I hate

We have an ancient family gravy knife that has been passed down through generations

I hate leaving stuff at the self-service checkout and only realising once you get home. In today's case, a pack of much needed toilet roll...

gravy

Ftfy

Custard should be the same.

People that reschedule a meeting that has already taken place to use as a future instance of the meeting.

These aren't recurring/repeating meetings (which the tool does quite well anyway) but what are supposed to be one-offs that never finish in time and so they reschedule to finish off discussing stuff.

It means I've got no easy to find record of the original meeting. Quite often I think "I know who I need to speak to, it was that person in the meeting last Wednesday afternoon." but when I look in my calendar I find last Wednesday afternoon blank (don't we all). I have to try and guess which meeting in the future it is to go and find that info.

Leave the past alone and use "Copy into New"!

#nichemeetingpethate

Draw your own conclusions about the bloke buying a "genuine" battery charger from some place in Hong Kong off ebay but there's so much to hate about this article on the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55317414
The sensationalizingness of the article itself, the bodgit-and-scarper lawyers with an eye to the main chance, the campaigners who want ebay (and other selling platforms) to be responsible for their own greed and stupidity.
Whatever happened to caveat emptor? (See also the ppi "scandal")
And before anyone wades in, I do appreciate it must be utterly heartbreaking to lose your home in that fashion, whatever the reason. And to lose your cats to a fire too

Whatever happened to caveat emptor? (See also the ppi "scandal")

I was sold PPI for my credit card just before I was about to leave my job to go travelling. It was the first credit card I planned to use rather than leaving in a draw because it came with an account.

The sales guy who signed me up during my lunch break for the accounts and card told me it would cover me in the event of fraud or if something unexpected (like being unable to access the Internet) happened to stop me paying off the card that month.

I probably should have read all the terms. But short of someone telling me I'm not sure how I would have independently known, or ascertained that credit cards cover you against fraud anyway.

Fraudulently mis-selling is bad. Building a whole area of your business that deliberately overlooks mis-selling and tacitly encourages it is really bad.

I was also going to say something about the SOGA being 30yo - so given for many consumer's adulthood - but when I double checked the date learnt that the first SOGA was passed in 1893.

So for close to 130yrs we've recognised in codified law the limitations of caveat emptor.

caveat emptor

Ebay / amazon etc... are full of fake / counterfeit / chargers and the like.

Just how is the emptor supposed to caveat that, particularly as consumer protection is underfunded and gelded by corporate lobbyist driven wekending of legislative protections.

Similalry ppi.

Your post is idiotic, as well as crass and callous.

Have a word, sweetie.

What if the fire had been in the flat under yours, or in the aeroplane seat next to you? Consequences are not limited to the buyer.

Christmas jazz

Swiss cottage gyratory

When people say'by the by'

The word gyratory

Racism

Christmas reggae is da bomb tho

socks that are needlessly labelled left and right when the cut is identical on both.

in Brighton there’s a ‘Vogue Gyratory’ along the Lewes road, which always sounded glam and cool and that.

(it’s not, unless you really dig Sainsbury’s)

edit
The original name of the (demolished) Vogue cinema was the Gaiety. Could have had the Gaiety Gyratory!

[Cyril Fletcher is away]

I was there just last night picking something up from the argos in the sainsburys.

Handy once my foot has moulded them into shape

in Brighton there’s a ‘Vogue Gyratory’ along the Lewes road, which always sounded glam and cool and that.

Can't believe I know this but its named after the Vogue Cinema that was on the site.

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/44575

Things that you want to keep in their original box for storage but the boxes are some sort of jack-in-the-box fucking nightmare to fit back in.

I've got a trickle charger with a number of attachments and it would be so handy to keep them all in the OG package. As well as being close to impossible to get eveyting in once you've unravelled it to use, the front of the box has a display cut out so you have to use the nightmare plastic insert.

Ditto items to be returned to the seller 'in their original packing'.

There is only one way and the item has expanded by a few mm.

Christmas reggae is da bomb tho

Yeah I’d agree with that, but I’m at a loss as to what makes the difference there

Depends on the kind of Jazz, surely? Insipid elevator music/Michael Buble/etc. not my thing, but Oscar Peterson/Vince Guaraldi/Ella Christmas numbers are another kettle of fish.

Granted but bike parts don’t fit into this scenario. If I kept the boxes for the spare Shimano parts I can neatly fit in my shed I would need an aircraft hanger.

I definitely dislike cheesy jazz Christmas stuff more, but even the ‘good’ stuff grates on me. It could be Alice Coltrane and pharaoh Saunders going on an astral-travelling spiritual discovery and as soon as a little melody creeps in that references jingle bells, I’m done.

Being on hold - of course no on enjoys it. What does my head in, is the "your call means a lot to us" clip that is inserted every 10 seconds. It makes the whole process so much more jarring. Just give me the awful music. I'm aware that I'm going to be waiting for a while, and repeating the same message over and over only serves to make the whole process even more infuriating.

Also, I get that I could do it online - but because the online equivalent clearly has about a quarter of the functionality available when compared to speaking to someone over the phone, it's not exactly that great an alternative!

I can’t remember who it was now, but a hold message I’ve had a couple of times recently suggested I ‘enjoy the music’. Sadistic pricks.