Forum: Pet Hates, Moans & Groans

You're in a Department Store, on the Up escalator and in front of you is a little old lady and maybe her friend. They get to the top and as they get off stop dead and look around in confusion:confused: . That's when the pile up begins. As they normally are a) ladies and b) are of an age such they...

This has got to be worth starting a new rant - er, sorry, thread - Shopping bags and packaging. Why, when I go to a supermarket and buy something already sealed in cellophane and placed in a box - do assistants then want to put the thing in a plastic bag as well????????? |banghead| - in the words...

Why do we have expressions such as 'vertically-challenged' and 'follically-challenged' when what is meant is 'short' and 'bald'? I'm considering taking the government to court as I believe that in making me use such long words in order to be politically correct, that they are in fact breaching my...

Did the people who came up with the "Tear Here" strips on biscuit packets ever try to use them? I always seem to come away with a bit about a Quarter of an Inch long and then have to resort to the trusty blade. Bounty bars used to have an easy tear apart cover with a neat cardboard tray that let...

Why, 36 years after man landed on the moon, is it still impossible for someone to make a lawnmower that, once it's switched on, doesn't sound as if it is taking off for the moon? Pam Downes

We have a wonderful plumber now ............ (even if he was on holiday when the cylinder sprang a leak - but that's another story and another thread!) .......... but before we found him Lee accidentally drilled through one of the heating pipes in our then new kitchen. This was at 10 o'clock...

Prompted by the racket coming from the hotel coffee shop down the road right now. Discounting over-indulgence in spirituous beverages, what quirk of human nature is it that makes otherwise reasonable people actually believe they can sing! The lot that have been assaulting my ears tonight couldn't,...

Old washing machines anyway, as mine is a Hoover automatic bought in 1987 and still going strong. :) Everytime I wash, I stand there cursing the *person* (probably a man!!!!) who programmed the door not to open for two minutes after the spin cycle had finished! What a waste of time and...

I hate to see such a useful forum go unused. As a minor venting of spleen WHEN oh WHEN are my kids and wife going to learn to squeeze the toothpaste tube from the bottom and put the cap on properly afterwards?????? Life was much better when the tubes were metallic so that you could roll...

Along the same line as the plastic packing thread ... what do you think about conserving water? We are on a water meter, and as you may have gathered I am very green! We have a rainwater butt in the garden which we mainly use to top up the pond and water the garden. I also collect clean waste...

What can I say about Text Speak (or is it TXT SPK)? Dontcha just hate it?

Or whatever they're called! I'm not a child but I can't do it! Apart from the ones you have to 'press' in a certain place, then turn, there's the others which you have to push down and turn ...... maybe even more ways. Hubby always has to open them for me and once my seven year old Grandaughter...

If someday it may happen that a grumpy must be found Rod’s got a little list, Rod’s got a little list Of forum defenders who may well be underground And who always would be missed, they always would be missed. There's the pestilential nuisances who write for census pursues And the...

They've clamped down on passive smoking - what about passive beat? I'm not a huge fan of pop music, though I enjoy good music of all genres and even I have been known to listen to Radio 1 during a long car journey or while decorating. What really gets me mad is when it is played so loudly that you...