😠 The Little Annoyances Of Everyday Life (Part 1)

Monkey Tennis
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In a word…nope.

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Sad to see the state of Salisbury Market today.
Times when it was rammed & had 10 year waiting lists for a stall.
Now? Very little considering it was the heart of the City.
Well done nimbies

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Reckon Covid and novichok hasn’t helped

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Had planned to back in to the office on Thursday for the first time since lockdown - mainly for a client meeting and a long lunch and then meet YoungAdult#1 for drinks later…hic!

Desk space / meeting room booked etc.

Client has only gone and got pinged so we’re now doing meeting online.

YoungAdult#1’s research lab are now also all self-isolating until next week.

Have cancelled meeting room and desk and will go back another day.

It’s too bloody hot to sweat it out with the great unwashed/ non-masked mouth breathers on the trains and tube.

Perhaps this should go on the life’s little pleasures thread instead? :thinking:

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Office grade AC is a god send in this weather

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And also a disease spreader

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True - makes the arrival great, but the journey home…

At home though I’ve Mrs C_S eating a very large portion of humble pie over the various electric fans I brought back after clearing out Mum’s house just before Xmas: “why’d you bring that rubbish back, we’ll never use them”

Ha!

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Particularly if you’re a legionnaire apparently :wink:

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Shopping weighs 20kg.
In a sports holdall.
I’m gonna negotiate 1km from Victoria coach station to Underground then the underground…
Forgot to pack a shoulder strap ffs

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Made it.
Almost killed me but back in Essex.
Phew.

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Having to shut down my computer and unplug it.
Cant be used because the fan (after making awful noises for over 6 months).
The real annoyance?
We have an IT technician (young adult 1 - closer to 40 than 30) living in the house who since being asked to look at the problem last December, hasn’t!
Just biding my time for when he asks me for any kind of favour so I can say fuck off.

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Withhold all food and laundry services until he pulls his finger out. Drink all of his beer. Change the wifi code

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Really good suggestions, but:

  1. He does his own laundry (has done from an early age when his mother told him to do it, because she wasn’t going to).

  2. He doesn’t drink!

  3. I don’t even know what a wifi code is.

  4. We have always made sure the boys (one has got married and buggered off) paid the going rate for their keep, so I have to be careful not to cut off nose to spite face!

I have a long vengeful memory - my time will come!

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You sound like my ex-wife.

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My laptop fan was making some horrible noises a while back, it was quite old so I thought fuck it, I’ll open it up, turned out some of the fan blades had snapped and were just being churned up whenever it span, took them out with some tweezers and problem solved*.

*Disclaimer: I accept no responsibility if you do what I did and fuck up your computer worse than it is, I may have just got lucky. Proceed with maximum scepticism and/or caution. And make sure the bastard is unplugged/switched off.

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We recently got planning permission to add a 9 square metre roof terrace on to our 1 bed flat in Brixton which is great - but the architects are now saying it’ll be £20-40k to get it done when we were expecting £10-20k.

We’re looking to buy a 3 or 4 bed house in Hackney/Walthamstow/Leytonstone within the year and given how quickly the house prices are going up there it’s probably not worth the effort of getting it done

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Another life gripe - had a fifth and final job interview for a role I really want on the 12th and now they’re saying it’s between me and another candidate but they can’t decide.

It’s been a tortuous 2 weeks (assuming they decide on Monday which is by no means guaranteeed) :confused:

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They’ve been watching those home improvement tv shows and see you as one of those young rich professional types, that’s an extra £10k on the price right there :roll_eyes::wink:

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Fingers crossed :crossed_fingers:

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The US moving goalposts?

Not a fan of Bezos or Branson but they’ve done more to move on space flight and interest in space exploration than the moribund national space agencies of this world.

Sour grape by the US FAA? Arses :+1:

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