I hate

I do however hate that fact that I forgot to put the bin out this morning

At least you've reminded me!

Dental floss snagging on a tooth and getting caught.

Opening a packet of painkillers and the leaflet being folded over the pill strip thus making you remove that first because you just want the paracetamol and don't need to read the instructions thank you very much.

I have an irrational hatred of the kind of lids that require an additional internal seal in order to function. See: cheap plastic orange juice or milk cartons that have that foil covered plastic seal under the screw-on lid.

It's fucking annoying that that you have to go through the faff of removing it to get to your drink but it also signals that once you've removed it, taken the first drink and replaced the cap, the lid won't function as an effective seal. Any horizontal storage of the resealed carton will inevitably result in a puddle of milk in the salad tray.

gimme cardboard cartons with proper watertight screw-on lids any day.

i keep all my liquids in shallow trays in the fridge

Pff, I just evaporate all mine, and add water back as needed.

Bin men came early on Friday. Hours early. I staggered out with some bags and said to one of them that I had a couple more (3 actually). He totally ignored me and after doing two more houses in our road they drove off passing the bags as they did so.
So today I took the three, plus a load of weekend shed crap to the dump to find they are only accepting vehicles with odd No registrations. Mine is even.
Stuff is still in the car so it will prob stink tomorrow. It’s that or store it outside for the foxes to decimate and rain to soak in.

Those uppy and downy combined external house lights, that people leave on blazing away all night for no one to admire their average properties.

This precise situation is what canals were invented for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPf529urxw8&feature=emb_logo

Plenty of mine shafts round here that people have used as dumps, for decades. That sort of behaviour is, how can I put it? Beneath me.

I didn't realise we had royalty on the forum...

Hahaha! That’s great!

Currently considering getting a couple of these for my very average property.

Being able to find the lock and not fall down the front steps in winter is probably worth the neighbours thinking I'm a pretentious arse.

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Always check the tip webcam first, or you will spend literally all day in the queue, with cars so close in front and behind you can't even change your mind and leave. I learned this the hard way.

Get something that doesn't shine light up into the sky

It's these double enders that annoy and not for being pretentious, it's the light pollution and energy waste, blazing away all night.

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Fair enough, the one I'm looking at doesn't point up, is only 50 lumens, and is solar so should be alright on those fronts

Ideally you want pir as well so it only lights up when needed

The phrase “good gear that”. Usually used by older men, when referring to anything that is clearly shit.

My uncle and father in law seem to say it all the time, and it’s always referring to something substandard.

what? like the drugs?

That was how I spent Monday afternoon. Two hours in a car full of shit with no radio and a bucket of some watery rancid shit from the garden that stank the car out. That was fun.

If only. Shite found in the middle aisle of Aldi, rank beer, or today’s example - the absolutely shite pine floorboards he’s bought for me to fit. More knot than wood, irregular as fuck, and machined with clearly fucked tooling.

/csb.

This is clearly my own fault for taking on a job for my in laws.

R4 consumer programmes on the piteous plight of grasping venal boomers with piles of cash to burn, investing in obviously sketchy property schemes and getting burned. Boo fucking hoo you witless, entitled chumps. Serves you fucking right.

The one just on was about doddering cashed up retired gammons people investing their idle cash into dodgy scheme cooked up by a property developer to turn derelict listed buildings into "luxury apartments" for new investors to buy, also as a tax evasion tactic. Fuck them all. Cunts.