Pet Peeves

[The Heretic]

How the fuck can a flue pipe extension setup from a new outside boiler cost 540 euros? Thats the best price I can get...next price to that was 670 euros. The price of stuff has gone to fuk..god luck to anyone building a house when they get past the blocks stage....

[Necro Red]

Yea, building materials have shot through the roof due to covid. A mate works in construction and says prices can't stay like that for long which is good.

[astfgyl]

Yeah anything building related has really shot up in the last year or so. You'd hope we've nearly hit the ceiling

[Eoin McLove]

Jesus Christ, don't hit the ceiling! If you put a hole in it it'll cost you an arm and a leg to get it fixed.

[Eoin McLove]

When you're having a shite and it's stubborn, refusing to come out, but you've exhausted all the reading material in the jacks- the back of the Nivea handcream jar, the back of the shaving foam bottle, the toothpaste packet front to back... you've even read the back of the bottle of Toilet Duck, for Christ sake! You find your hand reaching for the plunger 

Edit. In a bizarre twist of poetic justice, after posting this I developed a tummy bug or minor bout of food poisoning, leaving me squirting all evening. I'm desperately scrambling for reading material to stem the flow 

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Trying to make large documents, images and all, with Microsoft Word. Absolute hell. Really gonna have to learn how to use a better bit of publishing software some day!

[astfgyl]

When you're having a shite and it's stubborn, refusing to come out, but you've exhausted all the reading material in the jacks- the back of the Nivea handcream jar, the back of the shaving foam bottle, the toothpaste packet front to back... you've even read the back of the bottle of Toilet Duck, for Christ sake! You find your hand reaching for the plunger 

Edit. In a bizarre twist of poetic justice, after posting this I developed a tummy bug or minor bout of food poisoning, leaving me squirting all evening. I'm desperately scrambling for reading material to stem the flow 

The amount of ridiculous things I've read in the pursuit of a good shit.

[Eoin McLove]

Haha, I used to have stacks of ZT magazines in the jacks to tide me over. Not it's only whatever cleaning products are at hand.

[Snare]

Trying to make large documents, images and all, with Microsoft Word. Absolute hell. Really gonna have to learn how to use a better bit of publishing software some day!

You may be doing this already but I'd suggest compressing images as you bring them in, and also delete the cropped sections of the images. Other way is create a few different files for different sections, and round 'em all together when you're doing the final editing for your tables etc. They should help ease the memory delays and head wrecking hopefully.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Thanks man, but problem is that I need print quality images. Also, the main head-wrecker is the well known thing with Word of it being impossible to anchor and unanchor images to text in anything resembling a "smart" or intuitive fashion. Nah, think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and start using Illustrator or Markdown or something.

[101_North]

I'm not sure when this started but for years now I have typed 'form' instead of 'from' in emails, documents etc. Every time without fail 

[Carnage]

Discogs orders graded poorly. Second CD in a row now where the case has been in bits (and they were well packaged, it didn't happen in transit). More and more regular these days, pain in the hole.

[Carnage]

Getting a nosebleed in the fucking shower. Just as I was about to get out, and I end up looking like Hannibal Lecter.

[Eoin McLove]

I hate that. And the hot water seems to make it bleed for longer in my experience too.

[Necro Red]

Import charges that have been brought in lately. I bought a cheap blu ray from the states. It cost around €5, I then get a letter from an post saying I have to pay €3.50 or it will be sent back. For fuck sake like! Can't buy anything from USA anymore now unless you want to pay that bullshit