Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[Dave20046]

He's learned from the bluewaffle episode

[admin]

Just trudged across to Lidl to pick up a desk lamp (one of their weekly offers). Gave up after walking round the store for ages and having no one to ask. Left empty handed.

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[Dave20046]

"When it's gone it's gone" They do threaten so.
Never make a special trip unless you're desperate for something, I went there at 10am on the first day of one of those specials last month and I saw a customer leaving with the last of the power tool I wanted. It's a short supply to get peoplethrough the door me thinks.
You might find a very similar lamp on ebay or amazon similarly priced? (Or occasionally THE lidl one sold well overpriced by some enterprising scumbag)

[svenrico]

Originally Posted by Seeker

Hmm. 50+ keystrokes (after login) compared to typing GoPro into google. 6 keystrokes (including enter) for search, plus 1 click on link.

Sigh, it's a very popular camera for active people to record their rides/runs/parachute drops/scuba dives/hang gliding/bungee jumping/skiing etc.

I'll even give you a link in case your fingers were sore:
https://gopro.com/en/gb/shop/cameras

- not interested any more but thanks for typing in all those words ,hope it wasn't too much trouble.
ps perhaps we should stop asking questions on here and just look everything up on google !
(can't find sarcy emoji !)

[Seeker]

Originally Posted by svenrico

- not interested any more but thanks for typing in all those words ,hope it wasn't too much trouble.
ps perhaps we should stop asking questions on here and just look everything up on google !
(can't find sarcy emoji !)

you're welcome. Glad to see you're not sensitive about being teased.

[CheGuevara]

Maybe more of an observation than an actual gripe, but Google (Classrooms) has officially killed the snow day. My kids school is closed (even to key workers) - online learning to continue as usual. Good chance kids will never again experience the joy of waking up to find out they get the day off to have snowball fights, sledding, build epic snow men etc...

[ethariel]

Originally Posted by CheGuevara

Maybe more of an observation than an actual gripe, but Google (Classrooms) has officially killed the snow day. My kids school is closed (even to key workers) - online learning to continue as usual. Good chance kids will never again experience the joy of waking up to find out they get the day off to have snowball fights, sledding, build epic snow men etc...

Growing up in the Highlands I fail to remember a single 'Snow Day' we had off ever, it was just a case of 'Get your bum into school or else'.

The one or 2 times we thought we had gotten away with it some miserable git in a Landover would replace the school bus that never left the depot and horror of horrors we even got to 'bunk over in school' if it really got bad....

[embee]

Just me (again) or does anyone else note the usual "London-centric" reporting regarding the snow?
Scotland, the north of England, Wales etc can get snow on and off for a month and there's barely a shrug on the media. Get a couple of cm south-east of Oxford and it's the front page in the rags and leading story on the mainstream TV news. Pathetic.

PS - I think lockdown is getting to me.

[Luckypants]

Nope, not just you. But what is new about that. The news is London centric, MPs are London centric, spending is London centric, the entire country is London centric.

[Sir Trev]

Its not you Embee. I've noticed it as well. I know we don't get snow as often down here but then most of the people that get more than us (yes, I know that sounds rude) cope with it better than we do. I leave the cars on the drive in weather like this, especially as my road resembles a ski slope, but so many posh car owners get amazed when they can only just get a little way up the hill in their RWD German tanks with wide summer tyres... They think more revs will help of course, which is hilarious, and then we get to watch them slither back down again in shame.