Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

[Count Steer]

buying a smart pair of jeans.

'Smart jeans' always puts me in mind of celebrity chef Robert Irvine (the low-rent Ramsay knock off, with muscles) who badly carries off smart jeans with dress shoes. Or Blair in any jeans.

I worked with someone who used to iron his jeans to put creases down the front like proper trousers. After a while they developed a white line down the front.

[cheb]

If your licence is that important maybe you should have taken the hint sooner.

If it saves one life...

Do you have to do a training course to learn to be such a sanctimonious prick or does it just come naturally to you?

Maybe, maybe not. I'm not the one who's whining though. The first bit was serious, the second bit less so, but here's no deadpan smiley.

There's been outrage threads on here about drivers who are still on the road despite having more than 12 points on their licence but they've not been forum members so are pitchforkable. I CBA with tribalism so tough on you for not having the wit to learn.

[Pirahna]

I've a mate who works as a site chippie and back in the day when average speed cameras were a new thing: he sets off for work one morning and there's temporary roadworks with average speed cameras, it about 6am so he ignores the cameras and drives through at 70mph. He's done a big day and when he's on the way home all the road workers have gone, so he drives through at whatever speed. Two weeks later a couple of NIP's drop through the letterbox, and the next day, and next day. I think he finished up with 18 speeding NIP's over a 2 week period. His brief managed to get him off, fuck knows how but he did. He got 9 points for the lot and was told if he offended again the previous NIP's would be taken into account when working out the ban.

[Newey]

So me and the misses are out doing the grocery shopping ( she has the cash on her), we're all done except for the paying bit, I spot the empty cashier whip in smartish and start unloading, I turn around to talk to her and she's not there, I now have to decide to either carry on unloading in the hope she finds me in time to pay ( she has the cash remember) or put the stuff back in the trolley and go find her, insignificant really but annoying lol

[Yorick]

Watching Manchester Utd. But it's got a girl commentating? WTF

Maybe the bloke rang in sick

[demographic]

I get up when I like, 'cept on Wednesdays, when I get rudely awaken by the dustmen.
I 'ave a cup of tea, then I think about leavin' the house....

I'd imaging feeding the pigeons and maybe eveen feeding the sparrows would give you an enormous feeling of wellbeing also.

[Mr. Dazzle]

It does make me happy for the rest of the day, yes.

[Count Steer]

It does make me happy for the rest of the day, yes.

Which is a good state of mind when your jobs all Vorsprunk durch Technik.

On the topic...sorting the waste..you need an AI to work out what can and can't go in the recycle bin and the number of things that have stuff on that says things like 'suitable for kerbside recycling (check with your Local Authority) etc etc.

[Mr. Dazzle]

MK council give out free recycling bags with info printed on the side showing what you can put in them. They used to have the bags just free to take in select locations all around the town (soon to be city!), but they stopped doing that when people were taking the piss....'cause of course they had to. Now you get a big fat roll once a year and you have to apply for top ups.

One of the only things they don't take it carrier bags, but loads of supermarkets take them now don't they? I reckon CooP have the right solution, their bags are biodegradable - although I should probably check that claim out!

[cheb]

MK council give out free recycling bags with info printed on the side showing what you can put in them. They used to have the bags just free to take in select locations all around the town (soon to be city!), but they stopped doing that when people were taking the piss....'cause of course they had to. Now you get a big fat roll once a year and you have to apply for top ups.

One of the only things they don't take it carrier bags, but loads of supermarkets take them now don't they? I reckon CooP have the right solution, their bags are biodegradable - although I should probably check that claim out!

They claim to be compostable now which is one up from biodegradable. The latter being they broke down into very small pieces of the original plastic. For all their posturing the Co-Op are very good are marketing and less good on doing the right thing.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Apparently said CooP bags are made from Mater-Bi plastic which meets standard EN 13432

"The criteria for the industrial compostability of packaging are set out in the European standard EN 13432. EN 13432 requires the compostable plastics to disintegrate after 12 weeks and completely biodegrade after six months. That means that 90 percent or more of the plastic material will have been converted to CO2.4 Sept 2018"

Still worse than just using a bag more than once though.

[Mussels]

Compostable bags normally means in a commercial unit only, home compost bins are unlikely to get hot enough.

[Jody]

MK council give out free recycling bags with info printed on the side showing what you can put in them. They used to have the bags just free to take in select locations all around the town (soon to be city!), but they stopped doing that when people were taking the piss....'cause of course they had to. Now you get a big fat roll once a year and you have to apply for top ups.

One of the only things they don't take it carrier bags, but loads of supermarkets take them now don't they? I reckon CooP have the right solution, their bags are biodegradable - although I should probably check that claim out!

#prideofbritain

[Cousin Jack]

WTF has happened to screws?

I need some smallish wood screws for a particular repair job. They need to be round or pan or cheese head, I can cope with any reasonable driving system but they MUST have a flat shoulder rather than a countersink head. They can be alloy, or nickel plated steel or brass, anything except that horrible cheap nasty black japaned finish.

B&Q don't have any (quelle suprise), Screwfix don't either, nor any other of the local builders merchants. Oh for an old-fashioned ironmonger!

[Mr. Dazzle]

Oh for an old-fashioned ironmonger!

I know two of those....one in Portsmouth, one just outside Oxford.

I suspect neither are of much use to you

[Cousin Jack]

Oh for an old-fashioned ironmonger!

I know two of those....one in Portsmouth, one just outside Oxford.

I suspect neither are of much use to you

Is that place still going down in Fenny?

And where is that one near Oxford, I may send the daughter with a list?

[Count Steer]

WTF has happened to screws?

I need some smallish wood screws for a particular repair job. They need to be round or pan or cheese head, I can cope with any reasonable driving system but they MUST have a flat shoulder rather than a countersink head. They can be alloy, or nickel plated steel or brass, anything except that horrible cheap nasty black japaned finish.

B&Q don't have any (quelle suprise), Screwfix don't either, nor any other of the local builders merchants. Oh for an old-fashioned ironmonger!

Don't think I've ever seen a flat shouldered wood screw tbh.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Is that place still going down in Fenny?

And where is that one near Oxford, I may send the daughter with a list?

What place? This may be useful info to me!

The one in Oxford is called "Oxon Fastening Systems" and it's not in Oxford at all. It's in Eynsham, just down the A40, next door to Nitron and my old place of work.

[Cousin Jack]

What place? This may be useful info to me!

Can't remember the name, but when I first moved to MK they had a biggish shop in Bletchley on Queensway. Then they moved to a much smaller place down in Fenny on Aylesbury Street.

Looking on Google Street View I can't find anything that looks like it, so I'm fairly certain it is no more.

[DefTrap]

On the topic...sorting the waste..you need an AI to work out what can and can't go in the recycle bin and the number of things that have stuff on that says things like 'suitable for kerbside recycling (check with your Local Authority) etc etc.

It's really effing annoying. My neighbours keep getting it wrong (understandably contradictory information on what can / can't be recycled on labelling versus what the council say can be recycled ...) . Then the militant binmen reject bins when they spot something they don't like - which is fine, I suppose - but then all that happens is that the bins get left out for a week by hacked off homeowners and there's lots of tutting and moaning.
They should do what I do - hide anything I'm unsure about at the bottom of the bin.

I'd considered making a stand and not buying anything that came in packaging that isn't obviously labelled as recyclable but ffs it just drags out the already interminable shopping even further, peering at packages like Mr Magoo ...