WAMT....what annoyed me today!

WAMT? Having to leave my Taekwondo class 20 minutes early because my hearing aid died again, I wouldn't mind but it died last Wednesday, at least that was because I was sweating like a Sheffield United fan on heat after 2 sparring matches.
 
MrRichAllen1976 said:
Funny story, I was once out in the Rain, went in the Co Op and paid about a tenner for an Umbrella, came out of the Co Op and the Sun was shining! I was literally like "What the actual?"
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Wear a hat instead — if it has a brim it may keep your hearing aids dry, may even improve them by reflecting sound, like cupping a hand to your ear.
 
tijuana taxi said:
Why so many things these days say refrigerate when opened.
Fair enough with some items, but pickled onions for example, they are preserved.

Never used to bung everything in the fridge, in fact when I was a nipper we didn't even have one.
Bought sterilised milk and especially in the colder weather kept stuff on our flat's balcony in a box called an Osokool
Like this https://www.historyworld.co.uk/advert.php?id=1695
Put cold water in the hollow on the top and evaporation kept things inside cool, worked quite well.
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We had an Osokool when I was a kid too. Most people have never heard of them.
 
boogie man said:
We had an Osokool when I was a kid too. Most people have never heard of them.
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I grew up in Central Scotland and we didn't have a fridge when I was a kid. The house was so cold that we didn't really need one for most of the year. The real problem was that we didn't have heating apart from a couple of coal fires and a kitchen range either. It didn't seem to bother my Scottish father very much, but my South African mother - from sub tropical Durban - wasn't very happy at all!
 
A fridge was still considered a luxury when I grew up (in the 50s). I don’t think they really became a common thing until the 60s, or maybe it was because we lived in a fairly poor area of London.

One of my friends told me a tale once, he’d not long moved into a 1930s semi when an elderly neighbour came round to introduce himself. The neighbour spotted that my friend’s house had a downstairs toilet. He told my friend that they’d lived in their house since it was newly built and the builder offered them a choice of either having a downstairs toilet or a fridge. The fridge was seen as being a hugely luxurious item at the time, so they went for that…. he’d learnt to regret the decision in later years!
 
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broc said:
Of course, but no glass, otherwise the smoke from the open fire in the middle of the floor would have nowhere to escape.......
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You had a fire ? :eek:
 
broc said:
Of course, but no glass, otherwise the smoke from the open fire in the middle of the floor would have nowhere to escape.......
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You had a roof? :eek:
 
WAMT? I've been round CEX and HMV in Town looking for a specific album by the late great Meat Loaf, "Blind before I stop", arguably one of his best albums of the mid 80s, because there's a couple of cool songs on it I could do on the TOTP project down at FlyCheese, HMV had sold out, and I wasn't going down to Doncaster to the CEX there because the local one doesn't sell CDs any more.
 
sphexx said:
You had a roof? :eek:
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We had a Roof(leaky), floor(uneven flagstones, very rustic) & open coal fire.

Actually I spent my first few years in a house where the previous occupier had murdered his wife & buried her in the garden. His crime was discovered before we moved in :police:. I can still remember the garden, it was huge, full of lupins, fruit bushes & several patches of freshly dug earth:oops: :$

The place was falling down, my parents couldn't use the upstairs rooms as the roof leaked & we had 'live in ' bats upstairs and mice downstairs. The toilet was outside across the yard, the bath was portable galvanised steel, in front of the coal fire We were eventually given a new built council house, with a bathroom indoors & bedrooms upstairs that we could use!
 
broc said:
I can still remember the garden, it was huge, full of lupins, fruit bushes & several patches of freshly dug earth:oops: :$
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Top tip if you are going to bury a body, the best bet it to plant rare and protected plants.
Then they can't be dug up.
(Don't ask me how I know :D )
 
broc said:
We had a Roof(leaky), floor(uneven flagstones, very rustic) & open coal fire.

Actually I spent my first few years in a house where the previous occupier had murdered his wife & buried her in the garden. His crime was discovered before we moved in :police:. I can still remember the garden, it was huge, full of lupins, fruit bushes & several patches of freshly dug earth:oops: :$

The place was falling down, my parents couldn't use the upstairs rooms as the roof leaked & we had 'live in ' bats upstairs and mice downstairs. The toilet was outside across the yard, the bath was portable galvanised steel, in front of the coal fire We were eventually given a new built council house, with a bathroom indoors & bedrooms upstairs that we could use!
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After a certain person who cannot be named here blew down our house in Kent with his flying bomb, I lived in Sandbanks, Dorset which wasn’t as posh then and we lived in a place called Ionut (and marked on OS maps as such) which was in fact a galvanised iron hut in the garden of a wealthy relative. With an aunt (blitzed) and her daughters, so 7 in all.
 
Its not really annoying as such, as there is no rush,
But I don't think Amazon will be meeting their 13:30 deadline as I'm not even "on the map" yet...
 
I've now been relegated to 4:45 PM - 7:45 PM.
Which is more like my "usual" time.
I bet they have gone back to the depot in Northants ( about 20 or so miles away) to re-stock.
 
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Going to Wells next the Sea and pulling into the quay car park and the machine "denied" my debit card. We decided not to risk it and left the car park. I used the card to buy shopping both before and afterwards, so it was the machine and not my card that was the problem. I decided to see if I could report the problem to the car park owners and found that literally hundreds of people have been hit with a penalty notice for not paying a charge! I haven't had a penalty notice .................................. yet! It seems that you have 15 minutes to buy a ticket but I just got back in my car and left (definitely under 15 minutes) so not sure on the legalities. (Automatic number plate recognition?)
 
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The "friends" of our local park have decided to "restore" the small nature reserve which is inaccesible to the public. To ensure that they can work safely the chain saws are in! They are clearing loads of undergrowth, pruning trees and cutting down other trees. The pair of Little Egrets which had just arrived, there was only one last year, have gone, so have the Herons and the pair of Kingfishers. I hate to think how many other birds have been affected let alone all the other animals, insects etc.
Why can't they just leave some areas wild and just ensure that they are safe for passersby.

What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
Inversnaid - Gerard Manley Hopkins
 
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Suvv said:
The "friends" of our local park have decided to "restore" the small nature reserve which is inaccesible to the public. To ensure that they can work safely the chain saws are in! They are clearing loads of undergrowth, pruning trees and cutting down other trees. The pair of Little Egrets which had just arrived, there was only one last year, have gone, so have the Herons and the pair of Kingfishers. I hate to think how many other birds have been affected let alone all the other animals, insects etc.
Why can't they just leave some areas wild and just ensure that they are safe for passersby.

What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
Inversnaid - Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

My local area has suffered the same sort of thing. People think “wildlife areas” should be pretty. Our oldest ca park next to the river was/is known as the Wilderness car park” which gives you a good idea of what it was like. It was ‘improved’ and ‘butterfly friendly plants” were put in — not necessarily caterpillar friendly of course.
 
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boogie man said:
A fridge was still considered a luxury when I grew up (in the 50s). I don’t think they really became a common thing until the 60s, or maybe it was because we lived in a fairly poor area of London.

One of my friends told me a tale once, he’d not long moved into a 1930s semi when an elderly neighbour came round to introduce himself. The neighbour spotted that my friend’s house had a downstairs toilet. He told my friend that they’d lived in their house since it was newly built and the builder offered them a choice of either having a downstairs toilet or a fridge. The fridge was seen as being a hugely luxurious item at the time, so they went for that…. he’d learnt to regret the decision in later years!
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In our block of flats only one person had a phone, ok to use it in an emergency.
Had a TV from Radio Rentals, remember the repair bloke with his case full of valves.
 
WAMT ... stripped the bed this morning and neglected to make it earlier. :rolleyes:
 
Tigger.ufo said:
WAMT ... stripped the bed this morning and neglected to make it earlier. :rolleyes:
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I feel your pain. And its just as bad as piling clean laundry on it, and forgetting to put it away "later" Go to fall into bed knackered,
and there is a clean pile that needs sorting first :(
 
Tigger.ufo said:
WAMT ... stripped the bed this morning and neglected to make it earlier. :rolleyes:
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I’ve done that on a Saturday - only realised at bed time. I can handle making the bed after a bottle of Wolf Blass OR with the “assistance” of the cats but not both :D
 
Royal Mail.

"We tried to deliver your parcel..." Oh no your didn't. We've been in all day and you didn't try to deliver anything plus there's no card through the door.

You lying bstards.

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woof woof said:
Royal Mail.

"We tried to deliver your parcel..." Oh no your didn't. We've been in all day and you didn't try to deliver anything plus there's no card through the door.

You lying bstards.

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Are you sure that message/email is from Royal Mail? About a month ago I had at least three spam emails/texts supposedly from them which clearly weren't.
 
Earley Man said:
Are you sure that message/email is from Royal Mail? About a month ago I had at least three spam emails/texts supposedly from them which clearly weren't.
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Yup. It's deffo from RM.

They're lying. I don't believe for 1 second they came today. I got an email saying the parcel was going to be delivered between 10:31 and 13:31 but later got an email stating it would be delivered by 19:30. I assume the delivery guy is busy and just can't make it which is fair enough, but why lie? They didn't come as we'd have heard them but even if we hadn't they'd have put a card through the door and they didn't. It's the lying that angers me.

And an update, just in case anyone cares :D

I emailed the supplier and they got onto RM and have been told that the parcel was incorrectly addressed and is now on its way back to them. But RM have just emailed me to say it'll be delivered on Saturday. Seems like they can't get their story straight :mad:
 
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WAMT? I just took a call from a lady called Charlie Naronzanka from Luv 2 Meet U, what a waste of time that was! She needs to speak to her Boss about my application to the dating service (I wouldn't mind but I'm over 25 and look it) to see if my application will be accepted.

Is this world totally run by jobsworths who can't do anything without having to speak to someone above them?
 
I'm sitting here on the laptop having been woken up by a neightbours TV blasting out, 3 properties down from me !!!
First heard it a 3am and hoped it would go quiet but so it's still blaring out
I feel sorry for her immediate neighbours, at least in a front room it's quiet
 
Gremlin said:
I'm sitting here on the laptop having been woken up by a neighbours TV blasting out, 3 properties down from me !!!
First heard it a 3am and hoped it would go quiet but so it's still blaring out
I feel sorry for her immediate neighbours, at least in a front room it's quiet
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Is there a cable TV feed that needs nibbling?
 
Cobra said:
Oi! just keep peddling ! No excursions for you young lady!
:D
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Cruelty to the Hamster! LIberate all Hamsters! :LOL:

WAMT? Ubuntu box failed this morning, I put it on, I wouldn't even load beyond the opening screen.

FFS I hate Linux boxes, give me a Windows PC any day! Only problem is I'd have to turn the damn thing into a Fortress with Firewalls/Antivirus etc, it's not my fault more than half the Internet hates me because I did not choose to be born disabled, deaf, and mildly Autistic.
 
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Server Hamster said:
Aerial cable? That's on the roof; you'd need a squirrel to nibble that, sorry.
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You sound more chicken than hamster. A real hamster could be shot up on the roof with one of those propane bird scarers ;) .
 
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