minor things that make you fume


chrismpw said:
DIY and beer end in dazed confusion.

The scenario - I'm laying a solid oak floor. Not just laying it - its reclaimed timber so I've had 60 square metres of it to denail, inspect and pass through my planer. I've had to shift the furniture, prepare the subsurface, lay, cut around doors, move radiators, apply hard wax etc. Its taken a while.

All the wife does is come home from a desk job and immediately observe that I hadn't washed up yesterday's pan. 'Koff.

Today I have a battle scarred mouth having visited the nearest nhs pull-tooth a round trip of 20 miles. My face is numb, the dinner's on, I'm relaxing after a hard day's manual work and contemplating whether I can drink tea without it dribbling down the side of my face. The wife is talking about something and suddenly I notice that the white noise is slightly different to usual.

Its running water from under the kitchen sink. Kinell! I sprint to the utility room where the stop tap is. I'm presented with the wife's latest solution to store the mountain of garden furniture cushions, which is to ram it between my 'settling homebrew stack and the tap.

I yank the cushions out of the way muttering something unrepeatable and, with the benefit of hindsight, momentarily forget my wife's other little charm, which is to pay no heed to electricL cable routing. So as I crouch down to turn the tap, my skull is met first by the handheld Dyson that was charging 5' above me on a shelf and then by a bottle of homebrew from the same shelf, which promptly burst and sprayed its contents all around the room.

Instead of supping tea and eating my dinner I'm now sat in a flooded kitchen vaguely concussed, covered in blood and stinking of beer. Its not even Friday night ffs!
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the most important question, is the Home Brew ok:pint2:
 
when you would get a cold call on your mobile you usually could suss out it’s scam by the number that came up on your phone it was usually some unrecognisable number that you knew was from some dodgy people, but now they use what look like authentic mobile numbers which you are more likely to answer been caught a couple of times by this.
 
Nobby Nobbs said:
when you would get a cold call on your mobile you usually could suss out it’s scam by the number that came up on your phone it was usually some unrecognisable number that you knew was from some dodgy people, but now they use what look like authentic mobile numbers which you are more likely to answer been caught a couple of times by this.
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I never answer a number that's not in my contacts list (unless I'm expecting a call)
If it's anything important they will text when they get no answer.
 

chrismpw said:
Yes. Like the very next thing I thought of doing amidst this devastation was photographing myself! Sadly for you I'm not a millennial.

I now have 3 big scabs on me bald head (1 was yesterday caused by a cable pin when i stood up in the understairs closet ffs! Beginning to see the point of ppe.
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Do you not see the point of hiring a handyman?
 

Is it just me, or is littering getting worse? Or is it that councils aren't doing anything about it any more due to cuts.

Down in London it's an utter dump. The A406 is the busiest road in the country and it's caked in litter. Old mattreses lie on the carriageway for months at a time. It is basically just one expensive dump, save for a few of the exclusive post codes such as Knightsbridge and Mayfair etc.

I can't go for a walk in the countryside in Heswall now without seeing loads of litter and it boils my piss. Since lockdown the amount of people visiting has increased hugely. I did a litter pick down at a local car park lately and filled a whole Tesco bag with crap. A week later it was back to a tip again. It's always the same stuff; soiled tissies, nappies, juice boxes, masks, doggie bags, basically being dropped by mums and their army of kids in their Audi SUVs. The ecology of the Heswall Dales is fked because of the amount of dog poo people aren't picking up.

I saw someone had lashed the remains of a McDonalds meal across my road last night. So some tit has driven 6 miles from the nearest one to sit in a place with a nice view, just to lash his meal 5 metres from a bin. I try not to let it ruin my mood, but it really angers me.
 
Baines' left foot said:
Is it just me, or is littering getting worse? Or is it that councils aren't doing anything about it any more due to cuts.

Down in London it's an utter dump. The A406 is the busiest road in the country and it's caked in litter. Old mattreses lie on the carriageway for months at a time. It is basically just one expensive dump, save for a few of the exclusive post codes such as Knightsbridge and Mayfair etc.

I can't go for a walk in the countryside in Heswall now without seeing loads of litter and it boils my piss. Since lockdown the amount of people visiting has increased hugely. I did a litter pick down at a local car park lately and filled a whole Tesco bag with crap. A week later it was back to a tip again. It's always the same stuff; soiled tissies, nappies, juice boxes, masks, doggie bags, basically being dropped by mums and their army of kids in their Audi SUVs. The ecology of the Heswall Dales is fked because of the amount of dog poo people aren't picking up.

I saw someone had lashed the remains of a McDonalds meal across my road last night. So some tit has driven 6 miles from the nearest one to sit in a place with a nice view, just to lash his meal 5 metres from a bin. I try not to let it ruin my mood, but it really angers me.
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It’s fume inducing cos it shows just how selfish people can be. I guess they just expect someone to pick it up.

Should get a good kicking
 

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