London Stanstead is horrible, just a big shed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-eng...herts-57129424

I particularly like the bloke to the right of screen who finds time to both take off his coat and fix his hair mid-ruck.

Some people are saying Gatwick...the links for there from Central London are excellent too.

There are 14 airports round Heathrow.....just saying...

. Wrong thread

People that post in the wrong thread😡

Not that I am that cross or bothered, but when did The NHS become OUR NHS? Suspicious of the motive.

Dunno if you were here 15 odd years ago but you used to be able to park your car for free literally in a field 100m from the entrance.

I knew an air traffic control who worked there, he had some interesting stories, he crashed a small light aircraft there.

Pawsons road. Most annoying and stupid road ever, like driving down a ski slalom.

Ah but really handy for Salou and Port Aventura.

My wife and father in law keep leaving the fridge door open a tiny bit. Enough to knacker the motor long term and also let all our food get warm. I shouldn’t have to teach adults how to close a fridge door. Bloody ridiculous.

A couple of weeks ago I needed to replace my kitchen scales so I bought a new fangled digital one.
Only to find out when I got it home that it was a "battery not included". Not a problem I thought , I have some batteries.... but no, it uses one of those "watch" type batteries - the little flat lithium ones. Grrrrrr
Finally I manage to buy one of those batteries today and understand why possibly it was not included in the first place.
The battery was more expensive than the scales!

Maybe this is more for the "things you've learnt today" thread (although I learnt it about a month back)...

Those flat lithium watch type batteries that have a seal or sticker on one side... if you remove the sticker the battery instantly starts discharging, so if you leave it in a draw somewhere it dies before you get to use it.

Disclaimer: I don't 100% believe this, by my hearing aid technician told me it was so, as I was complaining to her about the battery life. I use them for one day with new batteries, and then take the batteries out... a week later I put the batteries in again, and they are dead, so I sort of believe her.

That sort of thing are usually CR2032s... they're no more expensive than AAs or AAAs?

correct. Scales CLP5000 (GBP4.90), battery CLP5200. Was I ripped off? Dunno. But then some things are strangely way more expensive than they should be here. I needed the battery and couldn't do much about the price.

Yeah, I used it a few times around that time. Well handy.

Are you sure you heard her right?

Was he flying it or guiding it in ?

Sicks mate

Boom boom... :D

Yes the sticker covers some tiny holes that when exposed lets air into the chemicals to produce electricity. Once they are exposed they do have a limited lifetime but mine usually last longer than a week if not used. Ive never tried putting the sticker back on to see if it saves the battery?

You've got me confused... Googling CLP5000 shows some fairly serious looking (medical?) scales that would cost a darned sight more than £4.90, and CLP5000 looks like a mobile phone battery?

I think CLP might be an abbreviation for Chilean Pesos.

"kitchen scales" eh?

correct. 5000 of 'em. 5 luka (a word like bucks or quid) = just short of 5 quid

And since H quieried I checked and fished the packaging out of the bin. It was for 2 of them... I hadn't seen the other! I have also since checked online and yes I can buy them cheaper... if I want 5 of them. Put me down as skeptical but I am not that hopeful that a 5 quid digital balance is going to last so long as to need 4 more battery changes.

Mobile batteries are a lot more that 5 luka. I think you were looking at a monthly price if you buy over time.

sniff ;)

Brighton’s recovery from 2-0 down

How did I not see that??? :D :D :D

To be fair, this is what 'CLP5000 scales' throws up in google (although I should admit that in my angst, I didn't notice that the search had dropped the letter 'P'):

https://scales.co.ke/scales-kenya/up...CP-600x571.jpg

And this is is the CLP5200 on Amazon:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....7vI9%2Bw-L.jpg

How mad is that!!!

It's a drawer you fukwit.

pissed me off as well. All we need is for them to get one more point and us to loose our next two and..............:wallbash:

It looked like the usual dozen against one bloke, even some 'well-hard' walking some distance to hit the same bloke blindside.

Good to see the stag dos are now allowed.

Either that or you are stone deaf.

Why aren't the armed police at airports not executing
these c*nts? Should be zero tolerance for shit like that.

Harsh? LOL

I suspect that's their holiday/trip fecked. They should have their pasports taken away for a year at least.

Non binary asexual trans he she they it what where when how bollocks. Be what you want to be, but please stop with the song and dance.

The Scouse accent. It’s so fkin whiney...

I don’t like a harsh Belfast accent either. But it’s nowhere near as awful as the Scouse whinge.

That's because they usually are whining about something. I put the Manc whiney accent in the same bracket.

Weirdly I've warmed to the Brummie accent, I blame Alan

or the peaky blinders

Never seen it

:hi:

People who drag their feet as they walk, especially on carpet.

Mainly zombies?

My Epson printer (again!).

The Photo Black ink cartridge is running on empty. I'm not printing any photos, and the regular black and all the colours are fine. After "x" amount of times printing with the photo black cartridge empty it puts it's foot down and says no more.

It is impossible to print anything until you replace that one cartridge however you try to trick it.

Bastards...

Wearing a facemask, can't wait to **** it off completely.

That’s one way of taking it off.

Feels pretty odd not wearing one now. Forget I have it on really.

Not saying I will not be happy to lose it though...

Especially for someone who wears glasses. And headphones. Get myself in a proper tangle every day

Can you wear a mask anywhere else?

Pre Sales, especially for tickets. What does it even mean? The language is wrong, the terms and conditions change as often as the weather and it's discriminatory.

Broke my left elbow and dislocated my right thumb on Tuesday and was obviously in a lot of pain, but the A &E receptionist wouldn't let me through the door until my wife had put a face mask on me.

Some people look better with a mask on. Just saying ...

George Carlin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IC_It9DwDA

Whole bit worth listening to but if not skip to 1m30s to hear his thoughts on the notion of using 'pre'.

Apparently it is surfing weather......in Exmouth beach and no sign of wind, it must have know, team Razor are visiting...ffs

Lottery Lucky Dips. Always get at least one number on more than one line. Con.

Yeah I've got suspicions about how this works..

I have a theory if I am national lottery man and want a rollover to sell more tickets can I write a programme and pick 6 numbers and make sure they don’t come in a line????

Unless you picked them numbers the winning number will never be the one from a lucky dip.....then I am cynical too

Yup I agree

Driving past a McDonalds drive thru, that has backed up onto the public highway and being forced to join a queue for something you are not even buying!

You could have stoped at McDonald’s Drive through. Biggest source of litter in the UK

Should have come here, over the last couple of days at Compton Beach huge waves.

How many lines do you get?
The chances of any 2 lines having no common numbers is only 51% and the chances of 3 lines having no repeated numbers about 23%.

Not quite

https://i.ibb.co/c2Sn32M/AFB4-B883-6...BCD0332-CE.jpg

Hmm. Is that percentage by number of items or (as it should be) volume?

The pikeys that spent two weeks on a field near us, finally got booted off but have left the most enormous amount of shit (literally) and rubbish behind.

They’re a fvcking disgrace to humanity. Dirty bastards.

And the rozzers to absolutely f all.

Disgrace

Saw a bloke throw all his McDonald's rubbish piece by piece out of the window of his van. He was still in the restaurant car park 2 yards away from a bin!

People are c*nts shocker.

It picked up and rains disappeared and turned out good back home now.

Need to clean the car bird poo outside sand inside....ffs

Again. What you want to do is hand the McDonald's rubbish back to him and say 'Ithink you dropped this'....but we all know that these types are the kind that love to provoke a confrontation.

What generally happens is the poor bloke with the busybody missus. She has the word, hubby/boyfriend ends up getting lamped.

Indeed. Whilst cigarette smokers have a dirty habit and can be dirty with it - that graph is so obviously put together by rabid anti-smokers.

How many ciggie butts equate to an abandoned sofa or mattress. Or flytipping, pr construction waste.

[QUOTE=Worksop Palace;15803915]The pikeys that spent two weeks on a field near us, finally got booted off but have left the most enormous amount of shit (literally) and rubbish behind.

They’re a fvcking disgrace to humanity. Dirty bastards.

And the rozzers to absolutely f all.

Count yourself lucky here in Essex we seem to be the place of choice for travellers. Stupid name as they dont travel anywhere. For people who live off the land they have no respect for it

You have my sympathies. We have just had them nearby on a council owned recreation site. They were only there for six days but managed to leave 14 large bags of human waste, 80 bags of general rubbish and piles of wood chippings and other garden waste. They also stole 4 nesting boxes, destroyed birds nests and kicked someone's front door in. They shat and pissed all over the children's play equipment. Apparently the police said there were too many for them to deal with. (Although down here in Kent, the police are terrified of them). They will spend the next five months or so moving from town to town causing mayhem.

Absolute disgrace.

Apparently there’s a law change coming but I doubt it’ll deal with the problem.

Just unbelievable how these scum get away with it.

The last time we were in Worksop, (October last year) we were driving past a field at the end of Gateford Park, full of Pikeys, rubbish strewn everywhere. They had a 6 month old Porsche Boxster on the field, unsurprisingly it wasn’t taxed or insured.

They’re here twice a year mate. On their way up to Appleby this time of year. Cause absolute havoc. Proper c-nts.

Great for the local economy.
Carpenters, locksmiths, CCTV installers, rubbish clearance etc. Stop complaining.

:supergrin:

If only. Local residents left to pick all the rubbish up. Council nowhere to be seen.

Wankers

OK visible litter then. :)
Actually I bet smoking related has dropped due to vapeing. Also to they count the costa crap from drive throughs as Non alcoholic or fast food because as soon as one of those pops up so does the litter. I cannot understand why the councils don't insist that if you want planning permission you have to employ a full time litter picker with van as part of the approvals.

They claim to be poor persecuted things that are picked on by society and its racist to say anything negative about them. What a load of bollocks, they are simply dirty selfish scum that manipulate the system and make everyone else's life a misery. I have first hand experience of what scumbags they are. There maybe the odd "good one" but that is the exception to the rule, as in any other group in society there will always be "bad ones" that are the exception to the rule.

As a tory voter I'd have thought you were all for that sort of arrangement.

What does it matter if it's raining?

Today I'm a bit annoyed at the weather app on my phone. Got up this morning and the app showed winds would be 3 to 6 MPH all morning. So I set out on my bike, looking forward to a nice wind free ride, and low and behold it is blowing a good 3 fold those predictions, which makes it tough going at times and taking away some of the enjoyment.

Weather prediction seems pretty good when it comes to temperatures, rain and clouds, but often seems to get caught out by the wind (maybe Michael Fish can be excused). Seems like they have not yet perfected wind predictions.

Always thought representatives of the Gypsy Council should be made to come along and clear up each time they move along.

Why?

Big society.

Er, no.

It doesn’t, and I don’t mind rain, It is only water :)

So you think the UK government are rabid anti-smokers?

https://www.gov.uk/government/public...d-2017-to-2018

Apparently an estimated 200 million fag butts are dropped every day in the UK, each one weighing about 0.2g. A back of the envelope calculation suggests that it amounts to about 40,000kg of daily littering. That figure excludes all the other associated smoking litter such as the packets, lighters etc.

This is a bit confusing since the data that I briefly looked at suggests that there are only about 7 million smokers in the UK, and that their median average consumption is 10 cigarettes a day. My back of a fag packet calculation makes that 70 million so I am wondering who smokes the other 130 million? (And that of course makes no allowance for the people who use ashtrays).

That’s why I provided the sources for those ‘claims’. :D

I know and it’s appreciated. Doesn’t make the numbers any more sensible though.

It was a lighthearted response to Pete, not a serious analysis of littering.

If I could have found the average weight of a sofa then I could have answered his question more fully.:D

Labradors in labs.

A pedant would point out that beagles are the highest group of canine smokers.

Whatever.

Beagles know how to use ashtrays. Labradors do not.

Ultimately, it seems you can take any subject and bend it around to smokers being the main culprits.

They spread Covid as well. They spread it 20 times more than people who have just been c nuts throughout the pandemic.

There is probably a graph somewhere that shows this.

When you retrieve your voicemail and they read out the entire number first. I realise it's useful, but I'm impatient and it annoys me. In fact, listening to voicemails in general annoys me.

I posted that Pete and I still smoke. :)

Reading the supporting data I realised that I still, on occasions, drop ‘litter’ despite being rabidly anti littering.

Never again.