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swittle Jun 2023 10:52pm, 28 Jun 2023 98,151 posts	Quote Pin swittle The increasing use of the word 'hack' to mean an idea e.g. '20 gardening hacks to improve your garden '. [I have a picture of a score of horticultural journalists clad in overalls and ready for work.]
Carpathius Jun 2023 10:59pm, 28 Jun 2023 22,408 posts	Quote Pin Carpathius Literal LOL switts!
Eynsham Red Jun 2023 9:16am, 29 Jun 2023 9,778 posts	Quote Pin Eynsham Red The increasing use of the word 'hack' to mean an idea e.g. '20 gardening hacks to improve your garden '. [I have a picture of a score of horticultural journalists clad in overalls and ready for work.] [The image it put in my mind was someone equipped with a machete ready to sort out an overgrown bamboo patch.]
Fragile Do Not Bend Jun 2023 9:37am, 29 Jun 2023 11,280 posts	Quote Pin Fragile Do Not Bend Gardening hack: get a hack to hack down your garden until they get hacked off and take their horse for a hack.
Raemond Jun 2023 10:19am, 29 Jun 2023 10,566 posts	Quote Pin Raemond A 'friend' from my old rugby club 'bought' over €300 worth of my clothes (actually they're worth a lot more, I quoted her very low prices because I foolishly thought it would be much easier than having to list everything individually to sell online), but has failed to actually pay for them for nearly a month now, despite saying more than once that she would make the bank transfer that day, or the next day, or on a specific date. She has turned off read receipts in WhatsApp so I can't tell if she has seen my last messages, and previously she has ignored me for days until another member of the club told her I was worried that something might have happened to her because she had gone silent. I'm so angry and disappointed with her, and myself for being so naive.
stilldreaming Jun 2023 1:35pm, 29 Jun 2023 1,203 posts	Quote Pin stilldreaming Sainsbury's and the like having dual pricing (one price if you have your Nectar card, another if you don't!). Can make a big difference to a weekly shop and seems like we're being held to ransom (and makes the shopping even more complicated than it needs to be) 😡🤬
Metro_Nome Jun 2023 1:45pm, 29 Jun 2023 7,094 posts	Quote Pin Metro_Nome That sucks Rae
LazyDaisy Jul 2023 9:56am, 2 Jul 2023 38,435 posts	Quote Pin LazyDaisy There are three parking spaces outside our house. Why is that drivers of stupidly huge Jaguar/Audi/BMW* 4x4s are incapable of parking in one space but feel entitled to straddle two spaces, leaving two unusably small spaces either side of their car? If they're incapable of parallel parking sensibly they shouldn't be behind the wheel. *It really is always these three marques.
Raemond Jul 2023 10:09am, 2 Jul 2023 10,573 posts	Quote Pin Raemond (my theory is that drivers who have spent so much more money on their vehicles feel they have that much more right to occupy space with it, if only subconsciously, LazDa)
Sigh Jul 2023 10:47am, 2 Jul 2023 21,194 posts	Quote Pin Sigh There are three parking spaces outside our house. Why is that drivers of stupidly huge Jaguar/Audi/BMW* 4x4s are incapable of parking in one space but feel entitled to straddle two spaces, leaving two unusably small spaces either side of their car? If they're incapable of parallel parking sensibly they shouldn't be behind the wheel. It really is always these three marques. We have started to refer to such folks as "TFSI's", inspired by the letters often seen on the back of Audi's, which clearly are "Totally F**ing Selfish Idiot"