I hate

Chewable vitamin C tablets, Refreshers mixed with cyanide. Only 498 left to go.

Could get a bit....glitzy for me. I'll stick with Chicken Cottage annual awards

My wife just lets go of whatever she’s using wherever she happens to be...

Hey, mine too!

When? If you're watching TV and some psycho puts it there then I agree but where else do you put it when you turn it off?

Sofa arm or coffee table?! Where you can reach it to remotely control your tv

Sofa arm

So on the floor or down the side of the sofa then?

coffee table

Been a while since I've had a coffee table so that didn't spring to mind, still think by the TV is best because if it's ever anywhere else I can never find the fucking thing.

I was wondering if my coffee table might make it to golf club.

As long as its not a glass one. I fucking hate glass tables.

I've found our TV remote in various places around (and outside*) the flat.

Certain people just don't switch contexts easily and/or don't return to the original context easily.

I find it hugely frustrating as I always (except when hammered) know where all of my important things are (wallet, keys, phone, sunglasses, etc) because I always (except when hammered) put them down in the same place (or one of a very limited number of places).

Meanwhile I find other residents purses/wallets, zip cards, jewellery, etc all round the flat in a surprising number of unique places, often 5 or 10 minutes after we were supposed to leave for something.

TV remote goes on one of the nestle tables in front of the sofa. Except when it doesn't.

* I once found the TV remote in the hallway we share with the flat upstairs. I think the postman rang with a parcel that needed signing for and so a certain person carried the remote to the front door, put it down to sign for the parcel, and then carried the parcel in forgetting about the TV remote.

I am asked at least once a day to ring a house members phone because they cant remember where they left it.

Yep.

@Greenbank not uncommon to find the remote by the front door or in the bathroom.

Still making moves in 2017 - Milan

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Just spent another 30 mins on the phone with HMRC.

I'm still disputing the tax that I apparently owe, but am having to pay it back anyway. I have filed a complaint (which I made a couple of months ago), which is still at level one whatever the feck that means. In the meantime I've also been receiving calls from HMRC (genuine number), that when I pick up it just gives me an automated message saying they have been unable to connect me to an agent.

Anyway on the call I brought up that a few years back I was in dispute with them about them believing I was paid 14 times in a financial year, when I had obviously only been paid 12 times (they reckoned I got paid twice in July and twice in December that year). He said he would go back and check that, he then told me that there is nothing in the system about that issue except for the letter I sent them to challenge it. The only thing they have in their record is that it was about company car tax. So it looks like I'm a fucking crazy person who sent them a letter about something that didn't fucking happen, apart from me paying extra back the following year via adjusted tax code.

How expensive trains are.

I'm not a big fan of driving and would far prefer not to but when the train costs four times as much as the car it is hard to justify it.

And when it's more likely than not something will go wrong.

Eg It's incredibly easy for us to get to Brighton - train to Farringdon, get off, stay on the same platform, get on Brighton train. Last time we tried it, it was an absolute cluster fuck with necessitated tubes and changes at alternative stations.

Would only drive now. Which is sad.

agreed.
I got a train from Naples to Rome a few years back, cost €9.
200km, 1hr, rapid pace, assigned seats, comfortable.

Train from Essex to London, ~20 miles, £15, slow AF, rammed.

Say what you like about the fascists, but they get the trains to run on time.

Who's household though? :)

The is the only saving grace of the trains. It costs double what it would cost you to drive, but you have a 50% chance of a 3 hour delay, in which case you get a refund and the overall cost is about the same. Aside from the fact that they wasted 3 of your hours.

"I'd be walking out naked, save for a top hat. The song would be "You can Leave Your Hat On"

Haha I have that set on in "my office" quite regularly :)

I fucking hate glass tables.

I'm in this Venn.

50% of the time they work.

Plus you can drink and train.

Oh and driving fucking sucks. 1.5hr drive is normally 3h because some cunt was looking at their phone and ran into some other cunt and now every cunt driving by has to slow down and gawp at two cunts and a third cunt with a tow truck.

Young cunts that push in front of older people on the train/bus. Get in line you fucking midgety little cunts! Hope you enjoyed my armpit, shitfeatures!

Ha! Yes you've reminded me that for all my bitching it was something like £40 return for 4 of us after the refund.

Although they did initially try to only give a 50% refund on the outbound.