Little things that irk you.. (no swearing please)

[k0pp0]

Take a chill pill dude, I just woke up in a bit of a grumpy mood.

Anyway...

1. Our neighborhood looks after itself - You really don't **** with anyone on our road - I hear the perp has already had a good kicking.

2. Anyone tries getting into our house, the 6 guard dogs will rip them to shreds.

New irks:
People that take forum posts too seriously.

Toilet paper at work. It's that mega cheap stuff that feels like sandpaper - the stuff that takes all the rust off your sheriffs badge. However, this is accentuated by the fact that one side has these tiny bobbles on it that if you get the folding wrong, makes it feel like you're circling your cornhole with a lego brick. It's so bad that yesterday I was tempted to hold it in, but the fear of the back of my undercrackers ending up looking like Berwick Rangers goalmouth put me off.

Lolled.

[k0pp0]

Nice one!!

Well it was touch and go with the install to the hd, took bloody ages as the DVD drive obviously dropped to its lowest speed to get the data off.. It played for a couple of hours last night no problems at all.

[smouty]

AA membership renewal that is 40% more than standard rate despite being a member for 15+ years and never having made a claim.

Membership cancelled.

[BaronSqwelch]

Having a shared satellite dish. Live in an apartment building so not allowed to add own dishes or have cable installed.

But everytime it gets hot the amp in the loft overheats and we lose the signal!! Even worse is that everything recorded on the hard drive is inaccesable too for some reason until the signal returns.

Not Skys problem they tell us after the engineer came to investigate its the building managers. They worked with Sky and will do something about it if 4 people complain. After talking to evryone else in the block it turns out only 3 people in the block have Sky!!

December = Subscription Cancelled

On a brighter note...the FreeSat built into my TV is pretty good so am not missing out on HD Olympics coverage

[Spatial]

I'm massively annoyed right now.

Having just bought a house that needs a lot of structural work doing, I thought we were incredibly fortunate that we could stay where we are for the time being, while we looked to do up the new house. But it feels like it's becoming a nightmare in a lot of other ways

Despite only having had the keys for just over a month, we've already been victims of crime three times.

First there was a bit of anti-social naughtiness with kids kicking some fence panels through. That was annoying but no problem and was easily fixed.

Worse is the thieving / attempted theft. First stuff was nicked from the garden (admittedly only minor bits of furniture which might even have gone before we had the keys so I won't miss that) but then we turned up a week after having the keys find that the garage door had been forced open. Thankfully we hadn't put anything in there (we were planning to though before it happened). To be fair it's a **** garage door, but the house had been empty for ages without any hassle and it seems like it's all coming at once.

It's a pretty quiet street - every time we're there there's barely a soul around. But I'm beginning to think that's part of the problem as people can get away with stuff because there's no one around / watching. When the garage door was forced it must have made one hell of a racket since when I tried it with the keys it sounded like someone was throwing a steel drum down some stairs. I went round to see the neighbours and couldn't get an answer out of most of them. The one I did simply went "I didn't hear anything" and pretty much slammed the door in my face

Fast forward to today and what's put me in a massive mood - I bust my nuts last week cutting the massively overgrown garden with a strimmer and lawn mower and rather than transport it back and forth each time, stored the stuff in the house out of sight. I go there today and find some little ****** has been mooching around, trying the main doors (the handles weren't as I'd left) and forcing their way into the crappy sheds in a bid to find where the gardening equipment was stored.

There's an outside light with a switch and the cheeky ****** had even switched that on help them see better - but hadn't bothered to turn it back off!! ******

To my mind it has to be someone local - as in someone who lives in the street. There's no reason to go past the house unless you live in there and they're being so blatant as to just walk in through the front despite a very noisy gate. Plus the nerve to be nosing around and turning on outside lights. With such a large gap between the first attempt and this, it has to be someone who would have seen me working on the garden the last week to know there was a chance of stuff being around.

I don't even know if it's worth bothering speaking to the Police about it - nothing has really been nicked and the minor damage to the sheds isn't really a concern because they're in a rubbish state and I'll be pulled down eventually. I guess all they're going to say is "It's your fault for leaving it empty".

Why can't people sod off and leave other people's stuff alone??!!!

[EvilBoris]

I'd still report it, at the very least it might mean that they visit from time to time.

[JSR]

Why so grey?

[Fader209]

Definitely report it dude. As you are new to the area and don't know anyone it would be best to speak to the police to at least let them know as it could be that other residents are getting targeted too. They can then add your road to their rounds and check it out every now and then to increase police presence.

[ETC]

Also be careful lots of people seem to get the boiler system and pipes nicked for the copper that is a bloody pricey replacement and make sure you h e specialist insurance normal insurance only covers 30days and nights of someone not residing there

[JSR]

Craving some fast food right now, but everything closes at 10 pm it seems (it's 9:58 pm here now). FML.

[ETC]

Craving some fast food right now, but everything closes at 10 pm it seems (it's 9:58 pm here now). FML.

Bread, Cheese, grill, tomato sauce

Job done

[JSR]

I have none of those items.

[ETC]

I have none of those items.

Really? What do you have?

[JSR]

Let me show you my fridge:

[ETC]

That's not easy. So soy, butter,Tom sauce and Pepsi max? What's in the packet on the left?