Things that piss you off that shouldn't

[bickster]

30 minutes ago, Seat68 said:

I find myself muttering not a percentage every time someone says 110% etc. 

Ron Saunders' fault that one. It was in every match programme I ever read

[bickster]

2 hours ago, TheAuthority said:

Will someone please teach women how to load a friggin' dishwasher FFS

You appear to be missing the point. Its a dirty protest, she thinks you should be doing this

If a job isn't worth doing, it's worth doing badly

[Genie]

Washing up is one of my jobs generally. I don’t mind it at all. We used to have a dishwasher but I found it more effort to load, unload, check, clean the bits that got missed than just wash the old fashioned way.

[Seat68]

I am chief washer up. Stick an album on, have music playing whilst I do it. Find it relaxing. 

[Genie]

2 minutes ago, Seat68 said:

I am chief washer up. Stick an album on, have music playing whilst I do it. Find it relaxing. 

Exactly the same, we’ve an Amazon Echo in the kitchen so pop some tunes on and it’s a nice little escape for a few minutes. 

[theboyangel]

25 minutes ago, Seat68 said:

I am chief washer up. Stick an album on, have music playing whilst I do it. Find it relaxing. 

Yep I’m the same but as both the chef and also ironing duties (either music on or a bit of sport with the latter!)

although there’s four of us in the house we’ve never seen the point of a dishwasher - just as quick to wash up! 

[tonyh29]

On 11/12/2020 at 21:50, chrisp65 said:

Saying all that, I’m currently on an ipad, and they’ve just ‘upgraded’ the pencil so every time I swipe it tries to convert it to writing, and that is currently very very **** annoying.

Nice that they let you install Grindr on the works ipad 

[Seat68]

11 minutes ago, theboyangel said:

Yep I’m the same but as both the chef and also ironing duties (either music on or a bit of sport with the latter!)

although there’s four of us in the house we’ve never seen the point of a dishwasher - just as quick to wash up! 

We have a dishwasher, its never used for the same reason as you. 

[tonyh29]

Our dishwasher is one of those ones with an invisible handle and secret 260 digit code required in order to open it that only I know  ... which explains why Mrs h and the kids put dirty items right next to it instead of in it  

Edited December 16, 2020 by tonyh29

[bickster]

1 hour ago, Genie said:

We used to have a dishwasher but I found it more effort to load, unload, check, clean the bits that got missed than just wash the old fashioned way.

We had a dishwasher, it broke (its probably an easy fix, its just the on / off button doesn't work). I prefer doing it the old fashioned way too so we've never bothered getting it fixed

[mjmooney]

1 hour ago, Seat68 said:

I am chief washer up. Stick an album on, have music playing whilst I do it. Find it relaxing. 

Same here. Usually jazz or modern classical, as they are the ones that Mrs M hates. She still seems ungrateful, as she seems to resent the fact that I've made the task enjoyable, rather than a chore. 

[Follyfoot]

20 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

Same here. Usually jazz or modern classical, as they are the ones that Mrs M hates. She still seems ungrateful, as she seems to resent the fact that I've made the task enjoyable, rather than a chore. 

As the years drag on their tolerance levels to our enjoyment decreases exponentially 

[chrisp65]

2 hours ago, tonyh29 said:

Nice that they let you install Grindr on the works ipad 

Has, the stories I could tell about people not understanding how to wipe their laptops they have to pass to other staff.

I’ve just had a new laptop myself, the old one died.

I asked our I.T. Guys if there was a way to grab everything off the internal drive. There was no work on there, I was savvy enough to only save work back to the office server. But 2 years of music downloads were on there, so I wanted them back if I could.

The I.T. People were very surprised I’d request they see what they could get off an old laptop. They said most people tended to want to dispose of them themselves ‘for some reason’.

I assured them my laptop was going to be music and a VT vengeance hit list and very little else.

[chrisp65]

Haven’t done the dishes in forever.

I do about 95% of the cooking, and I’m a proper messy cook so there’s no way I’m tidying that shit up.

Currently without a kitchen CD player, again, really really need to sort that out once and for all.

[Follyfoot]

10 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

Haven’t done the dishes in forever.

I do about 95% of the cooking, and I’m a proper messy cook so there’s no way I’m tidying that shit up.

Currently without a kitchen CD player, again, really really need to sort that out once and for all.

Get one of these Alexa type things and a apple or other music subscription, the way forward 

[chrisp65]

2 minutes ago, Follyfoot said:

Get one of these Alexa type things and a apple or other music subscription, the way forward 

Yeah......no.

 

[Follyfoot]

1 minute ago, chrisp65 said:

Yeah......no.

 

Any reason, you are not restricted to  the confines of one CD, just shout what you want and it plays, also got all DB radio stations on, again just shout and play. Bottle of wine on the go whilst cooking, all good

[chrisp65]

13 minutes ago, Follyfoot said:

Any reason, you are not restricted to  the confines of one CD, just shout what you want and it plays, also got all DB radio stations on, again just shout and play. Bottle of wine on the go whilst cooking, all good

 

Given a choice of supporting the artist, and supporting the record shop and getting invited to little in store gigs... or, renting the music off apple and the artist getting 0.001p and the record shop closing, I’m going with option A.

There’s a much longer version than that, but that’s essentially the argument. Plus a little bit about aesthetics and memories and socialising and the nerdy side of upgrading speakers and yada yada yada.

I’m not a technophobe, I do put a copy of a record on a usb and play them in the car or listen to 6 music.

It’ll just be a cold day in hell when I rent music off the man.

 

[Follyfoot]

Just now, chrisp65 said:

 

Given a choice of supporting the artist, and supporting the record shop and getting invited to little in store gigs... or, renting the music off apple and the artist getting 0.001p and the record shop closing, I’m going with option A.

There’s a much longer version than that, but that’s essentially the argument. Plus a little bit about aesthetics and memories and socialising and the nerdy side of upgrading speakers and yada yada yada.

I’m not a technophobe, I do put a copy of a record on a usb and play them in the car or listen to 6 music.

It’ll just be a cold day in hell when I rent music off the man.

 

I take it all you kids have left home?

[chrisp65]

Just now, Follyfoot said:

I take it all you kids have left home?

Transitional, the youngest just went to Uni, but is now back again for Chrimbo!

But, no I don’t think that’s relevant, it’s always been my ‘thing’ and they’ve only just left. 

The routine most evenings is they watch The One Show or Holby or Strictly or whatever, and I retire to the gentleman’s smoking room and play some records and bully people on Twitter.