What cheeses me off

[love_the_life]

Mum (who had severe dementia) found the silicone bendy straws the best
Metal , she would damage her mouth
Paper ones, would just become too soggy
Even the old plain plastic ones she struggled with .
Drinking straight from a glass wasn't appropriate (she couldn't do ) for her

My mother had had skin cancer surgery on her top lip with the removal of some tissue and as a result nerve damage to the lip area. She had to use a straw for all liquids as she couldn't feel temperature or volume. She would cut down plastic bendy straws and would wash them to reuse them numerous times. Luckily she passed away before the laws changed.

 

[love_the_life]

I get this is they way that sinks were but mixer taps have been around for a long time and there is no reason to install separate taps in new places in England. Grrrr

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We have separate taps for hot and cold in both bathrooms and laundry - only the kitchen has a. mixer. I don't mind them at all.

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We just received SMS on my wife's phone they have successfully recharged her 365 day plan.

- No reminder SMS
- No reminder email
- SMS/email sent on successful recharge.

FFS. I know these things are relatively cheap but for crying out loud send a reminder. I've got dozens of subscriptions and bills and I'm not going to keep a record when each is due to expire/renew.

$150 for 120GB is OK but they were just offering a $31 discount for new customers for the same plan. Also I could have bought a voucher from Coles and that spend is included in Flybuys promotions for $cashback for certain spend promotions.

Why is everything businesses do a trap? My fault for having auto recharge and risk having credit card details stolen. Auto recharge now switched off. Feel good. I wonder how many reminders I will get in 12 months time?

Though did you have automatic renewal ticked anywhere - no reminder just a notification that renewal had been processed.

 

[Ade]

..... when customers don't follow common courtesy and push the items they want to purchase towards the cashier. There is no point in the customer leaving the item at the edge of the counter and expect the cashier to reach out and grab the items. The register is on a large table and there is no way the cashier going to be able to stretch and fetch the items without hurting themselves.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

I think the rules about paper straws are for WHEN they are single-use.
I doubt that washable re-usable straws are banninated, mostly because the rule was about reducing plastic waste & not relating to the chances of people getting sick from straws that weren't cleaned properly ... that's a "doubt", I don't know that for sure, but in searching for it I can only find "single use plastic straws, stirrers and cutlery banned" rather than "all straws must now be paper" ... after all when cleaned properly metal straws would be better (environmentally) than throwing away waxed paper ones.

I know metal straws are now available off ebay.
Back to the gist of this thread, when you see a hot girl/guy, and they are looking at you, you looking at them, you thought you saw an okay to approach, or she/he says hi, but guess what, not to you or I, but that person is in fact, has one of those hands free plug in ear type of apparatus for making phone calls.

 

[ayebee]

I get this is they way that sinks were but mixer taps have been around for a long time and there is no reason to install separate taps in new places in England. Grrrr

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There used to be regulations that mandated hot and cold be separate, because of the cistern / header tanks used for hot water.
Tom Scott explained it quite well quite a few years back.

 

[Quickstatus]

I stopped using straws a while ago. No need.

But recently had to have a filling so I always get a local injection. I never feel the needle and the dentist rubs on a topical local first. Impossible to drink without a straw for a few hours.

 

[Quickstatus]

Auto recharge now switched off

Was going to say that.
Unfortunately that's the deal with prepaids.

It's the same with paid subscriptions. Have to make sure you are ahead of the game when it comes to renewal as renewals are invariably set to auto

 

[JohnK]

Shopping centre trolley bays.

There are 2 lanes, one with large trolleys and another with small trolleys.

Do not show your laziness by putting the small trolley in the large trolleys lane. It's not rocket science. Very minimal thinking required. Any dummy can put the right size trolley in the right trolley lane right?

 

[Pushka]

I stopped using straws a while ago. No need.

But recently had to have a filling so I always get a local injection. I never feel the needle and the dentist rubs on a topical local first. Impossible to drink without a straw for a few hours.

I had some dental work done then stupidly had some lunch - a hot baked potato with cheese I didn't feel anything sinister at time but I had the worst burns in my mouth for ages.

 

[Captain Halliday]

Shopping centre trolley bays.

There are 2 lanes, one with large trolleys and another with small trolleys.

Do not show your laziness by putting the small trolley in the large trolleys lane. It's not rocket science. Very minimal thinking required. Any dummy can put the right size trolley in the right trolley lane right?

Not at my local supermarket.

The store has both large and small trolleys.

Yet there is only one “slot” as a trolley bay.

It borders on comical at times as the line of trolleys extends so far out of the trolley bay that the car park ends up going from dual carriage way to single lane (so to speak).

 

[SuePa]

Shopping centre trolley bays.

There are 2 lanes, one with large trolleys and another with small trolleys.

Do not show your laziness by putting the small trolley in the large trolleys lane. It's not rocket science. Very minimal thinking required. Any dummy can put the right size trolley in the right trolley lane right?

Not at my local shopping centre, many of the 'dummies' don't bother taking their trollies anywhere near the return bays!

 

[Ade]

Not at my local shopping centre, many of the 'dummies' don't bother taking their trollies anywhere near the return bays!

Sometimes trolleys are left in the parking spot for a car ... And I have also witnessed someone randomly pushing the shopping cart away from their car once they have finished unloading the supplies into the car boot !!!

 

[SuePa]

Sometimes trolleys are left in the parking spot for a car ... And I have also witnessed someone randomly pushing the shopping cart away from their car once they have finished unloading the supplies into the car boot !!!

Yes, it's just pure laziness.

 

[Pushka]

Sometimes trolleys are left in the parking spot for a car ... And I have also witnessed someone randomly pushing the shopping cart away from their car once they have finished unloading the supplies into the car boot !!!

Yes this. She just let it go. And I watched as it travelled into another car. It was an underground sloping car park on a quiet Sunday morning so no one around. Except me. . She watched it and heard it and then drove off. So I took down her rego and left it under the damaged cars winscreen wiper. With my mobile. Didn't hear back but presume it was sorted.

 

[Ade]

Yes this. She just let it go. And I watched as it travelled into another car. It was an underground sloping car park on a quiet Sunday morning so no one around. Except me. . She watched it and heard it and then drove off. So I took down her rego and left it under the damaged cars winscreen wiper. With my mobile. Didn't hear back but presume it was sorted.

OMG!! What is happening to people!! Too bad ... Hopefully the damaged car owner was able to do something about it ...

I have also seen parents *actually* stop their kids from returning the trolleys to the trolley bay. I have seen instances where the kid offers to take the trolley back (kids - are excited to be doing this like that, they want to do things that adults do and feel like an adult etc and all that) and the parent goes & I quote "Nah, don't worry about it, just leave it here, someone will collect it later" .. I'm like, seriously! your kid wants to do the right thing and you are stopping them from doing so ... something is wrong, terribly!

 

[MARTINE]

OMG!! What is happening to people!! Too bad ... Hopefully the damaged car owner was able to do something about it ...

I have also seen parents *actually* stop their kids from returning the trolleys to the trolley bay. I have seen instances where the kid offers to take the trolley back (kids - are excited to be doing this like that, they want to do things that adults do and feel like an adult etc and all that) and the parent goes & I quote "Nah, don't worry about it, just leave it here, someone will collect it later" .. I'm like, seriously! your kid wants to do the right thing and you are stopping them from doing so ... something is wrong, terribly!

I know - appalling behavior for children to model.

 

[Forg]

^ Similar situation, wife came back to her new car parked at Parramatta Westfields to find metallic-orange scrape marks down both passenger-side doors … and some of her car’s paint-colour on the front corner of the metallic-orange car parked next to her.
The man driving the metallic-orange car made the mistake of returning to the car while she was standing there lividly considering what to do about it.

First it was “no I didn’t do it” … except there was proof.
Then it became “it’s not my fault because I borrowed the car off my daughter” … huh?!
I’ll bet the daughter was stoked when the insurance company contacted her …

 

[Ade]

Parramatta Westfields

Sadly, enough said, @Forg ... P'matta Westfields, whew!

 

[MARTINE]

Sadly, enough said, @Forg ...

Is that like Porpoise Spit?!

 

[Ade]

Is that like Porpoise Spit?!

Hmmm ... another thing to Google. And I did, Porpoise Spit seems to be a musical band? and I'm guessing "Sadly, enough said" is one of their songs/catchphrases?