Little things that irritate you

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The term "hack", which has lost all meaning.
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Clingfilm. Oh, it starts out fine, the first sheet pulled from the roll tears perfectly to the exact size you want, cutting nice and neat. But as you work your way through the roll the insidious little bugger shows it’s true colours, so by the time you’re halfway through you’re tearing smaller and smaller bits, and then you get to the point where, inexplicably, only half the width of the roll comes out, the other half wrapped round itself in a maze of strands that takes an age to unravel, by which time you’ve almost come to the end of the roll. Fiendish, spiteful stuff.
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badabing wrote:Clingfilm. Oh, it starts out fine, the first sheet pulled from the roll tears perfectly to the exact size you want, cutting nice and neat. But as you work your way through the roll the insidious little bugger shows it’s true colours, so by the time you’re halfway through you’re tearing smaller and smaller bits, and then you get to the point where, inexplicably, only half the width of the roll comes out, the other half wrapped round itself in a maze of strands that takes an age to unravel, by which time you’ve almost come to the end of the roll. Fiendish, spiteful stuff.

Or, operator error, or, that's what happens when you buy cheap clingfilm. :wink:
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Half of me grudgingly acknowledges you’re probably right on both counts mate, then the other half refuses to accept I cannot operate something as simple as bloody clingfilm!!
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you and me both chap
Got one of the bacofoil clingfilm dispensers, jobs a good un ,
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People who tell you to grow a pair.
What would I want 3 b*llocks for anyway?
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Being stuck in a non air conditioned "office" on a day like today.
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badabing wrote:Clingfilm. Oh, it starts out fine, the first sheet pulled from the roll tears perfectly to the exact size you want, cutting nice and neat. But as you work your way through the roll the insidious little bugger shows it’s true colours, so by the time you’re halfway through you’re tearing smaller and smaller bits, and then you get to the point where, inexplicably, only half the width of the roll comes out, the other half wrapped round itself in a maze of strands that takes an age to unravel, by which time you’ve almost come to the end of the roll. Fiendish, spiteful stuff.
You want this. It works really well.

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Samba wrote:People who tell you to grow a pair.
What would I want 3 b*llocks for anyway?
So your starting position is 1...?
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sendô wrote:Being stuck in a non air conditioned "office" on a day like today.
Ditto, mine doesn't even have windows :fsake:
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Samba wrote:People who tell you to grow a pair.
What would I want 3 b*llocks for anyway?
Hammer1972 wrote: So your starting position is 1...?
:lol:
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badabing wrote:Clingfilm. Oh, it starts out fine, the first sheet pulled from the roll tears perfectly to the exact size you want, cutting nice..
Mega Ron wrote:You want this. It works really well.

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That's the thing I was on about, no more throwing out a near full roll of the stuff
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7m 35s listening to Radio 1.

Who listens to this utter utter pile of crap?! :thdn:
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westham,eggyandchips wrote:7m 35s listening to Radio 1.

Who listens to this utter utter pile of crap?! :thdn:
Who the f*** times themselves listening to the radio?
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Freewheeling and Mega Ron


Cheers fellas, that looks just the job. We'll see who's laughing now Mr Clingfilm.
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Just seen an advert on Sky...

"Do you suffer from Tinutus.......then please listen carefully". !!!!

From the RNID, now rebranded by some utter twonk as 'Action on hearing loss' .

Can you imagine the meeting when they decided that to have Royal patronage in this modern world was somehow 'not relevant' and the type of people in the room?

Unless, of course they were another 'charity' with a few skeletons in the cupboard and had to change their name ?

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Is royal patronage relevant in the modern world then?

The new name is more inclusive as it includes people with partial hearing loss, and 'action' sounds far better than 'institute'.

I'm with the twonks.
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southbrishammer wrote:Is royal patronage relevant in the modern world then?

The new name is more inclusive as it includes people with partial hearing loss, and 'action' sounds far better than 'institute'.

I'm with the twonks.
Tend to agree about royal patronage. Maybe it's also the case that people tend to switch off a bit nowadays as soon as they realise it's a charity thing...after endless adverts and appeals on the TV. Ultimately, the important thing isn't maintaining traditions but raising as much money and awareness as possible. And that ought to be measurable.
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Is royal patronage relevant....I'd say so but it seems everything is up for grabs in the modern UK?

The main point was the 'do you suffer from ..... not the bst phrasing ever :)
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Etonhammer wrote:Is royal patronage relevant....I'd say so but it seems everything is up for grabs in the modern UK?
TBF, ambivalence about all things royal for a large section of the public is pretty long standing.
Etonhammer wrote:The main point was the 'do you suffer from ..... not the bst phrasing ever :)
Yes, that's a fair point. The 'focus group' dropped a b****** on that bit! :lol:
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