Stuff that grinds your gears

[Cormac]

Wow. Whereabouts do you live that hasn't been subjected to torrential downpours of rain in recent days, weeks, months? Not everyone sends packages in waterproof containers.

We have this amazing thing called a porch!

 

[Hallbopping]

How dafuq would you know who is at your front door? Does your camera-bell tell you the business of each caller too? "It's safe to go to the front door Cranky - that's just little jimmy from two doors down calling for a chat with your missus" kinda thing?

Charity collectors don't all come with a big sign saying "I'm not wanting to get you to change your service provider, I'm trying to promote a charity"

I can see people coming to the door from my couch. Rule of thumb, if it’s midweek and after lunch they are either a charity collector or someone looking to get me to switch broadband or energy suppliers.

 

[knockfiarna]

Ringing customer care lines, name address email verification, cant deal with query have to tranfer you , new agent repeat above its so annoying .

 

[Hallbopping]

Ringing customer care lines, name address email verification, cant deal with query have to tranfer you , new agent repeat above its so annoying .

Any company worth their salt will have an online portal good enough so you don’t need to ring them. Especially utilities and financial institutions.

 

[sigourney's knickers]

 

[Bunk]

The 5.40 train to Dooorty Dooooblin.

 

[Happyhonkaman]

people in swimming pools that refuse to observe lane etiquette.. its really fucking simple, go in the lane with the pace that suits your level of swimming, and then just follow the arrows on that sign that tell you which side you should swim up and down on to avoid swimming into other people

2 rules, thats it.. for some reason it is an issue almost every time and the lifeguards are young so they dont do anything about it

We had a dope today who joined the lane, and decided she would swim down the opposite side she should have, on her back, and at about 1/4 the pace of everyone else in the lane. Causes the whole lane to have to stop, and then kicks off on the same side again so everyone else had no choice but to swim the wrong way, and constantly having to work around the lump

 

[Pooman]

We had a dope today who joined the lane, and decided she would swim down the opposite side she should have, on her back, and at about 1/4 the pace of everyone else in the lane. Causes the whole lane to have to stop, and then kicks off on the same side again so everyone else had no choice but to swim the wrong way, and constantly having to work around the lump

Haven't heard anyone called a lump in years. You can take the man out of Cork.....

 

[Happyhonkaman]

Haven't heard anyone called a lump in years. You can take the man out of Cork.....

it was an accurate descriptive term

The lack of awareness was spectacular

 

[sigourney's knickers]

people in swimming pools that refuse to observe lane etiquette.. its really fucking simple, go in the lane with the pace that suits your level of swimming, and then just follow the arrows on that sign that tell you which side you should swim up and down on to avoid swimming into other people

2 rules, thats it.. for some reason it is an issue almost every time and the lifeguards are young so they dont do anything about it

We had a dope today who joined the lane, and decided she would swim down the opposite side she should have, on her back, and at about 1/4 the pace of everyone else in the lane. Causes the whole lane to have to stop, and then kicks off on the same side again so everyone else had no choice but to swim the wrong way, and constantly having to work around the lump

Ah.

Seed yourself honestly.

Had a brief conversation with young lady pre mass treading swim start.

Ironman Bolton fado fado.

Bobbing about in neoprene and pissing ourselves to keep warm before the off.

In the middle of 2500 people or there abouts.

'Prepared for the swim'?

Oh yes. I can swim 50 lengths.

How long is the pool?

13 metres.

This is a 2.4 mile open water swim with fists, legs and partial drowning moments.

Oh... I should be fine.

Later I heard that racer 252 was pulled out because of a dislocated shoulder.

Never mind yer man that shat himself at the start. He swam back to shore under a thunder of abuse from one of the organizers on a loud speaker.

'You should be ashamed of yourself. Why did you bother getting out of bed this morning'!