Companies asking you to write reviews on their products. Look if it's shit I won't be back to buy from you again, if it ain't then I will. Trustpilot. How do I know that 'Jack from Barnsley's' telling the truth about the product, I don't know him from Adam.
Could be wrong, but I thought Trustpilot has something behind the scenes, so reviews can’t just be faked, such as what happens on Tripadvisor, Facebook pages etc.
Companies asking you to write reviews on their products. Look if it's shit I won't be back to buy from you again, if it ain't then I will. Trustpilot. How do I know that 'Jack from Barnsley's' telling the truth about the product, I don't know him from Adam.
Could be wrong, but I thought Trustpilot has something behind the scenes, so reviews can’t just be faked, such as what happens on Tripadvisor, Facebook pages etc.
They may well have but my point was that I don't know these people who give credit to companies or products,but word of mouth from somebody who you know is something quite different.
That as a newly married couple visiting my in laws we constantly get the lecture about having children. Even more so now that my wife's sister has a 6 month old. Even more annoying is that as a couple that doesn't want children the assumption is always that we haven't thought it through and any actual reason we might give for this is just written off. When in actual fact the opposit is true its because we've thought it through that we don't want children. We've weighed it up and have so many valid reasons for making the choice we have such as the economic, social, political and environmental circumstances that will face the next generation. The financial and time costs to us in a challenging world as well as being acutely aware of our own mental health and generational childhood traumas and the damage of passing these on.
We have plenty of reasons all valid. We aren't just gonna have kids in an attempt to fulfil some of our own unmet emotional needs as so many of our parents generation did. Now piss off and let us live life
I think its about as an insensitive and pig ignorant a question as can be asked.
And its always shown when the pig ignorant askee herding their band of snot-nosed feral life-forms they have foisted upon the world whose names they barely know yet define them, who clutches their pearls when I respond in a fairly direct way telling them, not to mind their business as they clearly are not anywhere near capable of that but to smile and say
"well actually, I could have nigh on purchased a 2nd property for cash with all the money I have dropped on IVF and thats before I get started on the enormous mental toll that whole rolling of the dice process takes out of everyone involved and the complete lacking of anything resembling care, empathy or even an explanation as to why the latest massive sum of money costing run of treatment has failed, but no you fucking ask away and have the nerve to look offended when I give you a very basic home truth that you should have had the tiniest volume of intelligence to work out anyway and bot use it as some sort of opening conversational gambit, but I shouldn't expect that from you, someone whose only offering to life and any social situation is to speak to me with great reverence about your kids and how your eldest child has finally worked out how to use the potty at 7 years old but they love playing football and could spell 'cat' correctly at the 80th attempt yet are in every other way, totally and utterly socially inept"
We have a shrinking, ageing population and the obvious and huge elephant in the room is genuinely people can barely afford to house, feed and take care of themselves yet there is still muppets asking people without children "duuuur when are you having kids, they are really rewarding" as if that's the point of having children or as if your life in some way is incomplete without them or my favourite saying "who will look after you when you get old". Now going on the total disregard most of my family (and a huge amount of others who barely even visit elderly relatives in hospices and care homes let alone and god forbid do the homework for them or just sit and chat bollocks with them for an hour of their time) had for taking care of my grandad when he needed it in the last few years all of you with kids are fucked too. Unless you have a few quid and a property in which case they won't be able to sign that magical power of attorney fast enough and take care of your wellbeing (care home) and financial affairs.
I dont always do that to people who ask what they stupidly believe is a fair and sensible yet incredibly personal question but I find it stops them doing it again and saves me wasting any energy on dins like that in future. Clean cut
That as a newly married couple visiting my in laws we constantly get the lecture about having children. Even more so now that my wife's sister has a 6 month old. Even more annoying is that as a couple that doesn't want children the assumption is always that we haven't thought it through and any actual reason we might give for this is just written off. When in actual fact the opposit is true its because we've thought it through that we don't want children. We've weighed it up and have so many valid reasons for making the choice we have such as the economic, social, political and environmental circumstances that will face the next generation. The financial and time costs to us in a challenging world as well as being acutely aware of our own mental health and generational childhood traumas and the damage of passing these on.
We have plenty of reasons all valid. We aren't just gonna have kids in an attempt to fulfil some of our own unmet emotional needs as so many of our parents generation did. Now piss off and let us live life
I think its about as an insensitive and pig ignorant a question as can be asked.
And its always shown when the pig ignorant askee herding their band of snot-nosed feral life-forms they have foisted upon the world whose names they barely know yet define them, who clutches their pearls when I respond in a fairly direct way telling them, not to mind their business as they clearly are not anywhere near capable of that but to smile and say
"well actually, I could have nigh on purchased a 2nd property for cash with all the money I have dropped on IVF and thats before I get started on the enormous mental toll that whole rolling of the dice process takes out of everyone involved and the complete lacking of anything resembling care, empathy or even an explanation as to why the latest massive sum of money costing run of treatment has failed, but no you fucking ask away and have the nerve to look offended when I give you a very basic home truth that you should have had the tiniest volume of intelligence to work out anyway and bot use it as some sort of opening conversational gambit, but I shouldn't expect that from you, someone whose only offering to life and any social situation is to speak to me with great reverence about your kids and how your eldest child has finally worked out how to use the potty at 7 years old but they love playing football and could spell 'cat' correctly at the 80th attempt yet are in every other way, totally and utterly socially inept"
We have a shrinking, ageing population and the obvious and huge elephant in the room is genuinely people can barely afford to house, feed and take care of themselves yet there is still muppets asking people without children "duuuur when are you having kids, they are really rewarding" as if that's the point of having children or as if your life in some way is incomplete without them or my favourite saying "who will look after you when you get old". Now going on the total disregard most of my family (and a huge amount of others who barely even visit elderly relatives in hospices and care homes let alone and god forbid do the homework for them or just sit and chat bollocks with them for an hour of their time) had for taking care of my grandad when he needed it in the last few years all of you with kids are fucked too. Unless you have a few quid and a property in which case they won't be able to sign that magical power of attorney fast enough and take care of your wellbeing (care home) and financial affairs.
I dont always do that to people who ask what they stupidly believe is a fair and sensible yet incredibly personal question but I find it stops them doing it again and saves me wasting any energy on dins like that in future. Clean cut
I used to get the question all the time from when I worked in an office from colleagues. After a few years and about 30k on ivf treatment I just replied...
My bollocks don't work Susan and I'm fcking skint trying to buy myself a kid. I found it made me happier to see those asking to look awfully awkward and to apologise while sheepishly walking back to their desk 😆
Why do sets of metric sockets or spanners seem to have the 18mm one missing? Must be a reason for it but when you really need one and it ain’t there it’s a pain in the arse.
Its a rarely used size is the answer I think. But some sets do actually have them, I've acquired a few sets of sockets over the years, my 1/2 Wera set comes with an 18mm socket and my Paramount combination spanner set has the 18mm also. The one that annoyed me was the one one needed to take the thermostatic cartridge from a shower. 32mm I think, I ended up buying an impact socket, much snugger fit and didn't damage the brass nut.
Why do sets of metric sockets or spanners seem to have the 18mm one missing? Must be a reason for it but when you really need one and it ain’t there it’s a pain in the arse.
I have a really old Halfords set that has 10 -22mm with just the 21mm missing.
I was under the impression that I must've purchased this when Halfords first opened, but Google says that that was in 1892 - I ain't that old!
People never "Contact" me anymore, they all "Reach out" to me. It really annoys me for some reason. Maybe it's because they are usually sales people trying to sound like old friends.
Just ordered at a pub. Sat down by the bar, some Botox divorcee bitch in a coat probably made out of her previous victims turns up and without a word takes my mates chair. I would say something but I realised there's a further six of these women. It's like a Kent version of desperate housewives. Fortunately there's another table and I went there but before I did I heard some of what they had to talk about. men in groups can be cunts but the bitcheness by these type of women is off the scale. Seismic scale cunts.
Just ordered at a pub. Sat down by the bar, some Botox divorcee bitch in a coat probably made out of her previous victims turns up and without a word takes my mates chair. I would say something but I realised there's a further six of these women. It's like a Kent version of desperate housewives. Fortunately there's another table and I went there but before I did I heard some of what they had to talk about. men in groups can be cunts but the bitcheness by these type of women is off the scale. Seismic scale cunts.
Not that it concerns us (nor is ever likely to) but two and a half days since the FA cup draw was made, almost as long since all bar one replay was known, and with six days to go before the first of those replays, nobody who supports any club involved can make any arrangements because they still haven't decided which games to televise. I know it will probably be announced this morning. But let's face it, they would have wanted Wrexham had they drawn, and the other two will be the all Premier league Villa v Chelsea and then Plymouth v Leeds. At least they could inform the others for certain that their ties will go ahead as scheduled.
Constantly asked why I didn’t have children. Just reminded them that I never wanted to run the risk of turning into my alcoholic mother and making any child of mines life hell like she did to me.
Soon stopped.
The hardest time was whilst I was traveling in India. They just didn’t understand. So it was easier to tell them I just couldn’t. Think I have been blessed by more gods than anyone needing healing at Lourdes! And it still didn’t work…..hah! 😜
Not that it concerns us (nor is ever likely to) but two and a half days since the FA cup draw was made, almost as long since all bar one replay was known, and with six days to go before the first of those replays, nobody who supports any club involved can make any arrangements because they still haven't decided which games to televise. I know it will probably be announced this morning. But let's face it, they would have wanted Wrexham had they drawn, and the other two will be the all Premier league Villa v Chelsea and then Plymouth v Leeds. At least they could inform the others for certain that their ties will go ahead as scheduled.
Just got back home on a Friday evening and Clancy's have put temporary traffic lights up on my road for "emergency" water work, which most probably wont actually be started till some time next week, real fucking emergency! South east water has given no warning of this. though i should of suspected it after they were faffing about further along the road a week back. All of which stems from them digging up the whole road only a year ago. so presumably they didn't do a good enough job then.
Just caught some customer friendly Clancy employee just before they scooted off home to say what this was all about? "Emergency water works, somewhere over there" as he pointed to a non descripte area of road "and they just tell me where to put the signs and lights"
thing is mate did they tell you to put the sign smack bang in the middle of my fucking driveway?!
to which he replied, "I'll move it to the side but it needs to be there though"
I don't know whether to just move it completely off my driveway?
Just got back home on a Friday evening and Clancy's have put temporary traffic lights up on my road for "emergency" water work, which most probably wont actually be started till some time next week, real fucking emergency! South east water has given no warning of this. though i should of suspected it after they were faffing about further along the road a week back. All of which stems from them digging up the whole road only a year ago. so presumably they didn't do a good enough job then.
Just caught some customer friendly Clancy employee just before they scooted off home to say what this was all about? "Emergency water works, somewhere over there" as he pointed to a non descripte area of road "and they just tell me where to put the signs and lights"
thing is mate did they tell you to put the sign smack bang in the middle of my fucking driveway?!
to which he replied, "I'll move it to the side but it needs to be there though"
I don't know whether to just move it completely off my driveway?
These new tops on bottles of fizzy stuff designed so you don't lose 'em. Can't get the fuckers back on unless you cut them off first. Fucking waste of time.
Why do sets of metric sockets or spanners seem to have the 18mm one missing? Must be a reason for it but when you really need one and it ain’t there it’s a pain in the arse.
Its a rarely used size is the answer I think. But some sets do actually have them, I've acquired a few sets of sockets over the years, my 1/2 Wera set comes with an 18mm socket and my Paramount combination spanner set has the 18mm also. The one that annoyed me was the one one needed to take the thermostatic cartridge from a shower. 32mm I think, I ended up buying an impact socket, much snugger fit and didn't damage the brass nut.
Funny enough the job I needed it for I’ve pretty much finished now, it was a bespoke designed system (solar PV) and one thing I will do next time is use an 18mm Wera Joker, I’ve had a 13mm one of these for around three years and still works great whereas other brands of this type last a few months at best.
These new tops on bottles of fizzy stuff designed so you don't lose 'em. Can't get the fuckers back on unless you cut them off first. Fucking waste of time.
Is it so you don’t lose it? I thought it was to make sure it all stayed together for recycling
Yeah it’s for recycling (maybe that’s what he meant be losing them). I think it’s a good idea because prior to this I used to finish my drink and then chuck the bottle and lid in two completely different directions.
Yeah it’s for recycling (maybe that’s what he meant be losing them). I think it’s a good idea because prior to this I used to finish my drink and then chuck the bottle and lid in two completely different directions.
Do they still separate them when you but a bottle at The Valley? That used to annoy me...
Middle lane hoggers, but in particular those who pootle along 20 mph under the limit. This is one of the things mainland Europeans do get right (even though they only tend to have 2 lanes), they overtake and get straight back over.
Blokes I share the driving on long journeys with at work do it, they both go into a daydream and sit in the middle lane doing 60 mph, not even realising the irate drivers in the cars that frequently undertaking them. They will not drive in the inside line at any cost. Explained a to them a few time that I was taught the middle and outside lanes are for overtaking only, but they won't have it
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They may well have but my point was that I don't know these people who give credit to companies or products,but word of mouth from somebody who you know is something quite different.
And its always shown when the pig ignorant askee herding their band of snot-nosed feral life-forms they have foisted upon the world whose names they barely know yet define them, who clutches their pearls when I respond in a fairly direct way telling them, not to mind their business as they clearly are not anywhere near capable of that but to smile and say
"well actually, I could have nigh on purchased a 2nd property for cash with all the money I have dropped on IVF and thats before I get started on the enormous mental toll that whole rolling of the dice process takes out of everyone involved and the complete lacking of anything resembling care, empathy or even an explanation as to why the latest massive sum of money costing run of treatment has failed, but no you fucking ask away and have the nerve to look offended when I give you a very basic home truth that you should have had the tiniest volume of intelligence to work out anyway and bot use it as some sort of opening conversational gambit, but I shouldn't expect that from you, someone whose only offering to life and any social situation is to speak to me with great reverence about your kids and how your eldest child has finally worked out how to use the potty at 7 years old but they love playing football and could spell 'cat' correctly at the 80th attempt yet are in every other way, totally and utterly socially inept"
We have a shrinking, ageing population and the obvious and huge elephant in the room is genuinely people can barely afford to house, feed and take care of themselves yet there is still muppets asking people without children "duuuur when are you having kids, they are really rewarding" as if that's the point of having children or as if your life in some way is incomplete without them or my favourite saying "who will look after you when you get old". Now going on the total disregard most of my family (and a huge amount of others who barely even visit elderly relatives in hospices and care homes let alone and god forbid do the homework for them or just sit and chat bollocks with them for an hour of their time) had for taking care of my grandad when he needed it in the last few years all of you with kids are fucked too. Unless you have a few quid and a property in which case they won't be able to sign that magical power of attorney fast enough and take care of your wellbeing (care home) and financial affairs.
I dont always do that to people who ask what they stupidly believe is a fair and sensible yet incredibly personal question but I find it stops them doing it again and saves me wasting any energy on dins like that in future. Clean cut
My bollocks don't work Susan and I'm fcking skint trying to buy myself a kid. I found it made me happier to see those asking to look awfully awkward and to apologise while sheepishly walking back to their desk 😆
guarantee it never gets mentioned again
But some sets do actually have them, I've acquired a few sets of sockets over the years, my 1/2 Wera set comes with an 18mm socket and my Paramount combination spanner set has the 18mm also.
The one that annoyed me was the one one needed to take the thermostatic cartridge from a shower. 32mm I think, I ended up buying an impact socket, much snugger fit and didn't damage the brass nut.
I was under the impression that I must've purchased this when Halfords first opened, but Google says that that was in 1892 - I ain't that old!
It really annoys me for some reason. Maybe it's because they are usually sales people trying to sound like old friends.
Fortunately there's another table and I went there but before I did I heard some of what they had to talk about. men in groups can be cunts but the bitcheness by these type of women is off the scale. Seismic scale cunts.
Just reminded them that I never wanted to run the risk of turning into my alcoholic mother and making any child of mines life hell like she did to me.
Soon stopped.
The hardest time was whilst I was traveling in India. They just didn’t understand. So it was easier to tell them I just couldn’t. Think I have been blessed by more gods than anyone needing healing at Lourdes! And it still didn’t work…..hah! 😜
South east water has given no warning of this. though i should of suspected it after they were faffing about further along the road a week back. All of which stems from them digging up the whole road only a year ago. so presumably they didn't do a good enough job then.
Just caught some customer friendly Clancy employee just before they scooted off home to say what this was all about? "Emergency water works, somewhere over there" as he pointed to a non descripte area of road "and they just tell me where to put the signs and lights"
thing is mate did they tell you to put the sign smack bang in the middle of my fucking driveway?!
to which he replied, "I'll move it to the side but it needs to be there though"
I don't know whether to just move it completely off my driveway?
Each time it comes up, I have to look through squinting eyes, in case it’s mine.
Blokes I share the driving on long journeys with at work do it, they both go into a daydream and sit in the middle lane doing 60 mph, not even realising the irate drivers in the cars that frequently undertaking them. They will not drive in the inside line at any cost. Explained a to them a few time that I was taught the middle and outside lanes are for overtaking only, but they won't have it