guilds and learn a bit more about their trade
My spirit level has a transverse bubble for checking vertical planes, I thought most did. What would you call that? "Perpendicularing up" doesn't exactly trip off the tongue. Square up?
(Also, surely "levelling up" implies a vertical surface; there is no "up" on a horizontal plane, you're simply levelling it...)
When I just want to look at a photo in the Google Photos app and it wants me to turn on auto backup so badly that I have to turn the switch off and then confirm it twice to get it to go away. I use Dropbox to sync photos, and no amount of making it more annoying to keep your app not doing it as well is going to make me want to use it. Quite the opposite.
Think of a plumb bob that was how it was done until a spirit level was commonly used
Plumb and level one is horizontal as in sea level/water level and plumb is vertical
Fair.
(I have a plumb bob. Far more useful than a ghostbuster for tasks such has hanging wallpaper.)
(Also, surely "levelling up" implies a vertical surface; there is no "up" on a horizontal plane, you're simply levelling it...)
One side is low. You bring it up to level it.
Levelling up innit.
Washing up though...
Those curly trees you get in pots mainly outside new builds.
Dicks.
Those curly trees you get in pots mainly outside new builds.
Dicks.
If your dick looks like that, you'd best get it checked out.
When I just want to look at a photo in the Google Photos app and it wants me to turn on auto backup so badly that I have to turn the switch off and then confirm it twice to get it to go away. I use Dropbox to sync photos, and no amount of making it more annoying to keep your app not doing it as well is going to make me want to use it. Quite the opposite.
google gallery?
like a flywieght photos, without all the backup baggage
People who sit in the car, engine running, while their other half is in the shop for 30 mins, presumably because the AC is on. It must play merry hell with their average consumption. Just open the chuffing windows instead, and stop filling my car with your fumes, dickhead
I suspect this one is more to do with the fact that all the "safety" shite in modern cars resets itself to default ON every time you turn the car off and start it again.
Nah, dicks have been leaving their diesel chugging away outside the school gate since diesels were a thing.
People, especially event organisers who build a jump on pristine singletrack over a freshly fallen tree instead of cutting the tree out thereby changing the character of the trail and making it unrideable for some.
^ also annoyed about levelling up.
Think of a plumb bob that was how it was done until a spirit level was commonly used
Plumb and level one is horizontal as in sea level/water level and plumb is vertical
"Plumb" is just an abbreviation of plumbum, the Latin for lead, aka Pb in the periodic table
Sea level is a height to take a measurement from and varies dependent on where you are and the water level is higher on the west coast of the US than it is on the east coast. It's correct to level up from east to west 🤣
With a degree of aplomb, I'm going to suggest vertical. Abbreviated to either "verting" or "perping", which forms satisfying schoolboy fart jokes ⊥
It's annoying that horizontal doesn't have a suitable abbreviation
My own failure to buy new headphones over the weekend after mine gave up the ghost at the end of last week. I'm having to listen to office drivel when I could be in my own musical world.
The datum in UK for sea level is taken from Nookie down in Cornwall and all the ordnance bench marks on prominent buildings, bridges etc and I'm guessing all the heights on OS maps are taken from there. Plumb is perpendicular or 90° off the level
Nookie down in Cornwall...
Another satisfying schoolboy joke 🙂
I don't think I want to hear your joke about satisfying schoolboys.
People who don't know (wilfully or otherwise) that the Post Office and Royal Mail are two different things. Just stood for ten minutes behind a woman at the post office counter giving the poor chap grief about why the RM parcel collection point is closed.
"Angry rant rant rant..."
"We're not the same organisation madam"
"Angry rant rant rant"
"We're not the same organisation madam"
Ad nauseum for 10 minutes, before she finally stomps away muttering to herself...
Saying it'll take ' X calendar days '
What other kind of days are there? 🤔
Working days Vs calendar days? If you order a product today you could get it in 5 working days which would be 7 calendar days.
Working days?
Just stood for ten minutes behind a woman
I've just got back from the doctors where I was stood behind a bloke at "patient check-in." After several minutes of him trying and flailing to tap literally four buttons on a screen I was hunting around for the impatient check-in.
Working days?
That's meaningless in itself. "It'll be five working days." But you said that three weeks ago? "Yes, I only work Tuesdays."
(maybe 😁)
Threads titled " bored, plenty of money, no responsibilities, should I retire?"
That sodding Very Pay advert. It's ruined watching Canal Boat Diaries...
(well when I forget I've recorded it so I can skip the annoying ads, so, really, I'm raging at myself 🤬)
