[Coronavirus (COVID-19)]

2 hours ago, Billy Jean King said:

Anwar Sarwar was front row leading in his long Covid "clients"

 

48 minutes ago, MazzyStar said:

Who? 

 

[Infuriating Things Your Partner Does]

4 hours ago, Peil said:

Inability to take the car to the garage seems to be one I hadn't noticed.

Knew the brakes needed doing, so just before Xmas, she was off work and I was still pottering away. Asked her to go round to the local garage to get it booked in.
Much huffing and she did, a day later.

She was reminded last night to drop it off around 8.  "Will they be open then?" "Aye"

This morning arrives, she takes the wee man to nursery and comes straight back home. Then at 8:45 starts moaning, the car needs to go to the garage but i'm meant to be in a meeting at 9.


 

 

3 hours ago, hk blues said:

My wife suffers from the same kind of affliction - responsibility aversion I call it. 

A common occurrence I think.

My other half states "but you always do that".

I tried the same with house work after that statement and got my ear bent.

[Petty Things That Get On Your Nerves...]

4 hours ago, Hedgecutter said:

Pubs that can't be bothered to indicate that a particular beer tap is 'aff'.  Shirley the simple, universally understood act of placing a pint glass over the offending tap isn't too much effort ?

 

3 hours ago, GordonD said:

Or turning the name card round to the back.

That's the norm I thought.

[Petty Things That Get On Your Nerves...]

1 hour ago, Eednud said:

Must have strange supermarkets in Scotland. Pineapple is a tropical fruit so tins of pineapple slices or chunks should be beside all the other tinned fruit, tropical or not.

That's exactly where they are.

So many posters verging on the OFTW.

[House buying, mortgages, insurance, etc]

14 hours ago, TxRover said:

Quite the pisser, since a cancellation has to be reported going forward. I believe they are supposed to give 7 days+ notice, however, not sure if that's law. Important to get from the company the justification for cancellation, and then possibly appealing it. Has he just received some penalty points?

Nah.  He called them and they reinstated his insurance.

Reason given was a mixup of starting date of the policy...8 months ago!

[House buying, mortgages, insurance, etc]

Young lad has had his car insurance cover cancelled.

He's had the policy near 8 months and they just recently chased him up for my licence my wife's licence and his v5.

No reason given for the request, he emailed off the info yesterday, which was the due date, they cancelled it today.

 

[Overrated/Underrated food.]

3 hours ago, Loonytoons said:

I only eat wild brown trout.  Perhaps I should have stated that, apolgies.

 

3 hours ago, Brother Blades said:

Not the best diet tbf, you should definitely have something other than protein. 

 

3 hours ago, velo army said:

You type really well for an Osprey tbf 

Good to see pedantry is alive and well.

[Overrated/Underrated food.]

58 minutes ago, Alert Mongoose said:

FTFY. Rainbow trout is manufactured shite.

I only eat wild brown trout.  Perhaps I should have stated that, apolgies.

[Overrated/Underrated food.]

1 hour ago, Billy Jean King said:

 

Fish wise trout and salmon are well over rated. 

 

 

 

 

Barely hear of trout getting rated at all, let alone over rated.

That said, trout is a beautiful bit of scran.

 

[Joey Barton]

7 minutes ago, eez-eh said:

He’ll have the last laugh though, as he’ll be able to have “But I had right of way” engraved on his gravestone.

They could stick it on a road and use it for traffic calming.

[Time travel]

1 hour ago, Hedgecutter said:

I'd quite like to test the Butterfly Effect by going back a while and changing a then-seemingly unimportant event before returning back just 5 mins later.

For example, buying some Dweebs/Nerds instead of that packet of Panini stickers on 14/04/93, and then coming back to 2024 to find that Cameron Stout is the president of an independent Orcadian Republic.

 

As an aside, I occasionally wonder how much my individual presence or absence from a game would have affected the result (especially if it's a sh*te one).  I'd imagine it easily could, as even deciding to have an extra pre-match pint could delay the person behind me, who'd get into the ground 2 mins later and therefore not be in that position to throw the ball back to the player taking a throw-in when he would have otherwise, and so on...

I've wondered that too.

I suspect the smaller the crowd the more likely it is to have an effect.

[Living Funerals]

16 minutes ago, Richey Edwards said:

It could be a good idea for terminally ill people if the right to die is ever implemented in this country - which it hopefully will within my lifetime. Give someone a good send off while they're still alive.

 

[P&B Hospital]

5 hours ago, ICTChris said:

Ha! I was happy to wait but the NHS sent me there. If I had to pay I would never have been there.

Have you checked to see if you've still got 2 kidneys?

[P&B Hospital]

If it's inguinal, eat plenty fruit and drink plenty liquid.  

You really don't want to be straining having a crap.

Also, I was still crossing my legs for a year every time I sneezed . 

If you are still fairly recently out from surgery, if you feel a sneeze coming on, tickle the roof of your mouth with your tongue.  Life saver as sneezing hurts like hell. 

[A discussion about months.]

4 minutes ago, throbber said:

The foliage on a crisp day in October/November is absolutely spectacular in Scotland. I had a drive from Aviemore back to Edinburgh early November just there and it was breathtaking.

In recent years the weather has been pretty mild through the winters. I remember January 2022 being particularly nice and sunny. 

I get what you mean but unfortunately all I feel is a loss of the summer.

I really need a mental reset regarding this.

[A discussion about months.]

Hate autumnal months almost as much as winter months.

Smell of decay and dampness and months of crap weather ahead.  Actually starting to hate August now too.

May is undoubtedly my favourite month, life is in top gear, the colour of new foliage and the smell of wild garlic.

I also like wasps and bees.

[Petty Things That Get On Your Nerves...]

7 minutes ago, Florentine_Pogen said:

It's much worse.

The most recent episode of University Challenge had 3 questions on the treatment for syphilis.

 

2 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkay said:

I got penicillin, right. 

Did it help?

[Things that are universally hilarious]

On 31/12/2023 at 22:08, BigBo10 said:

Dad jokes. “What you looking for dad?” “A duckdoo.” “What’s a duckdoo?” “Quack quack quack.”

Pycos is another one that fits the bill, pardon the pun.

[Unpopular opinions.]

10 hours ago, ICTChris said:

I think there’s been a shift from people having celebrations in their house or in their local pub to having big parties that are now highly organised. Edinburgh is the classic example - people used to gather at the Tron to celebrate it but it was locals. It became more of an event and by the 1990s was held in Princes Street and is fully ticketed. A friend of mine who is a local councillor posted figures this week that less than 25% of the attendees at the street party are from Edinburgh, which now takes over a big part of Edinburgh public spaces for a December and January. Maybe it’s a net benefit, I don’t know, but it’s certainly changed the character of New Year. You literally can’t go ‘up town’ for New Year now.

I was possibly at the last Hogmany at the Tron before it went down to the Gardens, 91 or 92?

At the stroke of midnight a magnum bottle of champagne went cartwheeling over our heads.  Whoever that hit was probably fucked for the next few days.

That was enough for us so we headed back down The Mound.  On the way we saw a lassie tumbling to the ground, reckon she tripped on the kerb.  People just trampled her down and kept walking over her until we were able to get to her and form a barrier until she got up.  Her night was pretty much fucked too,  given the battered state she was in.

Taking it to the Gardens probably wasn't a bad thing seeing what happened that night.

[Things that are universally hilarious]

9 minutes ago, throbber said:

I’ll actually give this a pass so long as there is a mass cheer from everyone in the eatery.

Everyone does because it's universally funny.

[Things that are universally hilarious]

Waiters/waitresses dropping plates.

[The Photography Thread]

15 minutes ago, derek_holmes said:

Thanks for this. Updated Photoshop and gave the generative fill tool a go. Not too shabby, although as you say the filled section is noticeably softer than the rest of the image when zoomed in.

Pretty decent to be honest.

[Petty Things That Get On Your Nerves...]

3 minutes ago, Zetterlund said:

 

My finger was hovering over the cash out button but my good lady advised me to "be a man" and hold on 

Kenneth!!!

[Quick Question Thread]

6 minutes ago, scottsdad said:

I'm guessing last year was more competitive. 

If my @mathematics is right, it was about 95.7% of this year's one.

Ah pedantry sir. Cap doffed.

[Quick Question Thread]

1 hour ago, Honest Saints Fan said:

Yes.

It's a hard market at the moment. Plus the cost of materials has increased massively, meaning claims pay outs are higher than ever. 

My renewal quote is the most competitive quote I've had.  Don't think I've ever seen that before.

Also a surprising rise of only 4.5%.