Oh, and some critter coming into my back yard during the night and taking my last two tomatoes of the season that where ripe for picking today… what animal eats tomatoes???

Possums here.... I think you have something similar in the US?

Sure we have possums and I’ve seen one on our wall, but not for a few years.

I still think my wife picked them and can’t remember doing so!

:D

Rats will get into them as well.

Raccoons

Have them too. Seen their footprints and mayhem with the trash cans.

Coyotes a possibility ?

We have them too… not sure it’s there style to be so clandestine.

Could it have be an Opossum?

We had a family of them taking over a tree for an hour or so in Florida - about 8 or more in one go.

They look cute but they're sinister little feckers.

Not quite as frightening as the Alligator that invaded our garage but that's another story.

I’ve encountered plenty of corporate bullshit in my working life but this absolutely baffles me. Is this a UK-based company? US-based? Big company? Small company? What about referring to any children one might have? How would that not similarly upset people without children? Are they your ‘little people’? What if they are bigger than you? This is an absolute cluster**** of a slippery slope.

Thanks for answering as much as you can!

Ridiculous amount of raisins in Fruit and Fibre cereal. May as well have a slice of fruit cake for breakfast.

Indeed, I am all for mutual respect, tolerance and inclusivity. But I am utterly lost as to what they think they will acheive by deleting the dictionary.

Plus being 'instructed' like this just makes people want to do the exact opposite or take the piss.

I see a story brewing here, between, raccoons, coyotes, possums, rats, or any other critters…..The case of two missing baby tomotoes……forward by Alfred Hitchcock……

We will be lost for words if they delete the dictionary

What about a grizzly bear ?

Winton? We’ve got family about 350 miles north in Chillagoe.

Small world. :)

Gotta love Australia, where 350 miles is just around the corner! (Edit: how annoying that must be :))

One thing that has annoyed me recently our daughter was invited to a birthday party....great. I asked our daughter, and she said she'd love to go, and then 2 days later were told by the sons Mum it will cost us £19 for her entry/food etc.

I understand times are tough for many at the moment, but the sheer audacity to invite a child to a party and then be told you have to pay for the privilege to attend in addition to purchasing a present is a bloody joke. The cynical part of me wondered how many more people had been invited to the party, just to bulk out the sons present list. You could say "don't go", but by this stage we'd told her she'd been invited so I wasn't prepared to let her down.
I was always told as a child, if you can't afford something you go without, and if I didn't have enough money to pay for our daughter's birthday, we'd simply have a tea party in doors on a budget and make the most of the situation. I'd be embarrassed to do that to others. Maybe I'm just a miserable git.

On a number of occasions I have lifted the trash can lid to have a couple of raccoons leap out and leg it.

I just took a look this morning and looks like whoever/whatever took the ripe red ones yesterday came back last night and took the last green tomato.

There is absolutely no evidence left behind, and the tomatoes removed cleanly and without disturbing the plant.

A mystery.

People who use the 'being the best version' expression.

Ex-England goalkeeper Rachel Brown-Finnis just said: This looks like the best version of Almiron that any of us have seen since he arrived at the club.

What ******* nonsense.

You need a camera to solve this, place a webcam with a motion detector

I beat you to it!

I've taken my Blink camera from my front door and set it up facing the 3x tomato plants. It has night vision so should pick up any movement during the night.

As there are no tomatoes left now they may not come back if they are smart enough to know that.

Well done, our own Californian Sleuth. I shall tune in same time again tomorrow on the same bat channel :)

I use my spare ring battery camera as a rat/mouse detector. One downside is that you start to realise quite how many ‘things’ creep around your garden at night :) When the neighbour had a problem with rats I found myself watching for the b****y things all night. Surprisingly stressful. So be warned.

The habit on here of taking any change of circumstance at another club as bringing about impending doom for Palace: "Oh no, Exeter have changed their Bovril supplier, that's bound to get them fired up if we draw them in the cup"

Su Pollard
Jimmy Carr

Fair.

Why not launch your own, more balanced version?

Sunshine Lucas would be a great brand name.

Mountain Lion?

I don't care what it is really, as long as it's not a human!

Ooh yes words where they’re not needed. Like Michah lol Richards:

‘Going forward, I don't think City can improve right now’

Amen

Sits and awaits the inevitable " I moved my ring camera and now can't get it to reboot and I won't stream to my computer " post.

The BBC. Why oh why have 2 separate commentary teams from BBC London and BBC5 at West Ham whilst completely ignoring our fixture?
This duplication happens quite often.

Our game is on BBC web and 5Live Extra

Apparently (rather disappointingly) it is just a rat. Caught returning to the scene at 3:00am.

I think I will put out a grocery store tomato tonight to see if I can get a better view of it.

https://s7.gifyu.com/images/Capture63ad18ba9708ab96.jpg

Stick that in your pipe ME!

Impressive H.

Will you be lacing that grocery store tom with anything?

Gosh, that is one big rat.

Well done

You will never get a rat(even a baby one) described as anything other than BIG. Just as someone who fixes your door will be forever described as a 'Great" carpenter.
By the way HH, those Californian rats look like juvenile mice compared to the monsters who run the show in the New York City subway system.;)

As long as that rat doesn't get into your kitchen.

2-factor authentication for BLOODY EVERYTHING these days, especially when you've just turned off your phone.

I thought that was just me.

My bank has a feature to turn it off, but in fact you can't... I called them and they said they know it's an issue and they are working on it... yeah right.

I've had to do it on 2 websites today paying my bills.

We've had bigger get in the house and caught in a trap.

Well rats and wanker supporters . You are never more than 10 ft from one.

I think I may have moaned about this before but if I want to pay a bill online I have to first log on to the invoice issuing website (user name and password) then via that site log onto my bank website (user name and password). To process the payment I have to use a second bank app to input a 6 digit PIN number, then the bank send me a text message with an 8 digit code that I need to input into the payment page.
So, 2 user names, 2 passwords, a 6 digit PIN number and a one time security code. Now I know stuff like online finances need to be ultra-secure, but really? Is the bank's software that leaky?

Having said that I love my new MacBook Touch ID function that uses my finger-print to autofill all my user names and passwords.

It’s not that their software is so leaky. Most breaches come from social engineering, as well as hacks, that lead to wrong people accessing your bank account. One of the best I saw with a company I worked for broke into a company with 4 bottles of milk. They went to faceache and found an employee with their id card in a photo. They made a perfect copy but obv with their photo and false name. Of course the card had no chip but when they struggled at the entry system dangling his card from his neck over the reader, the guard simply felt sorry for him saw the card looked good and let him in he then went up each floor with his milk dropping the odd one off at kitchens until he found a laptop un attended but still live popped in a usb drive and 10 seconds later was reading everything that the user subsequently typed. Use name password etc etc. They then got round the rest of the IT system from the info they obtained. The customer was both pissed off and delighted at the same time. They now use 2FA all the time as it would have stopped it in its tracks. They also had a quiet work with the front door teams. 2FA really stops the bad guys a lot along with all the other security stuff. Loads of cases like this but that was my favourite. I used to go to conferences and grab people’s passwords. User name was easy just asked for a business card. I was terrified at ethical hacker conferences as they always broke into my lap top though 100’s of different ways. Touch ID is great though, as it is a bugger to get round.

I love that feature on a few apps on my phone.

Wish I could use it on a desktop PC. We had them at work for a while but they seemed to fizzle out. Not sure why… I assume there must be work around for them.

Leaf blowers
It’s that time of year again

Yes, but it soon blows over...

I refuse to give out my voice recognition to the bank or my finger print to apple even though both would make my life easier. We have created an ID system online and given all up for convenience and perceived free products (social media)

I do read alot of Jaron Lanier though…

The Arsehole who ploughed into the back of my car while I was stationary at traffic lights. Outstanding.

I had this and it fked my neck. Never been the same since but got out with stiff upper lip “it’s fine no worries “ so get it checked out just as a precaution.

Probably on his phone, the cu… oops shit hang on

Not round here it doesn't. We've got four adjacent properties that use them
year-round. Leaves or no leaves.

That really sucks... :-/

That would be enough to take the wind out of your sails

I had that happen to me many years ago. They told their insurance company I reversed into them because I had gone over the waiting line at the light. As we both had the same insurance company they suggested I take them to small claims court, which I did.

Judge ruled in favour of them because as the plaintiff I could not prove I didn't reverse into them.

:)

Shouldn't be an issue. I was fourth in the waiting queue

Did you have your parking brake on?

The answer you looking for is yes

No, just about to pull off.
He's accepted liability. 'I was distracted'.

The move to tablets rather than catalogues in stores. Unless you know exactly what you are looking for you have no hope of comparing or spotting by pics. Bloody hate Screwfix now

People who park over dropped kerbs

Or just incredibly, selfishly close to them leaving a car on the way out in need of a periscope.

I don't think you should be doing that whilst driving.

I was wondering who might post that..

You certainly don't want to be reversed into if you are just pulling off, that's for sure.

Also need to keep the back doors firmly closed.

People who use residential roads to drive very fast

Cyclists who wear all black and a pair of massive, over the ear noise cancelling headphones.

Trying to pre-book a cab in the Cotswolds.

Nurofen. I never buy it and I dont understand who does. Nurofen 16x200mg ibroprofen tablets (ingredient ibroprofen) £2.20, Sainsburys own brand (ingredient ibroprofen) 39p.

Thats some mark-up just to have the word 'Nurofen' on a packet.

Tricky under the circumstances. Could be a problem at the front too.

The Anti Growth Coalition. Great to have them called out here ��

https://mobile.twitter.com/Exploding...81642187755525

Check Nurofens different varieties for different pains, stll just the same Ibruprofen dose.

...and no lights in the dark.

People who park in disabled bays even worst when there are loads of free spaces.

Hahahha

The left handed are in Anti Growth Coalition, haha

A little harsh / unreasonable view of disabled people :p

"Leave a donation in your will" adverts alongside affordable cremation ads on ITV4 during every break.

Never have liked growths, especially visible ones. Where do I sign up to the coalition?

Far worst is people that dont make sure they are at the end of the bay.

People who say "I don't like that artist he's too commercial" is he supposed to write S#@t ?
oh my bad that's called jazz

:lux::lux::lux:

I'm not really annoyed about this, just staggered that it took place:

Florida dads shoot each other's daughters in terrifying road rage incident

Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper said during a recent press conference this his agency "received multiple 911 calls with reports of people being shot at" on Highway 1.

William Hale (35), who drove a black Dodge Ram pickup, and Frank Allison (43), who drove a gray Nissan Murano, allegedly got into what one caller described as a "cat and mouse game."

Leeper said both drivers were "speeding" and "driving erratically" while constantly break-checking each other.

Hale, at one point, pulled up next to Allison, whose wife gave him the finger. A water bottle from Hale's vehicle was thrown back in response.

Allison then began firing shots from a handgun, hitting Hale's five-year-old daughter in the leg. Hale shot back with his own handgun, hitting Allison's 14-year-old daughter in the back, leaving her with a collapsed lung.

"Thankfully no one was killed in this incident, but it could have been easily turned out that way, because two people were acting stupid and let their tempers get the best of them," Leeper explained.

"It could have been two dead kids because of two stupid grown men," he added.

That’s excellent.

‘Anyone who keeps the ramekins from Gu puddings’

"left-handed people" (again)

People who use phrases like "speak my truth"; what the **** is this shit?

If this makes me part of the AGC and if that stands for everything that Liz Truss is against, then I'm happy to announce that we've got about 15 of these little bastards in our cupboard

:lux: :lux:

Was on a treadmill (3 in a row) and some jock decides to get on the one closest to me (I was at one end) and then proceeded to warm up by waving his arms/legs all near my face.
He also stunk.
Prick.

People who pronounce off as ‘orf’

On every channel with an older demographic.


Vultures can't wait for us poor sods to peg out.

Doing a Google search for computer help and the results come back from 2002 or there about... totally worthless.

More tech problems HH? :D

Not really. I have a new Bose Mini Speaker, and when playing via iTunes on my PC I can’t control the volume on the speaker. Seems to be one of those conflict things Apple pull on you.

There's your problem - Apple!

This