The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.

[spesh]

Arse!  Blew out a candle , then turned around & knocked it over.   Wax splatters on 2 different rugs & the laminate floor.   Guess what I'm cleaning tomorrow 

That'll teach you not to perform the Rite of AshkEnte the old-fashioned way - it works with  three small sticks and 4 cc of mouse blood or even with a fresh egg and two small sticks. 

[Wowbagger]

If you are using your arse to blow out a candle is that not risking an explosion?

[ElyDave]

A small flash fire at worst. Ive never modelled it, but t would take a fair few farts and a degree of congestion to achieve a run up to detonation.

I don't think the farting is the riskiest bit of the ritual

[andrewc]

I've got a hangnail on my right index finger.   It keeps catching so I've put a plaster on it.     That's my scrolling finger,  it's now awkward to use either a mouse or a trackpad 

[T42]

Spent a chunk of the afternoon scrabbling round for the bits to resurrect my old (pre-2010) PC so as to use an ancient development language my current box has taken a scunner against. Finally switched on around 5:30: screen sync skew-whiff with fetching green blobs here & there, barely legible aaargh messages imparting that the CMOS battery has quit.  Well of course it has. Arse.

[Polar Bear]

I've got a hangnail on my right index finger.   It keeps catching so I've put a plaster on it.     That's my scrolling finger,  it's now awkward to use either a mouse or a trackpad 

I had to google to find out what a hangnail is.  Fortunately something that I have never suffered.

Apparently you can soften them up and trim the protruding skin only if that helps.  Warm soapy water or petroleum jelly apparently.

[Mrs Pingu]

I've got a hangnail on my right index finger.   It keeps catching so I've put a plaster on it.     That's my scrolling finger,  it's now awkward to use either a mouse or a trackpad 

I bought a cuticle nipper and my life was transformed. I don't use it for manicures, just trimming those bits that turn into hangnails.
No more trying to pull off the bit of skin snd instantly regretting it...

[fd3]

Bike prices rising faster than my n+1 bike fund (yes, even second hand).

[Ginger Cat]

I've got a hangnail on my right index finger.   It keeps catching so I've put a plaster on it.     That's my scrolling finger,  it's now awkward to use either a mouse or a trackpad 

I bought a cuticle nipper and my life was transformed. I don't use it for manicures, just trimming those bits that turn into hangnails.
No more trying to pull off the bit of skin snd instantly regretting it...

I have a finger tip where due to eczema the skin gets tough then cracks open (ouch), in just the wrong place for using a keyboard.

Then I remembered you can superglue cuts together, so now when my fingertip cracks I put a little dab of superglue on to stop the crack opening. Works a treat.

GC

[TheLurker]

Then I remembered you can superglue cuts together, so now when my fingertip cracks I put a little dab of superglue on to stop the crack opening. Works a treat.

Also works for knuckles.  DAHIKT.

[orienteer]

I once jokingly told my dentist I'd thought of supergluing a broken filling back in.

He told me superglue contains arsenic.

[fuzzy]

Bike prices rising faster than my n+1 bike fund (yes, even second hand).

Had a customer today interested in a Domane SLR7 Di2. Retail £6400 and we have one in stock in his size. He asked if we could do a deal and I told him (only half in jest) that yes, we could do a deal. He can have it for £6600 as we won't have trouble selling it

[Torslanda]

I once jokingly told my dentist I'd thought of supergluing a broken filling back in.

He told me superglue contains arsenic.

Not 100% about that but superglues generally contain cyanoacrylate ester...

[ElyDave]

Its the cyanoacrylate that reacts with the moisture in the air. I did some consulting work for a company in Fife that controlled something like a third of the worlds supply of superglue at the time through one of the sub ingredients

[ian]

Acrylates are a suspected carcinogen, but then everything is, and it's probably based on one of those studies where they dropped a 50kg sack on some rats and found many of them dead.

[ElyDave]

swmbo used the phrase "something wth no risk" today, and took umbrage when I suggested "do nothing"  Can't think why? She knows what I do for a living.

[rafletcher]

Why can’t Herts libraries get their act together. Let us select our own books for reading, not someone else’s idea of a “book pack”.

https://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/about-the-council/news/news-archive/hertfordshire-libraries-launch-ready-reads

[Cudzoziemiec]

In Bristol we're being trusted to choose our own books from the online catalogue but there's also a "book pack" style scheme; tell them what you like reading and they'll choose things they consider suitable. It sounds a reasonably good idea for those who like to go in and browse but if that's the only option, it's rather restrictive. And how come we can't go in and browse the shelves of libraries but can do so in bookshops?

[rafletcher]

It’s the choice of the council, so I’d guess it’s playing it ultra safe in not opening the libraries fully. The Herts scheme initially is for three libraries, then perhaps 10 more, but as we’re on the extreme western edge of the county (we’re actually in Bucks, but getting to Aylesbury library is a loathsome experience ETA; All Bucks libraries have reopened to some degree)  I suspect Tring will be amongst the last, it it ever reopens. But what I don’t get is why can’t we return our borrowed books (we’ve about a dozen at home) and collect our outstanding reservations? Why some pre-determined “books like this” chosen by others, and no doubt most of which I’ll have already read if I like them? Bah!

[TheLurker]

...how come we can't go in and browse the shelves of libraries but can do so in bookshops?

My guess?  Councils have less money than bookshops and can't afford the cost keeping the public spaces and surfaces "clean".  A more cynical thought is that because of the funding cuts to councils they are going to use the, "But no one was using it." excuse to close them permanently, but I may be being unduly jaundiced in my view of things.

[T42]

...how come we can't go in and browse the shelves of libraries but can do so in bookshops?

My guess?  Councils have less money than bookshops and can't afford the cost keeping the public spaces and surfaces "clean".  A more cynical thought is that because of the funding cuts to councils they are going to use the, "But no one was using it." excuse to close them permanently, but I may be being unduly jaundiced in my view of things.

I suspect it's also because library books will "travel" through many homes and be handled by many people. How long the virus might persist on them is a different question, but playing safe is cheaper.

[rafletcher]

...how come we can't go in and browse the shelves of libraries but can do so in bookshops?

My guess?  Councils have less money than bookshops and can't afford the cost keeping the public spaces and surfaces "clean".  A more cynical thought is that because of the funding cuts to councils they are going to use the, "But no one was using it." excuse to close them permanently, but I may be being unduly jaundiced in my view of things.

I suspect it's also because library books will "travel" through many homes and be handled by many people. How long the virus might persist on them is a different question, but playing safe is cheaper.

The books will be “quarantined” for 72 hours. I’d be inclined to surmise book shops are private enterprise and non-unionised. But I may be equally as jaundiced in my views as Lurker.

[Mr Larrington]

...how come we can't go in and browse the shelves of libraries but can do so in bookshops?

My guess?  Councils have less money than bookshops and can't afford the cost keeping the public spaces and surfaces "clean".  A more cynical thought is that because of the funding cuts to councils they are going to use the, "But no one was using it." excuse to close them permanently, but I may be being unduly jaundiced in my view of things.

Libraries are hotbeds of subversion.  If the Tories shut them down then the proles won't get to read about the Labour Theory of Value and the storming of the Winter Palace.  Or something.

[Kim]

If they let people into the library, they might use the computers to jump through DWP hoops and avoid having their benefits sanctioned.

[Mr Larrington]

If they let people into the library, they might use the computers to jump through DWP hoops and avoid having their benefits sanctioned.

Which in turn would lead to a shortfall in the Daily Heil's quota of outraged stories about benefit claimants owning smartphones.  And that would never do.