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What really grinds your gears?

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Jan 2020
4:49pm, 9 Jan 2020
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Fragile Do Not Bend
UK websites that want to you to select your country from an alphabetical list but don’t put the UK at the top. I’m tempted to leave it on Afghanistan next time.
Jan 2020
4:58pm, 9 Jan 2020
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McGoohan
In a similar vein, the BBC Weather website when you start entering a place to look at the weather and type, e.g. Chi... and it suggests China so you put another C, so it reads Chic... and they suggest Chichester, Wisconsin and Chichester, New South Wales and Chioczxduuuooop, Slovakia and *right down the bottom of the list* is Chichester, Sussex, UK.
Jan 2020
6:13pm, 9 Jan 2020
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Eynsham Red
It would seem that “Iranian” is now to be pronounced “Irahnian” on the BBC news.
Jan 2020
3:04pm, 10 Jan 2020
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beebop
Rushing to get to an appointment on time, only to find the other person is ten minutes late.
PK
Jan 2020
3:31pm, 10 Jan 2020
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PK
Helen asking dumb-ass questions that she doesn't need to know, or should already know, the answer too. :(
Jan 2020
3:35pm, 10 Jan 2020
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cackleberry
My mother right now.
Well, both parents at the moment as my Dad is not replying either.
I have a two hour drive to visit them tomorrow and need to know where I am sleeping!!

(In the back of my own car at this rate, grr.)
Jan 2020
3:44pm, 10 Jan 2020
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cackleberry
Going back a couple of pages...

That exercise 'incentive' that pays you money to exercise. I think it's again enforcing the idea that exercise is punishment rather than something that can be enjoyed.
Jan 2020
4:24pm, 10 Jan 2020
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rf_fozzy
At the moment, me not having done the washing up.

But I have no-one else to blame for it not being done.

Like the fact that my house is *always* a mess. Even 5mins after I tidy up. How does that happen?
Jan 2020
7:03pm, 10 Jan 2020
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magnumpti
Typical run in with a car driving right into the green box tonight.

Me: This is for bikes, you’re breaking the law crossing that line.
Him: Are you a police officer?
Me: No but I know the law.
Him: Well my son’s a policeman.
Me: So why are you breaking the law
Him: What’s your problem you’ve got plenty of space?

Continue going around in circles until eventually:

Him: This is why people don’t like cyclists.
Jan 2020
7:04pm, 10 Jan 2020
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swittle
[clandestine lodger, fozzy?]

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