The sticky gum stuff that comes off of the neighbors pine/fir tree. It gets on the soles of your shores which then gets on the kitchen floor tiles, and carpet. When trying to clean shoes and floors the same sticky stuff gets on your hands, and despite scrubbing with Ajax or the like, your hands still feel sticky.

Only thing that half works is nail polish remover...

There must be some industrial use for this gum stuff!

It's happening again.... 30 minutes past the time they said they would be here and still no sign and no text or call.

Wankers.

Edit: Just exchanged texts... "We'll be there in 20-30 minutes, just at the paint store". FFS!

Have you tried WD40 or acetone if the nail polish remover isn't the acetone type ?

Yes WD-40 works to clean tiles and hands, but leaves that WD-40 smell. I try and use it as a last resort.

Still takes a lot of elbow grease though.

We've lived in this house for 26 years, and this the first year the tree seems to have this issue (or at least this bad)... not sure what that's all about.

Tufnell & Dawson on A Question of Sport. I haven’t watched it for years & now remember why. What a pair of twats.

They are the same every week for true, plus I no longer have realistic answers for any of the questions

It’s an abomination of a programme. The BBC all over

Yup

I used to bloody love watching it with my Dad when I was a boy, early 80s. Questions on Faldo, Ballesteros, Botham etc.

David Coleman was an authoritative presenter. Yes, he would allow a bit of horseplay but it boiled down to a serious sports quiz and he treated it accordingly. These days it's gone way too far down the 'banter' cul de sac. I don't mind Tuffers on his own but Dawson is insufferable and the two of them together is a nightmare.

Absolutely, as did I.

The fact we were watching it 35 years ago and it’s still on the TV says all you need to know

I like Tufnell on TMS, but yes, Dawson, for some reason thinks he’s funny , he’s not.
QOS should be consigned to history.

Absolutely. Imagine being stuck in a lift with those two ?

Yep... how many "What happened next" can there be out there?

(Although looking at Wikipedia, apparently they don't have this round anymore)

People who moan about trades.

Well, they could leave their previous client before they've finished I suppose. At least they would be on time for you. If they don't finish yours by the time they have to set off for their next one, I take it you won't mind?

:D

A courtesy text or call might help to say you are running late.

As this was a scheduled start time of 8:00am I assume the guys previous client was in his bed room!

So what trade are you in?

Guy showed up at 9:45am... is that OK?

Service charge on a bill.
Just let me pay a tip on merit.

The latest fad of calling footballers 'ballers', don't know why but I really hate it!

More annoying when you don't notice the service charge and you tip as well even though the service was nothing special.

It wants you to wear slippers indoors :angel:.

I mentioned this before on here, but there's a product called sticky stuff remover that will probably remove it from the tiles (although I usually use it for chemical based products). My mum used a brown paper bag and an iron to lift some horror off of our carpet, not sure what it was now, but it was sticky and she got the lot up.

Yep, I've heard that method for candle wax and for chewing gum on carpets. I've used it for chewing gum that got on my car mats (not my gum I should add), and it worked a treat.

IIRC you have to be careful with the iron if the carpet has nylon fibres

Gas/petrol is one of the best solvents I know.
Can make you a bit “heady” if you don’t open a few windows, but it will dissolve pretty much anything.
I remember the wife mistakenly (:wallbash:) used that spray on rubber stuff you can but to quickly fix leaks etc. It’s horrible stuff to clean, anyway, she thought it was fly spray. Killed the flies obviously but, omg what a mess!
Gas/petrol did the trick though

What could possibly go wrong??? :D

Lol, yes... top tip: remember not to light any of those scented candles to get rid of the smell of petrol

I can see that might be a problem...

Question of Port has morphed into the world smugness championships.

Posh, white, middle class, mealy-mouthed BBC spokesperson on BBC NewsWatch justifying upholding the complaint against Naga Munchetty.

Utter disgrace.

Get some blue magic. It's great stuff. :p

https://www.globalhygiene.com/produc...greaser-5-ltr/

Yes, should they buy your paint in their own time?

Sorry HH, but it sounded like it could have been a call out during the day. He's a lazy c-unit then and fully deserves your unreserved disgust. Plus I'm in a better mood this morning. :supergrin:

(Sparks btw)

The inane slogans they are printing on Diet Coke cans. Is the whole world now being run by kids with a GCSE in Marketing?

Most of them do. Its only the lazy rip.off merchants that dont.

Sure this has been posted before but...

Those Nationwide ‘stand up comedian’ adverts

Fvck my old grannies boots. The most unfunny and cringy 30 seconds viewing you could possibly find

I banked with Nationwide for 35 years but if these adverts stay on much longer I’ll be offskis

Shocking

What a shit post.
What time is it ok turn up then? In your world would you be able to justify turning up at 2pm using the excuse "well I had to buy the paint?"

If you're so unprepared for a job you quote for, then make the arrival time 11am or whatever you need to buy the ******* materials you need.

I mentioned it somewhere earlier.
It's like the ad company want us to Hate Nationwide - mission accomplished.
Worse than those unfunny comics though, especially the big old lot that puts money in her bra for food after a night out - no fear of that getting nicked, were the girl with the yellow teeth and her gay mate.

What has kept QOS running for so long is (was) the regular changing of team captains every couple of series. That stops it getting stale as it introduces new personality and fresh perspectives.

Tufnell and Dawson have been on it far too seriously long enough by half, and this has caused it to get repetitive, and thus predictable

The standard of chopping by celebrities on Sunday Brunch.

People that leave stuff in supermarket trollies when they’ve finished with them; used tissues, empty crisp packets and bottles, empty chocolate wrappers, hangers...

Feckin feral bast*rds!

same people that abandon them scattered across the car park.

As I mentioned before the kind of people who should be parachuted over war torn Syria.

Ian Wright on MOTD. He gets away with talking inarticulate drivel because he’s outgoing and has a so called ‘personality ‘.
He’s stealing a living, off of all of us, via the licence fee.

Why did it have to change? I know it's called 'premier league' but I choose to call it the premiership. EPL on the other hand, get ****ed.

Dog owners letting their pets crap all over the Goddington Park football pitches. Even if you pick it up there's still enough mess left behind to make a game like Russian Roulette.

Calling a sandwich a sarnie.

OUCH! :D :D

The cack crowds at the Qatar world athletics. Dina Asher-Smith has seen bigger crowds at Norman Park
IAAF wankers

Definitely!

And more do the parkrun there each week.

mental decision to have the event there - World Cup will be a disaster

Incredible. Must be worst attended major global sporting event ever. What are the locals doing? Too busy working South Asians to death on the World Cup building sites and beating Filipino domestic staff to death. Lazy rich wankers.

IAAF must have got the same envelopes Fifa did

Even worse here. They call it a "sanger" (the ng as in singer).

Heard that a few times. Even worse, I’ve heard someone call it a “sangwich” !

That was the Crystal Paggis presenter that ordered that one.

Says the man who still calls it the Premiership! :p

This may explain it.

https://www.resetdoc.org/story/qatar...r-a-time-bomb/

Didnt say I was right. We all find different things annoying. I find it annoying someone felt the need to change the name of the league again. I started in ‘95 when it was the Premiership, no need for me to change, especially when it is so subtle.

Better yet, Division One, but that was before my time. What’s higher than One?

League 1 = League Division 3. Hope this helps.

I'm still refusing to budge from The Rumbelows Cup

You're posh.
One always refers to it as Div 3.
:)

This would be too confusing in my house. We refer to the kids as Div 1, 2 and 3. Not good for their self esteem but accurate nonetheless.

i don't mind that too much! It's just funny. Like "Chimley".

If you meet a polite Jamaican after dark there is a good chance they will bid you "Good Eveling"

:supergrin:

It's like the Brexit thread.

Ah, now your talking. Just to confuse us even more, they'll probably change it to the Superpremierleagueship in the not too distant. At least the French have stuck with Ligue Un.

Sorry to harp on about this, but it is really rattling my cage.

Contractor "x" did some work Friday 20th, but could finish until contractor "y" did his thing.Told me to call him when "y" was done. I called "x" work number last Tuesday and left a voicemail... no response. On Thursday I called his mobile and left a voicemail... no response. Saturday, I sent a text to his mobile... as of yet, no response.

Believe it or not I am a very easy going low key person, and if they can't come for a month, so be it... but just let me know - I'll understand.

This whole lack of communication I'm finding disrespectful and unnecessary in this day and age. I'm finding that these guys are not the exception to the rule, but those that are good communicators are the exception.

He’s probably picked up on your niceness and thought “Ah, **** him”

I was told words to that affect a few times by my bosses at work during reviews. :rolleyes:

Little rude boys who wear those stupid bags across their chest.

These gangs of kids on bikes, riding in the middle of the road , doing wheelies. What is that all about?

Natural selection.

Having a dream where the Wankers were relegated by Palace on the last match on the season and waking up and realising it was not real :frown:

And people reckon we don't need algebra anymore.....

Kids travelling to and from school. In my day, school children would be home by 4, or 3 30 if they lived close by. I get on my tram at 7 in the morning and there's loads of horrible children who I daresay their parents think are too good for the local secondary school (Addington High) and send them off to schools via Croydon. Well, none of them are too good for Addington High if you ask me, and we should bring back the 11+ to ******* prove it! I can't stand it; in the mornings they're actually alright, but coming home, they stink the place out with their disgusting fried chicken, and they refuse to have anyone sit next to them, by not shuffling to the window side. Why on earth are there school children - and I mean the unpleasant secondary school types - on my tram at half past five tea-time when this slot should be reserved for commuters?

All been in detention I expect.

Microsoft.

Now abandoning the current version of Windows 10 and want to install a super-whizzo-all-singing-all dancing new version (of Windows 10) - and it looks like I have no choice.

They had better not screw my machine up...….

Skelington

Of course you have a choice.

http://ubuntu.com/download/desktop

When something really hot slides really slowly down your throat, and then stops.

Better still

https://linuxmint.com/download.php

That’s why you should spit, not swallow.

TBF Ubuntu's default desktop is a bit pants but I just swapped it for xfce, dead easy. You wouldn't go far wrong with Mint or any of the other "friendly" distros either.

Ah mandem.

Death if they get too clever :supergrin:

Steve Wright singing at the end of songs on the radio.

Steve Wright.

I remember Neil "Doctor" Fox doing this a lot back in the day when I listened to Capital FM, and absolutely hating him for it because he'd ruin my tape recordings of the chart show.

Ubuntu lost its mind with its desktop a few years ago and I switched to Mint. Then Mint dumped KDE so I went to Kubuntu. Much better.

Steve Wright used to love interupting guests when they threatened to be funnier than him....which was often.

The look of confusion when I asked for a black coffee at the Costa lot coffee place in Mayday hospital,no just black coffee nothing else in it,No ! just a black coffee please !!!

Of course if you don't like the desktop you can change the wm, you don't have to change the whole distribution. I swapped Ubuntu's own desktop for xfce a few years ago, I like xfce because it's slick and efficient and because you can have a different background on each desktop, which isn't easy with many other wms.

I also have an Acer chromebook which lets you run Linux in a chroot jail, that can be a bit sluggish to start the vm but it's otherwise very nice; you don't get a Linux desktop but you run Linux apps from icons on the chromebook desk, or else from the command line in a terminal.

They were doing it way back the sixties too. I believe it was a standing instruction to ruin home recording. I never did get a decent one of 'My Old Man's A Dustman' :(

Hope you and/or your family are OK Les? Not sure they can be if you are at Mayday. :frown:

They have to insist ‘do you mean americano’

To which you will say ‘sure’

They will then say ‘do you want milk with it’

:lux:

Community Facebook Groups "It may be nothing but I saw a dodgy looking character walking through the car park at 10pm last night" That was just me going to pick up the Mrs you nosey Struggle & GRUNTTTT

:D

People who put sunglasses on the back of their neck when not wearing them .