😠 The Little Annoyances Of Everyday Life (Part 1)

Completely agree. They all are.
See if you can get a second hand carpet :joy:

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To modern. I might have just bought one of these(future planning).

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And there’s three big fat wood pigeons that always sit on my garage roof(flat) waiting for the other birds to drop most of the feed on the floor(they always do. Pigeons know).

Only problem, if i miss the arrow goes out into the road.
That’ll teach the twat that thinks they should still be allowed to livešŸ¤”

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Catapult. 10mm lead ball.

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10mm?
You could take down a deer with a single good head shot (it would have to be good, but definitely possible).
Would a miss also not travel further than an arrow(all that weight distribution and aero stuff? A longer dangerous velocity for an extended distance at least?).
You’ve gone all American overkill🦃. That said i’d still buy you a drink if you can get the little fuckers(pigeons or neighbours, all the same).

Distance will depend on the bands you’re using and draw length but no, it would drop off pretty quickly (lead more so than similar sized steel). Effective head shot kill range on a pigeon will be up to around 25 metres though that’s a pretty fucking good shot after 15 metres or so.

This has all gone a bit…

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Be warned though, you can see that cunt of a bird died clasping someone’s left bollock (someone with small bollox obviously or it’s a huge claw… there is no scale)

Poly is only good for car ports and sheds in order to let light in. Anyone putting in poly in a conservatory deserves to be shot up the arse with a catapult. It’s ace in my potting shed though.

DISASTER! :lou_facepalm_2:

My Samsung Slider Phone decided go belly up this afternoon. I bought it for a US holiday in 2011 as I needed a dual band phone. It was cutting edge as you can imagine and cost a hefty 28 quid but it had an FM radio and a 1.5 mp camera so I thought the extra expense was warranted.

Lady Slowlane suggested the time was right to embrace those new-fangled Interweb phones that you can endlessly stare at but in an effort to postpone the seemingly inevitable I Googled the Interweb for a Slider Phone replacement. Yay! I found my exact model on Amazon but crestfallen when I saw they were asking £130 for a used one without any added functionality like a Virus Contact Tracing thingey.

It was then that Chambers (our General Factotum come Odd Job Man) reminded me that in a crazy episode of generosity I had bought Lady Slowlane the exact same model Slider for her birthday some years before.

ā€œYes,ā€ said Lady Slowlane, ā€œyou mean old bastard, I’ve never used it as I already had an Intelligent Interweb Phone thingey. You’ll find it in the bedside cabinet underneath those boxes of little blue lozenges you bought last Christmas.ā€

Bingo there it was…a brand new Samsung Slider Phone. I jemmied open the back of the phone and swapped the Silicon Chip Thingey…plugged it into the mains to charge it up and now I have my new Slider Phone that will hopefully see me into my 80s…if I’m spared.

Peace reins throughout the world again. :lou_lol:

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Was it something like this?

If so I still have one ā€œalmost newā€ - acquired it about 5 years ago brilliant back up thingy which we used at Glasto. Had a proper/decent zoom and basic interwebery/phone stuff.

Brither in Law used same model for work - Loss Adjusting back in those days managed to get him one when his died, he still uses it!

Noooo…nothing like that…
This one… Samsung E2550 Monte Slide Mobile Phone

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I miss my Sony Ericsson W800i, sadly met it’s end in 2013 after a kayaking mishap, 7 years I had it and it could have gone on for another 14 easily :lou_sad:

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I had one of those or something similar. Great phone except the charging port was so badly designed that the cable never stayed in properly and gummed up with dirt easily. I think I replaced after a few years because I could no longer get it to charge.

Best photos I ever took were with one of these…

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How do you wind it up?

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:lou_facepalm_2: You don’t have to wind them up…they have a wank-wind setting with a Bluit Gas Cylinder back-up.

Automated chat systems on websites.

The sort that pop up, pretending to be a real person asking if they can assist you.

I’m in the market for a new laptop and have twice visited websites where, during the course of browsing, I was asked if I wanted to chat.

On both occasions I wanted to check a detail of a laptop so interacted with the chat system - entered my questions and waited, and waited and waited. Nothing.

On both occasions I had to specify my email address and still didn’t get a respond via email. On one occasion they asked me to rate the chat experience and I told them it was shit and still no response.

Bastards.

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