Author Topic: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant. (Read 1626767 times)

L CC · « **Reply #5275 on:** 29 September, 2014, 04:15:11 pm »

'mom'.

We iz BRITONS innit.

Basil · « **Reply #5276 on:** 29 September, 2014, 05:00:40 pm »

Ah. OK.
I've always wondered how I'm supposed to spell that and tend to use either version on a pretty random basis.
Things I have learned today.

barakta · « **Reply #5277 on:** 29 September, 2014, 05:02:20 pm »

Mom is also a Brummieism tho. I've heard Brummies pronounce it Moh-m and write it that way too.

Basil · « **Reply #5278 on:** 29 September, 2014, 05:05:16 pm »

Quote from: barakta on 29 September, 2014, 05:02:20 pm

Mom is also a Brummieism tho. I've heard Brummies pronounce it Moh-m and write it that way too.

Oh bloody hell barakta, you just drop kicked me back into focused indecision land again.

mcshroom · « **Reply #5279 on:** 29 September, 2014, 05:41:13 pm »

It's Mam up here

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #5280 on:** 29 September, 2014, 05:43:33 pm »

Written "mum", pronounced "mom" in my family based in leafy, snarlingly Tory Solihull.

Guy · « **Reply #5281 on:** 30 September, 2014, 10:19:27 am »

My rotary slidey-cutter guillotine thingy is dying. Sliding left-to-right it cuts beeyootifully. Sliding right-to-left it makes graunching noises and chews the paper.

andrewc · « **Reply #5282 on:** 30 September, 2014, 08:51:21 pm »

BT have just made some changes to my email account, moving away from using Yahoo as a provider. For some reason the new settings didn't play with Mail on my Mac, I had to delete the account & rebuild it.

I've just realised I've lost the emails relating to my Eurostar trip to Belgium earlier in the year, which was delayed by more than 2 hours, entitling me to a free return ticket

Edit: found a hard copy of the tickets with the booking reference. That's a free ride to Paris or somewhere next year

fuzzy · « **Reply #5283 on:** 01 October, 2014, 11:31:36 pm »

Quote from: Guy on 30 September, 2014, 10:19:27 am

My rotary slidey-cutter guillotine thingy is dying. Sliding left-to-right it cuts beeyootifully. Sliding right-to-left it makes graunching noises and chews the paper.

I always thought slidey guilotines were designed to cut in one direction?

T42 · « **Reply #5284 on:** 02 October, 2014, 07:36:30 am »

Candidates for Koko's Little List: house guests that rise as early as I do, thus buggering up my blessed half-hour of peace with tea, grub, paper, dogs & parrot.

Basil · « **Reply #5285 on:** 02 October, 2014, 08:49:19 am »

^^^
Oh This! A thousand times this.

My morning routine has always been:
Get up nice and early. After the three Ss, loaf around kitchen, checking e-mails, yacf, listen to the Toady program on R4, gaze glumly into the top of a mug of coffee, that sort of thing. It's my private time. It's for me.

Now bloody lodger is also up, wants chats, wants cheerfulness. I don't do talking in the morning. I just don't.

Guy · « **Reply #5286 on:** 02 October, 2014, 09:01:26 am »

Quote from: fuzzy retd. on 01 October, 2014, 11:31:36 pm

Quote from: Guy on 30 September, 2014, 10:19:27 am
My rotary slidey-cutter guillotine thingy is dying. Sliding left-to-right it cuts beeyootifully. Sliding right-to-left it makes graunching noises and chews the paper.

I always thought slidey guilotines were designed to cut in one direction?

The "Dahle 508 Personal Trimmer" (oo-er) was designed to cut both ways, but that's GERMAN teckno-loggy for you.

ETA: And this morning it's slicing both ways again

woollypigs · « **Reply #5287 on:** 02 October, 2014, 09:53:42 am »

Used sliding cutter a lot, often it is just a bit of paper stuck. Most of times they just fall out other times you need to pick it out.

mcshroom · « **Reply #5288 on:** 02 October, 2014, 09:57:44 am »

Looks like I've left my house key in the front door this morning

Hoping no-one notices before I can get home at lunch time $:-\$

woollypigs · « **Reply #5289 on:** 02 October, 2014, 09:59:11 am »

What was your address again...

mcshroom · « **Reply #5290 on:** 02 October, 2014, 10:17:52 am »

Quote from: woollypigs on 02 October, 2014, 09:59:11 am

What was your address again...

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Wombat · « **Reply #5291 on:** 02 October, 2014, 12:14:18 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 02 October, 2014, 08:49:19 am

^^^
Oh This! A thousand times this.

My morning routine has always been:
Get up nice and early. After the three Ss, loaf around kitchen, checking e-mails, yacf, listen to the Toady program on R4, gaze glumly into the top of a mug of coffee, that sort of thing. It's my private time. It's for me.

Now bloody lodger is also up, wants chats, wants cheerfulness. I don't do talking in the morning. I just don't.

I always thought there were 4 S's necessary to start the day.
not necessarily in this order: Shower, shave, shit and a shag. I must confess my own days rarely get off to that good a start

Kim · « **Reply #5292 on:** 02 October, 2014, 12:39:55 pm »

Just the one 'S' here: Sleep.

mcshroom · « **Reply #5293 on:** 02 October, 2014, 01:23:40 pm »

Quote from: mcshroom on 02 October, 2014, 09:57:44 am

Looks like I've left my house key in the front door this morning

Hoping no-one notices before I can get home at lunch time $:-\$

They were where I left them. Lunch time is just long enough to get home and get back to work again but I had to shift a bit

interzen · « **Reply #5294 on:** 02 October, 2014, 01:41:34 pm »

Quote from: mcshroom on 02 October, 2014, 01:23:40 pm

Quote from: mcshroom on 02 October, 2014, 09:57:44 am
Looks like I've left my house key in the front door this morning

Hoping no-one notices before I can get home at lunch time $:-\$
They were where I left them. Lunch time is just long enough to get home and get back to work again but I had to shift a bit

I did that once - drove home at Ludicrous Speed to find a note from the postie¹ saying he'd locked the door and left the keys with someone across the road. Just as well he didn't put them through the letterbox - I'd have been royally screwed as my 'spare' set of keys is with my parents. In County Durham.

¹ - we're fortunate enough to have a 'regular' postman. I left him a token of my appreciation at the post office.

mcshroom · « **Reply #5295 on:** 02 October, 2014, 01:48:38 pm »

I've been meaning to a) change that lock to a non-snap, non-bump one*, and b) hide a spare back door key somewhere just in case I get locked out, for a while

Think this might have just given me an appropriate shaped tuit for those.

*and one I definitively know the Estate Agent/previous owners don't have a key for

Templogin · « **Reply #5296 on:** 02 October, 2014, 01:50:14 pm »

My postie once dropped in a neighbours key, who had left it in the door. Soon as the postie was away I was over there, but the place was full of crap bikes so I didn't Nick anything!

Vince · « **Reply #5297 on:** 02 October, 2014, 02:57:29 pm »

I was driving to Bristol on an occasion, I got as far as Charfield when I had the strong feeling that I had forgotten something and turned around. The front door was wide open.

tiermat · « **Reply #5298 on:** 02 October, 2014, 03:10:25 pm »

I have returened from collecting TLD from school to find I have locked the front door, but left the back door wide open.

Basil · « **Reply #5299 on:** 02 October, 2014, 03:12:42 pm »

I got up in the morning some years ago to find the front door wide open.

Other times I have:
Left the keys in the front door lock all night.
Left the car keys in the passenger door lock (next to the pavement) all night
Left a bike out front of the house all night. (Twice)