First world problems

[Crims]

Oh man, it was my mums 65th birthday yesterday. There was no rinse aid at the shops for a long time, so when shopping for a gift I instead bought rinse aid, probably the best gift I could've given for her birthday ha
I plan to make it up to her this week

 

[Tiffany]

Oh man, it was my mums 65th birthday yesterday. There was no rinse aid at the shops for a long time, so when shopping for a gift I instead bought rinse aid, probably the best gift I could've given for her birthday ha
I plan to make it up to her this week

Love that! Sometimes those little thoughtful gifts just mean so much. Happy 65th Birthday to your mum!

 

[Crims]

Love that! Sometimes those little thoughtful gifts just mean so much. Happy 65th Birthday to your mum!

I plan to make the year big and bombastic & so it's a bit transient to give her the basics, good to see the local spelling!
As a side, first world complaint -I've recently gotten a interest in cars - Polo, Mini Cooper, Aston Martin, particularly BMW -- especially

My grandad drove around in a grey Daewoo and I nostalgia for those days

 

[Tiffany]

I plan to make the year big and bombastic & so it's a bit transient to give her the basics, good to see the local spelling!
As a side, first world complaint -I've recently gotten a interest in cars - Polo, Mini Cooper, Aston Martin, particularly BMW -- especially

My grandad drove around in a grey Daewoo and I nostalgia for those days

Good for you!! I don't think I've ever typed the word, bombastic...lol!

I had to look up Daewoo motors. I can relate to your nostalgia. Car knowledge and interest are big in my family too. I miss the Pontiac Trans Am, Pontiac Grand Am, Mitsubishi GT 3000, Dodge Viper, the original Hummer and a myriad of classic sports cars from Ford, Dodge and Chevrolet.

 

[Crims]

When I was younger and played racing games my brother would choose the best and I'd drive a hummer just to troll him. Nowadays cars, especially Tesla don't have that character that old cars had.

 

[Retro]

@Crims I like the old style muscle cars with their big engine noises and fast speeds - now that's character!

 

[Retro]

Every friggin' news article is still saying "X, formerly known as Twitter". Doesn't the whole world know by now?

Just call it X, or better still, ignore that rename and call it Twitter.

 

[Mars]

Every friggin' news article is still saying "X, formerly known as Twitter". Doesn't the whole world know by now?

Just call it X, or better still, ignore that rename and call it Twitter.

I would just ignore X and call it Twitter. Just to annoy the bastard.

 

[Tiffany]

@Crims I like your trolling style with using the hummer

@Retro Every time I see "formerly Twitter", I think of Prince when he went to a symbol. Good grief

@Mars Exactly, "they" need to drop that phrase, everyone know it's Twitter period.

 

[Tiffany]

A quote from a friend of mine:
"Lack of planning on your part doesn't constitute an emergency on mine".

She had this on her desk years ago and used this quote recently in a text to me (in describing other people, not me lol). Kind of cracks me up this week as this about sums up the week I'm having.

 

[Retro]

News articles are still saying "X, formally known as Twitter" or similar, which is so annoying. How long has it been now since Twitter was rebranded as X? A year or more and everyone knows about it by now ffs. A few brave articles just refer to it as X now, but they're in the great minority unfortunately and it doesn't seem to be growing.

 

[Tiffany]

News articles are still saying "X, formally known as Twitter" or similar, which is so annoying. How long has it been now since Twitter was rebranded as X? A year or more and everyone knows about it by now ffs. A few brave articles just refer to it as X now, but they're in the great minority unfortunately and it doesn't seem to be growing.

Same for me....I would think most everyone knows Twitter is X now, even if you don't post on X because Musk is kind of everywhere in the news most of the time. I'm just saying X now. That doesn't even look right though? I want to put X in "X" parentheses for some reason?

 

[Mars]

Well, I totally ignore 'X', and keep referring to it as Twitter. Everyone understands what I am talking about.
Imagine, if people just had the sense to ignore that idiotic new name, and continued to refer to Twitter by its former name!
This would have surely knocked that arrogant bastard off his high horse. This would be telling him he can take his 'X' and shove it.....

 

[Retro]

Here's a new pet hate that's recently arison from the war on so-called "speeding" when driving. It's become especially prevalent since 20mph zone were put in everywhere, too.

It's when a car in front of me drives off and is rather slow going around 20-25mph. Normally, they speed up to something reasonable, but increasingly often, they don't, they just sit there at this slow pace in third gear and the single lane road makes it impossible to overtake them, while the cars in front disappear into the distance. It's infuriating to sit there waiting for them to speed up, but then it just doesn't happen. If there was ever something to incite road rage, it's this. 20mph for safety, my ass.

 

[Tiffany]

Here's a new pet hate that's recently arison from the war on so-called "speeding" when driving. It's become especially prevalent since 20mph zone were put in everywhere, too.

It's when a car in front of me drives off and is rather slow going around 20-25mph. Normally, they speed up to something reasonable, but increasingly often, they don't, they just sit there at this slow pace in third gear and the single lane road makes it impossible to overtake them, while the cars in front disappear into the distance. It's infuriating to sit there waiting for them to speed up, but then it just doesn't happen. If there was ever something to incite road rage, it's this. 20mph for safety, my ass.

Totally get that pet hate! It's very frustrating to be boxed in or stuck behind a slow driver. It happens a lot here and yesterday I had to do some highway driving into Dallas, same issue...no one can drive right.

 

[Crims]

@the car talk -

I was just talking to my friend in the States about cars and remembered a few posts we had from last year. There was a satire video calling traffic here like being a water droplet in a torrent of water, which reminded me of my grandad and his silver Daewoo lol. My dad got a van and there's a bit of a car craze here these days

 

[Tiffany]

@the car talk -

I was just talking to my friend in the States about cars and remembered a few posts we had from last year. There was a satire video calling traffic here like being a water droplet in a torrent of water, which reminded me of my grandad and his silver Daewoo lol. My dad got a van and there's a bit of a car craze here these days

Such a nice memory of your dad's car!

I do get the water droplet description....I'll likely see traffic now as water droplets making torrential water of traffic chaos.

 

[Tiffany]

When you here a "drip-drip" at the top of the stairway and find that water is dripping out of your attic stairs onto the carpet....yep, my first world problem today. No AC upstairs now, broken pipe. OMG!!

 

[Geffers]

My Friday first world problem is deciding if I want to be an adult and do chores or forget the whole chore OCB thang and just play the rest of the day.

Whoever came up with the term "adulting" was spot on because the word just encapsulates the whole dynamics of having to be an adult but not wanting the responsibility of being an adult for the day.

I have a great rule to go by;

Why do today what can be put off till tomorrow

Much more fun on techsrealm or nerdzone.

Geffers

 

[Tiffany]

I have a great rule to go by;

Why do today what can be put off till tomorrow

Much more fun on techsrealm or nerdzone.

Geffers

You're the BEST, Geffers! NZ and TR appreciate you!

I like your rule too! Isn't that similar to Wimpy's (Popeye) basic rule: I'll give you a quarter tomorrow for a hamburger today?

 

[Retro]

Why do today what can be put off till tomorrow

I'll reply to this tomorrow.

 

[Crims]

A long time ago a game designer used my forum name for a game character, and ever since I've been unable to find out if I was the one they were based off. It'd be pleasant instead of a random intrusive thought.

 

[Tiffany]

A long time ago a game designer used my forum name for a game character, and ever since I've been unable to find out if I was the one they were based off. It'd be pleasant instead of a random intrusive thought.

That would be nice if you could figure that out. It's such a compliment that you were an inspiration.

I had a similar experience....one of my members wrote and published a children's story based on the theme of my website years ago. She did credit me and my dd in her book for our part in inspiring her story. It was an interesting time. We are still pen pal friends to this day. That was back in 2008.

 

[Retro]

I think this can be classified as a first world problem / pet peeve. The cheek of charging for an improvement brought by modern technology that actually saves the restaurant money in time and labour costs!

It reminds me of the sharp practice when buying games on Steam, where buying the physical copy off Amazon, ie a DVD in a plastic box, is cheaper than directly from Steam. It's not green and it's inconvenient. The biggest joke of all, is that the copy on the disc can never be played, since upon installation, it will immediately update to the latest version via download, without the option of playing the version on the disc, so all it's good for is the activation code and then the whole package can be thrown away. If this isn't a racket, I don't know what is and I'm surprised that it's allowed to continue tbh.

An Italian restaurant in east London is encouraging customers to pay via an app on their mobile phone – and charging them £2.99 to do so.

Gloria in Shoreditch has prompted anger among some diners who noticed a so-called checkout fee had been added to their bill on top of a 13.5 per cent service charge.

One customer posted a photo of their digital bill with the £2.99 charge to online forum Reddit, asking: “Is Gloria in Shoreditch the only restaurant that charges you for the privilege of paying your bill?”

The fee applies to customers who pay using the Sunday app, whereby people can scan a QR code at their table and settle the bill on their phone, with the aim of saving them time at the end of their meal. It is optional as customers can choose to pay their bill with a contactless card instead.

Fury as restaurant encourages diners to pay via app – then charges £2.99 extra

An Italian restaurant in east London is encouraging customers to pay via an app on their mobile phone – and charging them £2.99 to do so.

uk.style.yahoo.com

 

[Crims]

That would be nice if you could figure that out. It's such a compliment that you were an inspiration.

I had a similar experience....one of my members wrote and published a children's story based on the theme of my website years ago. She did credit me and my dd in her book for our part in inspiring her story. It was an interesting time. We are still pen pal friends to this day. That was back in 2008.

Actually the game game out in 2008 too - must've been a high time for that.