Room 101

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

People who tailgate learner drivers - inexcusable. Watched someone in the village doing this the other day, but forum rules forbid me from describing it as I'd like...

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Government departments (HMRC, DWP etc), which always send post out on a Friday. It therefore arrives on a Saturday - meaning there's no-one to talk to things about for the next couple of days. I'm sure it's to minimise calls and maximise stress.

 

[DougK1]

Government departments (HMRC, DWP etc), which always send post out on a Friday. It therefore arrives on a Saturday - meaning there's no-one to talk to things about for the next couple of days. I'm sure it's to minimise calls and maximise stress.

You get your post next day! Lucky you!

 

[jjbomber]

You get your post next day! Lucky you!

We never get any post on a Saturday! By some remarkable coincidence, we get quite a lot on a Monday though.

Now the funny part. When my regular postman was off, I asked the relief postman why we don't get mail on a Saturday and does our regular postie go down the beach with the kids? He said the regular postie doesn't have any kids, so he doesn't know why. Anyway, the enquiry did have an effect. The relief postie stopped calling on Saturdays as well. Back to the drawing board!

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

We never get any post on a Saturday! By some remarkable coincidence, we get quite a lot on a Monday though.

Now the funny part. When my regular postman was off, I asked the relief postman why we don't get mail on a Saturday and does our regular postie go down the beach with the kids? He said the regular postie doesn't have any kids, so he doesn't know why. Anyway, the enquiry did have an effect. The relief postie stopped calling on Saturdays as well. Back to the drawing board!

I remember when, I used to consider Royal Mail to be almost completely reliable...

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Forum rules are being applied now - you're all aware of them.

 

[plastic penguin]

Man flu. Whether it exists or not is irrelevant. I've been physically laid up for the past few days, as my daughter has and Mrs. P has a chest infection.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

The ignorant. Two dimwits came into the pub last night, but only after having a chat at the threshold - holding the door open for half a minute and allowing all the heat generated by the roaring fire to escape...

 

[Stuart83]

Man flu. Whether it exists or not is irrelevant. I've been physically laid up for the past few days, as my daughter has and Mrs. P has a chest infection.

Tell me about it, people undermining flu is frustrating.
It comes from the people who complain about having it with no symptomology other than a slight sniffle.

The fact they are upright long enough to complain tells me they haven't got the flu at all.

Get well soon flu is no joke......

 

[plastic penguin]

Tell me about it, people undermining flu is frustrating.
It comes from the people who complain about having it with no symptomology other than a slight sniffle.

The fact they are upright long enough to complain tells me they haven't got the flu at all.

Get well soon flu is no joke......

Yeah, this is quite a bad one. For nearly 3 days it knocked me for six. Feeling better, headaches gone as have the aching legs and haven't taken any Lemsip (other cold and flu remedies are available) since yesterday, but still got a runny ooter.

 

[JDl]

Here's something I find somewhat annoying that's CD related.
I've bought a few CD box sets over the last 2 years.
A 16 CD Cecille Ousset (The French Pianist) set in particular and yesterday, a set of Rachmaninoff's 3 Symphonies and 4 Piano Concertos and a couple of other sets.
The CDs in these sets are in cardboard sleeves inside a box.
The CDs are so tight in the sleeves, that they will not tip out at all. You can't shake them out either.
If you insert a finger to miss the playing surface and reach the centre of the CD, they become even tighter.
The first remedy I performed, was to take 2 old CD/R that I don't care about, place them together and repeatedly force them in and out of the sleeves of the 16 CD boxed set, to wear them in. That worked well. It did leave cardboard dust inside each sleeve but it took about 40 minutes to do all 16. Now the CDs easily slip in and out of the sleeves.
I've taken to carefully slicing through one edge of the sleeves now when they arrive like this. But they were so tight originally, that there was no way to avoid getting finger marks on the CDs.
This is somewhat annoying that CD sleeves in such cases are not quite large enough.

 

[JDl]

Yeah, this is quite a bad one. For nearly 3 days it knocked me for six. Feeling better, headaches gone as have the aching legs and haven't taken any Lemsip (other cold and flu remedies are available) since yesterday, but still got a runny ooter.

My brother 'caught' something like this a couple of weeks ago. He was running a high temperature, had a thumping headache and his legs ached badly, but no sore throat, no runny nose. He did feel a bit vommity. (Is that a real word? Who cares.)
This state of affairs lasted about 5 days. Our disabled neighbour, a lady who we go and visit at least twice a week, to get shopping for her, top up her electricity key, things like that had also had it. He developed the symptoms she had the same evening we'd visited her. I never got it.
I don't know why I didn't get it. Me and my brother have looked deeply into "Germ Theory." It's problematic. No so called virus, has ever been isolated in any lab, anywhere in the World, at any time recently or in the past. It's quite strange because we do seem to 'catch' these things called colds or flu from each other but many Doctors dispute "Germ Theory", which I believe originated with Louis Pasteur.
Anyway glad you're feeling better.

 

[Stuart83]

Here's something I find somewhat annoying that's CD related.
I've bought a few CD box sets over the last 2 years.
A 16 CD Cecille Ousset (The French Pianist) set in particular and yesterday, a set of Rachmaninoff's 3 Symphonies and 4 Piano Concertos and a couple of other sets.
The CDs in these sets are in cardboard sleeves inside a box.
The CDs are so tight in the sleeves, that they will not tip out at all. You can't shake them out either.
If you insert a finger to miss the playing surface and reach the centre of the CD, they become even tighter.
The first remedy I performed, was to take 2 old CD/R that I don't care about, place them together and repeatedly force them in and out of the sleeves of the 16 CD boxed set, to wear them in. That worked well. It did leave cardboard dust inside each sleeve but it took about 40 minutes to do all 16. Now the CDs easily slip in and out of the sleeves.
I've taken to carefully slicing through one edge of the sleeves now when they arrive like this. But they were so tight originally, that there was no way to avoid getting finger marks on the CDs.
This is somewhat annoying that CD sleeves in such cases are not quite large enough.

I'm not alone then.
With me it's been the cd albums, the lumineers one was that tight I had to wrestle with it.

 

[JDl]

Here's something else that annoys the living daylight out of me

 

[Stuart83]

Here's something else that annoys the living daylight out of meView attachment 5931

Is there another half to that photo 😂

 

[JDl]

Ok, I know it might seem hilarious.
Go onto YouTube and find
GeoEngineeringWatch.Org/The Dimming.
And then keep laughing.

 

[Stuart83]

Selfie pouts grrrrrrr
Self obcessed people who flood social media with selfies every 5 mins whilst doing the most mundane things is bad enough but that pouting is cringe worthy.

 

[plastic penguin]

Con

Here's something else that annoys the living daylight out of meView attachment 5931View attachment 5932View attachment 5933

Con trails annoy you? Pretty patterns made on a lovely blue sky.

 

[JDl]

Actually I was joking, I think it's great. It's called stratospheric aerosol injection and it's gonna save us all from global warming. Sorry I mean climate change.

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

Ok, I know it might seem hilarious.
Go onto YouTube and find
GeoEngineeringWatch.Org/The Dimming.
And then keep laughing.View attachment 5936View attachment 5937

That's just idiotic, conspiracy theory nonsense. Con trails are just water vapour condensed from jet engine exhaust, nothing more and nothing less, just condensation.

 

[JDl]

If you say so.

 

[DougK1]

That's just idiotic, conspiracy theory nonsense. Con trails are just water vapour condensed from jet engine exhaust, nothing more and nothing less, just condensation.

Lots of conspiracy theories out there, take your pick 🙂

 

[Revolutions]

We’re all doomed and the end is nigh, we just disagree about the details.

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

Lots of conspiracy theories out there, take your pick 🙂

I used to be a member of the, now defunct, PCAdvisor forum. Around 2004 to 2006, it used to attract a lot of conspiracy theorists. I was one of those who had a good laugh winding them up.

 

[Stuart83]

I used to be a member of the, now defunct, PCAdvisor forum. Around 2004 to 2006, it used to attract a lot of conspiracy theorists. I was one of those who had a good laugh winding them up.

The moon landing one was the one that interested me.
I fully believe we went to the moon but there is actual believable proof we didn't.

The photo of the "flag blowing as if in a wind" being cheif among them.
It was later explained as the rolling effect on the flag is just off it being rolled up in transit and of course a telescopic pole was erected through the top of the flag to the pole to make the flag hang fully extended.

Well I guess that's common sense given that the flag wouldn't serve any purpose if it wasn't visible without any wind to keep it up 😂

But what amazes me is these conspiracy theorists still maintain it was a hoax even now despite the NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) satellite shows the very flag is obviously still "very" there.

Another crazy crazy set of conspiracy theorists is those flat earth people who still deny gravity exists and is the effect of this flat earth "accelerating upwards propelled by dark matter"
Ermmmmmm yeah wouldn't that be gravity...........