WAMT....what annoyed me today!

I thought they had selectively bred the 'parp' out of brussels.

FWIW we quite like them too..... lovely when steamed.
 
Cobra said:
I like them also, but never tried them roasted.
*Makes note*
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Roasted with walnuts and bacon lardons then in the fryingpan for 2 minutes in a touch of lemon juoice and brown sugar...yummeeee!
 
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1/2 cooked in the steamer then finished off in a pan with butter and chopped chestnuts. With bacon if just for me but I usually CBA to do the extra washing up so live without (and grumble!!!)
 
WAMT Insurance renewal £50 more than last year. Do compare you whatnot, quoted my last year's price. Ring current insurer and magically "Yes, we can match that!" Was tempted to leave anyway to teach them a lesson!
 
Pixbarmy said:
WAMT Insurance renewal £50 more than last year. Do compare you whatnot, quoted my last year's price. Ring current insurer and magically "Yes, we can match that!" Was tempted to leave anyway to teach them a lesson!
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I get this every time. House insurance went from £80 odd to over £200 but I got it for £70 odd after going to a comparison site.
 
Pixbarmy said:
WAMT Insurance renewal £50 more than last year. Do compare you whatnot, quoted my last year's price. Ring current insurer and magically "Yes, we can match that!" Was tempted to leave anyway to teach them a lesson!
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woof woof said:
I get this every time. House insurance went from £80 odd to over £200 but I got it for £70 odd after going to a comparison site.
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My last 2 insurance renewals house and motorcycles were less than last year.
 
Pixbarmy said:
"Yes, we can match that!" Was tempted to leave anyway to teach them a lesson!
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I generally do leave it, unless they quote a lot lower.
Topsy said:
My last 2 insurance renewals house and motorcycles were less than last year.
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House Insurance up 20 quid, compared the fluffy butt thing and got it 30 quid cheaper.
So down a tenner on last year.
 
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Yarrgghhh. Decided to tackle a storage shed we have today, it's one of 3 sheds, the others are my hide and my workshop. All 3 are tidy but the storage one gets a bit cluttered over the winter.
Why is it when you tidy a shed, throw at least half the stuff away yet the keeper stuff won't fit back in?

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Dale. said:
Why is it when you tidy a shed, throw at least half the stuff away yet the keeper stuff won't fit back in?
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Sods law (y)
 
What annoys me, every time I come up against it, is the use of acronyms instead of the full form for less common phrases.

To be fair, some acronyms are so well established that they are words in their own right. RAF is one example; AM and PM are two more.

Others, though, are just confusing, like CPI - how many have "Consumer Price Inflation" stuck in their heads. Then there are all the acronyms that people seem to make up on the spur of the moment - as teachers have said, in one form or another for many centuries - "it isn't clever and it isn't big".
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
Then there are all the acronyms that people seem to make up on the spur of the moment -
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I completely agree with that, Although some have been around a lot of years, and become synonymous with internet speak, such as CBA and my favourite PITA.
But I agree some people have the annoying habit of making them up ATGA (as they go along. :D )
 
Dale. said:
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Yarrgghhh. Decided to tackle a storage shed we have today, it's one of 3 sheds, the others are my hide and my workshop. All 3 are tidy but the storage one gets a bit cluttered over the winter.
Why is it when you tidy a shed, throw at least half the stuff away yet the keeper stuff won't fit back in?

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I know what you mean.............though in my case not a shed but cupboards etc!
Cobra said:
Sods law (y)
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Nah! it must be all OBR.....

PS re post #13,218 ;)
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
What annoys me, every time I come up against it, is the use of acronyms instead of the full form for less common phrases.

To be fair, some acronyms are so well established that they are words in their own right. RAF is one example; AM and PM are two more.

Others, though, are just confusing, like CPI - how many have "Consumer Price Inflation" stuck in their heads. Then there are all the acronyms that people seem to make up on the spur of the moment - as teachers have said, in one form or another for many centuries - "it isn't clever and it isn't big".
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Are you more annoyed by TLAs or FLAs?

FLAs clearly require more cognitive function to decrypt....

*(Three Letter Acronyms, Four Letter Acronyms....)
 
Nicola’s going, but only as First minister, not leaving politics completely.
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
What annoys me, every time I come up against it, is the use of acronyms instead of the full form for less common phrases.

To be fair, some acronyms are so well established that they are words in their own right. RAF is one example; AM and PM are two more.

Others, though, are just confusing, like CPI - how many have "Consumer Price Inflation" stuck in their heads. Then there are all the acronyms that people seem to make up on the spur of the moment - as teachers have said, in one form or another for many centuries - "it isn't clever and it isn't big".
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I was told (when writing technical documents or business proposals) that the first use of an acronym should be preceded by spelling the words first , then subsequent use was acceptable. The acronym should also be included in a glossary if one existed.
 
broc said:
I was told (when writing technical documents or business proposals) that the first use of an acronym should be preceded by spelling the words first , then subsequent use was acceptable. The acronym should also be included in a glossary if one existed.
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... and very good rule it is too. :naughty:
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
What annoys me, every time I come up against it, is the use of acronyms instead of the full form for less common phrases.

To be fair, some acronyms are so well established that they are words in their own right. RAF is one example; AM and PM are two more.

Others, though, are just confusing, like CPI - how many have "Consumer Price Inflation" stuck in their heads. Then there are all the acronyms that people seem to make up on the spur of the moment - as teachers have said, in one form or another for many centuries - "it isn't clever and it isn't big".
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JFDI :LOL: :LOL:
 
Pixbarmy said:
Back spasms! Grrrrrr! Note to self- use a workbench and not the floor!:rolleyes:
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Know what you mean there it’s a b****r when I get down for a low angle photo and I can’t get back up
 
At the moment it is children round our area here, they are getting worse now and only a matter of time till the kill someone. Mate phoned me to say last night a bunch of kids dressed all in black pestering an oap lady, and now just heard they have sprayed nazi signs on my local chemist. Should bring back borstal I think, as once I start getting back out again it will be local first off and I just hope to god they stay well away from me.
 
My local B&M Bargains didn't have any Bulmer's Original Cider. Morrisons sometimes have it so I'll have to go there. The annoyance is that it'll be a special trip in the opposite direction to ASDA / B&M where I usually shop just for the cider.
 
Richard osman's House of Games topic pronunciation of "Answer Smash"! (Pronounced by him as "Arntser Smash!" ) If the first word is pronounced "Arntser" then why is the second word not "Smarsh"? For me it is "Ann Sir smash"! I am a northener where we speak reat an propper tha' nors!
 
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Richard osman's House of Games topic pronunciation of "Answer Smash"! (Pronounced by him as "Arntser Smash!" ) If the first word is pronounced "Arntser" then why is the second word not "Smarsh"? For me it is "Ann Sir smash"! I am a northener where we speak reat an propper tha' nors!
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A Northerner farmer once said to me "Thou's not from 'round ere, izzy?" (You are not from around here are you? - in my dialect). Still makes me smile to this day :LOL:
 
Jelster said:
A Northerner farmer once said to me "Thou's not from 'round ere, izzy?" (You are not from around here are you? - in my dialect). Still makes me smile to this day :LOL:
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Tha muss be an offcummenden?
 
I remember from my school days...

"ay fot os 2d."

Or, Hay for the horse 2p.
 
"Great News! Your parcel has been delivered by DPD."

Click on "Show Me"

No idea whose house that is but it's not mine.
 
Yesterday afternoon, a van with ladders on pulled up a few houses away. I keep an eye on 'vans'. I happen to be out on the front sweeping up the,hopefully, last of the fallen brown leaves off the driveway when a young man,about 20.. came to me with leaflets and asked if I wanted the driveway blockpaving cleaned. I did it in the summer with a K5 Karccher. Power Control.My word..at Screwfix it's now £339. Two years ago I paid £178. It's as new still. I mention the model because it does a great job and much more quickly than my previous smaller Karcher which I'd had for years if anyone is thinking of buying one. So..I told this lad that if I want a job doing by someone else I sort it myslef not with people who call at the door. Ignoring this he then said he'd give me a quote. I asked him why would I need a quote when he can see the drive is clean..I did it late summer last year. He just said "F-off" and another explitive which I didn't quite catch and went on his way leafleting and door-knocking.

Fast forward to this morning. I heard a loud motor noise from the close behind. I was unable to see what it was about. Then a short time later I saw this same young man, wearing the same bright orange coat, on the sloped garage roof (rear) to the side of the house behind. We don't have a house directly behind us..just the turning circle of the close so this house is to the left alongside our garden but 40m away down the garden. He had a high pressure hose lance blasting the tiles.The young couple there have a small 'room' ..utility room,really off the kitchen with a glass fibre side and roof (PVC door out into the garden) butted up the gutter for the garage roof. The lad finished that side of the roof and I then saw the older chap..probably his dad..high pressure hosing the garden patio and cleaning the PVC of the front of that utility room . At the bottom of the sloped glass fibre roof by the gutter was a pile of mud/dirt that had been blasted off the roof. It was also all over the pattered-glass side of the utility room and PVC guttering which runs alongside our 7' fence. I knew it wouldn't be cleaned off. Shortly afterwards they left. I went round to speak to the couple who live there..both in banking and work a lot of the time from home and asked if it woul be OK if I cleaned the glass side of the utility room and he couldn't get down the side because of the 6" inches between the side and our fence. I told him about the pile of dirt/mud too. He went to look. "Awful" he said. He was very pleased I'd do the side and his wife gave me a box of Ferrero Rocher chocs...lol. I declined them but she said they'd be offended if I didn't take them so I had to take the and very nice they are,too.

They have a short front drive..8m long about and the road outside his house..ie the end of the close was covered in the mud from the driveway blasting. They wanted £300..sand and sealing but yesterday they'd agreed £200 without it. After some argy-bargy they accepted the agreed £200. They actually did a good job but no after-cleaning. I shoud be able to reach the pile of mud on the glass roof standing on my ladder up against our fence and using a soft brush.

I'm just glad it wasn't an old dear who lived there. It would probably have cost not £200 not £2000, I'm sure. The neighbour is a 6'2 Asian chap and about 15st and I wouldn't want to tangle with him..lol.

Our window cleaner has now gone into roof cleaning with a HP hose and would charge us £1500..detached house with side garage. After seeing the resullt of the garage behind I wouldn't recommend it. It doesn't suit the ocre-red brickwork and doesn't blend in anymore with the surrounding house roofs. It just doesn't look right. Maybe the texture of the surface of the tiles has gone,too.

A PS edit. I had to use the hard brush to sweep a lot of the detached moss bits off the lawn. The top of the fence needs hosing down,too. he could have done that but they don't give a toss about the people they work for nor the neighbours. Years ago the previous owner of the house next door had these so-called' traveller ' lay him a driveway and there were shrubs to be removed and they threw them onto our front lawn. ! My wife thoght it 'safer' (for me..lol) if she went out to tell them. It worked. It beats me how these people keep getting jobs because,surely, by now most people know they are,in the main, rogues.
 
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What annoyed me today another one of those reductions in weight of food items but the price is the same
this time it’s whiskas cat food in the foil packets , it was 100g now it’s 85 grams , it’s expensive anyway but didn’t mind as they like it, going to try them on tinned food now though
 
One of our local crows has taken a dislike to it's reflection in the door mirror of our car,

It balances on the edge of the window while arguing with itself and seemingly losing control of it's bowels at the same time!

So now I have crow $h1t all down the doors and oil/grease from it's flapping feathers all over the mirrors and door glass.

At the moment it's favouring the passenger side which I can't see properly from the front room otherwise I'd at least have some photos of this abhorrent behaviour :)

Anyone else suffered from this ? it only started a couple of days ago, we've had the car 5 years so I assume the bird is new to the area??

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Caught in the act today :)
 
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