Things you hate IV

Some want dog walkers to cut out the bagging altogether to just flick it straight the bush. And told Parliament so.

https://www.hertsad.co.uk/news/21896326.st-albans-mp-anne-main-condemned-dog-poo-campaign/

 

Totally bizarre for a work do not to share and to exclude people. However, you probably had a nicer lunch.

I have been to dozens of work lunches over the years, almost all in the centre of London with its fabulous array of restaurants and I can tell you the unerring ability of colleagues to pick somewhere with bland and tasteless food is uncanny.

 

The MP for St Albans 'appeared on BBC Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine Show to discuss dog poo and play a game trying to flick fake excrement onto a target' ??!!!

Yet more evidence that this country is totally f***ed

 

Wimbledon being moved to July . I could have sworn it always started around midsummers day and finished early July .

 

It now starts a week later.

Why do you have a problem with that?

 

Because it now creeps into the (pre season) football season and it could be watched or enjoyed without any caring about which football team was buying which player . A brief oasis of tranquility before the football circus restarted.

 

Well don’t worry, we’re not buying anyone.

 

#Announce Livermore

 

Start the football season at the end of August. Problem solved.

 

#Announce Gosling.

 

Then it would last until the end of June.

 

It didn't in ye olden days!

73-74: start date of league 25th August, end date 11th May.

Simples!

 

The Num Lock button on a standard keyboard.

You have dedicated cursor keys right next door to the numeric keypad. All the numlock key does it get hit inadvertantly and then screw up figures you're reading off a long list and entering into a spreadsheet.

I remove the key from every desktop computer I use.

 

You use desktop computers? How retro!

 

This has made me disproportionately angry. It doesn't affect me directly but I'm fuming.

 

There's no laptop with the power, cost effectiveness or multimotor driving capability of the PC that I use. A numeric keypad is essential to the work I do so an external keyboard would be likely be used if if there were one which would present the same NumLock issue anyway.

A tablet with a keyboard case is more flexible and more than adequate for my mobile work, laptops are for me a quaint irrelevance.

 

I picked up the habit of entering all numbers from the numberpad as I got so used to a Litho keyboard where the numbers are replaced by the extra characters the Litho alphabet has - my current gripe is that few PCs have the NUM LOCKed at start-up...



So ingrained is this that I *have to have* an external USB NUM PAD (bought from Lidl years ago) on my laptop.

 

The passive aggressive emails from my accountant which suggests we don’t need to pay them their fee to prepare our accounts, because we should have the same level of accountancy knowledge (or indeed sometimes higher) than them.

 

Tesla drivers.

I’ve now been ‘done’ twice at traffic lights by Tesla drivers (other electric cars are available, but these were Teslas) pulling alongside in the right hand (turning only) lane and then using their acceleration to cut straight in front of me to go straight on.

Even with the instant power electric cars have, it’s a dangerous and irritating move to pull just to make one space on the road.

Early adopter electric car users seemed to mostly drive like other road users. Anyone else notice that changing?

 

Progression of drivers who think they are special. Volvo to BMW to Tesla.
It is amazing how the "environmentally friendly" cars are also the fastest cars on the roads.

 

Having no gears does indeed mean you're never in the wrong gear, but actually the rapid acceleration from rest is because electric motors produce their maximum torque (twisting force) at zero rpm (as does a steam engine) whereas an internal combustion engine produces maximum torque and power (torque x rpm) at high rpm.

 

You're very welcome.
Those with expertise in football, finance and Bargain Hunt have plenty of opportunities to educate us... engineers not so much.

 

Haven't you traded your old 2CV in yet?

 

I wish mine would send me one of those

 

There was a Tesla parked round the corner from my house earlier this week, with the number plate "MR 69 NOW".

The cringe was so strong I almost went and got a chair from home to sit there and wait to see what kind of person owned it.

 

No, but I have modified it a little.

 

Are you sure THAT was the reason you wanted to sit there and wait for the owner ?

 

Maybe their previous personalised plate was IM4PRAT.

 

Does anyone else hate other people in the kitchen when cooking?

When preparing any simple meal, I process equipment needed, timings, space needed to complete job etc. Wooden spoon stays out on top of the jar lid to stir, knife and chopping board left out because I still need to chop the pepper that goes in later etc. The oven timer is often set for the time to add something else or put the rice on, not for the end of cooking.

Person X, who will remain nameless, all I can divulge is that I once married her, will swoop in, put the spoon, knife and chopping board in the dishwasher, get plates out in the space I need to cut the pepper, stand in front of the sink, take the sausages out the oven or turn the oven up because... Well I don't know.

 

When people come over for an afternoon and make the tea, but use different mugs, resulting in 18 dirty mugs on the side 3 hours laters.

 

Think I've got up the wrong side of bed today.

Influencers.

There's a DOG INFLUENCER coming into where I work tomorrow. Why is that even anything? **** off.

 

Couldn’t agree more. Absolutely.
(This post was brought to you on behalf of Mrs TuT !!).