What really grinds your gears?

180 watchers

ChrisHB Jan 2021 10:30am, 16 Jan 2021 20,433 posts	0 ChrisHB [ seeing McDelivery on our local branch yesterday, I mentally pronounced it as Muck Delivery. ]
AdrianB1066 Jan 2021 12:03pm, 17 Jan 2021 6,490 posts	0 AdrianB1066 When the speedily read terms and conditions are nearly as long as the rest of the advert.
Diogenes Jan 2021 6:44pm, 19 Jan 2021 56,761 posts	0 Diogenes Three phone while eating dinner, the first just as I sat down. I couldn’t ignore them because they were from my Mum’s carers and her GP practice. The same thing happened last night. (she’s alright, it’s all to do with her forgetting to take her medication)
Carpathius Jan 2021 6:27am, 20 Jan 2021 20,476 posts	0 Carpathius The way the hospital counts. Patients are swabbed on admission, on day three of admission and day 7 of admission. This is recorded as "Day 0, Day 3, Day 7". Except if Day 0 is the 20th, Day 3 is the 22nd. That's not how numbers work!
MarkyMarkMark (3M) Jan 2021 10:09am, 20 Jan 2021 14,079 posts	0 MarkyMarkMark (3M) [Not many people start counting at zero, Carp. I can see how the confusion crept in!]
JK chameleon Jan 2021 10:15am, 20 Jan 2021 13,278 posts	0 JK chameleon [But if it's recorded at zero, which number are people skipping? Surely people know 0, 1, 2, 3?]
ChrisHB Jan 2021 1:21pm, 20 Jan 2021 20,458 posts	0 ChrisHB Signal - nothing but error messages. I am regretting the 2/5 rating I gave it. (It was only failing frequently then, not consistently.)
Velociraptor Jan 2021 6:02pm, 21 Jan 2021 51,180 posts	0 Velociraptor People who always leave a bit of their food for "Mr Manners". Somebody's going to have to do the extra work of scraping that plate into the bin.
XB Jan 2021 6:12pm, 21 Jan 2021 11,202 posts	0 XB Neither of my daughters know how to clean a plate properly. Bring back rationing and they'll soon learn to lick that platter clean.
swittle Jan 2021 6:15pm, 21 Jan 2021 72,371 posts	0 swittle [bread - that's the route to a clean plate ]